The daily life of Dali Siqing

Chapter 688 Chapter 680
The loss of morality of a foolish king does not mean that the entire royal family has lost their hearts.

Emperor Taizu Gao, originally Huaiyou commoner, had no suspicion of relying on authority; he did not intend to preview the magic weapon for the people to eradicate violence.

There is no other way to win the country.

If Yang Qingyuan wanted to usurp the throne, let alone those who followed him, there would not even be neutral factions, including Cao Xueyang, who followed him to kill Zhu Zhankun and others, would oppose him.

Count the successful usurpers in the history books, from Wang Mang to Cao Pi, from Sima Yan to Liu Yu, from Yang Jian to Zhao Kuangyin, either relying on the planning of several generations of their parents and families, or the power of their own management for many years.

Only in the troubled times of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms can the soldiers be strong and the horses strong, and those who rule one side can call themselves emperors.

And how old is Yang Qingyuan! ?
Counting from the time he entered the imperial examination at the age of 15, it has been ten years since he was full of calculations, and five of them were still spent in the Imperial Academy.

And he has been in charge of the army for less than two years, and the generals in the army just respect his ability and obey his prestige.

The menacing ministers followed behind Song Wenyan, the champion of the new division, walked through the main hall to the gate of Hanyuan Hall, and stopped a foot in front of Yang Qingyuan.

With Song Wenyan and other direct ministers standing in front of them, even some fishers in troubled waters are full of confidence.

"Yang Ni", "thief", "rebel", all the officials were full of curses.

If it wasn't for knowing that Yang Qingyuan was a top expert in the world, this group of officials might have rushed forward and devoured his flesh.

Amidst the furious scolding of the crowd, Yang Qingyuan stood quietly.

Chen Jinru, who had just been hiding behind Song Wenyan, stood up again and said, "Yang Qingyuan, you traitor, you set up an army in the dark night to attack the imperial city and murder the emperor. It is a heinous crime. Today, Chen I want you to give the world an explanation even if you don't want it with your life."

What Chen Jinru said was righteous and strict.

Under his leadership, the officials also responded one after another.

"That's right, this thief must be severely punished."

"Give the world an explanation!"

The loud echoes of the ministers set off a wave of sound, which echoed in the Hanyuan Hall.

The so-called accusation of thousands of people is probably the case!

However, their behavior also shows from the negative side that they are powerless at the moment.

Facing Yang Qingyuan, the "sycophant" who raised troops to kill the king, they could only condemn him with cursing.

But if talking can kill people, what are the swords for? !

Of course Yang Qingyuan will give an explanation to the people of the world, but it is definitely not the explanation that these people in front of him want.

Yang Qingyuan could be made to hand over military power by cursing, committing suicide and apologizing, so what kind of standing army did Dazhou build? !Let these civil servants scold Beigan and Houjin to death.

Yang Qingyuan looked more and more excited in front of him, and only felt that the civil servants who could spray him to death.My heart became more and more peaceful!
He knew that these people were at their wit's end, and all they had left was this mouth.

Yang Qingyuan is not a reckless man. Most of the time when he does things, he likes to make decisions before acting.

Before raising troops, Yang Qingyuan had deduced the political situation in the future.

Breaking through the Daming Palace and killing Zhu Zhankun, this kind of vicious event may not happen in thousands of years.

Moreover, it was not a secret assassination or poisoning, but an open and aboveboard breach of the imperial city, beheading them with a sword in front of so many people.

Such incidents can be traced back to Jin Taizu killing Gaogui Xianggong in the street.

There will inevitably be fierce backlash from the officials.

The most brutal way to solve the current situation is to:
kill!

Shilin, a group of officials, only has a pen in his hand, while Yang Qingyuan has a knife in his hand.

The so-called "people's hearts" and "public opinions" are made up of individuals.

When your knife is fast enough, people's hearts will be killed and people's opinions will be killed.

The most typical example is above the blue star, when the Qing Dynasty entered the customs and Shenzhou land sank.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty issued a "hair shaving order" with power, requiring shaving hair and making clothes easier.

This of course caused dissatisfaction among the people.But savages don't care about public opinion or people's hearts, and they kill with knives.

Keep your hair but not your head!
The struggle between the Han people and the Qing Dynasty lasted for 37 years, and finally failed. Those who fell under the butcher's knife became mountains of bones and rivers of blood.

But in order to survive, he had to shave his hair and wear clothes in the end.

This is not an isolated case. There are also the order of cutting off hair in Korea and the order of cutting off hair and taking off swords in Japan, both of which are similar.

In the end, Yang Qingyuan can rely on weapons and power to kill all opponents.

But Yang Qingyuan's reputation is also rotten. He will be ranked alongside Wang Mang, Dong Zhuo, and Er Zhurong, and scholars will smear Yang Qingyuan on various occasions. In the next 300 years, Yang Qingyuan will be the storybook of Jianghu and the largest among folk dramas Villains, none of them.

Even if Yang Qingyuan doesn't care about these things, it's impossible for him to do this!

First, his bottom line made him unwilling to kill so many innocent people.He can kill a mountain of corpses on the battlefield, but he can't swing the butcher's knife against so many undeserving people.

Second, his purpose of raising troops was not to seize power.

It is to restore justice to Yanyi and to establish a new political order.

A coup is a means, not an end.

His purpose is to take Da Zhou forward.

……

Facing the aggressiveness of Chen Jinru, the royal censor of Youqian capital, and Chen Wenting, the servant of the Ministry of punishment, Yang Qingyuan just asked in a flat tone, "What do you want to explain?"

Yang Qingyuan's rhetorical question stunned the aggressive Er Chen.Although the officials were still furious at this moment, Er Chen felt a chill down his spine.

Under the grand occasion that was pointed out by thousands of people just now, the two of them almost forgot that the master in front of him was in charge of the military power of 15 in Shendu.

Although Yang Qingyuan is an orthodox imperial civil servant, he is definitely a ruthless master. How long have the bones outside Jinyang City been buried? !The grass on the grave of Hou Jin Dajun hasn't grown tall yet!
Maybe Yang Qingyuan couldn't kill all the officials who were making trouble at the scene, but it's definitely not impossible to kill the two leaders to make an example.

The reason why a group of people headed by Chen Jinru took the initiative and kept jumping up and down was not because they cared much about justice, or even about Zhu Zhankun's death.All they care about is themselves.

They are Zhu Zhankun's cronies. Both Chen Jinru and Chen Wenting were originally staunch princelings who were promoted after Zhu Zhankun ascended the throne.

Yang Qingyuan raised troops in a coup and killed the emperor, and now Zhu Zhankun's hardcore supporters, Cao Shouzheng and Li Hongyi have disappeared.Others don't know why, but how can someone at Erchen's level not know why? !
Next, the Li family, Cao family, and Zhu Zhankun's direct lineage will all be purged, and it will be justifiable.

At least [-]% of the officials above the imperial court have financial problems and cannot withstand investigation.

Chen Wenting and Chen Jinru didn't want to sit and wait for death, they always needed a dying struggle.

But now Er Chen found out that if they made a fuss again, they might not wait for the court's purge time, and they would be killed by Yang Qingyuan now as chickens.

In fact, there are many people who think like Er Chen. Whether it is Cao Shouzheng or Li Hongyi, they are towering trees in the court hall, and there are many followers attached to them.

A great politician once quoted a sentence: There is no party outside the party, the emperor's thinking, and no faction inside the party, all kinds of strange things.

Officialdom is actually a battleground for political factions.

Even though Da Zhou's officialdom is relatively clear, it still cannot change this situation.

Regardless of the Changchao and Dachaohui, many officials have not even met Zhu Zhankun, the newly enthroned emperor, a few times, and what's more, they may have never met Zhu Zhankun in private, talking about loyalty to the emperor.

Today, the biggest reason for being so fierce is actually just wanting to protect yourself!

Er Chen lost his temper, but Song Wenyan did not. He is not a paper tiger like Er Chen. Although he is a bit pedantic, he is upright and unyielding.

"Yang Qingyuan, you unfaithful and unfilial person! How dare you ask for an explanation for killing the emperor? Hand over the military power, return to the mansion to meditate on your past, and wait for the court to deal with it!!"

Facts once again prove that losing fans and stepping back is much more terrifying than black fans.

This Song Wenyan was originally a die-hard fan of Yang Qingyuan, and now he is asking for Yang Qingyuan's life.

At this time, asking Yang Qingyuan to hand over his military power, meditate on his own mistakes, and wait for his punishment, is tantamount to asking Yang Qingyuan to kill him.

Although Song Wenyan's statement is very immature politically, it is indeed the inner thoughts of many people.

Rebellious ministers and thieves are punished by everyone.

Severely punishing regicides is a basic political demand.

Looking at Song Wenyan's sincere and fearless eyes, Yang Qingyuan knew that Song Wenyan was a gentleman despite his old-fashioned thinking and clumsy politics.

"Zhu Zhankun's death, although the princes came here with anger, I can understand. But I would like to ask, when the emperor was unjustly killed by the great scholar, where are the gentlemen?! Where is the justice of heaven?!"

Yang Qingyuan's question made the more than 100 officials who were questioning angrily in the Hanyuan Palace slightly quiet, and the momentum that was originally full of excitement also stagnated slightly.

Among the people who spoke out for Yu Yanyi at that time were Yushi Youdu who stood in the hall with drooping eyelids; Shi Li Xunhuan.

Most of the people behind Er Chen and Song Wenyan not only did not stand up for the so-called justice at that time, but they were also the promoters of Yu Yanyi's unjust case.

The reason why he stood up at this moment was to protect himself, hoping to use the power of everyone to fight against Yang Qingyuan, and the second was because of Yang Qingyuan's regicide, which trampled on the order of the entire court. People who are bad, or those who fish in troubled waters, will subconsciously want to punish!

Moreover, there is an unspoken rule in the court - the law does not blame the public.

For most of them, although they were not angry with Yang Qingyuan's behavior, they definitely didn't want to make life difficult for Yang Qingyuan, even at the expense of their lives.

While everyone was thinking for a while, someone stood up. Shen Rumo, the official minister, was once Qian Muqian's disciple, but later he broke with Qian Muqian and Yang Qingyuan in order to win Zhu Zhankun's family.

Of course, he also got what he wanted, a Bachelor of Jianji Temple, one of the candidates for the future Grand Bachelor.

"Yang Qingyuan, the king wants his ministers to die, but if they are not loyal, even if the emperor is wrong, it is not your turn to punish him, not to mention that it is a crime that cannot be punished by raising troops and plotting rebellion. Also, where are Li Dashi and Cao Shangshu?! Could it be that you were poisoned too!?"

Traitors are often hated more than enemies!
So Shen Rumo was also in a hurry. He betrayed his mentor for the sake of his position in the cabinet. Once Yang Qingyuan was allowed to take power, he would definitely not be as good as him!

"Dare to ask, Mr. Shen, where does the king want the minister to die, and the minister's unfaithful words come from?!"

"This……"

Shen Rumo knew very well about the abilities of the junior brother in front of him that the moving Tongwenguan was not blown out by himself.

Seeing that Shen Rumo was at a loss for words, Yang Qingyuan said, "The so-called emperor wants his ministers to die, and his ministers have to die. It's just from a Jianghu script. Except for Master Dong, all Confucian sages have never had such arguments."

Yang Qingyuan has the concurrent job of a bachelor of the Imperial Academy. Although there are objections among the academicians of the Hanlin Academy when he killed the king, no one will question his talent.

"Meng Sheng has said: When a king regards his ministers like brothers and feet, then the ministers regard the emperor as his heart; when the king regards his ministers like dogs and horses, the ministers regard the emperor as the people of the country; , you are a disciple of Confucianism, but you don’t read the books of sages, you are in vain as a scholar!”

The Son of Heaven is not unattainable, morally, there are still people who can rival the Son of Heaven.

The words of the sages, even the emperor must obey.

Whether it is Taoism or Confucianism.

Yang Qingyuan's quoting of Mencius' words is to fight back against Shen Rumo.

At the same time, it is also to change the topic.

After these words, the focus of the officials has changed from how to severely punish Yang Qingyuan to whether Yang Qingyuan's regicide is in line with the words of a saint.

Argumentativeness is part of human nature.

The countless bullies on Blue Star's network proved this point.

Just when everyone in the team started to discuss, Song Wenyan Zheng raised his right hand high to stop the quarrel among the officials.

Then Song Wenyan took three steps forward, looked at Yang Qingyuan squarely, without fear, and said loudly: "Yang Qingyuan, I know you are extremely talented, and your talent is beyond my reach! You can’t escape either. Now that you hold the military power, the ministers dare not hold you accountable.”

"But right is right! Wrong is wrong, right and wrong are black and white, history has its own judgement!"

Song Wen solemnly straightened his clothes, "Today, others are afraid of the sword in your hand, but I am not. I don't resent the emperor's killing of a scholar, but I also don't resent you for killing the king. The civil servants of my Great Zhou are not only those who are wise and protect their lives. A person who is afraid of death. Although I am not a loyal person, I would like to follow the example of Lord Yan Wenzhong! You... do it!"

Song Wenyan is a gentleman in the traditional Confucian sense, and was also appreciated by Yanyi and Emperor Taizong Wen.This is not only because of his good writing in the imperial examination, but also because of his honest character.

Although there may be deviations due to lack of experience, no one is born with experience.

He had already seen clearly at this moment that Yang Qingyuan held the military power and wanted to punish him, but it was just a dream.

The essence of those who followed him to denounce Yang Qingyuan was that most of them were just fishing in troubled waters, while the righteous Chen Jinru and Chen Wenting were just trying to take advantage of the situation.

It was the silent bosses in the hall who could really see clearly and consider Da Zhou.

How strong is Zheng Cheng Qingsong of the Metropolitan Procuratorate? !

During the Yanyi case, he knelt and fainted in front of the Hanyuan Hall twice, begging to take his life back.

Qian Muqian, a leader in the literary world, is still unwilling to speak up.

It shows that these big shots are all dissatisfied with Zhu Zhankun's unjust killing of Yu Yanyi.

Although he is the number one scholar in the new discipline, but his position is low and his words are light, it is impossible to change it with words. He can only die, and use his own death to prove Yang Qingyuan's fallacy.

Song Wenyan's words moved all the officials watching in the Hanyuan Hall.

Li Weiguang, the imperial censor of the right capital, said directly, "Marquis Yang, the number one scholar of the Song Dynasty is an upright gentleman, a man of character and integrity, so don't harm him."

Of course Yang Qingyuan would not do anything to Song Wenyan, instead he did what he wanted, pointing at Chen Wenting unexpectedly, "This thief is an accomplice who framed the Grand Scholar, take him down!"

Chen Wenting looked confused, no, Song Wenyan scolded you, what does it have to do with me? !

Yang Qingyuan's push and pull completely dispelled the atmosphere of Song Wenyan's remonstrance.

The unjust murder of Yu Yanyi was the biggest unjust case in the country. The charges of Yu Yanyi and Chongwen Academy were drawn up by Cao Shouzheng and Chen Wenting, and the punishment was also weighed by them.

Now that Yang Qingyuan is arresting Chen Wenting, there is no big problem.

And the excitement just now was like punching cotton under Yang Qingyuan's action.

What the hell is going on! ?

Seeing that Yang Qingyuan took Chen Wenting away, all the ministers were puzzled and felt sorry for him. Chen Wenting was probably abolished. What if Yang Qingyuan wanted to continue to fight? !

Killing chickens is ultimately a warning to monkeys.

Seeing Yang Qingyuan leading people out of the Hanyuan Hall, the officials didn't know what to do? !
Not long after, Wang Hua entered the Hanyuan Hall, and he came to take over from Yang Qingyuan to complete the unfinished business.

Yang Qingyuan is carrying the name of killing the king at this moment, it is impossible for the ministers to sit down and have a good talk with him.

But Wang Hua is different. The champion of Yong'an for 13 years, when he once served in Yue and Yangzhou, he was still a bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion and an envoy of the General Administration.

Before the imperial city that day, he charged Zhu Zhankun with five major crimes. Who would not respect his strength of character? !

It is naturally a good choice for him to come forward.

Among the officials, Chen Jinru was still a little dazed at the moment, and walked to Qian Muqian's side unwillingly.

"Scholar Qian, you are highly respected, this...?!"

Qian Muqian gave Chen Jinru a white look, what is this man thinking, his heart is like a mirror.

"If you want to eliminate traitors for the country, go ahead, the old man didn't stop you."

Chen Jinru was so stunned by this sentence that Yang Qingyuan not only had high martial arts skills, but also held military power. If he could kill him, why would he be jumping up and down here? !
Wang Hua ignored Chen Jinru, who was fighting the fire, and saluted Qian Muqian, Cheng Qingsong, Zhu Wushi, Zhongshan Wang Xu Zhongshou and other bigwigs.

"Scholar Qian, Mr. Cheng, the King of Changping County, and the King of Zhongshan, the country cannot be without a king for a day, and the matter of supporting a new king should be put on the agenda as soon as possible!"

The most urgent task now is to elect an emperor.

These few are old foxes in the political arena, except of course the naive Xu Zhongshou, they naturally know that Wang Hua is now the spokesperson of Yang Qingyuan to discuss with them.

"What does Dehui think?!"

Qian Muqian asked, he is Wang Hua's teacher, and both of them are from Yuezhou or from the township party.

"The lower official thinks that it should be pushed by the courtiers, and the queen mother will issue an order. As for the recent government affairs, I have to trouble the princes and ministers!"

Wang Hua's words were recognized by everyone.

"good!"

"That's all it takes!"

(End of this chapter)