In the study room of the jade shop, there was a smell of dust and staleness.

Yang Yong of Jinyiwei is short but has a good face, his facial features are upright, and his face is very fair. He looked admiring and bowed: "Mr. is clever, he will worship the prime minister in the court in the future!" ”

Gao Xianning immediately shook his head and said, "General Yang has told so many things, so I can speculate and guess, what is the trick to talk about?" ”

The prime minister is not the prime minister, Gao Xianning is not very interested, because there is no prime minister in the Ming Dynasty. If it weren't for his teacher Qi Tai being on the side of King Han, and King Han was both soft and hard to him, both coerced and favored, Gao Xianning didn't want to go out of the mountain again, at that time, on the surface, Gao Xianning came out to be an official, but because Ji Gang was ordered to find him out, secretly he still looked at his teacher and King Han.

Yang Yong seemed to be very interested in officialdom, and asked again: "Mr. Gao just said, what is the implication of Zheng He's death?" ”

Gao Xianning glanced at Yang Yong, "Emperor Taizu has given the Han Dynasty's foreign relatives to be in turmoil and the Tang Dynasty's eunuchs to be rampant, so he strictly forbids eunuchs to interfere in the politics of the Hongwu Dynasty, and the eunuchs are powerless. The first emperor did not think so, as early as when he was the king of Yan, he opened a eunuch school in the palace, taught many eunuchs to read and write, and later called the battle of Jingyan and the emperor to govern the country, and the first emperor trusted and reused the eunuchs very much.

Until the death of the first emperor, although the eunuchs could not compete with the noble ministers, they gradually became a force because of the emperor as a backer. This force plays a very important role in the court and the army, but it cannot be ignored in the palace. Confidants of the former emperors such as Zheng He and Wang Jinghong must have had many eunuchs attached to them over the years.

In today's imperial court, the ministers of the Yan Palace, the Jianwen ministers who surrendered, the heroes of the founding of the country, and the heroes of Jingnan, these forces are intricately intertwined, and the queen and the concubine are competing for power, and they are fighting, so these people have begun to lay out within a year or two. I estimate that Zheng He and others were also implicated in this whirlpool, so there was such a disaster. ”

He paused, and then said, "Not long ago, the Empress sent someone to whisper to me, instructing me to contact some civil servants and send a letter as soon as possible to persuade the Crown Prince to approve of this matter. The queen was so anxious, I decided that the battle between the queen and the concubine must be getting more and more intense! ”

Yang Yong was stunned when he heard this, and he admired Gao Xianning's insight in his eyes, and he asked, "Can eunuchs be of great use?" ”

Gao Xianning said: "Yu Yangmou is almost useless, the conspiracy has a great effect, and the nobles in the palace will fetch water, laundry, firewood, and cooking by themselves?" And the queen of Yangmou already has an advantage, otherwise how could she force the saint to make the crown prince now? ”

Yang Yong thought so, and asked, "How did Zheng He get involved?" ”

Gao Xianning shook his head and replied, "I can't be sure." Zheng He and other eunuchs were confidants of the first emperor, and they also led troops to fight in the army, such as Zheng He led the troops quite methodically, maybe there was an old Empress Zhang who wanted to eradicate this force when the opportunity was right, but she didn't expect the backlash to be so big. ”

Yang Yong said: "The queen's enemy, isn't it our Han King?" ”

Gao Xianning pondered for a moment, and said quietly: "Before Zhang Guifei had a prince, it was true. ”

Yang Yong thought for a long time and said: "What Mr. Gao said, I roughly understand what's going on, and there are some things that I can't figure out for the time being, and then I will talk about what we should do now to make great contributions?" ”

Gao Xianning sat on the dusty chair and didn't say anything for a while.

Yang Yong seemed to be in a hurry, and said to himself: "If King Zhao rebels, the imperial court will send troops to quell the rebellion." Isn't this good for our lord? ”

"If King Zhao really didn't rebel, he wouldn't be able to sit in the middle of the court, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, it's not that there are no clever people, and that Xue Yan doesn't look easy to be swayed." Gao Xianning said, "But we don't have to sit on King Zhao's rebellion, just let the court not find out the truth, suspicion will always exist, and if there is suspicion, we can persecute King Zhao." ”

Yang Yong asked, "What to do?" ”

Gao Xianning was silent for a while before he said in a deep voice: "Kill Yang Qing!" ”

Hu Guang, the envoy of the imperial court, took the holy decree and rushed straight to Beiping with an expedited degree of 800 miles. At this time, he had just arrived at King Zhao's mansion.

Hu Guang was welcomed to the front hall to announce the decree. In the holy decree of the imperial court, King Zhao was rewarded, saying that he had built the imperial court in northern Xinjiang, and he had great merit, noble morality, loyalty, humility, and the virtue of confucius. He also decreed that King Zhao should be given a large reward to repair the old palace, and that he would be able to keep the society in harmony with the brothers.

Then Hu Guang asked to borrow a step to speak.

So Gao Sui and Hu Guang went to the side hall and talked secretly. Hu Guang took out another edict, a secret edict.

Gao Sui took it and buried his head in reading the contents of the secret edict.

Hu Guang said in a deep voice: "Xue Yan of Dali Temple has been verified, and the eunuch Wang Jinghong and Hou Xian and others have confessed, and this matter is all caused by Huang Yan and Zheng He's mutual conflict!" Fang caused King Zhao to be wronged, and the Holy Brother was able to punish the sinners, and the Holy Lord will severely punish these culprits. Xue Yan and others of Dali Temple will then publicly decide the case in the name of the Three Law Divisions, and the imperial court will never wronged King Zhao with this matter. King Zhao can rest assured! ”

Gao Sui didn't hesitate at all, didn't even think about it, and immediately scolded Huang Yan, and then said with a happy look: "Fortunately, my eldest brother is the master!" The eldest brother has sheltered and tolerated his siblings since he was a child, and of course I believe in the eldest brother. ”

As he spoke, he paid attention to Hu Guang's eyes and saw that Hu Guang was also observing him very carefully.

Hu Guang said again: "As soon as Wang Yu told the truth, the saint said that Gao Sui was not that kind of person, and he trusted King Zhao very much. When Xue Yan verified, it was as expected by the saint! ”

The two then talked secretly for a while, and most of the words of King Zhao were expressions of loyalty, while Hu Guang had been praising King Zhao for the imperial court, and they talked very harmoniously.

King Zhao and Hu Guang had a secret conversation alone, and no one else was inside, not even King Zhao's confidant Huang Yan, who was not allowed to enter. At this time, Huang Yan was already like an ant on a hot pot.

Huang Yan finally couldn't wait any longer, and walked quickly to his residence.

He walked into a courtyard, came to a locked secret room, opened it and walked in. Inside, a fat young eunuch with a round face greeted him, and the eunuch said, "Meet Gonggong Huang." ”

Huang Yan hurriedly closed the door and asked directly, "If we raise troops, can King Han help?" ”

This white fat eunuch is the person from the Han Palace, and he is someone Huang Yan knows. He is Wang Gui's godson Cao Fu, who has met a few times before, and Cao Fu has only been in Zhao Wangfu for a long time. King Zhao was worried that there was a traitor in the house, so he asked Huang Yan to hide people and not let Cao Fu come out casually.

Cao Fu said: "Of course you can! The imperial army is dealing with our prince, as long as King Zhao occupies Beiping, the official army will have no spare strength to deal with King Zhao. ”

"This can't convince our prince!" Huang Yan frowned and said, "Isn't there more help?" Can the King of Han transfer troops to Beiping to help King Zhao raise troops? ”

Cao Fu looked embarrassed, but still said: "As long as King Zhao is willing, he should be able to do it." Let's go back and tell King Han! ”

"It's too late!" Huang Yan was so anxious that he turned around, "Fuck! ”

Cao Fu hurriedly asked what was going on. Huang Yan roughly told Cao Fu about the secret report he received yesterday.

"Is it really King Zhao and Gonggong Huang who did it?" Cao Fu asked.

"It's a fart! Haven't our family stayed in the palace, haven't we been on an errand in the Yanwang Mansion? Is it so easy to kill the Son of Heaven? Besides, King Zhao had thought about being the crown prince before, but because the first emperor favored him, he wanted to use the favor to let the first emperor support him, and the first emperor died, and King Zhao had already broken this idea, and there was no chance at all! Huang Yan said, "King Zhao never thought of rebelling, those who slander our prince are not slandering the loyalty of the prince, but mocking the wisdom of the prince."

He scolded and said: "Zheng He's traitorous party did it, in order to frame our family, they even harmed King Zhao." This is to kill everyone in our family, vicious, too vicious! ”

Cao Fu nodded like a chicken pecking rice, "Then you have to hurry up." If King Zhao doesn't have a soldier, maybe there is still a way to live, Huang Gonggong, you are dead! ”

Huang Yan walked back and forth for a while, and said, "Gonggong Cao will leave tomorrow morning, hurry up to see the King of Han, and let the King of Han find a way to transfer some elite soldiers to Beiping." We tried our best to convince King Zhao. ”

Cao Fu thought for a moment and asked, "Are you sure that King Zhao will raise an army?" Otherwise, even if our prince can think of a way and send someone over, wouldn't he be sent to death? Can Gonggong Huang convince King Zhao? ”

Huang Yan let out a long sigh, and finally said in a deep voice: "It's not a matter of being willing or unwilling at the moment, how to raise troops?" ”

"That guard commander Meng Xian is not one of yours?" Cao Fu asked.

Huang Yan said: "The three guards of the Zhao Palace, which military general is not loyal, but who the hell knows what he thinks in his heart?" ”

Cao Fu frowned and said: "The whistleblower Wang Yu, Wang Yu's in-laws, Wang Yizheng, the Qintian supervisor Wang Shu, and the eunuch Yang Qing are all your people?" ”

"Bullshit!" Huang Yan was full of foul language today, and he was already extremely angry, "Among these people, our family only knows the guard commander Meng Xian and the eunuch Yang Qing Yang Qing are indeed from our family, but those other people and Lao Tzu don't know each other!" How did you become a henchman?

Gao Yizheng of Changshi Mansion, our family has heard of this person, the most excessive is that Wang Yu, before that, our family has not even heard of the name! ”

Cao Fu said embarrassedly: "How can this start an army?" ”

Huang Yan thought for a while and said, "Meng Xian can be temporarily wooed. He is in charge of the army, and he is suspected of rebellion, and he will definitely die like our family. ”

Cao Fu nodded solemnly: "Makes sense." ”

Huang Yan was silent for a long time, and suddenly said: "Isn't there a rumor recently that the imperial court is a soldier in Huguang, and he wants to fight with the Han army?" If the King of Han wins this battle, everyone will be very optimistic about the King of Han! When the time comes, it will be easier for us to convince the guard generals of the Zhao Palace, and even the military generals of the Beiping City garrison, and everyone will want to take advantage of the east wind of the Han King to oppose the imperial court together, so as to make some credit. ”

"But I still have to convince King Zhao." Huang Yan looked like he was loveless.