Not long after dinner, Empress Zhang returned to the palace with her brother and sister. When they arrived at Kunning Palace, Hongji had not returned, and only 4 people sat down in the wing. The weather was cold, and a brazier was lit in the temple to drive away the cold.

Empress Zhang was a little worried and frowned. After a while, Liu Jin asked to see him. Under the nod of Empress Zhang, Liu Jin came in with a stack of booklets. After giving the gift, he handed the booklet to Zhu Houzhao, and the three brothers and sisters all picked up a copy and read it.

Not long after reading it, the little girl snorted coldly, handed the booklet to Zhu Houwei, and didn't read it. Empress Zhang couldn't help but be a little puzzled, and asked Zhu Houzhao, "What are you reading?" ”

Zhu Houzhao's face was a little angry, but he still calmed down and replied, "This is a compilation of some of the deeds done by the two uncles in the past few years. ”

Empress Zhang already had some bad premonitions in her heart, so she said, "I'll take a look at it." Zhu Houwei then handed over a copy and handed it to Queen Zhang.

Empress Zhang opened the first page and saw that it was written, "In the 17th year of Hongzhi, on the seventh day of the fifth month, Shou Ningbo sent people to loot the caravan of Shanxi Zhouji Buzhuang, and Zhouji lost 700 horses of Jiangnan silk and 600 horses of Shu brocade, 23 people were injured, and no one died. On May 15, Shou Ningbo's housekeeper led people to rush into Liujiazhai, robbed 2 people's daughters, and injured 17 villagers. On the first day of June, Shouningbo Mansion bought 1,000 acres of high-grade paddy fields from Wudezhai for 1 yuan per mu of silver (the market price is basically between 5 taels and 8 taels). Empress Zhang couldn't stand it anymore, closed the booklet, her face was gloomy, and her whole person trembled slightly, obviously angry.

The three brothers and sisters became nervous, afraid that they would make Queen Zhang angry, so they hurriedly stepped forward to hand over tea and water, patted their backs, and persuaded them one after another.

Empress Zhang quickly calmed down and asked with a hint of hope, "These are all true?" ”

Zhu Houzhao had no choice but to answer, "It's true, the bitter master is here, and the Tian Qi is also there, so you can't fake it." Empress Zhang closed her eyes, exhaled a breath of turbidity, and said, "Why did you come to tell me now?" The little girl immediately explained, "We also found out a few days ago, Gu Dayong came to tell the eldest brother a few days ago that the eldest uncle was going to buy the fish and rice in the Zhuangzi, but the price was extremely low, and Gu Dayong refused, and the eldest uncle said that he would find his mother to sue and punish Gu Dayong. Then the eldest brother and the second brother asked Jin Yiwei to compile the two uncles into a book and copy a copy, which was just finished today and sent it. ”

Empress Zhang was a little puzzled: "Then why haven't you heard of this before?" The little girl was also a little puzzled, only Brother Zhu Houzhao looked at Queen Zhang with a look that you should know. At this time, Empress Zhang also reacted and couldn't help but smile.

At this time, Hongji walked in, smiling, "What's the matter, it's all here, what are you doing around your mother?" Empress Zhang looked at Hongzhi with a little cry and laughter and asked, "My two younger brothers are so unscrupulous outside, why don't you tell me?" ”

The smile on Hongji's face froze, and then he glared at the two Zhu Houzhao brothers. He knew that it must have been these two brothers who had stabbed Empress Zhang for the matter, but now he could only say calmly, "Although Shou Ningbo and Jian Changbo behaved debauched, it was a small mistake after all, and it didn't hurt. Empress Zhang said with some complaint, "It's harmless, except for killing, other evil things have basically been done." Hongji was a little embarrassed, so he had to cough to cover it up.

Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he saw that the three children were tiptoeing out of the side room, and they had already arrived at the door. Hongji shook his head helplessly, and didn't stop the three troublemakers, let them escape, and closed the door before leaving.

The three brothers and sisters arrived at the main hall, talked for a while, and then went back to their rooms. The next day, both Shou Ningbo and Jian Changbo received a holy decree that they should study at home and not step out of the house. Empress Zhang also passed down the message, as for what she said, only Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling knew. But for a period of time, the actions of the two uncles were confusing, and the land they grabbed was returned free of charge, and the robbed girl gave the identity of a concubine, and gave the family a good dowry. The wounded people also gave a few taels of silver as medical expenses, which were done by the two uncles' butlers. Zhou Ji and the doors of several shops in the capital opened early in the morning, and found that there was a burden at the door, and the silver contained in the bag was basically the same value as the looted goods. Several proprietors didn't know what was going on at first, and they were ready to hand over the silver to the government, but when they inquired, they knew the abnormality of the two uncles, and they didn't even go to the famous Qinglou Qifenglou in the capital that they often went to, saying that they were studying poetry and books at home and studying the way of the sage.

Empress Zhang's love for the two younger brothers is well known, the younger brother has no title, and it was Empress Zhang who begged Hongzhi to give this unmeritorious uncle a title. Originally, Empress Zhang was also very happy in her heart, after all, it was her mother's family, and it was also a good conversation to have two earls in one door. But after reading the "Uncle Guo's Action Report" this time, the anger in my heart can be imagined. In addition to killing people, these two younger brothers basically did all the evil things. Not only ruined the style of Zhangjiamen, but also destroyed the image of Hongzhi's Ming Jun, and more importantly, it was a big loss of popular support, it was simply demolishing the platform of the Ming Dynasty, demolishing the platform of Hongzhi, and demolishing the platform of the son of the future lord of the Ming Dynasty, which could not bear it, so he passed down a very strict oracle to the two younger brothers.

Time goes back to the second day of the return from Shouningbo, which is a very important day for the land and water camp. Because today is the day of the burial of 7 people in the water and land battalion, at that time in Shanxi, there are nearly 10 days away from the capital, although the weather has become cold, but I dare not say that it is transported to the capital, and the body does not rot, so I had to cremate the body one by one, put it in the jar, and paste the name on the altar to prove the identity.

After returning to the capital, the families of these 7 people received 100 taels of bereavement silver, although they were still very sad, but they had no resentment towards the water and land camps and the general adults, and some were just grateful. Although the Han people pay attention to a burial for safety, after all, they are on an expedition, even if they are cremated, the family members only get back the ashes, and the family can understand. In the Ming Dynasty, people like them at the bottom were cheap and worthless. The family members have not yet moved out of the barracks, and will not move out until the beginning of spring next year. The news that the family members of the seven people got 100 taels immediately spread throughout the entire family camp. The entire water and land camp was a little boiling, because they knew that what the general lord said on the first day had come true, and he didn't lie to them, and that was enough. The morale of the amphibious battalion, which had been originally high, was raised again, and no one squeaked at the hardest and hardest training, which made the officers very happy.

The burial site was on a hill 10 miles east of the camp, which Zhu Houzhao specially bought, and then asked a large number of craftsmen to urgently build the ancestral hall and cemetery in the days after his return. Today is basically completed, so I chose to bury it today. After discussing with the family of the deceased, the family agreed to bury the ashes of the soldier in the cemetery of the land and water camp, and if they wanted to worship in the future, they would come here.

Originally, the funeral was attended by all the members of the land and water battalion and the families of the seven soldiers. But after getting along for more than half a year, the families of the land and water battalion are basically familiar with it, so thousands of family members of the land and water battalion came to send these seven sacrificed soldiers.

It is impossible for a few thousand people to walk without making a sound, except, of course, the fighters of the amphibious battalion. At the front of the procession were four soldiers of the amphibious battalion in each row, and behind were two columns of warriors, and in the middle were four men carrying a chariot, on which was the flag of the amphibious battalion, and on which was placed a columbarium altar. The columbarium is fixed all around, so it is not afraid of bumpy roads. Seven infantry marched in the middle, and there were neat queues of soldiers of the land and water battalion in front of and on the left and right, walking towards Anjun Mountain with neat steps. It was followed by thousands of family members and onlookers.

A mighty crowd of thousands of people, led by 1,000 soldiers of the land and water battalion, walked to the cemetery. This hill did not have a name before, but after the discussion of Zhu Houzhao's brothers, it was named Anjun Mountain, which meant to go to the soldiers to rest in peace.

As soon as I arrived at Anjun Mountain, I saw the huge ancestral hall, about 6 meters high, about 50 meters long, divided into the main hall and the left and right two side halls, the whole building is made of cement, ash to the ground but looks down-to-earth, heavy. On the left and right sides of the gate hang two gilded plaques, the left side is written "the death of the battlefield bone is also fragrant", the right side is written "to protect the family and defend the country's name and leave history". The ancestral hall sits in the north and faces south, and the main hall is written on the wall facing the gate by the north with a big character "soul", which gives people a very majestic feeling. Behind the ancestral hall is a clerical building of the same scale, where it is not poetry and words, the words of saints, but the life deeds of sacrificed soldiers.