Yue Su's twists and turns were earlier than Yue Su and Zhang Guoji's entry into the capital. The fold first came to the hands of the cabinet, and if it was usual, the cabinet would have written down the handling opinions, but this time, not a word was written, and it was sent directly to the celebrant supervisor. It's about Uncle Guo, half of it is a state affair, half of it is a family affair, Yue Su is looking for trouble by himself, why should Ye Xianggao follow him.

Wei Zhongxian received the setback, he pondered for a long time, with the help of this matter, it was good to use it to fight the queen, but a few days ago, Wei Guangwei entered the cabinet, which set off a lot of twists and turns, which caused the Donglin Party to be very dissatisfied, and it was only by relying on the emperor's insistence that Wei Gonggong succeeded. Seeing that the New Year is approaching, the emperor's mood is not bad, if he talks nonsense and fills up the emperor, it is not a good thing. No matter what, Gonggong Wei has not yet reached the point where he covers the sky with one hand. In the end, he still decided to learn from Ye Xianggao and kick the ball to the emperor, what the emperor likes to do, anyway, whether it is good or bad, it is all your Yue Su's responsibility. The fold was presented to the emperor, but Carpenter Zhu did not express his position immediately, and told Liuzhong for the time being.

This kind of thing spread the fastest, and it didn't take half a day to spread into Kunning Palace, when everyone in the world thought that Empress Zhang would be angry, but she was calm and didn't show any attitude. Even when the emperor went to Kunning Palace for the night at night, Zhang Yan didn't say a word.

She didn't mention it, but when it was time to go to bed, Carpenter Zhu spoke.

"Concubine Ai, today I received Yue Aiqing's memo to impeach Uncle Guo for three major crimes, one is to resist the decree and disobey the order, the second is to bring evil slaves to fight against the official army, and the third is to be pampered and arrogant, stirring up the governor's behavior. These three crimes are capital crimes, and I once gave him the dragon head to kill even if he met an illegal royal relative, but he did not do so, but asked me to decide. Uncle Guo is your own brother, and it is embarrassing for me to live a good life. Carpenter Zhu took Zhang Yan's hand and said in a soft tone.

"Your Majesty, my brother is pampered and coquettish, he has committed unforgivable sins, he has failed the grace of the king, and the concubines are really ashamed. Yue Shaobao's law enforcement is like a mountain, he did not cut first and then played, he has already taken care of the face of his concubines, how dare the concubines ask His Majesty for grace and ask the emperor for forgiveness. How to deal with it, please also ask the emperor to judge, and the concubines will not complain. Although Zhang Yan is virtuous and virtuous, she has not reached the point of destroying her relatives in righteousness, so saying this is just her shrewdness. If you ask for grace, you will definitely be truthful, Wei Zhongxian and Ke Yinyue are staring at it there, and if there is a slight difference, the implication will be greater. Speaking like this, it will win the emperor's sympathy.

Her thoughts were not bad at all, and sure enough, Carpenter Zhu's tone was even more gentle, "Aifei, you think about me everywhere, but you are ashamed of me." Originally, I thought that when you heard this, you would definitely cry and beg me to forgive my uncle, but you are righteous and awe-inspiring, worthy of your mother's honor in the world, I am not as good as you. Uncle Guo is your own brother after all, killing him, Qing must be sad and sad, thinking that Qing has just given birth to a dragon son, and his body is not in harmony, how can he be hit by this again. Otherwise, he will be spared the death penalty and severely punished. What about the concubine? ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness. It's just that the concubine is afraid of falling into the truth, and some people will say that the harem interferes in politics and confuses the king. Zhang Yan said.

"Whatever, I am the emperor, and the power of life and death is still in my hands. It was decided, the court staff was twenty, and the prison of the Punishment Department was squatted for two months, and then he was asked to think about it behind closed doors. "Carpenter Zhu is a person who rarely makes up his mind, but few people can change what he insists on.

The Holy Will was not immediately issued, because Carpenter Zhu wanted to wait for Yue Su to come back and recalculate with him to see what Yue Su meant.

Zhang Guoji and Mrs. Taikang entered Beijing three days before Yuesu, after entering Beijing, Mrs. Taikang asked to meet the queen, and the will was immediately approved.

Zhang Yan just made a false promise, and promised on the surface that she would send her mother away, and she didn't even mention it to the emperor.

Yue Su finally entered Beijing, and after entering the city, he first returned to Shuntianfu to settle down, Zhang Zhongxin and Zhang Rong were temporarily imprisoned, and then entered the palace to face the saint.

Still in the Yangxin Palace, the two monarchs and ministers met again, first to say goodbye, and Zhu Youxiao asked Yue Su to tell him the experience of governor Henan. Yue Su told the emperor about what he did when he entered Henan, 1510, what was forcibly requisitioned food, helping the people outside the city, skillfully breaking the dragon gang, killing corrupt officials, local tyrants and inferior gentry, raiding homes for disaster relief, the assassination of Yanshi County, and the verdict of Luoyang City.

After Yue Su finished speaking, Zhu Youxiao asked again: "Aiqing, Uncle Guo has now been escorted back to Beijing, what do you plan to do?" ”

"Your Majesty, Uncle Guo is the queen's brother after all, and the minister does not dare to deal with it arbitrarily, and everything is still subject to Your Majesty's ruling." This is the rhetoric that Yue Su has summed up along the way. Now that they have all escorted people back to Beijing, it is better for me not to say a word on the issue of how to deal with it.

For Yue Su did not say that he wanted to kill or cut, Zhu Youxiao was very satisfied, and said with a smile: "What Aiqing said is right, let the queen's brother after all, after the queen gave birth to the dragon son, his health is not very good, if this is the reason, and then affects the body, I don't think it's appropriate." Otherwise, the court staff will be twenty, and the prison of the Punishment Department will be closed, so that he will suffer more hardships, remember his surname for a long time, and then let him think about it behind closed doors. What does Aiqing think? ”

Yue Su understood that this was a disposition prepared by the emperor in advance, so why bother to fight with the emperor, so he immediately agreed.

In this way, Liu Mingguo went to Shuntian Mansion again, rewarded Zhang Zhongxin with 20 court rods, and then handed him over to the prison of the Criminal Department.

In the next day, the emperor gave a lot of delicacies from the mountains and seas, silk and satin, jewelry and jade, and a small banquet for three days, a big banquet for five days, and Yuesu was accompanied in the palace.

On the first day of the first lunar month, it is the emperor's banquet 'Sude Palace', and the time of the will is at noon, and the queen will also attend the meal. But it's strange to say that the emperor actually issued an order to invite the county lord Mu Tianjiao to go with him. Although Mu Tianjiao said that after entering Beijing, she presented an excerpt to the emperor to greet her and greet the New Year, it stands to reason that it is enough for the queen to meet her once at most, and no one understands why she was summoned.

Mu Tianjiao didn't understand this very well, but the reason was very simple, that is, Mu Qiyuan, the prince of Qianguo, also gave the emperor a discount, the content was very vague, on the surface it was a New Year's greeting, and he mentioned it slightly, "The little girl and Yue Su came to the capital together, asked Your Majesty for peace, and hoped that Your Majesty would take care of one or two." ”

After this excerpt was presented to the emperor, Mu Tianjiao's greeting and New Year's greetings also arrived, and Carpenter Zhu simply handed over the two excerpts to Zhang Yan together, and asked Zhang Yan to meet with Lord Mu. What the two talked about, no one knew, but after a while, the emperor sent a decree to let Mu Tianjiao go with Yue Su, and he didn't even mention Yue Su's wife.

Yue Su packed up and prepared early in the morning, and when he first arrived, there was a rumor outside the door that someone came to pay New Year's greetings to Yue Su. Lord Yue's popularity is really not very good, other high-ranking officials are full of guests in the past few days, as far as his Shuntian Mansion is concerned, it is very deserted, that is, his family entertains himself at home, but it is also comfortable and peaceful.

Hearing that someone came to visit the New Year, Yue Su wondered and asked, "Can someone report to their home?" ”

The messenger replied: "The person who came claimed to be surnamed Xiong, the male was called Xiong Zhaogui, and the female was called Xiong Hu, and he only said that he would give New Year's greetings to the adults. ”

Last name Xiong? Yue Su really didn't know any characters surnamed Xiong, but everyone came to pay New Year's greetings early in the morning, and they couldn't close the door.

Yue Su waited in the flower hall, and after a while, he saw a pair of young men and women walking into the flower hall. The man can look like twenty-four or five, with a tall figure and an extraordinary appearance. The female can be about twenty years old, and she is handsome and pretty.

The two came to the center of the flower hall, and without waiting for Yue Su to speak, they knelt directly on the ground, "Little nephew Xiong Zhaogui, niece Xiong Hu, give New Year's greetings to uncle in law." Then, the two said a lot of New Year's greetings.

After speaking, he presented the New Year's greeting sticker and gift. What they gave was just an ordinary four-color gift, nothing special, nor expensive, and they also knew Yue Su's surname.

Yue Su once again wondered in his heart, how could these two people call themselves uncle, not much younger than him. hurriedly said: "The two of you are invited to get up quickly, the headquarters and the two have never been alive, how can they be uncles and nephews, don't you recognize the wrong person." ”

Xiong Zhaogui and Xiong Hu stood up, and then they heard Xiong Zhaogui say: "My father and my lord are ministers in the same hall, so I call my lord my uncle." ”

"Oh?" Yue Su was stunned again, in Beijing Ren Shuntianfu, it has not been a day or two, most of the people in the Manchu Dynasty know each other, I haven't heard of any surname Xiong, why did one pop up today, and he was a minister in the same palace as himself? Yue Su said puzzledly: "I don't know the name of my father? ”

"My father's surname is Xiong, his name is Shangting and Xiabi, he once served as the deputy capital of Yushi, and Liaodong Jingluo, but now, he has been a prisoner under the criminal department." Xiong Zhaogui said sadly.

Xiong Tingbi!

Hearing this name, Yue Su's heart was shocked, it seemed that in his previous life, he vaguely remembered this name, and it seemed that he was still a very capable general. However, what kind of official Xiong Tingbi had been, and how he died later, Yue Su did not know. He said curiously: "It turned out to be the children of Lord Xiong, I don't know what the two of you are looking for here to find the Ministry of Hospital?" And because he was in prison? ”

There is a bit of a preamble to say this, but there is also a reason, everyone has brought out their father's name, and I can't say that I don't know him. So, the sentence in front of him is no different from the kind words of the long-admired daimyo.

I don't even know the two of them, but they come to pay New Year's greetings, so they must have something to ask for. Yue Su was the same as Spiegel in his heart, that is, when his father was in prison in the Criminal Department, he must have begged himself to help overturn the case or something.

"Back to my uncle's words, the reason why my father was imprisoned was because he disagreed with the governor Wang Huazhen when he was passing through Liaodong the year before last, so he suffered this disaster. At that time, the governor of the king was in charge, and his father was in charge, and his father thought that the Tartar cavalry was strong, and if they took the initiative to attack, they would inevitably fail miserably. And Governor Wang did not listen to his father's words, supported the army and respected himself, put his father in the air, in a vain attempt to take the initiative to attack, make meritorious contributions, who would have thought that in the first month of last year, the enemy chieftain led 50,000 horses and horses, and attacked Liaoxi in three ways. Cross the Liao River and capture Xiping Fort. Governor Wang sent out the defenders of Guangning and Luyang to attack the Houjin army, and the 30,000 troops were annihilated. At the same time, Sun Degong, a spy sent into Quang Ninh by the Later Jin side, provoked a mutiny and opened the city gate to welcome the Later Jin army. Governor Wang fled from Quang Ninh in embarrassment, met his father in Youtun, and asked him to try to defend himself against the Tartars. And my father was angry because the governor of the king did not obey his words and made his own opinions, so he gloated and ridiculed lightly, and then did not die to serve the country, fulfilled the responsibility of guarding the land, and passively retreated into Shanhaiguan. Then Wang Huazhen also retreated into the pass, the entire Liaodong outside the Shanhai Pass was completely occupied by the Tartars, the news reached Yanjing, the emperor was furious, the father and the governor of Wang were arrested and listened to the trial, and then the trial of the criminal department and Dali Temple, sentenced to beheading, but temporarily not executed. Although my father was guilty, the situation at that time was indeed powerless, and adults could investigate it in detail. After his father was imprisoned, only Yang Dada, the deputy capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, interceded on his behalf, but the emperor did not allow it. The little nephew came this time in the hope that his uncle would say on behalf of his father that he would not die, and the nephew was grateful. ”

Speaking of this, Xiong Zhaogui and Xiong Hu knelt down again, kowtowed to Yue Su three times, and then, Xiong Hu said: "My father is loyal to the imperial court, and his heart can be said to be the moon, and now the situation in Liaodong is still unstable, and the imperial court is still employing people. If the father dies, isn't it the pain of the relatives and the happiness of the enemy, so the niece has the courage to ask her uncle to say on her behalf, spare the father's life, and the father will be a horse leather shroud to repay the emperor's life. Looking at the world, he can say that the emperor can be moved, and the only one whose surname is his uncle is his uncle. As long as the father can keep his surname, the niece is a slave and a maid, and she is willing. ”

After speaking, the two brothers and sisters kowtowed to Yue Su again. Xiong Hu's words are true, but the sentence "The father's surname is life, only the uncle" is a bit exaggerated, and there are at least two people in the government and the opposition who can save Xiong Tingbi's surname. One is naturally Gonggong Wei, and the other is naturally Ye Xianggao, the head of the cabinet. It's just that Xiong Tingbi said that it was the Donglin Party, which was nonsense, and people had nothing to do with the Donglin Party at all, but Wang Huazhen was indeed guaranteed by the Donglin Party, but later jumped ship and voted for Wei Gonggong. You must know that when Xiong Tingbi was in Liaodong, the power of Gonggong Wei was not as big as it is now, and most of the power was in the hands of the Donglin Party.

Xiong Zhaogui and Xiong Hu once begged Wei Zhongxian, but Wei Gong's public price was high, and the two couldn't afford to pay the silver. At present, there is one more Yue Su in the hot figure in the court, and Lord Yue is the famous Qingtian, so the two brothers and sisters came to pay New Year's greetings with an attitude of trying, hoping that Yue Su could ask for his father's life.

After listening to what they said, Yue Su secretly wondered in his heart whether he wanted to help or not. It was the memory of his previous life that helped him make a decision, talents are rare, and when the country is employing people, leaving Xiong Tingbi's life may really be able to play a role at a critical moment. Yue Su is still clear about the direction of history, the Ming Dynasty will be replaced by the Qing Dynasty in the next few years, and the useful people will be preserved to serve the country in the future war.

At that moment, Yue Su said: "Hurry up, the two of you, please get up, the country is indeed employing people, Lord Xiong's talent is rare, how can the ministry sit idly by." In this way, wait for the headquarters to personally visit the prison of the criminal department to see how the venerable father is doing, and then go to the saint. ”

He also wanted to see if Xiong Tingbi was a real talent.

(To be continued)