Over the years, Yang Hong cultivated a large number of cronies and placed all his sons and sons-in-law in important positions.
The eldest son stayed in the capital, the second son was posted at the border, and his son-in-law was in Jinyiwei. The business of reselling all kinds of supplies and equipment was flourishing.
Even if there is an investigation, the son-in-law will check the son, and the left hand will check the right hand. What can be found?
Unexpectedly, the supervisory censor suddenly appeared and discovered deficits at the border and the capital at the same time. Moreover, when the incident happened suddenly, his son-in-law Qiu Dinglong did not give any advance warning.
Yang Hong immediately realized that he was being targeted!
It has been more than 20 years since he became the commander-in-chief of Datong. He has a deep foundation in the imperial court. Moreover, he rarely offends people. When making money, he will still think about the people under his command. He will eat meat for himself and drink soup for everyone.
In this situation, who would target yourself?
There is only one answer, the one on the dragon throne.
Reselling supplies and equipment will not offend your colleagues, but it will offend the emperor.
In other words, the murder of the censor could no longer be concealed.
At this time, the left deputy governor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate came to the door and brought a gift.
This is a letter of impeachment. The person impeached is the censor who discovered that there was a deficit in the Beijing camp. He said that he failed to ask for bribes, so he framed him.
Although Yang Hong didn't know what the other party's intentions were, in this situation, he had no choice.
Next, the censor was captured by Jin Yiwei Qianhu Qiu Dinglong and imprisoned, and died suddenly that night.
Yang Hong and Yang Jun also took advantage of the little time they had bought to transfer a batch of equipment from other armament depots in the Beijing camp overnight to make up for the deficit of the former military governor's mansion.
Of course, he knew very well that the crisis had not been resolved.
Just because the emperor didn't get the evidence, it doesn't mean he won't continue to investigate in the future.
From then on, he joined those people.
They are a team, numerous in number, distributed in various yamen across the country.
There are also more than a dozen people in the capital.
Facing Yang Hong, these people also had a showdown. They were all descendants of famous families in the south of the Yangtze River. They were the lucky ones who survived the great purge with the help of the investigation of smuggling before the imperial court opened the sea.
These people unite with only one purpose.
Change and establish a new king!
When the emperor controls the power of the world, the power of the scholar-official class will be relatively weakened.
If you don't resist, you can only wait for death.
This is the situation now. The court collects taxes whenever it wants, without regard to the privileges of scholar-bureaucrats established in the early Ming Dynasty.
They are not willing to be chess pieces and be at the mercy of the emperor.
There is only one possibility to break this situation.
The emperor died suddenly and the prince succeeded to the throne.
The current prince is still young and unable to govern personally, so power will return to the hands of the courtiers.
When the time comes, they will have 10,000 ways to get back the lost benefits!
However, if you want to do this, the first thing you need is military power.
If you don't have soldiers in hand, talking is worse than farting.
Their first target of rebellion was Yu Qian, Minister of War.
Yu Qian is from Zhejiang, and logically speaking, he should hate the emperor as deeply as they do.
But the truth was exactly the opposite. Yu Qian ignored their explicit hints and even issued warnings.
In desperation, I had to retreat and look for the next best thing, Yang Hong, the left minister, and Wu Heng, the right minister.
Wu Heng was from Zhenjiang, so he was easily won over.
Although Yang Hong was born in Nanjing, he followed his father to Beijing when he was eight years old and has almost no affection for Nanjing.
Wu Heng knew that his position and prestige were not enough, and most of the military power in the court was actually controlled by Yang Hong.
Although Yu Qian is the Minister of the Ministry of War, he is not good at business management. Instead, Yang Hong thinks about how to form a party for personal gain and resell arms every day. Not only does he make a lot of money, but he also wins over a large number of soldiers.
Just when Wu Heng was worrying about how to drag Yang Hong into the water, it happened that the supervisory censor was investigating the Shazhou Guards and the former military governor's office.
So, he found the left deputy censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, who was his comrade, and gave the two censors unwarranted labels, helping Yang Hong at the critical moment.
From then on, the largest rebel group in the Orthodox Dynasty emerged!
These people are widely distributed, ranging from the capital to local governments, from civil servants to military generals, almost everything.
They quickly formulated a rebellion plan. Of course, what the emperor wanted was a violent death, not a rebellion.
The first action was to stock some highly poisonous puffer fish in the ditch where Prince Zhu Jianshen often caught fish.
The plan was perfect, and the emperor actually ate puffer fish by mistake.
At that time, there was no cure for the poison of puffer fish, and anyone who ate it would die!
Surprisingly, a palace maid named Wan came out for some reason and saved the emperor!
Since you can't die suddenly at home, you can only have some accidents outside, such as an invasion by a foreign enemy.
Soon, the problem arose again. Everyone gathered in front of the map and looked around, but they couldn't find a partner!
Anyone with any fighting ability in the surrounding area would either be killed or maimed.
With just these rotten sweet potatoes and stinky bird eggs, let alone a sneak attack on the emperor, even the border gates of the Ming Dynasty could not be entered!
After choosing and choosing, the target was finally set in the far north, where there was a former rival of the Ming Dynasty, the leader of the Tatar tribe, Tuo Tuo Bu Hua.
When they got in touch with Totu Bohua, they found that these Mongolians were living in extremely miserable conditions, and it was considered a luxury to have food every day.
But, there is no choice!
The only people who could be the mortal enemies of the Ming Dynasty and had reason to kill the emperor were the Tatars.
As a result, the Tatar tribe began to obtain supplies and the team began to grow.
When the time comes, it will be a carefully planned layout.
First of all, Totu Bohua sent a "prime minister" to incite the Yasha Kingdom to attack the Liugui Kingdom. At this time, the Ming Dynasty had established Beishan Guards on the southern Kamchatka Peninsula and formed an alliance with the Liugui Kingdom, so they would definitely send troops to help.
As expected, the Yaksha Kingdom was defeated and the Tatar Prime Minister was captured.
The imperial court learned that Tuotuo Buhua was inciting the Yaksha Kingdom to cause trouble, and it was determined to send troops to kill him. The closest ones were the Mohe Guards and the Duoyan Guards.
However, these guard posts guarded the northeastern border of the Ming Dynasty. If the main force was deployed to fight, the defense would be empty. At this time, Tuo Tuo Bu Hua could take the opportunity to enter the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty.
Next, the emperor was asked to patrol Mobei and "accidentally" meet these rebels.
The operation was also very simple. Gula from Mobei Guard was also one of their people. He first used his authority to make some small moves. Sure enough, Qiqi Ke immediately set off to the capital.
Throw out some more bait, for example, some spies disguised as fur traders.
After discovering these problems, the emperor must have been unable to resist asking for an inspection tour of Mobei.
It is impossible for the cabinet to agree to such a request. Under the tug of war between the two sides, and given the emperor's character, it is very likely that he could sneak away without anyone paying attention.
Sure enough, everything was going according to the script.
Next, the emperor suddenly encountered the Tatar cavalry and was either killed or taken prisoner.
The Tatars' hometown has been destroyed, so they come back to take revenge. Is it reasonable?
As long as the emperor dies and immediately supports the crown prince to ascend the throne, not only can he sit back and relax and regain his own interests, but he can also achieve the feat of following the dragon. Why not?