Wanli Youming

Chapter 30 Removing Feng Bao from office and sending him to prison

Zhu Yijun then read Hai Rui's original story.

After reading it, he turned to look at Zhang Jing with a stern expression, and asked, "Mr. Zhang has really promised you to go to Feng Bao?"

Zhang Jing said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, not only Mr. Zhang has agreed, but Mr. Lu has also agreed."

Zhu Yijun nodded, and hurriedly said: "Then send the original copy to the cabinet immediately! You go to the study room to read it yourself!"

Zhang Jing bowed his hands and said yes.

Not long after, Zhang Jing took Hai Rui's original and came to Zhang Dashou, the eunuch with palm prints in the study room: "Send it to the cabinet immediately, and let the cabinet plan to send it up immediately!"

Zhang Dashou accepted Hai Rui's original copy and asked, "Eunuch Zhang, what's going on in Hai Rui and why are you in such a hurry?"

Zhang Jing said in a deep voice: "The impeachment of Eunuch Feng."

Zhang Dashou was shocked after hearing this: "He is bold!"

Zhang Jing said: "Then why are you hesitating, why not send it quickly and let the cabinet handle this matter!"

"If Jiangling protects Eunuch Feng, the cabinet will naturally use this to punish Hai Rui severely; if it does not intend to protect Eunuch Feng, then the cabinet will take this opportunity to send out a bill to punish Eunuch Feng;"

"So, it happens that our family keeps Hai Rui's book. You can immediately tell Eunuch Yu Feng about it!"

"You're right."

Zhang Dashou didn't doubt it, he just thought that Zhang Jing was Feng Bao's confidant and he was thinking about Feng Bao, so he hurriedly sent Hai Rui's memorial to the cabinet.

After a while, Zhang Dashou took the memorial back with a terrified and serious face, and handed it to Zhang Jing: "This is Hai Rui's calligraphy, and the cabinet has already drafted it, but the draft is actually to dismiss Eunuch Feng and put him in prison. Trial by the Tribunal! What do you think is going on here, when did Jiang Ling and Eunuch Feng become enemies?"

Zhang Jing took the ink book and said: "Don't ask so many questions, it's not too late. Our family will go back to the Lijian and hide this ink book for Eunuch Feng. You should inform Eunuch Feng immediately!"

"it is good!"

Zhang Dashou agreed and left the study room first.

Here, Zhang Jing smiled secretly, and hurried back to the Prison of Rituals.

Although Zhang Jing specially took advantage of the days when Feng Bao was not in the supervisor of ceremonies, and instigated the people from Dongchang to give the evidence of Feng Bao's crimes to Hai Rui, and asked Hai Rui to go to court to impeach Feng Bao, but Zhang Hong came to be the supervisor of ceremonies today. The prisoner, seeing Zhang Jing coming in with a memorial in his hand, asked, "Are you from the emperor?"

Zhang Jing replied: "No, it came from the study room."

"The library?"

Zhang Hong was a little surprised, looked at Zhang Jing, and then asked: "Whose book are you holding?"

"Harry's."

Zhang Jing replied.

Zhang Hong asked again: "What is playing?"

At this time, Zhang Jing had already walked to his case, picked up the ink pen, and said: "It is about the impeachment of Feng Bao."

"Wait!"

Zhang Hong suddenly understood, and walked over to Zhang Jing and shouted.

Zhang Jing looked at Zhang Hong: "What does godfather want to say?"

Zhang Hong asked directly: "Does the Queen Mother know?"

Zhang Jing replied: "The emperor knows."

Zhang Hong said again: "Eunuch Feng is a man of strength, he should not go!"

"Godfather, you don't want Feng Bao to be so rampant, so that in the future, the seal of the supervisor of ceremonies and Bingbi will change from peers to superiors and subordinates, right? Even if you want to do this, the emperor will not be willing to do so .”

While Zhang Jing was speaking, he took a vermilion pen to write in Hai Rui's ink book according to the cabinet ticket to approve the red, and the imperial decree that Feng Bao was imprisoned for the crime of deceiving the king and the country was formally produced.

Seeing that the imperial decree had been completed, Zhang Hong just sighed and said nothing.

On the other hand, Zhang Jing handed Zhu Ben, that is, the already-approved Hai Rui Memorial to Zhang Hong: "Godfather, this is the emperor's intention. I think you will not resist the order?"

Zhang Hong is the supervisor of ceremonies and the eunuch of Bingbi, who supervises Dongchang and has the right to arrest him.

That's why Zhang Jing handed Zhu Ben to Zhang Hong.

In the end, Zhang Hong took over Zhu Ben and left the supervisor of ceremonies.

And Zhang Jing hastily rushed to Qianqing Palace again, and came to Zhu Yijun: "Show the emperor, Hai Rui's memorial has already been voted for approval, and the servant godfather has already gone to get Feng Bao."

With that said, Zhang Jing informed Zhu Yijun of the specific content of the cabinet proposal.

"Very good, Zhang Hong didn't disappoint me after all, I thought he would come to me to stop this matter."

As Zhu Yijun said, he put down the ink book still in his hand at this moment, and tucked Zhang Juzheng's ticket into the ink book again, stood up and stretched, and glanced behind the screen with Qi Jiguang and other names written in front of him. , Said: "Sitting for so long, go out with me for a walk."

Zhu Yijun was walking towards the back hall of Qianqing Palace, when he saw the little princess Yongning, who was like a snowdrift, with two small bony hairs on her head, and her short legs, running towards him in the reflection of the vermilion palace wall. Shouted: "Brother Emperor!"

It turned out that because Zhu Yijun was young, Empress Dowager Li lived in Qianqing Palace temporarily, so the other children of Empress Dowager Li were also here.

Among them, Zhu Yijun and Xiao Yongning have the best relationship.

Seeing Xiao Yongning running, Zhu Yijun simply squatted down, opened his arms, hugged her, then picked her up, and walked towards the imperial garden.

Xiao Yongning was obediently hugged by Zhu Yijun, and stretched his little white hands to block the setting sun hanging on the eaves of the palace.

At the same time, Zhu Yijun suddenly thought of something related to Princess Yongning because of Princess Yongning, and asked Zhang Jing: "What crimes did Feng Bao commit recently?"

"Returning to the emperor, Feng Bao recently forced the Xu family to take out a year's worth of going to sea and agreed to drive away Hai Rui for the Xu family; in addition, recently he also helped the Xu family turn the old weavers of the Suzhou Weaving Bureau into In the end, Feng Bao had taken the idea of ​​the princesses and took [-] silver from Liang Guozhu. He wanted to find a princess for the Liang family to match up with the frail and sick eldest son of the Liang family in the future, so as to raise his status and celebrate happiness. use."

Zhang Jing mentioned an incident related to the princess very timely, and before that, he also mentioned several other crimes related to Feng Bao.

Zhu Yijun glanced at Xiao Yongning after hearing this.

And Xiao Yongning smiled sweetly at him, revealing two rows of baby teeth.

"Haley for a year!"

Zhu Yijun muttered a sentence, feeling very uncomfortable in every possible way, and then said: "That's all, he has already started to use the princess as a tool to make money?!"

As he said that, Zhu Yijun ordered: "You pass on my letter to the cabinet and ask them to draw up an order. Since it's up to the Tribunal to try it, let Hai Rui from the Metropolitan Procuratorate preside over Feng Bao!"

Zhang Jing bowed his hands and said yes.

Today, the procedure for dismissing Feng Bao and sending him to prison is through the impeachment of the foreign minister Hai Rui Shangshu, which is then drafted by the cabinet and approved by the supervisor of ceremonies.

Naturally, this will make the outside world think that Zhang Juzheng, who is in control of the cabinet, has joined forces with the new political alliance of the Minister of Ceremony to engage Feng Bao.

And Zhu Yijun asked the cabinet to order Hai Rui to preside over Feng Bao, which would only make the outside world think that Zhang Juzheng and his new alliance in the Supervisor of Rites wanted to kill Feng Bao completely.

After all, everyone knows that Hai Rui is notoriously stern and upright. He is especially ruthless towards corrupt officials and will not show any mercy. The presiding judge is undoubtedly tantamount to punishing Feng Bao to death.

Therefore, and because the outside world would only think that Zhang Juzheng and his new allies in the Supervisor of Rituals wanted to kill Feng Bao completely, they would not know that it was Zhu Yijun who wanted to kill Feng Bao.

Zhu Yijun did have murderous intentions towards Feng Bao, and he did not intend to show mercy.

The reason why he did this was first to deter the eunuchs in the inner court, not to dare to deceive the emperor just because he was still young; second, he had to let the eunuchs in the inner court know about his rebellion, thinking When using a princess as a tool to make money, consider the consequences.

　I don't want to fill the text with explanations that are not directly related to the protagonist, so I will just say it here.

Why did the cabinet vote to propose a joint trial of Feng Bao by the three judicial departments?
It is because the cabinet, which is the civil service system of the outer court, wants to let the eunuchs of the inner court know how to restrain themselves. The three courts of their civil service system have the opportunity to judge their eunuchs, so don't try to interfere in the outer court like Feng Bao, and don't take the lead. Auxiliary as the first auxiliary.This is naturally what Zhang Juzheng meant. Feng Bao's interference with Zhang Juzheng made Zhang Juzheng determined to cooperate with the emperor to bring him down, and by the way, let his civil service system suppress the inner court, so as to avoid being hindered by the eunuchs in the subsequent reform.

　
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