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Chapter 144
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It was not until noon on the seventh day of May that the capital was repeatedly confirmed to be safe, and Ming Xizong and Wei Zhongxian and his party returned to the capital. When they returned to the capital on the imperial chariot, the people in the capital had already begun to return to the capital one after another.The order in the capital is good. The sergeants of the three major battalions of the capital, the Dongchang fan servants, and the Jinyiwei are all on duty in the streets, directing the people who return to the city to enter the city in an orderly manner, and deterring and arresting the thugs who try to take advantage of the fire; Outside, Mangui's army patrolled back and forth, sorting out the team entering the city, and at the same time arresting thieves and thieves who tried to take advantage of the chaos. They were quickly dragged to a high place by the roadside and beheaded in public.

"We just robbed things. We didn't commit a capital crime. You can't kill us!" Seeing the bright steel swords of Ming soldiers, the two little thieves shouted in fright, declaring that they were not worthy of death.It's a pity that Young Master Zhang's soldiers have always belonged to river crabs, and he shouted, "Stop talking nonsense! Master Tanhua Zhang has asked the emperor for orders, and special decrees will be implemented at special times-those who take advantage of the fire will be killed without mercy!" Roaring, Dao Guang In a flash, two heads fell to the ground, blood spurted from the necks of the two thieves, and the cheers of the densely populated people on the road also shook the sky.

"Good kill!" Wei Zhongxian also yelled, and said bitterly: "Thanks to Zhang Haogu, that monkey boy who is careful, asked the emperor in advance to implement the emergency decree, and stabilized the situation with an iron fist. Otherwise, the capital is now uncertain." What kind of chaos is it?"——Wei Zhongxian said this intentionally to all the officials, so that no one would find trouble to impeach Young Master Zhang for killing too much, and when many officials heard that this idea was approved by Ming Xizong, they immediately gave up Use this to impeach Young Master Zhang's thoughts.Ming Xizong was silent, and after a while he said in a low voice: "Thanks to Zhang Aiqing this time, I..., alas, Zhongxian, as expected, you father and son are the most loyal to me."

After entering the capital from Xizhimen, on the way back to the palace, Young Master Zhang heard the news and rushed to greet him. After hundreds of steps, he jumped off his horse, rushed to Ming Xizong's dragon chariot, knelt down on his knees, kowtowed and said: "My humble minister! I don't know that the emperor's dragon returned to the capital, and he was far away to welcome him. Please forgive me." The worried Ming Xizong stepped down from the dragon chariot, personally helped Young Master Zhang, and forced himself to smile: "Zhang Aiqing, please hurry up and return to Beijing this time. , I didn’t let anyone inform you to come to welcome you. I know that the affairs of the capital these days are all on your shoulders, thank you for your hard work. Hey, Zhang Aiqing, what’s the matter with the injury on your hand?”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your concern." Young Master Zhang glanced down at the bloody gauze on his left arm, and said with a smile, "After the disaster happened, I led the army into the disaster area to rescue the injured soldiers and civilians. There was a baby crying from under the uncollapsed house, and Wei Chen rushed in to rescue the baby, but when he came out with the baby in his arms, the house suddenly collapsed and hurt Wei Chen's arm. But it's fine, the baby is fine." Zhang Shitou, who was kneeling behind, rolled his eyes when he heard it, and said to himself, young master, you are really getting more and more shameless. It is true that you saved the child, but the house doesn't seem to have collapsed, right?By the way, what happened to the injury on your hand? How did I remember that you didn't seem to be injured?
"Does it matter? Did you see the doctor?" Ming Xizong asked with concern.Young Master Zhang smiled, and replied: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your concern. It's just a few scratches. The injury is not serious. It will be healed in a few days." It was full of dust, and the dusty face was washed out with sweat. Knowing that Young Master Zhang must have worked extremely hard these few days, he said distressedly: "Zhang Aiqing, it's good that you do your best, but you can't do it well." You have to pay attention to your body, don't tire yourself out, you are the minister appointed by the ancestor emperor Daming Cheng to protect the sky, and I still need you to do many important things for me in the future."

"It's hard to repay the emperor's great kindness with a humble official." Zhang Daying quickly kowtowed his head again to show off, and after standing up, Young Master Zhang reported to Mingxi Zonghui: "Reporting to the emperor, I have already calculated the losses of this catastrophe. Thirteen thousand and ninety-two houses collapsed in the capital, and the area around Wang Gong’s factory was almost razed to the ground.” Speaking of this, Young Master Zhang deliberately added, “Thanks to the emperor’s holy candle, the gunpowder hoarded by Enzhun Wang Gong’s factory before Carry it all away, otherwise, once the gunpowder explodes, the catastrophic hazard will be even greater."

"How about the casualties of the common people?" Ming Xizong still has a bit of conscience, knowing that he cares about the survival of the common people.Master Zhang dejectedly replied: "Back to the emperor, almost all the people in the radius of Wang Gong's factory were killed, more than [-] corpses were found, and more than [-] people were injured. It is impossible to count, Dong Kewei, Minister of the Ministry of Industry who refused to evacuate the capital, was also seriously injured in the disaster, his arms were broken, and he was already disabled. In addition, more than [-] officials who refused to evacuate the capital were killed or injured. The most bizarre thing is that the dead did not care Men, women, children, and almost every corpse was naked, with their clothes, hats, shoes and socks missing."

"So many people died?" Ming Xizong gasped.Young Master Zhang nodded and murmured in his heart, saying that more than 2 people died in history, but now only more than 600 people died, which is very good.At this time, Zhang Weixian stood up and said a fair word to Young Master Zhang, "Your Majesty, thanks to Zhang Haogu and Eunuch Wei's hard work this time, we have taken precautions to evacuate the people in the capital. The expansion is more than ten times. According to Wei Chen, Zhang Haogu should be the first to remember this time."

"Fuck, I'm an old father-in-law, so I don't forget to set me up at this time." Young Master Zhang muttered in his heart, and quickly corrected him: "Your Majesty, this humble minister is the one who takes the blame, so what credit can I get? The reason why there were so few deaths and injuries among the people in this great change in the capital is that the emperor was wise and wise, and immediately ordered the people in the capital to evacuate, and also relied on the power of Wei Gonggong to support the emperor's will, which reduced the losses of the people in the capital to The smallest——Weichen is just an errand runner, so what credit does that have?"

"Monkey boy, you really have a good face." Wei Zhongxian was proud of himself, and he also knew that Zhang Weixian had no good intentions at the beginning.Ming Xizong sighed, and said: "Zhang Aiqing, you don't have to comfort me. This time the capital city has undergone major changes, all because I cared about my brotherhood and kinship, and tolerated King Xin's rebellious behavior... Alas, how could I I don’t know what little tricks King Xin did under there? In a word, after returning to the palace this time, I will issue an edict of sin against myself, and give an explanation to the people of the world.”

"Your Majesty, this has nothing to do with you." Young Master Zhang persuaded hypocritically.Ming Xizong shook his head, waved his hands with tears and said: "I have made up my mind, you don't need to persuade me any more. Zhang Aiqing, I will issue an order now to reinstate you as an official, and you will be rewarded another day. Go, do what you should do It's okay, you don't need to accompany me back to the palace."

"My minister complies with the order." King Zhang Daying choked up and agreed, and stood on the side of the road with his hands down, respectfully sending the weeping Ming Xizong and his party back to the palace.When Queen Zhang Yan walked in front of her, Young Master Zhang peeked at Zhang Yan's expression. It happened that Zhang Yan was also peeking at Young Master Zhang. Their eyes met. Zhang Yan snorted coldly and turned his eyes away with a blank expression.Immediately afterwards, Wei Zhongxian also passed in front of Young Master Zhang, and Wei Zhongxian said to Young Master Zhang in a low voice: "Monkey boy, how are you doing with the matter of confiscating the Xin Palace?"

"Back to my father, Hai'er has arrested all the servants, maidservants and eunuchs in Xin Wang's mansion, and has not had time to search Xin Wang's property and letters, but Hai'er has sent reliable people to guard it closely." Young Master Zhang replied in a low voice.Wei Zhongxian nodded in satisfaction, and said: "Our family received the news that King Xin has a list in his hand, which contains the names of many officials who betrayed our family. You must find that list as soon as possible and give it to our family."

"Godfather, don't worry, the child will definitely find that list." Young Master Zhang nodded understandingly in agreement.Wei Zhongxian smiled happily, then walked away with his head held high.Seeing that Ming Xizong's team was about to finish in front of him, and Young Master Zhang was about to return to the army to continue commanding the disaster relief, a pretty young maid suddenly took two steps towards Young Master Zhang, stumbled and fell to the ground, softly Young Master Zhang said: "Tanhua Lang, please help the slave family." As she said that, the little maid gave Young Master Zhang two winks.Young Master Zhang knew something was wrong, so he hurriedly stepped forward to help the little maid, who took the opportunity to stuff a small ball of paper into Young Master Zhang's hand, thanked him and caught up with the team.

On the way back to the army, Young Master Zhang looked for an opportunity to open the ball of paper, but saw a line of beautiful small characters on the note: "Xin Wang's family has a list of allegiance to him, I want this list.Yan. Young Master Zhang shook his head and smiled wryly, and asked Zhang Shitou for a torch to burn the note, the flames fluttered, illuminating the sinister smile on the corner of Young Master Zhang's mouth, as well as the gloomy gaze in the triangular eyes of Young Master Zhang...

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It took a full three days for the three major battalions of the Beijing Normal University led by Young Master Zhang to clear out all the corpses buried in the ruins in the area around Wang Gong Factory. Those who suffered from suffering were put in coffins for restraint, and those who did not suffer from suffering were disinfected with quicklime. Afterwards, they were buried deeply, which completely blocked an important source of the plague epidemic in the capital at the end of the Ming Dynasty.As for the reconstruction of Wang Gong Factory, appeasement of the people and resettlement of the homeless people, that is not something that Young Master Zhang needs to worry about and can solve.But fortunately, Ming Xizong, who took the blame for his younger brother, generously took out a sum of money from the inner treasury to comfort the deceased and help the victims rebuild their homes. Only then did they reluctantly appease the affected people, and issued another sinful edict , Admitted to the world that he cared about his siblings and appeases his younger brother who had attempted rebellion, and this caused a catastrophe, and he pleaded guilty to the people of Ming Dynasty all over the world.

After the aftermath of the catastrophe gradually calmed down, the attack on the 'culprit' who caused the catastrophe was gradually launched. Except for Zhu Youjian who was demoted as a commoner and imprisoned forever, the first thing that was unlucky was to enter Ming Xizong. Xianfang Lingluyin's Minister of War, Huo Weihua, Mr. Huo, although Mr. Huo is a fellow of Suning, a nine-thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian, and there is no conclusive evidence to prove that he betrayed Wei Zhongxian, but he played the role of a pawn in Zhu Youjian's counterattack against the Eunuch Party. The wanton impeachment of Young Master Zhang, the spokesperson of the eunuch party, is tantamount to actual betrayal.So no matter how much Huo Weihua cried out for injustice, how much he kowtowed and begged for mercy, Wei Zhongxian still used the excuse of Huo Weihua to offer poison, murdered the emperor, and escorted Huo Weihua out of the Meridian Gate for execution. He ended up in Dongchang Prison, completely cutting off Zhu Youjian's right-hand man in the court.

Both Wang Tiqian and Huo Weihua were executed, but every eunuch official knew that this was just the beginning of Wei Zhongxian's elimination of internal traitors, and how many people would be killed next depended on Young Master Zhang who was in charge of inspecting Xinwangfu ——Basically, it can be said that as long as there are names on the list that Young Master Zhang seized from Prince Xin's Mansion, none of them can escape Wei Zhongxian's clutches.In fear, many eunuchs with unclean asses secretly visited Young Master Zhang and offered generous gifts to ask for mercy from Young Master Zhang, but Young Master Zhang refused to accept any of it. The party officials were all trembling, not knowing what Young Master Zhang meant.

In fact, among the officials of the eunuch party, the most frightened person is definitely Young Master Zhang's opponent Feng Quan, although Feng Quan has long been connected under the guise of spying on the internal situation of the political enemy for Wei Zhongxian, through Zhang Weixian and Zhu Youjian, and helped Zhu Youjian The impeachment of Young Master Zhang was also done with Wei Zhongxian in advance, so Wei Zhongxian did not ask him to settle the score this time, so self-protection is not a problem. ——But the problem is that Young Master Zhang and Feng Quan's deadly enemy Cui Chengxiu are hard-core allies within the eunuch party. It is hard to guarantee that Cui Chengxiu and Young Master Zhang will not take this opportunity to attack his faction and cut off his party members.So after thinking about it, Feng Quan also put on a heavy gift with a cheeky face, and quietly touched the mansion of Young Master Zhang to ask for an interview, but it was a pity that Young Master Zhang didn't even give Feng Quan a chance to meet, and just let Zhang Shitou stand at the gate He stopped the driver, but Cui Chengxiu appeared behind Feng Quan silently, and entered the gate of Zhang's mansion with a wicked smile without any notification. That smile was enough to make Feng Quan terrified.

While waiting in fear, on the night of May [-]th, Wei Zhongxian summoned all eunuch officials of the fifth rank and above in Beijing, as well as the chief eunuch of the twelfth prison, in his home under the pretext of his grandson, Manyue.When the officials of the Eunuch Party and the chief eunuchs came to the Wei Mansion with heavy gifts in fear, there were no decorations and banquets in the Wei Mansion. They were greeted by a large group of wolves like tigers from the Eastern Factory. A part of Jinyiwei led by Tian Ergeng himself.Seeing this posture, almost all the eunuch officials with ghosts in their hearts turned pale, knowing that it would be difficult to walk out of Wei Zhongxian's mansion in full body tonight.

Sure enough, when Wei Zhongxian in the red official robe appeared in the hall leading Young Master Zhang, Yang Liuqi, and Wuhu Wubiao, Wei Zhongxian immediately sat down in the middle and said with a grinning grin: "I called you here today because of our family's grandsons. It's full moon, but the capital is undergoing major changes, so we won't hold any banquets to celebrate, lest some of you will speak ill of our family in front of your new master, saying that our family is rebellious and forgetful, and still gathers to have fun during the national funeral. When your new master succeeds in the future, you will settle accounts with our family."

"Don't do low-level jobs." Dozens of key officials of the eunuch party all turned pale, and they all fell to their knees in front of Wei Zhongxian, trembling and not even daring to speak out.Wei Zhongxian grinned grimly and said, "Don't you dare? Even our fellow countryman Huo Weihua dared, let alone you?"

Dozens of eunuch officials were even more terrified, and still dared not speak out. Wei Zhongxian didn't force it, and said with a wave of his hand: "Now our family will give you one last chance. When King Xin came to you with a secret edict, there were those who Someone betrayed our family, did something sorry to our family, now stand up, kowtow to admit a mistake, our family can still be punished lightly. Otherwise, once our family gets his real evidence, don't blame our family It's ruthless."

There was no sound in the hall, so quiet that everyone's breathing could be clearly heard, but none of the eunuch officials dared to stand up and admit it—everyone knew Wei Zhongxian's brutish temper. To investigate, but whoever is stupid to stand up and admit it, that is the real self-destruction.Therefore, although many eunuch officials, including the five tigers and five young men, were dripping with cold sweat, none of the eunuch officials dared to speak out.Wei Zhongxian sneered and looked at the eunuch officials kneeling in front of him one by one, and finally said darkly: "I don't even want to admit it? It doesn't matter. Fortunately, our family also has a loyal son Zhang Haogu. A list was dug up from the basement of King Xin’s bedroom, and there are letters between some of you who have communicated with King Xin, even if you don’t admit it, our family can know who has betrayed our family.”

"Crack, crack, crack." There was the sound of sweat dripping on the ground in the hall, but still no eunuch officials dared to stand up and admit it. We can only hope that Wei Zhongxian is bluffing himself. The list has been burned by Zhu Youjian, or Zhang Da In fact, the young master did not find that list.Wei Zhongxian also understood what the lackeys were thinking, and said with a sneer, "Think our family is cheating you? I am so old, take out the list and read it to them one by one."

"Plop." Amidst the desperate screams of eunuch officials, Young Master Zhang, who had been silent all this time, suddenly knelt down to Wei Zhongxian, kowtowed and said, "My dear father, my son is not filial. That list and related letters have been taken by my son." Burned!"

"What?" The eunuch officials who had escaped from death could hardly believe their ears, they raised their heads and looked at Young Master Zhang in surprise.Wei Zhongxian was dumbfounded at first, then jumped up, slapped Young Master Zhang hard on the face, kicked Young Master Zhang on his back, and shouted: "Monkey boy, are you rebellious? How dare you betray our family?" Burned the list of traitors?!"

"Father, my son is not filial." Eldest Young Master Zhang got up and knelt down again, before even wiping off the blood from the corner of his mouth, he kowtowed again and said, "But my son did this for the sake of my father and the court!"

"You sheltered the traitor who betrayed our family, how dare you say it was for our family's sake?" Wei Zhongxian almost fainted out of breath, grabbed Young Master Zhang by the collar, staring round with a pair of cloudy old eyes, and roared with a livid face: "Say, who told you to do this? Why do you want to cover them?"

"Father, you have to forgive and forgive others." The tears of Zhang Dayingdi always come when they say it, and he said with tears: "The people on the list really deserve to die for betraying my father, but they also once treated my father, you old man. Loyal and loyal, for the sake of their past achievements, godfather, please let them go this time. Besides, there are so many people on the list, if you kill them all, dear father, you will go there again in a while Find so many people to replace them, to serve your godfather instead of them, and serve for the court? So the boy dared to call the shots and forgave them this time for his father, and burned the list and letters."

Speaking of this, Eldest Young Master Zhang was already in tears, and cried loudly: "Father, I know that I did wrong by overstepping my authority, but I also know that if you forgive them this time, dear father, they will never dare to betray you!" The second time, Dad! What's more, you did not know how much painstaking effort you put into promoting them back then, my son can't bear to see your hard work go to waste! Dad, for yourself and for the court, Just forgive them this time! If you really can't get angry, then you punish the boy, the boy is willing to take the blame for these colleagues!"

As he spoke, Young Master Zhang struggled to kneel down on his knees, kowtowed to Wei Zhongxian repeatedly, and burst into tears.Wei Zhongxian's face turned from blue to white, and then from white to black, and he stood there for a long time, gritting his teeth, before Wei Zhongxian kicked Young Master Zhang hard on the chest again, kicked Young Master Zhang to the ground, and then flicked his sleeves , rushed back to the back hall with hands behind his back.Young Master Zhang hurriedly got up, cried and chased after him, "Father, my boy still has something to say, if my boy didn't burn the list, can your newly promoted people be reliable with these people...?"

When he was about to enter the back hall, Young Master Zhang glanced sideways at the eunuch officials kneeling in the hall. Just as Young Master Zhang imagined, almost every eunuch official was moved and looked at him with grateful eyes. Looking at himself, an undetectable smirk also appeared on the corner of Young Master Zhang's mouth...

(End of this chapter)