Chapter 545: Behind the Truth
Empress Dowager Li came to Zhang Fan to ask what happened, and Zhang Fan also told the truth, but this truth is really a lot of water, he did not tell the Empress Dowager Li everything without reservation, and left some, even, there are some things that Zhang Fan does not know, but through its speculation, it is also a matter of ** inseparable from ten, and he did not say it to Empress Dowager Li.
Therefore, Zhang Fan's words just now just told the Empress Dowager Li that there was someone behind this matter, but Zhang Fan didn't say who it was, Empress Dowager Li is now asking people to investigate this matter, and the person who is most likely to be implicated, Feng Bao will definitely be involved, but Feng Bao is this kind of person who sits and waits to be killed, he must have thought of a way out before he acted.
In Zhang Fan's view, maybe in the future, Feng Bao will be implicated, and Empress Dowager Li will have any suspicions about him, but in the final analysis, these doubts are still not worthy of Empress Dowager Li's trust in him Feng Bao, so Zhang Fan said these words, it seems that he is telling Empress Dowager Li a lot of things, but in fact, many of them are insignificant, and Feng Bao will be fine in the end.
In fact, Zhang Fan's words to the Empress Dowager Li, the one who was most implicated should be Zhang Juzheng, or rather, even if Zhang Fan didn't say anything to the Empress Dowager Li just now, it must be Zhang Juzheng who will be the most involved.
Regardless of what happened to the fold, or what happened to the eunuch Wang Shan who went to send the fold, but one point, after all, the fold did not reach Zhu Yijun's hands, and this matter is indisputable.
When Empress Dowager Li knows about this matter, she will inevitably ask Zhu Yijun, since he is not familiar with the ministers in the court, why did he choose this person to be the secretary of the ministry, as long as Empress Dowager Li asks so, she will know that this person was recommended by Zhang Juzheng, so at that time, no matter how much conspiracy this matter feels behind people, Zhang Juzheng will not be able to run, and his name will definitely be counted in it.
However, Zhang Fan said this not because he had completely broken with Zhang Juzheng, but because Zhang Fan knew in his heart that Zhang Juzheng would not be hurt at all.
It has been said before that now it is the Empress Dowager Li who is in charge, and the two most favored are Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng, and compared with these two, Feng Bao is more favored by the Empress Dowager Li than Zhang Juzheng, and the power he holds is better than Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant scholar of the cabinet, and even now, Zhang Juzheng has to listen to Feng Bao.
But today's things are not just such a simple fact, it is not like that, Empress Dowager Li needs to be in charge of the government, it is better to say that she needs the court to develop slowly under her wishes, and if she wants this, what she needs is not a person like Feng Bao, who has power in her hands, but only knows how to use intimidation and power to oppress the ministers of the court and make them obedient.
Although this is not a bad way, and the effect is also very fast, and the overall situation can be controlled in a short time, but Empress Dowager Li is not a stupid person, she knows that although this method will work for a while, but it will not work for a lifetime, he wants to control the power, not only rely on Feng Bao's oppressive method, but also rely on Zhang Juzheng, who is among the courtiers, to achieve her goal with a relatively moderate attitude.
Therefore, in the final analysis, the person who Empress Dowager Li needs to rely on the most is not Feng Bao, who is in power, and what the civil and military eunuchs of the Manchu Dynasty have very big opinions on him to do, and the most important thing is to have Zhang Juzheng to reconcile with him.
Although it is said that now that Zhang Juzheng has joined forces with Feng Bao, he has done a lot of things, so that the hundred officials in the court have long been full of praise for him as they were in the past, but the identity of a civil and military official, after all, is easier for people to accept and control the situation than the identity of a eunuch.
Although Zhang Juzheng now has some estrangement with the officials, he only needs to work hard to repair the relationship, and it won't take long to recover, although by that time, the officials in the DPRK and China will no longer treat Zhang Juzheng as close as in the past, but there will still be some basic things.
Zhang Fan understood such a truth, and he said such a thing to the Empress Dowager Li just now, the reason is that he has understood that no matter what he says, the matter is already doomed, and he will not let this matter be revealed as if nothing happened because of what he said, and similarly, it will not make this matter worse because of what Zhang Fan said to the Empress Dowager Li.
Anyway, that's how things look now.
At this time, there were two knocks at the door.
"Come in," Empress Dowager Li heard the knock on the door and ordered, at this time, there will definitely be no reckless people who don't know the situation to come to look for trouble, it must be the person who Empress Dowager Li just sent to find the eunuch who gave Zhu Yijun yesterday.
The door opened, and sure enough, a little eunuch walked in, and came to the front of the Empress Dowager Li, the little eunuch had just bowed down, and before he could speak, the Empress Dowager Li had already spoken.
"Wang Shanren, have you found it?"
"This ......" The little eunuch didn't know how to answer Empress Dowager Li's words for a while.
"Say it quickly," Empress Dowager Li saw that he didn't say anything, she couldn't help but speak again, she thought something was wrong, and it was inconvenient to say it in front of Zhang Fan, but at this time, Empress Dowager Li couldn't care what happened, in her opinion, it was good to let Zhang Fan listen, maybe she could help her come up with ideas or something.
"Go back to the Queen Mother......" the little eunuch said a little hesitantly, and his face was even more pale, "The slave maid listened to the instructions of the Queen Mother and went to look for the king mountain, but he was not found anywhere, and finally, the slave and maid saw him in the house of the king mountain, but ...... But it'......"
"But what," Empress Dowager Li saw that he didn't say anything, and hurriedly asked, "You are talking to me, what's wrong?"
"That'...... That king mountain, has been ...... He has already committed suicide by hanging himself," the little eunuch said in a trembling voice.
"What," Hearing the news, Empress Dowager Li was shocked, and her body suddenly stood up from her chair, with a look of disbelief on her face, "The hanging beam committed suicide, you can show me clearly,"
"Indeed...... It's suicide," the little eunuch was already scared because he saw the dead body, but now he was frightened by the angry appearance of the Empress Dowager Li, and his legs suddenly became weak, and he fell to the ground with a thud, "How dare the slave deceive the Queen Mother,"
"This good thief, he did something wrong, and he dared to cut himself off like this," Sitting back in the chair, Empress Dowager Li still had an angry face and cursed.
Zhang Fan was on the side, he didn't say anything, after he heard the words of the little eunuch just now, he sneered in his heart, thinking about it, this Wang Shan's suicide is absolutely inseparable from Feng Bao.
However, Empress Dowager Li's words just now made Zhang Fan feel even more funny, hearing that Wang Shan had committed suicide by hanging the beam, Empress Dowager Li's first reaction was that Wang Shan was afraid of the crime and self-judged, Zhang Fan couldn't help muttering in his heart.
Indeed, now that such a big thing has happened, a little eunuch is just a little eunuch, knowing that the matter is actually because of himself, he can't hide from it at all, rather than being found out at that time, suffering all kinds of flesh and blood and dying in pain, it is better to understand himself now, and there is a lot less pain.
However, who can be sure that this Wang Shan really wants to die so much, after all, no matter what, if he wants to commit suicide, it still takes great courage, besides, if he really wants to investigate and arrest this Wang Shan for questioning, he has nothing to fear, after all, the reason why he was not called to Zhu Yijun's hands was not because of Wang Shan's own reasons, but because someone did not let him do that, and then he only needed to tell such a fact.
But the question is here, the person who prevents him from passing on the recitals will naturally not give him a chance to speak, and there is a good saying, only the dead can keep secrets, especially for the Ming Dynasty with Jinyiwei and Dongchang, as long as the prisoners still have a breath, they can find ways to take out something more.
But if Wang Shan is blatantly killed, it will be too obvious, and people can see at a glance that there is a problem, if Empress Dowager Li is unhappy about this and wants to track it down, it may not be possible to find him Feng Bao's body.
But now, this Wang Shan "hangs the beam and commits suicide", although I don't know whether he did it voluntarily, or whether others "helped" him to hang the beam, in short, now it seems that this Wang Shan is obviously because he has done a big wrong thing, so he feels guilty, so this is self-suicide, so there is a relief.
And now, the appearance of Empress Dowager Li is obviously a very good atmosphere for Wang Shan's death, but Zhang Fan has some other thoughts about it.
Empress Dowager Li really didn't have the slightest idea in her heart after listening to Zhang Fan's words just now, Zhang Fan felt that she wouldn't, and it couldn't be, Empress Dowager Li was not such a woman, and her ability to control the government now shows this.
Perhaps, after listening to Zhang Fan's words just now, Empress Dowager Li already had some guesses about this matter in her heart, and even Zhang Fan dared to guess that Empress Dowager Li might already know that Feng Bao was making trouble behind it.
In this case, it is very understandable that Empress Dowager Li is like this now, and it is completely to blame such a big thing on an insignificant little eunuch, although it will make those ministers dissatisfied, but they have no way to say anything.
And Feng Bao's side, there is no need to take any responsibility, and even Zhang Juzheng's side can be resolved, after all, the twists and turns are not sent to Zhu Yijun's hands, and they are not the ghosts of Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng, others can't say anything at all, at most, Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant, has no vision, and he doesn't need to let Ge Shouli go, but he has to use a mediocre talent.