The death of Emperor Tianqi did not have a big impact on the distant Hongmen team, and Li Tianyang was more concerned about whether the candidate for the throne in the court was Zhu Youzhen, the king of letters he bet on, and he didn't even think about taking the opportunity to do something.

It's a pity that Li Tianyang didn't want to do anything, but he had a benefactor who made him have to do something.

It was only two days after the report from the imperial court, and a letter sent by the Hongmen liaison member who stayed in Beijing was handed over to Li Tianyang, making Li Tianyang wonder whether he should go to this troubled water.

The owner of the supple was written by Shi Yuanya's father-in-law, who had given Li Tianyang a great help at the beginning, and even made the current Li Tianyang unable to figure it out.

The content of the book surprised Li Tianyang, but he asked Li Tianyang to arrange a sea ship for him to escort Shi Yuanya and his relatives to Dayuan Island in Tianjin.

The reason why Li Tianyang was surprised was that Shi Yuanya, the eunuch father-in-law, had a very strong sense of crisis, and he had already thought of his own way back at the beginning of the death of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and now that he thought about it, Li Tianyang could also understand the reason why he spared no effort to pave the way for Li Tianyang.

Along with Shi Yuanya's request, there is also the supervisor of the Ouchi Wine and Vinegar Bureau, the latest first-hand about the changes in the inner court and the most likely candidate for the future succession to the throne.

When Emperor Tianqi was critically ill, some important ministers in the court asked Emperor Tianqi to canonize the heir, among which there was Empress Zhang Yan in the harem as a lobbyist for King Xin, according to Shi Yuanya's foresight, King Xin's succession to the throne was almost a certainty.

It is precisely because the succession of King Xin has become almost inevitable that Shi Yuanya will begin to plan his own retreat after the Apocalypse Emperor Bintian.

Shi Yuanya is a smart person who knows how to advance and retreat, at the beginning, as a eunuch, he did not participate in too much Wei Zhongxian's work in the palace, and over the years he has been as the head of a wine vinegar noodle bureau, observing the ebb and flow of the palace with the eyes of ordinary people, compared to Wei Zhongxian, Hakka and other characters in the bureau, he can see much more clearly than these people.

Why did King Xin get the full support of Empress Zhang Yan, instead of those princes who were inextricably linked to Wei Zhongxian, the reason for this is clear to Shi Yuanya.

At the beginning, he knew that when the Hakka family was jealous that the queen Zhang Yan was pregnant, he teamed up with Wei Zhongxian to secretly cause the queen to have a miscarriage, and finally the infertility began, which had already made the two sides mortal enemies.

And on King Xin's side, it is also impossible to be in the same league with Wei Zhongxian, because his closest concubine, Concubine Li Zhuang, because of the difficulties and torture of Wei Zhongxian and others, has not been idle all these years, secretly collecting the illegal deeds of Wei Zhongxian and others.

If Wei Zhongxian could grasp the last opportunity at that time, before the Emperor of the Apocalypse returned to heaven, prevent the minister of the court and the empress Zhang Yan from electing the king of Xin Zhu Youzhen to succeed him, and instead let himself succeed one of the several princes he was related to, it is impossible to say that this Wei Jiuqian-year-old can still end up in retirement, and now when all the dust has settled, this great eunuch who still seems to be in power now, time is running out.

Li Tianyang checked Shi Yuanya's letter several times, and while he was entangled in whether to send a boat to pick up Shi Yuanya's benefactor, there was a very risky idea in his restless heart.

In his previous life, the "Embroidered Spring Knife" series of movies was a domestic movie that Li Tianyang liked very much, although the content described in it may not be correct, but for Li Tianyang, it was only able to recall and refer to something in his little historical knowledge.

In the first part of "Embroidered Spring Knife", Wei Zhongxian was sent back to his hometown, and then the newly enthroned Emperor Chongzhen sent Jinyi Wei to arrest and interrogate the crime.

Although the script of this movie will definitely be very different from the historical facts, in Li Tianyang's opinion, the large amount of money that this father-in-law Wei carried with him when he returned to his hometown in the script definitely matches what will happen to Gonggong Wei in the future.

You must know that since this Wei Gonggong has been in power alone, the amount of money he and his minions have embezzled and received is innumerable, even comparable to the annual income of the entire Ming Dynasty.

For example, Li Tian raised himself, and in order to buy peace, he paid tribute to Li Yongzhen, Shi Yuanya, and Wei Zhongxian's father-in-law on their heads every year, which was almost more than 50,000 taels.

This is also the reason why Li Tianyang's team has widened the distance between them and the eunuchs on the bright side, but they can still ensure that the eunuchs do not make trouble for themselves.

Li Tianyang is also helpless, although he wants to dilute the label of belonging to the eunuch party in people's eyes, but with the background of their team in the imperial court, they are still inseparable from the support and assistance of the eunuch party, so he can only break the fortune and eliminate the disaster, and use silver money to impress Li Yongzhen and others.

Fortunately, the development of the Hongmen team over the years has been good, especially their income at sea, with the rise of maritime merchants in the coastal areas of the south of the Yangtze River, as well as their own ocean trade is getting better and better, so that the economic strength of their team continues to rise, in order to barely support such consumption.

Now, seeing that the eunuch party is about to fall, Li Tianyang, who has always disliked losses, has begun to want to recover the losses he has suffered in the past few years.

If he agreed to Shi Yuanya's request and sent someone north to pick up this father-in-law, then Li Tianyang didn't want to just run for nothing, no matter what, he also wanted to find some extra money to make up for the losses over the years.

In the end, it was greed that overcame his cautious will, and Li Tianyang asked people to call the special operations battalion Yamamoto Fifty-six.

Yamamoto 56, as the first wave of Japanese people who came to serve Hongmen, after experiencing the encounter of not being treated by Li Tianyang at the beginning, time has indeed passed for the better in the future, and now he is the deputy commander of the special operations battalion and the commander of a company.

"Lord!" Yamamoto Fifty-six respectfully saluted, and then stood silently in front of Li Tianyang, waiting for Li Tianyang to give an order.

"The task you are going to take over now will be a very secret and important task, and you must not leak the slightest rumor, can you do it?" Li Tianyang looked at Yamamoto seriously and asked in a low voice.

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!" It's not the first time that Yamamoto has carried out this kind of task, the first order he carried out with the dozens of Japanese people who came to work, Li Tianyang also gave such a request, and in the end, wasn't they resolutely executed!

(End of chapter)