As soon as the voice came out, the news spread faster and faster, and tens of thousands of people watching the excitement stretched their necks to look north, and then loudly announced to each other.

"It's coming, it's coming!"

The warden stood up and looked north.

The street was gradually cleared of a pathway, and there was a commotion in the rear, but soon it fell silent, and a group of executioners armed with machetes came from the street, and soon stood behind everyone on the high platform.

Then, there were many prisoner cars escorted by officials, and there were dozens of them.

The crowd of spectators was crowded for a while, some of them scolded the criminals, threw rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs, and some pointed fingers and shouted indiscriminately.

Many people are discussing, which one here is the Donglin celebrity, Gu Dazhang, the chief examiner of the exam this time, and who is the damned Li Zhiling.

"There are those who are not enough to die for sin, and there are a few who are unlucky."

Listening to the people's discussions, Yi'er Deng smiled and asked: "Aren't these people corrupt people, why do you say that they are unlucky?" ”

Hearing this, Yong Shebu and Zai Sai also turned their heads to look over.

Zai Sai sneered and said, "I didn't expect you to be interested in Daming's 'family affairs', when you were in Taining, if you didn't have the 300,000 silver bounty, you would still send troops?" ”

Yi'er Deng also sneered back, and said indifferently:

"It was then, it's now, and it turned out that I still sent troops. Zai Sai, you can't help but be a little too lenient, do you really think of you as the henchman of the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom? ”

Zaisai snorted, but did not make a sound.

The people were obviously not paying attention here, and even if they heard it, they would not be able to understand what these three people meant by sending troops or not.

He stood on tiptoe and said, as he looked:

"You don't know about this, I heard rumors that a few officials just followed and didn't report and expose it, and they didn't lose a few dollars, just a favor."

"I didn't expect that this time the incident was too big, and it alarmed Your Majesty, and in the end, they all reported the Fa together with the knowledge of it, and you said that it was unlucky or not."

"In the past, this crime was a crime that was punished by heaven."

At this time, a bearer asked: "I counted, why is there one less prisoner car than the notice said, what about that person, let go, or escape?" ”

If you have that mouth fast and want to behave, you can directly open your mouth to explain.

"What didn't come was a new science and technology sergeant, he was smart, he didn't have to be stabbed this way, he fell into a different place, I heard that he committed suicide by hitting the wall when he was imprisoned in the prison of the Criminal Department."

At this time, Zaisai lost interest in the next part of the beheading, and was unwilling to continue to squeeze here, so he asked Yong Xie Bu and Yi'er Deng's opinions, and planned to go directly to face the saint.

According to their estimates, this time the Ming Emperor summoned the three people to the audience, and there was a great deal of time to announce a major event.

I finally managed to get out of the crowd, a little more relaxed, and before I had time to rest, I heard another commotion behind me.

Zaisai didn't look at it, Yongshebu turned to look, then turned his head and laughed loudly:

"Cut off the head, the head of that Donglin celebrity has fallen to the ground, along with several fellow examiners, although the emperor of the Ming Kingdom is not very old, he is so ruthless."

"Amazing, amazing!"

After hearing what he said, Yi'er Deng couldn't help but turn his head and raise his feet to look, just as he saw the heads of the second batch of scholars falling to the ground, dripping with blood.

He also gasped, and the people of these pedestrians were not only not afraid when they saw such a scene, but they seemed so excited.

Now, he was even more determined to lean under the tree to cool off.

......

After dinner, according to the usual practice, Zhu Youxiao went to greet Concubine Liu.

Zhu Youxiao was in a good mood on this day, and after asking for peace, he stayed in Cining Palace for a while, and Concubine Liu happened to tell the emperor about what happened in the harem today.

The harem of the Ming Dynasty, although there were also fights, but they were far inferior to the Qing court dramas of later generations, and the fights between women were not as cruel, and there was really nothing to fight for.

In the harem of the Apocalypse, in addition to the concubine and the queen, there were only three concubines and less than ten concubines, and Zhu Youxiao had great respect for the concubine Liu and was also extremely fond of the queen Zhang, and the authority of these two people could not be shaken at all.

Since the expulsion of the Hakka family, Emperor Wanli's Zheng Guifei has also been beaten into the cold palace, the harem of the Apocalypse Dynasty has become even calmer.

Speaking of which, this has to do with Zhang Yan.

Zhang Yan was born in a small country, but she is very quiet, unless she is a big event, she is also approachable on weekdays, and has a good relationship with the palace people and concubines.

In addition, Concubine Liu has a quiet nature and doesn't ask much about the harem, but now this harem is more like a big royal family, and what the concubines do every day is not only eating and sleeping, but also chatting.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it was customised to select show girls from among the commoners to enter the palace, in order to avoid harem battles affecting the court, and even the usurpation of power by relatives, which really did not happen.

The lights and candles in Cining Palace were brilliant, and Zhu Youjiao accompanied Concubine Liu to speak.

The hot tea made the two of them talk about it more interestingly, and when they talked about the gossip and interesting things in the harem during this time, Concubine Liu was like a treasure, and a rare smile appeared on her face.

At this time, the steward sign of the Qianqing Palace came to the outside of Cining Palace silently, saw the palace lady on duty, and asked:

"Your Majesty has never been in the habit of tasting flutes, is it still there?"

Gong E smiled, "Look at what my father-in-law said, this time His Majesty took the initiative to say that he wanted to listen to the flute, and Concubine Liu couldn't stop it!" ”

Because Wang Chaofu is the steward of the Qianqing Palace, he has a very high status in the inner court, and he has become one of the so-called "five elders" of the inner court.

The five elders of the inner court are the five powerful eunuchs who are rumored to be in charge of the inner court and are most favored by the Emperor of the Apocalypse.

The first place is naturally the Dongchang factory company, and the eunuch Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch of the celebrant and the seal.

The second place is Wang Tiqian, who began to palm the imperial horse supervisor in the second year of the Apocalypse, the commander Nanhaizi, and the left military supervisor of the capital prison office.

Due to Zhu Youxiao's deliberate support, although Wang Tiqian is not as good as Wei Zhongxian, his power in the inner court should not be underestimated.

The third place is the steward brand of the Qianqing Palace, Wang Chaofu, and the reason why the dynasty can come up is that the building near the water gets the moon first.

Among all the eunuchs in the inner court, only Wang Chaofu was by Zhu Youxiao's side almost all day.

During the southern tour, Zhu Youxiao took him, and even the battle of the southwest was carried out in person, and the dynasty assisted the saddle before and after the two ends, such a person is also the most powerful in his ears, and no one will not be afraid.

The other two, one of them is Du Sheng, the former eunuch left behind in Nanjing after the restructuring of Nanjing.

Du Sheng was originally a garrison eunuch in Nanjing, who was desperately pulled into the water by the Donglin Party during the restructuring, and finally succeeded in staying in office.

The so-called "five elders" of the inner court, except for Wei Zhongxian, three of the other four people have various connections with him.

Wang Tiqian is Wei Zhongxian's godson, everyone knows this, Wang Chaofu was also recommended by Wei Zhongxian back then, so he was able to enter the throne, not to mention Du Sheng, who is a loyal eunuch party member.

The last person, at first, no one could have imagined that he could become one of the five elders, this person was Li Shi, the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch Bingbi who had nothing to do with Wei Zhongxian.

The origin of this Li Shi has to start from the forty-seventh year of Wanli.

At that time, Zhu Youxiao had not yet chosen a concubine, and Li Shi, who was already a eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi, took the initiative to invite Ying to go out of the palace to the people to select a show girl.

Later, when he returned to the palace, Li Shi naturally made great contributions, and was directly appointed by Zhu Youxiao as the admiral eunuch of the Suzhou and Hangzhou Manufacturing Bureau, in charge of the handover of silkworms and foreign merchants.

It is worth mentioning that it was not Huang Huatang who first started to handle the affairs of the imperial merchants, but Li Shi, who had not participated in any battles at all in the past two years and was inconspicuous.

Wei Zhongxian focused on the court, and at first even he ignored this little transparency.

It was not until the signing of the treaty of commerce that the imperial court wanted to establish the imperial chamber of commerce in Suzhou, and the Suzhou-Hangzhou Manufacturing Bureau became the top priority, that Li Shi was moved to the table.

By the time Wei Zhongxian found out that Li Shi occupied such an important position, this guy's power was already not small.

And for Zhu Youxiao, Li Shi has been doing things for himself for many years and is already a confidant.