Chapter 139: Father and son are united

"Hey, brother, have you heard about something new? The old Jiannu of Nuerhaci dreamed that Zhang Haogu, the new Tanhua Lang of the Ming Dynasty, led his troops to break through Chenyang and burned the Dazheng Palace, and it was all fulfilled!"

"Tsk! Brother, you are from the countryside? What's new? It spread throughout the capital last year. At that time, the older generation said that this was a good omen. Old Jiannu Nuerhaci had been there for a few days, and Liaodong would be peaceful. The result was good. Zhang Tanhua really entered Chenyang and burned Jiannu Palace. Liaodong was about to be peaceful."

"Brother, have you finished listening to me? Do you know? After the last dream came true, Nuerhaci, Old Jiannu, had another dream related to our Ming Dynasty."

"There is still this? Brother, sit down and have a cup of tea and say I'll tell you."

"Brother, I will tell you this. Don't say it was me who told you. Put your ears in the face - Nuerhaci, the old Jiannu, dreamed that our Ming Dynasty Prince Xin killed our emperor and ascended the throne. Finally, the rebel army captured the capital, and King Xin was hung on the coal mountain again."

"There is still this? Brother, this is no joke!"

"Shhhh! Speak quietly! Brother, brother, how many heads do I have to joke about this? Let me tell you the truth. This matter has been spread all over the back of the Tianjing City. Some people say that Lao Jiannu saw in his dream that King Xin used a nail to stab a small wooden man with the emperor's birth date and a talisman was posted on the small wooden man!"

"Really? King Xin is crazy? The current emperor is his biological brother, and he is even more disgusted with his biological brother?"

"Catch it!" Perhaps the voice was louder and the others heard it. A group of strong men, like wolves and tigers, rushed over from beside him, and yelled and pressed the brothers who were whispering to each other on the table in the teahouse. Without saying a word, he made the brothers cry and howl and struggled desperately, "What are you doing? Who are you? Why should you hit us and catch us?"

"Why? Just this!" The leading strong man showed off a waist-baring sign from the Dongchang Fan Centre, and rushed to the countless people in the capital who were watching the bustling news. He smiled and said to the pair of brothers in distress: "Good boy, how dare you spread rumors behind the back that the prince killed his brother and usurped the throne. Are you brave? Beat me hard!"

"Get order!" The other secret agents from the East Factory agreed in unison, and immediately punched and kicked the brothers again, making the brothers bleeding and crying, "Master, we don't dare to spare us, I, Zhu Wenhao, will never dare to gossip again!" "Master, I, Luo Qingmu, will never dare to listen to these rumors in the future!Master, please forgive me!"

"Stop talking nonsense, catch them all and ask who the person behind the scenes is!" The Dongchang Chair waved his hand again, and more than a dozen Dongchang Chairmen set up the brothers who had been beaten to the point of being beaten to death, first handcuffed and shackled them, then dragged them away. The Dongchang Chairmen turned to the onlookers and shouted: "You all listen to it. It's a rumor on the street that Old Jiannu Nuerhaci dreamed of Prince Xin killing the current emperor, and using evil magic to defeat the emperor, usurp the throne and plot against rebellion - that's nonsense fart! Jiu Qiansui has asked the emperor for the imperial edict, and must find out the culprit who spread this rumor! If anyone among you dares to spread this rumor again, these two turtles will be your fate! Did you hear it?"

"Listen... I heard." The onlookers present agreed timidly. Whether they had heard this rumor before or just heard it, they made up their minds to never whisper about this in teahouses and restaurants in the future - even if they couldn't help but say it, they should tell the matter to their closest people in a quiet place without others! At the same time, in the same scene, many places in the capital were happening one after another. The rumors that were originally circulating quietly in private quickly became known to everyone...

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"Emperor Brother! Emperor Sister!" At the same time, in the palace, the future Chongzhen Zhu Youjian knelt in front of Emperor Xizong of Ming and Queen Zhang Yan, and cried to death with tears in his eyes. He kowtowed and choked and said, "Emperor Brother Mingjian, even if I have a hundred courages, I dare not do anything that will be self-severed from the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty, and I dare not use any evil magic to defeat you, the emperor brother, the emperor brother--!"

"Emperor, I am willing to guarantee Prince Xin. Prince Xin will never do such a thing." Wei Zhongxian, who was standing by the side, also kowtowed and said: "Emperor, this must be some ill-minded traitors deliberately provoking the relationship between the emperor and Prince Xin. Please do not blame Prince Xin for this. Please rest assured. I have sent out all the military servants in the East Factory, and will definitely capture those treacherous slanders who spread rumors!"

"I am willing to guarantee it, and I am willing to guarantee it." Wei Zhongxian's two best friends, Tiqian and Li Yongzhen, also knelt out to uphold justice, insisting that the rumors were all false, and all were ill-intentioned traitors deliberately spread to sow the brotherly relationship between Ming Xizong and Zhu Youjian. Several large numbers of ladyboys stood up so loyally to guarantee Zhu Youjian. The hard-core royalists Zhang Weixian, Zhu Chunchen, Zhang Guoji and others present naturally did not dare to neglect them. They all used their lives to guarantee that Zhu Youjian would definitely not do such a thing. There must be another conspiracy behind this matter. Ming Xizong, who was so angry that he was a little sick, waved his hand and said weakly: "You all get up, your brother, you get up too, I believe you will not do such a thing. Zhongxian, if you find such rumors circulating among the people, report to me immediately, do it very well, you can check it out who made the rumors, and let me handle it strictly!"

"I will obey the imperial edict." Wei Zhongxian agreed respectfully. At this time, the queen Zhang Yan, who was standing next to Ming Xizong, spoke, "Wei Zhongxian, where is your godson Zhang Haogu? The last rumor about Jiannu was related to him, why didn't he come out to speak this time?"

"Stupid bitch, why did you suddenly remember to ask about the little monkey's situation?" Wei Zhongxian felt a stern in his heart, and hurriedly kowtowed to his mortal enemy Zhang Yan and replied, "Go back to the queen, Zhang Haogu's monkey has just returned to the capital for only three days, I'm afraid I haven't heard of such rumors." Zhang Yan's beautiful eyes were fluttering and smiled without saying a word. But at this moment, a little eunuch hurried in and kowtowed to Emperor Xizong of Ming and said, "I report to the emperor, the Jinzhou soldiers are preparing to Zhang Haogu ask for a meeting, saying that there is something about the letter to the emperor."

"It's true." Zhang Yan sneered in her heart. Emperor Xizong of Ming Dynasty said happily: "Hurry up and announce Zhang Aiqing to enter the palace." The eunuch took the order and left. After a while, the eldest master Zhang, who was sweating profusely, was led into the Qianqing Palace. Before Master Zhang could salute, Wei Zhongxian hypocritically scolded: "Zhang Haogu, why did you come to the palace to ask for a meeting without wearing court clothes? What kind of morality?"

"The emperor forgives his crimes, which is of great importance. Before I could go home to change my clothes, I went directly to Chengtian Gate to ask for a meeting. I asked the emperor to forgive him and ask Eunuch Wei and the Empress to forgive me." Master Zhang said, wiping his sweat and kowtowed. Of course, Emperor Xizong of Ming Dynasty would not care about these trivial matters. He first asked Master Zhang to calm down and sent someone to send a hot towel to wipe his sweat. Then he asked: "Zhang Aiqing, what is the reason for you to enter the palace so quickly?"

"Report to the emperor, I went out for a trip today and heard a rumor on the street." Master Zhang said excitedly: "It was said that the old Jiannu of Nuerhaci had another strange dream, dreaming that Prince Xin wanted to usurp the throne and plot against the emperor, and he was disgusted with the emperor - this is completely the shameless trick of the villain! The purpose is to provoke the brotherhood between the emperor and Prince Xin, please do not believe it!"

"Zhang Aiqing, do you think so too? I don't believe it either. I will never believe that the Emperor's Brother will do such a thing!" Ming Xizong said happily. Zhang Yan calmly asked Master Zhang, "Zhang Haogu, how did you know that this is a despicable trick of a shameless villain? What credentials do you have?" Wei Zhongxian also shouted, "Yes, Zhang Haogu, do you have credentials?"

"Huh? No?" Master Zhang, who has a sense of smell more powerful than a dog, suddenly realized something was wrong. Zhang Yan, one of the five beauties in history, is Chongzhen's best friend and Wei Zhongxian's mortal enemy. Why should I take the initiative to ask myself what certificates I have? She is not afraid that the certificate I took the lead and instead gave Chongzhen a certificate to death? Thinking of this, Master Zhang quickly cheered up, peeked at Zhang Yan's expression, and said carefully: "I reported to the empress, the old Jiannu Nuerhaci who was rumored in the capital last time that he dreamed of Wei's attacking Shenyang and burning the Dazheng Hall. In fact, it was nothing. The rumor was that Old Nuerhaci, who was rumored to the capital, dreamed of the Wei's attack on Shenyang and burning the Dazheng Hall. It was actually nothing. The rumor was that Old Nuerhaci, who was rumored to be in the capital last time, dreaming of Mr. Huicu, who had a rumor in the capital, was actually nothing. It was rumored that Old Nuerhaci, was old.

The eighth son of Jiannu, Huang Taiji, and the traitor Fan Wencheng, conducted a detailed dissemination. The purpose was to let the ministers fall into the trap, volunteer to go to Liaodong to die, and to join the Liaodong army of the Ming Dynasty. Nuerhaci, the old Jiannu, had never had any dreams. The minister asked the emperor and the queen Hong Fu, but although he was trapped, he was lucky enough to win the battle, which made the Jiannu's trick fail. Afterwards, when the minister sneaked into Shenyang, he captured the family of the traitor Fan Wencheng and executed it with torture. Fan Wencheng's brother Fan Wencai revealed this secret to Weichen. The Ming soldiers who accompanied Weichen to capture Shenyang could all prove it to Weichen."

Speaking of this, Master Zhang kowtowed heavily and said passionately: "So my husband believes that this matter must be a treacherous villain imitating Jiannu, spreading vicious rumors to provoke discord, and trying to distract the brotherly ties between the emperor and the king of Xin, so that the emperor and the king of Xin were tragic and fight each other in the same family. Please do not..."

"Slow down." Zhang Yan suddenly interrupted the words of Master Zhang and sneered: "Zhang Haogu, what do you mean by saying that the emperor and King Xin and fighting with each other in the same family? Is it implying that the emperor, King Xin may attack the emperor?"

"I dare not!" Zhang Yan saw through his vicious thoughts, and his little face was immediately scared to death. He quickly kowtowed and shouted: "Please forgive me, please forgive me, please forgive me, please forgive me, please forgive me, please make me wrong, I am guilty of death!"

"Your Majesty, Zhang Haogu is also kind-hearted and is eager to defend King Xin's grievances, so he accidentally said a wrong sentence. Please forgive this monkey boy." Fortunately, Wei Zhongxian was right next to him and quickly pleaded with Emperor Xizong of Ming. Emperor Xizong of Ming was soft-hearted and soft-hearted. In addition, Master Zhang was indeed saying good things for the only younger brother of Emperor Xizong of Ming, so Emperor Xizong of Ming nodded quickly and said, "Zhang Aiqing, get up, you said the wrong thing for my brother, I don't blame you. Zhongxian, I will leave this matter to you. Find out the culprit for spreading rumors and slandering King Xin as soon as possible. I want to deal with him heavily!"

"I obey the order." Wei Zhongxian agreed respectfully again. Zhang Yan smiled at Master Zhang and said, "Zhang Haogu, I scolded you just now. You accidentally said the wrong thing. However, I have to thank you for your grievances on behalf of King Xin. You must do it yourself in the future. Do you understand?" Master Zhang was sweating profusely and kowtowed to agree. Then he and Wei Zhongxian used the excuse to investigate the culprit of the rumors and left the Ganqing Palace together, leaving Zhu Youxiao and Zhang Yan and his wife to lead a large group of hard-core royalists to comfort Zhu Youjian who was crying to death.

After Wei Zhongxian and Zhang Laos and his son left the palace with great worries, of course, it was impossible to really catch the culprit who spread the rumors. Wei Zhongxian and Zhang Laos could not ask the Dongchang Fans or Jinyiwei to imprison themselves in the Tianzhu, right? They went back to Wei Ran Hutong and entered the secret room of Wei Zhongxian's home. When there were only father and son left in the secret room, Wei Zhongxian and Zhang Laos began to discuss various unusual signs of today's incident.

There are two major doubts about this matter. One is that Zhang Yan seems to have known that Mr. Zhang is about to enter the palace. The other is that Zhang Yan deliberately picks up the problem in Mr. Zhang’s words. He seems to have been guarding against Mr. Zhang to set a trap on Chongzhen and pointed the finger at Wei Zhongxian behind Mr. Zhang and Mr. Zhang. But Mr. Zhang and Wei Zhongxian didn’t understand that they broke their heads. Zhang Yan, who never left the palace alone, was surrounded by Keshi’s eyeliners. Why could he expect these things? And the seamless vicious trick carefully arranged by Mr. Zhang, which place revealed flaws?

"Godfather, are those people you sent to spread rumors reliable? Could it be that something was wrong with them?" Master Zhang asked with his treacherous eyes. Wei Zhongxian also blinked his treacherous mung bean eyes and replied, "Absolutely reliable. Those people were brought from the countryside by our family and your godmother. Most of them were brought by their relatives and left our family and your godmother. They were not even bullshit and would not betray us."

"Did your godfather leak our plan to others?" Master Zhang asked again. Wei Zhongxian glared at Master Zhang and shouted angrily: "Monkey boy, your godfather eats more salt than you eat. Do you dare to reveal this kind of thing about extermination of the nine clans to others? Even your godmother, our family dares to let her know."

"That's right. If someone reported the news and the queen had obtained the real evidence, she would have taken it out to kill us." Master Zhang nodded, then gritted his teeth and said to himself: "Where is something wrong? You can't just joke about this matter. If you are not careful, you will never be able to turn over..."

The father and son who were in love with each other had big eyes and small eyes. No one could figure out where this matter was wrong. They looked at each other with a frown and fearful look for a long time. Master Zhang suddenly slapped himself in the face, jumped up and roared in a low voice: "Godfather, I understand the reason. We have less important points in this matter from the beginning!" Wei Zhongxian was stunned at first, and then asked quickly: "Monkey, let's less important points!"

"What we do not count is the thoughts of your confidants!" Master Zhang said with a dark face: "Godfather, do you remember? When the emperor was seriously ill, he called King Xin to the side to guard the throne. At that time, you were concerned about the emperor's dragon body and did not think too much. Afterwards, I realized that the emperor was preparing to pass the throne to King Xin. But Godfather, you didn't think about it. At that time, you were confused by the authorities and did not consider the emperor's intentions. What about the others? The bystanders were clear. Can't you see that the emperor was preparing to pass the throne to King Xin? In order to protect yourself, and for their own glory and wealth, did you not think that King Xin was taking refuge in your back? If you defect to King Xin immediately, you will become the queen of the empress dowager?"

Wei Zhongxian was stunned, but his body was covered with cold sweat. Master Zhang continued with a dark face: "Maybe these people did not intend to harm you, godfather, but in order to please King Xin and the Queen, they were afraid that they would write many letters of loyalty and self-recommendation letters and other words, and were taken by King Xin and the Queen, and became their lackeys! This time, fortunately, we did a good job in keeping secrets and did not let them get the evidence, so nothing happened - but that night we returned to the house in the same sedan chair, and the next day there were rumors that were not good for King Xin in the capital. As long as we were smarter, it would not be difficult to think that we were doing this behind the scenes!"

Wei Zhongxian continued to be stunned. After a long time, Wei Zhongxian's pale face turned pale and turned black again. Finally, Wei Zhongxian jumped up suddenly, kicked the coffee table next to him, and roared with a ferocious expression: "Sure! Sure enough! No wonder our family tried them, they didn't respond and pretended to be confused for our family. It turned out that they had already prepared a way out! Damn, if it weren't for our family's luck and a loyal godson, we wouldn't know how our family would die in the future!"

"Good son!" After the roar, Wei Zhongxian suddenly pressed Master Zhang's shoulders and said in a deep voice: "Our family finally knows today. Who is the most loyal to our family? Monkey boy, don't worry to our family. As long as our family can pass this level and continue to hold the power, our family will definitely not treat you badly! What you say is our family's words! Tell our family, who are likely to betray our family?"

"Godfather, there are too many, so many that the child cannot analyze that those people may betray you." Master Zhang shook his head in pain and said powerlessly: "Not to mention civil and military officials, they may turn to the King of True for their own position and wealth; the father-in-laws in the Silijian may turn to the King of True in order not to be implicated by you. Even the palace maids and eunuchs and servants in the palace may turn to the Queen, and in turn become the eyeliner for the queen to monitor you and her godmother. In the face of interests, there are not many people who can be as unmoved as the child and do not change their position."

In addition to his understanding of history and knowledge, Wei Zhongxian's degree of cunning in power struggle is actually no less than that of Master Zhang. After calmly thinking, Wei Zhongxian nodded and gritted his teeth and said, "Monkey boy, you are right. Anyone except you may betray our family. It is not that easy for our family to find a traitor! You are young and have a good brain. Tell us what to do next?"

"Godfather, don't worry, they are not our opponents." Young Master Zhang, who also calmed down, said in a deep voice: "Godfather, think about it. If their scheming is a little deeper, keep calm for the time being, and wait until we start the next step and get real evidence, we will be killed immediately! Unfortunately, the queen is a little tender and can't help but alert the enemy, letting us know that there are traitors inside us - with this, the queen and the others will not be our opponents!"

"You are right, that stinky bitch is too young and not our opponent!" Wei Zhongxian nodded, and some confidence was regained. The thin old hand held Master Zhang's hand tightly and asked, "Monkey boy, tell us quickly, what should we do next?"

"Godfather, I think we should take action separately in the next step." Master Zhang pondered and said, "Godfather, you should work harder. You should stay with the emperor for more time and not give others the opportunity to slander the emperor. As long as the emperor does not nod, we can rest assured. As for King Xin, I will leave it to the child to deal with it. Those who betray us will be counted on King Xin to become successful after he ascended the throne. As long as we get rid of King Xin and cut off their thoughts, they will not be able to climb back and lick your feet!"

"Okay, that's it!" Wei Zhongxian nodded and said with a grim smile: "If our family finds out the traitor, even if they want to crawl back and lick our family's feet, they will be delusional!"

"There are still some things." Master Zhang was not polite and took the opportunity to say: "Children wants to deal with King Xin. He has insufficient strength in the capital. He dared to ask his godfather to promote Eunuch Song Jin to the deputy admiral of the Dongchang and Xiao Chuan to the Dongchang to the commander of the Qianhu. These two people have the best relationship with the boy, and the boy trusts them the most. With their help, the boy can use the power of the Dongchang to deal with King Xin."

"Okay, our family will give orders to bring these two people up and let them be your deputy!" Wei Zhongxian nodded immediately. Master Zhang said again: "Godfather, you must immediately pull out the traitor who served the emperor by the side, and cut off the enemy's way to use the emperor to deal with us! As for how to trap the traitor, the child has come up with an idea..."

With Master Zhang's brilliant plan, Wei Zhongxian happily went out to make arrangements. Before leaving, Wei Zhongxian patted Master Zhang's shoulder again, pursed his shriveled mouth, and after a long time, he choked and said, "Father and son are working together, and they are good at breaking gold. Don't call our godfather in the future, call us real father!" Master Zhang quickly kowtowed and shouted sweetly: "ideal father."
Chapter completed!