"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, wake up"

In the palace, Zhu Cihong was sleeping soundly, and Zhao Dequan, the chief eunuch, suddenly came to wake Zhu Cihong up.

"Did something happen?" Zhu Cihong was still sleepy, and glared at Zhao Dequan dissatisfied, being called up at this time, no one had a good temper.

"Zhang Kuishan commanded the envoy to enter the palace overnight and said that there was something important to report to the emperor." Zhao Dequan said cautiously. I am afraid that I will be scolded by the emperor for disturbing the emperor's dream.

The corners of Zhu Cihong's eyes jumped, thinking that Zhang Kuishan came to find him at this time, there must be something important to report, and suddenly all the sleepiness was dispersed, and he said eagerly: "Let him come in." ”

After a while, Zhang Kuishan walked in.

"Commander of the Minister's Guard"

"Okay, okay, let's talk about it." Zhu Cihong urged, where is there still patience to wait for Zhang Kuishan to pay homage.

Zhang Kuishan did not say it directly, but looked at the palace maids and eunuchs who were keeping vigil left and right, the meaning was very clear, the matter was very important, and it could not enter the ears of a third person.

"Let's all get out." Zhu Cihong's heart sank, and he hurriedly cleared the scene.

"Slaves obey!" Several eunuchs and palace maids hurriedly retreated after saluting.

"Zhao Dequan, you can also go out, take someone to guard outside, and no one is allowed to approach." Zhu Cihong looked at Zhao Dequan.

After everyone was cleared out, Zhang Kuishan began to report.

"Your Majesty, as you expected, Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, ran to find Gao Hongtu in the middle of the night, the two did have a conspiracy, and it is likely that things will be shocking, which will threaten the emperor's comfort" Zhang Kuishan looked serious, and paused when he said this.

Shocking things? Zhu Cihong was stunned for a moment, his heart sank suddenly, he looked at Zhang Kuishan and said in a deep voice: "Go on, don't have any taboos." ”

"It's the emperor! When Xu Hongji and Gao Hongtu were plotting in the house, the minister sent a vigorous brocade guard to secretly get close to listen, although because of the tight defense, they couldn't get too close and couldn't hear much, but they vaguely heard some particularly important words, and persuasion was not conducive to recruitment! ”

"The minister guesses that Xu Hongji may be trying to be unfavorable to the emperor and conspire with Gao Hongtu to rebel and recruit the throne!"

Fundraising? Rebel! Zhu Cihong's hand shook suddenly, and a chill rushed straight to his head. Xu Hongji controls the military power of the Beijing camp and most of the palace royal forest army, at least 70,000 troops, if he really dares to directly lead troops into the palace to rebel and recruit positions, he is really dangerous.

Zhu Cihong was extremely gloomy back and forth, if he wanted to say that Xu Hongji wanted to rebel and recruit for the throne, he didn't believe it very much, he felt that Xu Hongji didn't have that courage, but seeing that he was spreading rumors, and he was uniting with Gao Hongtu and others to send his little daughter into the palace to be the queen, I am afraid that eighty percent of them want to empty him as the emperor, so that he and Gao Hongtu can dominate the court together, and even one step is to learn from Cao Cao to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes!

Zhu Cihong's heart trembled slightly, whether this is true or not, Xu Hongji must have undeserved ambitions, extremely dangerous, and want to nip the danger in the bud, the only way to eradicate both parties at the same time is to use the power of thunder.

Zhu Cihong had a murderous intent, now that the Qing soldiers have entered the customs, he doesn't have much time to waste, originally at the beginning, he wanted to wait for the Ying Long Army to completely become an army before starting to eradicate the Donglin Party, but since Xu Hongji was involved, things were not so simple.

Now there are only more than 3,000 people in Yinglong's army, and they were all brought by him when he came to Nanjing City all the way from Beijing City, no one can say anything, Xu Hongji and others are afraid that they don't take this more than 3,000 people to heart, but once he orders Yinglong's army to start expanding the army, it will be different, Xu Hongji and Donglin Party know what military power means, with their current plan, it is impossible to watch him expand the army.

"I know about this matter, after you go back, let people pay close attention to Xu Hongji and Gao Hongtu's movements, and report it as soon as there is a situation."

"Obey orders!" Zhang Kuishan took the order and walked out.

Zhu Cihong thought about it for a while, and finally shook his head helplessly, before he thought of a safe move, he couldn't do it easily for the time being.

"Who is it?" Zhu Cihong's eyes suddenly looked like electricity, and he instantly looked behind the left.

"Your Majesty." The person who came out of there turned out to be Yiyi, and Huang Ying, who had been serving Yiyi.

"Yiyi? How did you get out. Zhu Cihong was stunned for a moment, a little annoyed, how could he forget that Yiyi lived in a palace with him, and Huang Ying, because he had been taking care of Yiyi, and Yiyi was very familiar with each other, the two had a very good relationship after being together for a long time, Yiyi took the initiative to ask Huang Ying to live with her and talk to relieve boredom, don't think about it, they must have heard what he said to Zhang Kuishan just now.

Yiyi Zhu Cihong was not worried, he believed that Yiyi would not be able to betray him, but Huang Ying

Zhu Cihong looked at Huang Ying with an inexplicable expression.

Huang Ying's heart trembled suddenly, and she saw the meaning contained in Zhu Cihong's expression, a little sad, and a little sad, she couldn't help but have a trace of mist in her eyes, knelt down, and said in a choked voice: "Doesn't the emperor believe Huang Ying?" Huang Ying's life was saved by the emperor, Huang Ying will never betray the emperor, if the emperor still doesn't believe it, please kill Huang Ying. ”

Huang Ying said resolutely, not pretentious at all.

"Uh, no, I didn't suspect you, you get up first." The sadness and determination in Huang Ying's eyes made Zhu Cihong look a little guilty, and there was a little strange in his heart, feeling that the sadness and sadness revealed by Huang Ying were a little weird, although it was not fake, but I didn't understand why.

Although the emotions shown by Huang Ying are a little strange, Zhu Cihong really did not suspect Huang Ying, Huang Ying was one of the group of singers rescued from Liu Zeqing when he killed Liu Zeqing, he is also Huang Ying's benefactor, Huang Ying has no reason to betray him, and Huang Ying has been living here with Yiyi since she came to Nanjing, and she has never been in contact with anyone, and who can buy her silently.

"Sister Huang Ying, let's go, let's go to sleep, ignore this person." Yiyi looked at Huang Ying who was silently crying out strangely, and then looked at Zhu Cihong, she seemed to understand something in her heart, stepped forward and took Huang Ying's hand, she understood the meaning of the conversation between Zhu Cihong and Huang Ying, and knew that Zhu Cihong was suspicious of Huang Ying, so she immediately glanced at Zhu Cihong with dissatisfaction, took Huang Ying's hand and left Zhu Cihong a back and walked into the inner hall.

Zhu Cihong glared, hey, Ye is the emperor, how can you treat Ye like this, there is no politeness at all. However, although Zhu Cihong shouted so in his heart, he couldn't see the slightest anger in his expression, but enjoyed it.

Although he is the emperor, he still hopes to treat the woman he loves as equals, and he feels that this can make both parties have a truly deep affection for each other.

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