Zhu Cihong's voice was not loud, but he pronounced the words clearly and looked calm, as if he had thought about it early in the morning. Fan Fucui raised his head in astonishment, looked at the prince who was a little restrained on the warm kang, and opened his mouth for a while, his face full of surprise.

The expressions of several important ministers changed slightly, and their expressions were full of disbelief, only Li Xin's face was as usual, as if this matter had nothing to do with her. Zhu Cihong looked at Queen Zhou again and gave her an inquiring gaze.

Empress Zhou replied with encouragement to her son, bowing her head slightly.

"In the south of the Yangtze River, there was King Huai who colluded with the Huangmei thief to rebel, and there were Zheng father and son who rebelled, and now the chaos is fixed, but the thoughts of the officials and the people are floating, and it is not comparable to ordinary times.

Zhu Cihong was helping Li Xin to speak every word, Fan Fucui was so red that he wanted to interrupt the prince several times, but finally endured it. Zhou Yanru peeked at Fan Fucui and looked like he dared to be angry but didn't dare to speak, and snickered in his heart. This old dog has been unhappy with him all day long, embarrassing him, and he can't imagine that he is in such an embarrassment today.

But then again, Li Xin, who was in Beijing, continued to guard Nanjing, which seemed to be a little taken for granted, Zhou Yanru shook his head secretly, the prince is still young, and he doesn't know the difficulties and complexities of the world.

Everyone had their own thoughts, and after the prince Zhu Cihong finished speaking, it was cold in the warm pavilion. Li Xin knew that it was time to stand up and make a statement, so he stood up slowly, bowed and said: "The minister is in Beijing, and he has no time to take care of Nanjing's affairs. ”

Empress Zhou shook her head and resolutely refused to let Li Xin take office, and the crown prince also echoed his mother from the side, and the ministers only quietly watched this contrived performance.

Li Xin simply knelt on the ground and made it clear that if he was not allowed to resign as the Nanjing guard, he would resign even as a scholar.

Empress Zhou hurriedly ordered the crown prince to help Li Xin up, and then reluctantly said:

"Since the Hou of the town is resolute, the errand of the Nanjing town guard is another candidate." Then he turned his attention to Li Xin, "Who does the Marquis of Zhenyu think is more suitable to leave Nanjing?" ”

Li Xin saluted again to show his attitude: "The Nanjing town guard has always been dictatorial, and the ministers dare not beak!" ”

Who knew that Empress Zhou actually chuckled, "The Marquis of Zhenyu is crisscrossing on the battlefield, why is he so restrained in this deep palace?" But it doesn't matter! ”

"Wei Guogong!"

The three words spit out from Li Xin's mouth word by word, and the warm pavilion was suddenly full of surprise.

Everyone knows that Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, has long been inseparable from Li Xin, and just a month ago, after the Grand Canal resumed north-south communication, the founding father also wrote a book to Li Xin, and counted all his disobedience one by one.

Wei Guogong wrote to impeach Li Xin for rebellion, and all the auxiliary ministers of the cabinet knew about it, but for some reason Zhu Youzhen, the son of heaven, suppressed it. Now that Li Xin's proposed successor is actually this person, Zhou Yanru narrowed his eyes and carefully pondered the thoughts of the horse thief in front of him.

"After the Duke of Wei was the father, he went through three dynasties, and his qualifications were all the best choices."

Liu Yuliang, who has always been inconspicuous, is also speculating about Li Xin's purpose, so he doesn't believe that Li Xin will raise this sworn enemy of himself without any reason.

Xu Hong, the Duke of Wei, basically went out of Nanjing on the order of Zhu Youzhen, and it was only because the situation in the south of the Yangtze River was too erosive that Li Xin had the opportunity to come out, otherwise with Li Xin, an outsider, how could he take over the power of guarding the town in three or five years?

Now that Xu Hongji is brought out, the royal family can rest assured that the officials have nothing to say, and Li Xin can also use this to refute the rumors that he is not subordinate, which is the so-called killing three birds with one stone.

However, even so, Liu Yuliang still has many doubts that he has not thought clearly.

Empress Zhou glanced at Fan Fucui again.

"What does Elder Fan Ge think, what does the Marquis of Zhenyu think?"

Fan Fucui bowed down and said, "The old minister has no objection!" ”

Although he still insisted that Tian Fuzhen was the best candidate to defend Nanjing, Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, was also acceptable, so he stopped arguing.

As a result, the errand of the Nanjing town guard was decided, and half of the issue was resolved, and when it came to the matter of suppressing thieves in the Central Plains, the important ministers had the same opinion and were optimistic, believing that Li Liu's generation would definitely be eliminated within the year.

The important ministers withdrew from the warm pavilion, and Queen Zhou's tense body immediately relaxed, and the whole person leaned weakly on the cushion.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong said with concern: "Take care of your body! It's better to go back to the palace to rest for a while, there are sons here! ”

Empress Zhou was weak, "Your father is seriously ill, and now we orphans and widows are left to support the situation, even if you are three or four years older now, like your father's age, the queen mother will not tremble all the time, like walking on thin ice." ”

The crown prince Zhu Cihong flashed his slightly innocent eyes, "Didn't my father say that there is Zhou Fan in internal affairs and Li Yang in military affairs, so why should the queen mother worry!" ”

Queen Zhou looked at her son lovingly, her eyes full of worry.

"Silly boy, that's your father, your father can control these people, but our orphans and widows may not!" After that, Queen Zhou murmured to herself: "Grow up quickly, grow up quickly!" ”

……

The Son of Heaven Zhu Youzhen was seriously ill, the crown prince supervised the country in the name of the prince, Li Xin, Jiang Dejing, and Wei Zaode entered the cabinet, and the new pattern of the imperial court began to see scale.

The marriage between Li Xin and Princess Xinle was once again put on the agenda by Empress Zhou, saying that this marriage was set before the emperor's illness and therefore could not be changed. The wedding date is set for March, and it is less than half a month to pinch your fingers.

Just when the hundred officials of the Beijing division thought that the chaos of the imperial court would be settled, a military report that shocked the government and the opposition was sent directly to Beijing from the north.

At the beginning of the spring in the eastern part of the Manchu Dynasty, they marched southward and knocked on the pass from the three roads of Qiangziling, Huangyakou and Qingshankou respectively.

When Empress Zhou summoned important ministers to discuss the way to deal with it in the warm pavilion, she couldn't stop crying. It is necessary to know that the monarch humiliated the ministers to death, with the current status of Queen Zhou, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a half-monarch, several important ministers are good at power and neglect government affairs, and they are embarrassed by their faces, but everyone can come up with a quasi-idea.

Among the ministers, Li Xin was originally the most qualified to participate in the military aircraft, but he happened to return to his hometown at this time to worship his ancestors, and he was not in Beijing.

Zhou Yanru finally seized the opportunity and took the opportunity to suggest: "The minister recommended Yang Sichang to lead the troops and go north to fight against the Tartars!" ”

Yang Sichang's troops were divided into two parts, one was assembled in Julu and other places in the south of Beizhili to prevent the rogues from escaping into the hinterland of Beizhili, and the other was stationed in the Heluo area, so Yang Sichang's elite troops could arrive in Beijing in three or two days at the earliest.

Moreover, after Yang Sichang paid, he defeated the Liukou and recovered most of the prefectures and counties in Henan, and Li Zicheng and Liu Guineng, who had been beaten, fled into Guanzhong again and escaped into the mountains of the Qinling Mountains.

Empress Zhou remembered that Zhu Youzhen had relied on Li Yang's words for military affairs, so she agreed to Zhou Yanru's suggestion.

On the evening of the same day, an edict galloped south and transferred Yang Sichang to Beijing.

Shanhaiguan Guanning army into the king of Guanqin, in Huairou Pinggu to start a big battle, a day and night later, the Guanning army was defeated, retreated, Beijing city can even be heard in the city of Jiannu Dongyu rumbling cannons.

The Manchu Dynasty was looking forward to it, waiting for Yang Sichang's army to go north to King Qin. However, what was waiting for Yang Sichang was sick, and it was difficult to go north to ask for guilt.

Fan Fucui immediately slapped the table in the cabinet hall, and scolded angrily: "The horse thief still knows that he takes care of the overall situation, is Yang Sichang going to rebel?" ”

"Fan Ge Lao, Fan Ge Lao, silence!"

At this time, it was late at night, and in addition to Fan Fucui, who was on duty at night, there were several hall officials in the lobby.

Fan Fucui was restless, thought about it for a while, and was rarely embarrassed, he didn't know how to send this letter of wolf ambition to Queen Zhou. In the end, he decided to discuss with Zhou Yanru and Liu Yuliang.

What good ideas can Zhou Yanru have for such things, after hearing the news that Yang Sichang said he was sick, he didn't know how to respond for a long time. His plan to kill people with a knife failed, but behind this was a much more serious problem.

Why did Yang Sichang dare to call himself sick and refuse to transfer troops to the north, and this was still a dangerous situation in which the Jingshi faced the southern invasion of the Jiannu Tartars.

"Humph! Does Yang Sichang want to blackmail the imperial court? The old man would never let him succeed so easily! ”

Fan Fucui hated and kept repeating, but he couldn't come up with a way.

Only Liu Yuliang groaned, and only slowly spoke for a long time, "Now there is only one way left, recall Li Xin and transfer the Three Guards to the north to attack the captives!" ”

Fan Fucui didn't think about this method, but he quickly denied it.

Li Xin is now responsible for the great merit of quelling the Jiangnan Rebellion, if he defeats the Manchu Dynasty and the Eastern Captives again, how can he be rewarded again? Could it be that a different surname is crowned a king?

Zhou Yanru was even more reluctant to see Li Xin's Three Guards go north, if Li Xin's Three Guards were allowed to go to Shanhaiguan, Li Xin's influence on the court bureau would be greatly increased, so wouldn't he, the first assistant, become a deaf man's ear?

"The Three Guards are far away in the south of the Yangtze River, no matter the waterway, there is no ten-day and half-moon kung fu by land, I am afraid it will be difficult to reach the capital division, and the distant water will not quench the thirst of the near!"

Zhou Fan and the others objected again and again, and Liu Yuliang no longer insisted. However, before dawn, the defeat in the north was reported again, and the 20,000 people of the Guanning army went south and were annihilated.

It is said that they rushed to the doctor for an emergency, and Zhou Fan and the others were embarrassed to face Queen Zhou every day, but they couldn't come up with a practical idea.

Li Shiwen proposed that Tian Fuzhen's 100,000 Shanxi New Army in southern Henan be transferred north. This proposal was also quickly rejected, because the road from the junction of Henan Lake and Guangzhou to the Beijing Division of Beizhili was inconvenient, and I am afraid that it would take a month to arrive, and by then Jiannu would have been poisoned for thousands of miles.

Li Shiwen also suggested that Empress Zhou issue an order to dismiss Yang Sichang from the errand of the governor of the five provinces, choose another person to replace him, and then transfer troops to the north. was directly accused by Fan Fucui of being stupid, and when the war was coming, he did such actions, did he hope that the Ming Dynasty and the opposition would not be chaotic enough?