Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 182

Hundreds of officials gradually gathered in Yang Lian's mourning hall.

These officials, except Zuodu Yushi Yang Ming who is the second rank, the others are small officials of the fourth rank and fifth rank.

None of the officials from the six ministries came, none of the leading generals of the five armies' capital governors' mansions, and none of the emperor's relatives.

Outside the mourning hall, there was a loud shout: "You guys are so brave!"

Yan Shifan led three or four hundred secret agents of the prison to surround the mourning hall.

Yan Shifan walked to the mourning hall and said loudly: "Yang Lian is a criminal who was decreed by the emperor to take his job and leave! You worship a criminal here, are you questioning the emperor? Remove the mourning hall immediately! Otherwise, don't blame me for being rude!"

He Liu, Lao Hu, Yang Ming, and a group of officials guarded around Yang Lian's coffin.

He Liudao: "It's human nature to worship Zhongliang! Mr. Xiao Ge, don't bully others too much!"

Yan Shifan sneered: "You say Yang Lian is loyal? That's tantamount to calling the emperor a fool! He Lao Liu, don't do your inspection of hundreds of households! I want to challenge you to the emperor! You just wait to lose your official title!" "

He Liu became angry after hearing the words.He took off the crowns of the inspectors and put them on the ground: "Don't worry about it, Mr. Ben! I put the official hats on the ground, you father and son just take them!"

Lao Hu also took off the Sifang Pingding crown of Jin Yiwei's commander, and put it on the ground: "I also put my commander's official hat here! Take it, Mr. Xiaoge!"

Yang Ming also took off the Liang Guan, which symbolized the official rank two and above: "I, the official hat of Zuodu Censor, Xiao Ge, take it too!"

All the officials followed suit.

Not long after, beam crowns, black gauze caps, sarcophagus crowns, and square flat crowns representing different grades were placed all over the floor.

Yan Shifan was furious: "Rebellion! You are all rebellion! Come on, smash the mourning hall for me!"

Most of the more than 100 officials are weak scholars.If hundreds of wolves and tigers' secret agents of the Prison Division smashed the mourning hall, they would be irresistible.

At this time, someone outside the mourning hall shouted: "Who dares!"

Then a large group of soldiers from the Ministry of War surrounded Yang's mansion with three floors inside and three floors outside.Zhang Juzheng, Minister of the Ministry of War, Xu Jie, Minister of the Cabinet, and Gao Gong, Minister of the Ministry of Households, strode into the mourning hall.

Yan Shifan questioned Zhang Juzheng: "My surname is Zhang. I was ordered by the cabinet to arrest officials who worship treacherous ministers and seek opportunities to make trouble. What do you mean by letting these soldiers and crabs from the Ministry of War come here?"

Zhang Juzheng was about to speak, but Xu Jie asked first: "Master Xiaoge, you said you were ordered by the cabinet? How come I, the cabinet assistant, don't know?"

In a rage, Yan Shifan said something that made all the officials angry: "You don't need to know! The cabinet belongs to our Yan family, and the Yan family represents the cabinet!"

As soon as Yan Shifan said this, all the officials were in an uproar!

Xu Jie smiled when he heard the words: "I'm getting old, and my ears are not working well. What did the elder Xiaoge just say? Can you repeat it?"

Yan Shifan knew that he had made a slip of the tongue, and he said: "Don't worry about what I just said, in short, paying homage to treacherous officials ordered by the emperor to punish is deceiving the emperor!"

Xu Jie went straight to the coffin, put three sticks of incense on it, and said to Yan Shifan without raising his head: "Oh, Xiao Ge always said that I deceived the emperor? Well, you go to the emperor to participate in my deception!"

Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gong also went to the front of the coffin, offering incense respectfully.

Xu, Gao, and Zhang came to worship Yang Lian because Concubine Li said something to King Yu two hours ago.

When the news of Yang Lian's poisoned death reached King Yu, Concubine Li said to King Yu, "Your Majesty, it's time for a showdown with the Yan Party!"

Xu Jie, Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng and He Liu asked for three white ribbons, each hung up their filial piety, and sat on the futon next to the coffin.

Xu Jie said: "Cabinet Secretary, Minister of Military Affairs, Minister of Household Affairs, and the Zuoduyuan of the Metropolitan Procuratorate are guarding Yang Lian's spirit! Let me see who dares to smash this mourning hall!"

There was another message from outside the door: "Commander Lu Bing of Jinyiwei, Commander Zuo Tongzhi Liu Da, Commander Right Tongzhi He Er, Commander Youqian Lu Si, come to worship the dead!"

Yan Shifan went up to greet him: "Commander Lu, righteous brother, you are here just in time! Jinyiwei has the duty to monitor the illegal affairs of officials. These people in the mourning hall are looking for opportunities to make trouble by worshiping a treacherous minister, despising the emperor and the cabinet. You Jinyiwei Don't care?"

Liu Da winked at Yan Shifan, signaling him to stop talking.

Lu Bing looked at Yan Shifan calmly: "We are also here to pay homage to Yang Lian. We are not worshiping a treacherous official! His father, Yang Shoucheng, is an old senior of our Jinyiwei. According to Jinyiwei's seniority, we are all of the same generation. I’m here to pay homage to my dead brother!”

Lu Bing also came to the coffin and planted three sticks of incense in front of Yang Lian's coffin.

Yan Shifan became angry and shouted: "Okay! You wait for me! I will go to the emperor to join you!"

Yan Shifan went directly to Yongshou Palace without consulting his father Yan Song.

He is the son of the Chief Assistant and one of the members of the cabinet, so no one dares to stop him if he wants to enter Yongshou Palace to perform his duties.

From the moment the furious Yan Shifan stepped into the Yongshou Palace, the Yan Party was doomed!

"Report to the emperor, Yan Shifan asks to see you!" Lu Fang said.

Emperor Jiajing inside the green gauze curtain sneered, "Heh, it's finally here. Tell him to come in."

Yan Shifan knelt in front of the green gauze tent, and explained in detail the officials who set up a mourning hall for Yang Lian.

"Your majesty, what they did is to despise the majesty of the emperor! Yang Lian's crime was determined by the emperor. Now that Yang Lian is dead, Xu, Gao, Zhang, He Liu, and Hu San all say that Yang Lian is a loyal minister. Isn't that true?" Are you scolding the emperor for being a foolish emperor? I took the people from the Ministry of Punishments to seal up the mourning hall, but Zhang Juzheng, Minister of the Ministry of War, even secretly dispatched troops to stop him! Privately dispatching troops is treason!"

Yan Shifan is very good at labeling, and directly puts the label of rebellion on Yuwangdang.

Emperor Jiajing said, "Oh? Privately transfer troops? Where are the soldiers transferred? Soldiers from the three major battalions of the capital? Soldiers from the guards of other provinces? Soldiers from the Jiubian Town Army?"

The Ming Dynasty has a system, and the Minister of the Ministry of War's private deployment of troops is indeed a crime of treason.

Yan Shifan replied hesitantly: "That's not true, he transferred the soldiers of the Ministry of War."

Emperor Jiajing said: "Oh. The Minister of the Ministry of War called several soldiers from the headquarters. This is not considered a private transfer of troops, let alone treason."

Yan Shifan heard the words, and expressed his pain about the sinister intentions of the officials in the mourning hall.

Ren Yan Shifan spitting stars flying around, but Emperor Jiajing just didn't speak.

Yan Shifan's mouth was dry.He finally stopped chattering.

There was a moment of silence in the main hall of Yongshou Palace.

A sentence from Emperor Jiajing broke the silence: "Who set up Yang Lian's mourning hall?"

Yan Shifan quickly replied, "It's He Liutiao of Jin Yiwei."

Emperor Jiajing ordered Lu Fang: "Bring the yellow seal and pen and ink. I want to issue an order to punish He Liu."

When Emperor Jiajing made his decrees, he always asked the Sili Supervisor to write the decrees.This time personally drafting the imperial decree is the first time in these years.

After a stick of incense, Emperor Jiajing wrote the imperial decree.The imperial decree of Huang Fengzi was tied with a yellow thread.

This is the rule of the decree.The officials who announced the decree were not allowed to open the yellow seal and fold the imperial decree until they were in front of the person to whom the decree was proclaimed.

Emperor Jiajing threw it to Yan Shifan: "Go, go to Yang Lian's mourning hall to proclaim the decree!"

Yan Shifan was overjoyed!He accepted the book, hurriedly kowtowed and resigned, and went straight to the mourning hall of the Yang family.

Three or four hundred officials have gathered in the mourning hall.Almost all the members of Qingliu and Yuwang party who have no party in the court came to the mourning hall.

Yan Shifan said loudly: "There is a metaphor! Criminal officer He Liu listened to the order!"

He Liu knelt down in front of Yan Shifan.

Yan Shifan untied the yellow thread tied with Huang Fengzi's edict, and opened the edict—he was dumbfounded.

"There is a decree. Yang Lianzhong Zhiminda, who was murdered by a traitor, was awarded the title of deputy capital censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he was dismissed as a doctor in Jiazhong. He was given the posthumous title of 'Zhongzhi'. In addition, Beizhen Fusi inspected hundreds of households. From today onwards, the Institute will carry out inspections of the Thousand Households Office. He Liu will take up the post of inspecting the Thousand Households."

After Yan Shifan announced the decree, he stood in the mourning hall like a frost-beaten eggplant.

A group of officials kowtowed and shouted: "My emperor is holy!"

Yan Shifan hardly knew how he quit the mourning hall.

Yang Lian used a bottle of dove wine to gather the conscientious officials in the court together.

The war between loyal ministers and traitors is about to break out!
(End of this chapter)