After the death of the crown prince, the apocalypse seemed to have aged by dozens of years all of a sudden, he was originally just a young man in his twenties, but now he looked like an old man in his fifties. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Every time he saw his haggard face in the bronze mirror, the anger in his heart could not stop bursting out.

Time flies, and a month has passed since the crown prince was killed.

In the past month, Yan Long led the Jinyi Guard to liquidate Wei Zhongxian's eunuch party can be said to have reached a climax.

Everything Wei Zhongxian said was wrong, everything Wei Zhongxian did was wrong, and in line with these two principles, Yan Long almost swept away the eunuchs in the court.

Due to the large number of people arrested, some yamen even experienced labor shortages.

Because all the people in the government are in prison, you can't ask people to work in the prison.

For this matter, Ye Xianggao found Yan Long again and asked him to arrest fewer people.

Yan Long's answer was simple: just appoint a new person.

After the collapse of the Eunuch Party, the Donglin Party became very powerful! It was relatively difficult to install people in the civilian clique controlled by the Donglin Party, so Yan Long decided to seize military power first.

He successively used his wrists to transfer Xia Houba of Jinyi Wei to the 26th Guard of Shangzhi to the Supreme Twenty-six Guards Army, as the commander of the Jinwu avant-garde (south of the garrison imperial city), and transferred Zhang Wei to the commander of the Jinwu guard (north of the garrison imperial city), plus Xu Huang's Yulin Right Guard (west of the garrison imperial city), Huang Zhong's Shenji battalion, and the important military force of the garrison capital, it can be said that Yan Long can completely trust people.

As for Jin Yiwei, Yan Long was the nominal supreme leader. In fact, Jiang Wei is in charge.

Jiang Wei was promoted to the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and also led the envoy of Beizhen.

Dian Wei Zhangnan Town Fu Division.

Xia Houdun was promoted to the Thousand Households of the Investigation Bureau, Liao Hua was promoted to the Thousand Households of the Criminal Prison Bureau, and Zheng Donghe and Wang Song also joined the Jinyi Wei respectively, serving in the Hundred Households to assist Jiang Wei.

As for Yan Long himself, at this time, his identity was already the governor of Jinyi Weizuo, and the crown prince Shaobao was also the commander of the avant-garde of the government army.

The vanguard of the government army is the close guard who is responsible for the emperor's security and security work, also known as "the person with the knife" and "the guard with the knife". In view of Yan Long's ability and loyalty in a series of actions, coupled with the fact that he is a Xuanli person, it can be said that he is directly in command of this forbidden palace guard, which can be said to be deserved.

At this time, Yan Long could already be said to be powerful.

So, his hand was also extended to the military headquarters.

Taking the opportunity of the purge, he recommended to the cabinet that Bai Qi should take up the post of Zuo Shilang in the Ministry of War, a position of real power after Sun Chengzong in the Ministry of War.

Ye Xianggao had no choice but to agree.

As for the East Factory, after this round of suppression, it has long been dying. After the fall of Wei Zhongxian, the successor of the Dongchang Governor was Liu Ruoyu, the eunuch of the Celebrant Eunuch, and the eunuch of the Celebrant Seal was still Wang Tiqian.

After losing the protection of Wei Zhongxian, these two people were supposed to be imprisoned for treason, but at the last moment, Yan Long found them and gave them a chance to reform and abandon the darkness and turn to the light.

This opportunity is to denounce Wei Zhongxian.

The wall fell down and everyone pushed it, which is a truth that is not easy to come by.

Especially for a water dog like Wei Zhongxian, no matter who wants to go up and kick it.

After collecting the detailed criminal evidence provided by these two eunuchs who "abandoned the darkness and turned to the light", Wei Zhongxian was imprisoned in the edict of Jinyiwei.

During this month, the Apocalypse ordered an investigation of the "Eunuch Rebellion Case". A total of 6 conspirators were found to be the first rebel conspirators, 19 close attendants, 11 subordinate lieutenants, 35 rebel criminals, 15 convicts who were attached to the Dai army, 128 subordinate convicts, 44 shrine songs, a total of 258 people, plus 57 people who slipped through the net, a total of 315 people. And Wei Zhongxian's mistress Keshi and Wei Zhongxian's nephew Wei Liangqing were killed during the arrest.

So far, the Donglin Party and Yan Long have become the biggest winners in this power struggle.

In the court, many officials began to express their loyalty to Yan Long, either explicitly or covertly.

Yan Long was already familiar with the set of officialdom at this time, and he also used the materials for these dependent people.

Whatever is conducive to the expansion of his own power, he strives to win over, and whatever is useless, he is false and wronged, but he must not be offended.

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Jinan Province, Shandong.

After Zhu Youzhen, the king of letters, locked himself in the mansion as if cultivating immortals for half a month, he finally waited for the arrival of the messenger.

This secret messenger was sent by Han Yi, and he brought a secret letter to Zhu Youzhen.

In the letter, Han Yi informed Zhu Youzhen in detail of everything that happened in the capital.

Including the vacancy of the position of the prince, the aggravation of Tianqi's illness, the collapse of the eunuch party, the restoration of the Donglin party, Yan Long's strong takeover of military power, and the real power of Dongchang, etc......

As the contents of the letter unfolded, Zhu Youzhen's face was also cloudy.

In the end, Han Yi said in a summary manner: Lord, the position of the prince will be decided sooner or later. At this time, forbearance is the top, please be calm and don't be bored, I am already planning a plan for the Lord to return to Beijing in Beijing.

Zhu Youzhen looked at it, sighed lightly, and threw the letter into the brazier and burned it.

Suddenly, a long sigh came from outside the house: "The road is long, and my generation will go up and down to seek! King Xin is so sad, does he also feel that this road ahead is too difficult to walk?!"

When Zhu Youzhen heard this voice, his face became extremely ugly. But he was a scheming man after all, so he smashed the ashes from the brazier to the end before turning back and opening the door to the study.

Outside the door, the moonlight was like water, and there stood an old man with a clear face like an enlightened immortal, looking at him condescendingly with a playful look.

This person was Chen Ziqian, who assassinated the crown prince Zhu Cijiong in the capital.

Zhu Youzhen looked at him, and involuntarily felt a sense of weakness, he turned sideways and made a gesture of please.

Chen Ziqian stepped into the study proudly.

Zhu Youzhen looked out of the study, Chen Ziqian saw this, and said with a smile: "King Xin, please rest assured, no one knows that I am here." ”

Zhu Youzhen said with a gloomy face: "What are you doing here? Didn't we say that it was okay? After the plan is successful, I will take my Yangguan Road, and you will take your single-plank bridge." ”

Chen Ziqian squinted at Zhu Youzhen and said, "This time and that time." At that time, I really didn't want to set foot in the rivers and lakes anymore, or set foot in the court again, but now it's different, I have enough strength to deal with Xiao Daoling, and I have the ability to dominate the whole world. ”

"A year and a half ago, you lost to Xiao Daoling in the fighting method and almost died, what else can you rely on now?" Zhu Youzhen sneered.

Chen Ziqian's right hand was opened, and he saw a blood bat flying out of his palm, flying all over the house with a red light.

Zhu Youzhen said coldly: "What is this?"

Chen Ziqian's eyes flashed with a cold light, and he said coldly: "This is a holy relic that can make me emperor in the future." Immediately after, a blood-colored cloud burst out of his palm, enveloping Zhu Youzhen.

The demon blood bat was summoned by the red cloud, burrowed into the cloud and mist, pounced on the top of Zhu Youzhen's head, and bit it down, only to see the blood gushing out, but it was all sucked clean by the blood bat at once, and then the brain burst out......

However, Zhu Youzhen didn't seem to feel any pain at all, but there was a happy look on his face.

After a while, all the blood bats were hidden in Zhu Youzhen's skull, and then, the wound on Zhu Youzhen's skull quickly healed and completely returned to its original appearance.

Chen Ziqian's five fingers began to slowly retract, the red cloud retracted into his palm, and the blood bat also turned into a phantom, piercing through Zhu Youzhen's body and flying into Chen Ziqian's palm.

Zhu Youzhen recovered from his senses, but he didn't remember anything about being eaten by the blood bat just now. He was still searching the room for the blood bat, and asked Chen Ziqian, "Where was the foreign object just now?"

Chen Ziqian had already implanted the demon mark into his body at this time, and in response to his inquiry, he just sneered: "Flew away." If the king wants to see it, I will tell you more about it when the time comes. ”

"When?" asked Zhu Youzhen in a daze.

Chen Ziqian said: "Wait until you become emperor!"