After enjoying more than ten years of peace and prosperity, the rich and noble city of Beijing has reached the realm of day and night, and the street markets in various parts of the capital are becoming more and more prosperous year by year, although the night in early spring is still a little cool, but it can not stop the citizens from bringing their families and mouths, if they are interested in the night market, eating, drinking and having fun. After nightfall, the store provoked all kinds of lights to attract the citizens who came out to play.

Voices.

Located in the tobacco bag alley in the north of the city, close to the Shichahai night market in the capital, although there is no street here, there are no lights, but you can hear the noisy selling and laughter outside.

There was also laughter in the alleys. The second house in the east is the mansion of Wu Zhongxing, the lord of Hanlin.

He was detained for more than ten days because he wrote a letter to persuade Zhang Juzheng's father (mother) to mourn, and his family was worried for more than ten days. Today was finally released and went home, although he is no longer allowed to be a Beijing official, but if he can come back safely, the whole family will already be Amitabha.

Perhaps after this difficulty, Wu Zhongxing figured out something, he declined the celebration banquet set up by his colleagues in Bolun Building, and wanted to have a reunion dinner with his wife and children at home. It's just that the neighbors came to congratulate him, so that this meal was always uneasy, so he simply asked the restaurant to send a few tables of noodles over, one is that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, thank everyone for taking care of them these days: the other is that he is about to leave Beijing, just to say goodbye to everyone.

This meal was eaten from the beginning of the day and continued until the time of the day, when the neighbors dispersed.

Wu Zhongxing drank a lot, but he was a little drunk, so he asked his wife to clean up the cups and plates, and only make a decanting soup from the leftover fish. He laughed with a pair of teenage children.

The youngest daughter had a little temper because her father ignored her all night, Wu Zhongxing hugged her, and said with a flattering smile: "Good girl, Dad sings a song for you, okay?" ”

The daughter was happy, clapped her little hands and said, "Listen, I'll listen." ”

Wu Zhongxing cleared his throat and sang: "Moonlight, bright." Lotus leaves are green and loquat yellow.

Brother and show talent. Ride a white horse across the lotus pond.

Lotus pond side, planting leeks. Leek hua, married family.

In front of my in-laws' house is a fish pond, and the carp is eight feet long.

One tail is served with shochu, and the other tail is given to the water girl......"

In the slightly drunken southern Jiangsu folk songs, the heavy sound of running came from the purpose of the Shicha sea mark, and the people playing on the street hid in panic while looking at the foot team holding torches high in horror.

The people who came were all eunuchs from the Da Nei Ti Criminal Division, and no one from the Jinyi Guard of the Suppression Division came.

A pair of feet wearing spiked boots are like iron hooves, stepping through the peace and tranquility of the common people and crushing the fragile wealth, they are on a rampage, not going straight to turn over a few stalls, kicking and breaking a few bottles and cans.

In this piece of chickens, flying dogs, and jumping into the tobacco bag alley.

The people in the alley looked at it, but they heard a reckless scolding: "Go in!" Abandon the house! ”

"The Criminal Division has a business trip! Irrelevant people, etc., quickly avoid! ”

Those people who probed their brains were so frightened that they hurriedly retracted their heads, and those who moved a little later inevitably had to take a few hits.

Doors are shut. The entire cigarette pouch alley was cordoned off by the men of the Criminal Division. The eunuch led a group of soldiers to the door and hung "Wu Mansion, the lantern stood at the door of the house, and immediately knocked on the knocker, bursting out: "Open the door!" Open the door! Open the door! ”

In Wu's house, Wu Zhongxing's wife, Wang, was holding a bowl of hot and sour soup at this time, and had just walked to the door of the front hall, when she was suddenly stunned by the sound of the knocker that shook the sky. This terrible voice, which has become a child, her nightmarish dream has not been released by her husband as soon as he is released, but it sounded again.

"Who" Wang tried to control the fear in his heart, but his hands still trembled, and some soup splashed.

"The palace mentions the criminal division! On the order of Qin, arrest the criminal officer Wu Zhongxing, and open the door quickly," the person outside said loudly, and then the door knocker slammed.

With a bang, the bowl in Wang's hand fell to the ground.

Wu Zhongxing's face was frightened at first, and then he was relieved. The daughter was so frightened that she hugged her father tightly and got into his arms, and the son snuggled up to him in horror. Wu Zhongxing gently patted the back of his children, soothed a few words softly, and then raised his head and said to his wife: "It seems that the emperor has always refused to let me go. He said apologetically to his wife: "I know that you can take care of my mother's orphans, and I have no regrets even if I die!" ”

After speaking, he stood up, faced the south and bowed to the old mother of his hometown, and said loudly: "My son is dead, there are other sons who can serve you!" Then he stood up and said loudly, "Nizi, bring me the wine!" ”

Wu Zhongxing's son was already sensible, and he was very courageous at the moment, he poured his father full of wine and served it.

At this time, the gate was finally kicked open, and the leather boots of the eunuch with iron nails stepped into the open door of the house intensively, and the small courtyard was trembling with those feet.

Wu Zhongxing turned a blind eye, took a bowl of spirits and threw it up, then handed it to his wife, and said with a gentle smile: "I'm leaving" After speaking, he no longer looked at his wife and children who cried into tears.

The eunuch stared at him tightly and said, "You are Wu Zhongxing, the editor of Hanlin?" ”

Wu Zhongxing nodded and said, "I am." ”

"Locked 1," the eunuch shouted.

Two powerful eunuchs stepped forward as ordered, one wrapped a ring iron chain around Wu Zhongxing's neck, and then tightened, and a copper lock clasped his neck and locked it with a click. At the lower end of the chain was a hand, which quickly cuffed his hands and clicked shut. The other squatted down and first put one shackle around Wu Zhongxing's left foot, and then another ring shackle around his right foot, the two shackles were less than five inches apart, and with a click, they were locked by a large lock.

This set of shackles is the famous "tiger and wolf set", no matter who it is, no matter how strong the martial arts are, they are all in vain after wearing them. In the official government, it was used to punish the strong martial arts Jiang Yang thieves, but in the factory guard, it was used to lock the emperor's angry officials, and the name was changed to "Jin Ping Ping", which meant more humiliation than its actual effect. When Hai Jui was arrested, it was this set of torture equipment that was put on it.

In the crying of his wife and children, Wu Zhongxing was picked up and dragged out......

The same thing happened in the Bolun Building, except for Wu Zhongxing, who did not come, and the other three joined the banquet here.

The wolf-like eunuch rushed in, and the feast came to an abrupt end, and the cups and plates shattered to the ground.

The officials are naturally not so good-looking, but the eunuchs have been suppressed in recent years, and they have long hated the civil officials. There is a chance to turn over at this moment, where will I be polite to them? There was a wave of whips, and the unarmed civil officials fell to the ground one after another, and many of them had broken heads and bleeding, blue noses and swollen faces, and did not stop the criminal department from arresting people.

When the people from the Criminal Division went downstairs, the officials helped each other to get up. Wiping a handful of blood from his face, Bu Yuanbiao said miserably, "How can this be? Is there a king ......" The crowd was all immersed in shock, and no one could answer him.

The news of the re-arrest of Wu Zhongxing and the other four spread throughout the major yamen in the capital early the next morning through the beaten officials. For a while, everyone's mood was heavy, since the Longqing period, the officialdom of the capital, which had been clear skies, was finally shrouded in black clouds Everyone knows that this is the emperor who is dissatisfied with the verdict and wants to skip the law and execute the trial on his own.

Sure enough, before the hour arrived, the palace issued an edict to the ministers: "Wu Zhongxing, Zhao Yongxian and the other four people disrespected the monarch's father and framed the auxiliary ministers, and the crime was extremely evil, and it should be punished severely." The judgment of the judicial department was too light, and the court officials fined Dai for half a year, and gave a light punishment. It is now sentenced that Wu Zhongxing and Zhao Yongxian, each with a court staff of 60, will be demoted to a gangster, and will never be used, and Aimu Shen Sixiao and the two, the circumstances are more serious, and the court staff will be added to 20 each, and they will be exiled for 3,000 miles, and they will be exiled on the border" and another oracle said: "Tomorrow's court, order all officials to be punished at noon, and all will be forbidden to be absent!" ”

As soon as the decree was made, public opinion was in an uproar, and all officials knew what the court staff meant, which was one of the most severe rewards and punishments for officials. Only those who directly annoy the emperor will be punished by this heavy punishment, the big stick of the staff is made of chestnut wood, and the end of the blow is cut into a mallet, and it is wrapped with an iron sheet, and there is a barb on the iron sheet. If the executioner shows no mercy, needless to say 60 strokes, it is 30 strokes, and the flesh and skin of the prisoner will be torn to pieces.

Everyone especially remembers the tragic situation of Feng Bao being killed by a live rod, and now the tortured ones are replaced by civil officials, how can you expect those eunuchs to show mercy? Therefore, when they heard that the four of them were going to be beaten by the court staff, their colleagues, the same year, and their fellow villagers and friends were all shocked and changed color, and they tried to rescue them in a hurry.

Even those officials who have nothing to do with the four of them can't help but feel sad about the death of the rabbit and the fox. Well, the emperor who is less than young is so domineering, which can't help but remind them of the youth of Shimiao. Could it be that the dark days of the former cadres and the silence of hundreds of officials are about to come again? Immediately, all the officials put down their errands and talked about this matter with apprehension, although they were not the ones who received the rod, they were very worried, what kind of changes would the toughness expressed by the Wanli Emperor bring to this country where everything is improving?

For middle- and lower-level officials, they worry about whether this will be the end of everyone's happy life: for high-ranking officials, they are worried, does this mean that the days of turning over and calling the shots are gone?

Naturally, in the original love game, Dada, who had been connected and silent, couldn't sit still. Gathering together, one yamen after another signed petitions and collectively submitted letters. Soshu passed it directly from the noon gate and flew to the celebrant like snowflakes.

Seeing so many rescue movements, Wanli was naturally a little flustered, but it confirmed the feeling in his heart that the civil officials were a gang. I simply didn't look at it, and hid in the Imperial Garden. Although there is a rule that "the music does not stay in the middle, but there is a time limit, and it can only be understood after three days.

Guessing that the little emperor had no fear, everyone's eyes were on the Wenyuan Pavilion inside the Huiji Gate, and they were expecting Lord Shoufu to turn the runaway situation back on track...... Of course, everyone also knows that this central purpose is to bypass the cabinet, and Lord Shoufu himself is very embarrassed, and it is indeed a bit of a force to let him stand out for everyone. But who made him the first assistant? That's when you have to stand up.

Shen Mo asked for the face of the saint at the first time, but the eunuch spread the word that the emperor had rubella and needed to be abandoned, and he would wait for the saint to heal.

The emperor couldn't see it, the book sank into the sea like a stone, and the prisoner was also locked up in the prison of the Criminal Division, and now Lord Shoufu was gone.

Many people looked at the six branches again, and said, don't you have the right to refute it, and return this will.

The people of the six departments smiled bitterly: "It is the criminal department that takes the person, and the one who executes the punishment is the pacification department, so people naturally have to obey the emperor's orders, and we can't control it!" ”

Is there really no way but to watch the emperor go his own way? Just when everyone was at a loss, someone finally realized that there was one more person who could also solve the situation in front of them. That is Zhang Juzheng, the second assistant who is mourning at home. At least in general, the emperor wanted four court staff in order to make Zhang Ge Lao angry, so as long as Zhang Ge Lao was willing to write a book to intercede for them, he could naturally be spared.

Considering that Zhang Ge Lao must be in a rumor now, he can't stand the stimulation. So everyone came to the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry and begged Zhu Heng and Master Zhu to persuade Zhang Gelao, believing that as a senior of the same party, Zhang Juzheng would still listen to him. Zhu Heng also felt that if he continued to resist like this, it would not be beneficial for Zhang Juzheng at all, so he promised to ask for it. At noon on the same day, I came to Zhang Juzheng's house.

In just a few days, Zhang Juzheng has lost a lot of weight, and his eyes are sunken and haggard, how can he still look like a graceful and beautiful man. He knew that Zhu Heng was here to be a lobbyist, so he knelt in the filial piety curtain and refused to come out to speak, Zhu Heng didn't stand or kneel, so he had to sit cross-legged on the ground and try his best to explain to those people. He said that this group of young people, young and presumptuous, did not know the consequences of this. But Jiangling should know that once this court cane is beaten, you will always stand on the insistence of the hundred officials. Now that the emperor is furious, only if you write to rescue them can you avoid a catastrophe.

It should be said that Lao Zhu Heng has already elaborated to the point, but he doesn't know that Zhang Juzheng is already difficult to ride a tiger. In fact, as soon as Hai Rui was sentenced, he knew that people's hearts were not on his side at all, and it was pointless to rely on them any longer, and he had a desire to go in his heart. In his reply to the emperor, the explanations he made were just to wake up the little emperor, let him know the horror of the enemy, and also lay the groundwork for his future recovery.

Who knew that Wanli was so moved, he didn't know what it meant to move with a camera, and he wanted to solve the problem with such a simple and reckless way. It's a pain for yourself......@