The Ming Dynasty started with caution

Outside the door, a eunuch walked in quickly: "Oh no, Your Majesty is going to kill someone."

Zhang Heling smiled indifferently and said: "Whoever dares to chop off your head, our brothers will intercede with His Majesty and ask His Majesty to spare your death."

The eunuch sneered in his heart and said: "I'm not going to chop off our heads, I'm going to chop off your heads. I want you to enter the palace quickly!"

"Brother, why did your Majesty think of killing us?"

Zhang Heling was so frightened that he rolled down from his chair and beat Zhang Yanling: "You are as stupid as a pig, what trouble did you get into behind my back again!"

Half an hour later,

Kunning Palace,

At this time, Ning Shouhou and Jianchang Bo were kneeling on the ground, with their buttocks raised to the sky. Queen Zhang picked up the board and jerked them violently.

The two brothers were wailing loudly, and the eunuchs and maids nearby frowned. The queen was virtuous and dignified. What kind of disaster had these two uncles caused?

There were tears in Queen Zhang's eyes: "When I was selected as the Crown Princess, my father warned me not to bother the Crown Prince with my own troubles!

When I was appointed queen, my father warned me not to bother the emperor with my own troubles!

Now that you have all forgotten, you still dare to collude with border ministers and disobey the imperial court. Even if His Majesty chops off your heads, you will never ask me to intercede for you! "

Empress Zhang's father, Zhang Luan, was a Imperial College student. He was well-read in poetry, books and morals, and he was a reasonable person. He was no different from ordinary scholars.

That's why he taught such a virtuous and kind daughter like Queen Zhang.

However, Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling failed to live up to expectations. Before taking the imperial examination, Empress Zhang chose the crown princess. Naturally, the two of them no longer had to study, and they knew much less.

When the two brothers of the Zhang family heard that His Majesty was going to chop off their heads this time, they ignored the pain and hugged Queen Zhang and begged for mercy: "My queen, please spare my life!"

After Wang Yue submitted the impeachment memorial, Yan Chengjin immediately submitted his father's memorial. After all, the ultimate goal was not to punish the Zhang brothers, but to obtain military pay.

Dad is counting on him.

His Majesty summoned him to the palace, and Yan Chengjin followed the summoned eunuch to Fengtian Hall. He had already prepared his words in his heart and was prepared.

Emperor Hongzhi said calmly: "Did you ask Wang Yue to impeach Wang Yue?"

Yan Chengjin nodded honestly: "I asked him to impeach me."

Emperor Hongzhi asked again: "Why don't you impeach yourself?"

"I am afraid that your Majesty will protect Ningshou Hou and Jianchang Bo."

The whole place was silent.

Emperor Hongzhi's old face twitched hard, Li Dongyang frowned, and Liu Jian secretly sighed in his heart, this guy is even more reckless than me.

All the officials looked at him. This man was either crazy or had no brains.

Yan Chengjin, on the other hand, looked like a man who had nothing to do. Asking Emperor Hongzhi for money was a technical job.

No matter what today, I have to pluck a few hairs from Emperor Hongzhi's body.

I only heard Yan Chengjin continue: "I have never commanded an army, so I'm afraid your majesty won't believe what I say. Mr. Wang is the commander-in-chief of the first three borders, and he is well aware of the tricks involved. Now the Ningxia border has reached the point where there is no rice to cook the pot." , in addition to the memorial, my father also sent me a letter, asking me to transport the food stored at home to the border. It can be imagined how scarce the military pay in the border is. "

This is flipping!

What shame do I have to be the emperor?

When Emperor Hongzhi read the letter, his anger disappeared and tears filled his eyes. He was speechless for a long time. After taking a deep breath, he said: "Uncle Anding is my good general."

Hearing that the Zhang brothers were in Kunning Palace, Emperor Hongzhi came aggressively to question them. At this time, he heard a painful howl in the palace and didn't know whether to go in or not.

When Empress Zhang knew that Emperor Hongzhi was coming, she bowed and saluted: "My brother has violated the ban, and your Majesty will handle it impartially, so there is no need to bother me with my concubines."

Emperor Hongzhi was sitting on the throne and saw that the Zhang brothers had been severely tortured, but he was still angry: "Zhu Xiang has been removed from his official position and sent to the army for one year. As for you two, I will not take it lightly!"

Zhang Heling burst into tears, lying on the ground like a dead dog: "Your Majesty, please spare your life! Your Majesty, please spare your life!"

Zhang Yanling's reaction was a little slow. Looking at his brother, there was nothing to cry about. Your Majesty hasn't said how to punish him yet.

Emperor Hongzhi glared angrily: "The two of you have paid three hundred thousand dan! Put it into the Ningxia Mansion's granary. I will make you spit out all the greedy money and add forty imperial staffs!"

Zhang Heling almost fainted from fright, what a loss, what a loss!

Emperor Hongzhi was furious and almost scared him to death.

Zhang Yanling said pitifully: "But... Your Majesty, we only have money, not so much food..."

Zhang Heling slapped his brother with his backhand, and he was so lucky that he didn't chop off his head. He cried: "I obey the decree, and we will transport the grain to the Ningxia granary within a month."

Emperor Hongzhi said coldly: "It's within half a month!"

The two Zhang brothers came out of Kunning Palace holding their buttocks in their arms. They did not dare to disobey the imperial edict, but where could they raise so much food now?

Zhang Heling said bitterly: "Yanling, you go out first this time, and I will help you out next time."

Zhang Yanling said angrily: "I obviously have money, why should I ask my younger brother to help me out? Dad said that an elder brother is like a father, so I should help me out."

Zhang Heling was furious: "You are such a shameless person, but you still want to be my son?!"

When the two of them were arguing and blushing, they saw someone walking towards them.

Isn't this his mortal enemy Zhou Yu?

The brothers instantly made eye contact.

‘Brother, beat him? ’

Zhang Heling shook his head calmly and blinked his eyes again, 'We can't beat them now, but we will next time, but... this dog must have food. '

Zhang Yanling's eyes lit up. The Zhou family has many rice mills in Jiangnan and Guangdong, and they can definitely collect 300,000 stones!

Zhou Yu saw the Zhang brothers and thought it was bad luck. Just as he was about to take a detour, he heard a call, "Changning Earl, how are you?"

"We are all relatives of the emperor, come and reminisce about the past!" Zhang Yanling smiled foolishly.

It's rare for these two brothers to be so polite.

Zhou Yu snorted coldly: "I heard that you two brothers were impeached by Wang Yue?"

Zhang Heling was not a man of shame: "Impeachment is no big deal, His Majesty will not chop off our heads."

Zhou Yu was too lazy to pay attention to them. Just as he was about to go to Renshou Palace, Zhang Heling reluctantly stopped him and said: "Collect grain! Do you want to sell it?"

Zhou Yu said: "One stone and three coins of silver! Do you dare to buy it?"

The two brothers were happy: "Deal!"

"???" Zhou Yu.

The Hongzhi Emperor fined 300,000 stones of grain. This number is a bit scary, because the grain collected from the summer tax every year is only 4 million stones.

After the grain was collected, the Ministry of War sent people to escort it to Ningxia.

Yan Chengjin handed a letter to the housekeeper: "Let my father open it personally, and burn it after reading it."

The housekeeper nodded.

In Ningxia Prefecture, snow was falling outside the big tent, and the howling north wind poured into the mouth, making people speechless.

The barracks ran out of food, so Yan Kesong ordered his subordinates to cook the remaining rice into porridge in a big pot, and then go to the grassland to dig some grass roots and cook them together.

No one would eat more if there was no food in the granary.

In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Yan Kesong ate with everyone in the barracks.

A deputy general said to him: "General, last night, another 500 people escaped."

Yan Kesong cursed: "My Lord said that my son in the capital will definitely help me get food. Why? Because my son is the top scholar, he is smart and steady. I am his father, how can he ignore his father! These cowards, none of them believe me!"

The deputy general had a bitter face. Sir, how can it be so easy to get military pay? If it is so easy, what is the point of farming?

The soldiers obviously didn't believe it. The general had been bragging about his son for more than a day or two, and they were used to it.

The deputy general had a dejected face: "General, we would rather fight and die with the Tatars and eat their flesh and blood than starve to death."

One call and a hundred responses, echoing continuously.

Yan Kesong remained firm: "I have written to the court, and His Majesty will send food soon."

The deputy general finally couldn't help but said: "General, you don't know, even the general governor can't do anything. Every winter, there will always be many people fleeing the garrison. I'm afraid that by the beginning of next spring, the granary will still be empty."

Yan Kesong sighed lightly, how could he bear to see them starve to death in the border town.

Suddenly he thought of his son again, tears suddenly welled up in his eyes, and he didn't know how he was in the capital.

"General! A mile outside the tent, we found soldiers marching."

"But the Tatars are attacking?"

"The wind and snow are too strong to see clearly."

The horn in the army blew! The soldiers were on standby and ambushed in the snow. Yan Kesong put on his military uniform and led the army to go.

"General! It's the grain cart from the imperial court!" the spy shouted.

When the grain cart came in, Yan Kesong saw that it was the housekeeper who came back with the grain, but how could there be so much grain?

"That kid wouldn't have sold the house!" Yan Kesong asked.

"Master, it's not our grain, it's the young master who asked the imperial court for it."

Yan Kesong laughed: "Did you hear that? I said my son Cheng Jin is capable. You always say that I'm bragging. This time you see it, 300,000 stones, you can't eat it all even if you lie down!"

Back in the account, the housekeeper was trembling all the time and took out the letter: "Master, this is a letter from the young master to you, and you are asked to burn it after reading it."

Yan Kesong hurriedly opened the letter, and what caught his eye was 'My father wrote it to you, remember to burn it after reading it, and don't leave any receipts. ’

In it, there was a suggestion to rectify the military rations, and he was asked to post a notice, changing the payment to allow those with more than 5 shi to pay grain, and those with more than 100 bundles of grain and grass to pay, and adjusting the price to 1 shi and 3 qian.

Before, it was 500 shi, but now it is 5 shi, which is a big reduction.

After the notice was posted, the next day people brought their surplus grain to sell for money.

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