Chang Feng entered the cabinet duty room aggressively with Li Mengyang's memorial.
Liu Jian said angrily: "Who let you in!"
Throughout the history books, the Jinyiwei of the Hongzhi Dynasty were the Jinyiwei with the least power and least sense of existence among the sixteen emperors and seventeenth dynasties of the Ming Dynasty.
Even the leader of Jin Yiwei cannot enter and exit the cabinet at will.
Chang Feng found a chair and sat down unceremoniously: "Why, you have made the emperor so angry that I can't come to settle accounts with you?"
Xie Qian scolded: "The cabinet is an important place for military aircraft. Is it a place for you to act recklessly? Get out!"
Li Dongyang tried to smooth things over: "Brother Chang, why did you say this? Who is angry with the emperor?"
Chang Feng slammed Li Mengyang's memorial on the table: "This is the memorial written by Huang Lang, the right official of the General Affairs Department, who deceived Li Mengyang into submitting the memorial. You have done such good things, and you ask me who is angry with the emperor?"
Liu Jian was confused: "What Huang Lang and Li Mengyang? They are full of nonsense and don't know what they are talking about!"
Xie Qian shouted: "Chang Feng, you broke into the cabinet room privately, are you planning something evil?"
Li Dongyang picked up the memorial and looked at it carefully, and then he exclaimed: "Treason!"
Xie Qian echoed: "That's right, Chang Feng is a treasonous person! He made a lot of jokes while on duty in the cabinet."
Li Dongyang said, "I say Li Mengyang is treasonous and immoral." After saying that, he handed the memorial to Xie Qian.
After Xie Qian looked at it, a layer of white hair sweat appeared on his head: "This, this, what kind of nonsense is this!"
Liu Jian was a little surprised: "Isn't it just a memorial? Why does it involve evil talk?"
After speaking, Liu Jian curiously took the memorial. After he read it, he threw the memorial directly on the table: "Ah! It's really dirty to my eyes!"
Chang Feng looked at the three people's reactions and it seemed that they knew nothing about this memorial.
Chang Feng thought to himself: Could it be that Huang Lang was so smart that he did this behind the back of his three masters?
Chang Feng asked: "As far as I know, Huang Lang is a confidant of the three of you."
Liu Jian was furious: "Do you think the cabinet instigator sent this memorandum? Are we crazy?"
"This memorial completely denies the prosperous age of Hongzhi and the current emperor. At the same time, it also denies the cabinet! It denies us!"
What Liu Jian said is true. The cabinet is the emperor's assistant ministers. To say that the Hongzhi Dynasty is a mess is to say that the cabinet is also a mess.
Li Dongyang said: "Chang Feng, do you think the consciences of the three of us have been eaten by dogs?"
Li Dongyang has always been gentle and gentle, and rarely speaks such businesslike words. It seems that he is really anxious.
Liu, Li, and Xie may be good at power, or they may be desperate to protect the interests of the world's gentry. But they are not crazy villains.
All their powers were given by Emperor Hongzhi.
To them, Emperor Hongzhi was a good emperor who was close to "virtuous ministers" and far from ordinary people. Under the rule of Emperor Hongzhi, the power of civil servants reached its peak since the founding of the country.
Moreover, humans are not grass and trees, how can they be ruthless? Emperor Hongzhi was their Bole. There is a feeling of monarch and minister between them.
Instead of looking forward to the death of Emperor Hongzhi, they hoped that Emperor Hongzhi would recover from his illness and live a long life. In this way, the power of civil servants can continue to be as stable as Mount Tai.
Liu Jian asked Chang Feng: "What is this memorial about?"
Chang Feng told the three people that Li Mengyang was taken advantage of by Huang Lang after being drunk and became so angry that Emperor Hongzhi vomited blood in "Two Diseases, Three Harms and Six Gradual Sparing".
After hearing this, Liu Jian gritted his teeth with hatred: "Huang Lang deserves to die!"
Xie Qianyi commanded Chang Feng: "Why are you still standing there? Hurry up and arrest Huang Lang and interrogate him strictly. If there is a backstage, arrest his backstage!"
Li Dongyang also said: "The cabinet will never tolerate this kind of thing. Chang Feng, use the tough tactics of your Jinyiwei butcher. Huang Lang is tired of this guy's work, and even heaven can't save him!"
What Chang Feng wants is this attitude from the cabinet.
It's embarrassing to say. During the Chenghua Dynasty, Jin Yiwei, a second- and third-rank official in the imperial court, arrested people whenever he asked.
In the eighteenth year of Hongzhi. To arrest a fourth-rank civil servant in Beijing, Jin Yiwei needs the tacit approval of the cabinet.
Chang Feng said no more, turned and left the Jinyiwei duty room, took Zhang Cai, and ordered twenty Han generals to the General Affairs Department.
Huang Lang happened to be on duty in the lobby of the General Secretary today.
Chang Feng and others barged in aggressively. Huang Lang frowned: "Who let you in? The General Affairs Department is the seat of the imperial court. How can we allow the reckless men of Jinyiwei to make mistakes?"
Chang Feng frowned: "I said Huang Lang, you don't recognize me, Jin Yiwei Chang Butcher, right?"
Huang Lang sneered: "The butcher is notorious throughout the capital. How could I not know?"
Chang Feng sighed: "Oh, Jin Yiwei's majesty is really gone! Even a fourth-rank Beijing official doesn't take the leader of Jin Yiwei seriously."
"Come on, take down Huang Lang."
Huang Lang said: "Wait a minute! Do you think I have an order from the cabinet? Do you have an order from the emperor? If not, I advise you not to ask for trouble!"
"Not to mention you, Tongzhi Zuo, even your father-in-law Qian and Commander Mou must show courtesy to the cabinet."
Chang Feng smiled and said: "You are right. It was the three cabinet ministers who asked me to catch you. Take it!"
Huang Lang originally had a good plan: I persuaded Li Mengyang to submit a memorial to make the emperor angry to death. The young emperor ascended the throne, and the power of the cabinet became even greater. Can’t the elders thank me?
He made a mistake. He underestimated the character of Liu, Li and Xie too much. The three of them have not yet gone crazy for power.
An hour later, he was summoned to the interrogation room.
Huang Lang was covered with wounds. He confessed everything. It was his own initiative to persuade Li Mengyang to report to Emperor Shuqi.
He just wanted to show off in front of the elders of the three cabinet ministers, and when the dynasty changed, he would be promoted two levels and become a third-rank minister.
When Chang Feng came out of the imperial edict, Zhang Cai asked: "Master Chang, how do you convict Huang Lang? Instructing others to insult the current emperor?"
Chang Feng shook his head: "If this charge is used, things will be complicated. You have to learn to make complicated things simple."
Zhang Cai asked: "What do you think?"
Chang Feng said: "Ransom his home. If the family has a lot of money, he will be punished with death for corruption and bribery."
"If he is a poor man who is trying to gain fame and reputation, and his family does not have much money. Then take out ten thousand taels of silver from Wei Nei's private treasury and move it to his home. He will still be charged with corruption and bribery, and he will be sentenced to death."
Jinyiwei never lacks means to punish people. When it comes to the means of punishing people, Jin Yiwei is definitely professional enough.
The key is whether the cabinet agrees with Jin Yiwei's correction of this person.
It was Liu, Li, and Xie who "ordered" Chang Feng to punish Huang Lang. The means are naturally not a problem.
Zhang Cai asked: "Where is Li Mengyang?"
For Li Mengyang, Chang Feng must be protected. He knew that Li Mengyang had no evil intentions. This time it was just because he was drunk that Huang Lang took advantage of him.
Chang Feng said: "I'm going to say hello to the cabinet. Let the cabinet put in a few nice words in front of the emperor and protect Li Mengyang. Nowadays, there is no one who the cabinet cannot save."
If it is as Chang Feng said. Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian jointly protected Li Mengyang. Emperor Hongzhi, who was seriously ill, only fined Li Mengyang three months' salary.
Just because Emperor Hongzhi did not pursue Li Mengyang's case does not mean that Li Mengyang is safe. Li Mengyang impeached the Zhang brothers in that memorial.
Chang Feng knew Zhang Heling. With Zhang Heling's temper, he might kidnap Li Mengyang and beat him up.
Li Mengyang's body could not withstand a beating from the Zhang family's evil servant. You know, half of the servants of the Zhang family are ruffians.
So that evening, Chang Feng came to Shouning Hou Mansion.
Zhang Heling is already in his thirties. There is no stability at all. It's still the same beating nature as before. Greedy, stupid, violent and cruel. The number of bad things he has done in the past eighteen years ranges from 800 to 500.
After all, Zhang Heling was the most famous mudslide in the Ming Dynasty history.
Zhang Yanling has been to Jiangnan in the past few months to take care of the Zhang family's business in Jiangnan, but has not returned to Beijing yet.
When Chang Feng comes, Zhang Heling will naturally entertain him warmly. At any rate, Chang Feng saved his sister's life and also saved his life from the Vulture Society.
Chang Feng followed Zhang Heling into the dining room. There are delicacies from the mountains and seas, not to mention the wings, ginseng and abalone belly.
Zhang Heling also hired eight ugly and disgraceful girls to accompany him. Zhang Heling had all robbed these girls from the tenant households through coercion and inducement.
Chang Feng said quickly: "Let these girls go down. Let your sister-in-law know that I will probably have to carry the oil lamp when we go back."
Zhang Heling asked: "Why doesn't sister-in-law go to Kunning Palace often recently?"
Chang Feng smiled bitterly: "I still have a murder case on me. I'm afraid of attracting criticism when I go to Kunning Palace."
Zhang Heling said with a smile: "Well, didn't you just kill a sixth-grade official? What a big deal! I admire my sister-in-law. She is a hero among women, Hua Mulan in this world. She really dares to kill someone when she is forced to panic!"
Chang Feng waved his hands quickly: "Don't mention this in the future. I'm here to say hello to you. Li Mengyang is my friend, don't touch him."
When Zhang Heling heard the words "Li Mengyang", his expression changed: "Zhuo! I was about to ask the housekeeper to take a few people with him, but when he left for work tomorrow, he was blocked in the middle of the road and a few of his fingers were broken."
"If you go to memorial, go to memorial. Why do you need to take me and Yanling along with you?"
Chang Feng knew Zhang Heling very well. He just goes along with the donkey, so you have to go with what he says.
Chang Feng said: "Li Mengyang was also bewitched. The person who bewitched him has been caught by me, and he will inevitably die."
"It's a joke, you dare to incite ginseng to impeach my brothers Heling and Trillium. As an old brother, I won't agree!"
Zhang Heling clapped his hands: "Hey, Brother Chang is still facing us two brothers."
Chang Feng said: "What do you think about Li Mengyang?"
Zhang Heling said: "Since he is Brother Chang's friend, I will spare him a life."
The business is over. The two started drinking and chatting.
Chang Feng asked: "When will Yanling return to Beijing?"
Zhang Heling said: "It will take at least two months. Brother Chang doesn't know that when he comes back this time, he will have to bring more than 600,000 taels of interest from the eight trading houses we opened in Jiangnan."
"There are no banknotes, it's all cash. The official ship alone contains two!"
Brothers Zhang Heling can be said to be good at making money. In Hangzhou, in the name of the emperor's brother-in-law, they purchased silk at low prices through the Weaving Bureau and resold it at high prices.
In Yangzhou, they resold salt. Start a private salt business.
In Nanjing, they also bought and sold people. Trafficking girls from the south of the Yangtze River to the capital.
It can be said that the whole of Jiangnan is full of the Zhang family's shady business. The Zhang family has numerous properties in Jiangnan.
Chang Feng advised Zhang Heling: "The Zhang family has enough money. Stop fishing for money from home."
Zhang Heling suddenly stopped smiling and said seriously to Chang Feng: "The previous generations of the Zhang family were crazy and afraid of poverty. In this generation, the Zhang family has finally become prosperous. We have to save a share for the next ten generations. Industry."
Chang Feng knew that he couldn't persuade Zhang Heling, so he had to change the subject: "I haven't been to your house for a long time. What's new at your house recently?"
Zhang Heling said: "Ahem! I met a Yiqian recently!"
Thousands of people are cheating.
Chang Feng became interested: "Oh? What's going on? Tell me."
Zhang Heling took a sip of wine and told a strange incident.
Two months ago, a frail young man dressed as a scholar asked to see Zhang Heling.
The frail young man's name is Xu Chunbao. He bluntly admits that he is a liar.
Xu Chunbao told Zhang Heling that he recently planned to defraud Xie Qian's family of a sum of money.
Most of Xie Qian's family members are engaged in business and make a lot of money under the protection of Mr. Ge Lao. Definitely a fat sheep.
Unfortunately, this scam targeting the Xie family requires a sum of five thousand taels of silver as bait. He now lacks this fishing bait silver.
He borrowed five thousand taels of silver from Zhang Heling.
Zhang Heling had long disliked Xie Qian. Xu Chunbao wants to deceive Xie's family, so Zhang Heling will naturally give his full support.
With the power of Shouning Hou Mansion to take advantage of both sides, if Xu Chunbao dared to play tricks and take the money and run away, he would be seeking death.
Zhang Heling also brought Xu Chunbao's biological son and his wife into the house and took them as hostages. This saves Xu Chunbao from taking away the five thousand taels of silver bait he gave.
About a month and a half later, Xu Chunbao found Zhang Heling again.
Xu Chunbao cried bitterly and said that his moral practice was too shallow. Not only did he not deceive Cheng Xie's family, he also lost his money. The five thousand taels of silver were completely lost.
Zhang Heling was furious: "I'm famous for being a brave man who can't get in or out. You gave me my five thousand taels of silver as compensation? I'll let your whole family's lives be worth the money!"
Xu Chunbao said: "How dare I ask Uncle Guo to pay for the money? I have sold all the land and my ancestral home. I even sold the Feng Shui treasure land in the ancestral tomb. In the end, I collected 5,000 taels of silver and returned it to Uncle Guo."
Zhang Heling took a look and realized what a good liar he was! Very loyal. I would rather sell my ancestral grave than cover my shortfall. He is truly a righteous person.
At this time, Xu Chunbao said that now he has no house, no land, no home, and no food to eat. Can I give you some scattered silver coins so that I can support my son and my mother?
Zhang Heling likes to make messy friends and spends money lavishly.
He readily agreed and gave Xu Chunbao a one thousand tael silver note.
He also told Xu Chunbao: "If you encounter trouble in the future, such as being in the hands of the government or something, you can come to me to solve it."
After Zhang Heling told everything, he smiled and said: "Brother Chang, do you think this liar is quite righteous? Can he be regarded as a righteous man?"
Chang Feng looked at Zhang Heling blankly: "My silly brother. You were deceived by Xu Chunbao!"
Zhang Heling frowned: "I was not cheated. He returned the money to me."
Chang Feng smiled bitterly: "The target of Xu Chunbao's deception is not the Xie family. It's you!"
"The so-called plan to deceive Xie's family is completely false!"
"He cheated you of a thousand taels of silver! It was the 'scattered silver taels' you gave him to support his son and my mother!"
Speaking of this, Zhang Heling reacted no matter how stupid he was.
He slapped the table: "Zhuo! If Brother Chang hadn't told me, I still wouldn't have found out that I was deceived! I'll send someone to catch him!"
"The big pot guys in Beijing who scrape the land are all my friends. They can't fly out of my palm."
Chang Feng said: "This person is so courageous. He even dares to kill his uncle."
"And his method is clever. Without any effort, he got a thousand taels of silver from you, plus your promise to protect him in the future."
"He revealed his identity as a liar from Qianmen when he first came up. His accuracy in understanding human nature is amazing."
"I'd really like to meet such a talent. I might be able to put him to use in the future."
(End of chapter)
