Ming Dynasty: I risked my life to teach the prince, the emperor begged me not to die

Chapter 384 Undercurrent
The news from Liaodong spread faster than that from the Zhang brothers, and the news of releasing Ren Shihong and returning to Korea soon reached the Ministry of War.

When the Minister of War Ma Wensheng saw the news, he was shocked and ran to the cabinet as fast as possible with the newspaper.

cabinet.

Ma Wensheng's face was extremely solemn. When he saw the Third Elder, he said anxiously, "Third Lord, something happened, something happened!"

Although Liu Jian had a bad feeling in his heart, he didn't know what happened in Liaodong. Seeing Ma Wensheng's nervous look, he hurriedly asked, "Fu Tu, tell me slowly, what happened?"

Ma Wensheng said: "The governor of Liaodong reported that the two uncles of the Zhang family passed the imperial edict to release Ren Shihong back to Korea."

"No wonder they wanted to recall the envoys from the Ministry of Rites in advance. So that's why..."

Upon hearing that Ren Shihong was released back to North Korea, Liu Jian's old body trembled, and he sat down on the armchair, and immediately said angrily: "The two beasts of the Zhang family, they deserve to be killed!"

Liu Jian gritted his teeth while saying this.

……

After the Zhang brothers returned to Peking, they went to the Qianqing Palace immediately. However, Emperor Hongzhi did not summon them. The people who greeted the Zhang brothers were not meritorious officials, but people from the Dali Temple.

"Catch them!"

The Zhang brothers said arrogantly, "Who dares? Eh? What are you doing? Why are you serious? Do you know who I am? We are the emperor's brothers-in-law! My sister is the queen!"

"Don't you want to live? Fine, fine, just wait for me!"

"What happened? Why are you arresting us?"

The two brothers are still in the dark. They are heroes. How dare the people from the Dali Temple arrest them?
Liu Jian walked over angrily from a distance, pointed at the Zhang brothers and shouted, "You forged two imperial edicts and released a serious criminal from the Ming Dynasty without authorization. How dare you ask what you have done wrong? You are so bold!"

What? Falsifying the imperial edict?

Even if the two brothers were stupid, they knew how serious the crime of falsely conveying an imperial edict was, but this imperial edict was not false by them.

Zhang Heling finally reacted and said in a mournful tone, "Second brother, it's the crown prince... He deserves to die. He even betrayed his own uncle? He wants us to die!"

"There is no such thing as restoration of the title of Marquis, and there is no such thing as reward. The Crown Prince is lying about the imperial decree to trick us!"

Liu Jian was furious and said, "Shut up! Stop talking nonsense!"

"First, lock them up in the Dali Temple and wait for their punishment!"

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Emperor Hongzhi could not stay in the Eastern Palace all the time, so when he was almost well he went to the Imperial Palace.

Jinshen Palace.

The officials from the six ministries of the cabinet met with Emperor Hongzhi, and Ren Shihong was released back to Korea. This matter was of great importance, and they needed to discuss countermeasures with Emperor Hongzhi.

However, Emperor Hongzhi did not react too much. He just said lightly to wait and see what happens.

This couldn't help but make the six ministries of the cabinet suspicious. Why was Emperor Hongzhi so calm? This was a major event that damaged the reputation of the country. Why could Emperor Hongzhi remain so calm?
Could it be that the emperor already knew about this?

But looking at Emperor Hongzhi’s previous reaction...this shouldn’t be the case.

Emperor Hongzhi did not continue to discuss Ren Shihong's matter, and asked Ma Wensheng: "Have the warships from the southeast been sent over?"

Ma Wensheng said hurriedly: "The Ministry of Works has delivered the warships to the southeast, and ten warships and a thousand naval soldiers have crossed the sea to the Japanese island." Emperor Hongzhi nodded and said, "Okay!"

The three cabinet elders fell into deep thought. Could it be that the emperor's plan was to let the southeastern navy establish its prestige on the Japanese island and thus intimidate Korea?

This kind of treatment seems to be understandable, but the premise is that there must be no problems with the navy on the Japanese island, which is somewhat risky.

Emperor Hongzhi did not release the Zhang brothers, and temporarily allowed them to remain in the Dali Temple prison.

After the six ministers of the cabinet left with doubtful attitudes, Emperor Hongzhi murmured, "I hope Chen Ce's plan this time is correct."

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Gyeongbokgung Palace, North Korea.

When the news came that Ren Shihong was released and returned to North Korea, Li Long was quite excited.

Now all the civil officials in the Joseon court are criticizing Li Long, accusing him of doing private trade with the Jurchens in Liaodong and offending the Ming Dynasty.

These civil officials had all read the books of sages, and a large number of them had even studied in the Ming Dynasty. They knew how powerful the Ming Dynasty was. Over the past hundred years, Korea had regarded itself as a small country, and no one had dared to invade Korea, after all, it had the Ming Dynasty as its backer.

The successive kings of Korea have always adhered to the national policy of peaceful coexistence with the Ming Dynasty.

But when the throne was passed to Li Long, he insisted on seeking death and challenging the power of the Ming Dynasty. How could this not arouse opposition from the entire Korean civil officials?

Now that Ren Shihong has been released, Li Long can finally hold his head high and let these civil officials know that his decision as the emperor was not wrong and that the Ming Dynasty is nothing to be feared at all!

Li Long welcomed Ren Shihong back to the country with grand ceremony, as if to provoke that group of meritorious officials and civil servants.

The meritorious officials and civil officials continued to persuade Li Long that Ren Shihong was a traitor and should not be used, and should be imprisoned and executed in the autumn, but Li Long refused to listen.

When Ren Shihong returned to Gyeongbokgung Palace, he held Li Long's hands affectionately, knelt down and said in gratitude: "Your Majesty... Thank you for your grace!"

Li Long waved his hand and said, "You're welcome. Get up."

When Ren Shihong came back this time, he had no intention of letting go of these meritorious officials and civil officials of Korea. He knew that this group of meritorious officials and civil officials had always regarded him as a traitor. In that case, he might as well strike first!
"Your Majesty, there is something I have never had the chance to tell you. Now I finally have the chance to tell you."

Li Long asked curiously: "What?"

Ren Shihong said: "You are not the daughter of Queen Jeonghyeon, your mother is Queen Yoon!"

Li Longru was struck by lightning.

Ren Shihong continued, "When the outer court was fighting for power, the old nobles accused us of colluding with the harem to disrupt government in order to suppress the power of us poor officials. It was at that time that Princess Yin was demoted to a commoner and finally killed by them!"

After hearing this news, Li Long could no longer sit still. He had long disliked that group of meritorious officials and officials. When he heard about this again, his face became very gloomy. He gritted his teeth and asked Ren Shihong, "Are you serious?!"

Ren Shihong nodded heavily and said, "Absolutely true!"

Li Long's face twitched slowly. He had always wanted to deal with that group of nobles and scholars, especially the prime minister of Korea and the censors, but he had never found an opportunity. Now he finally found a reason. He stared at Ren Shihong coldly and said word by word: "Do you remember the Wuwu Scholar Disaster?"

"I now officially appoint you as the Chief Justice of the Censorate!"

Ren Shihong looked excited. He had been waiting for this day for so long in Liaodong during the Ming Dynasty. He had long known the temperament of the new emperor Li Long, and the two of them hit it off at this moment.

Li Long's meaning was very clear. He gave Ren Shihong enough power to let him imitate the Wuwu Scholars' Disaster of the past. Under the pretext of revenge for his mother, he would start another Jiazi Scholars' Disaster and kill the old factions of the imperial court scholars!
A bloody storm is quietly unfolding in North Korea, all because of the return of Ren Shihong!

(End of this chapter)