Chapter 0148 In the name of the villain, Tianjin Wharf, the dragon flag of Xuanhuang Tianzi can be seen in the distance.

November in the north is already very cold. Today is cloudy, overcast, and the wind rolls up the flags and hunts. Looking at the Yangzi banner, the corners of Zhang Xiu's mouth showed a slightly bitter smile.

This person was raised by himself, and he thought that he could build a relationship between Jinyiwei and Dongchang in front of the new emperor, but his official fortune was surprisingly smooth, and in a short period of time, he was already anti-guest-oriented, threatening his own rights and interests, and he could be subordinate to Dongchang, but could he grovel to his subordinates?

He looked left and right, the two big battles moored on the dock, under the thick tarpaulin, there were four cannons, which were prepared for Yang Ling to shell the ship once he escaped. There were forty crossbowmen and ten firecrackers in ambush behind the battlement wall behind him, as long as Yang Ling showed up, he would immediately shoot him, no matter how great his ability was, he would not want to live. As for the two thousand elite guards who were ambushed outside the port, they were ready to eradicate Yang Ling's two hundred guards in the name of rebellion.

The rest is the matter of those officials in the imperial court. He could imagine how many damn charges those officials could place on Yang Ling, a man who was already hard to argue, when he sent more than 200 festering corpses into Beijing, which could no longer be seen in their original shapes.

Zhang Xiu exhaled deeply, from the bottom of his heart, he was disgusted with those civil officials, this perception was formed by the difference in each other's positions and interests, and would never change because of mutual cooperation.

The boat docked, Zhang Xiu smiled faintly, looked at the pedal that was slowly lowered, and the person who sent him to death finally came.

He is Yang Ling's old boss, and now he doesn't belong to each other, and his status is not lower than him, Yang Ling will take the initiative to welcome him when he comes to greet him, as long as he steps on land, 200 steel crossbows will shoot all over his body.

With a "bang", the pedal landed, and Zhang Xiu's muscles twitched, as if he saw Yang Ling covered in blood, and watched him fall to the ground in dismay.

A person appeared at the bow of the boat, and then ran off the boat with a "kick and foot", and the old man nodded to him on one knee, clasped his fists and saluted: "Oh, why is Admiral Zhang here, Xiaguan Liu Biao to meet your lordship."

Zhang Xiu originally felt that this person was familiar, and when he heard him report his name, he realized that this was a small captain in Jinyiwei, but now he is a thousand households in the inner factory. Zhang Xiu gave a hand and called, "It turned out to be you?" Get up, Lord Yang, why don't you see him? ”

Liu Biao greeted him with a smile on his face, nodded and said: "Lord Yang was in a hurry to enter Beijing to see the emperor, so he got off the boat and walked the dry road halfway, hehehe, my lord, you are not an outsider, and you are not afraid that you know, which adult will not bring some private goods along the way?"

This ship is full of goods from the south, some time ago it was transported into Beijing to go to a ship, these have to be pulled to Beijing again, but it is too conspicuous, so I went to Tianjin Wharf. The small ones should inform the local merchants to come to pick up the goods, and they have to stop for two or three days before returning to Beijing."

Zhang Xiu said secretly: "He really hit the east and west, and secretly went by land." With a light glance, there were not many people on the boat, Zhang Xiu smiled faintly, waved his hand and said: "In this case, you should be busy, the governor and Lord Yang have not seen each other, and I wanted to talk about the wine, but now I have to wait until I enter Beijing."

Liu Biao looked at his back and sighed deeply in his heart: "Heaven is still evil, Lord Zhang, Lord Zhang, you are in such a hurry to return to Beijing to give away your future surname, it is your own fault, but don't blame you for being humble and unkind."

Zhang Xiu walked out for a while, suggesting that the archers who were in ambush on the left and right should be withdrawn, and the commander Xia Luo asked in a low voice: "My lord, don't you take the opportunity to eat them?" ”

Zhang Xiu glared at him and said, "Let them do his business, Yang Ling is not on the boat, what's the use of eating these small fish and shrimp?" Instead, he gave people a handle! ”

He thought about it for a while, looked back at the leisurely fan on the boat, and commanded in a low voice: "There are too many people, I will take two thousand people back to Beijing in four batches to meet the people of Fusi in Beizhen, as long as Yang Ling dies, immediately ask for the order to level the inner factory, here is handed over to you, pay attention to the movement on the ship."

The news that Wang Qiong and Yang Ling had a quarrel at the banquet and were brutally murdered was finally delivered to the Beijing Division through the post station, and the officials of the Inspectorate, the Hanlin Academy, and the Six Ministries were in turmoil, and gathered in the mansion of Liu Jian, a university scholar.

Li Dongyang's sedan chair stopped at the gate of the mansion, and as soon as he stepped into the courtyard, officials from various ministries flocked to the gate and shouted: "Scholar Li, Yang Lingmu has no king's law and is unscrupulous, and if this fang is not removed, the court will be uneasy." Master Li, I want to uphold justice for Wang Laoshangshu."

Li Dongyang's face sank like water, and he walked all the way until he arrived at Liu Jian's study, and saw that there were six Jiuqing sitting in the outer study, and these people were still calm, and they only bowed slightly when they saw him. Li Dongyang nodded and walked into the inner study, Liu Jian and Xie Qian sat opposite each other with big sleeves hanging their clothes, without saying a word to each other.

Seeing him come in, Liu Jian said slowly: "Binzhi, have you heard?" ”

Li Dongyang nodded and said, "Yes, but Yang Ling will be arrogant again, and will commit murder and murder important ministers of the DPRK and the central government for the sake of quarrels?" ”

Xie Qian smiled bitterly and said, "Who will defend him?" Is it you or me? This person was already among us who were cut off, and now the crowd is raging, we are the ones who stand in front of the hundred officials, if we stop at this time, or change direction, then even we will be trampled under their feet! The situation is beyond our control."

Li Dongyang's eyes flashed with two faint flames, and he said in a deep voice: "Dongchang's heart to kill Yang Ling is especially better than you and me, I just doubt it."

Liu Jian said categorically: "It is an indisputable fact that Wang Laoshangshu was killed, the murderer is either Yang Ling or Dongchang, but in today's time and situation, can he still start a war with Dongchang?" Besides, who will convince the officials? If you suppress them again, under the anger of the crowd, I am afraid that you and I will be on fire [***]."

Li Dongyang was silent, he also knew that no matter who killed Wang Qiong, a person who had achieved great things should follow the situation to eradicate Yang Ling first, as for Yang Ling in Dongchang, the power of the outer court would be blazing, and it would not be too late to slowly clean them up, and it would be unwise to want to fight on both sides at this time.

Xie Qianfu said: "Fang Cai, Lord Liu and I have discussed with the six departments and nine Qings, as long as you also agree, we will jointly write a letter, asking the emperor to kill Yang Ling and remove the eight tigers, what do you think?" ”

Li Dongyang pondered for a long time, smiled bitterly, and said faintly: "Now, do we still have a choice?" ”

"Eunuchs, eunuchs, are all eunuchs in the court? Historically, six or seven out of ten of the courtiers have done bad things, and they want to talk about eunuchs! Zhengde sat on the dragon book case, opened a fold and threw it out angrily, the study was full of spread folds, he threw it, and the two little eunuchs were lying on the ground sweating profusely picking it up.

At this time, a small yellow door at the door trembled and whispered: "Your Majesty, the cabinet scholars are in a hurry."

"Bring it on!" Zhengde's face turned red with anger, and when he heard that there was another twist, he couldn't help but slap the table angrily.

The twists and turns all over the ground, the little yellow door didn't dare to step on it carelessly, and at the moment it was like dancing on tiptoe, staggering to Zhengde's side, presenting that thick twist and turn.

Zhengde opened it and looked at it, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, the Huagai Hall Scholar, the Jinshen Hall Scholar, the Wuyingdian Scholar, the officials, households, rites, soldiers, workers, criminals, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the political envoy, the Dali Temple's six departments and nine qing, the six departments and thirteen Taoist envoys behind the rows of various handwriting names, Zhengde can no longer stand it.

There seemed to be hundreds of heads clustered in front of him, shouting at him: "Kill Yang Ling, remove the Eight Tigers, and Qingjun's side, otherwise we will hang up the crown and beg to go, and hand over this huge country to you to manage!" ”

Zhengde sat on the chair with his buttocks, looking ahead abruptly, and several little princes in the hall felt that the emperor's expression was wrong, and his hand and foot movements suddenly became lighter, and he didn't even dare to breathe.

Gu Da looked inward at the entrance of the hall with a round smiling face, and then tiptoed over and waved his hand to a few little eunuchs, and a few little yellow doors hurriedly retreated as if they had been amnestied.

Gu Dayong walked to Zhengde's side and smiled humbly: "Your Majesty, are you worried about the affairs of the court again?" Aren't there still those old ministers of the Six Ministries and Jiuqing? They are all courtiers left to you by the emperor, loyal, the emperor is still young, what is there to leave to them, eat the court and the court, how can there be no reason not to worry about the monarch? ”

Zhengde looked at him blankly, and said in a daze: "Dayong, are you here?" ”

Gu Da said with a huff: "Yes, the old slave tamed two leopards in the leopard room, thinking that the emperor could go to have a good time when he was bored with state affairs."

He secretly glanced at the folds that had not yet been picked up, the corners of his eyes jumped imperceptibly, and he changed his tone and said: "The emperor has been waiting for the old slave since he was a child, and when he looked at you, he smiled, and the old slave's heart was happy, and now he sees that you are the emperor, the son of heaven of the Ming Dynasty, the co-owner of the world, but he is not happy, and the old slave is in his heart."

As he spoke, he couldn't help but shed tears, hurriedly wiped his tears, and said: "The old slave should have coaxed you to be happy, why did you cry yourself, the old slave should die, the old slave should die!" As he spoke, he slapped himself in both mouths.

When Zhengde saw this, he suddenly jumped up and cried loudly, Gu Dayong saw this and hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "The old slave should die, the old slave made the emperor unhappy."

Zhengde grabbed him and pulled him up, crying: "It's a big use, give me up." I still remember, when I was a child, I climbed the tree naughtily, you stood under the tree and begged me to come down, I was so shocked that my head was covered with sweat, I slipped my hand and fell down, it was you who rushed over to catch me, and my boots made a long cut on your neck, and the blood flowed, but you just hugged me and shouted, 'The prince is safe', I am fine."

He cried bitterly again, slapped the dragon book case vigorously and roared like a trapped beast: "Accompany me to play some games and make me happy, how did you become a heinous annihilator?" ”

The little emperor said with tears in his eyes: "There is also Yang Shiyu, saying that he is greedy for power and arbitrary, and he is ambitious, I bah, they are blind, which envoy is not sent to him by me?" Even the dignified Shangshu, he refused to do it, saying that he was ambitious? ”

Zhengde sobbed and said with a crying voice: "I want to use my own people, but I didn't let him interfere in the government, can't this work?" Isn't that okay? They bullied me so much, threatening to dismiss me at every turn, what do they want me to do? ”

Gu Da jumped sharply from the corner of his eyes, and said with a smile: "Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry, the emperor doesn't cry, you are the Son of Heaven, and everyone in the world listens to you, if you want people to see it, won't it make people laugh?" ”。

He didn't say that it was okay, this statement was tantamount to adding fuel to the fire, and Emperor Zhengde was furious: "Who listens to me? Who listens to me? It's all me listening to them, and it's not enough for me to entrust them with all the affairs of the state.

I have to listen to them what I want to eat, what I wear, when I go to bed and when I get up. It's in this palace, they all stipulate where I can go and where I can't go, who is this world? ”

Gu Dayong saw that Zhengde was thunderous, and he didn't dare to stimulate him anymore, he cowered and said: "The emperor is angry, they don't play once or twice, you can return it, don't hurt your own body."

Zhengde wiped a handful of tears, picked up the piece of music from the table, and laughed miserably: "Seal it back? This time, the three ministers of the cabinet, the six ministries and the nine secretaries, and the civil and military officials are forcing the palace to come, what do you want me to do? ”

Outside the door, Liu Jin and the others had been waiting there quietly, and when they heard this, they finally believed that Yang Ling's words that the Manchu Dynasty civil and military tried to behead them all were true, and that they were touted by those eunuchs in charge of the affairs were indeed the annihilation plan of the East Factory.

Previously, Yang Ling and Ma Yongcheng shared a sedan chair, secretly entered the palace, and made an appointment with the Eight Tigers to talk about this matter, I didn't expect that the eight powerful eunuchs who were arrogant in history were actually thieves and had no thief guts, and when they heard the anger of the public, they were so frightened that they were numb, and in the past two days, they didn't dare to encourage Zhengde to leave the palace, and they only hoped that the courtiers could let them go.

Now I heard that even the three dukes and the six departments and Jiuqing are out, even if they are uneducated, they also know the seriousness of the situation, and several people crawled in with the head, crying and screaming according to the method taught by Yang Ling, from waiting for him to and pee when Zhengde was breastfeeding, to how to worry about how to make him happy.

One by one, the voices were full of tears, like a cuckoo crying blood, it was really sad for the hearers, and the listeners were crying, and the Emperor Zhengde didn't care to think about how they got the news and rushed here, and he just cried sadly: These people in front of him can be said to be the closest people to him emotionally except for the emperor, and those ministers put the green-faced fangs they said like ghosts, so how can this young son of heaven believe it?

Yang Ling stood quietly outside and whispered to Miao Kui: "Everyone is under control? ”

Miao Kui nodded and said, "Don't worry, Lord Yang, from now on, I have arranged for the people around the emperor to be watched by the cronies of the imperial horse eunuch, and no one wants to get close to them, but what if the emperor still can't make up his mind?" Now that we have done it, we will inevitably attract their attention if we stop fighting."

Yang Ling sighed softly and said: "The emperor is young, and he has to rely on the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty to govern the country, and it is really difficult for him to support me at the risk of the resignation of hundreds of officials."

A faint smile appeared on his lips and said: "But Yang is also a person who has been in the officialdom for a long time, there is no difference between the big officialdom and the small officialdom except for the size of the power, they can resign, and the emperor can not allow it." ”

Yang Ling thought about the situation of the students who had studied hard for ten years when they entered Beijing to take the exam, and remembered that Yan Song kowtowed like pounding garlic for entering the examination room, and said with a hint of coldness on his lips: "Fame and fortune are not easy to come by, I think that the people who stay and continue to be officials are definitely the majority, and then a little closer, as long as these specific people are arrested, a few scholars, a few bachelors, if you want to go, let them go."

At this time, Liu Jin saw that the emperor was only crying, but he also looked like he had no way to support them, so he suddenly wiped his tears and said: "Your Majesty, how can the ministers know so much about your affairs in the palace?" These are all the backing of the celebrant supervisor, Dongchang and Jinyi Wei, they should be your eyes and ears, but they have become spies for the foreign ministers, and tell them all about you, and it is difficult to incite the official to be the emperor! ”

Wei Bin hurriedly said: "Yes, Your Majesty, the slave heard Wang Yue and Wang Gonggong say to the three scholars: 'The emperor is young, and when the gentlemen see that there is something wrong with the emperor, just say it, don't be afraid'."

Zhengde trembled with anger when he heard this, and trembled: "This bold minion! ”

Ma Yongcheng had a suspicion of Yang Ling because of the female official's cane murder case, but it was just a trivial matter, but now he is sitting in a boat, he wants to sink together, and he wants to live together, and he also tries his best to cooperate, and he said colorfully: "Your Majesty, Gonggong Fan of Dongchang often asks his servants to ask the emperor what he often buys, and then tells the outer court that this inner library is the emperor's own, and they even interfere with this, do they still take the emperor in their eyes?" ”

Zhengde's face turned pale, and he said sharply: "As the saying goes, once a son of heaven is a courtier, but have I touched them since I succeeded to the throne?" You have been with me for many years, and now you have never held an important position in the inner court, I only have Yang Ling, an official personally promoted, or a separate inner factory, and I have never taken away their power, what are they doing? ”

Zhang Yong read the most among these people, and when he saw that the emperor's surname was about to run out, he said softly: "Your Majesty, do you remember the shadow puppet show that the old slave and Qiu Ju played for you?" They are uniting the ministers of the DPRK and the Central People's Republic of China, bullying the emperor when he is young, and trying to make the emperor become a puppet.

If they hold hands, you will do it, and if they hold their feet, you will move their feet, in short, whatever they want the emperor to do, the emperor will do it."

"Bang!" With a hard punch on the case, Zhengde's face had turned from red to purple, his chest rose and fell violently, the green tendons on his forehead were rising, and his breathing was like pulling a bellows for a long time before he hissed: "His heart can be punished!" You say, "What should I do?" ”

When Yang Ling heard this, he closed his eyes slightly: "The emperor was finally moved, this sentence is asked, a big storm is inevitable, and my power is also decided, who still understands me?"

But...... Why do I have to be understood? Its rise is also vigorous, its death is also sudden, I am just a chess piece arranged here by fate, thunderbolt means, bodhisattva heart, as long as I have a clear conscience, no matter what others think! Yang Ling thought of this, and opened his eyes again, his gaze resolute.

When Liu Jin heard Zhengde's words, he didn't feel refreshed, and hurriedly climbed two steps forward and said, "Dog, horse, eagle, dog, what's the loss?" The factory guard was set up by the emperor, who do you want to use and who you want to remove, is it not your word? ”

Zhengde remembered the long list of names on the fold, and the courage aroused by anger couldn't help but fade a little, and said timidly: "But they are in charge of the twelve regiments and battalions, will it be bad for me?" Besides, those officials in the outer court, if they really all abandon me, then what should I do? ”

Zhang Yong smiled and said: "The emperor can rest assured, Lord Yang Ling Yang was ordered by you to supervise hundreds of officials, and he has been loyal to his duties and did not dare to slack off a little, I heard that the inner court and the outer court have joined forces to force the palace, he has rushed back to Beijing in the starry night, and King Qin is here, Lord Yang will have a good plan."

When Zhengde heard this, as if he had a backbone, he exclaimed in surprise: "Yang Shi has returned to Beijing, where is he, hurry!" Call him to me! ”

Yang Ling flashed out from the shadow of the palace gate, stepped forward quickly, and was about to turn over and bow down, Zhengde had already hugged him, and his voice trembled in surprise: "Yang Shiyu, Yang Shiyu, you are back, I have been bullied by them, with you, I am not afraid."

Beizhen Fusi, at dusk, Zhang Xiu led five hundred Jinyi guards to arrive, and Mu Bin hurriedly greeted him and said, "My lord, why did you come from Tianjin Wei so late?" ”

Zhang Xiu looked at him in a military uniform, and was stunned: "Don't you usually wear civilian clothes in the yamen?" Just went out? ”

Mu Bin's eyes flashed, and he said with a smile: "Where, these few days of tension, how dare you be careless, since the adult went to Tianjin to guard Yang Ling's ship, the lowly duty in Beijing will be waiting, how about it, Yang Ling was caught?" ”

Zhang Xiu waved his hand, motioned for the five hundred people to disperse into the backyard house to rest, and sighed as he walked into the room: "Look at me, do you seem to have caught me?" He chose the dry road, but Dongchang sent a full 25,000 people to lay a net along the way, he wanted to enter Beijing, unless he put on wings and flew back! ”

Mu Bin's study, Zhang Xiu is familiar with the household, so he stepped in without restraint, walked to the back of the case and sat down, and saw Mu Bin follow in, but stood by the door, and couldn't help laughing: "It's not that you haven't done big things, you don't need to be so nervous, haven't we taken the first and second grades?" What's more, it's Yang Ling's lost dog."

Mu Bin smiled and said: "The first- and second-rank court officials, the lowly position has naturally been taken, but the lowly position has never been taken by the Jinyi Admiral, how can you not be nervous?" ”

Zhang Xiu heard that Huo Ran stood up, and didn't want to raise his hand to grab the sword on the wall, only to hear the sound of "choking", the sword was a dragon's chant, and the endless sword whistle was not finished.

Looking up again, Qian Ning had flashed in from outside the door, holding two steel crossbows in his hands, looking at him with a smile, the crossbow was pulled apart, and there was a row of crossbow arrows on it, and the inner screen on the side also fell down with a bang at this time, and the four brocade guards also stood behind with crossbows, and couldn't help but hang down their arms.

Mu Bin pressed the knife and said with a smile: "The one who knows the current affairs is Junjie, the adults finally know the current affairs now, my own brother, it's better not to use a knife or a gun to hurt the harmony." Now I only hope that the people of the Dongji Workshop can also understand the current affairs, otherwise I can tell the people in the outer court to see the jokes."

Zhang Xiu was shocked and angry, and shouted: "Mu Bin, do you want to rebel?" Dare to arrest this official! There are now 8,000 fans stationed in the Dongji Factory, and even if you have a thousand people, you dare to hit a stone with an egg? ”

Mu Bin said with a sigh: "My lord, I just praised you for knowing the current affairs, but this is a mistake again, Dongchang, naturally it was Lord Yang who flew back to Beijing with wings to personally arrest and judge the rebellion, how could the lowly position steal his limelight?" ”

Zhang Xiu took two steps back and said in shock: "He has already entered Beijing?" ”

Mu Bin looked at him with pity and said, "I don't know who I don't know, how can I win?" I also just learned that Lord Yang changed horses and did not change people, pretending to be a horse dealer and traveling from Jinling at night, and it has been five days since he returned to Beijing! ”

When Zhang Xiu heard this, his face turned pale, Mu Bin sighed, turned around and walked out of the room, and said leisurely: "Qian Ning, Xuansheng speaks!" ”

Mu Bin walked to the hall, and only heard Qian Ning's voice word by word: "Inspector Zha Jinyi Wei commanded Zhang Xiu, colluded with the celebrant and Dongchang to murder the minister, and wanted to commit misdeeds, so he was immediately detained, and Hou Shen is awaiting trial!" ”

(To be continued)