Tokugawa Hidetachi was reunited, but he did not dare to disobey the will of the Ming Dynasty now.

Therefore, he had to listen to the words of Chen Xinjia, the Ming Dynasty official stationed in Japan.

Tokugawa Hidetaka asked Tokugawa Ie-kwang to send a team of shogun to detain Hong Seungchou and other reactionary gentry who remained in Edo.

So, the old man Sakai Tadashi led a team of shogunate troops to the residence of Hong Chengchou and others in Edo.

"Please come out with all the Fu Jung (a close post of the Japanese shogun General)! Your country is asking you to be detained immediately, and you will obey your orders!"

However, Tadashi Sakai was quite polite to Hong Chengchou and others.

Because his brother Tadao Sakai died at the hands of Ming officials, he was considered an anti-Ming faction in the shogunate, so he naturally respected Hong Chengchou and others who were also anti-Ming.

At this time, Tadashi Sakai stood politely outside the mansion of Hong Chengchou and others and shouted.

But more than a moment later, no one came out of Hong Chengchou's mansion.

Tadashi Sakai then had to take the shogunate army into it, but found that there was no one in the entire mansion.

"search!"

Although Tadashi Sakai wanted Hong Chengchou and others to escape, he was also worried that Hidetaki Tokugawa would blame him for letting Hong Chengchou and others go, and to make him punish him in order to give Mingguo an explanation, so he immediately ordered a search.

It was not until Tadashi Sakai saw the unlocked back door that he stopped asking his own people to search. He was sure that Hong Chengchou and others had already escaped early.

...

Hong Chengchou did escape from here overnight when he learned that the Ming Dynasty foreign official came to Edo.

"Everyone, you must believe that some of us are secretly engaging in news with the court! Otherwise, Chen Xinjia would not have asked the shogunate to detain us when he came to Japan, and even knew clearly about the offering of craftsmen's iron materials. It was like a pair of eyes around us. I heard that the East Factory had many eyes and ears. Hong was really eye-opening today!"

As Hong Chengchou said that, he looked at Ding Qirui, Ye Chuchun, Ye Chengmin and others, as if he wanted to see some clues from the eyes of these gentry.

Ding Qirui, Ye Chuchun, Ye Chengmin and others were all shocked and looked at each other.

For a moment, Hong Chengchou could not see any clues.

So, Hong Chengchou continued: "Of course, Hong has already expected that this time, he knew that when he came to the shogunate to meet Tokugawa Hidetaka, the news might be leaked, but why did Hong do this? It was because Hong wanted to try it and try whether anyone among us was secretly engaging in news with the court!"

As Hong Chengchou said, he stared at Ye Chuchun and Ding Qirui, two imperial prisoners who finally escaped from the mainland, stared at him intently and said, "Before Mr. Yang's accident, Hong reminded him that everything should be cautious. He did not care about it. He believed that the court would not work hard on such matters. But the first thing to do is to know the enemy first when the war was marched and war was to know the enemy first. Hong is not a wise man, but Hong knew that everything was 'care'. In Nagasaki's affairs, the incident took only half a month, and the imperial navy arrived in Nagasaki. Even if the court's new soft sailboat was as fast as a sharp arrow, it would not have arrived in half a month. If it weren't for the court's news in advance and mobilized its troops in advance, it would not have been so fast!"

"What happened?"

Ding Qirui asked first and looked at Ye Chuchun in surprise.

Ye Chuchun's heartbeat was numb and wanted to avoid Hong Chengchou's eyes, but he still raised his eyes and bumped into him. He didn't say anything at the beginning. First, he didn't know what to say to hide himself, and second, he felt that it would be better not to speak at this time, otherwise the more he talked, the more flaws he had, the more.

Ye Chuchun touched his chin with a pretentious thought, scanning all the gentry present, as if thinking about who was the undercover agent.

Hong Chengchou looked at Ye Chuchun and Ding Qirui's expressions and became unpredictable for a moment. He didn't know if Ding Qirui was pretending to be surprised, nor did he know if Ye Chuchun pretended to be calm.

"Maybe the shogunate officials betrayed the news!"

Ye Chengmin suddenly said something at this time.

Hong Chengchou looked at Ding Qirui and Ye Chuchun again.

Ye Chuchun wanted to echo the news that it might be that the shogunate officials informed the people of the court in advance when Tokugawa Hidetachi met him and others.

But Ye Chuchun held back at the last moment. He knew that he could not rush to agree at this time, otherwise the flaws would be seen by the guy named Hong Chengchou in front of him.

However, when Ding Qirui was about to speak, Ye Chuchun immediately said before Ding Qirui said: "Now we need to find out whether there are any court ears and ears among us!"

"Yes! That's what I mean!"

Ding Qirui looked at Ye Chuchun unexpectedly, but he didn't expect Ye Chuchun to have the same view as him.

Hong Chengchou began to look more at Ding Qirui.

Ye Chuchun was relieved when he saw this and said to himself: "This man surnamed Hong is so fucking powerful!"

...

"The rebel Ding Qirui actually wrote a secret letter to the court officials. Why? He really thought that the ministers in the court wanted to kill the king like him?"

Damingyuan, the Divine Hall of Qinzheng.

Zhu Youxiao received a secret letter from Jiang Dejing, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, and a secret letter from Ding Qirui.

"I didn't expect him to write to me, but I did have only the same friendship with him and had no other relationship. Please let Your Majesty take a clear look!"

Jiang Dejing replied.

Zhu Youxiao said: "I know that if you can take the initiative to submit a letter from a traitor, you can tell your loyalty. You can continue to contact them, but you need to tell me the content of the contact. I want to know what they want to do."

"I obey the order!"

And so, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but frown and thought deeply, thinking: "Will these people still have contact with other ministers?"

"It is said that Wei Zhongxian came to see me."

So Zhu Youxiao called Wei Zhongxian and asked, "Where are other officials in the court who have received any secret letters?"

Wei Zhongxian hurriedly replied: "Reporting to the emperor, the East Factory has not found out yet, but according to the report from the East Factory, Hong Chengchou, a gentry who has been active overseas, recently suggested that other reactionary gentry contact the ministers in the court! Hong Chengchou also wrote a secret letter to the Grand Sima himself."

Yuan Keli?

Zhu Youxiao fell into deep thought.

"I understand!"

Zhu Youxiao then replied with just this sentence and said, "This matter ends here. Can the Dongchang get rid of this Hong Chengchou, Dongchang? You Wei Zhongxian can't deal with him."

Wei Zhongxian said in fear: "I am incompetent! Please punish the emperor!"

"Get out, don't be like that."

Zhu Youxiao only said this.

While wiping the sweat beads on his head, Wei Zhongxian hurried to the East Factory and called Sun Yunhe, who was transferred back to the East Factory to be responsible for the overseas reactionary matters, shouting: "Take someone to bring secret words to Ye Chuchun! Hong Chengchou cannot stay anymore. If he cannot let Hong Chengchou come to our house to play once within a month, then he will personally kill Hong Chengchou at the cost of exposing himself. Our family will ask the court for rewards and awards to the court, and will also regard his family as our family. But if he does not complete it, then our family will kill his whole family before being punished by the emperor!"

...

Ye Chuchun didn't know that Wei Zhongxian had put pressure on him because of the great pressure from the emperor. He was now instigating Ye Chengmin: "Young Master! We went to sea to oppose the court because of our teacher's death. I don't know that the young master still remembered the death of his teacher. He had an accident after climbing a mountain with his fellow treacherous minister Li Zhizao! Li Zhizao has been promoted since then."

"you mean?"

Ye Chengmin understood what Ye Chuchun meant and asked quickly.

Seeing this, Ye Chuchun hurriedly said, "I mean, Hong Chengchou may be a person like Li Zhizao! He wrote to Yuan Keli. Although we knew it, maybe he did this on purpose so that we would not be suspicious, and he also took the initiative to suggest that there are court among us to kick him out."

"It makes sense! This person with the surname Hong is also bad enough!"

Ye Chengmin nodded.
Chapter completed!