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Chapter 453
Under Zhu Houzhao's gaze, the seriousness on Li Huan's face did not change, and he slowly said: "According to the Jin Yiwei's secret report, in the south of the Yangtze River, the connections between some gentry and powerhouses suddenly became much closer. The most important thing is that these People are vaguely related to the same person."

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but wondered: "I don't know who is able to connect these gentry tyrants together."

Zhu Houzhao is not stupid. If he can connect the powerful nobles in these places, then the identity of this person must not be simple, and it is precisely because of this that Zhu Houzhao is even more curious.

"Former cabinet minister, Wang Jia!"

"What, it turned out to be him, how could it be him!"

In Zhu Houzhao's view, Wang Ji is a veteran minister of several dynasties. Although he is not an important minister of Tuogu, he is also a countable important minister above the court, and he has always been relied on and trusted by him, the emperor.

If it weren't for the fact that the former Wang Jia was unwilling to give in to Li Huan, the emperor's trust in Wang Jia would never allow him to resign and return to his hometown.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Houzhao was so surprised when he suddenly heard Li Huan mention that it was Wang Jia who linked many noble families in the south of the Yangtze River.

Seeing Zhu Houzhao's reaction, Li Huan smiled lightly and said, "Your Majesty is very surprised, but if His Majesty finds out who Wang Jia is running around for, and then he will be even more surprised. "

At this time, Zhu Houzhao had realized something, and his face became ugly. He took a deep breath and looked at Li Huan and said, "Tell me, who is Wang Jia running around for?"

"Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao of Nanchang Mansion!"

With a bang, Zhu Houzhao slapped the table with a slap, his face became extremely gloomy and ugly, and he couldn't help but cursed in a hurry: "Okay, okay, what a king Ning, he really has a wicked heart. Punish him to shut himself up and think about his mistakes, but he is so lucky that he secretly made small moves in the south of the Yangtze River, do you really think I dare not remove him from the clan of King Ning!"

It can be seen that Zhu Houzhao is really very annoyed. At the beginning, King Ning hooked up with some officials in the court, intending to use his heirs as heirs in the name of the emperor, in order to seek the throne of the emperor.

Unexpectedly, King Ning turned out to be a villain now, and kept making small moves.

Others don't know, but Li Huan is very clear about this Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao.

During Zhu Houzhao's Zhengde dynasty, the most famous event in history should be the rebellion of King Ning.

And the protagonist of this incident is King Ning Zhu Chenhao, so Li Huan arranged Jin Yiwei's manpower to secretly monitor King Ning Zhu Chenhao early on.

It can be imagined that under such circumstances, although Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao said that many small actions were very secretive, it was really difficult to hide from Jin Yiwei's supervision.

Because of this, King Ning thought that it was very secretive that he sent Liu Yangzheng to Jiangnan to win over some local gentry and powerful men for help, but he didn't know that his little tricks were all under the supervision of Jin Yiwei.

Zhu Houzhao, who had vented his anger, calmed down a little, his eyes fell on Li Huan and he said: "Li Qing, pass on my order, and King Ning will bring his family to Beijing immediately!"

Zhu Houzhao’s purpose was obviously aimed at King Ning deliberately. At this time, King Ning was called to Beijing, and King Ning’s family was called to Beijing together. However, if King Ning’s family entered the capital, life or death would be in the hands of the emperor. bingo.

Li Huan did not persuade the emperor, all signs showed that King Ning had already had bad intentions, whether the emperor ordered him to go to the capital or ordered the Jin Yiwei to arrest King Ning, in Li Huan's view, everything was just an extravagant wish.

King Ning is not a fool. King Ning's lineage has been entrenched in Nanchang Mansion for many years. I dare not say that it has already infiltrated Nanchang Mansion up and down, but Nanchang Mansion is definitely home for King Ning.

If King Ning wants to rebel, the power of the imperial court in Nanchang Mansion alone may not be able to stop King Ning's power.

After all, King Ning is not a fool. If he hadn't mastered enough strength and strength, he would not have jumped out of his control to rebel. After all, few people would do the thing of sending death for nothing.

After giving the order, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but looked at Li Huan curiously and said, "Is there nothing Li Qing wants to say?"

Seeing the emperor's appearance, Li Huan couldn't help but laughed and said: "What does your majesty want me to say, do you want me to persuade your majesty not to be impulsive, or to persuade your majesty to send an army to Nanchang mansion to capture King Ning..."

As he said that, Li Huan said with some certainty: "King Ning's rebellion is inevitable, the general trend is, even if His Majesty wins King Ning, I am afraid that other clans will be encouraged to jump out to rebel. Those people will never give up if they don’t go through a big cleansing.”

Zhu Houzhao's face showed a bit of dejection, and he sat there with a bit of sentimentality: "Is this chaos really inevitable? If there is a chaos, I don't know how many people will suffer from military disasters." In the suffering of war, I really don't want to see the common people Liuli, with countless casualties."

Li Huan shook his head slowly. Because he is in charge of Jinyiwei, no one knows the root cause of this chaos better than him. It seems that King Ning wanted to rebel, but in the end it was those conservative vested interest groups who aimed at the New Deal. launched a counterattack.

Under the general situation of Taotao, not to mention that King Ning was already ambitious, and the two sides hit it off in love and adultery. Even if King Ning chose to keep his duty, other people would be pushed out.

Since ancient times, there has never been a bloodless reform. At the beginning of the reform, Li Huan, Wang Yangming and even the emperor were all psychologically prepared for bloody conflicts.

This time the New Deal seemed to be implemented smoothly, but in fact it only temporarily suppressed the contradictions. With the collection of the summer tax, the originally suppressed contradictions showed signs of being unable to be suppressed.

Why did Wang Yangming support Li Huan so much, and why did Li Huan attach so much importance to the transfer of money and food collected from the Xia Tax? An undercurrent gradually surging.

As the emperor, Zhu Houzhao naturally did not want to see turmoil in the world. Although he was full of confidence in Li Huan and Wang Yangming, he was not worried that the turmoil of those people would really endanger the Ming Dynasty, but with his temperament, he still I can't bear it.

Just like what he said just now, when there is turmoil, I don't know how many people will die because of it.

"Ninety-nine out of ten officials in Nanchang Mansion are frequent visitors of Prince Ning's Mansion. From high-ranking government officials to fast-tracking officials, they are all recruited by Prince Ning's Mansion. , if there is no change in the imperial court, it’s fine, but anyone who wants to replace these Ning Wang’s party officials wantonly, I’m afraid these people will turn against him immediately.”

It can only be said that the many years of hard work of King Ning's family are really not without some results. Even if Li Huan is in charge of Jinyiwei, after King Ning came into his sight, he has already sent a large number of elite Jinyiwei personnel to Nanchang Mansion, but there is nothing he can do. Ning Wang, who is deeply rooted in Nanchang Mansion.

Hearing what Li Huan said, a cold light flashed in Zhu Houzhao's eyes and said: "Since this cancer will be pierced sooner or later, it is better to pierce this cancer as soon as possible, instead of letting King Ning continue to link up and affect more people." It is a cancerous tumor, and strive to limit the harm to the minimum."

Li Huan opened his mouth, nodded slightly and said, "Your Majesty is wise."

Zhu Houzhao looked at Li Huan and said, "I know that Li Qing wants to catch big fish with a long line, and wipe out the families of powerful gentry and gentlemen in those places. I also have the same idea, but that will definitely greatly boost the reputation of King Changning. I don’t know how many people will be involved in the suppression of the rebellion.”

Li Huan sighed softly, and said with a bit of guilt: "Your Majesty's benevolence is the blessing of the people in the world."

Looking at Li Huan, Zhu Houzhao said: "Although Li Qing can rest assured, there are ways to deal with those gentry tyrants. After the rebellion is put down, Li Qing and Jin Yiwei will probably be even busier!"

Li Huan and others, when the emperor said this, Li Huan immediately understood the meaning of the emperor's words.

Immediately Li Huan saluted the emperor and said, "Your Majesty is wise!"

Zhu Houzhao smiled and looked at Li Huan and said, "Li Qing, let's pass the decree quickly, I really hope that Ning Wang's family can enter Beijing honestly, even if in the future, I will spend more effort to solve those people. and forces!"

Although the Son of Heaven called King Ning and his relatives to Beijing, although he said that the decree was sent through the clan mansion instead of the cabinet, the news spread very quickly.

As Li Huan and the emperor said, King Ning's rebellion is not just about King Ning, but a counterattack by those conservative vested interest groups.

Whether it is in the local area or in the court, it can be said that there are officials who have hooked up with King Ning.

It can be imagined that the emperor's will has just been issued, and someone has already spread it as quickly as possible.

The speed of the court's decree is not slow, but it is still a lot slower than the speed of these people and forces to warn King Ning.

Nanchang Mansion, Prince Ning Mansion

In a secret room, Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao was sitting at the head in high spirits at the moment, and a few figures were sitting below him.

Among them are Li Shishi, Liu Yangzheng, Wang Lun, Li Fu and other confidantes of King Ning.

Looking at the confidantes sitting there, King Ning stroked his beard and couldn't help laughing and said: "My lords, you are foolish and have no way, and you favor and trust traitors, so that the world is raging, and the scholars are eccentric. The destiny is lonely, the destiny is lonely!"

Obviously, Liu Yangzheng's return brought peace of mind to King Ning, and it greatly increased King Ning's confidence.

This is not to blame for King Ning, because the news brought back by Liu Yangzheng this time is so amazing, even King Ning himself did not expect that there are so many local tyrants and gentry in the south of the Yangtze River who are willing to help him. Wait for him to hold high the banner on the side of the Qing emperor, and wait for him to lead the army to kill, and they will respond in groups.

This news can be said to be great news for King Ning, and it is also the good news brought by Liu Yangzheng's return that completely strengthened King Ning's determination to rebel.

Liu Yangzheng's face was also full of complacency. This time he went to the south of the Yangtze River as the secret envoy of King Ning, not to mention how smooth it was. It can be said that wherever he passed, he easily attracted the help of countless people for King Ning.

Li Shishi on the side looked at the triumphant look on Liu Yangzheng's face, not to mention how unhappy he was. He thought it would be a hard job for him to push Liu Yangzheng out and let him go to the south of the Yangtze River. Who would have thought that Liu Yangzheng would make such a great contribution .

Wang Lun on the side laughed loudly and said: "Congratulations, congratulations to the lord, the lord is destined to return, and he will definitely be crowned the Great Treasure in the future, and become the Ninth Five-Year Honor!"

All of a sudden, everyone was flattering, and King Ning was in high spirits. He laughed and said, "On the day when the lonely king pays his respects to the south, I will never forget your family's contribution to the dragon."

While talking, King Ning looked at Li Shishi and said, "Sir, the lonely king ordered you to prepare food and grass, make ordnance and other supplies, I don't know..."

Li Shishi hurriedly said: "Your Highness, don't worry, everything is complete, and all the supplies are enough to meet the needs of an army of [-] for half a year."

King Ning nodded with great satisfaction, his eyes fell on Wang Lun and said: "General Wang, the lonely king ordered you to secretly recruit Qing Zhuang, how is it now?"

Wang Lun stood up suddenly and said loudly: "Go back to the prince, thirty thousand young and strong men have gathered, and when the armor and weapons are distributed, they can pull up a large army to fight for the prince at any time."

If you want people, you need money, you need food, you need food. In the eyes of King Ning, everything is ready and only Dongfeng is owed.

King Ning asked a lot of people, and all of them received satisfactory answers. The smile on his face became even bigger, and he immediately stood up and raised his glass to everyone, saying, "Everyone, drink this cup to the brim!"

Everyone stood up and raised their glasses together.

Just at this time, a burst of hurried footsteps came in a hurry, directly interrupting the high spirits of the crowd.

So much so that King Ning looked towards the door of the quiet room rather displeased when he heard the footsteps.

You must know that he had ordered that no one should approach the quiet room without his order, and now that someone dared to break in, King Ning was naturally very dissatisfied.

But when he saw the person coming clearly, King Ning frowned and shouted at the person, "Why are you so flustered?"

The person who came was none other than Zhu Gongxi, the son of King Ning.

Seeing Zhu Gongxi with a bit of panic on his face, he entered the quiet room and under the gaze of everyone, he seemed to feel the danger of King Ning, so Zhu Gongxi hurriedly saluted King Ning and said, "Father, the matter is not serious. Alright, Lord Hun is going to attack our father and son!"

Hearing Zhu Gongxi's words, King Ning couldn't help being taken aback, his face showed a bit of astonishment and doubt, and subconsciously said: "What's going on."

Not only King Ning, but the rest of the people in the quiet room also changed their complexions, looking at Zhu Gongxi in surprise.

Zhu Gongxi immediately presented a secret letter to King Ning and said, "Father, please read, this is a secret warning letter from Beijing!"

King Ning immediately took the secret letter and looked through it carefully, his face gradually became more and more solemn.

With a bang, King Ning slapped his palm on the table and said angrily: "What a fool, he actually wants to call my Prince Ning's residence into the capital. Is he trying to wipe out all of my Prince Ning family?"

Speaking of which, King Ning sneered and handed the secret letter in his hand to Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng who were looking at him with concern: "Let's take a look, gentlemen, the faint king actually summoned my father and son to Beijing, he wouldn't think that the lonely king He will foolishly obey the order and go to Beijing to die!"

(End of this chapter)