Hundreds of households in Liaodong, covering the light with one hand

Chapter 268: What’s the big deal if the Nanjing Ministry of Industry dies?
  On the 17th day of the twelfth lunar month in the second year of the Ming Dynasty, more than a hundred family members of four court officials who died in the capital were assassinated near Kaifeng Prefecture in Henan Province. No one was spared.

On the 18th day of the twelfth lunar month in the second year of the Ming Dynasty, Ma Shiying, the newly appointed head of the Nanjing Household Department, died outside Nanjing.

On the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month in the second year of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Qi killed more than a hundred policemen on the official road of Xuzhou Prefecture, and then beheaded Xu Liangyan, the minister of the Ministry of Industry in Nanjing.

For a time, the world shook.

What does Qi Guogong want to do?
  Not only the Donglin group, but also Ye Xianggao, Sun Chengzong and others who were far away in the capital were also horrified. They immediately thought that this was a fantasy - unless Wang Qi really wanted to rebel?
  impossible!
  Ye Xianggao shook his head and categorically rejected the idea.

On the side were Sun Chengzong, Wang Huazhen, Lu Yu and Wei Zhongxian, the director of the Supervisor of Ceremonies.

"The Duke of Qi is extremely loyal, and it is absolutely impossible for him to do such a disaster! First of all, the death of the four Donglin officials had nothing to do with the Duke. The death of their family members now makes it even more clear that someone framed the Duke. Lord!" Ye Xianggao sat on a chair, glanced at everyone, and his tone was already absolute: "Here, the head of the Nanjing Household Department, Ma Shiying, died because he was riding in the Duke of Qi's sedan. This is because someone wanted to assassinate the Duke of Qi. .You don’t need to think about these two points! Just leave it to your department!"

"Then, what about the third point?" Sun Chengzong on the side said softly.

Point three?
  For a moment, the entire hall was silent, and no one spoke.

The Duke of Qi beheaded the imperial official in the street.

Nearly ten thousand people witnessed it, how can I say this?
  "Ahem, cough, as far as I know," Lu Yu coughed twice before tentatively speaking: "In the case of Xuzhou Mansion, it was not the Duke of Qi who took the initiative, but Yang Lian and others who stirred up the trouble first. It caused the world to get out of control and get to such an extent."

After hearing Lu Yu's words, everyone's eyes turned, but no one said anything when they looked at the Minister of Household Affairs.

The truth is this, but things cannot be said that way.

Even if you are an emperor, there is still a process to kill someone, right?
  Are you, Duke of Qi, older than the emperor?

Besides, no matter what, is it okay to commit murder on the street?
  Now, everyone is just happy that Wang Qi did not directly kill Yang Lian, otherwise students from all over Jiangsu and Zhejiang would probably have to go to Beijing by bus.

"The emperor sent our family here not to listen to your random speculations. Do you have an accurate charter?" Finally, Wei Zhongxian, who had been sitting silently on the sidelines, finally spoke and glanced at the table with his finger: "This behavior of Duke Qi made the emperor very sad. unhappy."

"Eunuch Wei, do you want to summon the Duke of Qi back to the capital for questioning? After all, for such a valuable and meritorious figure, why don't I just wait here and make a conclusion directly?" As an uncle, Wang Huazhen still spoke to Wang Qi. At this time, the final The most important thing is to wait until Wang Qi comes back. As long as Wang Qi relents and admits his mistake, what else is unacceptable in front of the emperor?
  After all, Wang Qi was not present when Liu Yijing's blood spattered Qianqing Palace.

"However, as far as our family knows, there has been no news about Duke Qi for many days after the blood was spilled on the official road of Xuzhou Prefecture. How can our family explain to the emperor?" Wei Zhongxian, as the head of the Supervisor of Ceremonies, what he needs at this time is to stand before the emperor. aside.

Anyway, Zhu Youxiao was extremely angry and horrified after hearing about this incident.

Killing people in the street, what is Wang Qi doing?
  rebellion?

Do you pride yourself on your merits?

Or is there another picture?
  Zhu Youxiao, who has been emperor for two years, to be honest, is not ready to really fall out with Wang Qi.

The things we did in the early stage were all tentative approaches.

When it came time to meet head-to-head, Zhu Youxiao still felt a little guilty and his calves were still weak.

After all, on the side of the couch, not far from the capital, there were more than 100,000 cavalrymen from Liaodong watching eagerly.

If Wang Qi goes crazy, no one in the entire Ming Dynasty can stop his anger.

So what exactly is he trying to do?
  Zhu Youxiao stayed up all night and sent Wei Zhongxian to Wenyuan Pavilion early this morning to summon several cabinet members to discuss countermeasures.

At this moment, in Wenyuan Pavilion, several big shots were sitting, but no one spoke, and the atmosphere was subtle and abnormal. Faced with this situation, Emperor Sun Chengzong was a little unhappy.

What is the situation now?
  Sun Chengzong felt that the current situation in the Ming Dynasty was more serious than the situation in Liaodong at the time.

Now there is Wang Qi's unspeakable anger outside, and the slightest mistake can cause the country to overthrow; inside there is the Chief of Ceremonies who is monopolizing power. The emperor has not shown his face for half a month, and only sent the Chief of Ceremonies' cronies to contact the cabinet personnel to convey the decree. .

Wufu, eunuch.
  This situation has been so familiar for thousands of years.

"I suggest you not to convict Qi Guogong easily. This matter can be big or small. To put it bluntly, a minister from the Ministry of Industry in Nanjing died. He, Yang Lian, dared to take more than a hundred officers to arrest people in the street just on the basis of a so-called guess. It’s no big deal if Duke Qi resists,” Sun Chengzong finally spoke, wanting to end the meeting.

The death of a minister of the Ministry of Industry is no big deal?
  As soon as these words came out, even Wei Zhongxian's eyelids twitched.

There are hundreds of police officers, and you don’t even mention them?
  "I thought we would wait until the Duke of Qi returns to the capital." Sun Chengzong looked at Wei Zhongxian: "Your Majesty, I would like to trouble you to reply to Eunuch Wei. The reputation of the Duke of Qi is too great to be easily condemned, so as not to cause turmoil in the world and uneasy people."

One word, wait.

Wei Zhongxian sat back in his chair and tapped his fingers on the table, as if he was still thinking.

"Eunuch Wei," Wang Huazhen put down the tea cup and asked softly as if by accident: "I heard that the emperor wants to mobilize Yang Changsi and Shi Kefa to Beijing in the near future?"

Um? ! !
  Wei Zhongxian stopped his fingers and his eyes became serious.

After looking at Wang Huazhen intently for a while, Wei Zhongxian grinned: "Haha, it's not difficult to ask the emperor to wait for Duke Qi to return to Beijing before questioning him. After all, Duke Qi is well-known, so it doesn't matter if he makes an exception."

Yang Changsi, who is Shi Kefa?
  Donglin is the benchmark and the new backbone.

What they have to do when they enter Beijing is to balance the power of the court, and Wei Zhongxian's eunuch party is the first to bear the brunt.

So Wang Huazhen was reminding Wei Zhongxian that now, speaking for Duke Qi was also paving the way for the future power game.

After all, providing help in times of need is much more important in people's hearts than adding icing on the cake.

"Then I'll contact Duke Qi first and wait for him to return to Beijing before talking to the emperor?" Ye Xianggao said to end the matter.

"I agree," Sun Chengzong nodded.

"You can also be a lower-ranking official," Wang Huazhen and Lu Yu nodded in agreement.

"We can reply to the emperor first and delay it for a while." Wei Zhongxian pursed his lips and added: "But the time cannot be too long. If it exceeds five days, we can't say what the emperor will do."

Ye Xianggao and the others looked at each other, but still cupped their hands and said, "Thank you, Eunuch Wei."

Not long after, Wei Zhongxian left.

Only a few people from the cabinet were sitting in the hall.

After a long silence, Ye Xianggao spoke up: "Besides Nanjing City, where will the Qi Guild go?"

"There is no trace on the road," Sun Chengzong frowned: "You can't take the sea route, right?"

(End of this chapter)