"Shandong Governor Kong Zhen was ineffective in suppressing bandits, resulting in stubborn bandits running rampant, and there was a suspicion of banditry! Immediately dismissed, arrested and sent to Beijing, strictly investigated! ”

"In addition, Xia Yunyi will be transferred to the Governor of Shandong, and Xu Fuyuan will be transferred to the Governor of Shandong, so we must do a good job in suppressing bandits and implementing the new policy!"

Apocalypse commanded.

Because when Tianqi received this decree, he was participating in the court meeting, and Li Guopu, a bachelor at the court meeting, stood up at this time and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks it is inappropriate. Although Kong Zhen was ineffective in suppressing bandits, he should be removed from his post and investigated. But Xia Yunyi is a cool official! This person implemented a new policy in Henan, organized peasants, soldiers and peasant cooperatives, clamoured the democracy movement, and often falsely accused large households of rebellion and took pleasure in liquidating their homes. Once he is allowed to go to Shandong, I am afraid that the implementation of the new policy will become a bloody and miserable affair! This is obviously contrary to the original intention of His Majesty's reform! After all, His Majesty's implementation of the new policy is to enrich the country and benefit the people, not to disturb the people and kill people! ”

Saying that, Li Guopu said: "Your Majesty please retract this decree!" ”

Zhang Gui said from the side at this time: "Who let him Kong Zhen govern ineffectively!" ”

As he spoke, Zhang Gui turned to Tianqi and said: "Your Majesty, from the courtier's point of view, this Kong Zhenshi is clearly deliberately obstructing the implementation of the new policy, deliberately suppressing bandits first, dereliction of duty, and hiding treachery in his heart!" In addition, it also shows that the big gentry in Shandong are not interested and do not want the new policy to be implemented smoothly. Therefore, you have to be a capable official like Xia Yunyi! This is also what they themselves have to force the court to do. ”

Apocalypse nodded: "That's what I mean." Hence the decision. ”

At this time, Li Guopu said again: "Your Majesty! It is true that the Shandong gentry may not know what to do, but this may be just that Kong Zhenshi is really not good at governing the government, and he does not know how to mobilize the people to cooperate with the new policy of the imperial court and the suppression of bandits. Therefore, the minister asked His Majesty's quasi-ministers to go to Shandong to supervise the new policy and the suppression of bandits! ”

After hearing this, Tianqi glanced at Li Guopu and asked, "Can you do it?" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister will do his best to implement the new policy, and never let down Your Majesty!"

Li Guopu answered, and smiled secretly in his heart.

Zhang Gui glanced at Li Guopu, also smiled, and said, "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Li Ge will live up to the holy will if he goes here!" He has experience in local governance, and he doesn't know anything about local governance, and if he goes, he will only mislead the country and the people! Chen thinks that it is more appropriate for Xia Yunyi to go. ”

At this time, Tianqi nodded and said, "Then it's still Xia Yunyi!" ”

Then, Tianqi said: "But Tang Aiqing can't die in vain, the Dongchang Zhenfu Division must break the eucalyptus within a time limit and arrest the murderer Hou Liu and other masterminds who may exist behind it!" ”

"Yes!"

Wei Zhongxian responded at this time.

But at this time, Tian Ergeng, who was in charge of the brocade guard, appeared outside the hall quickly: "Emperor, the minister has something urgent to play!" ”

Seeing this, Apocalypse hurriedly said, "Tell me! ”

Tian Ergeng also hurriedly said: "It is believed that the people from the Wangfu came to report that the King of Xin has not returned to the palace for three days!" Since His Majesty said that he had not summoned the king to the palace. In addition, the minister has also been ordered to send thousands of horsemen to search throughout Gyeonggi for a long time, but he has not seen King Xin. ”

"What?!"

Apocalypse stood up in astonishment.

Chen Zizhuang said at this time: "His Royal Highness King Xin is about to be vassal, how can he be missing." ”

At this time, Yuan Keli, the secretary of the Ministry who had not spoken, was also very worried: "His Royal Highness King Xin is the brother of His Majesty, if he just goes out of Beijing to play without authorization and does not return, I am afraid that he will be kidnapped by people with ulterior motives and established as the emperor, and I am afraid that when the time comes, His Majesty will inevitably have to do something to cut off his siblings." ”

"You mean Liaodong?"

Apocalypse asked suddenly.

Yuan Keli replied: "Your Majesty Shengming! ”

After hearing this, Tianqi said: "Wei Zhongxian! Within ten days, you must find His Royal Highness King Xin, who lives to see people, and dies to see corpses! If, my royal brother, you can't find it, you and Tian Ergeng, and Xu Xianchun don't want to live! ”

"Yes!"

Wei Zhongxian hurriedly agreed, and he panicked in his heart, and had to ask cautiously for a while: "Emperor, do you still need to investigate the murder of Tang Ningbin in Shandong Xincheng County?" ”

Apocalypse said: "Find King Xin first!" ”

"Yes!"

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that if you want to say that King Xin is missing now, you should blame Uncle Guo!"

At this time, Li Guopu, a scholar, suddenly said.

"Blame me?"

Zhang Gui also glanced at Li Guopu.

Apocalypse also asked, "How do you say that?" ”

Li Guopu played: "Your Majesty Mingjian, you know a lot of things when you think about it, the most unstable thing now is the Liaodi Jiangmen, whether they rebel or stand on their own for the country or even join the enemy, it is very likely!" But King Shin disappeared at this time, and it is obviously very likely that as Otsuka Zai said, it is related to the Liaodi Jiangmen, and it is likely that they want to support King Shin as the emperor, so as to fight against the imperial court! ”

"However, now the imperial court is going to implement a new policy internally. As the saying goes, one mind cannot be used for two purposes. Because of this, the officials of the Three Law Divisions persuaded His Majesty not to kill Li Ruzhen, but to endure the anger for a while. After the new policy is fully implemented, the border preparations will be rectified. But at that time, it was Uncle Guo's remarks that insisted on His Majesty punishing Li Ruzhen, which led to the instability of today's Liao affairs, and then led to the disappearance of King Xin today, so how can Uncle Guo not be blamed for this matter? ”

"But killing Li Ruzhen is what I have done. If you want to blame, you can only blame me first. If you really think that what I did was wrong, you can say it bluntly, you don't have to point fingers at Sang and scold Huai like this! ”

Apocalypse said coldly.

Li Guopu said: "Your Majesty is angry! The minister did not mean so. The minister just thinks that since this matter is inseparable from Uncle Guo, he should let Uncle Guo also bear this matter and find His Royal Highness King Xin, instead of letting Gonggong Wei bear this matter! And at the risk of killing your head. ”

Zhang Gui understood that this Li Guopu suddenly targeted himself, and it turned out to be to win over Wei Zhongxian.

Zhang Gui also calculated: "Your Majesty, since Elder Li Ge said so, the minister is willing to use the guarantee of Ye Chengxue's commander Ye to send the head of the envoy, and the deadline is within ten days, forget it, find His Royal Highness King Xin within one day?" ”

"Why is Ye Chengxue wanting to be vouched for?"

Apocalypse asked.

Zhang Guidao: "Because Ye Chengxue knows where His Royal Highness King Xin is, it's just that he is outside the palace and can't come in to participate in the court meeting, and he hasn't been able to report this matter to His Majesty." ”

"Xuan Ye Cheng Xue enters the hall!"

After hearing this, Apocalypse hurriedly commanded.

Ye Chengxue hurriedly walked in.

Li Guopu chuckled in his heart here, looked at Zhang Gui in surprise, and said in his heart: "How did he know that King Xin's disappearance was related to Ye Chengxue?" ”

Apocalypse had already begun to ask Ye Chengxue at this time: "Do you really know where His Royal Highness King Xin is?" ”

Ye Chengxue said: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister doesn't know." ”

Li Guopu smiled at this time and thought, "Ye Chengxue really didn't let himself down. ”

Then, Li Guopu also took the initiative to say first: "Your Majesty, Uncle Guo is bullying the king, obviously Ye Chengxue doesn't know, but he said that Ye Chengxue knows, what is this not bullying?!" ”

However, at this time, Ye Chengxue said again: "But Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Xin was at the minister's house three days ago, but today, the minister has already sent him out of the house, so the minister doesn't know where he is now." ”

At this time, Zhang Gui said: "Your Majesty, the minister found out that His Royal Highness King Xin had gone to Ye Mansion through Xichang's eyeliner, so he said that Commander Ye knew where His Royal Highness King Xin was, and it was not considered a bully, but the minister just didn't expect that he had already left Ye Mansion." ”

Apocalypse nodded: "I understand!" ”

Then, Tianqi asked Ye Chengxue: "What is King Xin doing in your house?" ”

Ye Chengxue took out a letter and said: "Because His Royal Highness King Xin handed over a letter to His Majesty, this letter was written by Li Ge, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, to Zu Dashou, and the content of the letter was to seek to establish King Xin as the emperor. ”

After hearing this, Tianqi looked directly at Li Guopu.

Li Guopu kept looking at Ye Chengxue.