On February 12, the third year of Zhengde, on this day, the sky was clear and the warm sun shone on the moat of the Forbidden City, driving away the spring wind that was suddenly warm but then cold.
For ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty, this day is not much different from countless days in the past. If you live in the countryside, you will continue to work at sunrise and rest at sunset; if you are born in a city, you will walk from house to house and gossip when you need to.
, complain when it’s time to complain.
The emperor abolished his favored concubine, the emperor favored the new concubine, and the emperor ate white and tender steamed buns every day. The people who were born in the capital naturally got more information than those who thought that "the emperor carries a golden hoe every day."
The emperor's feet can still talk even if he can't blow. This has been the truth from ancient times to the present.
Moreover, in the past few days, while the people of the capital continued to be the talkative elders, they also had an additional entertainment activity: guessing the lottery.
Compared with those muscular men who guessed the past two days, today's guess is so different, because Fengwulou's handicap today is: guess the number one pick, buy one and get two for one; guess the winning number,
If you buy one, you will lose ten points; if you guess the first place, you will lose one hundred if you buy one. The rest of the odds will fluctuate according to the activities of the day.
The people went crazy. One armor, just three people, buy one and lose a hundred! In other words, if you put in one tael of silver, if you win the lottery with the blessing of your ancestors, it will be a hundred taels of silver!
This is a courtyard with a dozen or so slaves, and the location must be Renshou Fang, Xianyi Fang, a good place. Although you can't buy East and West Chang'an Street, it is definitely not Chaotiangongfang and Rizhongfang near Xizhimen.
Sow the broken ground.
There is another hidden psychology that is also irritating the people of the capital.
What is a scholar? He is a gentleman. Ordinary people have to say hello respectfully when they see him. They don't have to kneel down when they see their parents or officials, and they don't have to pay taxes.
What about the candidates? That's a hard-charging master. He can be called a brother to his parents and officials. Not to mention paying taxes, a large number of good people are willing to join him as slaves.
What about the Jinshi who are above them? In the hearts of the common people, it is like the Wenqu star in the sky descending to earth. It is said that the eunuchs Liu Jin and Liu in the palace want to recruit a Jinshi as their niece and son-in-law.
Being able to use them to guess together with the group of muscular men at the sports meeting is like the otakus in later generations guessing the election results of the Presbyterian Church. Think about it, it makes the people excited. If you are lucky enough to guess correctly, let alone the money.
That sense of vanity can instantly turn the guessing otaku into the supreme god in the forum.
As for those intellectuals who wanted to stop this farce, they saw that it was Fengwu Tower and the guards were factory guards. They knew that Eunuch Liu was standing behind Uncle Guo, so they had to knock out their teeth and find other ways to eat.
As for Boss Liu who was shot while lying down, if his eyes could kill, he would have been killed ten thousand times by Li Dongyang just like Uncle Guo.
Can looks kill?
Of course not. So Boss Liu stood there jumping around very lively and said to Li Dongyang: "This is the will of the Holy One!"
Li Dongyang was so angry that he spat out a mouthful of old blood. He was a vicious traitor. He just received the order last night. Early this morning, he dug up the soil behind the Temple of Heaven and Earth, invaded more than fifty hectares of official land, and destroyed 3,000 official and civilian houses.
More than 900 rooms and more than 2,700 graves were destroyed!
"This is totally unconscionable!" Prime Minister Li, who has always been scheming, was also angry.
Boss Liu proudly looked at the furious Viper Li, and he shuddered in his heart: These two things are not the only things that make me so unconscionable. Wait for you to be angry for a while, and then I will throw out a few things to make you full.
Bloody head.
The imperial examination system was the lifeblood of the gentry class, but it was splashed with blood by the ignorant emperor. The civil servants immediately divided into three factions. The loyal ministers believed that this was a reactionary group headed by Mr. Liu who wanted to destroy the foundation of the Ming Empire.
His behavior is worthy of punishment! The treacherous ministers believe that the emperor is still young and occasionally behaves foolishly, so we need to stand up and bring order to the chaos. Those who are unfaithful and unfaithful think that the emperor is just messing around and banishing Zhang Guojiu.
Now that the frontier is over, Boss Liu and the Emperor naturally don’t want to play anymore…
Li Dongyang represents the loyalist faction, so he has to perform a show of vomiting blood and fight against Boss Liu. He has the right to vote, at least two-thirds of the vote, although he has to rely on Boss Liu's delivery
Criticize the red power, but in the civil and military dynasties, he is the only one who has the strength to stand up to Boss Liu.
Boss Liu sneered in his heart and delivered the right to approve the red award? 90% of the rights to approve the red award are in my hands, do you think I will tell you? Do you really think that my reputation as emperor was for nothing?
Jiao Fang represented the treacherous ministers faction, constantly fanning the flames in the middle, and by the way kicked out a few unsighted guys and used them to sacrifice the flag.
Yang Tinghe's status as emperor's master determined that he could only be regarded as disloyal and not treacherous. His idea was the same as Zhu Shou's original idea, to use the uncle as a scapegoat to avoid intensifying the conflicts among the people within the ruling class.
The emperor and the gentry were two grasshoppers on the same rope. For them, the imperial examination system was an unshakable foundation. No matter how deep the conflicts were, they could not destroy their foothold, right?
Before Yang Tinghe could step forward to smooth things over, he saw Jiao Fang pull out a memorial from her sleeve and throw it on the desk of the two pavilion elders.
The office of the cabinet was in Wenyuan Pavilion. At this time, the three cabinet elders and Boss Liu were standing in the hall of Wenyuan Pavilion, engaging in a bloodless contest.
Zhu Shou was not present because he was doing something very important, so I won't mention it for now.
"Censor Tu Zhen committed corruption and perverted the law, committed many injustices, and the evidence is conclusive." The memorial that Jiao Fang threw out had only one central argument, which was to kill Censor Tu Zhen.
The four people who made the deal for fifty Jinshi quotas just two days ago are now in different camps.
Tu Zhen does not belong to the Li and Yang parties. He is a disciple of the old Liu Jian in the front cabinet, but he is usually very close to Li Dongyang. When he was the magistrate of Jiangyin County, his governance was rated as the best in the world, and he was a member
A very powerful elite civil servant. Later he was promoted to censor and inspector general of Luyan Section.
As mentioned earlier, when the internal officials saw that their relatives were embezzling state property, they wanted to get a piece of the salt class. Liu Jin was the person in charge at the time. In the end, it was Zhu Houzhao who suppressed it and this was done.
However, Eunuch Liu still wanted to be greedy for more money, so Tu Zhen was not happy: How can anyone eat everything and take it with them?
It didn't matter that he had lost Eunuch Liu's face. Boss Liu's purpose was that the eunuch would take revenge before it was too late in ten years. So when Tu Zhen returned to the capital to resume his duties, Boss Liu deliberately waited at the imperial gate.
Tu Zhen was at odds with Boss Liu, so he ignored him, but Boss Liu was no longer what he used to be. When he was established as an emperor, even Tu Zhen's immediate boss, Youdu Censor Tu Fu, had to kneel down to apologize. So he
Some slanders were made in front of Zhu Shou. Zhu Shou didn't know Tu Zhen at all, and naturally he wouldn't defend him. Seeing that his younger brother wanted to kill this person, he would kill him.
So Tu Zhen was quickly imprisoned in Jinyiwei's imperial prison and prepared to garrison Suzhou Guards with his stick.
Yang Tinghe knew about this matter, but it was none of his business, so he kept his attitude high and said nothing. He made a circle on the memorial to express his agreement with the handling of the matter.
Li Dongyang was stunned for a while, sighed, and drew a circle on it.
Seeing that the three pavilion elders all agreed with the solution, Boss Liu said with a smile: "You guys are too heavy-handed. This Tu Zhen died in prison last night."
Mr. Li and Mr. Yang are a little confused. Just die. Is there any need to make amends afterwards? Are there still too few people killed by boss Liu's sons every day?
Jiao Fangyi said sternly: "It is only natural that the father's debt should be paid by the son! Tu Pu, the man from Chazhen, was banished to the garrison for his father, and he was relieved to replenish his army."
Li and Yang suddenly realized, Damn, you are so cruel. You killed me and sent your son to the army. What kind of Ming Dynasty law is this?
Does the Ming Dynasty have a royal law? The emperor is a royal law, and I, Old Liu, am a royal law!
Seeing that the two pavilion elders were silent, Boss Liu knew that his revenge plan had succeeded. This was just his first step. His real intention was to target the two former imperial censors: Tang Mu and Chen Ke...
Tang Mu, currently serving as the chief minister of the Huguang Imperial College, is a general of Li Dongyang's line. Chen Ke, currently the deputy envoy of the Jiangxi Imperial Guard, is a younger brother of the imperial master Fei Hong.
As mentioned earlier, there were three great imperial masters of Zhengde: Yang Tinghe, Liang Chu and Fei Hong. In fact, there was another one, Mao Ji, but he had a lower official position in the East Palace and came to the fore late, so he was not as famous as the first three.
These four Imperial Masters have all served as Pavilion Elders and First Assistants before and after, and they have a firm alliance with each other, especially the three great Imperial Masters.
Fei Hong is still an official at the banquet and the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, and he was a close friend of Chen Ke in the same year. Liang Chu is in charge of the immigration of Yizhou, and among the imperial division, only Yang Tinghe is currently supporting the overall situation.
Liu Jin threw these two people out for the same crime: corruption!
Again, the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty will do nothing if they don’t investigate. If they do, no one will be clean.
The system established by Chong Bago is only good in two words: corruption. If you are not corrupt, you will not be able to do it. If you are not corrupt, you can only be Hai Rui. For a figure who only appeared once in the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, the civil servants have no interest in learning from him.
Li Dongyang's heart began to bleed. Tang Mu was a general he had carefully trained, and he must not make any mistakes.
It is difficult for Yang Tinghe to handle it. If he doesn't save his younger brother, it is morally unjustifiable. If he does, who knows what harsh conditions Boss Liu will impose.
Boss Liu sat on the Taishi chair and looked at the two pavilion elders triumphantly: You two, think about it slowly, I will no longer accompany you, and I will have to wait on the emperor and mess around. Even if you come up with a solution,
Uncle Guo also bought some time, didn't he?
Boss Liu's combination of punches was very beautiful, hitting the vital points of Li and Yang, leaving them no time to care about the noisy Uncle Zhang.
As for the other small and medium-sized factions in the DPRK, Boss Liu can just stretch his little finger and crush them. Is there any need to play tricks?
In the face of absolute strength, the so-called strategy is just a joke that is not funny at all.
After Liu Jin left, Li Dongyang sat back in his chair slumped. Should he give up or not? This is a question.
Yang Tinghe sighed, looked at Jiao Fang, and signaled that he could reach peace terms with Boss Liu.
For the time being, we put aside the intrigues among the pavilion elders, and let us turn our attention to the new leopard room next to the Taiye Pool, where Zhu Shou is receiving a foreign guest.
After Zhu Shou traveled through time, he had received many foreign guests, but this person now was a little different from the others.