Chen Xuan's recital soon arrived in Beijing, and appeared on the emperor's desk with Ji Gang's closing report on the case, and after the emperor read it, he asked Ma Yun to read it too: "Chen Xuan said that he had caught a leader of the Japanese Invaders, who could speak Chinese, and he interrogated some things and came out, saying that these firearms, as well as bowl cannons and Lianzhu cannons, were all captured by the Japanese and carried out from the Thousand Households." ”

Ma Yun said: "Among the thousands of households, it is said that there are no guns and artillery. ”

"Yes," said the Emperor, "but my Armaments Bureau has rotted into a sieve, and firearms, large and small, can be carried out." I have raised a litter of rats, how can these people care about the monarchs of the country and the people of Li?"

"Where is Zhang Sheng's confession?" the emperor asked.

"Zhang Sheng only admitted to buying depreciated firearms from Tan Guang," Ma Yun said: "Tan Guang said the same when he was interrogated." Master Ji interrogated Steward Zheng and pulled out Zhang Ying, and then Zhang Ying identified Zhang Sheng, who himself did not admit to the crime of selling firearms. ”

"The confessions of Steward Zheng and Zhang Ying," the emperor said, "It was Ji Gang who tortured and plundered, right?"

Ma Yun said: "Emperor Shengming, the slave and maid follow Master Ji, the most impressive thing is the method of torture used by Jinyiwei, which is indeed worthy of its reputation." ”

The emperor snorted, as if he fell into a kind of thought, and he muttered to himself: "You said, the imperial examination set up a brocade guard back then, why did you burn the torture instruments in the end?"

Ma Yun naturally didn't know how to speak, and the emperor's finger knocked on the table and said: "Now the matter of Zhang Shengtong is suspicious, and the evidence of Xungui's theft and sale of firearms is conclusive." My tolerance for them has reached the limit, and I haven't forgotten the matter of the 3,000 battalions. ”

In the emperor's eyes, there was a decisiveness, and Ma Yun knew that he had made up his mind - but the emperor suddenly said: "Donggong, what's wrong?"

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has devoted himself to reading, and now Xian Ma Yang Pu and Jin Wen are talking about the chapter of "Shangshu", and the prince seems to have a different experience. "Yamajudo.

"Yang Pu, Jin asked who is also!" The emperor said impatiently: "Dare to serve the prince!"

"Yang Pu and Lord Yang Rong of the cabinet are the same Jinshi," Shan Shou said cautiously: "Jin asked yes-"

"It's all the words picked out by the prince," the emperor said angrily: "Like Wang Ruyu and Yin Changlong, if you don't learn to do it, you can speak "Huang Ting" and "Lao Tzu", which is demagogic!"

Shan Shou didn't dare to speak, he just said that Yang Pu was talking about "Shangshu", but the emperor felt that these people were people who didn't learn and didn't know how to do it, and he couldn't defend himself.

And the emperor said: "What about the crown princess, her brother has an accident, why didn't she react at all?"

Ma Yun and Shan Shou looked at each other, originally they were afraid that the crown princess would make trouble in front of the palace again, so they would be more vigilant, but these days, there has been no movement, but this made the emperor uncomfortable, and asked the princess why she didn't react.

Shan Shou said: "Crown princess, well, it's not that there is no reaction, I heard the people of the Shang Food Bureau say that the diet has decreased a lot, and the people in the East Palace are worried about it." His Royal Highness Taisun didn't know about this. ”

The emperor's brows relaxed slightly: "I thought she was going to cry and make trouble, didn't she always be so willful, but this time it was unexpected." ”

"There are not many times when the crown princess is willful," Ma Yun said: "And it is a matter of righteousness, Niangniang has always known proportion, and she will not bend to protect her." ”

Ji Gang thought that he would be able to put Zhang Sheng to death if he held it, but the emperor asked him to put Zhang Sheng's case down and investigate corruption and occupation of labor in the army first. This made Ji Gang feel like he was in an ice cave, and he believed that the emperor also knew very well - in the army, there were many shady scenes, intertwined, and a piece of discus that was connected together, Ji Gang had offended countless people before, most of them were civil officials, and he knew very well that these civil officials had no ability to retaliate. And he also offended the nobles, it was nothing more than one or two, and he couldn't incur revenge on a large scale, but no matter how strong he was and how fearless he was, he couldn't offend all the nobles at once, and he was the nobles who stood behind King Han.

How many nobles did he dare to implicate? None of these nobles were clean. The emperor put him in the tiger's wolf's den, but he no longer escorted him, and let him feed the wolf.

However, Yuan Jiang, who was under him, came up with an idea for him: "Don't worry, the emperor asked you to investigate and deal with the corruption case, but there is no reason for this case, it is nothing more than the shadow left by the 3,000 battalion mutiny." You pick one or two fish and shrimp to start, check slowly, drag and check, anyway, when it comes to this case, don't rush for a while, don't solve the case right now. Wait for these nobles to rein in their hands and feet, and wait until everything is dealt with and dealt with, can't they all be handed over? ”

Zhang Sheng's case caused a big splash in the early stage, but the follow-up sound was small and silent. He was transferred from the edict of Jinyiwei to the prison of the Criminal Department, and he was not released without saying that he was released, and the Qingyuan was repeatedly contracted under the auspices of Zhang Chang and Zheng, and all the business at sea was abandoned, and the big ship was towed to the shore without repairs, and soon became a pile of rotten wood under the wind and sun. At the same time, it shrank the business of salt introduction, only making rice grain, and the money store did not expand in the state capitals, but went underground.

Zhang Zhaohua didn't know when the emperor would be merciful and release Zhang Sheng from prison, but Zhang Sheng was able to save his life, which was a great blessing, the capital of the Qingyuan was abundant, even if it cut off overseas and even canal trade, but the money village was still the foundation of its comeback. And this time, the officials of the city department were also greatly implicated, and the officials who Zhang Sheng had pointed out were all pushed to the end, and even sentenced to a felony. And Tan Guang, the deputy general of the Shenji Battalion, was also directly demoted to a pawn in the military camp this time.

This is much better than expected before, but what makes Zhang Zhaohua feel resentful is the first evil Yuan Rong and Li Rang, jumping up and down to grab the shares and right to speak of Qingyuan when Zhang Sheng is away, although Zhang Chang and Zheng are defeated, but the behavior of these two people is too disgusting, especially Yongping also clearly supports Gao Xu's succession, and says that Gao Chi is not good in front of the emperor every day, and tries to influence the emperor's mind, which is even more unbearable.

"A-Niang, I'm riding a horse today. The imperial grandson walked in and saluted, his face flushed, and he could faintly see fine beads of sweat and steaming heat.

Zhang Zhaohua snorted, and suddenly saw that he had Shou Ge'er under his armpit, he was startled, and couldn't help reproaching: "You can just ride, his bones are not strong, how dare you ride a horse easily, what if you fall down?"

The imperial grandson said: "He's fine, he picked a tame mare for him, and Fan Hong hugged him." ”

Zhang Zhaohua saw that Brother Shou'er was really dancing happily, so he didn't say anything, but asked him if he didn't have homework today or what, the imperial grandson seemed to be in a good mood, and said: "There is no class today, I plan to go to Princess Baoqing's mansion to play." ”

Zhang Zhaohua said: "You have a good time with Baoqing, she is still your aunt in terms of seniority." ”

Zhu Zhanji was raised under the knees of the emperor and the first empress, and Empress Xu bowed to raise the bereaved Baoqing at that time, the two dolls were close in age and had a good time, that is, a month ago, Princess Baoqing got married, and even Zhu Zhanji went to get married.