Chapter 173: Zhang Yanling who died
"Presumptuous!" Zhu Houwei's face was full of anger, and he reached out to pick up the vegetables and fruits in front of him and smashed them at Zhang Yanling.
Zhang Yanling is drunk, people can't control their mouths when they get drunk, some like to talk nonsense, some like to brag nonsense, and some like to pour out the dissatisfaction accumulated in their stomachs, Zhang Yanling belongs to the latter.
Zhu Houwei was too ruthless to the clan, so that all the relatives in the capital were panicked, and he was afraid that the emperor's second fire would burn on his head.
The first upstart of the Jiajing Dynasty was naturally Empress Xue Zhilei's father, Jiading Boxue Yuanliang, and then Shouning Hou Zhang Heling and Jianchang Hou Zhang Yanling.
The Zhang brothers were somewhat restrained in the Hongzhi Dynasty, but after the Zhengde Dynasty, relying on their sister is the queen mother, they really did all the bad things, and the evil things were done, and the queen mother was covered, and the two brothers had no scruples.
The emperor also has to have scruples, so in the eyes of the two brothers, even if they are full of evil, the emperor will not do anything to them except for a few words of resignation without pain.
But Zhu Houwei took the opportunity of the big wedding to directly attack the clans of the whole world, not only imprisoned hundreds of feudal kings in Fangshan, but also put King Ning and several county kings directly into the Zongren Mansion, and it is said that the three law divisions of King Ning will be tried to punish the state law!
As long as the prince and the prince of the county do not rebel, at best, they will be removed from the country, cut off the lord, and be confined, what does it mean that the country can be criminalized?
The meaning is very simple, the Son of Heaven wants King Dingning to rebel, and then send him back to the West!
It's so ruthless, Xun Qi was shocked, but who hasn't bullied people in a wealthy family, who hasn't done a few illegal things, to put it simply, who doesn't have a lot of mud under their ass?
If the Son of Heaven deliberately finds fault and uses the way to deal with the clan to clean up the relatives, the noble class has almost no power to resist.
So during this time, the nobles were very low-key, and the more mud under their buttocks, the more low-key and scared they became, among which the Zhang brothers were the leaders.
The brothers of the Zhang family are afraid, even if they are covered by their sister, Zhu Houwei can even clean up the surname Zhu without any scruples, not to mention their foreign surnames?
In addition, after Zhang Shaohua and her father said something, the Zhang brothers couldn't wait to hide directly in their respective mansions as quails.
Fear and resentment slowly precipitated, and finally made Zhang Yanling talk after getting drunk.
What he said was nothing more than how Zhu Houwei could be so ruthless to his relatives, the kings guarded the domain to protect the Ming Dynasty, what was the matter with being confined to the capital, and finally even the words of the six relatives who did not recognize it came out......
After drinking wine, you can't control your mouth and your throat, you said that if you talk in a whisper, forget it, but the more you talk, the more excited you become, so that everyone in the hall looks at you with neurotic eyes?
Zhang Heling couldn't wait to slap this two hundred and fifty ......
The vegetables and fruits smashed on Zhang Yanling's forehead with great precision, and suddenly the two goods were sobered up.
Zhang Yanling, who was woken up by smashing, returned to two, but he was not stupid, he immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing and offended the emperor, and he did not hesitate at the moment, fell to the ground, and kept pleading guiltily in his mouth.
Empress Dowager Zhang's face was already ugly and couldn't be seen......
"It is said that after drinking, it seems that the Marquis of Jianchang has a deep resentment against me."
Zhang Yanling kowtowed, and he didn't know how to reply, so he could only keep pleading guilty.
"I have worked hard for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, and in order not to let the Ming Dynasty enter the strange circle of fate and reincarnation, for which I do not hesitate to bear the infamy, because I know that my merits and deeds will be evaluated by my descendants.
But as a relative of the emperor and my uncle, you have not lost a single cent in the politics of the clan, but you can still be so dissatisfied with me, which really chills my heart.
You Jianchang Marquis deeply worship the emperor's grace, and you should be for the country and the people, but you indulge in evil, perverse behavior, and there are countless evil things, I want to ask you, are you Jianchang Marquis really not worried about being persecuted by you The people pointed to your backbone and scolded you for losing your conscience!
Are you really not afraid of stirring up a civil uprising, so that I have to punish you canonically, and make the people angry! ”
Zhang Yanling was stupid, and the concubines and officials present were also stupid, and the words of the Son of Heaven were unceremoniously, and he unabashedly exposed his murderous intentions.
But the Zhang brothers are the uncles of the Son of Heaven, as long as the Queen Mother is there or even the Queen Mother is gone, how dare the Son of Heaven use a knife against his own uncle.
That's really the six relatives don't recognize it.
"Your Majesty is cautious." Empress Dowager Zhang couldn't help it, no one knows better than her what kind of virtue her two unsuccessful younger brothers are, if she makes a mistake, she should be scolded, punished, or even beaten, she can treat it as if she didn't see it, but it is a bit too much to shout and kill.
Zhu Houwei exhaled a breath of turbidity, of course he knew that he couldn't really use the Zhang family brothers, the reason why Zhu Houxi dared was because he had nothing to do with these two goods, so he could not give Mrs. Zhang a son, and he could cut off Zhang Yanling's head without any psychological burden.
But he can't, as long as these two uncles don't plot to rebel, then he can only confin them at most, otherwise he can't escape the barrier of secular ethics.
Being an emperor is not something he can do as he pleases, brutal and unkind, unless he is willing to bear the name of a tyrant in history, he can only endure it, and he has to endure it.
He said such murderous words just to remind the brothers of the Zhang family and the powerful people in the whole world, so that these guys who dare to run rampant by virtue of their identities know how ruthless their methods are.
He can deal with his clan relatives, and he can not give his uncles face at all, and those powerful people should weigh whether their weight is heavy enough, or whether their heads are hard enough, hard enough to be unscathed under the knife of the Son of Heaven!
Empress Dowager Zhang's words undoubtedly gave Zhu Houwei a good step, so Zhu Houwei got up and walked away directly.
The emperor gave a banquet, the princes and subjects enjoyed together, and they should have enjoyed the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together, but Zhang Yanling spoiled the atmosphere, and the courtiers naturally had no reason to continue to stay, so they got up one by one and asked the empress dowager to resign.
The ministers, nobles and concubines left one after another, and in addition to the eunuchs and palace maids who were waiting, only the Empress Dowager Zhang and the Zhang brothers were left in the entire hall.
"Happy?" Empress Dowager Zhang's tone was cold, without a trace of anger.
"Sister......
"Get on your knees."
Zhang Yanling, who had just gotten up, fell to his knees.
"The mourning family has already told you that as long as you are more restrained, the Zhang family can be rich and prosperous for a hundred years, but what about you? Relying on the power of the mourning family to do evil, the folds of impeaching you over the years can fill the mourning family's bedroom, the mourning family can protect you again and again, can the mourning family still protect you for a lifetime, protect your children and grandchildren! ”
"Sister, my brother knows his mistakes......"
"Knowing mistakes, knowing mistakes, these two words mourners have long been tired of hearing them." Empress Dowager Zhang snorted coldly: "Hou Wei is different from Hou Zhao, Hou Zhao just doesn't like restraint and has no intention of politics, so he will escape, but Hou Wei is ambitious, he wants to become a generation of male masters, in order to become a male master, he will kick away all the stumbling blocks in front of him that prevent him from achieving his achievements, he can treat his clan relatives like this, who do you think you are?" If one day he really can't bear it, even if he won't kill you, he will definitely cut off your knighthood, and even if the mourning family can't stop it! ”
The two brothers were sincerely frightened, kowtowing like pounding garlic.
Looking at the two younger brothers who were not angry, Empress Dowager Zhang sighed in her heart and reprimanded angrily: "Remember the words of the mourning family, if you do too much injustice, you will kill yourself, get out!"
Where did the two brothers dare to talk nonsense, and they fled like a fart......