Chapter 227: The Storm of Kyoto (Sixth)

The end of March is a changing season, and the morning is still sunny, but in the afternoon, the sky becomes cloudy and dark clouds cover the sky above the capital. At night, it finally rains lightly, and the wind turns to the north wind, bringing the coldness of the north, which is still cold and the temperature drops again.

The street was empty, only patrol soldiers ran across the street, shouting loudly, ordering pedestrians to go home, the kings entered Beijing, the court strengthened control at night, and most people returned home at night, but in an alley next to Liu Junshi Bridge, there was a person walking hurriedly, and his expression seemed a little panicked, but he was very careful and had to look carefully in front of every intersection, and make sure that no one was walking by quickly. When he was still two hundred steps away from Li Weizheng's mansion, he came to an intersection and hid in the corner and looked outside. He had seen where he was going, a closed door. Just as he was about to go out, a sharp knife pressed against his neck from behind.

"Touch and I'll kill you."

Dripping raindrops hit the windows, the air was cold and humid, making people feel uncomfortable. A charcoal basin was lit in Li Weizheng's room, and the room became dry and warm, with a unique smell of charcoal, and the light was bright. Li Weizheng was sitting in front of the desk and wrote a letter to his home. He had decided to make up something, and he would immediately marry Qianqian into the room after he returned. This was Zhu Yunwen who made him make his final decision.

He didn't expect Zhu Yunwen to use Qianqian to turn against him. Although this was just an excuse, the excuse still made him feel unhappy. Li Weizheng suddenly realized that Zhu Yunwen was actually half true and half false. He had never really forgotten Qianqian in his heart, and hoped that he could really give Qianqian to him.

How could this be possible? How could he give his woman to others? Not to mention that he is already a vassal of separatist areas now. Even an ordinary minister would not give up his woman. Zhu Yunwen was dreaming!

In fact, Li Weizheng also knew that Zhu Yunwen was dreaming. Even if he had that heart, Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai, Fang Xiaoru and others would never agree. Qi Tai told himself clearly that taking away his wife and daughter, what is the difference between this and the father and son of the Gao family in Northern Qi? If the emperor had the courage, he would advise him for his death.

Li Weizheng's letter was written to Zi Tong, and this matter would be arranged by her. He wrote the last word, put down the pen, picked up the letter and blew it dry gently, and read it again. He thought that the tone and words were quite appropriate, so he folded the letter, put it in an envelope, and directly put it on the varnish. Of course, someone would send it for him tomorrow. Now Li Weizheng felt very relaxed. His purpose of going to Beijing had achieved, and reconciled with Zhu Yunwen, making the court believe that he would not rebel, and that he would become an unignorable help when the vassal was reduced.

This is very, very important, which means that he will become a party to justice and a former prince entrusted by the people of the world. In this way, he will become famous for his troops in the future.

As for the King of Yan, he didn't care about it. The chess game he set up was successful, and the King of Yan had no time or power to deal with him.

"Sir, someone is sending a letter." Luo Guangcai's report came from outside the door. Luo Guangcai and others met Li Weizheng who was heading south in Penglai Port. He immediately volunteered to go south. Considering that he was familiar with the situation in the capital and outstanding in his talents, Li Weizheng ordered him to go south together for his personal guard commander. He just caught the suspicious person.

"Come in!"

Li Weizheng immediately put away the letter and the door opened. Luo Guangcai and two personal soldiers took a middle-aged man in. He stepped forward to report: "Report to the master, this man was caught by me and said he was sending you a letter."

The man immediately knelt down and presented a wax ball with his hands and said, "Sir General, my master ordered me to send you this letter, saying it was a 100,000 yuan."

"Who is your master?"

"Report to the Lord, it is Mr. Shao, aide to the King of Qin, and I am his housekeeper."

Li Weizheng's spirit was suddenly refreshed, "Give it to me quickly!"

A personal soldier cut the wax balls and took out a roll of paper from it. Li Wei was spreading the paper flat. It was indeed Shao Wenda who wrote that the Qin King Zhu Ci was planning to gather the royal family to depose the current emperor in the ancestral temple in the name of the emperor's misconduct. The two kings of Qin and Jin took action separately. The support of ten kings such as Su, Min, Chen, Lu, Dai, Qi, Xiang, Chu, Han, Tang, and the support of Qin and Jin. In addition, the support of the twelve kings was already there.

Shao Wenda finally wrote: "I thought the King of Qin would disappear the next day with just one thought. I didn't expect that he would really take action. And with a hundred responses, the twelve kings supported the throne of the emperor, that is, the twelve kings supported the King of Qin to take office, which made him unexpected. Now the King of Qin has changed from the initial temptation to the fullest efforts to win more support."

Li Weizheng's brows were frowning. He knew that Zhu Feng had connected the kings these days, but he didn't know what was going on. Unexpectedly, he discussed deposing the emperor. Zhu Yuanzhang had a total of twenty-four kings. In addition to the fact that King Tan was implicated in the case of Li Shanchang, there were twenty-three kings. Now there were twelve kings who supported the Qin king to take the throne, more than half. Of course, there were also people who wanted to take advantage of the situation, such as Qi, Chu, and Xiang. But once the momentum became big, and these vassal kings brought 50,000 or 60,000 elite troops into the capital, with Zhu Yunwen's weakness, they might be forced to announce their abdication. Li Weizheng knew that Zhu Yunwen would have this possibility. He did not dare to kill many emperor uncles, but many vassal kings dared to kill him.

"I understand." Li Weizheng nodded and said to the sender: "It's very dangerous to go back tonight. Let's stay with me for the time being and go back after dawn."

Shao Wenda's housekeeper kowtowed gratefully and went down with the soldiers. Li Weizheng kept Luo Guangcai and said, "The surveillance in the Qin Palace seems to be unsuitable. The person who delivered the letter to me was discovered when he arrived at the door. Didn't I say that? Everyone who left the palace must keep an eye on me. I want to report it to me every day. I don't want to say this again."

Luo Guangcai showed a hint of ashamed on his face, and he quickly bowed and said, "I will strengthen this matter immediately."

"Go! Not only the Qin Palace, but also the Yan Palace."

"Yes!" Luo Guang bowed and turned around. Li Wei was slowly leaning on the back of the chair, thinking about this matter. He always had a view that everything has both positive and negative sides, just like the yin and yang of heaven and earth. Everything has advantages and disadvantages. Just like Zhu Yunwen used Qianqian to turn against him. Although the effect was very good, he was caught by someone. Similarly, Zhu Feng gathered the kings to force Zhu Yunwen to abdicate and wanted to take office. Then this matter also had advantages and disadvantages. The advantage was that he was the eldest son of the emperor and the orthodox succession in the legal principles. Once he succeeded, he would be the biggest winner in this matter. But once he lost, he would become the biggest loser, so where would he lose?

Li Weizheng fell into deep thought without realizing it. He had a intuition that if he made good use of this, he could take a step forward.

Since entering Beijing, King Yan Zhu Di has kept a low profile. Although everyone knows that he is one of the three kings, he restrains his subordinates, strictly prohibits arguments, and does not allow trouble. His influence in Beijing is no different from that of little kings like Zhao, Lu, An, and Tang. Many people who have been watching him have finally moved to the two kings of Qin and Jin. However, Zhu Di's silence does not mean that he does not care about the situation outside, nor does he mean that he has not taken action. On the contrary, he knows everything about the situation outside. Like Li Weizheng, he has also deployed a large number of spies in the capital, and it is not temporary. As early as a few years ago, he established a complete intelligence network in the capital. This intelligence network was directly responsible for Yao Guangxiao, but now after he comes to the capital, he has temporarily changed to directly responsible for him and sent a lot of intelligence every day.

This time, the King of Qin wanted to force Zhu Yunwen to abdicate and connect with the kings. He knew clearly that this incident made him very worried. He had always looked down on his second brother for so many years, thinking that he was stupid and stupid, and brave. He was the first to assassinate the prince, and later smuggled Japanese silver and recruited troops without authorization. Moreover, he did a very clumsy job, which was basically under the control of his father. But his luck was very good. The father spared him again and again, and even the army he recruited was not disbanded in the end, leaving him for him. This time, he wanted to force the prince to abdicate, so many brothers supported him.

Zhu Di couldn't help but sigh. This was called a fool's blessing. He himself thought about using this trip to Beijing to force the emperor to abdicate, but he had concerns. He thought that each prince had his own selfish intentions and could not echo him. Instead, he exposed his ambitions. So he gave up this strategy, but the King of Qin did not consider any consequences and did it when he thought about it. As a result, many people supported him, which made Zhu Di unable to understand. He knew Zhu Yunwen very well. He said it well, but it was too kind and rude and pedantic. Maybe he would really abdicate for the woman's affairs.

No! He, Zhu Di, would never let this happen.

At this time, Ji Gang, the leader of the Beijing spy network, appeared at the door and whispered: "Lord, Your Highness, the King of Zhou has arrived."

Zhu Di stood up and greeted him with a smile, "Fifth brother, why are you here to see me now?"

A man in his thirties appeared at the door, wearing a brocade robe, a golden crown, and a white face as white as jade. He was quite literary. He was Zhu Yuanzhang's fifth son, Zhu Su, the king of Zhou, and Zhu Di's brother-in-law. Zhu Su was also the first vassal king to be named. In the third year of Hongwu, he was granted the title of King of Wu. In the eleventh year of Hongwu, he was renamed King of Zhou. The vassal state was in Kaifeng Prefecture. Zhu Su liked to study and wrote very well, and was proud. He belonged to a literati-type prince. But he also had the same problem as the Zhu brothers, that is, he was ambitious and wanted to ascend to the throne again.

Among the kings, Qin, Jin and Yan are the longest, and they have to defend against Mongolia. Therefore, they have another heavy army besides the royal guards, which is the three strongest among the kings. Zhu Xu was enthroned in Kaifeng Prefecture and had no defense responsibility, so there was only the guards. But he was the fifth son, so Zhu Yuanzhang also gave him high standards for guards, with 50,000 troops, but 50,000 people were not enough to support his ambitions. Especially after the death of the prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Xu's ambitions expanded sharply, but he did not blatantly recruit soldiers and horses like the King of Qin. He adopted a roundabout way, that is, hoard money and grain, and wait for the opportunity.

After Yuanzhang passed away, his ambition was immediately revealed and he began to recruit soldiers on a large scale. In just three months, his army increased from 50,000 to 80,000, becoming the second ladder for the kings of Hening, Liao, Shu and others. Since his vassal states were located in the heart of the Central Plains and had a large number of troops in his hands, since last year, the two kings of Qin and Yan have won him one after another. Of course, the King of Zhou wanted to ascend the throne to the emperor, but he knew in his heart that he had little chance, so in the win over the two brothers, he was more inclined to his own brother, King Yan. The King of Yan brought him tonight to discuss with him the Qin King's desire to force the emperor to abdicate.

Zhu Xu bowed and bowed and smiled, "The fourth brother doesn't know anything. The third brother came to me just now, which delayed an hour, so it was too late."

The third brother is King Jin. Of course, he came to find Zhu Xu to force the emperor to abdicate. Zhu Di's face changed. He hurriedly pulled his brother into the house and asked, "Fifth brother, you didn't agree to them!"

"I agreed and appeared at the ancestral temple on time the morning after tomorrow." Zhu Xu smiled slightly.

"Did you agree?" Zhu Di was stunned. Does his brother actually support the King of Qin ascend the throne? Zhu Di had great expectations for his brother. To put it bluntly, he was attracted by the 80,000 troops in the hands of King Zhou, so he was very sensitive to Zhu Xu's relationship with King Qin.

At this time, he saw a sly smile in Zhu Shi's eyes. He suddenly understood, raised his hand and punched him in the shoulder and said, "You guy, you actually have this move."

Zhu Xu rubbed his shoulders and smiled. How could he support his second brother to take office? Support him to take office? Then hasn't he been in vain in the past few years?

"Come! Come! Sit down quickly." Knowing that the brother did not mean to support the King of Qin, Zhu Di became extremely enthusiastic. He asked the brother to sit down and poured him a cup of tea with his own hands. "I mean! How could you support that kind of idiot ascend to the throne?"

Zhu Xu didn't say anything. He actually didn't support Zhu Di's ascension to the throne, but he was his own brother and was a little embarrassed, so he helped him a few times by chance. After drinking tea, he smiled and said, "I know there must be something wrong with you to come to me tonight, so just tell me! I will help you again."

"Okay! Then I'll just say it."

Zhu Di seemed to know that Lao Wu would definitely agree. He lowered his voice and said, "I want you to report to the court the King of Qin's conspiracy to force the palace."

Zhu Shi was silent. The fourth brother didn't want to show off, but asked himself to report it. This was obviously to use himself. Once the King of Qin knew about it, he would become the enemy of the kings. The risk of doing this was very high. However, he thought again that he had been a bit too arrogant in the past few months. If the court reduced the vassal states, he might be the first to bear the brunt. He wanted to leave some room for himself. Thinking of this, he nodded and agreed: "Okay! I promise you, but who did I tell you, Huang Zicheng?"

Of course, you can't directly find Zhu Yunwen for this kind of thing. Since you ask for a secret report, you can't let the relevant people know. Huang Zicheng is Zhu Yunwen's most trusted confidant, so it's most appropriate to find him. Unexpectedly, Zhu Di shook his head, "Huang Zicheng is a pedantic person. If you look for him, it may be a bad thing. If you go to Ye Tianming for this matter, what can this person teaches the child?"

"Okay, time is tight, I'll go now."

Zhu Yu stood up and bowed, then said goodbye. As soon as he left, Zhu Di immediately called Ji Gang in and told him: "Send someone to keep an eye on the King of Zhou. If he doesn't go to Ye Tianming's Mansion, he must report it to me immediately."

"Subordinate to obey the order!" Ji Gang was about to leave, but Zhu Di stopped him again.
Chapter completed!