"That Manager Jia is really not the traitor remnant!"
In Renshou Palace, the wife of Marquis Jianchang burst into tears.
"There was an incident last year, and the original manager was afraid of trouble, so the Marquis allowed him to return to his hometown. The killer named Jia was the one who had been running errands in the mansion. He had not been arranged to handle major events in the Marquis' mansion before. He can't be a remnant!"
Queen Mother Zhang just moved the beads until her hands trembled.
"This murder was caused by money. He actually thought he could run away. He was arrested by Shuntian Mansion within three days. Unexpectedly, he was afraid of crime. He actually said that the Marquis forced him to do it, and even slandered the Marquis. The palace is cursing Your Majesty. Queen Mother, you must save the Marquis!"
Queen Mother Zhang burst into tears.
She asked tremblingly: "Has Yanling ever scolded you?"
Mrs. Jianchanghou shook her head repeatedly: "Absolutely not!"
Then he looked around carefully.
"You go back first."
Mrs. Jianchang was about to say something, but she could only say goodbye and leave.
Empress Dowager Zhang sat there alone for a long time before she spoke: "Go to Qianqing Palace and ask the empress to come. Tell her that it is a matter of giving an audience outside the official festival."
At this moment, Xu Fan's scalp was numb outside the palace.
"Who said it was leaked?" He was so angry that he was caught quietly based on the clues provided by the Marquis of Jianchang. How did the news that Sun Ming was compensated with one hundred and ninety taels of silver leak out? ?”
"...Sir, maybe it was Sun Ming who showed off himself, maybe he was a government official in Wanping County, or maybe he was a servant of Jianchang Marquis Mansion. You guys don't say much."
Xu Fan believed they were idiots!
In just a few days, so many people in the capital came out to sue the two brothers Shouning Hou and Jianchang Hou. These were just trivial matters.
The greedy and overly intelligent Guanshi Jia was very confused when he arrived at the government office, saying that the Zhang brothers often cursed and even engaged in witchcraft in the government office, and they were not claiming to be guilty of meritorious deeds.
He just made some money from the Hou Mansion. Such a trivial matter is nothing but a crime. What merit does he want to achieve?
After Xu Fanping retreated from the people who heard what he said, he said: Tianzhi County had clearly accepted the money but framed it. Sun Ming said on the spot that he could sell it but then regretted it. This must have been arranged by His Majesty. He has to find someone. The two brothers were left to their own devices.
He advised Xu Fan to be the leader and "enforce the law impartially", and he would definitely be able to participate in the policy.
Xu Fan sent him to the prison of the Ministry of Punishment with a backhand.
Now, in just a few days, so many people from the capital came out to sue the Marquis of Shouning and the Marquis of Jianchang. The magistrates of Wanping, Daxing and other counties under Shuntian Prefecture turned pale every day.
Xu Fan couldn't help but murmur, no matter whether the government servants leaked it or not, there seemed to be a hand behind this.
He couldn't make up his mind, so he wrote a memorial directly asking the emperor to make an idea.
The old party, the new party, His Majesty...anyone could be the mastermind behind the scenes, and there might even be a remnant of traitors causing trouble.
Xu Fan cursed in his heart and wanted to visit Wang Qiong to see if he could be transferred to another position. Next time he would be promoted to a second or third grade official to consider him.
This Shuntian Fuyin is really not a job for humans!
At the national policy meeting, the sixteen counselors had different expressions.
"...Your Majesty, have the Jinyi Guards and the Inner Factory investigated this matter?" Yang Tinghe's white hair has grown a lot recently, and his face has become increasingly bitter.
"I checked." Zhu Houcong said calmly, "Probably due to long-standing grievances. Last year, Fang Muxian was involved in the assassination case. This time, there was a coincidence of Sun Ming and the officials of the Jianchang Marquis being greedy for money and doing bad things. Only then did the people come together to file a complaint. .”
"Your Majesty, after all, he is the biological brother of Empress Dowager Cishou."
Zhu Houcong looked at Yang Tinghe: "The Ming Dynasty Laws and Regulations are currently being rewritten. Mr. Yang Ge generously asked me to give the Three Laws Division the right to determine the culpability of the honorary relatives involved in the case. Now that people's redress of grievances has become a common thing, could the Three Laws Division be the same? Do you want to undermine your authority?"
Yang Tinghe's expression was bitter.
In fact, the truth has been made very clear. Yang Tinghe's question meant that they had done nothing. His Majesty's answer was that it was a coincidence, which meant it was not a coincidence.
But I can’t say anything more clearly.
Now that the new law has been put on the agenda, Guangdong has begun to reform government offices and compile and review scientific regulations. The six ministries of the DPRK and Central Government are also busy with matters. Why would Your Majesty touch these two people at this time? Although I can get some money, the side effect will be another excuse for His Majesty's "unfeeling and unkindness" after his "debauchery".
There is no doubt that the new party will have to take the blame. If the vassal king or his relatives are uneasy, will all the blame be put on Yang Tinghe?
You just thought about recruiting and dividing the gentry, and now you want to recruit and divide the feudal kings and relatives?
Among the various cases filed, although most were related to money matters, some people complained that their children were beaten to death when they became servants in the palace, and some people said that their daughters were snatched to be concubines and they were not willing to do so.
Li Chongsi, the current Secretary of the Ministry of Justice, feels numb: he is already very busy with the revision of the Ming Dynasty Laws and Regulations, really.
Other small cases can be handled by Shuntian Prefecture or even the lower counties. So if Jia comes out to say that the Zhang brothers cursed the emperor and even engaged in witchcraft, can the Sanfa Division avoid it? Xu Fan immediately blamed the Ministry of Punishment!
"I can't ignore my family's kindness, nor can I ignore the grievances of my people. How to judge, let's try it first." Zhu Houcong looked at them, "Can't make up my mind about such a trivial matter? I am the king and father of the world, who is not my subject? ?Although Liang Chu has left, Cui Yuan is still here. On the way from Qiandi to Beijing, I heard that Hou Ning also whipped a man to death in Henan? "
Everyone else looked at Cui Yuan and saw him nodding solemnly.
"It can be seen that the arrogance has been growing for a long time and the people's resentment is serious. In this case, it is appropriate to punish one or two." Zhu Houcong shook his head, "I am really disappointed that this trivial matter has to be judged by my Holy Spirit."
Yang Tinghe didn't hide it, and let out a long sigh: "I am ashamed. In this case, thank you for your hard work."
"...I will decide the case impartially."
Others didn't find it funny when they saw Yang Tinghe's appearance.
The party leader has a point of no return.
In the next few years, I will definitely be able to focus on the single-plank bridge.
But Wu Tingju was very excited and winked at Yang Tan and Wang Qiong repeatedly.
If you want to do it, do it thoroughly! The Zhang brothers have so much land and wealth!
Tobe is very difficult!
…
For the Zhang brothers, the current cases against them are relatively easy. The worst they can do is pay some money and push two servants out to take the blame.
The key issue was the charge of cursing the emperor. This is true, but I really don't dare to have any witchcraft.
"Quickly search them all for me, Lord! Let me see whoever has those things in their house and send them to the government office immediately!"
Zhang Yanling's lips were trembling.
"Master Marquis, Madam is back..."
"Really?" Zhang Yanling hurried to the backyard and asked after seeing his wife, "What did sister say?"
"...What a good thing you have done! Married so many concubines, raised so many people, bought so many properties, look what the fuss is like now!"
As soon as she cried, Zhang Yanling felt cold and asked with a pale face, "Sister, won't you save me?"
"The Queen Mother is so angry that she is crying! Is there anything that we can't deal with calmly?"
"I was harmed by that stupid old man!"
"Who asked him to be in charge?"
"...It's all because the eldest brother was blind and used the traitor to scare Lao Liu away."
"You only know how to blame others! You know how to order me!" Zhang Yanling's wife was crying and grabbing her, "Why don't you have the guts to go to His Majesty to apologize first? Ask your brother to go with you! Now there are both queens in the palace. The Queen Mother, as well as the Queen Mother Jiang and Queen Sun, do you think the Queen Mother can still help you two brothers? If the Queen Mother had any way, would she be so angry that she could only cry? "
Zhang Yanling was so annoyed that she pushed her to the ground.
They were all trivial matters, all caused by one or two villains, who bullied him like this.
The source of everything is because of the emperor, who has no regard for the emperor as his aunt, Queen Mother Zhang.
But Zhang Yanling was afraid of the emperor, so he didn't dare to go. He couldn't forget the feeling he had when he came back from the palace with his crotch dripping wet.
Hearing his wife beating the ground and wailing, he walked outside, looked at the trembling servants, and said viciously again: "Look through everything for me! Who dares to talk nonsense? Don't blame me for being unkind!"
After that, he went to check the accounts and the warehouse. After gritting his teeth, he plucked up the courage to go find Si Cong.
"I will go to the government office soon. You have done so many things for me, and you know the severity. If something happens to me, you won't be able to run away! Now is the time to save money and eliminate disasters. No matter what you think of, I want fifteen thousand taels for emergency!"
Other minor cases should be settled by paying compensation, but the most important one is the case of cursing the emperor.
Zhang Yanling went to the government office not only to answer a few minor cases, but also to accuse Guanshi Jia of stealing the owner's property and falsely accusing the owner.
"It's great! It's great!" In an inn in the capital, a man from a certain province smiled excitedly to others, "In front of the Wanping County Yamen, there are people who dare not write a petition on behalf of an old woman. Why are you afraid of that? Are you? It’s the first time I’ve come to the capital to take the exam, and I don’t know what it was like in the past!”
He opened his clothes, revealing a small scar: "Six years ago, a certain person came to the capital to take an exam. Because he couldn't avoid it, he was whipped by the Shouning Marquis!"
"...Even if you are a relative of the country, how dare you humiliate a scholar like this?"
"Senior scholar?" The judge sneered, "Who knew the names of those two Zhangs in the past? They took away the people's fields and houses, and invited officials and temples to house them. They insulted the officials and usurped the prisoners, and no one dared to question them. They accumulated gold and jade like a mountain and never tired of it. , the city and town are monopolized by two cards! If that’s all, these two people were guilty of wearing royal crowns!”
"How dare you be so bold? Are you serious?"
"That's natural. In the past, there was an eunuch, He Wending, who was young in his career and became a castrate when he was strong. During the reign of Emperor Hongzhi, he served in the inner court. At that time, two Zhangs were in and out of the ban without constant control. Two Zhangs came in every day to watch the lanterns. Xiaozong drank with him, and occasionally When he got up to go to the toilet, except for the deacon who had the royal crown on him, he got up and put on his head. He also raped the palace people in his old age. Wending held a big melon curtain and attacked him! The next day, Wending went to Shuji to admonish him, and he was angry. The guards in imperial robes tortured the envoy. Wen Ding replied, "There are two envoys, but they can't get hold of him. I asked who they were, and they said Confucius or Mencius."
"There is such a loyal minister?! What happened next?"
"Later?" The person who had a grudge against Zhang Heling sneered. "He was beaten to death by a stick in Haizi! At that time, there was a poem saying: There are foreign relatives who have power all over the world, and internal ministers who resist each other have never existed in ancient and modern times. Dao and Bigan are only in another world, and their hearts are in the alley. But Bo is the same. In the past, Chen Fengwu, the head of the Ministry of Punishment, made a lot of accusations against him, and the Xiaomiao Temple also ordered a memorial ceremony for him, and there was not a word of falsehood!"
"Er Zhang deserves to die!"
Wang Zuo used only one small case to gently remove the long-lost veil of power from the Zhang brothers.
Frightened, although the Third Law Division had not officially begun to interrogate the Zhang brothers whether they had cursed the emperor or practiced witchcraft, something strange happened again that night.
Several slaves in Shouning Houfu and Jianchanghoufu each ran out of the house in fear and were caught on the spot by soldiers patrolling the city at night.
According to the regulations, after the evening drum sounds at three o'clock in the morning, people are not allowed to go out without special reasons.
Ordinary people without official status, talismans and other credentials walking on the street at the second, third or fourth watch will be whipped if caught.
But these servants of the Hou Mansion kept crying and begging, preferring to be beaten and beaten to escape, saying that someone in the house was forced to commit suicide.
Late at night, Zhu Houcong was lying on the couch, and Sun Ming sat up with tears in her eyes and said to the side: "I know I was wrong..."
Zhu Houcong sighed, sat up and hugged her.
Skin-to-skin contact, he asked softly: "What's wrong?"
"...Concubine...I shouldn't have seen the Empress Dowager Cishou crying pitifully and begged Your Majesty for mercy." Sun Ming felt a little relieved and cried with regret, "I know I was wrong..."
"anything else?"
Sun Ming sobbed and said: "I should not... rely on pampering to become spoiled and talk about state affairs..."
Zhu Houcong was a little helpless: "What about the most important one?"
Sun Ming sobbed and cried louder: "Concubine... I can't think of anything... more inappropriate than this..."
Zhu Houcong held her shoulders, looked at her tears, and raised his hand to wipe away: "The most important thing is not to spoil the fun!"
"..." Sun Ming looked at him blankly.
"You are soft-hearted. You are kind-hearted, but you don't want to see the old man cry pitifully. This is easy to understand, but it is not a good thing." Zhu Houcong shook his head, "Since you know that these cases are being discussed outside, you really shouldn't bring them up. , I will have my own ideas about those things."
Zhu Houcong said with a straight face: "But the most inappropriate thing is that you think this is a good time when you are already happy? If there is anything that you have thought about carefully, you should tell me in a normal way. Yes. Waiting until now to bring it up, doesn't it mean that you actually have a guilty conscience? You should stop thinking about the matter of guilty conscience at the beginning. Why do you just learn to blow the pillow? "
Sun Ming sobbed again: "I will never be the same again..."
"Although you are only sixteen years old, you are already a queen!" Zhu Houcong thought it was enough to wake her up and hugged her again. "If you don't want to do anything, just refuse. If you feel it is wrong, you will be reprimanded sternly. You should. I tell you this not to say that you can’t say anything to me in the future, but to teach you what to do. You are the queen, so you can’t be too soft-hearted, and you can’t be easily persuaded by others. "
Sun Ming nodded repeatedly.
She originally kept these in mind, but when Empress Dowager Zhang cried and begged her, she softened her heart and agreed first, then thought that she could not break her promise. Who knew that she had committed a big taboo.
Now she hugged the emperor tightly, feeling frightened and confused, and she couldn't stop crying.
Everything was fine, His Majesty was only here with her.
Now, he made such a big mistake not long after entering the palace.
In a panic, I suddenly felt that I was about to lose this sweetness now.
Zhu Houcong rubbed her back: "Okay, let's go to the two palaces as usual tomorrow. When you see Empress Dowager Cishou, just tell me that you mentioned it to me."
Sun Ming nodded again.
"Did the way I looked just now scare you?"
Zhu Houcong knew that he already had some dignity as an emperor, even though he was very close to her. But when she suddenly mentioned this matter hesitantly, her expression must have changed.
Sun Ming could only nod pitifully.
"You have to talk about everything, and I can't stop telling you these things just because I like you. You are still young, and I won't always blame you."
"How long will you blame me for being a concubine?" When the little girl heard that she liked you, she felt sour in her heart and regretted it beyond words.
Zhu Houcong looked at her.
She was just a teenage girl, but she was too scheming to be taken advantage of by the old queen so easily.
If the emperor becomes angry, the harem may be in chaos.
You can't say that Queen Mother Zhang shouldn't have done this. She asked for mercy from the queen in the palace, but she couldn't say anything.
Between herself and the emperor, Empress Dowager Zhang failed to control her emotions after Shouning Hou's accident last year, and she already knew that it was useless to ask the emperor directly.
But doesn’t this mean that she is still arrogant and unwilling?
The most important thing is that she always makes no distinction between right and wrong, and only has eyes for her two precious brothers.
If Zhu Houcong still doesn't "open up the fence", she might deliberately do something like her elders kneeling down to beg him, and she might even find an opportunity in public.
Just because Zhu Houcong couldn't kill her.
And with the mentality of being a doting brother, if Zhu Houcong really kills her two brothers, it is impossible to predict whether she will go crazy.
After hearing the emperor talk about these situations, Sun Ming was extremely afraid of blaming herself and didn't know what to do.
"So I have to blame you for a while so that you can remember better!" Zhu Houcong gently tapped her forehead.
"...I remember this!" Then he said dejectedly, "Will there always be so many schemes in the palace in the future?"
"So you have to listen carefully to what I'm teaching you."
Sun Ming nodded seriously.
"Be strict with your mouth!"
Sun Ming pursed her lips.
"Give it a try."
"……ah?"
"Didn't I teach you before?" Zhu Houcong suddenly smiled and lifted the quilt, "Practice, and be strict with your mouth."
Sun Ming was ashamed and sad: "Is this punishment?"
"You can think of it as punishment. Anyway, I want you to remember this deeply." Zhu Houcong said seriously.
So the Queen could only cry into the quilt in a pitiful manner with tears in her eyes that were not dry.
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