The days when I ransacked the house in Jinyiwei

Chapter 356 Emperor Zhengde ran south at night to eat donkey fire, often breaking Nuzhi County, Fang Longyanyue

Emperor Zhengde was a restless emperor.

That night, Chang Feng used his forty-six years to deal with Madam Ninth and Liu Xiaoyan.

Ever since he got older, Chang Feng has forgotten about the fact that wives and concubines cannot have sex. I am almost fifty and have only one wife and one concubine in my life.

What's wrong with three people sleeping together every two weeks? Not too outrageous! Mr. Wang has said that human desires are the laws of nature.

Chang Fenggang is like a boiling kettle, gurgling and steaming. Suddenly someone rushed to the bedroom and shouted: "Master Chang, get up quickly. You are dead! Something big has happened!"

Chang Feng recognized Zhang Yong's voice.

Chang Feng quickly put on his clothes and came to the door: "What's wrong?"

Zhang Yong had an anxious look on his face and tried to lower his voice: "Your Majesty, it's lost!"

Just now Chang Feng used the magical water-soluble medicinal powder that he found in the mansion of Ni Jinxian, the censor of Xiningiaodu. He thought the tinnitus was caused by medication. He dug his ears and eyes with his hands and asked, "Eunuch Zhang, who did you say was lost?"

Zhang Yongdao: "The Emperor has lost it!"

Chang Feng's eyes widened: "What?"

Zhang Yongdao: "The emperor is still in the Leopard Room this afternoon. When dinner time comes, I go to the Leopard Room to invite the Emperor to the dining room. The dragon chair is empty."

"At first I didn't take it seriously and asked my eunuchs to search in the Leopard Room. There was no one! Then I searched throughout the palace, but there was still no one!"

"I also sent soldiers and horses from the 12th Regiment to the hunting ground in the Royal Garden on the outskirts of the city, but there was no one there!"

Chang Feng took a breath of cold air: "The emperor is missing, how can this happen?"

Zhang Yongdao: "If anything happens to the Emperor, all of our factory guards will have to commit suicide to thank the world."

Chang Feng asked: "Do the officials of the Supervisor of Ceremonies and the cabinet ministers all know about this?"

Zhang Yong nodded: "How dare I hide such a big thing! I have informed Li Shoufu, Yang Cifu, and several Bingbi."

"They are all over there in Xiyuan now, and they are all as anxious as ants on a hot pot!"

Chang Feng analyzed calmly: "Eunuch Zhang, don't worry. Where is Jiang Bin? Jiang Bin has been by the Emperor's side all these years. Is he still in the Leopard Room?"

Zhang Yong replied: "Not here."

Chang Feng patted his head and said, "I understand. The emperor must have taken Jiang Bin and went somewhere incognito for a private visit."

Liu Xiaoyan has a good ear. She was lying on the edge of the window just now and heard the conversation between the two clearly.

In desperation, Liu Xiaoyan didn't bother to get dressed, so she walked out of the bedroom wearing shorts and a bellyband. The roots of the droopy but gray hammer were exposed. Zhang Yong was a eunuch, not a man. She didn't bother to avoid it and came directly to the two of them.

Liu Xiaoyan said: "I am the emperor's riding and archery master. I understand his temperament. The place he wants to go to most is the Great Wall Pass in Xuanfu. Last time he was hunting, he said that he wanted to go to Xuanfu on horseback to inspect the passes on the spot."

Xuanfu is the front line of defense of the capital, 340 miles away from the capital.

Yongle originally moved north. Taizong's original intention was that "the emperor guarded the country, and the king died in the country" to avoid repeating the mistakes of the Southern Song Dynasty, which was destroyed by the Yuan Dynasty. It should be said that Taizong was indeed far-sighted and had great strategies.

But this also caused the capital to be too close to the Mongols. There have been constant small-scale conflicts on the Xuanfu Great Wall in the past twenty years.

Chang Feng became anxious after hearing Liu Xiaoyan's words: "You said the emperor would sneak out of the palace and inspect the passes of Xuan Mansion? Ah! That's the front line where the Tatars often fight!"

Liu Xiaoyan added a few words: "It would be better if the emperor only inspected the passes of Xuanfu. I am afraid that on a whim, he would leave the Great Wall of Xuanfu and go north to wander on the grasslands. That would be fine."

Chang Feng was dumbfounded: "If we encounter a small group of Tatar cavalry and are captured or killed, the story of Yingzong's Northern Hunting will repeat itself. Ah!"

"Zhang Yong, you immediately sent out Qingqi to block all the passes along the Xuanfu and conduct strict inspections. Just say that a prince of a distinguished family has run away from home. Let the Xuanfu defenders detain suspicious persons immediately if they find them."

Zhang Yong nodded, done.

Only then did Chang Feng realize that Liu Xiaoyan was only wearing a bellyband. The cheeks were shining brightly.

Chang Feng scolded: "I can't hold it anymore! Why don't you go back to the bedroom and get dressed?"

Although the eunuch was castrated, it did not mean that he did not like women. Zhang Yong glanced at Liu Xiaoyan's legs, which were only wearing dirty pants, and an evil thought came into his heart: Hey, really! Don't look at my sister-in-law, she is already forty-six or seventy-seven. She is just like an old white lotus root.

Chang Feng said to Zhang Yong: "Let's go to Jinyi Guard. Send people quickly to summon all the robes to the guard! Martial law must be enforced in the city!"

Chang Feng and Zhang Yong came to Jinyiwei. Not long after, a group of brothers gathered together.

Chang Feng arranged in an orderly manner: "Basha, you take two thousand robes and ride out of the city on fast horses. A team of ten, let the Han general who has seen the dragon's face be the captain. Go north to find the emperor."

Basha asked: "The handsome man made it clear where to search specifically? Just talking about the north. This search area is too large."

Chang Feng sighed: "Hey, you ask me, I'll ask who to go with! Just go out and look for it!"

Basha raised his hand: "Yes."

Chang Feng asked again: "Eunuch Zhang, have the people sent to Xuan Mansion set out?"

Zhang Yong nodded: "I sent Jingwu from the Xianwu Camp."

Chang Feng said again: "Go and tell Li Shoufu. If the emperor does not return to the palace before the morning court tomorrow, let him tell the officials that the emperor has caught a cold and canceled the morning court."

"Don't spread the news about the Emperor's disappearance. Otherwise, I don't know what will happen if this matter comes to the mouths of civil servants."

Zhang Yong nodded: "Well, anyway, the emperor always spends three days fishing and three hundred and sixty-two days drying nets. It is normal to occasionally cancel a morning court. The foreign ministers will not be suspicious."

"I will go to Xiyuan to find Li Shoufu."

Chang Feng and the others were all wrong. Emperor Zhengde took Jiang Bin and rode two "Purple Cloud Horses" that had just been sent as tribute from the northwest. They did not go north to Xuanfu, but went south.

Daxing County, fifty miles south of the capital.

The monarch and his minister were riding horses on the street.

This time the emperor ran away at night because of Jiang Binduo's words.

In the afternoon, Jiang Bin said to Emperor Zhengde: "Last time, when I was on behalf of Tian, ​​I inspected the various health posts in Northern Zhili. When I passed by the river, I tasted the local famous donkey meat roasted on fire. It was simply delicious. No wonder everyone said it was flying dragon meat. , underground donkey meat.”

Emperor Zhengde became interested when he heard this: "Hejian is four hundred miles away from the capital. Two purple cloud horses came from the northwest. The memorial said that they can travel five hundred miles in a day. Let's go to Hejian and try the purple cloud horses. How is your leg strength?"

"By the way, try how delicious the donkey meat you said is roasted on fire."

Emperor Zhengde was a man who must put his ideas into practice whenever he wished.

The two of them put on the clothes of Han generals and slipped out of the palace first. He changed into casual clothes outside the palace and walked out of the city gate. As soon as he got out of the city gate, he galloped on his horse. After running for an hour and a half, we arrived at the ground in Daxing County.

Daxing County has been under the governance of Chang Ponu for more than half a year, and its territory is solemn. It’s almost like what the sage said: “If you don’t pick up things on the road, you won’t close your house at night.”

Two night watchmen stopped Emperor Zhengde and Jiang Bin.

The head watchman asked: "Who is it? Why are you riding horses and wandering on the street in the dark day?" Jiang Bin said: "Old man, we are passing merchants."

The head watchman looked at the two of them warily: "Businessmen? Where is the road guide?"

According to the Ming system, people were not allowed to go more than a hundred miles away from their place of origin. Traveling hundreds of miles requires a road guide issued by the government. This thing is like the ID card of future generations. Without it, it is difficult to travel far.

Where is Jiang Bin's guide? He took out a fifty-tael silver coin from his sleeve and threw it to the watchman: "This silver will buy you a drink."

I never thought that there are cats in the world who don’t eat fishy food!

The head watchman threw the money back to Jiang Bin: "If I take your money, our Chang County Zunhui will take away my job and beat me thirty times and drive me out of the soap class! Come with us, go County government!"

Jiang Bin asked: "But you think you don't have enough money?"

The head watchman sneered: "Even if you give me five hundred taels of silver, I have to take it from you! We in Chang County govern the county with an iron fist. I don't want to be punished and lose my job, and then be fined and confiscate the silver I earned from bribes."

"Get off your horse quickly, or I'll blow the whistle! You won't be so polite when the catcher comes to get you."

Emperor Zhengde gained wisdom in his desperation. At the end of the day, he changed into the Han general's clothes and left the palace, leaving behind a Han general's waist badge.

Emperor Zhengde showed off his badge: "I am the Han general in the palace. I am out of the palace on errands according to the emperor's secret order."

The head watchman looked at his waist badge and saw that Emperor Zhengde looked good and was dressed like a nobleman in the capital. He hurriedly said: "Ah, it turns out it's a businessman passing by. I'm disrespectful."

Jiang Bin cursed: "Get out of here."

Emperor Zhengde said: "Don't scold them. They are also doing their jobs."

After the two watchmen left, Emperor Zhengde smiled and said: "I have long heard that the officials in the yamen are worse than the officials. I didn't expect that the watchmen in Daxing County would refuse bribes and do justice."

"The governance of Daxing County is good. The watchman just said that the county official here is named Chang?"

Jiang Bin quickly reminded: "Have you forgotten? Last year, Chang Ponu asked himself to be demoted to the county magistrate. The Ministry of Civil Affairs sent him to Daxing."

Emperor Zhengde thought: "Ahem! The county magistrate here turns out to be my childhood companion Lang Ponu! Hey, old man Gao from Shuntian Prefecture has mentioned to me several times that he has good governance in Daxing."

"I thought Old Man Gao was speaking kindly to Brother Ponu because of the face of his father-in-law and butcher father."

"This time I came to Daxing County in person and realized that what he said was true."

Jiang Bin agreed: "Yes, yes, Chang Zhixian is indeed a good official. I also heard about it when I inspected various guard posts on behalf of the sky."

Emperor Zhengde dismounted: "Come on, let's stop showing off our horses when we reach my small territory! Get off your horse and take a walk around the city."

The two walked forward and saw a porridge shop. The porridge shop has four big characters written on it: "Government provides porridge".

Many children lined up in front of the porridge shop, carrying bowls of porridge to eat. Several adults gave each of them a small piece of pickle dumplings.

Emperor Zhengde was a little curious, so he came over and asked one of the old men: "Old man, we are outsiders. We passed by Daxing for sightseeing and observed the customs. Why does this porridge shop say that the government provides porridge?"

The old man replied: "Well, it's a long story. Before Daxing, there were five or six wealthy families. They annexed a lot of land from the common people."

"Our county magistrate suppressed the powerful as soon as he took office. He captured the clan heads of each of their families, made them vomit out the land that they had annexed to the people, and returned it to the people."

"There are more than a thousand acres of it. Due to the age, the original people either can't find it or they died without heirs."

"This more than a thousand acres of land became ownerless land. Our county magistrate took the output of more than a thousand acres of land and opened more than twenty porridge sheds in various places in the city."

"For poor households in the city who have no land and earn no more than two taels per year from work, their children under the age of thirteen can go to the porridge shed to eat porridge every day."

After speaking, the old man inserted a chopstick into the porridge again. The chopsticks were inserted into the porridge without falling over: "Look, it's called porridge, but it's actually as thick as wheat rice."

"When children eat enough, their bodies will naturally grow faster and stronger."

After hearing this, Emperor Zhengde said hello three times in a row: "Okay! Okay! Okay!"

Jiang Bin also spoke for Chang Ponu: "So, the magistrate of your county is a good, upright and capable official."

The old man replied: "That's natural! They say that Daxing lies at the feet of the Emperor, and it belongs to the most virtuous area of ​​Shuntian Prefecture. Come on, county magistrates. The greedy ones are greedy for money, the lecherous ones are lustful, and they all bully the common people."

"Only our Lord Chang County is a man of integrity and integrity. He has implemented dozens of benevolent policies in less than a year since he came to our great prosperity!"

"He used to make the fast-moving government servants in Yumei Village submissive and docile."

"I heard that his father was some kind of Jinyiwei butcher in Beijing. The fast-moving government officials were afraid of offending him, so his father had his head picked off. Now they are all as honest as little wives."

Emperor Zhengde smiled and said: "Yes, your county magistrate's father was a butcher who killed countless people in the capital. It is said that the people he killed could be circled hand in hand around the nine-door city wall of the capital!"

The old man chanted the Buddha's name: "Amitabha. How could such a bloody butcher give birth to such a good son who is kind to others!"

"Our county magistrate has no airs. He comes to my place to eat porridge when he has nothing to do. After eating, he also throws in a few copper coins as porridge money."

"His wife is said to be the eldest daughter of the chief minister's family. I don't think so."

Emperor Zhengde asked: "Oh? Why doesn't it look like that?"

The old man replied: "How can the eldest lady of the chief minister's family lead the girl and carry the basin to the river every day to wash clothes with a group of old ladies and still talk and laugh?"

Emperor Zhengde sighed: "It's really difficult for his wife."

The old man said: "Yes, it's hard to be an upright official, and it's even harder to be the wife of an upright official's family."

Jiang Bin suggested: "Sir, I think it's getting late. Let's find a place to rest?"

Emperor Zhengde nodded: "Okay, I'll stay in Daxing for one night. Old man, are there any beautiful women in the city?"

The talkative old man was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "You are looking for a kiln shop, right? Then you have to go to Rouge Street in Beicheng."

"Kiln shops have been forbidden since ancient times. Our county magistrate made a rule after taking office. The kiln shop sisters who want to get official photos must gather on that street in Beicheng."

"The county government will send officials' wives to check their health every month to see if they have any internal diseases. If they get sick, their official certificates will be revoked, and the kiln shop owner will pay a large amount of money to treat them and help them to be good."

"The county magistrate also strictly prohibits the kilns from buying girls under the age of sixteen. Anyway, the county magistrate has managed all walks of life in Daxing in an orderly and orderly manner."

Emperor Zhengde praised him again, and then asked how to get to Rouge Street.

The two left the porridge shop and were about to lead the horse to Rouge Street. Emperor Zhengde changed his mind: "Forget it. I haven't seen Po Nu for a long time, and I miss him quite a bit. Let's go to the county office and see him. Let him accompany us tomorrow morning to eat donkey meat and burn it in the river."

"He managed Daxing for me and made the sea, rivers and rivers clear. I will always treat him to a meal."

The two of them arrived at the gate of the county government office.

The head janitor on night duty came forward and asked, "What do you do?"

Emperor Zhengde lied: "I am the same year as Chang County Zun, Changponu, Changxian County, Guixian County. I was passing through here on my way to the south and wanted to talk to him about old times."

The chief of staff saw that Emperor Zhengde and the two were dressed in extraordinary clothes, and he cupped his hands and said, "Ah, sir, please wait a moment. Let me go and report to the county magistrate."

(End of this chapter)