Uncle from a poor family

Chapter 451: What if I'm the head of the family? (asking for monthly tickets)

"on!"

At Zhang Heling's command, the Jinyiwei immediately began to attack the gate of Li's mansion.

In fact, there is no need to make too much trouble. The door will open just by knocking on it. Even Zhang Yanling was thinking, with such a large group of people coming, the door can be easily opened even if they go forward and knock on it. Why go to so much trouble?

However, perhaps Qin Yun also wanted to show the two Zhang brothers the working style and efficiency of the Jinyiwei, so he resorted to the violent attack in this situation.

As the gate of Li's mansion opened, a large group of Jinyiwei rushed in with swords drawn. Soon after, archers climbed up the walls to monitor every move of everyone in Li's mansion.

Qin Yun said: "My two lords, the situation is like this. Li Hua's family is very wealthy. In addition to the huge assets in Beijing, there are also many farmlands in his ancestral hometown. Many of the names of these properties are not very detailed. I don't know whether they were left by his ancestors or owned by other members of the Li family."

"So how should we deal with it?"

Zhang Heling’s main point is to ask questions without feeling ashamed.

Qin Yun nodded and said, "A lot of the family property is indeed not in Li Hua's name, but in the name of his fellow clansmen, but there are also suspicions that it is actually his property."

"This one……"

Zhang Heling widened his eyes, not knowing how to solve the problem for a moment.

Zhang Yanling smiled and said, "It's easy to understand. It's just transferring property... This won't work. We have to seal everything up, investigate it carefully, and find out the truth before returning it to its original owner, right?"

"Since the Second Young Master said so, I will go back and ask the Commander to send my brothers to his ancestral hometown to confiscate the property." Qin Yun expressed his opinion immediately.

Zhang Heling felt a little uneasy. He pulled his brother's collar and then leaned in close to ask in a low voice, "Second brother, it is right to confiscate Li Hua's property, but why don't you let go of his brothers from the same clan? If you commit a crime in the future, won't I be implicated as well?"

"Oh my god, brother, you have a really unique way of thinking."

Zhang Yanling looked at his cheap brother with a strange expression and asked, "Why can't you get into trouble in the future and implicate me?"

"No matter what, I think this matter needs to be carefully considered and not act rashly."

Zhang Heling shook his head repeatedly.

Zhang Yanling was annoyed when he heard this: "What are you thinking about? Jinyiwei can't do anything. Do they have to listen to you? Don't you realize that they are just notifying you... Hey, you really think you are a piece of cake."

Zhang Heling said dissatisfiedly: "Don't just contradict me... I was ordered to come here to command the confiscation of property, and now everyone listens to me..."

Seeing that his brother was unmoved, Zhang Heling had no choice but to raise his hands in surrender and said in a low voice: "Okay, today, please give me, your elder brother, a little face and let me have some glory today, okay?"

Then he pointed at Qin Yun who was directing the dispatch at the door and said, "I think the situation inside should have been under control... Captain Qin, please take the people in quickly."

Qin Yun just happened to have heard the report from his subordinates, and turned back. When he came to the two Zhang brothers, he said, "Everything is fine now. Please come in, gentlemen. I can go in and check if there are any omissions."

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The Zhang brothers were jointly responsible for searching Li Hua's residence in Beijing.

When the two brothers finished their errands and returned home happily, Zhang Luan was sitting by the flower bed in the front yard drinking tea, frowning and looking unhappy.

Zhang Heling walked over with a swagger and teased, "Dad, haven't you been away from home these days? Why didn't you go out to have fun today?"

"roll!"

Zhang Luan cursed, "Don't wear this dog-skin outfit and go out to show off in the future. If you keep talking nonsense, I'll knock your teeth out!"

"Huh? Did you eat gunpowder?"

Zhang Heling wanted to brag about his great achievements today in front of his old father, but seeing his father's unfriendly attitude, he pouted and went back to his room to slowly savor the moment.

Wait for someone to leave.

Zhang Luan stopped his youngest son who was about to leave and said with a bitter face, "Yanling, you are right... Li Zisheng has actually started to ignore me... How dare he?"

Zhang Yanling said, "Dad, they didn't do anything to you. They just kept a distance from you. Is it necessary to be like this?"

"I... sigh!"

Zhang Luan was embarrassed to say that all my preferences were controlled by Li Zisheng.

To the point that now, if I don’t spend a day with Li Zisheng, I feel uncomfortable and uneasy.

"Dad knows us two brothers, what did we go out for today?"

Zhang Yanling asked with a smile.

"What can you do? Isn't it just to go out and do some business and earn some pocket money?" Zhang Luan said.

Zhang Yanling chuckled and said, "We just went to raid Li Hua's mansion... It was the first time that Big Brother went out on duty as a captain of the Imperial Guards, and it was quite glorious."

"That boy? Oh no... whose house did you say you wanted to rob?"

Zhang Luan felt like his brain wasn’t enough.

Zhang Yanling raised his chin, "Li Hua, is he the director of the Imperial Observatory who had some conflicts with you, father, and joined forces with Ni Yue to impeach you, and was eventually convicted?"

Zhang Luan's eyes lit up, he stood up suddenly and asked, "Has Li Hua been imprisoned? He...he..."

"Not only was he imprisoned, but it was also discovered that he had financial dealings with many officials in the court. When he was in the Imperial Observatory, he repeatedly committed acts of corruption and abuse of power. It can be said that he has a long history of bad deeds!"

Zhang Yanling said sternly, "If he had no other crimes and only impeached you, even if he was convicted, he wouldn't have been in such a miserable situation of having his property confiscated... You know what, his family is really wealthy."

Zhang Luan asked in surprise: "Didn't you say before that even if officials in the court were convicted, their families would not be implicated? Why is Li Hua..."

"I'm talking about civil officials." Zhang Yanling said, "Just like Ni Yue, until now, only he has been convicted, and his family is still safe and sound." "Really? But why did your father hear that his house was also raided?" Zhang Luan was a little confused, "Is your information more effective, or is mine?"

Zhang Yanling was not vague at all and said with certainty: "Ni Yue's home in the capital was raided, but his family members were not convicted. They are just temporarily living somewhere else. The court is currently investigating whether he is related to the Liang Fang case... At least until Liang Fang is escorted to the capital and the interrogation results are revealed, Ni Yue's family members are safe."

Zhang Luan nodded thoughtfully and asked, "You mean, for a civil official to be convicted, there must be solid evidence before his family members will be implicated, right?"

"It also has to be a crime."

Zhang Yanling continued to explain patiently, "If it is just a general crime, the family will not be implicated. However, if it involves corruption and abuse of power, causing great losses to the court, or conspiracy to overthrow the court and covet the throne, or other heinous crimes, the family may also be implicated."

Zhang Luan sighed, "It's so complicated, I can't figure it out anymore."

Zhang Yanling said helplessly: "Dad, what you need to do now is to get rid of Li Zisheng's influence as soon as possible and gain a firm foothold in the court. Don't always think about relying on others to help you do things.

"As for the benefits that Li Zisheng can bring to you... you should try to be restrained. The treacherous people in the court have many ways to bribe people. You have fallen into the trap, don't you know? Alas, you are really... useless!"

Zhang Luan's face darkened, and he cursed loudly: "Go away, go away, is there any son who would scold his father like this? No matter how useless I am, I am still your father! Okay, I need to calm down today, and accompany your mother and your aunt... Get out of here, I am annoyed when I see you, don't stay here and get in the way!"

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Another day of court meeting.

The emperor summoned very few people that day and held meetings in a small group in the Wenhua Hall.

Perhaps Zhu Youtang also felt that Wenhua Hall was his foundation. Only here could he talk to others calmly. He always felt insecure when he went to Fengtian Gate or Fengtian Hall to hold court meetings.

The emperor was so introverted that he was almost autistic, and his interpersonal relationships were greatly restricted.

Apart from two cabinet ministers and the six ministers, only Xu Qiong and Zhang Luan were present among the vice ministers that day. After the meeting in Wenhua Hall ended, Zhang Luan was supposed to leave the palace with everyone else, but Tan Ji came to find Zhang Luan and invited him to meet the "noble master" in Duanjing Hall.

"What a strange name."

Zhang Luan spoke without any reservation.

Qin Ji smiled bitterly upon hearing this: "Please forgive me, Minister Zhang. Your Majesty is no longer the Crown Princess, but she is not the Empress either. We have to wait until she is officially canonized before we can change the title. Look, your Majesty has not even moved to Kunning Palace yet. Your Majesty still comes back to sleep every day, and does not stay overnight in Qianqing Palace."

"is it?"

When Zhang Luan heard this, he was shocked: "So my daughter is so important to the emperor that he can't bear to leave her and only feels at ease when he sleeps with her every day?"
The young couple is so loving and affectionate!
If that’s the case, why haven’t I heard that you’ve conceived a grandson for me?

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Then Zhang Luan arrived at the Duanjing Hall. After entering, he saw two boxes placed on the ground in the middle of the hall.

Zhang Luan stepped forward and bowed respectfully: "Greetings, Your Excellency."

Zhang Yu walked over to help his father up, frowned and asked, "Father, what happened to you?"

"It's the rules. Eunuch Tan told me that you are neither the Crown Princess nor the Queen now. I have to call you the Lord." Zhang Luan looked around and didn't see the Crown Prince, so he asked, "Why did the Lord summon me here?"

"You're so ungentlemanly... Here are some things. You can give them to mother when you go back... There are also some for aunt and sister. I have marked them all. You can divide them up after you take them back." Zhang Yu said.

As the future empress of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Yu was extremely caring towards her natal family, and moving things to her natal family was a common occurrence.

Zhang Luan was a little annoyed when he heard his daughter's comment about him being "unruly". When he heard that she was moving things home, he couldn't help but frown and asked, "You called me here just for such a small matter?"

Seems very impatient.

Zhang Yu was somewhat puzzled and asked, "Father, why are you so rude? Isn't this a good thing?"

"The family doesn't need your little stuff."

Zhang Luan said angrily, "When I was at home, your brother would always scold me. Now that you're here, you're scolding me too. It seems that as a father, I can't have any dignity at all, right?"

Zhang Yu couldn't help but smile when he heard this, and asked, "Did my second brother teach you a lesson? But my second brother is right, father, you should be more restrained. As the father-in-law of the emperor, shouldn't you set an example yourself?"

"I……"

Zhang Luan was speechless when he heard this.

Zhang Yu then slowed down his tone and said calmly: "You don't lack anything, but mother and aunt do. These are tributes, which are good things that cannot be obtained outside the palace. Don't be too ostentatious when you take them home, after all, it will have a bad influence. Besides, I want to see mother later. I haven't seen her for more than half a year, and I miss her very much."

Zhang Luan frowned and said, "After marrying into the palace, you are a person of an outsider family. Why would you miss your family? Everyone at home is very good..."

"Humph, it seems like it's not your father who stays in this deep palace all day long?"

Zhang Yu raised his beautiful eyebrows again and said angrily, "Since the crown prince ascended the throne, I have fewer opportunities to see him. It's even more boring to stay here every day. What's wrong with me seeing mother? Also, let my second brother come to the palace more often. Even the crown prince doesn't object to it, why are you stopping him?"

"What prince? It's time to change your tone."

Zhang Luan corrected.

"I can call him whatever I want. He's my husband, and you don't need to interfere! Also... I'm the queen from now on, and you have to listen to my teachings. Even if you're dissatisfied, don't lose your temper in front of me. Do you really think you're that capable? Don't you know what our family situation is like and who we relied on to get to where we are today?"

Zhang Luan felt embarrassed after being criticized by his daughter and his face turned red.

Zhang Yu continued, "The Crown Prince has already said that he will confer the title of Queen on me in the next few days, and that he plans to find you an official position in the Five Military Commandery. I heard that my eldest brother is already a captain of the Imperial Guard? That's great... But, shouldn't we also make some arrangements for our younger brother? He has deeper attainments, so in the future, the family property and other things will be left to the eldest brother, and the official positions will be given to the younger brother, so that Yanling can help his brother-in-law.

"Also, father, next time you come, bring me something from home, preferably something from my boudoir. I will always keep it with me and take it out to look at when I miss home. Seeing it reminds me of my parents..."

When he said this, his eyes were already red.

(It’s already the 3rd, please continue to ask for guaranteed monthly tickets! Thank you!)
(End of this chapter)