Chang Feng was busy communicating with his wife and concubines after a long separation.
Shouning Hou Zhang Heling was not idle either.
Yunniang, the forty-year-old former cook of the Chang Mansion, is serving Zhang Heling with all her heart.
It is not easy for a forty-year-old woman to be attracted by a handsome young man in her prime. What's more, the young man is still the uncle of the current dynasty?
How could she not work hard when she felt refreshed and could gain great wealth?
Zhang Heling is like floating in the clouds.
After everything was done, Yun Niang said angrily: "My sister has followed you, you should let her return home in fine clothes."
Zhang Heling said: "Okay! I will send the marquis' official sedan and a full set of honor guards to send my dear sister back to her hometown."
Yun Niang said: "Sister, I don't want those empty-headed people. My dear brother, my family has been working as farmers in the countryside for five generations. If you really want to make me famous, reward me with the piece of land in our countryside!"
Zhang Heling said: "The land is not mine, how can I reward you?"
Yun Niang thought for a while and said, "You won't ask for it from your own sister, the Queen? It's not unusual for Uncle Guo to ask for thousands of acres of farmland. Dear brother, please."
Zhang Heling thought: Yes. In the Ming Dynasty, they all belonged to my brother-in-law, who was half as old as my sister. What if I want thousands of acres of land?
Thinking of this, Zhang Heling said: "Let's do it!"
Yun Niang chuckled: "Then I'll thank my good brother."
Zhang Heling is indeed a man of the age of dancing elephant. Sure enough, dancing elephant!
"Good sister, how can you thank me? Give me Bei'anmen as a reward!"
"You are evil! Come..."
"hiss!"
The next day, Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling entered Kunning Palace.
Zhang Heling opened his mouth and said: "Sister! There is a piece of land over there in Yufa Township, Wanping County, which is very good. Please give it to me!"
Queen Zhang frowned: "Why do you want to come and ask for land from me?"
Zhang Heling said: "Ah, I am a marquis, and it is not too much to own several thousand acres of farmland."
Empress Zhang said: "This matter... I have been thinking about it for a while. I need the Emperor's consent."
Queen Zhang had no objection, and in Zhang Heling's opinion, she agreed!
He and Zhang Yanling left the palace in a hurry. Taking their servants with them, they began to drive away the farmers in Yufa Township and seize the fields as their own.
You know, this is under the age of 10. Thousands of people had their land seized without any reason.
Zhang Heling came to seize the land, and not only brought his servants, but also transferred 500 soldiers from the 12th regiment camp. The soldiers in the regiment were fierce and armed with guns and knives. How could the common people dare to resist?
What's even more outrageous is that the seventeen-year-old Marquis Zhang Heling actually brought a forty-year-old woman with him in the carriage. While doing that casual thing, he listened to the screams of the people outside the carriage being beaten.
Indecent! How offensive!
The Wanping County Magistrate was extremely angry when he learned about this. He reported it to the governor of Shuntian, who was also filled with indignation.
But they neither dared to stop Zhang Heling's immoral behavior, nor did they dare to report it to the emperor.
Everyone in the world doesn't know that Emperor Hongzhi only favored Queen Zhang, treated the Zhang family well, and regarded his two brothers-in-law as his own brothers.
Not many people dare to touch this bad luck.
Possessed by Ah Q, Yin of Shuntian Prefecture: I dare not take care of you, but someone else dares to take care of you! I'll go find him!
The person the governor is looking for does not have a high official position. It's just that he was a doctor in the Qing Dynasty in Beizhili, Hubu, and was in the fifth rank.
But his name resounds throughout the history of Chinese literature.
He is - Li Mengyang!
Li Mengyang was from Fugou, Shaanxi (parts of Gansu in the Ming Dynasty were under the jurisdiction of Shaanxi).
Although he and Li Dongyang have similar names, they are not related at all.
Later generations evaluated him as: a writer in the mid-Ming Dynasty and the leader of the first seven sons of the Restoration School.
Li Mengyang is known for his courage among officials in the capital.
He came from a scholarly family and a family of officials. His father had been a professor in the Zhou Dynasty.
Li Mengyang has been smart since he was a child, familiar with scriptures and poems, and full of economic knowledge. What you eat is rice, what you pull out is beautiful articles.
When he was eighteen years old, he took part in the Shaanxi Provincial Examination. According to the Ming system, those who take the scholar examination must return to their place of origin.
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It was he who went to Xi'an to prepare for the exam. During his stay in Xi'an, he heard that the prefect was eating and drinking the common people, and the three ministers ignored him.
So when he entered the Gongyuan, he did a bold thing and satirized the darkness of officialdom.
It was broad daylight, and he was holding a lantern in his hand.
The examiner in Gongyuan was puzzled and asked him why. Li Dongyang replied: "The officials in Xi'an manage darkness. If they don't light up lanterns, I'm afraid they will find the wrong way."
This is the allusion to Li Mengyang's "carrying a lantern during the day".
As an aside, four hundred and fifty years later, a general named Feng imitated Li Mengyang's behavior.
Fans' imitative behavior is more famous than the idol's original behavior.
The news about carrying lanterns in the daytime spread, and the prefect and the third division chief of Xi'an hated him to their core. They found Xuezheng and asked the Xuezheng Yamen to remove Li Mengyang from taking the exam.
Fortunately, Xuezheng is an upright official. Under pressure, Li Mengyang completed the provincial examination.
The prefect of Xi'an and the Third Division of Shaanxi originally planned to wait for him to complete the provincial examination to take revenge on him.
As a result, the marking was over and the test papers were torn apart. Li Mengyang High School’s No. 1 Jie Yuan! His examination essays were so exquisite that they were copied by literati all over Shaanxi.
For a time, Li Mengyang became a top idol among Shaanxi literati. The local government could do nothing but help him.
The next year, Li Mengyang went to the capital to take part in the imperial examination and was awarded the honorary title. Ranked 17th in the second class in the palace examination (20th in the country).
Xiao Li also looks relatively dignified, and is a well-known handsome young man from all over the country. He was assigned to the Hanlin Academy as a commoner, and his future was bright.
If he follows this script, Li Mengyang will serve as an academic officer in the Hanlin Academy for several years. Then they were divided into six divisions or places.
After decades of hard work, he could at least become an official of the Six Departments or a feudal official. It is even possible to join the cabinet and become a highly respected minister.
After all, the upper limit of official positions for people born in Shujishi is the ceiling level.
However, at the honor banquet hosted by the Ministry of Rites to entertain new scholars, Li Mengyang suffered a big loss because of his boldness!
Li Mengyang drank a few more drinks and showed his disdain for the eight-part essay. His words were astonishing, and he proposed that "literature must be from the Qin and Han Dynasties, and poetry must be from the prosperous Tang Dynasty."
This kind of statement was regarded as heresy by Manchu officials who were promoted to the Eight-legged Guan Dynasty!
You said that literature must be from the Qin and Han Dynasties, but where did you put Zhu Zi and Er Cheng? Where did you put all the eight-legged stereotypes of the past dynasties?
This is like a modern person traveling to the era of witch hunting in Western Europe and preaching atheism to people.
Even if I put you on the stake, it would be considered a mercy.
Of course, the East is more civilized. Even if the scholar wanted to burn Li Mengyang to death, he would not take action.
But the chief bachelor of the Hanlin Academy quit his job: The Hanlin Academy will never want such an arrogant person! Go wherever you like.
So Li Mengyang was deprived of his qualifications as a shujishi and was sent to be the head of the Ministry of Household Affairs.
In the household department, he is known as being shrewd, capable, bold and careful.
The Hanlin Academy did not want him, but instead fulfilled him. He thrived in the household department like a fish in water, and within a few years he was promoted to doctor.
Emperor Hongzhi had the intention of restraining land annexation and expressed his attitude of restraining land annexation many times. But because the resistance is too great, we can only do our best.
As Li Mengyang, a doctor in the Northern Zhili Qing Li Division of the Ministry of Household Affairs, his biggest task is to prevent the land annexation of Northern Zhili!
Zhang Heling had hit his target.
I, Li Mengyang, have the courage to swallow the sky! I, Li Mengyang, dare to take care of things that others dare not take care of! Those who others dare not participate, I, Li Mengyang, dare to participate!
It's a joke, I'm not afraid of offending scholars all over the world. Am I still afraid of a mere relative?
He submitted the impeachment memorial to the General Affairs Department, which in turn forwarded it to Emperor Hongzhi.
This memorial impeached Zhang Heling on three main counts. First, the foreign relative is good at maneuvering regiment troops and is suspected of having evil intentions.
2. Seizing people's fields and demolishing their houses.
3. Walking around the countryside with a dissolute old woman and walking through the city in a slutty manner is offensive to morals.
Emperor Hongzhi showed his shortcoming at this moment - protecting the calves, especially the calves of the Zhang family.
Seeing that it was his two brothers-in-law who were impeached, he didn't read the memorial carefully at all. direct
He was brought to Kunning Palace and handed over to Queen Zhang.
He told Queen Zhang: "Let Heling restrain himself."
Empress Zhang called her two younger brothers, scolded them severely, and threw the memorial to them.
After the two looked at it, Zhang Heling seemed to have discovered something. He shouted: "This bastard Xiang Zhuang named Li Mengyang is dancing with his sword, and he is targeting Pei Gong! He is scolding you, sister!"
Queen Zhang was surprised: "Why did you say this?"
Zhang Heling pointed to a sentence in the memorial and said: "Look, there is a sentence here: 'Your Majesty treats Mrs. Zhang. Isn't it you, Mrs. Zhang! This is very disrespectful to you!"
"He interfered with us. We also accused him of being disrespectful to the *** emperor's wife!"
In fact, the "Zhang family" mentioned in Li Mengyang's memorial refers to the Zhang family, a relative, and not specifically to Queen Zhang.
Although Queen Zhang is not a bad person. But she was never a virtuous queen like Queen Ma. Born in a small family named Biyu, she has long hair and short knowledge.
The two younger brothers made it even more elaborate. She was so angry. He went to the Qianqing Palace in person and asked Emperor Hongzhi to punish Li Mengyang.
Emperor Hongzhi knew in his heart that the Zhang family was in the wrong. But his wife has a fate, and as a maniac who loves his wife, he has to express his attitude.
So Emperor Hongzhi summoned the two new ministers of Jinyiwei, Chang Feng and Mou Bin.
In the main hall of Qianqing Palace. Emperor Hongzhi gave the two men a copy of Li Mengyang's participation in the impeachment of his two uncles.
The sentence "Your Majesty is generous to Zhang" in the excerpt was drawn out with a red pen.
Emperor Hongzhi said: "Li Mengyang is disrespectful to the Queen. I will punish him severely. He will be arrested and sent to prison."
Chang Feng said: "Your Majesty, it seems that Li Mengyang's accusation of participating in the impeachment of the two uncles is true..."
Chang Feng also heard that Zhang Heling had recently built a farm in Wanping County to enclose land. I just didn't know he went so far.
The "forty-year-old woman" mentioned in the memorial was obviously Yunniang, her former cook.
Emperor Hongzhi waved his hand: "I didn't ask you to investigate the Zhang brothers' occupation of land. I only asked you to strictly deal with Li Mengyang's disrespect to the queen."
Chang Feng quickly raised his hands and said, "Yes."
Emperor Hongzhi said: "Go and arrest people!"
The two were about to exit the hall. Emperor Hongzhi added: "There is nothing I can do. I have to give the Queen an explanation."
Chang Feng and Mou Bin left the hall.
Mou Bin was famous for his kindness, he also liked poetry, and admired Li Mengyang. I quite agree with his view that "literary literature must be compared to the Qin and Han Dynasties, and poetry must be compared to the prosperous Tang Dynasty".
Mou Bin said: "Master Chang, I heard the emperor's words and don't want us to severely punish Li Mengyang."
"It's just because of our friendship with the queen that we, the royal guards, are allowed to take action to make a gesture."
Chang Feng was originally worried that Mou Bin would actually go and deal with Li Mengyang using chicken feathers as an arrow. I didn't expect him to be so reasonable.
Chang Feng immediately agreed: "That's right. That's how I see it too. The emperor has decreed that Li Mengyang must be arrested. But how to treat him after he is arrested is our brother's business."
"Brother Mou, you like poetry. Now I have the opportunity to discuss with Li Mengyang."
Mou Bin was overjoyed: "I have transferred myself back to the capital. I have never paid a visit to Mr. Li alone!"
The two of them first went back to Jinyiwei to apply for driving stickers, and then came to the Ministry of Household Affairs.
The person sitting in the household department today is Liu Daxia.
When Liu Daxia heard that Chang Feng was here to arrest Li Mengyang, he was extremely surprised: "You want to arrest him? In terms of character, he has a noble character. In terms of ability, he is many times better than those rotten scholars."
"In terms of official reputation, he is a well-known honest doctor in the household department."
"Just because he participated in the impeachment of my uncle, he will be thrown into prison? I heard that if you are in prison, you will have to shed your skin even if you don't die."
Chang Feng quickly comforted Liu Daxia: "We will lock him up for a few days to let the queen calm down, and then we will release him."
"Don't worry Liu Butang. We will treat him well in prison. If he is a pound lighter when he is released from prison, you will blame me."
The old guy Liu Daxia has a sense of humor: "One pound? If you cut him into three ounces, it will be enough for him to suffer if he is castrated."
Chang Feng and Mou Bin were stunned.
laugh.
The two came to the Beizhili Cleaning Department to check in and showed their driving stickers to Li Mengyang.
Li Mengyang didn't have the slightest fondness for Jin Yiwei. In addition, I have never been in contact with Chang Feng before, so I don’t understand Chang Feng’s personality.
Li Mengyang took it for granted that the emperor's favorites must be sycophants.
In addition, Li Mengyang heard that the Chang family has a close relationship with the Queen...
He held his head high, as if he was looking forward to death: "In ancient times, there was Bigan, but now there is this one. If you want to arrest him, arrest him, and if you want to kill, kill him!"
"I, Li Mengyang, am naturally courageous! Others are afraid of going to prison, but I am not!"
Chang Feng said quickly: "My Mr. Li, can you stop talking nonsense! If you claim to be better than you, what will happen today?"
"Besides, it's the turtle grandson who wants to kill you! You are not afraid of the powerful and impeach your relatives. We, the Jinyiwei people, admire you so much that it's not too late to treat you favorably!"
Mou Bin echoed: "Sir, don't worry. I have asked the prison to clean up a cell, and it is quite clean. I asked my family to send all the bedding and supplies there."
"I also asked people to burn incense in the cell. I prepared some original poems of the Tang and Song Dynasties, pens, inks, paper and inkstones, and a Yao Qin."
"You have the right to stay pure in the prison for a few days!"
The attitudes of Chang Feng and Mou Bin surprised Li Mengyang.
After a while, Li Mengyang made his own judgment: They might be afraid that I would resist arrest and deliberately deceived me.
Li Mengyang thinks highly of himself. When arresting a scholar who has no strength to restrain a chicken, how can the Jin Yiwei be afraid of resisting arrest?
Thinking of this, Li Mengyang had a rebellious expression on his face: "You asked me to die, but I have to die. Come on, take me to the prison."
Chang Feng did not put the shackles on Li Mengyang and led him to the Fusi Prison in Beizhen.
The three of them walked towards the "cell" prepared for Li Mengyang.
Passing by the cells on both sides, Li Mengyang kept hearing the prisoners' screams.
Li Mengyang thought: Sure enough! The imperial edict is a hell on earth. How could you treat me well!
At this moment, everyone arrived at Li Mengyang's cell.
Li Mengyang walked in and was stunned!
This cell... is too clean and elegant, right?
A small bed, covered with fine satin quilts. In the center of the cell were two desks and a bookshelf. Pens, inks, paper and inkstones are all available.
What's even more exaggerated is that there is also a small tea stove for making tea, which is steaming and making tea. It smells like authentic Wuyishan Dahongpao.
Chang Feng asked Shi Wenyi to arrange the cell. Shi Wenyi is a master at serving people. The cell was turned into an inn room.
Li Mengyang said: "This...is this too much?"
Chang Feng said: "Mr. Li, I know the beating nature of those two little bastards Zhang Heling and Zhang Songling."
"Don't worry, I still have some respect with them. I will let them return the thousands of acres of land they annexed to the people."
"It's just that this matter involves the Queen. The Emperor and the Queen have a deep love. As a last resort, I have to ask you to stay here for two days."
"Today is the twenty-eighth of the twelfth lunar month. Don't worry, my wife will come to the palace on the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month and will persuade the queen to let you go."
"On New Year's Eve and the first day of the Lunar New Year, I'll have someone come and deliver dumplings to you. Then tell Shi Qianhu, who is waiting for you, what fillings you like."
Qian Ning was promoted to the governor of Beizhen, and Shi Wenyi succeeded him and became the inspector of thousands of households.
Chang Feng asked Shi Wenyi to serve Li Mengyang in the imperial prison. Serving people is his specialty.
Li Mengyang lived in a luxurious cell, and Chang Feng and Mou Bin had a kind attitude. He let down his previous guard.
Li Mengyang said: "Thank you very much."
Chang Feng smiled and said: "I'll go out to run some errands first. Mou Qianshi has admired you for a long time. You guys should discuss poetry here first."
Chang Feng came out of the imperial edict and found Qian Ning.
Chang Feng ordered him: "Tie someone up."
Qian Ning was transferred from Tuanying to Jinyiwei, and then from Xiaoqi to Beizhen Fushi, all because of Changfeng's support.
Changfeng asked him to go east, and he
Never go west. Chang Feng said that the Yellow River is clear, and I'm afraid he would agree: It's really cleaner than the big white urine I drank from a bucket of water.
Qian Ning asked: "Who are you kidnapping? Which frontier official or minister?"
Chang Feng said: "You often eat in my dining room. Do you remember that I have a cook named Yun Niang?"
Qian Ning said: "I remember. Mr. Xu even slept with him. Later he became acquainted with Shouning Hou and became Shouning Hou's foreign residence."
Chang Feng frowned: "What? What a slut! Why didn't I notice it before! Fatty Xu also slept with her? Damn it, he and Zhang Heling are indeed shoe brothers!"
"This woman encouraged Shouning Hou to commit lawlessness, so she cannot be kept. You tie her up and send her to Jiubian, and give her to any Qiu Ba as your wife. The further away, the better."
Qian Ning asked: "If Shouning Hou knew about this..."
Chang Feng said: "It's just an outhouse. Even if he finds out, I will take care of him."
Qian Ning held up his hands and said, "It's your order. I'll do it right now."
Next, Chang Feng wants the Zhang brothers to spit out the land they occupied.
He didn't go in person. To untie the bell, one needs to tie the bell. It was Yun Niang who instigated Zhang Heling to occupy the land. Yun Niang was forced by Chang Tian to live outside the house.
Chang Feng went back to his house and explained this to Chang Tian.
The next day, Chang Tian went to Shouning Hou Mansion in a furious manner.
Zhang Heling said with a smile: "Haha, here comes Miss Tangtang. How have you been with that boy named Huang lately? Have you held hands?"
"If he dares to look down on our girl, I will chop his left hand if he pulls her with his left hand, and chop his right hand if he pulls her with his right hand."
Zhang Yanling saw Chang Tian's face was angry and said quickly: "Second brother, what are you talking about? Sister Tangtang, ignore him. Whatever you want to eat, I will let the kitchen cook it for you."
Chang Tian said: "Hmph, I want to eat fried cicada monkey!"
How can there be monkeys in the twelfth lunar month of winter? Chang Tian is embarrassing his two brothers.
Zhang Heling had a troubled expression on his face: "This...cicada monkey summer only has it."
Zhang Yanling said: "It doesn't matter. I will take people to dig out the roots of the tree. There are cicada monkeys under the roots of the tree! Even if we dig out all the trees in the capital, we still have to get a whole plate for Miss Tangtang!"
Zhang Yanling was about to leave.
But Chang Tian stopped him: "Hmph! I changed my mind! I want to eat your flesh! I want it freshly cut and bloody. I'll eat it raw with salt!"
