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In the face of Empress Zhang's anger, Zhou Cheng was actually a little timid in his heart. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In fact, if at the beginning, Zhou Cheng just wanted to turn his face with Liu Chengfeng, he never imagined that things would evolve to the point of angering Queen Zhang.

In fact, if it is just the bad luck of looking for willows and riding the wind, no matter how unhappy Queen Zhang is in her heart, she will not lose her temper.

The biggest problem is that this Empress Zhang just said that Liu Chengfeng is a virtuous minister and has merit, how long has it been, and someone has stood up to overturn her Empress Zhang's words, in front of so many people, doesn't it mean that Empress Zhang has no knowledge of people?

Empress Zhang is also a face-saving person, but whenever she encounters this kind of thing, whoever she is will have a temper.

Zhou Cheng didn't know Queen Zhang's thoughts, but now at this point, even if he retreated, it was useless, he coughed, faced Queen Zhang's questioning, and put on a righteous and awe-inspiring look: "Niangniang is angry, what Weichen said, it is not groundless, a few days ago, His Majesty ordered a thorough investigation of Liu Chengfeng, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate found that Liu Chengfeng was not only suspected of taking credit, but also raising private soldiers and trying to misbehave." ”

Wow......

The whole hall was in an uproar.

Many people have already felt that this Zhou Cheng is planning to break the jar, and if he says such explicit words here, either Liu Chengfeng is broken, or he is unlucky. Look at this, they are not only fighting openly and secretly, they are simply going to die endlessly.

Empress Zhang was stunned for a moment, she was a woman after all, and her anger disappeared all of a sudden, she was a very smart person, how could she not know that once the courtiers were involved in this kind of thing, it would definitely not be for her to ask, her eyes were on Zhu Youzhang, waiting for Zhu Youzhu to make an idea.

Zhu Youzhang's face turned cold, if someone else impeached Liu Chengfeng for plotting against him, it would be fine. However, the person who impeached was the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Zuodu Yushi, and that was completely different. Plotting against the law, this is a big crime of the nine clans, less than a certain amount, who dares to talk nonsense easily?

He first glanced at Liu Chengfeng, Liu Chengfeng's face was quite calm, but it was not much better. Looking at Zhou Cheng again, Zhou Cheng gritted his teeth, presumably having made up his mind.

After a moment of silence, Zhu Youzhu said: "On the side of the Lianguo Gong fiefdom, the imperial court promised five guards, but Liu Chengfeng did not fill the guards, where did he come to raise private soldiers?" As for the new army, although he also created it, it has always been questioned by the Ministry of War, and the prince has been urging the new army to practice, could it be that this new army is Liu Chengfeng's private soldier? Zhou Cheng, I miss that you are old, and it is understandable that you occasionally say a sentence or two of nonsense, if you are the imperial history of Zuodu, but you know the law and break the law, and falsely accuse the minister, I must deal with it. I ask you again, do you have any evidence for what you just said? ”

"There is ......" Zhou Cheng mustered up his courage, met Zhu Youzhang's gaze, and said: "Your Majesty, Weichen was ordered to thoroughly investigate the matter of Liu Chengfeng's meritorious work, but later, he found that the Jubao Commercial Bank was a little strange, and there was an imperial envoy in Lianzhou, who said that there were nearly 100,000 guards in the Commercial Bank, and they were all equipped with new firearms, and they were rushing to make warships, whether it was merchant ships, cargo ships, or military ships, they were all equipped with artillery. ”

"Not only these, Weichen also found that the treasure merchant behavior is not evil, after going to sea, there are often plundering the fleets of various countries, so that the merchant ships of various countries dare not go to sea, the blue sea is thousands of miles, only the treasure merchant fleet is alone, but it monopolizes the goods, hoards the goods, and sells them at high prices. In addition, in order to plunder the land, the fleet became a jackal, and actually directly demanded it from various countries, called lease, but in fact, at a very low price, a lot of minerals and coastal land belonged to it. Recently, there have been repeated conquests in the Wa Kingdom, Annam and other countries, and the imperial court has also repeatedly sent envoys to mediate and make peace between the vassals of the Wa Kingdom and between Annam and its neighbors as much as possible to avoid the destruction of human lives. However, instead of cooperating with the court's benevolence, this treasure firm sold firearms, causing them to fight endlessly. ”

The more Zhou Cheng spoke, the more excited he became, and said viciously: "The name of Jubao Firm is my Daming Firm, but in fact it is a tiger wolf, mercenaries stand on their own, bully all countries, and show off their might, what is this called a firm?" Your Majesty, now they can show off their might to the vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, so Ming said, when their wings have been completed, who can guarantee that they will not deviate from the imperial court. And this business house was originally created by Liu Chengfeng, and it has always been the first to look forward to Liu Chengfeng, what is Liu Chengfeng going to do? What is the purpose of raising 100,000 elite soldiers? ”

Zhou Cheng's words were impassioned, but there was also a bit of ironclad, and even some ministers couldn't help but be moved, they had never cared about the affairs of the firm, but when they heard the total bad deeds of this treasure firm, they knew that it was so ridiculous.

Zhu Youzhang's face was very ugly, in fact, he knew about the guards of the Jubao Trading House, Liu Chengfeng didn't dare to hide it, he had already reported it, saying that the caravans and fleets everywhere were traveling abroad and foreign countries, if there was no one to protect them, how could they ensure safety?

Under this trading house, there are dozens of caravans, some go to the Watts, some are Tatars, and some are entering Korea through Liaodong, as for the Wa Kingdom and the Nanyang countries, they also have their own caravans in charge, such a huge caravan naturally requires a lot of guards, Zhu Youzhu didn't care too much about it at that time, but now after hearing so many ridiculous things, his face is both a little incredulous and a little angry.

Zhou Cheng kowtowed heavily and said, "What Weichen said is true, please check it out." ”

Zhu Youzhu didn't say a word, his face was gloomy, and finally his eyes fell on Liu Chengfeng, and he said slowly: "Liu Chengfeng, what he said, but is everything true?" ”

Liu Chengfeng hurriedly bowed down and said: "This business house is down, and there are as many as 150,000 shopkeepers, lawyers, account offices, secretaries, men, guards, grooms, sailors, etc., and the scale is no less than the three treasure eunuchs of Emperor Wen back then. It is not uncommon for some gangsters to commit crimes in the name of caravans, but what Lord Zhou said is really exaggerated. ”

Liu Chengfeng admitted a little bit of guilt, but most of the guilt was never admitted, once he confessed, then this matter of raising private soldiers to do evil would be confirmed, this is a big crime, he can't afford it.

Zhou Cheng sneered and said, "Is it just that some people are doing evil?" Hmph, Liu Yan's matter is too evasive. ”

Liu Chengfeng didn't refute him, his face didn't show panic, but a little comfortable, and he didn't seem to take this Zhou Cheng to heart.

Seeing this, Zhu Youzhu actually couldn't make up his mind, this week he obviously wanted to check the business bank, the problem is, the royal family accounts for a large share of the business bank, and the annual dividends are a lot, not under the treasure building.

But he had to pay attention to this matter, especially in front of so many people, and he had to ask Liu Chengfeng again, who knew that at this time, Shouning Hou Zhang Heling suddenly jumped out and shouted: "Zhou Cheng, you are talking nonsense, what do you avoid the important and light, the business house has always been well-behaved, and you are kind and wealthy, what you said in your mouth, can there be evidence?" ”

No one would have thought that it was originally Liu Chengfeng's business, but this Zhang Heling was so 'righteous', the first to jump out, his actions were beyond everyone's expectations, this Zhang Heling's eyes were red, and he looked like he was not sharing the sky with Zhou Cheng, and he sneered, and said: "Although you are an imperial envoy, you should also know that everything must be evidenced, you said that the business houses oppressed the countries, why didn't you see the vassal states write to complain?" You say that the caravan is secretly plundering the caravans of other vassal countries, what proof do you have? Also, what is wrong with caravans leasing land from various countries to use for their fleets to get their feet down and dock? ”

He refuted Zhou Cheng in one breath, and this Zhou Cheng was just about to continue talking, but who knew that even Zhang Yanling, the uncle of Jianchang, also stood up and sneered: "I heard that the Zhou family is a big clan in the south of the Yangtze River, and its clan is also a strong party in the Suzhou and Hangzhou areas. Could it be that now that there is a Jubao Firm, your Zhou family can no longer smuggle goods, so you have a grudge in your heart and take the opportunity to take revenge? ”

This sentence can be regarded as vicious, since Zhou Cheng turned his face, this pair of brothers has no scruples, what do they have to say.

In fact, there are many wealthy families in Jiangnan who have participated in the smuggling matter, and the Zhou family is not too much, but it is true that they have participated in some shares and escorted some private ships, which is a very common phenomenon in the DPRK, and now it is unceremoniously exposed by this Yanling, which makes Zhou Cheng a little speechless.

Zhou Cheng said angrily: "Nonsense, nonsense......"

"What nonsense, surnamed Zhou, you are clever and slanderous about people's innocence, but you are not upright, and you don't know what kind of intentions you have!" This time it was actually Zhu Fu, the Duke of Chengguo, who had never had any friendship with Liu Chengfeng, this Zhu Fu was the great-grandson of Zhu Neng, the great hero of Emperor Wen's Jingjing, the title inherited by Hongzhi in the ninth year, and was ordered to garrison Nanjing and lead the military governor's mansion, and he only recently came back from Nanjing, and he was regarded as a powerful figure among the emperor's relatives.

A year ago, Zhou Cheng was in Nanjing Rendu Imperial History, and this Zhu Fu was in Nanjing's Zhongjun Governor's Mansion, and the two also had a little friendship when they were in Nanjing, although it was not deep, but they would always nod and say hello when they met, who knew that here, Zhu Fu was ruthless and directly aimed at Zhou Cheng.

If it was only Shou Ninghou and Jian Changbo at the beginning, Zhou Cheng would still be reluctant to be afraid, but when Zhu Fu stood up, he was a little panicked.

And then, many royal relatives and princes and nobles actually took the case, and they all stood up and blamed Zhou Cheng.

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(To be continued)