Because after the Ming Dynasty moved the capital, Shaanxi's strategic position was not so important, and Cai Yurong took over Yuan Zonghao's position as the governor of Shaanxi.

Yuan Zonghao set out from Shaanxi and crossed Henan to the Shandong border to join the army, and by this time Hu Guozhu had already rushed back to Nanjing.

In these days when Hu Guozhu went north, the Zhou Dynasty also officially moved the capital to Nanjing, after all, compared to Hangzhou, Nanjing's city wall is tall, the yamen of all ministries are complete, and there is no need to build the government one by one, which is very labor-saving.

In these days, while the eyes of the monarchs and ministers of the Zhou Dynasty were focused on the Beijing Division, Mao Youyi led the army under his command in Yunnan as if no one was in the land, and it took less than a month for the army to come to the city of Kunming.

The Great Zhou Dynasty is now facing the threat of two large armies in the north and south, but they are still eyeing the court, and since Hu Guozhu returned, the situation in the court has become very delicate.

At the beginning, Wu Shifan inadvertently dismissed Xia Guoxiang from the post of auxiliary minister, Xia Guoxiang buried a nail in his heart, he thought that although he was fighting for power and profit in the court, he was dedicated to Wu Sangui's Great Zhou Dynasty and died of his heart, and wanted to be the Zhou Duke of the Great Zhou Dynasty, but in the face of such a situation, he had to admit that the court had never been purely dedicated to the country, and he understood why many predecessors fought for the party and why it would lead to the destruction of the country.

If the party loses, it is absolutely impossible for their opponents to let themselves live, and the best result is to go directly to prison and beheaded, if the whole family is distributed, it will be miserable, maybe the whole family will be killed by a strong man on that road.

Everyone understands a truth, cutting the grass does not remove the roots, the spring breeze blows and grows, today you have offended his whole family, thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, it is difficult to guarantee that his son will not come back, will his son let go of your family at that time?

The moment is to gain a unique position in the DPRK, only in this way can he deal with foreign enemies with peace of mind, once they are allowed to seize power, his fate will be very miserable.

At this time, Hu Guozhu was defeated and returned to the dynasty, and in the first battle of Beijing, most of Hu Guozhu's troops were injured and their sharpness was lost.

Hu Guozhu also has his own ideas, the rumors from Cheng Xiaolian at the beginning do have some truth, and now who has the final say in this court, originally he was looking for Xia Guoxiang to ask for advice, but he didn't expect to hear that Xia Guoxiang was dismissed as an auxiliary minister in the palace to recuperate, and even the emperor came to the door several times to ask for a meeting, because he was seriously ill, he had no way to come to the door, so he could only put the army outside Nanjing and go to court alone.

As early as on the way back, he heard that many ministers in the DPRK and China were impeaching themselves for defeating and humiliating the country, and now without the help of Xia Guoxiang, it is up to him whether he can survive this hurdle.

Wu Shifan was startled when he saw Hu Guozhu, Hu Guozhu in front of him was naked, with thorns on his body, kneeling in three steps, and shouted loudly: "The minister was defeated and humiliated the country, please punish the emperor!" ”

To say that Hu Guozhu still learned a little skill from Xia Guoxiang, Wu Shifan's heart has softened by three points just when he sees this image, and he has already thrown the anger he heard about the defeat out of the clouds, and quickly got up from the dragon chair and walked over to help Hu Guozhu: "Uncle why is this, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and I have to rely on my uncle to protect Da Zhou." Someone, quickly find a robe for my uncle and put it on. ”

When the surrounding ministers saw this scene, they were all deflated in their hearts, this time it was over again, they wanted to take advantage of Hu Guozhu's defeat to bring him down, but they didn't expect that at the critical moment, the emperor's heart softened again, in this case, he couldn't participate in him, what chance could he bring him down?

Hu Guozhu hurriedly kowtowed: "The minister was defeated and humiliated the country, he had no face to see His Majesty, but I heard that His Majesty suspected that the minister and Lord Xia were colluding with the power to tilt the court, so he rushed back, and now the army is outside the city, Your Majesty can cut off the minister's head at any time, and collect the army outside the city, and the minister has no complaints!" ”

If Xia Guoxiang stood here, he would definitely applaud Hu Guozhu, if this kind of bitter meat trick of retreating as advance was used by Xia Guoxiang, Wu Shifan might be afraid of three points, but Hu Guozhu has always been a rough person in Wu Shifan's eyes, and when he was in the army, he grabbed whoever he wanted, and the three generations of women in his family were arrested, and once he even scolded Wu Shifan's head, and was almost whipped to death by Wu Sangui, who overheard it.

However, Wu Sangui also relied on him more because of this, after all, he even dared to scold Wu Shifan, and he would definitely not be partial, and Wu Shifan could grow up faster.

Now that he said this, coupled with a tired face, and a trace of blood on his forehead, Wu Shifan still had any doubts, and immediately helped him up: "Although my uncle puts his heart in his stomach, as long as I have one day, I will never remove my uncle from his official position, and whoever dares to impeach my uncle again, I will remove him from his official position!" ”

Everyone in the court was silent, even those who were not interested knew that standing up and impeaching Hu Guozhu at this time would not have the slightest effect, and would even make the emperor immediately cut off his head to show Hu Guozhu.

Since you don't care about your own family's country, why should others be obsessed with maintaining the imperial power, but this power still has to be fought for, and then take it slowly when the matter calms down.

Hu Guozhu stood up gratefully and asked softly, "What should I do over there?" ”

Wu Shifan heard that there was a lack of interest here: "Lord Xia is sick at home, I also hope that he will continue to serve the country, if he is not well ill, I have to entrust others to handle the affairs of the court." ”

Hu Guozhu showed extraordinary political talent at this time, looked at Wu Shifan and smiled: "The minister thinks that Lord Xia is not sick, but sick." ”

"Oh, what does my uncle have to say?"

"Your Majesty, do you think that Lord Xia is dedicated to the country, not to mention anything else, since His Majesty ascended the throne, is there one thing that makes the court embarrassed? Now that I have lost my official position in vain, I should also understand that I am playing a little temper with Your Majesty, this is a loyal courtier, if I change to other courtiers, I am afraid that I will have to Taoguang Yang to secretly plan something, and Lord Xia is simply recuperating at home, and he is simply playing with a small temperament like a child at home. ”

Wu Shifan also smiled when he heard this: "After my uncle said this, I was really a little enlightened, it turned out to be such a reason, I said that my uncle has always been a sensible person, why can't I get around this hurdle, my uncle can rest assured, I will go to his house in the next two days, so that I can coax him, I am also unintentional, I only feel that I am old, so I am removed from the position of auxiliary minister, but it is not aimed at him." ”

(End of chapter)