At dusk, Cining Palace is unusually quiet, you must know that Empress Dowager Li believes in Buddhism, in the past, at this time, Cining Palace is full of cigarettes, wooden fish and Buddhist scriptures.

The palace maids and eunuchs didn't dare to heckle for a while, everyone stared at their toes, and even their eyes didn't dare to roll around, the atmosphere seemed extremely stagnant, and the sweat was wet on their backs, as if even the wind had turned into something sticky.

Empress Dowager Li's face was pale, she forcibly suppressed her anger, looked at her son sitting opposite, and didn't say a word for a long time, and the disappointment was clearly engraved on her face.

Wanli was sitting precariously, pouting his mouth, as if he had been greatly wronged, and every time Empress Dowager Li's eyes swept over, he turned his head to look away.

Zhang Hong knelt in the hall, one knee towards the Empress Dowager Li, and the other knee towards Wanli,

Zhang Cheng and Zhang Whale knelt on the steps outside the palace gate, their brains were red from the sun, and the sweat was falling down in big drops, they were really miserable, and they invariably sighed in their hearts: Qin Lin, this guy, slipped away so fast just now!

Empress Dowager Li was furious, it was inevitable, and when she learned that her son drove Feng Bao to Nanjing to guard the filial piety mausoleum on charges of embezzlement and bribery, forming a party for personal gain, she was angry and disappointed in her heart, because Feng Bao was her most trusted eunuch and her chief manager in the palace!

"Good, my good son!" Empress Dowager Li looked at Wanli bitterly, and said in a deep voice: "Not long after Mr. Zhang died, you drove away Feng Companion, the queen mother knows, you are afraid of being controlled, annoyed, and tired of being managed, so good, the queen mother will fulfill you, so go to Cishou Temple to live, save you trouble!" ”

Seeing his mother so angry, Wanli was a little scared in his heart, but the Ming Dynasty was not the Han Dynasty after all, and there was no danger of the dictatorship of relatives, and although the status of the Queen Mother was high, it was not as powerful as the Han Dynasty.

Empress Dowager Li's strength depends on Zhang Juzheng on the outside and Feng Bao on the inside, and now that these two arms have been broken, she can only move out of the palace to scare her son.

"If the queen mother's body is ten thousand gold, if she moves out of the palace, where will she put her son? The subjects of the world will regard their sons as unfilial sons," Wanli knelt down and looked at the queen mother with two eyes: "The sons and daughters ask the queen mother to calm their anger, and ask the queen mother to take back their fate." ”

Empress Dowager Li loved this son after all, and her heart softened a little, but she thought about Feng Bao's ten years of hard work, and felt that her son's wings were hard and disobedient, she was still a little angry, and ignored Wanli with a cold face.

Zhu Yijun is very smart in a small way, and he knows that his mother's mind has loosened up, and he hurriedly said: "Even if the queen mother doesn't care about the reputation of her son, she should think more about her younger brother, in three months, King Lu will get married, and the queen mother will not be ......in the palace at that time."

Empress Dowager Li has two baby sons, one is Zhu Yijun, who is the emperor, and the other is Zhu Yijun, the king of Lu, and in comparison, in the love for the eldest son, I am afraid that the utilitarian heart is heavier, and for the king of Lu, the nature of the mother to love the younger son is more.

Hearing Wanli mention King Lu, Empress Dowager Li immediately changed her mind and sat up straight, "Hmph, your brother feels more sorry for his mother than your brother...... Whether the queen mother can leave or not, let's discuss it later, tell me, how are you preparing for Yimu's wedding? ”

Zhu Yijun smiled secretly, he only had the appearance of a middle-aged person, but there was no shortage of these little cleverness, so he said with a sad face: "Now that money is spent everywhere, it is not easy to prepare for a big wedding, I am afraid that the royal brother will suffer a little grievance...... Does the queen mother want to meet Zhang Siwei? He is the one who prepares for the wedding money. ”

Hearing that King Lu's wedding was in difficulty, Empress Dowager Li immediately couldn't sit still and ordered Zhang Siwei to be summoned.

Zhang Siwei came very quickly, and after the mountain dance, Wanli glanced at him.

"Empress Dowager Qiqi, although it is said that the four seas are peaceful now, in fact, our court is an empty foundation, and it is really not easy to take the money out for a big wedding," Zhang Siwei's face was like a bitter melon, and he complained without a mouth.

Empress Dowager Li raised her eyebrows and said in surprise: "Therefore, the old master Mr. Zhang governs the country, isn't it the peace of the country and the people, why can't he even take out these hundreds of thousands of silver?" ”

Zhang Siwei's face was slightly red, and he suddenly knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly: "Forgive the ministers for not daring to say anything." ”

"It seems that Mrs. Zhang's governance of the country is not satisfactory," Empress Dowager Li pondered, pondered for a long time and asked: "Aiqing is flat." The mourning family asked you, can't you move money from other places? ”

Zhang Siwei said: "Qi Niangniang, now it is easy to move money out!" Some time ago, due to the lack of food and salary expenses in Zhejiang, tens of thousands of Zhejiang soldiers were not able to withdraw their salaries and silver, so these officers and soldiers made a fuss and almost joined the White Lotus Sect ......."

Empress Dowager Li knew about this matter, and when she heard the three words of the White Lotus Sect, she was a little afraid: "Amitabha, if you are not a son of man, the salary of the soldiers must be paid in full, otherwise the officers and soldiers will go to the White Lotus Sect, then you will have to do it?" Alas, it seems that you really can't move the money, Mr. Zhang, if you give the mourning family a real number, can you have 500,000 silver? ”

"I can only make up 100,000 yuan, and I ask the Queen Mother for forgiveness," Zhang Siwei showed a very embarrassed look on his face, and gritted his teeth to report this amount.

Empress Dowager Li was silent, as the daughter of a businessman, she and her father Li Wei and brother Li Gao all played the abacus very well, and they had already written the account: if there is 300,000 silver, King Lu's wedding can be done decently, if there is 500,000 silver, the wedding will be beautiful, but if it is only 100,000, it will be too shabby.

She was embarrassed here, and the corners of Zhu Yijun's mouth smiled slightly, and she glanced at a henchman under Zhang Whale.

"Governor Zuo, Prince Taifu, and Liu Shou, the guard of the brocade clothes, have asked to see you!" The little eunuch dragged the report in a long voice.

Wanli looked at her mother inquiringly, and Empress Dowager Li nodded, she would never delay her son's serious affairs.

Liu Shouyou ran into Cining Palace in small steps, danced as usual, and then said upward: "Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live, long live, Queen Mother, thousand years old, thousand years old." Weichen was ordered to raid the mansion of Feng Bao, a powerful eunuch, and found a total of 89,400 taels of gold, 937,000 taels of silver, 25 pearls, 110 strings of beads, and 18 five-foot-high coral trees......"

What the?! Empress Dowager Li stood up from her seat in shock and stared at Liu Shouyou in disbelief: "You say, more than 80,000 taels of gold and more than 900,000 taels of silver?" Are you not mistaken? ”

After all, she is a girl from a small family, even if she has been the queen mother for so many years, the queen mother still values gold and silver more, in fact, the house deed, title deed, calligraphy and painting treasures behind are worth more than gold and silver.

Liu Shouyou hurriedly replied: "That's true, Wei Chen counted it carefully before he came to reply to the holy decree." ”

He didn't say a word, even if it was this amount, Qin Lin took away a lot of valuable treasures, and he and the officials scraped the rest again, and finally the rest was written into the record and handed over to the imperial court.

It's a pity that Feng Bao's secret account book was not found after all, which is the most regrettable thing for Liu Dudu.

Empress Dowager Li was already stunned by Feng Bao's huge number of greedy ink, and it took a long time before she sat down slowly and muttered: "The mourning family, the mourning family saw the wrong person, I thought that even if Feng Bao was corrupt, the number was still limited, the meal expenses in the imperial dining room, the various envoys in the palace, the mourning family looked at it, where did he covet so many ......?"

Listening to this, don't say that Wanli and Liu Shouyou, even Zhang Cheng and Zhang Whale, whose knees hurt, laughed and fell, Empress Dowager Li was really from a small family, and her thoughts were exactly the same as her father Li Wei and brother Li Gao. He is not so stupid, just using the power at hand to collect bribes from civil and military officials, this income is far greater than the palace expenses, and it is not noticed by the Empress Dowager Li.

Imagine that even Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant master, gave Feng Bao a gift worth 100,000 silver, will other officials be idle? After so many years of accumulation, the amount is of course very appalling.

Liu Shouyou was amused in his stomach, his face was still solemn, and he said: "Your Majesty, Niangniang, Weichen has raided the Feng Mansion and the rest of the Feng Dang's treacherous mansions, and the gold and silver treasures obtained can be handed over to the imperial court within three days." ”

After waiting for this sentence for a long time, Wanli deliberately pretended to be suddenly enlightened, and said to his mother with joy: "Queen Mother, the silver for the royal brother's wedding, now there is it!" ”

"The emperor said?" Empress Dowager Li thought about it a little and suddenly realized that the silver obtained from the seizure of Feng Bao's mansion was used as the wedding fund of King Lu, which would not affect the court's serious expenditure on military and political affairs, and could make the wedding beautiful, which was the best of both worlds.

Empress Dowager Li is not Wu Zetian, she became the queen mother, but she was favored by Longqing by chance, and was lucky to give birth to the prince Zhu Yijun, she didn't have much ambition and high vision, at this time, one was angry at Feng Bao's huge amount of corruption, and felt that he had betrayed his trust, and second, and more importantly, King Lu's wedding funds were finally settled, which made her originally very unhappy, and it was seven or eight points less.

"That's it, that's it, since Feng Bao is disloyal, let's follow the emperor's wishes, let's drive him away, and the mourning family doesn't want to see him," Empress Dowager Li sighed and shook her head, thinking that although Feng Bao had been corrupt in the past ten years, he had served himself a lot before and after the saddle, and he was a little unbearable after all.

can think of the fact that the youngest son of the heart and liver baby, Luwang Zhu Yihua, is about to get married, this kind of unbearable will disappear in an instant, and he shouted at Zhang Hong, Zhang Whale, and Zhang Cheng: "If you don't stand up yet, when will you kneel?" Shuang'er Hong'er, Zhang Hong is old, you don't help him! ”

Empress Dowager Li pretended to scold the palace maid, Zhang Hong smiled bitterly a few times in his heart, while Zhang Whale and Zhang Cheng were quite smug, today Your Majesty has passed the pass of the Queen Mother, and it will be different in the future.

Empress Dowager Li didn't notice the hint of joy in her son's eyes, it was obvious that Wanli had endured for many years, and once he was able to take power, he would never stop doing things......

The news of Feng Bao's overthrow soon spread throughout the entire Beijing Division, and the civil and military officials saw the 12th Regiment Battalion Iron Armor Army coming out in the square outside the noon gate, and Feng Dang was captured. The three sects and nine streamers in the market witnessed the scene of the Jinyi official academy of the brigade rushing into the yamen of the East Factory and killing Feng Bao's cronies.

The process of the change in the imperial palace is a secret, of course, it will not be known to everyone, so in all kinds of rumors on the street, Qin Lin is an indispensable figure.

The reason is very simple, he read the holy decree outside the noon gate, he patted Liu Shouyou on the shoulder very chicly, and shortly before Feng Bao's downfall, Qin Lin also injured his nephew Feng Bangning, and took the Jinyi Official Academy to besiege the Dongchang Yamen, almost becoming a fire and water with Feng Bao! So in many rumors, he became the mastermind behind the downfall of Feng Bao.

Think about it, Feng Bao is in the middle of the day, and his power is unmatched for a while, why didn't he fall late, didn't fall early, and just after fighting with Qin Shaobao, he suddenly fell?

These speculations are not unreasonable, and they are not far from the truth, even the Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun and the two celebrant supervisors who really launched the Feng Palace Change, in fact, do not know that if Qin Lin took Feng Bangning to find Feng Bao, Feng Dugong's attitude towards Qin Lin was still the same as before, fulfilling all his promises to him, maybe this palace change would be a different ending......

In Zhu Yingzhen's mansion, the young Chengguo Gong counted all kinds of gifts, and ordered the old housekeeper repeatedly: "These are sent to the Qin Mansion, congratulations to him for cutting off the evil for the country, as a prince of the country, it is not good for me to make friends with brocade warriors, so what should you say later, remember it?" ”

"The old slave remembers the words of the grandfather who returned to China," the old housekeeper replied with a smile, not knowing how many times he asked.

Dongchang Yamen, Huo Chonglou was surrounded by all his colleagues, Feng Bao's cronies were all arrested, and the rest were Liu Yidao, who was not very successful under Feng Bao.

"Congratulations, Master Huo is on the rise, follow Qin Shaobao, and the sesame seeds will definitely bloom in the future!" A priest praised loudly, unconcealed envy in his heart.

Another stall leader smiled and said: "Xu Jue and Chen Yingfeng have made a mess of our East Factory, and when Lord Huo takes office, it will inevitably be renewed!" ”

Huo Chonglou smiled, his beard shook like a steel needle, although he has not yet been appointed, but Xu Jue, who is in charge of the punishment of thousands of households, and Chen Yingfeng, who is in charge of the punishment of one hundred households, have been arrested, he is Qin Lin's person, even if he can't be punished this time, he can still be punished.

I don't know how many people envy him, but why didn't he go to Qizhou in the first place? How good it would be to know Qin Shaobao early......

"Alas, Qin Lin, Qin Lin, why are you so aggressive?" Xu Xinyi gently stuffed a peeled crystal grape into Qin Lin's mouth, and said with a smile: "Do you want Sister Zixuan?" She's a smart star, and she has to admire you. ”

Zhang Zixuan and several brothers returned to their hometown in Jiangling together to bury Zhang Juzheng, not in Beijing, Qin Lin frowned, thoughtful.

"Qing Dai is not happy that Brother Qin always makes meritorious contributions," Qing Dai pouted.

Oh? Why is that? Qin Lin was surprised.

Qing Dai said with a sad face: "Recently, many of the female dependents of the mansions of officials and dignitaries are obviously not sick, but they want to say that they hurt here and there, and when they come to the hospital, even if I give them boiled water, their 'illness' will be cured immediately, and then they will invite me to a banquet and watch a play...... So that people don't have time to read medical books! ”

Qin Lin smiled and scratched her nose, this little girl who doesn't grow big!