Chapter 48 Fang Congzhe believes in the prince (additional update for 100% of the alliance leaders)
Fang Congzhe rolled his eyes and immediately said to the clerk: "Go and invite the British Duke Zhang Weixian to come."
After the clerk hears this, he will leave.
"Wait a minute, please ask the British Lord not to come to the cabinet, but to go directly outside the Meridian Gate. I will go into the palace with him to report."
"Yes!"
As soon as the Cabinet Clerk set out to burn incense, he suddenly ran back in a hurry.
Fang Congzhe had never seen this situation before, so he asked what happened?
The clerk replied eagerly: "Your Majesty, the First Assistant is in trouble. Zhu Chunchen, Duke of Chengguo, mobilized soldiers and horses from the capital camp and surrounded Huang Shangshu's residence!"
"What!?"
Fang Congzhe was almost confused. He mobilized the Beijing camp without permission. This was a serious crime.
"Chief Assistant, what a good thing! What a good thing!"
A voice came from outside the cabinet duty room, and Liu Yijing, the deputy assistant to the cabinet, dressed in a bright red official robe, walked in with a smile on her face.
Fang Congzhe frowned, but before he could say anything in reply, Liu Yijing interrupted him: "Huang Jiashan is a traitor! Not only has he committed eight deadly sins, but he also hid armor, weapons and guns."<
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"What! This is impossible!"
Fang Congzhe denied it flatly. He knew Huang Jiashan very well. Sarhu had been working in the local government before and only bought a house in the capital two years ago.
Just hiding armor in his small house for the past two years?
It’s so fake!
"It's absolutely true! Duke Cheng Guo received a secret report, raided the yellow thief's house, and searched it out himself."
"This! How can you treat ministers like this without His Majesty's edict? You and I are both civil servants, so why are you willing to see something like this happen?"
"Hahahaha!" Faced with Fang Congzhe's rhetorical question, Liu Yijing laughed instead: "Chief Assistant, there is another news. Huang Jiashan seems to have received the news in advance and fled home with his wife and cronies last night."
Fang Congzhe breathed a sigh of relief and tried his best to hide his true thoughts of being happy about this.
"Chief Assistant, the yellow thief is on the loose, and he is probably being protected by his accomplices. Who do you think may be his accomplices?"
"I think this matter still needs to be investigated, and we need to listen to the decision of Your Majesty and the Crown Prince."
Seeing that Fang Congzhe refused to accept hard words, Liu Yijing no longer tried to hide it, and said in a strong tone: "Liukelangyanguan and Zhou Jiamo, the old Tianguan, both believe that the pseudo-leftist governor Zheng Yangxing is an accomplice!"
Him!
A flash of lightning flashed across Fang Congzhe's head.
OK, everything OK.
So that’s it.
The first step is to impeach Concubine Zheng Guifei and Zheng Yangxing, so that their reputations will be completely ruined.
The second step is to establish the heroic character of Yang Lian and attract the sympathy and support of most people.
The third step suddenly fired at Huang Jiashan, and tied Huang Jiashan, Zheng Yangxing, and Zheng Guifei together.
Next step...
Mutiny!!!
No matter how you look at it, there is a possibility of mutiny.
In the name of capturing Huang Jiashan, Zheng Yangxing, and even Concubine Zheng, the Beijing camp was used to launch a mutiny.
But the Donglin Party can’t be the emperor!?
It is also impossible for Yang Tinghe, who has been in charge of the cabinet for more than ten years and has the Queen Mother's promise, to choose to establish a vassal king as emperor.
His Majesty is seriously ill but not confused, and it is impossible to agree with them. This prince respects himself, Huang Jiashan and others...
Do the math...
"First assistant!"
Liu Yijing said loudly to him: "Please ask the chief assistant to write a memorial immediately to arrest Huang Jiashan and Zheng Yangxing! Do you need someone else to write a memorial at this time!?"
Fang Congzhe had no choice but to write a letter, but it was not a request to arrest them, but a statement of the situation that required His Majesty's order to quickly withdraw the Beijing camp and let Dongchang, Jinyiwei, the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple and the Metropolitan Procuratorate jointly investigate.
Of course, Liu Yijing also knew that Fang Congzhe would not completely follow their wishes, so he also wrote a memorial, based on "factual evidence" of course, saying that Huang Jiashan secretly hid armor and weapons. This person had fled and was probably hiding in Zhengzhou.
In the hands of a group of people who cultivate character.
Both memorials were sent to the palace, but the person who replied to them was not Emperor Taichang, but Wang An, the eunuch in charge of the ceremony.
Wang An confronted Li Xuanshi in the Qianqing Palace, but was frightened off by Zhu Youxiao's momentum of bringing Liu Qiao back to the Qianqing Palace.
The imperial guards behind Zhu Youxiao were all wearing helmets and armor, and some of the people carrying the boxes had even cold expressions. Anyone who came near him would yell and yell back with angry eyes.
Wang Wenyan had told him that he could confront Li Xuanshi, but if he met Zhu Youxiao, he would give him a day first.
Seeing this posture, Wang An of course withdrew from Qianqing Palace. After hearing the report from the Chief of Ceremonies, he took the opportunity to leave the palace and walk around.
"It's not good. Your Majesty is unconscious and can't see the two pavilion elders talking to each other!"
As soon as he arrived in front of Fang Congzhe and Liu Yijing, he began to confide in him, saying that His Majesty was fine before the thunderstorm, but Qianqing Palace was struck by lightning during the heavy rain, and His Majesty fell into a coma after that.
Fang Congzhe was worried about Taichang and asked anxiously: "Your Majesty, how is he doing now?"
"Oops! We just checked at His Majesty's side and saw that he was still breathing and sleeping peacefully. Now, Lady Li Xuan and the Crown Prince are taking care of Your Majesty."
Wang An deliberately made Taichang's situation look good, so that if Taichang dies tomorrow, the prince and Li Xuanshi who are staying with him, not Wang An, must give a cause of death and an explanation.
Liu Yijing and Wang An looked at each other. They knew that there were still many things they could not say openly, but their eyes flashed with excitement, knowing that the plan was developing in the expected direction.
"The matter of Huang Jiashan and the traitor Zheng Yangxing must be dealt with. Your Majesty is seriously ill at this time, and the cabinet and the Supervisor of Ceremonies need to discuss the result first!" Liu Yijing said righteously, as if he was considering the safety of the world.
"Our family thinks so. I think the Zheng family is very dangerous. There is news in the palace that Concubine Zheng, together with the people around Li Xuan, created a lightning strike and injured His Majesty."
"What!?" Liu Yijing suddenly reacted violently with a loud voice, and suppressed Fang Congzhe's words first: "The military situation is urgent, Zheng must be captured..."
"You two! You can't believe rumors at this time!"
Fang Congzhe directly interrupted Liu Yijing's words louder, emphasizing that Emperor Taichang had entrusted this matter. How could they ignore it when everyone was present?
Moreover, the affairs cannot be decided by the Supervisor of Ceremonies and the cabinet. Not to mention that Han Xu, another great scholar in the cabinet, was not present. Emperor Taichang is now unable to make a decision. Shouldn't it be discussed by the thirteen designated ministers Tuogu?
Although Fang Congzhe could not suppress the imperial court, it was not because he had a soft character, but because he had no special strength to rely on.
If we really talk about personality, he comes from a Jinyiwei family, so he is not afraid of Liu Yijing when he is fierce.
"Calling Minister Gu Ming, including Huang Jiashan, to deal with a Minister Gu Ming, it is really not just a matter of catching wind and shadow!"
Faced with Fang Congzhe's momentum, Wang An did not dare to face Biao head-on, so he could only find a loophole and said: "Even if the chief assistant said so, no one can find Huang Jiashan~"
Liu Yijing also said: "Huang Jiashan is not here and Cheng Guogong is in the army. They cannot all come together. We cannot take their place. The thirteen ministers who care about life cannot gather together."
"It doesn't matter, it's the afternoon of August 30th, and tomorrow, September 1st, the prince will officially supervise the country."
Fang Congzhe believed in the prince and believed that he could end this situation that was gradually becoming chaotic.