Huang Liji felt it was incredible. Since Your Majesty knew, why didn’t he call us to meet?

The three cabinet ministers looked at each other and couldn't understand the intention of Emperor Tianqi for a moment!

What a big deal!

It is not an exaggeration to say that the sky fell.

It is obvious that there is no choice to discuss with the cabinet for such a big event... this emperor's heart is already unpredictable.

Huang Liji subconsciously looked at Sun Chengzong and said, "Mr. Sun, what do you think?"

After all, among the three of them, the one who knows the most about Emperor Tianqi is Sun Chengzong.

Sun Chengzong said: "I think... this matter is a bit incredible... If the guess is good, there should be an order soon."

Liu Hongxun sighed and said, "The people in Jiangnan are really bold and reckless. Things have come to this point. They are afraid of being afraid of weapons. No matter how they do it, they will be difficult to have a complete solution..."

And at this moment, a eunuch suddenly came hurriedly and said, "Your Majesty has an oral order to order Xu Zhaokui, the Minister of Justice, to go to Jiangnan to investigate the case of assassination of Zhou Yi, how proud!"

Huang Liji and others received the oral order, but couldn't help but look at each other.

Zhou Yingqiu went to investigate corruption and died.

Now another Minister of Justice...

"This...is something strange..."

Liu Hongxun said: "Maybe Your Majesty wants to turn big things into small things, and small things into nothing. Otherwise, he would not have sent the Minister of Justice to conduct a thorough investigation."

Huang Liji nodded. This may be the best result. Jiangnan is a major city for money and food in the world. Once chaos occurs, the consequences will be unpredictable.

But if it is just a thorough investigation, then with the IQ of the Minister of Justice, he will definitely try his best to control the matter within a controllable range!

For example, find out how the assassin killed people, why they killed people, etc.

However, although Liu Hongxun said this, Huang Liji was still a little unbelievable. He pondered: "It's just that not so simple. Your Majesty's character will never be like this."

"It's hard to say." Liu Hongxun said: "After all, this is a major event that shakes the foundation of the country. If you are not careful, you will never be able to recover. Even Your Majesty needs to be dealt with carefully."

In fact, it's not just the cabinet anymore.

When the news came out, the capital was shocked.

People also began to have many rumors out of concern for Jiangnan.

Of course, there are also people watching the fun.

After all, Zhou Yingqiu, the Minister of Personnel, was a eunuch party. In the eyes of people, this assassination was actually a heavy blow to the eunuch party.

In fact, this is understandable. The party struggles have reached a white-hot stage and they are in a state of great influence. In addition, the new policy has become a sword hanging on people's heads, which is really worrying.

The death of the Minister of Personnel was a warning to the palace.

This time it is an assassination, what about the next time?

Xu Zhaokui, the Minister of Justice, got the order and became frightened.

He is also a eunuch.

But this case is obviously impossible to investigate.

If you continue to investigate thoroughly, God knows what consequences will be.

So he received the order but did not leave and planned to continue to delay.

Many reports from Jiangnan came. The six ministers of Jiangnan mentioned the case of assassination Zhou Yi vividly, but almost all spoke in unison, saying that the assassin was just an ordinary citizen who hated the eunuch party. Because he really hated the eunuch party, he took risks and was now imprisoned in prison. It was his own move to confess and had nothing to do with others.

Emperor Tianqi never summoned ministers again after that.

He did not show up in public, as if nothing had happened.

The expected anger and furiousness of the dragon's face did not appear.

It seems that this incident did not affect the mood of Emperor Apocalypse.

Therefore, judging from the feedback from the capital, after waiting anxiously for half a month, everyone finally slowly relaxed.

It is still on the Qinhuai River, and it is still on the bright lights, the lights of thousands of houses, the bursts of silk and bamboo, the laughter and joy, and the Qinhuai River where a thousand golds are buying laughter.

Everyone in the pleasure boat breathed a sigh of relief.

Someone even smiled with a bit of sarcastic meaning: "I didn't expect that the foolish monarch would also be afraid."

"The people's hearts are available." A scholar with an official towel and a Confucian shirt shook his head and said, "Everyone here in Jiangnan despised the eunuch. When Zhou Yingqiu died, many people set off firecrackers! In recent days, I have visited relatives and friends, and people are happy to mention this matter... There is also the assassin Zhang Qingxiang. When talking about this person, many people gave a thumbs up and said that he was a righteous man!"

"Hahaha……"

Everyone laughed happily.

"From the news from the court, the Minister of Justice has been sent to investigate this time, but... Although the Minister of Justice Xu Zhaokui is also a eunuch, he has learned from Zhou Yingqiu's past. I am afraid that it is not us who are panicking now, but this Minister of Justice."

"But you should be careful... Then the assassin Zhang Qingxiang, just kill him."

"Kill now?"

"Kill now!" the man sitting in the head pondered: "Let's do it tonight, and destroy the corpse."

"Okay, the official should give the person his own instructions to do it."

"On the court..." The person sitting in the head continued thoughtfully: "Although Your Majesty asked the Ministry of Justice to conduct a thorough investigation, it seems... he does not want to make a big deal, but... he still has to be careful. What Your Majesty is best at... is to build a plank road and secretly travel to Chencang, and beware of Your Majesty's sudden arrival in the south of the Yangtze River."

Someone disagreed and said, "Is it so serious?"

At this time, someone became alert.

The man smiled and said, "This is a foolish monarch, and he acts impermanently. Of course, he must be careful. Besides, he will be careful to sail the ship for ten thousand years!"

"If so, how should we prevent it?"

"It's better to find a way to make Xiaolingwei... strictly prevent it, especially beware of people crossing the river..."

Xiaolingwei is located in the east of the city and is the most important military town outside Nanjing. It is far from the north of the Yangtze River. It not only has complete military facilities here, but also can be said to be the most important fortress to protect Nanjing City.

"The Xiaoling Guard..." The person sitting in the head said: "The Xiaoling Guard commander Liu Kuo, find someone to say hello and tell him... if something goes wrong, he can't escape."

"In addition... take out 300,000 taels of silver to reward the soldiers in the guards. They should be willing to give up the silver. If they can't even give up the silver, how can people work hard? Of course, this is secondly. All ferries and docks on the river bank must be strictly guarded. We are loose on the outside and tight on the inside. As long as we are careful, we can keep the Jiangnan worry-free."

Someone couldn't help saying, "Do you want to withdraw the people along the coast..."

"No need." The man smiled, then sighed, "The tyrant monarch was cruel and unkind, and the traitors around him even exploited the people and regarded the people as pigs and dogs... Because of this... If the court attacked, it would inevitably cause panic among the people in the south of the Yangtze River. There are more people left in Jiangbang. If there is really a large army crossing the river, it will be difficult for them to distinguish between the enemy and us, and they are afraid they will attack the people!"

"Once the people are slaughtered, the people in Jiangnan are all in our hearts, and the millions of people in these provinces will share the same hatred with us. Such a cruel army will be like a powerful crossbow, and will collapse without fighting."

After hearing this, everyone laughed and said, "It's amazing, it's so wonderful. The tyrant ruler and the chaotic ministers are unjust and harming the people, who is not afraid of them?"

The person sitting in the first seat continued: "What do civil and military officials of all prefectures and counties, as well as guards... view this matter?"

"Many of them came to Nanjing City to inquire about the news. After learning about the situation, they all expressed that they would advance and retreat with us."

The person in the title sneered and said, "Don't you have to follow us to advance and retreat together? Zhou Yingqiu is dead. Now no one can escape the relationship. Now it's not us that we let them advance and retreat together, but they begging to advance and retreat together! On weekdays... these people have been rich and prosperous with us for a long time, and now it's time for them to work together with us."

“That’s right.”

After a pause, the person in charge said again: "Yes, there is another thing... Are the muskets and cannons we secretly built, especially the cannons purchased by the Flangjimen... ready?"

“It’s ready.”

"It's time to see the truth, and we should also tell the foolish monarch what it means to win the hearts of the people. At the beginning, when this foolish monarch persecuted Donglin in the court and approached those eunuchs and treacherous slanderers, we should be awake. Of course, we also have to thank Zhang Jingyi. If Zhang Jingyi hadn't tried any new policy, we would have let the righteous and loyal people in Jiangnan die without a place to die, maybe... we wouldn't have made such a determination."

"But now... they have at least told us one truth, that is... in the court, it is useless to count on this tyrant monarch. Whether the monarch can be full of righteous monarchs depends on the stinginess of the tyrant monarchs, but to let them know that although the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River can unite as one, they can give them a headache, which is the most serious thing."

“That’s right.”

"Oh, there is another thing. Have you sent someone to see King Huai? What should you say about His Highness King Huai...?"

"He was afraid of trouble. At first, he met our people and talked about the past and present with our people. Later, he suddenly heard that Zhou Yingqiu was assassinated and seemed to find something strange, so he immediately closed the door to thank the guests and pretended to be sick. We had sent people one after another to ask for a meeting, but he refused to see him, just saying that he was in poor health and was inconvenient to meet him."

"Ha..." The first person showed a sarcastic look and said, "Since the King of Huai dares not take on the great responsibility, then... he can only count on His Highness Yi of Jianchang Prefecture, Jiangxi. Speaking of which, this King of Yi was originally named Zhu Youxiao, and he still had the same name as His Majesty!"

Although he has the same name, after Emperor Tianqi ascended the throne, the Yi Wang, named Zhu Youxiao, immediately changed his name to Zhu Youmu.

Someone said: "I'm afraid he may not be willing."

"Who doesn't want to be a great master? I'm just afraid, so I'll go and get in touch first, and there's no hurry."

"Okay, I'll make arrangements now."

After saying that, the man sitting in the first position immediately stood up and said, "You must be prepared for both ways. If the foolish monarch can submit, it would be fine. But in order to prevent Yu Weiran, we should make the worst plan."
Chapter completed!