But Yuan Pengnian quickly reacted that if the matter of killing the monarch spread, the world would never believe that he had the courage to do so in a small seven-grade capital, but would only think that he was instructed by Gao Hongtu.

At that moment, Yuan Pengnian said: "Teacher, the student will cut off the teacher-student relationship with you." ”

"More and more nonsense, isn't it three hundred taels of silver to sever the teacher-student relationship at this time?" Gao Hongtu said with a dark face, "Besides, the teacher-student relationship can be broken if you want to?" ”

After a pause, Gao Hongtu asked again: "Is this Du Hongyu you said reliable?" ”

Gao Hongtu means that this Du Hongyu is determined enough to kill the king? Don't go to kill the king in the end, but instead run to report you and me to the saint.

"Rest assured, this Du Hongyu is absolutely reliable." Yuan Pengnian hurriedly said, "Because he has all the hatred with Ma Mingluo, or with Shiyi." ”

"The hatred of destroying the door?" Gao Hongtu said, "What's going on?" ”

Yuan Pengnian said: "Here's the thing, this Du Hongyu is also a greedy person, and he is extremely stingy, so he was reluctant to buy when the Shiyi Exchange just sold bonds, and when the bond price rose to the sky, he became energetic, not only took out all his family assets, but even borrowed high-interest printing money from many banks. ”

After a pause, he said: "In the end, the bond price avalanche, Du Hongyu lost a lot of money, and those money banks also urged him to repay the money every day, but where did he have the money to repay the loan?" In the end, he was anxious about those money banks, so he spent money to hire and force debts, but Du Hongyu was not a good stubble, and the two sides clashed. ”

"In the end, Du Hongyu was wiped out, but dozens of members of the family were almost wiped out, and only he, his old mother and young son survived by being rescued by the students."

"Then Du Hongyu hated the Shiyi Office and Ma Mingluo."

After the student's words were clicked, he even hated the saint.

"I see." Gao Hongtu asked again, "Who else knows about Du Hongyu?" ”

"Except for the students and Du Hongyu who know, there is only you as a teacher." Yuan Pengnian said busily.

"It's fine." Gao Hongtu breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and said, "Yuan Pengnian, you listen to the old man, Du Hongyu killed the monarch because he was cheated out of all the money by the city, and after the family was ruined, he took revenge on the Ming Dynasty and the saint, and it has nothing to do with you Yuan Pengnian, and it has nothing to do with the old man, do you understand?" ”

"The student understood." Yuan Pengnian's face showed a tangled look.

According to his original intention, this matter was naturally to be publicized publicly, even if it cost his life.

Killing the monarch is of course a great rebellion, but if it is to practice the great road of the emperor and the scholars to rule the world together, it undoubtedly has another meaning, and in his mind it will be recorded in history.

Gao Hongtu said again: "Besides, you haven't been to the charcoal workshop tonight. ”

"Yes." Yuan Pengnian bowed his head and said, "The students haven't been to the charcoal workshop tonight. ”

"Alright, you can go back quickly." Gao Hongtu sent Yuan Pengnian away and called the old servant in.

"Ah Fu, you go to Wei ......" Halfway through the words, Gao Hongtu said again, "Forget it, the old man still came to visit Wei Guogong in person, after all, the stakes are very high." ”

This matter could not have been done without the support of Wei Guogong.

Guangwei Guogong is not enough, and there is sincerity.

Before going out, Gao Hongtu glanced at the night sky.

Tonight, it will be destined to be recorded in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

As for the merits and demerits, let future generations comment on it.

He is high-minded, as long as he has a clear conscience, it is enough.

……

At dawn the next day.

Meng Zhaoxiang was woken up from his sleep by the newly married Mrs. Ru.

"What's wrong?" Meng Zhaoxiang yawned and asked.

Mrs. Ru said: "The housekeeper said that Lord Wu and they came over, saying that there was an emergency. ”

"Lord Wu?" Meng Zhaoxiang obviously hadn't woken up yet, and his mind was a little confused, "Which Lord Wu?" ”

"Naturally, it is Lord Wu Linzheng, the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, who has the closest relationship with you, Master." Mrs. Ru said, "There is shocking news about the holy car in Yangzhou." ”

"News about the Holy Driver?"

Meng Zhaoxiang was taken aback, and his sleepiness disappeared suddenly.

At that moment, Meng Zhaoxiang got up as fast as he could, and hurried to the living room.

I saw that Wu Linzheng was not the only one who came, Chen Liangmo and Wu Ganlai also came.

"Uncle Zong, woe to you!" Wu Linzheng hurriedly said, "Xiaguan and the others just got an amazing news that Luanjia, who was stationed in Yangzhou, was attacked by unknown thieves, and the imperial ship that the saint was riding was completely blown up!" ”

"Huh?" Meng Zhaoxiang's eyes were dark, and he almost fainted on the spot, thanks to Wu Ganlai and Chen Liangmo's quick reaction, they hurriedly stepped forward to hold him left and right, so that Meng Zhaoxiang did not fall to the ground.

After settling down, Meng Zhaoxiang asked anxiously, "What about the saint?" Is there any definite news? ”

"The ships have been blown up, where can there be any definite news." Wu Linzheng sighed, but secretly thought in his heart, I am afraid that he has been crushed and sunk to the bottom of the canal!

Meng Zhaoxiang wiped his cold sweat and said, "Where did you get the news from, credible?" ”

Wu Linzheng said: "The news was obtained from the General Administration Department, and the Yangzhou Government sent someone overnight, it should be credible, how dare the Yangzhou Government talk nonsense about this kind of thing?" ”

"Alas, there are many disasters and difficulties, and Daming is really full of disasters and difficulties."

Meng Zhaoxiang sighed and sat down on the Taishi chair.

At this moment, Meng Zhaoxiang really felt unprecedentedly tired.

Shengshang has been like a different person since he realized the Tao in the coal mountain, and Da Ming saw that it was improving again, and even reviving again was no longer an extravagant hope, but this happened.

The Donglin Party really has no bottom line!

Seeing Meng Zhaoxiang slumped on the Taishi chair, Wu Linzheng, Wu Ganlai and Chen Liangmo could not hide the disappointment on their faces, at this critical juncture, as the one with the highest rank among the nine secretaries who went to the disaster, shouldn't they turn the tide and take everyone to thwart the conspiracy of the Donglin Party? What's the matter with slumping on the Taishi's chair and sighing?

At that moment, Wu Linzheng hurriedly said: "Alas, my eldest uncle, don't be emotional, the top priority is to quickly think of a countermeasure to stabilize the situation in Nanjing, and then usher the prince to Nanjing as soon as possible." ”

"What do you mean?" Meng Zhaoxiang said, "You mean they want to support the Yongwang?" ”

Meng Zhaoxiang was also confused, and the thinking ability of the entire brain was not as good as before.

"Isn't that obvious?" Wu Ganlai stomped his feet and said hurriedly, "The crown prince has reached adulthood, but King Yong is only twelve years old and is still a child, of course those people hope that King Yong will succeed him." ”

Meng Zhaoxiang finally reacted and said hurriedly: "This matter needs to be done by Shi Ge Lao." ”

"It's just that Scott Lao is not enough." Chen Liangmo said, "I also learned that Huilu Pavilion Lao and Jinfutai, these two people and I followed the first emperor from Beijing to break out of the siege, and they will definitely support the crown prince." ”

"So I'll split up." Meng Zhaoxiang nodded and said.

At that moment, the four of them went separately to find Shi Kefa, Lu Zhenfei and Jin Xuan.

……

After a night of rapid marching without sparing horsepower, at dawn the next day, Chongzhen and more than 400 Qinwang scholars rushed to the dock at Puzikou from the vicinity of Yangzhou.

At this time, Zheng Sen and the other more than 500 Qin Wang Shizi were already waiting at the dock.

"Holy." Zheng Sen arched his hand and said, "The boats are all ready, and they can cross the river at any time." ”

"Hmm." Chongzhen nodded and asked, "Is it all done from beginning to end?" Didn't show any flaws, did you? ”

The key to this play is not to let the Donglin Party in Nanjing know that he Chongzhen is still alive, only in this way will they be desperate to help Zhu Cizhi to take the position, otherwise the Donglin Party will not be able to sing this play.

Although only the first half of Yangzhou is enough, if the Donglin Party can finish singing the second half, it is still necessary to let them finish the second half as much as possible, and the whole audience must sing.

"Don't worry, Holy One." Zheng Sen said, "It's under the banner of the Zheng family's caravan. ”

After saying this, Zheng Sen said: "Our Zheng family sends caravans to Nanjing every year to purchase silk, porcelain and tea, and even the people from the Caojiang Admiral's Office know about it, so no one will be suspicious." ”

"Okay, then we'll cross the river." After Chongzhen finished speaking, he took the lead in boarding the merchant ship.

After boarding the ship, he said to Zheng Sen: "First go to the Dinghuai Gate outside the Caojiang Governor's Office." ”

……

At this time, the early dynasty in Nanjing had already begun.

As mentioned earlier, because Zhu Cizhi got up late, the court meeting in Nanjing was changed from the early court to the afternoon court, but today's court meeting could not be delayed, so the eunuch could only put Zhu Cizhi up from the bed.

When Zhu Cizhi sat on the throne with sleepy eyes, he found that there were already a large number of scarlet-robed officials standing in the main hall, and even under the corridor outside the main hall, there were many blue-robed officials, adding up to hundreds of people.

Zhu Cizhi couldn't help but turn his head and ask He Zhikong: "He companion, today is not the time of the top ten dynasties, why are so many officials here?" Is something wrong? ”

He Zhikong hummed lightly and said, "Your Highness, something big has happened." ”

"Something is wrong?" Zhu Cizhi's expression was grim, and he didn't ask more questions at the moment.

At this time, outside the main hall, two more civil officials wearing black yarn and python robes strode in.

The first person was Shi Kefa, the first assistant of the cabinet who had not been seen by hundreds of officials for a long time, and behind Shi Kefa was Lu Zhenfei, a scholar of the Criminal Department and a scholar of Dongge University, who had just entered the cabinet with the emperor's decree.

The expressions of both of them were very solemn, and they seemed to be preoccupied.

Seeing this, the civil and military officials gathered in the main hall and under the corridor outside the hall couldn't help whispering, and the discussion was naturally the theme of today's court meeting - who will be the new emperor?

The assassination of the saint in Yangzhou can't be concealed at all.

Although the exact news is not known, the general situation has already spread throughout Nanjing in private.

Even the peddlers and pawns in the streets and alleys and the famous prostitutes in Qinglou on the Qinhuai River already knew that the saint was assassinated in Yangzhou and was blown up by gunpowder.

Therefore, the accession of the new emperor to the throne is already a sure thing.

The only suspense is, whether to take advantage of the situation to support the Yongwang of the prison country as the new emperor, or to hurry up from Xuzhou to usher the crown prince from Nanjing to the emperor's throne?

According to the Emperor Ming Zu Ancestral Motto formulated by Emperor Taizu Gao, there is no doubt that he should be the crown prince.

Because the crown prince is the eldest son of the first emperor, there is no doubt that he is the first heir to the throne.

But as we all know, this time things are by no means as simple as imagined.

Lu Zhenfei walked into the hall and swept around, and found that Meng Zhaoxiang, Wu Linzheng, Wu Ganlai and Chen Liangmo, who were looking for Jin Xuan, were not there, so he turned around and cast a helpless look at Shi Kefa.

Shi Kefa was originally going to invite King Yong to start the court meeting,

Seeing this, I could only continue to wait patiently.

Fortunately, after waiting for a long time, I saw Meng Zhaoxiang and the four of them running in sweating profusely.

At this time, Meng Zhaoxiang and the others also didn't care about the decency of the civil officials, and came straight to Shi Kefa and Lu Zhenfei at a trot.

"I've seen two elders." Meng Zhaoxiang and the four of them gave up.

"Excuse me." Shi Kefa waved his hand and asked, "What about Jinfutai?" ”

"Well, don't mention it." Wu Linzheng sighed and said in a low voice, "Early this morning, Jinfutai was sent to the Admiralty by Wang Guerrilla of the Caojiang Admiralty Administration, and then he was placed under house arrest. ”

"Huh? How can this be? Shi Kefa and Lu Zhenfei's faces changed greatly.

Without Kim Hyun's support, the variables would have increased dramatically.

Because at present, there are three important military forces stationed in Nanjing.

The first is the Beijing battalion, with a total of 20,000 soldiers, but because it is a guard soldier, it lacks training, and there is a shortage of weapons and armor, so its combat effectiveness is low.

The governor of Jingying was originally Han Zanzhou.

After Han Zan and Zhou were punished, the governor of Beijing has always been concurrently served by Zuo Guangxian, the imperial historian of the Imperial Palace.

The reason why Gao Hongtu wanted to promote Yuan Pengnian to the imperial history of Zuo Yudu was that he felt that Yuan Pengnian had strong execution and was more suitable than Zuo Guangxian to supervise the Beijing camp.

However, in addition to the admiral, there was also a governor in Jingying.

In the Ming Dynasty, the governor of Jingying has always been led by the Duke of Wei.

Then, in addition to the Beijing camp, there were also 4,000 pacesetters from the Caojiang Governor's Office and 3,000 iron cavalry brought to Nanjing from Xuzhou by Jin Xuan, the governor of Yingtian, although the strength of these two armies was not much, but they could be called elite.

Especially Jin Xuan's 3,000 iron cavalry, whose soldiers are all soldiers under the command of the general soldier of the border town and the deputy general, and have had many battles with Jiannu, it can really be said that he has experienced a hundred battles.

Shi Kefa, Lu Zhenfei and Meng Zhaoxiang originally thought that as long as Jin Xuan's 3,000 cavalry were there, plus Jin Xuan was also the commander of Caojiang, it would be equivalent to having 7,000 of the most elite soldiers, so even if 20,000 Beijing battalion soldiers fell to the Donglin Party, it would not be a big problem, because if they really wanted to fight, they would win.

However, the plan did not change quickly, and I never expected that this would happen.

Jin Xuan was actually put under house arrest by the guerrillas under his command to the Caojiang Governor's Office, and this time not only the 4,000 soldiers of the Caojiang Governor's Office lost control, but even the 3,000 iron horsemen were afraid that they would not be able to move.

"It's urgent, so I can only directly transfer three thousand iron horses into Beijing to maintain the court situation!"

Shi Kefa is still a little decisive, and he knows that he can't be soft at this time.

"Nope." Lu Zhenfei sighed and said, "The three thousand iron horses can only be mobilized by Jin Xuan himself and the king's flag, if Jin Xuan does not arrive or does not have the king's flag, even Shi Ge Lao, you can't transfer the three thousand iron horses." ”

"How's that okay?" At this time, even Shi Kefa was out of ideas.

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