Zhu Youjian stood at the door of Qianqing Palace, looking at the white palace outside Qianqing Palace.
The temperature in the first month is very low, and the heavy snowfall more than ten days ago has still not melted. The golden glazed tiles are now covered with white snow, making the entire Forbidden City look sacred and solemn.
But this solemn atmosphere is quite consistent with what the emperor is going to do today.
In the Palace of Qianqing, all the imperial guards standing guard at this time have been removed. They were replaced by dozens of Dongchang fans wearing green pleated pleats.
Dongchang Fanzi are not eunuchs. Their personnel were actually originally transferred from the Jinyiwei system. However, these fans were selected from the people who were most loyal to the royal family, and were commanded by Dongchang eunuch Wang Dehua and other palace eunuchs. After being elected to Dongchang, Fanzi will no longer have anything to do with the Jinyiwei system.
In the past two years, in order to expand the power of Dongchang, Chongzhen also ordered Wang Dehua to recruit good family members from the private sector and select them into Dongchang. Wang Dehua has recruited many people in these years. Therefore, a considerable number of Dongchang fans do not even have the same origins as Jinyiwei. relation.
If Jin Yiwei, as a military minister, would flirt with civil servants, Dongchang Fanzi, as an internal minister, would always be in the hands of Emperor Zhu Youjian.
Zhu Youjian looked at Dongchang Fanzi beside him, feeling an unprecedented sense of security. Taking a breath, Zhu Youjian became more determined about what he wanted to do.
"Wang Dehua! Are your troops ready?"
Wang Dehua knelt down and replied: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, the 1,600 fans are ready. As soon as the Holy One enters Cao Bianjiao's tent, the eunuchs of Dongchang will lead the Dongchang fans to control the gates and fortresses of the Forbidden City." He said, replace all the royal guards."
What Zhu Youjian wants to do today is to replace all the imperial guards in the Forbidden City.
The commander of the Jinyi Guards in the Chongzhen Dynasty was Luo Yangxing. This man actually inherited the position of his father, whose name was Luo Sigong, and who was closely related to the Donglin Party. After Wei Zhongxian came to power in the late Tianqi Dynasty, Wei Zhongxian immediately took Luo Sigong's Jinyi Guards away.
After Zhu Youjian ascended the throne at the age of eighteen, he once suspected that Wei Zhongxian wanted to poison him, and even found an eunuch holding an aphrodisiac rosemary in the palace wall. Later, Zhu Youjian was instigated by the Donglin Party to carry out a highly influential revolt. The case was settled and the Eunuch Party was settled. At that time, Luo Yangxing, as a descendant of the Luo family who was pro-Donglin Party, was promoted to the position of commander of the Jinyiwei by the Donglin Party's "group of sages".
This kind of history has turned Jin Yiwei, who was originally the emperor's eyes and ears, into a tool of civil servants. Jin Yiwei never investigated the Donglin Party's clique for personal gain and corruption. Not only that, Luo Yangxing treated Zhu Youjian like a procrastinator. Jin Yiwei should have been The information gathered will not reach Zhu Youjian's desk without delay for several months.
Because of this, Zhu Youjian knew very little about the world's intelligence. So much so that he had to read Li Zhi's "Tianjin Daily" in order to understand people's livelihood and sentiment.
Of course, if it was just like this, Zhu Youjian could still tolerate Luo Yangxing.
The problem was that because Luo Yangxing and the civil servant were in the same trousers, Zhu Youjian already felt that murderous intent was everywhere in the Forbidden City.
In the 14th year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youjian supported Li Zhi to run a newspaper in Shandong and fought against the Manchu civil servants. As a result, a mute rushed to the Qianqing Palace with a wooden stick. In the 17th year of Chongzhen, the civil servants privately mobilized Guan Ning's army to attack Li Zhi, and they were defeated. After returning home, Li Zhi asked to deal with Zhou Yanru, Liu Zongzhou and other culprits. Zhu Youjian resisted the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty and agreed to Li Zhi's request. As a result, Concubine Yuan died suddenly in less than three days.
All the palace gates and key points outside the Forbidden City were guarded by Jin Yiwei. After these two things happened, if it was said that Jin Yiwei did not collude with civil servants, Zhu Youjian was the first to not believe it.
In the original history, Zhu Youjian always tolerated the civil servants and was indifferent to the Donglin Party's control of the Jinyiwei. So much so that the Jinyiwei became the sentinel of the civil servants, so that Zhu Youjian and Wang Chengen were hanged on the Meishan Mountain without anyone around him.
Jin Yiwei guard.
But history has changed because of Li Zhi's time travel.
The rise of Li Zhi made Zhu Youjian increasingly worried about the weakness of the central government of the Ming Dynasty. Facing Li Zhi's challenge, Zhu Youjian had to strengthen the power of the central government, so he spent huge sums of money to arm and train 80,000 new troops.
But it was not enough to have 80,000 new troops outside the Forbidden City when he had time. What Zhu Youjian needed more urgently was to drain the power of civilian officials from the Forbidden City and truly take control of his own security.
If the Jinyiwei commander Luo Yangxing is replaced, the Jinyiwei troops trained by Luo Yangxing for more than ten years are still there, and the new commander will not be able to control the entire Jinyiwei system for a while, and chaos is likely to occur. Luo Yangxing is a pawn of the Donglin Party. If
The Donglin party and the masses felt that the emperor was going to break away from the control of the civil servants, so they jumped over the wall in a hurry, not knowing how big a trap they would create.
The method chosen by Zhu Youjian was to replace all the imperial guards in the Forbidden City at once with the more loyal Dongchang Fanzi, completely eliminating the possibility of chaos.
But this matter is not that easy. The Imperial Guards have guarded the Forbidden City for hundreds of years and have deep-rooted influence in the palace. After the rebels armed with sticks entered the palace and the sudden death of Concubine Yuan Guifei, Zhu Youjian suddenly replaced all the Imperial Guards, and Luo Yangxing
Of course, I understand that Zhu Youjian does not trust him at all. As long as Luo Yangxing's IQ is normal, he will understand that the day Jinyiwei is removed is when Luo Yangxing's head is moved.
Therefore, Zhu Youjian made such a big move and could not stay in the palace. Zhu Youjian had to prevent Luo Yangxing from taking risks and doing something irreversible.
If it were Zhu Youjian in the past, he might not have had the determination to fight against the civilian forces and replace the imperial guards. But now Zhu Youjian has 80,000 new troops. These new troops control the inner city gates of the capital, so Zhu Youjian can rely on him.
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Therefore, when Wang Dehua ordered to replace the Jin Yiwei, Zhu Youjian wanted to enter Cao Bianjiao's tent in the capital camp.
This matter was never told to any outsiders. It was completely a surprise operation.
Looking at the dozens of selected tall Dongchang fans around him, Zhu Youjian nodded and said, "Okay! Leave the palace and enter the capital camp."
Zhu Youjian asked his followers to hold the emperor's guard of honor that should have been held by the royal guards. Surrounded by Wang Dehua and Wang Chengen, he left Qianqing Palace and hurried to Donghua Gate.
Outside the capital, Cao Bianjiao, who was stationed at Chaoyang Gate, had already received the news and was only waiting for the emperor to enter the camp.
However, things did not go so smoothly. As soon as Zhu Youjian walked near the Donghua Gate guarded by the Jinyiwei, the Jinyiwei on the city tower stirred. Several Jinyiwei general flags did not wait for Zhu Youjian's team to leave the palace gate, and hurried towards the palace.
He ran out, obviously to report the news.
The emperor does not travel in a grand manner but in a hurry. This is obviously a big move.
The emperor did not use the Jin Yiwei, but used fans to hold simple ceremonial guards. For the Jin Yiwei officers who were very politically sensitive, this undoubtedly showed that the emperor was suspicious and abandoned the Jin Yiwei.
As for Jin Yiwei, it is actually in the hands of the Donglin Party.
To the east is the capital camp. The emperor wants to enter the capital camp? What does the emperor want to do?
It is necessary for Jinyiwei to report to the Donglin Party officials immediately.
Zhu Youjian's face turned pale as he looked at the Jin Yiwei general who flagrantly violated the regulations and left the palace to report. But what Zhu Youjian has to do now is to leave the palace as soon as possible and enter the safest Beijing camp as soon as possible. The Jin Yiwei on Donghua Gate did not dare to interfere with the emperor.
Zhu Youjian went straight out of the palace gate, urging the fans to move forward quickly, trying to get to Chaoyang Gate as soon as possible.
However, things did not go so smoothly. After only walking two miles and still far from Chaoyang Gate, Zhu Youjian was stopped.
Surrounded by dozens of Jinyi guards, a dozen Donglin Party members who lived in the east of the city, wearing official robes, knelt on the road in front of Zhu Youjian, blocking Zhu Youjian's way.
On both sides of the road, there were more Jin Yiwei and Donglin Party bosses rushing this way.
