Carrier pigeons come from the north.

Nowadays, the traffic is not developed in this era, the communication is naturally not developed, the folk letters are generally entrusted to the post station, the post station of the Ming Dynasty is divided into the official post, the military post and the people's post, the official post is mainly responsible for the transmission of official documents and the palace newspaper of the Beijing Division, the decree of the General Administration, the correspondence between the eunuchs, the folk post is mainly responsible for the transmission of the letters of the people, the military post is as the name suggests, only responsible for the delivery of the military report, the history of the Li Chuang King who overthrew the Zhu Ming Dynasty with his own hands, is a post of the official post of Yinchuan Prefecture.

In contrast, the carrier pigeon is naturally the fastest speed to deliver the news, but the risk is also the greatest, weather, wind direction, natural enemies, hunting, etc., so unless there are 100,000 urgent military reports, the government and the powerful are generally willing to choose the post station to transmit.

There was not only one carrier pigeon that landed in the front courtyard of Xingwang's Mansion, but four of them fell one after another, which was also for the sake of insurance, even if one or two were hunted, the remaining pigeons could also spread the news along the way.

In the vestibule, a warrior in the palace hurriedly caught the carrier pigeon in his hand and took out a small letterbox, which contained a small note, and the warrior respectfully handed the note to Zhu Houxi, the king of Xing.

Zhu Houxi unfolded the note and slowly glanced at it, Yan Shan's godless gaze instantly became radiant, and the whole person seemed to be injected with a green vitality, and even his body trembled slightly.

"The Son of Heaven drowned and fainted, his life was in danger, and he died within a few days." Zhu Houxi muttered, closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then opened his eyes and reconfirmed every word in the note, and found that they were all real and not his own hallucinations. Zhu Houxi's thin body trembled more and more obviously.

"The king of heaven is rich, and God gives him the blame! I, Zhu Houxi, also have a day to touch the treasure, the ancestors and ancestors bless you! ”

"Come to the people, pass on the history of the palace, the staff, the officials, and the professors to enter the palace to discuss matters."

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The atmosphere in the carrier hall was very warm, and the Xingwang Mansion originally planned to eat and wait for death as his lifelong ambition as a long history and staff member like Zhu Houxi. Professor et al. After learning of this great good news, they were so excited that their noses and eyes were red and bloodshot, but after all, the emperor's drowning and dying was not good news for the whole world, and they couldn't show joy and excitement in a big way. In the quiet hall, only the heavy breathing of everyone could be heard.

Those present are all Zhu Houxi's confidants and cronies. I am familiar with the current order of succession to the throne. Everyone knows that when there is no queen today, if the son of heaven dies. The dragon chair in the Jingshi Fengtian Hall must have been sat on by the prince, this is the norm of the heavenly family, and no one can stop it.

So at the same time as the excitement in his heart, everyone here has secretly made up their minds to raise their lifelong ambition to eat and wait for death a little higher, if the prince really becomes the emperor, they will enter the court with the work of the dragon, and they are afraid that they will not be reused?

The only thing I can do now is to fast, bathe and burn incense, and pray that the half-dead faint king of the Jingshi will quickly kick his legs and swallow his breath, and he will be ranked in the immortal class.

At this time, in the carrying hall, everyone was like a gambler who had won a huge prize, sitting at home and waiting for the day of receiving the prize.

Zhu Houxi is still young, although the city government has it, after all, it is not as deep as an adult, and he is already smiling at this time.

"The Ming Dynasty has been established for more than 100 years, from Hongwu to Zhengde, countless vassal kings and clans rebelled for the emperor's throne, but finally broke the halberd and sank into the sand, and could not die well.

"The partition wall has ears, and there are factory guards eyeliner in the house, the prince is cautious!" A staff member reminded in a deep voice.

Zhu Houxi laughed twice and stopped, but he couldn't hide the smug look in his eyes.

"Lord, the news in Beijing said that His Majesty just fainted and not died, we still need to wait for a few days, when the funeral news comes from Beijing, or the Zongren Mansion and the courtiers send an edict on the throne, it will be considered a major event, before that, the prince must not leak the slightest bit of the word, let alone make any immoral deeds, before ascending the throne, the queen mother in the palace, the courtiers and the Zongren Mansion have the right to veto, the prince must not be in a hurry and fall into the handle."

Zhu Houxi nodded heavily: "This king is self-saving." ”

After pondering for a moment, Zhu Houxi raised his head, and his eyes were full of wisdom: "Starting tomorrow, the palace will open half of the granary, open a porridge shop, and give sackcloth to help the homeless people in the townships and counties near Anlu Mansion......"

"The prince's move is good, but the vassal king's grain relief is inevitably suspected of inviting the people to buy the hearts of the people, for fear of being impeached by the officials, it is better to hand over the grain cloth to the Anlu prefect, and he will give relief in the name of the government, it doesn't matter whose good the people read, the important thing is that the government will report the prince's goodness to the Beijing Division, the queen mother in the palace, the cabinet scholars and many courtiers will inevitably know the good deeds of the prince, at that time, the whole dynasty will praise each other, if His Majesty dies, this throne will definitely be the prince's."

"Okay, that's it."

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Zhu Houzhao was still lying in the main hall of the leopard room and had not woken up, but the atmosphere in the capital was becoming more and more solemn, and in the court, the panic of the ministers did not even want to do anything to hide it, and they all tensed their faces and looked anxiously in the direction of the leopard room.

Batches of factory guard spies rode out of the city, and returned to the city in batches, and what they brought back was not good news.

The drowning of the Son of Heaven could not be concealed in any case, and the factory guards reported that there were signs of instability among the vassal kings everywhere.

I don't know who released the rumors, Zhu Houzhao's drowning incident was greatly exaggerated, and for a while, carrier pigeons in the city flapped their wings and rushed back and forth, and a few days later, the news from the factory guards and spies came back was stricter than one another.

Hengwang Zhu Youyi, Rongwang Zhu Youshu, and Yiwang Zhu Youbin were the most unbearable, ignoring the rules that the vassal king was not allowed to leave the fiefdom without the edict, under the guise of entering Beijing for the Hajj, without saying a word, he led his entourage to the Beijing Division, and the lights of the rest of the kings' mansions were not extinguished day and night, and the staff of Changshi and the vassal king discussed matters all night.

The three vassal kings who left the fiefdom were naturally the most anxious, and they couldn't help but be in a hurry.

It can be seen from their names that these three have a good relationship with Emperor Zhu Youzhi of Hongzhi, they are the sons and daughters of Emperor Xianzong, and the brothers of Emperor Hongzhi, if it weren't for the fact that Emperor Hongzhi was reincarnated a little faster than them, the throne after Xianzong may be theirs, and now Zhu Houzhao's life is in danger, in terms of blood and throne ordering, they naturally have the most chance, although there is a king in front of them, but who dares to guarantee that there will be no chance for them? In terms of blood, they are the brothers of the first emperor of Hongzhi, and they are the uncles of Zhu Houzhao......

With the hope of a better future, the three imperial uncles rushed on the road.

When the news reached Jingshi, the hearts of the courtiers became heavier and heavier.

What they are worried about is not these three two hundred and five princes, but those vassal kings who are still in the fiefdom, but who are up all night to discuss things, they seem to be calm, but who knows what kind of storm is brewing behind their backs? The struggle between the kings has been cruel and ruthless since ancient times, if the Son of Heaven dies in the future, God knows what these vassal kings can do in order to compete for the throne, the three princes who have entered the capital will make a fuss, and it is a chaotic battle to establish the chief or the heir, how can the vassal kings who stay in the fiefdom not seize this eternal opportunity to muddy the water of the capital division more and more?

The news from all directions was summarized in the factory guard, and the commander of the Jinyi guard made Qin Kan suppress the news and kept it silent, but Dai Yi, the superintendent of the East Factory, could not be silent, so the starry night knocked on the door of the university scholar Yang Tinghe, and Yang Tinghe was strict and ordered to initiate the court meeting again.

The content of this meeting was Gyeonggi Defense.

After all, the Ming Dynasty has been established for more than a hundred years, and there are too many brain-dead princes who don't know the height of the sky, but this kind of two hundred and five princes are not big or small in their hands and still hold a little bit of military power, if they are really attacked by this group of two hundred and five divisions and sit on the dragon chair, it will be a complete laughing stock for the ages, and the ministers of the Beijing division will be laughed at by future generations for ten thousand years.

In the Wenhua Palace, the Cabinet, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Celebrant and the Six Secretaries of the Ministry of Rites formed the main members of this court meeting.

Yang Tinghe sat at the head without saying a word, but in his mind, he suddenly recalled Qin Kan's remarks in the pavilion by the Xihua Pond on the day His Majesty drowned.

At that time, Qin Kanti yì added four foreign armies to Beijing to garrison, and everyone in the pavilion expressed their opposition together, and it was only a few days later, but Qin Kan's original mention had to be taken out and officially discussed at the court meeting.

The 12th regiment battalion of the Beijing Division was originally only 10 regimental battalions, and the 12th regiment battalion was increased to 12 regiments and battalions in the third year of Chenghua, and the initial number was 10,000 elites per battalion, that is to say, the total number of the most elite troops in the Gongwei Beijing Division was about 120,000, but this number was only the number of the Chenghua year, and in the fourteenth year of Zhengde, the 12th regiment battalion was gradually uneven because of the long-term residence in the peaceful land, and the lack of personnel became increasingly strict, and the total number of the 12th regiment battalion is now less than 70,000, plus the four guards of the imperial horse supervisor Teng Xiang who guarded the inner palace, The total number of regular troops stationed around the Beijing Division, such as Miyunwei, Wudewei, and Guangwuwei, totaled about two or three hundred thousand.

It seems to be an extremely large number, but since the civil change, the Ming Dynasty lost 500,000 troops, and later filled the military households for several generations without experiencing the battlefield gunsmoke, and the combat power is very low, and it is no longer known as the "elite" of the year.

To this day, the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces opposed it in unison, but in the critical situation, the cabinet had to be brought to the table and formally discussed with the ministers.

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ps: There is one more ...... (To be continued......)