The 16th year of Hongzhi, Shangyuan Festival.

Capital.

When I woke up that morning, the Shouning Marquis Mansion was very lively. It was the Spring Festival, and officials and gentry who came to give gifts to Shouning Marquis Zhang Heling were constantly in full swing. This was mainly because a news spread at the beginning of the year:

Queen Zhang is happy again!

After 16 years of marriage between Emperor Hongzhi Zhu Youzhang and Empress Zhang, Empress Zhang gave birth to two princesses and one princess. Unfortunately, except for Zhu Houzhao's tough life, the second son and eldest daughter of the emperor died young, and the emperor's heir was weak.

Zhu Youzhang had a deep affection for Empress Zhang and never mentioned the matter of taking concubines. The weak imperial heir became the top priority for the inheritance of the throne and the stability of the country.

If the crown prince has a few good and bad luck, there will be no orthodox heir to the throne. There are many people with the Zhu family. Everyone wants to be the emperor. They will provoke disputes for the throne, or if there are powerful ministers who set up puppet young emperors and command the world, the people will suffer, and foreign tribes may invade the Central Plains. The Ming Dynasty may fall into long-term turmoil.

Emperor Hongzhi had only one son and was not so safe. Now that Empress Zhang is pregnant, she is very comforted by the flattering officials and those loyal and upright ministers.

It is best to give birth to a prince and grow up healthily, so that even if the prince is sick and disaster in the future, the royal heir will not be cut off.

When Queen Zhang is pregnant, the most glorious brothers Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling are naturally the two brothers.

The two young uncles were highly valued by Emperor Hongzhi. In recent years, they have repeatedly done things that satisfy the emperor and praised them in the court many times. Before, Zhu Youzhang had offered to give Zhang Yanling a title of marquis. Now that Empress Zhang is pregnant, the matter of Zhang Yanling's title of marquis is a foregone conclusion.

The Shouning Marquis Mansion was lively, but the Shouning Marquis Zhang Heling was not at home that day. He was ordered to enter the palace early in the morning, and Zhang Yanling, the No. Jianchang, stayed in his Earl's Mansion to spend the whole life and drink.

During the Chinese New Year, Zhang Yanling did not step out of the house. The family was surrounded by beautiful wives and beautiful concubines. Not only did the Datong rouge and Yangzhou thin horses sent by the ministers who curled him, but also married women who occupied the people. During the New Year, the court was just resting, so Zhang Yanling stayed at home to enjoy the rest.

In Zhang Yanling's eyes, being an emperor is far less happy than him. He guards a yellow-faced woman and reviews memorials every day. He can only daydreams and dreams of immortality.

On the other hand, I have a lot of flowers around me, and I have money to ask for money, and I have beautiful women to have beautiful women, and I have enough wine and food. If I get tired of playing, I will ride a horse to the street to take a walk to "beauty pageant" and take a fancy to which woman I came back directly. The prefect of Shuntian didn't dare to speak out when he knew about it, so I could only go to the house to communicate secretly.

The world's surname is Zhu, but also Zhang. Just look at the status of the Zhang brothers, you will know that whoever says bad things about them in front of the emperor will be not far from death!

The reason why Zhang Yanling was so arrogant was mainly because of Emperor Hongzhi's indulgence. The root cause was that Zhang Yanling could do many things that ministers disdain, such as raising money for the royal family from some informal channels, or sending women to the palace when the emperor was depressed.

This time, Zhang Yanling occupied a married man. However, because a sedan chair blocked his way, he asked his followers to overturn the sedan chair. As a result, a beautiful woman who was two decades old had been around. He immediately shouted to take the people to "see the official" and sue the woman for being unpretentious, but he tied her up and enjoyed her halfway.

Zhang Yanling had thought about it. If Shuntian Mansion asked him for someone, he would send him to the palace. Queen Zhang happened to be pregnant. Emperor Hongzhi has always attached great importance to the issue of the emperor's heir. Knowing that Queen Zhang is pregnant, even if the fetus is only two or three months old, he would never have sex with Queen Zhang again. Don't he need someone to accompany him when he is depressed at night?

The woman who was robbed cried and made a fuss at first, but she had never seen the market before. With Zhang Yanling's help to help both kindness and power, she has now surrendered...

Zhang Yanling did not do the robbery of a private daughter once or twice, but there was never a problem. Li Mengyang, the head of the Ministry of Revenue, once submitted the famous "Response to the Imperial Palace" to mention Zhang Yanling's crime of abducting children. As a result, he was safe and sound. Li Mengyang almost died in prison. It was also because Li Mengyang was famous and the emperor did not dare to kill a recognized talented man wrongly, which would harm his reputation. In addition, the Jinyiwei was deliberately protecting him, which allowed Li Mengyang to escape.

Since then, the Zhang brothers have been engaged in the matter of occupying private property and forcing the civilian women. Even if the censor knows, he doesn't even dare to let go of anything.

Zhang Yanling was drinking in the warm room at home, and saw the servants hurried in and reported: "Master, the master is here."

"Brother is here? Haha, you guys are back. Without the orders of my master, you must not come and disturb me!"

Zhang Yanling was a little dissatisfied with Zhang Heling before, but now his brother is helping him run around and fighting for his title of marquis. Today, Zhang Heling entered the palace and is said to be negotiating this matter with the emperor. When he heard that his brother was coming, he was very excited. Maybe he was already a marquis and was just waiting for the official enthronement.

When Zhang Yanling arrived at the front hall and saw his brother with a dark face, he felt that it was not a good thing.

Zhang Yanling saluted: "Brother came to the palace today, but went to see the emperor and sister?"

Zhang Heling angrily slapped the table and said, "Let me tell me, have you sent some women to the palace recently?"

Zhang Yanling was a little surprised. It was still in the New Year. At that time, the emperor was either sick or busy with business. In order to avoid Zhu Houzhao's naughty child, he didn't even enter the palace gate. How could he have the intention to send women to the emperor? He showed an unjust expression and said, "Where did you believe the unreasonable rumors? I haven't entered the palace for more than a month. Last time I went to see my mother with my brother. Did you forget?"

"If you ask, just answer yes or no!" Zhang Heling said angrily.

"No!" Zhang Yanling answered affirmatively.

I have always been wronged by others, and I have never heard of anyone who dares to wrongly accuse me! He continued: "I had wanted to give your majesty a beautiful woman before, but my brother didn't know that Your Majesty has been ill recently, how could I be ungrateful? Besides, even if my sister has never told me about this, I dare not do anything against my sister's wishes!"

While saying that he dared not do anything against Queen Zhang's wishes, he also said that he planned to give women to his brother-in-law, but he gave up his thoughts because the emperor was physically weak and sick. This shows his hypocrisy.

Zhang Heling asked angrily: "Then what did you mean by occupying the women before?"

Only then did Zhang Yanling realize that his brother turned against him because he had robbed the woman on the street before. In his opinion, this was not a big deal. He sent someone to inquire about it. The woman was not a daughter or wife of an official family, but a housekeeper who filled in the house. She was originally an old man and a young wife, but she did not blatantly say that she had robbed him by herself. Perhaps they thought she was detained in Shuntian Mansion.

Could it be that this matter was exposed by Shuntian Mansion?

"Where did you hear about this from brother?" Zhang Yanling's face turned cold.

Zhang Heling said angrily: "That's it! Do you know that when Your Majesty told Brother Wei about this, Brother Wei was so embarrassed. Your Majesty was about to be named a marquis for you. When this happened, he felt like he was blind. You, you clearly put my Zhang family in a bad family!"

Zhang Yanling may feel ashamed when he said this from others, but Zhang Heling often does things like occupying private property and forcing him to buy and sell. The main reason is that Zhang Heling does not like women and does not have the intention to force his daughter to occupy the women. But what are you facing scolding your brother for being unkind and unrighteous?

"What brother taught me is that I remember it."

Zhang Yanling bowed his hands and looked humbly and asked when he lowered his head, "I wonder which god killed me, and I've stabbed my brother-in-law to the point where he got the matter?"

Zhang Heling was angry and explained what he knew: "Your Majesty did not explain it, but said that he had entered the palace to ask, pointing out that you did something wrong. Your Majesty told him to immediately return the person to Shuntian Mansion and deal with it... If there is such a thing in the future, I am afraid that even Your Majesty will not be able to protect you!"

Zhang Yanling frowned: "Brother, I've touched everyone. I'll send it back. Wouldn't it be a big deal, unless..."

Without further ado, the woman was sent to the Shuntian Prefecture Office and let her go in and die alive. Then the matter would be unaware of it.

After all, they are not a bad girl and are not pregnant. Even if the family members go to the yamen, what justice can they get? Nowadays, as long as they enter the cell, three or four out of the ten women will become corpses, and the remaining six or seven will never come out safely. Women come out of the cell, hang their feet or get divorced.

Zhang Heling did not refute it, and glared at his younger brother and said, "It's good to know, this matter has ended here. Your Majesty said that in more than a month, when the matter is calm, you will be granted a title of marquis. You will stay in the mansion these days and you will not be allowed to go out for a moment! What's wrong with me? Don't say that you won't help you speak nice things in front of Your Majesty!"

Zhang Yanling was angry when he heard that the title of the marquis had to delay, but he was even more angry that he "maliciously slandered" him behind his back. He couldn't figure it out. At most, accused people on that day were seen by a few ordinary people, and those people did not know his identity. In name, the woman was sent to Shuntian Mansion. Who would have exposed him?

But his brother was angry and he was inconvenient to ask questions. Even if he asked, it would probably be fruitless.

"If you don't go out, you won't go out. It just so happens that I can have enough money at home first. I want to hand over the person easily, so I don't even think about it. Women who have entered my Jianchang Mansion, don't go out in a hurry!"
Chapter completed!