Internal Officials and Supervisors.

Located in the northeast corner of the palace, it is also the usual office of the eunuchs of the East Factory.

Wang Dehua, the factory minister, was sitting here, and even when the time came, he still did not go to rest, but kept meeting his subordinates, and seemed very busy.

It's been a few days, as the factory minister of the East Factory, Wang Dehua hasn't seen Chongzhen, which was a very rare thing in the past.

But if you look at the current situation, it's not a problem for him to do this, after all, even Daming is going to die, what else is he going to see Chongzhen for? What should be done now is to open the relationship between the two and keep enough distance, only in this way, after the Dashun army enters the city, he can take advantage of the situation to move forward.

Otherwise, once people denounce him and say that he is too close to Chongzhen, won't he be affected.

Wang Dehua didn't go to see Chongzhen, he thought that there was no need for that, in his estimate, the death of the Ming Dynasty was a matter of the past few days. He was waiting, waiting for the appearance of a new master, how he would behave in order to regain power and be rich again.

And during the waiting period, he didn't do nothing, what godson godson great-grandson sent out a lot of people, always keeping an eye on Chongzhen's every move in the Jianji Palace.

But Wang Dehua still underestimated people's hearts in the end, and even he didn't pay attention to Chongzhen, how could the disciples and grandchildren below pay attention to it. In the case of not seeing any benefits, some people will inevitably slack off, which makes Zhu Changwu from the first time he entered the palace, and from the time he left, he did not get any news at all.

That is, three hours ago, Wang Dehua learned the news of Cao Huachun's arrest from his subordinates, which made him very surprised for a while.

Speaking of which, although everyone is a eunuch and works in the East Factory, the relationship is not close. How about eunuchs? When they become more numerous, there will naturally be infighting, and then they will be divided into gangs.

It's like Wang Chengen is also a eunuch, but he is a celebrant eunuch, although he has the title of deputy owner of the East Factory, but because his job is mainly to serve Wan Sui Ye, because of his different functions, he usually doesn't have much contact.

The relationship between Wang Dehua and Cao Huachun is the same, if they are not all the way, the relationship is ordinary, and it is even inevitable that there are some personal grudges in it. But now, these three people have been arrested, and after getting the news, he has to become vigilant.

In the past, Cao Huachun was arrested, and he couldn't wait to jump up happily, without this old opponent, he Wang Dehua would have the power alone, which is a good thing. But what's going on now? Daming is about to die, how can anyone still have enough to catch the eunuch?

At this time, shouldn't you find a way out?

After learning the news, Wang Dehua relied on his sensitive sense of politics and politics, and immediately sent someone out to inquire, but the effect was not ideal, and the result was that the person was arrested and taken to the Jinyiwei dungeon, and the guards there were very strict, and Dongchang Fanzi could not enter at all unless he showed his identity.

Speaking of which, the power of Dongchang is still above Jinyiwei, and if they need to act, they will also transfer people from Jinyiwei to coordinate their cases, that is to say, they are a higher-level leadership body.

It can be said that after all, it is not a direct jurisdiction, but at most a power to supervise and mobilize personnel when needed. Usually, they still can't interfere with Jinyiwei's case. And now he didn't even figure out what was going on, so let Wang Dehua send someone to ask directly, he wouldn't do such a reckless thing.

Wang Dehua was able to stand out from the team of 10,000 eunuchs and become the most powerful boss of Dongchang, relying on his steady work. It's like he saw the decay of Daming, and he also sent someone to secretly contact Li Zicheng, but the process is very secret, and it has always been a direct meeting and talk between people, without leaving a single word on paper, this is his cleverness.

If you can't intervene directly, then you can only think of other ways, Wang Dehua was still thinking about which Jinyiwei's thousand-household, hundred-hundred-household, or general banner relationship was close, and when he tried to hear some useful news from their mouths, suddenly there was a knock on the door, and a foreman named Tang Tong walked in.

"Godfather, the Jinyi guards suddenly started to arrest people, the two fans we sent were too close to the entrance of the dungeon, and now they have been arrested, these Jinyi guards have eaten leopard gall, what do they want to do?" Tang Tong said indignantly, giving people the feeling of being wronged.

But he forgot, okay, what did you send someone to the door of Jinyiwei's dungeon, if you don't come, how can people arrest your people?

If you don't come, I'll stop you?

"The man who captured us?" didn't care about Tang Tong's complaints, after Wang Dehua heard the news, the eyebrows that he didn't have were instantly frowned upon.

Jin Yiwei dared to arrest the people of Dongchang, such a thing has not happened for I don't know how many years. At least if Jinyiwei was still in charge of an old guy like Wu Mengming, he would never have the courage to openly engage in friction with Dongchang.

Speaking of Wu Mengming, as the commander of Jinyiwei, this person is definitely an expert, after he received Chongzhen's attention and trust, he continued to suppress his colleagues, and finally let him find a reason, and united with another Jinyiwei at that time, Li Ruolian, who was the commander at that time, to overthrow the then commander Luo Yangxing, and finally became the new commander.

He packed up his family, and the means were leveraged, but every time he saw Wang Dehua, he was always accompanied by caution and a smiling face, because he knew that he couldn't catch up with others compared to the level of trust in the heart of the Long Live Lord, so he confessed.

is such a person who knows the times, if he wants to say that he will order Jinyiwei to arrest Dongchang's fanzi, he will not believe it if he kills Wang Dehua. So there is only one result, that is, the high-level of Jinyiwei has been replaced, which also makes him involuntarily think of the new commander who is called by people on the tower of Xuanwu Gate, as if his name is Zhu Changwu.

Yes, his name is Zhu Changwu, and I heard that he is the seventh son of King Xiang.

Hum! It's just the son of King Xiang, don't say it's not the son of the family, even if it is?

Living in the land of Huguang all the year round, he has long had a life with the Lord of Long Live, when it comes to the degree of trust, he can't catch up with himself and the emperor, even if King Xiang is still alive, it will not be in the eyes of his Wang Dehua.

Now it's just a mere son, and it won't be looked at. But if this person becomes the commander of the Jinyi Guard, it is very different.

Historically, those who can serve as the commanders of the Jinyi Guard are all people whom the emperor trusts very much. Where did this Zhu Changwu come from, why hadn't he heard of it before, why did this soar into the sky?

When Wang Dehua was still thinking about Zhu Changwu's origin, the foreman Tang Tong spoke again, "Godfather, do you want your son to come forward to fish people out, and by the way, see what the situation is in the dungeon?" ”

"Don't be impulsive!" Hearing this, Wang Dehua hurriedly waved his hand.

"Cao Huachun, they are not all the way to us, and he doesn't know much about our affairs, even if something really happens to them, it has nothing to do with us, and let's take a look first. By the way, then you go and ask who this Zhu Changwu is. There is also the little eunuch in the Jianji Palace, you give them the silver, go and ask, maybe they can give us the answer we want. ”

Wang Dehua is very cautious, he is not ready to end up before he understands who Zhu Changwu is, he wants to take a look first.

Wang Dehua said so, although Tang Tong wanted to rush in directly, he thought that no one dared to do anything to him, but thinking that there was nothing wrong with his godfather all along, he had to nod and agree.

The sky outside gradually began to brighten, and in the dungeon of Jinyiwei, Cao Huachun and the three finally couldn't stand it, and after being cut off hundreds of slices of meat, they finally told where to put the money.

Cao Huachun confessed that he had 1 million taels, Wang Xiangyao had 400,000 taels, Zhang Yongyu had 300,000 taels, and the three of them totaled 1.7 million taels.

After learning that they had all been explained, Zhu Changwu stood up from his chair, "It's really poor, the three of them together are half of Zhu Chunchen's property, and it took me so much time, you guys, it really refreshed my cognition, and I finally know what it is, don't die if you want money." ”

Seeing that Cao Huachun and the three of them were cut with thousands of holes, Zhu Changwu said with a sigh.

The three of them were already dying, and what they wanted to do most at this time was to beg for a quick death.

"That's it, since they have all been explained, there is no need to keep them, you three go down and receive the reward." Looking at the three brocade guards who were in charge of the execution, Zhu Changwu spoke. Then, at some point, an extra tiger tooth dagger appeared in his hand, and with its rapid slashing, a blood arrow was brought out in mid-air.

In an instant, Cao Huachun, Wang Xiangyao, and Zhang Yongyu were all hanging their heads, and they couldn't die.

When the three of them died, Zhu Changwu noticed that the value in the system had increased by 1,800 points, and they were all heinous.

"Very good." When he felt that the system value had reached 36920 points from the original 35120, the corners of his mouth rose, and Zhu Changwu laughed.

"Sun Baihu, drag the bodies of the three people to the mass grave and throw them away, remember, be hidden, don't let others know about this matter, you do it yourself."

Zhu Changwu didn't want to hide the matter forever, he knew that he couldn't hide it at all, but he could hide it for a moment longer, now he really didn't have time to clean up the eunuchs in Dongchang, the army was about to triumph, and he had more important things to do.

......

The capital of the Ming Dynasty is outside the city of Beijing.

The sky was already bright, and the victorious Ming army was lining up to rush to Beijing.

At night, they rested outside the city. But this night, they didn't have much rest, and the first half of the night was excited.