Wan An said to Chang Feng with a smile: "Please get up quickly. Ha, he is indeed a man under Uncle Guo, a talented person."
Everyone in the officialdom knows that Wan Shoufu has always been kind to others, whether he is treating his colleagues or his subordinates.
From ancient times to the present, this has always been the case for old fat men and rotten good guys in government offices.
Wan An suddenly became interested in Hu Zi beside Chang Feng.
After praising Chang Feng, Wan An began to praise Hu Zi again: "Oh! What a decent bitch! Call me one!"
Huzi barked at Wan'an. Instead of listening to him, it became hostile to him.
"Woof! Woof!" These two sounds were actually shouted by Chief Assistant Wan An towards Hu Zi!
The dignified chief minister of the cabinet, in front of two other ministers and a bunch of subordinates, competed with a dog to see who could bark louder!
Wan An's look was really funny, and everyone was holding back their laughter.
This is Wan'an. He was famous for being funny, absurd, and incompetent in court.
Sometimes, to put it another way, funny, absurd, and incompetent means - humans and animals are harmless.
Such a person who is harmless to humans and animals can be accepted by all parties and factions as the first assistant. This is also the reason why he has been the chief assistant for ten years.
But he was all pretending. This man's city is extremely deep.
Wan An asked Chang Feng: "Is this dog yours?"
Chang Feng replied: "Yes."
Wan An touched the ribbon around his waist.
In the Han Dynasty, the ribbon bag was a pocket for seals. The official seals of the Han Dynasty were stamped on bamboo slips and were small enough to fit easily in a ribbon bag.
By the Ming Dynasty, official seals were often several inches square. It is simply impossible to hang it on your waist all the time. The ribbon became a decoration.
Officials usually put some silver in their ribbon bags to reward their subordinates.
Wan'an grabbed a few unique silver pumpkin seeds from the ribbon bag, which weighed about a few dollars: "I'll reward you. I'll buy you two kilograms of meat for your dog. This dog is really cute."
Chang Feng took the silver melon seeds with both hands: "Thank you, Mr. Chief Assistant, for the reward!"
Wan An said: "That's it. Let's do business. Take us to hand over the property and letters."
Chang Feng led the paper-made Sange Lao into the front yard of Cai Mansion.
Chang Feng picked up the account book and read: "Report to the three pavilion elders. The Cai Mansion copied gold, silver, copper coins, and treasure banknotes, totaling thirty-one thousand two hundred taels of silver."
"Antiques, calligraphy and paintings, property contracts, domestic prostitutes, etc. are useless."
Wan An smiled maliciously at Liu Jue: "Brother Shu Wen (Liu Jue's courtesy name is Shu Wen), you are the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs and are in charge of the treasury."
"Cai Zhong is your deputy hall again. His dirty money accounts will naturally be handed over to you."
In the past two years, the cabinet has been in a situation of Wan'an + Liu Ji VS Liu Jue, and the two sides are not getting along.
Wan'an's implicit meaning was naturally to ridicule Liu Jue for his incompetent governance.
Liu Jue retorted: "It is true that Cai Zhong is my deputy. But when he came to serve under me, he had an official certificate issued by the Ministry of Personnel."
"First Assistant, you are also the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs."
After retorting, Liu Jue took the account book from Chang Feng's hand.
At that moment, Liu Jue and Chang Feng looked at each other with a tacit understanding.
Chang Feng had people tear off the seals of the gold and silver boxes, and the two heads of the household department checked them one by one according to the account books.
After checking, Liu Jue issued a handover document to Chang Feng.
Then Wan An said: "It's time to hand over the most important thing! Who is that?"
Chang Feng cupped his hands and said, "Little Chang Feng will give instructions after listening."
Wan An said: "Yes. Where is Cai Zhong's letter box?"
Chang Feng took the letter box that was related to his life from a silver box and handed it to Wan An.
Wan'an checked the seal: "The seal is in order. Let's take him to the palace now."
With the handover completed. Chang Feng's house-searching mission was finally over, but his life or death was still uncertain.
After respectfully seeing off the three pavilion elders, Chang Feng returned to Beizhen Fusi with his fifty brothers.
In Beizhen Fusi, officials at the general banner level and above have independent duty rooms.
Fatty Xu was already waiting for Chang Feng in the check-in room.
Fatty Xu asked first: "Is the handover over?"
Chang Feng nodded, and then asked, "Have you made it clear to Ambassador Zhu Zhen about the ins and outs of the matter?"
Fatty Xu replied: "I made it clear to him."
Chang Feng asked again: "Did he say anything?"
Fatty Xu replied: "I didn't even fart."
Chang Feng sat on the chair and closed his eyes: "Just wait for the result in this duty room."
"I'll either die with my head in a different place, or I'll reach the sky in one step. There will be no compromise."
Fatty Xu advised Chang Feng: "Relax. Prince and Eunuch Huai'en, can't I protect you?"
Chang Feng sighed: "It's hard to say. A feather falling on the court can crush a little ant like me to death."
Half an hour later, Qianqing Palace.
In later generations, some people regarded Qianqing Palace as a palace unique to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, because of the word "Qing" attached to it. actually not.
When Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty established Nanjing as his capital, he built the Qianqing Palace in the palace.
Yongle moved the capital, and the new imperial palace in Beijing retained the name of Nanjing Palace. Qianqing Palace is the official residence of the Ming Emperor.
At this moment, Emperor Chenghua was sitting on the dragon chair in the main hall of Qianqing Palace. Prince Zhu Youtang stood on his left side.
Shang Ming, Huaien, and Liang Fang, the three leaders of the Supervisor of Ceremonies, stood on his right side.
The officials of the six departments, the nine ministers, the commander-in-chief of the five armies, and the princes and nobles all stood in the hall holding wat tablets.
Emperor Chenghua was an extremely lazy emperor. Except for the formal formality of the imperial court, it is rare to convene so many ministers to discuss matters.
Today, he summoned all the senior officials of the imperial court because he might announce the abolition of the crown prince.
As long as there is evidence in Cai Zhong's letter box that the prince colluded with him to rebel, Emperor Chenghua would immediately depose the prince and make King Xing his crown prince.
Not long after, Wan An entered the main hall holding the letter box, with Liu Ji and Liu Jue following behind him.
Before Wan An could salute, Emperor Chenghua said anxiously: "Send the letter over quickly!"
In order for Concubine Wan Gui to feel better and her condition improve, Emperor Chenghua couldn't wait to depose the prince.
There is no one who can do this to a wife-loving maniac.
Wan An handed the letter box to Shang Ming, who forwarded it to Emperor Chenghua.
Shang Ming held the box and felt delighted: Oh! good! As soon as the frame-up comes out, the goal that our group of people have been striving for for ten years will be achieved!
Emperor Chenghua opened the letter box and began to search one by one.
Finally, he found a letter signed "Ji Guizi".
Although Emperor Chenghua was lazy, he was not stupid and was extremely smart. He immediately realized that "Ji Guizi" was the prince's pseudonym.
He picked up the letter and asked the prince: "Is this what you wrote to Cai Zhong?"
Both Shang Ming and the three brothers of the Wan family thought that the prince would deny it.
Anyway, the letter is there, and there is no point in denying it.
The prince's answer shocked several giants of the imperial concubine party.
"Replying to my father, it was written by my son."
A hundred thousand reasons arose in Shang Ming's mind: Is the prince crazy? How dare he misidentify a letter he didn't write?
It doesn’t matter! It would be better if he admitted it, but he could not escape being deposed.
Emperor Chenghua took out the letter paper and looked at it carefully.
After reading it, he gave the letter to Shang Ming: "Read it for all the ministers to listen to."
Shang Ming took it with both hands: "Yes, Your Majesty."
Shang Ming said loudly: "Cai Zhongshu, I knelt down to hear this. I checked closely and found that you are greedy and sycophantic in the household department and swallowed up national funds. I am inexplicably surprised. You are really the most ungrateful person in the world!"
"You have failed the emperor's favor, and you have failed to support me. As a prince alone, how can you protect me for personal gain?"
When he read this, Shang Ming's voice had become half quieter.
"Gu Zheng ordered people to collect evidence of your crime of corruption and bribery. I will testify against you in front of my father."
"If you still have a conscience, you should immediately tie yourself up and go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to confess your crimes."
"If not, be careful with your dog head!"
