Sorrow (Sixth)

The sun, which had been quiet for many days, finally revealed its head from behind the clouds. Surrounded by three mountains, the ancient city of Yingtian was somewhat cool. The gentle river breeze blew from the north, slowly dissipating the bloody smell in the air. Early in the morning, the city gates were wide open, waiting for business, going out to see the scenery, rushing and sending letters, and attending funerals, pushing and shoving into a ball, rushing and rushing to the door, and even the soldiers who opened the door almost squeezed into the city wall. The guards were so angry that they cursed on the crack of the bricks, "I'm going to be reincarnated, or are there pheasants waiting outside"!

The person who was on the road looked at him, smiled humbly, and tried to dodge the place to stand for Mr. Bing. Nowadays, if he was really unreasonable, who would have more than someone with a guy in his hand? He tucked his thumb and threw him on the ground. What a talented person or a wealthy family member, he would only be able to lie on the ground and get angry!

In the autumn of the 17th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, General Chang Mao was assassinated. The emperor was sobbing the body and cried bitterly. He was disheartened and was dismissed. He was dismissed for several days. All officials entered the palace to comfort him, saying that the emperor placed national affairs first. The emperor forced himself out and buried Chang Mao with great funeral. He thought of his achievements in cleansing Hu Chen, and posthumously named him King of Beihai. His descendants inherited his fortune. The ministers reported to Lan Yu and the injustice of the generals. The emperor dug his pupils and released Lan Yu, burned the torture instruments of the Jinyiwei, and handed it to the officials of the Jinyiwei to conduct strict examinations at Dali Temple. On the same day, the imperial edict was issued to the world that anyone who was wronged could tell himself. Within a few days, more than ten unjust cases were rehabilitated and the officials praised him.

The minister is a sage, Your Majesty, which dynasty is not this situation? Some people refuse to accept this truth. General Lan, who was wronged, was quite well-behaved. After his official reinstance, he expressed his gratitude and was willing to return to the western border to guard the border for the country and took the initiative to ask Zhu Yuanzhang to send the King of Qin to supervise the army. Zhu Yuanzhang was accurate. However, Chang Mao's father-in-law Feng Sheng refused to give up. Not only did he hold the emperor's orders in the General Secretary, but he also colluded with Fu Youde, Zhang Yi and other veterans to investigate the real murderer of Chang Mao's assassination. Even the grand sergeant Shao Zhi and Wu Chen were scared and called assassin when they saw the adults and children. The other actually broke his right wrist and did not even take the lead in signing the memorial to persuade Zhu Yuanzhang to be sad for the country.

"I have raised you all these misleading species in vain." Zhu Yuanzhang swept all the memorials sent by his ministers in his study to the ground. He still felt unhappy and stepped on them and rubbed them hard. Xu Da, Li Wenzhong, Feng Sheng, Fu Youde, Wu Chen, Wu Sihan... The names of civil and military ministers were firmly trampled under his feet.

Seeing the emperor getting angry, the eunuchs and palace maids were so scared that they didn't even dare to show off their anger. They hung their heads against the wall, fearing that they could see the wrong place and be dragged out to death by Zhu Yuanzhang. Even the old eunuch Wang who had been with Zhu Yuanzhang for many years was so scared that he hid outside the door, looking at the imperial garden pitifully, praying that a miracle could appear from there.

In the past, when Zhu Yuanzhang lost his temper, the best way was to secretly report a letter to Empress Ma. As the Empress, the emperor was half as angry. When the couple talked about it, all their worries would disappear after a while. But now Empress Ma was so sick that she only had half of her breath. If Zhen Yao had not mixed ginseng and other foods in porridge and asked the palace maid to feed Queen Ma to death, the half breath would have been gone.

"Rebel, rebel, you are all rebellious! I regret not indulging you in the past and spoiling you out of your arrogance!" An angry roar echoed in the palace wall. Without his wife to persuade him, Zhu Yuanzhang became more and more angry. He knew that no one would bring him a bowl of lotus seed soup to persuade him to relieve the fire when he was angry, and he knew that there would be no warm eyes watching him mingle in front of this picturesque country, so he became even more angry and disappointed. Since Chang Mao was assassinated, his wife Ma Xiuying has no longer been willing to take medicine, and he has a scary temper. He drove all the imperial doctors who came to see the doctor out, saying that it would be disgusting when they smelled the herbs on the doctor. Even the female doctor Wu Wa, who always had a temper, was driven back to Peking.

"Your Majesty, I asked someone to erect a few targets deep in the garden. If the emperor is in a bad mood, why not go to the back garden to shoot a few guns. You are the emperor at the moment, and you will be able to do whatever you want." After wandering outside the door for more than half an hour, listening to the less noise in the study, the old master Wang sneaked in, crawling on the ground to pack the memorials, while making uneasy suggestions.

Breaking a fire gun and shooting a target is one of Zhu Yuanzhang's favorite pastimes. He once used a musket presented in Peiping to shoot birds passing by. The musket was even louder than the firecrackers set during the New Year. When you are depressed, it really has the effect of refreshing the mind. Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at the white-haired eunuch Wang, and was quite moved by this suggestion. He nodded and ordered: "Give my musket and go to the imperial garden."

"Respect the Order"! The little eunuch who was serving at the door agreed in a panic and trotted to prepare. If you don't get away with this opportunity, it's because you think you have a long life.

"Wait," Zhu Yuanzhang gave the order and pulled back the footsteps outside the door, "Get me another musket, put the bullets on it and send them to Dali Temple, telling Wu Sihan, if he can't ask about the mastermind of the rebellion and assassin case in two days, he will do it himself."

Wu Sihan, the chief minister of Dali Temple, is a famous Bao Gong. He changed his place to be a prefect in the country. He worked for more than ten years and found countless unsolved cases. The ministers in the court "was interested" to make him work for the people and kept putting him at the level of prefecture without any promotion. It was not until this year that the anti-corruption storm broke out and there was no one in the court, so he was transferred from the place to serve as the minister of Dali Temple. But this smart man who cut off the case and could see the mirror clearly could not understand what Zhu Yuanzhang meant. He took a large stack of confessions from the Jinyiwei provided by Lan Yu and a series of testimony from the lower-level Jinyiwei officers, but could not ask the "truth" that the commander of the Jinyiwei colluded with foreign invaders and killed people after the matter was exposed.

The old eunuch Wang finished packing up the memorials on the ground, gently putting them on Zhu Yuanzhang's desk, and slowly retreated out to prepare to arrange for people to go to the imperial garden to have fruit and refreshments. The eunuch was not allowed to interfere in politics, so he didn't dare to say anything in the study, but just by looking at those random glances when packing the memorials, he secretly felt unfair for his master, "It's hard to be an emperor these days!"

The ministers are getting braver and demands are becoming less and less awesome. Is Fu Youde and Feng Sheng's comments said by the minister? They are simply asking the emperor whether they are murderers. And the old eunuch Wang has never heard of the requests mentioned by the old eunuch Wang, "Why don't you want to be punished under Sanmu? I think that if the evidence is not conclusive, the testimony is true and the testimony is honest, no one will be detained, arrested or tried..."; "The ministers are guilty, convicted, beating and insulting, insulting, and being severely punished, and being lenient, is ruthless." Isn't this saying

The emperor can no longer slap the ministers, nor can he signal the Ministry of Justice and Dali Temple to deal with it leniently and strictly? What is "If there is a specialty in the judicial department and a specialist in law enforcement, the story of the Jinyiwei will be difficult to repeat." It is better to say directly, "Unless the Ministry of Justice and Dali Temple, the emperor does not have the power to set up the Jinyiwei"; What is "the owner of the national rank and above, if the owner of the same level or above is judged and supervised, and convicted is a breach of law." Isn't this openly wrong with the emperor? Without the power to slap the ministers in the butt and chop off the ministers' heads, what fun is there for the emperor to be?

It was faintly true that the old eunuch Wang felt that Feng Sheng and others were saying something. If this is the case, there is no need to be worried in the palace in the future, for fear of moving in the wrong way. The eunuch is also a minister. If the Ministry of Justice convicted, the emperor cannot deal with it at will. And the conviction will be evidence of guilt. His grandmother, when did the emperor tell the evidence of the crime since the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors?

Crazy, the old eunuch Wang shook his head and thought, after living at such an age, he had never heard of any dynasty or other generations, and these precedents had not yet been dreaming in the daytime, were Feng Sheng and others scared to death by the assassin like the Grand Secretary Shao Zhi? Since ancient times, it was his blessing to be a minister who had a good master, and he could only admit his bad luck if he had a cruel person. Isn't it a matter of talking about conditions with the emperor?

But now the monarch and ministers are so stiff, it is not a big deal. While the old eunuch was clearing the way for Zhu Yuanzhang in front of him, he thought that there were only a few left in the court after this anti-corruption campaign. The civil servant was sick and the military generals did not go to court. If there were big courts, the ones who supported the emperor were those who were in the back and could not even show their faces. Wait for the Marquis of Wu to come back, maybe he could calm both sides. The old Duke Xu and Duke Li did not expect it. On the surface, they were impartial and advised the monarch and ministers to reconcile as before. In fact, isn’t this obviously not helping the emperor?

Just now, taking advantage of the opportunity to pick up the memorial, the old eunuch Wang put the memorial of Liu Ling and Wu Anguo asking to return to Beijing to visit Empress Ma in the first place, hoping that Zhu Yuanzhang would disappear and see this memorial to recruit Wu Anguo back. The old eunuch had a very good impression of this stupid marquis. Wu Anguo was the only one who respected Lao Wang as an ordinary old man, instead of flattering because he was the emperor's close friend, and never looked at him with a strange look because of his physical defects. Based on this point, the old eunuch Wang believed that Wu Anguo was a rare genius and could straighten out the current chaos.

"Although this stupid marquis doesn't know how to play tricks and has no scheming, it's just that someone really dating him and is willing to buy his account. This time, the note he submitted to the emperor in advance showed his cleverness. At this time, a middleman was needed to make everyone take a step back. The emperor put down his knife, don't force everyone to be impatient, and everyone also let everyone give in, don't force the emperor to be impatient. You old guys don't give the emperor a pride, and there are many people who are rushing to flatter the emperor and seeking favor. Once you have freed up space for those people, good people don't become officials, and bad people compete for it, our family will be even more difficult.

The gunshots shocked a tree of birds. Chief of General Staff Feng Sheng's Mansion, Duke Song Feng Sheng blew the green smoke from the three-eyed muzzle and handed the muzzle to his close follower, "You practice too, don't wait until one day I'm stabbed in the street, you haven't reacted yet."

The personal guard took the fire gun, loaded the fire, and aimed seriously at the target in front of him. At this time, Feng Sheng's guards had all changed to his relatives, and Chang Mao's death forced everyone to a dead end. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang must not be allowed to escape with his small favor. Thanks to Zhu Yuanzhang, after living for so many years, Feng Sheng finally understood a truth, that is, don't talk about friendship with the emperor, and even if his son doesn't like him, he can stab him, let alone his subordinates.

"The imperial power must be placed under the law, otherwise everyone will still have no way to survive in the future." Duke Ying Guo Fu Youde whispered to a middle-aged man beside Feng Sheng: "We are not unable to get along with the emperor, nor do we have the intention to rebel. For thousands of years, when the emperor wants to kill whoever he wants, he has never asked for reasons. Those who are stretched out their necks and waited for him to chop them are loyal ministers, and those who block with their hands are treacherous. You bring a message to Mr. Mu, saying that Fu is grateful for his affection, but for everyone not to die in the future, you have to stick to it to the end."

The middle-aged man nodded, bowed to Fu Youde and Feng Sheng, and murmured in a low voice: "I'm afraid that the emperor will be anxious to transfer the Southern Army back to Beijing. The last time in the Hu Weiyong case, the emperor secretly transferred the Northern Army to Beijing. Now the situation in the north is not stable, and the army cannot return to the army easily. There is no war in the south for a long time. Our Pingnan Army originally planned to attack again this year, take Magula (Malacca) and establish a stronghold for westward advance there. In this way, small countries such as Annan will become the country in the Ming Dynasty and will no longer have the strength to cause trouble for us from behind. The army is well prepared and has sufficient food and supplies. If the emperor's imperial edict arrives at this moment, our Mu Master will definitely be ordered to be ordered."

A few words directly showed Fu Youde the attitude of the Pingnan Army, one of the six main forces of the empire,: If a civil war broke out in the Ming Empire, the Pingnan Army would be the leader of Zhu Yuanzhang. The middle-aged man was named Bai Shiguang, and he was named Ningnan Marquis, and was the leader of the four confidants under Mu Ying. He returned to Beijing in the past two days to prepare for military investment. He "came to" meet the housekeeper of Feng Sheng's mansion, and was half-pulled and half-pulled by the housekeeper to invite him to Feng Sheng's mansion for tea. The guests and host exchanged views on the current situation, and they were very honest.

"Fu knows that what we are fighting for is not for our own selfishness, but for the peace of mind of all civil and military officials and the country is forever. Your marquis is the emperor's adopted son, so naturally he cannot support us to do such unfilial things. However, Fu feels that his brother's body is not cold, what should he do and what should he not do. Your marquis must think carefully. If Fu does not do the rebellion, he will wait for the emperor to free up his hands to deal with it one by one. Fu will never agree to it. He is a death on his left and right, so as not to die clearly, so as not to live for half his life and be a fool when he sees the King of Hell." Fu Youde sneered and responded to Bai Shiguang's words. Pingnan Army is far away in Yunnan, and Mu Ying can only show a gesture, once the capital is in the city.

If something happens, Mu Ying's support cannot quench the near thirst for either side. At present, Feng Sheng and Fu Youde have no soldiers to support him, but there are not many people who are truly available to Zhu Yuanzhang. As long as Duke Cao Li Wenzhong does not clearly express his support for Zhu Yuanzhang for one day, Zhu Yuanzhang will find it difficult to make up his mind to turn against the generals. The most favorable condition for the veteran generals is that they have raised the banner of fighting for the survival of all officials. For this reason, the important officials Zhu Yuanzhang has always relied on are very cautious in this matter. When dealing with everyone, Zhu Yuanzhang needs to consider the consequences of betrayal of his relatives. As for Mu Ying, if he feels that he will not be risked to be dealt with by the emperor, then please see Chang Mao's blood.

Bai Shiguang's old face turned red by Fu Youde's squeeze, and he laughed dryly, explaining awkwardly: "Bai just said the difficulties of my marquis. After all, no one wants to suffer a lot. Besides, Brother Chang died at the hands of the Jinyiwei, so the emperor did not know about it in advance. The folk legend of father and son fighting each other is not trustworthy."

"It's best. The swords in the hands of our Ming soldiers are used to kill foreign invaders. When they touch their own people, it is simply a humiliation to the soldiers." Feng Sheng, who had been watching from the side for a long time, walked over, patted Bai Shiguang on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "I heard that the soldiers of the Northern Wei Army have jointly written to the emperor to investigate the assassination of their commander. No matter how fast the sword in the hand of Marquis Mu, they will not chop on his old subordinates. Besides, once the fight starts, the world will be in chaos. In addition, there are so many garrisons in various places, but who knows if there will be anyone who takes the opportunity to fish in the water?"

After all the words were said, the trump cards in the hands of all parties were very clear. Bai Shiguang was a sensible person. He shook his head and sighed: "Yes, external troubles have not been eliminated, and brothers have caused Xiao Gu. Who would have wanted to see such a thing? Bai is going back south and explain the situation to my father-in-law. Don't worry, the two father-in-laws will not be able to do so. Pingnan Army's knife will definitely not be willing to be stained with the blood of the former brothers."

"In order not to cause trouble for Mr. Mu, Fu gave Mr. Bai not far away. If you have a gift, you also asked the marquis to bring it to Mr. Mu." Fu Youde was very polite to his former subordinate. He personally sent Bai Shiguang to Feng Sheng's mansion, called his followers, and stuffed a prepared gift into Bai Shiguang's hands.

"How can I be embarrassed to let my husband spend money?" Bai Shiguang took the gift politely. The gift was not heavy, wrapped in red satin, and it looked like a thin book.

What is the gift to Mr. Mu? Is it a manifesto that persuades Mr. Mu to deal with the emperor with them? Fu Youde is not so stupid? Bai Shiguang is a little puzzled. While he was making random guesses, he heard Fu Youde explain: "In fact, it is not a gift, it is just a miscellaneous book. Only when Fu accidentally got this thing, he realized that many things were walking far ahead of our etiquette country. If you have time on the road, Master Bai might as well read it too, and then turn around and look at what Fu did. Maybe you will understand whether everyone was on a whim and was chaotic."

Bai Shiguang was stunned again when he heard this. Feng Sheng and Fu Youde were all veterans who were promoted from the battlefield with one sword and one shot. Apart from military books, he had never seen any books that could make them admire like this. He walked out of the mansion of Duke Song Feng Sheng, walked onto his carriage, and opened the package with the glimmer of light from the car window.

A thin little book was presented to him. It was written by Fan Bang, translated by someone. The translator did not sign it. He probably was afraid of being framed. He used a Western era title as the title. If he calculated that the story should have happened in the late Song Dynasty when Jia Sidao was in power.

What could there be in the barbarian land in that era? Could it be that a saint still existed? Bai Shiguang shook his head and opened the book cover with some contempt. In the foreword, the translator highly praised this book and claimed that he had lived a lifetime, but he opened his eyes when he saw this book.

The book records a period of history, the beginning and end of a rebellion of a national aristocrats. The royal power of this country is not strong, so the nobles took the opportunity to become bigger. The king had no choice but to go to war with the nobles. The interesting thing is that because the king suffered from personal morality and liked to appoint villains and plunder the people, almost no generals and soldiers really supported the king in the war. Even the people who were deeply grateful to the emperor in the capital ran to the rebels and expressed their support for the rebellion with food and flags.

"There is no king or father, no wonder the translator dares to sign the name of a beast." Bai Shiguang cursed inwardly and continued to flip the pages of the book and read it down. The development of the story did not surprise him at all. Only those who are virtuous in the world were there, and it was not surprising that the king who did the rebellious actions lost the war. But what surprised him was that the rebels neither abolished the king and established a new king, nor cleared the king's side, and pushed the court officials out to behead them and displayed in public, so as to fill the court with their own confidants.

"This is probably to learn the story of Cao Cao and Sima Zhao. Look, the next thing will definitely be "abdication", which is what our ancestors play with." Bai Shiguang shook his head and looked back. With his usual thinking, he felt that he had predicted the ending of the story.

The barbarians did not support a new king, and they passed a law that was placed above all the people within the king. If the king refused to abide by the law and tried to override the law, the subjects had the right to force the king to return to the law by forcing the king to abide by the law.

There are 63 laws, which have been overthrown many times, re-established many times, and have gradually been announced to be abide by many barbarian kings. Bai Shiguang closed the gift Fu Youde gave to Mu Ying in surprise. This story has happened for more than 150 years, but the shock he brought to Bai Shiguang is no less than the "Contract for the Lord and the Minister" proposed by Fu Youde and others to Zhu Yuanzhang. In contrast, Bai Shiguang could even see the shadow of the sixty-three laws of the barbarian country in the constitution proposed by Fu Youde and others.

"Whoever had any discord between Yu and the barons automatically or in their own wishes, or who had been granted by him in a letter of consent to Wang Innocent III, and the descendants of Yu and others shall always abide by him in good faith. In addition, Yu and the descendants of Yu and others will also give all the freedoms listed below to all free people in the kingdom of Yu and others, and allow strict obedience to be strictly followed, and do not hesitate to do so forever." Bai Shiguang closed his eyes tiredly, as if he saw the tears of grievances of a weak king.

"Oh my God, this is actually the oath that the king of a country said. After saying this, is he still the king of a country?" I cannot agree with these laws, but these laws of a barbarian country actually echoed in his mind like a mantra, causing his heart to be in chaos and unable to find a home.

"From then on, whenever a faithful witness and evidence cannot be provided, the steward shall not allow anyone to undergo God's judgment by his own will."

"No free person shall be arrested, imprisoned, confiscated, deprived of legal protection, exile, or infringed upon any other damage without the judgment of his nobles of the same level, or by the law of the state."

"If you want to add any crime under Sanmu, I will not be punished. I believe that if the evidence is not conclusive, the testimony is true and the evidence is honest, no one shall be detained, arrested or tried..."

"All ministers are guilty, and they are convicted of the crime, beating and insulting, and insulting the court. If they are severe, they will be punished, and if they are lenient, they will be in vain..."

"If there is a specialty in the court and a specialist in law enforcement, the story of the Jinyiwei will never be repeated..."

"A national senator and above holder of titles shall not be punished by jury and supervision by the owner of titles of the same level or above, conviction shall be a breach of law"!

What Fu Youde and the others planned was not what Bai's intelligence could do! Bai Shiguang shook his head tiredly and tried his best to expel the chaotic thoughts in his heart. He carefully put Fu Youde's gift into his chest, and he rested in the carriage with peace of mind.

"Should you go back and notify them? There seemed to be traces of military mobilization near the capital." He hesitated and thought, the carriage gradually drove away and entered the jungle by the river.

Outside the window, the setting sun and the lone wild goose fly together, and the autumn water and the sky are the same color.

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