Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

After receiving the news of the emperor's meeting, Mou Binli led Hu Shun to the palace.

Thinking of seeing the emperor soon, Hu Shun only felt a buzzing in his head, and then lost consciousness, just like a marionette, walking mechanically along with the eunuch in front.

In the minds of the common people, the so-called Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven, is the son of God, a herdsman on behalf of heaven, and a demigod second only to heaven and earth.

Hu Shun's ideal is to be an official and a high official. In his opinion, being able to achieve a thousand households or even a fourth-rank Tongzhi is the best, but he never thought that he would see the emperor one day.

The problem is that the meeting with the emperor this time was actually under the circumstances of a fight, which caused a catastrophe.

Tianxin is unpredictable, and no one knows that the emperor will not punish him for his crime.

After all, Hu Shun rode through several bridges like clouds and fog, bypassed several halls, and finally came to a spacious room where people could be seen on the floor tiles under his feet.

Two eunuchs had already come to the house, one of them, Hu Shun, was acquainted with Wang Yue Wang, who led people to besiege the Baihusuo yesterday.

Both of them had vicious expressions on their faces, which made Hu Shun feel chilly all over, but he was a little afraid.

Hu Shun didn't dare to look up to see what the emperor looked like, and he didn't know the etiquette needed to meet the prince, so he imitated the scene in the play, knelt on the ground with a plop, and kowtowed to the ground: "My subject, Hu Shun, has seen the emperor. Wan..." Suddenly, he remembered that Su Mu had told him not to say a word in advance, so he swallowed the sentence "Long live, long live" into his stomach.

He kowtowed hard on this side, with a sound of "Dong", not only startled everyone in the room, even he himself was knocked dizzy, unable to see for a long time.

Looking at his forehead again, it was already red.

His sudden action surprised Hongzhi, and then he laughed "ha".

The emperor smiled, and the atmosphere in the room relaxed.

Mu Bin was a little worried before, but it can be seen that the emperor's smile immediately relieved his heart, and he thought to himself: This Hu Shun seems to be reckless, but this action has eased the tense situation. Even if the emperor intends to punish him, it may not be serious.This Hu Shun has some tricks.

How could I let go of this opportunity, and smiled and gave Hu Shun a hand: "Hu Shun, my Son of Heaven will always speak standing up when meeting his courtiers, and it's not a state ceremony, so there is no need to bow three times and nine times."

Indeed, the officials of the Ming Dynasty, especially the civil servants, had a high status. When meeting the emperor, unless it was a very formal occasion, they did not need to kneel down.The habit of kowtowing when they meet is nothing but a fabrication taken for granted by later generations.In the Ming Dynasty, the monarch and his ministers ruled the world together. The relationship between the emperor and the ministers was that of the chairman and employees, unlike the Qing Dynasty, where they were masters and slaves.

Hu Shun hurriedly stood up with his mouth shut, still keeping his head down, not daring to look forward.

The voice of Emperor Hongzhi came: "Mou Bin, I think you also know that I came to speak in today's biography, it must have happened last night. The factory and the guard are all relative troops around me, but they attack each other, and the wounded are all counted. Said, and set fires everywhere, so that the capital was terrorized, and the people were uneasy. This morning, the imperial envoys’ impeachment papers flew like snowflakes, all of which were said, and I have lost all of my face.”

The emperor's tone was obviously angry. Indeed, early this morning, he was besieged by civil officials all morning.All the officials went up and impeached the factory guards, saying that these two institutions were useless except to frame Zhongliang and harass the people, and asked the emperor to issue an edict to abolish them.

Although Emperor Hongzhi trusted the civil servants, he also knew that the factory and guards were of some use. , But the civil servants finally got such an opportunity. If they are willing to let it go, all the ministers from the cabinet to the six ministers will take turns to fight, pestering the emperor.

Hongzhi was also annoyed by them so much that he finally got away until noon.

Thinking of the difficulty of the civil servants, Hongzhi was depressed to death, naturally he didn't have any good feelings for the family in charge of the factory guard, and he was ready to scold him severely.

Besides, just now Xu Can and others went to Jin Yiwei to face the saint, and they had already reported Mou Bin in advance.

According to them, Jin Yiwei was the instigator of this incident.

After all, he was someone close to him, so the emperor naturally trusted the eunuch a bit more than Jin Yiwei, so he couldn't help but have some opinions about Mu Bin.

But Hu Shun's spoof just now made his yelling a little weak, and it lacked that majesty.

Suddenly feeling this, Hongzhi glanced at Hu Shun again, a little dumbfounded, but his tone softened: "Mu Bin, tell me how this happened. After you finish talking, Xu Can will talk about it."

As soon as he asked this sentence, Mou Bin was keenly aware of the change in the emperor's mood, and immediately put on a pitiful look: "Your Majesty, I am wronged in this matter!"

"I'm wronged, is it reasonable for your people to rob my Dongchang's public funds for no reason?" Wang Yue couldn't help but refute.

Hong Zhi frowned: "Mu Bin, please answer."

Mu Bin: "Your Majesty, the generation of Tianshui Hutong was originally a security area for Jinyi's pro-military forces. Deputy Hu has always been in charge of thousands of households, and all the funds are provided by merchants. Although there are detectives in Dongchang, their duties are nothing more than inspectors. Supervision has no actual authority, and there is no reason to reach out to get the fee. Hu Baihu was also upset for a while, so he withheld the money, which makes sense. The minister also felt that Hu Shun's move was inappropriate, and was about to send someone to Rebuked. But he didn't want to, but Wang Yue led more than a thousand soldiers in the East Factory to suddenly launch and besiege a hundred households."

"Poor Hu Baihu has only a hundred people, so how can he be the opponent of the entire Dongchang. I also intend to lead people to quell the turmoil, but after thinking about it, this matter can only be turned into a small matter. If I bring people over, I'm afraid that the situation will intensify. At that time, if you disturb the people, you will disturb His Majesty, and there will be no redemption for the minister."

"So, I can only watch Vice Hu's thousand households being besieged by the prince, and even the hundred households are burned to the ground. What I want is to take care of the hard-won stability and peace of the court. I'm sorry Hu Baihu. !"

"Hey, what a good one, Mou Bin, I saw you right." Emperor Hongzhi sighed and couldn't help but nodded.

Hearing the emperor's praise of Jin Yiwei, Wang Yue's eyes were about to burst into flames.

Mou Bin didn't allow Wang Yue to intervene, and continued to mourn: "But I don't want to, Dongchang not only didn't know how to restrain itself, but even burned several other guards in the capital. .But my subordinates are all fools. They don't understand this truth, so they lead their troops to fight back, and I can't stop them... Ten thousand deaths, ten thousand deaths!"