A group of royal guards rushed in, led by two hundred households respectively, and went to the offices on the left and right to talk to the people in Zhongshushe.
Li Ying came to the central office in person and bowed his hands respectfully to the cabinet ministers: "I'm disturbing the ministers today."
Wang Yuan stood up and returned the greeting: "Director Li, why did you break into the cabinet?"
Li Ying explained: "Your Majesty received an anonymous letter, written in Taige style with your left hand. Your Majesty has an order to find this person and barbarize the three tribes!"
Liao Ji sneered: "Doctor Li suspects that it was the cabinet minister who did it?"
"Mr. Liao Ge, don't get me wrong," Li Ying's attitude was still respectful, "Everything from the cabinet to all ministries will be checked, even the Imperial College and the Shuntian Academy. After all, if you can write beautiful Taige style with your left hand, you must
I am not a common citizen. I would like to disturb you all, please use your left hand to write in Taige style. It is enough to write the four characters "Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang"."
Although the cabinet ministers were unhappy, they had to obey the instructions honestly, because the "Yi Tribe" would definitely be involved in a big case.
Follow the public account: Book Friends Base Camp, follow and you will get cash and coins!
The people in Zhongshushe on the left and right were even more obedient, writing with their left hands while guessing what happened.
After collecting everyone's handwriting, Li Ying respectfully saluted the cabinet ministers: "I am on official business, and I am disturbing the ministers. Please forgive me."
This behavior made several cabinet ministers feel a little better, and they had a good impression of Li Ying, the admiral of the Imperial Guard.
Li Ying left Wenyuan Pavilion and went to Dong Pavilion to investigate the case.
What a damn thing to find out!
This guy is purely trying to show his presence and at the same time increase his favorability with the ministers. The purpose is to make people respect and fear him.
After a full month of investigation, Li Ying inspected all the yamen in Beijing. The civil servants actually praised Jinyiwei for doing such a large-scale work, saying that Governor Li was polite, powerful but not violent, and strict but not cruel.
Throughout the capital, Jinyiwei arrested more than a thousand people, and Dongchang arrested more than 5,000 people. A total of more than 3,000 people were tortured to death.
Those who died during torture were mainly because they gossiped a lot and spread rumors in private and were reported. Anyway, the investigation process was like that in ancient times. When arrested, they were beaten first, and then they confessed and bitten, and then more and more people were arrested.
of suspects.
If Zhu Zaiyi didn't want to cause too much trouble, arresting tens of thousands of people just for such vicious rumors would be a normal operation.
Anyway, no one in the capital dared to spread rumors anymore, for fear that the factory guards would hear it through the walls.
During the period of torture and extortion of confessions, Wang Su and Zhu Xuanzhen got married. The news quickly caused a sensation in Beijing and spread nationwide.
For the chief minister's daughter to marry the eldest princess is too rare and breaks the rules. Wang Yuan should resign as a rule!
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Ten Princes' Mansion.
After a whole day of hustle and bustle, the prince consort and the princess finally entered the bridal chamber.
Zhu Xuanzhen sat there silently, and Wang Su didn't know what to say. The atmosphere in the new house was very awkward.
"Brother Su..."
"Madam..."
In order to lighten the atmosphere, the two of them spoke at the same time, but they couldn't hold back their names.
Finally, Zhu Xuanzhen changed his words: "Husband."
"Hey!" Wang Su agreed stupidly.
Zhu Xuanzhen felt a little helpless. She had liked Wang Ce since she was a child and only regarded Wang Su as a follower. But Wang Ce was already married, so Zhu Xuanzhen could only feel sad. It was better to marry someone who knew everything about her than to be randomly assigned to a family.
.
It's just that my husband has always been stupid and not very smart.
In fact, Wang Su was so smart that he almost had a photographic memory, but whenever he faced the princess alone, he would automatically become nervous and confused, and he couldn't even speak fluently.
At this moment, Wang Su felt stupid. When he heard the princess calling him husband, he stayed there with joy, completely forgetting what he should do tonight.
Zhu Xuanzhen found it hard to say, but he couldn't help but hint: "Husband, I'm a little cold."
Wang Su immediately took out his robe, wrapped the princess tightly, and blurted out: "Madam, let's go feed the alpacas!"
"Ah?" Zhu Xuanzhen couldn't keep up with her husband's thinking.
The alpacas in Xiyuan have multiplied to more than thirty, and half of them were taken out by the princess.
Wang Su pulled the princess and ran away, smiling and saying: "Madam, I like to feed the alpacas with you the most."
Zhu Xuanzhen couldn't help recalling the days when she was a child, playing carefree with her brother Emperor, Brother Ce, and Brother Su. She also instantly became happy: "Okay, okay, let's go feed the alpacas."
The young couple laughed happily and opened the door, only to be blocked by a tall and round female official.
The female official asked expressionlessly: "Why are the princess and the consort going out?"
Zhu Xuanzhen smiled and said: "We are going to feed the alpacas."
The female official replied: "If you don't agree with the rules, please ask the princess to have a bridal chamber."
The smile on Zhu Xuanzhen's face suddenly disappeared and he said displeasedly: "Do I have to go?"
The female officer still replied: "Princess, please have a bridal chamber."
"Presumptuous!" Zhu Xuanzhen finally got angry. She had been loved by her parents and brothers since she was a child, how could she endure the control of a female official.
The female officer called several more female officers, and they didn't push them. They just lined up and squeezed in. They pushed Wang Su and Zhu Xuanzhen back into the room, and then closed the door tightly.
What the hell?
Wang Su was a little confused, Zhu Xuanzhen didn't react, and the newlyweds just looked at each other.
Wang Su asked: "Has the Queen Mother sent her confidant female officials out of the palace?"
"That's it!"
Zhu Xuanzhen suddenly remembered something and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Zheng Renren, Zheng Renren...Mother Zheng!"
The female officer outside the door said: "Princess, Aunt Zheng has rested after a hard day's work. I want to teach the princess that this is the palace of the Ten Princes, not the palace. There are no imperial attendants."
Zhu Xuanzhen said angrily: "How dare you, a female official of the Tenth Prince's Palace, you are worthy of teaching me a lesson?"
The female official outside the door said: "Princess, please have a bridal chamber."
Wang Su held Zhu Xuanzhen's hand: "I will ask to see His Majesty tomorrow and ask him to agree to let us move to Prince Consort. It's really boring to live here."
"But this is against the rules, can the emperor agree?" Zhu Xuanzhen asked worriedly.
"It must be possible." Wang Su said.
The princesses and consorts in the early Ming Dynasty were quite comfortable, but after the princess married a commoner, her life gradually became miserable.
The prince-in-law lives in Prince Consort's Palace, and the princess lives in the Tenth Prince's Palace. There are only so many days in a month that the couple can live together. If the prince-son-in-law wants to see the princess, he has to bribe the female officials and eunuchs in the Tenth Prince's Palace, otherwise even if the princess summons him, the following female officials and eunuchs will
Make a stumbling block.
Give two examples.
Wanli's sister chose a husband, and the task was handed over to the eunuch Feng Bao. Feng Bao actually sold the princess to the son of a wealthy businessman, and he was also a tuberculosis ghost.
After the wedding, the princess and the consort were still in love, but they were prevented from seeing each other by the female officials and eunuchs.
The princess went to the palace to complain to the Queen Mother, but the female officials were the first to complain. Everyone agreed and the princess could not defend herself, so the Queen Mother asked the princess to go home.
The prince-in-law felt that the princess was pitiful, so he also went to the palace to see the Queen Mother, but was beaten violently by the female officials and eunuchs on the way. Then he complained again, and the prince-son-in-law was scolded by the Queen Mother and ordered to shut up and think about his mistakes.
Two months later, the prince-in-law was seriously injured and suffered from tuberculosis, so he died and the princess became a widow.
The above is what happened to Wanli’s sister, let’s talk about the daughter of Emperor Wanli.
The prince-in-law was upset by Diao Rao and started fighting with the female official in charge. The female official immediately went to the palace to report. The princess quickly begged for mercy in person. As a result, the eunuch and the female official had a tradition, and the princess could not see her parents at all when entering the palace. The prince-in-law went to the emperor again, but was still rejected.
Outside the gate, he was so angry that he abandoned his son and returned to his hometown. The eunuch and the female official got the opportunity to report the prince-in-law for abandoning the princess, and the prince-son-in-law and his whole family were dismissed from office.
The above two princesses were both deeply loved by Emperor Wanli. The female officials and eunuchs around them were all the Queen Mother and the Queen's confidants, who were specially sent to the Tenth Prince's Palace to take care of them.
However, these female officials and eunuchs could not be promoted after arriving at the Tenth Prince's Palace, so they only wanted to make money by acting like monsters. Moreover, the eunuchs and female officials often had sex with each other and formed illegal couples without sex, working together to deceive their superiors.
He even bribed the palace to prevent the princess from going back to see her parents.
Wang Su bribed the eunuchs and guards and spread money along the way.
Because his father was Wang Yuan, some eunuchs and guards even refused to accept money, just to please Wang Erlang and quickly spread the news to the emperor.
A few days later, Wang Su was summoned by the emperor.
The day before entering the palace, Wang Su said to his boy, "Hit me!"
"Ah?" The book boy didn't understand.
Wang Su smiled and said: "Hit him in the face."
The book boy had never heard of such excessive demands, but he couldn't bear it, so he had no choice but to punch him.
Qianqing Palace.
Zhu Zaiyi was listening to the report of the Supervisor of Ceremonies, and was informed by the eunuch that his consort had arrived, so he summoned his consort to come in.
Wang Su limped inside, knelt down with difficulty and said, "I pay homage to Your Majesty."
Zhu Zaiyi raised his hand and smiled: "Get up, our brothers...what's wrong with your face?"
"Nothing." Wang Su smiled bitterly.
Zhu Zaiyi joked: "Hahaha, the gentle Su Geer actually got into a fight with someone. Who did it? You are so brave."
Wang Su had a hapless look on his face: "Your Majesty, please stop making fun of me. My legs are almost lame. I want to see you today, and I just want to ask your Majesty to agree to one thing."
"Tell me, as long as you don't violate the rules, I will promise you anything." Zhu Zaiyi held back his smile and stared at Wang Su's panda eyes, which became more and more interesting the more he looked at them.
Wang Su said: "This matter is really against the rules. I want to take the princess to stay at the Prince Consort's residence for a long time."
Zhu Zaiyi asked: "Isn't the Ten Prince's Palace bad?"
Wang Su sighed: "The Tenth Prince's Palace is nice, but the minister and the princess have not seen each other since they got married."
Zhu Zaijun asked: "Did you quarrel?"
Wang Su said: "I and the princess are very affectionate, but the female officials and eunuchs of the Tenth Prince's Palace are making things difficult for me. Every time I go to the Tenth Prince's Palace, they ask for heavy bribes. As the son of the chief minister, how can I bribe a group of villains? There was an argument two days ago.
When I got up, I was beaten by them."
"Is there such a thing?" Zhu Zaiyi was shocked and angry.
Wang Su said: "Well, I asked the old man and he said that this kind of thing is normal. Princesses and consorts in the past dynasties rarely see each other, just like the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl in the sky. On their wedding day, I wanted to join hands to feed the alpacas.
As soon as I walked out, I was blocked by the female officials, and I was almost beaten back to the bridal chamber by them."
Zhu Zaiyi frowned and said, "That's not right. With your skills, how can you not defeat a few evil slaves?"
Wang Su sighed: "Those female officials and eunuchs are all the confidants of the Queen Mother, how can I dare to fight back? I don't understand. Not to mention that as a consort, my father must be a bit thin-faced. They are not afraid of offending my father."
?But looking back, they even bully the princess, what else in the world can they not dare to do?"
Zhu Zaiyi felt that this matter was too unbelievable, so he asked Wang Su to go back to Prince Consort to live and recuperate, and sent people to the Tenth Prince's Palace to summon the princess into the palace.
During this period, Zhu Zaiyi asked the eunuch accompanying him: "Is this really true?"
The accompanying eunuch also accepted Wang Su's money and patiently explained: "Your Majesty, please think about it, any of the female officials and ministers who accompany the princess to the Tenth Prince's Palace are not close confidants of the Queen Mother. They are used to being prestigious in the palace, so when they go to the Tenth Prince's Palace, The palace is very shabby, and there is no way to advance, so naturally they are resentful and only want to make money and have fun. Moreover, they are old people of the Queen Mother and have quite a friendship in the palace. I am afraid that even if the princess enters the palace, they will Can you prevent me from seeing the Queen Mother?"
An hour later, the princess came to Qianqing Palace and cried loudly when she saw her: "Oh, oh, oh, oh, brother emperor, I am being bullied!"