"Could it be...... Was it really Li Wei secretly instigated? Zhu Biao was shocked, and his face was full of disbelief.

"Not necessarily."

Zhu Yuanzhang took a long breath and looked at the square outside the main hall with deep eyes, as if looking at the next day.

Things in the world are unpredictable, and the court is also treacherous, this time Tang He inexplicably became the target of impeachment by the ministers, on the surface it seems that only Li Wei and these parties have this motive, but in fact it is completely true.

The enemy of the enemy is not necessarily a friend, these ministers pointed the finger at Tang He, seemingly to fight for power for Li Wei, but in fact it was also to make him, the emperor, and this important minister in the limelight have a dislike.

Li Wei can have today's status, his holy family is the main reason, of course, Li Wei's own ability has also played a great role, but without his holy family, no matter how great his merits, he will not get today's powerful position.

Now Li Wei seems to be extremely powerful, but if he loses his holy favor, he will soon be suppressed by his opponent.

Although there are also so-called "Li Dang" among those impeached this time, major figures such as Ru Taisu and Wu Bozong did not participate in the impeachment of Tang He, so he cannot conclude whether it was Li Wei who instigated him or someone deliberately framed him.

"There's no urgency in this matter, we have to take another look, you go back first." Zhu Yuanzhang said softly.

Zhu Biao frowned, his mood couldn't calm down for a long time, and when he heard his instructions, he could only suppress the doubts in his heart first and retreat.

In the main hall, Zhu Yuanzhang stood alone with his hands in his hands, muttering to himself: "What does this stinky boy want to do?" ”

……

Korean government.

An old man dressed as a Confucian sat on a chair on one side of the lobby, leisurely sipping tea.

This old man's name is Wang Xing, and he is a world-famous Confucian.

Wang Xing waited for a long time, and Li Shanchang walked in under the leadership of the domestic servant, and he quickly stood up and bowed: "I've seen Han Gong!" ”

Li Shanchang's eyes froze, and he sneered with displeasure: "I thought you were already dead!" ”

The old man smiled: "The classics have been handed down, Confucianism has survived forever, and even if we die, there will be latecomers to inherit Hongzhi." ”

"Hmph, aren't you afraid that I'll call someone to arrest you?" Li Shanchang's face was not good.

He also knew about Xianlin's study, and he also knew that Wang Xing was one of the four hall masters.

Wang Xing smiled: "The national teacher said that I was laughing, I am just an ordinary Confucian scholar, why did the national prince ask someone to arrest me?" ”

"Humph!"

Li Shanchang snorted coldly, walked past him, and sat down on the main seat.

He boasted of reading poetry and books, and naturally he was quite yearning for this place where Confucian talents gathered, but unfortunately people looked down on him.

At the beginning, after he followed Zhu Yuanzhang to rise to power, the people of Xianlin won him over, and he also helped introduce some talents in Xianlin to the office, but these people who relied on their talents did not take him seriously at all, when these people gained a firm foothold in the court, they stood on the opposite side of him, forming the so-called Zhexi Party and fighting with him, it can be said that he is friends and enemies with these people.

However, at this time and again, after Liu Ji's death, he did not fall well, especially after Hu Weiyong, Li Wei suddenly appeared, so that their civil and military forces were suppressed, it can be said that they were sympathetic, and the relationship between the two parties turned into friends and became companions.

"I don't know what the king is doing when he comes to me, who is not a late learner?"

Li Shanchang spoke slowly, his tone mixed with sarcasm and faint resentment.

Guogong laughed. Wang Xing didn't care, but said sincerely: "I came this time to save the country." ”

"Hehehe, the old man eats well and sleeps well, and if he is not sick or sick, he will not bother the king." Li Shanchang said with a smile.

Wang Xing looked at him, smiling and silent.

The smile on Li Shanchang's face gradually disappeared, and then he waved his hand to his servant: "Go outside and guard, no one is allowed to come in without my permission!" ”

"Yes!"

The servant respectfully agreed, turned and walked out of the lobby.

Li Shanchang looked at Wang Xing and said directly: "Say, what's the matter?" ”

Wang Xing put away his smile and said in a deep voice: "I want to ask the Duke of the Kingdom to come forward and persuade those nobles to stop interceding for Tang He." ”

"Oh?" Li Shanchang was a little surprised, "The impeachment of Tang He was promoted by your people behind the scenes?" ”

Wang Xing smiled slightly and did not deny it.

Li Shanchang was a little puzzled: "Why?" ”

"The enemy advances, I retreat!" Wang Xing's words are concise and to the point.

After Xianlin Shuzhai was served by Jinyi Wei before, Zhu Yuanzhang went on a killing spree, and their power suffered a heavy blow, and the actions of Zhang Ziyi and Zhang Fengyi also caused a rift between them, and they no longer worked together as sincerely as before, on the contrary, Li Wei was getting more and more powerful here, and they were no longer able to fight it head-on.

What he is doing now is to let them and Li Shanchang and these nobles back down, Zhu Yuanzhang's promotion of this Li Wei is nothing more than to play checks and balances, then they will withdraw first, let this Li Wei be the only one in his own family, and then the two monarchs and ministers will inevitably go to opposition, they can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, waiting for the opportunity to move!

Li Shanchang once played with Liu Ji to retreat as advance, so he naturally understood what he meant.

However, their Huaixi Xungui is still very strong now, unlike Wang Xing, who is a literati and Confucian who is still struggling, and he is somewhat reluctant to let them retreat into the background like this.

Wang Xing looked at him hesitating, and immediately understood his thoughts, and said: "Please forgive me for speaking bluntly, not all of the Huaixi nobles in the court are of the same mind as you, just like Tang He, although he is also from Huaixi, but he is probably more loyal to His Majesty today, if His Majesty wants to attack you one day, this Xinguo Gong will never help you." ”

Li Shanchang's face changed slightly when he heard this.

Indeed, don't talk about Tang He, many of the current Huaixi nobles are also loyal to Zhu Yuanzhang, although Zhu Yuanzhang has long been murderous to these lawless nobles, but he has always had a pacifying and tolerant attitude.

He knew that this superior had always been immobile, and if he moved, he would be thunderous, and when he did, they would have no chance to resist.

Instead of helping Tang He to intercede now, it is better to let him be severely punished by His Majesty, so that the other nobles can recognize the reality of the emperor's ruthlessness!

Didn't he dare to do this to Lan Yu before?

Thinking of this, Li Shanchang immediately stopped hesitating, and said in a deep voice: "Okay, I will find a way to persuade the brothers in Huaixi, but the rest depends on you." ”

When Wang Xing heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief: "Don't worry, Guogong, we will definitely go all out!" ”

"Hehe, come to tea!"

The two agreed, and both smiled lightly.

While they were discussing, Chen Su also secretly got together with Wang Jie, Wu Shen and others.

"Why do you want to impeach Tang He?" Chen Su asked in a deep voice.

Wang Jie glanced at him and frowned dishappily: "Didn't you say that everyone should impeach Tang and fight for power for Hou Ye together?" ”

"But I haven't let you move yet!"

"Heh, Lord Chen is not Master Hou, you don't need to listen to you, right?" Wang Jie sneered.

Wu Shen was also a little dissatisfied: "Yes, everyone is also working for Lord Hou, and Lord Chen is a little overstepping when he says this." ”

When Chen Su heard this, his face suddenly became gloomy.

Wang Jie didn't care at all.

In fact, he was dissatisfied with Chen Su's behavior of summoning them in the name of Li Wei, in terms of grade, Chen Su was just a small envoy from the fifth grade, and many of them were members of the imperial court above the third grade.

In terms of intimacy, he and Wu Shen were also the earliest with Li Wei, and they were colleagues as early as the cabinet.

In short, no matter what, it is not the turn of this Chen Su to teach them to do things.

Wang Jie, Wu Shen, Shen Jue and others didn't care much about Chen Su's attitude, but He Li and Yang Jing and others were not, those of them who escaped death from the edict were a little deeply afraid of this Jinyi Guard, even if there was no Li Wei, they didn't dare to ignore Chen Su's words.

Chen Su took a deep breath, suppressed his anger, and said in a deep voice: "Master Hou has an order, order me not to do anything superfluous!" ”

Wang Jie was slightly surprised: "Hou Ye really explained this?" ”

"Hmph, of course!" Chen Su said coldly: "This time the impeachment of Tang and obviously someone is fueling the trouble, although I don't know the purpose of these people, but I think Hou Ye has already noticed it, so he will confess like this, let's better follow Hou Ye's instructions and settle down!" ”

Chen Su's words are completely brain supplements, but Li Wei's order is indeed crooked.

Wang Jie frowned and pondered, nodded after a while, and said, "Okay, since it is the order of the Hou Ye, I should obey it." ”

Wu Shen also agreed.

As for He Li, Yang Jing and others, they have no opinion, and Lian Lian Gong claims that it is.

The next day, the direction of the wind in the court suddenly changed, and the nobles who were originally actively interceding for Tang He suddenly decreased by more than half, and correspondingly, there were many fewer people who impeached Tang He.

With Li Wei's instructions, Wang Jie and the others settled down, just as nothing happened, and Li Shanchang also persuaded some nobles euphemistically as agreed with Wang Xing.

But both sides fell silent, and some people came out!

Feng Li, the general envoy who succeeded Yu Xi, the new secretary of Dali Temple, Yan Zhi, the secretary of Guozijian, Du Yi, several bachelors of the Hanlin Academy, and so on.

Of course, there are definitely no less imperial historians and six branches.

"Oh, interesting!"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at these newly handed books and couldn't help but sneer.

These imperial history civil officials are just that, who are they arresting and who to impeach, Zhu Yuanzhang is not surprised at all.

But Feng Li and Yan Zhi are interesting.

Wang Jie's Li Dang has settled down, but they are still holding on to the soup, as if they have a deep hatred with them, which is intriguing.

"It seems that some people are still restless!"

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes were cold, and then he ordered someone to summon Mao Xiang.

"Give me a good look at these people!"

Zhu Yuanzhang made a list of the main people and handed them to Mao Xiang.

"Yes!"

Mao Xiang took it, and Gong claimed that it was.

Zhu Yuanzhang asked again: "By the way, what have those people in Beijing done recently?" ”

Mao Xiang obviously knew who he was talking about, and immediately replied: "Han Gong has been walking around with Xungui recently, thinking that it is for the matter of Xinguo Gong, and he also recruited a Confucian scholar as a guest, Chen Su and Wang Jie and others got together yesterday, I don't know what they discussed, our people are afraid of being discovered, so they don't dare to approach ......."

Mao Xiang reported the actions of these people one by one, but he couldn't make every word and deed clear, especially Chen Su's side, who was a Jinyi guard and was very alert, and it was not so easy for him to find out everything unconsciously.

Zhu Yuanzhang listened quietly, and basically grasped what these people had done in recent days.

Needless to say, the sudden changes of Xungui and Wang Jie were instructed by Li Shanchang and Li Wei.

However, he didn't pay attention to the Confucian scholars recruited by Li Shanchang, after all, it was common for officials in the DPRK and China to interact with Confucian scholars and exchange knowledge, especially those noble generals who had little culture, and he also specially invited people to teach them knowledge, just hoping that they could restrain their rude temperament.

After Xungui understood what he meant, he was also very interested in inviting Confucian scholars to give lectures, and at the same time, he could write a recital for them or something.

"Okay, we know, you go down first."

Zhu Yuanzhang commanded lightly after listening.

"Yes, the minister retired." Mao Xiang withdrew from the hall.

Now that things are probably clear, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't take any action, and now this situation is exactly the balance he wants.

Li Wei has begun to form a checks and balances with these nobles, and they still do not give in to each other.

The way of checks and balances is not only to strengthen the power of the monarch, but also to increase the enthusiasm of the courtiers.

There is also a distinction between benign and inferior in the struggle for power, benign competition, comparing meritorious achievements with each other, and the country and the people and the monarch are all beneficial, and the inferior ones are not good, and if they are not good, they will bring disaster to the country and the people, which needs to depend on the emperor's ability.

Although Li Wei concealed Lin Xian's affairs this time, as far as the battle situation was concerned, the result was the best, even if he knew these things in advance, he would agree with this approach.

Sacrificing part of the soldiers and horses and defeating the 100,000 Japanese army in one fell swoop was a rare victory.

As for Tang He, it is not impossible to recall him.

I just don't know what this stinky boy is going to do, and I have to send another credible person to keep an eye on it!

Li Dang suddenly stopped impeachment, Feng Li and the others soon got the news, and they immediately panicked, and hurriedly followed the truth.

They are not stupid, now that people themselves are not impeached, they are still so active, a discerning person can guess that there is a problem at a glance, and if they don't stop it in time, they will definitely be found out.

The court calmed down again, and Zhu Yuanzhang finally made a will, on the one hand, he ordered Tang He to be recalled and let Li Wei take over as the general of the army, and on the other hand, he sent Guo Ying to replace the post of deputy general of the left.

After being defeated, the Japanese country, Shaoji Puten and others immediately sent people to ask for help from the Muromachi shogunate in Heiankyo.

The current shogun is Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the third shogun of the Ashikaga clan.

Ashikaga Yoshiman is in his twenties, several years younger than Zhu Biao, but he is so young that he is already the actual ruler of the Wa Kingdom!

The emperor of the Wa Kingdom was different from the emperors of China, and for a long time, the emperor was just a mascot in the Wa Kingdom, and if the daimyo was powerful, he would snatch him and hang it on the door as a signboard, forming the so-called shogunate.

Of course, such an emperor also has the advantage, that is, no one will slaughter him and replace him, and the imperial family can survive until they are old.

But after a long time, there were always some emperors who were restless and wanted to regain power, and Emperor Go-Daigo, who eliminated the Kamakura shogunate, was one of them.

Emperor Go-Daigo succeeded in eliminating the Kamakura Shogunate, but then he immediately centralized power and reused his cronies to suppress the various daimyo samurai who helped him overthrow the Kamakura Shogunate.

Even Zhu Yuanzhang, a powerful figure who wants to move Xungui, has to think twice, and he is a weak monarch who took the throne with the help of the samurai class, so naturally there is no accident in the accident.

The Ashikaga clan, who was accustomed to being a two-and-five-boy, immediately counterattacked, deposed the emperor, and set up a new emperor.

And Ashikaga Takashi has become a new generation of shoguns, and it is already the third generation to pass on to Ashikaga Yoshimitsu here. (End of chapter)