"What? Duke Chu was assassinated in Tianjin?" Everyone was shocked...≦,

"That's right." Wu Changshi was gloating with a hint of gloating, "The Duke of Chu is now unconscious and his life and death are unknown."

The six Grand Secretary in the cabinet were silent. After hearing this news, everyone almost remembered the recent rumor in Beijing. The birds were gone and the good bow was hidden. Now Liu Jun is about to enter Beijing, but he was assassinated as soon as he arrived in Tianjin. This is a coincidence.

During dinner, Chongzhen had dinner with the queen and the prince. During this period, the queen and the prince always looked at him with something wrong. Finally, Chongzhen glared at the prince, "If you have anything to say, don't hesitate."

"Father, I heard that my brother was assassinated in Tianjin. Is this related to my father?"

With a crisp sound, Chongzhen couldn't help but slapped the prince in the face.

"presumptuous!"

The prince grew up so old that it was the first time he was beaten by Chongzhen and was stunned on the spot. The queen was also stunned, but she didn't expect the emperor to react so fiercely.

The emperor reacted so fiercely, but he made the queen and the prince more and more determined that Liu Jun was secretly instructed by the emperor.

Chongzhen sighed, "I was a little angry for a moment, but how could you believe others and doubt me indiscriminately?"

Although after receiving the news that Duke Chu was assassinated, Chongzhen immediately sent ministers to Tianjin, the best imperial physicians in the palace to go to Tianjin, from the court and from the people in the capital, they all suspected that Duke Chu was assassinated and the emperor was hiding his bow. For a moment, there were a lot of discussions in the capital. Even during the court meeting, everyone looked at Chongzhen with strange eyes.

Many officials were secretly amazed, not expecting that the emperor would do it so decisively. And he even used as an assassin-like method, which was amazing.

Chongzhen sent three departments of the Dali Temple, the Ministry of Justice and the Censorate to investigate the case, and sent Jinyiwei and the East Factory to cooperate in the investigation. It is necessary to find out the truth about the assassination case.

However, most people have already determined that this matter was done by the emperor, and now they have to investigate so many things. It must be just a cover-up. Everyone even directly targeted the Dongchang, and believed that it was the move of the Dongchang people.

After all, the commander of the Jinyiwei was Liu Jun's uncle, and only the East Factory was the most suspicious. They have always been the emperor's most obedient lackeys.

Chongzhen felt very wronged, Huang Niba fell into his crotch, either shit or shit. He wanted to find out the truth as soon as possible and clear himself up.

Everyone in the world thought that Duke of Chu was stabbed by his assassin, but he was even more unfair than Dou E. Chongzhen did not want Liu Jun to die. Although he was afraid of Liu Jun's command of the army, Liu Jun has not shown any inappropriate actions yet. Instead, he and the Ming Dynasty needed Liu Jun everywhere.

The elite Chu army trained by Liu Jun was needed to defend the border guards for the Ming Dynasty, and they needed to conquer Liaodong in the future and destroy the Tartars, as well as to suppress bandits and rebellion.

Even Chongzhen needed Liu Jun to resolve the new financial crisis for the court. Now the imperial banking warehouse is empty again. Chongzhen hoped to see Liu Jun return to Beijing earlier than anyone else, and just waited for Liu Jun to help lend money from Sihai Bank and waited for him to find a way to collect the tariffs and commercial taxes again.

Anyone who has changed these will be inferior to Liu Jun. How could he hope Liu Jun die? Unless he is dizzy, it is impossible to kill Liu Jun at this time, or send someone to assassinate him.

Don’t die, if you die, I can’t wash it even if I jump to the Yellow River.

Tianjin.

Tianjin Governor Ma Shiying sighed, feeling that he was shot while lying down. He was originally a Jinshi in the 44th year of Wanli, and was in the same rank as Ruan Dayue. Later, he served as the head of the Nanjing Ministry of Revenue. During the Tianqi period, he served as the prefect, and during the Chongzhen period, he was promoted to the governor of Xuanfu.

As a result, he was just one month after he gotten in office, he offended the garrison eunuch Wang Kun and was tragically deprived of his post. Wang Kun reported that he was corrupt, but in fact he was only a few thousand taels of silver. It was completely according to the customs of the officialdom at that time. Who was not like this? Wang Kun criticized him because he was less filial.

At that time, even many people from the Donglin Fushe wrote a letter saying that this was a frame-up by the eunuch party.

In the following years, Ma Shiying stayed in Nanjing and had a great time with Ruan Dayue, who was also deprived of his post because of the rebellion of the eunuch party. Previously, Zhou Yanru's plan to revive and the restoration of the society rushed to raise funds, and Ruan Dayue paid 20,000 taels. Later, Zhou Yanru first entered Beijing as the Minister of Personnel, and then entered the cabinet. Zhou Yanru planned to use Ruan, but was firmly opposed by the second assistant Wu Qi.

In the end, Zhou Yanru had to tell Ruan Dayue that it would be impossible for you to make a comeback. Otherwise, I would like to push it if you change your relatives and friends. In the end, Ruan Dayue pushed his good friend Ma Shiying of the same year.

Zhou Yanru did not fail to deal with it anymore. At the beginning of this year, Ma Shiying officially became the governor of Tianjin.

Ma Shiying has only been the governor of Tianjin for half a year. This time, Liu Jiye entered Beijing. Ma Shiying was very concerned about the upcoming governor of Zhili, whose immediate boss was about to take office. He prepared a grand welcome ceremony and brought a large group of civil and military officials, including the general of Tianjin, the inspector, the prefect, the military prefect, and other large groups of civil and military officials to the outside of the city to welcome him.

As a result, before he had time to talk to his new boss, he saw that he was shot to the ground, and he had no idea about his life and death.

Anyone who is more unlucky than him, the governor?

What’s even more unlucky is that his new boss has an old acquaintance. Wang Kun, the eunuch in the Xuanfu, has been with Liu Jun as the director of the eunuch in the past two years. This time he is joining Liu Jun in Beijing.

Wang Kun impeached Ma Shiying that year, causing Ma Shiying to lose his official position. In the end, Wang Kun was not very good. He was impeached by Fushe and Donglin, and was eventually recalled to Beijing.

When the enemy meets, they are very jealous.

Wang Kun angrily scolded Ma Shiying and almost got Liu Jun's guards to arrest him.

If he hadn't had the backer of the chief minister Zhou Yanru, he wouldn't have been able to get out of the way. He gave the backyard of the governor's yamen to the unconscious Duke of Chu. Ma Shifu, who was sitting in the front hall waiting for the doctor's news, calmed down and thought for a while, and the more he thought about it, the more he became more and more afraid.

The Tianjin Governor's Office has now been completely surrounded by the Chu army. These Chu soldiers are all fierce and want to eat them all.

Tianjin General Liu Zeqing came to report that the Duke of Chu's guard had already recruited the Beiyang Navy on the sea surface of the port.

"The Beiyang Navy has controlled Tianjin Port and Wharf. Now the naval officers and soldiers of the brigade are entering the city, and the Tianjin gate has been controlled by them."

Liu Zeqing was originally the deputy general of Huaibei. After this major adjustment, he was transferred to the position of general officer of Tianjin, which belonged to the nine towns in the capital. However, he did not dare to make any stopping actions against the aggressive Beiyang Navy.

He, the general of Tianjin, was transferred from Jiangbei. He was in charge of his duties. His soldiers came from many military towns in the past, and all kinds of soldiers were available. Although the general officer is more powerful than the original general, it depends on the situation. The general officer of the Chu army naturally commanded tens of thousands of people alone, but he, as a general, can still control his own troops for the time being.

And even if he can control the troops in Tianjin Town, how dare he stop the Chu army?

Not to mention the five hundred people in the Duke of Chu in Tianjin, everyone is equipped with long guns and pistols, and they are extremely powerful and elite. They can't even eat these five hundred people. Not to mention the warship gunboats on the sea surface of the port.

As soon as Chu ** was assassinated, the Beiyang fleet gunboats had already entered the port, and all the gun windows were pulled up, and black cannons had already pointed at the dock and the city.

He could only do nothing, and watched the Duke of Chu transfer the Beiyang Navy into the port and land on the dock and then quickly came along the Wei River toward the Tianjin Acropolis.

In the name of searching for assassins, they quickly controlled the ports and docks, and quickly controlled the Tianjin Acropolis, as well as the Dagu, Beiting, Xianshuigu and Dingzigu around Tianjin Acropolis.

Tianjin Acropolis was also known as Zhigu and Haijin. In the second year of Yongle, the acropolis was built. It originally had the three Tianjin guards, with nearly 17,000 soldiers. At first, it was just surrounded by land, and later it was built to build a city building, which was a military town and a grain transfer center. With the increase of population and the development of commerce, Tianjin has become a commercial city with mixed military and civilians.

Two years ago, seven forts were built around Tianjin, and now, even these seven forts are controlled by the Chu army. According to reports from subordinates, the Chu army navy had unloaded their sharper cannons from the ship and put them on the fort.

From Dagu Port to Tianjin Acropolis, to the connection between the Ding Gu and the canal, the cities along the Wei River, which are more than 100 miles are not only controlled by the Chu army, but also the Wei River, which is more than 100 miles, are also covered with Chu army warships and gunboats.

Now Liu Zeqing and his subordinates have become foreign troops, and their city and military camps have been taken over by the Chu army. They are almost disarmed by the Chu army, and they dare not speak out.

Who told the Duke of Chu to be assassinated on their territory?

Liu Zeqing and other military generals in Tianjin Town did not dare to say anything, and allowed the Chu army to quickly control all the Haihe Rivers, including Tianjin Acropolis, Tianjin Port, and other lines from the canal.

Tianjin Governor Ma Shiying dared not say anything more.

It's really a bad year. Why is this re-exiting again so unsuccessful? He remembered many things and the rumors of the disagreement between the new backer Zhou Yanru and the Duke of Chu.

I also thought of the recent rumors that the birds were covered with bows.

I'm involved in something like a vortex.

If the Duke of Chu was really assassinated by the emperor or the chief minister, he would never dare to imagine it.

Liu Zeqing stood around Ma Shiying, observed left and right, and saw that there was no one around, and said to him in a low voice, "Futai, who did you think this was assassination?"

Ma Shiying looked up at Liu Zeqing, "How can I know about this book? It's probably the Tartars."

Some speculations are more likely, but they cannot be said, they cannot be said.

"But the previous rumor" Liu Zeqing hesitated.

"That's just a rumor made by someone with ulterior motives, it's a rumor made by the Tartars, and it must be like this." Ma Shiying insisted.

Liu Zeqing was speechless to Ma Shiying. We are our own people and there are no one around us. Why do you have to do this?

"Sir, of course I know that this must be done by the Tartars, but what if the red-eyed Chu soldiers heard the rumors, and then what if they mistakenly believed the rumors?"

Liu Zeqing was very clear about the words. If Liu Jiye and his men thought it was the emperor's secret command, it would be hard to say what the Chu army would react. If they rebel, the first one would be the court officials who were now blocked by the Chu army.
Chapter completed!