Chapter 685: Dismissal
Finally, and most importantly, that is Zilong's true identity. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Others don't know, doesn't he Li Dongyang know that Empress Dowager Zhang is extremely taboo about Zilong's identity?
If you tell Empress Dowager Zhang in a grand manner that she has seen Xu Zilong in private, I am afraid that Empress Dowager Zhang will not listen to her explanation, and directly order the left and right, and fork herself out with a stick.
It's just that if you don't say it, it is disobeying the Queen Mother's will, and what you say, but you can't tell the truth, if you don't tell the truth, it is impossible for him Li Dongyang to open his eyes and say nonsense.
After all, he is not a fool, since Empress Dowager Zhang suddenly asked, it is obvious that it has already been written on that letterhead. Re-thinking that the letter paper was submitted by Liu Jin, with the pervasive reconnaissance ability of the three factories and one guard controlled by Liu Jin, Li Dongyang understood that Liu Jin must have known about it a long time ago.
In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Hongwu Taizu ordered Jinyi Wei to supervise hundreds of officials, and even the daily life of hundreds of officials, who accompanied them at night, were all clear.
And now there are not only Jinyiwei, but also more secret agents of the third factory. Li Dongyang was also helpless, staying on the spot, speechless for a long time.
After Empress Dowager Zhang sat on the imperial case, she saw that Li Dongyang had not spoken, but she understood that Li Dongyang had acquiesced, and she was immediately even more furious, and was about to call the Han general to go to the palace and fork him Li Dongyang out.
Unexpectedly, Yang Yiqing, who was on the side, stood up at this time and said loudly: "Queen Mother, I don't know what is written on that letterhead, which makes the Queen Mother so angry. From Weichen's point of view, Scholar Li is dedicated to the public, even if he meets some people in private, it is not a serious crime!"
This was Yang Yiqing who saw that something was wrong, and saw that Li Dongyang did not refute, for fear that Empress Dowager Zhang would be angry and do something that would make Li Dongyang difficult to investigate, so he did not hesitate to stand up and defend Li Dongyang.
Originally, he thought that Li Dongyang must be the first assistant of the dynasty, and he has always had a very close relationship with the Empress Dowager Zhang, and the Empress Dowager Zhang has also been with Liu Jin many times to protect Li Dongyang.
So he thought that this was just Liu Jin's sowing discord, as long as he stood up and let Empress Dowager Zhang be a little restless, then Li Dongyang would probably be fine.
Therefore, he didn't wait for the Empress Dowager Zhang to speak, and continued: "What's more, just based on the so-called news that no one has read, the Empress Dowager will be harshly criticized in public as the head of the court, but it's not okay?"
The meaning of his words was originally to allude to Liu Jin's framing and remind Empress Dowager Zhang to calm down, not to be used by Liu Jin and accidentally hurt Li Dongyang.
According to the previous Empress Dowager Zhang's protection of Li Dongyang, if it was something else, Empress Dowager Zhang would indeed turn a blind eye and help Li Dongyang fool him over and protect him.
After all, Empress Dowager Zhang also knew that in the imperial court, if Liu Jin and Hu were blindly coming, and there was no Li Dongyang's capable ministers, it would not be far from chaos.
But now, what Empress Dowager Zhang cares about is not the impact on the government after Li Dongyang falls, but what does it mean that Li Dongyang met with Xu Zilong in private.
At this time, it happened to be Yang Yiqing who took the lead for Li Dongyang, and the Empress Dowager Zhang looked at Yang Yiqing, and couldn't help laughing angrily, which made the ministers in the hall inexplicable.
Then Empress Dowager Zhang slowly lifted the letter, and said to Yang Yiqing in a calm tone: "Okay, let's not talk about Li Dongyang first, let's talk about Yang Yiqing Lord Yang, the good things you have done!"
"Ah, did Weichen do something?" Yang Yiqing couldn't help but be puzzled when he heard this, thinking about what was scribbled on the letterhead, how could he falsely accuse Li Dongyang, and even he seemed to be involved.
Immediately, he saw Liu Jin on the top of the collapse, with an arrogant expression, looking at himself and Li Dongyang with an indifferent face, and vaguely understood that the piece of paper might be one of Liu Jin's killer features, and if you want to fight back, you must first figure out what is written on that piece of letterhead.
Empress Dowager Zhang listened to Yang Yiqing's words, but she just smiled coldly, and then asked: "Okay! Since Lord Yang doesn't shed tears when he doesn't see the coffin, then the mourning family will ask you, in the fourth year of Zhengde, you were denounced, saying that you wasted frontier expenses and were thrown into prison by Jinyiwei, is there such a thing?"
When Yang Yiqing heard that Empress Dowager Zhang actually mentioned this matter, he couldn't help but change his color. The so-called fraudulent claim and waste of frontier expenses is actually just Liu Jin because Yang Yiqing refused to attach to him, and then found someone to frame him and make false accusations.
At that time, Yang Yiqing was in charge of Ningxia, Yansui, and Gansu, and was the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, with great power. And Liu Jin intended to get involved in military power, so he tried to take refuge in him several times, either explicitly or implicitly.
But Yang Yiqing is high-spirited, how can he be willing to take refuge in Liu Jin, so he has always refused. In the end, Liu Jin became angry and bribed a general under Yang Yiqing, who came forward to falsely accuse Yang Yiqing.
At that time, Liu Jin mentioned Liu Jian and other 53 people as traitors, and everyone in the DPRK and China was in danger for a while, so that Liu Jin was in the limelight for a while.
Although Yang Yiqing was the governor of one party, he was finally arrested and imprisoned. Later, if it weren't for Zilong and Ren Bufan, he led the beggars to the rescue, I was afraid that Yang Yiqing would have to suffer a lot, and if he didn't die, he would have to shed his skin.
Thinking of such things, Yang Yiqing was also angry. At the beginning, he saw that Ningxia and other three sides were often vigilant, and their precautions were much lax, so he proposed to rectify the three sides.
Later, when he became the governor of the three sides, he went all over the country to strengthen the construction of border defenses, and he really worked hard and made great achievements, without the slightest complaint. But who knows, in the end, what he got was a false accusation, and then he was arrested and put in prison, and almost died.
When he was in the edict, Yang Yiqing was really angry, and he only felt that he had no blood, but he could only fall into the edict and wait for the grievances to be washed away.
When Zilong and Ren Bufan came in and saved him, he seemed to be reborn, so he was grateful, and he became brothers with Zilong, who was unknown at the time, just to repay Zilong's regeneration.
Now that he heard that Empress Dowager Zhang seemed to be accusing herself of this matter again, Yang Yiqing couldn't help but be extremely angry, stiffened his neck, pointed at Liu Jin strongly, and said: "Everyone knows what the so-called wasting border fees is about, and Weichen doesn't want to defend it. What's more, Weichen's case was explained clearly by Li University and Wang Aowang in front of the Son of Heaven early, and His Majesty has already forgiven Weichen, but I don't know why Niangniang wants to mention this matter again!"
After Yang Yiqing was arrested and imprisoned, Li Dongyang and Wang Ao, who was a cabinet scholar at the time, have been actively campaigning to defend him. When he was rescued by Zilong, Li Dongyang and Wang Ao finally succeeded in uniting with important ministers to ask the emperor for his life.
At that time, Liu Jin didn't want to start a full-scale war with the Qingliu civil officials because of this, so he deliberately relaxed, and behind his back, Emperor Zhengde promised to pardon Yang Yiqing's sins, but he released him back to the township and no longer used it.
Now that Yang Yiqing is saying this, he really doesn't want to mention this matter again. But Liu Jin just smiled coldly, not caring about Yang Yiqing's inferiority.
Emperor Zhengde also nodded, obviously knowing about this, and couldn't help but say: "Yes, what Lord Yang said is right, I once pardoned you!"
And Empress Dowager Zhang was also displeased and said: "Lord Yang, you are also a second-class member of the court, roaring in the Fengtian Palace, and losing your honor in front of the king, but what crime should you be guilty of?"
"Weichen is reckless, and I ask Your Majesty and the Queen Mother to forgive me!" Yang Yiqing saw that Emperor Zhengde was sure, and immediately secretly breathed a sigh of relief, although he did not do anything wrong at the beginning, but this is also something that cannot be explained, so he restrained himself and bowed down and said.
"If there is only this little thing, the mourning family and Your Majesty will naturally not be harsh on you! But since you were sent to the edict in the first place, why were you no longer in the edict before the holy decree of pardon reached the edict?" Empress Dowager Zhang was not ready to let Yang Yiqing go, but asked directly.
"Ah, this ......" was rescued from the edict by Zilong, although Yang Yiqing was extremely grateful afterwards, he also discussed with Li Dongyang and others many times to solve the problem of being rescued from the edict.
After all, the Imperial Prison is a prison set up by the emperor himself, and it has a different meaning than the prison of the Criminal Department and the prison of Dali Temple.
Leaving the edict without permission, no matter what the reason, can be said to be a deception. At the beginning, Li Dongyang and Wang Ao discussed for a long time, and finally reached an agreement with Liu Jin in private, and in exchange for some concessions of interests, Liu Jin no longer pursued the matter.
But this kind of thing, after all, can't be said in front of everyone, Yang Yiqing couldn't help but be stunned on the spot when he saw Empress Dowager Zhang hearing such an inquiry, and he didn't know how to answer.
Li Dongyang next to him also sighed faintly, understanding that in the letterhead that Empress Dowager Zhang had just seen, it was obvious that many things that were unfavorable to his Qingliu civil officials had been recorded, not only himself, but even Yang Yiqing had already been hated by Empress Dowager Zhang.
And since he met Zilong, Yang Yiqing probably couldn't escape the reason, but Yang Yiqing hadn't understood it yet!
Immediately, he found out that Yang Tinghe was also going to be listed, and he kept looking at him at the moment, and finally persuaded Yang Tinghe. No matter what happens today, Li Dongyang also wants to preserve a little vitality for Qingliu civil officials in the court.
"What's the matter, Lord Yang can't say it?" Empress Dowager Zhang saw that Yang Yiqing was silent, obviously confirming the statement on the letter, Yang Yiqing was brought out by Xu Zilong.
Now that this has been confirmed, it is even more possible that he and Xu Zilong will become brothers. In this way, how can Empress Dowager Zhang, who is the most taboo against Xu Zilong, not be angry.
Seeing her, she said in a deep voice: "Since you have admitted to leaving the edict without permission, then the mourning family will condemn you to the crime of bullying the king, remove all officials, send them back to the township, and never be hired, Your Majesty, what do you think?"
Hearing this, Zhengde just nodded, and said expressionlessly: "What the queen mother said is very true, such a deceitful and disobedient person is indeed not suitable to stay in the imperial court!"
"Your Majesty......" Yang Yiqing never thought that a moment ago, he was still the hero of the conscription of the governor and the suppression of the rebellion in Ningxia, and in the blink of an eye, he lost his official position and was once again punished by never being hired, which was really extremely ironic, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and immediately justified.