The First Corrupt Official of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 287: Queen Ma angrily smashed the emperor's jade Ruyi for Lord Ye, and Zhu Yuanzhang burst into tears!
Outside the commander's office of Jinyiwei,
Jiang Yu, wearing the standard brocade clothes and golden armor, went straight to Commander Mao Xiang's office and study.

Jiang Wei looked at Mao Xiang who was writing something quickly, cupped his fists and said, "Master, I am arranging today's palace duty, why are you so anxious to call me back?"

Mao Xiang kept writing on his hand and said solemnly: "This is the Commander's Office of the Jinyi Guards. You and I are wearing official uniforms. This is not our home. Who is your master?"

After hearing this, Jiang Wei just replied rigorously: "Yes, General Mao!"

After a while, Mao Xiang handed the letter he had just written to Jiang Yu and said, "I am going to find your Majesty now. You will take this letter to find the Queen."

"Remember, I must walk fast and you jog. You must meet the Queen before I meet His Majesty, but the time should not be too early."

Jiang Wei was just stunned subconsciously after hearing this. He had no idea what his master was planning.

But he didn't dare to ask any more questions and could only strictly follow what the master said.

You must know that Jiang Wei's ability and his official position were all given by this master who was like a teacher and a father. Even if he was asked to jump into the Qinhuai River, he would have to do it. It's that simple!
under the sun,

The commander Mao Xiang, who was not wearing armor but just wearing brocade clothes, walked quickly to the imperial study.

But the deputy commander of the Jin Yiwei, Jiang Wei, who was wearing the standard brocade robe and armor, headed all the way to Qianqing Palace where Queen Ma was.

Just as Mao Xiang had arranged, Jiang Gu was jogging while calculating in his mind the distances between the Jinyiwei commander Si Yamen and the Imperial Study Room and Qianqing Palace.

After estimating the distance, he began to estimate the difference in speed between him and Mao Xiang.

After calculating all this, he finally adjusted his jogging speed and arrived at the gate of Qianqing Palace before Mao Xiang arrived at the Imperial Study Room.

"Go and call Lan'er out!"

The little eunuch on duty at the gate of Qianqing Palace naturally ran very fast.

And this palace maid named Lan'er was actually Empress Ma's personal palace maid and Jiang Wei's secret love interest.

After just a simple and secret handover, Jiang Wei quickly left this place, a place where he could not stay for a long time.

In the main hall of Qianqing Palace, Queen Ma was carefully reading the autograph letter written to her by Mao Xiang.

This letter did not pay attention to any official style. With Mao Xiang's writing skills, he could not write that kind of wordy style.

But it is often this kind of vernacular text that can most intuitively explain the seriousness of the situation!
Mao Xiang used concise language to let Queen Ma know that Ye Qing would beat the emperor's nephew Zhu Huan when he came ashore, arrest the emperor's brother Zhu Liujiu when he came ashore, and thoroughly investigate all the officials when he returned home, and even kill them first and report later.

After explaining what Ye Qing had done, he also said something else.

Later in the letter: "To the Queen, according to the information obtained by our Jin Yiwei, Zhu Huan did commit many crimes in Ningbo, and we even have some evidence of his crimes."

"Not only do I know this, but even Prime Minister Hu and the others know it more or less, but neither I nor Prime Minister Hu have the courage to expose this matter."

"The reason why I dare to tell the truth to the empress is just because I don't want Lord Ye to die in vain!"

"Master Ye is so desperate to plead for the people. He is a good official and does not deserve to die under His Majesty's wrath!"

"I have gone to the imperial study to report this matter, but I cannot say that I knew about it in advance. I pray that my empress will come to the imperial study to persuade your majesty!"

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Yes,

This was what Mao Xiang thought of, and it was the only thing he could do for Ye Qing.

As the commander of the Jinyi Guards, he must tell Zhu Yuanzhang exactly what Ye Qing did. This is his duty.

In his opinion, Zhu Yuanzhang would be furious after hearing the news. As long as Queen Ma didn't arrive in time, Ye Qing would definitely die without a burial place.

Not to mention whether Zhu Yuanzhang believed that Zhu Huan would do these things without telling him, Ye Qing's strong decision to kill first and then report was enough to kill him eighteen times.

And there was a reason why he, Mao Xiang, was sure that Queen Ma would definitely help with this.

To put it bluntly, Zhu Liujiu and Zhu Huan and his son were related to him, Zhu Yuanzhang, and had nothing to do with her, Queen Ma.

For her, Queen Ma, this so-called royal brother and adopted son could be regarded as something imposed on her by Zhu Yuanzhang, or it could be regarded as something imposed on her by the "love house and wife" way of being a wife.

But judging from Queen Ma's true intentions, she didn't take them seriously!

This is just like the wife who comes from a lady's background. Out of her wifely qualities, she will be kind to her husband's relatives who are born in a poor family.

But that's just for the quality of being a wife!

So,
Mao Xiang was absolutely certain that even ten Zhu Huan plus ten Zhu Liujiu could not compare to Ye Qing's importance in Queen Ma's heart.

The fact was just as Mao Xiang expected. After reading this letter, Queen Ma's eyes were shocked, but she did not feel heartbroken.

Apart from being shocked and having a headache because of Ye Qing's lifeless behavior, she had no other feelings.

There was even a hint of 'expected' in her deep gaze.

Empress Ma just gently took off the lampshade, and while lighting the letter, she also thought to herself: "Wealth cannot be lascivious, poverty cannot be moved, power cannot be surrendered, these are just fifteen simple words!"

"But how many people can actually do it?"

"Your Majesty, your biggest mistake is to firmly believe that if you can do it, everyone in your Zhu family can do it!"

"There are too many Zhu family members who have benefited from you, and there are always a few troublemakers. It's normal!"

Thinking of this, Queen Ma immediately looked in the direction of Ningbo Mansion, with obvious resentment in her eyes.

At this moment, Queen Ma looks like the eldest sister next door who is so angry at her troublemaker brother!
The next moment, Queen Ma greeted Lan'er, carried a pot of health tea, and went to the imperial study with her.

At this moment, outside the door of the imperial study room, the attendant young eunuchs were hiding on both sides, for fear of being scratched by flying debris!

The tribute porcelain from Jingdezhen was smashed out one by one!

The Yanmen colored glaze products that are so expensive here are also being smashed out one by one!

Judging from the size of the fragments and the distance from which they flew, Zhu Yuanzhang used much greater force when smashing the Yanmen colored glaze products than when he smashed the Jingdezhen tribute porcelain!

"asshole!"

"He is just a bastard who has no father!"

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Under the golden roof of the coiled dragon in the Imperial Study Room, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was tired from smashing, scolded Ye Qing while gasping for air, saying that he had a wound on the top of his head and pus was leaking from the soles of his feet.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was already blushing with anger, couldn't find the words to scold Ye Qing.

He immediately showed a fierce look in his eyes and said, "Mao Xiang, take your people and tie him back to us."

"He wronged my imperial brother and nephew for no reason, and also dared to beat up my imperial nephew and arrest my imperial brother. He is really courageous!"

"Returning to the imperial power, he beheaded first and then played. Which bastard allowed him to kill first and then play?"

At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang was already murderous. From the fact that he suddenly changed his name and called himself 'I', it was enough to show that he was really determined to kill Ye Qing.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Mao Xiang who was still kneeling there, and his eyes immediately turned red.

While slamming the table fiercely, he said loudly: "Why don't you go quickly?"

Mao Xiang hurriedly stood up and left with the order. At the same time, he thought to himself: "Empress, why haven't you come yet?"

Just when Mao Xiang secretly called, Queen Ma and Lan'er, who was carrying health tea, came to the imperial study.

Queen Ma and Mao Xiang did not make any eye contact, as if nothing happened. Mao Xiang just bowed to Queen Ma and left decisively with his head held high.

"Wait!"

"Mao Xiang, please wait outside and close the door for me."

While Mao Xiang secretly laughed in his heart, he immediately acted strictly in accordance with the Queen's decree.After the door of the imperial study room was closed, Zhu Yuanzhang subconsciously moved his butt back, then straightened his waist and adjusted his collar.

He held up his head that no longer blushed when he saw Queen Ma, and said very forcefully: "Sister, why do you keep running here?"

"No matter what you say today, we, no, I have made up my mind, I am going to kill this beast who slandered the emperor!"

"Don't think that I can't guess what his intentions are. He just wants to use the heads of royal relatives to quickly establish his prestige in this three-acre area of ​​Ningbo."

"In order to build prestige, he dared to slander my imperial brother and nephew!"

"Not only that, he also used chicken feathers as command arrows, and he also said that the emperor had granted permission to kill first and then report?"

"Which bastard allowed him to kill first and then show off?"

Empress Ma was not angry with Zhu Yuanzhang, but said calmly: "You personally wrote the imperial edict and established the 'Ningbo Special Administrative Government'. He has the final say on any special laws!"

"you."

Zhu Yuanzhang pursed his lips and said, "We have been that bastard for so long?"

At this point, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but laugh at himself and said: "Yes, we are that blind bastard. Otherwise, how could we follow his way and establish a 'Ningbo Special Administrative Government'!"

Having said this, Zhu Yuanzhang became even more certain of his conjecture.

In his opinion, as early as when Ye Qing proposed the establishment of the 'Ningbo Special Administrative Government', he had already made up his mind to use other people's heads to build prestige.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but secretly praise Ye Qing as a person who does great things, and he was simply more ruthless than Zhu Yuanzhang.

And at this moment,
Empress Ma ignored him at all and just said to herself: "I just did the math outside the door. You smashed a total of four pieces of Jingdezhen tribute porcelain and six pieces of top-grade Yanmen colored glaze, which are worth a total of [-] yuan!"

"The [-] guan will be deducted from your children's salaries. The prince is the eldest brother. The [-] guan will be deducted and will be shared equally among the other children, including those in the mother's womb!"

"They don't have a salary, so they will deduct the salary from the pregnant concubine!"

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, his eyes widened immediately.

You can say that Zhu Yuanzhang is cruel to people, you can also say that he is a man who kills people, you can even say that he is cheap, but you can never say that he is not a good father!

Even if all the emperors in history were compared, Zhu Yuanzhang would definitely be the 'number one good father'!
Li Shimin, whose military command skills surpassed Zhu Yuanzhang's, would definitely be severely trampled under his feet if he competed with Zhu Yuanzhang as to who was the better father!
In Empress Ma's eyes, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately said with a heartbroken expression: "Sister, how can you treat them badly?"

"Whether it's your biological child or not, I have to call you my mother, right?"

Empress Ma said expressionlessly: "This is called repaying the debt of the father to the son. There is no problem with that!"

Zhu Yuanzhang stopped talking, but the pain in his face still lingered.

Finally, Empress Ma said earnestly: "Chongba, haven't you found out what your problem is?"

"You love your Lao Zhu family so much that you have lost your basic ability to judge in this matter. You will not think of them in a bad way at all."

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At this time in the past, Zhu Yuanzhang should have listened to half of the advice, not only for safety.

But this time, Zhu Yuanzhang directly took out his tickling jade Ruyi. He pointed at Queen Ma and warned: "Ma Xiuying, we thought you were the most virtuous woman in the world, but you have disappointed us so much."

"Miss Ma, we all know that from the bottom of your heart you look down on our mud-legged relatives."

"In your eyes, are they that bad?"

"Once they gain power, they will be greedy for profit, and will they slap Zhu Yuanzhang in the face with practical actions?"

"Sister, we warned you that the harem will never interfere with politics. If you persist in your stubbornness, I will give you up."

At this point, Zhu Yuanzhang hesitated to speak. Behind his fierce gaze, there was a look of unbearability, and his hand holding the jade Ruyi pointing at Queen Ma was trembling.

The next moment, Queen Ma, whose eyes were filled with tears, stood up.

Queen Ma raised her head and said loudly: "What are you thinking about?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately put down the hand holding Yu Ruyi without saying anything, and subconsciously took a step back.

Just like that, when Queen Ma took a step forward, he took a step back until his eyes dodge and he no longer looked directly into Queen Ma's eyes.

Immediately afterwards, Queen Ma said seriously: "You just want to seal my Qianqing Palace, you seal it!"

After Queen Ma finished saying this, she breathed a sigh of relief and tried to calm herself down.

Her tone softened slightly and she said: "Chongba, let me tell you plainly, ever since I became the queen, I have not only prepared for you to seal the palace, but also prepared for you to be dethroned."

"But before you seal the palace and depose the queen, as long as I see that you have made a mistake, I will never swallow my anger and I will definitely say it out."

"Also, I am not one of those sinners you killed, who knelt down and begged for mercy before dying!"

"As soon as your imperial edict to seal the palace and abolish it comes, I will kneel down to thank the Holy Grace, and then go to the Ancestral Temple to commit suicide!"

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he immediately turned around and looked at Queen Ma with wide eyes, as if his head was struck by lightning.

Empress Ma just blinked her eyes, forced back her tears and said, "I won't hate you, because this is the fate of the queen. Since I am worthy of being the queen, I will accept this fate!"

At this point, Queen Ma could no longer hold back and shed tears.

She snatched Zhu Yuanzhang's jade Ruyi and said, "You can kill me, but don't point it at me. I'm not itchy."

As soon as she finished speaking, Queen Ma immediately smashed the jade Ruyi, and then said with heartache and grievance: "Use the wooden one of yours, it's stronger."

After saying that, Queen Ma turned around decisively, but when she walked to the door, she suddenly felt tightness in her chest.

However, the scene where she suddenly became dizzy and supported the doorpost with her hands was not seen by Zhu Yuanzhang, who had his back turned to her.

Under the golden roof of the Coiling Dragon, the couple spoke with their backs to each other for the first time.

After Empress Ma regained her composure, she faced the door and said, "Chongba, the nine sons of the dragon have their own strengths and weaknesses. Even if I, Ma Xiuying, give birth to the children in ten months of pregnancy, I can't guarantee that all of them will become talents. Even if one of them is born, they will all be talented." It’s normal to be a bastard!”

"I have never looked down on your relatives and fellow villagers. It is true that you were born as a farmer and I was born as a eldest lady, but I am also your wife."

"I will be your wife from the day I marry you!"

"You can say that I don't like them, but you can never accuse me of looking down on them. I've always been nice to them because of you!"

"Kuang Heng, who was trying to make money through the wall, eventually became a corrupt official, didn't he?"

"Is there really no possibility for Zhu Huan and his son to become bad?"

"Don't talk about them, even Ye Qing might become bad in the future, right?"

"If Zhu Huan and his son are indeed guilty, then Ye Qing is risking his life to plead for the people and deserves a reward!"

"If Zhu Huan and his son were wrongly accused, then Ye Qing, as you said, wants to use their heads to establish authority and serve as punishment!"

"It's so close, how long can it take to check in person?"

"I just hope you won't be partial from the bottom of your heart just because their last name is Zhu!"

"I just hope that my husband will never regret it!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Queen Ma crossed the threshold and returned to her Qianqing Palace.

Under the golden roof of the Imperial Study Room,
After Zhu Yuanzhang could no longer hear Queen Ma's footsteps, he picked up the fragments of Jade Ruyi, sat on the ground and cried alone.

After a while, he regained his composure.

"Come here, deliver the message!".
(End of this chapter)