"The evidence of the crime was that before the arrest of someone, someone sacrificed it to Lone."

Zhu Gaoxian tapped the booklet on the side of the table and said, "But for now, it doesn't mean much." Murder, raiding homes, a total of more than 6,000 pages of relevant accounts, involving all forces in the south of the country, from the princes and nobles, officials of the six departments of Nanjing, down to the large and small magistrates, landlords and gentry, if the lonely person shows these more than 6,000 pages of accounts, I am afraid that there are many more people killed than the empty seal case. ”

Kang Shike gasped: "Your Highness is afraid that he is going to force chaos in the south?" ”

"What's more to the Southern Rebellion?"

Zhu Gaoxian stood up, walked to Kang Shike's side, patted him on the shoulder, and said lightly, "It's a big mess in the world, Kang Zhifu." ”

"Lonely desire to reformulate the distribution of benefits to the world's gate valves, how can they agree, they are bound to fight with Lonely."

Kang Shike couldn't help but ask: "Your Highness knows that it will cause chaos, why ......?"

"Why do you want to go your own way, you want to say this, right?"

Zhu Gaoxian closed his eyes lightly and said lightly, "This has nothing to do with you, don't ask what you shouldn't ask, you can do what you need to do." ”

Kang Shike lowered his head and asked, "Then what does His Highness need to do?" ”

"When you need you, you will be instructed."

Zhu Gaoxian waved his hand and said, "Stand down, Gu will leave Yangzhou in a few days, and you know how to go after that." ”

"Minister, retire."

……

……

When people retreated, Zhu Gaoxian was the only one left in the room.

He slowly opened his eyes, and under the dark and deep eyes, there were extremely imperceptible mood swings. He rested his hand on the booklet next to the armrest of his chair and took out a letter from the booklet.

The envelope of the letter, marked in red with cinnabar, indicates that the situation is urgent.

Zhu Gaoxian opened the letter, his eyes were a little complicated.

"Minister, Yang Rong sues, His Royal Highness the Prince, Wanfu Jin'an."

"The stakes are very high, please forgive the ministers for being rude. On the twenty-ninth day of February, there was a heavy snowfall in Beijing, and the next day His Majesty was critically ill, so he asked His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to return to Beijing immediately to preside over state affairs and secure the foundation of the country. ”

"The minister was guilty of capital crimes, and because he was afraid that His Majesty would be critically ill and cause a turmoil, he mobilized the guards of the East Palace without asking for instructions, detained Fan Zhong, the general of the forbidden army, and blocked the news. However, the minister is dedicated to the country and has no selfish desires, so he asked His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to return to Beijing and punish the minister. ”

Zhu Gaoxian watched it over and over again and sighed.

There's no time.

Although he had deployed everything perfectly, in front of the old man's life, which could be extinguished at any time, it was still too hasty after all.

He didn't want to settle the situation in one battle and force the south to be in chaos, but the sky was unsatisfactory, and the things that could be solved by slowly grinding the blunt knife forced him to cut through the chaos with a quick knife now.

……

……

Beijing, heavy snow closed the city.

It was already past the snowy season, and somehow, a goose feather snowstorm suddenly arose, covering the center of the empire with a heavy snow of silver.

This heavy snow came just right, at the very least, it can block the news that is usually difficult to break, so that the big and small things in the city will not spread quickly.

"Yang Rong, do you know that this is a capital crime!"

"You know you're rebelling!"

In the high walls of the deep palace, there was a man's roar, and the sound of iron chains was heard.

Fan Zhong, the general of the forbidden army's guards, had his hands chained in chains, and he struggled to break free, grinding the wrists of his hands into a bloody blur, but he could not take a step forward.

Opposite him, Yang Rong was dressed in an official robe, neatly dressed, his face was light, his hands were behind his back, and he said slowly: "General Fan, Your Majesty is critically ill, this matter must not be reported, now the prince is in the south, Your Majesty is down, no one is in charge of the overall situation, and I temporarily take over the defense of the palace, which is also a helpless move." ”

"Whew! Fuck you, you're a fucking rebellion! ”

Fan Zhong sprayed the other party's face with spittle, "How many heads do you have enough to cut off, can you decide on major national affairs?" Privately mobilize sergeants, detain the guard generals, and take over the defense of the forbidden army, what, do you want to follow Cao Cao to blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes! ”

"Don't dare."

Yang Rong said calmly, "After the prince returns to Beijing, I will ask him to die." ”

"You're going to fucking die right now!"

Fan Zhong couldn't suppress the anger in his heart, and scolded and said, "You are a literati in charge of the cabinet, and your authority is only to assist and approve the red, so do your duty well in the Wenhua Palace, Er'an dares to mobilize the army privately?" ”

Yang Rong paused, he lowered his head and looked at Fan Zhong: "General Fan, if you didn't seize power at that time and didn't take over the defense of the palace, how would you stay?" ”

Fan Zhong said without hesitation: "Naturally, it is strictly guarded, blocking the palace gate, prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving, and playing His Royal Highness the Prince, applying for an order to change the defense of Beijing's Nine Gates, and waiting for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to return to preside over the overall situation." ”

"Yes, it's not wrong for you to say that, this is your duty, you are a soldier, and the fatwa of the Martial Academy is that soldiers take obedience to orders as their duty, but sometimes, things are not done like this."

Yang Rong said slowly, "If you blindly follow the charter, you will definitely not make mistakes?" ”

Fan Zhong frowned slightly: "What do you mean by this?" ”

Yang Rong said calmly: "If you do it according to your regulations, block the palace gate, change the nine gates, and don't say how long it will take to go back and forth, just say that you make such a big fuss, then the whole city of Beijing will be boiling and full of wind and rain, and fools will know that Your Majesty's dragon body is sick, what the consequences are, I don't need to say more." ”

Fan Zhong retorted disdainfully: "You know a basket, and when the rules are set, people will abide by them." Do you think that because you have read two more books of sages than others, you really think that you are a saint? Saint, does he know how to fight? ”

"Saints don't fight, and I never believe in saints."

Yang Rong shook his head and said, "It is better to believe in others than to believe in yourself, my heart and my deeds are as clear as a mirror, everything I do is righteous, and I should have a clear conscience." ”

Fan Zhong sneered: "You think too much of yourself, do you think you are the savior of the Ming Dynasty?" How can you dare to steal the country, I Guan Ru is the biggest minister of the Ming Dynasty! ”

"In the Ming Dynasty, except for His Majesty, only the prince can call the wind and rain, and you, you are just a dog raised by the prince's side, even Lu Chaoyang knows that you have to ask the prince for anything first, but you are here to cut first and then play, I want to see how you should ask the prince to die!"

Yang Rong was silent in place, as if he was a little stopped by Fan Zhong.

Although he is dedicated to the country, he is now taking advantage of the emperor's critical illness to usurp military power, which is no different from Huo Guang, a powerful minister of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the past. During the reign of Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty, Huo Guang dictatorship, after the death of Emperor Zhao, he set up an assistant to Liu He, the king of Changyi, who had a shallow foundation, and ascended to Dabao, and deposed it 27 days later, and set up Liu Xun, the great-grandson of Emperor Wu, to ascend the throne as Emperor Xuan.

After Emperor Xuan succeeded to the throne, Huo Guang monopolized power, and the Huo family had unlimited scenery.

And now Yang Rong is walking in the direction of Huo Guang.

"Yang Rong can't be Huo Guang, and the crown prince is not Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty."

At this moment, an old and deep voice came from the room.

Yang Rong and Fan Zhong looked at it when they heard the voice, but it was Xia Yuanji who came in a red-clothed official robe and a cane, and his hair was full of vicissitudes, but it was difficult to hide the strong aura on his body.

After Zhu Gaoxian took power, the Donggong Party became the largest political party in this dynasty, and Xia Yuanji, as his most powerful arm, naturally became the leader of the Donggong Party under one person and above 10,000 people.

Xia Laoshangshu is responsible for the position of vice president of the household department and the academy of literature, holding the money bag of the empire in one hand and the ups and downs of the high-level officials of the empire in the next few decades in the other.

The crown prince is not in the capital, and the affairs of the East Palace Party are all handed over to Xia Yuanji to decide, how lush the East Palace party is, all over the world, and the power in Xia Yuanji's hands has far exceeded his position.

Therefore, in addition to the former "Old Shangshu", there are more people who call Xia Yuanji "Xia Xiang".

"Yang Rong is not the material of Huo Guang, if he wants to be a minister, unless he has to wait until the old man dies."

Xia Yuanji said indifferently, "As long as the old man is still alive, even if His Majesty's dragon body is sick, even if the crown prince is not in Beijing, this Beijing city will not be chaotic." Yang Rong wants to control Beijing, but he is not qualified to do so. ”

"What's more, the crown prince is not Emperor Zhao Xuan, let alone Liu He, who was deposed on the twenty-seventh day of succession. The crown prince is a generation of heroes, whether it is political means or military command, or in the majestic strategy of governing the country and security, he is unprecedented and unprecedented, and Huo Guang who wants to be him is really a fool's dream. ”

Yang Rong didn't refute, but just bowed to Xia Laoshangshu to show respect. The other party did not return the salute, but just waved his hand, indicating that there was no need to be polite.

Xia Yuanji walked in front of Fan Zhong and said quietly: "Fan Zhong, you talk about the charter, I do practical things, none of us is wrong, but you are not qualified to express your opinions, Your Majesty fainted, the prince left Beijing, and there are only two people in Beijing who are qualified to adjudicate major matters." ”

"One is the British public Zhang Fu, and the other is the old man."

Fan Zhong's face turned pale: "It turns out that it was Yang Rong who you instructed behind the scenes." ”

"The old man never instructed Yang Rong, we can come together because we are both loyal to the prince. And we are loyal to the prince for the sake of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Xia Yuanji shook his head and said, "The crown prince wants to change the day and reformulate the rules, and now is the time when the world is in turmoil, and Your Majesty's dragon body is not safe." Today's empire has reached the eve of a storm, and if it can get through it, it will usher in an unprecedented peak. If you can't cross it, everyone will die without a place to bury. ”

"You don't understand these truths."

He flicked his sleeves and turned around to leave, and said to Yang Rong, "Elder Yang Ge, let's go, let General Fan calm down alone." ”

"We don't run out of time."

The two left one after the other, and Fan Zhong was trembling all over his body, and the chains in his hands were swaying.

After a long time, General Fan's roar was heard.

"The literati are a disaster to the country, and the ministers and thieves are chaotic!"

"Damn it!"

……

……

In the Qianqing Palace, there is a strong smell of herbs, and His Majesty the Emperor, who was heroic and burly in the past, lies on the dragon couch, his eyes are closed, and he is sweating nonstop, soaked in the pillow towel of the embroidered dragon.

The imperial doctors of the Tai Hospital were busy, some were boiling medicinal soup, some were busy giving needles to the emperor, and some were discussing prescriptions, all in all, the controversy was not endless, and it seemed that a fight was about to start in the next moment.

"Your Majesty, this cold coma, a coma is three days and three nights, so far, it seems that there are no symptoms of awakening at all anyway, if it continues like this, I'm afraid it will be ......"

"I'm afraid of what?"

"I'm afraid, something big is going to happen."

"Bastard! How to say nothing! ”

Tang Cheng was furious, kicked the old imperial doctor to the ground, pointed at the other party and said angrily, "The imperial court gave you a bunch of waste snacks, but you didn't do anything at all. We tell you that if Your Majesty's condition still does not improve, our family will let the Tai Hospital go up and down, and all of them will be beheaded and apologize! ”

"Tang Gong is angry!"

The old imperial doctor hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy, "It's not that I'm incompetent, it's Your Majesty's illness that has reached the point where there is no way to return to heaven." If His Majesty's body poked a small hole in the porcelain cup before, and a baked porcelain maker could still paste it, but now this porcelain cup has been shattered, even if it is a good baked porcelain maker, there is no way to paste it! ”

"We don't care so much!"

Tang Cheng waved his hand and shouted, "As long as your group of wastes are cured by Your Majesty, no matter what method you use, no matter what difficulties you have, our family doesn't care about them." ”

"Don't tell our family anything, Your Majesty is our Ming Dynasty, if the sky falls, no one will be able to survive if it is smashed, our family will not survive, and you will all have to die!"

The old imperial doctor thought to himself, don't you want him to die, the emperor's condition, all the imperial doctors present are clear, and it can't be cured at all.

The person who was already half buried in the soil was a matter of breath from death, and now that the emperor closes his eyes, I am afraid that he will never be able to open them again.

The old imperial doctor's eyes rolled, as if he remembered something, and grabbed Tang Cheng's thigh as if he were a life-saving straw: "Tang Gong, the doctor who can save His Majesty in the world, there is!" And that's it! ”

Tang Cheng frowned slightly: "Who, you say it quickly, even if our family goes to tie up, we have to tie up this person." ”

The old imperial doctor hurriedly said, "His Royal Highness the Prince! ”

"The last time His Majesty fell ill, it was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who gave His Majesty a new life. The prince's medical skills are not controversial in our hospital. Many of the imperial doctors in the Tai Hospital were military doctors who accompanied the army during the Battle of Jingjing, including me, and they were all instructed by the prince! ”

"If there is anyone in the world who can cure Your Majesty, it is the crown prince!"

This time it was Tang Cheng's turn to be dumbfounded: "The prince is in the south, even if our family has great ability, it is impossible to ask the prince to move." ”

Even if the prince has wings and wants to return to Beijing from the south, it will take ten or twenty days.

After ten or twenty days, I'm afraid Zhu Di will already kowtow to his grandfather underground.

"Wait, and stand down."

Inside the main hall, a tired voice was heard.

Everyone heard the sound and looked, but saw that in front of the main entrance of the main hall, there was a slightly sloppy young man, with heavy black circles under his eyes, and his face was full of mud.

Zhu Gaoxian looked at Tang Cheng and barely squeezed out a smile: "Tang Gong, it's not too late for Lone to come back, right?" ”

(End of chapter)