Why did the emperor rebel?

Chapter 837
"Uncle Xiang, what else do you have to say?"

Wynn finished reading the letter, and under the sign of the emperor, he found a small stack of documents from the thick envelope and sent it to King Xiang.

It was quiet in the hall, and only King Xiang looked at the several pages of documents in front of him, which clearly recorded the location of the military fields belonging to King Xiang's Mansion, including which team of officers and troops they belonged to, and when they belonged to King Xiang's Mansion, How much food is produced every year, when and by whom it is sent to the Prince Xiang's Mansion.

There are even a few pages of land deeds, on which there is a signature from Prince Xiang's Mansion.

The proof is like a mountain!

Now, even if he wanted to deny it, it would be difficult.

Facing the emperor's questioning, King Xiang knew that he might not be able to be kind today, he hesitated for a moment, he glanced at Zhu Huixun next to him bitterly, but still quibbled in his mouth.

"Your Majesty, the minister's fief is in Xiangyang, thousands of miles away from the border, how can I reach out to the border and occupy the farmland?"

"Where did these land deeds come from? I really don't know. Please learn from your majesty."

Since he chose to deny it to death, then he could only go to the dark one way.

Anyway, there is no seal of his own, at most there is a signature from Prince Xiang's Mansion. At worst, he will give up these properties and say that he doesn't know.

He still doesn't believe it, just a few hundred hectares of land, how can he be a vassal king...

"So, what does Prince Xiang mean to say, these evidences are all false?"

A voice suddenly sounded in the hall, but it was not what King Min said.

Zhu Zhanqian looked in the direction of the sound in surprise, but saw that the person who spoke was like a green pine, with a pale face, and he felt majestic when he looked at it.

Minister of the Ministry of War, Yu Qian!
King Xiang was in a daze for a moment, but he didn't expect that it would be him who spoke.

Seeing this situation, Zhu Huixun on the side couldn't help but sneered in his heart. This king Xiang still hasn't recognized what the situation is.

Today's matter may have been about religious affairs at the beginning, but as he opened his mouth to impeach, the issue was brought to the military.

This is not just religious affairs, but state affairs!
Along with Zong Wu, many ministers present did not have room to speak, but when it comes to state affairs, how could they not say a word?

Seeing Yu Qian's apparent hostility, Zhu Zhanqian hesitated for a moment, but in the end he didn't dare to deny it directly.

The evidence presented by Dai Wang was obviously not collected in a day or two. A lot of evidence is interlocking, and it is not difficult to investigate whether it is true or false.

The only thing he can deny right now is...

"Look at the signature above, it is indeed a seal letter from the palace, but this king really doesn't know about this matter, maybe it was given and accepted by the subordinates privately, and they did anything wrong under the banner of Prince Xiang's palace."

Seeing Yu Qian coming forward, King Xiang immediately realized the seriousness of the problem.

If it is just a Min King, he may be able to deal with it, but if he wants to fight these ministers in the court, especially if the other party has his own reasons, he must not be an opponent.

Therefore, King Xiang finally chose to use the usual tricks of feudal kings after committing crimes, pushing two five six, pretending to be stupid and not knowing.

For so many years, I don't know how many vassal kings have escaped countless crimes by relying on this trick.

The wrong things are done by the bottom people, they don't know anything.

Of course, in this way, the land would definitely be lost. In fact, if the King Dai hadn't produced so much evidence, King Xiang would not even admit to this guilt.

However, as soon as he said this, Zhu Huixun couldn't help raising his eyebrows, thinking that King Xiang was really naive.

He didn't even think about it. Yu Qian stood by and watched coldly for so long without opening his mouth. Now that he suddenly intervened in this matter, could it be that he was simply speaking for himself, the king of Min?

Do you really think you can fool the past like this?
Sure enough, after listening to King Xiang's rebuttal, Yu Qian took out a thick stack of documents from his sleeve and asked.

"Prince Xiang, if it is said that the officials of the palace deceived the prince, stole the seal of the palace, and gave them to each other privately, then are these also the same?"

Far away, King Xiang couldn't see clearly what Yu Qian brought out.

However, just hearing his tone, King Xiang had an ominous premonition.

Sure enough, as the servant walked down the imperial steps, he took these documents from Yu Qian and presented them to the emperor. Yu Qian continued to speak unhurriedly.

"Report to Your Majesty, this is the memorandum submitted by the censor and local officials dispatched by the Metropolitan Procuratorate to Qingzhang Tianmu in Xiangyang."

"It describes in detail the official land in Xiangyang Mansion and its surrounding areas, the official land, the private land and the unnamed but actually under the control of Xiangwang Mansion, a total of about 3000 two hundred hectares, which is far beyond the imperial court. King Xiang's land, among these many fields, there are military settlements, official fields, and civilian fields."

"During the process of Qingzhang, the censor received many complaints, accusing King Xiang of oppressing the people, buying and selling by force, annexing properties, and causing many people's families to be destroyed and displaced."

"The complaint, the yellow book and the account books over the years are all attached, please read it, Your Majesty."

Now, even the ministers present were surprised.

Well, they originally thought that King Min's move to impeach King Xiang would be considered a killer move.

But he didn't expect that the bigger ultimate move was Yu Qian's here!

As King Xiang said, his fief is in Xiangyang, which is thousands of miles away from the border. If he insists that he doesn't know the situation on the border, it's just someone cheating, or someone under him cheating and deceitful, It makes sense.

After all, it is only two or three hundred hectares to send the name to the border army station in the Prince Xiang's Mansion.

This number is not a small number for ordinary civil and military ministers, or even noble families, but it is actually the same for a vassal king.

Thousands of miles away, and the number is not particularly large, so it is not impossible to force sophistry.

However, within his fiefdom, there are thousands of hectares of land, it is much more difficult to deny this...

"Your Majesty, ordering the army is a major policy of the imperial court, which benefits the country and the people."

"As a patriarchal vassal, he is supposed to be a vassal to protect the country and protect the court. However, as Da Zongzheng, King Xiang is domineering, occupying the land, and treating the court as nothing. Now that the incident happened, not only does he have no remorse, but he is even more reckless. Sophistry, to deceive the Holy Listen."

"Since he arrived in Beijing, he has repeatedly made mistakes. His Majesty is merciful and respectful of his relatives. He has never been able to bear to be blamed. However, King Xiang relied on His Majesty's benevolence and became more and more unscrupulous. He caused many clansmen to criticize him repeatedly. He is so incompetent and virtuous. And if you can't do your best for the imperial court, how can someone who has lost the virtue of the clan be in charge of the clan's mansion and set an example for the clan?"

"Please think twice, Your Majesty!"

With Yu Qian stepping up, how could Zhu Huixun let go of this opportunity? Before King Xiang could react, he immediately followed up and knelt down to speak.

At the same time, a group of clan disciples below also reacted one after another, followed each other, knelt down and said.

"Please think twice, Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty, my minister..."

King Xiang didn't expect that he would become the object of denunciation by the court almost in a short time.

At this moment, under the leadership of King Min and Yu Qian, a large group of clan children made an appeal again, with a great momentum, as if King Xiang was not enough to stop the court discussion, and instantly drowned out his voice of defense.

On the throne, the emperor stared at the documents in front of him, and after a long while, he finally opened his mouth and said.

"Uncle Xiang, in recent days, you have been working hard on religious affairs, and you must be very tired. Earlier, the imperial physician also said that the emperor's injury must be recuperated. For the sake of the emperor's health, he handed over the errands first. , rest at ease in the ten princes' mansion."

"As for the affairs of Zongxue, Uncle Min Wang will take care of it temporarily."

"His Majesty……"

King Xiang's face turned pale, and he spoke in a trembling voice.

However, before he could continue to speak, the emperor raised his head to greet him with stern eyes.

So King Xiang immediately calmed down.

Nowadays, the emperor still cares about his uncle and nephew's affection, or more precisely, he cares about his clan's face.

Therefore, neither the charge nor the punishment was mentioned, only that he was allowed to "rest for a period of time".

However, if he insisted again and again, then he would force the emperor to put all the evidence on the table for careful trial and picketing.

After thinking up to this point, Zhu Zhanqian took a deep breath and said.

"Chen... Thank you, Your Majesty."

After finishing speaking, King Xiang raised his head and felt the eyes of pity, pride, disdain, or contempt from all directions, and he couldn't help but feel a burst of shame and anger in his heart.

His eyes swept over Zhu Huixun, who looked like he was succeeding in his trickery, and Zhu Zhanqian's eyes finally fell on Yu Qian who was standing in the hall, upright and strict.

"Yu Shaobao, it really is the dry city of the country!"

Almost gritted his teeth, King Xiang spoke to Yu Qian, but he couldn't hide the hatred flowing between the lines.

Obviously, in King Xiang's view, if Yu Qian hadn't stepped in at this time and exposed the field of Xiangyang, then even if King Min and King Dai joined forces, he would always have a chance to escape.

Of course, in addition to this, there is another very important reason.

In the eyes of King Xiang, whether it is King Min or King Dai, they are always the vassals of one side, the clan of the Zhu family, and it is only natural for them to fight against King Xiang.

However, Yu Qian, as a civil servant, dared to interfere in the affairs of the clan, and helped King Min to impeach him, the prince of the Zhu family, it was a crime!

However, King Xiang looked down on Yu Qian, thinking that it was disrespect for him to offend the vassal king as a mere courtier.

But in the same way, in Yu Qian's eyes, King Xiang, who has no contribution to the country, only wants to cause trouble for the court and suck blood from the treasury, is also not worthy of any respect.

What's more, with the development of Ming Dynasty to the present, it is almost impossible for the feudal lords to intervene in the government.

King Xiang's status might be able to deter local officials, but for an important official like Qian, although he could not be offended if he could, but if he was offended, he would be offended.

Therefore, facing King Xiang's obviously sarcastic words, Yu Qian just cupped his hands calmly and said.

"Your Majesty's absurd praise. The minister is just loyal to his duty and sharing worries for His Majesty."

"Good, good, good!"

King Xiang's eyes rested on Qianqian's face for a moment, then he burst out laughing and said.

"Yu Shaobao is selfless and selfless. This king admires it. The army has accumulated evils. It is not a one-day achievement. It is difficult and arduous and involves many things. It is really hard to describe. Today, Yu Shaobao impeaches the king with justice. There is evidence, and the king admits it." .”

"It's just that since Yu Shaobao is in charge of the imperial court, he must treat other kings equally, right?"

After the words fell, Yu Qian's eyes flashed, and he had already guessed what he was going to say next, but even if he knew, his answer would not change.

With a slight bow, Yu Qian said calmly.

"It's natural!"

"Okay, then I will ask the king!"

Logically speaking, with what the emperor said just now, King Xiang should already be ready to resign.

But at this moment, King Xiang obviously couldn't control his emotions. After getting Yu Qian's answer, his expression suddenly became agitated.

With a raised voice, he raised his right hand, pointed straight at Zhu Huixun beside him, and asked sharply.

"Rectifying the military settlements is a major policy of the imperial court, so he, the Min Fan, has no crimes?"

"Since Yu Shaobao is stern and impartial, why does he only submit to His Majesty the evidence of my Xiangfan's occupation of land?"

A group of ministers sighed inwardly when they saw King Xiang's excitement.

Well, this Prince Xiang seems to be completely insane, he can't get out of his body, and he plans to pull two backs anyway.

King Xiang's eyes were fixed on Qian and Zhu Huixun, and his voice suddenly became low, and he spoke sinisterly, saying.

"Or is it that Yu Shaobao has secretly linked up with King Min for the purpose of joining forces today to bring down this king?"

"Or, because the former emperor has passed away, and this king has no one to support him in the court, so he should take this king first?"

Two words, opening the mouth is killing intent.

The first sentence is that the court ministers made friends with the clan vassals privately, and the latter sentence alludes to Yu Qian's bullying the clan and arrogating the dignity of the clan.

No matter which one, once it is confirmed, it will be a death penalty, which shows the hatred of King Xiang at the moment.

However, what King Xiang did not expect was that after he questioned, the first person to refute was not Yu Qian himself, but...

"Uncle Xiang!"

In the Wenhua Palace, the emperor's expression was slightly gloomy. After everyone entered the palace, he rarely let out a soft drink and said coldly.

"You slipped your tongue!"

With a simple sentence, King Xiang, who was standing in the palace, suddenly felt a heavy imperial power rushing towards his face. For no reason, he felt a chill down his back.

Pausing for a moment, the emperor pondered a little, Fang said.

"Just now, you accused the King of Min and the King of Dai for collusion without evidence, and now, based on your own speculation, you are accusing the important officials of the court of colluding with the vassal. Uncle Xiang, as Zongzheng, you usually judge the affairs of the clan according to your own preferences. Is it right or wrong?"

As he spoke, a look of disappointment flashed across Tianzi's face, he shook his head and said.

"It seems that I really shouldn't hand over the patriarchal mansion to the emperor's uncle, Huai En, pass the decree, let go of King Xiang Dazong's position, and stop ten kings' mansions to think about their mistakes, and don't leave without a decree!"

King Xiang was in a daze for a while, but he didn't expect that the emperor, who had never expressed anything from the beginning to the end, would be really angry at this moment.

You know, even just now, the emperor only said to let him relinquish his errands and go back home to recuperate. Although the result was the same, he still saved some face.

But now, once this decree comes out, it will be regarded as a real punishment.

What exactly is going on……

(End of this chapter)