Here, before Wei Guangwei entered the palace, Liu Ruoyu learned through his spies in the palace that the emperor's ministers, Yuan Keli and Wei Guangwei, had been announced.
And he felt very bad because of this, and he sat in the study and meditated for a long time.
"The emperor has not summoned ministers other than Xu Guangqi to the imperial court for a long time. Today, he suddenly announced an audience to Yuan and Wei. There must be something fishy in this?"
"But where is the strange thing? The emperor must have discovered that these two cabinet ministers are making friends with the ministers! Yuan Keli and Wei Zhongxian are close. Summoning Yuan Keli is against Wei Zhongxian, and summoning Wei Guangwei is against himself!"
"What should I do? If you collude inside and outside, you will definitely die! This is the emperor's reverse scale!"
Liu Ruoyu thought as if his beard and hair had turned a lot whiter in an instant, and even the hand holding the tea cup started to shake.
I don’t know how long I thought about it, but Liu Ruoyu finally made up his mind.
Liu Ruoyu forcibly controlled his trembling hands and swept the teacup on the table to the ground. With the clang of the teacup breaking, he attracted the attention of the servant outside the house and shouted: "Here comes someone!"
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An hour later.
Liu Ruoyu came to Daming Garden.
But he didn't rush in. Instead, he stood outside and waited for others to come.
At this time, Liu Ruoyu naturally no longer needed to hide.
He knew that the current situation was urgent, and the final showdown between him and Wei Zhongxian would have an outcome. Who would lose and who would win? Or would both parties suffer and His Majesty would benefit, allowing the latecomers to come out on top, like Wang An and Wei Chao being replaced by himself and Wei Zhongxian before? The same, everything will be resolved.
The person Liu Ruoyu was waiting for was the eunuch in charge of each of the twenty-four yamen of the Ming Dynasty who had good relations with him and who had various kinds of leverage by using his power in the inner court.
Although Liu Ruoyu had always been cautious in making friends with foreign ministers and did not dare to go too far, even if he contacted Wei Guangwei, he was timid, but in making friends with eunuchs who were also internal ministers, he was never even half a step slower than Wei Zhongxian.
It can even be said that his power in the inner court is now stronger than that of Wei Zhongxian, because Wei Zhongxian mainly runs the East Factory, and many of the backbone of the East Factory are borrowed from Jin Yiwei, and there are not many opportunities to contact other eunuchs in the inner court.
"Eunuch Liu!"
As soon as these people arrived, they all raised their hands to Liu Ruoyu.
Liu Ruoyu looked at the dense crowd of people and smiled lightly. Seeing that all these people came to Daming Garden because of his words, he felt a sense of power and satisfaction in his heart.
Liu Ruoyu nodded and said only: "Come in with our family!"
So, Liu Ruoyu took these eunuchs and young eunuchs from various yamen into the Daming Garden.
As soon as he arrived at the Qinzheng Hall in Daming Garden, Liu Ruoyu knelt down and shouted loudly: "My slave Liu Ruoyu, I came here to apologize to the emperor!"
"My slave Liu Ruoyu came here to apologize to the emperor!"
Zhu Youxiao was interrogating Wei Guangwei when he heard Liu Ruoyu's shout from outside.
Zhu Youxiao was not surprised by Liu Ruoyu's arrival, and because of this he only smiled coldly and said: "Wang Cheng'en, let him in!"
"yes!"
Not long after, Liu Ruoyu entered the hall.
At this time, Wang Chengen said: "I would like to inform the emperor that the father-in-laws from other yamen are also here."
Zhu Youxiao said "hmm" and then looked at Liu Ruoyu.
Liu Ruoyu hurriedly replied: "I dare not hide anything from the emperor. I let the father-in-law come in. They said they had something important to report to the emperor."
Wei Zhongxian asked coldly at this time: "Are you here to force me into the palace?"
With that said, Wei Zhongxian turned to Zhu Youxiao and said, "Your Majesty! They must have colluded with Liu Ruoyu! Liu Ruoyu is secretly forming a party!"
After Liu Ruoyu came in, he only focused on dealing with Zhu Youxiao, but did not notice Wei Zhongxian. At this time, he discovered that Wei Zhongxian was not kneeling on the ground like him, and Yuan Keli was not kneeling on the ground like him, but only Ge The minister Wei Guangwei knelt on the ground, his whole body was sluggish and his eyes were dull.
Liu Ruoyu, what a smart person.
Naturally, he quickly guessed something and thought to himself: "Could it be that Wei Zhongxian did not collude with Yuan Keli and the others from beginning to end? Did Wei Guangwei and the others make a mistake and misunderstood themselves?! This is impossible! This is absolutely impossible! If he, Wei Zhongxian, had not colluded with Yuan Keli and the others, why did he obey their instructions on the promissory note!"
But Liu Ruoyu knew that it was too late to worry about these matters at this time. Even if Wei Zhongxian did not collude with the foreign ministers, he would still have to forcefully convict Wei Zhongxian of colluding with the foreign ministers.
Liu Ruoyu first admitted his crime: "Go back to the Emperor! I dare not hide it from the Emperor. I am indeed forming a party, but the reason why I form a party is for the safety of the Emperor and for the sake of the Ming Dynasty!"
As he spoke, Liu Ruoyu pointed at Wei Zhongxian with righteous indignation: "Your Majesty, does he know that Wei Zhongxian has long turned Dongchang into his own, colluding with Tian Ergeng, Xu Xianchun, Sun Yunhe, Yang Huan, etc. to enrich his own pockets and embezzle money from the family?" ! They even planted relatives, demanded and accepted bribes, so that more than half of the profit from the business opened by Dongchang and even the profit from confiscating the house fell into their private pockets! "
Wei Zhongxian was too lazy to defend himself, because he believed that his emperor was a sensible person. Strictly speaking, Liu Ruoyu's culpability for his crimes was not his own fault, but what was inevitable due to human greed. He was a eunuch in charge of the East Factory, not a spy. The eunuch of Dongchang should really be responsible for these things. On the contrary, it should be Liu Ruoyu himself.
Wei Zhongxian also raised the corner of his mouth slightly: "Liu Ruoyu, you are a cautious and alert guy, but you also have times when you are impatient and impulsive!"
Zhu Youxiao asked at this time: "Since you know this, why didn't you report it early?"
"Slave, slave." Liu Ruoyu was speechless for a moment, and his whole body became hot. He was eager to give some reasons, but he really didn't know which reasons were suitable. He even regretted that he had eagerly given Wei Zhongxian's accusation that he was a clique in the first place. The blame was put on Wei Zhongxian, and Wei Zhongxian was given a crime, but he wanted to take back what he had just said.
"say!"
Zhu Youxiao shouted sharply at this time.
Full of majesty!
Murderous!
Liu Ruoyu became even more impatient because of this, and could only say subconsciously: "I want to wait until their guilt becomes more serious before reporting it! That's why I didn't let the inner factory rush to report it and let the emperor know."
"That's unreasonable!"
Zhu Youxiao shouted again in a stern tone.
"Your Majesty, spare your life!"
Liu Ruoyu felt very disappointed. He did not expect that his reply would make the emperor even more angry, so much so that he had to knock his head directly on the gold bricks on the ground, trembling all over.
At this time, Wei Zhongxian couldn't help but want to cover his mouth and nose with his hands and snickered.
"Dongchang is one of our own people. Why do I set up an internal factory to supervise Dongchang and other my own people? It is to prevent our own people from degenerating, and to stop these people in time when they make small mistakes! It is to prevent you from making mistakes, not to raise them. Pig! Did I ask you to raise Gu, ah! Did I ask you to wait until they are all heinous and then hunt them all down, kill them all, or even confiscate their homes and annihilate them?! Who told you to be so smart?!"
Zhu Youxiao scolded and asked.
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