Lin'an City in the recovery of two months later, as if back to the grand occasion of the year, the city wall has been all repaired, the road has also been re-repaired, several rivers in the city also use the winter to empty and desilt, the three provinces and six departments, the Privy Council and the temple supervisors and other stations are all renovated, all the personnel are settled, after the opening of the Ya every day, the royal street has also become bustling, their arrival has led to the development of surrounding commerce, and the sub-city has become prosperous first.

However, the biggest change for the residents is that the sanitation situation in the city has improved dramatically, and there are not only large trucks that collect excrement every day, but also more trucks that remove garbage, and now they are not only whipped in public for throwing garbage into the river and on the streets, but also fined for sweeping the streets and carrying 10 trucks of garbage. At first, people were tired of the soldiers patrolling the streets, but soon found that the law and order situation in the city had improved greatly, and the former scoundrels, thieves and hooligans were arrested and punished with hard labor.

In addition, the troops stationed in the city were not only disciplined, but also marched in formations even on the road. On the contrary, he often sent doctors to see doctors and administer medicine to the people for free, and sent soldiers to help poor families build houses and help orphans, widows and widows. With the resumption of institutions such as medical hospitals, nursing homes, Anjifang, and Leaky Garden, people's hearts quickly stabilized, and various administrative measures were smoothly rolled out.

Of course, there are also things that make the people feel inconvenient, that is, Lin'an City still implements a curfew, and the door is open at midnight every morning and closed at the end of the day. But thinking about the current war, the little emperor has not returned from the conquest, and gradually understand and get used to it. However, they still wondered why the emperor refused to return to the capital for a long time, and at this time, the newspapers began to publicize the great victory of the Western Expedition, annihilating nearly 100,000 enemy troops, capturing tens of thousands, and beheading countless enemies. There are also newspapers that also doxxed that His Majesty led troops in Qiongzhou to defeat the Yuan army several times, and ruled Qiongzhou to turn a wild land into a rich domain full of money.

These news made the people breathe a sigh of relief, and they also hoped that there would be a holy king in the country. After all, in recent decades, the Great Song Dynasty has wantonly exploited the people. But the Great Song Dynasty died, and the Tartars came again, they were simply naked plunder, making Jiangnan a miserable livelihood. Moreover, the Mongols were more ferocious than the rulers of the Great Song Dynasty, slaughtering cities and destroying households at every turn, making them live in fear every day, and thus reminiscing about the life of the Great Song Dynasty in the past. Now that the king has returned, the people are looking forward to a better life, but they don't know that there is also an undercurrent in the capital......

"Wen Xiang, is Your Majesty really very sick?" Although the little emperor is not there, but the two of them will be in charge of government affairs, and some major events will also be discussed, today the two arrived at the government hall early, but the others have not yet arrived, so they drank tea in the second hall and waited, Lu Xiufu asked Wen Tianxiang.

"When I left Wuhu, His Majesty's condition was not stable, and now there is no news coming, and the holy car has not returned to Beijing, I think it has not been cured!" Wen Tianxiang replied.

"Your Majesty has always been in good health and has never been sick, why is it so heavy this time?" Lu Xiufu frowned and said.

"Your Majesty has worked too hard." Wen Tianxiang sighed lightly and said, "Since the Battle of Huling last year, Your Majesty should lead the army to go out first, all the way to capture Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and recover Lin'an. And there is no autumn and winter in Qiongzhou, even if we first arrive in Jiangnan, it is difficult to adapt, not to mention that His Majesty has not left Qiongzhou for ten years, and led the army to aid the west in winter. How can Your Majesty not be anxious, and there are still things going on in Beijing, he hurried on the road without resting, and he never even got off the boat, and he fell ill under the cold and rapid fire on the river. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty has been fighting in the east and west for nearly a year, and it has been too hard, and I am incompetent and can't worry about the king." Lu Xiufu said with emotion.

"At the moment, Your Majesty is sick, and the Queen Mother is far away in Qiongzhou, it is the time for us to be loyal to our courtiers, and we will do our duty with the will of God." Wen Tianxiang said.

"Before Prime Minister Wen leaves, does Your Majesty have an explanation?" Lu Xiufu asked anxiously.

"Your Majesty is very worried about the situation in Lin'an, and is worried that it will be taken advantage of by villains and repeat the mistakes of traitors in power." Wen Tianxiang looked at Lu Xiufu and said.

"Oh, although the current situation in the city is a little chaotic, it is still under control and not out of control." Lu Xiufu thought that there were many rumors in the city now, and there were even people peeping into the heir, but it was just rumors in the market, and he had not yet seen anyone take action.

"This is exactly what Your Majesty is worried about, someone has closed your ears and eyes, and raised your ears and elevated you, so that they can get their hands on the court." Wen Tianxiang said with some urgency.

"What?! If it's so serious, what do they want to do? Lu Xiufu suddenly stood up and said hurriedly.

"Surely Lu Xiang doesn't read newspapers, right? There has been a lot of noise above, but I am afraid that the people on the street will see the clues. Wen Tianxiang took a sip of tea.

"There are mountains of official documents every day, where do I have time to pay attention to those rumors, and please make it clear." Lu Xiufu frowned.

"Wen Xiang should take a look, there are some things worth being wary of, and there are people on it who talk about the abolition of the establishment." Wen Tianxiang leaned sideways and said softly.

"I don't know anything about such a big thing!" Lu Xiufu's face changed suddenly. He knows very well that he has always been on the issue of establishing a prince, and he doesn't know how many ministers have been planted. Besides, "inexorcisable relatives", you don't know which sentence you say wrong, it will lead to death, so this is a very taboo thing in officialdom, and some people are talking about it openly at the moment, and as the prime minister, I don't know anything about staying in the capital, which can be explained clearly by negligence.

"Lu Xiang really doesn't know?" Wen Tianxiang stared at Lu Xiufu's eyes and asked in a deep voice.

"I really don't know, my loyalty to His Majesty can be revealed!" Lu Xiufu immediately realized that Wen Tianxiang's return to the Beijing Division ahead of schedule was by no means as simple as he said, maybe he had a secret intention on his body, and he could capture himself on the spot, you must know that the safety of the three provinces and six departments was guarded by the imperial guards, and he had a holy purpose to hand himself and he didn't even have room to resist. At that moment, he was shocked into a cold sweat, and swore to the sky.

"It's still Your Majesty Shengming, I expected that Lu Xiang would be deceived, but Lu Xiang was too careless, so people had a chance to take advantage of it!" Wen Tianxiang also stood up and asked Lu Xiufu to sit down again, before he sat down and spoke.

"Prime Minister Wen, please also explain, who wants to seize the throne?" Lu Xiufu secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and asked Shi Li.

"It is the king of Yiyang County, and some people want to make him the emperor." Wen Tianxiang said leisurely.

"This ...... This is impossible, it has no foundation, and there is no edict, how to seize the throne. Lu Xiufu thought it was too incredible, and stammered, he never imagined that it would be the cowering hillbilly.

"Of course, there are people behind it, otherwise how can it easily pass the inspection, how can it live in the Qianfu Palace, and how can it participate in the New Year's Day banquet?" Wen Tianxiang asked rhetorically.

"This ...... I have been deceived by them! Lu Xiufu thought for a while and said dejectedly, "Your Majesty once had a decree to find the scattered children of the royal clan, and later some people claimed to have found the king of Yiyang County, saying that it could be identified by the people of the old palace. My mistake was that I didn't ask for it in person, so that I made mistakes again and again, and if it wasn't for the reminder of the text, I didn't know that there was such a thing. But this alone is not enough to compete for status! ”

"Does Prime Minister Lu know who is presiding over this behind the scenes?" Wen Tianxiang didn't ask again, but asked.

"If you think about it, it should be Yao Shangshu of the Ministry of Households, who said that he was found in the inventory of the household registration of the King of Yiyang County, and he visited and confirmed it with Wei Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry. As usual, it should be reported to the Ministry of Rites, so that the Zongzheng Division will check the disc score and inspect the jade. But I thought that all the disc records in the collection of the original Shoji were copied by Meng Yuan, and he said that the jade was lost in hiding, so I didn't investigate it deeply. In this way, Yao Shangshu and Wei Shangshu are both suspicious, but the two of them alone can't do this. Lu Xiufu thought for a moment and analyzed.

"What Lu Xiang said is good, but there is still one person behind them, who has the ability to stir up the storm!"

"Who is the person behind the scenes?"

"Chen Yizhong!" Wen Tianxiang said softly.

"It's back?" Lu Xiufu couldn't believe it.

"Yes, someone secretly reported to His Majesty that he had discovered his whereabouts, and he hid in the capital!" Wen Tianxiang nodded.

"It is the most treacherous, and it is good at conspiracy, and there are many parties from the government and the opposition, it seems that a storm is inevitable!" Lu Xiufu sighed.

"Yes, his people are not only evil, but also able to speak well, and I am afraid that someone will challenge us in today's meeting." Wen Tianxiang chuckled.

"Well, if they want to rebel, they must seize power first before they can compete with Your Majesty." Lu Xiufu thought it was authentic, "Wenxiang, I don't know if Your Majesty has a holy oracle, how to deal with this matter." ”

"Static braking!" Wen Tianxiang said, "Your Majesty thinks that when you return to Jiangnan at the beginning of the Xing Dynasty, stability should be the priority, and it is not appropriate to cause party disputes and cause the imperial court to fall into turmoil again, so you must not use troops as a last resort." ”

"Now that Your Majesty has made up your mind, I can rest assured, then today's discussion of the Weisheng Army case is not only to challenge you and me, but may also be aimed at Your Majesty." Lu Xiufu shook his head and smiled bitterly. He is not stupid, and the scriptures Tianxiang mentioned that the things are connected before and after, and he has already figured out the basic context of the matter.

After His Majesty entered Jiangnan, he implemented a policy of severely punishing traitors and traitorous officials, which frightened many scholars with bad deeds. Not only did it be difficult for them to return to the imperial court, but they also faced the scourge of raiding their homes and exterminating their clans. And there are some people in the court who are dissatisfied with His Majesty, but they have to endure it when they are in Qiongzhou, but when they arrive in Jiangnan, they think that the opportunity has come, but the easiest way to soar is to set up a new monarch and replace the 'shrewd' little emperor.

And these ill-intentioned people of course also understand that the little emperor has a very high reputation in the court, and it is by no means easy to shake, so a 'respectable' person is needed to preside over this matter. Chen Yizhong was once the prime minister of the Xing Dynasty, held military and political power, and had the merit of supporting it, so of course he was the best candidate. He is also a person who is not willing to be lonely, and he is also facing the responsibility of abandoning the country, and the best way is naturally to grasp power.

But if you want to achieve the goal of autocracy, and a group of people know that they can still take off the brand of the Zhao family, then they need a weak and mediocre emperor as a cover. I thought of Zhao Mengqi when I chose to choose, although he was older, he was mediocre enough, and there was an allusion to Zhao Hong, the king of Ji, who had been the prince but died unjustly, and it was reasonable to return to government.

However, these people are not stupid, the army is in the hands of the little emperor, and Zhang Shijie, who is in charge of the privy envoy, is no longer reliable in their eyes. The only way to achieve the goal is to rely on the power of 'democracy', through the pressure of public opinion to force the 'immoral' little emperor to step down himself, or to use the Empress Dowager Yang to depose him. So he tried every means to prevent the little emperor from entering Lin'an City, giving people the illusion that he had not yet been in charge of the government, but only won the victory in the state of the ministers' auxiliary government, giving people the illusion that it was not his work.

When the little emperor led his army to the aid of the Western Front, they thought that their opportunity had come. At this moment, Lu Xiufu is the only one in the city, and his henchmen Liu Huang and Ying Jieyan are far away in Qiongzhou, and Wen Tianxiang, who has always dared to speak out, is in Ezhou. So the heavy responsibilities of Zhongshu and Shangshu Province were all on him, and he was too busy with official business, and he could fool him with a little means, so they used the little emperor's will to find his relatives to first launch Zhao Mengqi, a fool, and then let him settle in the Fuwang Mansion to show his orthodox identity.

Later, taking advantage of the New Year's Day banquet in the absence of the emperor, the practice of being presided over by the children of the royal family further pushed Zhao Mengqi to a higher status, and wrote to the emperor to appoint him as the Yin of Lin'an Mansion. In this way, whether it succeeds or not, this move can show the status of Zhao Mengqi's 'imperial heir', and once there is a change, he will be able to ascend to the throne and become the next emperor, preparing for the next move.

At this time, the little emperor suddenly fell ill and stranded in Wuhu on the way back to Beijing, only Wen Tianxiang returned to Beijing alone, these people may not know the truth for a while, but they feel that it is really God's favor, if they are ill and return to the west, they will save a lot of trouble, and smoothly push Zhao Mengqi to the throne. However, it cannot be ruled out that he can recover, and Wen Tianxiang also sent a decree that the three halls will try the Weisheng military case, so that they can use this to press the little emperor on the charge of indiscriminate killing of meritorious heroes, which will cause a sense of crisis in the court, and he will be ousted from the throne if he does not die.

Lu Xiufu couldn't help but secretly rejoice when he thought of this, Chen Yizhong and his gang didn't expect that the little emperor had already understood everything that happened in the court, and guessed what they wanted to do, so they began to lay out and make all preparations. And Wen Tianxiang's return is to contact the ministers of the court, so as not to cause a crisis, and restrain himself, if he finds disloyalty, he is afraid that he will reveal a secret decree and detain himself first.

And what made Lu Xiufu sigh even more was that the little emperor was thousands of miles away, but he knew everything about the affairs in Beijing, and had already made a careful plan, and now he didn't do it for a long time, but he just wanted to watch their performances and distinguish between loyalty and traitor, otherwise these people were only afraid that they would have been exterminated for the crime of rebellion, and this reason does not need any conclusive evidence......