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Chapter 371 Letter to Wang Shuguang
With a gloomy expression, he followed Yuan Chongyu to the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion where King Xin lived, entered the backyard from the back door, and went through strict inspections by the water transport soldiers. Finally, Feng Quan saw him warming up in a room with extremely high security. Zhu Youjian, the dead letter king who reads books.Hearing Cao Bing's report, Zhu Youjian first drove away the Cao Bing guards in the room, leaving only Li Dingguo, a little beggar whom Zhu Youjian took a lot of effort to recruit, to guard the safety, and then smiled to Feng Quan: "Old Feng Ge, I haven't seen you for many years, but I still look good. It's really gratifying. You're welcome, sit here and enjoy the fire. I really don't know what the weather is like this year. It's almost freezing people's noses off."

Feng Quan didn't return Zhu Youjian's courtesy, but just sat across from Zhu Youjian across the stove, while Yuan Chongyu sat between the two with a smile on his face, and asked Li Dingguo to bring tea, and served Feng Quan with his own hands. Quan put it down in front of him.After the three of them sat down together, Feng Quan said darkly: "My lord, I really admire you more and more. You can figure out such clever tricks to survive from death, and you can even compare everyone's reactions." You and your thoughts have been calculated into it. If Jiu Qiansui hadn't suffered a sudden stroke and paralyzed you, disrupting your plans and future plans, it probably won't be long before your enemies from back then would all be wiped out by you."

"Feng Ge is too much for the award, and Xiao Wang dare not take the credit." Zhu Youjian politely agreed, then pointed at Yuan Chongyu, and explained with a smile: "Actually, this plan was conceived by Yuan Chongyu and Xiao Wang together. Speaking of which, Xiao Wang was able to get acquainted with shopkeeper Yuan, thanks to Mr. Feng Ge who inadvertently leaked the news to shopkeeper Yuan that Xiao Wang was about to move to Baoding. Under Wang's house, a tunnel was dug to communicate with the outside world, and this is how these things happened later. If Xiao Wang can fulfill his long-cherished wish in the future, he will definitely not forget this great achievement of Feng Ge."

"Lord Xin, do you think you still have a chance to come back?" Feng Quan sneered, and continued, "If Nine Thousand Years is not suddenly paralyzed, you can take advantage of the relationship between the British Duke and them and Nine Thousand Years." At the same time, they took advantage of the British public and their worries about Zhang Haogu's army, and used the queen's hand to hold Zhang Haogu's army in Shanhaiguan, so that he could only stare in Liaodong and never come back. It's difficult for you. But it's a pity that Jiuqiantui has been paralyzed now, and there is no way to pose a threat to the British Duke and Empress. There is no need to ask the prince to come forward. The use value of the prince to the British princes has also been greatly reduced. In this way, if you are lucky in the future, you will get back the lost princely title and become a feudal prince when you go to other places What a rich man! Bad luck, once Zhang Haogu’s little mad dog, who is more cunning than a fox, finds out the truth, then... Humph! My lord, I’m afraid you won’t be able to keep your head?!”

"As expected of Mr. Feng Ge, he is really clever and hits the nail on the head!" Zhu Youjian applauded, and said calmly: "Old Feng Ge is right, the sudden fall of Wei Laogou really disrupted Xiao Wang's overall plan." Well, Xiao Wang's use value to the British Duke and the others has indeed been greatly reduced. But Mr. Feng Ge, the two of us should be in the same boat this time, right? Without Jiuqian, to the British Duke and the Empress, you are The value of use has also been greatly reduced, right? If Xiao Wang's grasp of the situation is correct, after all the officials joined forces to impeach Mr. Feng Ge today, it seems that the Duke of England and the Empress have already made the decision to abandon you, Mr. Feng Ge. ?”

When the scar on Feng Quan's heart was poked, Feng Quan's already ugly face suddenly became more gloomy. After a long silence, he gritted his teeth and said: "This is the bottom line of the old man's political opponents. Seeing that the old man is about to be promoted to the chief assistant, the old man's enemies are afraid of the old man. Settling accounts after the fall, this is how to fabricate evidence, plant a frame, and slander the old man out of nothing! As for the Duke of England and the Empress, they were just deceived by these treacherous villains!"

"Is it really fabricating evidence out of nothing and framing it?" Zhu Youjian asked with a mocking smile: "If Xiao Wang remembers correctly, Li Qifeng, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, seems to pay tribute to Feng Ge every year after Mr. Li was transferred to the governor of Water Transport. The old 8 taels of ice and charcoal, right?"

Feng Quan, whose buttocks were seriously dirty, stopped talking, and asked in a hoarse voice after a while: "If Lord Xin invited the old man here just to talk nonsense, then the old man has listened to it, so can he leave?" Feng Quan got up and left.

"Old Feng Ge, don't worry." Yuan Chongyu stopped Feng Quan, and finally pushed Feng Quan back to his seat, and said in a low voice: "Old Feng Ge, Caomin invited you here to meet Prince Xin today. Discuss with Mr. Feng Ge. If this major event is completed, not only will you not need to be kicked out of the cabinet by the British government, Mr. Feng Ge, but you will definitely be promoted to a higher level and become the chief assistant of the cabinet that you have long been looking forward to! At the same time Cao Min can also rescue his elder brother, Xin Wang Ye can also fulfill his long-cherished wish, revenge and revenge, the best of all three, are you not tempted by Mr. Feng Ge?"

"So what if you are tempted?" Feng Quan asked calmly: "Do you think that with the strength in your hands, you want to turn this situation over again? Don't forget that although the emperor is seriously ill now, The eldest prince has also been assassinated and died, but the emperor still has two sons, the second prince Zhu Ciwei and the third prince Zhu Cikun, with them, I believe you will still not be able to ascend the throne, my lord, right?"

"The current strength in Xiao Wang's hands is indeed insufficient." Zhu Youjian said slowly: "But the potential in Xiao Wang's hands is beyond what you can imagine, Mr. Feng Ge." He took out a thick account book, handed it to Feng Quan and said with a smile, "Old Feng Ge, let's see what this is."

"What is this?" Feng Quan curiously took the account book and opened it. After only a few glances, Feng Quan's face changed color again, and he exclaimed: "How is it possible? This list was not written by Zhang Haogu. Is it burnt?"

"What Zhang Haogu burned was just a copy, and this is the real original." Zhu Youjian said darkly: "In the past, just in case, all those who secretly took refuge in me and prepared to support me to inherit the throne I have prepared two copies of the list of civil and military officials, as well as their secret letters and letters with me. I also have someone copy each of them. The original is hidden under the rockery in my palace garden, and the copy is placed in the study. What Zhang Haogu stole from my house was just a copy! And the real original has been quietly retrieved back with the help of shopkeeper Yuan Da!"

"What a cunning rabbit and three caves! Unexpectedly, Prince Xin, who was only 16 years old, would have such thoughts!" Feng Quan shook his head and sighed.Zhu Youjian smiled slightly and said triumphantly: "Actually, I really want to thank Zhang Haogu for his hypocrisy. I found those copies when I ransacked the house, and burned them without even reading them. Otherwise, once these things fall into Wei Zhongxian With a pair of handwriting in my hand, Old Wei Gou knew that I still had the original copy. Thanks to Zhang Haogu, the little Gou Gou wanted to buy people's hearts, and immediately burned the copies. Anyone who reveals the whereabouts of the originals of these things will be of great use.”

"Believe in the lord, don't be too happy too early. Even if these things are still in your hands, they won't be of much use now." Feng Quan thought for a while, and immediately sneered and said: "These things were useful back then because they were used at the time. With Jiuqian here, if you give these things to Jiuqian, Jiuqian will kill them! But now, Jiuqian has been paralyzed and lost power, even if you use these things to threaten these The people on the list, they don’t need to be afraid anymore, Jiuqiantui is gone, who cares about their crimes of treason? Zhang Haogu? Although the little dog is likely to inherit Jiuqiantui’s mantle, But with his cunning and treachery, will he dig himself out of the wall to settle Jiuqiantui's old score?"

"It's a big mistake! Not only did these things not fail, but they have even greater effects!" Zhu Youjian shook his head and said in a dark voice, "Mr. Feng Ge, if Xiao Wang gives these things to you, you will come forward to recruit Wei Zhongxian. What will be the effect of those old ministries? Now Wei Laogou has been paralyzed, and the eunuch party has collapsed. Although Zhang Haogu came from the eunuch party, he has basically formed his own faction. Will you allow the old man left behind by Wei Laogou to ride on their heads? These people on the list are not stupid, and they probably won't be so willing to hand over the existing power in their hands, right? "

"What Prince Xin means is to use these people's existing power and official positions as a bait to let them return to your command, Lord Xin?" Feng Quan quickly understood Zhu Youjian's intention.Zhu Youjian nodded solemnly, and said in a deep voice: "Old Feng Ge, you are a smart person, and you should understand what will happen to these people after they lose power! If you are lucky, you will never be able to turn around as a commoner! If you are a little unlucky, They will be settled by new and old accounts together, and become prisoners or even ghosts under the sword! You and I use keeping their power and official positions as bait, and even promise them that they can go further, can they not be tempted?"

Feng Quan stopped talking again, thinking quickly in his mind, and soon found that what Zhu Youjian said was very reasonable. Judging from the performance of the officials of the Gou Shao Party in the past few days, these middle and low-level civil and military officials have indeed taken aim at him. The position vacated after the downfall of the Eunuch Party is gearing up to unite with Young Master Zhang and do a big job, planning to cut the biggest piece of the big cake of power distribution after the downfall of the Eunuch Party!As for the eunuchs who lost Wei Zhongxian, although they hoped that Young Master Zhang would help them out and save their lives because of their old love, in their hearts, they were definitely unwilling to just hand over power like this. Let the young officials of the Gou Shao Party inherit their inheritance. If Zhu Youjian uses retaining the official power of these officials as a bait, he can indeed easily pull them back and rebuild the Wangxin Party as quickly as possible. The young master Zhang, the dog and the party, and the royalists who hold little real power are fighting against each other, and it is even possible to completely gain the upper hand!Thinking up to this point, Feng Quan's heart finally started to move...

"Lord Xin, what are you going to do?" Feng Quan asked hoarsely.Zhu Youjian didn't even bat an eyelid, and said categorically: "It's not convenient for me to come out in person at the moment to communicate with the civil and military officials on the list, and the shopkeeper Yuan is still a wanted criminal, and it's even more inconvenient to come out to replace me. The king will do these things. This list will be handed over to you by the king, and you will come forward as the second assistant of the cabinet, tell them your interests, promise them benefits, reorganize the trust party for the king, and support the king's succession in the future! After that, the chief minister of the cabinet will be yours!"

"This old minister can do it!" Feng Quan also replied firmly, and then said darkly: "But believe in the prince, it's still the same sentence, as long as the two princes of the emperor are still alive, even if the emperor does what you wish You will pass away soon, and the throne will not be your turn, right? Also, as far as I know, the empress stamped a jade seal on the imperial decree calling for Zhang Haogu's triumphant return today. Counting the distance, the maximum is seven or eight It can be sent to Shanhaiguan in a few days, and Zhang Haogu will be concerned about the situation in the capital at that time, and he will definitely ride back on a fast horse, and he can arrive in the capital to preside over the overall situation in at most three or four days! So there is not much time left for us."

"I also know the news that my sister-in-law called Zhang Haogu back to Beijing." Zhu Youjian said coldly: "I also counted the travel time, and I think we only have ten days now, and the ten days will also be spent. It is ten days that will determine our victory or defeat! Therefore, Mr. Feng Ge, you must speed up and strive to re-organize the King's Xinwang Party within five to six days!"

"Five or six days should be enough." Feng Quan nodded, and asked again: "What about the two princes? Believe me, don't tell me that you plan to do it yourself. If they really die in your hands, No matter how well you cover it up, others can guess that you did it."

"Of course I won't do it myself!" Zhu Youjian's eyes flashed fiercely, and he said with a smirk: "Fortunately, thanks to the shopkeeper Yuan Da, I still have a few real slave killers in my hand! The luck is better Yes, when I visited my elder brother and sister-in-law in the palace today, Wei Xiaodie, Wei Zhongxian's grandniece, came to her sister-in-law to intercede, hoping to bring the second prince to Weiran Hutong to see her paralyzed old grandpa! I took the opportunity to give it to her After saying good things, sister-in-law and brother-in-law softened their hearts, and promised to let the two of them leave the palace tomorrow...!"

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Time flies, one night passed in a blink of an eye, and on the morning of the fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, there were still snowflakes of impeachment of Feng Quan flying into the General Secretary, the Cabinet, and the Supervisor of Rites, and the faction of officials who impeached Feng Quan also There are obviously many more, newly added Wang Ji's Ministry of Punishment faction and Zhou Yingqiu's Dali Temple faction, which is adapting to the wind. In addition, many people from Xu Guangqi's Ministry of Industry also came out to join in the fun and beat Feng Quan who was about to be knocked down.As a result, Zhang Yan, who was not very interested in Feng Quan, also started to make trouble. He sent people to Feng Quan with these hilly memorials, in the name of letting Feng Quan answer the appeal, but in fact he was forcing Feng Quan to take the initiative. Resigned, so as not to discredit the soon-to-be re-established Ming court, Feng Quan bit the bullet and insisted on it, and at the same time quickly started the work of rebuilding the Xinwang Party.At this time, Wei Xiaodie, the grandniece of Wei Zhongxian and daughter of Wei Liangqing, also took her biological son Zhu Ciwei, and embarked on the road of returning home to visit the sick...

Speaking of which, Wei Xiaodie, Wei Liangqing's daughter, is unlucky and innocent enough. The ordinary-looking girl was married into the palace by Wei Zhongxian when she was less than 14 years old. Second-rate.But fortunately, Wei Xiaodie's stomach is very upbeat, and after a few pitiful visits, Wei Xiaodie was pregnant with a child and gave birth to Zhu Ciwei, adding a prince to the Ming Xizong and giving birth to the members of the Eunuch Party. An object of allegiance has been placed.But what Wei Xiaodie didn't expect was that this son of hers just became the bane of the court's power struggle. It became the introduction that caused Wei Zhongxian to fall and become paralyzed, and finally became the thorn in the side of Ke Baba, who has the control over the third prince. The weak mother and young son don't say that they dream of inheriting the throne. Whether they can save their lives depends on Ke Baba's mood.Under such circumstances, Wei Xiaodie's mother and son wanted to cry, and the only thing they could do was to go home and see their paralyzed grandfather and incompetent father—it could even be said that this was probably Wei Xiaodie's last Once the family met.

Wiping away tears, facing the snobbish eyes of the eunuchs and maids in the palace, she carried her babbling son to the gate of the palace. Wei Xiaodie's mother and son had already boarded the sedan chair, and had already been assigned to the former Zhenfusi of the palace guards. Chen Jianhuang from the Thirteenth Taibao suddenly came with a sedan chair, and after talking with the big Han general who was protecting Wei Xiaodie's mother and child out of the palace, Chen Jianhuang came to Wei Xiaodie's sedan chair and ordered without explanation: "Come down, come to the palace!" I'll bring that sedan chair up!" Looking at the sedan chair that should be a eunuch's seat according to the specifications, Wei Xiaodie suppressed tears and carried Zhu Ciwei into the sedan chair, while a strong eunuch boarded Wei Xiaodie The imperial concubine's sedan chair, let Wei Xiaodie's mother and son follow behind, swaggered out of the Forbidden City, and rushed all the way to Weiran Hutong.

Weiran Hutong is not far from the imperial palace, and the team protecting Wei Xiaodie arrived at the entrance of Weiran Hutong after only half an hour. Looking at Weiran Hutong, which was full of traffic in the past, but now empty, Wei Xiaodie erased another Weeping bitter tears, I was about to get off the sedan chair with my son in my arms.But at this moment, the windows on the second floor of the houses on both sides of the street suddenly opened one after another with a bang bang bang bang bang, a dozen bright arrowheads protruded from the windows together, and shot at what should have been Wei Xiaodie. The imperial concubine's phoenix sedan chair, the screams also quickly came out of the sedan chair!Immediately afterwards, Chen Jianhuang yelled "There are assassins!", and the bearer carrying Wei Xiaodie rushed into the safety of Weiran Hutong, and then Chen Jianhuang lifted the curtain of the sedan chair where the imperial concubine could sit, and only looked at it. He burst into tears at a glance, "The imperial concubine! The prince! It's bad, the imperial concubine and the prince were killed by assassins! Catch the assassin, catch the assassin!"

"Strange? I obviously didn't sit in that sedan chair? How could someone say that I've been killed by an assassin?!" Wei Xiaodie, who was still a little naive, was full of doubts and didn't notice at all that the bearers who carried her didn't She was carried into Wei Zhongxian's mansion, but went directly through Wei Ran Hutong, and disappeared into the depths of the vast crowd...

On the fourth day of December in the tenth year of Tianqi, Wei Xiaodie, the granddaughter of Wei Zhongxian and the imperial concubine of Emperor Mingxi, was assassinated near Weiran Hutong along with Zhu Ciwei, the second son of Emperor Mingxi, when they went home to visit relatives. Unfortunately, both mother and child died.On the same day, Sun Yunhe, the criminal officer of Dongchang, who had been arrested for many days, finally couldn't bear the torture, and because he knew that Wei Zhongxian was paralyzed, his psychological defense collapsed. As a gesture, I admit that I was instructed by Baba, the wet nurse of Mingxi Zong, to plan and direct the assassination of the eldest prince Zhu Ciyan!And when Zhu Youjian sent this confession to Ming Xizong excitedly, Ming Xizong, who had lost two sons in a row, vomited blood and passed out on the spot. Empress Zhang Yan took the opportunity to issue an order to arrest Mingxi Zong's wet nurse Baba and her family and put them in prison. Torture.

In the early morning of the next day, Feng Quan, the second assistant to the cabinet, suddenly led a group of former eunuch officials to report, saying that they had heard rumors that the niece of the Hakka Hall, the concubine Ke Shasha, did not obey women's morals. Conceived through fornication, Zhu Cikun, the son of the guest concubine, is probably not of Ming Xizong blood!On the same day, Hou Guoxing, Kebaba's son, confessed that his cousin Keshasha had indeed had an affair with a man from his hometown, and that he married into the palace after she became pregnant!After this confession was sent to the palace, Zhang Yan didn't have the courage to tell her husband about it—with Ming Xizong's current situation, hearing this confession would definitely make her very angry!In desperation, Zhang Yan had no choice but to order Zhu Youjian to continue investigating the matter, and secretly sent people to Baoding, Kebaba's hometown, to arrest witnesses and find out what happened.

Seeing the ray of dawn, Zhu Youjian happily brought the news back to Shuntian Mansion, Yuan Chongyu immediately asked his subordinates with a smile, "Who among you is willing to be the concubine of Ke Shasha?"

(End of this chapter)