Ming Dynasty: At the beginning, the house was ransacked and the ancestral temple was burned down.

Chapter 76: Retribution! ? 【Please order first! ! 】

His Majesty the Emperor became furious. This was not only expected by Zhang Cheng, but also beyond his expectation.

Zhang Cheng expected that His Majesty the Emperor would be unhappy, but he did not expect that His Majesty the Emperor would be unhappy to such an exaggerated degree!

"Your Majesty, forgive me!" Zhang Cheng hurriedly knelt on the ground and explained: "It's not that I don't want to report it to you. It's because this matter is too absurd and ridiculous. I'm afraid of staining your honor, so I don't dare to do so." Say more..."

After hearing this answer, Zhu Yijun realized that he had been a little too excited. He thought in his mind:

"Indeed... what seizing the body... how can such a ridiculous thing be true? Zhang Juzheng is dead! Very dead! It is impossible to come back and control me again!"

After self-hypnosis and comfort, Zhu Yijun gradually calmed down, but he still asked:

"Zhang Juzheng's grandson, whose name is Zhang Chonghui, really scared Yu Shenxing into thinking?"

Zhang Cheng hurriedly replied: "Returning to the emperor, according to Dongchang Fanzi, Yu Shenxing seemed to believe it at that time, but he did not say that he believed it completely. But since Yu Shenxing later bought the three thousand acres of land for the Zhang family, Judging from his actions running around, I think he probably believed it..."

Zhu Yijun was silent for a while and then asked: "What did the little kid say to Yu Shenxing?"

Zhang Cheng replied: "To tell the emperor, the doll was just pretending to be a ghost and told the scene when Zhang Juzheng first met Yu Shenxing."

"That's it?" Zhu Yijun looked confused: "Such a ridiculous thing, how could Yu Shenxing be easily deceived by just these few words?"

"Maybe..." Zhang Cheng replied uncertainly.

Zhang Cheng originally just wanted to tell the matter as a joke to His Majesty the Emperor, but unexpectedly, His Majesty the Emperor actually became interested in such a ridiculous 'joke'.

"What's wrong with the child?" Zhu Yijun asked again.

After Zhang Cheng thought for a while, he replied: "As for the emperor, yes, but it doesn't count... Although all the bizarre things that happened are related to this doll, he is only a six-year-old child. A doll can't really be capable of killing people and setting fires, can it? Yi Nunu thinks there must be someone behind the scenes."

Zhu Yijun was silent again.

Yes, how could a six-year-old child do those things of murder and arson? There must be someone behind the scenes.

And the person who gave the instructions, if nothing else, was his 'good mother' and 'good brother'.

When he thought of this, Zhu Yijun couldn't help but sigh. He didn't expect that Zhu Yijun would stab him in the back. It was a shame that he loved his only biological brother so much.

Zhu Yijun was actually very angry at Zhu Yili's backstabbing, but he did not expose his brother, let alone punish him, or even accuse or abuse him.

No one knew why Zhu Yijun doted on Zhu Yili so much. In order to hold a grand wedding for Zhu Yili, Zhu Yijun even argued with the ministers of the DPRK for a long time over the "size of the wedding banquet."

In the end, all the more than 100,000 taels of gold and silver gained from confiscating the Zhang family were thrown into Zhu Yili's grand wedding banquet.

It was shocking that a prince's wedding was held in such an extravagant manner. Because of this incident, Zhu Yijun received a snowflake of impeachment notices.

The prince Zhu Yixuan also became the target of public criticism because of this incident, and became a scolding target in the mouths of many officials and common people.

Zhu Yijun knew all these things, but he turned a deaf ear. Not only did he not blame his younger brother Zhu Yijun, he even 'spoiled' his younger brother even more.

When the vassal king reaches a certain age, he needs to go to the vassal territory to join the vassal. This is a rule that has been set during the period of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang.

Now that Zhu Yili had married a wife, it was logical that he should go to the vassal land to become a vassal. However, Zhu Yijun used the reason of "reluctance" to let Zhu Yili still live in the capital.

As soon as this incident came out, many censors and officials came forward to object, but Zhu Yijun still ignored it.

Now, Zhu Yili suffered even more abuse.

Recalling the 'stupid things' his good brother had done, Zhu Yijun could only 'punish' his brother in this way for the sake of his own reputation.

Zhu Yijun was silent for a long time without speaking. Zhang Cheng, who was still kneeling on the ground, was frantically trying to figure out the holy intention, and thought to himself: "His Majesty, do you still want to 'overturn the old case'? Why don't you speak?"

The emperor remained silent. Zhang Cheng guessed that the emperor wanted to overturn the old case, but he was troubled by someone behind the scenes. In addition, there were so many troubles nowadays, and there were wars and natural disasters everywhere. If Zhang Juzheng was pulled out and whipped to death at this time, It is really adding chaos to chaos.

Zhang Cheng, who had already guessed, did not dare to answer the question. It turned out that he guessed the emperor's thoughts correctly, but he only guessed half of it.

Zhu Yijun originally didn't want to overturn the old case, but after being reminded by Zhang Cheng, he had the idea of ​​overturning the old case.

However, there are so many things going on now and they are so chaotic. Under such circumstances, it is really not suitable to become more chaotic.

Thinking of these troubles, Zhu Yijun felt that his right foot hurt even more. Looking at the piles of memorials on the table asking him to commit crimes, he couldn't help but sigh.

"Do you really want to punish yourself?"

Zhu Yijun asked himself in his heart, he looked out the window, and when he raised his head, the sun was still blazing in the sky.

He didn't want to issue an edict to offend himself, but it had not rained in the capital for nine months.

"Is God really punishing me?" Zhu Yijun sighed sadly: "Did I really do something wrong that caused the heaven to bring natural disasters to my people..."

In this case, Zhang Cheng, who was kneeling beside him, certainly didn't dare to accept it. He only dared to lie on the ground and pretend that he was just a gold brick in the Qianqing Palace.

Finally, Zhu Yijun picked up his pen.

Speaking of which, this is the 'first time' he issued an edict to sin against himself. As for the last time he issued an edict to sin against himself...

It was the seventh year of Wanli. Zhu Yijun was sixteen years old that year and already married.

Before Zhu Yijun got married, Empress Dowager Li had been living with him in the Qianqing Palace as a caretaker, but in the eyes of Zhu Yijun, who was growing up, it was just surveillance.

After finally getting married, Queen Mother Li naturally couldn't live with her son anymore, so she moved to Ciqing Palace, and Zhu Yijun finally escaped the constant 'surveillance' of her old mother.

The birds are very excited when they first come out of the cage. While enjoying their freedom, they are also flying around.

Zhu Yijun was flying around.

At that time, Zhang Juzheng was in control of all matters big and small in the court. Zhu Yijun, the emperor, had no substantive rights other than sealing and approving the emperor.

In addition, his mother, Queen Mother Li, always said to him: "You are still young now, so just listen to Mr. Zhang in everything. When you are thirty years old, you will be more stable before making the decision."

Zhu Yijun did not dare to disobey his mother, nor did he dare to question Mr. Zhang. In this case, he did not want to struggle anymore, and simply became a hands-off shopkeeper and lived happily.

As a result, after getting married, Zhu Yijun no longer had the constant supervision of his mother nor the worries of political affairs, so he began to let himself go.

This flight was probably too fast, just like the six babies hitting the gate of the demon cave. Zhu Yijun almost hit his head and died.

In fact, he didn't do anything. He just ordered a palace maid's hair to be chopped off as punishment, and he also ordered the eunuch who persuaded him to be beaten up.

Until now, Zhu Yijun didn't feel that what he did at that time was too much. After all, he was the supreme emperor, the emperor who had the power of life and death in the world.

However, it was such a 'little thing' that almost made Zhu Yijun, the aloof emperor, fall from his throne.

Empress Dowager Li learned about this matter and it was Feng Bao who informed her secretly.

Zhu Yijun didn't understand why his mother was so angry. She cried out her disappointment in him and scolded him for becoming so stupid.

Empress Dowager Li even took him to the Ancestral Temple, made him kneel in front of his ancestors, and threatened to depose him as a mediocre emperor and make his younger brother Zhu Yili the emperor.

At that time, Zhu Yijun was frightened. When he heard that he was going to be abolished, he cried and begged Queen Mother Li not to abolish him, and said that he would definitely change his ways in the future.

Empress Dowager Li expressed her unwillingness, but in the end it was Zhu Yijun's aunt, Empress Dowager Rensheng, Chen, who came forward to intercede on his behalf, and Empress Dowager Li reluctantly agreed not to depose him as emperor.

Although Empress Dowager Li promised not to abolish Zhu Yijun, she still wanted him to go to Zhang Juzheng to admit his mistake. In addition, Empress Dowager Li also gave him a book - "The Biography of Huo Guang"

Zhu Yijun didn't want to be Liu He. He didn't want to be deposed by Zhang Juzheng just like Liu He was deposed by Huo Guang. So he had no choice but to go to Zhang Juzheng and told Zhang Juzheng the 'mistakes' he had made in an extremely embarrassing manner.

At that time, Zhu Yijun very much hoped that Zhang Juzheng would be like him, thinking that this matter was "making a fuss out of a molehill" by Empress Dowager Li and it would be over as a formality.

However, after Zhang Juzheng learned about this, he not only dismissed his attendants, but also personally wrote a self-incriminating edict in the name of his great emperor Zhu Yijun.

After writing it, I asked Zhu Yijun to sign it directly.

At that time, Zhu Yijun could be said to be completely dumbfounded. He thought that he would only be scolded by Zhang Juzheng for a few words at most, but he did not expect that the matter would be so serious that he would issue an edict of sin to everyone in the world!

That was an edict from sinners, and he was the emperor above him! How could the emperor admit his mistakes to all the people in the world because of such a trivial matter?
  Zhu Yijun was unwilling and tried to bargain with Zhang Juzheng, but Zhang Juzheng just looked at him without saying a word and forced him to sign with his eyes.

At that moment, Zhu Yijun remembered the "Biography of Huo Guang" that Queen Mother Li had given him.

The next moment, he could only pick up the pen obediently, and reluctantly signed his name on the sinful edict that made him feel ashamed.

Recalling the scene where Zhang Juzheng forced him to sign the imperial edict, the brush in Zhu Yijun's hand paused, and the unwillingness in his eyes gradually began to overflow.

"Snapped!"

Zhu Yijun slammed the brush on the table angrily, and the ink from the brush splashed out and stained his originally clean dragon robe.

"What a damn sinner!" Zhu Yijun uttered a very rare expletive.

Want him to punish himself? Beautiful thought!

"I'm not wrong!"

Zhu Yijun said to himself with certainty.

……

As the days passed, Zhu Yijun struggled to survive until May 22nd despite countless criticisms and impeachments.

It's still not raining in the capital.

During this period of time, Zhu Yijun was breathless due to the overwhelming voice of impeachment. At the same time, the condition of his right foot became more and more serious.

Now it's not just the sores on the soles of my feet, but also the indescribable pain in my right hamstring. This made it difficult for him to sleep well and unable to walk.

The imperial doctor at the imperial hospital said it was caused by dampness poisoning, but the ministers in the court believed that the emperor's foot pain was caused by kidney deficiency.

Faced with these claims of yes or no, Zhu Yijun was both angry and helpless...

It was a time of unrest due to natural disasters, and now he was deeply tortured by illness. Zhu Yijun had not slept well for a long time.

He was very sleepy and tired, and wanted to sleep, but the excruciating pain in his legs and feet made him sleepy. The more he slept, the more tired he became.

In the middle of the night, Zhu Yijun woke up from pain again. The attendants hurriedly used cool ointment to help His Majesty the Emperor relieve the pain, so that Zhu Yijun could feel better.

"Feng Daban, do you think I have really suffered retribution?"

When he was sleepy and tired, Zhu Yijun, who was not very clear-headed, suddenly asked this question.

Zhang Jing, who was accompanying him at the side, was still dozing off, but when His Majesty the Emperor asked such a question, he suddenly woke up with a fright!

Feng Daban? ?

Feng Baodu is dead! Where did Feng Daban come from! ?

His Majesty the Emperor must not be suffering from hysteria! ?

"Your Majesty, you are tired, please sleep for a while." Zhang Jing carefully skipped this topic because he really did not dare to answer.

Zhu Yijun didn't seem to notice anything was wrong. He leaned on the soft gold pillow, closed his eyes and let out a long sigh, and compromised very helplessly:

"Forget it, go get pen and paper..."

If you issue an edict to sin against yourself, just issue an edict to sin against yourself. Anyway, this is not the first time.

Last time, Zhang Juzheng forced him. This time, the whole world is forcing him.

Zhu Yijun worked hard and finished writing the edict of sin on the dragon bed. His calligraphy, which he had always been most proud of, was now crooked and boneless, just like the ugly calligraphy he had written when he was six years old.

After writing the edict of sin with his own hands, Zhu Yijun wrote his name again with his own hands and stamped it with the jade seal.

This time, there was no Zhang Juzheng forcing him.

This time, everything can only be written by himself, signed by himself, and finally stamped by himself.

This time, he could only admit to his people in person that he, the emperor, was wrong.

……

In the thirteenth year of Wanli, it was the 23rd day of May.

An hour after Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun finished writing the edict, it finally rained in Shuntian Mansion during the Chou period.

At this time, Zhu Yijun had fallen asleep again. In his sleep, he didn't know that the rain had already fallen. He only knew that this sleep was the most peaceful and sound sleep he had had in recent times.

In his sleep, he was not bothered by the pain in his feet, nor was he severely scolded by Empress Dowager Li and Zhang Juzheng. What he only had was a toy he had played with as a child, called the 'Wind Gourd'.

Wind gourd, also called diabolo, is a spinning top that can fly if played well. Most children in the Ming Dynasty played with it when they were young.

When Zhu Yijun saw this toy for the first time, he was already ten years old.

That was Zhu Yijun's first year on the throne. One day, Mr. Zhang took this toy and gave it to him. He was very happy, but Queen Mother Li was worried that he would become dejected by playing with things.

Later, Mr. Zhang explained that it was useless to just study hard. It was most suitable to combine work and rest. Besides, playing with wind gourds can also exercise your body.

After listening to Zhang Juzheng's explanation, Queen Mother Li looked at her son, who was a little obese due to lack of exercise, and then agreed to let Zhu Yijun have such a toy.

Zhu Yijun had a sweet dream this time. He dreamed that when he was a child, he finally made the wind gourd fly.

"Feng Daban, I'm finally flying, look!"

……

Jiangling.

It rains non-stop in Gangneung in May, just like last year.

"Eldest nephew, why do you want to learn carving when you have nothing to do? Do you want to publish a book?"

Zhang Jingxiu looked at his eldest nephew Zhang Chonghui, who was concentrating on carving with a small carving knife, with a puzzled face.

"Huh..." Zhang Chonghui blew away the carved debris and casually replied: "Well, I want to publish a book."

"Ah?" Zhang Jingxiu was stunned and asked: "You can also write books? What kind of books?"

Zhang Chonghui stopped what he was doing, looked at the calligraphy work of "Future Father-in-law" on the side, and slowly uttered two words:
  "Demon book."

(End of this chapter)