Wanli Youming

Chapter 67 Supporting Another Family Relative

Not long after Zhu Yijun learned from Zhang Jing that the imperial edict to deal with Wu Qingbo's family had been issued, Empress Dowager Li sent someone to call him over.

Zhu Yijun came to Empress Dowager Li: "Mother Queen!"

Empress Dowager Li said: "You already know about your grandfather?"

Zhu Yijun nodded.

Empress Dowager Li said: "Although he is a relative of the emperor, he has to be punished, but this is related to the majesty of the royal family after all. Let the cabinet know that only the salary will be fined."

Zhu Yijun replied directly: "Mother, it's too late!"

Empress Dowager Li frowned after hearing this: "What's the matter? The imperial edict has been issued?"

Zhu Yijun nodded.

After hearing this, Queen Mother Li said, "How did the cabinet deal with it?"

"Grandpa was dismissed as a noble, and he was demoted to be the commander of Nanjing Jinyiwei. He returned to his hometown with his salary and lived there. My uncle was sent to Jizhou by the army, and he was even pardoned and exiled."

Zhu Yijun replied.

Empress Dowager Li immediately stood up with an angry look on her face.

After a long while, Empress Dowager Li laughed again: "After the implementation of this method of examination, the approval is really fast."

Empress Dowager Li asked sharply after speaking: "Who approved the popularity?!"

At this moment Zhang Jing quickly knelt down: "Go back to your mother, you are an old slave."

"Why don't you report this matter to your emperor first? Ask your emperor what you mean first, and then decide whether to follow the cabinet's proposal?"

Queen Mother Li asked seriously.

Zhang Jing replied: "Because the empress has a decree long ago, she wants the emperor to know to respect the opinions of the cabinet and the chief inspector, especially the opinion of Mr. Yuanfu Zhang, so as long as it is a draft of the cabinet, the chief inspector will directly Approved red."

"You are very obedient!"

Empress Dowager Li laughed out of anger, and said: "I don't know how to be flexible, this is your emperor's grandfather, you let him be dealt with so strictly by the cabinet?!"

"Queen Mother calm down! This old slave is willing to accept the crime!"

Zhang Jing replied tremblingly.

Empress Dowager Li didn't express clearly how to deal with Zhang Jing, because she didn't want to get the reputation of being directly involved in politics, so she just said: "You listen to Zhang Juzheng even more than Feng Bao did back then!"

At this time, Zhu Yijun asked: "Mother, should we take back the decree and let the cabinet re-draft the decree?"

"How can it be done! You are not joking, there is no reason for the imperial decree to be changed day and night. Others are still looking down on you. If you do this again, it will make people look down even more?!"

After the Empress Dowager Li spoke with a stick in her arms, she said, "Besides, it's better to let your grandfather go back to his hometown, so as not to be taken advantage of in the capital, and it's better for your uncle to go to a border town to suffer a little bit, so as not to be taken advantage of in the capital." If it is broken, just ask the local officials to take care of it more."

Then, Empress Dowager Li sneered again: "The cabinet is really thoughtful, Mr. Zhang is also better at handling state affairs than Huo Guang."

Empress Dowager Li looked at Zhang Jing again as she spoke: "And you, the supervisor of ceremonies! They are all quite wise, and they don't take power at all, just don't forget where your roots are!"

"Old slave, remember!"

Zhang Jing asked pretending to be afraid.

"I'm tired! You all go away."

Empress Dowager Li waved her hand as she said that, and then said to the people around her: "Prepare some clothes and food, and bring them to Uncle Guo who is in exile!"

Zhu Yijun and Zhang Jing returned to Qianqing Palace.

In Zhu Yijun's view, Empress Dowager Li had already begun to distrust the supervisor of ceremonies and the cabinet, especially Zhang Juzheng in the cabinet, who compared Zhang Juzheng to Huo Guang.

Zhu Yijun is now waiting for the gap between the two to grow wider, so that Zhang Juzheng can rely more on himself to carry out reforms.

"Go back to the Supervisor of Rites first."

After Zhu Yijun gave Zhang Jing an order, he went back to his study first.

Zhu Yijun's study is not allowed to come in casually, and because of this, Zhu Yijun put a small box on the desk in the study, locked it with a lock, and only he has the key.

Zhu Yijun now took advantage of no one to open the box, and took out a small notebook, and wrote down Zhu Nanyong's name on the page with the names of Xu Jie, Zhang Siwei and others.

That night.

Zhu Nanyong, the censor who came back from the border town, entered the compound of a certain deep house in the capital.

After Zhu Nanyong came in, he came to the senior official in scarlet official robes, cupped his hands and said, "Ge Lao."

The official said: "Your Majesty is a benevolent and wise monarch. I believe that Zhang Jiangling really believes that in order to show his fairness, let Zhang Jiangling decide how to deal with Uncle Wu Qing. However, Zhang Jiangling is Zhang Jiangling after all, and he is really practicing it." I don’t even think about the favor of the emperor, such as the sage’s principles of dedicating Yao and Shun to the king, and seeking the well-being of the common people. Presumably this incident should be able to plant in the heart of the emperor the cause of liquidating him in the future.”

Zhu Nanyong nodded at this time and said: "But Uncle Wu Qing was ordered to return to his original place after being deposed, so we can no longer use him for fuss."

"Besides, the queen mother didn't seem to say anything, she just accepted it so calmly, and there is no new order from her majesty."

"Jiangling's power seems to be greater than we imagined! It seems that the Queen Mother and His Majesty are not dissatisfied with him, and still trust him."

"There is a saying that when the moon is full, it will lose money, when the water is full, it will overflow, and when you climb a height, you will fall heavily. When a person is the most powerful, he is the most dangerous time."

"Before the fall of Yan Fenyi, he was the most powerful. He was so big that he even dared to hide it from Shimiao. In the end, he was suddenly replaced by the old man before the first emperor ascended the throne."

"Go and tell them! Don't be afraid at this time, it's better to make a big fuss, and let the Queen Mother and Your Majesty see that not everyone in the outer dynasty has one heart with Zhang Juzheng."

The senior said.

After hearing this, Zhu Nanyong nodded in agreement.

……

"Sir, the cabinet has handled the grandfather's matter very well. It is the best arrangement for him to return to his hometown. But the queen mother originally meant to punish him, but after hearing that the cabinet had demoted him to return to his hometown, he didn't think so. I also accepted it, and it’s fine to say so.”

Wenhua Palace the next day.

After seeing Zhang Juzheng, Zhu Yijun talked to him about Wu Qingbo and Empress Dowager Li's attitude towards it.

After hearing this, Zhang Juzheng hurriedly said: "The Empress Dowager is very clear about things, and your majesty is not willing to abolish the government for personal reasons. It is a blessing for the people of the country."

Zhu Yijun said again: "I am also lucky to have a husband. Of course, I am even more fortunate to have two loving, kind, and sensible mothers."

"Birth mother, I want to be filial to everything, and my aunt should do the same; so I would like to ask Mr., do you know if there is something worthy of praise for the mother family of my aunt, the Empress Dowager Rensheng? "

"Although there are royal relatives committing crimes now, I can't really neglect the royal relatives just because of this."

"The Chen family kept their own law and order, and served the country with loyalty, which is quite commendable. The minister obeyed the order and asked for a seal for him."

Zhang Juzheng responded decisively.

Zhu Yijun nodded.

He asked Zhang Juzheng to take care of the Chen family at this time. Naturally, it was to please the Queen Mother Chen, and to prevent the reform from being further deepened in the future. Fate produces different feelings, and then can produce different perceptions of the New Deal, so that they cannot be united in the end.

Even Zhu Yijun can rely on his aunt to suppress his biological mother, after all, his biological mother has a much stronger desire to control power than his aunt.

It is actually better to have two queen mothers than only one queen mother.

(End of this chapter)