"Step aside!"
Zhang Damou shouted at the concierge of Feng Mansion, quickly entered Feng Bao's outer house, and directly broke into Feng Bao's piano room.
Feng Bao had to stop playing the piano and asked Zhang Damou coldly: "What's the matter?"
"His superior, Hai Rui, impeached you."
Zhang Damou replied.
Feng Bao was stunned after hearing this.
"How did the cabinet vote?"
Feng Bao asked immediately.
Zhang Damou replied: "I said that you deceived the emperor and corrupted the country. I will dismiss you from your post and put you in jail. You will be tried by the Three Laws Division."
After hearing this, Feng Bao calmed down, stood up, and asked, "Where is the memorial for Hai Rui's impeachment of our family?"
Zhang Damou replied: "At Eunuch Zhang's place."
Snapped!
Feng Bao slapped Zhang Damou on the face: "Confused! At this time, you should take it in your own hands and bring it to see me!"
Zhang Damou covered his face, feeling very puzzled.
Feng Bao started to tremble a little at this time and said: "Zhang Jing must have betrayed our family to give the cabinet such courage!"
Immediately, Feng Bao laughed bitterly: "Our family should have thought of it a long time ago. How many of the inner court members are sincere? I am afraid that they are jealous that our family relies on the Queen Mother to ride on their heads, and they all want to drive our family away. Woolen cloth."
"Especially Zhang Hong!"
Feng Bao then gnashed his teeth and said, "Zhang Jing is his disciple, and now he has taken the initiative to join our family and become our family's confidant. I'm afraid it was his idea. It was he who made Zhang Jing get close to our family on purpose." , and also get close to the emperor, so that he can enter the ceremonial office and increase his power in the ceremonial office. In addition, he himself is a good disguiser, which makes our family careless! In fact, he must have wanted to Drive our family away so that he can become the most powerful eunuch in the inner court! After all, besides our family, he is the most trusted by the empresses of the two palaces!"
"There is a decree! Feng Bao, the eunuch in charge of the ceremony, accepts the decree."
Just at this moment, Zhang Hong had brought Dongchang's banner school to Feng Bao.
Feng Bao laughed again when he saw this: "Sure enough, our guess was correct. It was Zhang Hong and Zhang Juzheng who teamed up to deceive our family! Otherwise, it is impossible for the cabinet to suddenly draft a plan to deal with our family. "
"Zhang Hong, you are so clever!"
Then, Feng Bao shouted to Zhang Hong.
Zhang Hongze walked up to Feng Bao and read out the decree directly without saying anything. After reading it, he asked Dongchang Banner School to take Feng Bao into custody.
Feng Bao did not struggle. He just walked out and said to Zhang Hong: "Eunuch Zhang, can you tell our family what crimes Hai Rui has impeached?"
"To tell you the truth, Eunuch Feng, our family doesn't know."
Zhang Hong replied.
Feng Bao was stunned after hearing this: "Don't know?"
Zhang Hong nodded.
Feng Bao became even more uneasy, and asked with a sneer: "So, you were not involved in this matter, only Zhang Jing betrayed our family?"
Zhang Hong said: "You can't say that. Eunuch Zhang, our family, and your Eunuch Feng are all slaves of the emperor. If Eunuch Zhang really wanted to betray anyone, it would only be to betray the emperor. But from the beginning to the end, he always I have never betrayed the emperor."
"Our family understands!"
Feng Bao nodded.
Suddenly, with a plop, Feng Bao turned around and knelt down in front of Zhang Hong.
Zhang Hong was shocked: "Eunuch Feng, what are you doing?"
Feng Bao squeezed out tears and said, "Our family knows that Eunuch Zhang has always been a Buddha-like person. Today we are begging you to intercede for our family in front of the Queen Mother and the Emperor."
Feng Bao kowtowed to Zhang Hong as he spoke.
"Eunuch Feng, why are you doing this!"
Zhang Hong hurriedly helped Feng Baolai up and said, "Our family can promise you to intercede for you in front of the emperor, but the Queen Mother, please forgive me that our family cannot promise you."
Feng Bao was a little disappointed.
Zhang Hong also explained seriously: "Eunuch Feng, you have to understand that it is not our family's fault, nor Eunuch Zhang's fault, that you have ended up in this situation. It is your own fault. You should not forget the nature of being a slave." Point! There has always been a point for the emperor to bully the slaves, not for the slaves to bully the emperor. From the moment you dared to think of using the power of the Queen Mother to suppress the emperor, you made a mistake. And it’s not like I didn’t remind you. "
After hearing this, Feng Bao smiled bitterly: "You are right. Our family has forgotten its duty, but power is really fascinating. Once you have tasted the feeling of relying on the Queen Mother in the inner court to do whatever you want, , our family just forgot about it! Even though we later found out that the emperor was precocious and not as naive as ordinary children, we still had some illusions in our hearts."
"How many things have you done to disgrace the emperor?"
Zhang Hong asked at this time.
Feng Bao smiled and said: "Not much, it's just that I didn't cover up for the emperor in front of the Queen Mother."
Zhang Hong nodded: "That's not bad."
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"Uncle, I didn't expect that you would finally get rid of Feng Bao this time!"
In the cabinet, Lu Tiaoyang, who was in a good mood because Feng Bao was voted to be dismissed from office and imprisoned, took the initiative to come to Zhang Juzheng's duty room to chat with him.
Zhang Juzheng handed an ink script in his hand to Lu Tiaoyang: "If we don't get rid of this person, he will become the second Liu Jin. This Wei Fengxiang's chapter was given to his servant by him. Depose Hai Rui!"
The ink copy handed over by Zhang Juzheng was Wei Fengxiang's memorial to impeach Hai Rui.
Lu Tiaoyang took it and looked at it, then suddenly changed his expression and said: "First he interfered in the appointment of cabinet ministers, then he interfered in the appointment of court officials, and this time he actually joined forces with the officials to dismiss the deputy constitution! This is really rampant!"
"Let's wait for the decree! The emperor's sage will send down the decree to eliminate this thorn."
Zhang Juzheng said something and then said: "But no matter what, this Wei Fengxiang flatters Quan and has no integrity as a scholar-bureaucrat, so he cannot be retained. Therefore, the servants have voted to dismiss him from his post to the people and never use him."
"Very appropriate!"
Lu Tiaoyang replied.
"There is a will!"
At this time, the eunuch of the Supervisor of Ceremonies came to the cabinet and shouted.
After hearing this, Zhang Juzheng and Lu Tiaoyang stood up and bowed to listen to the announcement.
"The emperor's handwriting: Feng Bao deceived the emperor and cheated the country, and Dongchang has been arrested. Therefore, the cabinet drafted an order to order Hai Rui to preside over the case of Feng Bao deceiving the emperor and cheating the country. Dongchang is responsible for detaining all the people involved in the case in Beijing and those outside Beijing. The cabinet will discuss the appropriate personnel to handle the matter and arrest all those involved in the case. No one can escape the net!"
"I will do as you are told!"
Zhang Juzheng and Lu Tiaoyang responded.
Immediately, Zhang Juzheng took the order.
After the eunuch in charge of the ceremony announced the order and left, Lu Tiaoyang came over and said to Zhang Juzheng: "Your Majesty asked Hai Rui to preside over the trial. It seems that he intends to deal with this matter strictly."
"This is the wisdom of the Emperor. Only by letting Hai Rui preside over the case can we convince the two empresses of Feng Baozhi's guilt."
Zhang Juzheng said with a smile as he began to draft the decree.
Then, Zhang Juzheng said to Lu Tiaoyang: "I would like to ask you, Mr. Ge, to bring out the original draft of the petition appointing Xu Fan as the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple. The draft was not approved, and ordered him to return to his hometown to abide by the previous decree and observe filial piety; Feng Baozhi Since the case has already involved him, it is not appropriate for him to revive it again. In addition, burn the secret document that was requested for Feng Bao's nephew to be sealed!"
Lu Tiaoyang raised his hands and said yes.
It turns out that although Zhang Juzheng had previously agreed to Feng Baoqi's request to reinstate Zhang Siwei and Xu Fan and to ennoble Feng Bao's nephew Feng Bangning, in fact, apart from the fact that Zhang Siwei's entry into the cabinet was in compliance with the Quanxu system and was reported, the other two matters had been delayed. So now that Feng Bao fell, he immediately made the decision to let Xu Fan return to his hometown and no longer seal Feng Bao's nephew.
Not long after, Mo Ben, who still had to fulfill his filial piety at home, was criticized by the Supervisor of Ceremonies after the cabinet vote proposed that Xu Fan could not afford to be reinstated.
