Desert Eagle Suletan Khan

Chapter 627: A big case to eradicate Zhongliang (Part )
Poor parents in the world! At the wedding banquet of Sun Zhengqi and Princess Hami, Sun Kewang got drunk. This is a man who lives a self-disciplined life. He rarely gets drunk on weekdays, but today is special. Watching his son grow up and get married, he is very happy to be a father.

After seeing off the guests, the lady relied on the wine to lean on the railing and look at the moon. The guards protected her from a distance and did not dare to disturb the elegance of His Royal Highness. At this time, Sun Kewang was like a dragon, baring his teeth and claws in the sky, while Emperor Yongli, the nominal master of the Ming Dynasty, became an earthworm. Shenlong looked down upon earthworms, and Sun Kewang looked down on Emperor Yongli from the bottom of his heart. I think back then, when Emperor Yongli fled to Yunnan, he wrote to Shu: "People may say that I want to coerce the emperor to order the princes. I don't know that at that time, the emperor still had princes, and the princes still knew that there was an emperor. Today, the emperor can no longer order himself. I am even holding the emperor's order, where and to whom?" His words were arrogant and did not give Emperor Yongli any face.

Under his iron-fisted control, the Yongli court was nothing more than an empty show in name only, and all military and state affairs were decided by him. He "pretended to be the emperor to give orders at home and abroad, to mobilize troops and pay, but none of them were heard of. Life, death, and seizure were arbitrary." You wanton. The emperor is in Anlong, and he doesn't even hear about it."

All his confidants regarded him as an emperor, and phrases such as "entrusting the emperor to the imperial court" and "conferring him to the imperial palace to comfort the holy heart" were often seen in the memorials. Not long ago, Guyuan Hou Wang Shangli cast a large copper incense stove at Jinding Temple in Jizu Mountain, Yunnan. The inscription engraved on the stove did not mention Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang at all, but only praised Sun Kewang: "Wang Shangli, a disciple of Guyuan Hou, led Nan Guang Lu, a native of Zhang Castle in Guyuan, Weiqunmen, Xiliang Prefecture, Shaanxi Province. Since the age of Dinghai, he has followed the emperor to Yunnan. He has devoted himself to admiring the Three Treasures and built temples in various mountains. ... Relying on the Buddha's light to shine, I pray to the emperor to be holy. Longevity is boundless, and the emperor's image is consolidated." After hearing this, he beamed with joy and praised the king for his courtesy and loyalty.

What is good above him must be good for the people below. Seeing that the king of the country was interested in the chair under Emperor Yongli's buttocks, the persuasion from his confidants became more and more fierce, pushing him to run towards the chair. Ren Zun relied on the destiny to advocate that "the fate of the Ming Dynasty has ended, and things can't be done anymore"; Fang Yuxuan "fixed the emperor's book and the court rituals. He said that the emperor's star was bright in the well, and he wrote a letter to persuade him to go forward"; even Emperor Yongli's side His powerful ministers Ma Jixiang and eunuch Pang Tianshou also relied on him. Two years ago, he issued a letter to Pang Tianshou and Ma Jixiang: In all internal and external affairs of the court, the deacons are the only ones responsible. If there are any unscrupulous ministers, please listen to the military affairs and Yongwei yamen offices to calm down their clamor." Ma Jixiang was ordered to use Wen'an Marquis Anlong Yongli as the minister of the small imperial court, Pang Tianshou as the admiral Yongwei camp, and to order his confidants Zhang Yingke, the prime minister's official, and Fan Yingxu, the prefect of Anlong Prefecture, monitored closely and turned Emperor Yongli into a puppet.

There is no objection to the step-by-step move towards usurping the throne. Within the Daxi Army, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu stood on the side of Emperor Yongli; the anti-Qing armed forces such as Zheng Chenggong, Zhang Mingzhen, Zhang Huangyan, and Kuidong on the southeast coast, as well as various overt or covert anti-Qing forces, all aimed at restoring the Ming Dynasty; his After the imperial edict was read out in Anlong, many Yongli courtiers felt indignant. The official department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs reported to Xu Ji, Lin Qingyang, a member of the Military Selection Department of the Ministry of War, Hu Shirui, the chief officer, and Zhang Ruo, the chief officer of the Staff Department, to accuse Ma Jixiang and Pang Tianshou of "concealing evil intentions and claiming to be ministers to the Qin Dynasty."

But so what? Zheng Chenggong, Zhang Mingzhen, Zhang Huangyan, and the Kuidong Thirteen Family are far away and cannot interfere with the affairs of the southwest; Liu Wenxiu has been put under house arrest by himself, and his old troops have been sent to Sichuan; Li Dingguo is said to be ill, and even Ke Lianzhou, Gaozhou, and Leizhou After that, he stayed in Gaozhou to recuperate, and ordered his subordinates to join forces with Guangdong Volunteer Wang Xing and other troops to attack Xinhui. After hearing the news that Xifu was ill, Sun Kewang breathed a sigh of relief and secretly thought that God would help him; as for the courtiers around Yongli, he really didn't take them seriously. They only dare to accuse Ma and Pang of being traitors, and they don't even dare to mention their own names, so what's there to fear?

When Sun Kewang was drunk, he leaned on the railing and looked at the moon. What a bright moon, hanging high in the night sky. Could it be that the emperor star in the sea of ​​stars that was brighter than Jingdu represented himself? With the support of the Kingdom of David this time, it is time to make further progress and reach a higher level.

"Your Majesty, a secret message has arrived from Marquis Wen'an." Fang Yuxuan, editor of the Hanlin Academy, suddenly jogged over.

"Oh, has Ma Jixiang seen Xifu? What are you panicking about? Has there been any change in Xifu's condition?" Sun Kewang asked.

"Master, something has happened! Yongli's son has colluded with the Xifu to murder you. You will find out once you summon Wen'an Marquis' messenger and ask." Fang Yuxuan's voice was a little frightened, but also a little hopeful.

Wen'an Hou Ma Jixiang went to Nanning to stay in Nanning on the edict of Emperor Yongli. The root of the matter lies with the great scholar Wen Anzhi.

Seeing that Sun Kewang's attempt to usurp the throne was becoming more and more obvious, scholar Wen Anzhi suggested to Emperor Yongli, "The friendship between Liu (Wenxiu) and Li (Dingguo) must be reunited, and everyone is separated from Sun (Kewang), but nothing is known about it." It doesn't matter if the opportunity is gained or lost." He advised the emperor to secretly contact Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu to check and balance Sun Kewang. Later, Liu Wenxiu was relieved of military power by Sun Kewang, and the Yongli court began to secretly contact Li Dingguo.

Emperor Yongli ordered the eunuch Zhang Fulu and Quan Wei's envoys to send an edict to Li Dingguo's military camp and summon Li Dingguo to guard him. Zhang Fulu, Quan Weiguo, Xu Ji, Lin Qingyang, Hu Shirui, Zhang Ruo and Cai Su went to the chief scholar Wu Zhenyu to conspire. Wu Zhenyu immediately ordered Jiang Qianchang, the priest of the ancestral hall of the Ministry of Rites, to draft the imperial edict, and Zhu Dongdan, the head of the Ministry of War's official affairs department, to copy it. Zhang Fulu and others took the bell into the palace and covered it with the emperor's treasure. In the name of asking for leave to bury his relatives, Lin Qingyang went to the Dingguo army with secret orders. At that time, Dingguo was fighting the Qing army in Hunan and Guangxi and had no time to look inside.

Lin Qingyang has been away for half a year, and there is no sound at all. Emperor Yongli could not remain angry and asked Wu Zhenyu to send another envoy to find out the news. Wu Zhenyu recommended Confucius and Zhou Guan of the Hanlin Academy. Wu Anbo and Zheng Yunyuan suggested sending away Sun Kewang's confidant Ma Jixiang to avoid leaking the news. Emperor Yongli asked Ma Jixiang to go on the pretext that he needed to send important ministers to stay behind after regaining Nanning. Ma Jixiang reported to Sun Kewang, who happened to also want to inquire about Li Dingguo's movements and readily agreed.

Zhou Guan read to Li Dingguo the imperial edict "Words of Sorrow", which moved Li Dingguo deeply. He kowtowed and bleeds, and said: "My minister Dingguo has not died for a day. I would rather have your majesty suffer humiliation for a long time. Fortunately, I can bear with it for a while." I hope that my brother's affairs will last for a long time. It is better to betray a friend than to betray the king." Later, Li Dingguo fell ill due to grief and anger, so he had to stay in Gaozhou to recuperate, and ordered his men to attack Xinhui.

After receiving Li Dingguo's promise, Yongli's courtiers rejoiced and secretly planned to respond to Li Dingguo. After Ma Jixiang arrived in Guangxi, he met Liu Yixin, a Yongli courtier from the Dingguo army. Liu Yixin thought that Ma Jixiang had been favored by Emperor Yongli for a long time and was a marquis, so he would definitely be involved in the secret summons for Dingguo. After meeting with him, he unhesitatingly told the whole story about the two imperial orders to Li Dingguo to lead troops to greet him, and said: "Ding The country received the edict and shed tears of gratitude. Soon we will arrive at Anlong to welcome him." Ma Jixiang was shocked. While stabilizing Liu Yixin, he sent someone to report to Sun Kewang.

"Okay! If he hadn't been taken in by the orphans, Yongli's son would have been captured and chopped up by the Tatars. Instead of repaying his kindness, he colluded with the Xifu to seek orphans." Sun Kewang was so angry that he was trembling all over. He was wondering whether to use this as an excuse to abolish Yongli and replace him. . For a long time, he suppressed the turmoil in his heart, summoned his trusted generals Zheng Guo and Wang Aixiu and ordered: "You two will immediately lead troops into Anlong. You must let Yongli Xiao'er tell the story of the incident and find the person who was responsible."

(End of this chapter)