"Li Guozhen, Xu Yunzhen and the White Lotus Sect?"

Zhu Cixiang was not particularly surprised when he heard these three names. In the late Ming Dynasty, nobles could do anything except fight.

Historically, when the bandits attacked the capital, Xu Yunzhen defended the Desheng Gate. He opened the Desheng Gate directly, and Liu Zongmin led his army into the city under the leadership of the old eunuch Wang Dehua.

Zhu Cihong knew that Xu Yunzhen surrendered to the bandits in the 17th year of Chongzhen, but he did not expect that he would start acting like a monster in the 10th year of Chongzhen.

It should be that the banning of the Capital Guards Station and the implementation of land reform disturbed the noble cake, causing him to take desperate risks.

But what about Li Guozhen? Doesn’t it mean that Li Guozhen still has some integrity?

When Zhu Cihong was reforming the capital camp, the governor of the capital camp was Zhu Chunchen, and it was also Zhu Chunchen who wanted to kill him.

As the second-in-command in the capital, Li Guozhen didn't say a word at that time. It turned out that this guy was actually a conspirator.

Zhu Cixiang carefully searched Li Guozhen's behavior and found that the capital city was destroyed in the 17th year of Chongzhen's reign. This guy had a certain responsibility.

As the governor of the Beijing camp, he repeatedly asked Chongzhen for money and food to train his troops, but he put it all into his own pocket, without training or recruiting any troops at all.

When the rogues besieged the city, he would only use whips to beat the soldiers to defend the city. The enemy had nothing to do at the moment.

Finally, he came to Chongzhen for help. Do you want Chongzhen to charge into the battle?

Sure enough, Chongzhen had no choice but to issue a "personal expedition" and ordered all the officials to go to the city with swords and arrows to fight.

This is how the dignified uncle of Xiangcheng leads troops to fight. He maintains an official position for a thousand days and uses it for a short period of time.

Li Guozhen told Chongzhen with practical actions that I could do nothing but be an official.

However, he asked for a better coffin for Chongzhen. After surrendering, he was tortured to death by Liu Zongmin.

The White Lotus Sect was founded in the Southern Song Dynasty. In fact, the White Lotus Sect was not considered a cult at the beginning.

They preach not to kill, not to steal, not to drink alcohol and not to commit sexual misconduct.

This is somewhat similar to Buddhism, and soon the White Lotus Sect developed.

Later, the White Lotus Sect officially became a rebel organization. It has been on the road of rebellion and rebellion for more than a thousand years. In their eyes, the lives of the people are as nothing as trivial matter.

During the Yuan Dynasty, they rebelled against the Yuan Dynasty, and during the Ming Dynasty, they took up the banner of opposing the Ming Dynasty and restoring the Yuan Dynasty.

They colluded with the Tatars outside the Pass to burn, kill, and plunder the people inside the Pass. In the Qing Dynasty, they began to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.

Even during the Anti-Japanese War, some branches of the White Lotus still existed.

The Japanese army felt that this was conducive to their rule, so they supported organizations such as the White Lotus Sect.

Therefore, the White Lotus Sect still has considerable influence in the northern region.

On the one hand, the White Lotus Sect is a tool for the Japanese army to make money, and on the other hand, it secretly monitors the activities of each village.

At that time, organizations such as the White Lotus Sect did cause a lot of difficulties to the guerrillas.

Therefore, after the victory, these organizations were vigorously suppressed again.

Opening the interrogation record submitted by Li Ruolian, Zhu Cihong also felt a little numb.

He knew that there were problems with the palace eunuchs and palace maids and doctors, but he did not expect that it would be so serious. The palace seemed to be transparent at this time.

The Jinyiwei is actually a royal eagle dog, and Luo Yangxing, the commander of the Jinyiwei, actually has an spy in the palace.

What did Luo Yangxing want to do? But no one was destined to tell him this answer, and Luo Yangxing had been killed long ago.

Zhu Cixiang continued to look down calmly. When he saw that the imperial doctor deliberately used the wrong medicine to kill Emperor Tianqi, Zhu Cixiang immediately wanted to kill someone.

But when he saw the names of the people behind the scenes, Zhu Cixi could only shake his head, because he had basically killed all those people.

After Zhu Cihong read the transcript, he put the notebook on the desk and said:

"In order to prevent someone from making false confessions, let's arrest them and let them confront them to avoid wrongful killing."

"Li Ruolian led the Jinyi Guards to the Xiangcheng Bofu. Fang Zhenghua took Dongchang to arrest the civil servants. I personally went to the Duke's Mansion and took action immediately. Those who resisted were killed on the spot!"

"Here"

Zhu Cixiang gave the order, and Jinyiwei and Dongchang quickly took action.

Zhu Cixiang personally went to Dingguo Palace with a group of personal guards. He wanted to see how Xu Da's descendants had embarrassed his ancestor.

Dingguo Gongfu

In the underground secret room, Xu Yunzhen, Duke of Dingguo, sat at the top, and Li Guozhen, the uncle of Xiangcheng, sat next to him. Next to him sat a masked woman in white clothes. Next to the woman in white clothes stood four people in white robes.

"Holy girl, we agreed to use the locust plague to scare the emperor, let him control the crown prince, restore the guards and outlaw land reform."

"Why do you want to assassinate the king and kill the king, and attack the two empresses and the prince? What you are doing will not only bring injustice to your own father-in-law and Uncle Xiangcheng, but it will not do any good to our family."

After Xu Yunzhen finished speaking, Li Guozhen, the uncle of Xiangcheng, patted the table and said:

"You actually sent more than a hundred killers to assassinate Emperor Chongzhen in broad daylight. If you really killed Chongzhen, it might make the little killer afraid to stop, but you still missed, which will definitely anger Chongzhen and the little killer.

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"Once father and son work together and are determined to get to the bottom of it, we will definitely be implicated by your stupid behavior, and the two-hundred-year-old foundation of the Duke's Mansion and the Xiangcheng Bo's Mansion may be destroyed in one day."

"A few days ago, you were still boasting about how powerful the White Lotus Sect is. I think your reputation is completely in vain. You can do such a simple thing. What should I do next? What do you think we should do?"

There were more than 20 guard posts in the capital under the control of nobles. After Zhu Chunchen was captured, the capital camp should have been under the control of Xiangcheng Bo Li Guozhen, but Zhu Cixi directly disbanded the capital camp.

Li Guozhen knew that Uncle Xiangcheng could not compare with Duke Cheng. Zhu Chunchen was killed by the crown prince. They were nothing but an uncle of Xiangcheng. Li Guozhen was a good man and did not dare to say a word about this unless he suffered immediate losses.

But then the crown prince forcibly closed down many guard posts in the capital, leaving only one guard post, Jinyiwei, and distributed all the guard post land to military households.

Blocking someone's way of making money is like killing one's parents. Now Xu Yunzhen and Li Guozhen quit. However, they did not dare to confront the crown prince openly, so they asked an undercover agent in the palace to poison the crown prince.

They believed that as long as the crown prince gave in, Chongzhen would definitely give in immediately, and the land of the guards and the position of governor of the capital would be returned to their hands. Who knows half a year would pass.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! But half a year later, the crown prince is still alive and well, and he has killed nine rebellious nobles and many civil servants who opposed the land reform.

Now they started to panic, always feeling that the little killer star would kill their two noble families sooner or later, but they were helpless about it.

On the first night of the locust outbreak, a beautiful woman entered the residence of Bohu and Duke Guo in Xiangcheng.

The two nobles were awakened from their dreams. These people claimed to be the saints and the four guardians of the White Lotus Sect, and presented evidence that they wanted to poison the crown prince. The two nobles were frightened to death at that time.

After introduction, I learned that these four people were from the Tumote Tribe outside the Pass. They were originally from the White Lotus Sect within the Pass. They were suppressed during the Ming Dynasty and were unable to survive and threw themselves into the Mongolian tribes.

When the National Guard Army was dealing with the eight major Shanxi merchants, they went out to eliminate some small tribes that were harassing the Ming border.

At the same time, it also caused great losses to the Tumut tribe, including some believers who developed the White Lotus Sect. Since then, the White Lotus Sect has been planning to retaliate against the Ming Dynasty.

Based on the evidence they had, Our Lady of White Lotus and the four guardians found Xu Yunzhen and Li Guozhen.

Under the threats and inducements of the Saint, the two sides finally reached an agreement to attack Chongzhen during the locust plague and force Chongzhen to take away the crown prince's power to supervise the country.

The plan at that time was to poison the palace maid, and then send someone to notify Chongzhen, and shoot a few arrows at Chongzhen on his way back to let Chongzhen know how powerful he was.

Chongzhen must have thought that the crown prince was too crazy. Based on Chongzhen's character and the previous examples of the two emperors' unexpected deaths, for the sake of his own safety, Chongzhen would definitely cancel the power of the eunuchs to supervise the country under pressure.

Unexpectedly, when they took action, another team to assassinate Chongzhen appeared. However, what surprised them even more was the fierce firearms of the guards.

Even though all the White Lotus Sect masters came out, they were still unable to get close. In the end, an assassination team was sent out and the whole army was wiped out. Even the White Lotus Sect elders were killed by the masters in the carriage.

After getting the news, Xiangcheng Bo Li Guozhen knew something was wrong, but he didn't know that an even worse news came that the little killer star had returned to the palace.

Li Guozhen almost fainted when he heard that the Little Killer Star was back. He immediately rushed to Dingguo Palace to find Xu Yunzhen, and happened to meet the Saint of the White Lotus Sect and the four guardians.

Seeing the White Lotus Saint and the four guardians, Xiangcheng Bo Li Guozhen immediately went into a rage, but the White Lotus Saint just said a few words and almost choked Li Guozhen to death:

"You and I are both grasshoppers on the same rope. No one can escape. My uncle placed a maid next to the dog emperor and poisoned the queen. Isn't it a capital crime?"

"you……"

Li Guozhen was at a loss for words and could only glare at Our Lady of the White Lotus. Xu Yunzhen saw that he was about to start a fight and hurriedly smoothed things over:

"Don't be angry, you two. Since it can't be done, we'd better think of ways to protect ourselves. The little killer star will definitely be able to find out the clues..."

The White Lotus Saint snorted coldly:

"Hmph, what's a child to be afraid of? Look for an opportunity to kill the Dog Prince. I heard that he usually doesn't have many personal guards when he goes out, so he should have a chance!"

The four guardians immediately expressed their support for the saint's decision:

"Yes, if we find a chance to get rid of the dog prince, everything will be fine..."

Li Guozhen shook his head:

"Do you know how many people want to get rid of the little killer star? It's not easy. Although there are not many guards around him, they are all masters, and they also have firearms for self-defense. You should flee the capital immediately. As long as you leave, Uncle Xiangcheng

The Mansion and Duke Dingguo’s Mansion will be safe..."

Saint White Lotus assassinated Chongzhen. She had realized that firearms were powerful. People said that the great elder was invulnerable, but she was killed by three shots from the people in the carriage.

She was just about to ask the two distinguished nobles to find a way to get some handguns to play with, when someone knocked on the big iron door of the underground secret room, and then the voice of the housekeeper of the Duke's Mansion came in:

"My lord, something bad happened. The Crown Prince led his army to surround the Duke's Mansion..."

"What?"

Xu Yunzhen was shocked and suddenly panicked. He knew that the Dong Chuang incident had happened.

Uncle Xiangcheng's legs were trembling even more. The two looked at each other and didn't know what to do, but the five members of the White Lotus Sect were very calm. The White Lotus Saint snorted coldly:

"There are so many maids and eunuchs in the palace. It is impossible to find out about the Duke and Uncle Xiangcheng in a short time. As long as you don't open your mouth, no one can do anything. Don't you have a ticket to avoid death?"
To be continued...