After Han Zanzhou came in, he knelt on the crown prince Zhu Cilang and bowed: "Long live the old slave to see Your Majesty!"

Zhu Cilang, who was timid, was shocked: "Eunuch Han, please come up quickly. I have not ascended the throne yet. I heard that Your Majesty wants to grant this palace the King of Qi. I am worried that if I cannot accomplish anything, I should go back to Shandong to be a free prince."

Han Zanzhou said: "Your Majesty, you are the orthodox Ming Dynasty. The name of King Fu is not right. Even if I die, I will not be buried, and I will also strive to ensure that Your Majesty will ascend the throne smoothly! Your Majesty, tomorrow the Lin Dynasty officials in the Middle East will be advised to abdicate, and the scholars in the capital will be advised to die in front of the palace. If this is the case, King Fu will still refuse to abdicate, and the civil servants will cry. Three-pronged approach will be taken, and King Fu will definitely abdicate."

Zhao Peng sighed: "Eunuch Han, do you think the necks of the scholars can be harder than the knife of the four towns in Jiangbei? Although King Fu did not dare to harm the officials in the court, the four towns in Jiangbei were domineering and they didn't care so much. If King Fu was furious and attacked the scholars, wouldn't it be bloody and ruined the lives of the scholars in vain?"

Han Zanzhou said: "The Prince-Consort, I understand what you mean. We still need to be a tough knife! If King Fu dares to issue an edict to order the four towns in Jiangbei to attack the scholars, the prince's troops can attack the palace and order King Fu to give way to the prince. When you lead your troops into the palace, the old slave will naturally order the Jinyiwei and the Dongchang in the palace to cooperate with each other, and open the palace gate so that the prince and the prince-consort can enter the palace."

"Okay! The scholars will cry to the temple tomorrow. I will dispatch the Jinyiwei to protect the scholars and strive to ensure the safety of the scholars." Zhao Peng nodded, expressing his willingness to protect the scholars. However, Zhao Peng himself never thought that after his Jinyiwei protected the scholars tomorrow, in the future, the Jinyiwei will in turn suppress the scholars!

After Han Zanzhou returned, he was also making preparations. On the one hand, he organized the Dongchang and Jinyiwei in the capital to protect the scholars who would go to the temple tomorrow. On the other hand, he secretly ordered his confidants to secretly call on his confidants to open the city gate when recruiting troops into the capital. He let Zhao Peng's troops enter, and then open the palace gate, put Zhao Peng and Zhu Cixuan's troops into the palace, forcing King Fu to abdicate.

The next morning, the morning court was held in the Forbidden City in Nanjing, and Zhao Peng also rushed out of the city to attend the morning court.

In ancient times, the gates of the capital city were generally not closed. After all, not all officials in the capital lived in the city. Some officials' residences were outside the city. In order to facilitate the officials' morning court, the gates of the capital city were generally opened at twelve hours. However, after entering the troubled times, the gates of the capital city were also closed at night. However, for the needs of officials in the morning court, the door was opened early, and it opened at the moment of ugly moments, which was opened at 3:30 in the morning.

The morning court is also very early. The civil and military officials are waiting outside the Meridian Gate at 3 a.m. When the bell rings at the Mao hour (five o'clock), the palace gate opens, and all civil and military officials enter the palace. Because it is Mao hour, the morning court is also called Doi Mao.

All civil and military officials entered the palace, entered Fengtian Gate, and arrived at the square in front of Fengtian Hall. The civil and military officials lined up in front of the square. Zhao Peng belonged to the military generals and nobles, and the other was the civil servant. His son-in-law, the Duke of the Consort, was a relatively low-level lord, so he was shot at a relatively back. The first in the generals and nobles, should have been the Duke of Wei Xu Hongji, but Xu Hongji suddenly became seriously ill after returning yesterday, so it was Xu Wenjue, the Duke of Wei who replaced his father to attend the morning court.

Among the civil servants, Ma Shiying, who was later hacked out of the air, followed by Shi Kefa, followed by Zhang Shenyan, Gao Hongtu, Ruan Dacheng, Qian Qianyi and others arranged this.

At the beginning of the court meeting, the fat Emperor Hongguang Zhu Yousong walked out with the help of two eunuchs and sat on the dragon throne in front of Fengtian Hall. At the beginning of the court meeting, Emperor Hongguang Zhu Yousong asked the chief minister Ma Shiying and the Minister of Revenue Zhang Youyu.

Zhang Youyu reported: "Your Majesty, the imperial court owes the four towns in Jiangbei to 200,000 taels of military salary. If we cannot raise enough silver, we may be unimaginable if the four towns in Jiangbei change."

Zhu Yousong asked Ma Shiying: "Ma Aiqing, do you have a good solution to solve the military salary?"

Ma Shiying replied: "Your Majesty, you can order the four towns in Jiangbei to cast copper coins themselves, which can solve the urgent problem."

Self-casting copper coins is a very profitable thing. Give those warlords the qualification to cast copper coins themselves. They can completely put less copper in the copper coins and replace them with iron and lead. Then, they can issue these inferior copper coins and exchange them for equivalent copper coins, which can generate huge profits.

Zhu Yousong was overjoyed: "Ma Aiqing's words are reasonable. I will issue an edict to the four towns in Jiangbei to make them cast copper coins themselves."

Zhao Peng said in his heart: Give the four towns of Jiangbei to own the right to issue currency. This is not a good idea. But it doesn’t matter. After these few days, Zhu Yousong will get out and let the new emperor recover the right to issue currency.

Shi Kefa immediately seized this opportunity to take advantage of the issue: "Your Majesty must not! The four towns in Jiangbei hold heavy troops, and the court can command them to control money and grain. If the four towns in Jiangbei can mint coins themselves, how can the court control them? If such arrogant soldiers and generals do not obey the court's orders, they will probably cause endless disasters!"

"If this method is not used, how could the court get the money to pay military salaries to the four towns in Jiangbei?" Ma Shiying retorted.

Shi Kefa bowed to Zhu Yousong and said, "Your Majesty, I heard that the prince Zhu Cilang escaped from the thief at Shanhaiguan. Chuang Ni was defeated by Jiannu. The prince-in-law escorted the prince to escape from the heavens. Chuang Ni fled in a panic, threw a large amount of gold, silver and treasures, and earned it for the prince. The prince is now in Shandong. If he invites the prince to come to Beijing, it can solve the problem of insufficient silver."

"It is naturally a good thing for the Crown Prince Zhu Cilang to come to Beijing. I am just about to make him the King of Qi." Zhu Yousong said with a smile.

Zhang Shenyan, who was standing behind Shi Kefa, spoke: "Your Majesty is not upright, and the Crown Prince is the orthodox of the Ming Dynasty. If the Crown Prince comes to the capital, please ask Your Majesty to abdicate and return the throne to His Highness to the Crown Prince!"

Zhang Shenyan, who was in the lead, spoke, and Shi Kefa immediately looked at the position: "Your Majesty, I will discuss it!"

Qian Qianyi, Lu Zhenfei, Liu Zongzhou, Chen Yujie and other civil officials stood up one after another: "I will discuss it!"

"What?" Zhu Yousong was stunned and then said angrily, "Why is my throne wrong? The former Emperor Wanli originally wanted to make his father the crown prince, but the ministers in the court obstructed him so that there were two emperors, Tianqi Chongzhen. If his father ascended the throne and became emperor, how could he have committed a rebellion into the capital? Now Ma Aiqing and the four towns in Jiangbei support me as emperor, and then return the orthodox of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Youjian, a king who destroyed the country, could he give his great throne to his son?"

Seeing that the situation was not good, Ma Shiying immediately stood up and said, "Your Majesty is wise. King Fu ascends the throne to the Ming Dynasty. How can you abdicate easily?"

Xu Wenjue, Zhao Zhilong, Zhang Guobi and other nobles also supported Ma Shiying. Among the civil officials, a group of Ma Shiying's confidants such as Ruan Dacheng and Zhang Youyu all agreed.

Zhu Yousong snorted coldly: "Since I have been the throne, how can I abdicate easily? Shi Aiqing, Zhang Aiqing, you should get up."

"If Your Majesty insists on his own actions, I would rather kneel down and die here!" Shi Kefa, Liu Zongzhou and others refused to give in.

Ruan Dacheng said angrily: "Are you forcing Your Majesty? This is an act of unfaithfulness and unrighteousness! Forcing Your Majesty to abdicate is equivalent to rebellion!"

Ma Shiying turned around and looked around. Seeing that at least half of the civil servants were standing on Shi Kefa's side, he knew that this matter was not so easy to settle, so he came up with a delaying plan: "Your Majesty, please send the prince to Beijing with silver. After the prince arrives in the capital, we will discuss whether to pass the throne with the prince." As he said, he also winked at Zhu Yousong.
Chapter completed!