Under the scorching sun, a motorcade was coming from a distance, heading towards Fuzhou City. .
The convoy looked inconspicuous, with only three carriages and more than twenty servants, looking like a small family.
However, those who know how to do it can see that there are more than twenty guards who have orders and prohibitions, and there is a faint murderous aura coming towards the station. They are all elite soldiers.
These people walked around the three carriages, with a distance of more than ten meters in front and back, but the steps of the people in the front and the people in the back were the same.
If someone takes a ruler to measure, they will find that these people's steps are exactly the same. Each step is 33 centimeters, and three steps are one meter. There is never a mistake.
"Dad, what are your plans when we return to your hometown in Fuzhou this time?"
On the carriage in the middle, an old man with gray hair was playing chess with a girl.
Hearing the girl's words, the old man paused in his chess-playing gestures and said calmly: "What else can I plan? I haven't returned to my hometown for decades. When I come back this time, I will first pay homage to my ancestors and then buy hundreds of acres of land. From now on we will
If you work at sunrise and return at sunset, just be a farmer."
"Dad, do you really think so?"
Dressed in pink, a girl looks exactly like Nie Xiaoqian, with a half-smile on her face.
The old man frowned slightly. His eldest girl had been smart since she was a child. Although he often said that he wanted to go home and work in farming, it was difficult to deceive his daughter.
"Qingfeng" the old man looked at his daughter dissatisfied. He was acting all the way, but he didn't expect that he didn't even deceive his daughter.
"Dad, just tell me."
Fu Qingfeng used her coquettish stunt. She saw that her father was not willing to resign and return to his hometown, but she didn't know what his father was plotting.
The Fu family did not have many heirs. Although there was a minister of the Ministry of War, he had no sons, only two daughters who came from old age.
On weekdays, Fu Tianchou cultivated his two daughters as heirs, and they were by no means just ladies of the family.
The two daughters of the Fu family are not only proficient in the six arts of the gentleman, but also have never fallen behind in the art of war and swordsmanship. Fu Tianchou often laments that if his two daughters were born as boys, the Fu family would have prospered for another fifty years.
"You are an independent person, unlike your sister, who prefers to make friends with people in the world. Just keep what I say in mind, and don't tell your sister, lest she lose her words and become the target of others."
Fu Tianqiu paused slightly when he said this, and sighed: "The prince has grown up, and he has been making small moves recently, and the court is even more turbulent. Our Donglin Party is the first to bear the brunt. As my father is a veteran of the Donglin Party, I can only swim against the current this time.
If you don't advance, you will retreat. This time I was demoted and returned to my hometown. Although I lost my skills, it was also because I was retreating to advance and stay away from the disputes of the court. I believe that after I leave, the princelings will definitely have their own plans. It will be clear what the prince wants to do.
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Fu Qingfeng opened his mouth, but in the end he said nothing.
His father is the Minister of the Ministry of War and one of the leaders of the Donglin Party, so the Fu family naturally has its own intelligence system.
Fu Qingfeng usually assists his father in handling paperwork. He doesn't turn a blind eye to matters in the court. He knows very well what a prince who can't wait will do.
She was a little distracted when she thought about her father's party going to confront the princelings.
The prince became the crown prince at the age of 3 and has enjoyed the throne for 42 years. In addition, the old emperor is getting older, so he is like a tree with deep roots.
The party my father belongs to wants to attack the princelings. Not only is it a mantis trying to control the chariot, but it is also a fight between tigers and wolves.
The princelings are tigers and the Donglin Party are wolves. Whether it is in terms of status or strength, the Donglin Party will lose by three points.
In the end of this fight, there is a high possibility that both sides will be injured, and the bigger problem is that the tiger will eat the wolf, and everyone will lose.
Of course, the Donglin Party that loses is still the Donglin Party, and its brand name cannot be destroyed. However, the current Donglin Party bosses will gradually be replaced by the prince’s people, forming a new generation of Donglin Party, such as
The possibility that a veteran like Fu Tianchou would ever want to take power again is extremely slim.
"You don't have to worry. When I left the capital, the bosses representing the Donglin Party and the Supervisor of Ceremonies got wind of the news. The three bosses of the Supervisor of Ceremonies were also dissatisfied with the increasingly arrogant Crown Prince. Especially the new ones.
Pudu Cihang, the Imperial Preceptor of the Jin Dynasty, was a chess piece used by the princelings to bypass the eunuchs and move directly to the palace. The palace had always been regarded as private territory by the eunuchs, so the princelings arranged for Pudu Cihang to enter the palace without saying a word*
*, but it keeps several big businessmen awake at night.”
Fu Tianqiu smiled, lowered his voice, and whispered: "Our Donglin Party has always kept pace with the Eunuch Party. This time I was demoted and returned to my hometown, which is equivalent to the Donglin Party taking a step back. The Donglin Party has retreated.
If the eunuchs have not retreated, will they become the ones who stand out? I am sure that there will be a struggle between the princelings and the eunuchs, whether it is fighting for the political agenda or power. If the eunuchs are not suppressed, how can there be so many positions for their own people?
sit?"
There are people sitting in every position of the three ministers, the six ministries, and the cabinet ministers.
The princelings, the eunuchs, the Donglin Party, and some scattered officials who sit on the fence have firmly occupied these positions.
If the princelings want to come up, they have to drag the people above them down. The Donglin Party seems to have lost a minister of the Ministry of War, but in fact it has put the princelings on the opposite side of the two parties.
"Father, those eunuchs won't take refuge in the prince, right?" Fu Qingfeng thought about the gains and losses, and said with some fear.
After all, although the Donglin Party is called the royalist party, the real royalist party should be the eunuch party.
Only the group of eunuchs whose power comes from the emperor and who have nothing to rely on are the real masters of the palace. Even the emperor will inevitably be played by these people.
If the eunuchs see the princelings as powerful and dare not compete with them, but instead seek refuge with them, people like my father will be in danger.
"Qingfeng, if you have read history books for a long time, you must have heard the words "the elders of the three dynasties", but have you ever heard of the eunuchs of the three dynasties?" Fu Tianchou asked with a smile on his face.
Fu Qingfeng's eyes brightened slightly and he whispered: "What father means is"
"Hahaha."
Fu Tianchou stroked his beard and chuckled, and said with a smile: "Emperor, courtiers, and ministers are all like this, let alone eunuchs. There are many eunuchs serving the prince in the East Palace. Do you think they will let one more person over his head?
Overlord? Nowadays, the prince is becoming more and more powerful, and the princelings are sharpening their knives to take charge of the court. The ministers around the prince are like this, and the eunuchs are certainly no exception.
The current three chief ministers of ceremony are all old people who were in charge of His Majesty when he was the crown prince. They know very well that it is not that they do not want to retire, but that they cannot retire. Even if our ministers retire, they can still retire and return to their hometowns. They have been in charge of the palace for many years.
If the great eunuch retires, he will die of a sudden illness. This is the fate of an eunuch!"
There was an eunuch named Wei Zhongxian in the Ming Dynasty. He was unknown for the first half of his life and entered the palace only after he was middle-aged. A few years later, he rose to greatness as soon as he joined the Prince's East Palace.
At its peak, it was said to be nine thousand years old. When local governors came to Beijing, they had to dismount their horses and kowtow when they saw Wei Zhongxian.
But when Emperor Xizong of the Ming Dynasty left and Chongzhen came to power, what would happen to Wei Zhongxian who was nine thousand years old? It would be a bad death.
Although everyone said that Wei Zhongxian died because he was hated by Chongzhen.
But the real situation is that Wei Zhongxian is one of the late emperor's people, not his own, and he blocked the way.
Now, the eunuchs in the court are the eunuchs when the late emperor was in power, not the eunuchs around the prince.
The eunuchs around the prince are all gearing up. Do they have no idea about the twelve eunuchs?
There must be ideas, but the important positions in the Twelve Prisons are all occupied by the former emperor's people. What should I do if I want to get a higher position? Kill, demote, or arrest. There is no other way out.
Only by killing the big bosses of the Twelve Supervisors and vacating their positions can they have a chance to rise to the top.
The bosses of the Twelfth Prison also know this, because they were promoted in this way back then, and they know that once the princelings come to power, their best end will be to live in the cold palace.
Are these people who have been in charge of the inner power for half their lives willing to retreat like this? Of course they will not be willing to do so.
What to do? It's very simple. Overthrow the powerful princelings and support other princes to ascend to power.
Those princes at the bottom of the ranking do not have the power of the prince. When these princes ascend to power, they will definitely rely on the eunuchs because they have no one to use.
It is precisely because everyone is sensible that before Fu Tianchou was demoted and returned to his hometown, he conspired with the eunuch bosses who were in the same position as before.
Similarly, overthrowing the princelings is also the current consensus of the Donglin Party.
Only by supporting a weak prince to ascend to the throne, instead of a fierce tiger like the prince, can they, the Donglin Party bosses, become the elders of the three dynasties, instead of being beaten to death on the beach by the back waves.
"Sir, Fuzhou City has arrived!"
In whispers all the way, Fuzhou City finally arrived.
Fu Tianchou opened the curtain, looked at the ancient city of Fuzhou in front of him, and said to himself: "Only when the emperor is weak and his wings are weak, he will rely on his veterans and have the possibility of becoming a veteran of the three dynasties. Prince, although you are wise, your wings are not strong."
You are too plump. If you are allowed to take the position, where will we old guys go? Don’t blame us. If you want to blame us, just blame you for not being the person we need!"