Chapter 5: The Emperor's Letter

Failure to comply with the decree.

Under the institutional design of the Ming Imperial System, the result of non-compliance with the decree is that people and gods abandon it, and the emperor can use non-punishment to plot treason, and no one in the court dares to intercede for Zhu Xixiao, the marshal, because of the rebellion.

And Zhang Hong's letter card is indeed the letter card of Emperor Zhu Yijun of the Ming Dynasty, even if the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty does not worship Ti Shuai as a teacher, Ti Shuai Zhu Xixiao must also transfer troops.

"I have to go along." Zhu Xixiao immediately decided to transfer troops without thinking more than five breaths, but he had to follow.

"Our family doesn't dare to lead the cavalry to do things by themselves, isn't that looking for death? Xie Ti is handsome. Zhang Hong's face, which was still angry just now, immediately became smiling, and the look of forcing just now seemed to be the same.

Even if Zhu Xixiao didn't say that he wanted to go with him, Zhang Hong would ask Ti Shuai to go with him, and the eunuch would be in charge of the army, and he would have to die in a certain well the next day, which was a taboo that could not be touched.

In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, how many disasters did the eunuchs cause in the military power?

As the master of the Qianqing Palace, Zhang Hong is a very measured person, and he must be clear about what can be done and what cannot be done.

The eunuchs turned their faces faster than they turned books, Zhu Xixiao saw a lot, and Zhang Hong and Feng Bao's speed was comparable.

What kind of demons are there in this Ming Palace!

Zhang Hong took his two righteous sons and fifty horsemen and began to clean up the Qianqing Palace, and there were bursts of ghosts crying wolves.

Such a big thing happened, the Empress Dowager Li did not sleep, and the Empress Dowager Chen discussed the assassination of the king, heard the ghost crying wolf outside the palace, and after the Empress Dowager Li asked the palace maid what was the matter, she did not order to stop.

It was her order to let Zhang Hong go to the Qianqing Palace, she just let Zhang Hong completely offend Feng Bao, there is a big threat to Feng Bao's status in the palace, which is a spur to Feng Bao.

Zhang Hong was worried that the Queen Mother would stop her, and the Queen Mother was still holding the lamp, but no one came to stop her for a long time, so Zhang Hong became bold and served His Majesty's palace maids and eunuchs, but all Feng Bao's people were cleared out by him.

This Qing Palace, not to mention the caisson, but all of them were sent to Langxia's house.

The Empress Dowager's person, Zhang Hong did not move, because His Majesty had already delineated the scope of the Qing Palace.

Empress Dowager Li lives in Cining Palace, it is the courtiers who ask Empress Dowager Li to take care of the little emperor, the people around Empress Dowager Li are all from Cining Palace, Zhang Hong is a eunuch of Qianqing Palace, if he stretches his hand over, it is arrogance, and His Majesty the Emperor will never intercede for him.

Zhang Hong is a measured person, after all, he is a eunuch of the Langxia family, although he is also the lord of the seat, but the number of righteous sons and daughters in this palace is limited, and the "big tail" serving His Majesty has been sharply reduced from nearly 100 to 6.

Three eunuchs, three palace maids.

"Zhang Hong!" Feng Bao heard the news and rushed with a group of fans, looked at Zhang Hong with a gloomy face, gritted his teeth, pointed and asked, "How are you doing!" ”

"Huh." With this shout, the injury on Feng Bao's face made him twitch in pain.

Zhu Xixiao's brows were twisted into pimples, don't have a conflict, otherwise it will be very difficult for Zhu Xixiao and the cavalry who came to receive the order.

Zhang Hong flicked his wide sleeves, showed the emperor's letter card, and asked sharply: "How are you doing!" Your Majesty's letter card is in front of you, do you want to disobey the emperor's order! Even if you make trouble with the Queen Mother, you can't be reasonable! ”

"If the errand is smashed, it is smashed! The Queen Mother and Her Majesty thought about the old love, and didn't sink you into the well, and they came to entangle, do you really think that your life is long? ! ”

Zhang Hong is a little timid, Feng Bao is deep-rooted and deep-rooted in the palace, and there are Feng Bao's people everywhere, but when Zhang Hong faced Feng Bao, he still stiffened and shouted.

Behind him stood the emperor, this matter was sent by the emperor to do it, and the queen mother acquiesced!

He was holding His Majesty's letter card.

He should be right!

It's just that Zhang Hong looked at Feng Bao, can the letter card in his hand really be able to control the ancestors in this palace?

Feng Bao frowned when he saw the letter, of course he knew the lettercard, which was a complete set of seals created by the seal ribbon supervisor in June last year, after the first emperor's great trip, Feng Bao personally went to pick it up, presented it to the Queen Mother, and then the Queen Mother handed over the token to the emperor.

"Meet Your Majesty!" Feng Bao respectfully saluted the letter card before standing up.

With so many people watching, if Feng Bao is a little disrespectful and reaches the ears of Empress Dowager Li, let alone being a big man, it is a problem to live.

"Yes, very good!" Feng Bao kept clapping his hands, he looked at Zhang Hong, his face gradually eased, and said with a smile: "We are all on an errand for the emperor's grandfather, you must serve Your Majesty wholeheartedly, but whenever there is a little mistake, you want to look good!" ”

Feng Baolu was timid!

Zhang Hong was keenly aware of Feng Bao's timidity, firstly, Feng Bao smashed the errand, and secondly, this Feng Bao was afraid of this lettercard, this is a lettercard?

This is imperial power.

This letter card is a thousand times better than Zhang Hong imagined, ten thousand times! If there was no such letter, Feng Bao would have clashed with him, and a hundred Zhang Hong would not be Feng Bao's opponents.

Zhang Hong raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Wherever the ancestor said this, he was begging for food, and when he went out on a business trip, where to use the old ancestor to make a move, I would find a well and jump down, which would hinder the eyes of the imperial grandfather and the queen mother." ”

These words teased Feng Bao with a gun and a stick, let the gangsters enter the palace, and broke into front of His Majesty, this is a great crime, today is God's coming, Feng Bao still did something wrong, if Feng Bao is right, the mouth on his face is pulled by others? The bruise on his head was caused by someone else holding him?

Feng Bao couldn't say a word when he choked on this, Zhang Hong kicked his nose on his face, he naturally hated it, but he hated the dog thing in his heart even more!

Blame Your Majesty for not forgiving? Blame the Queen Mother for not remembering the old love? Blame Zhang Hong's sharp teeth? Blame him for Feng Bao's ineffective work? There are only a thousand days to be a thief, how can there be a thousand days to prevent thieves?

His Majesty's letter card is here, the imperial power is above, and Feng Bao is at a loss, so he can only let others attack him, and he can't pay it back.

The Qianqing Palace sent out more than 20 eunuchs and more than 30 palace maids, and Feng Bao came to the gate of the Qianqing Palace and brought more than a dozen fans, although they were all silently watching the two Da Jue quarrelling, but the little Jiujiu in his heart was not enough for outsiders.

"Ancestor, the Queen Mother sent you to catch the inner ghost, how did you catch it? Hurry up Ming'er, if Your Majesty asks, I have something to say, don't you? Zhang Hong was unforgiving, but asked about Feng Bao's errand.

Who is the ancestor in the palace!

Whoever is close to His Majesty and who is close to the Queen Mother is the ancestor.

"It's caught, it's Chen Hong and his sons and grandchildren!" Feng Bao replied angrily, flicked his sleeves, and didn't want to say more, now that Zhang Hong has gained momentum, staying any longer is just humiliation.

"Send the ancestors." Zhang Hong accepted it when he saw it, and didn't ask any further, His Majesty's order was to clear the palace, and he had already stepped on Feng Bao with a fake tiger, which was enough.

This is also to take advantage of Feng Bao's wrong thing to step on it like this, if Feng Bao didn't make a mistake and gave Zhang Hong a hundred guts, he wouldn't dare.

The spring day is overcast, and the clouds are thinner and deeper.

Most of the mornings in this spring are gloomy, the clouds are thin and far-reaching, Zhu Yijun got up with a yawn on the fifth watch, Zhang Hong had finished his errand and returned to the outside of the Qianqing Palace, and heard the movement in the room, Zhang Hong walked into the Qianqing Palace, opened the door, and motioned to the two palace maids waiting at the door, and went in to wait for His Majesty to change clothes and wash.

"I'll come by myself." Zhu Yijun sat down and asked the palace maid not to come closer, but to change into Yan Ben's crown dress by herself.

Yan Ben crown clothes, this is Emperor Jiajing, the grandfather of Emperor Wanli, in the struggle of the Great Rites Discussion, the emperor's regular clothes, that is, the regular clothes that Emperor Jiajing talked about were only four sets of regular clothes.

The front of the crown is decorated with colorful jade clouds, symbolizing the five elements, and the four mountains are lined up behind the crown, symbolizing the four directions.

The body of the body is dark color, the collar, sleeves, placket and other places are edged with cyan, the front chest is painted with a dragon circle, and the back is embroidered with a double dragon square patch, the front one and the back two, implying three talents.

The cost of this dress is not cheap at all, just the gold thread of the three dragons, and the embroidery process, that is something that money can't buy, the clothes are not troublesome to wear, Zhu Yijun has hands and feet, and he doesn't want people to get too close to him.

The crown dress was too cumbersome, he couldn't wear it himself, and he had to be served by the palace people.

Zhang Hong knelt on the ground respectfully, saw that His Majesty had changed his clothes, finished washing, raised the letter card in his hand above his head, and said loudly: "The minister has finished his errand, and please take back the letter card." ”

"Hmm." Zhu Yijun walked in front of Zhang Hong, picked up the letter card and hung it on his waist, and then asked: "Get up and talk, if you have something to say in the future, you don't have to kneel all the time, so Feng Bao has trouble you?" ”

Zhang Hong stood up, bowed his head and said: "Feng Dajue knows about the Qing Palace, and he has come to see it once, but he didn't say anything, but just told the ministers that he must serve His Majesty well and not be lazy." ”

"Oh, didn't say anything." Zhu Yijun continued to ask: "How is this internal response?" ”

Zhang Hong thought for a moment and bowed his head and said, "Feng Dajue arrested Chen Hong, saying that Chen Hong and his remnants did it. ”

Chen Hong, the former eunuch of the palm seal, has always been insidious and cunning and ruthless, like to take some tiger and wolf medicine, Empress Dowager Li was extremely dissatisfied with Chen Hong, after the Longqing Emperor made a big trip, immediately dismissed all his positions, and sent him to live in Langxia's house.

Zhang Hong was about to kneel again, but His Majesty just said that he would not let him kneel, and he said tentatively: "The minister is guilty, Your Majesty, although the minister is the lord of the seat, but there are only three righteous sons and three righteous daughters, so many people can only be sent to serve." ”

Zhu Yijun didn't care, and said with a smile: "It's better to have less, come over with less care, count you in, just these seven people are waiting in front of the palace, if you don't make up for it, if you have more, it's troublesome." ”

The more bloated the organizational structure, the more rigid it becomes, and there are too many redundant personnel, that is, all kinds of intrigues, and seven people is really not a few.

Within three zhang, the more people, the more troublesome, and the fewer people, but the cleaner and safer.

Three feet away?

Outside the three zhangs, the imperial power is invincible.

After breakfast, Empress Dowager Li told her about the feast again.

According to the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, she can't even go to the Wenhua Palace, and she can't listen to the government, let alone weigh the system, every time the little emperor goes to the Wenhua Palace for a banquet, the Empress Dowager Li is particularly worried.

It is said that it is a feast, but in fact, there is also a court discussion of the Chang Dynasty.

Wenhua Hall is the place where the Ming court is discussed, and twenty-seven civil and military courtiers participate in it, which is also called the Jiuqing round trial, which determines many government affairs of the Ming Dynasty, and the Fengtian Hall is the place where the court will meet, and is mainly responsible for reading out the court decision.

The little emperor was young, and Empress Dowager Li was worried that Zhu Yijun would be bullied in the Wenhua Palace.

"Feng Daban is injured on his face, and after today's feast, let Zhang Hong follow the emperor." Empress Dowager Li carefully checked the little emperor's dress again, and there was nothing out of honor before announcing a decision.

Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "Zhang Hong can't do it, let's let Feng Daban follow, otherwise the foreign minister should guess and guess, but it will be very troublesome." ”

Major personnel adjustments should not be so abrupt, otherwise they will cause a lot of trouble.

The Daming Palace, which is like a sieve, the news of yesterday's assassination of the king and the murder of the driver has long been spread outside, once Feng Bao does not go to the Wenhua Palace, even if Zhang Juzheng is pressing, the ministers should make waves again.

Zhang Juzheng lost Feng Bao's help, and it is difficult to say that he will be able to hold the outer court firmly in his hands.

The iron triangle of Zhang Juzheng, Feng Bao, and Empress Dowager Li is interdependent, and if there is no link, the fragile situation of the Ming Dynasty will become strange again.

Cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods, demons dance wildly.

And Zhu Yijun clearly knows that the power in his hands is too little.

Feng Bao, or eunuch, is the emperor's dog that bites the outer court.

The injury on Feng Bao's face is not a big deal, as long as Feng Bao still appears in the Wenhua Palace, the ministers of the outer court can only continue to shrink their heads.

"Okay." Empress Dowager Li was actually very hesitant.

Does Feng Bao go to Wenhua Palace?

If you don't go, the ministers will make a fuss again, but when you go, the Empress Dowager Li was a little worried, whether Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng were playing a game against the little emperor, and the more they thought about it, the more entangled they became, which naturally made it difficult to sleep.

She didn't sleep all night last night, and she kept thinking about who this murderer was, but she couldn't even go to Wenhua Palace, so she could only rely on Feng Bao for everything, and as a result, Feng Bao was also a little unreliable, which made her extremely hesitant.

Before the establishment of the year, the twenty-seven-year-old Empress Dowager Li actually didn't have many ideas, since her son said that he wanted Feng Bao to follow, then let Feng Bao follow.

When he arrived at the Wenhua Palace, the ministers were around, and the emperor felt that Feng Bao would not be bullied, so let Feng Bao continue to follow.

Zhu Yijun did not take a sedan chair, but walked towards the Wenhua Palace, Feng Bao followed behind him, and the distance of each step was the same, just one position away from His Majesty.

Zhu Yijun suddenly stood still and said: "Feng Daban, you stepped on my prestige before, I know, I don't bother to pay attention to you, so I stepped on it for you, there are so many people in the palace, I have just ascended the throne, you always have to have some majesty to do things." ”

"When you established your authority, you put the gangsters in the palace to harm me? That's how you did it, Ancestor? ”

"Damn it!" Feng Bao was holding the treasure of Wanli and heard His Majesty's inquiry, and immediately knelt on the ground, holding the treasure of Wanli, both hands trembling.

Zhu Yijun turned around and said calmly: "Look directly at me." ”

"Yes." Feng Bao raised his head, looking at the Ming Emperor through the seal of the treasure of Wanli, this slightly fat little emperor, who was taller than the sky at the moment.

As long as he said a word, Feng Bao, the old ancestor, would immediately have to sink into the Jinshui River.

The power of the eunuch comes entirely from the imperial power, and the person in front of him is the emperor, the treasure of Wanli in front of him, does not belong to the queen mother, does not belong to Zhang Juzheng, and does not belong to Feng Bao, but to the person in front of him.

Zhu Yijun stared at Feng Bao and said very calmly: "My mother is a woman's family, don't coax my mother in the future, now Chen Hong has fallen, Gao Gong has also fallen, what is inside and outside is what it is, don't add oil and vinegar, make my mother worry too much." ”

"Get up."

Zhu Yijun didn't let Feng Bao do more embarrassing things, he didn't like Feng Bao to deceive Empress Dowager Li.

Empress Dowager Li is just a woman's family, suffering from gains and losses, the Ming Dynasty is stormy and precarious, Emperor Longqing left early, Feng Bao talked nonsense again, causing Empress Dowager Li to wake up in the middle of the night.

Feng Bao kowtowed respectfully, and said solemnly: "Thank you, Your Majesty Longen!" ”

At this time, the political alliance of Feng Bao, Zhang Juzheng, and Empress Dowager Li was the biggest obstacle to Zhu Yijun's pro-government, and it was also the biggest protective umbrella for him at a young age.

Feng Bao still has to use it, but it's not like before, everything depends on it.

"Let's go, go to Changchao!" Zhu Yijun strode forward and walked towards the Wenhua Palace.

"Ascend!" Feng Bao walked a few steps and came to the Wenhua Palace, shouted loudly, and put the treasure of Wanli on the imperial case on the Dan Majesty platform.

The four small yellow doors carried the dragon chair and placed it behind the imperial case, and the dragon chair had to be carried down every day after the regular court.

"Xuanwen Wu Tingchen enters the palace!" Feng Bao shook the dust again, Ti Shuai stood in front of the door, shook the whip three times, and shouted loudly: "Enter the palace!" ”

The Han general in front of the door searched and checked the civil and military ministers, whether there were murder weapons, and the ministers rushed in, and when they arrived at the station, Zhang Juzheng led the twenty-seven courtiers, five bows and three kowtows.

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live."

Zhu Yijun stretched out his hand and said, "Flat." ”

Zhu Yijun looked at the person who was in the middle of the foreman, this person was the first assistant of the cabinet, a scholar of the Middle Pole Palace, Zhang Juzheng.