Chapter 24 The 23rd round of the Forbidden City resounds through Dengwen Guxi Nuange Shocking Hearing and Prosecution of Traitors

If you don't go to court, the steward sign of the imperial dining room will send breakfast to the Qianqing Palace between Mao and Chen.Concubine Li Gui and Emperor Wanli's mother and son had breakfast, one went back to the Buddhist hall to copy scriptures, the other went to Dongnuang Pavilion to study and practice calligraphy, and Feng Bao would come to Dongnuang Pavilion to accompany the little emperor on time at Chenpai time, rain or shine.Unknowingly, a morning passed by, and then lunch and rest. At the end of the afternoon, Concubine Li accompanied her son to the Xinuang Pavilion, listening to Feng Baonian's important memorials of the day and the proposals submitted by the cabinet. It will also elaborate on how to deal with the memorial.When Feng Bao was not sure about something, he sent an order to call the cabinet or ministers to meet on the platform and discuss it face to face.Objectively speaking, Zhu Yijun was not yet able to take charge of the government at this time. The so-called "decree" was decided by his mother, Concubine Li Gui, after listening to the suggestions of Feng Bao or the ministers.

But this morning, Concubine Li Gui, mother and son were eating, when they suddenly heard a thunderous sound of drums. The Forbidden City, which had always been solemn and quiet, suddenly became tense.A maid had just added a cup of milk to serve the little emperor, but when she heard the sound of the drum, she trembled in fright, the cup fell to the ground and shattered, the milk spilled all over the floor, and even stained Zhu Yijun's robe.The maid hurriedly knelt down on the ground, and kept saying, "Slaves deserve to die."Concubine Li Gui didn't blame her, she just told her to clean up quickly.Then he ordered Qiu Deyong, who was standing beside him, to go out and see what happened.

After a while, Qiu Deyong hurried back and knelt down to report: "Mistress Qi, it's a group of speech officials from the Sixth Section Corridor who beat the Dengwen drum outside the gate of Huangji." While speaking, the loud drum sound was still coming in fast and slow. Zhu Yijun covered his ears with his hands and asked, "What is Dengwen drum?" "Return to the emperor." Concubine Li Gui ordered Qiu Deyong. "Yes," Qiu Deyong moved his knees, turned his body to Zhu Yijun and said, "I would like to report to the emperor that the Dengwen drum stands outside the Huangji Gate. The drum surface is eight feet round, and it is bigger than a millstone. Generally, foreign officials and ministers hand over the drum. , all passed through the General Administration Department, and sent to the middle officials at Huangjimen Diplomat to the Supervisor of Rituals to accept the documents every day. Beat the Dengwen drum outside."

"Why do you have to beat the drum to deliver the booklet?" Zhu Yijun continued to ask. "This Dengwen Drum was originally created by Emperor Yongle. The original intention was to fear that the Supervisor of Rituals would not pass on the report in time, so he made this drum for the foreign officials who presented it. As long as the drum is played, let alone the Forbidden City, it is outside the imperial city. Chessboard Street can also be heard. As soon as the emperor heard the drumbeat, he knew that an urgent memorial had arrived." "Speaker of the Sixth Section Corridor, what's the important note today?" This time it was Concubine Li Gui who asked the question.

"This, this little one doesn't know." Qiu Deyong hesitated. At this moment, someone outside shouted in a high-pitched voice: "I report to the emperor, I report to Li Niangniang, and my servant Feng Bao asks to see you." "Come in." Li Guifei replied, and then said to Qiu Deyong, "Go out now." Qiu Deyong got up from the ground and bowed back, Feng Bao hurried in from the outside and almost bumped into him. Feng Bao kowtowed and greeted him. Concubine Li Gui gave him a seat and asked him: "The speaker of the Sixth Section Gallery beat the Dengwen drum so loudly, what exactly did he hand over?"

Feng Bao's face was pale, his usual unhurried, peaceful and calm spirit was gone, only panic and panic flickered in his pupils.He wanted to hide his embarrassment as much as possible, coughed a few times, and replied: "I want to report to Madam Li, there are three scriptures in total, all of which are about impeachment of slaves." After speaking, he handed over the three scriptures in his hand. Concubine Li Gui didn't reach out to pick it up, she just frowned into a pile of two neatly twisted eyebrows, and said angrily: "It's worth knocking on Dengwen's drum for handing over this kind of book? It's worth making a fuss early in the morning. Are there any rules for the assistant speaker?"

Feng Bao was very useful after hearing these words, but he didn't dare to take it lightly, and still said with a mournful face: "They beat the Dengwen drum because they were afraid that the slaves would not pass on the scriptures. The gang in the Sixth Branch Corridor are all high cabinets. Old disciples, they rely on the authority of the chief assistant, so they dare to do anything wrong. During the six years of the first emperor's reign, the Dengwen drum was never beaten once. Fortunately, the new emperor has only been on the throne for six days, and the drum has been knocked loudly Sky rings."

The implication of Feng Bao's words is that Gao Gong doesn't pay attention to the ten-year-old little emperor at all. Concubine Li Gui's exquisite heart, how can there be words that she can't understand?Since the death of Emperor Longqing, what she taboos the most is that others regard her mother and son as orphans and widows.At this moment, she saw a layer of frost on her face, and asked coldly: "Have you read Zhezi?" Feng Bao leaned forward and replied, "I haven't had time to watch it yet." "Take it back first, and take a look at it yourself."

"Miss Li..." "Stop talking," Concubine Li Gui interrupted Feng Bao and said contemptuously, "I know what you want to say. According to the rules, the emperor will have to read the scriptures to deliver the order immediately. The eunuchs deceive us. Orphans and widows are ignorant of state affairs, so they came up with such a gimmick. As the saying goes, don’t they understand that beating a dog bullies the master? You go back now, my mother and I have only insisted on the rules for a few days and we can’t change them. Go copy it now, the emperor will have to warm up the book for an hour. After this hour, you can read the book again."

After finishing speaking, Concubine Li Gui waved Feng Bao out. When Feng Bao returned to the Supervisor of Rituals, Xu Jue, who had heard the news, had already been waiting in the duty room.The two closed the door and finished reading the memorial. Feng Bao told Xu Jue what happened in Qianqing Palace just now, and said: "Jiang Congkuan's notebook in Nanjing is still in Xinuang Pavilion, and Gao Huzi organized a meeting between the officials and me in Beijing. Against me, it is unprecedented that the momentum is so fierce. It seems that Gao Beard is determined not to give up until he brings me down."

After reading the memorial, Xu Jue was also terrified. He had followed Feng Bao for many years, and there was nothing his master did that he didn't know.The top ten crimes listed in Cheng Wen's excerpts, although there are some speculations, most of them are well-founded.For example, "privately entering the device of adultery", "framing the death of Zhai Tingyu, the eunuch in charge of Kuben, the internal official's supervisor", etc., Xu Jue has participated in all of them.But Xu Jue knew better that Feng Bao's family members were in prosperity.After weighing it, he felt that although the storm was menacing, it was not terrible.So he said: "My lord, I think this group of speakers is like a group of sparrows falling into the forest. Don't look at the chirping and chattering is very lively. As long as a stone is thrown in the past, the custodians will be so scared that they flap their wings and fly away." "It's fine if it's as simple as you said," Feng Bao stretched out his fingers to stroke the Yintang point between his eyebrows, and said with his eyes fixed on the memorial on the table, "In the previous dynasties, how many powerful and powerful figures have Lost in the hands of the officials." "This little one knows, but the situation is different today. The emperor is a child, and he listens to Li Niangniang, and Li Niangniang trusts the master so much. What she said to the master in Qianqing Palace just now is equivalent to eating for the master. Take reassurance." "You really think so?" "Really, master, under today's situation, who can Li Niangniang rely on if she doesn't rely on you?" "On the surface it seems like this, but Li Niangniang is not waiting for idle women, and there is something in her mind that cannot be guessed, so don't be careless, don't be careless." When Feng Bao spoke like this, he naturally had his hidden worries: three years ago, Concubine Li Gui conspired with Feng Mi behind Emperor Longqing's back to kill Nuer Huahua, and Feng Bao handled this matter cleanly, which won Concubine Li's trust ever since.So when the new emperor ascended the throne, he was asked to replace Meng Chong as the supervisor of ceremonies.However, Feng Bao has not had a day of relaxation since he became the eunuch in charge of the ceremonies.Gao Gong kept handing in the text, which was nothing more than two major contents, one was to curry favor with Concubine Li Gui, and the other was to impeach Feng Bao.Although Concubine Li Gui trusted Feng Bao as usual and comforted him with kind words, there were still some subtle changes that Feng Bao noticed.For example, since Jiang Congkuan's manuscript was submitted, Li Guifei no longer holds the string of "Bodhidharma beads".What's more, the handbook was neither sent back to the cabinet to draft a bill, nor passed on the edict, but was placed in the Xinuang Pavilion without comment.Feng Bao wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask. He felt that Concubine Li Gui had already had a problem with Jiang Congkuan's handbook.Women are inherently suspicious. Before Li Guifei read the memorials of Cheng Wen, Luo Zun, and Lu Shude, she could go the old way to protect Feng Bao. If she read the memorials, God knows whether her attitude will change... Feng Bao was in a state of confusion after thinking and thinking, and Xu Jue was also worried about his master. Suddenly, he thought that Zhang Juzheng had returned home from Tianshou Mountain, so he came up with an idea and said: "The last time the Ministry of Punishment sent two books from the Ministry of Rites to the palace. The master asked me to go to Tianshou Mountain to ask Mr. Zhang for advice, and I heard it worked. This time, why not ask Mr. Zhang for advice." Feng Bao's eyes lit up, he nodded in agreement immediately, and asked Xu Jue to rush to Zhang Xueshi's mansion with the three documents. When Xu Jue was sweating profusely and panting, he ran back to the Supervisor of Rituals, it was almost noon, and Feng Bao was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, wandering around in the duty room.Firstly, he was worried that Concubine Li Gui would send someone to call him over to read the booklet; secondly, he was worried that Xu Jue would be found out with the booklet, which would cause trouble. Fortunately, neither of these things happened.When Xu Jue entered the duty room, his mouth was dry and he didn't even bother to take a sip of tea, so he gave a brief account of his visit to Zhang Juzheng.After hearing this, Feng Bao discussed with Xu Jue about whom to find and what to do, and after repeated deliberations and no loopholes could be found, he ordered Xu Jue to go to Dongchang as planned to avoid the Something unexpected happened.On the other hand, he took these three books and came to Qianqing Palace by shoulder car. Concubine Li Gui and Zhu Yijun were already sitting in the Xinuang Pavilion.Beside Concubine Li Gui, her maid of honor, Rong'er, was standing beside her, helping her gently shake the palace fan.Feng Bao went in and kowtowed, but Concubine Li Gui politely invited him to sit on the stool and asked, "Have you read the scriptures?" Feng Bao glanced at Concubine Li Gui, and saw that she was still twirling a string of rosary beads, but it wasn't the string of "Bodhidharma beads", so he felt a little nervous, and he was very cautious when answering: "I want to report to you, my servant, I have read these three scriptures over and over again." "Are you afraid?" Concubine Li Gui said teasingly. Feng Bao answered neither humble nor overbearing: "They are all false words, the old servant is not afraid, but sad." Concubine Li Gui smiled lightly and said: "Whether it is true or not, you read it to us first before drawing conclusions." "yes." According to Feng Bao's temperament at this time, he really wished he could tear these three scriptures into pieces.But right now he had to swallow his anger, bite the bullet and unfold the three scriptures, and read them one by one.At this time, his mood was already very depressed and sad.What Concubine Li Gui just said just now sounds like a joke on the surface, but it seems to imply some kind of variable.He was glad that he did not take it lightly, and had already estimated what was happening now.Reminiscent of the fact that I have been keeping a low profile for so many years, and I have served Concubine Li Gui more attentively than Emperor Longqing.But when the matter came to an end, Concubine Li Gui still didn't give face at all, and insisted on letting him humiliate herself like this.Feng Bao has been in the palace for more than 40 years, and he has never encountered such embarrassing things.The more he thought about it, the more restless his heart became, and the hand holding the booklet trembled involuntarily, but it was because the officials used dirty words, and every time he read a sentence, he felt the pain of piercing his heart and lungs.After stuttering and reading the last word in the scripture, the old tears that had been in his eyes for a long time could no longer bear it, and he cried bitterly. "Big companion!" Zhu Yijun screamed, he had never seen Feng Bao lose his composure like this, and he didn't know what to do for a while. "emperor!" Feng Bao took advantage of the situation and rolled off the stool, groaning and prostrating on the ground. In all fairness, Concubine Li Gui has always trusted and relied on this old slave as her confidant.When she first received the notebook in the morning, she wanted to read it right away, but changed her mind immediately and asked Feng Bao to take the notebook back to the Supervisor of Rituals.She did this based on two ideas. One was that the incident happened suddenly, and she had to give herself some time to calmly think about how to deal with it; the other was to let Feng Bao read the scriptures first, so that she could prepare her defense in advance for the impeachment mentioned in the scriptures.It should be said that by doing this, she had already saved a feeling of protecting Feng Bao.Now, when she saw Feng Bao lying on the ground after reading the scriptures, twitching and crying, she felt even more compassionate.She even wanted to go forward to help Feng Baohao herself to comfort him, but she gave up this idea after thinking about it.Although she didn't think of punishing Feng Bao at all, but in order to win people's hearts and make this old servant more determined to be a watchdog for her mother and son, she decided to scare him first. "Eunuch Feng, sit back on the stool so that you can answer." Concubine Li Gui's voice was cold.Hearing this, Feng Bao, who was half sad and half acting, couldn't help shivering, stopped sobbing, returned to the stool and sat down with his hands on his knees. "Cheng Wen impeached you for ten infidelities, is the first one true?" Li Guifei asked. She originally wanted to ask, "Is it true that you bought the obscene device and aphrodisiac for the late emperor?" But because the ten-year-old little emperor was sitting beside her, she asked vaguely and tactfully.Regarding what Concubine Li Gui asked, the scene from four years ago flashed in Feng Bao's mind: That morning, also in this Xinuang Pavilion, Feng Bao, who was the eunuch of Bingbi at the time, was summoned to read the scriptures to Emperor Longqing.As soon as the official business was over, Emperor Longqing asked the others to step down, leaving Feng Bao alone and asked, "Feng Bao, I heard you like collecting antiques?" He replied: "Slaves like calligraphy and painting, jade and porcelain." Emperor Longqing nodded, and then asked: "Did you see the utensils used in the room in the antique shop?" "Utensils in the room?" Feng Bao didn't know what the emperor meant What is it, I am wondering.The emperor said again: "It is a tool specially used for fighting tactics." Only then did Feng Bao understand that the emperor was referring to the "sexual tools" used by men and women in intercourse. Although Feng Bao had never seen it, he had heard of it.There is a kind of silver holder, soaked with aphrodisiacs and put on the penis, which can increase the length and power of the penis.So he replied, "I haven't seen it, but I've heard of it." Emperor Longqing suddenly smiled lewdly, and said, "If you meet again, please ask for a few, so I can see and see." Feng Baonuo agreed.A few days later, the special affairs office carefully purchased a few pieces and secretly brought them into the Qianqing Palace to give to Emperor Longqing.This matter is that God knows, the earth knows, you know and I know, and there is absolutely no third person who knows.Although there are rumors outside, they are just speculation and have no real evidence.Therefore, Feng Bao was not flustered. Facing Concubine Li Gui's indifferent expression, he wiped away the remaining tears from the corners of his eyes, and replied according to the answer he had planned in advance: "Reporting to your empress, this is definitely not the case." "If not, why did Cheng Wen dare to frame you?" "They hate the old servant. The old servant is a dog of the emperor. If they beat the dog to death, the emperor will be lonely and the cabinet can do whatever it wants." As he spoke, Feng Bao choked up again.Concubine Li Gui was still noncommittal, after sighing, she said: "I know all of these things, but there is no such thing as a storm!" Concubine Li Gui couldn't show any expressions of happiness or anger, and her tone of questioning was also indifferent, but Feng Bao felt a rock in his heart.He glanced at Concubine Li Gui, then hooked his head and replied: "Go back to your mother, there must be waves, but I dare to say that my surname Feng is definitely not the one who makes waves. Besides, the slave died unjustly today. Never argue." "Why is that?" Concubine Li Gui asked in surprise. "The slave's innocence is a small matter, but the late emperor's fame for thousands of years is the big one. Now that the late emperor has just made a grand trip, and Mingjia is still parked in the Renshou Palace, there are so many obscene words to ridicule the late emperor. As the old slave of the late emperor, I can see it clearly. It hurts in my heart, I am really a slave at this moment... I really have my liver, liver and intestines broken!" After saying that, Feng Bao pursed his mouth, and then covered his face with his hands and began to cry bitterly.Rong'er, who had been standing silently beside Concubine Li Gui, shaking her fan, was infected and sobbed softly. "Big companion!" Zhu Yijun yelled, also with tears in his eyes. Concubine Li Gui was greatly moved by this sudden scene, and also a little bit at a loss.At this moment, Qiu Deyong's voice came from outside the door: "Report to the Emperor, and to Li Niangniang, my servant Qiu Deyong has something to report." "Come in." Li Guifei said. Qiu De ran in with a flustered look, and as soon as he knelt down, he hurriedly played: "The emperor, Li Niangniang, all the slaves in the palace's supervisory bureaus want to enter the cabinet to have a kowtow." "Ah, why?" Concubine Li Gui got up and walked to the window, opened the curtains and took a look, only to see black crows kneeling on the brick road outside the window and on the lawn, probably there were one or two hundred people, all of them were servants from various supervisory bureaus in the palace, There were also more than a dozen eunuchs kneeling in front of them. "Why are they doing this?" Concubine Li Gui turned around and asked Qiu Deyong. Qiu Deyong looked at Feng Bao who was still covering his face with his hands while sitting on the stool, and said in a low voice, "Mother, these slaves are here for Eunuch Feng's business." "For him?" Concubine Li Gui stared at Feng Bao.Feng Bao was also looking at her through his fingers at this time, and saw Li Guifei slowly returning to the embroidered couch and sitting down, biting her lips and thinking for a moment, then ordered Qiu Deyong: "Go and call the leader a few times." come in." After Qiu Deyong went out for a while, he brought in three elders. They were Sun Long, the son of the internal official supervisor, Cui Yuan, the imperial horse supervisor, and Zhang Cheng, the eunuch of Bingbi, the supervisor of ceremonies.The three of them entered the Xinuang Pavilion, knelt down in front of Li Guifei's mother and son together, and shouted together: "The servant kowtows to the emperor, and the slave kowtows to Li Niangniang." Zhu Yijun was still immersed in the astonishment just now and didn't come back to his senses. At this moment, the servants greeted him sharply, which made him even more frightened.Concubine Li Gui felt her son's frightened appearance, she reached out to hold his son's hand, and then asked the three kneeling servants: "Why did you invite so many servants to kneel under the poisonous sun?" Sun Long, who was kneeling in the middle, took a step forward and replied: "Go back to Li Niangniang, the servants are here to complain for Mr. Feng." Concubine Li Gui's bright eyes flashed, she looked at Feng Bao, and saw that the old servant was still holding his face in both hands, with his head lowered, she bit her rosy lips, signaling Rong'er not to fan anymore, Then he asked: "So, do you all know the notes written by the lecturers of the Sixth Division?" It was still Sun Long who replied: "Dengwen's drums are beating so loudly, how can the servants not know the truth?" "Who organized you to kneel in the Qing Palace?" ………… "Say!" Concubine Li Gui's voice is not loud but extremely majestic.The three elders couldn't help shaking their bodies.This time it was the turn of the eunuch Zhang Cheng, the supervisor of ceremonies, to kneel down and play. "Hui Niangniang," Zhang Cheng said in a loud voice, "the servants are not organized. Everyone heard that the foreign court officials wanted to impeach Eunuch Feng, so they all spontaneously ran to Qianqing Palace to plead with the emperor and Li Niangniang." "Are you worried that the emperor and I will not be able to make a fair decision?" "The slaves dare not!" The three elders heard Concubine Li Gui's dissatisfaction and quickly apologized together. Feng Bao, who had been sitting shyly on the stool, also moved forward and knelt down with the three elders.Said in the mouth: "It's all slaves, it makes the empress angry." "Don't do your business, just go back and sit down." Concubine Li Gui pointed to the stool, saw Feng Bao had gone back and sat down, and asked again, "Zhang Cheng, you haven't answered my question yet." These three seniors all have a good relationship with Feng Bao on weekdays, and they can be regarded as a bunch of buddies.Today, according to Feng Bao's private orders, a group of servants were summoned, and they bravely broke into the Qianqing Palace to intercede for Feng Bao, thinking in their hearts that Feng Bao was the emperor's "big companion", and doing so was icing on the cake, and there was no great danger.However, since entering the Xinuang Pavilion, seeing Concubine Li Gui keeping a stern face and speaking in a harsh tone, she panicked again, not knowing how to deal with it.Now, hearing that Concubine Li Gui treated Feng Bao in a very friendly tone, they were greatly relieved again.Zhang Cheng's courage, which had been waned, became stronger again. Zhang Cheng is thirty-seven or eighteen years old, and has been in the palace for more than twenty years.Because of his cleverness, he was selected to study in the inner school.Among a group of eunuchs, he had the best writing skills, so he was appreciated and valued by Feng Bao. He used to be a supervisor of the imperial court, and Feng Bao was appointed as the supervisor of ceremonies, so he promoted him to be the supervisor of ceremonies and the eunuch who held the pen.As Feng Bao's confidant, at this moment he stood up and replied: "Your Majesty is wise and decisive. At the beginning of the emperor's ascension to the throne, Sheng Cong was also rumored to be in the world. He will never listen to the words of a traitor and falsely punish a good person. The servants who came here today are of course worried about Mr. Feng being wronged. These are the servants. It is absolutely wrong to treat the belly of the Holy One with the heart of a villain, but..." Having said that, Zhang Cheng stopped talking. "But what, say it!" Concubine Li Gui urged. Zhang Cheng twitched and took out a thin scroll from his arms, stepped forward on his knees, raised the book above his head and said, "Madam Li, please read this." Concubine Li took the scroll printed on tissue paper, and saw two large characters in the style of the Wei stele written on the bookmark on the porcelain blue cover: female commandment. "Female Commandment?" Concubine Li Gui blurted out the words, and couldn't help gasping.Except for reading and copying Buddhist scriptures, she has never read any other miscellaneous books, but she has read this "Women's Commandments" many times.This is a book written by Emperor Hongwu at the beginning of the founding of the country, with the purpose of admonishing all the concubines and family members of the inner palace to only abide by their duties as women and not to interfere in politics.Those who disobeyed the order were sent to the cold palace, and those who violated the order were sentenced to death.All women who entered the palace in the past dynasties, regardless of high or low, must read this book.Now when she saw this book at first glance, Concubine Li Gui suddenly thought that what she had done these days was "interfering in politics", she was startled, and a few grains of fragrant sweat oozed from the nose of the thin vermilion powder. Throwing the book casually on the low table beside the couch, he asked sharply: "Zhang Cheng, why do you present this book?" Zhang Cheng hurriedly leaned down, and replied with trepidation, "I want to report to you, my servant has no intentions. This book comes from the Sixth Section Gallery." "From the Sixth Section Gallery?" Concubine Li Gui was surprised again, picked up the book and shook it, and said in surprise, "I think this book is still a new edition." "It's a new edition." Zhang Cheng raised his head and glanced at Zhu Yijun who was still sitting there, and continued, "After the emperor ascended the throne, Ziyunxuan Bookstore in the capital rushed to print a thousand copies, and they sold out within two days. Most of the buyers were Officials in the capital, I heard that the officials of the Sixth Branch Corridor have a handbook." "What's the background of Ziyunxuan?" "The servant is not very clear about this, but only knows that Ziyunxuan's master, Sun Chunyu, has a close relationship with a group of officials in the Sixth Section Gallery." Li Guifei gritted her silver teeth and remained silent, the atmosphere in Xinuang Pavilion was already very tense, at this moment, Qiu Deyong came in again to report that someone was asking to see her. "Who is it again?" Concubine Li Gui asked irritably. "Dongchang sent someone to deliver a letter, saying that the Ministry of Criminal Justice sent cavalry soldiers to Dongchang to snatch that demon king Jiusi." "what?" Concubine Li Gui immediately felt dizzy and her legs were sore.So many vipers and scorpions came one after another, it really made her overwhelmed.She waved her hand and ordered the servants to retreat.When only her mother and son were left in the room, she took Zhu Yijun into her arms and sighed, "Master Xian, why did you leave so early, leaving us orphans and widows to be frightened by this." The mother and son hugged each other, already crying like rain. Throughout the morning, Dongchang, located on Rongzheng Street outside Dong'anmen, was facing an enemy. Hundreds of fan servants wearing round caps, pleated straight skirts and white boots were guarding the guards with swords. Let's say that the Dongchang was established during the reign of Emperor Yongle. Once established, the Dongchang's edict was the most solemn.Most internal officials are entrusted to Guanfang, and the cast and seal use the unified format of "a certain internal official Guanfang", but Dongchang is different.Both the "imperial envoy" and the title of "eunuch" were added to show the prestige of the institution and the importance of the holy family.In the east factory, there are two thousand and one hundred households in charge of punishment, two in charge of posts, more than forty foremen and housekeepers, more than one hundred staff in the stalls, and more than a thousand slaves. The organization is huge and highly hierarchical.Dongchang has attracted the attention of the world since its establishment.This is all because Dongchang is a reconnaissance and punishment institution directly controlled by the emperor.The Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which rank among the most powerful of the Nine Ministers, cannot govern the three legal departments.Dongchang's power is all-reaching and far-reaching, it really is huge.Where the three judiciaries handle cases in the big prison, Beizhen Fusi and Xuncheng Yushi torture repeat offenders, Dongchang has people present to record oral statements, and even the number of beatings and torture conditions of prisoners are also recorded in detail. In the early morning, in front of the major yamen of the six ministries, there are Dongchang spies every day to see who is coming in and out, and there is no pond report; every gate in the imperial city of the capital, and every gate to guard against entry and exit, are also recorded in detail. There is a fire in the ground, a lightning strike somewhere, and the prices of miscellaneous grains, rice, soybeans, oil and noodles in various markets in Beijing on dark days of each month must also be reported immediately.Emperor Yongle created this institution with the intention of investigating whether the ministers had any ambiguity with the imperial court, whether the affairs were fair, whether they were suspected of running the party and accepting bribes, and the changes of the people's customs. Therefore, as the eyes and ears of the emperor, Dongchang was favored. It is not difficult for ordinary people to imagine that when it is mentioned in the scholarly community, everyone will turn pale when they talk about it. Since the second year of Longqing, Feng Bao has been in charge of the seal of the factory as a eunuch with Bingbi. On the surface, although he is under Meng Chong, because he is in charge of the East Factory and has the privilege of sealing the seal in his hands, Meng Chong not only does not Dare to be sloppy, and often have to concede by three points when encountering urgent matters.Since Feng Bao got the factory seal, all the people in the East Factory have been replaced by his cronies, everything depends on his winks, outsiders can't get in with needles, and can't get in with water.Just talking about that demon king Jiusi, even when the holy family was in his prime, his words and deeds were all under the firm control of Dongchang.When Emperor Longqing passed away, Wang Jiusi pretended to sneak out of the capital, but he didn't know that Dongchang had already watched him to death. Once he slipped out of the house, he was secretly arrested and taken to Dongchang for custody. After the death of Emperor Longqing, the political structure of the palace changed immediately, and a new round of power struggle became increasingly fierce. Therefore, Wang Jiusi became a rare commodity, and both sides wanted to get evidence from him that would put the other party at a disadvantage.Feng Bao took advantage of Dongchang's opportunity and was quite proud of himself.Although Gao Gong was scheming and scheming, he lost in the end.After hearing that Wang Jiusi had been arrested by Dongchang that day, he immediately sent someone to call Liu Ziqiang, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, to the cabinet, reprimanded him face to face for his ineffectiveness, and asked him to lead the Ministry of Punishment to report to the Ministry of Punishment, requesting the emperor's decree to hand over Wang Jiusi to the three courts.谳.However, after the Ministry of Punishments returned the draft bills to the cabinet, Liu Ziqiang got the news, and this time he did not dare to be negligent, and instructed the Criminal Trial Division to quickly move to Wendong Factory to request that Wang Jiusi be transferred to the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, and to let the Ministry of Punishment member Qin Yongxi remain in prison. handle it. Qin Yongxi knew that the job he took was the most difficult.Dongchang was originally a "ghost-troublesome" institution, not to mention that this matter was mixed with a battle between the palace and the government.Because of this, he had an extra heart, and urged the hall officials of his department to move a letter to Wang Zhuan, the censor of Xuncheng, asking him to assist in handling the case.If it is done, his credit is indispensable. If it is not done, there will be one more person to bear the responsibility.So the two sides agreed on a date, gathered together, and led two hundred ti cavalry, and came to Dongchang yamen mighty and mighty. Dongchang had already received the news. Although Feng Bao was not there, his right-hand man, Chen Yingfeng, had already been sitting in the courtroom waiting for him.Xu Jue also arrived at Dongchang before Qin Yongxi and Wang Zhuan arrived, and secretly met with Chen Yingfeng to deliver Feng Gonggong's instructions.The two discussed nervously again, and then waited quietly for the arrival of Qin Yongxi and his party. Besides, Qin Yongxi and Wang Zhuan led a group of ti cavalry to the gate of Dongchang. They saw three horses standing in front of the gate, and the gate was full of soldiers with swords.Qin Yongxi glanced at him on the horse, and said to Wang Zhuan who was beside him, "My lord, look at their posture, it seems that they are going to fight." Wang Zhuan got a secret instruction from Zhang Juzheng and knew how to deal with this errand.Therefore, he said: "The people in Dongchang have horns on their heads, and they want to act as kings everywhere. We don't care about the arrogance of these little guys, and only look for them to talk about things." Qin Yongxi nodded, and called the head of the entourage to let him negotiate.The team leader walked over and negotiated with a palm post from Dongchang who was wearing a blue round-neck shirt with twelve cloth buttons and black soap boots across the street, and saw the palm post waving his hand. Immediately, more than a dozen fan servants moved the horses and horses away.The team leader came back and reported: "The boss invited the two adults into the courtroom for a conversation." According to the rules, there will be business between the yamen, and when an official is sent here, the official of the yamen should go to the door to greet him.Dongchang was so indifferent, Qin Yongxi felt very uncomfortable.Although he is not the second official of the Ministry of Punishments, he is still a senior official of the fourth grade. He looked at the palm post standing on the doorstep with his hands on his hips, and asked Wang Zhuan angrily: "My lord, what is this group?" Rootless bastard, how can you be so ignorant of the rules?" Although Wang Zhuan and Qin Yongxi have different intentions, but he was so cold that he hated his teeth. He raised two sparse eyebrows and scolded: "Damn, these guys are arrogant, Mr. Qin, what a job! I can't help you, so let's leave now." As Wang Zhuan said, he was about to get on the horse and open the way, so Qin Yongxi grabbed him in a panic, and said with a bitter face: "Master Wang, this is a joint matter between our two families, you can't leave." "Then what do you think we should do?" Wang Zhuan took advantage of the momentum and put on airs. Qin Yongxi swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said bitterly, "Let's swallow this breath for the time being, and just go to his court and settle the matter."