The days when I ransacked the house in Jinyiwei

Chapter 362 One hundred and twenty-seven national surnames

Chang Feng chatted with the high-ranking official for an hour. At noon, the high-ranking official hosted a banquet in honor of Chang Feng's family.

As soon as he finished his meal, Chang Feng couldn't wait to take a nap. Naturally, it was Biyun who accompanied him to "nap".

Liu Xiaoyan passed by Chang Feng's bedroom and heard Chang Feng inside making a "hiss, ha, hiss" sound. She laughed and cursed: "Oh, man."

After a while, Liu Xiaoyan became worried again. What if Biyun gives birth to a son, the second young master of the Chang family, and his biological mother is the emperor's spy?

In the evening, Chang Ponu finally returned to the government office with the prefect Yang Pingzhong.

This Magistrate Yang is over sixty years old, with a kind face and kind eyes. This man has been an official for forty years and was a Jinshi in the early years of Chenghua.

The fact that the third-level scholar and the Jinshi can become the magistrate is considered as the smoke rising from his family's ancestral grave.

When Magistrate Yang saw Chang Feng, he seemed a little cautious. Afraid of saying the wrong thing.

Laofu County in a place like this knows very well that saying the wrong thing in front of important people can ruin a lifetime of hard work.

Chang Feng smiled and said: "Yang Futai, you don't have to be formal. I don't come to Hejian to do business, I come to visit relatives."

"A dog is useless. As your deputy, he receives a lot of care and guidance from you. I should thank you properly."

Magistrate Yang said quickly: "What are you talking about, Governor Chang? Brother Po Nu is extremely talented and is a rare young talent in the imperial court."

"Obviously it was Xiaguan who learned a lot about politics from him."

Chang Feng said: "Yang Futai is too humble."

Chang Ponu agreed: "Father is right. Yang Futai is my senior and teacher. I learned a lot from him."

Magistrate Yang said quickly: "Your honorable teacher is Mr. Li, the chief assistant of the cabinet. How dare I falsely call you my teacher?"

Chang Feng smiled and said: "That's all. Let's not be polite. Let's have dinner! I'm hungry!"

The "siesta" with Biyun was very exhausting. Chang Feng's stomach was already growling.

Chang Ponu said: "I will go to see my mother, Jiuniang and Xiaoniang first."

Chang Feng nodded: "Well, you go ahead."

Chang Ponu was twenty-four years old. Biyun is eight years younger than him. But he still wanted to address Biyun as "little mother".

In the evening, there were two banquets in the government office. Liu Xiaoyan, Mrs. Jiu, Biyun and their daughter-in-law Li Ping'er were present, while Magistrate Yang and several wives of government officials accompanied him.

Chang Feng, Chang Ponu, Yang Zhifu and Hejian's general judge, professor, tutor, official recommendation and experience.

Chang Feng said: "I wonder where Magistrate Yang is from?"

Magistrate Yang replied: "I am from Laizhou Prefecture, Shandong Province."

Chang Feng politely said: "Ah! Laizhou Prefecture is a land of plenty for outstanding people. It has great fishing and salt interests, and its gold mines are world-famous."

"Forty percent of the annual tribute from the Baoquan Bureau of the Ministry of Finance is produced in Laizhou Prefecture."

Magistrate Yang said: "The Governor Chang has praised me very much. Laizhou is just a remote place."

Chang Feng asked again: "I heard that your government is suppressing the powerful?"

Magistrate Yang told the truth: "The powerful gentry in Hejian have invaded the people's interests and despised the judiciary. This has been a long-standing evil. The subordinate officials are incompetent. They have been in office for two and a half years and there is nothing they can do against the powerful people."

"Brother Po Nu came to Hejian and lent me some courage. Only then did I have the courage to restrain my arrogance."

"Everyone in the government office said, 'When Chang Tongzhi comes to Hejian, the officialdom and the folk customs will change'!"

Chang Ponu had a father-in-law who was the chief minister of the cabinet, and a father who was in charge of the royal guards. Everyone in Hejian Prefecture knew that Liu Jin promoted Chang Ponu greatly when he was in power. After Liu Jin fell, he was able to escape unscathed. How much background and power does this have?

Naturally, the officials in Hejian were the only ones who knew what was going on.

Everyone was chatting freely, and before they knew it, it was the time of the year.

Chang Feng said: "Thank you Yang Futai for your hospitality tonight."

Magistrate Yang understood: "Ah, Governor Chang has gone to bed earlier, and I'll take my leave."

After everyone left, Chang Feng and Chang Ponu went into the study to drink tea and chat.

Chang Ponu asked: "How has your father been doing this year?"

Chang Feng replied: "It's very good. Last time I had a drink with Xu Guangzuo, and we had an arm wrestling match after drinking too much. I was lucky enough to win."

"What about you? Are you doing well in the river?"

Chang Ponu replied: "It's very satisfying. The three departments above and my colleagues in the government office all take good care of me."

"Oh, by the way, that little lady was given by the emperor?"

Chang Feng nodded slightly: "The Emperor is still worried about me. Let's not talk about it anymore. As a local official, you can do whatever you want, but you have to perform political achievements for the Emperor to see."

"Don't worry, your father-in-law and I will support you in everything."

Chang Ponu was surprised: "The emperor is worried about you? To put it bluntly, this is really judging the heart of a gentleman with the heart of a villain."

"But in the entire capital, I can't find a more loyal minister than you!"

Chang Feng took a sip of tea: "Why don't we say that accompanying the emperor since ancient times is like accompanying a tiger?"

Chang Ponu asked again: "A few days ago, Lao Taishan sent me a letter. In the letter, he seemed to be thinking of quitting."

Chang Feng replied: "He plans to take up the official position next year. He is too tired as the chief assistant. He does a job like a donkey. But he has to be scolded and criticized in private by the officials in the capital. He is not flattering in front of the emperor. Both ends are not good. people."

Chang Ponu said: "If we count the chief assistants in the past dynasties, the chief assistant who belongs to Lao Taishan should be the most useless. When he was first promoted to the first assistant, Liu Jin had great power. He could only pretend to be cowardly. Finally, he planned with all his heart and overthrew Liu Jin. The world But he also criticized him as a member of Liu Jin’s party.”

"If I were him, I wouldn't want to be an official anymore."

Chang Feng added a cup of tea to his son: "There is no way. Since ancient times, people have been crushed under the tongue. Fortunately, Yang Tinghe is in the cabinet now. Yang Yiqing will soon join the cabinet. Even if your father-in-law becomes an official, the things he set when he was in office are beneficial to the country. The government of the people can continue.”

"Po slave, I'm actually very lucky. When you were a child, I was worried every day that you would follow my old path and go to Jinyiwei to be the emperor's slave with hands stained with dirty blood."

"Now that you can be a local official who works for the benefit of the people, it is really a blessing from our ancestors."

The father and son talked deep into the night. In order to show that he did not marry the younger one and forget about the older one, Chang Feng went to sleep in Liu Xiaoyan's bedroom tonight.

For the next two months, Chang Feng was at ease. During the day, you can go outside the government office to appreciate the local customs and customs of the river, or go fishing in the Xiaobailong River. Every two nights, he goes to Biyun's room to pamper his beloved wife.

Chang Feng even had the urge to tell Lao Shuben to enjoy the life of a servant for the rest of his life.

But reason defeated impulse. He has done too many things for the court in his life. Whatever you do will offend others.

If you lose your official position and authority, I don’t know how many people will come after the Chang family.

In a word, I will bear this rotten coward until death.

On this day, Chang Feng was sitting by the Xiaobailong River fishing.

Basha quickly rushed to the river: "Handsome Master."

Chang Feng put down his fishing rod: "Why are you here in the river?"

Basha said: "Something happened in Beijing. The Chief Assistant asked you to return to Beijing as soon as possible to stabilize the situation."

Chang Feng asked: "What's the matter?"

Basha told Chang Feng everything.

Emperor Zhengde still has no children. This led him to develop a hobby: adopting adopted children. In the sixth year of Zhengde, he had a total of 127 adopted sons.

Emperor Zhengde's original intention was to imitate Taizu and adopt more adopted sons for his own use.

Anyway, there is a precedent for Taizu to adopt adopted sons. North Korean and Chinese officials had no objections.

However, ten days ago, Emperor Zhengde announced that all adopted sons would be given the national surname! One hundred and twenty-seven more royal families with the surname Zhu suddenly appeared in the capital. Among them were the governors Zhu Ning, Zhu An, Zhu Guo and Zhu Fu. That's right, apart from Chang Feng, the other four commanders-in-chief of the five armies of the Ming Dynasty were all adopted as adopted sons by Emperor Zhengde.

There are twelve commanders in the capital, including Zhu Chun, Zhu Bin, and Zhu Zheng.

There are countless commanders, colleagues, and ministers.

The most outrageous thing is that Wang Zhang, who has thousands of households, will be renamed Zhu Zhang in the future. If Grandfather Taizu had known about it, the coffin boards of Xiaoling Mausoleum might not be able to hold it down.

From the perspective of Emperor Zhengde, he did this to consolidate the military power he had wrested from civilian officials. Change the Ming Dynasty's political structure of using culture to control military force.

Look, the senior generals of the Ming army all have the surname Zhu. Will your civil servants be able to control them in the future?

From the perspective of a civil servant, Emperor Zhengde acted like a typical absurd and foolish emperor.

Civil officials once again kneeled down to remonstrate. There were as many as two hundred participants.

Although Liu Jin died, Emperor Zhengde found three more substitutes. They are Gu Dayong, Qian Ning and Jiang Bin.

Qian Ning is the commander of Jinyiwei, and Jiang Bin is the commander's colleague. Chang Feng ran to the river to hide for a while, and Jin Yiwei became the world of Qian Ning and Jiang Bin.

Qian Ning and Jiang Bin were unambiguous. On the same day, more than 200 officials who were kneeling to remonstrate were all locked up and taken to the imperial prison.

Yang Yiqing knew that Emperor Zhengde's move was to elevate the status of military commanders and did not want to object.

But as a civil servant, he cannot fail to side with the civil servants at critical moments.

So Yang Yiqing wrote a memorial to advise Emperor Zhengde on several other matters.

"Your Majesty only goes to court once or twice a month. How do you teach your ministers?"

"They also trained troops in Xiyuan. The sound of drums and cannons shocked the capital."

"Your Majesty is not careful and has made all his ministers restless!"

The memorial was presented to Emperor Zhengde. Emperor Zhengde was furious: Liu Jian and Xie Qian wanted to take care of me in everything. What, you Yang Yiqing want to be Liu Jian’s second?

Emperor Long Yan was furious, Jiang Bin and Qian Ning understood immediately. Yang Yiqing was also imprisoned.

For a time, the imperial prison was overcrowded again.

Jiang Bin and Qian Ning are not Chang Feng. These two people did not give Li Dongyang and Yang Tinghe any face. The first and second assistants went to Jinyiwei to plead with the officials and Yang Yiqing on their knees, but it was of no use.

There was no other way, Li Dongyang could only ask Chang Feng to return to Beijing to control the situation.

After Basha narrated everything, he said with emotion: "Oh, our Jinyiwei really answered that sentence this time - there are no tigers in the mountains, monkeys are the overlords."

"Commander Qian and Marshal Jiang used chicken feathers as arrows and went around arresting people. That was really impressive!"

“Some officials’ families gave them money, and they immediately released them.”

"What's even more outrageous is the concubine of a censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. She went to Commander Qian's residence in the middle of the night and came out early the next morning. Then Commander Qian immediately released the censor."

Chang Feng said: "The emperor gave 127 people national surnames and included them in the clan register?"

Basha said: "The handsome man is right to the point. The emperor has granted these adopted sons all the names in the clan. They have been awarded the titles of general of Zhenguo, general of auxiliary to the country, lieutenant of Fengguo, etc."

"Zhu Zhang, the central defender of Fengguo, even appears in the clan register. He is only one character different from Taizu's name."

Chang Feng said: "That's it. It seems that my two months of ease have come to an end. Go back to Beijing!"

Three days later, Jinyiwei lobby.

Chang Feng entered the lobby anxiously. Qian Ning raised her hands towards him: "Handsome Master, you are always back."

Chang Feng asked: "Where is Jiang Bin?"

Qian Ning replied: "I'll accompany you in the Leopard Room."

Chang Feng said: "You two are so majestic! I was not in Beijing, but you actually let Wei Neipaoze arrest more than two hundred civil servants, including Yang Yiqing, the Minister of Civil Affairs?"

Qian Ning held up his hand and said, "Handsome Master, this is the Emperor's wish."

Chang Feng asked: "What does the emperor mean? Did the emperor have an oral order or an explicit order for you to arrest people?"

Qian Ning was at a loss for words: "There are no oral instructions or explicit edicts. But Yang Yiqing and those civil servants are making trouble for the emperor. As a minister, it is natural to vent his anger on the emperor."

Chang Feng stared at Qian Ning: "You and Jiang Bin are very courageous now! How dare you arrest more than two hundred civil servants without direct instructions from the emperor?"

"You also treat arresting people as a business. The person who gave you two money, the concubine who slept with you two, let him go immediately?"

"Now, as the Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Army and the Guard in Charge of Jinyi, I order you to release him immediately."

Qian Ning knelt down to Chang Feng: "Handsome Master Haihan. I can't let him go."

Chang Feng was stunned: "You actually disobeyed my order?"

Qian Ning kowtowed to Chang Feng: "Master Handsome, let me tell you Ming. The emperor mistook me, Jiang Bin, Gu Dayong, and I as Liu Jin. The three of us have to do things that it is not convenient for the emperor to come forward."

"If I am like before and obey the Commander-in-Chief's orders in everything, the Emperor will abandon me without hesitation or even kill me."

"These words are not my presumption of divine will. They are what the Emperor himself said to me before."

"Please handsome master, please understand my difficulties."

Chang Feng said: "Well, you first find a reason to go to the outskirts of Beijing. I let him go, it has nothing to do with you. I will explain it to the emperor. Even if you pursue him, he will pursue me."

What Qian Ning was waiting for was the words "It has nothing to do with you" from Chang Feng.

Qian Ning said: "Yes. There is military corruption in Yangwei Camp on the outskirts of Beijing. I will go catch the military corruption."

After saying that, Qian Ning left.

Chang Feng entered the imperial prison and found Yang Yiqing.

Yang Yiqing was wearing a large yoke and had chains on his feet.

Chang Feng asked the prison guard Qianhu: "Who gave you the courage to abuse a heavenly official?"

Yang Yiqing smiled and said: "Don't blame him. Ha, it's not the first time I've been to prison. I can bear the shackles and padlocks."

Chang Feng ordered the thousands of households in charge of the prison: "Go and give Yang Butang the shackles and chains. In addition, release all the more than 200 officials who were newly arrested and kneeling to remonstrate in the imperial prison."

The prison guard hesitated: "Master Chang, Commander Qian and Master Jiang."

Chang Feng said angrily: "Let me ask you, who is more powerful in Jinyiwei is me, Chang Feng, or Qian Ning and Jiang Bin?"

The prison guard of Qianhu quickly said: "Of course Chang Shuai is the boss, my subordinates will release him immediately."

Chang Feng said: "This is just like a human saying. Go ahead and do it."

After a while, Yang Yiqing was taken off the shackles.

Chang Feng said: "You have been wronged, Mr. Yang. These two boys, Qian Ning and Jiang Bin, are becoming more and more bold! How dare they arrest you!"

Yang Yiqing smiled and said: "The emperor gave them the courage. If you let them go privately, the emperor will probably blame you."

Chang Feng said: "Don't worry, Mr. Yang. I'll talk to the emperor. It's outrageous to give more than a hundred people national surnames and join the clan. The officials kneeling down to remonstrate this time are really not unreasonable." .”

"I will go and admonish the emperor."

Yang Yiqing sighed: "Oh, the emperor is too impatient. He wants to control the military power once and for all. But since the Tumubao Incident, civilian officials have been leading the army in Ming Dynasty. This system is deeply ingrained. It is not that easy to change."

(End of this chapter)