Although Lu An and Luo Yangxing were thrown into the Heavenly Prison, even their families could not visit him, Tang Feng, the Anping Hou, still easily entered the city and met these two good helpers. Not only did he come, he also prepared a good banquet and let the doubts be resolved by his side. In response, the Ministry of Justice guarding the Heavenly Prison did not dare to object. After all, the other party is the most prosperous now, and he personally arrested the two criminals.

When they heard that it was Tang Feng who invited them to have a gathering, Lu An and the others were shocked at first, thinking that he was going to take some harsh action. But then they stopped thinking that. Under the current circumstances, even if Tang Feng didn't deal with them, they would not have the possibility of turning back. Why did he do this forever and cause unnecessary trouble instead? So the two of them quickly followed the prison guards who came to call them out of the cell and came to the wing room that was originally prepared for the guards.

Although it is a wing room, the layout here is not much different from that of the prison cell. It is the same as the sun is not visible, the same cold and humid, but there are only some ordinary furniture. In addition, because of Tang Feng's instructions, dozens of candles have been lit here, which makes it look much brighter. The two of them have been in the dark for the past two days, and suddenly they are unable to adapt to the light. Fortunately, they already have martial arts skills and will no longer feel uncomfortable after a while.

At this time, Tang Feng had already sat upright in a short table, and there were two other short tables beside him, and there were also a lot of wine and food on it. Seeing them coming, Tang Feng smiled at the two of them, and then ordered: "Let's untie their shackles, just treat it as giving me a face."

Although this was a bit unruly, after Tang Feng asked him to hand over a hundred taels of silver bill, the prison guard immediately followed the order. Lu and Luo looked at each other and were a little confused. Could it be that Tang Feng was not afraid of untiing them, would they be detrimental to him? However, after seeing clearly, they knew why Tang Feng was so bold. With such a master standing by at any time, they suffered a lot of hardship here, and they could not use martial arts for 30%, which was indeed no threat. In fact, Tang Feng had never thought so. In his opinion, the two of them had no courage to do too much and of course they could not attack him.

"Two, please sit down." After the others retreated, Tang Feng signaled to the two of them, then picked up the wine glass and drank it to the toast. The two looked at him and then drank the wine in the glass. Lu An and the others suffered a lot in the prison these days and ate very poorly. Now that they have the wine and food in front of them, they are no longer polite. The wind swept the clouds to eliminate all the fine wine and delicacies in front of them, and then Luo Yangxing said: "I don't know what the Marquis is doing to see us? This time we are defeated by you, and we are convinced. Do you still want to humiliate us?"

Tang Feng didn't care about the anger of the two of them. After slowly drinking a glass of wine, he said, "What are you saying? You and I were finally friends of the past. Now that you have been in the Heavenly Prison, I should come to see you?" Speaking of this, he looked at the surrounding environment and the three tables of wine and food and drinks and said, "This power and money are really good things. Let's talk about today. Just because I am the marquis, I can come to see you two people who have not yet been convicted. After spending some money, I can also let you drink and eat with me here, speak freely, and not even have half a guard. It seems that you are an enemy of me for these two things."

"Didn't the Marquis forget to laugh at us at this time?" Lu An said after a bitter smile. Luo Yangxing's face was also a little ugly. Obviously, their thoughts were the same, thinking that this was Tang Feng's ridicule at them.

"No, you misunderstood. I have no intention of mocking you at all." Tang Feng shook his head and said, "I am just a little regretful. It turns out that we can be friends for life and make a career for my Ming Dynasty's rejuvenation, but you... Have you forgotten everything we fought with the eunuch party together and fought with the Jin people together in Liaodong?"

"Hmph, the Marquis is such a big talk." Luo Yangxing said coldly: "You are accusing us of not being enemies with you? But have you ever thought about why we should do these things? Yes, there were rumors in the previous Beijing that you have self-respecting and have a disobedient heart, we had fueled the fire. But if not, how could we completely remove your suppression of us? How could we really make a difference? We are not your puppets, and we must do whatever you ask us to do."

Tang Feng was slightly stunned, then sighed: "It was me who imposed my will on you too much." Only then did he realize the feelings of the two of them. It turned out that some of their ideas about them had never been accepted by them.

"Yes, sir, you can give up everything for the Ming Dynasty court and not seek wealth. That's because you are now a marquis, and you won't have to fight for anything. But what about us? We have just grasped the power of the Jinyiwei. Of course, I hope to do something, but you always don't allow us to do this or that. We are not your Marquis Anping, and we have brothers to take care of..." Luo Yangxing didn't want to endure it anymore, and immediately said everything in his heart: "...We know that once you find some things we have done, we will inevitably stop them, and even use our own influence to deal with us. If that's the case, why can't we take the initiative to do it first?"

Tang Feng looked at Luo Yangxing and Lu An, and his heart was also fluctuating. Suddenly he felt that some of his thoughts were indeed too biased. He knew that the water was clear and there was no fish. When he was the county magistrate of She County, he could have a good deal of those greedy subordinates. During his previous trip to Suzhou, he even refused to deal with the collusion and smuggling of local officials and businessmen because he knew the importance of opening a sea. However, he obviously was not so generous to the people around him. Whether it was Lu An or Luo Yangxing, he hoped that these people could think about the court like him.

Now that I think about it, I am indeed too full of blame. Because I valued it by the emperor, I don’t have to worry about money and power. This has led to my understanding of my subordinates becoming much weaker. I forgot that they are also ordinary people with great power. Whether it is power or money, they are all needed by these people who have already grasped a certain amount of power.

It turned out that Tang Feng just wanted to meet them, and it would be best for them to know their mistakes, but now it seems that he was the one who was wrong. This made him feel very uncomfortable. After a while, he stood up and bowed to the two of them: "It was Tang Feng who neglected the two of them. It is indeed because I imposed my own ideas on you too much that you did this."

The two of them didn't expect Tang Feng to accept his statement humbly, and were both stunned and could not recall it for a long time. But Tang Feng's words did not stop there. He continued: "But it is true that you violate the national law. Although sometimes seeking selfish interests for yourself is not a serious crime, when you harm others because of this, it is a different matter. Brother Luo, because you want to buy people's hearts, you not only did not severely punish those people in Shaanxi, but instead allowed them to accept bribes, which caused the Shaanxi officialdom to be completely corrupt and eventually led to that chaos. You are always to blame. Brother Lu, as the commander of Nanzhen, you have the responsibility to supervise the situation in the Jinyiwei, and you have an unshirkable responsibility for this, so the court should put you in prison this time."

When the two of them heard this, they sighed, but could not argue. They also knew how much harm they caused to the Ming Dynasty. They really said that they did something wrong, so Tang Feng said this reason. Seeing that the two seemed to regret, Tang Feng stopped saying that they were not wrong, but changed the topic: "Although you are all guilty, they will not die. I will also want Your Majesty to plead with you. With the contributions you made before, Your Majesty will definitely give you a light sentence. I hope that after this, you can distinguish the priorities and finally do something that will make your loved ones feel sad and the enemy happy in the future."

"Sir..." Seeing Tang Feng say this, the two of them were very moved and even more regretful. Now they knew that Tang Feng values ​​them, but was it too late?

"It's not too late to regret now. Even if you really convict you, you can still make meritorious contributions. You are all people with all your abilities, and I, the Ming Dynasty, are now at the moment of employed people, and you will always have a day to make a comeback." Tang Feng looked at them and encouraged, "Okay, you can rest in prison for a few days. When you have the chance, I will plead for you." After saying this, Tang Feng stood up and left. The people here and the people in the heavenly prison were to clean up.

After leaving the prison, Tang Feng breathed a deep breath again. He knew that he should have changed. In the past, he only knew how to do things for the court and was not too concerned about the people below. As for Luo and Lu, he naturally should understand the ideas of the people below in the future, and he could provide more support and care for them. Without violating the general principles, he would give them more benefits so that he could truly gain a foothold in the court.

Thinking of this, Tang Feng glanced at the answering questions around him. He had been following him for the longest time, helped him the most, and loyal to him, and thought about him for him. "Solve questions, you have followed me for a long time, and I have never asked you, where are you from, but are you still relatives alive?"

"I was abducted and trafficked when I was not remembering it. Later, the young master accepted it as a book boy. I don't know where I am from." He answered in confusion: "Now my relatives are the young master, the wife, the young master, the young lady and the others..."

Seeing him say this, Tang Feng was also very moved and patted his shoulder and said, "Yes, we are a family now, and I should plan for your future, young master."

Although Tang Feng had pleaded with him, the emperor was still very angry at the fact that these people from the Jinyiwei deceived him, especially the North and South Punishment Envoy, who was the emperor's most trusted person, but now he has become the mastermind of deceiving him. How could Chongzhen not feel disheartened? So a few days later, he severely punished the crowd.

Luo Yangxing and Lu An ignored the stability of the country because of some personal desires. It turned out that they wanted to convict death. They were exempted from death because they had made contributions to the eunuch party and against the enemy Jin people. However, this life crime cannot be spared. Both of them were removed from their current positions and sent to Liaodong as a front pawn.

In addition, some people found to be related to this matter were either sent to the north or the northeast to serve as soldiers, or demoted to slaves, and there was no possibility of turning back in this life. Fortunately, Tang Feng's persuasion, the emperor did not start a large-scale killing this time, which invisibly further consolidated Tang Feng's status in the Jinyiwei.

As for the position of the Jinyiwei North and South Punishment envoy, some old men from the Jinyiwei were appointed. It turned out that Bai Liangfeng, who was in office when the East Factory was rampant, became the new Jinyi Admiral and the Beizhen Punishment envoy. In conjunction with this was Xiong Hui, who made a lot of contributions in this operation, became the commander. As for the candidates in Nanzhen, this was found by Chongzhen from other places. In order to prevent the people of the Jinyiwei from lip service to him, he gave the position of the Nanzhen Punishment envoy to a person he could trust, named Ma Haiying.

Many discerning people saw the unusualness of this. This was obviously the emperor's restraint on Tang Feng. Knowing that his status in the Jinyiwei was very good, the original people were already in awe of him, so they specially transferred an outsider in, and were the Nan Zhenfu Envoy, a different and subtle position, which was indeed a clever trick.

Tang Feng did not express any unhappiness in this regard. After the disagreement between the Jin Kingdom, his relationship with the emperor was not as close as before. It was understandable that he was a little careful about himself. Moreover, he did not mean to be independent, so of course he didn't mind letting the emperor put down any nails on his body.

The internal cleaning of the Jinyiwei made the court officials bear the hearts for a while. After all, there are sometimes some secrets that cannot be told between the surveillance officer and the surveillance officer. Otherwise, the spies of the Jinyiwei would not be able to support themselves. Those who had already had unclean hands and feet were very afraid that what they had done before would be investigated.

However, after being influenced by Luo and Lu this time, Tang Feng was much more lenient than before. He no longer held some minor mistakes, so that the court officials were really implicated, which was what Chongzhen wanted to see. In general, this incident only involved some internal personnel from the Jinyiwei and had no impact on the daily work of the court.

After this incident, the officials who were instigated by Luo and Lu suddenly attacked Tang Feng, saying that as a lord, he should follow the ancestral system and not participate in politics, and should only live up to his old age. In this regard, the emperor also accepted the proposal. Now the Jin people outside could no longer cause storms, and the domestic situation was stabilized with the improvement of the weather. Naturally, Tang Feng did not need to run around, so he followed their wishes and removed all his posts in the court, leaving him the idle marquis.

Although Tang Feng was a little unhappy about this kind of practice of destroying bridges across the river, he was helpless. He still had no connections in the court, and now the emperor is not on his side, so he can only let others manipulate him. Fortunately, he was a person with not much ambitions, and now with most of the power of the Jinyiwei in his hands, he is not afraid that anyone really dares to be an enemy of him.

But sometimes, when people are late at night and cannot fall asleep, Tang Feng always asks himself: "Do I just live like this for the rest of my life? For the sake of the stability of the Ming Dynasty, it doesn't matter if I really do nothing. But the officials in the court today are not all for the Ming Dynasty. Many of them are trying to seize more money and power. Can such a court really embark on the road to Zhongxing from now on?"

Such a question cannot be answered for the time being. Moreover, there was something unhappy in Shaanxi that made Tang Feng unhappy. The local officials who had been convicted by him, at least were dismissed from all positions, and even had to be executed, were pardoned. Except for a few people who were dismissed because of the public outrage, the others were still serving as local officials in the yamen in Shaanxi, as if nothing had happened before.

In response, Tang Feng quickly found the reason through the power of the Jinyiwei. That was because these people spent a lot of gold and silver to the adults in the capital, asking them to say good things for themselves. The cabinet also had the function of checking and balancing the imperial power, so under their control, these corrupt officials who were unpardoned actually escaped.

Two hundred years later, the greed inside the Ming court has been deeply rooted and difficult to recover. It is not possible to change it by removing a eunuch party and appearing an effective emperor. Chongzhen also understood this very well. He still needed those officials to govern the people for themselves, and he had no chance of being petty with them. In the end, he had to be merciless about Shaanxi. But all this once again made the hearts of the officials in the court liven up. Although it might not be as obvious as when eunuch party was in power, the greed and debauchery in the officialdom became increasingly fierce.

Tang Feng could only look helplessly in this regard. Not to mention that he has very little power now, even if he really has the power in hand, he will not be able to make any difference when facing the entire Ming bureaucratic system. Could it be that everything must be broken by peasant uprisings as it was played in history? How severe is that the harm to the people?

Just as Tang Feng was worried about the future of the Ming Dynasty, something bigger than the previous time happened, and chaos broke out in Shaanxi again...

ps: Finally, I was banned and the chicken moved! But the sad thing is that I actually caught a cold and my mind was unclear, which led to the inability to update at such a good time. I can't do anything!!!!!!
Chapter completed!