"Are you ordered to kill more than a hundred ministers with a stick?" Tang Zihe finally couldn't help but speak. At this time, he didn't care about his guilty conscience. He asked, but his wonderful eyes couldn't help but glance at Qin Kan's face. .
Ding Shun chuckled, looked at Qin Kan's face, and did not dare to answer, but his expression was quite proud.
Looking at Ding Shun's expression, Tang Zihe became more and more certain that this matter must have been done under Qin Kan's instructions. After following Qin Kan for so many years, she already knew the character of his subordinates, but Ding Shun's doggy face When his face showed such a triumphant expression, it was probably Qin Kan's big deal.
Others didn't know the consequences of killing more than a hundred people with a stick, but how could a shrewd woman like Tang Zihe not know? At this moment, her pretty face flushed with excitement, and she blurted out: "The new emperor actually 'decided' to kill more than a hundred people with a stick." Minister, you will definitely lose the hearts of the courtiers in the future, now is the perfect opportunity"
The word "declaration" was emphasized very strongly. Tang Zihe glanced at Qin Kan as he spoke.
Qin Kan, with a cold face, scolded: "Shut up! It's up to you to make trouble in the affairs of the government? I haven't settled the matter with you yet, just wait!"
It was only then that Tang Zihe realized that he had really lost his bearings and that there was indeed some unsettled account, so he hurriedly lowered his head and pretended to be a submissive little woman, without saying a word.
Ding Shundao: "Since Qian Ning has started the killing spree, we can no longer tolerate it. My lord, the fourth lady was right. Now is the time when the new emperor has lost people's hearts. It's time for me to make an idea."
Qin Kan thought for a moment with a sullen face, and said: "The heat is almost there. If the delay continues, I can only watch him destroy all my years of hard work. I can't bear it anymore!"
Ding Shun clasped his fists excitedly: "Please give me the order."
"Go to the Liaodong Frontier Army garrison in the northern suburbs of the city and secretly summon Ye Jinquan to see me in the city."
A crisp cracking sound came from the inner courtyard of the outer house.
Qin Kan glared at Tang Zihe with a livid face. Tang Zihe knelt in front of him timidly, with the newly broken porcelain pieces scattered in front of his knees.
"Tang Zihe. Do you remember what I told you back then?"
"Remember, women are not allowed to interfere in politics, especially me, let alone participate in state and military affairs." Tang Zihe lowered his head and whispered.
"Do you still remember what you said to me after Bazhou was defeated and captured?"
"Remember, you will never rebel from now on, and you will spend the rest of your life repaying the thousands of lives owed to Bazhou."
Qin Kan's tone became colder: "So. Tell me, what are you doing now?"
Tang Zihe still lowered his head, but his tone was extremely stubborn: "I'm doing what I should do."
"When His Majesty was drowned, you were invited by the courtiers to go into the Leopard Room to see His Majesty. You said that His Majesty would die for ten days. You must have started making plans at that time, right? His Majesty's drowning was actually not serious. With your medical skills In fact, he could wake up that night, but you didn't know what medicine you gave him, which made him comatose for ten days. This caused me to make wrong judgments, so I made wrong countermeasures. Later, during the ten-day period, Just as you are about to arrive, you don't know what leverage you have against Gao Feng. You force him to steal the seals of the Chief of Ceremonies and the Royal Horsemaster to mobilize the guards of the Leopard Room and smuggle His Majesty out of the palace in a coma, making the situation in the court even more confusing. In the end, I had to welcome a new king to the throne. You calculated that the first thing the new king would do after he ascended the throne was to target me, a powerful official. And in order to protect myself, my wife and my children, and the hard work of the New Deal for many years, I had to fight"
Qin Kan's expression became more and more fierce: "Tang Zihe. You are really good at calculating. You calculated the entire court without leaving home, and even me, the person next to you, also calculated. Today, the arrow is already in the bow, and I have to take action." , the capital and the world are about to undergo great changes, and everything is due to you. Do you think I should praise you, Zhuge Zhuge, for your unrivaled strategy? Tang Zihe, you promised me not to rebel again, and what you have done now counts. What?"
Tang Zihe sighed faintly: "I said I would never rebel again. What I am doing now is not for my own imperial hegemony, but to protect my man and family. Qin Kan, what did I do wrong?"
Qin Kan said coldly: "Do I need you as a woman to protect me? In order to protect me and this family, you actually arranged such a situation and made a fool of the king and ministers in the court. Seeing that the capital is in chaos, thousands of people are fighting. It's inevitable, Tang Zihe, is this the result you want?"
Tang Zihe finally raised his head and looked at him stubbornly, with a sneer at the corner of his mouth: "Qin Kan, what you said is high-sounding, pat your conscience, do you dare to say that you are really a loyal minister? I have been with you for ten years. Years later, I am not Du Yan and Jin Liu. They only see that gentle and gentle person in their eyes.?, the husband who always makes them happy and makes them happy, and in my eyes, Qin Kan is not only the husband, but also a hero who has the world in his heart! "
"You are different from others. Some of them are famous loyal ministers and generals who have been famous throughout the ages, and some are unabashedly rebellious ministers and traitors. But you, Qin Kan, seem to be loyal and good, but in fact you always leave yourself a way out. You will never put yourself out there. Trapped in a desperate situation, your layout has been laid out longer than mine and is more sophisticated than mine. Since the imperial court sent you to inspect Liaodong more than ten years ago, you are probably already planning your escape, right? It was Ye Jinquan who personally won the position of Governor of Liaodong. In recent years, the capital has made new firearms, and you have always been the first to send them to Liaodong to equip the border troops. Ye Jinquan has eliminated dissidents in Liaodong in recent years, placed cronies in the army, suppressed Li Gao's old troops, and led to the loss of border troops in Liaodong. From top to bottom, the army gradually only knows Governor Ye, but not the imperial court!"
"Starting from the first year of Zhengde, you set up a separate camp outside the capital city and recruited good orphans from the refugee camp as 'young soldiers'. Each year, there were 500 people in a group. In the past ten years, there were as many as 5,000. They were recruited every day. After studying and practicing, these young soldiers were sent to Liaodong. These young soldiers were literate and able to read and write. They were familiar with military books and had excellent physical fitness. They were both civilized and military. How could it be difficult for such people to stand out in the frontier army? Ye Jinquan took advantage of the situation and placed them in the army, serving as Hundreds of thousands of households, if we carefully calculate it more than ten years later, how many times the Liaodong frontier army changed the surname Qin! Qin Kan, you must tell me that you dropped this chess piece unintentionally and without any purpose"
"In the court, you planted many party members without showing any signs of it. You silently won over a number of important ministers including Yang Tinghe, the cabinet scholar, and Yang Yiqing, the minister of the Ministry of Personnel. You deliberately made friends with the eunuch, the eunuch, the censor of the inner palace, the eunuch, and the minister of the Ministry of War. Yan Song is even more your confidant. He used the huge profits from shipping to tie the Duke Zhu Hui and other nobles who controlled the military power of the capital regiment into the same boat. Now, at first glance, the court in the capital sees that you, Ning Guogong, have become the new king. Fish and meat are allowed to be slaughtered. In fact, the emperor has just been new and his foothold is not stable. He has lost all the hearts of the people because of today's killing of more than a hundred ministers with a stick. On the contrary. Under your management for more than ten years, Ning Guogong, whether it is the court or the frontier army, your power is It's like a star-studded chessboard, all-pervasive. From the perspective of a discerning eye, the new king is actually at a huge disadvantage. The affairs of the court and the world are all decided by the turning of your hand."
Tang Zihe talked a lot and looked at Qin Kan with increasingly sharp eyes: "Qin Kan, others don't understand you because they don't understand you. You are not a loyal minister. But you are not a traitor either. It doesn't matter whether you are a wise king or a cowardly king. As long as The emperor treats you well, and you don¡¯t mind being a loyal minister for the rest of your life. On the contrary, the emperor treats you like a thorn in his side, and you don¡¯t mind changing the world. Doing something big and great, and I am nothing more than laying the final foundation for you. You just pushed forward. Your lifelong ambition to change the world, your family, wife and children that you have worked so hard to protect, and the countless followers who have followed you over the years. It¡¯s all in your mind. Qin Kan, why are you hesitating!"
At the end of Tang Zihe's words, his tone gradually became cold and stern. Seeing Qin Kan's dumbfounded expression, Tang Zihe suddenly chuckled, with tears in his laughter. He didn't know whether he was happy or sad.
"Qin Kan, we are not good people, but we are not so pure either. I am a female rebel who is bent on changing the world, but you are an out-and-out hypocrite. In my eyes, it is the world that is wrong, and in yours In my eyes, it¡¯s the human heart that¡¯s wrong!¡±
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Qin Kan met Ye Jinquan for the second time, and the atmosphere between the two became much more solemn.
Ye Jinquan was wearing a martial artist's short shirt and was sitting in the front hall of his outer house, standing tall like a mountain of pine trees. He remained motionless. His square face was as expressionless as a knife or an axe, as if he were a statue without thoughts and soul. No emotion could be seen, but his momentum But he is always so domineering and fierce. Even if he is wearing an inconspicuous coarse cloth shirt, he looks like a tiger waiting to attack, which is awe-inspiring.
When Qin Kan walked into the front hall, Ye Jinquan finally showed a hint of warmth on his face, and he stood up and clasped his fists in salute.
Qin Kan smiled. At first he was just a shop assistant recruited from a refugee camp. More than ten years later, he became a generation of famous border generals who frightened the Mongolian Tatars and even changed the offensive and defensive trends of the Han and Mongolians for more than a hundred years. The fate of fate is really unpredictable.
How lucky I am to have discovered this dusty pearl among thousands of refugees in this life.
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? have been shooed away by the maidservants in the front hall, leaving only Qin Kan and Ye Jinquan left in the hall, Ye Jinquan lowered his voice and asked: "My lord, you have summoned the general, are you going to start a move?"
A look of determination flashed across Qin Kan's face, he nodded and said: "The arrow is on the string and must be fired. Uncle Master, are the army ready?"
Ye Jinquan showed a hint of pride: "The 50,000 border troops in Liaodong are willing to listen to my father-in-law's orders!"
Qin Kan smiled and said, "A lieutenant general is willing to do such a big thing that may cost you your head?"
"At the end of ten years, countless young soldiers will be deployed into the camp to share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers. All the border troops in the towns in Liaodong have been??will master. "
Qin Kan looked at him deeply: "What about you? Now you are already a world-famous first-class general. Even if I become emperor in the future, I'm afraid I won't be able to promote you to another official. Why are you willing to do this big thing that will kill your head? "
Ye Jinquan bowed and clasped his fists and said: "The last general was born in the Duke's mansion."
"This is not a reason."
Ye Jinquan's cold eyes finally took on a strange color: "General Mo doesn't understand the affairs of the imperial court. General Mo was once a member of the Ningxia frontier army and deputy Qianhu. No one knows the corruption of the Ming Dynasty's military system better than General Mo. Because he knew it, he was disappointed, so the last general quit the frontier army and preferred to become a refugee with no clothes or food. In recent years, the prince has worked hard to govern, and has repeatedly promoted strategies to strengthen the army and enrich the people. Under the push of the prince, the Han and Mongolians have been fighting for more than a hundred years. The offensive and defensive momentum has gradually reversed, and the general can see that the father-in-law is the one who brings hope to the Ming Dynasty, and the general is just following the fate."
Looking deeply at Qin Kan, Ye Jinquan sighed: "In the past few years, the border towns and people of the Ming Dynasty have finally seen some improvement, and their lives are moving forward, all because of the father-in-law's innovation. If anyone wants to obliterate all this, If he returns to his former appearance, the general will try his best to bear the charge of rebellion and kill him, even if he is the emperor!"
Qin Kan nodded in relief: "If I have one person who understands me, so what if I have to bear the infamy for eternity? Uncle Master, everything depends on you."
"How do you plan to launch it?"
"Uncle, if you read ancient and modern history books and military books, do you know how Empress Wu conquered the world in the Tang Dynasty?"
On October 26, the fourteenth year of Zhengde, a rare scene in history occurred in the morning of this day.
At the Yin hour, there was no one in front of the Chengtian Gate where countless courtiers should have gathered to wait for the palace gate to open. The Han generals guarding the palace gate all showed surprise. When the palace gate opened at the Yin hour, they were carrying whiskers. The young eunuch walked out of the palace gate and found that the sky above Chengtianmen Square was empty, not even a mouse could be seen. The young eunuch was stunned for a moment, and immediately realized that something was wrong, he quickly turned around and hurried to Qianqing Palace.
At the same time, inside the Chaoyang Gate of the capital, the soldiers of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division guarding the gate nodded and bowed, opened the city gate, and respectfully sent a group of royal guards wearing red flying fish robes out the door.
This group of people was full of murderous intent. After leaving the city gate, they rushed towards Tianjin. They were ordered by Ding Shun, the Fusi of Beizhen, to do only one thing - intercept and kill Qian Ning!
In front of the gate of Duke Ning's Mansion outside the city, many armored soldiers suddenly appeared overnight. These soldiers were scattered around the Duke's Mansion with condensed expressions. Thousands of soldiers surrounded the Duke's Mansion like an iron barrel. It was dawn. There are many generals in armor frequently coming and going in front of the Duke's Mansion. A knowledgeable person can tell at a glance that both the soldiers guarding the door and the generals coming and going are all frontier troops who have experienced hundreds of battles. That kind of The smell of blood and the murderous intent as sharp as a blade that can be smelled from a few feet away are something that members of the regiment camp and royal horse supervisor who are used to eating Taiping food will never be able to fake.
Without any warning, the sky over the capital city suddenly became dense with war clouds, and a mountain rain was about to come.