There was a lot of traffic on the street, and Ji Jike drove slowly. Chang Yu in the car closed his eyes and meditated, feeling a little surprised. He was just trying to catch the assassin for self-protection, but he seemed to be uncovering a conspiracy.
Who supports such an organization of dead soldiers, and what is their intention?
Plotting a rebellion?
The only people with such great strength are some wealthy nobles or vassal kings, but the vassal kings are all outside the capital, so why should they ambush an army in the capital? Could it be that they are internal agents?
It seems that no prince has rebelled for a long time. The most recent ones are King Anhua and King Ning during the Zhengde period.
But it's not easy for a vassal king to hide such a large force in the capital. Could it be that he colluded with a certain noble...
Chang Yu was a little excited and had a lot of doubts. After thinking about it, he couldn't figure out who did it and whether someone wanted to rebel.
But no matter what, if something like this happened, Emperor Chongzhen must be informed as soon as possible. After all, to the emperor, domestic thieves are far more hateful than foreign thieves. This is why the Ming Dynasty emperors always took precautions against vassal kings.
In the imperial city, Emperor Chongzhen was discussing state affairs in the cabinet with his chief minister Li Guanghua and others. He also promoted Chang Yu's literary talents. The eunuch accompanying him hurried to him from outside and whispered: "Eunuch Chang has something urgent to report to you. He is waiting outside." ".
Hey, Emperor Chongzhen was a little surprised. This boy came back not long after he left the palace, and he never expressed his urgency easily. Maybe something important happened.
In the side hall of Wenyuan Pavilion, Chang Yu told the story of the assassination and arrest in the past two days from beginning to end. Emperor Chongzhen was shocked and angry. What made him angry was that someone was so bold and wanted to kill him again and again. Chang Yu died. You must know that Chang Yu is now his waist and spine, the backbone of the royal family, and his confidence. If someone wants to kill Chang Yu, he will undoubtedly collapse.
What's even more shocking is that there is a den of thieves in the capital, where soldiers and armor are secretly hidden.
According to Ming Dynasty law, concealing armor in private is considered a crime for treason.
And these people are so bold that they dare to hide soldiers and armor in the capital. Who would believe that they are not rebelling?
"Who do you think is the most likely?" Emperor Chongzhen's face was ashen. With his suspicious temperament, now that he thinks about it, anyone is possible.
"My lord, after thinking about it, I really can't think of anyone who is so bold. The vassal king outside the capital has been harmed by the bandit army. How can he have the heart to do such a thing? Although the nobles in the capital are trying to enrich their own pockets, they are under the guise of It’s a small calculation, but if you want to plot a rebellion, I’m afraid you don’t have the courage and strength. If the vassal king rebels, he will raise the banner of the same clan and clan. Whose banner will the nobles rebel under? No one will respond and no one will be convinced. "Chang Yu frowned.
Emperor Chongzhen nodded slightly, and suddenly his eyes became sharp: "The most likely reason is that a certain vassal prince outside the capital wanted to rebel, and bribed a certain nobleman in the capital to raise a group of dead soldiers for future use, and this prince Maybe they collapsed due to the war, but these dead soldiers are completely under the control of nobles in the capital, and you happened to have touched his interests again..."
Chang Yu nodded repeatedly, feeling that Emperor Chongzhen's guess was very likely, but he heard the meaning behind his words: "Could it be that the Emperor already has a suspect in mind?"
"Yes, there is indeed such a very suspicious person." Emperor Chongzhen stood up and paced: "You just said that the yard was purchased by a person who was doing business in other places two years ago. This reminds me of a person, a vassal to be precise. king".
"Who?" Chang Yu was curious.
"In the ninth year, when the Tatars entered the pass, have you ever heard that a vassal king resisted the decree and wanted to come to the capital to be King Qin?" Emperor Chongzhen smiled coldly, and Chang Yu's heart moved, and he blurted out: "Is the emperor talking about the deposed king Zhu Yujian?"
"Who else but him?" Emperor Chongzhen snorted coldly.
This is a bit ridiculous.
Anyone who knows a little bit about Ming history is familiar with Zhu Yujian. The eleventh generation of Tang kings (actually the tenth generation, his father was posthumously granted the title) held the fiefdom of Nanyang. He was also the only Mingjun in the Southern Ming Dynasty to be able to calculate, Emperor Longwu. He lived a simple life and had nothing to do but love books. He was far more popular than the then King of Fu, King Lu. His edict, "Do not kill indiscriminately due to military action. If you have hair, you will be obedient to the people, and if you have no hair, you will be obedient to the people." This edict is known as Among the emperors of the Southern Ming Dynasty, he was the most emperor-like Lord of Zhongxing.
Zhu Yujian was definitely an inspirational and legendary figure in the late Ming Dynasty. When he was very young, his grandfather doted on his concubine's son and disliked his father, so he sent them to prison and prepared to starve to death. Fortunately, Zhang Shutang, a minor official in the palace, secretly took care of him and saved him. He starved to death, but this period lasted for sixteen years, until his grandfather died and he was crowned king with his descendants.
Perhaps he had been suppressed for too long, or perhaps he had accumulated grudges too deeply. Zhu Yujian showed his talents at this time because he had many conflicts with courtiers over the issue of clan transfer. He also beat his two uncles to death and injured one in order to avenge his father.
If it were just these, I don't know whether he was young and energetic, always wanted to do something, or whether he was really determined to defend the country. When the Qing army entered the pass, Zhu Yujian actually pulled up a team of thousands of people to march all the way to King Qin of Beijing. .
When he arrived at Yuzhou (today's Nancheng City, Henan Province), Yang Shengwu, the governor of Yuzhou, presented the memorial. When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he said, "Your uncle, I want you to offer your hair to me so diligently, go back!"
But Zhu Yujian didn't listen. My diligent king's heart can be seen from the sky and the earth, and the sun and the moon can shine. He continued to go north, but he met the bandit army halfway before reaching the capital. After a few muddle-headed battles, he lost more than he won, and then he woke up. It's so difficult to fight, the Tatars have always been tough... Forget it and go home.
But you think you can just go back. The Ming Dynasty was extremely strict with the vassal kings. You can do whatever you want in the fiefdom, but you can't raise troops and generals and you can't leave the fiefdom. But Zhu Yujian actually hired thousands of troops and equipped them with armor, which is okay.
So Emperor Chongzhen imprisoned him in anger and locked him up in Fengyang to guard his ancestors.
So Zhu Yujian's seven years of hard and cruel prison life began. The people guarding the ancestral mausoleum in Fengyang are all deposed royal families, and it is almost impossible to stand up. So no matter how noble you were back then, you are just a piece of shit here. The guards will not ask for bribes and torture him to the extreme. If it hadn't been last year (Chongzhen 13th Year) Fengyang Governor Lu Zhenfei went on an inspection tour to the local area. He paid a visit to Zhu Yujian and saw the dying King of the Tang Dynasty, so he exposed the matter and asked for an order to kill Shi Yingzhao, the mausoleum supervisor who bullied Zhu Yujian. Life finally got better.
"But Zhu Yujian has been imprisoned in the ancestral mausoleum for nearly eight years, so it can't be related to him!" Chang Yu wondered, thinking that Emperor Chongzhen's suspicion had reached a perverted level.
"I mean the Tang Palace." Emperor Chongzhen snorted and knocked on the table.
Chang Yu was stunned again.
Zhu Yujian has five brothers. He has three kings and two emperors, which is really awesome. After he was deposed, the second eldest son, Zhu Yutuo (se, another one said by Zhu Yuyu), was renamed the king of Tang Dynasty. However, in the 14th year of Chongzhen, the bandit army broke into Nanyang, destroyed the Tang palace and was killed. The third child, Zhu Yuxi (Emperor Shaowu of the Southern Ming Dynasty), the fourth child, Zhu Yue (the last king of the Tang Dynasty in the Southern Ming Dynasty), and the fifth child, Zhu Yuji, are wandering around in the rivers and lakes.
"Zhu Yujian has a deep brotherly love. I imprisoned him in the ancestral mausoleum and tortured him. His brothers probably hated me to the core. What's more, his desire to serve the king back then was inexplicable. The Tang Palace is really suspicious. Although the thief's stronghold was two years ago Purchased, the Tang Palace was destroyed three years ago, but it cannot be said that there is no connection."
"Perhaps it was a big chess game arranged by Zhu Yuduo, but he was killed before it could be implemented. However, his confidant or the nobleman who colluded with him still did not stop raising such a group of dead soldiers and waited for the time to move. After all, Tang Dynasty The people in the palace are not dead yet."
This... Chang Yu felt that Emperor Chongzhen's imagination was a bit too big, and he still felt resentful about Zhu Yujian's act of being a diligent king. Even after eight years, even if he was imprisoned, he still seemed to be still resentful.
Sure enough, after the "Qingjun side" of the founder Zhu Di, the royal family's defense against the vassal kings was to the extreme. Whenever they heard any trouble, they would not give up unless they uprooted it.
"Your Majesty, I have a bold idea. It seems to be more credible than if the Tang Palace is the mastermind behind the scenes." Chang Yu suddenly had an idea. Emperor Chongzhen raised his brows and seemed to have thought of something: "You mean Beijing." Some people’s calculations?”
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