Why did the emperor rebel?

Chapter 954 kowtow to apologize
Shen Jing looked coldly at Lin Cong and Ye Sheng opposite, he now understood why Yu Yan suddenly spoke to stop him just now.

Just now, Ye Sheng dug a hole for him to jump into.

The imperial censors of the Ming Dynasty are a group of people who are easily incited. There are many reasons for this situation.

In addition to the subjective reasons that most of these officials have entered the official position not long ago and are young and energetic, there is another very important point, which is the problem of poor information.

Yanguan is notorious for suppressing the big by the small, and the officials are humble and powerful. This design has its advantages, and it can prevent the Yanguan from being out of control.

However, to some extent, it also hinders the speaker from exercising his power.

To put it bluntly, if you want to make an accurate judgment, you need a large enough amount of information. However, as most of the ranks are only seventh-rank officials, their official status determines that they do not have access to a large amount of accurate information.

Generally speaking, there are only three ways for Ke Dao Yushi to obtain information.

One is to receive complaints, which is the most reliable, and it is what almost all speech officers will do, that is, to accept the submission of complaints when patrolling places.

In this way, problems are found and fed back to the court.

But the disadvantage of doing this is that it is too passive, and if the people don't come to report, then these officials will have no way of getting information.

The second method, which is also the most commonly used, is the so-called gossip.

Compared with the previous one, this method can give full play to the subjective initiative of the officials. The content they report may be a market rumor, a private gossip, or an imperial edict. The purpose is sparse, which can be said to be all-encompassing.

But the disadvantage is that because there is often no evidence, as long as it is not a large-scale bookkeeping in groups, it often does not cause any splashes in the court, and at most it can only create a sense of existence.

The last one is the most accurate, which is to learn the news through the court meeting and adapt to the situation.

It can be said that this is also the easiest time to gain a sense of presence. However, the disadvantage is that although the news that can be obtained at the court meeting is accurate, it is all superficial news, and it is impossible to put the deeper inside story on the table.

Moreover, when it comes to the court meeting, it is basically time to stand in line. If you say that you don't have a sufficiently keen political sense, you may be cheating yourself.

In most cases, the censors of science and roads use all three ways at the same time, and take whichever way is easy to go.

But no matter which way it is, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is caused by the inability to obtain enough information.

Because of this, in most cases, these officials are often used as gunmen.

Lin Cong and Ye Sheng, both of whom are from the Sixth Division, although they are both speech officers, relatively speaking, the news they have come into contact with is more accurate and extensive.

Moreover, Lin Cong is the favorite student of the old heavenly official Wang Zhi, so he has a good relationship with many important officials in Beijing, and he can get a lot of news by visiting him frequently.

The two of them naturally knew very well what happened to Zhang Ying and Li Xi, but they wanted to confuse the concepts in order to incite these censors who didn't know the truth.

From the very beginning, they wanted to characterize the matter as a crime for words. After finding out that it was difficult, they began to repeatedly emphasize that Zhang Ying and Li Xi came out of public interest. Although they violated the process, they were all for the sake of National community.

At first glance, these words sounded fine, but in fact, there was a big hole hidden in it. Shen Jing was careless just now, and almost fell into their trap.

The reason why the censors have to go on the outline and go online for trivial matters, and even like to point and point about everything in the Tian family, to put it bluntly, is to gain prestige and reputation.

However, a decree from the emperor ordered that from now on, Ke Dao should not overstep his power to remonstrate and play. It is not a matter for the lower court, but it needs to be played in secret or accompanied by the deputy signature of the Shangguan.

This blocked their way to gain fame!
After all, the content of the secret melody is not made public, which means that the outside world does not know what they said.

For those who are serious about doing things, this is not a hindrance. Anyway, the memorial was handed over, and the emperor saw it. If it can be dealt with, everyone will be happy. If it can't be dealt with, then find a joint name with Shangguan. , can also solve the problem.

It's just that the process is more complicated.

However, for those who invite their names to buy straight and get their reputations, their melodies are not published, and no one except the emperor can see their 'efforts'. Naturally, there is no prestige to earn.

This is the real reason why Zhang Ying, Li Xi and other censors selectively ignored the will of the emperor.

Above the court, the situation is changing rapidly, especially when the two sides debate and refute, they will often try their best to find the other party's fallacies and attack them.

This is the most unusual way.

So in fact, just now Ye Sheng repeatedly emphasized that Zhang Ying and Li Xi were dedicated to the public, just to encourage Shen Jing to tell the truth.

They all knew that Zhang Ying and Li Xi were trying to build up their reputation and resist the emperor's edict restricting speech officials.

However, once these words were uttered, they offended all the officials present.

In this way, many speech officials who did not know the inside story, or who knew the inside story but were vacillating, would join the team to intercede for Zhang Ying and Li Xi.

This was the purpose of Lin Cong and Ye Sheng.

They didn't want to refute Shen Jing at all, because they couldn't refute it at all, what they wanted to do, to put it bluntly, was to mess around.

How sinister it is to be so careful!

Thinking of this, Shen Jing couldn't help but glanced at Yu Yan with some gratitude, if he hadn't stopped him in time, perhaps the dozen or so speakers would not be the only ones standing up now.

Seeing that there were still many officials present who hesitated, Shen Jing didn't delay any longer, and immediately stepped forward and said.

"Your Majesty, I want to impeach Ye Sheng. Lin Cong and Lin Cong colluded, entangled cronies, instigated court discussions, deliberately confused Zhang Ying and Li Xi's crimes, and wanted to trap Your Majesty into injustice."

"Ye and Lin are both fake and true, and traitorous and loyal. They say that the country is a country and the country is righteous, but they are secretly slandering Shengming. It is really hateful."

"Your Majesty, please don't be deceived by the two of them. Such infidelity, injustice, selfishness and fraud, and a dignified person will be a courtier if they stand in the court, and a disaster if they exist in the country. I implore your majesty to punish them severely!"

How could Mr. Shen be willing to be tricked for no reason?

One must know that he was brought out by the famous Wang Tianguan, so he has somewhat of Wang Tianguan's style of conduct.

After seeing through the intentions of Ye Sheng and Lin Cong, Shen Jing also put away his good attitude just now, and the moment he opened his mouth, his sword was on the verge of breaking out.

When he opened his mouth, he buckled down one big hat after another. This posture was like a replica of Wang Tianguan.

But I have to say, it works!
At least these words, Yu Yan couldn't say it.

Seeing Shen Jing's aggressive look, Yu Yan at the side silently took two steps back, a little envious in her heart.

It's very cool to be able to swear unscrupulously in the court.

However, whether it is the status of the former minister of Yu Yanqian's residence or his current status as an official of the East Palace, it is determined that he is above the court and cannot act recklessly.

Behind Shen Jing is Wang Wen, the temper of this Wang Tianguan is well known, but Yu Yan now represents both the emperor and the East Palace to a certain extent.

Therefore, he should be more cautious in his words and deeds.

As soon as Shen Jing's words came out, there was a sudden silence in the hall. Although Lin Cong and Ye Sheng had different personalities and backgrounds, their common feature was to cherish their feathers. , it is really the first time.

Especially the evaluation of "the traitor seems loyal, the fake seems true", the two of them blushed and trembled with anger.

However, the effect is very obvious.

After these words were finished, the officials who were hesitant about whether to come forward to support Lin Cong and Ye Sheng also calmed down.

Shen Jing's words clearly had a personal touch, and when he stepped forward at this time, he hadn't been classified as the so-called cronies of "trapping the emperor in unrighteousness"...

You must know that behind this person is the heavenly official of the Ministry of Officials. Although the officials like to entangle and gather people, no one wants to be branded as a party member.

Otherwise, during the Beijing inspection, people will try to pick you up, but it's very simple.

Even the group of people who had followed Ye Sheng to call for a second opinion couldn't help hesitating when they saw Shen Jing's reaction so fiercely.

At this time, Lin Cong also reacted, and said with a calm face.

"Your Majesty, Mr. Shen's remarks are just arbitrarily slandering. The ministers are just discussing the facts and have no intention of framing His Majesty. As for collusion and entanglement with cronies, it is even more nonsense. Mr. Shen has no evidence and no evidence. Ya slandering court officials, this is a crime of deceiving the emperor, please punish severely!"

Well, this time it is completely topped.

Shen Jing said that Lin Cong and Lin Cong formed a clique for personal gain, and that traitors seemed loyal. Lin Cong countered that Shen Jing slandered court officials and was suspected of deceiving the emperor.

The two scrambled to give each other big hats, one after another, for fear that the matter was not big enough.

However, as soon as Lin Cong's words came out, many important officials present couldn't help shaking their heads secretly.

You're still young, it's too easy to suffer!
After all, Shen Jing had worked with Wang Wen for so long, they had never dealt with Shen Jing, but they were much more familiar with Wang Wen.

What this old guy is most afraid of is scolding.

When you scold him, there is no benefit except to make your heart ache with anger.

As Wang Wen's confidant, looking at Shen Jing's current posture, I'm afraid it is similar. If Lin Cong wants to compete with him in the scolding fight, he is afraid that he will lose miserably.

Sure enough, after Lin Cong's words fell, a sneer flashed across Shen Jing's face, and he subconsciously took a step forward. This posture was just short of rolling up his sleeves.

"A matter of fact? What a matter of fact!"

Shen Jing spoke again and said.

"Since it's a matter of fact, why didn't Master Lin mention the matter of Zhang Ying and Li Xi's rebellion?"

"Master Lin is really ashamed to say that Shen has slandered officials of the court without any evidence. Isn't this kind of method Lord Lin is used to?"

"You know that His Majesty has not forbidden to speak, but you deliberately misled the courtiers and regarded all civil and military officials as applause."

"It's up to you to say that Shen is deceiving the king?"

"That Zhang Ying, Li Xi, has always been on good terms with you. How many notes you have are accompanied by the two of them. Do you want Shen to go to the Secretary of the General Administration and turn them out?"

"I also said that I slandered you. You and Ye Sheng are the only two people who have a good relationship. You only need to wear a pair of pants. No one in the court knows."

The more Shen Jing spoke, the more excited he became, pointing to the awkward group of people present, and said.

"There are also this group of people, who doesn't feast and socialize with you every day?"

"The imperial court gives you salaries every month to support you, just to let you plot and make trouble every day?"

"Lin Cong, if you have the ability, dare to say in front of His Majesty and all civil and military officials, that you have not greeted these people in advance when discussing matters in court today?"

"Bah! Disgusting!"

"you you……"

If the words just now were considered reserved, the following few words are simply a proper personal attack.

Since Lin Cong became an official, Wang has been standing up for him. Although he has encountered storms, he has never seen such a posture.

At the moment, he was so angry that he couldn't speak, and he couldn't find a word if he wanted to scold him. In the end, he just squeezed out a few words and said.

"Country man, gentle and sweeping the floor, Lin is ashamed to be with people like you!"

While speaking, Lin Cong took off his official hat, knelt down on the ground, and said.

"Your Majesty, I have no grievances or enmity with Shen Jing, but today, this beast is speaking nonsense in front of the Lord, slandering the innocence of the minister and Lord Ye. I really don't know what it means."

"I implore Your Majesty to uphold justice for my minister, otherwise I will have to resign and go back, lest I be insulted by this villain in the court."

At this time, Ye Sheng on the side also stepped forward and knelt down in the tunnel.

"Your Majesty, the prelude is right, you have your own custom. Lord Lin and Lord Shen just have different political opinions. Lord Shen can't bear the abuse with such vicious words. Not only is it disrespectful to the court, but also the crime of disrespect in front of the imperial court."

"Your Majesty, I beg you to punish me severely, otherwise the court will lose its discipline and there may be great chaos."

This change happened too fast.

As a result, many ministers present have not yet reacted.

But no matter what, following Lin Cong's resignation and Ye Sheng's impeachment, the atmosphere between the two sides became more tense, and even the atmosphere in the entire court became tense.

At this time, many people couldn't help looking at the emperor above.

If the trouble has become like this, if the emperor doesn't show up again, I'm afraid the situation will get out of control.

Sure enough, the Son of Heaven also seemed to feel a bit of a headache when he saw the hustle and bustle below, he sighed and said.

"Mr. Shen, are you convicted?"

In the final analysis, Shen Jing is not Wang Wen after all, his actions and words just now were indeed a bit extreme, so that even the emperor wanted to protect him, it was not easy.

However, even at this time, Shen Jing didn't have the slightest fear, he also knelt down on the ground and said.

"Your Majesty, please accept that your words are inappropriate, and you are willing to be punished."

"However, if the ministers of the DPRK and China are threatening to resign at every turn, I don't know what the rules and regulations Master Ye said?"

"What's more, what I'm asking for is nothing more than a candid sentence from Mr. Lin."

Said, Shen Jing turned sideways, faced Lin Cong and said.

"My lord Lin, you said that Mr. Shen has no basis and no evidence, and casually accuses him of false accusations, then please speak uprightly in front of His Majesty and all civil and military officials. Everything you say today is completely selfless."

"You, Zhang Ying, Li Xi, and even any other officials in the court did not collude with each other. What everyone said in the court today came from their own hearts, and you did not give any hints."

"As long as Master Lin dares to say so, there is no need for Master Lin to resign, and Shen will kowtow to Master Lin on the spot to apologize!"

(End of this chapter)