I'm really not the carpenter emperor

"Look there!" The people behind seemed to have seen something suddenly, pointing forward with wide eyes.

At first, the soldier thought it was the Mongols coming again, but when he turned his head, he saw the Jingshi Tiqi in Chinese clothes coming from afar.

It's strange, Ningxia is such a rotten place, what is it worth for the people of the capital to mobilize people to come here?

They came to the foot of the city gate on horseback, and the leader held a token and said, "The governor of the East Factory has an order to re-examine the case of the stiletto attack, open the city quickly, and arrest Wang Zhicai!"

"Did he just say he was going to capture Futai?" The soldier seemed to be in disbelief, with big question marks written on his face.

"I heard that the governor didn't do much after he took office."

"But it wouldn't be possible to come directly from the capital and get arrested, right?"

"Didn't you understand what Ti Qi said? The imperial court is going to re-examine the case of the stiletto attack!"

"Hey, this is a big deal. It seems that the weather is going to change. Hurry up and call the boss." After discussing with each other, several soldiers quickly ran to another section of the city wall.

Not long after, a general manager rushed over in a hurry, and by the way, he hammered several big-headed soldiers who had nothing to do and chatted one by one.

"What are you doing, what are you doing?"

"I think I've lived too long and want to find excitement?"

Although the little soldiers didn't take what my elder brother said to them, they quickly shut up, returned to their defensive positions, and stood obediently.

Tiqi didn't know about this little episode on the tower, they just lamented that if they knew that the border area was still so cold, they shouldn't just wear a walking jacket inside, they should have put on a few more.

But it was too late to say anything now, the wind like a knife had already blown into the thin layer of walking clothes, causing them to keep muttering immediately.

What's the matter, no one came to let them into the city yet.

After all, Ningxia Fucheng is a border gate, everything has to follow the regulations, and the boss didn't dare to call the shots when he came, so he first hung a small basket from the top of the city.

The Tiqis looked at each other, put the Dongchang Token in the basket and hung it up.

It was also the first time for Mr. Bao to see the token of Dongchang, he was confused and didn't know if it was true or not, so he hurriedly delivered the token to the residence of Ningxia General Military Officer Xiao Ruxun without stopping.

Xiao Ruxun was born as a general for generations. In the 20th year of Wanli, he sent the emperor to the emperor.

Many members of his family served as generals in the Ming Dynasty, some served as deputy generals of Shaanxi, some served as admirals of the Nanjing Jingying Camp, and some were selected into the Yongwei Battalion as the first battalion of admirals.

Houses of generations of generals like Xiao Ruxun are not uncommon in Daming, but if you want to say that the place with the most generals is Yulin Town.

Xiao Ruxun took a look at the token and knew that something bad was going on.

In fact, although Xiao Ruxun was born in a general family, his hobby is calligraphy, and he often writes poems, which has been praised by Donglin literati many times.

Whether he had any private contacts with the Donglin Party is really uncertain.

In his heart, he didn't want to let these Tiqi into the city. Everyone knew that Wang Zhicai might not be able to come back after he left.

If Wei Zhongxian persisted and insisted on reopening the three major cases, this matter is beyond his control.

After hesitating for a moment, Xiao Ruxun still said: "Order to open the city gate."

……

After Wang Zhicai was captured and returned, he was directly thrown into the Dongchang Prison.

Wei Zhongxian's move scared the Donglin group of sages inside and outside the capital, and even Wang Zhicai, who ran to Ningxia to avoid the limelight, was arrested all the way back by Tiqi.

Dongchang Great Prison, it seems that there are four words that strangers should not come near. Passers-by who pass by all avoid it from a distance, for fear of being disturbed by the screams coming from inside.

"Say!" A waiter held a horsewhip in one hand and whipped it directly at Wang Zhicai, "Who asked you to tamper with the confession during the first interrogation by the Ministry of Punishment?"

"Say it, and the Lord can give you a good time!"

The whip hit her body, it was burning and painful.

Wang Zhicai let out a scream, but said with a bald mouth: "No one asked me to tamper with it. That letter is a madman who wants to assassinate the emperor!"

"Ridiculous!" The boss didn't want to say anything, Wei Zhongxian walked in with a group of fans, and sneered:

"What kind of lunatic can assassinate the Emperor Daxing without anyone instructing him?"

"Put on the instrument of torture! He won't give up until he reaches the Yellow River!" After saying that, Wei Zhongxian sat aside, looked at Wang Zhicai who was clenching his teeth, and drank quietly.

Regardless of whether Wang Zhicai confessed or not, the testimony has already been drafted anyway.

It's hard for him to confess, but it's not easy for him to be charged?

Thinking of this, the sinister smile on Wei Zhongxian's face became more apparent, and he suddenly felt that the tea in his mouth was so sweet.

Chapter 31 first ruin their reputation

These days, the Donglin people have been running around to rescue Wang Zhicai, and they have repeatedly submitted memorials.

But as long as the snowflake-like memorials arrive at the Qianqing Palace, it is like a mud cow entering the sea, without the slightest wave.

Zhu Youxiao also knew that the Donglin Party was going to make trouble, so he just stayed in Nanhaizi these few days and didn't come back. Whoever he is, he can't come here to be presumptuous.

Besides, Nanhaizi was still guarded by soldiers, and they couldn't get in without their own oracle.

On this day, Wei Zhongxian held Wang Zhicai's "confession" in his hand and smiled viciously. This time, our old Wei won.

Our old Wei won, that is to say, the Holy One in the Forbidden City won.

Forbidden City, West Nuan Pavilion of Qianqing Palace.

Wang Zhicai was severely handcuffed by Wei Zhongxian, and was forcibly arrested. Zhu Youxiao, who learned of this result, was not angry at all, but very happy.

Zhu Youxiao also knew that Wei Zhongxian had won for a while with his own name.

This whole matter, from Tiqi to Ningxia's arrest, Wei Zhongxian has always been under the banner of the emperor's retrial.

But everyone knows that this matter was fooled by his old Wei, and the emperor is wise.

Wei Zhongxian also understands that the trump card of the so-called "eunuch party" is not Dongchang and Jinyiwei, but the emperor who pretends to be confused and is "used".

It's so easy for the emperor to watch a show behind the scenes and take the blame for himself!

In fact, Wei Zhongxian also knew that no matter how he made trouble, the biggest winner would always be Zhu Youxiao.

After this torture of Wang Zhicai, the prestige of the Donglin Party in the court will be greatly reduced, and Wei Zhongxian will have a trump card in his hand.

Then let the fans release the news that Wang Zhicai formed a party to deliberately wrongly try the ramming case, and things will develop in an interesting direction.

The best way to defeat Donglin is to ruin their reputation first!

Those who participated in the rescue, Gao Panlong, the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Hui Shiyang, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and Xie Xuelong, the official of the Criminal Division, will all damage Qingliu's reputation.

The three of them were very active in rescuing Wang Zhicai, but they found that the emperor didn't care about it at all, and they managed it in many ways, which was useless.

Now simply give up on Wang Zhicai, and don't even leave the house.

He didn't even see the guest, saying that he couldn't afford to lose that person!

Seeing this, the rest of the parties successively belonged to the "eunuch party" under Wei Zhongxian, and gradually twisted together.

More importantly, after the interrogation of Wang Zhicai, the prestige of the scholars among the people has dropped a lot, but the credibility of Fanzi's words has increased.

If you can do the assassination of the emperor, how can you talk about being practical?

Pure nonsense!

……

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the most grand festival of the Ming Dynasty, the Shangyuan Festival, finally arrived.

Early in the morning, the British Duke Zhang Weixian stood on the tower of Chengtian Gate in armor, and the soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion also came out of Chengtian Gate, waiting in full force.

With the ringing of the bell on the city tower, the heavy Chengtian Gate was slowly opened, and countless people rushed in, rushing into the imperial city.

There is a saying that the common people entered the imperial city, and it goes back to the seventh year of Yongle.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty was in prosperity, and all nations came to court.

Zhu Di held a large-scale lantern festival during the Shangyuan Festival, opened the imperial city, and issued an edict: "Listen to the subjects to go to Chengtianmen to watch Aoshan Mountain for three days."

At that time, the envoys of various countries and the people of Nanjing watched Aoshan together, and the grand occasion was unprecedented.

Since then, during the Shangyuan Festival, Da Nei opened the market and the palace held the Aoshan Lantern Festival. This unwritten rule has been formed.

The Aoshan Lantern Festival symbolizes the joy of the emperor and the people of the Ming Dynasty. It can be called the "Spring Festival Gala" of the Ming Dynasty.

Usually, since December of the previous year, the Sixth Bureau of the Twelve Supervisors of the Palace has been preparing for it.

The maids and eunuchs are busy every day, stacking up various uniquely designed "exotic flowers" and "cannons". It is rumored that they will pile up to thirteen layers and several feet high.

Last night, the palace people put together two square tables and erected a Buddha Mountain with wooden lacquer.

On Futu Fruit Mountain, the tables and chairs are filled with small plates, gradually decorated with small pieces of sweet cakes, food and wine lamps, everything is available, and it is the place where the emperor and his concubines attend.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao walked up to Guoshan step by step, facing south, and took the first seat in the north, while Concubine Liu sat in the south, and the maids of each palace sat in turn.

When the people poured in, countless Han generals and Jinyi guards lined up around the fruit mountain, and the six ministers and cabinet scholars stepped forward one by one to salute, bow and give wine.

In front of the people who came to visit the Lantern Festival, Zhu Youxiao raised the chrysanthemum wine in his hand and said:

"I am overjoyed to see you accepting joy at your knees. Although the etiquette of officials and people cannot be discarded, etiquette is also born of love. The first month is not yet out, and it is still the New Year's festival. Once the etiquette is over, you don't have to be restrained."

As he said that, Zhu Youxiao turned aside again, took the hands of Wei Zhongxian and Ye Xianggao, the chief assistant of the cabinet, and said: "You are the ministers of my humerus, and your lips and teeth depend on each other. You must help each other to affirm your virtue."

The more solemn the scene, the more uncomfortable Ye Xianggao felt.

In front of everyone, Zhu Youxiao held his hand together with that of Wei Yan. He wanted to boil himself in warm water!

I thought it was a young emperor who was easy to deal with, but whoever thought about it was very sophisticated, if he knew it earlier, he would not come back.

No matter what he thought in his heart, in this scene, how could Ye Xianggao please the emperor so well?

After staring at Wei Zhongxian for a while, the old guy stood up tremblingly, and said an excuse he had prepared long ago.

"I would like to abide by the holy decree."

Wei Zhongxian didn't understand why the emperor would do this, he also stepped forward to imitate the example, cupped his hands and said: "I will obey the holy edict!"

The people down there don't think so much, they just feel that despite the turmoil caused by the Jiankui outside the pass, Daming is still prosperous under the leadership of this young emperor.

They said in unison: "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

On the day of the Shangyuan Festival, colorful lights of various shapes flicker on the huge "Aoshan Mountain", gorgeous fireworks are constantly set off, and palace ladies dance lightly to the beautiful music of the bell and drum division.

Regardless of ordinary people, even Zhu Youxiao and the high-ranking officials of the imperial court felt that this was simply a wonderful audio-visual enjoyment.

During the Chenghua period, when Tang Yin was studying in the capital, he saw the grand occasion of the Aoshan Lantern Festival and wrote a famous poem excitedly:

"Xiandian Shenyan is Taixia, and the treasure lamp is adorned with Lingcha. The aloes are connected with three bead trees, and the colorful knots are branched into four flowers. The water stimulates the Gepi dragon to transform the stick, and the moonlight Gouling phoenix accompanies the chariot."

When countless missionaries returned to China, they also vividly described the prosperity of the Eastern Empire.

The Aoshan Lantern Festival was held in the first year of Tianqi, and a few days later, it should have detonated the entire literary world of Ming Dynasty.

……

After the Aoshan Lantern Festival, the flavor of the New Year in the first month gradually faded away.

Five days later, Fu Yingxing came out from Dongchang with a group of fans, and hurriedly knocked on the gate of Wang Zhicai's mansion in Beijing.

"Dongchang handles the case, open the door quickly!"

"If we don't open the door, we will be smashed!"

The fans knocked for a long time, but there was still no movement in the mansion.

Could it be that he got the news in advance and packed up and fled?

Suspicious in Fu Yingxing's heart, he took a few steps back and said loudly, "Bump the door!"

Several fans hugged Chongmu and easily knocked open the seemingly solid door.

The mansion is quiet and the courtyard is tidy and clean, like a haunted house.

It was the first time for the fans to encounter such a situation, and they were a little scared for a while, don't tell me there are some ambushes hiding!

Fu Yingxing was the first to jump in, waved and said:

"What's there to be afraid of? Go in and arrest people, all of them look like bears, be careful when you go back to the factory and get your skins peeled off!"

Mentioning the murderous name of Wei Zhongxian, the director of Dongchang, even the fans trembled.

They bravely rushed in and turned Feng's mansion upside down, but they didn't see a single person. In the end, they saw Mrs. Wang and the two young daughters of the Wang family sitting quietly together in the inner room.

Fu Yingxing rushed over after hearing the news, and he watched the scene in front of him coldly.

The three women were surrounded by a group of ferocious fans, but they were calm and composed. This scene was indescribably weird.