Chapter 148 In the Name of a Villain

At the Tianjin Wharf, you can see the Xuanhuang Emperor Dragon Banner from afar.

November in the north is already very cold. Today is cloudy, with cloudy clouds and the wind rolling the flags and making noises. Looking at the big banner with Yang characters, Zhang Xiu's mouth showed a slightly bitter smile.

This person was built up by himself. He thought he could establish a relationship between Jinyiwei and the East Factory in front of the new emperor. However, his official career was surprisingly smooth. He had turned his back on the guest in just a short time and threatened his rights and interests. He could be vassal under the East Factory, but could he bow down to his old subordinates?

He looked left and right, and the two battles anchored on the dock were covered with four cannons under the thick tunic. They were preparing to bombard the ship once Yang Ling escaped. Behind the wall behind him were forty crossbowmen and ten musketeers. As long as Yang Ling showed up, he would immediately shoot. No matter how capable he was, he would not be able to survive. As for the two thousand elite guards ambushed outside the port, they were preparing to eliminate Yang Ling's 200 guards in the name of rebellion.

What remains is the affairs of the officials of the court. He could imagine how many damn charges could those officials put Yang Ling, who had already been unable to tell, when he sent more than 200 festering corpses that could no longer be seen, into Beijing.

Zhang Xiu breathed deeply. From his heart, he was disgusted with those civil servants. This perception was formed by the differences in each other's positions and interests, and would never be changed because of each other's cooperation.

The boat was docked, Zhang Xiu smiled faintly, looked at the slowly lowered pedal with his hands in his arms, and the person who died finally came.

He is Yang Ling's old boss. He is not affiliated with each other now and is not inferior to him in terms of status. When Yang Ling sees him coming to greet him, he will definitely take the initiative to get off the boat. As soon as he steps onto the land, 200 steel crossbows will shoot him all over his body.

With a "bang", the pedal fell to the ground, and Zhang Xiu's muscles twitched, as if he saw Yang Ling covered in blood, and looked at him in shock and fell to the ground.

A man appeared at the bow of the boat, and then ran off the boat "dengdeng". He pointed at him one knee from afar, clasped his fists and said, "Oh, why is Admiral Zhang coming? The minister Liu Biao pays homage to the Lord."

Zhang Xiu thought this man was familiar with him. When he heard him claiming his name, he saved him from a small lieutenant in the Jinyiwei, but now he has a thousand households in the inner factory. Zhang Xiuxu helped him and called out, "So it's you? Get up. Why don't you see him?"

Liu Biao greeted him with a smile on his face, nodded and said, "Mr. Yang was in a hurry to go to Beijing to see the emperor, and he got off the boat and walked on the dry road, hahaha. You are not an outsider, and you are not afraid of you know, which one of the adults will take some private goods on the way?

The ship was full of Southern goods. A few days ago, it was transported to Beijing. These were to be pulled to Beijing again, but they were too conspicuous, so they left Tianjin Wharf. If you want to tell local merchants to come to pick up the goods, you have to stop for two or three days before going back to Beijing.”

Zhang Xiu said intimately, "He really made a sound and went on land secretly." With a glance, there were not many people on the boat. Zhang Xiu smiled faintly and waved his hand and said, "Since that's the case, you go and do it. I haven't seen you for many days and I wanted to drink and talk about it, but now I have to wait until I enter Beijing."

Liu Biao looked at his back and sighed deeply in his heart: "The evil of heaven can still survive. Lord Zhang, Lord Zhang, you are so anxious to return to Beijing to send your future and life, that is your own fault, but don't blame him for being humble and unkind."

Zhang Xiu walked out for a while and suggested that the archers who were ambushing left and right were removed. The commander Charlotte replied in a low voice, "Sir, don't you take the opportunity to eat them?"

Zhang Xiu glared at him and said, "Let them do his business, Yang Ling is not on the boat. What's the use of eating these small fish and shrimps? Instead, he gave people the handle!"

He thought for a while, looked back at the leisurely characters on the boat, and whispered: "There are too many people. I will take two thousand people back to Beijing in four batches to meet the troops of the North Town Fushi. As long as Yang Ling dies, I will immediately ask for an order to sanping the inner factory. I will leave it here to you. Pay attention to the movements on the boat."

The news of Wang Qiong and Yang Ling having a quarrel at the banquet, and then the news of being tragically injured was finally handed over to the capital through the post station, the Inspectorate, the Hanlin Academy, and the six ministries officials gathered in the mansion of the Grand Secretary Liu Jian.

Li Dongyang's sedan stopped at the door of the mansion. As soon as he stepped into the yard, officials from various departments rushed forward and shouted: "Sir Li, Yang Ling is unscrupulous and unscrupulous. If this beast is not eliminated, the court will be uneasy. Lord Li, you must uphold justice for the Secretary of the Wang family."

Li Dongyang's face was as deep as water, and he walked forward all the way until Liu Jian's study. Seeing that there were six ministers sitting in the outer study, these people were still calm. When he saw him, he just nodded slightly. Li Dongyang nodded and walked into the inner study. Liu Jian and Xie Qian lowered their clothes with big sleeves and sat opposite him, without saying a word to each other.

Seeing him come in, Liu Jian said slowly: "Binzhi, have you heard of it?"

Li Dongyang nodded and said, "Yes, but... Yang Ling is no longer domineering. Will he kill someone and murder important officials in the court for a dispute?"

Xie Qian smiled bitterly and said, "Who will defend him? Is it you or me? This person is already among us to cut off. Now the crowd is in full swing. We are the ones standing in front of all officials. If we stop at this time or change direction, even we will be stepped on by them! The situation... is no longer our control."

Two clusters of faint flames flashed in Li Dongyang's eyes, and he said in a deep voice: "The Dongchang's heart is better than you and me. I just doubt it..."

Liu Jian said decisively: "It is an indisputable fact that the murderer was either Yang Ling or Dongchang. But now, the situation is in power, can we still start a war with Dongchang? Besides, who will convince all officials? If they suppress them again, if the crowd is angry, you and I will probably burn themselves."

Li Dongyang was silent. He also knew that no matter who killed Wang Qiong, a person who accomplished great things should follow the times and eliminate Yangling first. As for the Dongchang... Yangling was eliminated, the foreign court was very powerful, and it would not be too late to deal with them slowly. It would be unwise to want to start a war on both sides at this time.

Xie Qian helped the case and said, "Just just now, Lord Liu and I have discussed with the six ministries and nine ministers. As long as you agree, we will write a letter together, asking the emperor to kill Yang Ling and eliminate the eight tigers. What do you want?"

Li Dongyang pondered for a while, smiled bitterly, and said quietly: "Now, do we still have a choice?"

"Are eunuchs, eunuchs, and courts all do evil things? All court officials have been doing 600% of the bad things, and they insist on giving a eunuch a message!" Zhengde sat on Longshu's desk. He opened a memorial and threw it out angrily. The study room was full of memorials. While he threw them, the two little eunuchs were lying on the ground and sweating profusely.

At this time, a small yellow gate at the door said in a trembling voice: "The Emperor... The Grand Secretary of the Cabinet has a urgent report."

"Come on!" Zhengde's face turned red with anger. He couldn't help but slam the table angrily when he heard another memorial.

The memorials were all over the ground, and the little yellow gate did not dare to step on it carelessly. He tiptoed like dancing. He walked to Zhengde and presented the thick memorial.

Zhengde opened it and couldn't help but be stunned. The Grand Secretary of the Huagai Palace, the Grand Secretary of the Jinshen Palace, the Grand Secretary of the Wuying Palace, the Grand Secretary of the Officials, the Households, the Liberty, the Military, the Engineering, the Censorate, the Tongzheng Envoy, the Six Ministers of the Dali Temple, the Imperial Envoy of the Six Sections and Thirteen Corps... The rows of handwritings behind him were no longer able to see them.

There seemed to be hundreds of heads in front of him, shouting to him: "Kill Yangling, eliminate the Eight Tigers, and clear the king's side. Otherwise, we will beg for the crown and leave this huge country to you to manage!"

Zhengde sat on the chair and looked ahead with a sad look. Several eunuchs in the hall noticed that the emperor looked wrong, and their hands and feet became lighter, and they didn't even dare to breathe.

Gu Da looked inward at the door of the hall with a round smile, then tiptoed over and waved to several small eunuchs. Several small yellow gates were as if they were granted a general amnesty and hurriedly retreated.

Gu Dayong walked to Zhengde and smiled humbly, "Your Majesty, are you worried about the affairs in the court again? Are you still old ministers of the six ministers and nine ministers? They are all loyal ministers left to you by the former emperor, and they are loyal. The emperor is still young, so what is left to them. With the salary of the court, how can you not share your worries?"

Zhengde glanced at him blankly and said in a daze: "Great use, are you here?"

Gu Dayong bowed and said, "Yes, I have tamed two leopards in the leopard room, thinking that when the emperor is bored in the state affairs, he can go and find a happy life..."

He secretly glanced at the memorials that had not been picked up, and his eyes leaped easily, and changed his tone and said, "The emperor has been serving the ground since he was a child. When I saw you smiling, I was happy in my heart. Now I see you becoming the emperor, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the common ruler of the world, but I am unhappy, and I am in my heart..."

As he said that, he couldn't help but shed tears. He hurriedly wiped his tears and said, "I should have made you happy, why did I cry by myself? I should die, I should die!" As he said that, he slapped his mouth hard.

When Zhengde saw this, he suddenly jumped up and burst into tears. Seeing this, Gu Dayong quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed hard and said, "I deserve to die, I am unhappy with the emperor..."

Zhengde snatched him up and pulled him up, crying and said, "Get up for me for great use. I still remember that when I was a child, I climbed up a tree naughtyly. You stood under the tree and begged me to come down. I was so scared that I slid my hand and fell down. It was you who rushed over to catch me. My boots also cut a long hole in your neck, blood flowing, but you just hugged me and shouted, "The Prince is safe and sound." I...I..."

He cried again, patted the Longshu case hard and roared like a trapped beast: "Work some games with me to make me happy, why have you become an unforgivable treacherous minister?"

The little emperor said in tears: "There is also Yang Shitu. He said he was greedy for power and was ambitious. I, they were blind. Why did I ask the Emperor to sieve him? Even the great Shangshu, he refused to do it, saying that he was ambitious?"

Zhengde sobbed and said in a crying voice: "I want to use a person who is my own country, but I didn't let him interfere in the government. Isn't this possible? Isn't this possible? They bullied me so much and threatened to give up their posts and not do anything. What do they want me to do?"

Gu Dae jumped in a hurry in the corner of his eyes and said with a smile: "Don't cry, yourselves don't cry, you are the emperor, and everyone in the world listens to you. This is to be seen by people. Wouldn't it be laughable?"

He didn't say it was okay, but this statement was like adding fuel to the fire. Emperor Zhengde was furious and said, "Who listens to me? Who listens to me? It's all that I'm listening to them. I'm entrusting all the state affairs to them. This is not enough.

What I want to eat, what I wear, and when I go to bed and get up must listen to them. Do you say that the world belongs to me? In this palace, they all stipulate where I can go and where I cannot go. Who belongs to this world?"

Gu Dayong was furious when he saw Zhengde, and did not dare to stimulate him anymore. He shrank and said timidly: "Don't calm down, they have submitted memorials again and again. Just give back the memorials, don't hurt yourself."

Zhengde wiped the tears, picked up the memorial from the table, and smiled bitterly: "Feng Huan? This time it is the three ministers of the cabinet, the nine ministers of the six ministries, and the civil and military officials who are forced to the palace. What do you want me to do?"

Liu Jin and others had been waiting there quietly outside the door. After hearing this, they finally believed that Yang Ling said that the civil and military officials in the court tried to behead them all. He was praised by the eunuchs in charge and was indeed a trick of the East Factory.

Previously, Yang Ling and Ma Yongcheng rode together in a sedan chair and secretly entered the palace. They made an appointment with Bahu to talk about this matter. Unexpectedly, the eight power prisons in history were actually thieves but not brave. When they heard it, they were frightened. They were frightened. In the past two days, the eunuchs in charge of the affairs were so irritating that they didn't dare to encourage Zhengde to leave the palace, and they just hoped that the court officials could let them go.

Now I heard that even the Three Dukes and the Sixth Ministry and the Nine Ministers have made their debut. Even if they are not educated, they know how serious the situation is. Several people crawled in, crying and screaming according to the method taught by Yang Ling. From Zhengde was serving him to scattering and peeing while he was breastfeeding, and talking about how he was working hard to make him happy.

The sound of each of them was crying with tears, like the cuckoo crying blood. The listener was sad. Emperor Zhengde didn't bother to think about how they got the news and rushed over. He heard it so sadly: the people in front of him were the ones closest to him in his emotions, and those ministers said that they were green faces and fangs like ghosts, how could this young emperor believe it?

Yang Ling stood quietly outside and whispered to Miao Kui: "Are you controlling it?"

Miao Kui nodded and said, "Don't worry, Lord Yang, from now on, I have arranged for the people around the emperor to watch the confidants in the imperial horse supervision area to keep an eye on them. No one wants to get close to them, but... what if the emperor still can't make up his mind? Since we have taken action, we must stop and stop the battle and attract their attention."

Yang Ling sighed softly and said, "The emperor is young and needs to rely on civil and military officials to govern the country. It is really difficult for him to support me at the risk of resigning from all officials."

He smiled faintly on his lips and said, "But... Yang is also a person who has been in the officialdom for a long time. The officialdom and the small officialdom are no different except for the size of power. They can resign, but the emperor can refuse."

Yang Ling thought about the situation where the students who had been studying hard for ten years went to Beijing to take the exam. He remembered Yan Song kowtowed to enter the exam room and said coldly, "Famousness and wealth are hard to come by. I think the majority of people who stay with the flow and continue to be officials. If you add a little, just hold these specific people, the ministers and the bachelors, if you want to leave, let them go."

At this time, Liu Jin saw that the emperor was just crying, but he looked like he could not support them at all. He suddenly wiped his tears and said, "Your Majesty, how can the foreign minister know so much about your affairs in the palace? These are all the Sili Supervisor, the East Factory and the Jinyiwei support behind their backs. They should have been your eyes and ears, but they turned into spies for the foreign ministers and told them all about your local affairs. It is difficult for the emperor to incite the censors to be the emperor!"

Wei Bin hurriedly said, "Yes, the emperor, I heard the elder-in-law Wang Yue say to the three great masters: 'The emperor is young. When you see something wrong with the emperor, you just say it, don't be afraid'."

Zhengde was so angry that he shivered, and his whole body trembled: "This... this bold slave!"

Ma Yongcheng had some rift against Yang Ling because of the female official's death, but that was just a trivial matter. Now he was sitting on a boat, he wanted to sink and live together. He also tried his best to cooperate and said vividly: "Emperor, Eunuch Fan from the East Factory often asked his slaves to ask the emperor what he often bought, and then told the outer court that the inner treasury was the emperor's own. They even interfered in this, and they still took the emperor seriously?"

Zhengde's face turned pale and said sternly: "As the saying goes, the emperor and the ministers. But have I touched them since I ascended the throne? You have followed me for many years and have never held an important position in the inner court. I only have Yang Ling, an official promoted by himself, or a separate inner factory, and have never seized their power. What are they doing?"

Zhang Yong read the most among these people. Seeing that the emperor was about to end his patience, he said softly: "Your Majesty, do you remember Lao Nu and Qiu Ju performing a shadow puppet for you? They are joint ministers in the court. They bullied the emperor at a young age and wanted the emperor to become a puppet.

When they hold hands, you move your hands. When they hold hands, you move your feet. In short, what they want the emperor to do, the emperor has to do...."

"Bang!" He punched the desk hard. Zhengde's face had turned from red to purple. His chest was fluctuating violently, and blue veins were rising on his forehead. His breathing was like a bellows and gasping for a while before he said, "He is punished! You guys, what should I do?"

When Yang Ling heard this, he closed his eyes slightly: "The emperor was finally told, and this sentence was asked. A big storm is inevitable. I am a traitor, so who still understands me?

But... why do I have to let others understand? It is so prosperous and its demise is so sudden. I am just a chess piece arranged here by fate. I use thunderous means and keep the heart of a Bodhisattva. As long as I have a clear conscience, no matter what others think!" Yang Ling thought of this, opened his eyes again, and his eyes became firm.

When Liu Jin heard Zhengde's words, he felt refreshed and quickly climbed two steps forward and said, "How can you lose ten thousand yuan? The factory guards were set by the emperor. Whoever wants to use them and whoever wants to withdraw them? Isn't it just your words?"

Zhengde remembered the long string of names on the memorial, and the courage aroused by his anger disappeared a little further, and he said timidly: "But...will they hold the 12th Regiment Battalion, will it be detrimental to me? Besides......if the officials of the Foreign Court really abandon me and leave...what should I do?"

Zhang Yong smiled and said, "Don't worry, Lord Yang Ling was ordered by you to inspect all officials, and he has always been loyal to his duties and dared not slack off. He heard that the inner and outer courts joined forces to force the palace, and he had already rushed back to Beijing at night. He was here to protect the king and protect the emperor. Lord Yang must have a good idea."

When Zhengde heard this, he seemed to have a backbone and shouted in surprise: "Yang Shidu has returned to Beijing. Where is he? Hurry up! Call him to see me!"

Yang Ling flashed out from the shadow of the palace gate, stepped forward quickly, lifted her robe and was about to turn over and bow down, Zhengde had already hugged him, and his voice was trembling with surprise: "Yang Shidu, Yang Shidu, you are back, I have been bullied by them, I will not be afraid with you."

In the North Town Fushi, Zhang Xiu led 500 Jinyiwei to arrive at the dusk. Mou Bin hurriedly greeted him and said, "Sir, why are you still coming from Tianjin Wei so late?"

Zhang Xiu saw him wearing military uniform and said in a daze: "Don't you usually wear casual clothes in the yamen? Have you just gone out?"

Mou Bin's eyes flashed and he smiled, "Where? Things are tense these days, how dare I be careless? Since I went to Tianjin Guard to guard Yang Ling's ship, Bei Zhi was waiting for him in Beijing. How about it, did Yang Ling catch it?"

Zhang Xiu waved his hand and signaled the five hundred people to scatter into the backyard to rest. While walking into the room, he sighed: "Look at me, do you seem to have caught me? He chose the dry road, but the East Factory sent a total of 25,000 people to lay a net of Zhang Tianluo and Earth along the way. He wanted to go to Beijing unless he put his wings on his way!"

In Mou Bin’s study, Zhang Xiu was a familiar family, so he stepped in without any restraint. After walking to the case, he sat down. When he saw Mou Bin following him, he stood by the door and couldn’t help but laugh: “You haven’t done a big thing, there’s no need to be so nervous. Haven’t we ever taken the first and second-rank officials? What’s more, it’s Yangling’s betrayal dog.”

Mou Bin smiled and said, "Of course, I have taken the first and second ranks of imperial court officials, but I have never taken the Admiral of the Jinyi. How can I not be nervous?"

Zhang Xiu stood up suddenly when he heard this. Without thinking, he raised his hand and grabbed the sword on the wall. He heard a "clang" sound, and the sword roared like a dragon. The endless roar of the sword was not over. Zhang Xiu had already raised his sword and raised it, like a flying swallow in the water cutting, jumping over the desk.

Looking up, Qian Ning had already flashed into the door, holding two steel crossbows in his hand, looking at him with a smile. The strings on the crossbow were pulled open, and a row of crossbow arrows were black and oily. The inner screen in the side also fell down with a slam. The four Jinyiwei also stood behind with crossbows, and couldn't help but lower his arms dejectedly.

Mou Bin smiled and said, "Those who know the current affairs are heroes. Now I have finally known the current affairs. My brothers, it is better not to use the knife and gun to get hurt. Now I just hope that the people from the Dongjishi Factory can also know the current affairs, otherwise they can be laughed at by the people from the Outer Court."

Zhang Xiu was shocked and angry, shouting: "Mu Bin, can you rebel? How dare you arrest me! There are eight thousand men stationed in the Dongjishi Factory. Even if you have one thousand men, you dare to hit the stone with your eggs?"

Mou Bin said tskly: "Sir, I just praised you for your understanding of the current affairs, so I am confused again. Dongchang? Of course, Lord Yang, who had wings and flew back to Beijing, went to arrest and convict himself. How could I steal the limelight from him?"

Zhang Xiu took two steps back and said in horror: "He...has he already entered Beijing?"

Mou Bin looked at him with pity and said, "How can you win if you don't know the enemy? I just learned that Lord Yang will change horses and not change people, pretending to be a horse merchant, and he has been going day and night from Jinling and has returned to Beijing for five days!"

When Zhang Xiu heard this, his face suddenly turned pale. Mou Bin sighed, turned around and walked out of the room, and said leisurely: "Qian Ning, Master Xuan's verbal order!"
Chapter completed!