69novels Chapter 155
Chapter 155
"Report to the Divine Marquis, I have urgent information to report to you!"
In the Hulong Villa, the Iron-hearted Divine Marquis Zhu Wusi, who was originally worried about Su Xin's disappearance, suddenly heard a subordinate come to report.
"Speak!"
Hearing that there was something important, Zhu Wusi could only temporarily suppress his unhappiness.
The man did not dare to hide anything and immediately told the emperor Zhu Youxiao about the visit to Prince Xin's Mansion, especially emphasizing that the three governors of the East Factory appeared together and the East Factory almost came out in full force.
"What did you say!"
Zhu Wusi stood up from his seat in shock.
Seeing the Divine Marquis asking, the man could only repeat what he had just said.
"How could this happen? Did something happen? Why did the little emperor who usually stayed in the woodworking room act out of character this time, and brought so many people at once!"
At this moment, Zhu Wusi seemed to have completely changed. There was no trace of his usual calmness.
Zhu Wusi couldn't help but think about it. If the emperor just wanted to see his brother, he could just let him enter the palace. There was no need to do it this way, and he brought so many people at once.
"Is there something that I didn't expect?"
Unable to figure it out, Zhu Wusi began to pace back and forth in the room, and his mind began to constantly recall the things that happened during this period.
Until a person's information appeared in his mind, he understood the cause and effect. The news that his adopted daughter Shangguan Haitang passed to him some time ago, the person who looked exactly like the current Prince Xin.
"Not good!"
A bad premonition came to his mind. Zhu Wusi, who realized that something was wrong, didn't even have time to pay attention to his subordinates. The whole person was like a sharp arrow and went straight out of the Hulong Villa and rushed towards the direction of Prince Xin's Mansion.
On the other side, as the current emperor left the palace, it immediately attracted most of the people in Beijing to come and besiege him. They all wanted to see what their emperor looked like with their own eyes, so that they could brag about it in the future.
Unfortunately, they were destined to be disappointed, because the emperor stayed in the carriage from beginning to end and never showed his face. Even if there were curious people who wanted to get closer to observe, they finally suppressed the idea of going forward in the face of the dense crowd of Dongchang men.
At this time, Emperor Tianqi Zhu Youxiao in the imperial carriage was also thinking. It stands to reason that he didn't need to do this to take down the fake Prince Xin. As long as he said a word, the fake Prince Xin would have to go to the palace to meet the emperor.
The reason why he chose this was actually to meet the person behind the fake Prince Xin.
Zhu Youxiao absolutely didn't believe that they could replace a prince in the capital of a country without anyone noticing.
He even suspected more than once whether these people were involved in the Red Pill Case and the Palace Transfer Case. Although he had tried to find the truth behind it over the years, the depth of the other party's hiding was beyond his expectation.
That's why he didn't hesitate to use himself as bait to see if he could lure out the person behind the fake Prince Xin. Anyway, with the one in the Forbidden City, he didn't need to worry about his own safety.
Just when Zhu Youxiao rushed to Prince Xin's mansion, the people headed by the fake Prince Xin were discussing something.
In addition to the fake Prince Xin as the master, the other two were all big shots without exception, one of whom was Zhou Yanru, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites.
The other one was even more amazing, Li Yongzhen, the junior supervisor of the Ministry of Rites and the adopted son of Wei Zhongxian, the 9,000-year-old.
Below them, there was a man and a woman waiting in full battle array. The man was wearing the clothes of a thousand households of the Jinyiwei, while the woman was dressed in white with a Qi family Miao Dao across her waist.
The two were Jinyiwei Qianhu Lu Wenzhao and his junior sister Ding Baiying. Originally, the two were descendants of Qi Jiadao, especially Lu Wenzhao. As a Qianhu of Jinyiwei, he should have stood behind the emperor, but at this moment, he stood firmly on the side of Prince Xin's Mansion.
The reason why these people gathered in Prince Xin's Mansion was very simple. Since they were defeated by Jiannu in the Battle of Sarhu seven years ago, that is, in the 47th year of Wanli, they realized that the Ming Dynasty was already terminally ill.
Originally, they thought that after the death of Emperor Wanli, the new emperor would work hard to revitalize the Ming Dynasty and reuse the Qi Family Army.
But God seemed to have played a big joke on them. The Emperor Taichang, who made them full of expectations, ascended the throne for only one month and then followed the old emperor to the west.
And with the death of the two emperors one after another, they could only continue to transfer their hopes to Tianqi.
Just when they thought that the new emperor would change the style of Wanli and reorganize the Ming Dynasty, reality once again gave them a heavy blow.
After the new emperor came to power, he ignored state affairs like his grandfather and spent the whole day hiding in the palace doing carpentry work., and let the eunuch Wei Zhongxian make the whole court a mess.
Tianqi's operation made them completely disappointed, and finally they had to put their hopes on Prince Xin again.
In their view, compared with Zhu Youxiao who used eunuchs to persecute the court, Prince Xin Zhu Youxiao, who walked with the civil officials, was the real lord who could revive the Ming Dynasty.
But the new emperor was young after all, and it was unknown how long it would take to wait for him to die, so after discussing, several people decided to do something extremely treasonous - regicide!
Among them, the incident of Tianqi falling into the water a year ago was their handiwork, and the one who had been on the throne for several years had no heirs, so as long as he died, Prince Xin Zhu Youjian, who they had relied on, would be the first heir to the Ming Dynasty.
And things went unexpectedly smoothly, and some big figures in the court helped to cover it up, so they easily got Emperor Tianqi into the water.
Although he did not drown directly, his health was getting worse day by day. As long as they waited patiently for a few years, the Emperor Tianqi would pass away, and then Prince Xin would ascend the throne, then the Ming Dynasty would surely usher in a revival again.
Unfortunately, they never expected that soon after that, the palace heard the news that Empress Zhang was pregnant again, and according to the diagnosis of the most senior and oldest imperial physician in the palace, the Empress was pregnant with a son this time.
This news caught them off guard, because once the Empress successfully gave birth to a prince, even if Emperor Tianqi passed away, the throne would not be passed to Prince Xin.
On one side was the kind and benevolent Prince Xin, and on the other side was a child full of uncertainty. Even a fool would know how to choose.
In addition to the incident a year ago, they had no way out, so in order to prevent this from happening, they could only gather together again and think about how to make Prince Xin inherit the throne smoothly after the death of Tianqi.
After much deliberation, they finally decided to target Wanggongchang in the west of the city. Coupled with the bad debts accumulated over the years, some officials would be happy to see this.
As for the tens of thousands of people around Wanggongchang, it can only be said that those who achieve great things will sacrifice themselves. As long as their sacrifice can help Prince Xin ascend the throne smoothly, everything is worth it.