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Chapter 346
All the nobles had no scruples about speaking in front of the palace gate, so the civil servants who walked out of the palace could hear clearly one by one.

Being able to enter the imperial city as a companion, each of these civil servants has unusual natural identities, at least they are officials of the fourth rank or above. If they are left alone, they can almost be a governor.

Regarding the issue of rewards for the meritorious soldiers of this great victory, although it was said that it was discussed by the Ministry of War, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and the cabinet, in the final analysis it was finally decided by the civil official group.

Therefore, when it comes to the final award, others don't know it, but they know it all too well. After all, the relationship between the civil official groups is intricate. Although the final award may only be known to a very small number of officials who participated in the decision, there is no such decision. What kind of secrecy is there.

Maybe the Wu Xun Group didn't get the news for a while, but as the backbone of the civil servant group, many officials have actually known the final result of this award.

Because of this, when they heard the discussion of the nobles in front of the palace gate, their expressions became rather complicated and ugly.

Because what Xu Ying said is not bad, this big victory is indeed a big victory that has not been seen in decades. The emperor personally issued an order to reward meritorious soldiers, and even sent an order to the cabinet, the Ministry of War, and the five armies. Officials of the Governor's Mansion.

Because of the imperial decree of the emperor, in this way, the civil officials who originally intended to suppress this group of generals and reduce the credit of a group of generals had to give up their little thoughts.

Several officials looked at the group of dignitaries gathered in one place clamoring to go to see Li Huan together, each of them showed sarcasm, and walked away directly.

Not to mention the respective reactions of the Civil Service Group and the Wu Xun Group here, but it is said that Li Huanzai hastily rushed to the Jinyiwei Yamen after getting the news from his subordinates.

Li Huan's face was calm, the Jinyiwei Xiaoqi officer who came to Tongbing didn't know what happened, he just knew that something big had happened, the Jinyiwei commander Tongzhi and other officials just told him to invite Li Huan no matter what Go back to Yamen immediately.

Although Li Huan didn't know what happened in the Jinyiwei Yamen at this moment, and he wanted to invite him back to the Yamen at this time, but Li Huan also knew that if something big didn't happen, those people in the Jinyiwei Yamen I will not ask him to go back at this time.

Galloping all the way, from the palace gate to the Jinyiwei Yamen is just a cup of tea.

Reflexively dismounted, threw the reins to a Jinyiwei captain who came up, and strode into the yamen.

In the meeting hall of Jin Yiwei's yamen, headed by the commander of Jin Yiwei, Tong Zhi Huang Zheng and others, everyone is sitting in the hall with serious expressions at the moment.

Sitting next to Huang Zheng were officials such as Chen Ke, who had been promoted to the commander of Jinyiwei.

Just from the expressions of the crowd, it can be seen that something important must have happened in the Jinyiwei, otherwise, it would not have made so many senior officials of the Jinyiwei look so dignified.

Ma Ming, who was dressed in the official uniform of Jinyiwei Thousand Households, was as irritable as ever. Even though he had been promoted all the way and had become a middle-level and high-level official of the Jinyiwei Yamen, he hadn't changed at all.

"Why hasn't your lord come back yet!"

As he said that, Ma Ming couldn't help but look out of the hall, looking impatient.

With a clatter, Ma Ming got up and was about to go outside, and even said in his mouth: "Why don't I go to find my lord in person and come back and wait here, I'm really anxious to death."

With a light cough, Chen Ke who was sitting there glared at Ma Ming and said, "Ma Ming, sit there and wait for me. If there is no accident, my lord should be back by now. You What are you doing running out at this time?"

As he said that, Chen Ke glanced at Ma Ming and said, "Besides, you are now a dignified Jinyiwei Qianhu. If you rush out to find the Lord in such a hurry, those who don't know will think that something big has happened to my Jinyiwei."

Hearing this, Ma Ming couldn't help but said: "It was originally, isn't this news a big deal? If not, then what is a big deal?"

Just as Ma Ming was muttering, he heard a clear voice from outside saying: "Oh, what happened to my Jin Yiwei, tell me about it."

The person has not yet arrived, but the voice has already passed.

When all the high-ranking officials in Jinyiwei in the hall heard the voice, they were all shocked, and they all stood up from their seats and looked out of the hall.

I saw a figure striding forward, whoever it was if it wasn't Li Huan.

Walking into the hall, Li Huan's eyes swept across the crowd, and the dozen or so people present could be said to be the powerful figures in the Jinyiwei Yamen, all of whom were here.

Sitting on the main seat, Li Huan glanced at everyone indifferently. At the same time, everyone saluted Li Huan and said: "This subordinate has seen you."

Li Huan waved his hands and said, "Okay, if you have anything to say, sit down first."

Everyone took their seats, Li Huan said: "Tell me, what's the matter in such a hurry to find my official back?"

Li Huan's eyes fell on Huang Zheng. After all, Huang Zheng's authority in the Jinyiwei yamen is not weak, and most of the affairs of Jinyiwei North Town Fusi are actually handled by Huang Zheng.

Feeling Li Huan's gaze, Huang Zheng took a deep breath, suppressed the waves in his heart and said to Li Huan, "My lord, something serious happened in Yangzhou."

Li Huan couldn't help raising his brows when he heard the words, Li Huan was not very surprised that something happened in Yangzhou, after all, he had sent Chen Yao and Lin Pingzhi's two confidantes to lead people to Yangzhou to arrest people.

Based on his understanding of the local tyrants like the Chen family who rose up by selling private salt, it would not be surprising if there was any trouble.

So when Li Huan heard Huang Zheng say that something happened in Yangzhou Mansion, Li Huan was not very surprised, instead he took a sip of tea from his teacup and said lightly: "What happened, could it be that someone from the Chen family escaped? "

Li Huan was not surprised at all to say that someone from the Chen family was able to escape Jin Yiwei's capture.

Seeing Li Huan's indifferent appearance, Huang Zheng couldn't help showing a bitter smile, shaking his head slowly and said: "The Chen family has been wiped out!"

Li Huan, who was originally indifferent, couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and said with a bit of surprise on his face: "It shouldn't be, Chen Yao and Pingzhi are just going to arrest people, not to destroy the family. "

Huang Zheng carefully presented a secret report to Li Huan and said: "Look, my lord, this is an urgent report from the Yangzhou government eight hundred miles away. If there is no accident, the same report should be copied and sent into the The cabinet and the inner court."

Li Huan received the report, originally with some curiosity. After all, under normal circumstances, the news of the Yangzhou government should come from their internal intelligence system of Jinyiwei, but judging by Huang Zheng's posture, it is clearly from the local government. report.

So what is Yangzhou Jinyiwei doing to let the local yamen's information pass faster than their Jinyiwei's information transmission speed.

With such a thought flashing through his mind, Li Huan glanced at the memorial in his hand, and suddenly Li Huan's expression changed.

This report was written by the government office of the Yangzhou government. It recorded in detail how the Jin Yiwei headed by Lin Pingzhi and Chen Yao captured the people of the Chen family after they arrived in Yangzhou, including the people of the Chen family. The desperate resistance and the night attack of the Jinyiwei yamen by the remnants of the Chen family caused the news that the Jinyiwei yamen was destroyed by the remnants of the Chen family and burned to the ground, and the entire Jinyiwei yamen in Yangzhou was wiped out.

Li Huan quietly looked at the report in his hand, and everyone in the entire conference hall secretly looked at Li Huan.

They had read the content of the report not long ago, so they naturally knew the content of the report, but because they knew the content of the report, everyone seemed extremely nervous and worried at the moment.

A Jinyiwei Thousand Households House, including Lin Pingzhi, Chen Yao and hundreds of Jinyiwei Tiqi in the capital, was wiped out in the local area. This is the first time such a major event has happened since Jinyiwei was founded.

For such a big matter, I don't know how furious Li Huan would be, so everyone was naturally uneasy about it, secretly observing the changes in Li Huan's expression.

There was indeed a surge of anger in Li Huan's heart, Li Huan really did not expect such a thing to happen.

That is a majestic Jinyiwei Thousand Household House, it was burned to the ground, including Jinyiwei Yamen up and down, there is no one left alive.

Li Huan felt a strong sense of familiarity when things like this happened. Back then, similar things happened in Fuzhou Mansion, but it was just that Jinyiwei officials were burned to the ground. As for the Jinyiwei yamen, But it was safe and sound.

But this time, a Jinyiwei yamen was burned to the ground, which was much worse than the annihilation of Jinyiwei officials.

A smile gradually appeared on Li Huan's face, but for some unknown reason, when Huang Zheng, Ma Ming, Chen Ke and others present saw Li Huan's smile, they shuddered and felt a chill A chill enveloped the entire conference hall.

"Okay, okay, that's really good. Even Jinyiwei's yamen can be destroyed. No one will believe it when it gets out."

Casually throwing the report on the table in front of him, Li Huan looked up at the crowd and said, "But there is news about the Yangzhou Jinyiwei Thousand Households House, Chen Yao, Lin Pingzhi and the others are really dead. ?"

Huang Zheng, Chen Ke and others looked at each other, and Chen Ke took a deep breath and said to Li Huan, "My lord, there is no news from the Qianhu of Jinyiwei in Yangzhou these days, and there is no news about Chen Yao, Lin Pingzhi and the others. The news came."

As he spoke, Chen Ke hesitated for a moment and said in a trembling voice: "If... if the report from the Yangzhou government is correct, Chen Yao, Lin Pingzhi and the others are probably in danger."

Ma Ming said to Li Huan with an angry face: "My lord, let me go to Yangzhou Mansion. I want to kill the ten clans of the Chen family and avenge Chen Yao, Lin Pingzhi and other Jinyiwei brothers."

It was mentioned in the report that the Jinyiwei Yamen was destroyed and burned to nothing but the Yangzhou Chen family that their Jinyiwei Yamen was targeting this time.

So what Ma Ming was thinking about was to destroy the Chen clan and avenge Chen Yao, Lin Pingzhi and the others.

After glancing at Ma Ming lightly, Li Huan snorted coldly and said: "Absurd, if a mere Chen family is unprepared, even if they face Lin Pingzhi and Chen Yao's arrest and resist desperately, it is absolutely impossible to turn over." What kind of waves are caused, let alone directly wiped out Yangzhou Jinyiwei Yamen, Chen Yao, Lin Pingzhi and so many people."

Hearing what Li Huan said, a bright light flashed in Chen Ke's eyes and he said, "Your Excellency, you mean that there are other reasons behind the destruction of the Jinyiwei Yamen in Yangzhou?"

A cold light flashed in Li Huan's eyes and said: "Hmph, it seems that the entire officialdom of Yangzhou Mansion has been completely corrupted. I hadn't planned to attack Yangzhou Mansion immediately, but now it seems that these people are really crazy. Nian entrenched the place and acted recklessly, it is simply lawless and lawless."

Seeing Li Huan slapped the table case with a slap, the table case in front of him was scattered all over the place, and Li Huan suddenly got up and said: "I will enter the palace to see Your Majesty."

As he spoke, Li Huan strode out of the hall like a shooting star, leaving only a group of dignified people in the hall.

In the imperial city
In the Qianqing Palace, the banquet was over, and Zhu Houzhao was sitting there in a very good mood, looking through a list of rewards for meritorious officers and soldiers that had just been presented by the inner court not long ago.

This list of rewards was obviously drawn up not long ago, and now it will be finalized by Zhu Houzhao.

Looking at the long list of rewards, Zhu Houzhao saw the detailed background introductions of the people on the list, which gave Zhu Houzhao a detailed understanding of the list of rewards.

Many of the generals were from the Xungui Group, and Zhu Hou took care of the feats made by these people with a look of satisfaction on his face.

"It seems that the Xungui Group has not been completely reduced to waste. Li Qing's strategy of attracting the Xungui Group to check and balance the civil servant group is still somewhat possible."

Speaking of which, Zhu Houzhao mentioned that Zhu Bi picked up the pen after the names of those young generals who were born among nobles, and slightly changed the rewards about them.

Just when Zhu Houzhao was finalizing the list of rewards, he saw a figure hurriedly approaching outside the Qianqing Palace. It was none other than Ma Yongcheng, the governor of the East Factory.

Ma Yongcheng's face was full of solemnity, and he walked quickly with a memorial in his hand.

"Your Majesty, please see Ma Yongcheng!"

Qiu Ju whispered to Zhu Houzhao, bringing Zhu Houzhao back to his senses.

Zhu Houzhao, who raised his head, showed a bit of surprise on his face, and slowly put down the ink pen in his hand and said with a light smile, "It's about this time, why did Ma Daban come to see me, is there something wrong?"

While speaking, Zhu Houzhao stretched his waist and said, "Let him in."

Soon Ma Yongcheng bowed, walked in quickly with the memorial in his hand, bowed respectfully to Zhu Houzhao and said: "The old servant greets your majesty, long live your majesty, long live, long live."

Zhu Houzhao waved his hands and said, "My friend came to see me, but what's the matter?"

As he said that, Zhu Houzhao's eyes fell on the memorial in Ma Yongcheng's hand, and his face straightened, obviously realizing that the memorial that Ma Yongcheng sent at this time must be unusual, and it must be that something major happened.

It's just that Zhu Houzhao can't think of any major events. After all, the biggest event in the court is about the rewards of the meritorious soldiers in the court tomorrow morning. Unless it is a major event, other things will have to be temporarily adjourned.

Taking a deep breath, Ma Yongcheng presented the memorial and said: "Your Majesty, the Yangzhou government has urgently reported that the Jinyiwei Thousand Households in Yangzhou Prefecture have been destroyed, and the Jinyiwei Yamen has also been burned to nothing..."

Zhu Houzhao, who had just received a cup of tea from Qiu Ju, took a sip of warm tea, but before he could swallow it, he suddenly opened his eyes wide after hearing Ma Yongcheng's words, and spewed out a mouthful of tea, followed by a violent cough.

Zhu Houzhao's reaction startled Qiu Ju, Ma Yongcheng and others. Qiu Ju hurriedly wiped the table in front of the emperor, but at this moment Zhu Houzhao got up suddenly, stared at Ma Yongcheng and said in a deep voice: "What do you mean?" what!"

As the Son of Heaven, under the wrath of the thunder, an invisible force permeated the air, directly frightening the servants and maids serving in the Qianqing Palace, and fell to their knees one by one, including the one who served beside Zhu Houzhao. Qiu Ju's face also changed greatly in fright.

Ma Yongcheng trembled slightly and said, "Your Majesty, please take a look."

Taking a step forward, Zhu Houzhao walked up to Ma Yongcheng, and directly took the memorial in his hand to read it. Gradually, Zhu Houzhao's complexion became extremely ugly, and his original good mood disappeared.

Just like Li Huan's reaction, Zhu Houzhao, the supreme son of heaven, also saw the hidden information behind the memorial at a glance, so Zhu Houzhao also laughed angrily: "Even the emperor's military yamen is destroyed as soon as it is said." , Did you say that the Forbidden City will be burnt to ashes at some point?"

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