Chapter 305 Who will be appointed as the new emperor?
But Yuan Pengnian quickly realized that if the story of regicide spread, the world would never believe that he had the courage to do it, but would only think that he was influenced by Gao Hongtu.
Instruct.
At that moment, Yuan Pengnian said: "Teacher, I will sever the teacher-student relationship with you."
"It's getting more and more nonsense. If you cut off the teacher-student relationship at this time, wouldn't it mean that there is no silver in this place?" Gao Hongtu said with a dark face, "Besides, you can break off the teacher-student relationship if you want?"
After a pause, Gao Hongtu asked again: "Is the Du Hongyu you are talking about reliable?"
What Gao Hongtu means is, is this Du Hongyu determined enough to kill the king? Don't end up not going to kill the king, but instead went to report you and me to the Holy Emperor.
"Teacher, don't worry, this Du Hongyu is absolutely reliable." Yuan Pengnian said quickly, "Because he and Ma Mingluan, or in other words, Shi Yi, have a hatred of destroying the family."
"Hate of annihilation?" Gao Hongtu asked, "What's going on?"
Yuan Pengnian said: "The thing is, this Du Hongyu is also a greedy person and extremely stingy. Therefore, when the stock exchange first sold bonds, he was unwilling to buy them. Later, when the bond prices rose to the sky, he became more enthusiastic.
, not only used all the family assets, but even borrowed high-interest loan sharks from many banks."
After a pause, he added: "In the end, the price of bonds collapsed, and Du Hongyu lost everything. The bankers also urged him to repay the money every day, but how could he have the money to repay the loan? In the end, he angered those bankers, so he
He spent money to hire thugs to press for debts, but Du Hongyu was not a good person either, so a conflict broke out between the two parties."
"In the end, Du Hongyu wiped out the gang, but dozens of his family were almost wiped out. Only he, his mother, and his youngest son were saved by students and managed to survive."
"Then Du Hongyu hated the exchange and Ma Mingluan."
"After the student gave him some advice, he even started to hate the Holy One."
"So that's it." Gao Hongtu asked again, "Who else knows about Du Hongyu's incident?"
"Aside from the students and Du Hongyu, the only one who knows about this is you, my mentor." Yuan Pengnian said hurriedly.
"It's okay." Gao Hongtu breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, and said, "Yuan Pengnian, listen to me, Du Hongyu committed regicide because he was defrauded of all his money by the stock exchange, and after his family was ruined, he took revenge on the Ming Dynasty.
Revenge, Your Majesty, has nothing to do with you, Yuan Pengnian, and it has nothing to do with me, do you understand me?"
"Student understands." Yuan Pengnian's face showed a tangled look.
According to his original intention, this matter must be publicized publicly, even if it costs his life.
Although regicide is a treasonous act, if he sacrifices his life to practice the principle of the emperor and the scholar-bureaucrats co-ruling the world, it undoubtedly has another meaning. In his opinion, this will be recorded in the annals of history.
Gao Hongtu said again: "Furthermore, you have never been to Zhutanfang tonight."
"Yes." Yuan Pengnian lowered his head and said, "The student has not been to Zhutanfang tonight."
"Okay, go back quickly." Gao Hongtu dismissed Yuan Pengnian and called the old servant in.
"Afu, you go to the Kingdom of Wei..." Halfway through his words, Gao Hongtu said, "Forget it, I'd better pay a visit to the Duke of Wei in person. After all, it's a very important matter."
This matter would not have been possible without the support of Wei Guogong.
The Duke of Wei alone is not enough, there is also Uncle Sincerity.
Before leaving the house, Gao Hongtu glanced at the night sky.
Tonight will be destined to be recorded in the history of the Ming Dynasty.
As for the merits and demerits, let future generations comment.
It is enough for him to have a clear conscience for his lofty ambitions.
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At dawn the next day.
Meng Zhaoxiang was shaken from his sleep by his newly married Mrs. Ru.
"What's wrong?" Meng Zhaoxiang asked, yawning.
Rufu said: "The housekeeper said that Mr. Wu and the others came over and said there was something urgent."
"Master Wu?" Meng Zhaoxiang was obviously not awake yet, and his mind was a little confused, "Which Master Wu?"
"Of course it's Mr. Wu Linzheng, the young minister of Taichang Temple who has the closest relationship with you, sir." Mrs. Ru said, "There is shocking news about the Yangzhou Holy Master."
"News about the Holy Driver?"
Meng Zhaoxiang was startled, and his sleepiness suddenly disappeared.
At that moment, Meng Zhaoxiang put on his clothes and got up as quickly as possible, and hurried to the living room.
I saw that not only Wu Linzheng was here, Chen Liangmo and Wu Ganlai were also here.
"Uncle Zong, something has happened!" Wu Linzheng said urgently, "Xiaoguan and others have just received shocking news. Luan Jia, who is stationed in Yangzhou, was attacked by unknown thieves, and the royal ship on which His Majesty was riding was completely blown to pieces!"
"Ah?" Meng Zhaoxiang's vision went dark and he almost fainted on the spot. Thanks to Wu Ganlai and Chen Liangmo's quick reactions, they quickly stepped forward to help him, and Meng Zhaoxiang didn't fall to the ground.
After calming down, Meng Zhaoxiang asked urgently: "Where is the Holy One? Is there any definite news?"
"The royal ships were all blown to pieces, how can we get any definite news?" Wu Linzheng sighed, but secretly thought to himself, he might have been shattered into pieces and sunk to the bottom of the canal!
Meng Zhaoxiang wiped his cold sweat and said again: "Where did you get this news? Is it credible?"
Wu Linzheng said: "The news came from the General Affairs Department. The Yangzhou government sent someone overnight, so it should be credible. How dare the Yangzhou government talk nonsense about this kind of thing?"
"Oh, there are so many disasters. The Ming Dynasty is really full of disasters."
Meng Zhaoxiang let out a long sigh and slumped down on the Grand Master's chair.
At this moment, Meng Zhaoxiang felt really tired as never before.
The Holy Spirit has seemed to be a completely different person since Meishan became enlightened. Ming Dynasty was seeing improvement again, and it was no longer an extravagant hope to even be revived again, but this happened.
The Donglin Party really has no bottom line in its actions!
Seeing Meng Zhaoxiang slumped on the Grand Master's chair, Wu Linzheng, Wu Ganlai and Chen Liangmo could not hide their disappointment. At this critical moment, as the one with the highest rank among the nine ministers who went to disaster, shouldn't they turn the tide?
, leading everyone to thwart the Donglin Party's conspiracy? What's the point of slumping on the Taishi's chair and sighing?
At that moment, Wu Linzheng said urgently: "Oh, my eldest uncle, please don't sigh. The top priority is to quickly think of a countermeasure to stabilize the situation in Nanjing, and then welcome the prince to Nanjing as soon as possible."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "What do you mean?" Meng Zhaoxiang said, "You mean they want to support King Yong?"
Meng Zhaoxiang was also confused, and his entire brain's thinking ability was not as good as before.
"Isn't this obvious?" Wu Ganlai stamped his feet and said anxiously, "The prince is already an adult, but King Yong is only twelve years old and is still a child. Of course those people hope that King Yong will succeed him."
Meng Zhaoxiang finally came to his senses and said anxiously: "This matter requires Mr. Shi Ge to come forward."
"Just Shi Ge Lao is not enough." Chen Liangmo said, "I also learned that Hui Lu Ge Lao and Jin Fu Tai, these two people followed the late emperor from Beijing to defeat the siege together with me, and they will definitely support the prince."
"Let's work separately." Meng Zhaoxiang nodded and said.
Immediately, the four of them split up to find Shi Kefa, Lu Zhenfei and Jin Xuan.
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After a night of vigorous marching, at dawn the next day, Chongzhen and the more than 400 Qinwang scholars who accompanied him arrived at the dock at Puzikou from near Yangzhou.
At this time, Zheng Sen and more than 500 other Qin Wang scholars were already waiting at the dock.
"Your Majesty." Zheng Sen bowed his hands and said, "The boats are ready and can cross the river at any time."
"Yes." Chongzhen nodded and asked, "Have you done it from beginning to end? There are no flaws, right?"
The key to this drama is that the Donglin Party in Nanjing cannot let the Donglin Party in Nanjing know that Chongzhen is still alive. Only in this way will they help Zhu Cizheng rise to power at all costs, otherwise the Donglin Party will not be able to continue this drama.
Although only the first half of Yangzhou is enough, if the Donglin Party can be allowed to finish the second half, it is still necessary to let them finish the second half as much as possible, and the opera must be sung by the whole audience.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty." Zheng Sen said, "We are flying the banner of the Zheng Family Caravan."
After saying this, Zheng Sen added: "Our Zheng family sends a caravan to Nanjing every year to purchase silk, porcelain and tea. Even the people in Admiral Jiang's office know about it, so no one will be suspicious."
"Okay, then let's cross the river." After Chongzhen finished speaking, he took the lead in boarding the merchant ship.
After boarding the ship, he said to Zheng Sen: "First go to the Admiral Jiang's office outside Dinghuai Gate."
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At this time, the morning dynasty in Nanjing had begun.
As mentioned before, because Zhu Cizhen got up late, the court meeting in Nanjing was changed from morning meeting to afternoon meeting. However, today's court meeting could not be postponed, so the eunuch could only ask the eunuch to lift Zhu Cizheng from the bed.
When Zhu Cizheng sat on the throne with sleepy eyes, he found that a large number of officials in scarlet robes were already standing in the hall, and there were even many officials in green robes standing in the corridor outside the hall. In total, there were at least several hundred people.
Zhu Cizheng couldn't help but turned around and asked He Zhikong: "He Banban, it's not like one of the ten major dynasties today, so why are there so many officials here? Is something wrong?"
He Zhikong snorted slightly and said, "Your Highness, something big has happened."
"Is something big happening?" Zhu Cizheng looked serious and didn't ask any more questions at the moment.
At this time, two more civil servants wearing black gauze and python robes strode in outside the main hall.
The first person in charge was Shi Kefa, the chief minister of the cabinet who had not been seen by the officials for a long time. Behind Shi Kefa was Lu Zhenfei, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment and the scholar of Dongge University who had just entered the cabinet according to the emperor's decree.
The expressions of both of them were very solemn, and they looked very worried.
Seeing this, the civil and military officials gathered in the main hall and in the corridor outside the hall couldn't help but whisper. The topic of discussion was naturally the theme of today's court meeting-who should be appointed as the new emperor?
The assassination of the Holy Emperor in Yangzhou cannot be concealed at all.
Although the exact news is not known, the general situation has already spread privately throughout Nanjing.
Even the traffickers in the streets and the famous prostitutes in the brothels on the Qinhuai River already knew that the Holy Emperor was assassinated in Yangzhou and was blown up by gunpowder.
Therefore, the new emperor's accession to the throne is already a certainty.
The only suspense is whether to take advantage of the situation and support King Yong who oversees the country as the new emperor, or to rush the prince from Xuzhou to Nanjing to become the emperor?
According to the ancestral instructions of Emperor Taizu Gao, there is no doubt that he should be crown prince.
Because the prince was the direct descendant of the late Queen Zhou, and was the eldest son of the late emperor, he was undoubtedly the first in line to succeed the throne. Although King Yong was the supervisor of the country, he was even ranked behind King Ding in terms of order.
But everyone knows that this time things are by no means as simple as imagined.
Lu Zhenfei walked into the hall and scanned around, and found that Meng Zhaoxiang, Wu Linzheng, Wu Ganlai and Chen Liangmo who were looking for Jin Xuan were not there, so he turned around and cast a helpless look at Shi Kefa.
Shi Kefa was originally planning to invite King Yong to start the court meeting.
Seeing this, I can only wait patiently.
Fortunately, not long after waiting, they saw Meng Zhaoxiang and four others running in with sweating profusely.
At this time, Meng Zhaoxiang and others did not care about the dignity of the civil servants, and ran straight to Shi Kefa and Lu Zhenfei.
"I have met two pavilion elders." Meng Zhaoxiang and the four of them bowed their hands.
"No need." Shi Kefa waved his hand and asked, "Where is Jinfu Terrace?"
"Oh, let's forget about it." Wu Linzheng sighed and said in a low voice, "Early this morning, Jinfutai was tricked by Wang You, who was in charge of the Admiral Jiang's Office, and went to the Admiral's Office, and then was placed under house arrest."
"Ah? Such a thing happened?" Shi Kefa and Lu Zhenfei's expressions changed greatly.
Without Kim Hyun's support this time, the variables would immediately increase.
Because there are currently three important military forces stationed in Nanjing.
The first branch is the Beijing Camp, with a total of 20,000 soldiers. However, because they are guard soldiers, they lack training and are severely lacking in weapons and armor, so their combat effectiveness is low.
The admiral of the capital camp was originally Han Zanzhou.
After Han Zan and Zhou Fu were executed, Zuo Guangxian, the imperial censor of Zuo Qian of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, served concurrently as the admiral of the capital camp.
The reason why Gao Hongtu wanted to promote Yuan Pengnian as the censor of Zuo Qiandu was because he felt that Yuan Pengnian had strong execution ability and was more suitable to be the admiral of the capital camp than Zuo Guangxian.
However, in addition to the admiral, the capital camp also has a governor.
Since the Ming Dynasty, the governor of Beijing has been led by Wei Guogong.
Then, in addition to the Beijing camp, there were also 4,000 pacesetters from Admiral Caojiang's office and 3,000 cavalry brought to Nanjing by Yingtian Governor Jin Xuan from Xuzhou. Although these two armies were small in strength, they could be regarded as elite.
Especially the three thousand cavalrymen of Jin Xuan, whose soldiers were all servants of the general of the border town and the deputy general. They had fought many battles with Jiannu, so they were experienced in hundreds of battles.
Shi Kefa, Lu Zhenfei and Meng Zhaoxiang originally thought that as long as there were three thousand cavalrymen like Jin Xuan, plus Jin Xuan also served as Admiral Cao Jiang, they would be equivalent to having seven thousand of the most elite soldiers. In this case, two
It's not a big problem that the Wanjing camp soldiers defected to the Donglin Party, because if there were to be a fight, they would be sure to win.
However, the plan did not change quickly, and I never expected that this incident would happen.
Jin Xuan was actually lured to Admiral Caojiang's office by his guerrillas and put under house arrest. Not only did the four thousand soldiers in Admiral Caojiang's office lose control, but also the three thousand cavalry could not be mobilized.
"The situation is urgent, so we can only directly dispatch three thousand cavalry to Beijing to maintain the court situation!"
Shi Kefa is still somewhat decisive and knows that he cannot be soft-hearted at this time.
"No." Lu Zhenfei sighed, "Three thousand cavalry can only be mobilized by Jin Xuan himself and the king's order flag. If Jin Xuan is not there or there is no king's order flag, even Mr. Shi Ge can't mobilize the three thousand cavalry."
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"What should we do?" Even Shi Kefa had no idea at this time.
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