The days when I ransacked the house in Jinyiwei

Chapter 358 Granting Chang Qingyun to study in the main hall

Chang Feng and Li Dongyang entered the hall and kowtowed to say hello.

Emperor Zhengde is a dog-faced person who changes at will. He frowned and glared: "An, An, what's An! My majestic emperor, the most powerful person in the world, with a body of tens of thousands, is actually under house arrest by a small seventh-level magistrate!"

"Looking through the history books, such a thing has never been heard of before! Such a bold magistrate is unprecedented and unprecedented!"

"You know. The emperor's house arrest is not an attempt to rebel, but an actual rebellion!"

Chang Ponu kowtowed: "I will die forever!"

Chang Feng was furious when he saw Emperor Zhengde Long Yan. I thought to myself, "Not good." He quickly begged for mercy: "Your Majesty, Po Nu is young and frivolous. I will never show favoritism! I will put him in prison and interrogate him strictly!"

Chang Feng is implementing the strategy of "accepting with a small stick and walking with a big stick" for his son.

You should know that putting the emperor under house arrest for any reason is a capital crime.

The imperial prison is the territory of the Chang family. After entering the imperial edict, Chang Ponu could not endure much suffering. At that time, I will go to Empress Dowager Zhang and Empress Xia to intercede for Chang Ponu. When Emperor Zhengde's anger subsides, he will at most be dismissed from Chang Po Nu's position.

Jiang Bin, who was standing next to Emperor Zhengde, knew very well that his "father" had no intention of punishing Chang Ponu. It's too late for 'father and emperor' to reuse such a good official. What he said just now was just to scare the Chang family.

Jiang Bin is such a good person. If he doesn't sell it to Mr. Chang Shuai now, when will he wait?

Jiang Bin opened his mouth and pleaded for Chang Ponu: "Your Majesty. What happened tonight is not about 'arresting the emperor under house arrest'. It's about Chang County Zun being loyal to the emperor and fearing that the emperor will go on a business trip outside the palace."

Emperor Zhengde said angrily: "Locking me up in the living room of the county government office for three hours is not house arrest!"

"The crime of Chang Po Nu is a heinous one! How can we correct discipline without severe punishment? If all my ministers learn from Chang Po Nu in the future, where will the sage etiquette of king, minister, father, father and son be?"

"Chang Po Nu, listen to the order!"

Chang Ponu kowtowed: "I will listen to your Majesty's decision."

Emperor Zhengde said sternly: "You have committed a heinous crime by imprisoning the emperor! I remember the two generations of serving masters of the Chang family who have made great contributions. I will spare your death."

"However, death penalty can be avoided, but living crime cannot be avoided."

The sweat on Chang Feng's forehead suddenly broke out. He guessed that Emperor Zhengde would at least sentence Chang Ponu to be dismissed from his post and exiled to the army.

Don't confine your troops to Guangdong and Guangxi, just confine your troops to the northwest. Qiu Yue, a new upstart in the northwest, is a close friend of the Chang family. Chang Ponu will not suffer anything when he comes to the northwest.

I never expected that Emperor Zhengde's so-called "punishment" was more like a reward.

Emperor Zhengde gritted his teeth and said: "Chang Ponu, you were born in the capital and grew up in the capital. Now you are serving as an official in Daxing, which is only fifty miles away from the capital. It is no different from being an official at home. You can always take the time to return to the capital. Home."

"I will punish you. Go to Hejian Mansion to be the magistrate of the government, and let you taste what it's like to be a wanderer four hundred miles away from home!"

As soon as Emperor Zhengde said this, Chang Feng and his son were stunned!

Where is the punishment? !

The magistrate of the county is of the seventh rank, and the magistrate of the prefecture is of the fifth rank. This is equivalent to three levels in a row!

Chang Ponu's recent year can be described as ups and downs. First, he was appointed Yin of Shuntian Prefecture, the third rank of the Zheng Dynasty, and he asked to be demoted to the county magistrate of the seventh rank of the Zheng Dynasty. To get away from Liu Jin's case.

Immediately, he was promoted to the rank of fifth grade official. Although Hejian is not as good as Shuntian, it is still the capital of Northern Zhili.

Chang Feng and his son were stunned for a long time.

It was Li Dongyang who imitated Chang Feng's tone and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty, sage! Po slave, why don't you accept the order and thank me!"

Only then did Chang Ponu react: "My lord, please accept the order and thank me!"

Emperor Zhengde smiled and said: "Okay, don't do this. Which bastard just told my nephew Qingyun that my name is Zhu Shou, my courtesy name is Wupu, and my nickname is Wild Ass?"

"You have been in Daxing County for less than a year. The territory of Daxing County is solemn and peaceful. When you arrive in Hejian, you must manage the place as diligently as you did in Daxing."

"Although you are the offspring of a feudal official, Liu Jin's unconventional promotion of you is just to encourage your growth."

"I hope you can get down-to-earth experience in the local area. You will serve as magistrate of Hejian Prefecture for three years. If you do well, I will promote you to magistrate after three years. If you do well as magistrate for three years, I will promote you to the third division!"

"You must not live up to my expectations!"

Chang Ponu kowtowed: "Yes, I will live up to the emperor's expectations, work diligently as an official, and tie a grass ring for the emperor."

Emperor Zhengde added: "In addition, that child Chang Qingyun is quite smart. Let him study in the main hall. I will hire the best teacher for him. Chang Ponu, are you willing?"

The main hall is the library and the prince's school appointed by Taizu in the first year of Hongwu.

Now, Emperor Zhengde has no children. Although the main hall is still preserved, it only has the function of collecting books and has lost its function of teaching the prince.

Emperor Zhengde allowed Chang Qingyun to study in the main hall, which was the educational treatment for a prince.

How could Chang Ponu be reluctant to part with him? He quickly shouted out the ancestral slogan: "Your Majesty, sage! Thank you for your grace!"

Emperor Zhengde smiled and said: "Okay, then it's settled!"

Chang Feng was extremely excited after hearing this decree from Emperor Zhengde!

Liu Jin had no heirs and loved Chang Tian as if he were his own daughter.

The Emperor and Queen have no children, and Empress Dowager Zhang has no grandchildren. The grandson of the Chang family went to the palace to study. He was not allowed to be treated as a favorite of the palace!

If the emperor gives birth to a son in the future, the Chang family's direct grandson will be the perfect companion to the prince! A hundred years later, the prince ascended the throne. The prosperity of the Chang family can be extended to the third generation.

Chang Feng was not a fortune teller, so naturally he neither thought nor dared to think that the next emperor of the Ming Dynasty would not be of the blood of Emperor Zhengde, but a cousin of Emperor Zhengde.

Emperor Zhengde said: "This time I left the palace, although I didn't eat the Hejian donkey meat that I loved so much. But I didn't get nothing!"

"I have an idea. Local officials represent the emperor and the herdsmen. If the main official is an upright official, there will be no place that cannot be managed well!"

"Suppose the rebels Liu Liu and Liu Qi are from Daxing County. Even if they want to rebel, the people of Daxing will not let them live in peace and follow them to rebel!"

Chang Ponu interrupted Emperor Zhengde: "Your Majesty, I think the idea that 'local officials represent the emperor's herdsmen' is sheer nonsense!"

"'Herders' are herders. If you say that local officials are herdsmen on behalf of the emperor, doesn't it mean they treat the people as livestock? Talking two-legged sheep?"

"The common people are by no means livestock, but officials provide food, clothing and parents. They are not 'herding', but should be 'supporting'."

Li Dongyang hurriedly said: "Po Nu, don't talk nonsense. 'The leader of the Nine Provinces, who enters the country of the emperor, is said to be an animal husbandry', comes from the "Li" of Zhou. Mingli is inherited from Zhou Li."

Emperor Zhengde waved his hand: "Mr. Li is pedantic, isn't he? I think your son-in-law is right."

"Why has the government never been cleaned up? Corrupt officials are killed every year, and they can never be killed? It's because they pride themselves on being herdsmen and treat the people as livestock! They take everything they have!"

"The common people even have a proverb: a magistrate who destroys his family is a magistrate who destroys his family."

"If every official has Chang Ponu's view, and the common people are the officials' food, clothing and parents, then it will be much easier for me to be an emperor!"

Chang Feng shouted: "Your Majesty, sage!"

Emperor Zhengde said: "That's all. It's getting late. I have entered Daxing County in Haiqingheyan. How can I not stay overnight?"

"I will spend the night at Chang Ponu's Baoya today. I will return to Beijing early tomorrow morning."

Chang Feng was about to object. Emperor Zhengde interrupted him: "Don't be afraid, I won't run away!" Emperor Zhengde said he wouldn't run away, but Chang Feng sweated. He had watched Emperor Zhengde grow up. He knew the emperor's urinary nature better than anyone else.

Chang Ponu vacated his bedroom in the county government office for Emperor Zhengde to live in.

Entering the bedroom, Emperor Zhengde first asked Li Dongyang to go down and rest.

Then he asked a question that he had asked the old man who gave out porridge at the porridge shop before: "Are there any beautiful women here?"

Chang Ponu's heart skipped a beat after hearing this: Zhu Houzhao, what do you mean? My wife is the only beautiful woman in the county government office! Is it possible that you want to be my brother-in-law?

Emperor Zhengde was afraid that Chang Ponu would misunderstand, so he quickly added: "I heard that you have a Rouge Lane here."

When the emperor and his ministers wanted prostitutes, they wanted women and prostitutes. Emperor Zhengde can also be regarded as the first emperor in the history of romance.

Chang Ponu sternly refused: "There is indeed Rouge Lane in the city and there are many brothels. But I dare not."

Before Chang Po Nu finished speaking, Chang Feng interrupted him: "Ah, Po Nu, why don't you take the official wife of the Yazhong to Rouge Lane to select someone to accompany the emperor?"

After speaking, Chang Feng forced Chang Ponu out of the bedroom.

Chang Ponu whispered: "Dad, aren't you doing evil to the king? Although the official media is checking the body and disease of the girl in Rouge Lane every month, you are not afraid of ten thousand, just in case."

Chang Feng said, "Ponu, you are confused. With the emperor's wild ass temper, what if he ran away again in the middle of the night? We need to find a woman to tie him up."

"Take an official wife to a brothel and choose a girl who has not yet been sold as a red flower. Remember, you must use musk before you come. After you accompany the emperor, you must also use musk."

Musk was a magic weapon used by women in ancient brothels to avoid pregnancy.

Chang Ponu was troubled: "But the emperor wants a woman. If I send a girl in, the emperor will be displeased."

Chang Feng said: "That's stupid. You ask the official matchmaker to bring a rounder wooden stick when selecting a girl. After choosing a girl, ask the official wife to drop red flowers on her. Doesn't she become a woman if she drops red flowers? "

Chang Ponu took a breath: "Dad, you are so clever!"

Chang Feng said: "Anyway, the girl you choose will accompany the emperor tonight. It is not unethical to give her the red flowers first. Go quickly."

Chang Ponu joked: "Do you need me to find one for you?"

Chang Feng cursed: "Get out!"

Half an hour later, Chang Ponu sent a woman who was old and dirty, less than two hours old, into Emperor Zhengde's bedroom.

Chang Feng is still afraid of something going wrong. He simply stood in front of the door all night.

Early the next morning, Emperor Zhengde left the bedroom with his face glowing red and satisfied, and told Chang Feng: "Let's go back to the capital!"

Chang Feng was already forty-six years old. He stood at the door for most of the night, with dark circles under his eyes: "Yes, I'll be ready to go."

This was the first time that Emperor Zhengde abandoned the night run of civil, military and palace guards. But it won't be the last time.

Fortunately, Emperor Zhengde rushed to Daxing County at night and met Chang Ponu. Otherwise Chang Feng, Li Dongyang and the others would still be in fear for several days.

Half a month later, after Chang Ponu took office, he sent someone to give Emperor Zhengde a tribute - donkey meat, a specialty of Hejian, burned on fire.

Emperor Zhengde, Longyan Dayue, praised Jiang Bin, and Chang Ponu, who grew up together, thought of him.

This time Emperor Zhengde ran at night, Li Dongyang and others were shocked and broke into a cold sweat. The one who benefited the most was the Chang family. Chang Ponu was promoted to three levels in a row, and Chang Feng's grandson Chang Qingyun entered the main hall. Receive the best education in the entire empire.

Chang Qingyun had lunch in the main hall on weekdays, and was often called by Empress Dowager Zhang or Empress Xia to give him meals.

Just as Chang Feng expected, Chang Qingyun became the third generation of imperial family favorites after Chang Tian and Chang Ponu.

Changfu.

Li Dongyang and Chang Feng sat across from each other and drank tea.

Li Dongyang smiled and said: "Qingyun has a guarantee in his life. Not to mention whether he will be favored as an official in the future. The emperor ate the river food brought up by Po Nugong yesterday, and ordered Wang Shouren, who had just taken up his post in the Ministry of Civil Affairs, to be Qingyun's enlightenment Master. There are also a bunch of great Confucianists from the Hanlin Academy teaching him together."

"There are so many good gentlemen, but are you afraid that you won't be able to teach good students who are well-educated and well-educated?"

Chang Feng said: "Qingyun is a lucky kid. Alas, if the emperor goes on patrol incognito every once in a while, it will really give us a headache."

Li Dongyang said: "Jiang Bin seems to be yours, but in fact he is full of his own child. The emperor sneaked out of the palace, and he would not tell us in advance. It is really a headache."

Chang Feng nodded: "Indeed, it just seems like it. If we talk about our own people, only Jingwu and Basha can be considered our own people."

Li Dongyang said: "I have a plan. In order to prevent the emperor from going south when he goes on patrol incognito next time, he will go north instead of south. We should ask the palace painter to make more copies of the emperor's portraits and distribute them to the guards at the passes in the north."

"If the emperor wants to go to the grassland through various passes, let the guards stop him."

Chang Feng said: "It's done. Military generals have the custom of worshiping the military god. Many military generals have the titles of King Zhongshan and King Kaiping hanging in their homes."

"It is not overly polite for us to send the emperor's emissaries to the generals. The emperor is wise and powerful, and his military ability is not inferior to that of the King of Zhongshan and the King of Kaiping. He is actually the God of War of the Ming Dynasty. Isn't it reasonable for the generals to compete with each other to pay homage to him?"

"When these words reach the ears of the emperor, the emperor will only be happy."

Li Dongyang added: "Yesterday I went to see Yang Tinghe and had an in-depth discussion with him about the strategy of assisting the emperor and governing the country. Yang Tinghe is an able minister in governing the world."

"Before I left his house, I made it clear to him that I would become an official next year and recommend him to the emperor to take over as the chief minister."

Chang Feng said: "Yang Tinghe is a wise minister and has the ability to be a good chief minister. But do you really want to become an official?"

Li Dongyang nodded: "I am too tired after decades of ups and downs in the officialdom. Now the traitors have been eliminated, and the eunuchs have been wiped out."

"Wise ministers like Yang Tinghe and Yang Yiqing, and good officials like Wang Shouren came to power one after another and came back again and again. It's time for me to retreat bravely and return to the countryside."

"Alas. Even if I retire to the countryside, I will still be scolded! Who told me to endure it for several years without speaking out when Liu Jin was in power?"

Chang Feng said: "The emperor gave me 30,000 acres of land. I know better than anyone else that my father-in-law, you have been an official for decades and have nothing to do with your life, and your family has no money left."

"How about I donate 10,000 acres to you for your retirement. Even if the emperor finds out, he won't say anything."

Li Dongyang said: "No need! Don't worry, although my family has no money, I have the skills to support a family. Calligraphy and painting are my skills."

"If it really doesn't work out, I'll make a living selling calligraphy and paintings. I won't starve to death."

In the spring of the sixth year of Zhengde, everything is developing towards a state of vitality and all things competing for growth.

Although the emperor is uninhibited and unruly, he is unreliable. But he was only obsessed with military affairs and left political affairs to a group of wise ministers and officials.

Li Dongyang, Yang Tinghe, Yang Yiqing and others cooperated happily with Zhang Yong and Wei Bin, and implemented many virtuous policies that benefited the country and the people.

Jiubian also gained temporary peace due to Chang Feng's plan to exaggerate Liu Jin's family wealth. External stability.

The commodity economy was booming in Jiangnan and Jiangbei, and the entire Ming Empire was stable and improving, with a bright future.

(End of this chapter)