Zhang Zijun thought he heard wrong, "What? This matter, this matter...                                         

Zhu Jianshen said again: "Zhang Aiqing doesn't need to be polite, I want to hear the truth."

Zhang Zijun turned to look at Concubine Wan Guifei, then bowed to Zhu Jianshen and said: "It's a pity that Your Majesty is in the royal family and not an ordinary family. The ministers' intentions are for the clan's plan. I thought there were some people who were opposed to His Majesty being with the Concubine.

It’s just nonsense. Your Majesty and the imperial concubine are in true love. Age is not the distance between love, but a test of the authenticity of love. What’s wrong with two people who love each other being together? Asking what love is in the world, it tells you whether life and death are together.

ah."

After saying that, he stood up and left again, joking, don't comment on this kind of thing, if you fall into it, you are asking for trouble.

This answer affirmed the suggestions of the courtiers and supported the two of them's affirmation in terms of love. For the sake of the successor of your old Zhu family, you have to figure it out yourself.

Thinking that he still had a master's wife at home, and the junior sister had to settle matters, he retreated as if he was running away.

Zhu Jianshen was still very satisfied with Zhang Zijun's answer, and so was Concubine Wan Gui. This showed that there was another minister in the court who knew my intentions, which was commendable. From Concubine Wan Gui's point of view, she did not expect that this young minister could support her.

Your Majesty, you are indeed a sensible person.

So they all looked at Zhang Zijun with smiles and satisfaction as he said goodbye in a leisurely manner.

Ever since Zhu Jianshen deposed Wu, he wanted to make Wan his queen. Empress Dowager Qian wanted to object to this point, but she kept silent. However, her biological mother, Queen Mother Zhou, saw that Wan was so old and didn't look very good, so she firmly disagreed. Finally,

According to Yingzong's last words, she made Wang the queen. Empress Wu had learned from her mistakes, and the newly appointed Queen Wang was worried, so she tolerated everything with Wan. The result was unworthy of her name.

The arrogance of Concubine Wan Gui not only affected the life of the inner palace of the Chenghua Dynasty, but also indirectly affected the outer court. What does it mean that one concubine can dominate two queens? In Chinese history, there are countless concubines who have been favored in the harem, but there is no one.

She is as legendary as Concubine Wan Guifei. She is 19 years older than Zhu Jianshen, but she was able to win the emperor's special favor, so that one of the emperor's two queens was deposed and the other became a puppet.

In fact, Zhu Jianshen had always had a severe stutter and was afraid to speak to the ministers, so when he went to court, he would often only say the word "yes" if the performance was accurate. However, when he returned to Wanfei's residence after going to court, he felt free and without pressure.

The stuttering is gone.

Concubine Wan Gui was not only cruel and merciless in her affairs in the harem, she also caused a bloody storm in the court. Some of the concubines who got pregnant by the emperor's luck also ended up dying.

Concubine Wan Guifei's behavior is actually hateful and sad in its own way. The world only knows Concubine Wan Guifei's ruthlessness, but they don't know the bitterness this woman has experienced. Wan Zhen'er, who was elected to the palace when she was less than five years old, started to do it.

She had to work as a maid, not to mention that the palace officials in the Ming Dynasty selected girls from good families at the very least. If they didn't enter the palace, even if they didn't have the life of a eldest daughter, they would at least have the security of having their parents around.

On the surface, Concubine Wan Gui has endless glory, but in fact she has extremely low self-esteem and insecurity inside, especially when Zhu Jianshen has promised, and on the other side, there is competition among beauties. As a child, she has lacked care and been in an environment of abuse and deceit.

Concubine Wan Gui, who is always struggling, can only feel safe if she holds on to her own power and status, right? Concubine Wan Gui specializes in pampering the harem, but she is not satisfied. She knows that she was born in a humble background, has no outstanding talent and appearance, and is old.

Similar to the Queen Mother, it was difficult for her to ascend the throne of the Queen. So she placed her hope in giving birth to a prince as soon as possible. The mother would be promoted to the Queen Mother in the future because of her noble son.

Due to Zhu Jianshen's special favor, Concubine Wan Guifei's wish was quickly fulfilled. The 37-year-old Concubine Wan Guifei gave birth to the emperor's eldest son. Zhu Jianshen was so happy that he immediately named her the imperial concubine. However, the prince died before he was one year old. What is even more unfortunate is that Concubine Wan Gui has since lost her fertility. Although Zhu Jianshen still doted on her as always and worked hard day and night, she was extremely psychologically unbalanced and could not tolerate other concubines to have children.

As the saying goes, poor people must be hateful. Some officials in the court, regardless of their appearance, were willing to marry Concubine Wan Gui and her family. Among them, the great scholar Wan An imitated Concubine Wan and started to make trouble.

After Zhang Zijun returned home, Mrs. Chen brought up the matter of marrying her daughter. Because the mourning period had passed, Mrs. Chen was counting the days.

No way, Zhang Zijun is too "excellent". He became a third-rank official at the age of 22 and presided over a party. Currently, Zhang Zijun's official position is Bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, Bachelor of Zuo Chunfang, and Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Industry. All of this Following the death of Li Xian, Concubine Wan Gui's rise to power caused turmoil in the court, and someone took action against Zhang Zijun.

The chaos in the capital camp has been going on for a long time. When Zhang Zijun received a letter from the Ministry of War notifying him to accept a thousand guards, he was shocked. He said to a thousand-household official of the imperial army who came to report: "Ma Qianhu, this is the thousand guards allocated by the emperor to me." The defenders?"

I saw only about a hundred or two hundred people, and they were all old and weak. Is this the defenders? They were clearly a group of beggars. If they hadn't been holding a bunch of swords and guns of different standards in their hands, who would have known that these people were the Forbidden Army? , and the number of people is wrong.

Zhang Zijun asked: "Ma Qianhu, are all the people here?"

Ma Qianhu replied: "It's all here, this is the roster." After saying that, he handed it over.

Zhang Zijun originally didn't believe in this kind of trick, but now seeing is believing, he sighed in his heart, the Ming Dynasty has been going downhill since Taizu to Yongle, and the remaining few hundred years will be spent seeking death. Running wildly on the road.

No matter what, let me tell you when you see it. Zhang Zijun sent a letter to clean up the sergeants of the Beijing Camp and rectify the 12th Regiment Camp. Not to mention, Zhu Jianshen still attaches great importance to the Beijing Camp. Zhang Zijun said that there are less than three hundred soldiers for a thousand households. Moreover, they are all old and weak, but the roster is full of more than 1,200 people. The shortage of soldiers is serious, and I didn’t believe it at first. The six subjects of the order were ordered to order the prince Shaobao Hubu Shangshu Ma Ang, the right deputy to the imperial censor Lin Cong, and the left to During the incident, Pan Li and Chen Yue cleaned up the sergeants in the Beijing camp and had to believe it after reporting back.

The decree states: "Most of the sergeants in Beijing are in name only. If they are regarded as names, the documents will be full, but in reality the troops will be empty. When the grain is distributed, the warehouses are blocked, and on the day of receiving rewards, they are overflowing with forbidden materials. When they want to gather the troops to go to the border to defend the enemy, they will be exhausted for ten days. Tens of thousands cannot be gathered. This is all because the general soldiers and other officers are allowed to return to the forest and serve for personal use, which has many disadvantages. I have specially ordered the eunuch Huaien to join you in checking according to the status. Except for those who have been transferred to the frontier, the current ones will be The sergeant will count them and repay them with a sum of 150,000. If they still do the same thing and refuse to obey, they can be severely punished. After cleaning up, they will still be trained with good methods in preparation for deployment."

On April 6th, Ma Ang, Lin Cong and others reported: There are 143,909 ministers and others, all of whom are currently in training and released from duty. Zhu Jianshen, because of his large number, ordered him to remain on duty. Divided into twelve battalions for training.

On May 15th, Fuzuo selected 186,376 inferior officers and soldiers from the third battalion.

There are still 12 battalions to serve as camp officers, with Pingjiang Bo Chen Rui as the Fenwu camp, the commander-in-chief Zhao Shengyao the military camp, the commander-in-chief Qian Shi Wang Ying practicing the martial arts camp, the right commander Liu Juxian the military camp, the commander-in-chief Bao Zhenggan Yongying camp, and the commander-in-chief

Tongzhi Bai Yuguo Yongying Camp, Zuo Dudu He Yongxiao Yongying Camp, Dudu Tongzhi Ma Lianggu Yongying Camp, Dudu Qianshi Wu Zhongli Wei Camp, Dudu Qianshi Zhanqing Shanwei Camp, Dudu Tongzhi Zhang Qin Yangwei Camp, Dudu Sword Service Li Xiangzhen

Weiying still ordered one of the internal officials to assist in the management.

This time the cause was provoked by Zhang Zijun. Naturally, there were many people who did not benefit from it. Those who originally had benefits now have no benefits, so they blamed Zhang Zijun.

A censor impeached Zhang Zijun for squandering official money and building an iron-making workshop. However, it has not yet achieved any results, so he demanded that he be demoted. He received the support of Wantong and other nobles.

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty really didn’t know what to say. The purpose of the iron-making workshop was not to increase the production of iron, but to create military equipment. The iron produced was to develop new weapons. Only Sun Jizong, the Hou Hou of Huichang, could understand this.

But most of our relatives have no brains. They will take advantage as long as there is an advantage. If there is no advantage, they will abandon it. In turn, they will punish you.

Obviously the ironworks were working for the honorary relatives. After the new firearms were introduced, wouldn't it be the 12th Battalion that benefited first? But in order to gain benefits, the censor took the initiative to impeach him and did some things that were harmful to others and not beneficial to himself.

Therefore, Zhang Zijun used the thinking of later generations and took it for granted that it would not work at all. If he was impeached, he would be impeached, and at most he would be removed from office. But this was not how it was done in the Ming Dynasty. With the death of his backer Li Xian, his backer was gone, and Zhang Zijun's official career came to an end.

He was dismissed and demoted back home. In other words, Zhang Zijun is now just a bachelor of Zuo Chunfang with no job.

Judging from this series of operations, it was not only Li Xian's relatives who were behind it, but also Li Xian's original political opponents, Wantong and others who rejected dissidents. His poor power in the court could not hinder him at all.
Chapter completed!