The days when I ransacked the house in Jinyiwei

Chapter 171 The Story of Li Mengyang ([-]-character chapter)
Chang Feng is busy exchanging feelings with his wives and concubines who have reunited after a long absence.

Zhang Heling, Marquis of Shouning, was not idle either.

Yunniang, a 40-year-old former chef in Changfu, is serving Zhang Heling with all her heart.

It is not easy for a 40-year-old woman to be spotted by a handsome young man in the age of dancing elephants.What's more, the young man is still the uncle of the dynasty?
How could she not work hard if she had a good body and mind and could still get rich?
Zhang Heling is like in the clouds.

After the matter was over, Yunniang said angrily: "My sister followed you, you should let my sister return home in full bloom."

Zhang Heling said: "Okay! I will send the Marquis's official sedan chair and a full set of guards of honor to send my sister back home."

Yun Niang said: "Sister, I don't want those vain people. Good brother, my family has been a farmer for five generations in the village. If you really want to make me famous, give me the land in our village!"

Zhang Heling said: "The land is not mine, how can I reward you?"

Yunniang thought for a while, and said, "You wouldn't want it from your own sister, the queen? It's not out of line for Uncle Guo to ask for a few thousand acres of Zhuangzi. My dear brother, please."

Zhang Heling thought: yes.The Ming Dynasty belonged to my brother-in-law, half of my sister.What if I want thousands of acres of land?
Thinking of this, Zhang Heling said: "Let's do it!"

Yun Niang chuckled: "Then I thank my good brother."

Zhang Heling deserves to be a man of the year of dancing elephants.Sure enough, the elephant dance!
"Good sister, how can you thank me? Give me Bei'anmen!"

"You are bad! Come."

"hiss!"

The next day, Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling entered Kunning Palace.

Zhang Heling opened his mouth and said: "Sister! There is a piece of land in Yufa Township, Wanping County, which is very good. Give it to me!"

Queen Zhang frowned: "Why do you want to ask me for land?"

Zhang Heling said: "Ah, I'm a marquis, it's not too much to build a few thousand acres of Zhuangzi."

Empress Zhang said: "I'm thinking about this matter. The emperor must agree."

Queen Zhang didn't object, in Zhang Heling's view, she agreed!
He left the palace with Zhang Yanling.With his servants, he began to drive away the peasants in Yufa Township, and seized the land for himself.

You know, this is under the root of the year.Thousands of people were forced to occupy their land for no reason.

When Zhang Heling came to grab the land, he not only brought his servants with him, but also transferred [-] soldiers from the [-]th Regiment Battalion.The battalion soldiers are vicious, armed with guns and knives, how can the common people dare to resist?

What's more, Zhang Heling's majestic 17-year-old Marquis actually took a 40-year-old woman with him in the carriage.While doing that mediocre thing, he listened to the screams of the people being beaten outside the carriage.

Indecent!How indecent!
Wanping county magistrate was very angry when he learned of this.He reported to Shuntian Fu Yin, who was also filled with righteous indignation.

But they neither dared to stop Zhang Heling's immoral behavior, nor did they dare to report to the emperor.

No one in the world knows that Emperor Hongzhi only doted on Empress Zhang, treated the Zhang family well, and treated the two younger brothers-in-law as his own younger brothers.

Few people dare to touch this mold.

Yin Ah Q of Shuntian Prefecture possessed: I dare not control you, someone dares to control you!I will go to him!
The person Fu Yin is looking for is not high-ranking.It's just that he is a doctor of Qing officials in Beizhili, Hubu, and he is a fifth grade.

But his name resounded throughout the history of Chinese literature.

He is - Li Mengyang!

Li Mengyang, a native of Fugou, Shaanxi (some areas of Gansu were under the jurisdiction of Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty).

Although he and Li Dongyang have similar names, they are not related at all.

The evaluation of him by later generations is: a writer in the mid-Ming Dynasty, and the leader of the former seven sons of the retro-style school.

Among Beijing officials, Li Mengyang is known for his courage.

He was born in a scholarly family and a family of officials.His father was a professor in Zhou Wangfu.

Li Mengyang has been intelligent since he was a child, he is familiar with classics and poems, and he is full of economics.What is eaten is rice, and what is pulled out is beautiful articles.

That year, he participated in the Shaanxi Provincial Examination.According to the Ming system, scholar candidates must return to their hometowns.

So he went to Xi'an to prepare for the exam.During his stay in Xi'an, he heard that the magistrate was fish and meat people, but the third division didn't care.

So when he entered the Gongyuan, he did a bold thing, satirizing the darkness of the officialdom.

In broad daylight, he carried a lantern in his hand.

The examiner in the tribute courtyard was puzzled and asked him why.Li Dongyang replied: "The officials in Xi'an City are in the dark. If I don't light up lanterns, I'm afraid I won't find the right way."

This is the allusion of Li Mengyang's "Raising Lanterns in the Day".

As an aside, 450 years later, a general surnamed Feng imitated Li Mengyang's behavior.

Fan imitation behavior is more famous than the idol's real behavior.

The story of carrying lanterns in the daytime spread, and the magistrate of Xi'an and Sansi hated him so much.They found Xuezheng and asked Xuezheng Yamen to disqualify Li Mengyang from taking the exam.

Fortunately, Xuezheng is an upright official.Under pressure, Li Mengyang completed the rural examination.

The prefect of Xi'an and the Third Division of Shaanxi originally planned to wait for him to complete the provincial examination to take revenge on him.

As a result, the marking was over, and the test paper was torn apart.Li Mengyang High School No.1 Jieyuan!His essays for the exam were exquisite, and were copied by literati all over Shaanxi.

For a while, Li Mengyang became a top idol among Shaanxi literati.The local government can't help him.

In the second year, Li Mengyang went to the capital to take part in the examination, and even became a tribute.No. 17 in the second class in the palace examination (National No. 20).

Xiao Li also looks more dignified, and he is a well-known handsome young man in ten miles and eight villages.Sorted into the Hanlin Academy as a good scholar, the future is bright.

If this script goes on, Li Mengyang will be an academic officer in the Imperial Academy for several years.Then it is divided into six departments or places.

After working hard for decades to qualify, at least he can be an official of the Six Departments or a big official in Xinjiang.It is even possible to join the cabinet and become an extremely human minister.

After all, the upper limit of official positions for people of Shuji family background is ceiling level.

However, Li Mengyang suffered a great loss because of his boldness at the Enrong Banquet where the Ministry of Rites hosted the Xinke Scholars!

Li Mengyang drank a few more glasses, showing a cold tooth for stereotyped essays during his conversation.He also spoke amazingly, proposing that "literature must be in Qin and Han Dynasties, poetry must be prosperous in Tang Dynasty".

This kind of speech was regarded as heresy by the officials of the Manchu Dynasty who promoted themselves with stereotyped writing!
You said Wen Bi Qin and Han, where did you put Zhu Zi and Er Cheng?Where did you put the stereotyped masters of the past?
This is like a modern person traveling to the era of witch hunting in Western Europe and preaching atheism to people.

Putting you on the stake is considered a light mercy on you.

Of course, the East is still more civilized.Even if scholars want to burn Li Mengyang to death, they will not take action.

But the academician in charge of the Hanlin Academy resigned: such an arrogant person, the Hanlin Academy absolutely does not want it!Wherever love goes.

So Li Mengyang was deprived of his qualifications as a concubine, and was sent to the household department as the head of the household.

In the household department, he is known for his shrewdness, boldness and carefulness.

The Hanlin Academy didn't want him, but allowed him instead.He was like a fish in water in the household department, and he was promoted to a doctor within a few years.

Emperor Hongzhi had the desire to restrain land mergers, and he had expressed his attitude of restraining land mergers many times.But because of too much resistance, we can only do our best.

As Li Mengyang, the official secretary of Beizhili, the biggest task of the household department is to prevent the land annexation of Beizhili!

Zhang Heling hit his muzzle.

I, Li Mengyang, have the guts to swallow the sky!I, Li Mengyang, dare to take care of things that others dare not take care of!Those who others dare not participate in, I, Li Mengyang, dare to participate!
It's a joke, I'm not afraid of offending scholars all over the world.Am I still afraid of mere relatives?
He handed over a memorial to impeachment to the Secretary of General Administration, and then passed it to Emperor Hongzhi from the Secretary of General Administration.

There are three main charges for the impeachment of Zhang Heling in this memorial.First, the foreign relatives are good at mobilizing regiments and soldiers, and they are suspected of conspiracy.

[-]. Grabbing people's fields and demolishing people's houses.

[-]. Disturbing the countryside with promiscuous old women, ostentatiously, and indecent.

At this moment, Emperor Hongzhi showed his shortcomings-protecting the calf, especially the Zhang family's calf.

Seeing that the people impeached were his two brothers-in-law, he didn't read the memorial at all.Take it directly to Kunning Palace and hand it over to Queen Zhang.

He told Queen Zhang: "Let He Ling restrain himself."

Queen Zhang called her two younger brothers, severely reprimanded them, and threw the memorial to them.

After the two watched, Zhang Heling seemed to have discovered something, and he shouted: "This bastard named Li Mengyang, Xiang Zhuang's sword dance is aimed at Peigong! He is scolding you, sister!"

Empress Zhang was surprised: "Why did you say that?"

Zhang Heling pointed to a sentence in the memorial and said: "Look, here is a sentence 'Your Majesty is thick with Mrs. Zhang'. Isn't Mrs. Zhang just you! This is disrespectful to you!"

"He joins us. We still have to pay attention to his disrespect to the mother of the country!"

In fact, the "Zhang family" mentioned in Li Mengyang's memorial refers to the Zhang family of his relatives, not specifically to Empress Zhang.

Although Queen Zhang is not a bad hearted person.But she is still not a good queen like Queen Ma.Born in Xiaojiabiyu, she has long hair but short knowledge.

The two younger brothers arranged it again with added fuel and vinegar.She was so angry.I went to the Qianqing Palace in person and asked Emperor Hongzhi to punish Li Mengyang for his crimes.

Emperor Hongzhi knew in his heart that the Zhang family was at a loss.But his wife has a life, and as a madman who spoils his wife, he had to express an attitude.

So Emperor Hongzhi summoned the two new officials of Jin Yiwei, Chang Feng and Mou Bin.

In the main hall of Qianqing Palace.Emperor Hongzhi handed over Li Mengyang's record of impeaching the two uncles to the two of them.

The phrase "Your Majesty Hou Zhang" in the excerpt was highlighted with a red brush.

Emperor Hongzhi said: "Li Mengyang is disrespectful to the queen. I will punish him severely. He will be arrested and imprisoned."

Chang Feng said: "Your Majesty, Li Mengyang's accusation of impeaching the two uncles seems to be true."

Chang Feng also heard that Zhang Heling recently ran a horse enclosure in Wanping County and got a Zhuangzi.I just didn't know he was doing so much.

And the "forty old woman" mentioned in the memorial is obviously Yunniang, my former cook.

Emperor Hongzhi waved his hand: "I didn't ask you to investigate the Zhang brothers' occupation of the land. I only asked you to strictly deal with Li Mengyang's disrespect to the queen."

Chang Feng hurriedly cupped his hands: "Yes."

Emperor Hongzhi said: "Go and arrest people!"

The two were about to leave the hall.Emperor Hongzhi added: "There is no way, I always have to give the queen an explanation."

Chang Feng and Mou Bin left the hall.

Mou Bin is notoriously kind, but also likes poetry, and admires Li Mengyang.I quite agree with his view that "literature must be in Qin and Han Dynasties, poetry must be prosperous in Tang Dynasty".

Mou Bin said: "Master Chang, I listen to the emperor's voice, and I don't want us to severely punish Li Mengyang."

"It's just because of our relationship with the queen, let Jin Yiwei make a gesture."

Chang Feng was worried that Mou Bin was really going to deal with Li Mengyang with a chicken feather as an arrow.I didn't expect him to be so reasonable.

Chang Feng immediately echoed: "That's right. That's what I think too. The emperor issued an order, and Li Mengyang has to be arrested. But how we treat him after he is arrested is the business of our brothers."

"Brother Mou, you like poetry. Now I have the opportunity to discuss with Li Mengyang."

Mou Bin was overjoyed: "I am transferred back to the capital. I have never visited Li Gong alone!"

The two first went back to Jinyiwei to open the driving stickers, and then came to the household department.

It is Liu Daxia who sits in the household department today.

When Liu Daxia heard that Chang Feng was here to arrest Li Mengyang, he was very surprised: "Are you going to arrest him? In terms of character, he has a high integrity. In terms of ability, he is many times stronger than those rotten scholars."

"In terms of official reputation, he is a well-known honest doctor in the household department."

"Just because you impeached the uncle of the country, you are going to throw him into imperial prison? I heard that if you enter the imperial prison, you will lose your skin if you don't die."

Chang Feng quickly comforted Liu Daxia: "We will lock him up for a few days, and let the queen calm down, and then he will be released."

"Don't worry, Liu Butang. We will treat him well in the imperial prison. If he loses a catty when he gets out of prison, you can ask me."

This old guy Liu Daxia has quite a sense of humor: "One catty? If you cut him three or two taels, it will be enough for him to be eunuched."

Chang Feng and Mou Bin couldn't help laughing.

The two came to the duty room of the Qingli Department in Beizhili and showed Li Mengyang the driving sticker.

Li Mengyang didn't like Jin Yiwei at all.In addition, he has never been in contact with Chang Feng before, so he doesn't know Chang Feng's personality.

Li Mengyang took it for granted that the emperor's favorite minister must be a flattering villain.

In addition, Li Mengyang heard that the Chang family has a very close relationship with the queen.
He held his head high, with a posture of seeing death as home: "In ancient times, there was Bigan, and now there is one below. If you want to catch it, you can catch it, and if you want to kill it, kill it!"

"I, Li Mengyang, are naturally courageous! Others are afraid of going to prison, but I am not afraid!"

Chang Feng hurriedly said: "My Mr. Li. Can you stop talking nonsense! You call yourself Big Gan, so what has happened today?"

"Besides, the son of a bitch is the one who wants to kill you! You are not afraid of the powerful, and you impeach your relatives. We Jinyiwei admire you so much, it's too late to treat you well!"

Mu Bin echoed: "Don't worry, sir. I have asked the imperial prison to tidy up a cell, which is fairly clean. I asked my family to send over all the bedding."

"I also had people burn incense in the cell. I prepared some isolated poems from the Tang and Song dynasties, pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and a Yaoqin."

"You have the right to be clean in the prison for a few days!"

The attitudes of Chang Feng and Mou Bin surprised Li Mengyang.

After a while, Li Mengyang made his own judgment: They may be deliberately coaxing me out of fear that I would resist arrest.

Li Mengyang thinks highly of himself.Can Jin Yiwei be afraid of resisting the arrest of a scholar who has no strength to restrain him?
Thinking of this, Li Mengyang had a rebellious expression on his face: "The king wants the minister to die, and the minister must die. Let's go, take me to the prison."

Chang Feng didn't put any shackles on Li Mengyang, and led him to Fusi Prison in Beizhen.

The three walked towards the "cell" prepared for Li Mengyang.

Passing by the cells on both sides, Li Mengyang kept hearing the screams of the prisoners.

Li Mengyang thought to himself: Sure enough!Prison is a hell on earth.How could you treat me kindly!

At this moment, everyone arrived at Li Mengyang's cell.

Li Mengyang walked in and took a look, he was dumbfounded!

This prison cell is too clean and elegant, right?

A small bed with a fine satin-topped quilt.There are two desks and a bookshelf in the center of the cell.Pen, ink, paper and inkstone are all available.

What's even more exaggerated is that there is also a small tea stove for making tea, gurgling and steaming, and it is boiling tea. It smells like an authentic Wuyi Mountain Dahongpao.

Chang Feng asked Shi Wenyi to arrange the cell.Shi Wenyi is a master at serving people.Turned the cell into an inn room.

Li Mengyang said: "Is this too much?"

Chang Feng said: "Mr. Li, I know the beating nature of Zhang Heling and Zhang Songling, those two little bastards."

"Don't worry, I still have a bit of face with them. I will let them return the thousands of acres of land they annexed to the people."

"It's just that this matter involves the empress. The emperor and the empress are deeply in love. As a last resort, I have to wrong you to stay here for two days."

"Today is the 28th of the twelfth lunar month. Don't worry, when my wife enters the palace on the fifth day of the lunar new year, she will persuade the queen to let you go."

"On New Year's Eve and the first day of the new year, I'll send someone to bring you dumplings. Tell Shi Qianhu who serves you what kind of stuffing you like."

Qian Ning was promoted to be the governor of Beizhen, and Shi Wenyi succeeded him and became the inspector of thousands of households.

Chang Feng asked Shi Wenyi to serve Li Mengyang in the prison.Serving people is his specialty.

Li Mengyang lives in a luxury cell, and Chang Feng and Mou Bin are kind again.He let go of his previous guard.

Li Mengyang said: "Thank you very much."

Chang Feng said with a smile, "I'll go out to do some errands first. Mou Qianshi has admired you for a long time. Let's discuss poetry here first."

Chang Feng went out of prison and found Qian Ning.

Chang Feng told him: "Tie someone."

Qian Ning was transferred from regiment camp to Jinyiwei, and then soared from Xiaoqi to Beizhen Fushi, all thanks to Chang Feng's support.

Chang Feng told him to go east, but he never went west.Chang Feng said that the Yellow River is clean, and I'm afraid he would agree: It's really clearer than the big white urine I drank a bucket of water to urinate.

Qian Ning asked, "Who was kidnapped? Which feudal official or minister?"

Chang Feng said: "You often eat in my dining room. Do you still remember that there is a cook in my house named Yun Niang?"

Qian Ning said: "I remember. Master Xu slept with him. Later, he climbed up to the Marquis of Shouning and made him a foreign residence for the Marquis of Shouning."

Chang Feng frowned: "What? What a waste! Why didn't I notice it before! Fatty Xu slept with her too? Damn it, he and Zhang Heling really deserve to be boot brothers!"

"This woman encourages Marquis Shouning to commit crimes. You can't keep her. You tie her up and send her to Jiubian, where she can be married to any Qiu Ba. The farther away the better."

Qian Ning asked: "If Marquis Shou Ning knows about this?"

Chang Feng said: "It's just a foreign house. Even if he knows, I'll take care of it."

Qian Ning cupped his hands: "Decree. I'll do it right away."

Next, Chang Feng wants the Zhang brothers to spit out the land they seized.

He didn't go there himself.The person who tied the bell needs to be untied.Zhang Heling's occupation of the land was instigated by Yunniang.It was Chang Tian who forced Zhang Heling to take Yunniang as a foreign residence.

Chang Feng went back to the mansion, so and so, so and so explained to Chang Tian.

The next day, Chang Tian went to the Shouning Marquis Mansion aggressively.

Zhang Heling smiled and said, "Haha, Miss Tangtang is here. How are you doing with that kid surnamed Huang recently? Have you held hands?"

"If he dares to belittle our sister, I will cut off his left hand if he pulls with his left hand, and his right hand if he pulls with his right hand."

Seeing Chang Tian's sullen expression, Zhang Yanling hurriedly said, "Second brother, what are you talking about? Tangtang girl, ignore him. Whatever you want to eat, I'll let the kitchen make it for you."

Chang Tian said: "Hmph, I want to eat fried cicada monkeys!"

How can there be a cicada monkey in the cold winter, Chang Tian is embarrassing the two elder brothers.

Zhang Heling showed embarrassment: "This is only known to Monkey Xiaxia."

Zhang Yanling said: "It doesn't matter. I'll take someone to dig the roots of the tree. There are cicada monkeys under the roots of the tree! Even if we dig up all the trees in the capital, we still have to make a whole plate for Tangtang girl!"

Zhang Yanling made a gesture to leave.

But Chang Tian stopped him: "Hmph! I've changed my mind! I want to eat the meat of both of you! It's freshly cut, with bloodshot eyes. I'll eat it raw with salt!"

(End of this chapter)