In the ninth year of Zhengde, it was also the year of the imperial inspection.

The last time he used the capital to go to war was in the third year of Zhengde, when Liu Jin took the opportunity to clean up the remaining members of Liu Xie's party.

Things are changing, and now everyone inside and outside the government thinks that this time the Beijing Police are going to clean up the remaining members of the Eunuch Party.

Sure enough, the Metropolitan Procuratorate's first shot of the year was to target people who had connections with Liu Jin.

However, this person is not an eunuch, but Prince Ning.

Luo Feng, the Censor of the Thirteenth Road in Nanjing, and others said: "King Ning became more arrogant and arrogant since he traveled against Jin, and begged to protect him. He conquered wealthy families, invaded fertile fields, and resorted to lewd punishments and torture to the point of annihilation. It started in the provincial capital.

As for the countryside, where the benefits are, there are hundreds of cages, merchants and travelers dare not come in and out, and boats dare not dock, so how can the people survive the misfortune."

He also said: "If you care about the three ministers as a bait, no one dares to take a breath. They would rather sit back and watch the people's troubles and betray the emperor's favor, and dare not criticize the troubles and disobey the clan."

The whole court was in an uproar.

Prince Ning has been creating his own image as a virtuous king. From his earliest wish to record his filial piety and understanding of etiquette in the records of the Xiaomiao Temple, to when the imperial court introduced the vassal regulations, he actively reported other sects' illegal acts and obtained instructions for sects' offenders.

Qualifications.

Just a few short months ago, many people in the court praised Ning Fan's young master, the wise king and the holy son.

And in this excerpt, every accusation is made that Prince Ning's crimes were extremely heinous, much worse than the Linzhang Prince's Palace where his family was confiscated and his title was stripped.

All the mouthpieces in the court who spoke for Ning Fan were mute. For such an impeachment, the only option was for Prince Ning to go to court to defend himself, or for the young master to defend himself on his father's behalf.

Not to mention how much a twelve-year-old kid can know about the palace, but the fact that the young master is now open to the outside world under the guise of "being seriously ill cannot leave the capital".

Once you appear in the main hall and reveal a little bit of flaws, it is the crime of deceiving the emperor.

And when the news reaches Jiangxi, it will take more than a month for Prince Ning's self-defense statement to be sent to Beijing immediately.

The situation of the young master of Ning Mansion suddenly became embarrassing.

Everyone knew very well that most of them were here for the young master. If he was not a virtuous king, why would he mention a holy son?

In the Xianyifang house, Mr. Li was so angry that he rushed to deliver the letter to Jiangxi and urged Mr. Miao to quickly find someone to fight this war of words.

However, no one dared to take this hot potato.

There are some things that sects will do by default, such as occupying people's fields and squeezing merchants.

Not to mention vassals, which local powerful people have not done this? Even ordinary wealthy families are bound to do this kind of thing.

Who dares to say that Prince Ning is really a saint and that he has never done anything illegal in the palace?

It doesn't matter if you think things are hot, the money is not hot, Ning Fan has repeatedly raised the money for "finishing the pen", just hoping that "there will be a brave man under the heavy reward".

This makes people feel itchy, and some people are ready to take action.

After all, the imperial censor's report will not be as conclusive as the Shen Chaojia report. It has the meaning of "reporting on hearsay", and there is still room for tearing apart.

But soon, they no longer have to worry about making a choice.

Lan Zhang, the right deputy of the Imperial Palace, said: "In the past, I went to the princes to ask for salt for only 200 to 300 citations, but now the official officials are asking for more than tens of thousands, and weaving and other items. Although the name is 20,000, it is really a lot. There is also tribute.

The ship went to the Changlu Transportation Department to buy private salt, acting unscrupulously and begging for a reward."

The Ning Mansion is indispensable in all the memorials listed, and among them is the Ning Mansion's guard commander Wang Qizong, who bought private salt from Changlu.

The names have been pointed out, so of course there is evidence.

And Lan Zhang has been in charge of Fuzhou Mansion in Jiangxi Province for many years, so he probably still has a lot of "evidence" of Prince Ning's Mansion.

Soon, the emperor issued an order and official notice to the people of Jiangxi. Anyone whose property or house had been occupied by the royal family was allowed to file a lawsuit. He also ordered the three governors of the province to pay an audience and order King Ning to "reform."

At the same time, he was promoted to Lan Zhang as the left minister of the Nanjing Criminal Department and the left deputy censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and was ordered to clean up the Lu Salt Law of the Lianghuai Chang.

Subsequently, during the routine transfer of officials from the Chief Envoys' Department and the Inspection and Envoys' Department of each province, there was almost a major change of leadership in Jiangxi's top management.

Huang Zan, the right chief envoy of the Jiangxi Chief Secretary, was transferred to Huguang, Wang Huolin, the left political envoy, was transferred to Guangdong, Wang Zhi, the Jiangxi inspector general, was transferred to Yunnan, and Hu Shirong, the deputy inspector general of Jiangxi Province, was transferred to Fujian.

Only Zhang Yi, who participated in politics on the right, was promoted to envoy to the right and stayed in Jiangxi.

In addition, he was promoted to Sichuan Left Participant and Jiang was promoted to the right deputy censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the governor of Tingzhang in southern Gansu.

The emperor's meaning is very clear.

No one dared to accept gifts from Ning Fan anymore, and those who had received gifts before could not help but feel panic.

It is true that in the past two years, the emperor has dealt with the vassals too much.

The vassals in Shandong have all been lying down quietly, the thorns in Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan have all been eliminated until they are eliminated, and the vassal regulations have been beaten down one by one with big sticks. It is difficult not to think of the Xuande Temple during the Xuande period. A series of measures to reduce the vassal status.

No one can say whether this is to express dissatisfaction with Ning Fan's young master's desire to be a priest in the Taimiao Temple, or whether the next step is to clean up the Jiangxi clan.

Then there began to be heard in the court, saying that the young master of Ning Mansion came to Beijing in the name of sending money. Now that the money has been put into the treasury, the Hongde Hall has also begun to be repaired. There is nothing wrong with him anymore, and it is time to return. It's time to seal the land.

Ning Fan's staff in Beijing, after the emperor issued an order for Prince Ning to mend his ways, stopped all overt or covert visits to officials and dignitaries, and instead went to major medical clinics and even temples and nunneries to look for famous doctors for the young master.

Naturally, the young master's illness became "increasingly serious" and he was unable to leave Beijing.

Ning Fan even paid a lot of money to invite the eldest princess of Yongkang to come to the palace to plead for him, and asked the emperor to send Tian Liangzi to treat him and make elixirs.

The emperor agreed, but when the servant who delivered the oral instructions arrived at Tianliang Temple, he was told that Tianliangzi, the real person, had taken a boy to travel around to collect medicine. He had been gone for more than a month.

I don’t know where I went or when I would come back. It all depends on the old god’s wishes.

The emperor had no choice but to ask all the inns to pay more attention to this real person, and if he met him, he would be asked to return to the capital immediately. Here he would arrange for a dozen imperial doctors to treat the young master.

After all this turmoil, it was mid-March.

The triennial talent promotion ceremony attracts everyone's attention.

Your Majesty, "Looking at it from now on, it is like dividing the country into states, setting up officials and assigning duties, clarifying rituals and music, building schools, regulating calendars, ordering sacrifices, equalizing land taxes, promoting goods from springs, public elections, strict examinations, establishing a military system, careful "Criminal law means that when an emperor governs the world, it is certainly not without law." It is also quite thought-provoking that it was written into the palace examination questions.

However, despite the young emperor's earnest hopes, for the new scholars, more people still hope to stay in Beijing.

Especially during the Beijing inspection period, Liu Jin's party was once again purged in Beijing, and those who had some slight connections were not spared. As a result, many middle and low-level positions became vacant.

Not to mention that the new scholars are enthusiastic, the high-level bosses are also enthusiastic, taking the opportunity to win over the newcomers and install their own people.

In this regard, the little emperor could only complain to Zhang Hui: "It would be nice if there were two more Shen Rui's."

Zhang Huize said with a smile: "After all, the Imperial Academy is noble, and it is normal for scholars to hope to enter the Imperial Academy. But Shen Rui was at the local level, seeing that there were practical recommendations from the county magistrates and prefectures, and he was working hard to serve the emperor. How could it be so? Isn’t it more useful than those who don’t know how to farm and only focus on reading the books of sages?”

Brother Shou chewed "I don't know how to farm" twice in his mouth, sighed, and said: "In the future, we have to change the fundamentals bit by bit. We can't make all scholars develop the temperament of a censor, and there will only be one mouth left in the whole body." ."

Zhang Hui shrank his neck. The emperor could say this, but he didn't dare to accept it. He had been bitten by the censors ever since he took over the royal guards.

Recently, the Emperor has been talked about a lot, and has been annoyed. Fortunately, they all visited Prince Ning recently, and the Emperor is somewhat at peace.

As for Young Master Ning Fan, Zhang Hui only sneered in his heart...

The new wave of noise caused by the new Jinshi has not dissipated until April.

In April, the palace suddenly received the shocking news that Concubine Shen Xian was pregnant!

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It has been more than eight years since I ascended the throne and seven years since I got married, but there has been no movement in the harem. The harem of the previous dynasty was always worried about the emperor's heir.

The late emperor had few heirs, not only because of the late emperor's physical weakness, but also because of the late emperor's special affection, and there was only one empress dowager in the harem.

Nowadays, she is skilled in bow and horse, keen on martial arts, and can be said to be in great health. There are many famous concubines in the harem. I heard that there are many beauties in Xiyuan, but there has never been an heir to the emperor, and there has never even been a concubine. The news of pregnancy has spread, which can't help but make people think a lot.

Especially in the past few months, he has adopted hundreds of adopted sons and has spread rumors of "falling asleep on Qian Ning's thighs", which makes people think a lot.

Now that the concubine is finally pregnant, although the gender is not yet known, the loyal ministers are half relieved.

Especially after the turmoil at the Imperial Ancestral Temple, this imperial heir became even more important.

The emperor was obviously very happy, and various rewards poured into Chang'an Palace and towards Concubine Shen Xian's natal family.

Originally, Concubine Shen Xian's maiden family was the last among the relatives. When the emperor gave any reward, she could usually only think of the Xia family, the queen's natal family. Even if Concubine Wu Def was not so favored in the palace, the Wu family was in-laws of the Zhang family of the Queen Mother's natal family. Concubine Shen I really can’t rely on anything at home.

Nowadays, the Shen family of the maternal relatives has become a bustling family, with countless people coming to add "firewood" (wealth) to heat the stove. The Shen family has also made a grand display of the eldest son's maternal family, and is so impressive that it seems to overshadow the Xia family.

Even though Concubine Shen Xian asked people to spread the word, she still didn’t know whether she was a princess or a prince, but she was a prince. Is it easy to be the eldest son of a concubine? The eldest son of a concubine also wants to call the queen his mother! Don’t rise up now, or fall even more when you look back. Cruel!!

It's just that the virtuous concubine is certainly virtuous, but there are cases as prominent as the Zhou family and Zhang family in the past - especially the Zhou family. The Empress Dowager Zhou was just a concubine at the beginning. When her son became the emperor, the Zhou family became rich and powerful. Three dynasties!

Now that the Shen family is being held in such high regard, with huge interests before their eyes, how many people can calm down and not be tempted?

Of course, such a high profile caused dissatisfaction among many people. However, one of the imperial censors tried to make excuses twice, but failed to respond, so everyone knew better.

After all, he was the heir that the emperor had been waiting for for many years. The Shen family had just begun to look up, and they didn't have time to do anything bad. The impeachment couldn't come up with any new tricks, so the censors gradually gave up.

More people are ready to beat up the drowned dog and drive the young master of Ning Fan out of the capital.

Now that the emperor has an heir, no matter whether he is a boy or a girl, as long as he can have children, if there is a first one, there will be a second one, and a third one...

The Emperor is only twenty-five, so he is still young and has a lot of time to spend having children.

Even if there is still no prince in another three to five years, it will be better to look for a younger child. At that time, the young master Ning Fan will be over fifteen, and there is no need for him at all.

Shangzhezi invited this man to return to the feudal territory to express his loyalty to the emperor and his maintenance of orthodoxy.

Facing the swarming censors and ministers, the young master of Ningfan chose to pretend to be deaf and mute, and "concentrated on recuperating" during the day, and from time to time there was news that he was critically ill.

Anyway, as long as he stays in Beijing and refuses to leave, there is nothing anyone can do about it.

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To be continued...