The next morning, in the princess's residence, Yunzheng was playing with some wood in the yard. He was not alone. There were Dongfang Wuqing and Li Mo beside him. They discussed something with him from time to time. Then Yunzheng continued to play with Dongfang Wuqing and Li Mo.
, Princess Lin Yuyan of Huai'an also sat and watched Yunzheng busy with a smile.
Yun Zheng was laughing now, and then clapped his hands: "That's great. As long as the bearing problem can be solved, my bicycle will be more than half successful. Now I only need to solve the chain problem."
Dongfang Wuqing asked: "What is a chain?"
Yunzheng said: "The chain is what drives the gears and bearings to rotate. It looks like this..." Then he explained the function and style of the chain to the two of them.
The problem with the bearing just now was solved by Li Mo. Their Mo sect is proficient in the manufacture of these small things. The manufacture of this bearing was not a problem for him. Although Dongfang Wuqing didn't say it, he still wanted to win the game, and his mind quickly
He started spinning and suddenly said: "The young commander wants to make this chain. If it is made of metal, it would be too delicate and expensive to make. Wu Qing has an alternative method that can save a lot of money."
Yunzheng was overjoyed and asked hurriedly: "What's the solution? Say it quickly, say it quickly!"
Dongfang Wuqing smiled brightly: "It's just a stupid idea... Wuqing really doesn't know why the young commander must make this chain made of iron. Iron chains are so difficult. If something goes wrong, it's usually not good.
Repair, in that case, why not use leather instead? For example, if you make cowhide into a belt shape, and then carve a slot on it that can fit the gear, wouldn't it also play the role that the young commander needs? As for its sturdiness.
It’s a matter of degree. If one layer of cowhide is not enough, then two layers are enough...it’s always much cheaper than iron chains.”
Yun Zheng was stunned for a moment, then slapped his head: "Oh, I am really stupid, why did I fall into a dead end... Wu Qing is right, why do you have to use iron chains? Aren't cowhide straps very good?
Is it durable?"
He immediately ordered Li Mo next to him: "Xian Yang, immediately ask the craftsmen to use belts instead of chains according to Miss Wu Qing's instructions, and try making a few to try."
Li Mo was very happy to see that the technical problems of Yunzheng's "bicycle" had been overcome. Yingyangwei's power would definitely become stronger. Even if this bicycle would not be equipped by the soldiers, it would be very useful when equipped to transport grain and grass.
It is possible that using such a thing to transport grain and grass will increase the transportation efficiency by at least five times, and the food saved will probably be four to five times more than before. This is really a military weapon! So he immediately and enthusiastically
went
Just as Li Mo left, Beishan Wuxue came in from outside. Yunzheng suddenly raised his head and looked at Beishan Wuxue.
Although her steps were not fast, Yunzheng heard that they were still a little faster than her usual steps. The things that made Beishan Wuxue anxious to see her were probably no small things.
When Beishan Wuxue came over, he was still very polite. He met Lin Yuyan first. Lin Yuyan smiled and said: "Miss Beishan, don't be polite. If you have anything to do, just tell Chengfeng that I will go and see how the flowers are blooming today."
"That's it." After that, she took a few imperial maids and went to the garden by herself.
Yun Zheng smiled and asked: "Why, Wu Xue can tell you if you have anything to do, I'm listening."
Beishan Wuxue, however, had a serious face. He took out a brochure bag, pulled out a piece of paper from it, and handed it to Yun Zheng.
Yun Zheng took the paper and looked at it with some doubts. His smile suddenly faded, he frowned solemnly and asked, "Has this matter been confirmed? Is it true?"
Beishan Wuxue sighed softly: "Beige's spies in Chengdu and West Pavilion's notification have arrived, there is no way it can be faked."
Yun Zheng suddenly stood up and said in a very determined tone: "If the Leng family loses Chengdu, chaos in Shu will be inevitable. Chaos in the world is just around the corner. Everywhere... is afraid that everyone will not be able to live in peace. Wuxue, I will write a handwritten letter immediately, and you will send it to me."
Send me to Yingyangwei Jingjiang Gushan Camp immediately, and inform Yanjing immediately, immediately!"
Beishan Wuxue nodded and said: "I'll do it immediately."
------------------------------------- Emperor Wanchang held a letter in his sleeve about
The memorial of the situation in Sichuan boarded Luanjia, and his face was as gloomy as today's weather. The lead clouds were thick, and everything looked unpleasant. The guard of honor was so frightened that no one dared to say a word. Hundreds of people arrived in front of the Jinluan Hall.
Absolutely, completely silent
Emperor Wanchang ascended to the Golden Palace, ascended to the Ming Dynasty throne, held the dragon head with both hands and sat down slowly. All the civil and military officials walked to the center of the hall, bowed down and prostrated, shouting "Long Live the Mountain"
Wanchang waved his hands with a gloomy face and said perfunctorily: "Everyone is safe."
All the high officials picked up their huts, stood up, straightened their clothes, and after a while, they retreated to the left and right groups according to the civil and military orders and stood up. Wanchang said: "You love the emperor, last night, I received a report from Sichuan, saying that...
"
All the officials held the scepter in both hands and looked at the throne without squinting. They were listening to the emperor's speech. Suddenly they felt that the emperor's speech was getting slower and slower. They couldn't help but look at the throne in wonder, and saw Wanchang Ju.
Holding a memorial, he stared ahead for a while, and then suddenly said: "Whose thing is it that dropped?"
Everyone followed Wanchang's gaze and saw a paper roll sitting on the ground in the middle of the hall. The roll was not big, but it was just the same thing on the gold brick floor as smooth as a mirror. It was also facing the palace gate and the weather was gloomy.
, the reflection is not strong, so the paper rolls stacked in the center of the hall can be clearly seen, which is very eye-catching.
At that moment, a Censor who was closer walked over and picked up the paper roll. When he saw that it was sealed and tied with thread, it was obviously not something that was thrown away casually. Besides, no one dared to litter the Golden Palace.
Seeing that no one claimed it, he bowed and saluted, held up the roll of paper with both hands, and said, "Your Majesty..."
Wanchang waved his hand, and the little eunuch waiting next to the throne hurriedly came over, stepped forward to take it, then returned and handed it to Wanchang respectfully. Wanchang held it in his hand and said loudly: "Where is this scroll?"
Are you a lover? Look, who dropped it?"
Hundreds of civil and military officials subconsciously touched the sleeves of their robes and waist pouches. You looked at me and I looked at you. Without saying a word, Emperor Wanchang frowned when he saw that no one claimed the lost property. He opened the silk thread and unfolded the scroll to read.
When he stood up, his face changed after just a few glances. Looking at the ministers, he smiled coldly and said, "Who wrote this letter to me? Stand up and speak!"
Only then did all the adults realize that someone was delivering an anonymous letter to the emperor in this way. However, all the officials stood up, arranging their robes, toothbrushes, and drapes. Whoever had nothing to do looked under their feet. Besides, they were used to being in the Golden Palace.
With such a spotless appearance, who would have thought that something would appear under your feet?
Wanchang was in a bad mood. Seeing that no one answered him, he couldn't help but became furious and said: "If you are an official, your words are innocent. If you are another minister, you should also give advice based on reason. Is it that I can't listen to anything?" Dihunjun? Do you need to be sneaky and submit letters anonymously?"
The ministers looked at each other, but no one stood up to admit it. Wanchang stood up angrily, flicked his sleeves and said: "Go back to the palace (referring to the bedroom)!"
All the civil and military officials looked at each other. The emperor returned to the palace on his own, but did not say that the court was dismissed. They could not leave, and it was pointless to stay. Until Emperor Wanchang angrily took the young eunuch to his old residence in the West Nuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace to sulk. After I went there, the Golden Palace became lively.
Civil and military officials gathered in twos and threes and asked each other: "Hey, Lao Zhang, did you see clearly? What did you write that made the emperor so angry?"
"Master Liu, aren't you just watching? No one recognized me when I picked it up. Why don't I present it to the emperor immediately? I don't know what to write."
"Mr. Chen, the place where you dropped the thing seems to be where you were standing when you met the emperor just now?"
"Oh, Mr. Li, we are familiar with each other. Don't make such fatal jokes. Haven't you seen how angry the emperor is? The person who came to remonstrate didn't even dare to write his name. There is no need to ask about the content. It certainly doesn’t sound good to you. Do you think I am someone who is disobedient to your Majesty?”
"To put it bluntly, Mr. Chen is a cautious person. Besides, there are so many people. When he got up, he just threw it away and walked over against the gold brick. Who is staring at him every day on this ground? It’s hard to say who lost it.”
For a moment, the Jinluan Hall was like a vegetable market, noisy and messy. As the chief minister of the cabinet, the old Prime Minister of Shencheng saw that he did not look like Kuo, so he raised his voice: "Quiet! Silence! This is the place where political affairs are discussed in the morning, and this is the Jinluan Hall. Just stick to the rules and make so much noise. How can you behave like this? Stand in front of the general and maintain order."
Some of the officials of the Shen faction who had higher status met and discussed with Shen Cheng: "Old Prime Minister, the emperor has left with a wave of his sleeves, and the affairs of the government cannot be discussed. There are still three important matters here that are ready to be reported to the emperor. , you have to think of a way!"
"Yes, Prime Minister Shen. In my yamen, the pile of official documents is as tall as one man's. There is no way to waste it here all the time. Looking at it, Prime Minister Shen, should you go and persuade the emperor to come back?"
Shen Cheng was also a little helpless. What was this? He discussed it in a low voice with Gu Heng and several pavilion elders. Then he raised his hand and called Xiaohuangmen, asking him to immediately urge the emperor to come to court or meet with several pavilion elders.
Xiaohuangmen was convinced and rushed to the harem.
Xue Zongting heard in the Supervisor of Ceremonies that someone had submitted an anonymous letter earlier, which made the emperor furious. Now he was sulking in Qianqing Palace. He hurried over in a hurry and met the little Huangmen at the gate of Qianqing Palace. He asked about the situation. , let the little yellow gate stand aside first, and rush into the palace to see Wanchang
As soon as he entered the door, he saw Wan Changzheng and Wei Tang talking, and Wei Tang said: "...Why does the emperor have to be so angry over such trivial things? Calm down quickly!"
Xue Zongting took advantage of her to finish speaking and quickly interjected: "I have seen the emperor and the empress."
Wei Tang ignored him and Wanchang ignored him. Wanchang said: "These people are becoming more and more courageous now. Do you really think I don't dare to chop off a few heads?"
"I don't dare to say anything about this matter, but Your Majesty, it's not worth getting angry over these things and hurting the dragon's body."
Wanchang nodded, stood up and said, "My beloved concubine is right. It's not worth it to make yourself so angry. I heard that the lotus flowers in the Imperial Garden are blooming well? Come on, take me to see them."
He glanced at Xue Zongting, remembered the anonymous letter left on the table, and said angrily: "Xue Zongting, you are in charge of the Privy Council, and now I have decreed for you to investigate and arrest the person who wrote the anonymous letter to me.
The stick is thirty! The speaker is not guilty. No wise king can tolerate the remonstrance of his ministers. Now, some people hide their heads and show their tails and anonymously write in abandoned books on the Golden Palace. It is really unreasonable.
Once the anonymous "secret letter" trend started, the ministers would criticize each other, intrigue, form cliques and disrupt the government, and the imperial court would be ruined. Especially the letter was all baseless and baseless. There is also content involving you. Take a look at it for yourself.
I need to find this person out!"
Xue Zongting came over to discuss secret matters. Xue Zongting is the best at understanding other people's psychology. He knows how to please the emperor. Whatever the emperor hates, then follow what he hates. If the emperor feels that the ministers are not cooperating with him, then our family will cooperate with him. Your Majesty.
Don’t you still feel that our family is approachable and that you are a confidant?
So he wanted to find out what the emperor was angry about, so that he could express his understanding, get closer to each other, discuss the matter with the emperor, and stand in the same trench with the emperor. He would definitely not be on the wrong team.
Furthermore, now he has to read all the six official documents of Jiuqing before he can take them back for processing. Even Qiu Linjiang, the prime minister who is so favored, has to pass it on his behalf when he wants to see the emperor. This guy has the courage of a tiger.
, you actually dare to submit an anonymous letter without letting him read it first. Isn’t this a trap across the cooking pot? If you all imitate him, does the court still have rules?
Now Xue Zongting was shocked when he heard that the secret admonition also involved him. He did not dare to ask more questions in front of Wei Tang.
This sight immediately made me sweat.
The secret remonstrance listed his ten major crimes, which were beautifully written and harshly worded. Among them were the fact that he embezzled public funds during the renovation of the palace the year before last, and that in order to please the emperor, he hired Shandong hunters to capture tigers, but did not pay pensions to the dead.
When the Shandong people protested, he ordered the local guards to mobilize troops to suppress it, which made the people resentful. However, he reported to the emperor that he had shown mercy and appeased the people of Shandong from the crime of bullying the emperor.
These things were all true, which naturally frightened and frightened him, but what made him even more furious was his suggestion to Zhejiang and Sichuan to restrict the operation of silk merchants and tea merchants. This was something he had painstakingly thought up to please Wanchang.
This method can not only increase revenue for the imperial court's increasingly tight finances, but also make the Sichuan Leng family more "loyal" to the imperial court. He really has no selfish motives at all for these two things, and he has no intention of taking advantage of them.
What's so cheap?
"I'm all for the emperor and the court! These bastards have no ability at all. They can't come up with any ideas. They are very capable of criticizing faults. They look at our family all day long. Their noses are not noses, and their eyes are not eyes.
", Xue Zongting felt innocent, wronged, and wronged, and the anger in his chest became more and more intense.
He knew that those courtiers looked down on him from the bottom of their hearts, and they were more disdainful of him than the generals in the border towns. Who made him a eunuch? For those officials, no matter who loses or wins in a political dispute, even if the opponent is someone he disdains.
I looked at the idiot, the subordinate, the illiterate, the reckless man. Although I was heartbroken, I didn't feel so unhappy. After all, they were in the same class as myself. They were all ministers of the same day, and they were all men.
But what are those weird slaves? The eunuchs and servants who serve the emperor, a group of neither men nor women, are suppressed by a eunuch. It's like the lady who was married by a famous family for generations, and who was married by a bright matchmaker, was reduced to a woman who was born in a brothel.
The concubine is treated as an equal, and from time to time she has to be made the master of the house and listen to her orders: is it tolerable, and which one is intolerable?
Xue Zongting has been in business for many years. Recently, he took advantage of the emperor's obsession with the new law and made great efforts to help Qiu Linjiang. As a result, his power became more and more powerful. More and more officials took refuge in Xue Zongting, and his ears and eyes became more and more informed.
Gradually I got to know the Hanlin Academy, and the scholars in the Metropolitan Procuratorate looked at him like this: "Okay, if I embezzle, you can sue me! If I accept bribes, you can sue me! We try our best to give the emperor good ideas, just because it's me
You came up with this idea, and you accuse me indiscriminately, and you still remain anonymous? Okay!"
Xue Zongting gritted his teeth and sneered: "I am still a concubine, or a prostitute, what's the matter? You will be so embarrassed if the emperor dotes on me! Today the emperor has left this job to me. Let's see how Grandpa Xue treats you. You guys are so embarrassed.
Shameless thing!"
With a livid face, he put the secret advice into his sleeve. The paper was ordinary paper, and the words were obviously written with his left hand. They were all twisted and twisted. Who was making it difficult for him?
In addition to listing his ten major crimes, the secret remonstrance also listed six wrongdoings of the Yun family, such as violating the "effective" policy of appeasement and gentleness that the imperial court had always adopted against the barbarians, and arbitrarily launching military campaigns to seize a city in the Liao Kingdom.
Seal Yunzheng's soon-to-be wife, Princess Thirteen, in an important place in Huai'an, and reward her too much, etc.
"From this point of view, he must not be from the Yun family or the Shen family... Yun Chen's group now sees that the emperor's firepower is targeting the Gu family, but now
