Tang Nai's mansion was burned down, and he temporarily stayed in the mansion of his friend Zou Zhi, a sage named Shuji.
Zou Zhi's family background is much better than that of Tang Nai. His family is a famous family in Sichuan. Those who live in the capital are big houses with two entrances.
If it wasn't too ostentatious, Zou Zhi could afford it.
It was late at night. Changfeng suddenly visited. Tang Nai and Zou Zhi greeted him in the living room.
Chang Feng observed carefully that there was no sleepiness on the faces of these two people. It seems they can't sleep because of the impeachment case.
Chang Feng got straight to the point: "Tang Yushi. I came here late at night to arrest your wives and concubines and send them to prison."
Tang Nai's expression changed: "What are you arresting two women for? I understand, you are indeed Liu Ji's gang member! You want to arrest my wives and concubines and threaten me!"
"Catch me if you can! Don't embarrass this woman!"
Chang Feng drank tea and remained silent, only winking at Fatty Xu.
Fatty Xu smiled and said, "Tang Yushi, the prison interrogates female prisoners in the winter. There is an extremely despicable, shameless and obscene torture method."
"Fill the pig urine with water. Place it outside the house and freeze it into ice. This is called ice strips."
"During the execution, stick ice sticks into the female prisoner's body. Although the female prisoner will not die, she will suffer from palace cold syndrome for the rest of her life."
The sage Zou Zhi covered his ears: "Don't listen to anything inappropriate."
Tang Nai said angrily: "You are not human."
Chang Feng smiled and said: "When your wives and concubines are sent to prison, you will truly realize that most of us are not human beings."
"Haha, don't you Qingliu people often say in private that we Jinyiwei are a bunch of beasts that eat human flesh and drink human blood."
Tang Nai said angrily: "Jinyiwei is also an official of the imperial court, and he also has to enforce the imperial laws! You are arresting people for no reason, but I will attend your court tomorrow morning!"
Chang Feng took another sip of tea and said calmly: "We really didn't do it for nothing. The fire in your house last night was set by your wives and concubines."
"What they are doing is called murdering one's own husband. Murdering one's own husband is a heinous crime. It cannot be overstated how despicable and shameless torture we use against them."
Tang Nai was stunned: "Set fire and murder your husband? Where do you start talking about this?"
Chang Feng said: "They bought a barrel of fierce fire oil from Yu Ji Tan's store. There is a testimony from shopkeeper Yu. Do you want him to come face to face?"
"The burned ruins of your mansion smell strongly of fire oil."
"Yesterday morning, before you said there was a fire at home, you heard someone at the window saying, 'Liu Shoufu sent me to greet you.'"
"The person who spoke is probably not Liu Ji's subordinate, but your wife's concubine!"
Tang Nai said nothing.
Fatty Xu helped: "Hey, Zhao Prison has not locked up female prisoners for a long time. Now those brothers in Zhao Prison can have a good time!"
"It just so happens that it's winter again. Just in time to be tortured on ice."
"Murder of your husband is a capital crime. Oh, it would be fine if the execution was carried out by the Sanfa Division, or at most Ling Chi. Our Jinyiwei execution must be carried out by riding a wooden horse. For a woman, riding a wooden horse is more painful than Ling Chi's death."
Fatty Xu's words completely crushed Tang Nai.
Tang Nai roared angrily: "Stop talking! I set the fire myself! If you want to be held accountable, I will be held accountable!"
Zou Zhi said quickly: "Brother Tang, don't talk nonsense, carefully fall into their trap! It will delay our important event!"
Tang Nai sighed: "Oh, Brother Zou, I can't let Zhuo Jing suffer for me."
Chang Feng sneered: "Tang Yushi made it clear yesterday morning that the murderer of the arson case was Chief Assistant Liu Ji. Now he says that he set it off himself. This is really a double-skinned person."
"It's a pity that our Jin Yiwei attaches great importance to evidence when handling cases. Words are unfounded."
"The evidence we have now shows that the arsonist was your wife and concubine. Not you!"
"Fat Xu, take out your driver's license and get someone!"
The two of them arrived in a hurry, where can I find driving stickers? It's just Chang Feng's bluff.
Chang Feng will not really capture Tang Nai or his wives tonight. After all, from another perspective, his participation in the impeachment of Liu Ji was to safeguard justice.
Chang Fengjin
The purpose of coming here at night is just to make Tang Nai and others change their words when they go to court tomorrow morning.
Tang Nai asked: "What on earth do you want to do before you are willing to let my wife and concubines go?"
Chang Feng replied: "It's simple. I'll change my story tomorrow morning. Just say that the impeachment report is just a rumor. After thinking about it, you think it's inappropriate and withdraw the impeachment against Liu Ji."
Tang Nai remained silent.
Zou Zhi said from the side: "Brother Tang, if you change your tune tomorrow, I'm afraid our Qingliu colleagues will look down upon you for the rest of their lives!"
"Bang!" Chang Feng slapped the table: "Zou Zhi, what are you pretending to be? You claim to be clean, but are you really clean?"
"Your father had a habit of annexing people's land in Gongzhou, Sichuan. In the 23rd year of Chenghua alone, he annexed two thousand acres of good farmland."
"The landless people will either become the farmhands of your Zou family and live a life worse than cattle and horses. Or they will have to starve to death!"
"Your family is capable of driving people to death, but you are still pretending to be innocent here. It's ridiculous!"
Now it was Zou Zhi's turn to be stunned: "You...how did you know?"
Chang Feng sneered: "Heh. Shujishi may join the cabinet in the future. How can we Jin Yiwei not do our homework?"
"The Jin Yiwei has a permanent station of one hundred households in Chengdu! There are more than a thousand eyes and ears in each prefecture and county of Bashu!"
"As long as I want to check, I can know which concubine your father is sleeping with tonight! All it takes is one letter to send and one letter to reply!"
Fatty Xu and Chang Feng sang together: "Oh! Shujishi's father actually did something that drove the people to death in his hometown."
"Reputation is the most important thing for a Hanlin official. If we, the Imperial Guards, make this matter public, your reputation in the court will be ruined, right?"
Zou Zhi asked: "What do you want?"
Chang Feng said: "Simple. You and Yushi Tang will report to the emperor tomorrow to withdraw the impeachment."
Zou Zhi gritted his teeth: "Okay!"
Although Tang Nai didn't agree, his silence was his default.
Chang Feng said again: "We have been running around for a whole day investigating the arson case. Our legs are numb. Could you please Master Zou to send a servant to call Li Wenxiang, a member of Zhongshushe and a Jinshi of Guanzheng, to your residence."
Zou Zhi complied. More than half an hour later, Jiren and Li Wenxiang arrived.
Chang Feng pointed at Tang and Zou: "They have decided to withdraw their impeachment against Liu Chief Fu tomorrow morning."
Ji Ren quickly asked: "Brother Tang, Brother Zou, have you been threatened by them?"
Li Wenxiang said: "Since ancient times, warriors have fought to the death, and writers have died to advise. In order to eliminate female officials, we will also create a bright future. We are not afraid of death, so why are we afraid of threats?"
Chang Feng gave a thumbs up: "What an admonishment from a warrior to a warrior and a literary warrior. You literati attach the most importance to morality. Right?"
"Li Wenxiang. After you were admitted as Jinshi in high school, you were so proud that you had a horse's hoof, and you saw all the flowers in Chang'an in one day. After the Qionglin Banquet, you are still not satisfied."
"After the banquet, you and four or five people of the same year went to Taibai Tower to have a drink. During the dinner, on a whim, you asked the waiter from Taibai Tower to go to Tanchun Court to make a note."
"A total of five Yangzhou thin horses were called to play the piano and sing songs for your entertainment. You fell in love with one of them, a thin horse named Yingying. Miss Yingying also fell in love with you, a talented and knowledgeable person, at first sight."
"Because of the rule that officials are not allowed to take concubines. After you collected the money to redeem her, you placed her in a courtyard in Luogu Lane in Nancheng and let her be your outhouse."
"Am I right? If you have an affair with a prostitute, where is your morality?"
Li Wenxiang hesitated: "It has been more than 120 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. Who still cares about this..."
Chang Feng slapped the table: "Nonsense! It is an ancestral rule set by the Great Patriarch that officials are not allowed to stay in prostitutes! Do you mean that today's officials don't need to care about the ancestral rule?"
Li Wenxiang was speechless.
Chang Feng said: "You are just a Jinshi of Guanzheng now, and have not yet been appointed by the Ministry of Civil Affairs. If I make your scandal known to the public, I am afraid that the Ministry of Civil Affairs will never give you a real appointment!"
"Then what's the use of being a Jinshi? It's better to participate in the big selection and become a small official when you are a candidate.
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"If you want to keep your future, you have to listen to me."
Ji Ren said: "Brother Li, evil has always prevailed over good since ancient times, don't bow to his threats!"
Chang Feng turned to look at Ji Ren: "Fuck you, evil is better than good. Who is evil and who is good?"
"Are you a good person? On April 21 last year, your distant cousin got into a fight with someone in the street in Zhaoyuan County, Shandong Province, causing serious injuries."
"According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, one must be punished with a rod and exiled! It happens that the magistrate of Zhaoyuan County is the same year as you. You wrote a letter to the same year to plead for mercy. You released the person the next day after receiving the letter."
"You are bending the law for personal gain! Only those who bend the law for personal gain are evil!"
"I don't even bother to talk about you so-called Qingliu. You obviously have a hairy face, but you call others monkeys all day long!"
The leaders of the four impeachment cases are as listless as cocks that have lost a fight.
Chang Feng said: "Okay! It's almost midnight. I've said what I said. It's up to you whether you want to withdraw the impeachment or not."
After saying that, Chang Feng and Fatty Xu stood up and left.
After leaving Zou Mansion, Fatty Xu said: "Master Chang, you have done enough in your homework. Did you eat a lot of dust in the private stall?"
Chang Feng said: "I didn't eat the dust. It was Qian Ning who did. Throughout the whole day today, he went through more than a hundred stalls in the stall before finding the stalls of Qi Tang, Zou, Ji and Li. files."
"Among these four people, only Tang Nai is relatively clean. It's a pity that we found out the truth about the arson case today."
Fatty Xu lamented: "As expected, nine out of ten officials in the Ming Dynasty have unclean bottoms. The only difference is that some people have a pile of shit under their butts, and some people have a whole shit pit under their butts!"
Chang Feng praised: "What you said is so insightful, fat man."
Chang Feng returned to the house and it was already late at night when he entered the bedroom.
Liu Xiaoyan asked: "Why are you coming back so late?"
Chang Feng said: "I have an urgent errand. Will Zhuangzhuang be honest tonight?"
Liu Xiaoyan replied: "Don't mention it. I cried until I was late. I'm just a night cryer. I just went to bed."
Chang Feng hugged Liu Xiaoyan and said, "It's just the right time for him to fall asleep. Let's have a game."
Liu Xiaoyan said coquettishly: "What are you doing? You're crazy. I have to go to the morning court in an hour and a half. If you don't hurry up and sleep... Oh, you!"
Young people at the age of twenty are good and can do whatever they say. People over thirty years old can only be envious.
The next day, Yumen went to court early in the morning.
Chang Feng was at the end of the military attache class, peering at Tang Nai at the back of the civilian class with the corner of his eye.
Xiao Jing shouted at the top of his lungs: "Discuss!"
Tang Nai immediately left his post and said, "Your Majesty, I have this memorial."
Emperor Hongzhi said: "Oh? Come on!"
Tang Nai said: "This is for your Majesty. I stayed up all night and thought about it. I feel that the memorial to impeach the chief minister Liu Ji has no solid evidence."
"Although the imperial censor has the privilege of hearing and speaking, it still involves the appointment and dismissal of cabinet ministers. I think I am not cautious enough."
"Chen Wansi, please withdraw the impeachment of Liu Ji, the chief assistant."
As soon as Tang Nai said this, the Qingliu people were in an uproar!
what happened? Tang Nai always prided himself on being noble. Why did he become a traitor this time? Could it be that Liu Ji promised him huge profits?
After Tang Nai finished speaking, Zou Zhi, Ji Ren, and Li Wenxiang each came out to report: "I have the same views as Tang Yushi and request to withdraw the impeachment."
"I also request that the impeachment be withdrawn."
"The same goes for me, too."
The Qingliu people are about to explode! You four are the leaders of more than a hundred of us! Now they are turning against each other collectively?
Zhang Sheng, the concubine of Zuo, came out of the class and said, "Your Majesty, Liu Ji burned down Tang Nai's mansion. Tang Nai must have been frightened by Liu Ji's attack!"
"Zou Zhi, Ji Ren, and Li Wenxiang are Tang Nai's close friends. Tang Nai was frightened and asked them to withdraw the impeachment together!"
Emperor Hongzhi was amused: Chang Feng was obviously very good at handling the situation, and he made the four of them change their stories cleanly last night. What's the matter with Liu Ji?
However, Emperor Hongzhi said: "Oh, by the way, I almost made an arson case."
Things were forgotten. "
"Chang Feng, how's the check going?"
Chang Feng left work: "Your Majesty, the truth has been revealed! The burning of Yushi Tang's mansion was not caused by arson at all. It was because he was careless and forgot to cut the light cord before going to bed."
"The light cord was too long and the embers fell on the table, causing an accidental fire!"
As soon as this statement came out, the officials were in an uproar again: "How could it be an accidental fire?"
"How can there be such a coincidence in the world? Just after the female minister was impeached, there was an accidental fire at home?"
Zhang Sheng asked Chang Feng: "Yesterday morning, Tang Nai said that before the fire, he heard someone at the window saying, 'Liu Shoufu sent me to greet you. What's the explanation for this?"
Chang Feng replied calmly: "That was a dream dreamed by Yushi Tang. The words were spoken by the person in the dream. He was frightened by the fire and could not tell whether it was a dream or reality for a moment."
Emperor Hongzhi suppressed his laughter: Chang Feng is really good at talking. This not only protects Liu Ji, but also prevents Tang Nai from being convicted of deceiving the emperor.
Zhang Sheng said angrily: "That's nonsense!"
Then Zhang Sheng said: "Your Majesty, it must be that Tang Nai, Zou Zhi, Ji Ren, Li Wenxiang and the female minister Liu Ji had a secret deal and were colluding with each other!"
Chang Feng frowned and thought to himself: These Qingliu belong to the dog genus. They even bite their own people.
Then Zhang Sheng shouted: "If the emperor does not stop women from being ministers, we and other loyal ministers will kneel and remonstrate! Until they die on their knees in front of Fengtian Gate!"
Censor Cao Lin and Ouyang Dan echoed: "I will also kneel down to remonstrate!"
Hurrah, more than a hundred officials of the Qing Dynasty all knelt down: "The same goes for me!"
Emperor Hongzhi and Chang Feng never expected this. For Qingliu, the method of hitting the snake seven inches away did not work at all.
This group of people is obsessed with each other and will work hard to achieve their goals!
Today is the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.
Is it possible that the first New Year's Eve after Emperor Hongzhi changed his reign will be spent kneeling and admonishing by Qingliu?
Just in case a few more people hit their heads on the imperial pillars and kill Mingzhi. Needless to say, he was really killed. Even seeing blood during the Chinese New Year is unlucky!
Emperor Hongzhi gave Xiao Jing a look.
Xiao Jing understood and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Retreat without incident!"
Yes, I can't afford to offend you, and I can't even hide from you. Let’s hide first.
Half an hour later, the main hall of Qianqing Palace.
Liu Ji and Chang Feng stood in front of Emperor Hongzhi.
Emperor Hongzhi said: "Liu Qing, Chang Feng has worked very hard these two days and one night in order to get those four people to withdraw their impeachment against you."
Liu Ji had been wondering why those four people suddenly changed their words when he went to court early in the morning. Now knowing that it was Chang Feng who did it, he quickly said: "Oh! Thank you Chang Qianhu for protecting your loyal minister."
Liu Ji claimed to be a loyal minister, which made Emperor Hongzhi and Chang Feng want to vomit.
Chang Feng said: "Your Majesty, Chief Assistant, is wrong. Your Majesty is the Emperor's domestic slave. I am protecting you with the Emperor's instructions."
Liu Ji quickly knelt down and kowtowed wildly: "Thank you, Your Majesty. I will serve you to the death for the rest of my life to repay Your Majesty's kindness!"
Emperor Hongzhi said: "That's all, you go down first."
Liu Ji left with a lot of gratitude.
Emperor Hongzhi said to Chang Feng: "Qingliu people have already begun to kneel at Fengtianmen to remonstrate. If they really kneel until New Year's Eve, how will my face be saved?"
"We have to think of a way to get them to disperse."
Chang Feng said: "Your Majesty, please forgive me for being stupid. I don't have any good ideas at the moment. Those clear streams are like dog-skin plaster, they are too difficult to deal with."
At this moment, Xiao Jing hurriedly walked into the main hall: "Your Majesty, the General Affairs Department has handed over a document that was urgently delivered from 800 miles away from Nanjing."
Emperor Hongzhi took the fold and asked casually: "Why is the fold so thick?"
Xiao Jing replied: "It is a statement jointly signed by seventy-eight censors of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the content is to impeach Liu Ji, the chief assistant."
Emperor Hongzhi frowned: "What?"
After carefully reading the excerpt, he immediately shouted angrily: "You're deceiving the heavens!" Then he threw the copper coin on the ground and "clanged" it.
Emperor Hongzhi said angrily: "The clear streams of the two capitals are actually connected together! From now on
It takes three or four days to travel eight hundred miles from Nanjing to Beijing! "
"When they planned this matter, they didn't need to rush 800 miles. They could only send ordinary letters. It would take at least a month to go back and forth. It seems they were well prepared! They had planned it for a long time!"
"Clique formation! Chang Feng, you were right before, this is a typical form of clique!"
The reason why Emperor Hongzhi was angry was not because the Qingliu from the two capitals collectively participated in the impeachment of Liu Ji.
What he was angry about was that the elites in the two capitals formed cliques and threatened him, the new emperor.
When a new official takes office, he still has three things to worry about. Now that the new emperor has just been in power for more than a year, he is being coerced by a group of petty officials of the sixth and seventh grades.
Is this a big deal?
Emperor Hongzhi was so angry that his hands were shaking.
Chang Feng had never seen Emperor Hongzhi get so angry.
Emperor Hongzhi continued to curse: "When I first came to the throne, these gossip officials were talkative and tied my hands and feet."
"I want to make Empress Wu the Queen Mother. They say that Empress Wu is the former emperor and has deposed the queen, so it is not suitable to make her the Queen Mother."
"I want the Ministry of Household Affairs to find out the extent of my father-in-law's land. They join hands every day to say something inappropriate. I have no choice but to give up."
"They have to dictate everything about state affairs and family affairs!"
"I can't bear them for a day or two!"
"Today they are even more unabashedly forming a clique to persecute me. Good! Good! Good!"
"It's time for me to deal with these gossips!"
Everyone has a bottom line. The Qingliu of the two capitals has touched Emperor Hongzhi's bottom line.
He roared angrily: "Changfeng!"
Changfeng cupped his hands and said, "I'm here."
Emperor Hongzhi said: "Does the Jin Yiwei have a way to deal with them? I want to clear the two capitals of clear streams! There must be grass within ten steps. Those so-called clear streams are not grass, but weeds!"
"I want you to weed all the weeds for me!"
Chang Feng was stunned. Empty the two capitals? Your Majesty...isn't he too courageous?
At the end of the first year of Hongzhi and the beginning of the second year of Hongzhi, the prison of officials in the two capitals officially kicked off.
Changfeng became the weeding sickle in the hands of Emperor Hongzhi.
