Although Liu Yong is strong in martial arts and has extraordinary knowledge, he knows very little about these major events in the court. At this time, when he heard Li Qiufeng's eloquent words, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and said in a trembling voice: "The court officials are like this, so how can the people still live?"

Li Qiufeng nodded and said, "What Mr. Liu said is good. In fact, nine times out of ten, the rebellion of the Japanese in the southeast coast was poor people who lost their fields and could not survive. These people were bought by traitors, took refuge in the Japanese and became the vanguard of the Japanese in the southeast. If the momentum of land annexation in Jiangnan is curbed and the people have land to cultivate, how can they allow the Japanese to run rampant?

After the first emperor got the secret report, he took the opportunity to leave the palace in civilian clothes and went straight to Jiangnan. The big guy in the court originally knew that the first emperor liked to travel in micro-clothes, and he had slipped out of the palace several times, but he didn't care. It's just that among the eunuchs in Dongchang, many people were bought by these bigwigs, and they actually leaked the purpose of the emperor's exit from the palace this time. When the bigwigs found out, they were frightened and gathered to discuss countermeasures.

"After the first emperor arrived in Jiangnan, although he saw the seriousness of the land annexation with his own eyes, the news in the capital quickly spread to the local area. The officials and gentry in Jiangnan immediately united and created obstacles everywhere, and it became extremely difficult for the first emperor to see the truth of the people. The first emperor was an extremely wise and wise man, and he knew that he would not see anything if he stayed any longer, so he had to return to the capital unhappily.

In order to prevent the first emperor from touring the south again, on the one hand, those officials in the court recommended several scholars to the Empress Dowager's Cining Palace, and asked the Empress Dowager to persuade the emperor not to easily patrol the people privately with ten thousand gold, so as not to be taken advantage of by traitors. On the other hand, he created rumors everywhere, accusing the emperor of liking folk women, going out of the palace without permission to hook up with folk girls, and acting absurdly.

When the first emperor returned to the palace, he learned that the eunuchs of Dongchang and Jinyiwei around him had also been bought, and he was shocked, so he found Qian Ning and asked him to take charge of Jinyiwei. Although this Qian Ning is a treacherous villain, he is very effective in handling the things that the first emperor has explained. He first purged Jinyiwei on a large scale and killed many people who were bribed by foreign officials, making Jinyiwei like an iron bucket, and it was difficult for officials in the DPRK and China to buy it. After Qian Ning took control of Jinyiwei, he put Dongchang under his control, widely spread eyeliner in the capital, and strengthened the surveillance of Beijing officials.

In this way, everyone in the imperial court officials was in danger, and they were afraid that they would be caught by Jinyiwei and Dongchang, so they went to the homes of several university scholars to discuss countermeasures. Those scholars were originally divided into factions, and they were also intrigued with each other. It's just that there is a surprising consistency in the two aspects of forming a party and making a fortune. Seeing that after Qian Ning controlled Jinyiwei, he had threatened the various factions in the DPRK and China, so they actually joined forces to fight against Jinyiwei and Dongchang.

"After these people discussed, several scholars first came forward to give the emperor an excerpt, accusing Jinyiwei of 'spying on news and committing lawlessness', and then said that Dongchang 'privately set up edicts and humiliated officials', and asked the emperor to take back the authority of Jinyiwei and Dongchang and restrain them. After the emperor received the excerpt, he did not send it, and then sent the excerpt of the land purchased by the Beijing officials that Jinyiwei and Dongchang visited in Jiangnan to several scholars to watch. It's just that in the face of these people, they withheld the folds of the acquisition of land by the scholars and their sons.

"The first emperor's move was originally to warn these scholars to restrain their own children and protégés and former officials not to hinder the imperial court's plans. After these people saw the folds, they were all frightened. Because these Beijing officials are their protégés, if Jinyiwei continues to investigate, they will inevitably be implicated. It was these people who gathered their own party members and tried to find a perfect way to escape this difficulty.

"At that time, these people were divided into two factions. One faction just wanted to get rid of Qian Ning, restrain the power of Jinyiwei and Dongchang, and set the emperor in the air, so that civilian officials could preside over the government, so as to avoid being investigated by the imperial court. The other faction went even further, colluding with the vassal kings and plotting to kill the first emperor and let the foreign vassal inherit the unification......"

Liu Yong had heard Zhao Zhen talk about some party disputes in the imperial tomb, but he didn't know much. He said to Li Qiufeng: "Could it be that the current Emperor Jiajing really relied on rebellion to inherit the unification?"

Li Qiufeng said: "The current emperor is just one of the vassal kings who covet the throne. The first emperor has never had an heir, and he doesn't know how many vassal kings are staring at the throne. The bigwigs in the DPRK and China also have their own plans, and everyone has colluded with foreign vassals in private. Among the vassal kings, Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, was the most powerful, and the most Jingguan who took refuge in him was also the most. Among the four scholars, three of them secretly had a secret relationship with King Ning. It's just that these people are all old foxes, and they won't bet all on one family, they have connections with feudal kings everywhere. At that time, the party struggle in the imperial court was complicated, and it had reached the situation where I have you and you have me.

"Through Jinyiwei and Dongchang, the first emperor has found out about the conspiracy of these bigwigs in the imperial court. With the temperament of the first emperor, he originally wanted to take down these bigwigs immediately. It was only when I discussed with a few henchmen that I found out that the officials of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division and the military attachés of the three major battalions of the capital who guarded the capital were all confidants of several scholars. Once the Jinyi Guard is ordered to capture the scholars, these soldiers and horses will rebel, and the situation will be out of control.

At this time, the bigwigs in the court also found out that the emperor was going to cut them down, so how could he be willing to arrest them? King Naning had long coveted the throne, listened to the lies of these bigwigs, and was instigated by other vassal kings, so he actually rebelled in Jiangxi, killed Sun Sui, the governor of Jiangxi, and Xu Kui, the deputy envoy of Jiangxi, raised 100,000 troops, and the soldiers were directed at Nanjing.

King Ning's rebellion was beyond the expectations of the first emperor. had to temporarily put aside the idea of capturing the court bigwigs and go all out to quell the rebellion. However, King Ning's rebellion also gave the first emperor an excuse to go out of Beijing. Because the first emperor had already found that the soldiers and horses in the capital were not under his control, it was better to go to Nanjing, mobilize the army in Nanjing in the name of counterinsurgency, and take the opportunity to take down the bigwigs and their protégés in the court.

After the first emperor made up his mind, he left the capital in the name of pro-conquest. The bigwigs of the DPRK and China, who had been trying to prevent the first emperor from leaving Beijing, were unusual, and they even agreed one after another. In fact, they wanted to take this opportunity to assassinate the first emperor and let the vassal kings who were connected with them enter Beijing to inherit the unification.

"It's just that although King Ning's soldiers are prosperous, he has met a great figure in this dynasty, that is Lord Wang Shouren. King Ning fell for Wang Shouren's plan to besiege Wei to save Zhao, and was defeated in a battle, and he was also captured by Wang Shouren. At that time, the first emperor had already left Beijing and ordered the sacrifice of prisoners in Nanjing. Those bigwigs in the court didn't expect King Ning to be defeated so quickly, and they were confused for a while. It's just that they have already made a plan to kill the emperor, if it is exposed, everyone will be punished by the nine clans, whether they are desperate or decide to attack in Nanjing.

"It's just that although the first emperor lost control of the soldiers and horses in the capital, Jinyiwei and Dongchang were in the hands of the first emperor. At that time, Qian Ning had been convicted and imprisoned, but Jiang Bin, who succeeded him, was even more cunning, and was regarded by the court officials as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh, and he wanted to get rid of him quickly. With the master of the brocade guard by the emperor's side, it is difficult to attack if you want to harm him. So they colluded with Yanagi Zongyan and set up an ambush in the tomb of the king of Huguangxing. Then he pretended that the king of Xingxian intended to rebel, created weapons and armor in the royal tomb, and secretly hid the jade seal of the country.

After the first emperor got the secret report, he ordered Jinyiwei to investigate the matter thoroughly. At that time, Yun Feiyang, the deputy commander of Jinyiwei, and Xu En, the eunuch in charge of the Fusi of Dongchang Beizhen, were in charge, and they sent the most powerful masters of Jinyiwei and Dongchang to Luzhou, Huguang'an, and gathered a large number of people from the rivers and lakes, divided into several batches to raid the place where King Xingxian built and buried weapons and armor. But these news are all fake, and the main purpose is to transfer all the masters around the first emperor. After these more than 1,000 Jinyi guards, masters of Dongchang and heroes of the rivers and lakes entered Anlu Prefecture, they were suddenly attacked by the killers of the Liusheng clan who had already been ambushed everywhere, and almost all the troops were wiped out, and even Xu En, the eunuch in charge of the Fusi of Dongchang Beizhen, also died under the sword of Liusheng Zongyan. It's just that Yun Feiyang got a secret report from Jinyi Wei in advance that someone intended to be unfavorable to the first emperor in Nanjing. Yun Feiyang was very wise, and immediately realized that he might have fallen into a big trap, so he took a few masters to rush back to Nanjing first.

It's just that at this time, the conspiracy against the first emperor has been launched, and when Yun Feiyang led people to Nanjing, the first emperor had been seriously injured in the lungs due to falling into the water, and he couldn't even speak, so he had to return to the capital under the escort of Jinyiwei and Dongchang, and soon died. Several scholars from the court and the central government went to the Cining Palace to persuade the empress dowager to issue an edict to summon the king to succeed to the throne. The Queen Mother had no idea, and she was moved by these people, so she issued a decree to summon the king to enter Beijing quickly. In fact, the Queen Mother didn't know that when the first emperor was sent back to the capital, King Xingxian had already arrived outside the capital and was hidden in a very secret place. Even if the queen mother did not agree to the succession of King Xingxian, the bigwigs in the court were determined to let King Xingxian enter the palace, and he would inherit the unification in order to keep everyone safe. ”

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