And perhaps it was because Emperor Hongzhi had suffered too much, and he was obedient to Zhengde, which developed his playfulness.

Even though Emperor Hongzhi has been returning to heaven for more than five years, when it comes to him, Zhengde still misses him infinitely. I can't help but because of the Empress Dowager Zhang's deliberate mention of Emperor Hongzhi, coupled with the care reflected in her words, Emperor Zhengde can't help but have some doubts.

Perhaps the rumors in the outside world are all false! Empress Dowager Zhang is her biological mother, but as for Zheng Jinlian, she is a fictitious person, and she is a person with ulterior motives, who spread rumors and slander Empress Dowager Zhang.

He was thinking wildly in his heart, but the Empress Dowager Zhang also saw that he didn't belong to his thoughts, and couldn't help but ask: "Your Majesty, what's wrong with you? Are you tired?" Come, go to the warm seat of the queen mother and sit down, there is a capable person in the mother's harem, born with a pair of skillful hands, the best at massaging people and dissipating fatigue. ”

While speaking, Empress Dowager Zhang couldn't help but pull Emperor Zhengde and walked towards the warm seat. and also gave Cao Qiuhai a look, signaling him to go and invite the capable person in her mouth.

When he walked to the warm seat and pressed Zhengde up and sat down, Zhengde came back to his senses, looked at the Empress Dowager Zhang with some puzzlement, and said, "Queen Mother, what's wrong with you today?"

"What's wrong?" Empress Dowager Zhang looked at Zhengde with a puzzled face, and asked rhetorically, "The mourning family wonders what's wrong with you? Since entering Cining Palace today, you have been thinking about it, as if you have lost your soul, is there something wrong with you?"

"I ......" Empress Dowager Zhang's motherly behavior made Emperor Zhengde more and more convinced that he was not the son of Empress Dowager Zhang, but it was just a rumor, so he didn't use the self-title of "I", just asked him to say what he thought in his heart, but he felt a little ridiculous.

After all, what he was thinking about in his heart was Liu Jin's repetition and whether Empress Dowager Zhang was his biological mother. If you say it in front of the Empress Dowager Zhang, Liu Jin's matter is fine, but how can the Empress Dowager Zhang say it.

Empress Dowager Zhang deliberately put on a motherly appearance, dispelled Zhengde's vigilance, and prepared to test how much Zhengde knew.

She saw Zhengde's hesitation, and naturally understood what Zhengde was thinking, and just caught a glimpse of Cao Qiuhai leading a palace maid in, and immediately smiled charmingly, and said to Zhengde: "Since Your Majesty doesn't want to say it, it's not good for the mourning family to persecute you too much, it just so happens that the capable person who the mourning family said is here, let her massage for you first, relieve your fatigue, and let's talk about it!"

After finishing speaking, Empress Dowager Zhang looked at the palace maid again and said, "Lian'er, Your Majesty is unwell, you come to press Your Majesty, remember not to use too much force!"

When the palace maid heard this, she walked behind Zhengde, raised her small fist, and first beat Zhengde's back to send him muscles and bones.

This little palace maid really has some means, knocking on her back, not only the speed is moderate, but the strength is also the heavy and the light. Zhengde is also a character who has been used to enjoying since childhood, but after being beaten by this palace maid named Lian'er, I can't help but feel quite comfortable.

At that moment, I saw that he closed his eyes with some pleasure, but enjoyed the massage of this little palace maid.

When Empress Dowager Zhang saw that her palace maid could really make Zhengde Shutai, she couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth, picked up the tea on the side, took a sip, and suddenly said: "Although the mourning family has been in the deep palace for a long time, they still heard some rumors. It is reported that His Majesty really wonders what kind of Zheng Jinlian's son he is, and he sent someone out to investigate, I don't know if there is such a thing?"

This was Empress Dowager Zhang deliberately taking advantage of Emperor Zhengde Shu Tai, and then suddenly asked a question, wanting to see Emperor Zhengde's reaction. Emperor Zhengde is also young, although he was a little wary, but in the face of Empress Dowager Zhang's tender means, he couldn't help but let go of a lot.

was beaten comfortably by this lotus again, which made him almost get carried away. As soon as Empress Dowager Zhang's words came out, he was startled, opened his eyes suddenly, looked at Empress Dowager Zhang with some panic, and denied without thinking: "Nonsense, I am originally from the Empress Dowager, how can I be the son of Zheng Jinlian, and how can I send someone to investigate?"

"Really?" Seeing Zhengde's appearance, Empress Dowager Zhang didn't know that what he said was against his will, it seems that Liu Jin really didn't say anything wrong, this little emperor really went to investigate, and she couldn't help but make up her mind in her heart, to cooperate with Liu Jin and completely control this little emperor.

How did Zhengde know, just because of his performance just now, it made the Empress Dowager Zhang in front of him completely vicious, and wanted to join forces with Liu Jin, which was not good for him.

He only thought that Empress Dowager Zhang had received some rumors, and at this time he felt that he was not doing this for the way of the son of man, so he couldn't help but feel a little guilty, and explained with some apprehension: "Yes! Queen Mother! I have been under your knees since I was a child, and I was brought up by you, and others don't know your hard work, but I know it!"

"It's better to be obedient to you!" Although Empress Dowager Zhang had already made up her mind in her heart, she did not show it in the slightest on her face, and deliberately called Zhengde by her nickname, and also said, "I live in a deep palace as a widow, I don't want to cause trouble, but I don't want to be right or wrong, but I don't want to let me go." Some time ago, I wanted to directly exterminate the source of the rumors, the Fengyue Gang and Zhu Ningyao, but I didn't want Liu Gong to do things unfavorably, but let Zhu Ningyao, the root of the bane, survive.

Now fortunately, Yang Yiqing and Zhang Yong are loyal and reliable, and finally blocked the rebels to the west of the Yellow River, so that the rebels could not advance eastward, but the mourning family felt some peace of mind.

But who would have thought that as soon as this Liu Gong left the capital, the capital would be stormy, and rumors would fly all over the sky. The matter of Zheng Jinlian can almost be heard by the streets, so that even if the mourning family is deep in the forbidden palace, they are restless.

A while ago, Shou Ninghou came to see the mourning family, but he was still wearing civilian clothes, saying that my Zhang family is haunted now, and they have to act in plain clothes, otherwise they will inevitably be instructed by those ignorant people.

Although the mourning family is sad in their hearts, they can't bear to say it for the sake of His Majesty's great cause. But recently, I heard rumors that His Majesty believed these nonsense and wanted to thoroughly investigate his own background.

In this way, if the mourning family still sits in the palace behind closed doors, they are afraid that sooner or later they will be slandered by rumors, and in the end, they are only afraid of ......"

Speaking of this, Empress Dowager Zhang didn't say any more, just kept crying, covered her face, and her shoulders kept twitching, obviously extremely sad.

When Zhengde heard this, and saw that Empress Dowager Zhang was so sad, he couldn't help but blame himself very much in his heart, so he left the warm seat, walked quickly to Empress Dowager Zhang's side, and squatted under her knees.

Holding the hand of the Empress Dowager Zhang, Zhengde blamed himself and said: "It's all bad children, they are busy dealing with the Ningxia rebels all day long, but they ignore these rumors, and they also ignore the harm that these rumors have done to the queen mother!"

"It's okay, Your Majesty has every opportunity, and the Mourning family shouldn't have bothered Your Majesty with this, but the Mourning family heard that you seem to have alienated Duke Liu recently, and you have been in contact with Zhu Ningyao's rebels in private?" Empress Dowager Zhang suddenly suppressed her tears, and asked Zhengde again.

Contact with King An's rebel army, this was actually discussed by Li Dongyang and other courtiers with Zhengde in private, Li Dongyang and others said that Liu Jin was in chaos, and also revealed a little bit of Liu Jin's so-called counterinsurgency methods in Ningxia.

Although Zhengde didn't know what impact the so-called expulsion of the people and siege of the city would have on his country, he also knew that such methods were extremely cruel.

Coupled with the incident of Yujiazhuang and the subduing of Fengtian Temple, the dissatisfaction with Liu Jin in his heart reached the extreme, and he vaguely learned from Li Dongyang's tone that the chief officer of the rebel army was his possible brother Xu Zilong, so he opened his eyes and closed his eyes and agreed to Li Dongyang's request this time.

It's just that all of this is not public, and Zhengde is also pretending not to know, and he is only ready to wait for Zilong and others to collect enough evidence and impeach Liu Jin in the court, and then he is ready to make a statement to deal with this matter.

But now this important matter that he thought was confidential was said by the Empress Dowager Zhang, and he couldn't help but set off a storm in his heart, thinking about how to explain it, and said: "Queen Mother, this ......"

"What's going on?" asked Empress Dowager Zhang.

"Where did you know?" Zhengde thought, anyway, the Empress Dowager Zhang already knew, and if she wanted to hide it, it was actually useless, so it was better to ask the Empress Dowager Zhang directly where she got the news.

Empress Dowager Zhang was a little surprised when she heard Zhengde not answering the rhetorical question, but her real purpose was not these, and she immediately said generously: "These are naturally what Liu Gong told me, he controls the three factories and one guard, and is the eyes and ears of the Ming court, what is there in the world that can hide from him?"

When Zhengde heard this, he couldn't help but be shocked. He originally thought that Liu Jin had lost his military power and the supreme authority above the court, as long as he waited for Zilong and others to collect evidence, he could naturally convict him and find out what was going on in Yujiazhuang.

But now I found out that even if Liu Jin doesn't have everything, as long as the three factories and one guard are still under his control, in this capital, everything is too big or small, but I am afraid that he will know.

At that moment, his mind was racing, and he secretly thought that when he left Cining Palace, he would start to take the three factories and one guard away from Liu Jin, so that he would not notice anything again.

At the same time, he said to the Empress Dowager Zhang: "It turned out to be him! The queen mother, Liu Jin, the child can't believe it, and the child also advises the queen mother to be more wary of him in the future!"

This is Zhengde's heart recognized the Empress Dowager Zhang, so he said heart-to-heart words to the Empress Dowager Zhang. It's just that how did he know that Empress Dowager Zhang was already dissatisfied with Zhengde now, and was ready to conspire with Liu Jin to control Zhengde.

I saw that Empress Dowager Zhang listened to Zhengde's words, pretended to look at Zhengde in surprise, and asked as if puzzled: "Oh, Your Majesty, what does this mean?"

"Queen Mother, Liu Jin is a traitor, he seems to be loyal, he is really ill-intentioned!" The so-called traitor seems to be loyal, but Li Dongyang taught him, but he used it at this time, and he only listened to him and told the Empress Dowager Zhang about Yujiazhuang as it was.