Chapter 937 The little emperor asks for help
The next day was a day when the morning court was not held. The Tongzheng Department, who had always only collected the title books, was in a rage. However, it turned out that there were more than a dozen officials from six ministries, the Censorate, and the Hanlin Academy, who had written letters to impeach Feng Bao for abuse of power, accepted bribes, false accusations, and forcibly robbed, and condone nephew table officials... Compared with Wang Fulin's seven culprits, they listed more than a dozen charges, which were shocked for a moment. The chief officials of the Tongzheng Department were usually the lightest to the subordinates, but now they were in a hurry. However, this kind of question book is not as complicated as the report book. The people of the Tongzheng Department are too talkative and cannot keep the content confidential. Even if they are nervous, they can only send it up all the way.
Even if Feng Bao has a lot of skills, he may intercept the extremely good books and prevent everyone from knowing it. However, how could he intercept the questions from Zhengshi?
Realizing that Zhang Siwei's move was like cutting off the firewood from a cauldron, and directly forced him to the most critical point, Eunuch Feng wanted to rush to the cabinet and drive Zhang Siwei out of the capital like Gao Gong back then. But he could only think about it in his heart. He could only send people out to contact all parties who had contacted before, hoping that they could attack Zhang Siwei in groups. But he had not fully arranged all this. Emperor Wanli Zhu Yijun had already ordered people to go to Silijian and ask for Wang Fulin's memorial and all the books that impeached him.
Feng Bao never expected that the little emperor's reaction was so urgent. Although it had not yet involved whether he would deal with his own problems, who was Feng Bao? He was not allowed to wait for death in the face of Gao Gong's suppression. Now that he has been in power for many years, how could he be slaughtered? He directly packed the large number of questions in the same way, rushed straight to Cining Palace, and cried and bowed to the ground after entering the door.
"Save me!"
Empress Dowager Li always felt very bad when Zhang Juzheng was sick, and sent imperial physicians and eunuchs to Zhang's house to express condolences several times. She always had no choice but to care about the affairs outside the palace as long as others did not report it. In fact, the words she barely knew from the daughter of the bricklayer family. They were all things after entering Prince Yu's Mansion. Being able to be a strict father and a kind mother to urge Emperor Wanli to study was already considered very knowledgeable. How could she have the ability to understand the complicated affairs of the outer court? Fortunately, there was Zhang Juzheng outside and Feng Bao inside, so she was relieved to be a queen mother who held great power but boldly delegated power.
Therefore, when she heard Feng Bao’s words, she was shocked and angry, and immediately ordered the eunuchs beside her to come forward and help Feng Bao up: "What's going on when you get up quickly?"
Feng Bao didn't say anything, but put a handful of questions in front of Empress Dowager Li, then snot and tears. After Empress Dowager Li took it, he picked up one or two of them and looked at it, he talked about the dilemma of being impeached and being charged with countless charges. Taking advantage of the moment when Empress Dowager Li's brows were upside down, he seized the opportunity and knelt down again, and said in a trembling voice: "Old Empress, I have been serving the emperor since Prince Yu's Mansion. I have worked diligently for many years and dared not slacken at all. Have you ever been involved in external government affairs in these years? But those people are like Gao Gong, and they are completely unwilling to let Lao Nu go! What I didn't expect from Lao Nu was that the emperor actually believed these words..."
Seeing Feng Bao leaning down on the ground and crying, Empress Dowager Li felt that her heart was getting hot. She had been guarding her for fear that such as Wang Zhen, such as Liu Jin, would lead the Wanli Emperor, but Feng Bao was different after all. Feng Bao never showed his kindness to the emperor, or instigated the emperor to argue with the ministers, and casually destroyed the stable political situation. After all, in her mind, the most wrong thing that Emperor Yingzong and later Wuzong did was to pretend to understand and insisted on taking away several important officials in the court who had been accusing the country, and a big mess occurred.
Therefore, Empress Dowager Li immediately slapped the handrail and shouted angrily: "Go to the Ganqing Palace and ask the emperor to come and see me!"
Although Emperor Wanli Zhu Yijun is not as obsessed with Feng Bao, he is now planning to regain power drastically, and of course he will not ignore Feng Bao's whereabouts. However, Feng Bao is very quick. When he gets the news, he has already entered the Cining Palace. When he thinks of Empress Dowager Li's past strength, he ordered him to kneel down at any time. He was shocked and angry and couldn't help but go back and forth in the room. But when he was about to find Zhang Hong to make an idea, a little eunuch outside whom he tried to subdue several times, shouted softly: "Your Majesty Zhang Ming and Eunuch Zhang are here."
If it were normal, when he heard that Zhang Ming, who was ranked low in the Silijian writings, came, Zhu Yijun would not be patient with him, but now he remembered that Zhang Siwei, the second assistant to the cabinet of Zhang Ming, came to lose to Cheng last time. When he made clear his attitude, Zhang Siwei made a reconciliation with Wang Fulin within two days. Now, as soon as Wang Fulin wrote a letter to impeach Feng Bao, Zhang Siwei had already mobilized follow-up hands to follow him, and he asked Zhang Ming to come in.
What he unexpectedly expected was that Zhang Ming hurried in, first hinting that he asked the safe people to watch outside, then knelt down and said something that shocked him: "Your Majesty, Zhang Rongzhai, Eunuch Zhang, Eunuch Feng is placed under house arrest in his private house!"
At that moment, Zhu Yijun felt his eyes turn black and dizzy. You know, although Zhang Hong never instigated him to seize power and deal with Feng Bao, he was the most qualified listener and consolator. He was used to talking to Zhang Hong in private whenever he encountered something. After he finished speaking, he felt relieved. This was the only person he trusted most in the palace after Zhang Jing and Zhang Cheng left. At this moment, he pounded the table angrily and said angrily: "Feng Bao, he is simply bold!"
Seeing that his biggest goal had been achieved, and now he was going to pass the Cining Palace, he whispered: "Emperor Feng has been asking for the Old Empress Cisheng, why don't you go to the Ciqing Palace and ask for the Old Empress Rensheng to come forward? After all, the Old Empress Rensheng is the queen of the old man Mumiao, and he has no children. It is the best for you."
"Yes, why did I forget that there is the Old Holy Queen of Ren Sheng!" Zhu Yijun woke up from a dream and patted his head repeatedly, even forgot about his own problem. He immediately said immediately, "Feng Bao will definitely talk nonsense in front of his mother. His mother will come to me. Without further ado, leave!"
The emperor agreed to his suggestion, and Zhang Ming was very happy. But he was about to go out with Zhu Yijun, but the little emperor felt irritable. His eyes turned and he quietly brought someone to drink wine. He instigated Zhu Yijun to take a few sips to enhance his courage. Then the group hurried out.
As soon as their group left, the eunuch Li Yong, who came from Cining Palace, was here, but they were facing an empty Ganqing Palace. Because Cining Palace is west of Ganqing Palace and Ciqing Palace is east of Ganqing Palace, as long as they were not intercepted by Ganqing Gate, the two groups of people would not meet at all. The most important thing is that Zhu Yijun didn't tell the people in the Ganqing Palace where they were going before leaving! Li Yong, who had been empty, was smart and returned to the Ganqing Gate and took out the title of Empress Dowager Li and asked. Only then did he realize that the emperor had gone to the east and quickly chased after him.
But there are many important places in the east, such as the cabinet, the Wenhua Palace, and the Ciqing Palace. Where did the little emperor go to?
Zhu Yijun was afraid of being chased by others, so he urged the chariot to walk fast along the way. Zhang Ming, who knew he had been exposed, was also afraid of being implicated, and was also urging the small firemen who were carrying the chariot to rush to the road. Just when they had just arrived at Ciqing Palace, Li Yong behind finally chased him. However, Zhu Yijun was the emperor after all. He ordered a few eunuchs to stop the pursuers behind him. He hinted that the eunuch Zhang Zhongju of Ciqing Palace came forward to stop for a while, and he rushed into the main hall of Ciqing Palace, the Dongnuan Pavilion where the Queen Mother Rensheng Chen lived, as if a gust of wind.
Empress Dowager Chen was the step-concubine enthroned by Emperor Longqing when he was in Prince Yu's Mansion. Later, she was promoted to the queen. Although she was in the name of a true wife, she had never been respected by her husband. In her early years, she was almost deposed by Emperor Longqing because of some quarrels. Later, she simply took advantage of the reason for being sick and lived her own life. Because she had no children, was not favored by the holy people, and had no confidence, when Emperor Longqing passed away, Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao colluded, not only allowed the original imperial concubine Li to be named the Holy Mother Empress Dowager, but also became the emblem like her, and she did not have a big fight.
Because she knew she could not fight, and she could not win the battle, with Feng Bao inside and Zhang Juzheng outside, and Zhu Yijun crawled out of someone else's belly, she simply ignored it.
However, she has always been more tolerant and sincerely loved Zhu Yijun, who was not born to her. At this moment, seeing Zhu Yijun hurriedly came in, she threw herself into her arms without having time to salute. Queen Mother Chen couldn't help but be stunned for a while, and then hurriedly shouted: "What's going on? Why are you wronged?"
Zhu Yijun took a deep breath and impeached Feng Bao to the court officials. He asked the Lijian to send all the memorials and questions involved. Feng Bao ran to Empress Dowager Li to make clear the complaints and the matters he complained about, and finally fell directly on Empress Dowager Chen's knees: "I also know that my partner always took me with me when he was in Prince Yu's Mansion, but I haven't said anything yet. He mobilized all the troops like this, so why should I take me seriously? I have already been in the marriage and ruled. Could it be that I am all wrong to ask about these things?"
Queen Mother Chen is not a very deliberate person. At the beginning, Feng Bao said that Gao Gong would not take their orphans and widows seriously. When Queen Mother Li beats and drums beside her, she and Queen Mother Li and the little emperor issued an order to drive Gao Gong out of the court in the name of three. Feng Bao has been focusing on flattering Queen Mother Li for most of these years, but he treats her mediocrely. Queen Mother Chen doesn't care about changing the eunuch in the Sili Supervisor. Therefore, thinking that the matter was extremely easy at the beginning, she frowned and asked: "I want to expel an old slave and teach him a lesson. Why don't you write an imperial edict to go to Shangbaojian or Shangbaosi to use seals?"
Zhu Yijun was stunned for a moment. Zhang Ming, who had just followed in, had not made any noise after he followed in, seized the opportunity and said with heartache: "Old Empress Rensheng, the emperor doesn't want it, but Feng Bao was not in the lord. He had already ordered his confidants to look up the monk Baosi of Shangbaojian on the grounds that Yuan Fu was still sick, and even went to the evil people to complain first! Old Empress Rensheng, now you are the only one who can help the emperor!"
Her husband is gone, and her son is not his biological son. Although there are relatives outside the palace, it is rare to enter the palace several times a year. For Empress Dowager Chen, she only lived a day and hit a bell. However, Zhang Ming's request and Zhu Yijun's expectant look finally shook slightly. At this moment, Li Yong, the eunuch of Cining Palace, who had been blocked just now, finally broke through the siege and stepped into this place.
Seeing Zhu Yijun actually pounce on Empress Chen's knee, Li's eyes flashed and instinctively felt something was wrong. He quickly said respectfully: "The Old Empress Cisheng of Cining Palace wanted to invite the emperor to talk, so I rushed to the Qing Palace and chased after him all the way. Unexpectedly, the Emperor was visiting the Old Empress Rensheng."
Empress Dowager Chen was not picky in the past, but at this time she became a little more angry because of Zhu Yijun's crying: "Why, the emperor can't come to see me?"
Oops, I said the wrong thing!
Although there are two empress dowagers in the palace, one legitimate and one illegitimate, just like Emperor Chenghua back then, isn’t it just that the two empress dowagers were in the palace, and their mother was covered by their biological mothers, and even their mothers were buried in the palace? Therefore, Li Yong came from the Cining Palace again, and was more decent than the eunuch of the Ciqing Palace outside. Over time, he developed some habits that were difficult to change. At this moment, when Empress Dowager Chen was provoked, he quickly took great care, knelt down on his knees, kowtowed and admitted his mistake, and then said carefully: "Old Empress Ren Sheng, my old lady invited the emperor to come over to discuss serious state affairs..."
"I think when Empress Chengxiao was here, Grandpa Xuanmiao and Yingmiao ascended the throne one after another, and the ministers also asked him to leave the curtain, but she refused sternly. The ministers outside the government are all good, so can women interfere in politics?"
Empress Dowager Chen raised his voice and talked to others for the first time, but because he held Zhu Yijun, who had grown up, he seemed quite confident. Zhang Zhongju, who followed Li Yong in, was stunned at first, and then felt an indescribable ecstasy. After so many years, Ciqing Palace has been suppressed by Cining Palace. He, the Ciqing Palace Manager, has always been unable to stand up in front of the Cining Palace Manager, Li Yong, because except for having a legitimate name, there was no way to compete with Empress Dowager Li in the rest. Now, judging by this situation, is the little emperor actually going to change his family and get close to his legitimate mother again?
Zhang Zhongju was happy, and Li Yong was so heartbroken. But no matter how he was acting arrogant outside, he had to put it away in front of Empress Dowager Chen. He took a deep breath and chose to be a small vulgar rather than contradict him. He said pitifully: "The Old Empress Rensheng taught a lesson very well. My old Empress always did not care about the government affairs outside, but was afraid that a villain would instigate the emperor."
While saying that, Li Yong glanced at Zhang Ming beside the little emperor with a cold look, then lowered his eyelids and said, "Since the old lady Rensheng is worried, I will go back to report to my old lady and invite my old lady to come to Ciqing Palace to tell me."
"No need!" Empress Dowager Chen realized that Zhu Yijun was supporting her arm. She thought for a long time and finally decided to do it once. "I have been happy recently, so I followed the emperor to go to Cining Palace to sit!"
As soon as these words were said, Li Yong was overjoyed. He immediately said that he would go back to report and then leave. Zhang Zhongju and Zhang Ming did not stop anyone at all. But looking at Zhu Yijun's obvious satisfied posture, the two eunuchs with deep qualifications could not say anything, and they wanted to beat their chests and stamp their feet.
Empress Dowager Chen is the legitimate mother of the Empress Dowager. He is in Ciqing Palace, so he can occupy the right time, place and people. Of course, Empress Dowager Li, the Holy Mother of the Empress Dowager, should be invited to speak, which will also help increase the momentum. But now, the little emperor actually felt satisfied with asking Empress Dowager Chen to support him. Empress Dowager Chen did not have the attitude of a legitimate mother, and actually wanted to go to Cining Palace and go to other people's places to find the place. Isn't this cheating myself? (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!