Chapter 888: Good Good Lucky (Part 2)

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After enjoying the peaceful and prosperous era for more than ten years, the prosperous Beijing City has reached a point where day and night. The streets scattered throughout the capital are getting more and more prosperous year by year. Although the night is a little cooler in early spring, it cannot stop the citizens from strolling their families and strolling in the night market, eating, drinking and having fun. After nightfall, the store has launched various lights to attract citizens who come out to play. It is so brightly lit and the people are buzzing.

Yanda Hutong, located in the north city, is adjacent to several Shichahai night markets in the capital. Although it is not on the street and there are no lights, you can hear the noisy hawking and laughter outside.

There were also laughter in the alley. The second house in the east was the residence of Wu Zhongxing, the Hanlin master. He was detained for more than ten days because he wrote a letter to persuade Zhang Juzheng to Dingyou, and his family was worried for more than ten days. Today he was finally released and returned home. Although he could no longer be an official in the capital, if he could come back safely, his whole family would have already Amitabha.

Perhaps after this difficulty, Wu Zhongxing figured out something. He declined the celebration banquet set up by his colleagues in Bolun Building and wanted to have a reunion dinner with his wife and children at home. However, neighbors came to congratulate him one after another, making the meal uneasy. He simply asked the restaurant to send a few tables of tables. First, distant relatives are worse than close neighbors, and thanks everyone for their care these days; second, he is about to leave Beijing, so he just happened to say goodbye to everyone.

The meal started to be eaten from the dark, and it was not until the Xu card that the neighbors dispersed. Wu Zhongxing had a lot of alcohol and was a little drunk. He told his wife not to pack up the cup and plate, but to make sober soup with the leftover fish. He joked with a pair of children in his teens.

But the little daughter was a little angry because her father ignored her all night, and Wu Zhongxing held her in a hug and said with a funny look: "Good girl, my dad sang a song for you, okay?"

The daughter was happy and clapped her little hand and said, "Listen, I'll listen."

Wu Zhongxing cleared his throat and sang:

"The moonlight is bright, bright. The lotus leaves are green and the loquats are yellow.

My dear brother, scholar-in-law, rode a white horse and passed the lotus pond.

By the lotus pond, plant leeks and leek flowers, and make friends with relatives.

There is a fish pond in front of my in-laws' house, and the carp is eight feet long.

One scoops are served with soju, and one scoop is given to the water girl..."

In the slightly drunken folk songs of Southern Jiangsu, the heavy sound of running came from the direction of Shichahai. People who were playing on the street were hiding in panic, while looking at the team holding the torches in horror.

All the people who came were eunuchs from the Danei Examination Department, and no one came from the Jinyiwei of the Fufu Department. The legs of pairs of pairs of feet wearing nail boots were like iron hooves, breaking the peace of the people and breaking the fragile prosperity... They rushed over and overturned the stalls and kicked the bottles and jars. In this chaos, they rushed into Yanpai Hutong.

The people in the alley looked at each other, but heard a rough scolding:

"Get in! Go in!"

"The Criminal Department has business operations! No one is involved, please avoid it quickly!"

The people who were lying their heads were so scared that they quickly retracted their heads. If they were a little slow, they would inevitably get a few strokes.

All the doors were closed. The entire Yandao Hutong was banished by the people from the Tizheng Department. The Tizheng Eunuch led a group of soldiers to the door with the lantern of the "Wu House" hanging at the door and stood there. He immediately knocked on the door knocker and shouted: "Open the door! Open the door! Open the door!"

In Wu's house, Wu Zhongxing's wife Wang was carrying a bowl of hot and sour soup. As soon as she walked to the door of the front hall, she was stunned by the sound of the door knocker. This terrible sound had become her nightmare. Unexpectedly, her husband was just released and rang out again.

"Who..." Wang tried his best to control his inner fear, but his hands still trembled and some soup splashed out.

"The courtroom is in charge of the criminal department! I am ordered by the imperial officer Wu Zhongxing, open the door quickly..." The person outside said loudly, and then knocked on the door knocker.

With a "bang", the bowl in Wang's hand fell to the ground.

Wu Zhongxing's face was first stunned, and then he felt relieved. The daughter was so scared that she hugged her father tightly and got into his arms. Her son also snuggled beside him in horror. Wu Zhongxing gently patted his children's backs, comforted him softly, and then looked up to his wife and said, "It seems that the emperor has never been willing to let me go. I am afraid that it will be a disaster." As he said, he said to his wife with an apology, "I know you can help your mother and care for the orphans, and I will have no regrets even if I die!"

After saying that, he stood up, and prayed to his mother from his hometown to the south, and whispered: "The son is dead, and there is still a grandson to serve you!" Then he stood up and whispered: "Son, bring the wine!"

Wu Zhongxing's son was already sensible, and he was very brave at this moment. He poured wine for his father.

At this time, the door was finally kicked open, and Eunuch Tixing's leather boots inlaid with iron nails stepped into the hole door densely through the hole, and the small yard was trembling with those feet.

Wu Zhongxing ignored it, held a bowl of strong wine and leaned over, then handed it to his wife, smiled gently and said, "I'm leaving..." After that, he stopped looking at his wife and children who were crying.

Eunuch Tixing stared at him and said, "Are you a Hanlin editor Wu Zhongxing?"

Wu Zhongxing nodded and said, "I am."

"Locked!" Eunuch Tixing shouted softly.

Two powerful eunuchs from Kong Wu followed the order, one of them used a circular iron chain to cover Wu Zhongxing's neck, and then tightened it, and a copper lock was tightly clamped with a click. The lower end of the iron chain was handcuffed, which quickly clasped his hands, and also clasped it. The other squatted down, first put a shackle on Wu Zhongxing's left foot, and then wrapped the other circular iron chain around his right foot. The two shackles were less than five inches apart, and with a click, they were locked by a big lock.

This set of shackles is the famous "tiger and wolf trap". No matter who is very skilled in martial arts, it will be useless after wearing it. In the government, it is used to deal with the thieves with great martial arts. However, in the factory guards, they use it to lock the officials who are disgusted with the emperor's anger. The name is also changed to "Jin Buyao". The humiliation is more than its actual effect. When Hai Rui was arrested, he put this set of torture instruments on it.

Amid the crying of his wife and children, Wu Zhongxing was raised and dragged out...

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The same thing happened on the Bolun Building. Except for Wu Zhongxing, the other three of the four arrested people who did not come, were attending a banquet here. When the people from the Tishen Department rushed to the restaurant, the officials were still chanting poems and writing essays with great interest, and exaggerating the words.

The eunuchs of the Tizheng Department rushed in, and the banquet came to an abrupt end, and the cups and plates were broken. The officials were naturally not so easy to meet, but the eunuchs were suppressed so badly in recent years that they had long hated the civil servants. If they had the chance to turn over, how could they be polite to them? A wave of whip staff was waving, and the unarmed civil servants fell to the ground one after another. Many people were bleeding from their heads and bruised noses and swollen faces, which did not stop the Tizheng Department from taking the person away.

After the people from the Execution Department went downstairs, the officials helped each other and got up. After wiping the blood on their faces, Zou Yuanbiao said tragically: "How could this happen? Is there any other king's law..." Everyone was immersed in shock, and no one could answer him.

The news that Wu Zhongxing and four others were arrested again spread to the major yamen in the capital through the beaten officials early the next morning. For a moment, everyone was in a heavy mood. Since the Longqing period, the capital officialdom, which had been clear and clear, was finally shrouded in black clouds... Everyone knows that this is the emperor's dissatisfaction with the verdict and wanted to skip the judicial department and execute it on his own.

Sure enough, before the Chen hour arrived, the palace issued an edict to the ministers: "The four people including Zhao Yongxian, including Wuzhongxing, disrespect the king and father, and dismissed the auxiliary ministers. The crime was extremely serious. The court sentenced too lightly, and the officials in the hall were fined for half a year and were slightly punished. Now the sentence was sentenced to Wuzhongxing, Zhao Yongxian, and each of them had a scepter of sixty, and they were demoted to gangsters. They would never be used. Aimu cried and filialized, and the two of them had a serious case. The court was added to twenty, and they were moved to three thousand miles, and they were guarding the border to serve as soldiers!" And there was also an oral statement: "Tomorrow, the court will be ordered to go to the outside of the Meridian Gate to look for punishment, and no one is allowed to be absent!"

The decree was made, and the public was in an uproar. All officials knew what the court stick meant. This was one of the most severe punishments for officials. Only those who came into contact with the angry emperor would be punished with severe punishment... The big stick of the court stick was made of chestnut wood, and one end of the attack was cut into a hammer shape, and it was covered with iron sheets. If the prisoner pulled it down with one stick, the sharp back hook would tear off a large piece of the body of the prisoner and the flesh. If the prisoner was merciless, it would be thirty, and the prisoner's flesh would be shattered into pieces.

Everyone still remembers the tragic situation of Feng Bao being killed by a stick. Now the person who was tortured was a civil servant. How could he expect those eunuchs to show mercy? Therefore, when he first heard that the four of them were to be beaten by a stick in the court, their colleagues and friends in the same year all changed their colors in shock and took action to rescue them.

Even those officials who had nothing to do with the four people could not stop the feeling of sadness of the rabbit and the fox. Unexpectedly, the young emperor was so powerful, which made them think of the youth of Shimiao. Is it the dark days when Gan Gang was arbitrary and all officials were silent? When they arrived, all the officials put down their errands and discussed this matter with trepidation... Although it was not them who were the ones who were being stolen, they were very worried that what kind of changes would the toughness shown by Emperor Wanli bring to this country that is improving in everything?

For middle and lower-level officials, they are worried that this will be the end of everyone's happy life; for high-ranking officials, they are worried that this means that the days of turning over will be gone forever?

Naturally, most of the people who had been silent in the storm of love could not sit still. They gathered out one after another, signed petitions from one yamen and one yamen, and wrote a letter. The memorial was handed directly in from the Meridian Gate and flew to the Sili Supervisor like snowflakes.

Seeing so many rescue memorials, Wanli was naturally a little panicked, but it even more confirmed that the civil servants felt like a group of people. He simply didn't look at it and hid in the imperial garden. Although there was a rule that "the memorials should not be kept", there was a time limit. Only after three days can the clerk explain clearly.

As they guessed that the little emperor was fearless, everyone's eyes turned to Wenyuan Pavilion in Huiji Sect. They were looking forward to the Prime Minister's regent to bring out the out of control back to the track... Of course, everyone also knows that this order was to bypass the Prime Minister's regent. The Prime Minister's regent was very embarrassed, and it was indeed a bit forced to let him stand up for everyone. But who made him the Prime Minister? You have to stand up at this time.

Silence asked to meet the saint at the first time, but the eunuch said that the emperor had rubella and needed to rest. He would report it after the saint was cured.

The emperor could not see him, and the upper book was like a rock sinking into the sea, and the criminal was also locked up in the prison of the Tizheng Department. Now the Chief Auxiliary has no choice.

Many people looked at the Sixth Department again and said, "Don't you have the right to refute it, and you can return the decree. The people from the Sixth Department smiled bitterly and said, "The person who took the people was the Examination Department, and the person who executed the execution was the Punishment Department. Naturally, they had to obey the emperor's orders, and we couldn't control it!"

Is there really nothing I can do, and I can only watch the emperor go on his own? Just when everyone was at a loss, someone finally realized that there was another person who could also resolve the situation in front of him. That was Zhang Juzheng, the second assistant who was mourning at home. At least on the surface, the emperor wanted to slap four people in the court to vent his anger on his behalf. So as long as Zhang Ge Lao was willing to write a letter to plead for them, he would naturally be spared.

Considering that Mr. Zhang must be in a panic now and could not stand the stimulation, everyone came to the Ministry of Works and begged Mr. Zhu Heng to persuade Mr. Zhang, who believed that as a senior of the party, Zhang Juzheng would still listen to him. Zhu Heng also felt that if he continued to resist like this, it would not be of any benefit to Zhang Juzheng, so he agreed to the request. He came to Zhang Juzheng's mansion at noon that day.

In just a few days, Zhang Juzheng lost weight, his eyes were deep and he was haggard, and he didn't look like a handsome and handsome man. He knew that Zhu Heng was here to be a lobbyist, so he knelt in the filial veil and refused to speak. Zhu Heng was not standing or kneeling, so he had to sit cross-legged on the ground and try his best to explain to those people. He said that these young people were young and vigorous, ignorant, and did not know the consequences. But Jiangling, you should know that once this stick is hit, you will always stand against the officials. Now the emperor is furious, and only if you write a letter to rescue them can you avoid a disaster.

It should be said that Old Zhu Heng had already made a point of analysis, but he didn't know that Zhang Juzheng was already in a difficult situation. In fact, as soon as Hai Rui made a judgment, he knew that the human heart was completely no longer on his side, and it was meaningless to stay on, and he had a desire to leave. In his reply to the emperor, the analysis he made was just to wake up the little emperor, let him know the terror of the enemy, and also lay the groundwork for his future resumption.

Who knew that Wanli was so impulsive and had no idea what it means to move a camera, and wanted to use such a simple and crude method to solve the problem. It's a big deal now...

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