Shen Yichen has never forgotten the group of women who were ruined and humiliated by the Tartars, that was the first time he personally felt what it meant to be a national hatred and a family feud, and issued an order not to leave prisoners.

The women who could be rescued by the Ming army's counterattack were the lucky group in the hundreds of miles of defense line on the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, and they were also a very small group.

After the fall of the Acropolis, most of them were taken captive by the Tartars and taken to the steppe, and since then they have lived a life of slaves who are not even as good as livestock, and they can no longer see their homeland and relatives.

"The younger parents and brothers were all killed by the Tartars, if it weren't for Shen Ge Lao to save the little sister, there would be no relatives in the world."

"So Shen Ge doesn't need to thank the little one, even if he wants the little one's life to help him at the critical moment, he will not hesitate to do it!"

Wei San's tone was very resolute, he had served as a jailer in the edict prison for several years, and he had seen too many *** important ministers arrested.

Most of the sins of embezzlement and dereliction of duty are held high and gently put down, and after being locked up in the world for a while, they can be released from prison or even reinstated. But once it comes to political struggles, especially against the imperial power, it is even more difficult to survive.

Zhao Yan specially explained that it was really to the point where he wanted to ask Shen Ge Lao for the crime, so Wei San was responsible for opening the prison door and leaving with Shen Yichen from the secret passage. Even if it was investigated afterwards and he had to take this life to bear the blame, he had no complaints.

It should be regarded as using his own life to repay his sister's life-saving grace.

In the face of Wei San's gratitude, Shen Yichen only smiled bitterly.

"Wei San, when the official saw the captive Ming woman, he once said something. The suffering they suffered was precisely due to the Ming court, and it was the duty of officials to save them back!"

"Don't be particularly grateful to me, take good care of your sister, and witness the day when the Ming horse's hooves trample on the Mobei Khan Court, that is to avenge them."

Just like Shen Yichen has not forgotten the oath of taking the world as his own responsibility on the bank of the Zhenjiang River. Now he has not forgotten that he wants to avenge the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians who died in the First World War of Tumubao.

The Battle of the Kyoshi Guard was not the end, but the beginning of another war.

In Shen Yichen's belief, the two behemoths of the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia can only usher in real peace if one of them completely falls.

"Little one believes that this day will come!"

Wei San nodded firmly, and then turned around and went to the Chengguo Mansion to report his safety to Chen Qingtong.

It's just that compared to Shen Yichen, he thinks that there is no suspense about the situation, but in fact, all the forces in the capital are in turmoil.

The minister was imprisoned, the queen mother fainted, the scholars beat the drums, and the pile incidents were all setting off turbulent waves, and even Jingyuan Bo Wang Ji and others gathered in the British Mansion to find Zhang Xu, who was promoted to the right governor of the Five Armies, to discuss.

The reason why Zhang Xuan, the right governor of the official residence, can suddenly be more appealing than that of Jingyuan Bo Wang Ji and Ningyang Marquis Chen Mao is that after the meritorious deeds, Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu made a strategic wrong decision.

That is, after the change of the civil fort, Xun Qi still chose to follow the ancestral system to suppress it!

The two giants of Jingshi Xun Qi, Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, was asked for his crime early, and Zhang Fu, the Duke of England, was martyred in Tumubao, and if he continues to be blamed, he will be criticized by the world, and Zhu Qiyu will naturally not do this kind of thing.

On the contrary, it is necessary to complete the inheritance of the British dukedom as soon as possible to show that the court is sympathetic to the loyal and martyred ministers!

When the British Duke Zhang Fu was alive, it was a headache to choose which heir to inherit the title. The son-in-law Zhang Zhong is disabled, and for the family of military generals, being unable to lead troops to fight means that the general's influence in the army has faded. The other sons were all concubines, and they violated the primogeniture system.

So there are three choices in Zhu Qiyu's face, one is to follow the ancestral system and let his son-in-law Zhang Zhong take the title.

The second is to let Zhang Zhong's son Zhang Jie attack the knight, but there is also a problem that the biological mother is lowly and the eldest son is not the eldest son.

In the end, the eldest son Zhang Mao was asked to take the title, but the problem was that the British old man had a son, and Zhang Mao was only eight years old, so that the younger son would not be able to manage the huge British mansion if he inherited the title.

In fact, in addition to these three options, there is another way to go, that is, to let Zhang Hui and Zhang Xuan, brothers from Zhang Fu's mother, attack the knighthood, and the brother will end up with the brother.

Both of them are the sons-in-law of Zhang Yu, the king of Hejian, and the inheritance power of the legal system is still above the concubine. But Emperor Jingtai himself is a concubine to inherit the unification, if he chooses the elder brother and this road, it is equivalent to recognizing the orthodox heir of the Ming Dynasty as Zhu Zhandong, the king of Xiangxian.

No matter how stupid Zhu Qiyu is, it is impossible to do such a self-slapping thing, so he did not hesitate to follow his own template and chose Zhang Mao, the concubine of the British Duke Zhang Fu, to become the third generation of the British Duke.

Although the heir to the title is confirmed, the eight-year-old child cannot be in charge of the affairs and has to be helped by others, and the power still falls on the two brothers, Zhang Hui and Zhang Xuan.

In particular, Zhang Xu, the right governor of Luchuan, who made great achievements in the war, was regarded by the outside world as the ruler of the British public line, so his status surpassed Wang Ji, Chen Mao and other honorable relatives, and vaguely became the leader of the restoration forces of Yingzong.

Zhu Qiyu's operation is equivalent to completely offending the two brothers Zhang Hui and Zhang Xuan, how can they, as sisters-in-law, convince Emperor Jingtai, the "Emperor Shu"?

In the history of the change of seizing the door, the two brothers Zhang Wei were one of the main forces, and they received rich rewards from the dragon's work, and they were promoted to the rank of Daming Lord!

At the same time, Zhu Qiyu's intention to weaken and suppress the relatives headed by the British Duke and the Duke of Chengguo was too obvious, causing everyone in the entire Xunqi group to be in danger and unwilling to stand in his camp.

In many cases, the historical process seems to be an accidental event, but in fact it is the inevitable accumulation of actions, and this is the case with the mandate of heaven.

"Uncle Jing Yuan, the leader of the Jingshi Shizi of the Guozi Priest Wine, sounded the Dengwen drum at the noon gate and reprimanded the Queen Mother. I demand that I return to His Majesty and release Shen Yichen, who has been imprisoned."

"You said that in just one night, how could it be on such a scale, there must be a driving force behind it!"

Wang Wen, the imperial historian of Zuodu, has been in charge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate for many years, and he has a lot of experience, and he can see at a glance that he is tired.

Hearing Wang Wen's words, Ningyang Hou Chen Mao snorted coldly and said, "Who else can there be besides Shen Yichen himself, we really underestimate this, and the scheming methods are unfathomable!"

"After all, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the only leader of the three and the first, and the sixth yuan, in fact, he has lost his name?"

Yang Shanyin, the right capital of the imperial history, replied, he has always thought that he is extremely smart, but he has no hope of promotion due to his reputation, and he has no chance to show his strength in the court.

Now he has to admire, the Queen Mother Yizhi is such a dead situation, Shen Yichen can find a way to break the situation in a short period of time, and his wisdom is indeed almost demonic!

"Uncle Jing Yuan, then what should we do, is it hopeless for the Emperor to return to Beijing while watching this turn around?"

Ningyang Marquis Chen Mao also subconsciously asked Wang Ji, don't look at his title is a notch higher, in fact, in several Luchuan battles, Chen Mao has served as Wang Ji's deputy general, for the first civil official knighthood in the history of the Ming Dynasty, it can be said that he is convinced.

In the face of everyone's inquiring eyes, Wang Ji remained silent.

From the perspective of the political situation, he is now on the opposite side of Shen Yichen, and the Emperor Taishang is related to the dignity and orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty, and he must return to Beijing as soon as possible.

But from a private point of view, as early as a few years ago, when Shen Yichen first became an official, Jingyuan Bo Wang Ji admired him very much, and felt that this son was definitely not a thing in the pool, and his strategic vision was too much ahead of the Confucian ministers in the court, and he could be called a civil and military all-rounder!

Even now, Wang Ji still admires Shen Yichen more than he is hostile, if this kind of young man really dies because of the Queen Mother's will, it will definitely be a loss for the Ming Dynasty!

Seeing that Wang Ji didn't say a word, as a comrade-in-arms for many years, Chen Mao probably guessed the other party's intentions.

So he turned his head to look at Zhang Xuan and said, "Zhang Duxian, how do you think we should deal with it?"

Zhang Xuan has a strong personality, and it stands to reason that he has no hope of attacking the lord, and he is the absolute enemy of the Emperor Taishang's die-hard faction and Shen Yichen. As a result, he never expected that in the face of Chen Mao's inquiry, Zhang Xuan also chose to remain silent.

The reason is that compared with Wang Ji and Chen Mao, who belonged to the Southern Expeditionary Army, Zhang Xuan was a subordinate of Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, in his early years, and followed him to the Northern Expedition against the Tartars. It's okay to simply oppose Shen Yichen, and the Empress Dowager Yi wants to be right

Fang's life, what face will Zhang Xuan have to see Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, in the future?

is also a faction of the northern border army, which makes Zhang Xuan feel in a dilemma.

Looking at this group of nobles, Yang Shan's face became more and more gloomy, he knew very well that if the queen mother was successfully "forced into the palace" by the scholars, then the court would no longer have the power to suppress the new monarch.

If the Emperor Taishang does not return to Beijing to restore, he will die in the right capital of the second product in his life!

"Ladies and gentlemen, you have the kindness of a woman today, have you ever thought that Your Majesty would not show mercy in the future?"

"Who will be the next one in the two oppressions of the British Duke and the Cheng Guo Gong?"

Yang Shan's words went straight to the hearts of the people, and in order to protect his power, the new monarch Zhu Qiyu wantonly weakened and suppressed the traditional nobles and nobles, and supported upstarts such as Shi Heng and Yang Hong to ensure that his own people controlled the court.

Honorable people such as the Duke of England and the Duke of Chengguo are inevitably spared, who dares to guarantee that their titles are worry-free?

Political struggle is cruel, and many times it is either you die or I live, and if you take this step back today, there may be no chance of turning the tables in the future.

Just when Jing Yuanbo and everyone felt the same way, the appearance of a eunuch was equivalent to adding to the fire, and he was Cao Jixiang, the seal of the Si Shi Supervisor.

"I didn't expect that all the titles and ministers are here, but it saves our family a lot of money."

"I don't know if Gonggong Cao came to visit, and he missed the welcome."

When Zhang Xuan saw Cao Jixiang, he immediately greeted him, with a close smile on his face.

During this time, the contact between Empress Dowager Sun and Xun Qi was basically handed over to Cao Jixiang, and the two sides were already very familiar.

"Mother Zhang Duxian needs to be polite, our family is here to pass a word for the Queen Mother."

The Queen Mother's message?

Hearing this news, Zhang Xuan had a look of surprise on his face, didn't there be news in the palace that the Queen Mother had fainted again?

As if seeing through the doubts in the hearts of Zhang Xuan and the others, Cao Jixiangpi smiled and said, "The Queen Mother is fine, she has woken up under the diagnosis and treatment of the Imperial Doctor."

"The Queen Mother's eucharistic well-being is a blessing for the country."

Wang Wen, the imperial history of Zuodu, hurriedly echoed a sentence, talking about the need to pat the horse, he had already been trained by Wang Zhen, and he had practiced perfectly.

"Father-in-law Cao, what does the Queen Mother have to convey to us?"

Jingyuan Bo Wang Ji has the ability and decisiveness of a military general, he didn't have too much politeness, and asked directly about the matter.

"The Queen Mother spread the word that the Jingshi scholars were disrespectful and tried in vain to subvert the imperial court. Jing Yuanbo and other ministers are in control of the Southern Expeditionary Army, and it's time to put things right."

Hearing Cao Jixiang say this, all the ministers present gasped. The good thing to say is to set things right, and the ugly thing to say is to ask Jing Yuanbo and others to lead the troops to suppress it.

If you are a little careless in doing this kind of thing, I am afraid that it will be left behind for 10,000 years by His Majesty the Literati!

At the same time, Jing Yuanbo and the others also had a thought in their hearts, even if the queen mother was a woman after all, she really had no reason to speak of under her anger, and she didn't think about any way out of fame at all.

Seeing the change in everyone's faces, Cao Jixiang understood that they were struggling fiercely in their hearts, anyway, the words that should be conveyed had been delivered, and it was none of their business how to choose.

"Okay, our family has sent a message, and the Queen Mother has to go back to the palace to take care of it as soon as possible, so it will be inconvenient to stay longer."

With that, Cao Jixiang was ready to turn around and leave.

However, at this time, he seemed to suddenly remember something, and looked back at Zhang Xuan and said, "Zhang Duxian, when the Queen Mother feels that the country is in danger, it is really inappropriate for the young son of the British Duke to attack the lord, and this matter may have to be discussed again."

Tempt! Naked temptation!

This is why Cao Jixiang chose to come to the British Mansion to spread the word, he deeply knows what Zhang Xuan desires most in his heart, as long as he can complete the things entrusted by the Queen Mother and help the Emperor Taishang finally complete the restoration.

The title of Duke of England will fall on you Zhang Xuan!

After saying this, Cao Jixiang strode away without looking back.

"Congratulations to Zhang Duxian!"

Almost at the first hour

Suddenly, Yang Shan said hello to Zhang Xuan with a smile on his face.

He stepped on the bones of his fellow inmates, and he had long had a bad reputation among the civilian community, and he didn't care about sending troops to suppress this group of Beijing scholars.

Listening to Yang Shan's congratulatory words, Zhang Xuan's heart jumped wildly, and the tension even surpassed the period when he went to the battlefield.

The British dukedom is placed at the head of the Jingshi is the first of the relatives, and the title means that one person is under and above ten thousand, who doesn't want to get this honor?

"Zhang Duxian, this matter needs to be cautious!"

Feeling Zhang Xuan's heartbeat, Wang Ji opened his mouth to remind him.

After all, he was born as a civil official, and he knew very well the weight of the word "morality" in the hearts of the people of the world.

The Queen Mother sent troops to suppress it, which undoubtedly challenged the bottom line of the scholars, and the result was definitely not yielding. On the contrary, they will fight more and more fiercely, to defend the dignity and integrity of the literati, to stick to the way of the sages in their hearts, and to bend rather than bend!

At this point, I am afraid that the Chinese official group of the imperial court will come out to stand in line, and Zhang Qian will have no room to turn back.

Zhang Xuan heard the warning in Wang Ji's words, but the chips offered by the Empress Dowager Sun were too tempting, making him irresistible.

But at this time, the housekeeper of the house walked over quickly and said, "The third master, Zhu Yi, the eldest son of Chengguo, is here to visit."