"Give Qi Guogong the position of the chief military officer of the Beijing camp, and let him concurrently serve as the Jinyi guard of the Fusi of Beizhen, what does the emperor want to do?"

Beijing, the residence of Jiang Yueguang, the director of the Ministry of Rites.

This great talent of the Jiang family, who was separated from the Donglin Party and the Chu Party, hosted a banquet in his house to invite Sun Chuanting, the magistrate of Puzhou County, who returned to Beijing to report on his work.

The two are friends, they haven't seen each other for more than a year, so they naturally have endless conversations about family and country affairs, and they are ambitious.

The two sat opposite each other and drank, Jiang Yueguang looked at his friend opposite, Sun Chuanting's body was thin, his cheeks were sunken, and his black eyes were even deeper.

The soju is slightly steaming, and the fire passes through the muddy yellow stove, conducting the hot air to the past, and the smell of the wine insects is very moving.

"The emperor's thoughts, we naturally don't know, but with the status of the Duke of Qi today," Sun Chuanting smiled, revealing a hint of mockery: "I definitely can't get along with a few little Donglin court officials, and even kill people." ”

In the past few days, it has been rumored in Beijing that the emperor has begun to suppress the Duke of Qi, although there is no substantive action and will, but sending him to Donglin's nest is an unusual political signal.

Using the Donglin Party to maintain the balance of the court is the usual method used by Emperor Zhu.

"Today is the day when the Duke of Qi set off, alas, such a character will inevitably be tricked by the imperial power!" Jiang Yueguang looked a little sighing, picked up the wine jug from the stove, got up and poured it for Sun Chuanting: "But you have been in Puzhou for a year, far away from the court, you can also stay away from the imperial power, and you will not be shrouded by that shocking fear." ”

"Puzhou is a good place," Sun Chuanting didn't answer Jiang Yueguang's words, but said lightly: "But in the Shanxi region, the influence of Qi Guogong is also a little unusual. ”

"Well," Jiang Yueguang was stunned: "What do you say?" ”

"The eight major merchants in Shanxi are all the disciples of Qi Guogong, and the leading Fan family is even more bankrupt to support Qi Guogong's gold, and now, the entire Shanxi, Qi Guogong Sihai Commercial Bank's branch banner, everyone knows about disaster relief, banditry, grain raising, tax collection, conscription and many other things, not in the name of Qi Guogong, want to do things?"

Sun Chuanting shook his head: "It's difficult. ”

"In this way, it is only natural for the emperor to suppress the Duke of Qi," Jiang Yueguang was a little hindsight.

Sun Chuanting dipped his finger in the wine and drew a circle on the table: "The mountains are here,"

Then he pointed to the north: "Go north to Horqin." ”

Then to the east: "East to Liaodong." ”

The finger jerked south: "Northeast of Gyeonggi, to the Jiaodong generation." ”

Finally, the finger clicked a dot in the middle: "This is Jingshi." ”

Jiang Yueguang's eyes fell, and he saw a huge circle, which had already surrounded the capital.

"If you sit in the Jinluan Hall and see this picture, don't you panic?" Sun Chuanting smiled slightly.

Dadada!!

His fingers focused on the table: "It is rumored that the lights in the Qianqing Palace are bright all night, on the one hand, it is a great victory in Liaodong, and on the other hand, the emperor's heart is uneasy!" ”

Whew

exhaled the turbid breath in his chest heavily, and a thin layer of fine sweat appeared on Jiang Yueguang's head: "It's no wonder." ”

"But it's still the same sentence, why does the emperor need to give the general soldiers of the Gongjing Battalion of Qi and the Jinyi Guard, directly pay over the military power, collect the authority, and let him be a rich prince, isn't it good?" Jiang Yueguang asked with a frown.

"Liaodong Qin Erbao, that is the henchman of the Duke of Qi, the hundreds of thousands of troops in Liaodong, do you think they recognize the emperor who is high above and never sees him, or do you recognize the Duke of Qi who personally charged and led them to victory after victory?"

When Sun Chuanting was in Shanxi, he also had the experience of leading soldiers, so he naturally understood the thoughts of those soldiers.

"I have always done things, paying attention to a famous teacher, and also paying attention to a matter of urgency, look at it, when Jiangsu and Zhejiang return, Qi Guogong will inevitably live idle." Picking up the wine glass, raising his head and drinking it all, Sun Chuanting looked confident.

"One side is dormant, the other side is rising, do you mean that Donglin's opportunity is coming?" Hearing Sun Chuanting's words, Jiang Yue's eyes lit up, and his excited hands trembled a little.

"Now there is no one in the court who can contain the Duke of Qi, only to find help from the south, who can there be?" Sun Chuanting's eyes narrowed slightly, looking at the birds in the sky: "Only the left left, without him, is born to restrain each other!" ”

"In this way, Brother Sun's opportunity has also come, and the imperial court is where you can display your ambitions! Living in a small Puzhou city, I am so wronged by you! Jiang Yueguang picked up the wine glass and saluted Sun Chuanting from afar: "May you and my brother show their talents together and ascend to the palace together!" ”

"Please!" Sun Chuanting nodded slightly, picked up the wine glass and drank it all.

Sun Chuanting admires Wang Qi and his people, but in terms of civil-military relations, from the perspective of their own development, Sun Chuanting and Wang Qi are naturally opposites, even if it is Yuan Chonghuan, he was not suppressed by Wang Qi, and his merits in the victory of Liaodong are far inferior to those of other military attachés.

It can't be helped, the origin and the ass determine the attitude.

While the two were talking, the housekeeper of the outer courtyard walked in.

"My lord, the excerpt of the Inner Palace Master of Ceremonies, I want you to go to Shuntian Mansion immediately, there is an errand to do." The housekeeper bowed down and handed it to Jiang Yueguang, and then slowly retreated.

"The celebrant's excerpt?" Looking at the bright yellow fold in his hand, Jiang Yueguang was a little confused, he was the head of the household department, how could he still drink the celebrant and have something to do with Shuntianfu?

"Let's take a look first," Seeing this, Sun Chuanting on the side put down his wine glass and reminded Jiang Yue to open the fold and take a look at the contents.

After being reminded by a friend, Jiang Yueguang, who was stunned there, hurriedly opened the fold in his hand and looked down.

Not long after, in Sun Chuanting's eyes, Jiang Yueguang's brows were already sinking deeper and deeper, deeper and deeper.

"What does it matter to live there?" Sun Chuanting called softly.

With a snap, Jiang Yueguang folded his head, still on the table, and smiled bitterly: "I just said that I will come to the palace, now it's okay, I'm going to go to the Sword Mountain and the Sea of Fire." ”

After taking the excerpt, Sun Chuanting looked at it fixedly.

It turned out that the celebrant had obeyed the emperor's will to select someone to escort the widows of the four Donglin court officials back to their hometowns, and by the way, bring back the corpses.

And there is no suitable manpower on the side of Shuntianfu, it just so happens that Jiang Yueguang is a native of Jiangxi, and he is also a fellow villager of the four Donglin court officials, and he is also quite famous among the Donglin literati, so it is most suitable to let him escort him.

"Hiss" Sun Chuanting buttoned the fold, and for some reason, a haze rose in his heart.

"Boya, you also think I shouldn't get involved in this, right?" Jiang Yueguang sighed: "Isn't this a clear show of singing against Qi Guogong? ”

More than?

Sun Chuanting looked at his friend with some concern: This time, I'm afraid I'm going to fall into the whirlpool!

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Wang Qi left Beijing in the early part of the lunar month, and if he walked fast, it was estimated that he would be able to arrive in Nanjing in the middle of the month, and if he was slower, he would be able to arrive at the end of the month.

Hai Lanzhu is about to give birth to a child, and Wang Qi doesn't want to miss this time to become a father, so it is only right to go early and return early.

As soon as he left Beijing, he led more than 100 guards to gallop all the way, and arrived at Hejian Mansion, five miles away, at night.

The prefect of Hejian Shang Shuicheng was cautious of Wang Qi's arrival, this famous grandfather of the country, I heard that his temper was not good, and after going out of the city to greet him, he originally wanted to set up a banquet to entertain him, but he could only give up in Wang Qi's impatient look, and he wanted to arrange the best servant in the city to serve at night, but he was driven out and could only give up.

"My lord, when I went out of the city today, I got the news that the celebrant has arranged for a head of the household department named Jiang Yueguang to escort the widows of the families of the four Donglin court officials and carry the coffins back to their hometowns," Wang Shouxin stood solemnly not far in front of Wang Qi, waiting for the order of his own lord.

"Are you sure it's the celebrant's arrangement?" Wang Qi held in his hand the list of the six departments of Nanjing City and the eunuchs left behind, as well as a detailed introduction book.

"Lord Hui's words, it is news from Shuntian Mansion, and Wen Ling personally sent someone to arrive," Wang Shouxin confirmed.

"The emperor wants to kill them all?" Wang Qi put down the book in his hand, and then slowly got up: "Or do you want to force me to completely turn my face with Donglin?" ”

Wang Shouxin lowered his head and did not speak, only waiting for Wang Qi's movements and instructions.

"Tell Ding Fu to take a few capable subordinates, follow Jiang Yueguang all the way back to Jiangxi, and report back to me as soon as there is news!" Wang Qi thought for a while, turned his head and ordered.

"Understood!" Wang Shouxin replied.

Ding Fu emerged in the Liaodong War, and was also poached from the army by Wang Shouxin himself, whether it is his heart, means, or age, he is an excellent seedling.

"By the way," Wang Qi sat back in his chair: "Is there any news from the Japanese ronin?" ”

The Japanese ronin appeared in the Hetuara generation, which made Wang Qi a little puzzled, Japan at this time should be the heyday of the shogunate, not to survive on one-third of an acre of land in his own house, and to run to the white mountains and black waters further north to do something?

Liaodong is Wang Qi's basic plate, and no matter what, he will not allow any unexpected situations to happen.

Although he was confident that Cao Wenzhao would pacify Hetuala, it was better to find out the roots of these people.

"The news from Dengzhou Mansion should be that they were strangled by our maritime division and the North Korean troops, and fled north to the area of Hetuara and Jianzhou for a short time, or the outlaws, or the Japanese invaders." The intelligence network arranged by Wang Qi, or the influence from Shanxi to Jiaodong, was enough for him to obtain the information he wanted in the shortest possible time: "The combat effectiveness is quite strong, the outlaws, the army is not good to strangle, and its actions are rapid and erratic, and it is not easy to exterminate." ”

"Let's let Cao Wenzhao calm the war in Hetuala as soon as possible, and then free up his hands and clean up these small snacks," Wang Qi leaned back in his chair and said slowly.

"Subordinates understand."

At this moment, thousands of miles away, Huzhou, Xinwangfu.

Zhu Youzhen, the king of letters, who had been closed for several months, looked a little haggard, his face was pale, and his body looked even thinner.

Under the light, its deep-set eyes are even more gloomy.

Living in fear and delusion for a long time, anyone will be haggard, and their psychology will gradually be distorted and perverted, not to mention the two most powerful people in the world that Zhu Youzhen is facing - the imperial brother Zhu Youxiao and the prince of Qi.

"Your Highness, Wang Qi has already set off and is expected to arrive in Nanjing City in the middle of the year," not far in front of Zhu Youxiao, a figure disappeared in the darkness, his voice was dull with a strange emphasis, and the smell of killing came to his face.

"Zuo Zhizhi and Yang Wenru, what news has come back?" His Royal Highness King Shin curled up in a chair, as if the whole person was wrapped in a chair, thin, sickly, with a hint of gloom.

"They plan to set up a ring on the shore of Taihu Lake and argue with Wang Qi for three days and three nights, in order to convince people with reason, and completely defeat Wang Qi in terms of academic system through Taoist methods, in order to eliminate his powerful influence," the man in the shadow said with a hint of mockery in his tone.

seems to disdain the behavior of Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou, and thinks that the literati are just whimsical.

Dignified Qi Guogong, if you don't want to compare with you in Taoism? Can you still use it?

It's just a fool's dream, a child's mentality.

"What are you going to do?" Xinwang's tone has not fluctuated, only when he recited the word Wang Qi, his tone would suddenly be a little bit of home, mixed with fear.

"Attack and kill them when they arrive in the city of Nanjing." The tone of the man in the shadows finally brought a hint of excitement.

It seems that the attack on Wang Qi is a colorful stroke in his life.

"After the deed is completed, 10,000 taels of gold, from now on, this king will never see you again, right?" King Shin raised his eyes and looked at the man.

"Naturally," the man nodded.

"Waiting for your good news."

As soon as Zhu Youzhen's words fell, the man's figure disappeared at some point.

Crunch, Zhu Youzhen's body slowly stood up from the chair, and his finger joints were unusually bulging because of the exertion: "Anyway, the current situation is already a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Can't put all the treasures on Zuo Guangdou and Yang Lian, Liu Yijing and Han Yi are already aggrieved and incompetent enough, and this king can't wait for the opportunity so passively. ”

Slowly walking to the window, Zhu Youzhen's nose leaned against the window lattice, sniffing the air outside the window slightly.

Since being forced by Wang Qi to stay away from the capital, nest in the remote Huzhou Mansion, nested on the bank of the Taihu Lake, Zhu Youzhen knows that as long as Wang Qi does not die for a day, then his fate will be pinched in the palm of someone else's hand after all.

The slightest movement can kill oneself.

Wang Qi must die!

As long as Wang Qi dies in Nanjing this time, then Beijing will definitely set off an uproar, Donglin will rise against the trend, and my stupid imperial brother, without Wang Qi, you will find that the court will fall apart in an instant, and all the factions and Taoist systems that have died down will be resurrected, and at this time, it is the opportunity of this king.

Touching the windowsill with his fingers, a smug smile appeared on the corner of Zhu Youzhen's mouth, as if he had seen the scene of his ascension to the throne of his dreams.

This day won't be long.

It definitely won't be long.

One day, I will be in charge of everyone's fate!

Boom, thunder sounded in the distance, and in winter, the weather in Huzhou was still dull and cold.

It seems that Zhu Youzhen's mind is in general.

(End of chapter)