Under the scorching sun, a convoy was coming from a distance and driving towards the location of Fuzhou City.

The convoy looked inconspicuous, with only three carriages and more than 20 family members, looking like a small family.

However, those who know the business can see that more than 20 guards are forbidden, and there is a faint murderous aura coming to their faces at that station, and each of them is a hundred elite soldiers.

These people walked around three carriages, separated by more than ten meters between the front and the back, but the footsteps of the people in the front and the people in the back were the same.

If someone takes a ruler to measure, they will find that these people's steps are exactly the same, each step is 33 centimeters, three steps are one meter, and there is never a time to make a mistake.

"Daddy, what are your plans for us to return to our hometown in Fuzhou this time?"

In the middle carriage, an old man with gray hair was playing chess with a girl.

Hearing the girl's words, the old man gestured to play chess, and said indifferently: "What else can I plan, I haven't returned to my hometown for decades, this time I come back, I must first worship my ancestors, and then buy hundreds of acres of land. ”

"Daddy, what do you think?"

Dressed in pink, a girl who looks like Nie Xiaoqian, with a smile on her face.

The old man's brows furrowed slightly, his eldest girl was smart and clever since she was a child, although she often said that she wanted to go home to farm along the way, but it was difficult to deceive her daughter.

"Qingfeng..."The old man glanced at his daughter dissatisfied, he played all the way up, but he didn't expect that he didn't even deceive his daughter.

"Daddy, just talk about it."

Fu Qingfeng used a coquettish stunt, she saw that her father was not willing to return to his hometown, but she didn't know what her father was plotting.

The Fu family has no heirs, although there is a military secretary, but there are no sons under his knees, only two old daughters.

On weekdays, Fu Tianqiu cultivates his two daughters as heirs, and she is by no means a lady.

The two daughters of the Fu family, one by one, are not only proficient in the six arts of a gentleman, but also have never fallen behind in the art of war and swordsmanship, so that Fu Tianqiu often sighs that if his two daughters are men, the Fu family will prosper for another fifty years.

"You are an assertive person, unlike your sister, who prefers to make friends with people in the rivers and lakes. Just keep what I said in your heart, don't tell your sister, so that she won't lose her words and fall into the wrong words. ”

Fu Tianqiu's tone paused slightly when he said this, and he sighed: "The prince has grown up, and he has been making small moves recently, and the court is even more turbulent, and I, the head of the Donglin Party, bear the brunt." As a father and a veteran of the Donglin Party, this time he can only sail against the current, and if he does not advance, he will retreat. This time I was demoted and returned to my hometown, although I lost my skills, but it was also my retreat as an advance, far away from the rights and wrongs of the imperial court. I believe that after I leave, the princelings will inevitably try to see the dagger, and it will be clear what the prince wants to do. ”

Fu Qingfeng opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything.

As the secretary of the military department and one of the bigwigs of the Donglin Party, the Fu family naturally has its own intelligence system.

Fu Qingfeng assists his father in handling copywriting on weekdays, and he is not blind to the affairs of the court, and he knows very well what a prince who can't wait will do.

When she thought of her father's party, which was going to confront the princelings, she was a little absent-minded.

The crown prince became the prince at the age of 3, and he has enjoyed the crown prince for 42 years.

My father's party wants to snipe at the princelings, not to say that it is a mantis arm as a car, but it is also a battle between tigers and wolves.

The princelings are tigers, and the Donglin party is wolves, whether in terms of personality or strength, the Donglin party will lose three points.

After this battle, there is a great possibility of losing both, but the bigger one is the tiger devouring the wolf, and losing the whole game.

Of course, the lost Donglin Party is still the Donglin Party, and the signboard can't fall, but the current Donglin Party bosses will be gradually replaced by the prince's people, forming a new generation of Donglin Party, such as Fu Tianqiu, the possibility of wanting to take power again is very small.

"You don't have to worry, when I went out of Beijing, the big stall heads representing the Donglin Party and the celebrant passed the rumors, and the three big stall heads of the ceremonial supervisor were also dissatisfied with the increasingly arrogant prince. Especially the new national teacher Pudu Cihang, it is a chess piece for the princelings to bypass the eunuchs and directly lay out in the palace, and the palace has always been regarded as a reserved place by the eunuchs. ”

Fu Tianqiu smiled at the corner of his mouth, lowered his voice, and whispered: "We, the Donglin Party, have always been on a par with the Eunuch Party, and this time I demoted my official position and returned to my hometown, which is equivalent to the Donglin Party taking a step back." The Donglin Party has withdrawn, but the Eunuch Party has not retreated, has it become a peg that has come out? I am sure that there will be a competition between the princelings and the eunuchs, whether it is for the dynasty or for power, if the eunuchs are not suppressed, how can there be so many positions for themselves to sit? ”

The three ministers, the six ministries, and the cabinet ministers, there are people sitting in every position.

The princelings, the eunuchs, the Donglin party, plus some loose officials from the wall-riding faction, occupy these positions solidly.

If the princelings want to come up, they have to drag the people above down, and the Donglin Party seems to have lost a military secretary, but in fact it puts the princelings on the opposite side of the two parties.

"Father, those eunuchs won't take refuge in the crown prince, will they?" Fu Qingfeng thought about the gains and losses, and said with some fear.

After all, although the Donglin Party is called a royalist, the real royalist party should be a eunuch party.

Only the eunuchs whose power comes from the emperor and have no branches to rely on are the real masters of the palace, and even the emperor is indispensable to be played with by these people.

If the eunuchs saw that the princelings were powerful and did not dare to compete with them, but instead took refuge in the past, the fathers and others would be in danger.

"Qingfeng, you have read history books for a long time, you must have heard this sentence of the patriarch of the Three Dynasties, but have you ever heard of the eunuchs of the Three Dynasties?" Fu Tianqiu asked with a smile on his face.

Fu Qingfeng's eyes lit up slightly, and he whispered, "What does my father mean..."

"Hahaha."

Fu Tianqiu stroked his beard and chuckled, and said with a smile: "Once a son of heaven and a courtier, ministers are like this, let alone eunuchs. There are a lot of eunuchs serving the prince of the East Palace, do you think they will let themselves have an extra emperor on their heads? Now, the prince's wings are growing, and the princelings are sharpening their knives and are in charge of the court, and the ministers around the prince are like this, and the eunuchs are of course no exception.

The current three major heads of the celebrant are all old men when His Majesty was the crown prince, and they know very well that they don't want to retreat, but they can't retreat. Our ministers can still sue the old man and return to his hometown after retiring, and they, the great eunuchs who have been in charge of the deep palace for many years, if they retire, they can only die of violent illness, this is the fate of eunuchs! ”

There was a eunuch named Wei Zhongxian in the Ming Dynasty, who was unknown in the first half of his life, and only entered the palace after middle age, and a few years later, he rose to the top as soon as he joined the prince's East Palace.

At its peak, it was known as 9,000 years old, and when the local governor entered Beijing, he had to dismount and kowtow when he saw Wei Zhongxian.

But as soon as Ming Xizong is gone and Chongzhen comes to power, what will happen to Wei Zhongxian, who is 9,000 years old, it will not be a good death.

Although everyone said that Wei Zhongxian's death was because he was hated by Chongzhen.

But the real situation is that Wei Zhongxian is the emperor's person, not his own person, and he is in the way.

Now, the eunuchs in the court are the eunuchs of the emperor's reign, not the eunuchs around the prince.

The eunuchs around the prince are gearing up one by one, so they don't have any thoughts about the twelve eunuchs.

There must be ideas, but the important positions of the twelve eunuchs are occupied by the people of the former emperor, what to do if you want to take the throne, kill, degrade, detain, there is no other way out.

Only when the bosses of the twelve prisons kill their heads and vacate their positions, can they have a chance to ascend to the top.

The bosses of the Twelve Prisons also know this, because this is how they came up back then, and they know that once the princelings take the throne, their best fate is to enter the cold palace for retirement.

These people, who have held the authority of the Great Inner Government for half their lives, are they willing to retreat like this, of course they will not be willing.

What to do, it's very simple, bring down the princelings with deep roots and support other princes to take the throne.

Those princes who are ranked lower do not have the power of the crown prince, and when these princes take the throne, they will definitely have to rely on the eunuchs, because they themselves have no one to use.

It is precisely because everyone understands that before Fu Tianqiu returns to his hometown, he will conspire with the eunuch bigwigs who were in the same situation before.

Similarly, the defeat of the princelings is also the current consensus of the Donglin Party.

Only by supporting a prince with insufficient strength to ascend to the throne, instead of a tiger like the crown prince, can they, the bigwigs of the Donglin Party, have the possibility of becoming the elders of the Three Dynasties, instead of being beaten to death on the beach by the back waves.

"My lord, Fuzhou City has arrived!"

In whispers all the way, Fuzhou City finally arrived.

Fu Tianqiu lifted the curtain, looked at the ancient city of Fuzhou in front of him, and said to himself: "Only when the Son of Heaven is weak and has not many wings, will he rely on the old ministers to have the possibility of becoming a veteran of the Three Dynasties." Prince, although you are virtuous, your wings are too full, let you take the throne, where do we old guys go? Don't blame us, if you do, blame you for not being the person we need! ”