In a military meeting, Han Jian made arrangements for the upcoming political changes in Luoyang. When everything is arranged, Han Jian will be equivalent to a "vacation". In order to make the imperial court let down its vigilance against those with conspiracy and ambition in the Eastern Palace, Han Jian chose to stand aside and watch coldly, only if he did not come forward, no one would dare to show his true face.

On February 17, the imperial court announced the war letter that Xianbei was about to be dispatched, which almost caused an uproar in the world. At this time, Han Jian, who was the leader of the incident, did not appear in the palace, and even some ministers of the DPRK and China went to the palace to speak to Yang Rui, but they did not see Han Jian himself. This made people in the court feel that Han Jian seemed to be avoiding something.

By February 20, Han Jian had not appeared in public for four or five days, and even the people who were watching in front of the Dongwang Mansion had never seen Han Jian enter or leave the Dongwang Mansion. There was a bit of chaos up and down the East Palace, which showed that Han Jian was not in the East Palace. The news soon reached the ears of some people with ulterior motives, who focused their investigation on finding Han Jian's whereabouts.

At this time, there was news that a group of soldiers and horses just requisitioned from Jiangdu by the Dongwang Mansion were crossing the river to the north and had advanced in the direction of Beichuan City. There were about 6,000 soldiers and horses on this road, which was originally used as a rotation of the Dongwangfu army, but after the imperial court issued a war book about the upcoming battle with the Xianbei people, things became not so simple. Many people began to speculate that the king of Dongfei himself wanted to personally lead the battle with the Xianbei people and lead his troops north?

With Han Jian's "disappearance", Luoyang also began to have a lot of gossip, and basically everyone focused on the battle with the Xianbei people, and they were all thinking about what Han Jian was doing from this breakthrough. As the former pillar of the court and Yang Rui's most loyal courtier, Lin Ke, in addition to going to the Ministry of Rites to take a walk in the past two days, is more to receive some news. He is more concerned about Han Jian's whereabouts, which involves whether the coup d'état in Luoyang can be carried out smoothly.

On February 22, Han Jian did not show up for six or seven days, which was already the limit of what people in the court could endure. More news reached Lin Ke's ears, but he was not yet sure whether Han Jian had left Luoyang. Because the day before, someone on the 21st had said that he had seen Han Jian appear in the Dongwang Mansion. And this matter is very publicized, it is Han Jian who rode back to the house in person, but because it was dark and returned to the house, no one saw the face of the East King clearly, but the person with a similar figure and appearance to the East King entered the house, but in the end he did not come out in the house. Originally, Lin Ke's heart was already ready to move, but after hearing the news, he was a little cautious. Han Jian is here and wants to make a coup d'état in Luoyang. must take higher risks, Lin Ke is very familiar with Han Jian's personality, Han Jian belongs to the kind of person who controls power very strictly, and his words and deeds are almost like a word, so many generals in the Dongwang Mansion also have complaints. But no one can deny that it is precisely because of the power core of Han Jian in the Dongwang Mansion that the decrees and military affairs of the Dongwang Mansion have made more progress in recent years, and the channels for the upper and lower orders to be effective are also the smoothest.

By the evening of the 22nd. Lin Ke returned home alone, and he was originally invited to attend a family banquet for his colleagues in the Ministry of Rites of the DPRK and China. But halfway through, he told someone to wait for him to go back. Lin Ke had no choice but to go home, and when he arrived at the gate of the mansion, there was nothing unusual, but he knew that there were people from the Dongwang Mansion who were always watching, but only outside the Lin Mansion, and the Lin Mansion was his house slave. He has been loyal to him all these years, and he believes that no one will report to the East Palace.

"Sir, the visitor has been waiting for you for a long time." As soon as Lin Ke entered the house, someone greeted him, who was Lin Ke's housekeeper. The entire Lin Mansion is taken care of by this housekeeper. Lin Ke's wife and children all moved back to their hometown a year ago, and now all that is left in the Lin Mansion is some subordinates and maids, as well as Lin Kexinna's two concubines. Lin Ke is also a human being after all, although he sent away his wife and children, he always needs a woman to take care of him.

"How many?" Lin Ke took off his coat, it was still very cold outside, but he had to keep the impression of being shrewd and capable before he went in, and he couldn't wear it too bloated.

"Back to the master, there are six people, and several of them are Shangguan who often come, but two of them don't recognize each other and have never been here before."

Lin Ke waved his hand, meaning to let the housekeeper step back. Since these people blatantly came to his mansion, then he had to receive it, although he felt that this seemed to be playing with fire, you must know that his mansion had long been watched, no matter who came, even if the king of the east was not in Luoyang, he would send someone to inform the king of the east to know, the palace of the east king now controls the city defense of Luoyang, and it is very easy to attack a few ministers in the court, and he Lin Ke is no better than he was now, even if the east palace attacks him, he can only be arrested.

When I entered the room, there were six people waiting. Six men, all look like they are in the dust, Lin Ke knows that these people are from the north of the Yellow River, he can escape when he is attacked by the rebels in Hebei this time, the forces behind these people have given him great help, and he has made a promise that if he can return to Luoyang safely, he will mobilize his connections to do things for these people, saying that it is good to repay or use each other, Lin Ke needs the help of these forces to eradicate the Dongwang Mansion, And these forces also hope that Lin Ke, a former minister of the imperial court, will walk around for them in Luoyang.

"Lin Shilang, it's been a long time."

Seeing Lin Ke, the six of them stood up to greet each other, and they were still quite respectful in terms of etiquette. Lin Ke returned the salute one by one, but he didn't recognize two of them, he was vigilant in his heart, he had communicated with the northern county guard and the local administrative head before, no matter when he wanted to contact him, he couldn't use a fresh face, he spent more than half a year in the north last year to quell the local riots, he had almost seen the local heads, and he had also seen the staff of these people. Four of them had also appeared in contact with him before, but now they suddenly appeared with new faces, which made him a little uneasy.

Seeing that Lin Ke didn't speak, he just looked at the two of them, and one of them who had maintained a relatively good relationship with Lin Ke before: "Lin Shilang rest assured, these two are the disciples of Sun Junshou in Chengzhou, and they have done a lot of things for Sun Junshou recently." Can be trusted. ”

Lin Ke was slightly relieved, about the "Sun County Shou" in Chengzhou, he had seen it before, but when they met, Sun County Shou was only a county lieutenant, and in just a few months, the surname Sun used his family connections in Hebei to successfully usurp the military and political power of Chengzhou, and even the generals in charge of the garrison appointed by the East Wangfu were bought by the Sun County Shou. Before, Lin Ke felt that this Sun Junshou was a capable person, decisive and had a group of dead soldiers around him to serve him, such a person was worth wooing. But Sun Junshou had been dealing with the imperial court for the affairs of Chengzhou before, and had no intention of directly participating in this coup. Seeing Sun Junshou now, he felt a little comforted in his heart. Because among these forces in the north, the number of soldiers and horses is not large, and many of them are local regimental training, this Sun County Guard not only has thousands of soldiers, plus some soldiers from the Eastern Prince's Mansion, there are almost two or three thousand men and horses. If it can be transferred to the south of the Yellow River, it will be of great help to calm the situation in Luoyang after the political incident.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated." Lin Ke greeted, and the six of them sat down with him.

One of them said: "Lin Shilang has been back in Luoyang for a while, and he has already stated that he will start earlier, and it will change later, but I don't know why Lin Shilang has rarely contacted us recently, and the family heads behind us are all nervous." ”

Lin Ke sighed: "It's not that the official doesn't want to start earlier, it's because the Eastern Palace's control over Luoyang is very tight. After the displaced people crossed the river. The Eastern Prince's Mansion seemed to notice something wrong, and originally wanted to send soldiers and horses to guard this group of refugees, but in the name of recruiting the imperial court's soldiers and horses, the Eastern Prince's Mansion ordered the thousands of soldiers and horses stationed outside the city to maintain order. If you do it at this time, there will be no one in the city. ”

The man said: "Lin Shilang can rest assured in this matter. There are thousands of their own people among the rebels outside the city, and these people can enter the city at any time. At that time, Lin Shilang just needed to open the gate of Luoyang City and let people into the city. And there are also our people under the hands of the East Prince's Mansion, in the week of the incident. In the name of protecting His Majesty, they will send troops to the palace. The situation in the palace will be controlled at that time. If Your Majesty supports it, it's fine, but if Your Majesty doesn't......"

Lin Ke frowned and looked at these wolf ambitious people, and said, "Do you still want to attack Your Majesty?" ”

The man smiled and said, "Lin Shilang is a loyal minister of His Majesty, and everyone in the world knows about this matter. However, some things also need to be flexible, everyone knows that now His Majesty has a close relationship with the East Palace, and now the East Palace can command the world to also have His Majesty to help the trouble. Now we still do not have the support of His Majesty, and this has been explained. If after taking control of the palace, it is good for His Majesty to know each other, but if he does not know each other, we can support the crown prince as emperor. After all, the prince is young, and it is said that he is incompetent and incompetent, so we can use him to do things. ”

Lin Ke mentioned a little in his heart that these people wanted to blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes. Although it is the ambition of the wolf, it seems that this method is not bad at the moment, what he can't be sure of now is Yang Rui's attitude, and he doesn't dare to tell Yang Rui about the upcoming incident, he just wanted to assassinate Han Jian in the palace before, and the news leaked, and Yang Rui knew it at that time. Afterwards, many people suspected that it was Yang Rui who reported the news for the East Palace. Therefore, before this political incident, Lin Ke discussed with some aides and colleagues, and the most basic one was to cut first and then play.

Lin Ke said: "You should not think about the future after the fact, you should think about how to get rid of the East King is the right thing." Recently, the king of the east has not shown up, some people say that he personally led troops to the north to conquer the Xianbei barbarians, if there is a political change in Luoyang, when he turns back and kills back, then I am afraid that even if he supports anyone as the emperor, it is useless. His Majesty's absence has helped the East King Mansion a lot, and at that time, the East King will not be able to stop him from ascending the throne. ”

"Lin Shilang is too worried." The man said with a smile, "I knew before I went down that the people and horses on the north side of the Dongwang Mansion were not the Dongwang at all. Even if it were, it wouldn't have much impact on the current situation. Dongwang is not in Luoyang, isn't it more convenient for us to act? Moreover, we have the help of another minister behind us, as long as Lin Shilang can help us succeed, then Lin Shilang will be the prime minister of this dynasty, and Lin Shilang will be above 10,000 people under one person in the world. ”

Lin Ke looked at these people cautiously, maybe they said that they were leaking, but they actually said that there were other people to help. You must know that it was he who personally went to the north and established communication and contact with the local magistrates at the county level, and it was precisely in this way that he felt sure in his heart. It was the policy of integrating the local military and government of the Eastern Prince's Mansion that was not supported by these county guards, who were like local gate lords, that won the resistance and opposition of these people, who were also supporters of the Eastern Prince's Mansion in the past, and were of great help to the Eastern Prince's Mansion to steal power.

"Do you still have contact with other people behind your back?" Lin Ke frowned.

The man said: "Lin Shilang rest assured, this person has a respected status in the court, but it is also time to retire after success." If it happens, this person will not threaten Lin Shilang's status, he will just help us appease the people of the world, so that everyone in the world thinks that the king of the east is a treacherous person, maybe only his words can convince the world's scholars. ”

Lin Ke was secretly shocked in his heart, he felt that this person was not simple, and it was related to the private rumors among his former colleagues that Gu Weipan, the head of the court, might be involved in this matter. He and Gu Weipan are considered "old acquaintances", but after Gu Weipan's assassination, he went to lobby, Gu Weipan has no personal relationship with him, and occasionally meeting is definitely about business.

Lin Ke sneered: "Since you have such a powerful person to do things for you, what else do you need Lin to do?" After speaking, he got up and wanted to throw off his sleeves and leave.

"Lin Shilang is angry." The man hurriedly persuaded him to stay, and said, "I didn't explain it to Lin Shilang before, because this matter is very important. And we are just a small staff, in the eyes of the head of the family, we are just pawns used to take the lead, how can the master tell the truth? These words are only the meaning of the Lord, and we only know a rough idea, and we really don't mean to hide it. ”

Lin Ke said coldly: "Now only the six of you are coming, and we can't be sure whether the East King is in Luoyang, so we have to do it in a hurry." But up to now, the soldiers and horses you promised are still not assembled in Hebei, if it really happens, have you ever thought about how the 20,000 soldiers and horses of the Dongwang Mansion in the city will be solved? A false decree can make them lay down their swords and use them only for you? ”

"This." The people who came looked at each other, asked Lin Ke to step aside, and handed a thing to Lin Ke's eyes, Lin Ke opened it and took a closer look, and was a little shocked while being surprised. This turned out to be a "letter of service" from the generals of the Dongwangfu army, to be precise, these people were ready to secretly collude with these people to deal with the Dongwangfu. Among them, there are some old courtiers from the Jiangdu period of the East Palace, these people have always regarded themselves as loyal to the East Palace, how can they be easily bought by these people?

"Lin Shilang don't be surprised, although these people are all cronies of the East Prince's Mansion, they have a handle in our hands, or they have embezzled and withheld military rations behind their backs over the years, or some illegal deeds, which are not tolerated by the East King. In addition, in the past few years, Dongwang has reused young people, which has made these people resentful, so they will join us in sincerity. (To be continued......)