Prime Minister

Chapter 460 Impeachment of Ren Shouzhong (Second Change)
It took Zhang Yue a lot of effort to get Ren Shouzhong's crimes.

Because Ren Shouzhong had many eyes and ears, Zhang Yue investigated secretly, and was worried about being discovered by the other party, so he kept doing it in secret, until today he collected all the evidence and held it in his hands.

For example, Ren Shouzhong sits in Jiaofang to envoy Tian Min on official business, and he is assigned to Yuezhou.Because of his adoptive father Ren Wenqing, he bribed and colluded with the imperial medicine Jiang Deming, and then awarded Gaopin. These are old things, and it is very difficult to verify.

When Zhang Yue was on duty in the secret pavilion, he overheard an old official talking by chance, and secretly sent someone to find Jiang Deming's nephew to find out about it.

As for welcoming Renzong Muzhu, the Court of Rites discussed the Empress Dowager's entry and exit ceremonies. Ren Shouzhong wanted to give Empress Dowager Cao an example of dedicating the Empress Dowager, but of course Empress Dowager Cao did not obey in the end.

Zhang Yue inquired about this matter from Lu Xiaqing in the Taichang Courtyard.

As for Ren Shouzhong's loyalty to the palace ban to obtain property, donate tens of thousands of taels of gold beads from Fengchen Treasury to Empress Gao, and spy on the emperor's bedroom, Zhang Yue gave up a lot of money and came from the palace to inquire.

This is the most terrible point, because the Empress Dowager Cao is still there, and Ren Shouzhong actually opened the Fengchen Library to curry favor with Empress Gao.

Although Empress Dowager Cao and Empress Gao are as close as mother and daughter, and now they are mother-in-law, but in the vortex of power, mother and daughter will sometimes turn their faces.A few days ago, Empress Dowager Cao sent a servant to say this to Gao Taotao.

"The official has been on the throne for a long time, and now Sheng Gong has recovered from his illness. How can there be no one to serve him?"

What Empress Dowager Cao means is that you don't want to be alone, and you should add a few more concubines to our emperor.

After hearing this, Gao Taotao turned back: "Zouzhi empress, the bride must marry Shisantuan Lianer, that is, she has never married another official family."

Gao Taotao is domineering and refuses to allow the official family to accept concubines, while Empress Dowager Cao wants to break Gao Taotao's monopoly by accepting concubines for the official family.Anyway, Empress Dowager Cao and Empress Gao were very unhappy about this matter.

Therefore, Zhang Yue knew that the other crimes were all for others to hear. To really impress the Empress Dowager Cao, this is the only one... This one is to kill Ren Shouzhong.

As long as Empress Dowager Cao doesn't nod, no amount of other crimes will bring down Ren Shouzhong.

Therefore, after Zhang Yue felt that he was [-]% sure, he wrote it down in detail and handed it over to Zhang Maoze, who had a deep hatred with Ren Shouzhong.

Zhang Mao was deeply trusted by the officials and the Empress Dowager Cao. There was a rule in the palace that the ministers under the age of fifty were not allowed to serve as guards for the Ministry of Internal Affairs.But Zhang Mao is only 48 years old this year.

When Emperor Renzong sent his wrath to Empress Dowager Cao, Zhao Zongshi, who was involved in the matter, was also trembling with fright, and Zhang Maoze was responsible for all the crimes alone.

Therefore, Zhang Mao was less than 50 years old and became the guard of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was an act of repaying the favor of the officials and the Queen Mother Cao.

After Zhang Mao read all the crimes, he said to Zhang Yue: "Scholar Zhang is a good man, our family will be afraid of you in the future."

Zhang Yue said: "Qi Zhang knows that if Ren Shouzhong didn't want to put me to death, why should I do this? I'm just here to protect myself!"

Zhang Mao said: "At this point, you will die or I will die. Our family will save it. In fact, I know all the crimes you listed for Ren Shouzhong, and I even know more than you, but I don't know. Tell the Queen Mother, do you know why?"

Zhang Yue said: "Please let me know."

Zhang Mao said: "We are royal servants, we must not make decisions for the Queen Mother and the officials, unless the official Queen Mother asks our family with a golden mouth, our family never speaks against others in front of the officials and the Queen Mother."

Zhang Maoze's words seemed to refuse, but Zhang Yue heard the implication from it.

"Then what if the official empress dowager knows all about it?"

Zhang Mao knew that Zhang understood what he meant, and said with a smile, "I know everything!"

Zhang Yue nodded and said: "I originally wanted to handle this matter myself, but only if everyone knows this sentence, I dare to let go."

Zhang Mao said happily: "Bachelor Zhang is really cautious, our family appreciates you more and more."

Zhang Yue returned to the mansion from Cao Yi, knowing that now the arrow is on the string and has to be launched.What Zhang Maoze said just now was to instruct himself to impeach Ren Shouzhong in the last chapter, so that he could play side drums with the officials and Queen Mother Cao.

Speaking of being an official, Zhang Yue has not impeached anyone so far.

But now that the first impeachment of others was actually Ren Shouzhong, the number one powerful figure in the imperial court during the Renzong Dynasty, he was still very uneasy.

Ren Shouzhong used to be in charge of the Imperial City Secretary before, although he has lost power now, but how many people in Bianjing City are his eyes and ears.

In case the news of his impeachment of Ren Shouzhong leaked out, then he must be the first to fall.

Zhang Yue returned to the mansion in the carriage, and a servant immediately stepped forward to serve him, looking inside and outside the carriage.Zhang Yue knew that the servant's name was Xu Wu, and he had just signed a contract to buy it back. Now Shi Qi Niang had just given birth to a child, and the mansion hired several people from outside.

This Xu Wu is very agile in handling things, and he is also very considerate in serving people.

Zhang Yue originally thought that he just entered the mansion and wanted to show off, but today it seems a bit suspicious.

Zhang Yue entered the door and said to Tang Jiu, "Xu Wu, please help me keep an eye on him."

Tang Jiu nodded.

Zhang Yue went back to his study and prepared to write a memorial to impeach Ren Shouzhong.

Zhang Yue listed Ren Shouzhong's ten major crimes in the memorial!
Ren Shouzhong, as a minister of the late emperor's confidant, was extremely honorable, but he never used loyalty to uphold justice, but was humorous, flattering and courteous. This is a crime!

The commander-in-chief is close to the servants, but those who follow me prosper and those who oppose me perish, citing pro-party members and allowing others to favor one another, this is the second crime!
Recklessly accepting bribes, playing with gold and silk treasures for private use, and wantonly buying mansion properties in the capital, this is the third crime!

Make friends and aid, act pretentiously.Although the one you love has a serious crime, you can cover it up; the one you hate has a small flaw, and you can get rid of it.Make everyone in the imperial palace hold their feet sideways and hold their breath, fearing and guarding loyalty is incomparable, this is the fourth crime!

When King Pu died, Ren Shouzhong supervised the funeral and plundered the property of Prince Pu, but he was not satisfied, so he framed the eldest son Zhao Zongyi as unfilial and condemned him to relegation. This is the fifth crime!
When the first emperor established his heir, Ren Shouzhong harbored mischievous intentions and frustrated his strategy.He actually suggested in the middle to embrace the young, weak and cowardly king to invite great benefits.It was not the first emperor who was clever, and the country's century-old peace was destroyed in one day.This crime six!
When His Majesty was the prince, Ren Shouzhong separated everything, isolated the inside and outside, and even provided food and clothing harshly. This is seven crimes!

After His Majesty came to the throne, the Empress Dowager took charge of the government, and Ren Shouzhong took advantage of this to fabricate the facts, causing the two palaces to fight, and a deep gap was formed.This crime eight!

Now that His Majesty's holy body is safe, the Empress Dowager wants to respectfully return the great government, Ren Shouzhong is both right and left, snakes and rats are at both ends, left and right, and only plan for themselves, this is the ninth crime!
Zhang Yue wrote here to list the ten crimes.

Ren Shouzhong dared to make suggestions for the empress, and did not report to the empress dowager. He pretended to preach the decree and opened the Fengchen treasury to steal tens of thousands of taels of gold beads to present to the empress.Rebelling against the rituals of women and aunts is the source of arrogance and extravagance, so that the queen will receive a bad name from him, and he will receive a lot of money from him.Being a minister and treacherous evil, what is worse than this!This crime is ten!

In addition, exempting Jiang Deming from colluding with imperial medicine, and persuading the Queen Mother to follow the example of Queen Zhang Xian in etiquette, it is a total of twelve major crimes!
After finishing writing, Zhang Yue threw his pen aside, once this book was written, Ren Shouzhong would die without a place to bury him!

Zhang Yue was waiting for the ink on the memorial to dry when he heard someone knocking on the door outside.

Zhang Yue quickly hid the memorial and asked, "Who is it?"

Tang Jiu responded outside.

Zhang Yue said, "Come in!"

After entering the study, Tang Jiu said to Zhang Yue: "Master, this Xu Wu is really not kind, just now he asked Zhang Gong where did you go in the carriage today?"

PS: There will be two updates tomorrow!

(End of this chapter)