Two days later, in the afternoon, Li Yuntian and his entourage arrived in Qingjiang Mansion, upstream of Huai'an Province, where they would spend the night.

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After dinner, Li Yuntian went to the deck to breathe, under the quiet night, the town on the edge of the dock was noisy, compared with the cities upstream of the canal, the cities downstream were obviously much more prosperous, and even the nightlife was more colorful.

"The scenery is beautiful, isn't it?" Not long after, the figure beside Li Yuntian flickered, and Lei Ting came to his side, looked at the brightly lit town on the shore, and asked with a smile.

"It would be great if all the cities of Daming were as bustling as here!" Li Yuntian stretched lazily and replied with a smile.

"There will be this day." Lei Ting looked a little surprised when she heard this, turned her head to look at Li Yuntian, and smiled at him.

Although Li Yuntian seemed to be emotional, Lei Ting felt that he was not saying it casually, and his words vaguely revealed a heroic spirit, and he naturally believed that Li Yuntian could make all the cities of Daming prosperous.

"The prince has decided to rectify the affairs, and your father should be more careful in his actions in the future." Li Yuntian suddenly remembered something, and seeing that there was no one around, he whispered to Lei Ting about an extremely secret matter.

"Just check, just check, anyway, every time the emperor sends a patrol to the imperial history, I can't find anything." Hearing this, Lei Ting said disapprerovitously, the water in Cao Wu is very deep, and it is not something that the Imperial History of Cao can afford.

Not to mention anything else, since the establishment of the Caoyun Governor Yamen, the candidates for the governor have always been selected from the nobles of the imperial court, these people are deeply rooted in the court, and no patrol of the imperial history wants to be enemies with those nobles, and if they don't do it, they will be beaten upside down.

"The prince will send me to be the inspector of the imperial history at that time, it seems that he is determined to clean up the affairs." Li Yuntian knew that what Lei Ting said was the truth, so he said with a wry smile, this is an out-and-out errand that offends people.

"What?" Lei Ting was taken aback when she heard this, looked at Li Yuntian with a surprised expression, and said urgently, "Isn't this the prince trying to make you an enemy in the imperial court?" ”

"The more enemies I make, the more the prince will trust me." Seeing Lei Ting's concerned look, Li Yuntian smiled slightly, nodded to Lei Ting meaningfully, and then comforted her, "Don't worry, I will handle this matter properly and let them have nothing to say." ”

"What should my dad do?" Lei Ting savored Li Yuntian's words just now, vaguely understood something, and looked up at Li Yuntian.

"Taoguang Yanghui!" Li Yuntian smiled and spit out four words, and then explained, "In less than three years, there will definitely be a storm in Cao affairs, and I am afraid that many people will be implicated at that time." ”

"I'm going to get my dad out of this situation." Lei Ting nodded solemnly, she believed that Li Yuntian would definitely not be untargeted, it seemed that Li Yuntian was determined to turn the world upside down.

This is the advantage of having someone in the DPRK who is easy to do, and if Li Yuntian tells Lei Ting such important news, Lei Xiaotian can prepare in advance, so as not to fall into passivity at that time.

No matter how Lei Ting said, there are also two "dragons", not only Li Yuntian, but Zhu Zhanji definitely does not want Lei Xiaotian to be implicated, after all, Cao Yun still needs someone like Lei Xiaotian who is also worthy of Zhu Zhanji's trust to take care of it.

Since Li Yuntian's current identity is Lei Ting's entourage, he didn't talk much with Lei Ting, and quickly got up and left the deck and returned to his room.

"Listening to Wang Zhongguan's accent, he is from Hebei, right?" At breakfast the next day, while chatting with Song Dashan and the others, Li Yuntian asked Wang Zhen seemingly unintentionally.

"The adults have good eyesight, and the small ones are from Ulzhou, Hebei." Wang Zhen replied with a smile on his face when he heard this, and his body bowed slightly.

Since he has not met Li Yuntian, he still does not know Li Yuntian's identity, but he can secretly go north to the capital with Zhu Zhanji, and he definitely has a deep background.

"Ulju!" Li Yuntian suddenly sighed secretly in his heart, so that the servant in front of him who was respectful in front of him was the eunuch who was the eunuch of the court and the opposition more than twenty years later.

It seems that Song Dashan should be more careful in his dealings with Wang Zhen, Wang Zhen can climb to the high position of the eunuch who holds the seal of the boss in the future, how can he be an idle person?

Or, in other words, get rid of it now, lest it sit in the future and cause trouble in the inner court.

Immediately, Li Yuntian's eyes flashed a murderous intent, the so-called prevention is better than prevention, a dangerous person like Wang Zhen should strike first and get rid of it.

But then Li Yuntian gave up this idea, the so-called situation creates heroes, not only Emperor Yongle and Emperor Hongxi, Zhu Zhanji will also reuse the internal servants in the future, in addition to one Wang Zhen, there will also be a Zhang Zhen and Liu Zhen coming out, at that time, it is impossible to prevent it, it is better to let Wang Zhen give it a go in the inner court, and then he will find a way to suppress Wang Zhen.

Wang Zhen couldn't have imagined at this time that his life and death were completely between Li Yuntian's thoughts, and for him now, it was easy for Li Yuntian to kill him.

Soon, Li Yuntian privately found an opportunity to warn Song Dashan to beware of Wang Zhen and not to underestimate this person.

Although Song Dashan felt strange in his heart, in his opinion, Wang Zhen was not a big deal except that he had read more books than him, but he believed that Li Yuntian would never remind him for no reason, so he secretly guarded Wang Zhen in case of accidents.

When Li Yuntian and Zhu Zhanji and his entourage rushed to the capital, in the mansion of the Han King in Le'an Prefecture, the Han King Zhu Gaoxu was looking through the two account books in his hand in the study, and these two account books were the two books sent by Lu Tianxing.

Since receiving the news from Lu Tianxing, Zhu Gaoxu has been undecided, and he can't judge whether this matter is a trap set by Emperor Hong Xi, so he must be cautious.

"Father, it's time to decide whether to enter Beijing." As the door was pushed open, a young man in a python robe walked in, looking somewhat similar to Zhu Gaoxu, he was Zhu Gaoxu's third son, Zhu Zhantan.

Because Zhu Zhanqi was sent by Emperor Hongxi to Fengyang's hometown to guard the ancestral tomb, Zhu Zhantan is now Zhu Gaoxu's most trusted person, and he will discuss anything with Zhu Zhantan.

In his opinion, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Zhu Gaochu to seize the power of the Ming Dynasty: as long as Zhu Gaochu enters Beijing to expose the death of Emperor Hongxi, then the courtiers who support him can ascend the throne as emperor with the support of him.

"What's the news coming from Nanjing?" Zhu Gaoxu's brows furrowed, and now he couldn't help but miss Zhu Zhanqi a little, Zhu Zhanqi was steady, Zhu Zhantan was still a little frizzy, and then asked.

"The prince is still fasting, and according to our eyeliner, the city of Nanjing is normal, and there is no abnormality in the slightest." Zhu Zhantan replied in a deep voice when he heard this, and after a pause, he said, "But one of the eyeliners we sent to the prince's side suddenly lost contact, and I don't know where he went, and now his whereabouts are being checked over there." ”

"Did the prince notice it?" Zhu Gaoxu got up and paced back and forth in the room with a frown, at his level of fighting, it is normal for the people around him to disappear inexplicably, and it is very important that Zhu Zhanji discovered the identity of the eyeliner, so he sent someone to get rid of it secretly, and he would do the same.

"As long as the crown prince is in Nanjing, then the shape is under our control." Zhu Zhantan felt that there was no need to pay attention to an inconsequential pawn, and said to Zhu Gaoxu.

"Could it be that the prince played a trick called fasting, but in fact he has come to the capital secretly?" Zhu Gaoxu glanced at Zhu Zhantan when he heard this, and asked quietly.

If there was no letter from Lu Tianxing, Zhu Gaoxu would not have suspected that Zhu Zhanji's fasting was different this time, after all, Zhu Zhanji announced two days in advance that he would follow Emperor Hong Xi to pray for the blessing of the Ming Dynasty, and he also found a famous Taoist chief in Nanjing City to open the altar, plus his cronies are all in Nanjing, and he looks calm.

However, after receiving this letter from Lu Tianxing, Zhu Gaoxu had to carefully ponder Zhu Zhanji's intention to pray for blessings at this time, like Emperor Hong Xi, because Zhu Zhanji's fasting residence was strictly under martial law, no one knew whether he was in his fasting residence now.

"Father, do you mean that our eyeliner discovered the prince's trick and was killed by the prince?" A look of surprise flashed in Zhu Zhantan's eyes, and he asked in a deep voice.

"Everything is possible, you can't be careless, you immediately rush to Jining, let the Jining prefect and Jining Wei command the envoy to strictly check the passing ships, if the prince enters Beijing, there will be Yankuai to take the waterway." Zhu Gaoxu's eyebrows were tightly locked, and he quickly made up his mind in his heart, stopped and said in a deep voice, "In addition, the land route will also send people to investigate strictly!" ”

The prefect of Jining is the former minister of the Han Palace, and the commander of Jining Wei is Zhu Gaoxu's former subordinate

"Father, what if I find the crown prince?" Zhu Zhantan hesitated for a moment and asked.

"Once and for all!" Zhu Gaoxu groaned for a moment, his eyes flashed fiercely, and he replied coldly.

Zhu Zhantan was slightly stunned when he heard these murderous words, and then bowed his hand to Zhu Gaochu and left quickly, since ancient times, there have been countless cases of brothers fighting for the throne and father and son cannibalism, not to mention that Zhu Zhanji is just Zhu Gaoxu's nephew, and if he kills, he will be killed.

"Big brother, don't blame you for being ruthless as a brother, if you want to blame it, blame you for not knowing the current affairs, you have to occupy the dragon chair in the Jinluan Palace, and the brother is also taking back what he deserves." After Zhu Zhantan left, the corners of Zhu Gaoxu's mouth showed a sinister smile, and he said gloomily.

Out of fear of Emperor Hong Xi, although Zhu Gaoxu guessed that Emperor Hong Xi had an accident, he did not dare to act rashly, after all, the two had fought for 20 years, and it was Emperor Hong Xi who won the battle for the throne in the end, which shows that Emperor Hong Xi is more skilled than him.

Therefore, before determining whether Emperor Hong Xi was seriously ill or already in Bintian, or what kind of trap he was playing, Zhu Gaoxu would not leave Le'an Prefecture rashly, so as not to give Emperor Hong Xi the truth, so that Emperor Hong Xi would withdraw his hand to deal with him.

However, Zhu Gaoxu will not turn a blind eye, on the one hand, he asked Zhu Zhantan to sit in Jining to find Zhu Zhanji, if Zhu Zhanji really goes north, he will catch Zhu Zhanji off guard.

On the other hand, he had already given instructions to his cronies and nobles such as Wu Ninghou and An Wuhou in the capital, asking them to find a way to enter the Qin'an Palace to find out if Emperor Hongxi was inside.

If Emperor Hongxi is not in the Qin'an Palace, then it means that Emperor Hongxi's fasting and praying is a trap, so that Emperor Hongxi has to show up, if Emperor Hongxi can't come forward, Zhu Gaoxu can go to the capital openly in the name of "King Qin", and then control the situation in the capital.

Unbeknownst to Li Yuntian, a conspiracy against Emperor Hong Xi and the crown prince kicked off, further complicating the already tense situation. One