"What evidence do you have?" After listening to Fang Liang's words, Empress Dowager Zhang couldn't help but feel a bitterness in her heart, it seemed that Fang Liang came prepared this time, King Yue was afraid that she would have to plant a big heel this time, although she didn't want to see this scene in front of her, but for the sake of Da Ming and the crown prince, she had to find out about the matter, so she glanced at the stunned ministers in the hall and looked at Fang Liang with a cold expression.

"Empress Dowager, those Jinyi guards who escorted King Yue were buried under a remote barren slope after being killed, Liang Qianhu has sent someone to dig up the corpses, due to the cold weather, the bodies of those people are intact, and their identities have been proved after being identified by the sergeants of Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi."

Fang Liang had already prepared for this, and bowed to the Empress Dowager Zhang and said in an orderly manner, "Liang Qianhu has already notified the family members of the murdered Jinyi Guard to come and identify the corpses, and now they should have finished their experience, as long as the Empress Dowager sends an order to let those family members go to the palace and ask." ”

King Yue, who originally looked contemptuous, suddenly changed his face when he heard this, he didn't expect Fang Liang to know so many things, once the murder of Jinyiwei was exposed, his relationship with Ah Qiu would be made public.

All the ministers at the scene secretly glanced at each other, their eyes showed a look of shock, if the matter was really as Fang Liang said, then the matter of King Yue's collusion with the Northern Yuan would be undoubted, which made the atmosphere of the Taihe Hall extremely depressing.

"King Yue, what do you think of this?" Empress Dowager Zhang sighed secretly, and asked King Yue quietly, "Do you want to send those Jinyi guards' family members?" ”

I don't know why, Empress Dowager Zhang vaguely found that King Yue seemed to have fallen into a bureau set up by someone else, otherwise Fang Liang and Chen Tianlei would not have appeared so timely, and they also brought such detailed evidence, she didn't believe that a small Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi Qianhu had so much courage to let Chen Tianlei and Fang Liang go privately.

By now, not only Empress Dowager Zhang, but also Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, Yang Pu, Hu Ying, Zhang Fu, and even Guo Jin and Liu Zhongfu have realized that something is wrong with the situation, and no one could have imagined that Chen Tianlei and Fang Liang, who suddenly appeared, gradually forced King Yue into an embarrassing situation, and also revealed a shocking conspiracy.

"The Queen Mother, this person is a rebel minister, what he said is a bunch of nonsense, trying to play the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces in the palm of his hand, the Queen Mother should take him down and punish him, and he must not be left alone."

King Yue's face changed a few times, and then he bowed to Empress Dowager Zhang, and said in a loud voice with an expressionless face, "My top priority is to let the new emperor ascend the throne to settle the world." ”

"King Yue, the mourning family thinks that they should follow the will of Emperor Daxing and let the prince choose an auspicious day to ascend the throne, what does King Yue think?" Seeing that King Yue didn't feel that the situation had become wrong, Empress Dowager Zhang secretly shook her head and looked at him and said in a deep voice.

"Queen Mother, the Ming Dynasty's Jiangshan Sheji was brought down by Emperor Taizu after a lot of hardships, how can the imperial power be sidelined?" King Yue's brows furrowed, although he felt a little regretful about the attitude of the Empress Dowager Zhang, but he was prepared, knowing that the Empress Dowager Zhang would not support him, so he simply got straight to the point and said to the Empress Dowager Zhang in a loud voice, "The Empress Dowager, the minister thinks that the prince is too young to inherit the unification!" ”

"Empress Dowager, the son of Emperor Renzong, the son of Emperor Renzong, the younger brother of Emperor Daxing, should ascend the throne according to the mandate of heaven to protect the Ming Dynasty!" Hearing this, Wang Jie, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, hesitated for a moment, and then said to the Empress Dowager Zhang, although he also suspected that King Yue had an affair with A Qiu, but he was a person on King Yue's boat at this moment, and there was no other choice.

Moreover, as long as King Yue can ascend the throne in Shun Lì, then naturally no one will dare to criticize King Yue and Ah Qiu in the future, and the evidence that Fang Liang found will also be wiped out.

"The queen mother, the ministers and others think that the king of Yue should inherit the unification." Wang Jie's voice lagged behind, and Fan Yong, the general soldier of Juyongguan and the Marquis of Wuzhong, opened his mouth to echo and said loudly to the Empress Dowager Zhang.

"Queen Mother, please King Yue inherit the unification!" Immediately, some civil and military officials in the main hall sang in unison to the Empress Dowager Zhang.

However, Chen Tai, the left deputy governor of the Gyeonggi Governor's Office, Guo Jin, the secretary of the ministry, and Wang Ji, the second assistant of the military cabinet, did not play with those officials, but stood there with solemn expressions, and the three of them already felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere in the main hall, so they wanted to wait and see what was going on, and wait for the situation to become clear before making plans.

"The crown prince is the prince of the country, and he should ascend the throne and succeed to the throne, what do you want to disobey the will of the emperor?" Zhang Fu saw that Wang Jie, Fan Yong and others began to think about Empress Dowager Zhang forcing the palace, and couldn't help sneering and said, judging from the current situation, even a fool knows that King Yue has an affair with that enmity, if King Yue ascends the throne, wouldn't he be smiling and generous, and lose the face of the Ming Dynasty.

"Please enthrone the crown prince!" Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, Yang Pu, Hu Ying, Zhou Zheng and Zhang Hao and other civil and military ministers bowed down to ask the Empress Dowager Zhang for her life and supported the crown prince to inherit the throne, accounting for fifty percent of the officials in the palace.

At this time, the situation in the court is still very clear, the officials who support the crown prince to inherit the throne account for fifty percent, the officials who support the king of Yue stand thirty percent, and about twenty percent of the officials are wavering and don't know what choice to make, after all, once they stand in the wrong line now, their future career will be greatly affected.

It is worth mentioning that most of the officials who support the crown prince are high-ranking officials and dignitaries of the imperial court, and they are already in high positions and naturally do not want to change the status quo, while the officials on the side of King Yue are mainly middle and high-level officials, and they want to take the opportunity to go up.

Therefore, the support of the crown prince in the court had an overwhelming advantage compared with that of the king of Yue, and the highest-ranking civil and military officials who supported the king of Yue were Liu Zhongshi, the head of the household department, and Fan Yong, the general soldier of Juyongguan, and Fan Yong, the marquis of Wuzhong, who could not be compared with Yang Shiqi and Zhang Fu at all.

However, King Yue had an advantage that the crown prince did not have, that is, Fan Yong's army of 50,000 Juyongguan had entered the Forbidden City, and then had a military deterrent.

Although Zhang Fu, Zhou Zheng, Zhang Hao and other nobles with heavy troops supported the prince, their troops were all outside the Forbidden City, and it was difficult to save the fire from far away, and they would be powerless if there was any accident.

"King Yue, the people's hearts are wanting, you must already know what to do." Seeing that the crown prince had won the support of the courtiers, Empress Dowager Zhang quietly said to King Yue, wanting to admonish him to dispel unrealistic ideas.

"Queen Mother, the minister decided to act in accordance with the mandate of heaven." King Yue had long known that he would not get the support of those important ministers in the court, so he tried to transfer the Juyong garrison into the Forbidden City, so he was prepared in the face of Empress Dowager Zhang's questioning, and after a while, he solemnly bowed to Empress Dowager Zhang.

"Obey the destiny of heaven?" Empress Dowager Zhang couldn't help frowning slightly when she heard this, King Yue's answer was ambiguous, I don't know what he meant, is he willing to support the crown prince to ascend the throne or compete with the prince, the winner is the king?

At this moment, there was a dull and messy sound of footsteps and the sound of armor colliding in the square outside the hall from far and near, as if many people were rushing in the direction of the Taihe Palace, and then there was a commotion in the square outside the hall, and the civil and military officials standing in the square were buzzing and whispering something.

"What's the commotion outside the hall?" Empress Dowager Zhang's face changed suddenly, she already had a premonition, glanced at Queen Yue and asked loudly.

"Empress Dowager, the Juyong Guan Jingjun who was on duty at the gate of the palace city suddenly broke into the square for some reason and was coming towards the Taihe Palace." A flag bearer at the gate of the palace, the military attache of the guard, hurriedly walked to the front of the hall, knelt on one knee and whispered to the Empress Dowager Zhang.

"What?" Hearing this, the ministers in the main hall immediately exploded with a bang, and there was no doubt that they would transfer troops into the palace without the imperial order and rebel, which was a big crime of raiding the family and exterminating the clan.

"Marquis Wu Zhong, what do you mean by this?" Zhang Fu, as the head of the military pavilion, naturally couldn't let the army of Juyongguan rush into the Taihe Palace, so his face sank, and he asked Fan Yong loudly.

"Taishi, Benhou thought that the prince was young, so he had to make this decision in order not to let the imperial power fall." Under the gaze of everyone, Fan Yong bowed to Zhang Fu and said expressionlessly.

"Do you know it's a great crime of treason!" Zhang Fu sneered, disdainful of Fan Yong's high-sounding reason.

"For the sake of the Ming Dynasty, Ben Hou will not hesitate to go to the soup and the fire." Fan Yong's face turned pale when he heard this, and he replied with a resolute attitude, showing a generous posture of going to justice.

How could the civil and military officials in the hall not know that Fan Yong's words were just an excuse, and they couldn't help but glance at each other, it was obvious that Fan Yong wanted to assist King Yue to force the palace to Empress Dowager Zhang, just like Emperor Yongle after the martyrdom, the courtiers lived according to it, and those who went against it died.

"King Yue, how can you be worthy of the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty in this way, and where will you put the face of the Ming royal family?" Empress Dowager Zhang's eyes were full of gloomy looks, she knew that King Yue's heart to seize the throne had been decided, she never expected that King Yue would want to take the crown prince's throne, and her heart could be described as mixed and heartbroken.

"Queen Mother, the minister is doing this for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, and I believe that the ancestors and ancestors will understand my hardships." King Yue's face showed a look of embarrassment, and then he knelt on the ground with his legs bent and kowtowed to Empress Dowager Zhang.

"Alas!" Seeing this, Empress Dowager Zhang immediately closed her eyes in pain, the battle of Jingyan was only a short period of more than 30 years, and there was another farce of uncle and nephew competition in the Ming Dynasty, and she felt that she had no shame to see the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty.

In the face of the aggressive Yue Wang, Queen Sun had a sense of relief, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, fortunately, the prince is not in the Taihe Hall now, otherwise there will be no chance to turn over, as long as Lei Ting can lead the Xiaowu army to escort the prince out of the imperial city and enter the Xiaowu army camp outside the city, then the prince will be safe, and he can free up his hands to mobilize the Beijing army and the Xiaowu army in Gyeonggi to launch an attack on the king of Yue.

As long as the prince is safe and sound, then King Yue's plan today will come to naught, and then it will be in vain.

At this moment, Empress Sun admired Emperor Xuande's foresight more and more, and expected in advance that King Yue would compete with the crown prince for the throne, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

However, what Empress Sun didn't know was that the reason why Emperor Xuande knew that King Yue had objections was precisely because of Li Yuntian's reminder, and if she wanted to thank her, she should actually thank Li Yuntian.

Li Yuntian frowned slightly and looked at the gate of the palace, as long as those troops from Juyong Pass stepped into the Taihe Palace, then the charge of rebellion against King Yue would be confirmed, and he would be able to take advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack. R1148