Cining Palace, evening.

The palace maids and eunuchs who went in and out held their breath and condensed, and they didn't even dare to make a sound, and the princess Li hurriedly came to pass the ceremony, saying that the Shuntian Mansion had a big event in front of him, and the queen mother was immediately furious, and she was furious, and she was waiting for a palace maid who was waiting next to her, and she was waiting for tea next to her, because she was careless, she splashed a little tea on the upper of the queen mother's shoes, and was pulled out to play the board by the angry queen mother. But it scared the palace maids and eunuchs up and down Cining Palace so much that the hairs on their backs stood up, and they only dared to walk on their toes.

Suddenly, the queen Wang Xi'er and the princess Wang came to see the queen mother, and the Empress Dowager Li was angry, but she scolded the queen who was usually quite defending.

"Good son of the mourning family, good husband of yours." Li's face was pale, and his hands were still trembling slightly because of anger, "Now that I have grown up, I have good skills, and I find a good daughter-in-law for the mourning family......" She naturally couldn't say it so naked, saying that her family had suffered a big loss at the hands of the woman of the uncle of the country, so she had to sprinkle her anger on Concubine De, as the so-called, the monk couldn't run the temple.

Sister Wang Xi'er's face is like a silver plate, and her appearance is impeccable, although she may not be beautiful, but her body is plump, her cheeks are like a baby, and her eyes are not big, but she is like a crescent moon under a squint, which is the kind of blessed beauty that was the favorite of the scholars at that time. As for Concubine Wang Gong, she is famous for her fair skin, of course, Wanli doesn't like her very much, and even said in private that she [a floating corpse white, looking at it is annoying], what is floating corpse white? It is to drown in water and then be soaked in water and turn white.

It is said that Nohara and Kazama committed suicide by seppuku at the gate of the Shuntian Mansion Yamen, and they were shocked on the spot, and then, Ino Kozaburo Jingzhai made twenty-two Fuso samurai cut their abdomen at the gate of the Shuntian Mansion at the cost of 600 stone knowledge, and these twenty-two Fuso samurai plus Nohara and Kazama were exactly twenty-four people, which was the number of people who said that they were injured.

Shuntianfu Cheng Jin Wucai and the old man Dugu hiding behind are two wars and faceless, you know, the Ming Dynasty is a peaceful and prosperous era, even the most stubborn enemy Mongolia, has not been Koubian for a long time, although it is said that Jingyou Ziwei mouth, but how many people in Beijing have seen the dead? This is not the Tatar Qing Dynasty, while boasting about the prosperity of Kangqian, countless people will starve to death and freeze to death in winter, the Ming Dynasty has a special shelter, and there are very few beggars, let alone people who die on the street, not to mention such a tragic death.

And Fusang, it is the Warring States, a hundred years of melee, so that the people of Fusang have long been accustomed to it, death is death, now can serve the tea and tea hall, add a good story to the family, and can get 600 stone of knowledge and action, death, what is it?

What especially puzzled the people up and down the Shuntian Mansion and the onlookers was that knowing that it was death, those Fusang barbarians seemed to be not afraid, and they were still scrambling, and even the twenty-two people who came back to kill themselves were all picked out from a bunch of people.

After the death of twenty-four people, there is no one who stops them, so many people cut themselves, how spectacular, the Ming people are convinced of the gods and ghosts, even after the executioner executes the death penalty, they have to wear red and hang colors on the streets, and then set off firecrackers, the condemned prisoners are still so angry, not to mention the twenty-four Fuso samurai who committed suicide?

Cha Cha directly took Ah Chu and Xiao Du and the frightened Oiran out of the Shuntian Mansion, Yi Neng Xiaozaburo Jingzhai looked at the pale and colorless Shuntian Mansion Cheng Jin Wucai and said: If you hurt one, I will pay you for your life, this is enough!

As the saying goes, the barefoot are not afraid of wearing shoes, this is applicable at any time, the people of the Ming Jingshi have a good life, and they are definitely better than the samurai of Fusang (the people of the Ming Dynasty wear shoes, and the Fuso samurai are barefoot, it is extremely normal, a smile), as for those splashy idlers, they can also mix a full meal in the peace, than Fusang, such as the Yuxi family, even the lord has to take the lead in a hunger strike every ten days to save food, why do these splashy idlers take their lives to fight, it's not worth it!

Waiting for Wang Qinian to hurry to the Shuntian Mansion with the Admiral Siyi Pavilion Ma Weina, who was already a corpse, Ma Weina looked at the street at the entrance of the Yamen full of internal organs and blood, his legs immediately weakened, so many people died, it must be impossible to hide, when the time comes, the top will ask someone to ask the top cylinder, I am afraid that I will use myself to ask the top cylinder, for a while, I regret that my intestines are blue, I knew this, I regret not at the beginning! What are you doing fishing in troubled waters?

Or Ma Weina's brother-in-law, Ruan Daxuan, was clever and clever, his face was pale, and he endured his nausea, so he stumbled to the gate of the Shuntian Mansion and scolded, "Dugu Xing, you are a dead eunuch, saying that it was ordered by the Empress Dowager Cisheng that we were not allowed to take care of this matter in Taichang Temple, and now that so many people have died, how can you let Taichang Temple explain to the cabinet?" How to explain to the world? Dugu Xing, you have no eggs, all the officials of our Taichang Temple are from a list of Jinshi, and as soon as they were stirred up by you, a dead eunuch, they fell to the level of not even the county scholars...... Really, I am not afraid of opponents like gods, but I am afraid of friends like pigs and dogs. ”

As soon as he scolded like this, everyone around him suddenly realized that it was the kind of [Oh!] I see......] 's expression, a little smart, even more thoughtful, so he thought about a gossip that was widely spread in Beijing in the eighth year of Wanli.

At that time, the Wanli Emperor was eighteen years old, once drunk and gaffe, drew a sword in the harem to chase and kill the eunuchs, the Empress Dowager Cisheng was furious when she learned about it, and threatened to abolish Wanli and let his younger brother Zhu Yiyi, the king of Lu, take the throne of the emperor.

It is said that this is the royal **, but this matter was spread in Beijing back then, and in the end, it was Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the cabinet at the time, who was furious, and asked Jinyiwei to command Luo Sigong to investigate the matter thoroughly, and this rumor gradually disappeared, but most of the old Yanjing knew about it.

And Wanli ten years, King Lu's wedding, the cost is extremely extravagant, at that time the household book Bi Qiang can not stand it, to the "Ming Huidian" said [the prince set the family gift, gold stop fifty taels, pearl ten taels] as the reason to dissuade, can be for the youngest son to prepare for the wedding of the Empress Dowager Cisheng did not listen to it at all, enough for the youngest son to spend millions of taels of silver to buy all kinds of curiosities, the time recorded in the notes, said [although the Beijing division of the department store extracted, these curiosities and said that the use of corn silk is different, that is, to call merchants to buy, it is difficult to make a profit at the time], this matter, Lao Yanjing was also amazed, saying that King Lu's wedding was the first of all kings, and it was even more extravagant than the wedding of Long Live Lord.

Even this year, the obedient official gave his brother-in-law Zhu Yijun an unknown amount of 100,000 taels of silver, but Wanli had to come up with 500,000 taels of silver, which was earmarked for the construction of King Lu's palace.

Can he not give it? King Lu is his own brother, his mother's favorite youngest son, according to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, the prince is married, and he will go out of Beijing to become a vassal vassal , but King Lu was born in Yanjing for two years, this is still the cabinet Shen Shixing repeatedly took the court officials to the letter, saying that the imperial court ancestral system is so, and forced the Empress Dowager Cisheng to promise to let King Lu be a vassal vassal , which is also the reason why Wanli is grateful to Shen Shixing everywhere, if it is not Shen Shixing, can King Lu be a vassal, this is still two to say!

But this silver is set aside, the officials below have already complained, the governor of Henan wrote that the palace costs a lot, and the minister plans to calculate it, at least 800,000 taels of silver, the lack of 300,000 taels of silver, and ask the emperor to make up for it as soon as possible, otherwise, the people of Henan will suffer!

Henan Governor Zang only this person is a capable person, born in the household department, accounting is a good hand, but also did the Dali Temple Shaoqing acting Dali Temple secretary, famous for his uprightness, and did Shuntian Mansion Yin, do things impartially, even respected by all forces, this person said that there is a gap of 300,000 taels of silver in the Luwang Mansion, Wanli really believes that there is a gap of 300,000 taels.

Just a few days ago, Wanli took advantage of the great victory in the north, and gritted his teeth to allocate 300,000 taels of silver, and now the emperor is doing more and more taste, Haiyan River is clear, opening up territory, or hurry, and dominate the nasty ghost brother to Henan! Ming Law, the vassal king is not allowed to enter the capital without being called, only in this way can he rest assured that his wife will be obsessed with ghosts one day and do something irreparable.

Now that Ruan Da is scolding so much, there are naturally those who have a heart to think about those things, it turns out that we, the ordinary people, have become the knife in the hands of the Empress Dowager Li...... When I think of this, I immediately feel a little disgusted.

No matter how humble a person is, if he is used by others and does not know, he is afraid that he will be disgusted, especially the Ming people, who have already had the germ of ideas such as freedom and equality, such as [the way of the saint is used by the people], this kind of ideological enlightenment can only be born under the soil of the environment of the Ming Dynasty.

As for Ma Weina, who listened to his brother-in-law's scolding, he was suddenly happy in his heart, and immediately looked at his brother-in-law with admiration, and the queen mother tore her face! This can prove how aggrieved our officials of Taichang Temple are...... He is also a decisive person, and immediately stumbled to the door of the Shuntian Mansion, as the commander of the Siyi Pavilion Taichang Temple Shaoqing, he is already the scarlet robe official of the fourth grade, in the eyes of the people, it is already an unattainable high-ranking official, and what he said is naturally more credible than the six-grade official commonly known as [mung bean official].

"Dugu Xing, you are the eunuch in charge of Cining Palace, and you have taken the Empress Dowager's decree not to allow us to take care of Princess Fusang in Taichang Temple, and our Taichang Temple is in charge of royal sacrifices and ceremonial music, originally, listen to the Queen Mother, that's right, but you shouldn't have killed so many people, and when the time comes, Fusang will be angry and treasonous, you are going to nail me to death on the shame frame of Qingshi......" Ma Weina performed with love, he was already singing and doing well, it was really a play among officials, the emperor in the play, this time he burst into tears, The closing of the door in this matter for the holidays was made clear by crying.

Everyone around was stunned, just instigated, but they didn't expect this, so carefully think about it, isn't it, Fusang said, that is also one of the countries set by Emperor Taizu not to be conquered, one of the four Yi and ten pavilions set by Emperor Chengzu, and now the Shuntian Mansion has offended the princess to such an extent, and so many people have died, will it make Fusang angry...... Most of the old Yanjing, are able to [how Emperor Taizu, how Emperor Chengzu how] these words to hang on the lips, all have a certain ability of political analysis, to say something ugly, among the hundred scholars in the world, in the Jinshi, ninety-nine want to find an old Yanjing's long-term follower, just for the long-term follower to be familiar with the Beijing division and officialdom, there is a Ming Dynasty, when it comes to staff, Jiangnan Shaoxing is the most, just like Mr. Qingteng Xu Wenchang to Fujian and Zhejiang Governor Hu Zongxian as a staff member, and when it comes to long-term followers, it must be a person from Beijing, But as an official, if you don't have one or two long-term followers from Beijing around you, you are embarrassed to talk to people.

Of course, this is also a major drawback of the politics of the Ming Dynasty, these long-term followers rely on their fellow villagers, forming a huge interest group, as the so-called, let your officials be as clear as water, it is difficult to escape the slippery officials, this is the truth.

Therefore, Lao Yan Kyoto is very good at analysis, and after listening to Ma Weina's crying, he immediately thought, this Empress Dowager seems to be thirty-nine years old this year! It's really an old lady who is unreliable, isn't this forcing the subordinates to rebel! Where in the world is there such a reason to do things, but these people have forgotten it, and they are not the ones who shout and shout to kill, so it is easy to review the shortcomings of others, but it is extremely difficult to review their own shortcomings, and those who can do it can be called saints.

As for the old man Dugu, his face was already pale, and he was worried about how he would explain to the queen mother, but he couldn't imagine that this Fusang man was so hard-hearted, he committed suicide twenty-four at once, and died so tragically, he was scolded by Ma Weina in it, and his worry and anger made him lose his usual calm, and he rushed out of the Shuntian Mansion at once, and when he arrived at the door of the mansion, he went up and gave Ma Weina a kick, and immediately kicked Ma Weina into a rolling gourd, "Take Ma Ze Oh force...... Ma Weina, when did our family give you the Empress Dowager's decree? ”

It's better if he doesn't come out, as soon as he comes out, everyone takes a look, the eunuch, listening to the tone, it is clear that it is the person next to the Empress Dowager Cisheng, and he has immediately defined this matter, and the old man Dugu kicked Ma Weina a few times after coming out, and scolded Ma Weina in Hangzhou dialect for a few words, he was blown by the wind, and immediately calmed down, and immediately sweated behind his back, and a large piece of wet.

As for Yi Neng Xiaozaburo Jingzhai and Wang Qinian and others, they were naturally sneering on the side, while Taichang Temple Cheng Ruan Da Yan looked at it and stretched out his hand to wipe a cold sweat.

This matter, to this point, is almost clear, Shuntianfu Cheng Jin Wucai fell to the ground with a pop, his face was full of beads of sweat, and now, his best fate is that he is also degraded to the people, and if his luck is worse, I am afraid that he will go to the edict to eat in prison.

When Li Jin, the eunuch of the imperial horse, hurriedly went to tell the Empress Dowager Li about the whole thing, the Li family was naturally so angry that he trembled, and took the opportunity to kill a palace maid before stopping.

Concubine Wang Gong, who gave birth to the eldest son of the emperor to the Ming Dynasty, was originally the palace maid in the palace of the Empress Dowager Li, slightly older than the Wanli Emperor, and was cautious.

There is a reason here, the Li family was also pregnant by King Yu, that is, the later Emperor Longqing, and finally walked step by step to the position of the current queen mother.

"Queen Mother." Concubine Wang Gong was still as respectful as when she was a palace maid before, and gently rubbed her shoulders for the Li family, "Don't be angry, this matter is like this now, why don't you invite Xu Guo and Xu Ge to ask questions?" ”

Li Shi panted and glared at his younger brother Li Jin, "Why don't you go soon?" Li Jin went aggrieved, and Li sighed, "Alas! This home is getting harder and harder. ”

Sister Wang Xi next to her made tea, and the slender jade hand pinched the tea pot, and poured a cup of tea for the Empress Dowager Li.

As for the cabinet, they all knew about it at this time, can they not know such a big matter, a few cabinet elders sighed, and said in their hearts: What do you think about this old lady! wanted to slap someone's face, but he was slapped by someone else.

These elders, all of them are human spirits, and they know the careful thoughts of the Empress Dowager Cisheng! However, they are not optimistic about the Empress Dowager Li, why, the IQ of the Empress Dowager Li is really not good, in a folk saying, nephews are like uncles, look at the virtue of Li Gang, the Marquis of Wuqing, you will feel that Emperor Wanli is really good, if King Lu is the emperor, with King Lu's naughty temper, Daming can toss him and break up.

Dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and the sons born of mice will make holes, when Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that he was not allowed to marry the children of the minister's family, although because of this article, the Ming Dynasty did not have very powerful relatives, but, to be honest, there are really advantages and disadvantages, even, the disadvantages outweigh the advantages, like Wanli, when you meet an uncle like Wuqinghou, it is really unlucky, and even every time Wuqinghou Shizi tells someone [My father is Wuqinghou Li Gang], I am afraid that others will laugh at Wanli, look at the IQ of your relatives, it is really enough.

Shen Shixing coughed first, and then said: "Everyone, let's set a tone for today's matter...... "When he spoke, he was soaking his feet barefoot, and someone carefully cut the blisters on the soles of his feet, applied essential oil, and carefully rubbed them until they were red and hot, and the rest of the pavilion elders were like this, who told them to go to the emperor to plow! As for Emperor Wanli, it is estimated that he has returned to the Qianqing Palace at this time, and he is also listening to the eunuch below to tell him about this matter!

Wang Xijue and Shen Shixing are the same year as the same list, the two are friends, and the two families are almost married, both of them can be said to represent the interests of the merchant group that radiates with Suzhou Mansion as the center, as for Xu Guo and Xu Ge Lao, the family is a Hui businessman, needless to say, it is natural to seek benefits for the Hui businessmen.

In addition, Wang Jiaping Wang Ge is always from Shanxi, Yu Shenxing Yu Ge is always from Shandong, and Yu Shenxing is still Wanli's teacher, although he is not as respected as Shen Shixing, but he is also quite valued.

Now, the cabinet is the last five cabinet elders.

"What can I do?" Wang Xijue touched the half-foot short beard of his chin, and frowned slightly, "Humiliating Princess Fusang in public, more than 20 people died in one breath, and if I say it in the future, the courtiers of my Ming Domain were forced to death by the Queen Mother...... Shame on you! ”

"Yuanyu." Shen Shixing frowned slightly, and said slowly: "Don't say this, the problem must be solved!" ”

These five people, to be honest, are all old foxes, and none of the politicians are clean, and the five of them know that the key to this matter is still on the uncle of the country, but no one, including Shen Shixing, wants to touch that moldy head.

After a while, Yu Shenxing hesitated for a moment and said, "It's better for our cabinet to come forward to appease you, and it's not good to chill the feudal country!" Besides, soon Empress Dowager Li's birthday is coming, if Siyi comes to the court at that time, but this matter is getting bigger and bigger, where will the face of our court go! ”

This Yu Shenxing is still a good man, and he really deserves his name.

Xu Guo Xu Ge couldn't help frowning and said, "It's easy to say to appease, but then, wouldn't it be a loss of face for Empress Dowager Li?" This...... It's not good! ”

As soon as he said this, the rest of the elders frowned, the key is here, to be honest, where is the ultimate root of this contradiction, everyone knows it, when the emperor was young, the Empress Dowager Li often scared the emperor, if you are disobedient, Mr. Zhang came, and took advantage of the emperor's young age to live in the Qianqing Palace, and waited for the emperor's wedding to move out, it is conceivable that the control of this old lady**, if you sum up, the Empress Dowager Li is a typical example of ambition but inability.

Now that the emperor is older, has his own ideas, and has a beloved woman, as the Empress Dowager Li, who has controlled the emperor since she was a child, can she be willing in her heart? Naturally, he sprinkled his anger on Concubine De, and then included all the people around Concubine De.

To put it bluntly, this is a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law war, and Wanli is just a man sandwiched in the middle, that's it, the elders present also have wives and children at home, who doesn't know the truth here, like Yu Shenxing, but also knows the pain, he only has one wife, gave birth to a daughter, no son, the son is a successor, and his wife is the famous Hedong Lion.

For a long time, Shen Shixing sighed while playing a fan, "The grape trellis at home is down, it's embarrassing!" ”

When he said this, several pavilion elders chuckled, Shen Shixing and the maidservant had sex and were caught by the old wife for a current matter, which was made up into a story by the world's readers, and it was conceivable that this spread widely, Wang Xijue immediately joked to him, "The old cat at home slapped his face?" "He is the second assistant, and he is also a friend of Shen Shixing's same year and fellow villager, so he can joke like this.

Shen Shixing stiffened his neck and said: "Yuanyu, don't laugh, in this room, Brother Wujian can laugh......" He meant that Yu Shenxing had only one woman in Wuji, and he was famous for being afraid of his wife, so he had no possibility of being arrested, in fact, Shen Shixing was also famous for being afraid of his wife, but he just used Yu Shenxing to make face.

Although everyone is a cabinet minister, but it should be a joke or a joke, and it is not like what ordinary people imagine, to be a cabinet old, it seems that he is sitting in danger and does not eat the fireworks in the world, how is it possible, he should think of a woman like a woman, and he should be torn by his wife like his wife, as long as he is a man, he will be the same on this.

Everyone laughed for a while, and Wang Xijue said, "Why don't you let Ma Weina, the young secretary of Taichang Temple in the Admiral Siyi Pavilion, act as the secretary of Taichang Temple, and let him negotiate with Princess Fusang?" ”

As soon as he said this, everyone immediately clapped their hands and laughed, and they all said that it was wonderful, that Mavina was obviously on the verge of defection and threw himself to the other side, in this case, give him some benefits, let him do things for the cabinet, what is this so-called acting Taichang Siqing affairs, what is it equivalent to! It is equivalent to the so-called deputy department-level cadres in later generations who enjoy the treatment of the main hall, and they are obviously beneficial and not expensed, and the ministers are really old foxes.

When it was a melting place, a person suddenly bumped into outside, and when everyone looked at it, Shen Shixing immediately frowned first, "Song Jiu, what are you doing here?" What a system! ”

"Wanli Ye was compiled? "579 Biography" wrote: "Recently, there are people who have written "579 Biography", and the cover refers to the first Jiangling, Wuxian, and Taicang, and the three-phase public slave is also ......" is Zhang Juzheng's house slave You Qi, Wang Xijue's house slave Wang Wu, and Shen Shixing's house slave Song Jiu, which was called 579 by the people of the time, which allowed the famous people at that time to write wild history as a biography, and it is conceivable how powerful these three people were at that time.

That Song Jiu was sweating profusely, and said out of breath: "Master, master...... Master Zhang Siwei drove the crane immortal to ......"

Puff puff puff, the elders stepped on the basin one after another, and the water spilled all over the ground, Shen Shixing's face was full of disbelief, Zhang Siwei died?

The small water room of the cabinet was full of joy, but at this time, it suddenly disappeared, and several cabinet elders glanced at each other, and immediately became jealous of each other.

Zhang Siwei is the first assistant, he only goes home to keep filial piety, Shen Shixing is only the acting first assistant, the position of the first assistant of the cabinet is actually still vacant, and now Zhang Siwei is dead, then, doesn't it mean that the court will push, and the position of the cabinet elder will be vacated after Da Jiuqing and the Taoist officials, so it is really hard to say who the first assistant will be!

The Ming Dynasty's ceremony is very strict, first by the Great Jiuqing and Kedao to select the candidates, and then the candidate speech, equivalent to a speech, how will I govern after I come to power, and then, by secret ballot, generally speaking, the elected are some highly respected officials, and it can be called fair, Jiuqing and Kedao will often be pushed by the officials of the court to start a heated debate...... In short, the Ming Dynasty's court push is more reasonable and open, which also leads to the scholars and doctors valuing the court push, thinking that the court push is reasonable and legitimate, as for the special one, there is likely to be cheating, as for the promotion of the Zhongzhi, that everyone looks down on, and even some officials will feel ashamed because they are not official channels for officials, and they will not give up, which is also common in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

For a while, the elders forgot about the harmony of Fang Cai, and all their minds were focused on this upcoming court push, and even the humiliation of Princess Fusang might lead to unpredictable consequences, and the elders didn't care about it.

"Elder Xu Ge." Another person broke in from outside, "Gonggong Li, the eunuch of the imperial horse, please say that you have something to say......

Several pairs of eyes suddenly focused on Xu Guo and Xu Ge Lao, Xu Guo hurriedly wiped his feet, jumped out with his shoes on, and looked like there was a trace of the calmness of the elder Ge Lao, Shen Shixing's eyes narrowed, Wang Xijue touched his chin thoughtfully, Yu Shenxing looked up at the ceiling, Wang Jiaping looked down at the water on the ground...... The people had their own thoughts.

(To be continued)