I'm really not the carpenter emperor

It can be said that during the three years of his career as chief assistant, the authority of Wei Guangwei, the cabinet assistant, almost completely relied on the trust of Emperor Zhu Youxiao.

People like Wei Guangwei were all able-bodied officers in the two years when Zhu Youxiao first came to the throne, but now they feel that the situation in the court has suddenly changed and everyone is in danger.

In the beginning, such a first assistant was Zhu Youxiao's consideration for centralizing power, but now, without the support of external forces, what the first assistant can do is really limited.

Wen Tiren's entry into the cabinet marked the re-emergence of the Zhejiang Party faction in the court, and it confirmed the secret conjectures of many people.

This Daming is about to change.

Everyone in the court was secretly discussing that Wei Guangwei, the chief assistant, was about to reach the end, and what he was most afraid of now was that the emperor would kill the donkey.

He knew that he was almost entirely dependent on the emperor, and he had offended countless people for the sake of being in power.

During the three years as the chief assistant, in order to continue to gain the trust of Emperor Tianqi, he offended countless parties.

Resigning from office means losing the emperor's trust.

Without the emperor's actions, new and old hatreds will surge up together. Wei Guangwei knows that at that time, he will die without a place to bury him.

But it will be written like this in history, the son of Shengtian is aware of the details, and the chief assistant who has done nothing since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty has finally abdicated.

He Wei Guangwei, apart from serving as the chief assistant for three years, has no name and no fortune, but left a synonym for incompetence in history.

"Master Ge, please come up with an idea."

"Yes, Wen Tiren must not be allowed to enter the cabinet. Once Wen Tiren enters the cabinet, the Zhejiang Party will be revived, and the court will change!"

Wei Guangwei's face was ugly, he pondered for a while, and smiled wryly:

"Don't you all understand? The resurgence of the Zhejiang Party and Wen Tiren's entry into the cabinet are all manipulated by His Majesty."

"It's Your Majesty, who wants to replace me with Wen Tiren, and replace Dong Lin with the Zhejiang Party, and fight with the Wei Party in the court, and Your Majesty will benefit from it."

Hearing this, the faces of several people were not good-looking.

Their situation is similar to that of Wei Guangwei, they are all unscrupulous people for the sake of superiority, if what Wei Guangwei said just now is true, then their life may be difficult in the future.

Once they lost the emperor's trust, the ensuing storm of revenge was enough to kill their whole family several times.

For a while, several people were depressed and speechless.

"Now I just hope that His Majesty will remember the old relationship, and won't do anything to deal with Mr. Ge, otherwise, I and the others will also be doomed."

After finishing speaking, several people looked at each other, and they all understood in their hearts.

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On the first day of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, firecrackers are set up all over the country to celebrate the New Year and the New Year, especially in the palace.

However, on such a festive day, several anecdotes happened one after another across the country, casting a persistent shadow over everyone's hearts.

The first one is from the Jingshi Observation Deck.

The viewing platform was built during the Yongle period, and it is magnificent. On this day, when Zhu Youxiao took Zhang Yan to watch the scenery, hundreds of birds that looked like ghost car birds came from far to near.

They came to the top of the viewing platform in the rain, hovered at low altitude, and screamed endlessly.

No matter how the Yongwei camp chased them away, these birds would never disperse, and they wailed loudly, the sound was so sad that everyone who heard it was shaken.

Zhu Youxiao didn't believe in these so-called legends of gods and ghosts at all. Birds and beasts suddenly behaved abnormally, hovered at low altitude, or ran away in groups, which was the harbinger of a catastrophe.

All of a sudden, Zhu Youxiao remembered a major event that happened in May of the sixth year of Tianqi, that is, more than three months later.

Apocalypse Big Bang!

The rarity and weirdness of this incident has never been reasonably explained in later generations, and the damage caused is also incalculable.

It is not without reason that the Apocalypse Big Bang was called the most serious and strange of the many natural disasters in the last years of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youxiao suddenly remembered this incident, and he was all about taking precautions in advance to avoid heavy casualties like in history.

For a while, the good mood was gone, and Zhang Yan left angrily.

Strange things happened again, Zhu Youxiao and Zhang Yan, who were guarding the Yongwei Battalion, had just stepped off the viewing platform, and the people were about to disperse, and the mournful birds in the sky gradually stopped.

At this time, the continuous drizzle that had been raining for a whole day also stopped.

All of a sudden, there was a lot of discussion in the audience, and even some eunuchs who were in charge of ceremonies, accompanied by civil and military officials, looked up at the sky, fearful and respectful.

There were even crowds of people kneeling on the ground, clasping their hands together, thinking that it was a miracle, and they were extremely devout.

And Zhu Youxiao, holding Zhang Yan with one hand, stared closely at the clear blue sea and blue sky.

Just when everyone thought that Zhu Youxiao would pray to God or show respect like many people did.

Zhu Youxiao dragged Zhang Yan away slowly, with a calm expression on his face, as if nothing happened just now.

But then, there were more and more weird things, and folk rumors were boiling, which was no longer something that Zhu Youxiao's calm performance could stabilize.

The second strange thing still appeared in the capital, at the feet of the emperor.

On the third day after the first day of the Yuan Dynasty, there was a temple fair in the suburbs of Beijing. Shocking rumors came out. The people who participated in the temple fair rumored that the gods in the Temple of the City God shed tears on the day of the temple fair and performed miracles again.

It is a rare event that happens once in a thousand years.

All of a sudden, people from all over the world flocked to see the miracle, and there were rumors everywhere among the people. Even scholars who had read poetry and books felt that this was not an easy matter.

As soon as the sixth year of the Apocalypse began, strange things happened frequently. The emperor and empress traveled together to the viewing platform, but the news of the warning signs from heaven spread like wildfire.

Although Zhu Youxiao and Zhang Yan's performance on that day can be said to be very calm, the superstition of people at this time is obviously very serious.

In this regard, Zhu Youxiao called a Taoist priest who was quite famous in the capital, and wanted to use superstition to break the superstition.

To stop rumors, we still have to start from the source.

The Taoist priest who was summoned into the palace by decree was called Ma Zhenyi, who was a teacher of the Quanzhen Longmen School, and had a well-known name among the people-Huashan Immortal.

Chapter 7: Fighting White Lotus in the East Factory

Thousands of weak willows, hundreds of warblers singing.

In the Forbidden City on this day, the sky was clear and the fresh air accompanied by the breeze made people feel refreshed.

The so-called Huashan Immortal is said to be insane all day long, and has not shown his face for two years. Even if he rode around and rummaged at the foot of Huashan for a few days, he did not see him.

At this time, another explosive news came out. Some people said that the Taoist Ma Zhen had predicted that something big would happen in the sixth year of the apocalypse.

All of a sudden, there were heated discussions among the people, and there was a sensation in the ruling and opposition parties.

For the second time, Zhu Youxiao issued a decree to order the supervisors in various places in Dongchang to conduct strict investigations, and to find this Taoist priest before March, and he must be brought to the palace regardless of whether he lived or died.

This Taoist priest named Ma Zhenyi is the key to breaking the rumors.

A few days after the second edict to summon the Taoist priest Ma Zhenyi was issued to the people, another strange incident spread to the court.

This is the third strange event with a far-reaching impact in Tianqi's six years. This time, even Zhu Youxiao is not sure.

Could it be a UFO?

Or, do ghosts really exist in this world?

Some people say that three days ago, a strange cloud appeared in the northeast corner of the Forbidden City, which was shaped like a flag and a knife, and its color changed from white to red, and then from red to purple.

After several repetitions, it took half an hour before they dispersed.

The farmers who went out to cultivate, the people walking on the streets, and the travelers from various places and countries all said that they saw it with their own eyes and saw it clearly.

After that day, there were even more discussions inside and outside the capital, as well as in the ruling and opposition parties.

As a last resort, the local governments successively stepped up patrols and arrests on the streets in an attempt to stabilize the order. However, as the rumors became more and more evil, riots prompted by some people with good intentions also began to occur.

On January [-], the sixth year of Tianqi, a large-scale civil uprising broke out in Shaanxi.

A farmer from Mizhi in Shaanxi Province named Ji Shouen claimed that the heavens were dissatisfied with the cruelty of Emperor Ming and the frequent occurrence of strange phenomena, and that this was a warning from the heavens, and he should be punished when he was violent.

Therefore, he incited the villagers and common people to rebel in Suide Prefecture, stormed the granary, killed the state officials, and then entered Shanxi from Suide, and was active between Linxian County and Yongning.

The civil uprising broke out in Shaanxi, directly shaking the entire local officialdom.

After Ji Shouen's troops captured Suide and entered Shanxi, the number of refugees and civilians who joined along the way increased to more than [-].

On the 22nd, Ji Shouen ordered some rioters to sneak into the city, fight for the city gate together from inside and outside, and led his troops to take advantage of the chaos to attack Linxian County.

Liu Hu, the county magistrate, defended the city and died in a fierce battle. All [-] defenders died in battle.

The news that Lin County was captured by rioters shocked Gao Ye, the commander-in-chief of Taiyuan, because before that, no one could have imagined that rioters would also attack towns.

Gao Ye quickly raised his account in Taiyuan, held a meeting with the generals, formulated a strategy, and decided to join forces to encircle and suppress the bandits, and end the turmoil as quickly as possible.

On the 22nd, the Taiyuan government army began a large-scale mobilization.

Yangqu Songyi Department, Zhenxi Wei Mengruhu Department, Xiaoyi Chen Guowei Department sent troops from three directions, while Gao Ye was stationed in Taiyuan City, commanding the official army that came from Shaanxi to encircle and suppress the rogues.

The army began to dispatch troops on the 23rd, and Yangqu was the closest to Ji Shouen's headquarters, so he was the first to rush to Linxian to help.

On the evening of the 24th, three thousand Taiyuan government troops who came from Yangqu were ambushed near Linxian County.

However, the rogue bandits are not strong in combat after all, and Shanxi's official army has undergone two years of rectification by Zhu Xieyuan, governor of Shanxi Province, and the reform of the guards.

During the battle, the officers and soldiers of Yangqu were brave and brave. After the reorganization of the guards last year, Song Yi, who was promoted to Chief Qian because of his military exploits, was even more brave in fighting, and he was the first to die.

Although they took the lead, the rogues did not have complete armor and ordnance, and their leader, Ji Shouen, was not at all a match for the leading generals of the army.

After the initial panic, Song Yi calmly commanded the headquarters of Yangqu, found the weakness of the rogues, and led the army straight to where Ji Shouen was, making the latter flee in a panic.

Under the situation of being ambushed and surrounded, the Sanqian Yangqu army counterattacked the bandits several times their own, and then easily defeated them.

Gao Ye, the general soldier of Taiyuan, heard the battle report and greatly appreciated the bravery of the officers and soldiers of Yangqu in the battle.

This battle made the people of the world see clearly the strength of the officers and soldiers of the reformed guards.

In the First Battle of Linxian, more than [-] rogue bandits were directly defeated by the Yangqu army. Song Yi then regained Linxian and posted notices in the city to comfort the people.

The fly in the ointment is that Ji Shouen, the leader of the bandits, was not caught.

He led the remnants of more than 26 people to flee to the south, but on February [-], he accidentally encountered the Zhenxi Wei's fierce as a tiger department.

Meng Ruhu was originally a Mongol from the Han tribe outside the Great Wall. Tianqi led his tribe to join him in the fifth year, and entered Shanxi with a thousand generals.

In this battle, fierce as a tiger was very brave. He led dozens of Mongols attached to the Han tribe to rush into the crowd of rogue bandits, and beheaded Ji Shouen, the leader of the rogue bandits, with his own hands.

It was nothing to deal with the rogues, but Zhu Xieyuan admired the bravery of a tiger in this battle.

And as fierce as a tiger, he was also known as the second general of the "Tiger" by Zhu Xieyuan with another member of the Han tribe who performed bravely in this battle.

In the next few days, the rogues broke up into pieces, and with the help of the White Lotus Sect, they hid in various places, waiting for an opportunity to retaliate.

Although the officers and soldiers had an absolute crushing posture during the battle, they couldn't find the rogues hidden in the crowd, and fell into a stalemate for a while.

Until February 29, Shanxi deputy envoy Chen Qiyu arranged a strategy to spread rumors that the Shandong Wenxiang Sect had not been completely wiped out by the imperial court, and lured the bandits and the remnants of the Bailian Sect to the Lingshi area of ​​Pingyang Prefecture, gathered and wiped them out.

Afterwards, the various ministries of the government and the army cooperated with each other, and before March, all the rogue bandits of more than [-] people were successfully wiped out in the Linxian-Yongning-Xiaoyi area.

Afterwards, it was found out that the civil unrest was not caused by the people spontaneously, but was actually the chief rudder of the Wenxiang Sect in Shandong, and the White Lotus Sect in Shanshaan was secretly causing trouble.

This is also the reason why Chen Qiyu used the tone of Shandong Wenxiang Sect to lure the White Lotus Sect followers out from behind the scenes.

Since the late Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the White Lotus Sect has remained among the people. It has been banned and suppressed repeatedly. Sometimes it is silent, and sometimes it revives. It is very hateful.

In addition to the main rudder, branches of the White Lotus Sect appeared one after another in various provinces, like an old tree with roots.

Shandong Wenxiang Sect, which was completely wiped out by Xu Xianchun's Jinyiwei in cooperation with the local government army around the third year of Tianqi, is one of the branches.

Nowadays, in the sixth year of the apocalypse, there are frequent eccentricities, and after years of secret development, the followers of the White Lotus Sect have begun to appear among the people again, and they are widely publicized in the Shanxi area.

The so-called "lifeless old mother descends to the mortal world to save the world, and she will perish when she is exposed" began to spread among the people.

Countless people believed in the truth in confusion and panic, were brainwashed and forced to join, and embarked on the road of no return to rebellion.

And Ji Shouen, the leader of the civil disturbance this time, was actually not a Mizhi farmer after careful investigation by Dongchang. This person was originally the evil party of the White Lotus Sect.

People in the White Lotus Sect have many identities, especially the core members, who often show others with more identities.

Ji Shouen's identity is that of a farmer who has cultivated Mizhi for generations.

The news spread to the capital, and while the government and the public celebrated the extermination of the bandits, deep worries arose in Zhu Youxiao's heart.

All kinds of news at the beginning of the sixth year of the apocalypse show that the locality is not as stable as imagined.

A few evil omens actually lead to so many ridiculous things!

It seems that the White Lotus Sect is a must.

The East Factory has developed to the present, and there are slaves and spies all over the world. The intelligence network is very complete, and it is time to put it to greater use!