Chapter 225: Cunning Blade Porridge
The Forbidden City, in the palace of Concubine Zheng:
This bewitching woman, who was evaluated in history as power-hungry and ambitious, was known as the culprit who disturbed the Wanli Dynasty and shook the foundation of the Ming Dynasty.
At the same time that Li Rusong killed the wild boar skin in the first battle, and the entire Jurchen forces in Liaodong were almost wiped out, the Jiangling Party joined forces with He Xinyin and Xu Wei to launch a large-scale purge of the civil official system in Liaodong.
In a short period of time, Li Rusong easily and completely controlled the entire Liaodong, and at the same time offended and angered a large number of people, including Zheng Guifei.
"Li Rusong, you are so bold, relying on Your Majesty's favor, can you be empty of everything if you have meager military exploits in North Korea?! Even my people dare to kill at will, you are trying to usurp the throne! Look at Ben Niangniang being let those mad dogs and imperial historians bite you a few times, so that everyone in the world knows your vicious face of rebellious ministers and thieves, and let you stink for 10,000 years! "I have to say that Concubine Zheng can be favored in the Wanli harem, and she does have a certain talent, and she has her own uniqueness in winning over hundreds of officials and developing her own power, and she has a lot of power in the court.
"Niangniang's words are wrong, my young general is not only not a chaotic minister and thief, but the queen, your future minister of the humerus!" At this moment, a pleasant voice came from the gate of the palace, and the porridge disguised as a eunuch walked forward with a steady step and a smile on his face.
"Who are you? actually dared to trespass on the forbidden place of the palace. Someone! Take down this daring fanatic for me! Seeing the porridge, Concubine Zheng was startled at first, and then pretended to shout.
Hearing this, there were many eunuchs and palace maids in the court, relying on Concubine Zheng Guifei by their side, and they came forward to arrest the porridge with a fake tiger, so as to ask their masters for merit and reward. Seeing this scene, he frowned, and glanced at the few eunuchs who followed him behind him, and the two Liaodong iron horsemen who pretended to be eunuchs glanced at them with contempt, and the eunuchs and palace maids who surrounded them sneered and stood still and just waved their fists the size of sandbags. And he beat them and wailed.
Weirdly. There was such a big movement around, but none of the Jinyi Guards, Dongchang Fanzi or Ouchi Praetorian Guards came over, except for the palace maids and eunuchs who fell to the ground and screamed, there was no one around.
"Huh. The mother is too worried. The young general of my family has always admired Niangniang for a long time. thinks that Niangniang is such a generous and well-informed woman. It is the person who really should be the mother of the world. That's why I came to the porridge, but I was entrusted by the young general of my family to give a gift to my mother. By the way, I don't care at all, Concubine Zheng Guifei has been so frightened that she looks like a dead person, and she sighed and took out a gift slip from her arms unhurriedly and said.
Zheng Guifei was already frightened at this time, and she didn't have the domineering posture she had before, she was not stupid to make such a big move just now, according to common sense, the Jinyi Guard, Dongchang, and the forbidden army guards in the Forbidden City should have been killed a long time ago, and these bold fanatics should have been killed on the spot. But none of these people came out, but the other party calmly turned the eunuch and palace maid on his side on his back, what does this mean?
"Could it be that the ministers and nobles of the court are going to unite to kill the palace?" Just when Concubine Zheng Guifei was full of cranky thoughts, she was stunned when she heard the words of the porridge.
There was already a little eunuch with eyesight, who trotted to take the gift list from the porridge and ran to Zheng Guifei to present it with both hands. Concubine Zheng reluctantly calmed down, took the gift list and looked at the gift list while carefully observing the porridge and others opposite.
Concubine Zheng Guifei was born in a poor family, and she has no culture and ability, that is, she is good at palace infighting, and a simple means to win people over, but in fact, she is not Wu Zetian No. 2 as the history books say. If she really had Wu Zetian's scheming and ability, she would not be dealt with by those nerds of the Donglin Party, and her son was finally expelled from the capital.
After a while, Concubine Zheng put the gift slip in her hand into her arms, sat back on the bed with the support of the palace maid, and looked at the porridge condescendingly, the latter smiled slightly and bent down slightly to make a surrender look.
"Someone! After watching it for a long time, Zheng Guifei found that the other party was not afraid of her at all, and said a little helplessly.
"Thank you Niangniang, in the lower Liaodong ten blades, the tenth blade cunning blade sighs to meet Niangniang, Niangniang Chitose Chitose Chitose Chitose!" Hearing this, he smiled slightly, and pretended to kneel on his knees and said respectfully.
Concubine Zheng had no time to care about these at this time, and what she was most concerned about now was the gift list, and the gift at the end of the gift list.
"Could this Li Rusong be scraping the ground? His father and son have been operating in Liaodong for many years, and they can take out such a huge amount of property with a raised hand, which is enviable! With this money, the palace can finally attract some more people and pave the way for my son to become the crown prince" Still immersed in the shock of the gift list just now, Concubine Zheng began to secretly observe the porridge, wanting to find out some answers from the other party's expression.
But soon Concubine Zheng was disappointed to find that the "observation technique" that she usually tried repeatedly in the palace struggle had no effect on the other party, and in the gaze that she thought was very deterrent, she looked like she should eat and drink as usual. As if he and the majestic palace didn't exist, let alone the Liaodong Iron Rider who dared to directly hit people in Ouchi.
"Hehe, Niangniang doesn't need to think about it, my young general knows that Yang Hao and other eighteen people have taken the path of Niangniang in the first place to be able to become officials again, if it weren't for those guys who reversed black and white, corrupted the law, and betrayed the country, my brother would not have beheaded them on the spot. My brother knew that this incident had caused a lot of losses to his mother, so he sent porridge to send meager property to express his gratitude. If you have offended before, I hope that you have a lot of Niangniang, Duoduo Haihan" While complimenting Zheng Guifei, he sighed in his heart that he was not very interested in this so-called lady who was favored in the harem.
This is a stinky girl who relies on charm and caution to charm Wanli's dead fat idiot, and if she has no other skills, she will fight inwardly, look at her fat pig-like son, such a pig is also worthy of being an emperor? Phew!
"If it weren't for my brother's order, Lao Tzu wouldn't have bothered to take care of you even if he went to visit the Qinglou! Wait, these belongings are just a place to be stored, and Lao Tzu will personally bring them back in the future" Thinking about how to clean up Zheng Guifei and others in the future, he sighed that the porridge did not show any expression on the surface, this is the ability he has honed for decades as an ambassador of the dangerous mountain army in the capital and Liaodong and communicating with hundreds of officials.
Zheng Guifei is also difficult to ride a tiger at this time, and now Li Rusong's affairs in Liaodong have been known to the entire capital, and all the ministers and officials believe that Li Rusong is simply an act of the king who wants to seek the dynasty and usurp the throne. The entire Ming Dynasty officials and imperial historians have been secretly linked, thinking about how to earn a good reputation for themselves, and the public opinion of the entire court is to arrest Li Rusong and dismiss him for investigation.
"At this time, his brother-in-law came to Bengong, didn't he want Bengong to exonerate him, right? This palace can't be mixed up blindly, but if this person can really support the emperor to be the emperor, what are these things? What should Hongu do! Zheng Guifei worked hard to dig into the IQ in her walnut-sized brain, trying to guess the other party's intentions.
"It's too tiring to talk to this idiot, or I'll pierce the window paper myself, anyway, I don't need the slut of the bird" After half an hour, seeing that the other party was still like a female branch girl, he muttered a lot back and forth, and thought to himself with a sneer.
"My brother doesn't mean anything else, I just hope that Niangniang can let Your Majesty have a good rest in your bedroom these days, and don't go to the court to coax those officials. After seven days, everything will be calm, and my brother will naturally help him to help King Fu become the crown prince, and you will be able to honor the world at that time. Speaking of this, the porridge deliberately paused, glanced at Concubine Zheng, a cold smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and continued to speak:
"Of course, the mother can also make today's events public, but well! Hehe, Gu Xiancheng, that guy seems to be going to report to Lord Yama tonight, hehe Niangniang has been cold and windy recently, it is best to close the window and cover the quilt at night, otherwise the head will fall off, and he will be wronged" Say it, sigh, porridge is not nonsense, take people and turn around and leave, Zheng Guifei's palace seems to be a place where he can come and go.
As if she hadn't noticed everything, Concubine Zheng had been sitting on the bed and muttering, completely unaware that the congee and the others had been gone for a long time.
The next morning:
There was shocking news in the Forbidden City that Gu Xiancheng, the head of the Ministry of Officials' Examination and Merit, and eight other officials were killed in their homes, and the house was burned to the ground. However, Jin Yiwei found a large number of offensive and defensive alliances between Gu Xiancheng and others at the scene, and evidence of corruption and perversion of the law and encroachment on people's land on weekdays, and the entire Forbidden City was in an uproar for a while.
Gu Xiancheng can be said to be a pillar in the Qingliu, and he is thought to be the second Shaobao by everyone in the Qingliu all day long, touting his honesty and love for the people, and his dedication to saving the country and the people, he is a rare good official.
But now that such a huge scandal has emerged, all the Qingliu officials suddenly felt that their faces were slammed with a big mouth, and they were beaten one by one. Moreover, some officials who usually look at them unpleasantly have long started to connect in secret, wanting to use Gu Xiancheng's matter to deal a good blow to Qingliu's arrogance.
As a result, the entire imperial court became a pot of porridge, and the plan to impeach Li Rusong on a large scale, which was originally led by Gu Xiancheng and others, was completely abandoned. The Qingliu were busy fighting with other officials for self-preservation, and no one paid attention to the affairs of Liaodong in the short term.
At this time, Wanli was worried, frowning all day long, discussing countermeasures with Zhang Siwei of the cabinet, and there was no way to count on these officials under his hands. (To be continued......)