Just a few days before Zhang Yue impeached Ren Shouzhong, something big happened in the court.
That was when the Queen Mother returned the government to the officials.
At that time, Han Qi wanted Empress Dowager Cao to return to power. After one day's report, he and Zeng Gongliang, Ouyang Xiu and other ministers insisted: "Now that the late emperor's mausoleum has been repaired, Han should have resigned from the errand of the mausoleum envoy, but because of the
The emperor's health has not recovered, so he has postponed it until today. Later I will go to the curtain to report to the Queen Mother to invite the county princes of the township. I hope you will agree."
Everyone was against it.
After that, Han Qi went to talk to the Queen Mother and told her that she wanted to resign and go into seclusion. Then the Queen Mother said, how can my husband retire? If he wants to retire, he must retire first.
After hearing this, Han Qi immediately said, "The Queen Mother is wise." After saying a lot of compliments, she ordered people to withdraw the curtain. Queen Mother Cao did not expect that Han Qi was being serious and left behind the curtain in a hurry.
After the emperor came to power, there were a series of promotions and rewards. Han Qi and others were given promotions and titles. Ren Shouzhong was not only reinstated to his original position, but also promoted to a magistrate. After this promotion, he became more powerful than before.
After Ren Shouzhong was promoted to an official position, his close friends who had followed him for many years came to his mansion in the capital to congratulate him...
Ren Shouzhong's mansion is located in the inner city, only a few steps away from the Imperial City. This is the most expensive area in the capital. But Ren Shouzhong has a five-story mansion here. Even the prime ministers such as Han Qi are not as impressive as him.
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And like this, Ren Shouzhong still has more than a dozen titles in the capital.
Now Ren Shouzhong was sitting high, and his personal entourage and officials came to congratulate him. He saw that there were hundreds of people outside the door.
Ren Shouzhong told his godson: "Stop them all. We don't have time to talk to these people one by one."
His godsons all laughed, and Ren Shouzhong said: "Why are you laughing? Our family is not even free in the middle of the night in order to serve the officials?"
At this time, a supervisory official came forward and kowtowed to Ren Shouzhong: "Congratulations to my godfather on his promotion!"
Ren Shouzhong put on a false smile, and when he was about to speak, he saw that the other party actually had no beard and asked: "Where is your beard?"
The supervisory official laughed and said: "If daddy has nothing, how can he dare to have a child?"
Ren Shouzhong laughed when he heard this, and everyone else also laughed. One person laughed and said: "Just because you said this, the rank your godfather will reward you in the future will definitely not be small."
Ren Shouzhong said with a smile: "Yes, your words are to my liking. Do your job well. You should choose someone now, and I will change your official position next year."
The official was overjoyed and kowtowed repeatedly: "Thank you very much for your guidance, my child. I kowtow to you."
The official gave the generous gift and stepped back. Ren Shouzhong was very satisfied with the generous gift and said to several of his followers: "There are cold officials and hot officials in the officialdom. If you don't give gifts, you won't be flattering. If the hot officials become cold officials, what's going on?"
Giving gifts and flattering, a cold official becomes a hot official."
Everyone said: "Godfather's words are really insightful. Hasn't this been the case in official circles throughout the ages?"
Ren Shouzhong nodded and said: "Hey, I can only say this today. I think a few days ago, not many people came here, but now it is full of people. How does our family go from being a cold official to a hot official? It is not the job of the official family.
Are you staying at our house?"
"When the late Emperor was in power, I had already been like this. The officials scolded me for being a master of power for good. Although the late Emperor said he was tolerant of those around him, he once asked me to restrain myself. How did I respond at that time?"
Everyone shook their heads.
Ren Shouzhong said: "At that time, our family told the late emperor that in the official family, the old minister has no heirs. When this body is buried, won't all the first-class money accumulated over the years be put into the inner treasury?"
"So the late emperor told me that he would never care about it again after this time. Even when several members of the clan passed away, the late emperor asked me to attend funerals. Others scolded me for embezzling money while attending funerals. Why didn't you think the emperor punished me?"
"Because after we become ministers, everything belongs to the royal family. Therefore, the royal family wants us to be responsible for this infamy!"
"Why do you think I'm so powerful now? It's not because I can get money for the official queen."
"Well, now that the Queen Mother has abdicated and the officials are in charge, our family has been put into more important positions again. You must remember this sentence, we eunuchs must be loyal and capable of doing things."
All the relatives and followers said: "Be taught, be taught!"
Ren Shouzhong smiled with satisfaction. He thought that even Zhang Yue, who had always been dissatisfied with him, actually asked Wang Gui to make peace. When he saw Zhang Yue, he would have to beat him hard. He really regarded the money he paid to lead him to prison.
It's public.
After beating Zhang Yue, Cai Xiang was the next one to deal with.
Just as Ren Shouzhong was thinking about it, someone suddenly said: "Godfather, it's not good..."
"What's the matter?" Ren Shouzhong asked in a panic.
"This..." The other party held a piece of paper and handed it to Ren Shouzhong, "This is what Chen Qi, the imperial servant, copied from His Majesty's imperial cabinet today. It is about you, daddy."
Ren Shouzhong's expression changed when he heard this, and he immediately took out the paper and read it.
Ren Shouzhong's face couldn't help changing as he watched, and finally he couldn't help but fell down on the chair. All his relatives and followers quickly stepped forward to help him.
"Godfather!"
"Godfather!"
"Quickly pinch Renzhong!"
Ren Shouzhong opened the opponent's hand and said: "I'm not dead yet!"
Ren Shouzhong held up the paper and read it again and cursed: "What a Lu Jie, I have no grudge against you, but you want to harm me like this. Who gave the instruction?"
Everyone said: "Yes, whoever takes advantage of the heart of a bear and the courage of a leopard like this, daddy, we will settle this account with him in the future."
Ren Shouzhong nodded, but looked at the letter again and thought, I'm afraid there will be no future if I forget this.
Ren Shouzhong asked: "What's going on in Zhongshu?"
"After getting married, Mr. Han went to the palace."
Ren Shouzhongxin said, OK, Han Qi is going to kill me.
Ren Shouzhong knew that Han Qi was at odds with him, so he tried every means to deal with him. Now that Lu Ji had written the memorial, how could he miss this opportunity?
Ren Shouzhong composed himself and said: "You come and kowtow to Lu Hui and give him gifts. As long as he is willing not to impeach me anymore, I will give him gold and silver."
"I will go to the palace to meet the officials right now!"
After saying this, Ren Shouzhong had already entered the palace. As soon as he saw the officials, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed, crying profusely.
Seeing Ren Shouzhong like this, the official said with joy and pity in his heart: "Why are you so careless in doing things? I have seen these twelve sins. Any one of them can kill you, even if there are some things that I know are wrong."
That's what happened, but everyone is talking about it, who can stop it!"
Ren Shouzhong said: "The officials are merciful, merciful!"
The official continued: "It is the family law of this dynasty to be willing to give advice and accept words! I have just taken charge of the government, so I have to respect the meaning of the remonstrance officials below."
"Furthermore, just now Mr. Han came to the palace to see me, and after saying Lu's instructions to Shang Shu, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty gathered outside the palace gate, saying that the world has worked hard to keep loyalty."
"I told him that when I first came to the throne, Ren Shouzhong also had meritorious service, so I hope you will be lenient. However, Prime Minister Han is fair. The late emperor personally gave me a great weapon, and the Queen Mother praised my meritorious service. Your Majesty, because of the kindness of the late emperor Gu Fu,
To repay the support of the Queen Mother, if this generation also claims to have made great contributions, I wonder where the late Emperor and the Queen Mother are?"
Ren Shouzhong cursed in his heart when he heard this, Han Qi really wanted him to die!
Seeing that the officials were helpless, Ren Shouzhong felt that he had seen through this emperor. The most indifferent and ruthless person in the world was the emperor. When you were used before, compared with the time when you are abandoned now, it is completely different.