Under Zhu Houzhao's gaze, the solemn look on Li Huan's face did not change, and he slowly said: "According to the Jinyiwei secret report, in the south of the Yangtze River, some nobles and powerful people have suddenly become much closer to each other. The most important thing is that these
People are closely related to the same person."
Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but wonder: "I wonder who he is, who can actually connect these powerful nobles together."
Zhu Houzhao is not stupid. If he can connect the powerful noble families in these places, then this person's identity must not be simple. Because of this, Zhu Houzhao is even more curious.
"Former cabinet minister, Wang Hao!"
"What, it's him, how could it be him!"
In Zhu Houzhao's view, Wang Hao was a veteran minister of several dynasties. Although he was not an independent minister, he was still one of the most important ministers in the court. He had always been relied upon and trusted by the emperor.
If Wang Hao hadn't refused to give in to Li Huan in the previous episode, given the emperor's trust in Wang Hao, he would never have allowed him to resign and return home.
It was precisely because of this that Zhu Houzhao was so surprised when he suddenly heard Li Huan mention that it was Wang Hao who connected many powerful nobles in Jiangnan.
Seeing Zhu Houzhao's reaction in his eyes, Li Huan chuckled and said: "Your Majesty is very surprised, but if your Majesty later knows who Wang Hao is running for and is the source of information, I'm afraid your Majesty will be even more surprised.
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At this time, Zhu Houzhao had already realized something, his face became ugly, he took a deep breath and looked at Li Huan and said: "Tell me, who is Wang Hao running for!"
"Zhu Chenhao, Prince Ning of Nanchang Prefecture!"
With a bang, Zhu Houzhao slapped the table, his face became extremely gloomy and ugly, and he couldn't help but cursed: "Okay, okay, what a good Prince Ning, he is really evil, I
He was punished to shut himself up and think about his mistakes, but it was a good thing for him to secretly start a small move in Jiangnan. Do you really think that I don't dare to remove him from the clan of Prince Ning?"
It could be seen that Zhu Houzhao was really very angry. He thought that King Ning had colluded with some officials in the court in order to use his son to inherit his name as the emperor, in order to seek the throne of emperor.
Unexpectedly, Prince Ning is so evil now and keeps making little moves.
Others don't know, but Li Huan knows this Ning Prince Zhu Chenhao very well.
During the reign of Zhu Houzhao and Zhengde, the most famous incident in history should be the rebellion of King Ning.
The protagonist of this incident was Prince Ning Zhu Chenhao, so Li Huan had already arranged for Jin Yiwei to secretly monitor Prince Ning Zhu Chenhao.
It can be imagined that in this situation, although Prince Ning Zhu Chenhao said that many of his small actions were very secretive, it was really difficult to hide them from the surveillance of Jin Yiwei.
Because of this, King Ning thought that it was very secret that he sent Liu Yangzheng to the land of Jiangnan to win over some local gentry and powerful people in Jiangnan for help, but he did not know that all his little actions were under the supervision of Jin Yiwei.
Zhu Houzhao, who had vented his anger, calmed down a little, and his eyes fell on Li Huan and said: "Li Qing, pass on my decree, and Prince Ning will bring his family to the capital immediately!"
Zhu Houzhao's decree was obviously aimed at King Ning. He summoned King Ning to the capital at this time, and also summoned King Ning's family to the capital. However, whenever King Ning's family enters the capital, their life or death will be completely under the control of the emperor.
bingo.
Li Huan did not persuade the emperor. Various signs showed that King Ning had evil intentions. Whether the emperor issued an order to summon him to the capital or ordered the royal guards to capture King Ning and enter the capital, Li Huan believed that everything was just extravagant hope.
Prince Ning is not a fool. Prince Ning's lineage has been entrenched in Nanchang Mansion for many years. I dare not say that he has penetrated all the Nanchang Mansion, but Nanchang Mansion is definitely the home court for Prince Ning.
If King Ning wanted to start a rebellion, the imperial court's power in Nanchang Mansion alone might not be able to stop King Ning's power.
After all, Prince Ning was not a fool. If he had not mastered enough strength and power, he would not have jumped out to rebel without knowing what he was capable of. After all, not many people would die in vain.
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After the order, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but look at Li Huan curiously and said, "Li Qing doesn't have anything to say?"
Seeing the emperor's appearance, Li Huan couldn't help but laugh and said: "What do you want me to say? Do you want me to persuade you not to be impulsive, or do you want me to persuade you to send a large army to Nanchang Mansion to capture Prince Ning?"
Li Huan said with some certainty: "The rebellion of Prince Ning is inevitable. It is the general trend. Even if His Majesty takes over Prince Ning, I am afraid that other clans will be incited to rebel. If
Without going through a major purge, those people will never give up."
Zhu Houzhao had a look of dejection on his face. He sat there and said with a bit of sadness: "Is this chaos really inevitable? You have to know that if there is a chaos, I don't know how many people will suffer from military disasters."
In the midst of the war, I really don’t want to see the sight of countless people dying and being injured.”
Li Huan slowly shook his head. Because he was in charge of Jinyiwei, no one knew the root cause of this chaos better than him. It seemed that Prince Ning wanted to rebel, but in the final analysis, it was the conservative vested interest groups who were targeting the New Deal.
launched a counterattack.
Under the general trend of Taotao, not to mention that Prince Ning was already ambitious and the two of them hit it off instantly, even if Prince Ning chose to stick to his duties, others would be pushed out.
Since ancient times, reforms have never been without bloodshed. At the beginning of the reform, Li Huan, Wang Yangming and even the emperor were mentally prepared for violence.
The new policy seemed to be implemented smoothly, but in fact it only temporarily suppressed the contradictions. With the imposition of summer taxes, the contradictions that had been suppressed already showed signs of being unsuppressable.
Why did Wang Yangming support Li Huan so much, and why did Li Huan attach so much importance to the transfer of money and grain collected from the summer tax? In the final analysis, it was just Li Huan. Wang Yangming relied on his keen intuition to detect what was going on beneath the calm surface.
The undercurrent is gradually rising.
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 in my heart.
Just like what he just said, with the turmoil, I don't know how many people will lose their lives as a result.
"Nine out of ten officials in Nanchang Prefecture are frequent visitors to Prince Ning's Mansion. From the government office to the police officers, they are all under the auspices of Prince Ning's Mansion. Officials from the local health center of Nanchang Prefecture are even fed by Prince Ning.
"It's enough, it's fine if there are no changes in the court, but if you want to replace these officials from King Ning's party in a big way, I'm afraid these people will rebel immediately."
It can only be said that many years of hard work by King Ning and his family have not yielded any results. Even though Li Huan was in charge of Jinyiwei and sent a large number of Jinyiwei elite personnel to Nanchang Mansion after King Ning came into his sight, he still had no choice but to do it.
Prince Ning, who is deeply entrenched in Nanchang Mansion.
Hearing what Li Huan said, Zhu Houzhao flashed a cold light in his eyes and said: "Since this cancer will be broken sooner or later, then instead of continuing to let King Ning continue to connect and affect more people, it is better to break this cancer as soon as possible."
This is a cancer, and we strive to limit the harm to the smallest possible range."
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 take a long-term approach to catch the big fish and catch all the powerful gentry families in those places. I also have the same idea, but in that case, it will definitely increase the momentum of King Ning. When the time comes,
If we put down the rebellion, I don’t know how many people will be involved.”
Li Huan sighed softly and said with a bit of guilt: "Your Majesty's kindness is a blessing to the people of the world."
Looking at Li Huan, Zhu Houzhao said: "Don't worry, Li Qing. There are ways to deal with those powerful nobles. After the rebellion is put down, Li Qing and the 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.
Li Huan immediately saluted the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, you are wise!"
Zhu Houzhao smiled and looked at Li Huan and said: "Li Qing, please hurry up and pass the order. I really hope that Prince Ning's family can come to Beijing honestly, even if I have to spend more effort to deal with those people in the future."
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power!"
Although the emperor summoned Prince Ning and his family to the capital, although the decree was not sent through the cabinet but through the clan mansion, the news spread at an extremely fast speed.
As Emperor Li Huantong said, King Ning's rebellion was not just a matter of King Ning, but a counterattack by those conservative vested interest groups.
Whether at the local level or at the court, it can be said that there are officials who are in cahoots with King Ning.
It can be imagined that as soon as the emperor's decree was issued, someone had already spread it out as quickly as possible. The speed of the imperial court's decree was not slow, but it was still slower than the speed of these people and forces to warn King Ning.
A lot of them. Nanchang Mansion, Prince Ning’s Mansion
In a secret room, Prince Ning Zhu Chenhao was sitting at the top of the table in a high-spirited manner, with several figures sitting below him.
Among them were Li Shishi, Liu Yangzheng, Wang Lun, Li Fu and other close men of King Ning.
Looking at all the confidants sitting there, Prince Ning couldn't help but smile while stroking his beard: "You gentlemen, you are ignorant and ignorant, favoring women and sycophants. As a result, the world is in chaos, and the scholars are alienated. God's destiny is alone. God's destiny is alone."
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Obviously, Liu Yangzheng's return brought reassurance to King Ning and greatly increased his confidence.
It’s no wonder that this is wrong with Prince Ning. The news that Liu Yangzheng brought back this time was really shocking. Even Prince Ning himself didn’t expect that there were so many local powerful people in the south of the Yangtze River, and the gentry was willing to help him.
Wait for him to hold high the banner beside Qing Jun, and when he leads the army to fight, they will gather to respond.
This news can be said to be great news for King Ning, and it was the good news that Liu Yangzheng brought back when he returned that completely strengthened King Ning's determination to rebel.
Liu Yangzheng's face was also filled with pride. This time he went to Jiangnan as Prince Ning's secret envoy. Not to mention how smooth everything went. It could be said that wherever he passed, he easily attracted the help of countless people for Prince Ning.
Li Shishi on the side looked at the proud look on Liu Yangzheng's face, not to mention how unhappy he was. He originally thought that pushing Liu Yangzheng out and letting him go to Jiangnan would be a hard task. Who would have thought that Liu Yangzheng would make such a big contribution?
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Wang Lun on the side laughed loudly and said: "Congratulations to the prince, congratulations to the prince, the prince is destined to be the king, and he will definitely be crowned with great treasures and achieve the ninth-five-year status!"
For a moment, everyone was praising him, which made King Ning feel elated and laughed loudly: "On the day when the lonely king faces south to pay his respects, he will not forget the contribution of all the Qing family's servants to the dragon."
While speaking, King Ning looked at Li Shishi and said: "Sir, the lonely king ordered you to prepare food and grass, build ordnance and other supplies." Li Shishi heard this and said hurriedly: "Your Highness, don't worry, everything is complete and all supplies are sufficient.
A hundred thousand troops are needed for half a year."
Prince Ning nodded with great satisfaction, his eyes fell on Wang Lun and said: "General Wang, King Gu ordered you to secretly recruit young people, how is it now?"
Wang Lun suddenly stood up and said loudly: "Back to the prince, thirty thousand young men and women have gathered together. When the armor and weapons are distributed, a large army can be raised at any time to fight for the prince in all directions."
If you need people, if you need money, if you need money, if you need food, all you need is the east wind. In the eyes of King Ning, everything is ready. King Ning asked a few people, and they all got satisfactory answers, with a smile on his face.
His mood became more intense, and he immediately stood up and raised his glass to everyone and said, "Everyone, please drink this glass to the full!"
Everyone stood up and raised their glasses together.
At this moment, a burst of hurried footsteps came in a hurry, directly interrupting everyone's high spirits. So much so that King Ning looked at the door of the quiet room quite displeased when he heard the footsteps.
You must know that he had given an order. No one was allowed to approach the quiet room without his order. Now that someone dared to break in without permission, Prince Ning was naturally very dissatisfied.
However, when he saw clearly who was coming, Prince Ning frowned and shouted in a deep voice, "Why are you so flustered?" The visitor was none other than Prince Ning's son, Zhu Gongqiao.
Seeing Zhu Gongqiao's face with a bit of panic, he entered the quiet room. Under the gaze of everyone, he seemed to feel that Prince Ning was not worried. Zhu Gongqiao hurriedly saluted to Prince Ning and said: "Father, it's not a big deal."
Well, the foolish king is going to attack our father and son!"
After hearing Zhu Gongqiao's words, Prince Ning couldn't help but be stunned, with a look of surprise and confusion on his face, and subconsciously
He said: "What on earth is going on?"
Not only Prince Ning, but also the expressions of everyone else in the quiet room changed, and they looked at Zhu Gongqiao in surprise.
Zhu Gongqiao immediately presented a secret letter to King Ning and said: "Father, please read this, this is a secret warning message from the capital!" King Ning immediately took the secret letter and looked through it carefully, and gradually his expression became more and more serious.
became solemn.
With a bang, Prince Ning slapped his hand on the table and said angrily: "What a foolish king, he actually wants to summon my Prince Ning's family to the capital. Does he want to kill all my Prince Ning's family in one fell swoop?"
As King Ning sneered, he handed the secret letter to Li Shishi, who was looking at him with concern. Liu Yangzheng and Liu Yangzheng said: "Two gentlemen, let's take a look. The foolish king actually summoned my father and son to the capital. He wouldn't think that the lonely king
You will be foolish enough to follow the imperial edict and go to Beijing to die!"