"Things are getting more and more difficult to deal with. The people below are making a big fuss..."

In the capital, Mingshi Square, when Shi Fenglai said to Yao Zongwen with a headache, Yao Zongwen frowned and said:

"Tell them not to make trouble and don't listen. If they start making trouble, Zhu Youjian will be able to catch it, and then it will be another big case!"

As he spoke, he put the tea cup in his hand on the table next to him and said at the same time:

"Then Wei Zhongxian is really as timid as a mouse. Cui Chengxiu has been to the ceremonial supervisor no less than three times during this period, right?"

"I went there five times, but every time I came back disappointed. I have said before that few eunuchs are courageous. Wei Zhongxian did not dare to betray Long Live, let alone face Zhu Youjian." Shi Fenglai picked up the teacup,

He took a small sip.

"Tang Binyin and others have all been admitted to Cishu, and Long Live has approved them all. Now you and I are the only ones in the temple."

Yao Zongwen said, feeling inexplicably nervous. After all, he was just a pawn of Fang Congzhe and others back then, but now he had to deal with Zhu Youjian, who couldn't even deal with Fang Congzhe and others. The gap in this gap is normal for people to be afraid of.

"Zhu Youjian didn't come to Beijing. He probably came to see the situation in Beijing." Shi Fenglai stroked his beard, put down the tea cup and continued:

"He knows very well that if he returns to Beijing, all the officials will have to bow their heads, and the matter will naturally not become a big deal."

"Now he is stopped in Baoding, which is more than 200 miles away from the capital. He can rush over at any time, or he can watch from the sidelines."

"It's just that this doesn't quite fit in with his past style. With his style, he shouldn't put pressure on Banzai."

Shi Fenglai was a little puzzled, but someone walked into the hall at this time. When Shi Fenglai raised his head, he suddenly frowned and looked at Yao Zongwen: "Did you invite me?"

"I invited you..." After Yao Zongwen responded, he looked up at the visitor and said:

"Feng Boheng, if you have no business, don't blame me for chasing away guests!"

Yao Zongwen's words revealed the identity of the visitor, and following his words, the man slowly walked into the meeting hall and bowed to the two of them:

"Bo Heng has met these two gentlemen..."

When the man bowed and raised his head, he revealed a young face in his early thirties. Facing him, Shi Fenglai said unkindly:

"If you didn't go find your Eunuch Wei, why did you come to us?"

The reason why Shi Fenglai separated you and me is because they basically turned a blind eye to Cui Chengxiu's summons during these days, and the Wenhua Palace also turned a deaf ear to Cui Chengxiu's suggestions.

The attitude of parting ways was so obvious that even Cui Chengxiu was so angry that he went back to his house and smashed things many times.

Under this situation, Feng Shuan, Wei Zhongxian's number one military advisor, should not have appeared in this place.

Feng Shuan, for those who are not familiar with the party struggle in the late Ming Dynasty, he may not be well-known.

But if you look carefully, this person can be said to be a troublemaker in the party struggle in the late Ming Dynasty.

During the Tianqi period, when the struggle between the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party was at its fiercest, he fought across the conflict to attack the Donglin Party members and other courtiers.

When the party struggle was intensifying, he even wrote to Wei Zhongxian's nephew Wei Liangqing, telling him that Wei Zhongxian's power in the outer court could be guaranteed, and instigating Wei Zhongxian to "exercise the imperial staff and raise the great prison" to establish his authority.

Under the planning of Feng Quan and other confidants of Wei Zhongxian, many people including Yang Lian died tragically one after another.

Later, with the support of Wei Zhongxian, he eloquently deceived Tianqi, and then served as the chief minister of the cabinet at the age of thirty.

Cui Chengxiu's position was replaced by him, and he directly became the eunuch's highest official in the outer court.

After Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, he also won over Zhou Yanru, Wei Dezao and others to prepare for his return. Fortunately, Chongzhen was not stupid and did not use him.

In the end, his choice also proved that Chongzhen was right in not using him, because when the Qing army entered the customs, he decisively chose to join the Qing Dynasty and entered the Third Inner Court to assist in machine maintenance.

People such as Dorgon and Shunzhi were deceived by his eloquent words. He served five emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties throughout his life. Finally, he died in the eleventh year of Kangxi and was given the posthumous title Wenmin.

If Qianlong hadn't included him in Part B of "The Biography of Erchen" decades later and pursued his posthumous title, perhaps this old boy would have achieved both fame and fortune.

If Feng Shuan could jump to such an extent, and still live a long life, enjoying fame and wealth, if Feng Shuan did not have two brushes, he would naturally not be able to survive the many party struggles in the late Ming Dynasty.

Facts also proved that at the age of thirty-two, he came up with a very good idea when faced with a situation that neither Yao Zongwen nor Shi Fenglai could handle.

"Wei Changgong has both ends. Although I am grateful for his kindness to me, I cannot obey him blindly."

"The reason why I'm here to look for these two gentlemen is just for the matter of "Official Officials' Deposits".

"Wansui and King Qi have already made up their mind about the "Official Deposit" matter, so I and the others have stopped saying anything..." Shi Fenglai saw Feng Shuan's little thoughts and did not reveal their anxiety.

However, when facing his words, Feng Shuan smiled and bowed:

"You two gentlemen are not worried, but the people below are as anxious as ants on a hot pot."

"If they do something to join forces, I'm afraid the two gentlemen will be implicated in the end..."

"..." Feng Shuan's words made Shi Fenglai and Yao Zongwen frown. They were indeed afraid of being implicated by some idiot officials of the Zhejiang Party, but this did not mean that they would be soft on Feng Shuan.

However, a person like Feng Shuan who is good at dancing with long sleeves would naturally not use threatening methods to offend others to achieve his goals, so he bowed politely:

"It is very simple to solve this matter. You two can use Cui Chengxiu's help to transfer some officials in Beijing to local places."

"Anyway, the current big case of the King of Qi is being ordered to prison. There are gaps in the yamen everywhere. It is not difficult to resettle some people."

"The only difficult thing is that after they are resettled, they will definitely be noticed by the Jin Yiwei, and once they commit corruption in the local area, they will inevitably implicate the entire children of eastern Zhejiang..."

"But on this point, you two gentlemen should know how to warn them better than the students."

Feng Shuan spoke to the point, and Yao Zongwen also thought it was a good idea after hearing it.

"It's very simple, but after they are sent abroad, they can still go to Shuji to Long Live." Shi Fenglai poured cold water on Yao Zongwen with one sentence, but Feng Shuan laughed and said:

"It's very simple. Just find something for them to do so that they don't have to worry about distractions."

"Looking for something to do?" Shi Fenglai frowned, while Feng Shuan continued:

"Zhejiang has suffered from seawater intrusion in more than one place. It makes sense to give up the position of Beijing officials to Yanshan officials to fight for Zhejiang and make Zhejiang's management impregnable."

"Zhejiang has one-fifth of the people of the Ming Dynasty and one-quarter of the students of the Ming Dynasty."

"Once Zhejiang is won over, even if the King of Qi wants to control the two in the future, he will still need to consider the ideas of the people of Zhejiang..."

"Will he consider the thoughts of the people?" Shi Fenglai sneered. In his opinion, many heroes throughout the ages have said they "love the people", but in fact they are just shouting slogans.

Love the people today, massacre the city tomorrow, this is the same. Only a few people maintain military discipline, but they do the same to the people.

Zhu Youjian shouted slogans about loving the people, or reduced land taxes and miscellaneous items, but it was all for the sake of the rule of his Zhu family.

However, it turns out that Shi Fenglai did not understand Zhu Youjian at all. In terms of understanding of Zhu Youjian, he was even inferior to Feng Shuan.

"Haha..." Facing Shi Fenglai's words, Feng Shuan chuckled softly:

"Throughout the ages, anyone who has the heart of an emperor really does not care about the opinions of the people, but I would like to ask you two gentlemen, do you think His Highness the King of Qi has the heart to be the emperor?"

"This..." Feng Shuan's words immediately stopped Yao Zongwen and Shi Fenglai.

Does Zhu Youjian have the ambition to become emperor? In fact, they already have the answer to this question, but they themselves are unwilling to believe it.

People always think the worst about their opponents. Although from a logical point of view, it seems that Zhu Youjian has no intention of becoming emperor, Yao Zongwen and the others are still unwilling to admit it.

The reason is very simple. They all consider the problem from their own perspective, and they all believe that if they were Zhu Youjian, they would definitely oust Zhu Youxiao from the throne when the time comes and rule the world by themselves.

Does Zhu Youjian have this strength? No one doubts...

"If Zhu Youjian had the intention to become emperor, Long Live would have been kicked off the throne long ago and imprisoned in Nangong..."

Feng Shuan talked eloquently: "What bargaining chip does Long Live have now? The officials are not on his side, the generals are not on his side, but the taxation power is managed by Wang Cheng'en, Cao Huachun, and Bi Ziyan who were promoted by His Highness King Qi.

"

"The people in the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion, as well as the Yanshan officials, all dreamed of dying suddenly, and then pushed their Prince Qi to the throne because the young master was unable to control the world."

"As long as His Highness Prince Qi shows a little bit of interest in the throne, Long Live's head will be hung on the Ming Gate without him having to say anything..."

What Feng Shuan said was treasonous, but everyone knew that the status of Zhu Youjian and Zhu Youxiao had actually changed.

If we say that four years before the Apocalypse, Zhu Youjian still needed to rely on Zhu Youxiao for what he did, and he still needed Zhu Youxiao to support him. Four years after the Apocalypse, it was actually Zhu Youjian who was supporting Zhu Youxiao.

Already.

"The three guards of the imperial city, the Han general..."

"Can these really be controlled by Banzai? I'm afraid even the five thousand Pure Army can't be controlled by Banzai, right?"

Feng Shuan detailed Zhu Youxiao's embarrassing situation, and the expressions of Yao Zongwen and Shi Fenglai were also thought-provoking.

However, Feng Shuan did not stop at this, but continued: "In the current situation, if King Qi hadn't valued friendship, he would have sat on the throne long ago."

"Students do not deny that His Highness the King of Qi is a talented and powerful person, nor do they deny that His Highness the King of Qi is good at running the country and is successful at every step..."

"Of course, these are only some of the characteristics of His Highness King Qi, but after all, these characteristics cannot suppress the thoughts of the people below."

"What do you two think is the reason why His Highness the King of Qi was able to suppress the group of arrogant soldiers in the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion..."

Without giving Yao Zongwen and Yao Zongwen a chance to think, Feng Shuan raised two fingers:

"His Royal Highness, King Qi, is good at nothing more than two words... being able to fight!"

"Feng Boheng, are you kidding?" Yao Zongwen had also served as a military officer. In his opinion, Zhu Youjian always relied on quantity to win in battles, and used force to overwhelm others.

But his self-conception was completely wrong in Feng Shuan's view. Facing Yao Zongwen's doubts, Feng Shuan shook his head and chuckled:

"The battle of Shen Liao can be said to be the result of His Highness King Qi's luck, and the battle of Fu Liao can also be said to be a matter of strength. But the two of you have forgotten the suppression of the White Lotus Rebellion in the second year of Tianqi, and the subsequent battle of Fu Tao. , the second sweep of the North?"

"The White Lotus Sect rebelled. Although the Four Horse Guards of Shangzhi were elite, the King of Qi defeated two hundred thousand rebels in less than half a month. If the rebels were not used to force the vassals to accept reforms, I am afraid that fifteen days would be enough. Two hundred thousand rebels were killed twice."

"Throughout the ages, if the number of rebels exceeds 100,000, who can capture many of the thieves alive in just half a month with less than 30,000 people?"
To be continued...