Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 905 Fan Wai Qi "Biography of the American Fans of the Ming Dynasty"
In the 33rd year of Qianyuan (1701 AD) of the Ming Empire, Zhu Cijiong, the first Ding Wang, died at the age of 70.

In the [-]th year of Qianyuan, after the Ming Dynasty moved to South America as King Ji, King Rong, King Xiang, and King Jing, King Ding Zhu Cijiong still tried to expand the territory of King Ding to the hinterland of South America.

Unfortunately, it was blocked by the king of Qin in the sixth year of Qianyuan in the west, European colonists in the north, and the endless tropical rainforest in the south.

Therefore, the border of Dingwangling in South America was finally limited to Colombia and Venezuela in another time and space.

Beginning in the 20th year of Qianyuan, Zhu Cijiong finally shifted his focus from expanding his territory to dealing with internal affairs.

It's a pity that Zhu Cijiong's talent in internal affairs is not high, and when he is old, he often acts foolishly, trusting some favored ministers and courtiers, and often disagrees with Prince Ding's son Zhu Hekun in terms of political views.

This made the political situation in Ding Wangling less stable than the previous 20 years, the officialdom was also more chaotic than the previous 20 years, and the administration of officials gradually became muddy.

In the ten years before King Ding became a vassal, the left and right long history were all good ministers for a while, but unfortunately, those who died of illness later, those who returned to Daming returned to Daming, and many of their successors were not as good.

Later, Wang Shizi Zhu Hekun began to assist King Ding in handling government affairs, which can be regarded as taking care of the internal affairs of the king's territory in an orderly manner.

Unfortunately, when Zhu Cijiong turned his attention to the internal governance of the kingdom, he was quite dissatisfied with some of the governance methods of his elder son Zhu Hekun. He believed that the elder son lacked courage, was more conservative than aggressive, and dared not make drastic innovations.

When Concubine Ding Fu Xue was still alive, although King Ding and his son had disagreements and many conflicts in politics, Fu Xue communicated and mediated through them, so the relationship between father and son would not be hurt.

However, in the 25th year of Qianyuan, the death of Princess Ding Fu Xue not only dealt a great blow to Zhu Cijiong and his son Zhu Hekun, but also made the political contradictions between father and son more prominent and gradually difficult to reconcile.

In the 28th year of Qianyuan, Gong Juexian, a cruel official trusted by King Ding, had a deadly feud with Zhu Hekun. He worried that Zhu Hekun would lose his wealth and life after inheriting the throne. After conspiring with his party, he decided to follow the story of Prince Li.

In the spring of the 29th year of Qianyuan, the European countries still occupying the Cuban islands, relying on their familiarity with hydrology, islands, and hidden reefs, disguised themselves as pirates several times and robbed the merchant ships of the Dingwang territory in the Caribbean Sea.

Zhu Cijiong, the king of Ding, was furious when he heard this, so under the instigation of Gong Juexian and others, regardless of the advice of other subjects, he personally commanded the king of Ding to lead the navy to attack the European colonists entrenched in the Cuban islands.

Zhu Cijiong fought in North and South America for decades, and experienced quite a few naval battles. Although he is old now, he leads the rather powerful Dingwang Navy, and won overwhelming victories in the initial few naval battles.

However, when the local government harassed the Dingwang Navy who was about to land on a small scale by relying on their familiarity with the island's hydrology, hidden reefs, etc., the Dingwang Navy began to have various problems in command, resulting in several landing attempts. Failure after failure.

Even blocking for the enemy, more than 1000 pro-army soldiers were lost before and after.

This time Ding Wangling has more than 3 sailors and army soldiers in total, and more than 1000 people have been lost. This is not considered a failure, at most it is considered a failure.However, the battle situation has also reached a critical moment.

However, at this important time related to victory or defeat, there was a problem with the logistics of Ding Wangling's side.

Several transport fleets were successively attacked by enemy ships, causing nearly half of the transported food, grass, ammunition, etc. to be lost.

The news was not blocked for some reason, and it was widely circulated in the army, even exaggerated-many people said that the transport fleet was completely wiped out by the local government, and the army would run out of food and ammunition!

Zhu Cijiong realized that someone was secretly plotting, and immediately ordered the army to ban rumors, and announced that the transport fleet was only attacked, and most of the supplies still arrived.

At the same time, people were sent to search for those who leaked news and exaggerated rumors in the army.

In the end, it turned out that it was someone who was placed in the army by the crown prince, and the confession was ordered by the crown prince!

Gong Juexian interrogated other relevant personnel, and then reported to Zhu Cijiong that his son Zhu Hekun colluded with Xiyi in order to rebel and usurp the throne.

When Zhu Cijiong first heard about this, he stood up in astonishment, shook his head and said, "Impossible! It is absolutely impossible for the son to rebel!"

Zhu Cijiong did disagree with Zhu Hekunzheng, and the conflict even worsened after the death of the princess, but he knew his son's nature very well. No matter how he thought about it, he didn't think his son would rebel, but colluded with Xiyi, using this important war as a chessboard, Rebellion at the expense of royal interests.

Down below, Gong Juexian's eyes flashed strangely, and he cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, the prince was conferred on his first birthday, and it has been 43 years. Dare I ask you, have you ever heard that there are 43-year-old sons in the world?"

Although the king is 65 years old, he is still in good health, and he is still able to lead the army to fight in person. How can the son wait so anxiously?
What's more, witnesses and confessions are all in front of us, the facts are so, even if the king loves his son, he must not sacrifice the interests of the Ding king! "

Gong Juexian's last sentence can be said to hit Zhu Cijiong's pain point.

What he can't accept the most is that Zhu Hekun colluded with Xiyi to sacrifice the interests of Ding Wang in exchange for the throne.It must be known that he has conquered this royal territory bit by bit, and his affection is deeper than that of his own son!
Thinking of this, Zhu Cijiong gritted his teeth and said, "Withdraw the troops immediately! I have to go back to Mocheng to see if he really wants to kill his father and usurp the throne!"

Hearing this, Gong Juexian showed an imperceptible smile on the corner of his mouth.

On that day, due to the hasty retreat of the troops, coupled with the fact that there were rumors and panic in the army, the enemy got the news and seized the opportunity to harass and pursue them, which almost turned Ding Wangling's withdrawal into a major defeat.

At the critical moment, the calmness of Zhu Cijiong and several veterans gave the soldiers of Dingwangling a backbone, stabilized the rhythm of the retreat, and repelled the Europeans who took the opportunity to attack.

However, in the end, several warships and two or three thousand soldiers were damaged due to this.

More than ten days later, Zou Changhong, the commander of the Fifth Division of the Prince Ding's Army stationed in Mocheng, received Zhu Cijiong's order from the king, asking him to take over the city defense of Mocheng with the order of the king, and to remove the right of temporary supervision of the eldest son Zhu Hekun, and put him under house arrest. In Shizifu.

No one knows that Zou Changhong is actually Gong Juexian's secret accomplice - both of them participated in the smuggling of foreign arms in Dingwangling.

Under the guise of scrapping, stealing and selling military guns to Europeans is a felony that will kill even the Yi people.Therefore, Zou Changhong and Gong Juexian are now grasshoppers on the same rope.

If Gong Juexian wanted to conspire to frame the son, he, Zou Changhong, had to follow, or he would die with Gong Juexian.

On the contrary, if Gong Juexian can succeed, and the prince supported by the two afterwards takes the throne, it will be equivalent to half a servant of the dragon, and the glory and wealth can be passed down for generations!
Therefore, Zou Changhong, who received Gong Juexian's secret letter at the same time, led the fifth division of the pro-army to take over the defense of Mocheng aggressively.

Previously, the third and fourth divisions of the Qin Army were responsible for the city defense of Mocheng. The division commanders of these two divisions were Zhu Cijiong's loyal confidantes, but one of them also secretly had some unclear relationship with Gong Juexian.

Because Zou Changhong held the king's order, even though the two division commanders felt that the "rebellion by the prince" had no clue, or even nothing, which seemed a bit ridiculous, they still obeyed the order and handed over the city defense of Mocheng.

Because the two of them thought of another possibility under Zou Changhong's suggestion.

The king and the prince had been at odds with each other for many years, and since the death of the princess, the conflict between the two has escalated, and even the king reprimanded the prince in front of many servants.

So, even if the son did not rebel, who can be sure that the king did not abolish the son with an excuse, so that the prince who is more in line with his wishes will become the new son?

Dingwangshizifu.

Zhu Hekun is leading a group of his secretaries and auxiliary ministers to deal with government affairs.

This time, like 20 years before Qianyuan, Zhu Cijiong went out to fight, and he handled the affairs of the king's territory as a temporary supervisor, and also supervised the deployment and transportation of logistics and supplies.

In this case, he was much busier than usual.

I saw a large stack of memorials that had been reviewed on his right hand, and two stacks of memorials that had not been reviewed on his left.

Zhu Hekun, who has gained weight, has obvious dark circles under his eyes, and looks thinner than a month ago.

While correcting the memorial, Zhu Hekun would also discuss some issues in the memorial with his team, and ask his ministers for their opinions.

Several people were discussing about a matter of food and grass, suddenly a person walked in quickly, it was Yang Feng, one of the chief guards of Shizi Mansion.

He looked a little nervous and flustered, but he didn't get flustered. Instead, he went straight to Zhu Hekun and whispered a few words.

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhu Hekun stood up sullenly, holding the memorial with one hand and not speaking.

Seeing this, the secretary Zuo Shi Jiang Chilin asked, "My lord, what happened?"

Zhu Hekun saw that the people below were all trustworthy people, so he said: "Just now, the commander of the Fifth Division entered the city with the king's order, saying that I am rebellious and wants to take over the city defense, and arrest me."

Hearing this, most of the people below panicked.

"How could this be?"

"It's ridiculous, it's really ridiculous. Since the king left, I have been accompanying the son to deal with the royal affairs. How could I not know that the son is going to rebel?"

"There must be a traitor who framed the prince!"

"Not necessarily. Since the death of the princess, the king has become more and more displeased with the son, and has been reprimanded by the public many times, with the intention of abolishing it. What if..."

"How can it happen? Tiger poison doesn't even eat its eggs."

"That one is not a tiger, but a dragon."

Listening to these words, and thinking about the situation in front of him, even though Zhu Hekun was always calm, he was a little confused at this moment.

"Zuo Shi, what should I do now?" Zhu Hekun looked at the most trustworthy Jiang Chilin, "Then Zou Changhong has probably taken over the city defense right now, and he is coming to my son's mansion."

Jiang Chilin got up and said solemnly: "My lord, we have only one way now, and that is to stick to the mansion of the son of the prince."

Guard the Shizi Mansion?
The rest of the people heard the words and looked over.

Jiang Chilin said: "Do you remember the story of Prince Li in the Western Han Dynasty? Then Liu Ju was framed by Jiang Chong and raised his troops to resist, but in the end he was convicted of treason. In the end, he couldn't even see the face of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Forced to commit suicide in a farmer's home.

Although the king and the eldest son have some disagreements in political views, the decades-old father-son relationship is quite deep.I believe that Your Majesty will never frame the prince for treason just because of his political disagreement.

With the king's character, even if he wants to replace the son, he will do so in an aboveboard way instead of doing such a conspiracy.

Therefore, I concluded that either there was a villain who slandered the king in front of the king, causing the king to misunderstand the son.

Or there is a traitor who framed him, intending to kill the prince, or even attempting to subvert our Dingwangling! "

Speaking of this, Jiang Chilin took a breath, seeing that everyone's expressions were no longer as flustered as before, and then continued: "So, no matter whether Zou Changhong comes to arrest the prince or not, we can't start first.

Only by gathering strength and sticking to the Shizi's mansion can we keep the Shizi without being accused of treason! "

Secretary You Shi also said at this time: "What Zuo Shi said makes sense, but it is not easy to keep the Shizi Mansion, we have to act as soon as possible."

Zhu Hekun immediately got up and bowed his hands to the secretary left and right Shi, followed by the others, and said sincerely: "Next, Hekun's life will be handed over to you all!"

The Shizi Mansion is also protected by the pro-army, but it is from the first division of the pro-army, and there is only one sentry.Moreover, this sentry army obeyed both Zhu Hekun's orders and Zhu Cijiong's orders, and Zhu Cijiong's orders were the main ones.

In addition, it is the guard brigade trained by Zhu Hekun with Zhu Cijiong's permission.

It is also the same number of people as a sentry, but the combat power is slightly stronger than that of the pro-army.

The combined number of the two is less than 500, so Jiang Chilin and others can only recruit manpower from other sources to guard the periphery of Shizi Mansion.

In this way, 1000 people were finally gathered, which is the strength of a battalion.

Not long after these people arrived at the Shizi Mansion, Zou Changhong brought people over, took out the Wang Ling, and demanded to enter the Shizi Mansion to take them.

Jiang Chilin came forward and said righteously: "To capture the son, not only the token of the king, but also the order written by the king. Zou Changhong, where is your order?"

Zou Changhong didn't expect that Jiang Chilin, who was only in his early thirties, would be so powerful. He grasped the key point, not only temporarily resolved the crisis with one sentence, but also turned him into an army.

He held up the king's decree and said loudly: "Here is the king's decree, as if the king is here in person! Your son's rebellion caused the king to be defeated in the Caribbean Sea battle, and he almost died. How could there be time to write the decree in such a hurry?

Besides, even if there are only Wang Ling and oral instructions, can't they still not take down the unfilial son who tried to kill his father and usurp the throne? ! "

Zou Changhong's words are not simple. One is to label Zhu Hekun, so that more people subconsciously think that Zhu Hekun is really going to rebel and usurp the throne.

The second is to mislead Zhu Hekun and make him do wrong things in a panic.

The facts were exactly as Zou Changhong expected, although Zhu Hekun did not show up, they were in the courtyard and also heard Zou Changhong's words.

After thinking about it, he suddenly panicked.

"Everyone, could it be that something happened to my father during the naval battle, allowing the traitors to seize the opportunity to hold my father hostage for rebellion?

If so, I can't just wait here.I have to go out and contact other people, rescue father! "

Zhu Hekun said that he was about to go out.

But just happened to be stopped by Jiang Chilin who rushed over.

"My son, don't fall for that Zou Changhong's trick. He said that just to make you mess up and do something wrong."

Zhu Hekun said anxiously, "Then what should I do?"

On the other side, Zou Changhong originally didn't want to procrastinate, but now seeing the difficult Jiang Chilin leave, he waved his hand and said, "What are you all doing in a daze? Rush in and arrest the prince!"

　Good night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)