"To the north, is it so exaggerated?"

Hearing that Shen Yichen pulled out the Fujian and Shandong guards, knowing that it was possible to abolish the queen, and thinking that it was a usurpation, Zhao Hongjie felt a little too nervous.

"Prevention is better than prevention."

Shen Yichen didn't explain too much, and after a few simple words of advice, he left the teahouse and prepared to take the carriage back home.

After getting in the car, Shen Yichen looked up at the somewhat gray sky, and there was a feeling that the wind and rain were about to come and the wind was full of buildings.

On the second day, Li Da and others, who had received orders from the Ministry of War, appeared outside the Anding Gate of the Beijing Division. Looking at the long-lost city tower, several people had an indescribable sigh in their hearts.

"Boss, we've been away from Beijing for almost five years, right?"

Zhang Qi opened his mouth and said, compared with the appearance of the white fat man when he left Beijing, now he has no sense of obesity and bloat, on the contrary, he has the image of a warrior with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and he can change too many things in five years.

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"Yes, it's been five years, and we're finally back in Beijing."

Li Da replied with a complicated mood, when he was in Liaodong, he often missed his relatives and friends in Beijing, but now he really came back and looked at the bustling scene around him, as if he had a feeling of being out of place.

At the moment when several people had mixed feelings, Zhao Hongjie, the commander of the Jinyi Guard in a flying fish suit, walked out of the shadow of the doorway, looked at Li Da, and a surging smile appeared on their faces.

"Zhao Hongjie!"

Seeing Zhao Hongjie appear, Li Da and several people turned over and dismounted and rushed over, giving him a big bear hug.

"You kid can mix it up now, the flying fish suit is all on, a proper henchman of the emperor of the Son of Heaven's army. Thinking about the time when you went north to let you enter the Zhenfu Division, and said that he was not suitable to serve as a brocade guard, it turned out that he was still a scholar with a flexible head, and he could see farther than our group of big bosses! ”

Li Da said excitedly while patting Zhao Hongjie's arm heavily.

When he was in the outer courtyard of Ying Tianchengguo's mansion, Li Da was the five big and three with amazing strength, and his strength in the army over the years was far beyond ordinary people. Zhao Hongjie grinned at his expression by these palms, but he couldn't spoil the atmosphere of the reunion, so he could only have a wry smile on his face.

"By the way, the eldest prince of Xiangbei transferred us back to the Beijing division shift, what about the others?"

After that, Li Da looked in the direction of the doorway to see if Shen Yichen was hiding behind and didn't come out, but after sweeping around, he still didn't find a figure.

"Xiang Bei is a civil official and cabinet minister, and he has a flawed reputation among the court's and officials, and it is easy for him to be criticized and impeached by others when he befriends the military generals of the border pass, and it is inconvenient to greet you in the public, so I will take over the wind and wash the dust today."

Zhao Hongjie explained the inconvenience of Shen Yichen's identity, but he didn't expect Li Da and the others to hear it, and immediately said angrily: "Who the hell dares to impeach our eldest brother, Lao Tzu has to slap him with a knife." ”

"That's right, a batch of clear streams chirped crookedly, what's wrong with the brothers drinking a drink?"

"Jingshi just has a lot of bullshit rules, and he still has a good time in Liaodong!"

In the face of this group of people, Zhao Hongjie instantly felt a headache, and now he is not the little official ant he was at the beginning, the commander of the Jinyi Guard should not look at the three products, in fact, he has stepped into the center of the court, and he understands the operating specifications of officialdom better.

"Brothers, after all, this is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and many words must be said with caution to prevent them from being heard by those who have a heart."

"I have already ordered a meal in the restaurant, and there will be many opportunities for Jingshi to meet in the north in the future, so why rush for a while?"

Compared with Zhang Qi, Wu Rong and others, Li Da has served as the coach of one party after all, and when he calms down, he understands that it is useless to be noisy like this. So he nodded with an unhappy face and said: "Okay, then let's not make trouble for Xiangbei, first brothers have a few drinks, and then there will be a chance to come back without getting drunk and not returning!" ”

"Then listen to the boss."

"Let's go, Hongjie."

The military generals at the border pass were heroic, and after the Taoist ideal was understood, they were no longer entangled, and soon a group of people were killing towards the restaurant set by Zhao Hongjie.

There was a table of dishes in the customized box, Zhao Hongjie didn't have much, and drank happily with Li Da and other childhood classmates. It wasn't until after the three rounds of wine that he slowly spoke: "Li Da, in fact, the transfer of you back from Liaodong through the eldest prince to the north is not only because of the rotation of the squad army, but because there may be something big in the capital division recently. ”

Hearing Zhao Hongjie say this, Li Da, who was originally a little drunk, instantly sobered up.

In fact, on the way, he also wondered why the eldest prince Zhu Yi was in such a hurry to ask himself and others to leave the large army and rush to Beijing in advance. If this has something to do with Shen Yichen's deployment, then everything is explained, and he needs to come back and help himself.

"What happened to the Jingshi Society?"

Li Da's expression became serious, the court's civil officials and ministers were transferred to the border customs generals to return to Beijing, it was absolutely impossible to be a trivial matter, and Shen Yichen was afraid that he would encounter some big trouble.

When Zhao Hongjie heard Li Da ask this, he told the recent changes in the Beijing division and his worries according to Shen Yichen's instructions before.

After listening to Zhao Hongjie's words, the expression on Li Da's face changed from serious to serious, he never imagined that the situation in Jingshi would be so complicated, and it might even involve the struggle for imperial power.

After looking around, especially in the direction of the door, Li Da spoke: "Hongjie, is Xiangbei so nervous that he is worried about his relatives rebelling, or is Cao Jixiang rebelling with Shi Heng?" ”

"I don't know."

Zhao Hongjie shook his head, he actually couldn't understand why Shen Yichen was so solemn and worried.

After all, in the eyes of others, Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu was at the peak of the Spring and Autumn Period, and it was not a big problem to practice a pill to get close to women, how could you think of his untimely death?

In addition, even if the emperor's eldest son, Zhu Jianji, is weak and sickly, the worst result is just early death, and the emperor is still too young to have another one, which is a big deal for the royal family, what is there to be nervous about.

As for the rebellion of relatives after the abolition, to be honest, it is not reliable, Empress Dowager Sun's father, Uncle Chang, Sun Zhong and Emperor Taishang did not succeed in seizing the door, how could Queen Wang succeed in rebellion when she had no children?

Cao Jixiang is a eunuch, and the rebellion is even more outrageous, and the only one who has a little bit of edge is Shi Heng. But the problem is that Zhongguo Gong is a new upstart, except for being a little arrogant and arrogant and installing cronies in the border army, he has not seen any transgression at present, and he is still 108,000 miles away from the degree of rebellion.

Zhao Hongjie couldn't figure it out, and Li Dana's brain IQ didn't understand, so Zhang Qi, the white fat man on the side, came over and asked with a nervous face: "Hongjie, big brother, shouldn't he want to usurp the throne?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the box simply condensed into a freezing point, and all the people present didn't even dare to come out, and all their eyes stared at Zhao Hongjie, wanting to determine Shen Yichen's true intentions from him.

"What nonsense, I don't understand the truth that trouble comes from my mouth, don't make trouble for him to the north!"

After all, Zhao Hongjie is a Jinyi Wei Tishuai, and his political sensitivity is much stronger than that of the border army generals, not to mention that Shen Yichen does not reveal any ambition to seek the dynasty and usurp the throne at present, even if it is written on his face, you can't say it clearly.

Once this matter comes out, it will not be faced with the notoriety of "killing the monarch" of the official and the clear stream, but will become the public enemy of the royal family and civil and military officials, and it will be quickly removed!

"Yes, yes, I see."

Zhang Qi hurriedly lowered his head and admitted his mistake, he actually regretted it in his heart as soon as he said it, and it would indeed bring too much trouble to Shen Yichen if it was spread out.

After the atmosphere eased a little, Zhao Hongjie said his guess at this time: "If my prediction is correct, Xiangbei is so nervous and has something to do with the layout in advance." ”

"Lichu, what do you mean?"

Li Da noticed the difference in Zhao Hongjie's words, "easy storage" and "Li Chu" are not the same word, and the results can be described as very different. Yi Chu is to choose between the emperor's eldest son Zhu Jianji and the crown prince Zhu Jianshen, and there are too many possible choices for the prince.

"Your Majesty wants to abolish the crown prince, but the eldest son of the emperor is rumored to be seriously ill at this time."

"If there is no conspiracy in it, it is better to say, in case the eldest son of the emperor is seriously ill and someone did it intentionally, it means that there is still a force in the court involved in the prince's decision. If Xiang Bei doesn't want to be controlled by others, instead of following, it is better to support the new monarch himself! ”

As the top official of the secret intelligence agency, Zhao Hongjie has seen too many intrigues and intrigues and the dark side of officialdom over the years, and after Shen Yichen returned to the dynasty victoriously, the rumors of Yi Chu intensified, and the eldest son of the emperor immediately contracted the wind and cold in the imperial garden, which is really too much of a coincidence.

The palace gate is as deep as the sea, and the habits that have been cultivated for a long time make Zhao Hongjie not believe that there is such a coincidence in the world, whoever controls the prince will control the future. So he speculated that Shen Yichen mobilized Li Da and others to return to Beijing, in addition to ensuring his own safety, he wanted to participate in this power game of Lichu!

Silence, there was a deathly silence in the room again, after all, Li Da and the others had been at the border for many years, and they didn't expect that the power struggle in the court had already involved the support of the prince.

Seeing that Li Da and the others didn't speak, Zhao Hongjie didn't know what they were thinking, so he asked coldly: "Why, don't you dare to follow Xiangbei, are you afraid?" ”

"Let go of your mother's fart, don't think that you Zhao Hongjie and Shen Yichen are brothers, who of us is not a lifelong friendship with him, will you be afraid?"

Li Da was immediately furious, the reason for his silence was more shock, and it had nothing to do with being afraid of anything, let alone not daring to follow Shen Yichen to support the new monarch.

"Zhao Hongjie, don't think that you are the commander of the Jinyi guard, just pretend to be big in front of your buddies, you have been killed on the battlefield for all these years, who is not carrying a head on two shoulders, is there anything to be afraid of?"

"As long as the eldest brother says a word, the sword mountain and the sea of fire will dare to break through!"

Zhang Qi, Wu Rong and others were also indignant, as if they had been greatly insulted.

Seeing the appearance of Li Da and the others, a smile appeared on Zhao Hongjie's face and said: "Okay, you have a psychological preparation, and after returning to Beijing, you will attract more subordinates in case of emergency." ”

At the same time that Zhao Hongjie was picking up the wind and washing the dust for Li Da and others, there were stormy waves in the palace, and Zhu Qiyu, the Jingtai Emperor who had not been in the court for a long time, suddenly issued a holy decree to announce to the world. Announcing that Queen Wang is stubborn and resentful, and has violated the decree, she has no virtue of "Guan Ju", but has the wind of Lu and Huo, how can she inherit the ancestral rites together and correct the six palaces? On it, the queen canonized the treasure and retreated to the palace.

The rumors after the emperor's abolition were not only that Zhao Hongjie could get the news, but that the civil and military officials of the imperial court had actually been mentally prepared for a long time. After all, as a wife, you don't have the same heart as your husband, and in ancient times, ordinary people would violate the etiquette of marrying and obeying their husbands, let alone the emperor's family.

In addition to the abolition of the edict, what really added fuel to the fire was that Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu immediately issued an edict after the establishment of the edict!

"The Advisor Hang clan, the Yuxiu Xun Sect, is pure in quality. There is the virtue of dignified and quiet, and there is the benevolence of gentleness and kindness. The training of the master is not pleasant. Mao Jian Zhenshu, Shiqi Yuan Turtle. The glory of Zhai is wantonly and the position of the crown of the dragon. The envoy held the festival with the Golden Book and Jinbao Lier as the queen. ”

That's right, this Hang family is Concubine Hang who gave birth to the emperor's eldest son, Zhu Jianji. Relying on the advantage of her mother and son, she replaced Queen Wang, and officially became the queen of the Ming Dynasty who commanded the harem and the mother of the world!

And the courtiers with a little political sense can smell another trace from the edict after the establishment of the post. The emperor established Hang Guifei as the queen, which means that the eldest son she gave birth to will become the eldest son of the rightful concubine.

The ancient ritual law is the primogeniture inheritance system, with a grandchild and no grandchild. The crown prince Zhu Jianshen is the eldest son, and he can become the prince because of the four words "no heirs".

Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu "breached" and wanted to be easy to store, so he needed more etiquette to support his actions to reduce the opposition pressure of the clan vassal kings and ministers. The sentence of He Wenyuan, the secretary of the ministry, "the preface is in Lun first", allowed Zhu Jianji to occupy the advantage of the eldest son.

Now that he has to add the identity of his son-in-law, at least on the bright side, he can determine the overall Taoist advantage of the crown prince Zhu Jianji, so that Yi Chu will become more in line with the etiquette law.

After the abolition, it is never a momentary mood, or being carried away by anger, weighing the pros and cons to bring the best solution, is the ruthless royal essence!

When Shen Yichen, who was on duty in the Wenyuan Pavilion and learned the news, was still speculating about the current state of Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu, Zhao Ranyuan, a member of the Zhongshu House, walked in and informed the cabinet chief assistant Chen Xun that the Qingliu civil officials had made a fuss and wanted to hold a joint meeting of the cabinet to discuss how to deal with the matter.

The reason is that none of the officials who can be officials in the center are fools, and after the abolition, such an obvious move is released, and the next step must be to abolish the prince. If you don't gather opposition for the sake of etiquette and justice in your heart at this time, then who will follow Confucius and Mencius in the future?

In addition to the incident of the group of "fighters" of the clear rumors, there were also many dissatisfied voices on the military general's side, and even the soldiers of the Beijing camp were in an uproar.

After the siege of Jingshi was lifted, Empress Wang faced the scene of "the city is full of vegetarian and half of the city is frosty", and ordered the bones of the soldiers after the defeat of Tumubao, as well as the people who died in the war.

And in order to collect the bones of more soldiers and improve the enthusiasm of the people below, Queen Wang took out her own private money to subsidize a corpse and a tael of silver, so that tens of thousands of soldiers and people could return to their hometowns.

The dissatisfaction of both the civilian and military generals caused far greater than expected, which led to the need for a joint meeting of the cabinet and the ministry to discuss countermeasures.