Chapter 943: Confused
Empress Zhou put all the chips on Li Xin, there are strong enemies on the outside, and the crisis of seizing the throne is always with her, she is by no means out of her own heart, but what is the way?
This woman, who is not yet thirty years old this year, came to the dormitory where her husband Zhu Youzhen was recuperating, and the hall was still filled with the kind of commotion peculiar to paralyzed patients.
"Dog minions, all dragged out to play fifty boards!"
Empress Zhou suddenly erupted without warning, and the eunuchs who followed her were dumbfounded. The eunuchs in this dormitory are all cronies of the eunuch Wang Chengen, the eunuch of the master of ceremonies, and they are also the closest people before the Son of Heaven fell ill. Now to kill them, which one is not afraid?
"Do you have to do the opposite?"
Somehow, one of the eunuchs contradicted and said, "The slave and maid have committed no crime, and they will be killed." ”
Ordinary people bear ten boards, the skin will be opened, and the bones of twenty boards will be broken, and if fifty boards are sturdy, even if they do not die, they will have to be disabled.
Empress Zhou sneered: "The dog slave smells, what kind of smell is everywhere in the Long Live Dormitory?" ”
After that, he shouted to the attendant behind him: "What are you still doing? Drag it out, drag it out......"
A slave is a slave, and even if it is reasonable, it should not contradict the master who holds the power of life and death.
Eight out of ten of the eunuchs in the dormitory were dragged out, and a moment later there were screams like pigs killing outside.
Wang Chengen, the eunuch of the Celebrant Palm Seal, knelt on the cold ground with an expressionless face, as if everything that had just happened had nothing to do with him.
Queen Zhou, who had been venting for a while, staggered to her husband's sickbed, lifted the thick curtains, and the familiar person appeared in front of her.
After waking up, the Son of Heaven heard the movement, turned to Queen Zhou with confused eyes, suddenly grinned, smirked, his mouth moved, his throat muttered up and down, and he didn't know what he was talking about.
The mountain-like husband suddenly became a half-paralyzed fool, and the burden of the Ming Dynasty was all on this young woman, and the pressure and pain in Queen Zhou's heart can be imagined. She wanted to find comfort in her husband's bedroom, but in the face of this situation, she couldn't hold back anymore and burst into tears. She would rather Zhu Youzhen still be the husband who had just had a stroke, never woke up, never became a fool, even if he died suddenly in a coma, it would be a hundred or a thousand times stronger than now.
The mountain-like image of her husband suddenly collapsed in Queen Zhou's heart, and it also shattered her last trace of camouflage strength, and in the face of the erosive internal and external courts, she was completely out of proportion.
Dolgon's Qing army is just outside the city, and tomorrow is the time for a decisive battle. King Shen is like a cold jackal, watching in the dark all the time, trying to seize the throne that belongs to her husband. If she wins tomorrow's battle, the crisis of seizing the throne can be easily solved, but how should she reward the marquis of Zhenlu who has made great achievements?
It is a foregone conclusion that the Jin Dynasty will be crowned with the Duke of the Kingdom, but how can there be no more wars in the future? When the merit is so high that there is no reward for it, is it possible to seal a king with a different surname?
Yes...... Yes......
The half-paralyzed Tianzi on the bed suddenly screamed in a strange voice. At this time, Wang Chengen, who had been kneeling on the ground, got up from the ground, walked quickly to the couch, lifted the brocade quilt covering Zhu Youzhen's body, and a stench came to his nose, and he was incontinent.
Queen Zhou fled from her husband's dormitory in a daze, she wanted to go to the warm pavilion of the Wenhua Palace, but the crown prince Zhu Cihong had just fallen asleep because he had been busy all night, so he walked aimlessly in the palace forbidden.
When passing through Donghua Gate, she had a whim, why don't you go to the new army camp to see, they all said that Li Xinshan, the marquis of Zhenju, is good at training soldiers, and the trained soldiers can fight Tartar farts and urine, but I want to see if he has three heads and six arms?
According to the practice of the Ming people, women are never allowed to go to the barracks, even the queen is no exception. However, the current Empress Zhou is already the master of the Forbidden City, not to mention that she has just killed more than a dozen eunuchs, and who dares to stop it without opening her eyes?
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At the same time as Empress Luan of Zhou rushed to the military camp in Nancheng, a mysterious figure entered Fan Fucui's mansion in the inner city.
After Fan Fucui was expelled from the cabinet, he was stranded in Beijing because the Qing army was besieging the city and was unable to return to his hometown as usual. After ousting him from power, Empress Zhou also maintained the tolerant and generous attitude of the victor, allowing him to think behind closed doors in his mansion in Beijing.
"Master, there's a guest!"
Fan Fucui seemed to have known that someone was about to visit, and he stood up from the Taishi chair excitedly, "Quick, bring the guests to the study." ”
A moment later, the mysterious man appeared in Fan Fucui's study.
"Elder Ge is well!"
"Okay, okay, tell me quickly, what is the attitude of the head of the family?"
The mysterious man groaned for a moment and replied:
"The head of the contemptible family is willing to go to the soup for the sake of the Daming Jiangshan Society, and he will not die. However, please forgive me for saying bluntly, the elder has lost his position, I don't know how much success there is? ”
In the face of doubts, Fan Fucui did not think it was angry, but forced a smile.
"The old man has been in contact with Zhou Ge for many days, Gu Pingyu, the chief soldier of the Beijing camp, is his old department, and he holds the power of the Nine Gates, as long as the time is right, he can do it with a single breath."
The mysterious man pondered for a moment and said solemnly:
"Now that the elder of the pavilion has made a decision, I don't know if I will arrange a meeting with Gu Junmen in the next place?"
Fan Fucui struck with both palms, "There is no way!" ”
After sending off the mysterious person, Fan Fucui immediately arranged for his cronies to contact Zhou Yanru's mansion. Zhou Yanru was ousted from the position of the first assistant of the cabinet by Empress Zhou, and was the biggest loser in their hometowns, and naturally he was not willing to withdraw from the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty forever.
However, Fan had the same purpose, but the original intention was very different.
Zhou Yanru is treacherous, he is an out-and-out traitor, and what he does is also for his own selfishness. Fan Fucui has been upright all his life, and now for the survival of the Ming Dynasty, he has even ignored the private moral standards that he has upheld for decades.
In Fan Fucui's view, Empress Zhou's reliance on Li Xin to quell the chaos is tantamount to seeking skin with the tiger. The lesser of two evils, so he would rather cooperate with King Shen, who covets the throne, even if today's throne is in the hands of King Shen, this country is still Zhu Ming's country after all.
But if Li Xin's horse thief is allowed to sit in the country, he will really die in the world!
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Empress Zhou arrived at the military camp in the south of the city, and Li Xin was greatly surprised when she received the report. It's not that he is taboo because the other party is a woman, but he really can't figure out the purpose of Queen Zhou's sudden appearance in the barracks.
The new army has just been selected and is undergoing the most basic queue training, and these good families in the city are obviously not as easy to manage as the simple rural mountain people, and many of them have developed a slippery atmosphere.
Therefore, the number of people who repeatedly violated military regulations and were punished on the first day of training has seriously affected the progress of the training.