Chapter 18: The rain is coming
A little eunuch in Tsing Yi hurriedly left the palace with a Dongchang token in his hand, and after changing his clothes in the dilapidated Chenghuang Temple in the east of the city, he looked left and right, and after making sure that there was no one behind him, he went around and went around to the horse market and quickly went out of the outer city through his identity The short Sichuan horse quickly went out of the outer city, and ran straight towards the west of the city.
As soon as he arrived at the location of Xishan, before he got off the horse, a huge fishing net fell from the sky, directly hoisting the little eunuch and even the man and the horse into the air.
Two men with black mud on their faces came out of the grass, and the taller man pointed at the little eunuch and laughed: "I'll just say that this fishing net is strong!" Catching this kind of small fish is a piece of cake. β
The little eunuch was dangling in the air, and he couldn't help but say angrily: "Don't let me go quickly, I have something important to find Lord Xiaoqizhang in the East Division." β
The shrill voice drew the sneers of the two people below: "Where are the wild ducks running out, our Lord Xiaoqi is very busy, where do we have time to pay attention to you." β
With that, the two turned around to leave.
The little eunuch was anxious: "The stakes are very high, if the prince has any mistakes, can you afford it!" β
The two men below really stopped, one of them was about to untie the rope bound to the big tree, but the other person grabbed him and said, "Don't worry, you guard here, I'll go find Lord Xiaoqi." β
After saying that, the man left, and the remaining one pulled out a cold dagger from his waist, and looked at the little eunuch hanging in the air with bad intentions, as if the little eunuch was not a person, but a wild boar in a trap.
After a while, Zhang Ru, who was also covered with black mud on his face, was called over, and when he saw the little eunuch in mid-air, Zhang Ru was a little puzzled: "Who are you, and what do you want to see me?" β
"You are Zhang Xiaoqi?" The little eunuch didn't dare to be sure, because Liang Fang confessed, and no one could say anything about this matter except Zhang Ru.
Liang Fang has the grace of knowing the little eunuch, if it weren't for Liang Fang's godfather, he would have died in the deep palace.
So Liang Fang trusts him the most, otherwise he wouldn't let a little eunuch run to deliver the letter for this kind of headless thing.
Zhang Ru nodded and said, "I am Zhang Ru." Who are you? β
From the voice of the little eunuch talking, Zhang Ru judged his identity, but the celebrant eunuch has a palm print eunuch, four eunuchs with a pen, so many forces, he doesn't know who the little eunuch is.
The little eunuch didn't let down his guard and asked, "Dare to ask Lord Xiaoqi if he has a certificate?" β
Zhang Ru raised his hand and wiped his face, and after wiping everything off his face, he pointed to his angular face and said, "I can't get a certificate if you want it, but if you are a person in the palace, I think my not too ugly face is the best evidence." β
The little eunuch wiped his eyes, looked at Zhang Ru carefully, and then said: "The slave Li Guang is the person next to the master of ceremonies and the eunuch Liang. β
"What?" Zhang Ru then asked.
Li Guang looked at the Dongsi Fang Jinyiwei around him in embarrassment, since the godfather could only say these words to Zhang Xiaoqi alone, he didn't plan to take the people around Zhang Ru to heart.
"It's all my own people here, and I can say whatever I want." Zhang Ru said unhappily.
After all, he wants to subdue people's hearts, and in this case, it is precisely the best to win people's hearts.
Li Guang kept his mouth shut, and there was a big situation that I wouldn't say anything if you didn't let people go away.
Mu Bin waved his hand at the others, and several people left in acquaintance.
After making sure that everyone had left, Li Guang said cautiously: "Godfather asked me to tell Lord Xiaoqi that someone is going to be unfavorable to the prince, please prepare Lord Xiaoqi early!" β
"Who's your godfather?" Zhang Ru asked.
Li Guangdao: "The celebrant is the eunuch Liang Fang!" β
Hearing his answer, Zhang Ru couldn't help but wonder a little, when did Liang Fang report back to me? Who would be bad for the prince?
Immediately, he thought that it was the twenty-first year of Chenghua, and he remembered that when he looked at history in his previous life, he did set off a huge wave of the abolished prince in the Chenghua Dynasty. It's just that later this huge wave was completely shattered by the earthquake and the Qin Heavenly Prison.
However, the history of the Ming Dynasty recorded that it was because Emperor Chenghua learned that Liang Fang and Wei Xing were greedy for a huge amount of money in the Inner Treasury, and the two of them asked Wan Guifei to blow the pillow wind. Since Liang Fang was the initiator, why did he send someone to report the news?
There were many doubts in his heart, but on the surface, he pretended to be casual: "When will the eunuch of the dignified master of ceremonies and the palm seal of the eunuch be kind enough to inform me of a small flag of the brocade guard?" This little father-in-law didn't get the wrong person! β
Li Guang hurriedly said: "No mistake, no mistake, the godfather did ask the little one to notify Lord Xiaoqi." He also said that Wei Xing intended to pry the noble concubine Niangniang to ask His Majesty for her life, and also put the blame for the emptiness of the inner treasury on the crown prince. β
When Zhang Ru heard this, he punched the trunk of the big tree next to him, and the sawdust flew in all directions, and the big tree shook non-stop, scaring Li Guang, who was hanging from the branch, so scared that he almost didn't pee his pants.
"You go back and tell Liang Fang, just say that I know his kindness, let him pay close attention to Wei Xing's movements, if he is not willing to cooperate, Zhang will never force it." Zhang Ru drew a knife to cut the rope, and after releasing Li Guang, he said word by word.
Li Guangwei nodded yes, and then didn't even dare to look at Zhang Ru and left in a hurry.
After a while, Zhang Ru, who had thought of a lot of countermeasures in his heart, returned to the training place in the east division, and saw that his face was gloomy, and all the Jinyi guards who regarded training as fun stopped what they were doing and looked at Zhang Ru.
But Zhang Ru just blackened his face and didn't speak, and for a while, the forest was so quiet that he couldn't even hear the birds.
Mu Bin glanced at Wang Zhou, who boldly stepped forward and asked, "My lord, if there is something difficult, say it, and everyone will solve it together." β
After a month of getting along, the people who can stay are innocent and loyal, Zhang Ru felt very relieved and hesitated to tell his subordinates.
If it is said to be said, there are many people, and once it is spread, I am afraid that it will be even more unfavorable to the prince.
Zhu Youzhang is the biggest backer behind him, without Zhu Youzhang, any hundred households of Jinyi can take him to death. Not to mention fulfilling one's great ambitions, it is difficult to save one's life.
If you don't say it, your subordinates will definitely have a grudge against them, thinking that they don't regard them as brothers.
At the critical moment, it was Mu Bin who relieved him: "If the adults have something to do, even if they are instructed, the brothers will go to the soup and go to the fire, and they will not give up." β
Zhang Ru glared suddenly, and said loudly: "This matter is very important, I don't dare to say it, if you brothers can trust Zhang, help Zhang do something." β
Two hundred people knelt on one knee with a brush, and pressed the embroidered spring knife on their waists with their left hand: "But according to orders!" β
"Wang Zhou, you take someone to Qin Tianjian and tell Liang Liyong that there will be an earthquake soon, and if Your Majesty is bent on abolishing the crown prince, let him say that the earthquake is the cause of God's wrath."
"Jiang Wei, you take someone to find Lord Li in Li Zi Province and tell him that if he changes the king of Xing, I will pull him on his back even if he dies."
"Mu Bin, the most important task is entrusted to you, take someone to contact the courtiers, the old papier-mΓ’chΓ© three pavilions, the six clay sculptures, each of which will be visited by me. Be sure to find their handle, and if you don't have a handle, go to Commander Yuan to ask for it. I don't believe they're all wiped clean. β
Everyone claimed yes, did not ask why, but faithfully carried out his orders.
After the order was given, the people were empty, and there were only a dozen people left who were not led by Zhang Ru, and these were the closest people except for the above-mentioned people. Reluctantly, they are now Zhang Ru's close guards.
"You come with me and contact the upright minister of the DPRK, I don't believe it, a few eunuchs and an old woman can still make me turn the world upside down!" Zhang Ru snorted angrily.
In the afternoon of the same day, dozens of letters were sent from the Jinyi Weidong Division's office, and they were transported to various places through the army's 800-mile expedited fast horse. Even Wang Shu, the former secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, who had sent a letter to Shi in advance for some reason, received a letter from Jinyiwei.
The signatures of these letters are all from an unknown little person - Zhang Ru!
Many officials in the DPRK and China have a very unhappy life, and it is much more painful to be targeted by the brocade guards than to be targeted by blood-sucking locusts.
Yuan Bin did not stop Zhang Ru's series of actions, and completely opened the Jinyiwei database to Zhang Ru's East Division.
For a while, the Jingguan sensed that something was wrong.
These changes, Zhu Jianshen, who was in the deep palace, was still in the dark, and on this day, after he swallowed the elixir, he suddenly said to Huai En: "I want to abolish the prince, what do you think?" β
Wynn was shocked, and fell to his knees with a pop: "Is the prince immoral?" β
Zhu Jianshen said unhappily: "It's me who is asking you, not you who are questioning me!" β
Huaien bowed his head and sobbed: "Your Majesty treats the old slave as much as a mountain, and it is the service of the old slave to let the person who is incomplete serve as the eunuch of Bingbi." However, now that the crown prince has not lost his morality, why did His Majesty have the idea of abolishing the prince? β
"He was touched by all my money, I'm not dead yet!" Zhu Jianshen's tone was full of resentment.
"Would Your Majesty rather listen to a eunuch or trust his own son? The crown prince is the prince of the Ming Dynasty, and he cannot be easily replaced! If Your Majesty insists on changing the reserve, the old slave asks Your Majesty to give the minister a death! Wynne slammed his head desperately on the ground, and in a few moments, he had an egg-sized bag on his head.
Zhu Jianshen was a little unbearable: "That's it, it's hard to ask your opinion, you know that you want to die or live, you better go to Fengyang to guard the spirit!" β
Wynne was still about to speak, but a guard had already stepped forward to lift him up and carry him out.
At this moment, Huai'en's heart was like ashes.
On the first day of the first month of April, the great court meeting was about to begin, but a group of officials in the court were in high spirits and were gearing up one by one.
This court meeting is destined to be an extraordinary court meeting, and the emperor Zhu Jianshen, who has just finished the meeting, also made a decision in his heart to use this court meeting to make it public.
In the dark, Zhang Ru led a group of brocade guards in the East Sifang to have already infiltrated the deep palace, as long as the unfavorable news came out of the court, he would immediately let his subordinates do it.
In this era of the supremacy of imperial power, he deeply realized that if he wanted to become a powerful minister that others did not dare to move easily, the only way to make himself strong was to make himself strong.