The honorary ministers who entered the palace to attend the funeral were divided into two factions. The Queen Mother's nephew Wu Qinghou's attack on the chief minister not only surprised all the officials, but also shocked the prince Zhu Changluo.

When the Empress Dowager was here, he was Zhu Changluo's biggest backer!

Wuqing Hou Li Gao had no reason not to know about this, and he knew why he jumped out and helped Concubine Zheng speak.

Zhu Changluo was puzzled, and the attitude of Duke Cheng Guo Zhu Chunchen also made the prince of the Eastern Palace a little difficult to accept.

The British Duke Zhang Weixian was twenty years older than Zhu Chunchen, so he should be considered the elder of Duke Cheng Guo. Since Chengzu, the British Duke's Mansion and Duke Cheng Guo's Mansion have been together. The two families always advance and retreat together whenever they encounter major events. No one has any objection to the other.

Maintaining consistency is not only the principle of the Nandu ministers, but also the principle of the Beijing ministers!

Zhu Chunchen broke this principle, which made Zhang Weixian feel angry and unhappy. He wanted to figure out what Zhu Chunchen was trying to do.

When Anbo Xu Zhian believed that the reason why Duke Cheng Guozhe jumped to help Concubine Zheng was probably because he realized that Concubine Zheng would become the queen.

"If Zhu Chunchen can think of this, I can't think of it?"

Zhang Weixian thought of this when he knew about Empress Bintian, but whether Concubine Zheng or Concubine Zheng did not affect his support for the Eastern Palace.

For honor ministers, the person on the throne is the object of their loyalty.

If something goes wrong, there will be a demon.

Zhang Weixian didn't want to argue with Zhu Chunchen, who was much younger than him, just now in the Queen Bintian, so he asked Xu Zhian to figure out the matter.

Zhu Chunchen, Duke Cheng, actually had troubles. He had no good feelings for Concubine Zheng, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that the emperor was not long, so the ascension of the Eastern Palace was a foregone conclusion. At this time, Duke Cheng jumped out to help Concubine Zheng speak, and the one who offended the future emperor.

This is a typical way to cause disaster!

However, Zhu Chunchen had to jump out, because before he entered the palace, his wife told him something that in recent years, the Duke of Chengguo's mansion purchased a large number of maritime bonds issued by the Maritime Office, and purchased about 4,000 copies, with a total principal of 400,000 taels. Including the interest, it was worth about 700,000 taels.

Zhu Chunchen was confused when he heard this. What bonds?

After he figured it out, his beard became angry.

The Duke of Guo, who looked aggrieved, told her husband that her original intention was to earn more money for the Duke of Guo's Mansion, and that it was "group buying" between the wife of Wuqing Hou, Mrs. Xin'anbo and several other honorary ladies.

"I call you a housekeeper. If you don't ask about money on weekdays, you dare to hide it from me for hundreds of thousands of taels of bonds!"

Zhu Chunchen was so angry that he was really crazy. Hundreds of thousands of taels of silver might not be anything to the honorary ministers in Nandu, but to the honorary ministers in Beijing, it was a huge sum of money.

The reason is that the ministers in Beijing are all under the eyes of the emperor and are under the supervision of the officials. They cannot interfere in some profitable industries and dare not make them too ugly. Therefore, their inputs are generally fixed, and the industries involved are relatively stable. This leads to their profits not being too high.

The honorary ministers of Nandu are high and the emperor is far away, and Jiangnan is a prosperous place. Relying on the special identity of the honorary ministers, the people of Nandu can be so brave that they can swallow up national industries, such as mines, etc., which makes almost every honorary minister in Nandu all rich.

But everything has gains and losses. Nan has money but no power, Beijing has no money but no power.

"This bond was also very good at the beginning, with nearly 100,000 taels of profit every year, but" Mrs. Cheng Guogong is also a strong son of a tigress on weekdays, but this time she doesn't have much confidence in speaking in front of her husband.

Because the bond has not been redeemable for a year, last month, Duke Cheng Guo’s wife sent someone to tell Princess Shouning that she wanted to repay the bonds at one time, but the reply she received was that it was redeemable, but the procedure had to be followed.

The so-called procedure requires approval from the palace to give or not.

"The Wuqing Hou family said that the bond was issued by the Maritime Office on the surface, but in fact it was hosted by His Majesty and the Imperial Concubine."

Mrs. Cheng Guo was hesitant, but finally made the point clear. Their family's money is now in the hands of the emperor, and if they want to get it back, the emperor's consent is required.

The problem is that the emperor is seriously ill, so if he wants to get the money back, he must agree to the imperial concubine.

However, I heard that the Imperial Concubine is not satisfied now

Finally, Duke Cheng Guo’s wife hoped that her husband could help the concubine, at least she could not let the concubine go to the cold palace, otherwise their family’s money would basically be gone.

"Isn't this nonsense?"

Zhu Chunchen was angry, but after entering the palace, he heard about the incident that the imperial concubine and the officials had happened in front of the hall, he suppressed his anger and accused the officials of being ignorant.

The queen of Xincheng, Wang Guoxing, Xinning Bo Tan Hongye and other ministers also supported Cheng Duke for "justice", which gave Zhu Chunchen a little confidence.

But at the same time, I also know that most of these guys’ wives are also group buyers of bonds.

With the support of a group of honorary ministers, Concubine Zheng's situation obviously began to change.

At least, Fang Congzhe could not suppress the opposition of his ministers, nor could he find a better reason to move the imperial concubine who was guarding her husband out.

Things were in a stalemate, but the Queen's funeral could not stop because of this. The palace was still moving in an orderly manner, but the atmosphere in the Qianqing Palace was really wrong.

Some people are worried that the emperor will wake up, while others are worried that the emperor will wake up.

When the sun was about to set, the emperor still did not wake up. This was a good thing, nor was it a good thing.

However, the news that the Governor of Ji Liao, Wang Ke, was sent to Beijing urgently was definitely not a good thing.

"I only know that there is a military headquarters, but I don't know that there is a court?"

Zhu Changluo was very surprised. He really didn't understand what these ten words mean.

"Your Highness, Shanhaiguan has changed!"

Fang Congzhe's breathing was very thick. Wang Keshou, the governor of Ji Liao, said in the emergency handover.

The road to exit the customs was cut off two days ago, and the person blocking the road was the emperor's personal army under the command of the eunuchs in Liaodong.

While the road was cut off, Shanhaiguan received a note from the emperor's personal army, saying that the imperial army will launch a half-month Kanto exercise in the near future. In order to ensure the smooth progress of the exercise, the imperial army will be fully taken over to the east of Shanhaiguan in the next half month.

The note also requires Shanhaiguan to restrain his soldiers so as not to accidentally enter the exercise area during the exercise, causing unnecessary misunderstandings and casualties.

At the end of the note, the Imperial Army’s pre-exercise command required the Shanhaiguan administration to send an observation team of about 50 people so that it could better observe the Kanto exercise.

Shanhaiguan ignored this completely and immediately sent someone to report to the Governor of Ji Liao, and at the same time sent someone to escort Wang Huazhen, the political sect who had returned from outside the pass, to Beijing.

It is said that Wang Huazhen had a 100,000-strong military situation to report to the court.

Shanhaiguan also responded quickly, and all officers must be on duty at the close of the door, and all soldiers must be obeyed at the close of the door.

With the arrival of the Imperial Army exercise period, the atmosphere in Shanhaiguan was extremely tense.

But at the closing, they knew nothing about the situation in the east, and they could not see anything.

Until late at night, the soldiers at the close of the door saw a red cigarette cartridge exploded in the dark sky in the east, and then a red cigarette cartridge rose into the air every few miles in their sight.

Before the soldiers closed the gate could react, the sound of overwhelming cannons sounded in their ears.

The cannon was not shot at Shanhaiguan, but it was also very close to Shanhaiguan.

The rumbling cannons lasted for half an hour, and I don’t know how many cannons were fired. The soldiers who closed the door only smelled a large amount of gunpowder.

Undoubtedly, these smokes floated over from several miles away.

But there was still no sight on Shanhai Gate, it was pitch black, with nothing but the sound of cannons in the distance.

"What cannons did these eagle soldiers shoot?"

The person who spoke was Li Huoyang, the general of Qiantun Guards, who was also the direct commander who initiated the expulsion of eunuch Gao Huai at Shanhaiguan.

Afterwards, because of Li Chengliang's strong protection, Li Huoyang was not punished by the court. Instead, another party involved in the incident, Wang Bang, the political sect of Shanhaiguan, was imprisoned, but was released two years later.

"Emperor" is the despicable title of the so-called imperial army by Shanhaiguan.

"What a bullshit exercise? I think it's just a random cannon. Do these eagle soldiers think that the enemy will collapse without fighting when the cannon is fired?"

Ma Yi, Qiantun Weidusi, was born in "Xima". He once followed Ma Gui to North Korea to fight against Japanese people. He is also a long-standing person.

"Can Jiannu compete with the Japanese army? These eunu soldiers were shooting artillery in front of Shanhaiguan. This is clearly not taking us seriously!"

Ma Yi snorted slightly. In his opinion, the eunuchs were not an exercise at all, but a provocation to the closing door. These eunuchs were really arrogant. They just killed tens of thousands of Jiannu, and they all thought they were the strongest soldiers in the world!

"From the sound of cannons, it doesn't sound random, it seems to be a bit rhythm."

The person who spoke was He Kegang, the chief general of Qiantun Guard. This person was different from most generals in the closed door and loved reading very much. However, although He Kegang heard the sound of the cannons of the eagle soldiers that seemed to follow a certain rhythm, he could not understand what the rhythm was.

The sound of the eagle soldiers' cannons sounded for about half a stick of incense and finally stopped. Without the sound of cannons, the closing of the door finally calmed down.

However, the smell of sulfur in the air was a bit choking, and many soldiers were coughing.

Li Huoyang was also choked and coughed, and cursed while coughing: "These bastards have the ability to fight the cannon at our Shanhaiguan! I am the first general to lead troops to settle them!"

"The general is talking anger. He is the imperial army. How can we settle the army?" He Kegang shook his head and smiled bitterly.

That being said, but these eunuchs openly hit the cannon in front of Shanhaiguan, which greatly stimulated the Qiantun Guard at the closed door.

"The cannon has been fired, so I want to see what other monsters they have. It's late at night. I think they don't want us to sleep."

While Li Huoyang was cursing, dozens or even hundreds of fireworks suddenly rose into the sky on the mountains in his sight, and the colorful fireworks illuminated the night sky.

It also allowed the Ming army at the closed door to see the scene under the night sky ahead for the first time.

Thousands of soldiers with white cloth strips on their heads appeared at some point, and they were waving the weapons in their hands frantically at Shanhaiguan.
Chapter completed!