Qin Tai and Hai Rui have not yet entered Beijing, and their affairs are already known to everyone. Not only did the cabinet know, but the inner court knew, and even Emperor Longqing knew. The six yamen in the capital and the yamen in any place know about it, and even the people in the capital know it. There are even some ordinary people who sign privately, preparing to send their petitions to the palace together with Qin Tai.

This time the matter was a big deal, not only the common people knew about it, but even the army and the imperial court also knew. The imperial court looked forward to the inner court and the cabinet, Xu Jie and Meng Chong did not speak, and no one made any decisions. On the contrary, the people in the army said that this matter has a bearing on the public order of the capital and the peace of the local people, and the army cannot send troops at will. Even if the troops are dispatched, it may not be able to control the situation. Because some soldiers and junior officers have already expressed their support and response to Qin Tai and Hai Rui's approach to the workers. For the sake of the security of the capital, the army could only close the barracks and strictly prohibit anyone from entering or leaving. Therefore, the security of the capital can only be taken care of by the officials of each yamen. But the officials are also human beings, and they are also the families of the local people. In order not to offend their families and for the sake of their own family's future, the officials went on strike en masse, and no one was willing to come forward to prevent others from entering Beijing.

Even Dongchang and Jinyiwei, who have always been ruthless, have problems. The grassroots intelligence officers of Dongchang come from the rivers and lakes and localities, and they are not like the eunuchs in the palace, they have their own families and relatives. The workers of Qin Tai did not want to rebel or make trouble, but to hand over the voices of the common people to the court and the emperor. In this way, the people of Dongchang were reluctant to go out, not only unwilling to stop, but also restrained Jinyiwei. Jinyiwei is a yamen with militarized management, and originally had little contact with the locality, so he should listen to the words of the court and the emperor the most. But over the years, Dongchang has pressed Jinyiwei everywhere, and Jinyiwei's family has to develop locally. As a result, Jin Yiwei has friendships and feelings with some people in the local area, and he doesn't want to see everyone's wives separated. Jin Yiwei is a soldier, he does things neatly, and if he is not willing to interfere, he will not pay attention to it. The commander of Jinyiwei wanted to mobilize his subordinates, and the middle-level cadres under him handed over a large stack of leave lists, indicating that Jinyiwei had collectively asked for leave at the grassroots level, and Jinyiwei had lost all monitoring of the capital.

The army was reluctant to come forward, the officials were passive and slacking off, Dongchang was unwilling to intervene, and the Jinyi guards were collectively on vacation, resulting in the imperial court, the inner court, and the emperor becoming blind, deaf, and foolish, and they could only wait for Qin Tai and others to automatically find them. Xu Jie and Meng Chong had been secretly scolding their mothers for a long time, Zhang Juzheng and others were also worried, and Emperor Longqing almost couldn't eat or sleep well. Only Li Guifei and other ladies are quiet and peaceful. However, everyone is speculating about how Qin Tai and the others will develop this time.

Qin Tai and Hai Rui did not enter the city immediately, because they were stopped by a large group of people at the city gate. The people who blocked Qin Tai were not people from the imperial court, nor people from the inner palace, but representatives of the common people in the capital. They sent fifteen petitions signed with the names of the common people in the capital, hoping that Qin Tai and others would send them to Emperor Longqing together. Qin Tai and Hai Rui agreed to everyone's request, and everyone was very happy.

Since the capital is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, vehicles entering Beijing need to be strictly checked to prevent any prohibited items from being mixed in. Although the soldiers guarding the city gate said that there was no need to check it, Qin Tai and the others still asked everyone to move down all the petitions, and one person carried a white cloth with countless names written on it into the capital. Nearby people, as well as soldiers, volunteered to help Qin Tai and others carry them. The owner of a carriage and horse shop in the city brought a large number of carriages to help Qin Tai and others deliver the petition for free.

A spy from Dongchang, who was secretly monitoring Qin Tai on the side, went back to report what he had seen and heard to his superiors. There were eighty-seven carriages and more than seven thousand nine hundred and seventy pieces of white cloth. Even if there are only 100 signatures on each piece of white cloth, there are nearly a million signatures. And on a white cloth, there will not only be a hundred signatures, but there may be hundreds of signatures, and this number is even more powerful. Who would have thought that in less than ten days, so many people's signatures could be collected, and it seems that the wishes of the common people are so firm and unified. What would happen if the court and the emperor didn't agree? No one dares to think about this question, but it is always hovering in everyone's mind.

After hearing the news in their own domains, some princes immediately sent their cronies to inquire about the development of the situation. If Emperor Longqing does not handle it well, it will be a precursor to Emperor Longqing's resignation. At that time, the common people were excited, and if the emperor was not changed, it would lead to a change of dynasty in Zhu Ming. Sure enough, there will be Xu Jie, the head of the cabinet, the chief assistant of the cabinet, Meng Chong, the eunuch who holds the seal, and even all the members of the entire cabinet and the celebrant who stepped down with Emperor Longqing. At that time, as the son of the confused emperor Emperor Longqing, the current crown prince will also be abolished because of this incident and replaced by a new emperor as the master of the house. As for who will be the emperor, these princes are all possible, maybe they will be the next Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi.

Not only are the princes ready to move, but even some officials and eunuchs are thinking about their future. Meng Chong has absolutely no way back, because this matter was directed by him, and he instigated Emperor Longqing to do so, so he will be the first scapegoat. Xu Jie is not only old, but also the one who gave this draft order, so the second scapegoat is him. But the imperial court needs someone to handle official business, and the inner court also needs someone to manage it, so other ministers and eunuchs are all asking for themselves. Empress Chen and Concubine Li Guifei and Emperor Longqing, as well as the crown prince, had no way out. Once Emperor Longqing is abandoned by the common people, he will not only lose the throne, but will also be pushed out by the imperial family to calm the anger of the common people. If Emperor Longqing steps down, the crown prince will not be the heir to the next emperor. The two fathers and sons lost their thrones, and Empress Chen and Concubine Li were not eligible to stay in the palace, they were either given death by the new emperor or imprisoned in the cold palace to die. So they are also in a bad mood, and their apparent calmness is pretended. Although Concubine Li Guifei was very satisfied with Qin Tai's opposition to Emperor Longqing's draft, she didn't expect Qin Tai to make such a big deal. Once the matter breaks out, not only will he lose his emperor's husband, but he will also lose his son's position as the crown prince. If she had known that this would be the case, Li Guifei would definitely do her best to prevent it from happening at the beginning. Emperor Longqing and Zhang Juzheng also regretted that they should not have left Hai Rui in the imperial court, let alone Qin Tai had the opportunity to leave their hometown. Hai Rui came forward in an official capacity to encourage everyone to write a petition, and this idea must have been Qin Tai's idea. Although Hai Rui is bold, he can't think of such an idea that ordinary people dare not think. Only Qin Tai, who dared to carry the spiritual seat and portrait of the first emperor and directly entered the palace to meet Emperor Zhu Houxi of Jiajing, could he think of such a thing. Qin Tai's courage is really boundless, is there anything else Qin Tai doesn't dare to do? The last time he forced the first emperor to apologize in disguise, this time he wanted to drive an emperor out of power, will he directly remove an emperor or the entire court next time?

Just when Xu Jie regretted that he shouldn't have let go of Qin Tai, there was another person who regretted it as much as Xu Jie. He is the current emperor Emperor Longqing, he was reluctant to Qin Tai with such good technology, and hoped that he would stay away from the imperial court and do some real things in the local area, so he let Qin Tai go. But Qin Tai is really not a worry-free person, either making a little trouble in the local area, or asking for reinstatement. Xu Jie, who dominates the position of the first assistant of the cabinet and is unwilling to leave, Xu Jie will not agree to let Qin Tai come out. For this reason, Emperor Longqing had no choice but to arrest and release Qin Tai, and did not fully control Qin Tai. It was because of this that Qin Tai targeted Emperor Longqing himself this time, and even encouraged everyone to oppose the imperial court and Emperor Longqing, carrying tens of thousands of petitions from ordinary people to enter the palace. If this matter is not handled well, Emperor Longqing will be in danger of stepping down. Not only will he be finished, but his wife, children and descendants will also be affected. Emperor Longqing really regretted it, he knew that if this would happen, he would not kill Qin Tai's family at the beginning, but also have a good relationship with Qin Tai and others. In this way, there will definitely be no such embarrassing scene as now, and there is no need to worry about not eating and sleeping well. Emperor Longqing felt that he was the most aggrieved emperor, his father did not take care of himself when he was young, and when he became an emperor, he was a puppet emperor who was afraid of his wife and his subordinates. Now I finally have a chance to be happy, but I haven't tasted the sweetness yet, and I was forced to a dead end by a courtier I forgot about. Emperor Longqing really regretted it a little, if he knew that he would be so unlucky, he would not be the emperor if he died. Living happily with his wife and children, where is the use of suffering such a sin. Emperor Longqing is definitely a little conscious, he should be kind to his wife and children, and don't care too much about the throne and power. All this is illusory, and only his wife and children are his own.