Chapter 222: The Imperial Capital (Finale)
People need friends and helpers to live in the world. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Especially in the highly developed modern society, the bigger you want to do, the more friends and helpers you need.
Many times, many people, even if they had deep contradictions before, will put aside their disputes in the face of reality and come together with their former opponents.
The family consortium and the first assistant Zhang Yue approached each other for their respective interests, and jointly pointed the finger at the young Zhang Cheng. At that time, the main reason why the emperor chose to cooperate with Zhang Cheng was that the benefits he got were not big enough. If the benefits promised to the emperor by the family consortium at that time were so great that they could impress him, then the emperor would never choose to help Zhang Cheng.
And now, after a complicated battle, Zhang Cheng has successfully transformed his former rival into someone with common interests. Of course, if there is a need, Zhang Cheng will also attack the so-called 'own people' without mercy. But this is not the time. Even if it was Shoufu, who was no longer in good health, Zhang Cheng didn't want him to die now.
Zhang Yue's illness was very serious, and Zhang Yue, who had been struggling to support him before, was sent to the intensive care unit soon after the war in the imperial capital ended. At this critical moment against the family consortium, Zhang Yue's critical illness is very unfavorable.
Zhang Yue, who has been in the Ming political arena for decades, has unimaginable prestige and intertwined connections throughout the Ming Dynasty. These things are difficult for Zhang Cheng to completely inherit in a short period of time. Zhang Cheng was reluctant to let Zhang Yue die at such a time. The inheritance has not yet been inherited.
Zhang Yue suffers from heart disease, which is the result of long-term hard work. The medical conditions in this era are far inferior to the modern time and space where Zhang Cheng was born, and even the best hospitals and doctors on the planet are helpless against Zhang Yue's condition.
They can't do this kind of surgery to replace the heart. However, Zhang Cheng has a special medicine. It was one of the few items he brought from the modern plane. In modern time and space, it is just a special medicine that is a standing medicine, but at this moment, it can delay Zhang Yue's death time, leaving Zhang Cheng more time to take over his government. Governance of legacy.
"It's a miracle." After the Spring Festival, Zhang Yue, the first assistant who was originally predicted by many famous doctors to never survive this year, is still insisting on the hospital bed. The doctors in his medical team were all stunned. The medicine that Zhang Cheng sent in the name of the latest product in the laboratory really worked.
"How much time do you have left?" Standing outside the door of the ward and watching the white-haired Shousuke take care of Shousuke who was falling asleep, Zhang Cheng pursed the corners of his mouth and asked in a deep voice.
"If that kind of special medicine can continue to be provided, the condition will improve to a considerable extent." The medical expert in the field of cardiology, who has a high reputation in the entire Ming Dynasty, raised his hand and pushed his glasses, and said in response, "But if the medication is interrupted, there may be three months left." ”
Specific? Without. Except for a small number of those that were sent to the laboratory for experimental purposes, the others had already been eaten by Zhang Yue. After all, Zhang Cheng is not a medicine seller, and it is impossible for him to bring too many medicines. It's already luck to have it this time.
Now that Zhang Yue is seriously ill and admitted to the hospital, Wang Fan has begun to take over the affairs of government affairs. As early as a few years ago, Wang Fan, who was regarded as the successor of the first auxiliary government affairs, took over relatively smoothly.
Although he only has the title of acting now, and the power in his hands cannot be compared with Zhang Yue's era. But for Wang Fan, this is something he has never dreamed of before.
The imperial capital has been divided. After Wang Jing was arrested, the entire Wang family fell into great turmoil. Many important family members were thrown into prison, and everyone in the Wang family was terrified, and many were ready to wait for an opportunity to escape and go to other places to win over people. However, Wang Fan's ascension completely changed all this.
In any case, Wang Fan is from the Wang family after all. After he successfully took over the affairs of the first assistant, the Wang family quickly split into two factions.
The niche is the faction that still wants to rescue Wang Jing and the arrested children of the Wang family, and they insist on fighting Zhang Cheng to the end. Most of the characters in this faction are the core members of Wang Jing's family, and they know in their hearts that even if Wang Fan is in power, they will not have their benefits. So their reaction was extraordinarily violent.
The choice of most of the children of the Wang family is very much in line with the tradition of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, and they tend to re-establish Wang Fan as the core of the Wang family, intending to rise again. The opinions of these people dominate the mainstream in politics. The powerful Wang family soon fell apart.
Wang Jing and many of the family's most important children were brought to court, and subsequently sentenced to death or exiled to the polar islands at the northern tip of Siberia on charges such as treason. The rest of the people no longer have the strength to turn over and the courage to continue fighting.
What happened in the Wang family is just a microcosm, and this kind of thing is staged in almost every family consortium. All kinds of power struggles, all kinds of deceit, and all kinds of life-and-death means emerge one after another. For the sake of their own interests, those family members did everything, and the number of people who served Zhang Cheng was countless.
Most of the leading figures of the family consortium and important family children were basically brought to court, and then sentenced to death or exiled on various charges such as treason.
After learning that Zhang Yue was critically ill and hospitalized, the remaining fish who slipped through the net raised people everywhere to rebel. Moreover, the emperor also sent them a big gift, and many children of the royal family who had the right to inherit came to comfort them, but they were arrested as puppets.
These insurgenties that have erupted everywhere have made little progress. Most of them were quickly extinguished. On the one hand, it is because although Zhang Yue is seriously ill, he is not dead after all. With Zhang Yue's prestige and power, combined with the emperor's endorsement and righteousness, many rebel armies collapsed or were suppressed by the garrison as soon as they were established. Most of the core rebels were killed or captured in exchange for bounties.
On the other hand, none of the military bosses who held military power in various places who were pinned on by the Saga Foundation had high hopes chose to stand up and help the Saga Foundation in their rebellion.
These individuals are not stupid. After getting Zhang Cheng's promise and the emperor's endorsement, no one was interested in accompanying the funeral of the family consortium, which was already obviously at a disadvantage. As for the various benefits and various means of control collected in the past, they have completely lost their role in this general environment at this time.
The decline of the Maison consortium is inevitable. If it weren't for the fact that Da Ming was busy fighting the world at this moment, if it weren't for the fact that the generals with heavy troops everywhere at this time were supporting themselves. Zhang Cheng will definitely take this opportunity to uproot all these down-and-out family consortia.
Zhang Cheng now has no time and energy to continue to entangle with the family consortium. These family consortia have been rooted in the Ming Dynasty for so many years, and their power is intertwined. Where is it so easy to settle? Zhang Cheng chose to put the matter to an end for the time being, and waited until he had completely controlled the entire Ming Dynasty and defeated all the enemies before it was too late to continue settling accounts after the autumn.
In the same way, doing so will also give those military leaders who are still in a wait-and-see state of mind and let them relax their vigilance.
Zhang Cheng never thought of letting go of these self-respecting military leaders, just like dealing with the family consortium. When the strength in their hands is enough, they will inevitably be completely destroyed. Until then, temporary compromises are necessary.
In the wave of rebellion set off by the family consortium, except for some of the Chen family's forces rooted in mainland India, those who were really able to hold on for a period of time (mainly because Chen Kuo took the initiative to join Zhang Cheng after being arrested, and most of the Chen family's strength in India was appeased. and beyond some areas on the inhospitable and vast African continent. Only Murong Chong, who fled before Zhang Cheng completely occupied the imperial capital, really formed a force.
Murong Chong fled all the way to the northern Lihai Province, which was the base camp of the Murong family. Most of the officers of the army stationed here were arranged by the Murong family, and most of the soldiers were natives of Binhai Province. After raising the flag of rebellion, the Murong family successfully gained a foothold in Binhai Province.
Of course, the success of the Murong family in Binhai Province was not because they received help from the Japanese, who were just separated by a North Sea. The main reason was that it was already February, and the cold weather in Siberia made it impossible to conduct large-scale military operations. Especially this year, the weather has been particularly cold, and many places have reached the level of tens of degrees below zero. This is the main reason why Murong Chong was able to persevere.
However, once the spring season blooms, the Murong family, which has lost the protection of General Dong, will inevitably fail, and the gap in strength between the two sides is too great. Moreover, it is impossible for the army controlled by the Murong family to be completely of the same mind as them. At the same time, the internal strife within the Murong family was also very fierce, and many people were dissatisfied that Murong Chong had brought the entire family into a crisis, and once it failed, it would be the destruction of the entire family!
These opponents have selectively forgotten that they voted in favor of the previous decision to raise troops. It's just that the situation has changed too quickly, and the seemingly turbulent rebellions in all directions have basically been completely quelled around the time of the New Year. It didn't even affect the ordinary people for the New Year.
Watching those Heavenly Pride who were at the same level as them in the past were either shot or sent to the bitter cold land of the Far North to be exiled and waiting for death. Naturally, these people were in a hurry. As the leader of the matter and the patriarch of the entire family, Murong Chong was naturally the target of attack.
After thwarting a mutiny against himself, Murong Chong, who had a great change of heart, was furious, brutally suppressed the mutiny, and then announced the establishment of the Great Yan State in Binhai Province and canonized himself as emperor. All of a sudden, the whole world was in an uproar.
Murong Chong's action can be regarded as essentially a slap in the face to Da Ming. However, he himself was not stupid, knowing that he could not stop the suppression of the army, and soon began to collude with the Japanese and prepare to flee to Japan.
After arranging the military campaign against Murong Chong, Zhang Cheng came to the hospital to visit Zhang Yue, the first assistant. It can also be regarded as an understanding of the grievances between the two parties.
"I can't die just yet." Zhang Cheng sighed lightly with complicated eyes, and said softly, "But you can't live too long." ”
The doctor on the side suddenly shuddered, and his body trembled slightly and lowered his gaze. He felt that he had heard something he shouldn't have heard, would he be silenced?
Zhang Cheng was not in the mood to care about the doctor's fear, and after taking a deep look at Shousuke lying on the hospital bed again, he turned around and left here.
Zhang Cheng came to visit Shoufu this time because of Zhang Yue's love for taking care of him in the past few years, and now this friendship has been exhausted. Zhang Yue had participated in an alliance against him, and Zhang Cheng would never let go of this matter.
Mrs. Shousuke, who was wiping the sweat from Shousuke's forehead, seemed to be aware of it, and turned her head to look at the door, where there was nothing. (To be continued.) )