Prince of Chaos

Chapter 10 "Sick Bed Last Words"

Emperor Wanli left with a gloomy face.In Emperor Wanli's heart, these civil servants are really too presumptuous!

At this time, Emperor Wanli couldn't help thinking of the deceased chief assistant Zhang Juzheng who made him respect, fear and hate.

Emperor Wanli originally thought that after Zhang Juzheng's death, he would be able to firmly control the entire court, but these civil servants who spoke the words of the censor became more unscrupulous after Zhang Juzheng's death, and opposed Emperor Wanli everywhere.

"It would be great if Mr. Yuanfu Zhang was still around."

Emperor Wanli sighed in his heart, he seemed to regret it a little now.

In the memory of Emperor Wanli, Zhang Juzheng always seems to be a symbol of wisdom.He has bright eyebrows, long beard, and pays attention to grooming, and his robes are clearly creased like brand new every day.His mind, too, was in perfect agreement with his appearance.If he doesn't speak, he can reveal the crux of the matter as soon as he speaks. His words are short and accurate, making people unquestionable.

But now such a person has been pushed down from the altar by Emperor Wanli. After Zhang Juzheng's death, Emperor Wanli not only liquidated Zhang Juzheng, but also directly convicted Zhang Juzheng, deprived Zhang Juzheng of all official positions and honors, and also abolished Zhang Juzheng. political reform.Zhang Juzheng's home was also copied.As a result, Zhang Juzheng's eldest son committed suicide, his second son and third son were exiled into the army, and the remaining three sons were all deprived of their official status and became common people in the head of Guizhou.

Therefore, in the Wanli Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng would always be a rebellious minister, and it was impossible for the Wanli Emperor to rehabilitate Zhang Juzheng.Because Emperor Wanli's hatred for Zhang Juzheng is absolutely true.And this hatred for Zhang Juzheng comes from the last words of the sick bed written by Gao Gong, the former chief assistant.

Gao Gong exposed the crimes of Zhang Juzheng and the eunuch Feng Bao in "The Last Words of the Sick Bed" and came to clear himself.

Gao Gong said in "Sick Bed Last Words" that he had seen Feng Bao's misbehavior before the death of Emperor Longqing and decided to expel him.Gao Gong said that Feng Bao had always sold his officials, but the most unbearable thing was that in the sixth year of Longqing, when Emperor Wanli, who had just been canonized as the crown prince, was being worshiped by all the officials, Feng Bao actually took advantage of his support to stand beside the throne refused to retreat.

All the officials kowtowed to the crown prince, which was equivalent to kowtowing to the eunuch Feng Bao.This approach fully exposed Feng Bao's wolf ambition.

The book goes on to say that before Gao Gong's action of reprimanding Feng Bao was concrete, Feng Bao took the lead and conspired with Zhang Juzheng to deceive the empress dowager's imperial decree and expel himself from the court.

Gao Gong admitted that he did say that the emperor was only 9 years old at the time, but he did not say anything disrespectful. He only said that the new emperor was young and was afraid of being misled by eunuchs, just like Emperor Wuzong was 14 years old after he ascended the throne.Zhang and Feng deliberately distorted his words and used them as a basis for framing.

Then there is the case of Minister Wang.In the first year of Wanli, that is, half a year after Emperor Wanli ascended the throne and Gao Gong was expelled, a man disguised as an eunuch was detained in front of the palace gate in the early morning of that day.

After interrogation, this person confessed to be a minister of the king. He used to work as a servant in someone else's house, but now he has no employer.It has happened more than once in the past that this kind of idler was detained and questioned when he appeared at the gate of the heavily guarded palace, but the purpose of this Minister Wang has never been clarified.

However, Gao Gong insisted that Minister Wang was Qi Jiguang's subordinate in "Sick Bed Last Words".At that time, Qi Jiguang was promoted by Zhang Juzheng, soaring to the top.

For Feng and Zhang, if this inexplicable Minister Wang is as Gao Gong said, wouldn't it cause great trouble?

So after some planning, Feng Bao and others decided to use the defense as an offense, and decided to use Minister Wang as a tool to put Gao Gong to death.So the two put two exquisite short swords in the clothes of Minister Wang, asking him to admit that he was sent by Gao Gong to murder the current emperor.If Minister Wang's confession is true, he can be acquitted and get a large reward.Zhang Juzheng mobilized the civil officials who interrogated the case, asking them to close the case quickly so that Gao Gong could be executed to silence him.

Feng Zhang's plan did not come true.The civil servants in charge of the interrogation were unwilling to take part in the plot.Minister Wang also realized that if he confessed to murdering the emperor, the end would never be so good that he would not only be innocent but also receive a reward, so he retracted the confession in the preliminary trial hosted by Dongchang, exposing Feng Bao's instigation and frame-up.At this time, Feng Bao was in trouble, so he put poison in the wine and ordered Minister Wang to drink it, which damaged his vocal cords.Two days later, the secret questioning was made public, but since the prisoner could no longer speak, it was impossible to find out the real result.Minister Wang was still sentenced to death and executed immediately so as not to implicate the participants in this conspiracy.

So when Emperor Wanli heard this story, Emperor Wanli had endless fear of Mr. Zhang Yuanfu, who had been respected like a mountain, and the handsome and wise Mr. Zhang collapsed in Emperor Wanli's heart.

And this "Last Words on the Sick Bed" also became a strong catalyst for the final handling of Zhang Juzheng's case.After that, in the memories of Mr. Zhang during the Wanli Emperor, even a part of the respect and love that was barely preserved disappeared.He found that he and his mother had mistakenly believed that Zhang Juzheng's actions were to protect the loyalty of his superiors, but now it seems that Zhang Juzheng was just selling friends for glory out of despicable motives. people.

Therefore, Emperor Wanli would angrily overthrow everything that Zhang Juzheng did. He hated this Mr. Yuanfu Zhang who was full of intrigues and schemes.

Now, five years have passed since time has passed, and Emperor Wanli seems to have let go of Zhang Juzheng in his heart.Emperor Wanli asked Chen Ju who was waiting by his side: "Go to the Ministry of Industry to find out how Zhang Juzheng's old house is now. Is it sold or rented to someone else? If it is rented to someone else, who is it rented to? I think Go see."

Chen Ju led the decree to retreat, and Emperor Wanli returned to the deep palace alone in Long Yu with a guard of honor.

Emperor Wanli left, and the banquet naturally dissipated. Zhu Changluo noticed that the officials all over the hall seemed to be looking at him eagerly. Zhu Changluo didn't want to get too close to these officials at this time, otherwise it would only be more serious. It made Emperor Wanli hate him, and these civil servants may not be good things, so it's better to go first.

Zhu Changluo watched Emperor Wanli leave, and he immediately followed the guard of honor of Emperor Wanli non-stop, for fear that these civil servants would say a word to him.

After Zhu Changluo left the Wenhua Palace, he followed behind the guard of honor of Emperor Wanli, and the guards of Emperor Wanli's guard of honor did not dare to chase him away, so they could only let him follow.

When the guard of honor returned to Qianqing Palace all the way, Zhu Changluo immediately went to Qianqing Palace to apologize to Emperor Wanli.

"Father is because of the foolishness of the sons and daughters, which made the father angry. From now on, the sons will never go to the Wenhua Palace and never study again, and will be filial to the father in the palace."

Originally, Emperor Wanli really meant this, but now when he heard that Zhu Changluo was so sensible and well-behaved and took all the faults on himself with tears in his eyes, Emperor Wanli's heart softened.

Emperor Wanli said: "You can come to Qianqing Palace in normal times, and I can teach you to read and write when you are free."

Zhu Changluo was overjoyed, he didn't expect Emperor Wanli to be so softhearted, wasn't he afraid that Concubine Zheng would scratch his face at night while sleeping?
Zhu Changluo quickly knelt down to thank him, and then disappeared in front of Emperor Wanli in a very sensible way.

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