Before the end of the day, the entire Jingshi Shuntian Mansion was still shrouded in night, and almost all the people in the city were asleep, and if you had a bird's-eye view of this majestic capital from the sky, you would find that many mansions in the two areas of the west and east cities were holding lights.

There are many people in every mansion, there are servants who are busy shuttling back and forth in the mansion, there are officials and masters who are wearing official robes, and there are also

The tribute students who are going to participate in today's temple examination.

Although there are many busy people, the whole Jingshi is still quiet, not as noisy as the daytime, and at this time, a fast horse stepped on the street, and the sound of horseshoes trampling on the stone slab echoed leisurely.

At the easternmost end of the Forbidden City is a row of corridor-like buildings, which is extremely inconspicuous compared to the other magnificent palaces in the palace, but it is the center of power of the entire Ming Empire - the cabinet.

At this time, the three pavilion veterans led by Liu Jian arrived, and the three of them were sitting in the pavilion room to pad their stomachs with some refreshments, drink a few sips of hot tea to warm up their bodies, and refresh themselves by the way.

Unlike the tribute students, the tribute students first went to the Ministry of Rites to gather, and then under the leadership of the Ministry of Rites, they entered the palace at the time of Chen and completed the palace test in the Taihe Palace.

And they want to enter the palace early.

It is true that the palace examination is presided over by the emperor, but the emperor is also a human being, and how can a person be busy with such a major matter, so the three elders of the cabinet also share the responsibility of presiding.

For example, the topic of the palace examination is selected by them, and five to seven questions are selected, and then handed over to the emperor for review, and the emperor selects one of his favorites as the topic of the palace examination.

In the cabinet, the three elders were silently drinking hot tea, but no one was talking, and they were all recuperating for the next palace trial.

There was a rush of footsteps from outside the attic, and then the door slammed open.

Liu Jian suddenly looked at the top of his face, and was about to be reprimanded, but he didn't want the secretary who pushed open the door of the palace to run away with hot sweat, and he was waving a report in his hand, and he shouted breathlessly: "Guang, Guang, the Guangdong political envoy is in a hurry for eight hundred miles!" ”

Hearing the words Eight Hundred Miles Urgent, the faces of the three pavilion elders immediately changed.

Liu Jian hurriedly put the teacup aside, got up and snatched the eight-hundred-mile urgent newspaper from the book's hand, the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became, and the hand holding the newspaper couldn't help but tremble slightly.

"Qiongzhou sky collapse, Qiongzhou sky collapse"

"Quick, follow the old man into the palace to play Your Majesty!"

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In the warm pavilion, Zhu Youzhu looked at the report in his hand, and his face had already turned blue.

Today is the day of the palace examination, he got up earlier than usual, after bathing, he just put on his clothes, and before breakfast, he received a report from the palace people, saying that the three ministers had something to do.

He thought it was a discussion about the temple test, but who knows.

The lines of the newspaper made him feel extremely glaring.

Fu Yuhui of Qifangtong in Qiongzhou led the crowd to make a rebellion in the winter of last year, and the ten counties of Sanzhou responded to the wind, and the counties of Hainan Huanhaizhou responded to it.

At the end of last year, tens of thousands of thieves have captured Danzhou, Changhua and other important places, and the 20,000 officers and soldiers who went to encircle and suppress suffered heavy losses, and the main general Guangdong Buzheng envoy was killed, and the rest of the military attaches at all levels were killed more than 30 people, and more than 1,000 miles of roads in the two wide places were blocked, and Qiongzhou has become a trend of erosion!

now

Before he finished reading it, Zhu Youzhu was already shocked and angry, he threw the notebook in his hand to the ground, and sneered, "Okay, okay, the rebellion in the winter moon last year, I only knew about it after a few months, and I have been teaching people to keep it in the dark!" ”

Speaking of which, Emperor Hongzhi has gritted his teeth, what he hates is not the rebellion of the Li people, what he hates is that he, the emperor, has been deceived by the ministers below for several months.

Now that the situation is serious, I saw that the lid couldn't be covered before I reported it, if Qiongzhou wasn't so erosive, wouldn't I have to be hidden!

The more he thought about it, the more annoyed Zhu Youzhu became, and finally got up from his chair and said angrily: "The Guangdong political envoy and the envoy department are all in command of the envoy, but all officials above the fifth grade are dismissed and dismissed, and they are accused of bullying the king!" ”

"Then escort the eunuchs of the two wide places into Beijing!"

The land of Liangguang is already mountainous, and it is located by the sea, and the emperor of Tiangao is far away, so bandits have always been rampant, and the imperial court has not effectively controlled this, and repeated clean-ups have no help.

In the early years of Chenghua, a minister proposed to Emperor Chenghua to send a full-time minister to coordinate the affairs of Liangguang, but Emperor Chenghua agreed quite simply, and then directly sent a town guard eunuch to supervise all military affairs of Liangguang by his own domestic slaves.

Since then, this matter has become customized, and this eunuch is the slave and maid in the palace, and the position of guarding the eunuch is naturally an extension of the emperor's power to rule over the two vast lands.

In other words, they are a nail that the emperor has driven into the two vast lands, and they are also the emperor's eyeliner, and they must report to the palace immediately if they encounter something.

But what Zhu Youzhu didn't expect was that his house slave actually participated in this deception.

In addition to being angry, he couldn't help frowning.

The officials of the three divisions of Guangdong, the eunuchs guarding the town, and the chief soldier of the town guard, these three people who are not subordinate to each other are in collusion, and they do not hesitate to connect together to bully the king, what are these people hiding!

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhang's gaze became cold again, "Then the general army guarding the two Guangzhous"

As he spoke, his anger was swerving, and he had no intention of punishing him.

Because at this time, he suddenly remembered who the chief soldier who was guarding Liangguang was.

Fu Qiang Bo Mao Rui.

This Fu Qiang Bo returned to Beijing at the end of last summer to recuperate, and the disease will not be cured until the beginning of spring this year.

And he just left from Jingshi a few days ago, and returned to Liangguang to continue guarding the town, and it is estimated that he has not yet arrived at the place.

Therefore, this person should not have participated in this deception, and Zhu Youzhu also believed that he was not involved.

Mao Rui is a strict and upright person, he has served as the commander-in-chief of the Liangguang army for many years, and there has never been any chaos in the Liangguang land, at most it is just some banditry, which can be pacified in an instant.

There has never been such a thing as erosion in the land of Quang Nam.

"With Fu Qiang Bo Mao Rui as the commander of the army, he crossed the sea into Qiong and surrendered to quell the rebellion."

"Then go to Dongchang and Jinyiwei to investigate, and go to me to find out what the reason for the rebellion of the Li people is!"

One after another the edicts were issued, and none of the three ministers refuted them, and they responded in unison, so that these decrees were considered to have taken effect, and it was a big deal to go through the motions in the court.

Zhu Youzhu sat back on the chair, took a few sips of the hot tea handed by Xiao Jing, pondered for a moment, and said: "The strategy topic of this palace test is to ask about the way to prevent border troubles, and now the Tatars in the border pass are safe and sound, and the Li people in the land of Guangnan have already rebelled. ”

"Transcribe all the reports of the rebellion in Naqiongzhou, and send them down when the palace test is held, so that those tributes will know about it, and the policy topic of this palace test will also be changed, how to govern it."

(End of chapter)