Chapter 888: Good Good Lucky (Part 1)

Qipan Hutong, Chenfuqian Study Room.

After the emperor gave the order, the news spread to the Silent Mansion. Lu Lun asked for instructions whether to arrest the person immediately or delay it until tomorrow.

"What do you think of the two gentlemen?" Silent eyebrows were deeply locked, looking at Wang Yin and Shen Mingchen who were burning fire. Shen Mingchen shook his neck and shook his head and said, "We don't have the ability to see through the current situation."

"You can't see through, you can't find hope." Wang Yin said lightly: "The little emperor has such a tough attitude, just to demonstrate to the government and the opposition. I have grown up, and you can't stop taking me seriously anymore. If the little emperor wants to seize power, he must first pass your stance." As he said, he looked silent and said: "It seems that it has never been related to the adults' business, but in fact, the moves are all greeting you."

"Yes..." Silent sighed heavily and said, "I don't know what Yang Xindu felt like back then." Yang Xindu was Yang Tinghe. When Emperor Wuzong died, he welcomed Wuzong's cousin Zhu Houcong into the capital to ascend the throne. He took advantage of the emperor's opportunity to not understand government affairs to expand the power in the cabinet, and wanted the cabinet to obtain the right to decide state affairs... According to his understanding of generations of emperors, the hope of success seemed to be great. Zhu Houcong inherited the self of his ancestors, paranoid and arrogance. In his dictionary, there was no word "compromise". For his own authority, he was not afraid to defeat his opponents with all means, even if he completely broke his family business.

Although later generations knew that the result of fighting to the end was that Yang Tinghe retired, Zuo Shunmen was bleeding, excessive power in the cabinet was suppressed, and the revival of the imperial power. However, in the early days, at least Yang Ting and the people on both sides believed that they would win. Because the strength of the two sides was so different, the only ones on the emperor were him and his mother, while Yang Ting and the others were officials in the court.

A pair of orphans and widows occupy the supreme position, a civil servant group that has completely controlled the country. How similar is this to the situation today? That's why silence makes this sigh.

Seeing that his silence and worry could not be hidden, Wang Yin smiled and comforted: "Your Majesty does not have to be disturbed by Yang Xindu's story. Didn't you often say that if you regard history as fate, you will definitely repeat history. If you regard history as a lesson, you will create a new history?"

"Yes, Yang Xindu was too authoritative back then. He kicked all the annoying officials out of the capital, and as a result, there were many political enemies outside the capital. When he fought with the emperor, those people naturally joined the emperor's camp, and the struggle between ministers and emperor became a struggle between the two factions of ministers. The emperor became the judge. How could there be an invincible reason?" Shen Mingchen said: "It's different. Your preferential treatment to officials and scholars in the world is unprecedented. As long as we accept his lesson, we will definitely not be attacked from both sides and repeat his tragedy."

"Ju Zhang said very much." Wang Yin nodded and said, "Your Majesty has given you a difficult problem, but isn't it your chance? Zhang Jiangling's Dingyou incident has caused a lot of controversy, but you have been silent. You know what you are doing. You don't know, but you still think you are afraid of the emperor and dare not uphold morality." After a moment, he said excitedly: "The emperor arrested them, but you tried your best to rescue them. This is a great opportunity to make a statement to officials in the world, but there is no need to directly target Zhang Juzheng!"

"..." He pondered for a moment and said, "Can they be spared from prison?"

"This is impossible! First of all, without their sacrifice, how could the officials in the world be awakened and united?" Wang Yin said coldly: "Two, since lord has chosen this unprecedented path, he must do something and not do anything. First of all, he cannot foul the rules! As long as he makes a mistake, those moral men with you as the leader will immediately turn against you, and put you into the ranks of power and treachery, and become your enemy."

"Yes..." Chen Si nodded slowly and said, "We seem to be in this game of chess, but we are too passive."

"There is no way, your opponent is not the mother and son in the palace, but the imperial power has been supreme for two hundred years." Wang Yin agreed deeply: "We can do too few tricks now..." He felt that he shouldn't say such despicable words, so he laughed: "Fortunately, we have realized that your six-year new policy has actually been digging a pit for the emperor for six years. If he was like the late emperor, he would naturally not be able to get it. But now it seems that he is not a good person, but more like Shizong."

"I'm not afraid of him making trouble, I'm afraid of him not making trouble," Shen Mingchen also smiled and said, "Let's see what this Emperor Wanli can do toss the country!"

"This feeling of using others as pawns," Chen Si shook his head slowly, "It's really bad."

"My lord must get used to it as soon as possible," Wang Yin said in a deep voice: "Since you made that decision in the sixth year of Longqing, you should know that the world will eventually become a chessboard for you to play against Emperor Wanli! The winner will have the opportunity to make the world run according to his own wishes! For this goal, what can't be sacrificed!" He said: "What's more, no one will die..."

"In order to achieve political goals, we must sacrifice others. This political model is too barbaric." Shen Mingchen also persuaded: "Isn't the system that I hope to establish is to avoid such a life-and-death way to give political struggle a civilized solution? If it can be successful, how much less blood can be shed in our Chinese nation?"

"I don't have the kindness of a woman." Chen Si shook his head and said, "I just thought that Mr. Xu had sacrificed Wu Shilai, Dong Chuance, Zhang Chong and others in this way to arouse the disgust of the world towards Yan Song. What's the difference between me doing this now and him?" As he said that, he walked to the window, opened the window, looked at the dark night outside, and said quietly: "Even a noble purpose requires dirty means to achieve it. It's so sad..." I don't know if he was saying that he was sad or sighing for the politicians of this era.

That night, the Jinyiwei Ti cavalry went out everywhere and arrested Wu Zhongxing, Zhao Yongxian, Chen Sixiao and Ai Mu from his home and directly threw them into the jail of the Fushi Department. The next day, just dawn, he was ordered to raise them from the prison and escorted them to the front of the Meridian Gate and pushed them down to kneel down. The four of them had been kneeling all night yesterday, their knees were grinding and bleeding, and the bricks and floors were as hard as iron. When their knees were pressed up, the area where the blood scab had just formed was worn out again, and the blood seeped out and wet their pants' legs, which was shocking.

This day was not the day of the Great Dynasty. People with only Liuke Gang and the cabinet saw this situation at the first time. When the officials in the court and cabinet saw the tragic situation of the four people, they were immediately in an uproar. They all asked the Tiqi loudly why they were so *** the four officials!

Although the Jinyiwei was the one who was in charge of the task, the eunuch Li Yong, the eunuch who was in charge of the Sili Supervisor, asked everyone and asked, "Don't make a noise, this is an imperial edict!"

"Imperial edict, where did the imperial edict come from?" the officials said indignantly.

Li Yong was prepared, so he took out Huang Ling from his sleeve and passed it to the officials, sneering, "There is nothing to say now, right?" He raised his voice and said, "I can see clearly, this is the end of deceiving the king and the emperor!"

The officials were not suppressed, but became more and more excited: "No, this is a life-threatening disaster! The late emperor was in power for six years and never treated a minister like this. Although he is still young now, his name of kindness is spread throughout the country. You must be the ones who instigated the emperor to do such things!"

"Yes, even if the four of them commit crimes, the emperor can order the judicial department to be tried. It is not a way to detain the emperor directly!" The officials said with a move: "We want to return this imperial edict! Please hand over the case to the judicial department for handling!"

"Wild, absurd..." Over the years, eunuchs have been hit by civil servants, but Li Yong was so mean and frivolous that he had not suppressed the civil servants at all. He became flustered and quickly called a team of cavalrymen to come over, and then he kept the scene. Then he barely calmed down and said, "The holy will must not be violated. Let's talk nonsense, and you will be arrested together!"

"You're arrested!" In the Ming Dynasty, if the emperor had never been punished, he would be embarrassed to say that he was a clerk. So a group of section chiefs and clerks excitedly said, "We are so honored!"

"Rebel, it's going against the sky!" Li Yong really didn't dare to be this. In a panic, he saw the sedan chair of the cabinet chief minister coming over and shouted as if he saw a reinforcement: "Shen, Mr. Shen, come and take care of his subordinates. It's too... too unreasonable." In fact, Eunuch Li was not stuttering, but was just nervous.

The sedan chair stopped, and it was indeed the cabinet chief Shen Mo who walked out. Seeing this scene, he frowned and said, "What's going on?" Shuangwei said one by one, one by one, and told what just happened.

"Eunuch Li is sorry, Liukelang is an independent institution of the court. It is only responsible to the emperor and the cabinet cannot take charge of it." After understanding the whole story, Shen Mo said to Li Yongdao.

"Ah..." Li Yong was about to despair, but saw him turn to the censors and said, "How is it so quarrel? Is it a good thing for the court to set up a clerk to curse?"

Facing the chief minister, he gave the staff more rules and obediently. When they heard Shen Mo's first words, 'I don't care about them', he said with clever understanding: "Yuan Fu Mingjian, we are not intentionally noisy, but we don't know why these four people are wearing shackles here, so they come forward to ask."

"Why is it?" Shen Mo asked.

"It's just the emperor's will." The staff members quickly handed Huang Ling to Shen Mo.

Shen Mo took it, looked at it, then put it in his sleeve and said to everyone: "I don't know this matter. I will wait until I meet the saint to find out the truth." After that, he ignored anyone and sat in the sedan chair and entered the Meridian Gate.

As soon as he left, the officials and the eunuch were a little confused and it took him a long time to come to his senses. Well, let's wait...

I heard that the Prime Minister asked for a meeting, and the mother and son in the palace were all thrust and thrust, but it was not impossible to hide from him. I had to ask someone to set up a curtain in Wenhua Palace, and Empress Dowager Li accompanied Wanli to meet him.

After Chen Si bowed and watched the seat, she didn't wait for him to speak. Concubine Li behind the pearl curtain said first: "Yuan Fu was entrusted by the late emperor and could not bully us orphans and widows!" Her original intention was to make Chen Si plead unable to speak, but she did not realize that as soon as she said this, she would directly put herself in the position of a weak person. Who would she bully you like?

In fact, this is not the true level of Concubine Li, but the fear left by the silence of the past was too profound, so when she saw him, she unconsciously softened.

Even the little emperor couldn't stand it anymore, so he rolled his eyes secretly and said to the silent: "Sir, are you here for the four people outside the Meridian Gate?"

"Report to Your Majesty, that's right." Chen Shu nodded and said, "I wonder how these four people provoke the emperor and will arouse this thunderous anger?"

The little emperor replied: "The story of the ancestors is that if the censor submits memorials to attack the auxiliary minister, he must use a court stick... My grandfather ordered the court stick because the minister attacked Yan Song..." As he said that, his voice became smaller and smaller because he saw silence laughing. For six years, the two teachers and students knew that as long as Mr. Chen smiled, he meant that he was wrong: "I... did you say something wrong?"

"Haha..." said silently, "The emperor is well-informed and remembered, and the minister is deeply pleased. But this allusion is not used properly. What kind of minister Yan Song is already a certainty. The holy name of the temple is also covered with dust because of protecting Yan Song. You give this example to compare Zhang Ge Lao to Yan Song!"

"This..." Wanli said a little timidly: "I have no consideration for using allusions." He bit his lower lip, his face firmly said: "But I think all the ancestors and clans have beaten, and I can beat them too."

"Haha..." Chen Mo shook his head slightly and said, "I don't know who told the emperor about this, I really deserve to be killed."

The bead curtain trembled slightly, and it was obvious that the person who should be killed was there.

"Isn't that right?" Wanli frowned.

"It's indeed wrong, but it's not the emperor." Chen Jing said gently: "He and others thought you would never use the court stick, so they never told the emperor in detail."

"Sir, please speak." Wanli had no choice but to say patiently.

"The court stick was indeed created by Taizu of this dynasty. Emperor Taizu immediately won the world, and the imperial subordinates carried the harsh military law. It was natural that it was not surprising that he could peel off the skin and fill grass with corruption. However, during the Hongwu period, only Ru Taisu, the head of the Ministry of Justice, and Xue Xiang, the Minister of Works. Later, Emperor Chengzu was also a martial artist, but he did not use the court stick during the Yongle period. Renzong was the same. The only time Emperor Xuanzong beat Dai Lun to death to the Minister of War. It was because of his personal grudges, which became a great resentment. The stain on Emperor Xuanzong's life. It can be seen that it is a slander that this dynasty has a tradition of court sticks." After a moment of silence, he said: "The three famous eunuchs who really made court sticks the norm were the three famous eunuchs. During the Zhengtong period, Wang Zhen abused power, the Minister of the Shangshu Liu Zhongfu, the Minister of the Secretariat Wu Xi, Chen Feng, and the Priest Li Shimian all received court sticks. During the Chenghua period, the eunuch Wang Zhi was in chaos and once sent five or six other officials to the court sticks of Li Jun and Wang Jun. The Censor Xu Jin offended Wang Zhi and was also beaten by court sticks, almost to death."

"During the Zhengde period, Liu Jin was even more cruel. In the first year of Zhengde, Liu Jin drove Grand Secretary Liu Jian and Xie Qian out of the capital, aroused the anger of scholars. He and twenty-one of the sects, including Ai Hong, Nanjing Chief Dai Xian, and other twenty-one people, either named alone or several people jointly signed a letter to submit memorials to ask for Liu and Xie to stay and impeach Liu Jin at the same time. Liu Jin slandered in front of Wuzong, requested imperial edicts, arrested all the 21 people, and each court thirty rods. Dai Xian was the most severely punished and died under the stick. The Censor Jiang Qin submitted memorials three times, three times, each time thirty rods, and died in prison three days after the third time. My pilgrimage Duke Yangming was the head of the Ministry of War at that time, and submitted memorials to save people. Liu Jin falsely passed the imperial edict and beat him to death. Later, he was demoted to the position of Longchang Post Office in Guizhou..."
Chapter completed!