Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 41 A Gang of Lunatics

In the three dynasties of Taichang, Tianqi, and Chongzhen, the civil servants and military generals in the court and even the eunuchs were all a bunch of lunatics, and each one was more crazy than the other.

Killing the king is nothing to them. Both Taichang and Tianqi died inexplicably in their prime of life.

When Chongzhen ascended the throne, he was frightened. He would rather eat the steamed corn bread hidden in his sleeves than eat the delicacies from the mountains and seas in the palace.

It can be said that the reason why Chongzhen was like a lunatic, and whoever was caught and killed was forced by these lunatics, because if he didn't kill others, they might kill him!
His father and brother died in such an unexplained manner, can he not be scared like a neurotic?

This group of people was crazy in history, and now this group of people is also crazy and scary.

They are going to kill the current emperor Taichang again, and they have even thought about how to deal with the funeral.

These days, it may not be so easy to kill an emperor, but it is quite simple to deal with the matter after the emperor is killed. You just need to push someone to take the blame. Someone can take the blame.

This kind of seemingly outrageous thing was really so simple in Taichang Dynasty and Tianqi Dynasty. Both Taichang and Tianqi were killed inexplicably, but the whole Ming Dynasty Hall was as if nothing happened. No one was hacked to pieces. No one was exterminated from the Nine Clans!

This is why the Jiangnan interest group has no scruples.

What happened to killing an emperor?
As long as you push someone out to take the blame, it has nothing to do with them!

It was at this time that Taichang happened to kill Sun Zhixie's son in a fit of anger!
Chen Yirui couldn't help being overjoyed when he received the news, isn't there someone who is responsible?

Isn't Sun Zhixie eager to avenge his son, so let him take advantage of this and let him take the blame!

As for whether there will be doubts, he is not worried at all, as long as someone takes the blame, because the higher-ups have already contacted Eunuch Wei, who is in power in the palace, and promised that Eunuch Wei will take the lead in the interests of Jiangnan from now on.

This routine is actually similar to the time when the Qi, Chu, and Zhejiang parties joined forces with Concubine Zheng to murder the emperor, but their power is far worse than that of the original Qi, Chu, and Zhejiang parties. Therefore, they must pay half of the corruption proceeds in Jiangnan to Eunuch Wei to bribe them Eunuch Wei, rest in peace.

Because once the emperor died, the crown prince became the emperor, and the crown prince obeyed Eunuch Wei. No matter what Eunuch Wei said, the prince would not doubt it at all.

At that time, just push Sun Zhixie out and insist that he is eager to avenge his son, so he lied about the military situation and killed the emperor as a traitor by mistake.

This reason seems very absurd, but as long as Wei Zhongxian can fool the prince to believe it, it doesn't matter if other people believe it or not.

Taichang didn't know that someone was going to kill him again, because he felt that even if he revealed his identity this afternoon, those people would not have time to react.

You must know that Suzhou is [-] miles away from Nanjing. Even if it is [-] miles urgently, it will take a day to make a round trip.

Anyway, he found the money that Sun Long looted, and he was going back to Nanjing tomorrow to deal with those guys. How could those people react?
If he really revealed his identity in the afternoon, those corrupt officials in Nanjing may not have time to react, because it is basically impossible to run wildly at night.

It's a pity that he revealed his identity before entering Suzhou City this morning.

As for the reason, it's very simple, because Zhang Zhiji showed his waist card to all the guards in the village.

He shouldn't have let Zhang Zhiji reveal his identity when he was in Huizhou. He thought it was okay, but he actually planted a mine for himself, and the mine had already exploded.

After Linhuaihou's son Li Zushu ran back to Nanjing, he told his father about it. His father, Linhuaihou Li Hongji, was a member of the Jiangnan interest group, and he was also a core member.

When Li Hongji, Marquis of Linhuai, found other bigwigs to talk about it, someone immediately noticed that something was wrong.

It is impossible for Zhu Chunchen to go to Huizhou to marry the daughter of the wealthy businessman Wu Yangchun inexplicably, because it is not so easy for a noble like Cheng Guogong who holds military power to leave the capital.

Just kidding, you said something inexplicably going to Nanzhili to marry a stunning beauty and come back, can the emperor agree, what if you are going to plot a rebellion?
Therefore, it is impossible for Cheng Guogong Zhu Chunchen to go to Huizhou inexplicably, then Zhu Gongzi is very likely to be the emperor, and the emperor is very likely to have a private visit under fake illness.

As for how to determine whether it is the emperor, it is actually very simple, because Chen Zeng, the eunuch guarding Nanjing, is among their group.

Chen Zeng has stayed in the Nanzhili Palace for more than ten years, and he is naturally more familiar with the terrain inside than the Beijing Camp he just came to. He just needs to think of a way to take risks and send someone to sneak into the emperor's bedroom to take a look. know,
As a result, no one lived there, and the emperor was not in the Jinling Palace at all!

At that moment, they knew that they were about to face disaster.

Once these lunatics are driven into a hurry, they can still do the regicide!

Anyway, if you don't do it, you will die, so it's better to take a risk.

In other words, when Taichang was still in Huizhou, these people were going to kill him!
He cleaned up the mine supervisor Chen Fengyi, which strengthened the determination of these lunatics to get rid of him. If he didn't leave Tongling so soon, it was very likely that someone would do it in Tongling.

At that time when he left Tongling, he unintentionally startled these lunatics, the emperor disappeared, how to kill him?

If the emperor returns to Jinling City suddenly, it will be over!

These lunatics secretly mobilized their subordinates to search frantically. As a result, Zhang Zhiji soon appeared outside Suzhou City, showing his waist card to hundreds of households in Suzhou Wei.

You know, Suzhou Guard Commander Chen Yirui is the son-in-law of Wei Guogong Xu Hongji who defended Nanjing. He naturally knew that the emperor and the British prince Zhang Zhiji had a secret visit together. Moreover, he also received a secret order to try his best to search for the emperor. , so he had already sent all his cronies to the checkpoints of the inspection department in various places in Suzhou, and went to secretly follow them.

Because of this, Chen Yirui knew about it less than a quarter of an hour after Zhang Zhiji showed his waist card.

He immediately ordered people to hurry up and ran to Nanjing to report.

By the way, isn't Suzhou about [-] miles away from Nanjing? Even if he received the news in the morning and sent someone to interrogate him immediately, how could he receive the secret order to assassinate Taichang in Suzhou City in the afternoon?

It has to be said that Taichang made a common sense mistake. He thought that it would take at least half a day from Suzhou to Nanjing, even if it was urgent for eight hundred miles, so he was not worried at all, because he would leave tomorrow morning, and even if it was It was exposed in the afternoon, and it was too late for Nanjing to react.

In fact, the expedited [-] miles is just a general statement. The speed of the urgent communication is different due to the different road conditions and the number of post stations.

Like the northwest border, the number of post stations is scarce, and you may not meet a post station after running for a day, so it is not bad if you can spread four hundred miles a day for this express, because the horse's physical fitness will reach its limit when the horse gallops for about two hundred miles. You must stop to rest or change horses, otherwise the horse will run away and die.

If there is no horse to change, then you can only stop and rest, and then run again.

But Suzhou City and Nanjing City are different, this is the most prosperous area of ​​Ming Dynasty, the official roads extend in all directions, and the number of post stations is even more frightening, almost every twenty or thirty miles.

In this case, the messenger can keep changing horses and galloping at the horse's limit speed.

Running like this is not 140 miles a day, because the limit speed of a horse is about [-] kilometers per hour, which is [-] miles when converted into miles, and one hour is two hours, that is to say, less than two hours, Chen Yirui was able to spread the news to Nanjing.

Those bigwigs in Nanjing were also unambiguous, and immediately decided to make the emperor in Suzhou!

In fact, this trip took less than five hours in total. That is to say, just after Taichang slaughtered Sun Zhixie's son and the tax envoy Sun Long, Chen Yirui received a secret order to kill him while he was still in Suzhou City. , did him!
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