Chapter 7 The former head and the assistant Gao Gong instructed the assassination

Zhu Xixiao, who was in charge of supervising the assassination of the king, said: "The villain's name is Minister Wang, surnamed Wang Zhanglong, a native of Wujin County, Changzhou in the south, and he describes himself as the Zhejiang Army under Qi Jiguang. ”

After hearing this, Zhang Juzheng asked, "Where did this person's service clothes and waist cards come from?" ”

"The self-report is provided for Chen Hong." Zhu Xixiao said that when he came here, he looked at Feng Bao, the overseer of Dongchang, and he couldn't control the affairs in the palace.

Zhu Yijun sat on the platform, flipped through the "Four Books of Direct Explanation", heard Zhu Xixiao speak, and realized a problem, the reason why Minister Wang was able to mix in the palace was completely because of the interior clothes and the waist card of the vegetable household.

The king's minister had an identity.

In fact, it is not uncommon for outsiders to be mixed in this palace, this is the way for eunuchs to make money, and some people are curious about what the palace in the capital looks like, and they are willing to pay money to come in and see a rarity.

It's ridiculous to say, in the Ming Dynasty, where etiquette is strict, outsiders can take some money and enter this heavily guarded palace.

Who took the money? Naturally, the eunuchs took it.

The eunuchs' affairs, the knights can't control it, cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents, the knights must be strictly investigated, and the eunuchs don't know how to clean up the horses.

Even the ministers took it for granted, but no one blamed it because of the poor supervision of Ti Shuai Zhu Xixiao that led to the thieves entering the palace, because everyone was used to it.

Who hasn't mixed sand into the palace?

Jinyiwei and Dongchang were supposed to be two spy forces that checked and balanced each other, but because of the large sitting of Dongchang, this ability to check and balance has been weakened, and Jinyiwei's power is too low and has become a vassal of Dongchang.

Zhu Yijun, the little butterfly, flapped its wings and already showed the effect.

Originally, Minister Wang's case was to be handed over to Dongchang for interrogation, but because of Zhu Yijun's remarks, Empress Dowager Li handed over the case to Tiqi for interrogation.

According to the regulations, Dongchang can only leave the palace at dawn to open the palace gate to handle the case, so this morning's banquet, the true identity of Minister Wang cannot be determined.

Ti rode outside the Chengtian Gate and had the Yamen of the Fusi of Beizhen, let a letter go out, and a few thousand households would be punished, and the eighteen generations of the ancestors of the Wang ministers would be able to be found out clearly.

At least it was confirmed that this fang was not under the command of the Qi family's army, but a servant slave of the Jingshi.

The identity of the Assassin is really, really, really important.

Ti Qi is just not powerful, it's not that he can't do bad things, he can't do things.

Feng Bao had gauze wrapped around his head, and the two old men with swollen cheeks sat in the position of the eunuch who was in charge of the seal, and said in a high voice: "Our family and Chen Hong are life and death grudges, Chen Hong has been arrested yesterday, Chen Hong has already admitted that he provided the interior clothes and the Caihu camp waist card, Teng Xiang, Meng Chong and others went out of the imperial city, and conspired with the villains, so that the minister of the king mixed into the palace, which led to this evil thing. ”

"Thankfully, Your Majesty is fine."

"Is Your Majesty all right?" Yang Bo, the secretary of the ministry, flicked his sleeves, stared at Feng Bao, and asked, "The gangster is pierced by the air, if there is no piercing, what should I do?" Your Majesty is still young, how can you judge if you are frightened? You are the prime minister, and you are responsible for everything in the palace, and you let the villains enter the palace, why are you still sitting here! ”

Yang Bo, Jiajing eight years into the scholar and the first, the beginning of the local service, Jiajing eighteen years, with the scholar Zhai Luan to inspect the nine sides, Jiajing nineteen years, Jiajing Emperor into the night, summoned Yang Bo into the palace to play right, won Jiajing appreciation, since Jiajing twenty-five years began to patrol the border.

In the thirty-third year of Jiajing, the Tatars brought Du'er Khan and called Sun, led more than 100,000 cavalry to raid Jizhen, Yang Bo and the chief military officer Zhou Yichang fought, and the enemy was not disarmed, and recruited the brave soldiers at night, went deep into the camp to repel the enemy, and in the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing, Yang Bo once again repelled the invading Duer Khan.

Yang Boxun went to Jiajing in the forty-second year of the border according to the border, and because of the defeat of Yang Xuan, the governor of Jiliao, he was transferred back to the imperial court to serve as the secretary of the ministry.

Yang Bo is the crown prince and young master, from a first-class member, with local experience in performing duties, and military merits, he is really not afraid of Feng Bao, a eunuch, because he is the current leader of the Jin Party.

The Jin Party, a deep-rooted party entrenched in the court.

Another unbreakable political alliance.

Zuodu Yushi Ge Shouli immediately echoed and said: "Feng Bao! You are in charge of the palace, and Her Majesty the Queen Mother has entrusted you with a heavy responsibility, is this what you do? In addition to being good at doing good things and asking for extravagance, what else can you do besides being greedy for money! The emperor is in turmoil! ”

Zhu Yijun flipped through the Analects in his hand, occasionally picked up the pen and made notes, he studied very seriously, and the noise in the audience did not seem to affect him.

Although Jiajing does not go to the court, it does not mean that he does not participate in court meetings, the old Taoist priest always hides behind the heavy curtain, rings the bronze bell with a copper hammer, how many times to knock, how important to knock, what is being expressed, it is all up to the courtiers to guess.

Jiajing cultivated immortals in the Wenhua Palace, and the little emperor studied in the Wenhua Palace.

The little emperor reads, and the courtiers are noisy under the platform, how weird and weird this style of painting is, but this is the result of many struggles.

In June of the sixth year of Longqing, the Emperor of Longqing was in less than a month's time, Gao Gong as a Yuan Fu, on the Tao Song, this Song is long, but there is a sentence in it [If there is no draft, it will be approved from within, and Rong Chen and others can be implemented before it can be implemented. ]

The meaning of this sentence is: If there is a recital that has not been issued by the cabinet and the emperor directly approves it, it is necessary to let the courtiers play the emperor in person and ask for clarification before it can be implemented.

Gao Gong not only said that the ten-year-old lord could not rule the world, but also gave specific restrictions, and the emperor could not bypass Wenyuan Pavilion and criticize without authorization.

The emperor did not issue a draft, and approved it from within.

Just this sentence really touched the taboo of Empress Dowager Li.

The emperor commented on the recital, can you use the word "self"? !

Therefore, in order to let the emperor be in charge, the little emperor, who was supposed to study in the back of the Wenhua Palace, was carried to the front hall, sat on the platform, and listened to the courtiers quarrel while reading.

It didn't take long for these twenty-seven courtiers to get used to this way of court discussion.

Feng Bao was not timid at this time, sneered, looked at Yang Bo and said, "Hmph! Our family is sitting here, naturally it is the trust of the Queen Mother and Her Majesty, so that our family comes to stare at you! It's not your turn to intervene in the affairs of the palace! ”

"You have to take care of the affairs outside the palace! You also have to take care of the affairs in the palace! ”

"Is it that what Your Majesty eats, you also have to care?"

This morning, when waiting outside the Qianqing Palace, the little yellow door next to the Queen Mother sent a message to Feng Bao, the Queen Mother meant not to let Feng Bao participate in the feast, and in the end, His Majesty was in charge and let him follow.

Even if Feng Bao had gauze on his head, His Majesty let him get up.

His Majesty's words also made Feng Baoxin feel related, it turned out that his little tricks were in the eyes of His Majesty, His Majesty didn't know, but he was too lazy to care, and even intended to let him stand up and be in charge of everything in the palace, but the errand was smashed, he was hit in the face, his head was knocked over, and the power was also given, and His Majesty let him get up.

That means that His Majesty still trusts him and lets him do things, he is still useful, he is naturally full of confidence, behind him is the emperor, in this Wenhua Palace, he represents the imperial power and Wenchen tearing apart.

"Chen Hong's confession was instructed by Gao Gong, the former cabinet minister." Feng Bao threw out a sentence lightly.

This word was extremely aggressive, and the ministers immediately fell silent, and the Wenhua Hall was extremely quiet, only the sound of the little emperor flipping through the book on the platform and the big yellow curtain being blown by the wind.

Feng Bao is extremely qualified to bite people in this Wenhua Palace, don't look at him injured, but the attack power is still extremely strong, three or two sentences, blocking the ministers from speaking, and stabbing the knife into the hearts of the civil officials.

Gao Gong, the former cabinet chief assistant, when Gao Gong was in power, he promoted a lot of Jin parties, if Gao Gong was detained for the crime of treason and murder by assassinating the king, those Jin parties promoted by Gao Gong would be unlucky.

Everyone looked at Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the cabinet on the left, and before Emperor Longqing's great trip, he appointed three ministers of the auxiliary state.

Gao Yi died, Gao Gong fell, and now, only Zhang Juzheng remained.

Zhang Juzheng's attitude is very important.

At this time, Shoufu was flipping through the case file, checking the documentary evidence, physical evidence, and human evidence provided by the Fusi Yamen in Beizhen.

In this case, Ti Qi handled it vigorously.

Qi Jiguang is Zhang Juzheng's person, and the relationship between the two is very strong, if this villain Wang Zhanglong is really from the Qi family's army, Qi Jiguang is indispensable for trouble, and even Zhang Juzheng will be implicated.

But Ti Shuai Zhu Xixiao found the evidence very much, this servant has lived in Beijing for more than ten years, and the trajectory of his life is extremely clear, Jinyiwei is already in decline, this is not easy to get an errand, so naturally he can't do it.

Qi Jiajun and Qi Jiguang cleared their suspicions, and Zhang Juzheng could stay out of the matter to deal with this case.

How important is it for Shoufu to stay out of the matter? This leaves more room to move forward.

At the beginning of the fight, Zhang Juzheng didn't believe it, he didn't believe that the assassins from the Qi family army couldn't even kill a ten-year-old child, and he couldn't even deal with the eunuch Zhang Hong, the Qi family army was less than 6,000 people, and everyone was extremely brave.

As for the documentary evidence, physical evidence, and human evidence brought by Dongchang, Zhang Juzheng just looked at it briefly, and then closed it and didn't look at it anymore.

At this point, Zhang Juzheng actually knows the context of the whole case.

Chen Hong is the emperor of Longqing, the ancestor of the palace, the eunuch of the celebrant and the eunuch, the governor of Dongchang, the eunuch of the imperial horse, can be described as a monstrous power, rampant, Emperor Longqing, Chen Hong immediately lost all authority, and Chen Hong and Gao Gong have a very good personal relationship, Chen Hong fell, Gao Gong also fell.

Once a son of heaven and a courtier, nothing is better than that.

The villain Wang Zhanglong was indeed found by Chen Hong, Chen Hong wanted to take this opportunity to rise again, so that the queen mother, who was furious, directly killed Feng Bao, the first person responsible, so that Chen Hong could restore his monstrous power.

But Chen Hong obviously misestimated Feng Bao's trust, although Chen Hong's plan succeeded, and Feng Bao also paid a heavy price, but Feng Bao did not die, then it could only be Chen Hong and his henchmen who died.

The problem now is that the eunuch Feng Bao, the eunuch who holds the palm seal, is pouring dirty water on the high arch.

"Well-documented." Zhang Juzheng closed the case file and said, "The Three Law Divisions will try Wang Zhanglong's case." ”

Zhang Juzheng wrote his opinion on the case file, took out the seal and sewed the book, and handed it to Zhang Hong.

Zhang Hong, the eunuch of the Qianqing Palace, took the case file and put it in front of His Majesty the Emperor, waiting for the emperor to use the treasure of Wanli.

Zhu Yijun looked at the treasure of Wanli, this is his jade seal, Empress Dowager Li can't touch it, Feng Bao can't touch it, Zhang Juzheng can't touch it, Zhang Juzheng can't touch it, Zhang Juzheng is indeed in charge of the affairs of the outer court, but if Zhu Yijun doesn't use the seal, this matter can't be done.

Thirteen years after Wanli, Emperor Wanli began to neglect his government, most of the members of the court, Emperor Wanli just didn't need to seal, and the courtiers had no way.

This is the institutional design of the Ming Empire, without the imperial power, everything is closed, and the Ming Dynasty can't do anything.

Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao, the unbreakable political alliance, which is a fallacy.

Whether there is a problem with Gao Gong in the end, Zhang Juzheng has only one attitude towards this matter, that is, he has a good history.

If there is a problem with the high arch, it will be done, and if it is after the trial of the three law divisions, the high arch is no problem, and it will not be done.

Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gong just have different political views, and they arch Gao Gong just to realize their ambitions, and they are not to the point of life and death at all.

Feng Bao's face changed, after all, he didn't say much, Zhang Juzheng's attitude was very neutral, this time he did not stand on Feng Bao's side to speak, but the three law divisions will try the case of Wang Zhanglong's assassination and murder.

The three law divisions are the Metropolitan Inspection Yuan, Dali Temple, the Criminal Department, the Jinyi Wei and the Dongchang Assistant, and the leader is the Three Law Division.

The case was handed over to the outer court, and Gao Gong couldn't die.

Zhu Yijun picked up the red pen, and then covered the treasure of Wanli, assassinated the king, and began to enter the next process, interrogation.

Zhang Juzheng continued to preside over the court meeting, and this round of court discussion involved all aspects of the Ming Dynasty, including the finance and taxation of the household department, the border side of the military department, the criminal name of the criminal department, the promotion of the Ministry of Rites, the construction of the Ministry of Industry, and the examination method of the Ministry of Officials.

The examination method is performance appraisal, the capable are up, the mediocre are down, the system design has formed a prototype, but it is still under discussion, to the hundred officials to set the head, the officials are naturally not happy, everyone has been arranging seniority for a long time, how can you be willing to roll up?

But Zhang Juzheng insisted on implementing it, so he could only improve the system.

Zhu Yijun has been reading, and the courtiers have formed a resolution, so they handed it to Zhang Hong and sent it to the imperial case to use the seal, and after Zhu Yijun read it, he would use the seal, and he did not express his opinion.

The courtiers are deliberating, the little emperor is reading, and when the sun is rising, Zhu Yijun has been able to read a few paragraphs of this treatise silently, and he knows what it is and why it is true.

"Your Majesty, the court is dissolved." Zhang Hong reminded His Majesty that the court meeting was over, and the twenty-seven courtiers got up to salute and left the Wenhua Palace.

Zhang Juzheng stood under the stage, stood with his hands in his hands, bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, the minister will solve your Majesty's doubts." ”

"Can Gensuke teach without reading a book?" Zhu Yijun stopped writing, looked at Zhang Juzheng who was empty-handed and asked.

Zhang Juzheng replied respectfully: "The minister is a scholar. ”

"Why does the treatise of the Analects read 阳平音 [lún] instead of 去音 [lùn]?" Zhu Yijun raised his doubts.