In February, the triennial Spring Festival was held as scheduled.

This should have been the most important thing in the court today, but it has received less attention because of the rampant Japanese pirates in Zhejiang.

After the weather gets warmer, the number of pirates along the southeast coast suddenly increases, causing officials in South Zhili and Zhejiang to be overwhelmed.

In line with the attitude of suppressing the matter as soon as possible, I originally wanted to hide it, but the group of Japanese pirates became more and more rampant.

After the death of a Nanjing Jinyi Guards commander, things became completely uncontrollable.

After the incident reached Beijing, the court was furious!

The commander of Nanjing’s Imperial Guard is dead!

Feng Kun seemed to have aged ten years overnight, and the Nanjing Jinyi Guard Commander was his eldest son!

The moment Eunuch Yin told Eunuch Yin this matter, the emperor's headache aroused again.

The emperor fainted and urgently ordered Meng, the eldest concubine of Prince Jing's palace, to enter the palace to treat the emperor's illness.

The emperor lay in bed for three days. Even the palace examination was postponed due to the emperor's illness. Later, Feng Kun was fined with a year's salary for being lax in his duties.

Feng Kun was not unjust in this matter. Such a big thing had developed to the point where it could no longer be suppressed. Only then did the Jinyiwei Commander Si Yamen in Beijing get the news. This was Feng Kun's serious dereliction of duty as the commander-in-chief of the Jinyiwei.

Feng Kun lost all energy because of the death of his eldest son. He went to the emperor to persuade his younger son Feng Jin to return to the capital, and then he complained of illness and rested at home.

The emperor handed over the matter of going to Jiangnan to assist the investigation of Dali Temple and the Ministry of War to Dongchang.

In Dali Temple, the task of going to South Zhili and Zhejiang to investigate naturally fell on Jiang Yuan.

The legitimate son had just been born, and Song Yuxi, regardless of her body after giving birth, hugged Jiang Yuanchao's legs and begged him not to go.

"Husband! I can't go, you can't go, please don't go, I beg you!"

"Yuxi, the emperor's order cannot be disobeyed." Jiang Yuanchao helped her up, pulled her to sit on a chair, and explained in a gentle tone: "My husband knows that this time must be extremely dangerous, but it is my duty, and I can't..."

"What responsibilities are there? What responsibilities do you have?" Song Yuxi interrupted him: "His Majesty left Jiangnan alone in the past. It was his fault! Why should you risk your life to fill the hole he dug?"

"Yuxi!"

"Why are you so mean? You just think that as long as you are careful, nothing will happen. But have you ever thought about how vicious and courageous those people are? Jiang Yuanchao, don't talk to me about some and all! You are pregnant with something.

Did you go there with no intention of returning?"

Jiang Yuanchao was stunned. Just when the couple was in a stalemate, the eldest princess suddenly opened the door and came in, saying loudly: "My daughter-in-law is right! Yuanchao, you can't go!"

"Mother!" Jiang Yuanchao exclaimed and stood up.

The eldest princess snorted, sat down and said: "They dare to kill Feng Kun's eldest son, even the eldest princess's son, so what? No matter how much weight you have, can it be more important than Mr. Feng? No matter how many people you have, you can't do it.

Jinyiwei? Let me tell you, Jiang Yuanchao, let alone your Majesty's nephew, even if the prince is gone, they still dare to kill you!"

Yu Xi helped: "If you want to go, let's make peace! I will never be a widow because of you! A man like you who doesn't care about his wife, children, and children is not worthy of me guarding you!"

The eldest princess first glared at Song Yuxi, but finally agreed: "The second daughter-in-law is right, if you want to go, you should sign the book of Yi Jue first! I will live well with my daughter-in-law and grandson. Anyway, your son doesn't want me.

She’s an old mother!”

My mother has always looked down on Song Yuxi who was born a concubine, and Song Yuxi has always been polite to this mother-in-law who looked down on her. At this moment, the two women suddenly joined forces!

Jiang Yuanchao looked at his mother and his wife, who suddenly joined forces to exploit him, and felt as if the sun was rising from the west.

At this time, the housekeeper of the Hou Mansion suddenly came to report that Mr. Jiang Laohou had invited the second master to speak to the Hou Mansion.

Jiang Yuanchao got up helplessly and went to his father's place for training.

Unexpectedly, his father didn't give him a chance to defend himself, and just said: "You should resign."

"father!"

"Yuanchao, listen carefully. You can't drain the muddy waters of the south of the Yangtze River. Resign! It's good to stay at home with your wife. I have already handed over the resignation letter for you. You are His Majesty's nephew. How could he not

I'm happy and won't do anything to you."

Jiang Yuanchao knew that there was no room for change in this matter. He hung his head, feeling as if all his efforts in the first half of his life had been denied by the people around him, and his whole body seemed to have been drained of energy.

Because of the need to investigate the affairs in Jiangnan, the Minister of War fell ill, and the young minister of Dali Temple resigned from his post. Only then did the emperor suddenly realize that the matter had become so serious?

He couldn't do anything to the Minister of War, let alone his own nephew. After careful consideration, he finally handed over the important task of commanding the navy to fight against Japanese pirates to the most experienced Prince Su.

But the emperor also played a trick and did not let King Su go to Fujian to lead the navy he had originally trained. Instead, he asked him to go to Zhejiang to lead the army as a polished commander. The original Zhejiang commander-in-chief, Duke Jingguo,

The eldest son Chen Yuliang was transferred to Fujian by the emperor's order to assist the ninth prince Yu Wang, who had zero actual combat experience, in commanding the Nanyang Navy.

Everyone felt that the emperor was old and confused.

What a nonsense!

What a nonsense!

To this day, Japanese pirates are rampant along the coast of Zhejiang. This is a serious dereliction of duty by the commander-in-chief Chen Yuliang. However, the emperor is not only unwilling to punish Chen Yuliang, but also wants to send the ninth prince Yu Wang, who has not been on the battlefield for a day, to Fujian.

When King Su received the order, he was uncharacteristically quiet.

He didn't curse a word or complain. He locked himself in the study and sat there for two hours.

The old man is getting old. His emperor father has been wise and martial all his life. When he was about to leave, he made a stupid move and made a bad move.

Just to keep his throne stable, at this time, we have to continue to play with his balance.

For the sake of balance in the court, I don’t know how many lives have to be sacrificed.

He doesn't want those Japanese pirates to die, he wants the navy masters he trained so hard to die!

In recent years, Zhejiang has basically become the money bag of the Duke of Jing, Concubine Chen and Prince Yu. King Su doesn’t know exactly what dirty things they are doing there. In recent years, those people he originally placed in the south have been transferred

Those who are gone are transferred away, and those who are damaged are damaged.

Just looking at the extremely ugly tax accounts that Zhejiang has submitted over the years will tell you how dirty they are there.

In order to balance the power of Prince Su's Palace and Prince Jing's Palace, the emperor always turned a blind eye to the actions of Duke Jing's Palace. The cabinet knew the emperor's thoughts well, and even Song Jianming did not dare to mention it more.

With the increase in revenue from Lingnan, even if Zhejiang collects less taxes, the general ledger of the national treasury's revenue is not ugly at all. As the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, he can handle the business, so he is unwilling to talk too much about it.

Therefore, with the emperor's deliberate connivance and the cabinet's collective silence, Zhejiang was like an inflamed pustule, growing bigger and bigger until the skin was rotten, and the emperor did not think of dealing with it.

Now the emperor has sent Prince Su to Zhejiang, just to ask Prince Su to be the knife to cut open this pustule. How can the Duke of Jing, Concubine Chen, Prince Yu, and the Zhejiang officialdom tolerate him?

How can he survive if he is gone?

In the same way, King Su smuggled foreign goods, sold illegal salt, recruited private soldiers, manufactured firearms in the Lingnan area, and even incorporated seven major pirate shipping gangs in the South China Sea of ​​Guangdong. Over the past 20 years, he had accumulated a huge amount of nearly 30 million taels of silver.

Investment has made the navy in Fujian and Guangdong large enough to shake the foundation of the Zhou Empire.

If these things were known to the emperor, the entire Prince Su's palace would not be able to escape the fate of being demoted to common people and imprisoned under high walls, or even having their homes confiscated and exterminated.

King Su would also not let King Yu and Chen Yuliang go to Fujian to disrupt his plans.

Before King Yu and Chen Yuliang arrived in Fujian, he had to kill them quickly.

The emperor wants both him and his ninth brother to suffer losses!

Not only that, once King Su and King Yu both leave the capital, only the fourth Prince Jing and the deposed prince eldest brother will be left in the capital. Concubine Hui and her son were favored by the queen in their early years, and the fourth kid is sincere and always regards his eldest brother as the orthodox one. The old man thought

What to do while they are away?

How could Prince Su and Prince Yu manipulate an old man who was too sick to get out of bed so easily?

King Su had always been a rogue, and fell ill the day after the imperial edict was issued. He also wrote an emotional letter of apology to his father, and strongly recommended his capable fourth brother to go to Zhejiang on his behalf.

The emperor was so angry that he immediately called Concubine Shu and scolded her, scolding the third child for being unfilial.

In this era, the label of being unfilial cannot be slapped on casually. The word filial piety is directly linked to loyalty.

Being unfilial is disloyal.

This is a big handle.

However, King Su was unmoved and waved his hand and spent tens of thousands of taels of silver to help the victims in the capital survive this severe winter.

He no longer cares about filial piety or not.

The father is kind and the son is filial. Only when the father is kind can the son be filial!

Ever since Li Zhao's accident in Shandong, King Su didn't want to play the role of a duck with a shrinking neck anymore.

The old man personally said that he was unfilial and spread the word so that no one in the court knew about it. This was already a betrayal. Ever since the old man allowed his eldest nephew Li Sheng to go to Shandong to kill his precious son,

He and the emperor are just monarchs and ministers, not father and son!

How can there be a grandfather in the world who doesn’t care about his grandson’s life or death?

Is there any father in the world who would do everything possible to put his son to death?

The old man personally obliterated the father-son relationship between him and Prince Su. Why should he, Li Jin, show mercy to the emperor?

The emperor ordered that King Su be imprisoned in the Zongren Mansion again, and no one was allowed to accompany him to serve him.

King Su doesn't care. If he's imprisoned, he's imprisoned. He's afraid of a bird! If you can, just kill him. What's the use of just imprisoning him? He can be trapped alone, but he can't trap the 200,000 naval troops in the south.

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When King Yu saw how good his fourth brother was at this trick, he immediately became ill after imitating the same trick.

Facing his two sons who were beyond his control, the late emperor felt an unprecedented sense of loss of control. He was irritable, angry, and frightened, but found that he was unable to control the situation.
To be continued...