Chapter 35: Three things that Emperor Tianqi loves to eat and stew
In addition to praising Yang Lian a few words, Zhu Youxiao immediately issued an edict to express this "Reputation of the Origin and the Last Stories of Desperate Attacks" to the Chinese and foreign countries, and ordered the East Factory to release people quickly.
Wei Zhongxian originally thought that Zhu Youzhai Association agreed directly, but he did not expect that such a result would be.
The news came out, and the government and the country were in full swing.
Emperor Zhu Youxiao of Tianqi adopted the loyal advice and sternly criticized Wei Zhongxian that night, asking him to "take care of himself and slander him."
Faced with such a situation, Wei Zhongxian had to release Wang Zhicai out of prison and postponed the case of Li Kezhu, the Minister of Guanglu Temple who was preparing to capture the red pills.
It doesn’t count if the emperor even praised Yang Lian so much, and Wei Zhongxian was naturally dissatisfied.
That night, he personally went to Gu Bingqian, the Minister of Rites, and the two had a long talk.
Zhu Youxiao, who heard the news, laughed out loud in the warm room. He knew that his move had come into effect last night.
Now, not only Wei Zhongxian and the eunuch party are anxious, but even the Donglin party members are promoting their wiseness in the court and the public.
Wei Zhongxian entered Gu's mansion in a cloak from the back door.
At this time, everyone is in danger. Except for some hard-core eunuchs, there will be no one who will let Wei Zhongxian enter his home.
Gu Bingqian welcomed him in and asked anxiously: "Eunuch Wei, the emperor has changed his mind. Are you going to help the Donglin Party?"
Wei Zhongxian didn't understand very well and pondered: "The emperor's meaning is probably not that simple..."
Gu Bingqian filled him with tea, "Now the Donglin Party members in the court are in full swing, and they are tempted to impeach you. How did the emperor deal with it?"
"When it comes to this, our family doesn't understand what the emperor is selling. Although I didn't ask me to approve the notebook, I kept all the memorials and didn't send them out. Our family is confused!"
Speaking of this, Wei Zhongxian shook his head and sighed: "The holy intention is as deep as the sea!"
Gu Bingqian nodded, sat there and thought for a while, and suddenly asked, "What should Eunuch Wei do, do you impeach Yang Lian?"
But Wei Zhongxian threw the teacup hard and shook his head and said, "At this time, impeachment of Yang Lian is no longer effective. I might as well just do it and kill two birds with one stone!"
"Why did you kill two birds with one stone? Please tell me about Eunuch Wei!" Gu Bingqian came over.
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The next morning, the West Warm Pavilion of Qianqing Palace.
Zhu Youxiao looked at the question book in front of him, and a curve appeared on the corner of his mouth.
This time, Wei Zhongxian did not look for Yang Lian alone, but instead killed two birds with one stone. While fighting back against Yang Lian, he also pulled Wang An, who had been resting at home, into the water.
He first asked Gu Bingqian, the Minister of Rites, to submit a memorial saying that Wang An, the eunuch in charge of the seal of the Ministry of Rites, warned himself to hold "power, blessing and power" and "don't listen to Emperor Zhongjuan's fall."
On the other hand, Wei Zhongxian asked the censor Cui Chengxiu to submit a memorial saying that Yang Lian colluded with Wang An, saying that the former chief assistant Fang Congzhe retired was forced by the two of them.
The real purpose of Yang Lian's "Regarding the Original and Theory of Desperation" is actually to increase prestige and become the chief minister of the cabinet by himself.
After reading the two memorials, Zhu Youxiao could see clearly. This was a very simple power struggle.
After that, Zhu Youxiao still kept the memorials from the "eunuch party" officials and refused to publish them.
Faced with the impeachment of Gu Bingqian, Cui Chengxiu and others, Yang Lian naturally looked like he had suffered a great grievance and was unhappy.
It is true that I collude with Wang An, but is this what you, a eunuch, qualified to talk about?
In the next few days, the Ganqing Palace's notebooks were several times more numerous, and most of them were "eunuch party" and Donglin officials impeached each other and criticized each other.
But all the memorials were like stones sinking to the sea, and there was no sound as soon as you entered the warm room.
It was not until Yang Lian’s memorial three days later that the chaos in the court in recent days was a bit smoother.
Zhu Youxiao has been waiting for Yang Lian’s reaction.
The meaning expressed by Yang Lian in the memorial was that at this time, Fang Congzhe had already retired. Although he had a close relationship with Wang An, he had also submitted memorials to impeach Fang Congzhe many times.
But it is absolutely impossible to say that he speculates and uses the attack on Fang Congzhe to raise himself in order to achieve the goal of becoming the chief minister of the cabinet.
Because at that time, the chief minister of the cabinet was appointed by Emperor Taichang, who was seriously ill, as Ye Xianggao. At that time, he was also a military officer. He was a ninth-rank sesame official. Even if he was promoted to three or four levels, he could not enter the cabinet.
Of course, Zhu Youxiao would not care about how reasonable what he said in his memorial was.
The key is not what Yang Lian said in the memorial, but that he admitted the two points that Gu Bingqian and Cui Chengxiu impeached.
First, collude with Wang An.
Second, he impeached the former chief assistant Fang Congzhe many times.
It is right for others to impeach, but you admit it without refuting it. The articles you can do here will be a big deal.
"I am not sick, and I dare not ask for it because of my illness. The emperor has not guilty of me, and I cannot ask for it because of my crime. I can only be clear about my meager thoughts, beg for the great grace, and let me be the one who bravely retreats."
Seeing the end, Zhu Youxiao was a little surprised. Yang Lian was too impatient and refuted, and then he resigned!
As soon as I finished watching, an eunuch came and bowed to her feet.
"Your Majesty, after Lord Yang was mercenary, he was packing his luggage. Now he has left the house and said he would go back to his hometown in Hubei to do farming."
Yang Lian's official position is not high, but his prestige is not low among the scholars. If he is not persuaded to stay, he will complain. Zhu Youxiao smiled secretly and said shocked:
"What should I do?"
Soon, the news that Zhu Youxiao was not sure whether to let Yang Lian go or keep Yang Lian reached Wei Zhongxian, who was on duty in the Sili Supervision Bureau.
When he heard this on the first day of the Chu Dynasty, Wei Zhongxian was overjoyed, smiling and jumping three feet high with joy.
Wei Zhongxian didn't have much hope for his own little trick, but just wanted to make a fuss first and just be able to hit the arrogance of the Donglin Party members.
Even if it was just a coward and the others, I felt happy!
Unexpectedly, Yang Lian was stunned and turned to "resist Zhang begging". With such an unexpected effect, how could Wei Zhongxian not be ecstatic?
However, he thought about it again. Yang Lian hadn't really gone home after all. This old guy was waiting outside the city, waiting for the emperor's will. What if the emperor really tried to keep it?
Thinking of this, Wei Zhongxian decided to continue to be the evil person who "blind the holy hearing" and go to the warm room to fool him. It would be best to find a way to get the emperor to resign!
When he went to Cining Palace to report the Zhenjiang victory of Mao Wenlong, the Guangning Metropolitan Police, Wei Zhongxian heard Concubine Liu say that the emperor likes to eat "Sheng Sanshi".
Since you want to fool the emperor, you have to make sufficient preparations.
Before going to the warm-up hall, Wei Zhongxian first went to Guanglu Temple and asked the chef to do a few more dishes of stew during dinner, and then he brought them in one by one.
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That night, when we arrived at Zhu Youzhai for dinner, Wei Zhongxian personally brought up a delicious dish of fragrant food and made a hot stir-fry.
"It's delicious, delicious." In fact, Zhu Youxiao really likes eating this dish. He started to feast on his hands and was enjoying it.
"This dish was urged by me to go to Guanglu Temple today. The ingredients were carefully selected. The emperor thought it was delicious, so he would eat more. If he wanted to eat something so delicious, he would have less food in the future!"
When Zhu Youxiao heard something from Wei Zhongxian's words, he sneered in his heart. Naturally, he understood that he was setting a trap for himself, but today he had to pretend to be "silly".
"How do you say this?"
Wei Zhongxian sighed and said, "Didn't the men in the court always say that I am in trouble here? Especially Yang Lian's slutty mouth, he always dislikes me and keeps trying to drive me away."
Zhu Youxiao laughed when he heard this, grabbed a mouthful of pig's tendons and stuffed them into his mouth and chewed them.
"Hey, are you talking about that slut? He drove you away, and he was about to leave. He was writing a memorial to ask me to allow him to return to his hometown."
"I only know." Wei Zhongxian looked surprised and boldly tentatively: "Since he took the initiative to leave, the emperor will allow him to leave."
Chapter completed!