At the time of Xu that night, in the Forbidden City and in the Cining Palace, Zhu Cijing was sitting in the study uneasy, thinking about countermeasures. When Sun Chengzong left, he told Cao Huachun that Wei Zhongxian would definitely take action tonight! What should I do? Although Cao Huachun said that more than half of the eunuchs in the palace were standing on his side, if they didn't stand up, it would be a fake.

Zhu Cijing was really worried. He said to Cao Huachun, who was standing on the side: "Eunuch Cao, will Wei Zhongxian really come tonight?"

Cao Huachun hurriedly replied: "Go back to the Crown Prince, Wei Zhongxian has been staying in the Dongchang Yamen today and has not entered the palace. The person who came should be his subordinates."

Zhu Cijing was stunned when he heard this and asked, "Wei Zhongxian didn't enter the palace today?"

Cao Huachun sneered: "Luo Yangxing is a mortal enemy of him. He probably was afraid that Luo Yangxing would ambush him in the palace gate."

Zhu Cijiong had an idea and asked again: "How many eunuchs are there in the palace, and how many are under Wei Zhongxian?"

Cao Huachun replied as he knew it: "There are twelve supervisors, four departments and eight bureaus in the palace, and there are twenty-four yamen in each of the twelve supervisors, one eunuch in charge of the left and right prisons and one minister in the left and right prisons; the fourth and eight bureaus are both eunuchs in charge and two deputy officers, so there are about one hundred and twenty eunuchs in charge of the palace, and about thirty or forty those who defect to Wei Zhongxian."

Zhu Cijing pretended to be curious and asked, "What are so many eunuchs in charge? What do they do? Why don't they come to the main hall of Ciqing Palace together and tell me."

When Cao Huachun heard this, his eyes lit up. He was about to order someone to pass the imperial edict when a eunuch came outside suddenly reported: "Report to the Crown Prince, Eunuch Cao, ten eunuchs have just rushed into Ciqing Palace and said that Eunuch Wei arranged to serve His Highness."

Such clumsy methods have been used. Is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince a mud? Cao Huachun snorted coldly when he heard the news and asked, "Where are people?"

The eunuch replied, "It's all tied up."

Cao Huachun asked: "Your Highness the Crown Prince, why don't you drag them to the palace gate and chop them up to serve as a warning to you?"

Zhu Cijiu was so scared when he heard this, he dragged it to the palace gate and chopped it up? I have to hit there every day!

He quickly dissuaded: "If you don't blame me for a scepter, you won't die if you hit me with one hundred strokes?"

Cao Huachun replied: "It depends on the eunuch's ability to execute the execution. If you want to beat him to death, more than ten or twenty sticks will be enough. If you don't want him to die, two hundred sticks will not die."

Zhu Cijiong nodded and said in fear: "Don't beat them to death, just leave a breath for them."

Cao Huachun naturally had no objection. He immediately conveyed Zhu Cijiong's meaning and arranged for someone to notify all the eunuchs in charge.

So, the Ciqing Palace began to be lively. More than a hundred eunuchs in charge in the main hall stood neatly, taking turns to introduce their work, while outside the main hall there were constant screams of flesh and blood.

After only a hundred words, how could there be screams?

There is no way, Cao Huachun has not enough manpower and cannot execute the execution together, so he can only beat him one by one and slowly.

Of course, Zhu Cijing was not really curious about the work of these eunuchs. He was sitting in the spacious main seat, leaning against the soft pillow, dozing off while listening. When he woke up, he asked casually. If he fell asleep, then you can continue.

This lasted for an hour. At the hour of Hai, the eunuchs in charge had not yet introduced them to each other for a little while, and Wei Zhongxian outside the palace could no longer sit still.

In the palace, he arranged two plans: first, let ten martial eunuchs go to Ciqing Palace to try to control the prince. If not, let the eunuchs in charge organize hundreds of people to seize Ciqing Palace.

This hour has passed, and there is no movement in the palace!

There was no way, he had to implement the third plan, which was to let the Jinyiwei Tongzhi Cui Yingyuan lead a thousand Jinyiwei to sneak into the palace from Donghuamen!

Cui Yingyuan originally refused, and leading his troops to the palace at night was no different from rebellion. It was to be the nine clans! But there was no way. Everyone agreed that it was the best for him to go, who said he was the Tongzhi of the Jinyiwei?

In Zhou Yingqiu's words, if Luo Yangxing discovers it, it can be said that he is ordered to hand over the defense. Therefore, the position of this leader is very important. If the position is lower than him, he will directly arrest people with the excuse of contradicting the official. The only one with the position higher than him is Tian Ergeng. Tian Ergeng is the commander of the Jinyiwei and is already the boss. Who can he take? There is no one above him!

So, Cui Yingyuan had no choice but to bite his teeth.

Fortunately, the wind was calm and the waves were quiet all the way, and no one was met. Cui Yingyuan led the Thousand Jinyiwei to the outside of Donghua Gate silently. Just as he went up to take advantage of the dozen Jinyiwei guards guarding at the door, he rushed up and subdued them. Then when the inner man opened the city gate, countless torches suddenly lit up around, and at least four or five thousand people stood there neatly, surrounding them tightly.

Luo Yangxing walked out of a bunch of Jinyiwei and mocked: "Oh, who is this? If you don't go to bed at night, you will lead so many people to the outside of the palace. You won't want to rebel, right?"

Alas, he was still discovered, and Cui Yingyuan could only act according to the prior filing.

He straightened his chest and said loudly: "Cui Yingyuan, the magistrate of the Jinyiwei, was ordered to come and hand over the defense."

Luo Yangxing continued to mock him: "After orders? Whose orders should you be given?"

Cui Yingyuan replied with confidence: "Of course, he was ordered by the commander Tian Ergengtian."

Luo Yangxing took out his ears boredly, pretending to be puzzled, and asked Qianhu next to him, "Who is Tian Ergeng? Is he from our Jinyiwei?"

Qianhuyi next to him bowed and replied loudly: "Reply to the words of Lord Tongzhi, Tian Ergeng is the grandson of former Minister of War Tian Le, and is not from our Jinyiwei."

Luo Yangxing nodded and said disdainfully: "So he is a grandson, who did I think it was."

The Jinyiwei around him laughed in great cooperation.

Cui Ying's whole body was trembling with energy, pointing at Luo Yangxing and shouting: "You actually dare to insult Shangguan!"

Luo Yangxing said indifferently: "What insults Shangguan? Isn't he Tian Le's grandson? Go back and tell the grandson that I was following the emperor's will. If he thinks he is older than the emperor, he will come and hand over the defense with me."

Who dares to say that he is older than the emperor? Then why don’t he seek death? Cui Yingyuan was speechless and had to lead a group of subordinates away in shame.

The work introduction meeting in Ciqing Palace lasted until midnight. All the eunuchs in charge introduced their work, but Zhu Cijing fell asleep.

The eunuchs stood there and waited for almost half an hour before Zhu Cijiu woke up again in a daze.

He rubbed his eyes, looked at the eunuchs who were trembling in their legs standing below, and asked curiously: "Have Wei Zhongxian not here yet?"

Cao Huachun replied indifferently: "When you go back to the Crown Prince, Wei Zhongxian is afraid he can't come anymore. Last night, a few eunuchs wanted to open the Donghua Gate and let him in, but we all caught them."

Zhu Cijiong pretended to be naive and asked, "Oh, it seems that the palace gate is not allowed to open at night. What is the saying in "The Law of the Ming Dynasty"?"

Cao Huachun replied coldly: "Go back to the crown prince, open the palace ban privately and behead according to the rules. Why don't they be dragged out and chopped?"

I was so dizzy that I wanted to drag it to the door and chop it up again. I just wanted me to hit a ghost when I went out, right?

Zhu Cijing shook his head and said, "Didn't this open the palace gate? Let's just blame a hundred people for being slaughtered."

Cao Huachun naturally would not go against his wishes. Soon, the sound of flesh and screams sounded again in Ciqing Palace.

When the screams rang out, Zhu Cijing asked naively again: "Are you all tired?"

When the eunuchs below heard this, they showed joy. His Royal Highness finally remembered them and could go back to bed now.

Zhu Cijing said naively again: "Why don't you leave a few people to accompany me to Eunuch Wei, everyone else will go back to sleep."

The eunuch below naturally wanted to ask for it, and Zhu Cijiu looked at Cao Huachun who was standing there.

Cao Huachun slowly took out a piece of paper from his arms and slowly started to recite: "Wang Tiqian, Li Chaoqing, Wang Chaofu, Sun Jin, Wang Guotai..."

He pronounced more than thirty names, all of whom were eunuchs who defected to Wei Zhongxian.

After Cao Huachun finished reading, Zhu Cijing yawned and waved his hand, "If you read the name, stay and wait for Eunuch Wei, please wait for me. Everyone else will go back and rest."

Most of the eunuchs below bowed and said, "Abide by the order, the servant will leave." Then, he bent over and retreated respectfully.

Only more than 30 eunuchs in charge stood there in a cold sweat, not knowing what to do.

Zhu Cijing ignored them and leaned straight on the soft pillow and continued to sleep.

He slept so soundly. He must be safe tonight. Wei Zhongxian was not here, and all the eunuchs in charge were pulled over and punished to stand. The minions below would not spontaneously organize to murder the prince!

Not to mention, his mischief attack was right. The Ming emperor had a characteristic, that was, he would kill officials at every turn: rebellion, kill; deceive the king, kill; oppress the people, kill; corrupt, kill; dereliction of duty, kill...

The most powerful person who killed the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. It is said that he killed more than 100,000 yuan just by killing corrupt officials!

It can be said that being an official in the Ming Dynasty was the most dangerous profession, with a mortality rate of more than 30%. These eunuchs were all officials of all sizes. What they feared most was that the prince suddenly became nervous and said, "Drag them all out and chop them up!"

This is not impossible. As long as the prince dares to speak, the people below dare to kill them. Not to mention that they really intend to hold the prince hostage, even if they don’t have this intention, they can still kill them. Who told you to listen to Wei Zhongxian? What’s the point of killing these thirty or so people? Zhu Yuanzhang’s most cruel time, killing more than 10,000 officials and killing more than half of the civil and military officials in the court. Many of them did not commit any crime at all, and were implicated!

So these eunuchs stood there and didn't dare to move, for fear that they would be charged with contempt for the prince as soon as they moved, so they dragged them out and chopped them out!

Zhu Cijing punished them to stand here, just to prevent them from organizing people to murder him. Unexpectedly, this stop had other effects.

These eunuchs stood there and could not move their bodies, but their brains could move. They began to reflect on whether it was worth it to follow Wei Zhongxian to hold the prince hostage.

First of all, it depends on whether the hostage is held or not. If it fails, then they will be dead.

Even if it succeeds, there is a prerequisite for wielding the emperor to command the princes, which is that the royal family is decadent and has no power.

Now the royal family of the Ming Dynasty is very powerful. Not to mention the left-behind court in Nanzhili, there are dozens of princes and princes in various places. Is it useful to just hold a prince? If you fuck the royal princes, you will directly create another emperor, and then they will still die.

All the people are dead, so what else can you do?
Chapter completed!