Chapter 289: The Out-of-Control Butterfly, Dao Ye's Target
After Jiang Qingzhi rushed back to the capital, the first thing he did was to enter the palace.
It is easy to enter the Western Garden, but if you want to see Emperor Jiajing, you need to report it first.
Jiang Qingzhi rushed in without waiting for the report, but the people guarding Yongshou Palace today turned out to be Yanqi's men, who stopped him immediately.
In terms of skills, Jiang Qingzhi is far inferior to these people, but he still forced his way in regardless.
Jiang Qingzhi had practiced with the Taoist once before. Sitting in Yongshou Palace, if the surroundings were quiet, the quarrels of the guards outside could be heard.
Sure enough, Huang Jin appeared as soon as the argument started.
"Lord Chang Wei, this is not the way of a subject." Yan San, the commander of the Yan cavalry, said coldly.
He only had the emperor in his eyes, and the ministers were all ants in his eyes. As long as the emperor gave an order, no matter whether it was Lu Bing or Jiang Qingzhi, the Yanqi would act without any hesitation.
"Fuck you!" Jiang Qingzhi didn't like this guy.
Our sister... Yan San was stunned, and Jiang Qingzhi ran away.
"Why is he in such a hurry?" Wang Ze beside him asked curiously.
"It has nothing to do with us." Yan San regained his composure. "Be careful recently. Those thieves will definitely not give up. Keep a close eye on the people coming in and out of your Majesty's place. Also, pay attention to any movement from the two princes."
"There are quite a few."
The two of them watched as Jiang Qingzhi ran faster and faster, and when he was almost at Yongshou Palace, he could even speed up, and they couldn't help but be surprised.
"People say that Long Wilbur is weak, but it seems that's not true!" said Wang Ze.
Jiang Qingzhi felt like his little universe had exploded...
——It’s someone from the palace!
Li Xian's words kept echoing in his mind. Jiang Qingzhi thought that there was no such thing in history. He could comfort himself at first, but later he became more and more anxious.
He could rely on his understanding of history to look down on the world like a prophet, but he forgot that his participation had disrupted the original history.
History has gone from being controllable to being out of control.
No one knows what will happen next.
And what happened before may never happen again.
Jiang Qingzhi's mind was filled with the image of the Taoist being assassinated.
Once the Taoist priest passed away... Jiang Qingzhi didn't dare to think about the consequences.
Inside the hall, the Taoist priest was concentrating on copying scriptures.
Fang Yi still had a humble smile on his face, and with his right hand he slowly pulled out a delicate little sword from the compartment under the food box.
He hid the small sword behind his arm and walked towards Emperor Jiajing step by step.
Huang Jin saw Jiang Qingzhi running towards him and thought that it was probably an emergency, no wonder he forced his way in.
"Slow down!" Huang Jin said with a smile.
Jiang Qingzhi rushed up the stairs and passed by Huang Jin like a gust of wind.
"Hey! Wait for me to report..."
Huang Jin turned around in surprise.
Just then I saw Fang Yi raising his sword...
"His Majesty!"
"Hmm!" Emperor Jiajing looked up when he heard the voice.
Then a figure rushed over like a whirlwind.
With a bang, Fang Yi was knocked to the ground.
Emperor Jiajing was stunned, but he just sat there without moving.
Jiang Qingzhi pounced on Fang Yi, and then rode on him and attacked him left and right.
One punch!
A face full of peach blossoms!
One punch, and the nose is broken!
One punch, swollen eyes!
One punch...
"Fuck you!"
Jiang Qingzhi cursed and punched continuously.
"Qingzhi!" Emperor Jiajing was about to shout at him, but saw Huang Jin rushing over desperately and cooperating with Jiang Qingzhi to hold down Fang Yi's hand.
Emperor Jiajing turned his eyes and saw the small sword that fell behind him.
"damn thing!"
Jiang Qingzhi was still punching.
"Long Wilbur!"
"Grass mud horse!"
Jiang Qingzhi threw punch after punch.
"Chang Wei Bo, if you hit him again he will be killed." Huang Jin shouted.
Jiang Qingzhi looked up in shock, and seeing that Emperor Jiajing was fine, his body relaxed and he collapsed.
The rapid run left him exhausted. The previous mad dash had used up his last bit of strength, and the subsequent knockdowns and beatings were like draining the pond of its resources, draining his last bit of power.
"Your Majesty, are you alright?"
"I'm fine!"
Emperor Jiajing said gently.
Jiang Qingzhi just wanted to stand up, but he sat down again after getting up a little. "Ouch! Someone... someone help me up. I have a cramp."
Yan Sanfei also rushed in. Seeing this scene, he first asked someone to control Fang Yi, and then knelt down to apologize.
"Help me stretch my legs!" Jiang Qingzhi sat on the ground, pulling the toes of his right foot back with both hands, but he couldn't stop the cramps.
After some leg stretching, Jiang Qingzhi finally felt a little relieved.
Wang Ze picked up the food box and said, "The food box has a layer, and the small sword is hidden in it."
Yan San lowered his head and said, "I was negligent."
Emperor Jiajing said: "I was negligent, so the prince died. You are negligent, and you want me to die!"
Yan San kowtowed vigorously, "This slave deserves death!"
Jiang Qingzhi couldn't help but feel his hair stand on end when he heard the "dong dong dong" sound. After a few seconds, Yan San's forehead was swollen.
"check!"
"Yes."
Yan San stood up and left. The hall soon became quiet.
"Old Huang, give me a cup of tea." Jiang Qingzhi was very thirsty.
Huang Jin asked someone to get some tea, and before he did, he reminded them, "Keep an eye on them, don't let anyone add anything."
Jiang Qingzhi said: "There's no need to be too nervous. I bet there are only a few of these assassins. If one dies, one less will be killed. They won't act without orders from outside."
Huang Jin is also an experienced person in this field, but he is too concerned and becomes confused.
Jiang Qingzhi rubbed his stomach and felt hungry, so he took a fruit, rubbed it on his clothes a few times, and started eating.
"Aren't you afraid it's poisonous?" Huang Jin said unhappily.
"He doesn't have a syringe." Jiang Qingzhi thought it tasted good.
"What syringe?"
"It's just..." Jiang Qingzhi tried to get over the matter by chewing.
Emperor Jiajing stood beside him with his hands behind his back, his eyes dim.
Jiang Qingzhi suddenly asked: "Old Huang, I'm a little curious why they suddenly took action."
This is something that deviates from history. Jiang Qingzhi wants to know how the butterfly came out.
Huang Jin whispered, "Your Majesty decided yesterday to suspend the imperial examination next year."
Not long after the crown prince passed away, the Taoist priest suspended the imperial examination for the next year. What would the countless scholars who were waiting to make the leap to success think?
Huang Jin whispered, "There are rumors outside that the prince was killed by those people."
"Then His Majesty suspended the imperial examination for the next year, which those people saw as revenge." Jiang Qingzhi dared to bet that the news of the prince's death at the hands of the literati was spread with the tacit consent of the Taoist priest.
If you kill my son, I will ruin your future.
Who will those people blame?
Maybe you will complain about Daoye at first, but if you think about it carefully, damn it! His son was killed by those idiots, why not stop the investigation and report it?
Then those people will turn their hatred towards those who took action.
This is a means of creating internal divisions among the scholar-officials.
It's also a counterattack!
"As long as I am alive, I can make them suffer at any time. So they want me to die!" The Taoist held the scripture and looked very calm.
Huang Jin's voice became deeper and deeper, "This is the first real assassination..."
Originally, those who wanted to kill the king could only quietly set fire to burn the Taoist priest to death. But the God of Fire did not give them face, so those people decided to do it once and for all, and asked the palace maids to strangle the Taoist priest to death...
The result was failure again.
This time they carried out a direct assassination.
Jiang Qingzhi immediately reported on the trip.
"…The local nobles are increasingly annexing land. I am worried that if this continues, there will be more and more refugees."
A few decades later, the number of refugees was so great that it made people's scalps numb. After the courier lost his job, he led these people to rebel and completely destroyed the Ming Dynasty.
"Local nobles colluded with local officials. Both sides were scholars, so they hit it off immediately." Emperor Jiajing said sarcastically: "The root of this matter is that the scholars are in a group."
Dao Ye was keenly aware of the crisis here, "The emperor's authority is the only means to prevent this from spreading."
At this time, a force that can suppress this huge force needs to emerge.
That is the emperor.
But Dao Ye was unable to shake them at the moment.
"I'm not in a hurry." The Taoist said calmly, "Cut it with a knife today, stab it with a gun tomorrow, I have plenty of patience."
Jiang Qingzhi found that the Taoist seemed to be more and more indifferent, like a god. His anger seemed to be getting less and less, but if those people heard the meaning of his words, Jiang Qingzhi felt that they would go crazy.
Don’t worry, let’s play slowly!
Jiang Qingzhi felt that the Taoist priest had set a target for him, and he would shoot an arrow at it whenever he had the chance.
"Oh, Your Majesty," Jiang Qingzhi said, "Li Xian said that when those people were planning to take action, several families disagreed. They said that although Your Majesty is... stubborn, the Ming Dynasty treats them well..."
There was a gleam of something special in Emperor Jiajing's eyes.
This is an opportunity that can be exploited.
Jiang Qingzhi was exhausted and left immediately.
Huang Jin sent him out, and after this incident, the relationship between the two actually improved a lot.
Emperor Jiajing was holding a scripture in his hand, and a eunuch appeared behind him.
"I was ready to take action earlier, but when I saw Long Wei Bo knock the man down, I didn't come out."
"understood."
The eunuch retreated quietly.
After leaving Xiyuan and looking at the crowds outside, Jiang Qingzhi felt as if he was in another world.
When she got home, Li Tian was teasing Duoduo with a branch. When she heard footsteps, she looked up and said happily, "My husband is back."
Duoduo turned around and looked at Jiang Qingzhi in surprise.
Jiang Qingzhi swore that he saw something strange.
This cat is hopeless!
Jiang Qingzhi pushed Duoduo's head away with disgust.
"Meow!"
Duoduo got annoyed and grabbed his clothes to climb up. This time, she even climbed onto his head and sat on it.
Li Tian covered her mouth and laughed: "This cat is like a general."
Jiang Qingzhi sat down and fell back.
"Comfortable!"
Duoduo was thrown down and grabbed his hair to swing on. After a few jumps, she jumped onto Jiang Qingzhi's shoulder and slid down to his thigh.
"A few businessmen came to see me the other day, saying that something was stuck at the Ministry of Revenue, and asked my husband to take charge. I thought the affairs of the Ministry of Revenue should not be underestimated, so I asked them to find Mr. Hu... Later, Mr. Hu sent someone to pass on the message that the Ministry of Revenue had blocked the trade with Altan Khan, saying that there were contraband items..."
Is someone tripping me up?
Once the trade with Altan Khan's tribe was interrupted, everyone in his tribe would be furious. Altan Khan was a powerful man and would certainly boost morale and march south.
This is courting death!
But no matter how big the matter is, it cannot move Jiang Qingzhi at this moment.
My wife's gentle voice flows slowly through my ears like running water...
Duoduo curled up on his thigh and washed his face with his paws.
The maid outside was talking in a low voice, like the sound of birds singing...
At this moment, Jiang Qingzhi felt like he was a god.
(End of this chapter)
