Chapter 170: Li Mengyang's Story (5,000 Words)
Chang Feng was busy exchanging feelings with his wife and concubine who had been reunited for a long time.
Shouning Hou Zhang Heling was not idle.
The forty-year-old former chef of Changfu, Yun Niang, is serving Zhang Heling with all her heart.
It is not easy for a forty-year-old woman to be looked at by a handsome young man in the year of dancing elephants. What's more, the young man is still the uncle of the dynasty?
She can still get rich and rich, how can she not work hard?
Zhang Heling is like being in the clouds.
After the incident, Yun Niang said angrily: "My sister followed you, you should always let my sister return to her hometown."
Zhang Heling said, "Okay! I sent the marquis's official sedan chair and a full set of honor guards to send my sister back to her hometown."
Yun Niang said, "Sister, don't want those vain heads. Good brother, my family has been a farmer in the township for five generations. If you really want me to be beautiful, give me that piece of land in our country!"
Zhang Heling said, "The land is not mine, how can I reward you?"
Yun Niang thought for a while and said, "You won't ask your own sister for the queen? Uncle Guo wants thousands of acres of Zhuangzi, which is not out of line. Good brother, please."
Zhang Heling thought for a while: Yes. The Ming Dynasty is all my brother-in-law's, and half of my sister is there. What's wrong with the thousands of acres I want?
Thinking of this, Zhang Heling said, "It's done!"
Yun Niang chuckled, "Then I thanked my good brother."
Zhang Heling is worthy of being a person in the year of dancing elephants. Sure enough, the dancing elephant!
"Good sister, how can you thank me? Give me a reward for Bei'anmen!"
"You're bad! Come ......."
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The next day, Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling entered Kunning Palace.
Zhang Heling opened his mouth and said, "Sister! There is a piece of land in Yufa Township, Wanping County, which is very good. Give it to me."
Empress Zhang frowned: "Why do you want to come and ask me for land?"
Zhang Heling said: "Ah, I'm a marquis, it's not too much to get thousands of acres of Zhuangzi."
Empress Zhang said, "This is ...... I pondered. With the emperor's consent."
Empress Zhang did not object, in Zhang Heling's opinion, she agreed!
He and Zhang Yanling walked out of the palace. With his family, he began to drive out the peasants in Yufa Township and forcibly occupied the land for himself.
You know, this is at the bottom of the year. Thousands of people were forcibly seized of land for no reason.
Zhang Heling came to grab the land, not only brought his family, but also transferred 500 soldiers from the 12th regiment battalion. The regimental and battalion soldiers are fierce and vicious, armed with guns and knives, where do the people dare to resist?
What's even more excessive is that the seventeen-year-old marquis of Zhang Heling actually carried a forty-year-old woman in the carriage. While doing that nonsense, I listened to the screams of the people being beaten outside the carriage.
Offense against decency! It's really immoral!
The Wanping County Commander was furious when he learned of this. He presented it to Shuntian Mansion Yin, and Mansion Yin was also indignant.
But they did not dare to stop Zhang Heling's lack of virtue and smoke, nor did they dare to report to the emperor.
No one in the world knows that Emperor Hongzhi favored Empress Zhang, treated the Zhang family well, and regarded the two brothers-in-law as his own brothers.
Few people dare to touch this moldy head.
Shuntianfu Yin Ah Q possessed: I don't dare to care about you, someone dares to care about you! I'll look for him!
The official position of the person Fu Yin is looking for is not high. It's just that the head of the household is in the north of the Qing Dynasty, and it is just five products.
But his name has resounded throughout the history of Chinese literature.
He is - Li Mengyang!
Li Mengyang, a native of Fugou, Shaanxi (part of Gansu in the Ming Dynasty is under the jurisdiction of Shaanxi).
Although he and Li Dongyang have similar names, they are not related at all.
Later generations evaluated him as a literary scholar in the middle of the Ming Dynasty and the leader of the first seven sons of the retro school.
Li Mengyang is known for his boldness among Beijing officials.
He was born in a scholarly family and an official family. His father was a professor in the Zhou Palace.
Li Mengyang has been smart since he was a child, familiar with scriptures and poems, and full of economy. What you eat is rice, and what you pull out is a splendid article.
At the age of eighteen, he took the Shaanxi Township Examination. According to the Ming system, Xiucai candidates must return to their hometowns.
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It was he who went to Xi'an to prepare for the exam. During his stay in Xi'an, he heard that the prefect was a common man, and the three divisions didn't care.
So when he entered the Tribute Academy, he did a bold thing to satirize the darkness of officialdom.
In broad daylight, he carried a lantern in his hand.
The examiner in the Tribute Academy was puzzled and asked him why. Li Dongyang replied: "The officials of Xi'an City rule the darkness, and I am afraid that I will find the wrong way if I don't play lanterns."
This is the allusion of Li Mengyang's "Daytime Lantern".
As an aside, four hundred and fifty years later, a general surnamed Feng imitated Li Mengyang's behavior.
Fan imitation behavior is more famous than idol behavior.
The matter of carrying lanterns during the day spread, and the prefect of Xi'an and the three divisions hated him for raising the root of his hate. They found Xuezheng and asked Xuezheng Yamen to dismiss Li Mengyang's qualifications for the examination.
Fortunately, Xuezheng is an upright official. Under pressure, Li Mengyang completed the township test.
The prefect of Xi'an and the third division of Shaanxi originally planned to wait for him to complete the township test to retaliate against him.
The results are finished, and the test paper is torn apart. Li Mengyang High School's first place Xie Yuan! His exam-taking essays were exquisite, and were copied by literati throughout Shaanxi.
For a time, Li Mengyang became the top idol among the literati in Shaanxi. The magistrate couldn't help him.
In the second year, Li Mengyang went to the capital to participate in the examination and even became a tribute. Seventeenth in the second class in the palace examination (20th in the country).
Xiao Li is also more solemn and solemn, and he is a famous handsome descendant in ten miles and eight towns. was assigned to the Hanlin Academy as a Jishi, and the future is bright.
If he follows this script, Li Mengyang will be a student in the Hanlin Academy for a few years. It is then divided into six departments or places.
After decades of qualifications, at least he can be an official of the six ministries or a feudal official. It is even possible to enter the cabinet and be a very popular minister.
After all, for people born in the Gujishi, the upper limit of official positions is ceiling-level.
However, at the grace banquet of the Ministry of Rites to invite the new science and technology scholars, Li Mengyang suffered a big loss because of his boldness!
Li Mengyang drank a few more glasses, and showed a cold tooth for Baguwen in his words. also said amazingly, proposing that "the text must be Qin and Han, and the poem must be prosperous in the Tang Dynasty".
This kind of remarks were regarded as heresy by the Manchu officials who were promoted to the Eight Shares!
You said that Wenbi Qin Han, where did you put Zhu Zi and Ercheng? Where did you put the eight shares of the past generations?
It's like a modern man who travels back in time to the witch hunt in Western Europe and preaches atheism.
Burning you at the stake is a light treat.
Of course, the East is still relatively civilized. Even if the reader has the heart to burn Li Mengyang, he will not take action.
But the head of the Hanlin Academy is gone: such an arrogant person, the Hanlin Academy definitely doesn't want it! Love goes wherever it goes.
So Li Mengyang was deprived of his qualifications as a priest and was sent to the household department as the director.
At Tobe, he was known for his shrewdness, ability, courage and carefulness.
The Hanlin Academy didn't want him, but fulfilled him. He was like a fish in water in the household department, and he was promoted to the middle of the mountain in a few years.
Emperor Hongzhi had the intention of suppressing land annexation, and he also expressed his attitude of suppressing land annexation many times. But because the resistance is too great, I can only do my best.
As Li Mengyang, who is one of the Qing officials of the North Zhili of the Household Department, the biggest task is to prevent the land annexation of the North Zhili!
Zhang Heling hit him in the mouth.
I, Li Mengyang, have the courage to swallow the sky! What others don't dare to manage, I, Li Mengyang, dare to manage! Those who others dare not participate, I Li Mengyang dare to participate!
Jokes, I'm not afraid of offending readers all over the world. I'm still afraid of my relatives?
He participated in the impeachment and handed it to the General Administration Department, and then the General Administration Department forwarded it to Emperor Hongzhi.
There are three main charges against Zhang Heling. First, the foreign relatives transferred regimental battalions without authorization, and they were suspected of plotting against each other.
2. Forcibly seizing people's land and demolishing people's houses.
3. Messing with prodigal old women in the countryside, swaggering through the market, and immoral.
Emperor Hongzhi showed his shortcomings at the moment - protecting the calves, especially the calves of the Zhang family.
Seeing that it was his two brothers-in-law who were impeached, he didn't look carefully at all. direct
It was brought to Kunning Palace and handed over to Empress Zhang.
He told Empress Zhang, "Let Heling be more restrained."
Empress Zhang called her two younger brothers, reprimanded them severely, and threw them to the two.
After the two of them looked at it, Zhang Heling seemed to have discovered something, and he shouted, "This bastard named Li Mengyang Xiang Zhuang dances the sword, and he intends to be Pei Gong!" He's scolding you, sister!"
Empress Zhang was surprised: "Why do you say this?"
Zhang Heling pointed to a sentence in the recital and said, "Look, there is a sentence here: 'Your Majesty is thick with Zhang's family. Isn't that you? This is disrespectful to you!"
"He joins us. We also have to see him disrespectful to the *** royal mother!"
In fact, the "Zhang family" mentioned in Li Mengyang's fold refers to the Zhang family, a relative, not specifically to Queen Zhang.
Although Empress Zhang's heart is not bad. But she is never a virtuous queen like Queen Ma. Born in a small family, she has long hair and short knowledge.
The two younger brothers added fuel and vinegar to the arrangement. She was so angry. personally went to the Qianqing Palace and asked Emperor Hongzhi to cure Li Mengyang's crimes.
Emperor Hongzhi knew in his heart that the Zhang family was at a loss. But his wife has a life, and as a spoiled wife, he can't help but express an attitude.
So Emperor Hongzhi summoned the two new servants of Jinyiwei, Chang Feng and Mu Bin.
In the main hall of the Qianqing Palace. Emperor Hongzhi handed over the excerpt of Li Mengyang's impeachment of the two uncles to the two.
The sentence "Your Majesty Hou Zhang's" in the excerpt was outlined by the red pen.
Emperor Hongzhi said: "Li Mengyang is disrespectful to the empress. I will punish him severely. Arrest him and put him in prison."
Chang Feng said: "Your Majesty, Li Mengyang's accusation of participating in the impeachment of the two uncles seems to be true......
Chang Feng also heard that Zhang Heling recently stook a stake in Wanping County and made a Zhuangzi. I just didn't know he was doing so much.
And the "forty-year-old woman" mentioned in the compromises is obviously her former cook Yun Niang.
Emperor Hongzhi waved his hand: "I didn't let you investigate the matter of the Zhang family brothers forcibly occupying the land. I only let you strictly deal with Li Mengyang's disrespect to the queen."
Chang Feng hurriedly bowed his hand: "Yes."
Emperor Hongzhi said, "Go and arrest someone!"
The two were just about to leave the main hall. Emperor Hongzhi added: "There's no way, I always have to give the queen an explanation."
Chang Feng and Mu Bin walked out of the main hall.
Mu Bin is well-known for his kindness, and he likes poetry and admires Li Mengyang. I agree with his view that "literature must be Qin and Han, and poetry must be prosperous in the Tang Dynasty".
Mu Bin said, "Master Chang, I listened to the emperor's words, and I didn't want us to severely punish Li Mengyang."
"It's just that because of the affection with the queen, let our brocade guard make a gesture."
Chang Feng was originally worried that Mu Bin was holding chicken feathers as an arrow, so he really went to clean up Li Mengyang. I didn't expect him to be so reasonable.
Chang Feng immediately chimed in: "That's right. That's how I see it, too. The emperor made an order, and Li Mengyang had to be arrested. But how we deal with them after we are arrested is a matter for our brothers."
"Brother Mu, you like poetry. This is the right opportunity to learn from Li Mengyang."
Mu Bin was overjoyed: "I was transferred back to the capital. I've never visited Li Gong alone!"
The two of them first went back to Jinyiwei to open the driving sticker, and then came to the household department.
Sitting in the household department today is Liu Daxia.
Liu Daxia was very surprised when he heard that Chang Feng was here to arrest Li Mengyang: "You want to arrest him? In terms of character, he is noble. In terms of ability, he is many times stronger than those rotten people."
"In terms of official reputation, he is a well-known incorruptible man in the household."
"Just because he participated in the impeachment of his uncle, he was going to be thrown into prison? I heard that if you go to prison, you will shed your skin if you don't die."
Chang Feng hurriedly comforted Liu Daxia: "We will lock him up for a few days, let the queen lose her anger, and then release him."
"Liu Butang rest assured. We will treat him well in prison. When he gets out of prison, if he loses a pound, you can ask me."
Liu Daxia, the old guy, has a sense of humor: "A catty? If you cut him three taels of flesh, you will castrate him enough."
Chang Feng and Mu Bin were dumbfounded
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The two came to the duty room of the Qing Officials Division of Beizhili and showed Li Mengyang the driving sticker.
Li Mengyang doesn't have a good impression of Jinyiwei. In addition, I have not been in contact with Chang Feng before, and I don't know Chang Feng's personality.
Li Mengyang should have thought that the emperor's favored retainer must be a flattering villain.
In addition, Li Mengyang heard that the Chang family has a great relationship with the queen......
He held his head high, with a posture of looking at death as if he were at home: "In the past, there was a difference, and now there is a bottom. If you want to catch it, you will catch it, and if you want to kill it, you will kill it!"
"I, Li Mengyang, am naturally bold! Others are afraid of going to prison, but I am not afraid!"
Chang Feng hurriedly said, "My Mr. Li. Can you please stop talking nonsense! You boast of doing it, so what has become of today?"
"Besides, Grandson Turtle is going to kill you! You are not afraid of the powerful, you participate in the impeachment of your relatives, our people in Jinyi Guard admire you tightly, and it is too late to treat you well!"
Mu Bin echoed: "Sir, don't worry. I've cleared out a cell from the prison, and it's still clean. I asked my family to send all the bedding and utensils."
"I also had incense burned in the cell. I prepared some unique poems of the Tang and Song dynasties, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and a yaoqin."
"You should be in prison for a few days!"
Chang Feng and Mu Bin's attitudes surprised Li Mengyang.
After a while, Li Mengyang made his own judgment: they may have been afraid that I would resist arrest and deliberately coaxed me.
Li Mengyang looked up to himself. Arresting a scholar who is powerless, can Jin Yiwei be afraid of resisting arrest?
Thinking of this, Li Mengyang had an unruly expression on his face: "The king let the minister die, and the minister can't not die. Let's go, take me to the edict."
Chang Feng didn't put a shackle on Li Mengyang, and led him to the Fusi Prison in Beizhen.
The three of them walked to the "cell" prepared for Li Mengyang.
Passing through the cells on both sides, Li Mengyang kept hearing the screams of the prisoners.
Li Mengyang thought to himself: Sure enough! Hell is hell on earth. How could it be possible to be kind to me!
At this moment, everyone arrived at Li Mengyang's cell.
Li Mengyang walked in and took a look, dumbfounded!
This cell...... It's too pure and elegant, isn't it?
A small bed with fine satin-topped bedding. In the center of the cell were two bookcases and a shelf. Pen, ink, paper, and inkstone are readily available.
What's even more exaggerated is that there is also a small tea stove for tea cooking, which is steaming, and it smells like an authentic Wuyi Mountain big red robe.
Chang Feng asked Shi Wenyi to arrange the cell. Shi Wenyi is a master of serving people. Turned the cell into an inn.
Li Mengyang said, "This ...... Isn't that too much?"
Chang Feng said: "Mr. Li, I know what the two little bastards Zhang Heling and Zhang Songling are."
"Don't worry, I've got a bit of a face with them. I will ask them to return to the people the thousands of acres of land that they have annexed."
"It's just that this matter involves the queen, and the emperor and the queen have a deep relationship. As a last resort, I have to wronged you to stay here for two days."
"Today is the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month. Don't worry, when my wife enters the palace on the fifth day of the new year, she will persuade the queen to let you go."
"On Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day of the new year, I asked someone to bring you dumplings. What kind of stuffing do you like to eat, tell Shi Qianhu who is serving you when the time comes."
Qian Ning was promoted to the envoy of Beizhen, and Shi Wenyi succeeded him and became a thousand households.
Chang Feng asked Shi Wenyi to serve Li Mengyang in the edict prison. Serving people is his specialty.
Li Mengyang lived in a luxurious cell, and Chang Feng and Mu Bin were kind. He let down his guard.
Li Mengyang said, "Then thank you very much."
Chang Feng smiled, "I'll go out on some errands first. Mu has admired you for a long time. Let's learn poetry here."
Chang Feng got out of prison and found Qian Ning.
Chang Feng instructed him, "Tie up someone."
Qian Ning was transferred from the regimental battalion to Jinyiwei, and soared from Xiaoqi to Beizhen Fu, all relying on Chang Feng's support.
Chang Feng asked him to go east, he
Never go west. Chang Feng said that the Yellow River is clear, and I am afraid that he will echo it: it is really better than the big white urine that I drank a bucket of water and urine.
Channing asked, "Tie whom?" Which feudal official, minister of the ministry?"
Chang Feng said, "You eat in my dining room a lot. Remember that I have a cook named Yun Niang, right?"
Qian Ning said, "I remember. Xu Ye has also slept. Later, he climbed up to Shouninghou and became a foreign residence for Shouninghou."
Chang Feng frowned: "What? What a squander! I didn't notice it before! Xu Fatzi also slept with her? Damn, he and Zhang Heling really deserve to be boot brothers!"
"This woman instigated Shou Ninghou to run amok and lawless, and she can't stay. You tied her up, sent someone to send her to the nine sides, and gave her to any Qiu Ba as a wife. The farther away the better."
Qian Ning asked, "If Shou Ninghou knew about this......
Chang Feng said: "It's just an outer house. Even if he knew, I'd carry it."
Channing arched his hand: "Order." I'll do it."
Next, Chang Feng wants to make the Zhang brothers spit out the land they occupied.
He didn't go in person. The bell also needs to be tied to the bell. Zhang Heling's encroachment on the land was instigated by Yun Niang. Yun Niang was forced by Chang Tian to accept Zhang Heling as a foreign house.
Chang Feng went back to the house, and explained to Chang Tian like this, so and so.
The next day, Chang Tian went to the Shouning Marquis Mansion in a menacing manner.
Zhang Heling smiled: "Haha, the sugar girl is here. How have you been doing with that kid surnamed Huang lately? Did you hold a little hand?"
"If he dares to be light on our sister, I will cut off his left hand if he pulls it with his left hand, and I will cut off his right hand if he pulls it with his right hand."
Zhang Yanling saw that Chang Tian's face was gloomy, and hurriedly said, "Second brother, what are you talking nonsense? Sugar Candy Girl, ignore him. Whatever you want to eat, I'll let the kitchen cook it for you."
Chang Tian said, "Hmph, I want to eat fried monkeys!"
How can the cold winter wax moon know the monkey, Chang Tian is embarrassing the two brothers.
Zhang Heling's face was embarrassed: "This ...... I know that monkeys only exist in summer."
Zhang Yanling said, "Don't worry. I'm going to take someone to dig the roots. There is a monkey under the root of the tree! Even if you cut all the trees in the entire capital, you have to make a whole plate for the sugar candy girl!"
Zhang Yanling is about to leave.
Chang Tian stopped him: "Hmph! I changed my mind! I'm going to eat both of you's meat! and it shall be cut in the spot, and it shall be bloody. I'll eat it raw with salt!"