Liu Jian, Xie Qian, and more than 300 officials, officials, speech officials, and academic officials in Beijing jointly signed an inexplicable recital.

The general content of the song is: Xia, a woman from Daxing County, is the best candidate for the queen. The ministers were sincerely glad that the emperor had obtained such a satisfactory quasi-queen.

However, Xia's ancestral home is Yingtian. Before the wedding, the Xia family should first return to Yingtian to worship their ancestors, and then return to Beijing to marry the emperor.

Be all abroad!

There has never been a precedent in the Ming Dynasty, before the canonization of the queen, the prospective queen wants to return to her hometown to sacrifice what ancestors.

This is Liu Jian and Xie Qian's delaying tactics.

In Liu Jian and Xie Qian's plans. In October this year, that is, three months later, the civilian clique will complete the black material collection operation against the Eight Tigers and launch a fatal blow.

Except for the fatal blow of the Eight Tigers, it is best to launch it before Emperor Zhengde takes power.

Emperor Zhengde was in power after the wedding. Then, the big wedding must be postponed until October of this year.

From the capital to Nanjing to worship ancestors, one back and forth for at least three months. This makes for a time difference, perfect plan.

Whether it was Emperor Zhengde, the Eight Tigers, or Chang Feng, they didn't guess what Liu and Xie thought. They felt that the second monk was puzzled by this recital.

Emperor Zhengde said in the morning of the next day after receiving the recital: Before the wedding, the quasi-queen worshipping the ancestors was neither the ancestral system set by Taizu, nor was there an example. The kindness of the ministers was received by me, and the Xia family also received it. But this matter is purely superfluous, and I am not allowed to do it.

Unexpectedly, Emperor Zhengde's statement stabbed the hornet's nest!

Throughout the early dynasty, the spitting stars of the civil officials were about to drown Emperor Zhengde. The civil officials are unanimous: Your Majesty, we are all for your own good! If you don't agree, you're a shame.

Well, we, the elders, officials, officials, officials, and scholars, are no longer doing our errands! Go to the Qianqing Palace and kneel down!

Kneeling is tantamount to a strike.

The civil officials of the capital were the core of the entire Ming ruling machine. If you don't agree, then let the entire Ming Dynasty stop.

This trick has been tried and tested.

Emperor Zhengde, who was forced to be anxious, was heartbroken, and made a decision immediately, unambiguously. The escape method was used.

I'm having diarrhea! People have three urgencies, feces urgency, urine urgency, and monkey urgency. I can't hold back and want to be respectful, you can't detain me in front of the royal gate, right?

After returning to the Qianqing Palace, Emperor Zhengde immediately summoned seven people. Liu Jin, Chang Feng, Zhang Yong, Jiang Bin, Qian Ning, Chang Ponu, Huang Yuan.

These people belonged to the inner circle of Emperor Zhengde. Although Chang Ponu and Huang Yuan did not have high official positions, they were regarded as confidants by Emperor Zhengde.

Emperor Zhengde asked: "Zhuqing, tell me, why did the civil officials go crazy and force me to issue an order to let Miss Xia go to Yingtian to worship her ancestors?" ”

Liu Jin said: "They obviously don't want the emperor to be happy. Whenever you have a happy event, they must play some moth tricks to block you. ”

Qian Ning said: "It is two thousand miles from the capital to Nanjing. It's four thousand miles back and forth. They don't want to send someone to assassinate Miss Xia during this 4,000-mile long journey, right? ”

Jiang Bin echoed: "What Commander Qian said is extremely true. They must have wanted to send someone to assassinate Miss Xia. What do these cowardly civil officials dare not do? ”

Emperor Zhengde looked at Chang Feng: "Chang Feng, what do you think?" ”

Chang Feng said: "The assassination should not be." They don't have to. Even if they assassinated Miss Xia, there were also Miss Wu and Miss Shen. The emperor can still get married and pro-government. ”

"According to the ministers, they just want the emperor to delay the time of pro-government for three or four months."

Chang Ponu was puzzled: "However, they can drag it out for a while, but they can't drag it out for a lifetime." Sooner or later, the emperor will get married and be pro-government. ”

Chang Feng calmly analyzed: "There is only one possibility, what they want to do." It will take three or four months to complete. ”

Emperor Zhengde asked, "What are the civil officials going to do?" Didn't the factory guard receive any news? ”

Chang Feng arched his hand: "Not yet." The minister will hurry up and investigate. ”

Emperor Zhengde looked at Liu Jin again.

Liu Jin said: "There is no news from the two dark piles. ”

The two dark piles that Liu Jin said, one is Jiao Fang, the left attendant of the Ministry of Officials, and the other is Zhang Cai of the Ministry of Officials.

Liu and Xie have been very careful in collecting the illegal affairs of the Eight Tigers recently, and they have concealed them from most of the civil officials. Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai didn't know.

Emperor Zhengde said: "I can't tear my face with them for the time being. You can't really let them pick their picks and go to the Qianqing Palace to kneel and admonish. ”

"This morning, the dynasty used a plan to get rid of the golden cicada. But it won't be long. According to me, let Miss Xia go to Yingtian. ”

"The person to escort Miss Xia. Chang Feng, what do you think I should arrange? ”

Chang Feng thought for a while and replied: "If the emperor really wants to give an order to Miss Xia to go south to respond to the sky." It should be escorted by Zhang Gonggong with 1,000 regimental battalions and You Jingwu with 500 Han generals along the way. Chang Po Nu accompanied him as a rite department. ”

Chang Feng knows the importance of Miss Xia to Emperor Zhengde and the Chang family.

In order to keep her safe all the way, he was stunned and suggested that Emperor Zhengde send his own son and godson.

Emperor Zhengde said: "Okay." According to what Chang Qing said. Zhang Yong, You Jingwu, Chang Ponu. I said the ugly things in front, if Miss Xia encounters any accidents on the way to the south and back to the north, there is not a single hair missing, and I will punish you severely regardless of the situation. ”

The strong man Zhang Zhang, plus Chang Ponu, You Jingwu Yiwen and Wu, 1,000 elite regimental battalion soldiers, and 500 Han generals accompanied him. If they can't keep Xia Dongyue safe, they should go home and pick up their children.

Actually, Liu Jian and Xie Qian really didn't think about assassinating Miss Xia. They simply want to delay the wedding.

Cabinet duty.

Liu Jin walked into the duty room: "The emperor ordered the queen to candidate Xia to go to Yingtian to worship the ancestors." The regimental battalion soldiers and the Han generals escorted them along the way. ”

Li Dongyang got up and bowed his hand respectfully: "The minister obeys the order." ”

Liu Jian and Xie Qian sat on the chairs without lifting their buttocks. Liu Jian only said: "Got it." ”

For Li Dongyang's respect, the two felt disdainful.

Liu Jian secretly scolded in his heart: Even if you talk to the emperor and Liu Jin again, the chair of the cabinet chief assistant will not be your turn to sit.

For Liu Jin, cabinet duty is the enemy's territory. He was uncomfortable here, and he left after giving the message.

Liu Jian said with a smile: "Brother Xie, it seems that the emperor is still afraid of loyal ministers kneeling down." Lo and behold, it was soft again. ”

Xie Qian said: "No matter how young and frivolous the emperor is, no matter how much he likes to mess around, he is always the blood of the great grandfather. Who is a loyal servant and who is a traitor? Whoever advises for his good, he is able to think clearly. ”

The two of them were too soon to be happy. Since Emperor Zhengde ascended the throne, every time Liu and Xie led hundreds of officials to kneel and threaten each other, they were always able to make Emperor Zhengde soft and compromise.

They thought that Emperor Zhengde was afraid of them. As everyone knows, what Emperor Zhengde is afraid of is not kneeling itself, but the shutdown of the bureaucratic system of the Ming Dynasty.

Kneeling has a variety of practical implications. Expressing dissatisfaction, persecuting the emperor, and one is a strike.

There is a limit to human patience. When the civil officials really went to the Qianqing Palace to kneel and admonish, it was the day of the great earthquake and the great exchange of blood in the court.

In the evening, Changfu.

You Jingwu's brother-in-law Yan Song came to Changfu. He's here to leave.

Yan Song recently suffered a serious illness. He was originally physical, but he lost so much weight that he only had more than seventy pounds left. In desperation, he had to ask the officials to allow him to suspend his official position and take a long vacation.

In the living room, Chang Feng felt sorry for Yan Song: "The emperor asked Huang Yuan and Po Nu to recommend a group of familiar young talents. The slave has already recommended you to the emperor. It's a pity that you have such a serious illness at this juncture. ”

Yan Song smiled bitterly: "The gains and losses in life are just ordinary things. There is no time in life to ask for it. ”

This serious illness made the little nephew figure it out, and all official positions and fame are empty. It's true to live well. ”

Chang Feng nodded: "That's right." You just have to go back to your hometown and recuperate. ”

"Oh yes, you're going back to Jiangxi. It just so happened that Jingwu and Broken Slave were going to Yingtian on business. You can take their official ship and carry you to the sky. The official ship is a big ship of a thousand materials. It's better to sit than to sit in a boat. You're seriously ill, but you can't stand the bumps of the boat. ”

The "material" mentioned by Chang Feng is the displacement unit of the Ming Dynasty. One thousand material is roughly equal to the displacement of 500 tons in later generations.

Yan Song shook his head: "The little nephew's return to his hometown is a private matter. How can I take an official ship? It is extremely inappropriate to use public equipment for private use. The little nephew should hire a mule cart to go south. ”

Twenty-six-year-old Yan Song is an outstanding young official who is selfless, honest and self-controlled.

Who would have thought that fifty years later, he would become a generation of traitors and embezzlement huge amounts.

However, no matter how greedy Yan Song is, he is not the first corrupt official in the Jiajing Dynasty. The family property he had accumulated was only one-fifteenth of Xu Jie's. Xu Jie, the leader of the Qingliu and a model of civil officials, took 240,000 acres of fertile land in the south of the Yangtze River alone. Naturally, these are all afterthoughts.

Chang Feng deeply regretted: "It is the time when the emperor is employing people. It's a pity that you, a good official like you who are honest and self-disciplined, can't be reused because of your illness. ”

Yan Song said with a smile: "There are times in life when you have to have it, and there are times in life when you don't force it." Father-in-law, little nephew said goodbye. We'll see you later. ”

Originally, Chang Feng thought that Yan Song would return to his hometown to recuperate in a year or two at most. How could he have thought that Yan Song's return to his hometown would be a full ten years

Soon after sending Yan Song away, Chang Ponu returned home with You Jingwu.

Chang Feng told them about Yan Song's return to his hometown.

Chang Ponu also felt sorry: "It's a pity. A while ago, the emperor asked me to recommend a group of younger officials. I also put Yan Song's name in the list. ”

"At the top of the list is my fellow Zhai Luan. The emperor summoned him to the palace and talked for half a moment, and then promoted him by two levels. He was promoted from the Hanlin Academy to the Criminal Department as the director. ”

Chang Feng was right just now, Emperor Zhengde urgently needs to employ people.

Chang Ponu was Emperor Zhengde's companion when he was a child, and he was deeply trusted by him. There are only a few henchmen around Emperor Zhengde. If you want to tap talents, you have to rely on the recommendation of henchmen such as Chang Ponu.

Half a month ago, Chang Ponu recommended more than 30 people in one go. They are all young officials who were named in the palace examination in the eighteenth year of Hongzhi and the fifteenth year of Hongzhi.

Emperor Zhengde took the time to carry out separate edicts on these people, and if they were available, they would be promoted by two or even three levels, and they were exceptionally promoted.

It's a pity that Yan Song was sick and couldn't enter the palace to meet Emperor Zhengde.

Chang Ponu only felt that the recommender was helping the emperor share his worries, and he didn't take a thank you or two from the recommended person.

How did he know that if the group of old bureaucrats in the court recommended young people to the emperor, they would be able to earn more than 150,000 taels with a scale of more than 30 people.

Chang Feng asked: "Okay, let's get down to business." All the five hundred Han generals heading south have been ordered? ”

Chang Ponu said: "It's all ordered." ”

You Jingwu added: "These Han generals are all carefully selected. ”

Chang Feng said: "You must be careful. Even if Miss Xia is a little bit out of the pool, the emperor will not be able to spare you. In addition, Gonggong Zhang is not only your superior, but also your elder. Honor him along the way. ”

Chang Ponu smiled: "I know, I know." Father-in-law Zhang and his father assisted Wang Yue of Wei Ningbo to attack Helan Mountain. You are the Paozawa brothers who have fought side by side, and you are our uncles. ”

Chang Feng lowered his voice: "Whether the power of the Chang family can be maintained for a long time in the next few decades depends on whether Miss Xia can successfully marry the emperor." It is not safe enough for 1,000 regiments and battalions and 500 Han generals to accompany them. ”

"I will inform the Jinyi guards in the provinces along the way to send hundreds of households to assist secretly."

Chang Feng has been in charge of Jinyiwei for more than ten years and has improved the expatriate system of Jinyiwei. Each province has at least one 100 households.

Let's say that the Chang family is very deserted today. Liu Xiaoyan, Mrs. Jiu, Li Ping'er, and Yan Jiao all went to Daxing County.

Daxing County, the Xia family's "treasure house".

Around the Xia family, there were more than 300 Han generals with guns and knives to protect them. The courtyard was originally small, and the Han generals simply surrounded this place with three layers inside and three layers outside.

In the hospital. Liu Xiaoyan brought two whole carts of things.

Liu Xiaoyan picked up a hand stove and said to Xia Dongyue: "I'm afraid it's going to be late autumn when you return to Beijing." The canal is heavy and cold. This hand warmer was made by the skilled craftsmen of the Kyosato Ruifuku. ”

"Loaded with jujube charcoal, it can warm your hands, and it can be used as a small incense stove."

The Ninth Lady said: "Ancestors should wear plain clothes. These ten plain clothes were made by Lin Qiaoshou of the Needle Palace Bureau overnight, five sets in summer and autumn. ”

Li Ping'er said: "Ying Tianfu Yin Sun Deen is the old father of my family. My father had sent him a letter. Miss Xia went to Yingtian's hometown, and Sun Fu Yin would arrange ancestor worship. ”

The Chang family praised Xia Dongyue as the queen, and only Li Dongyang knew about it in the court. Because every time Liu Xiaoyan came to find Xia Dongyue, she brought her daughter-in-law Li Ping'er.

Li Ping'er naturally revealed the news to her father Li Dongyang.

Li Dongyang is not a corrupt Confucian, and he is very good at doing things. The future queen does not lick the white, does not lick.

Xia Dongyue was moved by the women of the Chang family again.

Xia Dongyue said with tears in her eyes: "Godmother, little mother, two sisters-in-law." You guys are so good to Dongyue. ”

Liu Xiaoyan held Xia Dongyue's hand: "I'm just a goddaughter like you." I don't love you, who loves you? Oh yes, it's your two brothers-in-law who escorted you to Yingtian this time. Rest assured, they will keep you safe along the way. ”

Xia Dongyue was even more moved, and secretly vowed in her heart: If I can successfully marry the emperor and become the mother of the country. We will treat the Chang family well.

Liu Xiaoyan reminded Xia Dongyue: "You will set off in three days." Before leaving, you must go to Cining Palace to bid farewell to Empress Dowager Zhang. ”

Xia Dongyue said: "But my daughter is still a folk girl." Cining Palace is not something that my daughter can enter if she wants to. ”

Liu Xiaoyan said: "With the godmother here, are you still afraid that you won't be able to enter Cining Palace?" Then I will take you into the palace. ”

Liu Xiaoyan's face is the pass of the harem. It's the righteous sister of the Empress Dowager Zhang, and she was stabbed for the Empress Dowager Zhang nineteen years ago, and she still has a scar. There is still a little face in and out of the harem freely.

(End of chapter)