4-57 Return to Beijing. Three-legged

In line with the principle of never letting go of a bad person, all the people who bullied the concubine's mother and daughter in Hongze County were arrested, and the county government was basically empty, except for a few old menzi, so the officials were all locked in the bottom of the naval division with a big wooden flail, and the county magistrate had already been removed from the black yarn, stripped of his official uniform and locked up with Xia Jinfeng, and both husband and wife were shackled, and they still don't know the real reason for the arrest, and they thought they had provoked Zhen Wubo.

The county government was temporarily taken over by the people who were directly subordinate to the political secretary, and the Huai'an prefect was also taken off the seal, waiting for further processing by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Huaiyin Zhixian who had arrested the concubine's mother and daughter was also unlucky, and the people of Jinyiwei were already on the way to Huaiyin.

None of this alarmed the people of Hongze County, because compared to it, the seclusion of the imperial concubine and princess in this county has filled all their attention, and the people of the remote small county town have finally passed the addiction of the Son of Heaven, and the gorgeous palace honor guard is enough for them to reminisce for many years.

The dilapidated courtyard where the concubine mother and daughter once lived was closely protected, and as a cultural and historical site of the county, not a single tree was allowed to be changed around it in the morning, and this small street was also renamed Qifeng Street to commemorate the two female royal relatives who once lived here for a short time.

The huge fleet of sailors lifted anchor from Hongze Wharf, drove towards the direction of the capital, stopped for a while after arriving at the small fishing village where the concubine mother and daughter once lived, the emperor and the concubine and the princess landed to pay tribute to the couple surnamed Zeng, a small tomb overgrown with barren grass was full of sacrifices, and the wreaths made of silk and satin were overwhelming, and the emperor personally wrote the tombstone "The Tomb of the Ming Dynasty Yimin Zeng", and rebuilt the mausoleum and ancestral hall according to the specifications of the local government.

The small fishing village is boiling, running to tell each other a big news, the mother and daughter of the Zeng family who once lived here are back, it turns out that the mother and daughter are not refugees who fled from the north, but the mother and sister of the saint today, the simple fishermen do not know how to receive well, they have come out of the house and knelt on the ground to welcome the phoenix, the mother and daughter of the concubine can really be regarded as returning to their hometown, looking at the villagers who have been getting along day and night, the mother and daughter burst into tears, and hurriedly helped everyone to recount their hometown.

All the villagers of the small fishing village have been rewarded by the emperor, not to mention the silk and satin, gold and silver jewelry, each small fishing boat has been given a triangular apricot yellow flag, where the flag is planted in the boat, fishing does not need to pay fishing tax, crossing the canal does not need to pay the gate fee, which does not open the eyes of the official if he dares to be disrespectful, directly take the big mouth to whip him! In a word, all the people in this fishing village are relatives of the concubine and relatives of the emperor!

After doing these things, the mother and daughter of the concubine reluctantly said goodbye to the villagers and boarded the boat again to the capital. After half a day's travel, the fleet passed through Guazhou into the Yangtze River waterway, went upstream, and finally reached the Beijing Shuiximen Wharf, the wharf was noisy with gongs and drums, the crowd was crowded, the Ministry of Rites had arranged a welcome ceremony, and the people sandwiched the road to send the suffering concubine mother and daughter back to the palace.

The palace has already cleaned up the two palaces, and the palace maids and eunuchs are also selected capable people, or a group of old people in the palace collected by Wei Zhongxian followed and served, and a group of people cried again when they saw the old master, and the Empress Dowager Li, who was imprisoned in the cold palace, heard the news, and it is said that the rice was not touched that day.

The emperor's biological mother is the concubine of the former emperor, and now that she has returned, the title has become a problem, and the one in the cold palace still occupies the title of the queen mother, for the face of the Ming Dynasty, the queen mother cannot be easily abolished, and it is not appropriate to kill it secretly, no one wants to make a national funeral now, so Qian Qianyi's cabinet is very worried about this matter. can only give Concubine Nan a title of Concubine Nan first, and it is not difficult for Zhu Cheng's eldest princess to be titled, after all, the emperor only has such a daughter.

There are also two benefactors who have not repaid, that is, Han Suzhen, who once risked her life to save the mother and daughter of the concubine, and Liu Ziguang, who rescued their mother and daughter three times.

Han Suzhen, as the wife of Yang Bo, the former governor of Dongchang, is guilty, the cabinet after some discussion, proposed that the emperor first exempt him, and then appoint him as a female official in the palace, and the wife of the decree was exempted, this compromise plan was approved by the emperor, Han Suzhen naturally had no opinion, and moved from the Zhenwu Bo Mansion to the palace on the same day.

There is also a great benefactor Liu Ziguang did not reward, the emperor wanted to take this opportunity to promote Liu Ziguang as a marquis, but the cabinet thought it was inappropriate, although the righteous and courageous behavior of Zhenwu Bo was worthy of commendation, but he had just been crowned an uncle, and he was named a marquis in such a short period of time, it was too fast, and it was not conducive to the healthy growth of Zhenwu Bo, Zhu Youxiao was worn out of temper by the cabinet ministers, and changed his mind to give Liu Ziguang a python robe, this python robe is also divided into three, six, nine and so on, the general python robe is a side python, the body is covered with robes, called an over-the-shoulder python, and the sitting python is a frontal python, It is the top of the same python robe. This idea was also vetoed by the cabinet, their proposition is that ten years ago after the eunuch party was in power, the etiquette collapsed, the python robe, flying fish bullfighting suit too much, has affected the prestige of the imperial court, and now the whole country is confiscating and re-auditing the python robe, now this time should not go against the grain, put the noble python robe.

Zhu Youxiao was anxious and asked the cabinet, this is not good, that is not good, is it not rewarding meritorious officials? The cabinet said that it is the basic quality of the people of the Ming Dynasty to help each other when they see injustice, and there is no need to make a big deal about it, and it is enough to reward him with a few silk and satin industries.

Zhu Youxiao was furious, Wei Zhongxian hurriedly reconciled, saying that since he could only reward some money, he might as well reward it richly, the cabinet and the celebrant unified the caliber, and Zhu Youxiao, who did not have much experience as an emperor, finally compromised and gave a large amount of things in the palace to Zhen Wubo, so that even the toilet in Zhenwubo's mansion was the same size as the palace, fortunately, Liu Ziguang didn't care about fame, and he didn't complain at all after hearing this matter, which made Zhu Youxiao feel that Liu Ziguang was broad-minded and ambitious.

"This person has no scheming!" This is Qian Qianyi's evaluation of Liu Ziguang, now the imperial court is divided into three parts, the Donglin Party group with Qian Qianyi controls four of the six departments, and the relationship with the military department is also very close, Jinyiwei is also under control, and the local government and the people are even more supporters, compared to the young eunuch Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch of the master of ceremonies, and Liu Ziguang, the governor of Nanchang and the martial arts of the town, the foundation is very shallow.

The current Dongchang mainly uses the young and capable eunuchs selected by Wei Zhongxian from the palace, as well as the low-level officers and soldiers selected from the army, as well as the grassroots fans of the original Dongchang, and the reconnaissance force is really different from the previous Dongchang.

Liu Ziguang's South Factory is also a newly established institution, and the main staff is composed of the Red Shirt Regiment. , Tie Wei, Sun Gang's underworld forces in the capital, and Lian Feng's branches in various places. In addition, there was the looting of the former East Factory

On the surface, the imperial court at this time is a three-legged pattern, Donglin dominates, but there are also gaps within Donglin, the Rishengchang Hu family is just the Donglin group that joined with the purpose of overthrowing the queen mother, and it is difficult to say which side to invest in the future, and Wei Zhongxian and Liu Ziguang are both henchmen of the emperor, and it is not impossible to seize control of the government with the help of the holy family.

Therefore, Qian Qianyi obstructed the emperor's reward to Liu Ziguang in every way, and quickly grabbed the right to speak in the court while the emperor was still young, Wei Zhongxian and Liu Ziguang are both ministers, and the Ming Dynasty must not be allowed to reappear in the previous situation where the 9,000-year-old controlled the government and the ministers overpowered the foreign ministers.

There are also a number of actions underway, such as proposals to reduce the powers of the East and South Plants. With the return of the concubine and the eldest princess, Qian Qianyi has another trick to come out, that is, to help the emperor's sister find a concubine of the Donglin system, so as to close the relationship between Donglin and the emperor, and in the future, the princess can also speak in the emperor's ear.

There is nothing else in the Donglin Party, and there are a lot of young talents, especially the four sons of Jiangnan are the most famous, and Hou Fangyu, the fourth son, is the son of Hou Xun, the new secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

Although the ancestral system has rules that say that the horse cannot serve as a high-ranking official, but now the ancestral system has become an ornament, and the military generals in some places can ride on the heads of civil officials to, and it is not impossible for the horse to enter the cabinet.

The fly in the ointment is that Hou Fangyu still lacks the title of champion, if he can win the first place in this scientific expedition, the saint is happy, and with the encouragement of the ministers, the position of this concubine can basically be determined.

This year, the news of the emperor's opening of Enke has already spread all over the world, seeing that the day of autumn is approaching, the lifters have gathered in the capital, not only in the Ming Dynasty, but also in the northern Manchu occupied areas of the scholars also have a lot of people who come to take the exam, and there are many overseas students who come to participate, such as Taiwan, Sulfur Ball, Song Dynasty and other places, in their locality, the Ming Dynasty's academic qualifications are officially recognized, and can be directly officials.

The four sons of Jiangnan are all students of Guozijian, and they can directly participate in the autumn festival, they can be regarded as taking advantage of the time and place, and they live in the capital, not to mention the hardships of the journey, the examination environment is also very familiar, and they can go flat with their eyes closed in the Confucius Temple, and the chief examiner of this scientific examination is also a civil official of the Donglin system, plus the four princes themselves are not badly talented, and the top three are almost already in the bag.

Hou Fangyu, who got the hint from his father, was very excited, no matter how well he did in the exam this time, Enke had already decided to participate in the palace examination, and after the palace examination, he would be able to be a princess and a concubine.

Like the princess, he can wear the official uniform of the unicorn complement, and as the emperor's brother-in-law, the road will soar in the future, so the prince is not excited to study at home, and took the three brothers to the Confucius Temple to play.

The Confucius Temple in autumn is particularly lively, all the world's readers have gathered to the left near, the merry talents come to the capital of this flower world, how can there be no chic reason, except for a very few nerds squatting in the inn to chew books, most of the people have come to the street to play, for a time all kinds of clothes, accents are mixed, everywhere are young faces swaggering.

Liu Ziguang, the minister of the guard, was very depressed, he led the eldest princess to visit the capital at the behest of the concubine, Zhu Cheng has lived in the vast world of Hongze Lake for many years, and now he is trapped in the cage of the palace for a few days and feels bored, and complains to the concubine that he wants to go out for a walk, and the concubine naturally agrees, and personally orders the general of the minister of the guard, and asks him to accompany the eldest princess to travel.

Liu Ziguang is now accustomed to the kind of life of gongs and roads, and is majestic on all sides, taking off his python robe, changing into a green shirt, and feeling very uncomfortable squeezing around in front of the public, Zhu Cheng didn't feel anything, she was a princess of cloth clothes, wearing a simple blue dress, with a pair of big eyes, and followed Liu Ziguang while walking and watching, with a curious expression on her face.