Why did the emperor rebel?

Chapter 678

Zhu Yi quietly looked at the aggressive Xu Youzhen in front of her.

He admitted that he had indeed underestimated this person before!

In fact, since Xu Youzhen was recommended by Li Xian to join the Supreme Emperor's camp, Zhu Yi had checked this person's resume in detail.

Unlike ordinary officials, Xu Youzhen is short in stature, young and mature, and looks like she is scheming.

However, such a person has no sensitivity in the struggle against the court.

When the news of the civil engineering campaign reached the capital, he rashly proposed to move south, so he was left out in the cold.

Under such circumstances, not only did he not settle down, but he jumped up and down, first scrambling to do various errands in the Hanlin Academy, and after being rejected, he changed his ways and wanted to be transferred outside.

Later, when he had an opportunity, he was sent by the imperial court to repair the river, and he did a good job. However, after returning to Beijing, he started to move around again, and began to seek official positions everywhere.

You must know that with the current situation of the Tian family, even those big shots in the court, if they can avoid messing with them, they should try their best not to mess with them.

But Xu Youzhen, a mere Xu Youzhen, was already disgusted by the emperor, and now he dared to continue to fight against the emperor, it was like an old birthday star hanged himself, enough to live.

Obviously he could stay out of the matter, but he insisted on jumping into the fire pit by himself, which naturally made Young Master Zhu skeptical about Master Xu's political ability.

However, now that Xu Youzhen's questioning made Zhu Yi start to re-examine the ugly civil servant in front of him.

It should be said that although Zhu Yi's rhetoric did not completely dispel the doubts of Jiao Jing and others, it prevented them from pursuing the bottom line, which shows that his whole argument is completely reasonable.

And the key to this set of rhetoric is that the Supreme Emperor is rich enough, as long as you accept this premise, then all speculations are logical.

At this point, Zhu Yi strangled the position of Jiao Jing and others.

Since they voted for the Supreme Emperor, they more or less believed in this point, or more precisely, they expected that the Supreme Emperor would be a leader with a strategy and an understanding of the overall situation.

In this situation, after Zhu Yi guided them for a while, everyone fell into his train of thought, and once they were led away by him, they naturally felt that everything was very reasonable.

However, Xu Youzhen is different!
Maybe it's because he's a civil servant, or maybe it's because he hasn't been here for a long time, or maybe it's because among so many people, he is the only one who has little contact with the Supreme Emperor.

Therefore, after such a rough contact, Zhu Yi felt that Xu Youzhen was not like Jiao Jing and others, who had reverence and expectations for the Supreme Emperor, he was very sober.

From the other party's expression, Zhu Yi could tell that although he didn't say it, in fact, Xu Youzhen had doubts about the ability of the Supreme Emperor.

On this basis, Xu Youzhen jumped out of Zhu Yi's preset conditions, and was able to look at the whole thing from the perspective of a bystander.

Of course, Zhu Yi's statement was still reasonable, but when Xu Youzhen jumped out, it was easy to find a flaw.

This method is actually very simple, and it is quite clever and clumsy.

To put it simply, Xu Youzhen didn't go into the rationality of Zhu Yi's statement at all, and he might not even listen to what Zhu Yi said.

What he did was pinch out all the middle parts and just look at the cause and effect of the whole thing.

Obviously, the cause was that the Supreme Emperor summoned Xue Huan, and the result was that the situation in the Tian family was tense, and the prince went to court on behalf of the emperor.

No matter how extravagant Zhu Yi said, but as long as all the intermediate links are removed, it is not difficult to find that there is no necessary connection between the two.

Just like what Xu Youzhen said, the emperor has too many ways to deal with the edict of the Supreme Emperor, and at the same time, the Supreme Emperor also has too many ways to directly attract the attention of the courtiers to the prince without having to go through so much trouble .

There are too many branch choices between the cause and the result, and each choice may lead to different results.

If you think about it according to what Zhu Yi said, then there is nothing unreasonable about the whole thing, but once the time is turned back to before everything happened, it is not difficult to find that the current result is just one of many possible results , but not necessarily.

That being the case, all reasoning will be broken from the source.

All planning is to achieve the ultimate goal. Even if the ability of the Supreme Emperor himself is not considered, just in terms of pre-planning, the uncertainty of this matter is too great, and there is no room for maneuvering.

This is Xu Youzhen's reasoning, simple and rude, but useful!

Facing Xu Youzhen's questioning, Zhu Yi's gaze was heavy, and her heart was already tense, but at this time, the more she couldn't be confused.

Once you really panic, the initiative will be completely taken away by the opponent.

Looking behind the screen in a subtle way, Zhu Yi asked back.

"What Xu Xueshi said is reasonable, but no matter what Xu Xueshi thinks, in the end, the result is that His Royal Highness has won the name of loyalty and filial piety, and the attention of the courtiers has returned to Donggong."

"Now that I am separated from the Supreme Emperor by the palace wall, I am really not sure which guess is true, but if Xueshi Xu guesses like this, then, can I continue to infer that since the Supreme Emperor has done this, it is also true. There must be someone who can guarantee that this matter will eventually go around His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"Or, the emperor has already used this second hand, but the matter of the palace, the secrets of the Tian family, are not known to everyone, so what I have seen is that this matter has a sense of coincidence. ?”

In the final analysis, Zhu Yi was sternly strangling, the Supreme Emperor had already done everything possible due to his great strategy.

Since Xu Youzhen said that there was no causal relationship between summoning Xue Huan and building momentum for the prince, Zhu Yi turned it around and said that regardless of whether there was a causal relationship, the result was the same.

Xu Youzhen was stunned, but she didn't expect Zhu Yi to say that.

Frowning, he soon realized that Zhu Yi was messing around.

He didn't answer his own question, but continued to push everything to the Supreme Emperor.

In this way, unless he blatantly said that it is impossible for the Supreme Emperor to calculate to such a degree, otherwise, it is basically impossible to overthrow Zhu Yi's statement.

But having said that, although Xu Youzhen knew in his heart what the Supreme Emperor was, his current identity was after all the Supreme Emperor's person. If he openly said something disrespectful to the Supreme Emperor, then it was inevitable that people would doubt his loyalty to the Supreme Emperor.

So, like Zhu Yi, Xu Youzhen also felt the difficulty of the person in front of her.

Sure enough, both Zhu Jian and Li Xian told him that this young master Zhu, although he didn't have much sense of existence, in fact, if counting the brains of the Supreme Emperor's party, it must be this young master, and it was true.

While secretly evaluating Zhu Yi in her heart, Xu Youzhen frowned and couldn't help but took a deep breath.

It doesn't matter, he came here this time, not unprepared, although the current initiative has been faintly taken back by the other party, but fortunately the basic position is still there.

Taking a sip of tea lightly, suppressing the faint restlessness in her heart, Xu Youzhen looked up at Zhu Yi and said.

"Young Lord, you don't have to argue so much. Only he knows exactly what the Supreme Emperor is thinking. It's useless for you and me to argue. When we have a chance to meet the Supreme Emperor in the future, everything will naturally become clear."

"However, no matter what the Supreme Emperor thinks, do you really dare to say that you have a clear conscience?"

Although Xu Youzhen tried hard to cover it up, Zhu Yi could naturally sense that the initiative had been gradually regained by him, so he became more and more calm, said.

"Xu Xueshi, I don't understand what you are talking about."

Seeing Zhu Yi's posture of not shedding tears without seeing the coffin, Xu Youzhen's face also turned slightly cold, sitting up straight, Xu Xueshi said.

"In that case, then Xu will speak directly."

"Young Master also said just now that everything you said is just speculation. No one is sure whether the Supreme Emperor intends for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"However, under such circumstances, the young master, in the British government, tried his best to encourage all the nobles to cooperate with the imperial court to organize the army, so as to promote the East Palace to leave the cabinet and form a young army? Is there really no selfishness in this?"

Finally arrived at the most critical part, the string in Zhu Yi's heart was stretched to the tightest.

That's right, he can think of ways to explain all the other problems, but there is one thing that he can't get around.

That is, in this plan, the problem of the East Palace requires the nobles to sacrifice their own interests in the army in exchange for it.

Although, under the current situation, the court's major policy has been decided, the emperor has sharpened his sword, and the nobles are actually beating drums in their hearts.

However, this cannot conceal the fact that the smoother the implementation of the rectification of the army, the emperor will benefit the most.

Even if the nobles got the young army and succeeded in getting the prince out of the cabinet, they could not change this point.

In the British government before, Zhu Yi just cleverly took advantage of the faint fear of these nobles towards the emperor, and used the young army to confuse their eyes, making these people subconsciously ignore this point.

However, Xu Youzhen, who had nothing to do with Youjun, was obviously able to view this matter more objectively.

"selfish?"

Thoughts were spinning wildly in her mind, but Zhu Yi didn't dare to show any strange color on her face, only a trace of surprise floated up, said.

"In life, how many people can be selfless, but I don't know, what is the selfishness Xu Xueshi refers to?"

Seeing that Zhu Yi was still holding on, Xu Youzhen sneered and said.

"Young master, I didn't expect to have come to this point. The young master still refuses to tell the truth. If this is the case, then Xu can only offend."

While speaking, Xu Youzhen no longer had any scruples, and spoke directly.

"If Xu's guess is correct, I'm afraid that the young master never thought of stopping the rectification of the military colony from the beginning to the end, right?"

Seeing that Zhu Yi's face gradually became ugly, Xu Youzhen continued.

"Although in the British government, the young lord said that he did not agree to the conditions of the Yang family, but since the Yang family mentioned the title, does the young lord really think nothing of it? I'm afraid it's not the case!"

"Duke Xiancheng lost the battle at Yao'erling, which made the emperor and courtiers feel bitter about it. They were still stuck on the title of Duke Cheng. Make a great contribution, so that the court has to reward."

"The former young master walked by. Although Xu was in the Hanlin Academy, he was not ignorant of the anecdotes in the court. Although the matter of Wang's daughter was a rumor, it was probably not groundless. If so, then There is only the second way before the little prince."

"But, what kind of credit is it that can make the court officials forgive Duke Xiancheng for his defeat in the battle, and restore the title of Duke Cheng regardless of past suspicions?"

"Prince Chu!"

Xu Youzhen spit out two words softly, with a firm tone.

"The crown prince is the foundation of the country, but the current Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace has an embarrassing position. In terms of status, he is the successor of the current emperor, but in terms of blood, he is the heir of the Supreme Emperor. That's right, there have been many twists and turns in the East Palace leaving the pavilion."

"Above the court, all civil and military officials want the East Palace to settle down as soon as possible, but on the side of the civil servants, because various major policies require the support of the emperor, coupled with the special relationship of the Tian family, it is difficult to appear strong in this matter. advice."

"So this matter can only be done by the ministers on the side of the Supreme Emperor."

"Because of this, once the status of the East Palace is truly determined, it is possible for the courtiers to stop entangled in the battle of Yaoerling and return the title of Duke Cheng."

"And this is precisely the purpose of the young man, so in fact, you, the young man, don't really care if the emperor does this for His Royal Highness, right?"

"It doesn't matter whether it's a coincidence or the emperor's deliberate intention. As you said just now, since the result is beneficial to His Royal Highness, that's enough. The matter is said to be the arrangement of the Supreme Emperor, it is nothing more than a smoother way to win the support of the nobles."

"My lord, is what Xu said wrong?"

Hearing these words, Zhu Yi had mixed feelings in his heart, and for a moment, he didn't know how to react.

Was Xu Youzhen's deduction wrong?It should be said that he did not, he was indeed deliberately inducing those nobles, and the ultimate goal was indeed to get back the title.

However, it is wrong to say that it is right, after all, the most critical point was ruled out by Mr. Xu early on.

After a long breath, Zhu Yi's expression was complicated, but her tone was still alienated, said.

"Interesting inference, but do you have evidence?"

Seeing that Zhu Yi did not directly deny it, Xu Youzhen became more and more convinced that her guess was correct. As for Zhu Yi's question...

"Of course there is evidence, but it hasn't appeared yet, but it must be soon!"

The words were so mysterious that Zhu Yi couldn't help but look down, and asked.

"What do you mean?"

Xu Youzhen's eyes flickered, and she said with a strange tone.

"Ren Hou's life is the proof!"

"Little Lord, if Xu's guess is correct, now, you and the second master of the Zhang family are already thinking of a way to put Ren Hou to death, right?"

(End of this chapter)