Wanli Youming

Chapter 31 Feng Bao kneels down
"Step aside!"

Zhang Dashou yelled at the concierge of Feng's mansion, and quickly entered Feng Bao's outer house, and directly broke into Feng Bao's piano room.

Feng Bao had to stop playing the piano, and asked Zhang Dashou coldly: "What's the matter?"

"Hai Rui went to court to impeach you."

Zhang Dashou replied.

Feng Bao was taken aback after hearing this.

"How did the cabinet vote?"

Feng Bao immediately asked a question.

Zhang Dashou replied: "It is said that you have deceived the king and the country, and you will be dismissed from your post and sent to prison, and will be tried by the three courts."

After hearing this, Feng Bao restrained his expression, stood up, and asked, "Where is Hai Rui impeaching our family's Zhang Zuo?"

Zhang Dashou replied: "It's at Eunuch Zhang's place."

Snapped!
Feng Bao slapped Zhang Dashou's face with a slap: "Confused! At this time, you should hold it in your own hand and bring it to see me!"

Zhang Dashou covered his face, feeling very puzzled.

Feng Bao trembled a little at this time, and said: "Zhang Jing must have betrayed our family, which made the cabinet have such courage!"

Immediately, Feng Bao smiled wryly: "Our family should have thought of it a long time ago. How many people in the inner court are sincere? I'm afraid they are jealous that our family's reliance on the empress dowager can ride on their heads, and they want to drive our family out. Woolen cloth."

"Especially Zhang Hong!"

Feng Bao then gritted his teeth and said, "Zhang Jing is his disciple, but now he takes the initiative to surrender to our family and become our family's confidant. I'm afraid it was his idea that he let Zhang Jing get close to our family on purpose. , and get close to the emperor, so that he can be admitted to the Supervisor of Rituals and increase his power in the Supervisor of Rituals. In addition, he himself is a number of people who can pretend, so let our family be careless! In fact, he must have thought about it a long time ago. Take our family down so that he can become the most powerful eunuch in the inner court! After all, apart from our family, he is the only one who is most trusted by the empresses of the two palaces!"

"There is a decree! The eunuch Feng Bao, who is in charge of the chief inspector of ceremonies, received the decree."

Just at this time, Zhang Hong had already brought the banner school of Dongchang to Feng Bao's place.

Seeing this, Feng Bao laughed again: "Sure enough, our guess is correct, Zhang Hong and Zhang Juzheng teamed up and deceived our family! Otherwise, the cabinet would not have drafted the ink books to deal with our family suddenly. "

"Zhang Hong, you have a good method!"

Then, Feng Bao called out to Zhang Hong.

Zhang Hong walked up to Feng Bao, without saying anything, just read out the decree, and asked Dongchang Banner School to detain Feng Bao after the reading.

Feng Bao didn't struggle either, he just walked out and said to Zhang Hong: "Eunuch Zhang, can you tell our family what crimes Hai Rui impeached our family?"

"To tell you the truth, Eunuch Feng, our family doesn't know."

Zhang Hong replied.

Feng Bao was taken aback after hearing this: "I don't know?"

Zhang Hong nodded.

Feng Bao was even more disturbed, and asked with a sneer: "So, you didn't participate in this matter, only Zhang Jing betrayed our family?"

Zhang Hongdao: "You can't say that. Eunuch Zhang, our family, and you, Eunuch Feng, are all servants of the emperor's family. If Eunuch Zhang really wants to betray anyone, he can only betray the emperor. Never betrayed the emperor."

"Our family understands!"

Feng Bao nodded.

Suddenly, with a plop, Feng Bao turned around and knelt down to Zhang Hong.

Zhang Hong was shocked: "Eunuch Feng, what are you doing?"

Feng Bao burst into tears and said: "Our family knows that Eunuch Zhang has always been a Buddha-like person. Today, we are begging you, please intercede for our family in front of the queen mother and the emperor."

Feng Bao kowtowed to Zhang Hong after speaking.

"Eunuch Feng, why are you doing this!"

Zhang Hong helped Feng Baolai quickly, and said: "Our family can promise you to intercede for you in front of the emperor, but for the queen mother, please forgive us for not being able to promise you."

Feng Bao was a little disappointed.

Zhang Hong also explained earnestly: "Eunuch Feng, you have to understand that it's not our family's fault, nor Eunuch Zhang's fault, but your own fault, and it's because you shouldn't forget to be a slave." Points! It is only the emperor who bullies the slaves. How can slaves bully the emperor? Since you dared to use the empress dowager’s power to suppress the emperor, you have made a mistake. And it’s not like I didn’t warn you. "

Feng Bao smiled wryly after hearing this: "You are right. Our family has forgotten our duty, but power is really fascinating. Once you have tasted the feeling that the inner court relies heavily on the empress dowager, you can do whatever you want. , our family forgot about it! Even if we later learned that the emperor is early-wisdom and is not as naive as an ordinary child, he still has some illusions in his heart."

"How many things have you done to offend the emperor?"

Zhang Hong asked at this time.

Feng Bao said with a smile: "Not much, it's just that I didn't cover up for the emperor in front of the queen mother."

Zhang Hong nodded: "That's okay."

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"Uncle, I didn't expect that you are finally willing to get rid of Feng Bao this time!"

In the cabinet, Lu Tiaoyang, who was in a good mood because Feng Bao was voted to be dismissed and sent to prison, took the initiative to come to Zhang Juzheng's office and chatted with him.

Zhang Juzheng handed an ink book in his hand to Lu Tiaoyang: "If you don't get rid of this person, this person will be so powerful that he can be the second Liu Jin. This chapter of Wei Fengxiang was given to me by him. Depose Hai Rui!"

The ink copy that Zhang Juzheng handed over was Wei Fengxiang's memorial to impeach Hai Rui.

Lu Tiaoyang took it and looked at it, suddenly changed color, and said: "First meddled in the appointment of cabinet ministers, and then meddled in the appointment of hall officials, this time he joined forces with the speech officials to depose the deputy constitution! This is indeed rampant!"

"Let's wait for the decree! The Son of Heaven, Shengming, will send down the verdict to get rid of this tree."

Zhang Juzheng said something, and then said: "But no matter what, this Wei Fengxiang flatters Quan Dang and has no integrity as a scholar-bureaucrat, so he can't be kept. Therefore, I have voted to dismiss him as a civilian and never use him again."

"It's very appropriate!"

Lu Tiaoyang replied.

"There is a purpose!"

At this time, the eunuch of the supervisor of ceremonies came to the cabinet and shouted.

After hearing this, Zhang Juzheng and Lu Tiaoyang both stood up and bowed to listen to the announcement.

"The emperor's letter: Feng Bao deceived the king and the country, and Dongchang has been arrested. Therefore, the cabinet drafted an order to order Hai Rui to preside over the case of Feng Bao cheating the king and the country. Dongchang is responsible for detaining all those involved in the case in Beijing, and those involved in the case outside Beijing. Let the cabinet discuss suitable personnel to handle it, and arrest all those involved in the case, and no one will slip through the net!"

"I will obey the order!"

Zhang Juzheng and Lu Tiaoyang responded.

Immediately, Zhang Juzheng took the handbook.

And after the eunuch who was in charge of ceremonies announced his decree to leave, Lu Tiaoyang came to Zhang Juzheng and said, "Your Majesty asked Hai Rui to preside over the trial. It seems that he intends to deal with this matter strictly."

"This is where the Son of Heaven is wise. Only by letting Hai Rui preside over the case can the Empress Dowagers of the Two Palaces believe in Feng Baozhi's crimes."

Zhang Juzheng said with a smile while starting to draw up the decree.

Then, Zhang Juzheng said to Lu Tiaoyang: "I would like to ask the old man to take out the original copy of the previous invitation to appoint Xu Fan as the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple. Since the case has involved him, it is not appropriate for him to sue again. In addition, burn the secret document sealed for Feng Baozhi's nephew!"

Lu Tiaoyang bowed his hands and said yes.

It turned out that although Zhang Juzheng had agreed to Feng Baoqi's request to restore Zhang Siwei and Xu Fan and Feng Bangning, Feng Baoqi's nephew, in fact, except for Zhang Siwei's entry into the cabinet in accordance with the civil service system and his request for civil service, the other two matters had been delayed. So now that Feng Bao fell, he immediately made a decision to let Xu Fan return to his hometown and not to seal Feng Bao's nephew.

Not long after, Moben, who had been drafted by the cabinet and proposed that Xu Fan could not get up and still had to be filial at home, was criticized by the Supervisor of Rites.

(End of this chapter)