In the early morning, the vast Qianqing Palace was deserted and deserted. Several early eunuch ladies wore soft-soled cloth shoes. They made no noise when they walked, except for a few magpies arguing on the high branches.
As soon as Zhu Youjian finished practicing the imaginary power, Xu Yingyuan cowered and appeared in sight.
"Sure enough!"
Zhu Youjian ignored him, sitting in a chair for himself, sipping tea while thinking about his own thoughts.
"Your Majesty." Xu Yingyuan bowed and saluted.
"Ying Yuan is here? So early?" Zhu Youjian chuckled lightly, a trace of sarcasm hanging on his face without any obstruction.
"Your Majesty, the slave went to meet Wei Zhongxian." Xu Yingyuan also noticed the strange atmosphere, but he still mustered courage.
"Oh?" Xu Yingyuan's frankness, Zhu Youzhen was not surprised.
Xu Yingyuan bit his scalp: "Your Majesty, Zhongxian has lost everything, please forgive him!"
"Is this your prayer or Zhongxian's prayer?" Zhu Youzhen didn't look up, still defiant, still thinking about his own thoughts.
"It was a slave who pleaded for Zhongxian." Xu Yingyuan said vaguely.
"Ying Yuan, do you have a personal relationship with Zhongxian?" Zhu Youjian suddenly raised his head and looked at Xu Yingyuan's eyes. He saw a trace of shame as well as a trace of helplessness.
"His Majesty, Minion and Zhongxian are fellow villagers. When we were not in the palace, we were childhood playmates." Xu Yingyuan lowered his head to prevent Zhu Youzhen from seeing his face. "But after entering the palace, Minion and Zhongxian Zhongxian has no contacts anymore."
"It turns out that Ying Yuan is very nostalgic! Haha." Zhu Youjian turned around: "Ying Yuan, do you know Zhongxian?"
"His Majesty, the slave has been in the palace for many years, and he has some understanding of Zhongxian's evil deeds. However, Zhongxian has resigned from all titles and has no official position, so he should not harm people anymore."
"Should?" Zhu Youzhen forced Xu Yingyuan with cold eyes, "Yingyuan, are you sincerely pleading for Zhongxian? When are you going to hide it from me?"
"Yes, Your Highness..." Xu Yingyuan suddenly felt Zhu Youjian's voice change. "The slave... the slave... Wei Zhongxian sent someone to the slave... and gave the slave one hundred thousand taels of silver."
Xu Yingyuan lay on the ground, not daring to move, sweat on his forehead.
"Ying Yuan, you are an old man who believes in the palace, and you have repeatedly made suggestions for me, and you can be regarded as a true half of the army. Do you know Wei Zhongxian's crimes? Plead for him at such a critical moment?"
"Your Majesty, the slave is dull." Xu Yingyuan lay on the ground, not daring to breathe.
"You are not stupid," Zhu Youjian waved his hand, "You are a money fan."
"Your Majesty, the minions will die."
"Ten thousand deaths? No, one death is enough--for the sake of your loyalty to me, this death is also spared," Zhu Youjian stood up, "Go to Nanjing to supervise!"
"Your Majesty..." Xu Yingyuan burst into tears.
Zhu Youjian's heart was stabbed fiercely.
That day, when he was assassinated in the small forest outside the capital, when Zhu You school died that day, his heart was not stabbed.
Zhu Youzhen couldn't bear to look at Xu Yingyuan again. He turned around and turned his back to Xu Yingyuan, "Leave immediately, there is no need to clean up here, Nanjing will not be short of your expenses."
On November 1st, Zhu Youjian said that he was not ill to go to the court, and the Donglin Party members' plan to attack Wei Zhongxian in the court meeting fell through.
The four giants of the Donglin Party urgently gathered at Wang Yongguang's mansion. After some consultations, the family members of each mansion quickly ran across the streets and alleys of the capital.
One morning, the memorial sent to Zhu Youjian to impeach Wei Zhongxian, piled up more than three feet high.
Zhu Youzhen left it intact and sent the eunuch to the White Tiger Hall for Wei Zhongxian to read it personally.
Liu Lin came to see Zhu Youjian again: "Your Majesty, Wei Zhongxian didn't do anything. He just held the emperor's spiritual position and wept bitterly. This time, he really cried."
"Ao? Liu Lin, continue to monitor Wei Zhongxian closely, and don't miss any clues. If a sparrow flies in or out of the White Tiger Palace, your head will be lost."
"Yes, Your Majesty." Liu Lin saluted Zhu Youjian: "White Tiger Palace is now a cage, not to mention sparrows, even flies can't fly in.
On the afternoon of November 1st, Zhu Youjian issued an order to the world:
"I have heard of the ****, the power to control the world; the ministers have no generals, and there is a strong ring of prestige. Our country is three feet long, severely punished, and the most important. The crime of rebellious Wei Zhongxian has been fully understood. It is difficult to enumerate the crimes of Wei Zhongxian. It is difficult to enumerate and count. It's about..."
The imperial decree degraded Wei Zhongxian to guard the mausoleum in Fengyang, the central capital, and Fengsheng’s wife Ke Yingyue was selected to be sent to the coat bureau to pour the toilet.
On December 2, Wei Zhongxian left the capital. He chose the "Royal Road" connecting the two capitals and headed south to Fengyang.
Wei Zhongxian walked very beautifully. With Wei Zhongxian going south, there were forty carts loaded with gold and silver jewelry, and 800 strong men, fully armed, riding a big horse...
His confidant, Li Yongzhen, took a large number of eunuchs to see him off. Many high-ranking officials of the capital, including several Shangshu and Guogong, were also dressed in casual clothes and mixed in the team to see him off.
This is not like being sent to Fengyang to guard the mausoleum by the emperor at all, it is more like a parade by order.
In the evening, Zhang Yan brought several court ladies to the Qianqing Palace.
"The concubine sees your majesty, and the queen empress." Zhang Yan bowed to Zhu Youjian and Zhou Yufeng, and all the court ladies who followed her also bowed down. A court lady who had been pregnant for several months almost flashed her waist because of kneeling .
"Sister-in-law, get up quickly." Zhu Youjian winked at Zhou Yufeng.
Zhou Yufeng stepped forward to help Zhang Yan: "Emperor Sister-in-law is going to kill the slaves, sit down." She personally made a cup of Zhang Yan. In the Kunning Palace, Zhou Yufeng was Zhang Yan's maid.
Zhang Yan thanked her, and the other court ladies also got up.
Zhu Youjian felt weird. Before he went to Kunning Palace, he needed to bow down to Zhang Yan. Today Zhang Yan came to Qianqing Palace, but he turned upside down and bowed down to him.
"Imperial Sister-in-law, this is..." Zhu Youjian pointed to the court ladies behind Zhang Yan. Although she was showing off one by one, Zhang Yan gave herself beauties, but it was not like that. There were a few court ladies who had thick waists and were obviously pregnant. How can you give it away to a pregnant woman
"Your Majesty, Queen, you have to make the decision for your concubines!" Zhang Yan cried and slipped off the chair, kneeling again in front of Zhu Youjian and Zhou Yufeng.
"Sister-in-law, you are..." In Zhu Youjian's impression, Zhang Yan is not only wise and reasonable, and always knows the proper manners in doing things. What happened to Zhang Yan today
"Your Majesty." Zhang Yan was pulled to the chair by Zhou Yufeng again. The teardrops on her face were broken because of the shaking of her body. Under the white skin, it was really like peony with dew and pear blossoms in the rain. She looked back and brought it. The ladies of the court said: "Retreat to the outer room."
"Yes, Queen Zhang." The maids were blessed and bowed out of the inner room.
"Your Majesty," Zhang Yan adjusted her breathing, her nose still flaring, and her emotions were not stable. "Wei Jing committed a heinous crime. How can your Majesty let him go to the Central Capital Guarding the Mausoleum?"
"Emperor Wife, Wei Eunuch's sins are monstrous, and I also understand that, but the memorials of hundreds of officials are mostly chasing after the wind, and there is not much evidence." Zhu Youzhen knows Wei Zhongxian's crimes, but if you really want to go through the legal process, you must have conclusive evidence. In the coming days, many crimes could not be collected without talking about it.
"If the evidence is found, will your majesty make a new order?" Zhang Yan's eyes were red and swollen, obviously not crying in the Palace of the Qing Dynasty.
"The emperor said..."
"Wei Zhongxian and Ke Yingyue have a crime, and the concubines have found out clearly." Zhang Yan's pair of white hands was holding a teacup, but she didn't drink tea. She was waiting for Zhu Youjian's response.
"The emperor said clearly, what is it?"
"Your Majesty knows that the concubines of the first emperor are already pregnant? There are three of the court ladies who just came in."
"Ao, that is the flesh and blood of the first emperor, the emperor's wife must treat them kindly."
"The flesh and blood of the first emperor?" Zhang Yanfeng's eyes were wide open, and she did not look like a lady. "Your Majesty, which is the flesh and blood of the first emperor they are carrying?"
"Sister-in-law, what's going on?" Zhou Yufeng was also confused. Could someone sneak into the palace
"Your Majesty, Queen." Zhang Yan put down the teacup and held the table with jade-like fingers. "Wei Zhongxian and Ke Yingyue are bold and bold. These palace ladies were brought into the palace from the outside. First let them conceive their children outside, and then For the first emperor..."
"What?" Zhu Youjian was furious, and slapped a palm on the square table. The square table cracked and turned into a pile of dry wood.
Zhang Yan supported the square table with both hands and leaned against the square table. Now the square table suddenly shattered, and Zhang Yan's body was nowhere to be stressed. When her body was tilted, she was about to fall to the ground.
Zhu You has practiced magical skills, and his hands and feet are all natural reactions.
He stretched out his left hand and copied it under Zhang Yan's waist.
Below Zhang Yan's waist, she has stopped falling, but above her waist, due to inertia, she is still falling. If she is allowed to develop naturally, Zhang Yan's waist will be light.
As a last resort, Zhu Youjian stretched out his right hand to support Zhang Yan's fragrant shoulder.
From Zhou Yufeng's perspective, Zhang Yan leaned crookedly in Zhu Youjian's arms.
Zhang Yan was frightened and couldn't react for a while. Her body froze in Zhu Youjian's hands, with her face resting on Zhu Youjian's shoulders. Zhu Youzhen worried that Zhang Yan would fall, so she did not dare to withdraw her hands. This posture was in Zhou Yufeng's In his eyes, how ambiguous and ambiguous it is, especially their poss are frozen in front of Zhou Yufeng.
"Huh huh!" Zhou Yufeng understood that Zhu Youzhen had something to do, but the two froze together. She couldn't see it, so she had to cough.
Zhang Yan was startled, her face blushed, she straightened her body quickly, and took a look at Zhu Youjian by the way.
Zhu Youjian also returned to his seat, he looked at Zhou Yufeng, Fengmu was going from the right.
He was gouged by four beautiful eyes. Although Zhu Youzhen had a clear conscience, his old face was flushed. He said, "Feng'er, where did you go? Huang's wife, is it true?"
Zhang Yan has decided: "Your Majesty, Wei and Ke, this is to make Li Daitao stiff and tarnish the royal blood..."
Zhu Youjian thought of Lu Buwei's story. Could such a thing really happen to him? He desperately recalled the history of later generations. No matter whether it was official history or unconventional history, Daming did not make such an appearance. "Emperor's wife, this matter is not trivial. Wei and Ke are greedy and perverted, so he usually tempts the first emperor. Thing against the sky..."