Ming Dynasty 1566

Chapter 115

"Master Yan." Zhu Qixian bowed his hands to Yan Shifan.

Yan Shifan immediately showed a smile: "Lao Qi came in person."

But Zhu Qi didn't answer his words, turned to look at Zhang Juzheng and cupped his hands again: "Master Zhang."

Zhang Juzheng looked at him suspiciously and nodded.

"This is Gao Hanwen." Yan Shifan pointed at Gao Hanwen who was standing there, "That geisha Shen Yishi is inside. Seventh, you are here, come and take the prisoner away with me."

Zhu Qi slowly looked at Yan Shifan: "By order, Yan Shifan is about to be escorted back to the mansion, and the order will be issued. Master Yan, let's go with the young one."

Has Yan Shifan ever been so startled?He was stunned for a while, looking at Zhu Qi in surprise.On the contrary, Zhang Juzheng's body softened, and he sat back on the chair.

"What?" Zhu Qi spoke clearly, but Yan Shifan actually understood every word, but he didn't want to believe his ears, and stared at Zhu Qi with wide eyes.

Zhu Qi: "Master Yan, the younger ones are on business according to orders, please don't make things difficult for us, just come with us." He stretched out his palm as big as a cattail fan and moved out of the door.

"I want to see the emperor!" Yan Shifan really woke up now, and while walking outside, he muttered, "There are traitors, I want to see the emperor!"

Zhu Qi followed him closely, a few Jin Yiwei rushed to clear the way ahead, and a few Jin Yiwei followed behind him.Originally, he followed Yan Shifan to arrest others, but he never thought that Mr. Xiao Ge was suddenly arrested by Jin Yiwei.The officers and soldiers brought by Yan Shifan couldn't find the "camp gate" all of a sudden.Seeing Jin Yiwei who came out of the gate escorting Yan Shifan and his party out, the general who led the team approached, and followed Zhu Qi with his arms folded: "Qi, Qi Ye, what should we do?"

Zhu Qi didn't look at him: "Go back to whichever yamen you belong to. Those who have big festivals are messing around."

The general hurriedly sent an order: "Team! Team! Go back to the yamen!"

The officers and soldiers brought by Yan Shifan all squeezed out the door with a bang and dispersed.

Walking to the middle of the street, Yan Shifan suddenly stopped and looked at Zhu Qi: "Just walk back like this?"

Zhu Qi smiled lightly, pointed at Yan Shifan's sedan chair and said, "Please, Lord Yan."

Ride like the wind.After a while, the sedan chair carrying Yan Shifan was carried to the gate of Yan Shifan's mansion.A guard in Jin Yi opened the curtain of the sedan chair, but Yan Shifan sat inside without moving. He saw that the tall door wall was full of torches and lanterns, and Jin Yiwei was standing there.

"I'm home. Lord Yan, get off the sedan chair." Zhu Qi shouted from outside the sedan chair.

"Let me see the imperial decree." Yan Shifan sat in the sedan chair and remained motionless.

"It is not up to us to read the imperial decree. Lord Yan knows it. We just want to arrest people." Zhu Qi stretched out his big hand, still politely.

"Without an imperial decree, you dare to surround my house and take me!" Yan Shifan roared again in the sedan chair.

Countless brocade guards with fire in their eyes surrounded him from all sides.

"What are you doing! How dare you!" Yan Shifan still roared.

Zhu Qi raised his hand, and those Jinyi guards stopped in their tracks.

Zhu Qi reached out and grabbed the sedan chair curtain and pulled it, threw it on the ground, then jumped into the sedan chair pole, looked at Yan Shifan in the sedan chair: "Yan Shifan, do you remember someone?"

Yan Shifan experienced for the first time that the face of the leader of Jinyiwei was so creepy: "Who?"

Zhu Qi: "Master Shen Lian, the experience officer of our Jinyiwei!"

Yan Shifan's face turned pale: "You, you want to avenge yourself!"

"That's right." Zhu Qi's face was as cold as a stone, "Master Shen was my boss, Zhu Qi. He is also the boss of all the brothers who came here today. Master Shen, you two, died so badly. You act like we all forgot!"

Yan Shifan: "Well, if you have the guts, kill me and avenge him!" He closed his eyes.

Zhu Qi: "You son of a bitch, you bastards have killed so many loyal ministers, and now you are killing you. Come out!" With a roar, Zhu Qi slapped both palms on the pillars on both sides of the sedan chair. Suddenly, the roof and walls of the sedan chair flew out in all directions, leaving only the sedan chair still in place and unscathed!Yan Shifan sat alone on a sedan chair that had no roof or walls.

"Bitch! Sneak in!" Zhu Qi patted the ashes on his hands and walked away.

Two Jin Yiwei rushed over, grabbed Yan Shifan's arms one by one, lifted them up, and dragged them into the gate of the mansion!
The front yard of Gao Hanwen's mansion was completely silent at this moment.

Zhang Juzheng was still nervously standing in the front hall, looking closely at the back door of the front hall.

Finally, Gao Hanwen came in from the back door of the front hall, Zhang Juzheng hurriedly asked: "Has the respected lady come out?"

Gao Hanwen nodded: "I'm packing my luggage."

Zhang Juzheng: "Come here!"

A team officer entered the hall door.

Zhang Juzheng: "Send some people to move all the firewood out of the house in the backyard. Remember, there is oil in the house, no fire is allowed, and lanterns are not allowed in. Then send some people to help Mr. Gao pack his luggage."

"Yes!" The team officer responded and walked to the door.

"Close the door." Zhang Juzheng's voice came from behind.

"Yes." The team officer closed the hall door from the outside when he went out.

Zhang Juzheng walked to the chairs on the east side, first moved the lower chair, then went to the upper chair and moved the lower chair, and said to Gao Hanwen: "Sit down." He sat on the upper chair sat down.

Gao Hanwen also sat down on the lower chair silently.

With the two chairs facing each other obliquely, there was a feeling of having a knee-to-neck conversation.

"Mo Qing." Zhang Juzheng's call was as sincere as his eyes at this time.

Gao Hanwen raised his head and looked at him.

Zhang Juzheng: "You are from the 35th year of Jiajing, right?"

Gao Hanwen: "Each subject is a thing of the past now."

Zhang Juzheng: "I remember that subject. I am also an examiner, but your paper is in Yan Shifan's room. Many things are beyond my control."

Gao Hanwen: "It's all over. Tell Mr. Zhang if you have anything to say. If there is nothing else, let's leave now."

Zhang Juzheng looked at him: "'Walk to the poor water, sit and watch the clouds rise.' Even your official, we have no choice but to go back and stay for a while, wrap it on my body, and I will always call you back."

"Master Zhang saved my life and Zhuo Jing's. It is a blessing to be able to get out of the capital alive. I will never come back here." Gao Hanwen stood up, "I have been wronged by reading all my life, and doing anything is better than being an official .It’s just that it’s hard to return to a family now, and it’s hard to vote for a country, which I didn’t expect.”

Zhang Juzheng also stood up: "Why, can't we go home?"

Gao Hanwen: "The same crime, 'accepting prostitutes as wives'. My father and mother have already passed on the word that you are not allowed to enter the Gao family's gate when you are born, and you are not allowed to be buried in the Gao family's grave when you die. You can't go back."

Zhang Juzheng was also depressed. After thinking about it, he looked at him again: "We didn't expect this. Mo Qing, Shangyi wants to send you back to your place of origin."

Gao Hanwen: "If Mr. Zhang is really willing to give the late students a chance, please delete this sentence and don't send me back to my original place."

Zhang Juzheng immediately replied: "I can delete this sentence, but where are you going?"

Gao Hanwen: "Let's wander the world."

Zhang Juzheng's face became solemn: "That won't work. Some people will not give up on Zhang Zhenren's scripture. Wherever you and Mrs. Zun go, the court will be affected. Follow my arrangement, then go to Zhejiang. Zhao Zhenji, Tan Lun and the others are all there, you go there to be safe."

At this time, Yunniang changed into her luggage, put on a cloak to keep out the cold, carried a bundle, and held a qin wrapped in a cloth bag in her arms, and came out from the back door of the front hall.

Yunniang put down her burden and piano bag, and gave Zhang Juzheng a deep blessing: "Thank you, Mr. Zhang, for protecting us. We are willing to go to Zhejiang."

This is the third time for Zhang Juzheng to see Yunniang. Although he was secretly amazed by this woman, he has always been disdainful of her experience, so he does not look at her at this time, but only looks at Gao Hanwen.

At this time, Gao Hanwen was surprisingly indifferent: "I can go anywhere, but I can't go to Zhejiang!"

Yunniang was stunned, touched Gao Hanwen's eyes, then lowered them, and stood there in a daze.

Zhang Juzheng answered with a firm voice: "I can't go anywhere, I can only go to Zhejiang!" Gao Han looked at him firmly.

Zhang Juzheng glanced at Yunniang, then looked at Gao Hanwen again, his voice softened a bit: "There is always a dilemma between gain and loss. Taoyuan Fangcao, far away from the temple, Mo Qing, I hope this is your blessing."

Gao Hanwen was there silently, and Yunniang timidly raised her eyes to look at him.

Zhang Juzheng: "We can't delay any longer, I'll see you off." As he spoke, he walked to the door of the front hall and opened the door for them.

Yun Niang quickly picked up the bag, and then picked up the piano bag.

Gao Hanwen's eyes immediately turned to the piano bag, and Yun Niang seemed to see the faint flames from his pupils again, trembled, and slowly put the piano bag back on the table, only carrying the bag Walked to Gao Hanwen's side.

But Gao Hanwen went to the table and picked up the piano bag: "Let's go." He walked out the door.

Yun Niang was so moved, she followed him out.

Zhang Juzheng sighed softly and stepped out the door.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Sanfa Division was the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the real yamen in charge of officials.Regardless of the annual performance appraisal of officials at all levels, or the supervision of the official style of the yamen at all levels, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has direct powers of impeachment and picketing.Except for the censors of the left and right capitals and the censors of the deputy capital, the general censors are also the third rank of the official university.

Today is the sixteenth day of the first lunar month in the 41st year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, which is the real beginning of the new year. On this day every year, the chief and deputy officials of the six departments and nine officials and the censors stationed in Beijing will come here as usual to send the Metropolitan Procuratorate to inspect the various departments. The performance evaluation of Yamen officials in the previous year.At this time, the lobby was already full of gauze hats, and the red robes were dazzling.

Different from previous years, the camps of the people who came today are very clear.Ye Ting and Wan Cai led a group of officials standing on the left, and another group of officials stood on the right. No one looked at each other, and the hall was completely silent.

Another point is completely different from previous years. The first person to speak today is not Du Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but Gao Gong.He stood beside the capital censor, looking at the chief and deputy officials standing on both sides: "My lords, some of you may already know, and some may not. The memorial to the emperor has approved it!"

The 20-year strict party iceberg has fallen once. Although there have been rumors early in the morning, those who are not strict party still have doubts, and those who adhere to strict party are lucky. !
Countless eyes of those officials standing on the right immediately cast their gazes over, excited and excited!
Ye Ting and Wan Cai led the officials standing on the left all lowered their heads, all of them looked ashen and dazed with fear!
Gao Gong: "By order, Gao Mute is here to read a piece of Zou Yinglong's memorial to you adults." At this point, he took out a memorial from his sleeve, turned to the second page and read aloud, "Shifan father and son are greedy , To conquer the sun's thorns, government is accomplished with bribes, and officials are bestowed with bribes. All the small and big officials in the four directions will not exhaust the people's fat and peel the people's skin and bones. On the outside, they want to respond to their insatiable demands, and on the inside, they want to pay for themselves and buy officials. If this is the case, the people will not be poor? The national security will be inexhaustible? The natural disasters and the police will not be in time?" After reading, Gao Gong's eyes were piercing, "I remember that when the Yan family killed Yang Gong Jisheng and Shen Liangong, they made a public noise. 'Let him start a prairie fire, and have his own East Sea!' Today, the water in the East Sea has finally drowned the father and son of the treacherous party! 'The Four Remonstrances of Yuezhong', 'The Three Sons of Wuwu' and countless loyal and good spirits in heaven can comfort us!" Having said that, Gao Gong arched his hands high, looking up, tears welling up in his eyes.

Suddenly, a person in the line of non-strict party officials on the right burst into tears, and then everyone around him burst into tears, and many fell to the ground crying.

Ye Ting and Wan Cai, those members of the strict party, became even more panicked. Their cries made them feel that the sky was about to fall!

Gao Gong went on to say loudly: "Shangyu! All the officials of the censors and the government offices of the various ministries, who are usually aware of the crimes of the Yan Party, can immediately be impeached! I hope you will repent and strike back, and the imperial court will be lenient as appropriate!"

There was even more silence underneath.

Suddenly a voice rang out: "Master Gao, what crimes are Yan Song and Yan Shifan convicted now? Will the emperor deal with it?" The person who said this was Ye Ting.

Gao Gong's gaze stabbed at him suddenly: "I said it just now, and we are investigating thoroughly."

Wan Cai's voice sounded: "Excuse me, Mr. Gao, Yan Song has served as the chief assistant of the cabinet for 20 years. Most of the officials in the two capitals and [-] provinces of the Ming Dynasty were appointed by Yan Song. Mr. Gao just said that those who are attached to the strict party do not know Does this count as being attached to the strict party?"

As soon as this remark came out, the whole room exploded.Officials from the non-strict party on the right have formed countless pairs of quarrels around some officials from the strict party on the left:
"You are one of the judges for the unjust imprisonment of 'Four Remonstrations from Yuezhong' and 'Three Sons from Wuwu'! You are not a strict party, but you are still a strict party!" An officer on the right shouted, pointing at Ye Ting.

Ye Tang spit on the ground: "When Yan Ge's [-]th birthday, I don't know who wrote the poem 'a pillar lifts up the big tomorrow', isn't it your masterpiece? With you, you have the face to accuse me of being a strict party !"

The official blushed from being pushed up by him, and held back there.

Another official stood up and turned to Ye Ting: "I, Mr. Li, have never congratulated Yan Song on his [-]th, [-]th, and [-]th birthdays. With me, I have the face to scold you as a traitor!" "

"Kill him! Avenge Zhongliang!" Many officials on the right roared.

The official slapped Ye Ting on the face, and his gauze cap flew away a long way.Immediately, countless people rushed up and pressed Ye Tong to the ground, beating him up!
Another group of officials rushed to Wan Cai, grabbed him, and beat him up!

The crowd divided into several groups, and many officials knocked down some officials of the strict party and fought on the ground!
Gao Gong stood there silently, staring at some unmoving officials of the strict party on the left.

Under Gao Gong's majestic gaze, those officials shrank to the wall and stood there, not daring to move.

Although he has lived in a prosperous place in the capital for a long time and is an extremely personable minister, Yan Song has a few habits that have not changed for decades: one is that there is a vegetable garden in the courtyard of the mansion, and he occasionally goes to the vegetable garden to water the water in summer and autumn. He is fat, and he only eats vegetables from the vegetable garden of the mansion on his dining table; secondly, there are many chickens and ducks raised in such a large prime minister's mansion, and he has to hear the rooster crowing in the mansion every night until early morning.

Perhaps, as the ancients said, there are signs of great disasters and great fortunes.The roosters in Yan's mansion crowed for the first time at four o'clock, and then many roosters crowed all over the mansion. Since then, it hasn't stopped, and the day has already dawned, and they are still crowing one after another.It seems that the owner who knows that they like them will not hear their calls tomorrow.

Hearing the crowing of roosters everywhere, two stewards of the Yan Mansion leaned forward and led them respectfully, and two cabinet book offices followed obliquely behind, Xu Jie walked from the stone-faced road to the door of Yan Song's study He couldn't help but stop before the steps.

The door of the study room was open, and in front of a large basin of charcoal fire, Yan Song was sitting on a recliner, with a fox fur blanket covering his knees, leaning close to the lamp beside him, holding a book and reading there.

A steward of the strict mansion leading the way: "Mr. Xu Ge, please come in."

Xu Jie: "Do you understand the rules? Go report first."

The steward: "Old Yan Ge already knows that you are old..."

Xu Jie's face sank: "Report!"

Then the steward hurriedly climbed up the steps, and shouted loudly by the door: "Old Ge, Xu Ge is old!"

Yan Song put down the book in his hand: "Help me up."

The steward went in to help Yan Song.

"No need to get up, Mr. Ge, sit down." Xu Jie had already walked in quickly, gently supported his arm beside him, then sat down on the chair beside him, and looked at the still standing there. The steward said, "Xiaofeng is so cold, why do you open the door? Go out and close the door."

"Yes." The steward went out and closed the door.

Xu Jie turned his head and found that Yan Song was looking at him with blank eyes.

(End of this chapter)