Chapter 85: Recover Lost Ground
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Yang Tinghe had no intention of killing Liang Xiaoyu in one go, and he basically divided the matter into three stages.
The first step was that the ministers made generous speeches at the court meeting, and the emperor made the history of the evil spirit disaster, and forced the emperor to hand over Liang Xiaoyu himself, but this step was obviously not successful. With Zhu Houzhao's stubborn donkey temper, it was impossible for them to surrender so easily, so they must have a next move. The next move arranged by Yang Tinghe was to first come forward, the empress and the queen mother advised the emperor respectively, and asked him to hand over Xiaoyu'er again. If this step still didn't work, then the only trick was to send a confidant to kill Xiaoyu'er secretly. No matter whether it was assassinating her directly or poisoning her, the little girl could not be allowed to survive.
Of course, Yang Tinghe also considered the emperor's response strategy in this process, but after thinking about it, he felt that the emperor would not have any other way except to protect the little girl with his own strength, so Yang Tinghe was fearless.
However, the development of things today seems to be somewhat beyond his expectations.
First, the emperor left angrily under the kneeling of his ministers, which was in line with expectations. However, after the emperor left for a while, Gao Feng, the eunuch of the Sili Prison, actually led a large number of guards to surround the Golden Palace. His posture was to guard all their ministers. This was a bit strange. How could Gao Feng dare to have such courage?
Yang Tinghe glared at Gao Feng coldly, as if he was suggesting to him, but what he didn't expect was that Gao Feng turned a blind eye to his suggestion and even ordered the guards to say, "Let me see it carefully, no one is allowed to leave, no one is allowed to move. Whoever dares to move is the rebels, and they will be arrested by the master and sent it to General Manager Luo to torture and interrogate it carefully!"
Oh no, Gao Feng has indeed been betrayed!
Seeing Gao Feng's expression, Yang Tinghe unconsciously remembered Liu Jin. Now Gao Feng's actions are exactly the same as Liu Jin. What's going on? Aren't these people all subdued by themselves and expressed their loyalty to themselves?
Yang Tinghe didn't understand what was going on, nor did he know what happened in the harem. He wanted to get some information, but found that none of the confidants he had placed in the palace could see. This made him even more guilty and knew that something might happen.
Indeed, something big is going to happen, because at this time, a man was conquering the city with high spirits and regaining his hometown.
"Come on, it's said that Gu Dayong, the Governor of the West Factory, Qiu Ju, the Governor of the East Factory, and Ma Yongcheng, the Commander-in-Chief of the Jinyiwei——"
As orders were passed, the eunuchs from the bedroom ran back and forth, and the flowing water began to move.
"The minister of the Ministry of Personnel Jiao Fang saw the master——"
After re-enlisting the Six Tigers, Zhu Houzhao finally extended his tentacles to the court officials.
Jiao Fang was said to be the position of Minister of the Ministry of Personnel because of Liu Jin's recommendation. However, this person is a typical fence-bearer. He will fall to the side wherever the wind blows. He used to rely on Liu Jin, but now that Liu Jin has fallen, he plunged into Yang Tinghe's arms. His conduct is really despicable. However, this is only one aspect. This person has a little worse character, but he still has talent. Zhu Houzhao thinks he is very competent for the position of Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. However, it takes some effort to subdue him this time. After all, this person is not stupid. Not only isn't stupid, but he is also quite sleek. If he doesn't give out some real money and silver benefits, he probably won't be able to subdue him.
However, relying on Zhu Houzhao's limited mind, he could not think of any way to subdue the old fox Jiao Fang, so his actions were still out of Xiao Yu'er's instructions.
"In this world, most officials have no shortage of money and beauties. The only thing they want is two things, one is greater power and status, and the other is a good review of the famous name in history," Xiao Yu'er held a thin wolf pen in her hand, and she outlined the pictures on paper while telling Zhu Hou.
"I have heard of Jiao Fang's character," Xiao Yu'er smiled, her little face was like a spring flower in March, making Zhu Houguang intoxicated.
Indeed, Xiao Yu'er has heard of Jiao Fang's character. After all, the little eunuch Lin Zi is a slutty person. In addition, he is particularly concerned about Xiao Yu'er. In order to relieve Xiao Yu'er, he must tell her some jokes and anecdotes that have been circulated among the court officials. Jiao Fang occupies most of the scenes in these stories.
According to the legend of the court officials, Jiao Fang was a big gangster. In his early years, there were even rumors in the court: "If you don't learn like Fang, are you a bachelor?" This means that this guy has no culture at all and can be a bachelor's degree? What happened? After hearing this, Jiao Fang was furious and spoke openly. If he couldn't choose a bachelor's degree, he would assassinate Peng Hua, who had been smuggled into him, and he would die together. This scared the man and could only take the initiative to plead with Wan'an, who was in charge of bachelor's selection, and finally let Jiao Fang be promoted to a bachelor's degree successfully. From this incident, we can see how passionate Jiao Fang is about power. He is not like other old antiques. Those who only know how to gain fame. This is a very practical person. He pursues pragmatism.
There is another thing that made Xiao Yuer feel very interesting. Jiao Fang is from Biyang, Henan. Where is this place? Xiao Yuer checked the map and found that it was today's Zhumadian area in Henan. This made her feel more confident. "One billion people cheated nine hundred million..." Xiao Yuer thought of a famous saying passed down from later generations, and she already knew what kind of person Jiao Fang was.
"Indeed, Jiao Fang's character is really not very good," Zhu Houzhao thought that Xiao Yuer looked down on Jiao Fang's character, so she couldn't help but smiled dryly.
"Otherwise, this person likes affordable, so if you really want to subdue him, you have to give him benefits," Xiao Yu'er smiled and said, "Now he seems to be just the Minister of Personnel and has not entered the ranks of core ministers. Why don't you use this as bait and test him for a look."
"This is a good idea, OK, I know what to do," Zhu Houzhao was confident. So after seeing Jiao Fang, he exchanged a simple greeting and couldn't help but look at Jiao Fang and said, "Jiao Aiqing, you are seventy years old, right? Life is rare in age, and you are not young."
"Your Majesty, the old minister is old, but he is willing to devote himself to the Ming Dynasty until his death," Jiao Fang said with his white goatee. He thought the emperor wanted to persuade him to return to his hometown, so he quickly expressed his feelings.
"Okay," the result, what Jiao Fang didn't expect was that when he heard his words, Zhu Houzhao looked at him with glittering eyes. Her expression was obviously very commendable, which made Jiao Fang a little confused and didn't know what the emperor meant.
"Oh? Do you have a way?" Jiao Fang's words made Zhu Houzhao a little curious, and asked in confusion.
Chapter completed!