I, Zhu Youjian: the first prodigal son of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 213 Open Your Skull

lift your skull...

The idiot emperor's words made some ministers laugh.

Look, it really is the idiot emperor, where did he learn the new words, nondescript, not like what an emperor should say at all.

Wei Zhongxian, however, bowed and responded solemnly: "Observe the order!"

So, the eunuch walked slowly to the 'bridal wife', chuckled lightly, and said, "Mrs. Zuo, come here, let's worship the heaven and the earth first, and then the Long Live God and the Empress;
Then, our husband and wife prayed to each other again.

Don't worry, my husband won't be punished this time..."

The 'bridal bride' wearing a red robe on her head trembled all over when she heard the words. If it weren't for the support of the two strong maids beside her, she would probably have collapsed to the ground when she heard Wei Zhongxian's words.

Only a few people such as the idiot emperor know about it.

Since the bride was captured alive by Zheng Zhilong and sent to the capital, Wei Zhongxian has been interrogating her personally. For twenty full days and nights, she was in the prison of Dongchang, and she was living as if she were worse than death.

The method of the great eunuch Wei Zhongxian.

Even the "Six Gentlemen of Donglin" and Qian Qianyi, who were quite literati at the time, couldn't bear it anymore.

Not to mention the wife of an admiral of the navy?

"Worship heaven and earth!"

"Second obeisance to the emperor and queen!"

"Bye husband and wife!"

With Qian Qianyi's master of ceremonies presiding, Wei Zhongxian and the bride will soon complete their "big wedding", and the next step is to send the couple into the bridal chamber.

Unexpectedly, Wei Zhongxian smiled, bowed and said: "Long Live Lord, Empress, please avoid it."

Queen Zhou was still wondering, but Zhu Youjian had already got up.

"Let's go, let's go boating with me. It's a scorching summer, and it's just right to go boating in the middle of the sea." The emperor led the empress to go out, and went straight to Miss Hongliu's painting boat.

On the way, Queen Zhou asked nervously, "Long live, why do you want to avoid it?"

"That guy Wei Zhongxian advocates the aesthetics of violence, which is not suitable for a good person like us." The idiot emperor casually said a few words, and stopped going into details...

……

The idiot Emperor Zhu Youjian, Empress Zhou, Emperor's wife Zhang Yan and others left Wei Zhongxian's mansion, and the ministers felt a little strange.

and uneasy.

Everyone knew Wei Zhongxian's tricks. Looking at his fair face at this moment, the few deep wrinkles seemed to be able to kill a few cockroaches. It was the expression before he was about to make a move.

Even Qian Qianyi, Zhang Ruitu and other 'Cabinet Grand Scholars' silently took a few steps back.

He bowed his head and said nothing.

Watch the nose with the eyes, watch the heart with the nose, and have no distractions.

"Okay, our family is getting married today, which widow is married, do you know?" Wei Zhongxian walked up the steps slowly, and two young eunuchs moved the big red chair.

"It's the wife of the former commander Zuo Anzhang of Fujian's original navy division. After a while, if our family killed his man, wouldn't he be a widow?"

He sat down on it carelessly, and said in a male voice: "Come here, some people, and lift the bride's skull for our family!"

Immediately, seven or eight Dongchang eunuchs came out quickly, carrying an iron cage less than three or four feet high.

Everyone was terrified.

Especially Qian Qianyi and other ministers of civil and military affairs who have 'been in', when they saw this big iron cage, they felt chills on their backs, and a chilly air rushed up their spines, making their hair root All of a sudden hard...

This is no big wedding.

It's purely torture!
A Dongchang eunuch opened the cage with ease, lifted the red hijab of the 'bridal bride', and lifted her into the cage.

While the woman was trembling.

"Bang" a loud noise.

The lid on the iron cage was opened.

The eunuch lifted up one of the woman's heads, pushed it in, and it was tightly locked.

The woman begged: "I say, I say everything..."

Wei Zhongxian glanced around blankly.

Everyone, when they met the eunuch's cold gaze, couldn't help shivering.

Some have begun to regret it.

The gifts given to the eunuch before were a bit light, and they didn't even present the few treasures in the family's possession. It was simply a stupid trick...

At the same time, those who have given heavy gifts are also worried.

If the eunuch bites back and asks you, a small fourth-rank and third-rank Beijing official, where did you get the 10 taels of gold, silver and jewelry?

In short, one word.

For an instant.

Everyone is in danger!

"Madam Zuo, what do you want to say?" After scanning the civil and military ministers, Wei Zhongxian looked down at the woman, "Your husband Zuo An is the admiral of the Daming Navy, and he led his soldiers, sailors and fleet to betray the imperial court.

Where are they now, do you know? "

"I don't know..."

"Then what do you know?" Wei Zhongxian's face turned cold, and he said, "Forget it, our family is upset seeing you, come and lift her skull."

"Follow the order!"

Several Dongchang eunuchs stepped forward quickly, took out a few plates of shiny and shining knives, tweezers, hammers, saws, etc., and started to work.

Not only did the woman despair.

Even the two or three hundred civil and military ministers who came to congratulate him, their complexions changed drastically, they couldn't help losing their voices, and suddenly took two steps back.

This Wei Zhongxian is too outrageous.

If you want to torture murderers, you go to the prison in Dongchang to toss.

What does it mean to show a brutal torture in front of all the civil and military officials?
Is it just for the sake of standing up?
With Wei Zhongxian's current power, and the importance and favor of the idiot emperor, there is no need to act like this...

"Forgive me, I can say anything, I say..."

The woman struggled and wailed in vain, her disheveled hair was grabbed by a eunuch, and a cold knife was about to cut off her forehead.

"My family knows that my husband Zuo Anchang has contacts with those adults in the court!"

The woman finally couldn't bear it anymore and shouted loudly.

Wei Zhongxian finally became interested and coughed lightly.

The eunuch who was carrying out the punishment stopped immediately knowing what he was doing, but the knife was still resting on the woman's forehead.

That's it!

Only then did the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs realize that the reason why the eunuch Wei Zhongxian acted like this was not a big marriage at all, nor was it for the purpose of killing people and gaining prestige.

It is purely to clear up the legacy of the Black Widow in the court...

Hakka Baba is Wei Zhongxian's wife who eats food. In the final analysis, didn't she rely on Wei Zhongxian's power for her business in the imperial court, in the backyard of the deep palace, and in Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang?

Apart from Cui Chengxiu and other "eunuch" members of the imperial court, even the so-called Zhejiang Party, Chu Party, Qi Party, and even Donglin Party may have colluded with each other, right?

Today, Hakka Baba rebelled, and the admiral of the Fujian Navy followed him.

But in the imperial court, there are more than ten or twenty families who have had "business dealings" with Kebaba...

Nearly two hundred Beijing officials, half of them were already sweating and shaking like chaff.

Wei Zhongxian's move.

It's too ruthless.

"My lords, would you like to hear something from our family?" Just as everyone was terrified, Wei Zhongxian suddenly sneered, "Our family actually knows a thing or two about those who are related to Hakka Baba.

However, Long Live God said, don't beat and kill at every turn.

Be calm and peaceful.

Therefore, our family will give you a piece of incense time to come to our house to surrender, and after explaining the situation, let the Lord Long Live make a decree to decide your life and death.

Once the stick of incense is over, let this woman identify her. "

After finishing speaking, the eunuch began to close his eyes and meditate.

An eunuch beside him lit a stick of incense and carefully inserted it into the incense burner.

Cigarettes linger, and summer insects neigh.

Almost all of them began to sweat on their foreheads, even though they kept wiping them off with the sleeves of their large robes, they still trickled down to the ground.

There was even a small puddle of clear urine under the feet of several officials, and their legs were shaking violently, looking extremely funny and embarrassed.

However, no one dared to laugh.

I'm not in the mood to laugh either.

At the beginning, Hakka Baba was the late emperor's wet nurse, she was favored by the carpenter emperor, she was commanded by a first rank, powerful and powerful, comparable to a real empress dowager...

At that time, the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, there were a few people who could flatter and curry favor if they didn't go, and no one had given the green light to the business of Keshi Baba and Wei Zhongxian.

This kind of matter of reckoning after autumn.

If it was done by the idiot emperor Zhu Youjian, those upright civil servants Qingliu and Mr. Yushi would naturally go back with righteous words, at worst it would make the emperor feel uncomfortable.

The problem is, it is Wei Zhongxian who settles the accounts now...

……

Half a stick of incense has passed.

Finally, someone stepped forward quickly, bowed and said, "I surrender myself."

But it was Qian Qianyi, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry and a cabinet scholar.

The crowd was in an uproar.

However, no one dared to say anything.

Even Qian Qianyi admitted frankly that he colluded with the "Hakshi Baba" at the beginning, harmed the country and the people, and competed with the people for profit...

Others, what else to say?Almost all those involved have already made up their minds in their hearts and let it go.

Anyway, he couldn't escape Wei Zhongxian's palm.

In order not to be caught out in time, taste the punishments in the world one by one...

"Say." Wei Zhongxian said coldly.

The eunuchs nearby had already set up pens, ink, paper and inkstones, waiting for someone to surrender.

"Beginning in the third year of Tianqi, Hakka Baba sent someone to my house, saying that her son Hou Guoxing wanted to start a tea business in Fujian, and asked me to do it for the sake of the late emperor.

At that time, the official agreed to come down and sent a message to the governor's office in Fujian to eliminate all the small tea farmers in the past, so as to open the door for Hakka Baba's business;

In addition, there are Shanxi coal mine business, Shandong sea salt business, Yunnan-Guizhou copper and iron smelting business, etc. This official has either personally appeared in person or greeted old disciples..."

Qian Qianyi eloquently uttered nearly a thousand words, speaking clearly and clearly, which made Wei Zhongxian feel very comfortable.

This teammate is okay.

"Master Qian is very frank, and what he said is roughly similar to the clues our family has." Wei Zhongxian took a sip of tea and said calmly: "However, some amounts of money and food need to be checked in detail.

How about this, Mr. Qian please go to Dongchang to drink a bowl of herbal tea first. "

Qian Qianyi clasped his fists, and followed the two Dongchang eunuchs away calmly.

Wei Zhongxian stood up slowly, and said in a cold voice: "It seems that Qian Qianyi is the only one who colluded with Ke Baba?"

"My lords, take care of yourself!"

With that said, he turned around and left.

This time, everyone panicked.

Isn't it a good stick of incense...

As a result, everyone heard Qian Qianyi's "surrender" just now, but no one noticed that there was only about half an inch of the incense stick left.

"Mr. Wei, I'm guilty, I surrender myself!"

"Eunuch Wei, I surrender, I surrender!"

"Mr. Wei, not only do I have to surrender, but I also want to report Li Jianke, the right servant of the Ministry of Rites..."

……

Nearly a hundred civil and military ministers swarmed up like a swarm, impatiently starting to 'explain the problem'.

Even, because the number of eunuchs in the East Factory who made the records was too small to count the crimes in detail, several civil servants fought violently over the issue of 'jumping the queue'.

The scene suddenly became a little weird.

Standing on the steps, Wei Zhongxian sighed secretly.

The idiot emperor was right. Governing the country is not about fighting and killing, but about gossiping, eating and drinking.

However, when these so-called civil servants felt an unavoidable murderous intent, they swarmed and began to think of ways to 'confess the problem' in an attempt to reduce their guilt as much as possible.

Even the great eunuch Wei Zhongxian looked down on them a bit.

Forget it, it's more important to finish the errand of Long Live Lord as soon as possible...

"My lords, don't worry, don't panic, go to Dongchang to drink tea first, and explain the problem slowly."

With an order, the Jinyiwei and Dongchang eunuchs of the seventh and eighth teams rushed into the courtyard like wolves and tigers, stringed the officials who surrendered themselves with ropes, and escorted them to the Dongchang prison together.

Along the way, the people of the capital watched and talked one after another.

Nobody knew what was going on.

However, as long as officials are arrested, the common people will be foolishly happy.

"Tsk tsk, arresting so many corrupt officials all at once? It's so satisfying!"

"Look, isn't that the Minister of Rites?"

"Oh my god, even Shuntian Fu Yin has been arrested, God really wants to open his eyes!"

……

Wei Zhongxian sat in a small orchid sedan chair, closed his eyes and meditated, listening to the discussions of the people in the capital, he smiled wryly in his heart.

God's eyes open for a fart.

It's not that Long Live God has opened his eyes...

Since Zhu Youjian, the idiot emperor, came to the throne, in less than two years, too many major events have happened, and arresting a group of corrupt officials is just a matter of effort.

Moreover, the emperor's meaning is very clear, if you can't kill him, try not to kill him first.

Then...you can only squeeze the oil.

Thinking of this, the corners of Wei Zhongxian's eyes began to twitch slightly.

Thinking of the methods of the idiot emperor, I couldn't help shivering...

……

At the same time, on a painting boat in Beihai, the sound of silk and bamboo, singing and laughing.

Zhu Youjian sat in the middle, with Queen Zhou on the left, Zhang Yan, the emperor's wife on the left, and two foreign women sitting at the bottom, chatting with Miss Hongliu in a low voice, giggling from time to time.

"Sister-in-law, queen, please drink tea."

Zhu Youjian was wearing a set of plain nightgown without a crown, and his shiny black hair was combed casually with a bright yellow silk ribbon, making his appearance even more sunny.

"Long live please."

The emperor's wife and the queen picked up the tea bowl and took a sip.

"Sister-in-law, is it okay to live in the palace recently?" Zhu Youjian was full of gratitude to this sister-in-law.

Therefore, in every word and deed, naturally dare not be a little presumptuous.

"Fortunately, Anna and Catherine, the mother and daughter you brought, taught me the Tsarist Russian language, and the days passed very quickly." Zhang Yan said softly.

"That's good," Zhu Youjian said with a smile: "When you learn the Tsarist Russian language, I will set up a foreign language school in Ming Dynasty for you."

"Tsarist Russian, Japanese, German, English, Persian... There are so many foreign languages, I'm afraid you won't learn them.

As long as the sister-in-law wants to learn which subject, I will find a way for you to bring back a group of concubines, princesses, etc., and let them play with my... sister-in-law, queen, and concubines.

Hahaha. "

Zhu Youjian blushed.

Almost slipped.

"Besides, I also want to..."

The idiot emperor was bragging, when suddenly, a Jin Yiwei walked into the cabin quickly, bowed and said: "Long live, something happened to Wei Zhongxian!"

(End of this chapter)