Chongzhen: I am the king of prosperous times

Chapter 213 A good show

"Your Majesty... Something happened at the Meridian Gate!"

Zhu Chunchen looked dignified, walked quickly into the official room, and saw Emperor Chongzhen receiving Xu Guangqi, his heart tightened, and he hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, please..."

"Xu Qing... You need to worry more about the Armed Forces Institute."

Emperor Chongzhen glanced at Zhu Chunchen, and said to Xu Guangqi, who frowned slightly: "When all the recruited talents arrive in the capital, they will report this matter to me. I will summon them, especially those Western missionaries. I want to have a good chat with them to see what other good things they have besides Daming."

Xu Guangqi hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "The minister receives the decree!"

Regarding the current order of the world outside the Ming Dynasty, and what kind of situation it was in, Emperor Chongzhen was clear in his heart, and he also understood what changes to make after the Ming Dynasty.

However, inside Daming, not much is known about it, Emperor Chongzhen wants to use his own method to connect Daming with the world.

Influenced by the thought of the Kingdom of Heaven, one of Daming's mainstream thoughts is that there is nothing to explore in the world outside of Daming.

No matter how vast the outside territory is, it is not as rich as Ming Dynasty, but in fact this is not the case. If the sea ban can be gradually lifted in a real sense, the pressure on the country and the court will be reduced correspondingly.

Who could have imagined that when the Ming court repeatedly jumped around in opening and banning the sea, the southeast of the Ming Dynasty, which is the closest to Nanyang, was popular among the people for smuggling sea trade, relying on porcelain, tea, silk, etc. How much money is earned each year by overseas hot items.

It's just that most of the money earned was not circulated in Daming, on the contrary, it was all hoarded, or they were bought into land.

In the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, most of the dignitaries, officials, landlords, and merchants under the southeast rule of the Ming Dynasty were rebels, earning a lot of money and enjoying the privileges bestowed on them. Shouldn't it be a pure and refined self-interested group that seeks profit from the people?
"Say, what happened?"

Emperor Chongzhen frowned, looked at Zhu Chunchen and said, "I can call you the Duke of the Ming Dynasty, the Zuo Dudu of the Governor's Mansion of the Jingwei, and you are acting so panic-stricken. Did someone gather a crowd to rebel? Or do you want to attack the court?"

Zhu Chunchen hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Return to Your Majesty... It was Jin Yiwei who escorted Yuan Chonghuan and paraded in the streets of the capital, which caused many people in the government and the public. They were very indignant about this, saying that Jin Yiwei..."

"They are indignant, but I am not indignant yet."

Emperor Chongzhen stood up, and said coldly: "Jin Yiwei supervises Yuan's case, it is my will, what Jin Yiwei does and doesn't do, what qualifications do they have, here to dictate.

There are some people who always take chances.

If the ethos of the country is not changed, something big will happen sooner or later.

Let's go, I really want to see how far this group of people can go. Xu Qing, go and call everyone in the Military Aircraft Department to accompany me to the Meridian Gate to see this rare event.

Wang Dehua!You send people to the Wenhua Palace, call Han Yuanfu, Li Biao, and others to go to the Meridian Gate, and also ask them, the cabinet ministers, to accompany me to have a look! "

"The minister leads the order!"

"Slave order!"

As far as the public opinion in the capital was concerned in the recent period, Emperor Chongzhen knew what was going on. Without the support of the ministers in the court and only relying on a group of Qingliu and scholars, it would be impossible to know so much inside.

Scholars' participation in state affairs has been explicitly prohibited in all dynasties, but in Daming, it has gradually become a trend, and it can even affect the court.

Although Emperor Chongzhen knew that the civil servants of Ming Dynasty were huge and intricate, but if he wanted to deal with some people alone, he could still do it.

Asking Luo Yangxing to escort Yuan Chonghuan to the streets to show the public, and asking the gathered storytellers to make up short stories, Emperor Chongzhen's followers were waiting for the right opportunity to attack.

"Your Majesty, you shouldn't indulge the factory guards like this. Luo Yangxing is a traitor and minister. This move will put the prestige of our court and the law and discipline of our country. Where is it!"

"Are you all blind? Why do you want to collude with this group of Jin Yiwei, let me go, gentlemen, it's time to help the country!"

Outside the chaotic Meridian Gate, a group of agitated officials and Imperial College students charged at the human wall in front of them, intending to kill the dedicated Jin Yiwei, destroy the erected wooden signs, and tear up Zhang Bu's big-character posters.

"Damn, these guys are crazy!"

Tang Guozuo, who was standing on the Meridian Gate Tower, saw the chaotic scene in front of him, sweating anxiously on his forehead, and cursed: "Quick... get some more bloody people to stabilize the situation."

Tang Guozuo was so annoyed, he came to the rotation so well, he didn't expect this kind of thing to happen, if the Jin Yiwei stationed at the Meridian Gate was beaten up by these officials and scholars, and he went to the emperor's side, it would be a big deal sent.

"This movement is really not small~"

When the familiar voice appeared on the Meridian Gate tower, Tang Guozuo was taken aback, turned around with wide eyes, saw Emperor Chongzhen was surrounded by a group of people, hurried forward, cupped his hands and said: "Chen Tang Guozuo, Greet Your Majesty."

"Well, no gift."

Emperor Chongzhen waved his hands, and his expression showed no joy or sorrow, and he said: "Masters, I asked you to watch a good show, which should be considered rare in my Ming Dynasty."

Han Yu, Li Biao and other cabinet ministers who followed behind, as well as Xu Guangqi's group of ministers from the Military Aircraft Department, all had different expressions, and beads of sweat appeared on many foreheads.

"Is this a show of power to me?"

Emperor Chongzhen stood with his hips akimbo, glanced at the situation outside the Meridian Gate, turned to look at Han Yu and the others, and said, "This is a simple way to show that Jin Yiwei did not lynch Yuan Chonghuan, so that the people in the capital will know how Yuan Chonghuan deceived the king. , how to run amok.

It's been an eye-opener for me, there are so many people gathered in the important place of the Meridian Gate, blindly stating their so-called propositions.

Li Biao, don't you have anything to say? "

"minister…"

Li Biao, who was named in public, trembled, and hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty...I don't understand, Your Majesty..."

"Don't understand? Don't know?"

Emperor Chongzhen smiled, pointed at Li Biao, and said, "Li Biao, Li Biao, do you think in your heart that except you are smart and shrewd, everyone else in Ming Dynasty is a fool?
Did you forget what you did some time ago?You are so noble and forgetful. "

Cold sweat broke out on Li Biao's forehead, his head was lowered, and his face showed a panic expression. Could it be that the emperor knows what he did in private?
Han Yu, who was standing with his hands down, felt agitated at this moment. What he was most worried about happened in the end, and the emperor was about to take action.

"Han Qing, I will leave it to you, the chief minister of the cabinet, to handle what happened outside the Meridian Gate."

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Han Yu and said indifferently: "I don't care why they came here or who they were instigated by, and I don't want to listen to what they say.

Some people in the court want to pull Yuan Chonghuan out of the Jinyiwei and hand it over to the Sanfa Division for supervision, and they are so impatient, it makes me feel more and more in my heart how much Yuan Chonghuan has done behind my back.

Li Biao, please take the initiative to ask for your resignation, I will save some face for you, or you can go to the Ministry of Punishment to confess, don't think that since I live in the inner court, I don't know what is going on outside. "

Li Biao was dumbfounded.

Han Yu was stunned.

Others present were shocked, disbelieving, or stunned, unable to believe what they heard.

"Cheng Guogong, you stay here." Emperor Chongzhen tossed his robe sleeves, looked at the astonished Zhu Chunchen, and said, "Help Han Qing to put down the chaos at the Meridian Gate.

If anyone dares to contradict Han Qing and despise the Ming Dynasty's laws and regulations, they will all be arrested and handed over to the Ministry of Punishment! "

"The minister leads the order!"

After Emperor Chongzhen left, he ignored Li Biao and the others at all, and strutted through the afternoon gate tower, as if he had never been here before.

According to the previous sudden public opinion, Emperor Chongzhen knew that Liu Zongzhou and Li Biao were behind the scenes, but he didn't find out more about who was involved.

Some ministers in the DPRK thought that they would be forced to back down if the public opinion was oriented, which was purely a dream.

The reason why Jin Yiwei was called to supervise the case of Yuan Chonghuan was that Emperor Chongzhen wanted to use this case to defeat some ministers who were pragmatic and did not do practical things, and used the rules of the game they followed to ask them to step down first, and then judge their crimes according to Yuan Chonghuan's confession.

Although Li Biao's reputation is not as good as Yuan Chonghuan's, he is the second assistant of the cabinet after all, and it is unjustifiable to dismiss him without any reason.

But since he is involved in it, don't think about doing it casually.

(End of this chapter)