At that time, the prime minister was in the court, and the officials did not dare to rebound, and now they heard that the prime minister was defeated in Jiaoshan, and the hearts of the people in Beijing were fluctuating, and the officials took the opportunity to force the palace with the matter of "imperial examination reform", and some people colluded with Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, and Wang Qiaonian, the governor of the five provinces, with bad intentions, many scholars and some officials actually held up the Confucian tablet and knelt in front of the palace, the day before yesterday outside the Forbidden City has more than 1,000 people, the attitude of the Fu Fan and the German Fan is ambiguous, and the Prime Minister is invited to return with a letter. ”

In the temporary line of Li Xingzhi, the former governor of Wu Sangui in Shanhaiguan, and now the governor of the Ming Dynasty and the left prime minister of Zhongshu Province, Li Xingzhi, the prime minister's office, Shi Xu Yixian, the head of the prime minister's mansion, recited the report of Liu Lishun, the first assistant of the cabinet, with a solemn face.

The rest of Shang Kexi, Geng Zhongming, Liu Wenxiu, Jin Shenghuan, Tang Tong, Gao Di, Qin Ying, Lang Shaozhen and other generals all sat upright and did not dare to make a sound at all, because their commander Li Xingzhi's face was ugly and terrible.

"Hehe, this prime minister has only been away from Beijing for more than a month, and the bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods in the Beijing division have all emerged, and there is a report from Jinyiwei and the Military Intelligence Department?"

Long! Li Xingzhi opened his mouth quietly, this time in the Northern Expedition to Shanhaiguan, he was indeed in the guise of first exterminating the Guanning Army, which was known as the strongest soldier in the late Ming Dynasty, in order to deter the general soldiers of the towns who were still waiting, after all, controlling the army in this era is the last word, but he didn't expect that just leaving Beijing for more than a month, the Beijing division would be in chaos like this.

"Prime Minister, Li Youcai of the Military Intelligence Department reported to the Ministry of Justice, Wu Changshi in the Ministry of Officials, and Zhou Zhonglian in the Ministry of Rites, who have been frequently in and out of the mansion of Fan Jingwen, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and Li Banghua, a scholar of the Wenhua Palace, have been in and out of the past few days, but the attitude of Fan Minyuan and Li University is ambiguous and there is no clear support."

"According to the Jinyi Wei report, Wu Changshi and the two have often exchanged letters with the Jiangnan side recently, in addition, the imperial history Jiang Gongchen, the military department staff Langzhong Yin Minxing, the military department Fang Shiliang, the household department Liu Jiaji and others seem to be in collusion with Shanxi Zhangjiakou, Ma Shuai reported that Yin Xingmin repeatedly visited Huang Degong at night, but Huang Shuai seemed to be disheartened and did not receive it, Fang Shiliang took the opportunity of the Jinyi Wei to change his clothes, and took three hundred strong crossbows and two hundred hard bows from the military war bureau.

Although Li Xingzhi left Beijing, it was not that he did not leave a backhand, not only transferred Li Youcai's military intelligence department to Beijing to preside over the overall situation, but also instructed the former Jinyiwei commander Luo Yangxing to hand over all the Jinyiwei secret agents to Ma Sande, although there must be Luo Yangxing's cronies in this, but Li Xingzhi was not worried, when Ma Sande was transferred to the Jinyiwei commander, Li Xingzhi allocated a fund of one million taels to him, so that he could reorganize Jinyiwei, so much money was smashed, plus Ma Sande held great righteousness, and the fool would follow Luo Yangxing, a bastard who had lost power. Besides, Luo Yangxing, the former commander of the Jinyi Guard, who was in battle against the water, is still under house arrest at home, and it is impossible to command remotely.

"Do you have any advice for me?"

Li Xingzhi was noncommittal, and it was not uncommon for officials in Beizhili to collude with Jin merchants, and the promulgation of the "Salt and Iron Rectification Order" and the "Mining Tax Rectification Order" violated the interests of vested interest groups, and it was only natural that they wanted to assassinate themselves.

"Dashuai, the so-called rule of troubled times, with heavy codes, it is precisely because of the collusion of the court officials and gentry that this has led to the emptiness of the treasury, and he has been in Liaodong for a long time, responsible for the grain and straw affairs of the Guanning Army, and knows a lot about this matter, my Guanning Army is known as sixteen battalions, 60,000 soldiers, but each battalion is actually only 2,000 soldiers, that is to say, the sixteen battalions of the Guanning Army are only 32,000 people, and the rest of the military salaries are greedy by officials at all levels. The rations of the rest of the soldiers had to be deducted, and they sold the rice and grain allocated by the imperial court to the Manchurians in exchange for gold and silver. ”

In order to invite credit in front of the new master, Guo Zhuangtu simply directly lifted the lid of Guan Ningjun's collusion with Beijing officials.

"Oh, then Mr. Guo has real evidence?"

Originally, Li Xingzhi didn't want to immediately turn his face with the gentry class in view of Li Zicheng's entry into Beijing and his salary, which led to his defeat, but these scum actually regarded their politeness as weakness, which was tolerable and unbearable.

Guo Zhuangtu groaned: "Prime Minister, Wu Sangui is responsible for the logistics and food of the Guanning Army with a humble position, and the humble position has its own account book, and the prime minister will know it at a glance. ”

"Okay, you can hand over the account book to Mr. Xu, and I ask you how to deal with the chaos in Jingshi? The new emperor is established, and he doesn't want to be criticized at this juncture. ”

Don't bother the two masters, since Guo Zhuangtu took the lead in standing up, he must have a plan in his heart, and Li Xingzhi also wants to see what the ability of the first mastermind who helped Wu Sangui establish the Great Zhou in later generations is.

Guo Zhuangtu frowned, his eyes showed a resoluteness, and he slowly spoke: "Prime Minister, in fact, the best way is to immediately block the nine gates of the Beijing Division with Jinyiwei, and then follow the map, as long as you take one, pull out the radish and bring out the mud, you can always wipe out these court officials who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic, that is, all of them will be killed." ”

"Kill them all?"

Xu Yixian and they were all shocked when they heard it, this Guo Zhuangtu is ruthless, this is not one or two people, but hundreds, or even more than a thousand, if they are implicated, it cannot be said that there are as many as 10,000 people, among which there are many court officials and scholars, how can this be said to be killed? If you really want to kill, wouldn't you sit in the name of the prime minister and not the minister, what do you think of the two auxiliary kings? What does the Queen Mother in the palace think? What do the officials of the prefectures and counties that have not yet been annexed to the world think? If this is really going to be killed, won't it make the world uproar, who would dare to surrender to the Jingbei Army?

Looking at the strange expressions of Xu Yixian and others, Guo Zhuangtu said again: "Prime Minister, if this plan doesn't work, I think that the marshal can temporarily block the news of taking Shanhaiguan, and in the name of the Spring Festival is approaching, the Son of Heaven will change the Yuan, leave the army to garrison the border pass, and only take a few guards to return to Beijing first, of course, this matter must be made with great fanfare, so those with bad intentions will naturally take the initiative to jump out." ”

"As for the matter of the officials forcing the palace in Damingmen, they think that they should be punished for the first evil, and those students who take the lead in making trouble will also be killed, and the rest of the people can be imprisoned first, as for the people who blindly obey, the prime minister still has Si Xiao to take advantage of the harm, how about letting them go home?"

"Our Jingbei Army has not yet controlled the overall situation, and we really can't make a big move, but the officials who colluded with the Eastern Captives must be severely punished, so we will act according to Mr. Guo's plan, Li Bangjie, you choose 600 iron soldiers, raise the banner of the prime minister, go to Tongzhou and return to Beijing first, remember, you must make a big fanfare, and you have to see the true appearance, it is those people who have eaten the bear's heart and leopard gall, and dare to assassinate the true appearance."

There were too many people, the assassins did not dare to move, there were fewer people, Li Xingzhi was afraid of arousing suspicion, six hundred iron soldiers were no more, no less, Li Xingzhi believed that those courtiers who colluded with the Jin Shang group would definitely make a desperate bet.