Back in August, Prince Zhao Hongli of the East Palace was implicated in the "Beiyi Military Camp Roar Incident", which caused the four princes King Yong, King Xiang, King Qing and King Su to jointly impeach him. At the suggestion of his aide Luo Yao, Zhao Hongli wrote a "Book of Sin"
”, he declared that the Chui Gong Palace would be exempted from the title of “Eastern Palace”, and by abandoning the status of the crown prince, it disintegrated the political alliance between King Yong, King Xiang and King Qing.
Because of this incident, King Huan Zhao Hongxuan fell out with his brother Su King Zhao Hongrun. After a quarrel, King Huan Zhao Hongxuan left Daliang with Zhou Min and all the clan guards, and went to Anyi to reorganize the Northern First Army.
After arriving in Anyi, King Huan Zhao Hongxuan listened to Zhou Min's suggestion and pretended that the court wanted to investigate the "Beiyi Military Camp Xiao Incident", removed all generals in the army from their powers, and appointed Zhang Ao, Li Meng, Fang Shuo, Gong Liangyi
, Du Jian and other Zongwei became generals, secretly disbanded the original organizational structure of the Northern First Army, quickly reorganized the army, and promoted a series of middle and low-level officers.
Due to the bad nature of the "Beiyi Military Camp Xiao Incident", the noble families behind the army did not dare to resist the initial actions of King Huan Zhao Hongxuan, and quietly accepted the so-called review by His Highness King Huan.
But gradually, these aristocratic families felt that something was wrong, because the various actions of His Highness Prince Huan did not seem to be to trace the truth of the Ying Xiao incident, but to seize power to trace the truth of the Ying Xiao incident. It was useful.
Are a series of generals promoted among the ranks of soldiers?
As a result, all the noble families united and came to the commander's tent aggressively, preparing to ask Zhao Hong, King Huan, for a clear explanation.
At this time, the Beiyi Army was no longer dominated by the Donggong Party, because many nobles from aristocratic families secretly changed their families and defected to the Yongwang Hongyu family.
These people are now confident. After all, the current situation in the court is that Prince Zhao Hongli of the Eastern Palace has lost power, and King Yong Hongyu oversees the country. In this case, what can King Huan Zhao Hongxuan, the "little deputy commander", change?
At this time, Zhou Min stood up and said with a laugh: "How could His Highness King Huan be from the East Palace family? If you say that His Highness King Huan is from the Su Wang family, then Zhou
I still believe it somewhat.”
This sentence made those people who seemed to have been convinced by King Huan Zhao Hongxuan suddenly change their expressions. Only then did they realize that His Highness King Huan in front of them was the younger brother of King Su Zhao Hongrun.
After that, Zhou Min made another killing move by taking out the real account book. This move made many representatives of noble families who came to question them look pale.
After all, once upon a time, many of the noble representatives sitting in the tent had secretly asked Zhou Min for a share of the Northern Xinjiang war profits. And even if most of these people have now switched to Yong Wang Hongyu, as long as Zhou Min
Min handed over the fake account book to the court along with the receipts of some of the people involved. Even Yong Wang Hongyu could not protect these people.
Zhou Min said some threatening words with a smile, which frightened most of the people present to look pale: "There is no need to investigate the truth about Yingxiao. As long as Zhou turns over the true and false account books to the court,
, the court immediately
It will become clear who are the people behind this matter and what kind of ideas they have...Tsk, tsk, look at these receipts, the terms are clearly written, and there are also some people's handwriting at the end.
Sign…such as this one.”
He pulled out a receipt from the fake account book, glanced at it, looked at a noble general present with a smile, and said: "The Yi family... I heard that the "Chenling Yi family" has secretly changed families and defected to King Yong, but
, can His Highness King Yong protect your "Chenling Yi Clan"?"
The noble general of the Chenling Yi clan changed his expression when he heard this. He gritted his teeth and said, "Zhou Min, you are slandering others. I have never participated in the camp roar incident! That day, I, the Wang clan and many generals worked together to put out the fire and quell the chaos..."
"Who can testify?" Zhou Min interrupted the noble general, turned to look at Wang Yu, the uncle of the former East Palace Prince Zhao Hongli and the head of the Wang family in Zhengcheng, and asked: "Can Wang testify?"
Wang Yu glanced at the noble general and said calmly: "I'm so dizzy that I didn't see this man participating in the firefighting to quell the chaos in the camp that night."
"You..." That noble general was so angry, thinking that I was standing next to you that night, and you, an old man, actually said to me today that you didn't see it?
However, he also understood why Wang Yu said that. It was just because he was a member of the Donggong Party at the beginning, and now, his family, the "Chenling Yi Family", had changed its family and defected to King Yong Hongyu. In this way, Wang Yu, as a member of the Donggong Party,
How can anyone help him? This old man will only add insult to injury.
Thinking of this, the noble general let out a vicious breath and said to Zhou Min: "Okay, okay, I admit defeat... What do you want?"
After hearing this, Wang Yu said conspiratorially: "Mr. Zhou, the matter is very clear. The Yi family of Chenling coveted the war profits in northern Xinjiang and conspired to camp Xiao. This crime is a conspiracy to rebel. When it comes to reporting to the imperial court,
The rebellious ministers and traitors will kill the clan!"
Hearing this, the Yi family noble general stood up and shouted angrily: "The king is a common man, you are spitting blood!"
At this moment, King Huan Zhao Hongxuan said: "Everyone, everyone, please be patient. I believe that General Yi is definitely not a rebellious traitor. However, the fact that General Yi wrote this receipt does make people suspicious... How about...
In this way, General Yi will go home first and wait for me to find out the matter and give General Yi a clean slate in the future."
This sentence has been made very clear: you hand over the military power to me, leave the First Army of the North, and I will forget about it, and this matter is over.
The noble general named Yi looked at the smiling Zhou Min and the cold-faced Wang Yu, and then at King Huan Zhao Hongxuan. Finally, he could only accept the latter's suggestion: "I... I am willing to follow the arrangements of His Highness King Huan.
.”
"Where are the others?"
Zhou Min raised the fake account book in his hand.
Many of the generals present looked at each other and said nothing, which seemed to be acquiescing to King Huan Zhao Hongxuan's suggestion.
At this time, a general named Chen stood up and said with a sneer: "I finally understand. The East Palace has lost power. His Highness King Huan wants to take this opportunity to take charge of the Northern Army. In order to retaliate against us, Wang Yu and others changed
Tou Yong
The king's men will not hesitate to surrender their military power, but also want to drive us out of the First Army of the North... Well, the general did not covet the war profit at the beginning, and he did not leave any clues. I don't know how His Highness King Huan will arrange it.
Final general?"
Zhou Min gave Zhao Hongxuan a wink and told him not to speak for the time being. Then he flipped through the fake account book and found that there was no receipt from the general.
However, Zhou Min's expression did not change and he said calmly: "Ah, this is really troublesome." As he said that, he raised a slight sneer at the corner of his mouth, turned to the noble general of the Yi family and said: "General Yi, in fact, you have nothing to do with this person.
General Chen, we had an agreement in private, and many of the generals and troops here are aware of this matter, right?"
The noble general of the Yi family looked at Zhou Min in astonishment, and then he seemed to understand something. After thinking for a while, he nodded and said: "Yes, Yi promised General Chen Li that we will advance and retreat together!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the noble generals who had been found out by Zhou Min also echoed his words, making the general named Chen Li dumbfounded with anger.
These people are not willing to help Zhou Min, but Zhou Min's meaning has been made very clear: Either you help me get rid of him, or our previous agreement will be invalidated, and you are prepared to have your family confiscated and exterminated for rebellion.
In this case, among those who were originally members of the Donggong Party but now defected to King Yong, no matter who jumped out, General Yi and others could only identify that person.
As a result, all the generals of the former Donggong Party were eliminated, leaving only the Yongwang Party and the Xiangwang Party.
The Yongwang Party is easy to deal with. After all, their butts are not clean to begin with. If it were not for the mysterious death of General Cui Xie that day, a group of soldiers from the Yongwang Party would probably be found out to be the real culprits of the Yingxiao incident. Therefore, no one dares to
At this time, he had a fatal fight with Zhou Min and King Huan Zhao Hongxuan.
As for Liu Yi of King Xiang's party, when Zhou Min hinted intentionally or unintentionally that he killed Cui Xie, he wisely chose to compromise and was willing to hand over military power. After all, if Zhou Min confirmed that it was Liu Yi who killed Cui Xie, this would
But what's very terrible is that not only will Liu Yi not end well, but Prince Xiang will also be implicated.
Therefore, with the help of Zhou Min, King Huan Zhao Hongxuan successfully took over the military power of the First Army of the North and truly became the commander-in-chief of the First Army of the North.
In this regard, King Huan Zhao Hongxuan was very grateful to Zhou Min and Wang Yu for their generous help, although he also understood that Zhou Min and Wang Yu actually had selfish motives for helping him.
Wang Yu wanted to retaliate against the former nobles of the Eastern Palace Party who had defected to Yong Wang Hongyu. He believed that these people had betrayed the crown prince Zhao Hongli. Therefore, when he learned that Zhao Hongxuan, the king of Huan, wanted to obtain the military power of the Beiyi Army, he did not hesitate to hand over his military power.
Let those traitors no longer be able to stay in Beiyi Army.
After all, after handing over military power, although the Wang family in Zhengcheng was seriously injured, he believed that those betrayers were not much better. And these betrayers are now people on the side of King Yong Hongyu. The greater the losses for these people, the greater the loss in Wang Yu's heart.
The more you relieve your hatred.
Not to mention, Wang Yu had received many letters from Zhao Hongli, the former crown prince of the East Palace, who instructed him to assist King Huan Zhao Hongxuan in seizing the military power of the Northern First Army.
In this case, the Wang family of Zhengcheng naturally wanted to help King Huan. After all, although King Huan was the younger brother of King Su Zhao Hongrun, the latter had a very good relationship with Zhao Hongli, the former prince of the East Palace.
As for Zhou Min, it was to retaliate against Yong Wang Hongyu and his aide Zhang Qigong.
It turned out that when he returned to Daliang a while ago, Zhou Wei wanted to test how Yong Wang Hongyu would treat him, so he deliberately showed up alone in a restaurant in Daliang City. As expected, he was assassinated by several assassins. If he hadn't invited Zhao Hongxuan in advance
The clan guards were secretly protecting him, and it was very likely that they had been succeeded by those assassins.
Therefore, Zhou Min gave up on Yong Wang Hongyu, because he knew that even if these assassins were not sent by Yong Wang Hongyu, they must have been sent by the latter's aide Zhang Qigong, because Zhou Min knew a lot about Yong Wang's party.
As for today's righteous aid to King Huan Zhao Hongxuan, Zhou Min also wanted to take revenge on King Yong Hongyu, because if King Huan Zhao Hongxuan did not come forward to seize power, the Northern Army would most likely be captured by King Yong Hongyu. After all, the Donggong Party behind this army
, has long been fragmented, and the vast majority of people have changed their families and joined Yongwang Hongyu.8