A knife in love

Chapter 3920
At that time, King Liang had returned to the Prince Liang Mansion in Kunming.Sure enough, as Duan Gong expected, many officials in the Kunming Mansion blamed Duan Gong for the crime of the people in the city being robbed by scoundrels.Although King Liang was not a wise man, he was not considered stupid either. He did not believe the false accusations of these officials. Instead, he sent people around the city to inquire about the news. He knew that it was not Duan Gong who set fire to and looted the city after he escaped from Kunming City. The soldiers are the local ruffians in Kunming City, and many government servants and arresters also took advantage of the fire to loot and rob the people of their property.After Liang Wang knew about this, he severely punished those officials who framed Duan Gong. Many officials were punished or imprisoned. Tortured in prison.These officials and local ruffians who were lucky enough to survive not only hated King Liang, but also hated Duan Gong. He didn't dare to harm Duan Gong.

Liang Wang escaped from death, and he was really happy in his heart. He prepared a banquet for Duan Gong and meritorious soldiers.During the banquet, he saw that Duan Gong was a good-looking talent, and he talked well. The king of Liang was very happy. He immediately promoted Duan Gong to the political affairs of Pingzhang in Yunnan, and married his favorite Princess Agai to Duan Gong as his wife.For a while, Duan became famous in Yunnan, and he was unparalleled in the limelight.

After this battle, the king of Liang knew that the world was in chaos, and the situation was irreversible. Although Yunnan was located in the southwest, there were mountains as obstacles, and the roads were extremely difficult to pass, but he could not be alone. He had to leave a way out for himself and his descendants.Therefore, he secretly sent his confidantes to carry a lot of money to Dadu, the capital city, and bought several large houses in the capital city to house his children and grandchildren.Once Yunnan was in trouble and the officers and soldiers could not resist the siege of the Red Scarf Army, he would take his family and flee back to the capital. These big houses became the safe place for the whole family, old and young.Even if I can't get out of trouble in Yunnan, my children and grandchildren will not die with me, and I can still live comfortably in the capital and inherit my blood.

When Liang Wang bought a house for his children and grandchildren, because he loved Princess Agai very much, he also bought a big house for Princess Agai and Duan Gong. This house was mentioned by Li Qiufeng The old residence of King Liang is located in Heshuofang outside Dongzhimen.When King Liang bought a house for Princess Agai and Duan Gong, he had great trust in Duan Gong, thinking that the cooperation between Weng and son-in-law would ensure the safety of Yunnan.It's just that King Liang relied too much on Duan Gong, which made his sons jealous of Duan Gong.Especially the eldest son of King Liang has always been ambitious. Although the Emperor Tartar did not canonize him as Prince Liang's son, he has already regarded the throne of Prince Liang as his own.It's just that when Ming Yuzhen led the red scarf army to march south, not only Liang Wang panicked and abandoned Kunming City to escape, but the eldest son who claimed to be the son of Liang Wang was also in a hurry to escape. Let the wives, concubines and children escape first.Liang Wang was extremely annoyed by this matter, and after returning to Kunming City, he was extremely indifferent to this eldest son, and rarely summoned him on weekdays.Even if the eldest son had the cheek to come to pay his respects, he was often turned away by the people sent by King Liang.

The eldest son was shocked and angry when he was treated coldly by King Liang.He knew that he usually regarded himself as the son of King Liang, which had already attracted the jealousy and hatred of his brothers, and because he was the eldest son of King Liang, he beat and scolded the stewards, guards, and servants of King Liang's mansion, and he was a leader in Kunming City on weekdays. Domineering, whipping the officials and servants of the prefect's Yamen in Kunming at every turn, and often blackmailing officials from all over Yunnan, has made everyone extremely dissatisfied with him.Once I lost King Liang's favor and let other sons become Prince Liang's heirs, after King Liang died, my brothers, the stewards of King Liang's mansion, and officials of all counties in Yunnan would definitely throw me in trouble.At that time, not only will one's own life be unable to be saved, but the wives, concubines and children will also end up decapitated.Thinking of this, the Eldest Young Master is really burning inside and restless.In order to be able to inherit the throne of King Liang, he gathered a group of desperadoes as his cronies, and discussed day and night how to sit on the throne of King Liang's son.The eldest son thought that although the king of Liang didn't want to see him, all the brothers were mediocre, and the king of Liang would probably not pass the throne to other brothers.However, his brother-in-law Duan Gong is very popular, and he is very favored by King Liang, and this person has always been at odds with him, and he will never speak good things about himself in front of King Liang.If this person slanders King Liang and helps other brothers to ascend to the throne, he can only watch as the throne of King Liang's son is taken away.Even if Liang Wang reported to the emperor and passed on the position of son to himself, if Duan Gong was not convinced by him and refused to submit to him, his throne as son would not be secure.If he wanted to inherit the throne of King Liang and be the King of Yunnan in peace, he had to get rid of Duan Gong in order to avoid future troubles.

The eldest son made up his mind to get rid of Duan Gong, and at the same time let people spread rumors in Liang Wangfu and Kunming City, slandering Duan Gong for being ambitious, taking credit for his pride, and wanting to raise troops to rebel, smashing Liang Wangfu, and after getting rid of Liang Wang, do it yourself. On the one hand, the king of Yunnan spent a lot of money to buy the stewards and servants of King Liang's mansion, as well as the big and small officials in the Kunming mansion, let them frame Duan Gong in front of King Liang, and persuaded King Liang to get rid of Duan Gong.Although King Liang is not stupid, he is definitely not a wise person. At the beginning, he didn't believe that Duan Gong was trying to rebel, so he replaced him. However, there are too many villains around him. Everyone said that Duan Gong was going to rebel, so he couldn't help it Do not believe.And Duan Gong is an upright person. He only thinks of being an upright official and benefiting one party. He has offended more and more corrupt officials, and even offended the family members of several concubines of King Liang.These concubines blew pillow wind in King Liang's ears, which made King Liang feel jealous of Duan Gong, thinking that Duan Gong had the ambition to replace him as King of Yunnan, so he couldn't tolerate Duan Gong any more.

After Liang Wang made up his mind, he immediately tried to remove Duan Gong's authority.First, he set up the Lizhengxuan in Prince Liang's Mansion, appointed several of his confidants to be stewards, presided over the money, grain and taxation of various prefectures and counties in Yunnan, and deprived Duan Gong, who was a political official of Pingzhang, of the power of financial management.Later, two generals, Dragon and Tiger, were set up in the Liangwang Mansion to be in charge of the garrison of Kunming Mansion and other prefectures and counties.In this way, without the order of King Liang, Duan Gong would not be able to mobilize even a single soldier.And Duan Gong didn't know that Liang Wang had already felt jealous towards him, even though he was stripped of his authority, he didn't care about it.But when he heard that the King of Liang was going to replace the generals guarding the border, Duan Gong was shocked, and hurried to see the King of Liang, saying that the generals were veterans in the battlefield, and if they were replaced, the soldiers would be dissatisfied.If there is another rebel army to attack, I am afraid that the army's morale will be slackened, and they must be defeated.

(End of this chapter)