Rule over Ming Dynasty

Chapter 228

In the early morning of the next day, dry the palace.

Cold and cold, the evening of the long pavilion, the beginning of the shower.

There is no clue in the tent of the capital, but at the place of nostalgia, Lan Zhou urges it.

……

The woman who served the bed last night was Lian Meiren, so her waist was a little sore.

The way of the little goblin is always worth looking forward to. When she was a court lady, she was already restless, and now she wants to get a higher title before finalizing "one empress, two concubines and nine concubines".

Zhu Youtang didn't believe in what the literati said, and it was just the incompetent literati's rhetoric that a beauty would harm the country.

As for the time limit stipulated by the later dynasties, this kind of thing can only be said to be an excuse for a certain 3 minutes. Now he prefers to do as he pleases, enjoying one of the greatest pleasures of being an emperor.

Since today is the last eighth morning morning in August, the time to get up is earlier than usual.

"Your Majesty, do you have something on your mind?" Liu Jin asked cautiously and softly as he was already evolving into the roundworm in Zhu Youtang's stomach.

Zhu Youtang knew that his thoughts had been seen through, so he couldn't help but sighed softly.

Wang Zhi sent back the information he got from Liu Daxia to the capital. He asked Wang Xiang and Du Ming to go to the Yamen of the Ministry of War to look for it, but they couldn't find the Annan file he needed.

The development of the matter was unexpected, and now they don't know whether Liu Daxia lied, or the Annan file stored there was stolen again.

Even though he is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, it is still very difficult to know the truth of some things. Now the matter in Annan's file seems to be confusing.

Different from the online novels read by later generations, as long as the emperor's tiger's body shakes, all the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty will prostrate on the ground, but the reality is that the civil and military officials kneel down, but now there are endless conspiracies and tricks underneath.

Judging from the threatening process submitted by Wang Zhi and Liu Zhong, Liu Daxia should not have lied at that time, but now the Annan file cannot be found at the place where Liu Daxia confessed.

Liu Daxia gave wrong information about the Annan file, or someone stole the Annan file in advance, and now the Annan file is shrouded in a cloud of fog.

Zhu Youtang faintly felt that there seemed to be a force hidden in this court, and after rinsing his mouth, he said lightly: "Is Liu Daxia coming to the capital soon?"

"Your Majesty, Liu Daxia has been urgently transported to Beijing, and he is expected to arrive in the capital today!" Liu Jin personally took the teacup and reported respectfully.

After the Southwest archives could not be found at the location of the Jianzhou archives, His Majesty personally ordered the local officials to quickly transport the prisoner Liu Daxia to Beijing.

Zhu Youtang knew that he could only start with Liu Daxia again. This time, he had to find out where the Southwest archives were located, but the delay was really too long.

When they walked out of Qianqing Palace, the sky was just getting brighter.

Before boarding the dragon chariot, Zhu Youtang turned his head to look at the milky white clouds in the east and said with emotion: "Today's morning is not peaceful!"

Outside the Meridian Gate, as the bells and drums of the Meridian Gate tower sounded, the palace gate slowly opened.

"Today we will punish this villain!"

"It's unheard of since the Ming Dynasty to cruelly harm a family of virtuous officials!"

"Of course we want to support the emperor, but we hope someone can tell right from wrong!"

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The officials of the Imperial Academy appeared murderous today, not only openly appealing to other officials, but also veiledly warning officials such as Li Yu, Minister of the Ministry of Officials.

Although the news of Wang Zhi burning Liu Daxia's family has already spread to the capital, but now the time of the early court has been changed, so it is only today that he is ready to deal Wang Zhi a fatal blow.

Not to mention that their civil official group has always been a whole that advances and retreats together. Even if there is no reason, they still have to find a reason. Now that there is righteousness, it is natural to kill that eunuch.

The loudest voice here is not the new Qingliu leader Liu Jian, the left servant of the Ministry of Rites, but a little old man wearing a sixth-rank official uniform, and his official position is only Hanlin Xiuzhuan.

The ecology of the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty is actually very complicated, usually according to the level of the official position, but there will also be some special situations.Like Yang Ting, the reviewer of the eighth-rank Hanlin, and Liu Daxia, the doctor of the fifth-rank car driver, these are officials who can get in touch with the big figures in the dynasty.

Li Yu, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and other officials looked at each other in blank dismay, especially seeing Zhang Zhen's look of sharpening his sword, and vaguely felt that these people were going to make trouble.

The early court followed the usual procedure, but when it came to the Hanlin Academy, it was not the Hanlin scholars who came out, but the Hanlin Xiuzhuan Zhang Yuanzhen jumped out: "The minister Hanlin Xiuzhuan Zhang Zhen played the illegal deeds of the eunuch Wang Zhishi in Nanjing, please punish him." Kill this thief!"

coming!

Li Yu, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and others couldn't help but feel a headache when they saw that it was Zhang Zhen who had been written by Hanlin.

Zhang Zhen is nearly [-] years old this year, but although this person has only studied from the sixth-rank Hanlin, he is a Jinshi in the first year of Tianshun, and his qualifications have crushed most of the officials present.

He entered the Hanlin Academy as a concubine, and because of his excellent grades, he was awarded the title of editor of the Hanlin. After Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty came to the throne, he once submitted three things in the book: "Diligent lectures, public listening to politics, and widespread use of talents". Zong Xian was disgusted and resigned in anger.

It's just that Zhang Zhen failed in her official career, but gained a great reputation in Shilin.

In the 22 years since he resigned from office, he has been devoted to teaching. He co-founded Ziyun Academy with Li Min, the former Minister of the Household Department, and even brought his disciples to promote his ideas, so he has a great reputation among scholars.

When Zhu Youtang had just succeeded to the throne, Xu Pu and others pushed Zhang Zhen to return to the court, but Zhang Zhen refused repeatedly before agreeing to participate in the compilation of "Xianzong Shilu" as a Hanlin editor.

Zhang Zhen not only became the well-deserved leader of the Henan Township Party, but also was hailed by many officials as the first sage of the dynasty. His reputation in the court has surpassed Xu Qiong, the Minister of Rites.

Now suddenly stand up and point the finger at Wang Zhi, the attack behind this is stronger than Liu Fenjian, the left servant of the Ministry of Rites, and his words are destined to arouse the solidarity of scholars.

The killing of Wang Zhi was not only Zhang Ji's wish, but now it probably represents the voice of the great Ming scholars.

"Wang Zhi used the lives of Liu Daxia's family to force Liu Daxia to confess where the Annan archives were hidden. I know the truth, and this matter should not be considered a crime!" Taking the matter of Liu's family as the starting point, he expressed his position lightly.

Although Wang Zhi's approach was cruel, it was not necessarily a big mistake.

Liu Daxia still wants to hide the Annan archives, but he doesn't know that the Annan archives are related to this foreign war, and even more related to the national destiny of Ming Dynasty.

If people like Wang Zhi who are dedicated to the Ming Dynasty are to be convicted for this, then I want to share the blessing of peace with these civil servants, and I will turn a blind eye to the life and death of the people in the southwest.

The civil and military officials present heard Zhu Youtang's statement, and they were actually expecting this result.

After all, this is not a sage king who is at the mercy of others, but an emperor with power and drive, so it is unlikely to deal with eunuchs like Wang Zhi who do errands for him.

The east gradually brightened, but there was a glow.

Zhang Zhen has 20 years of teaching experience, and then she looked up passionately as if she was in a classroom: "Your Majesty, how can you protect such villains, they cost dozens of lives!"

These words were full of unwillingness and shock, as if Zhu Youtang had really made a mistake.

The officials present were really intimidated by the respected Zhang Zhen, and many officials began to think whether they should let Wang Zhi go, or whether they should smash Wang Zhi's body into thousands of pieces.

"Zhang Zhen, do you think Daming's country is important? Or is the life of Liu Daxia's family more expensive?" Zhu Youtang was immune to this kind of emotional card, so he asked indifferently.

Zhang Zhen has gone through countless debates in the process of discussing Taoism for so many years, and immediately gave full play to her strengths: "Your Majesty, these two things should not be confused! Don't do evil because it is small, and don't do good because it is small. It's what the sages said!"

"I don't care about self-cultivation today, but governing the country! You are staring at the life and death of Liu Daxia's family and Wang Zhi's little evil, don't you care about the war between Daming and Li Dynasty?" Zhu Youtang found that this old man was confusing concepts , could not help but question loudly.

Huh?
Li Yu, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and other officials could not help but nodded slightly when they heard Zhu Youtang's clear rebuttal. At the same time, they looked at this increasingly powerful emperor with admiration.

Judging from a gentleman's point of view, Wang Zhi's method of threatening Liu Daxia's family can be said to be an out-and-out villain's behavior.Just proceeding from the interests of the country, Wang Zhi's approach is nothing but meritorious.

Zhang Zhen realized that the young emperor in front of him was really not easy to fool, so he threw out another attack point: "Your Majesty, forgive me, this war shouldn't have happened in the first place! The whole world will be affected by the influence of the world. In this new dynasty, When the disease is serious, it will lead to Zhongxing. However, with the war together, the southwest will be corrupted, the people will have no day of peace, and the court will have no prosperity to speak of!"

"Zhang Xiuzhuan, Li Dynasty is just a small vassal state, are you underestimating yourself?" Xu Qiong, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, couldn't help but stand up.

"When the Li dynasty uses troops, our dynasty will surely win. How can you say that the southwest is corrupt?"

Li Si, Shangshu of the Household Department, was actually the last person who was unwilling to start a war. After all, if there was a war, the finances would have to be tilted to the southwest, but this time he did not object.

It is true that fighting a war costs money, but the current Li Dynasty is already making progress.If Daming continues to swallow his anger, people will definitely intensify their treatment of the people in the southwest, and it would be better to fight to establish the prestige of the Celestial Dynasty.

The most important thing is that the granaries left by Emperor Xianzong have been consolidated, and the new dynasty has reorganized the Yanzheng and Qingzhang Tianmu, and the current finances can fully support the use of troops in the Southwest.

Relying on her own knowledge, Zhang Zhen talked eloquently: "The world prospers, but the people suffer; when the world perishes, the people suffer. Taizong established Annan back then, but the country spent millions of dollars. Why don't we learn from it now? So what if we won for a while? However, as time goes on, the foreign vassals fought again, and the Ming army was exhausted, and it was the people of our dynasty who suffered. Now that the new dynasty is suffering, everything is waiting to be done, how can we start a war for a single pearl? "

"The matter of going to war is the result of my discussion with the cabinet and the six important ministers. I'm not here to argue about whether we should go to war or not!" Zhu Youtang knew that the other party was a staunch peacemaker, but he was unwilling to continue arguing with this kind of person .

Daming's ministers really feel good about themselves, obviously they have been directly excluded from the decision-making circle, but in the end they insisted on joining in the decision-making.

It's just that they are "kneeling ministers" of the world, and they are not sick now, so how can they discuss with them whether they should declare war on the Li Dynasty.

In the end, what they pursue is to share the blessings of the world, while what they seek is development, to build Daming into a world textile center.

I thought that Zhang Zhen had nothing to say, but Zhang Zhen was relentless: "Your Majesty, you have asked the cabinet and the six ministries, but you have not asked the Imperial Academy. Many people in our Imperial Academy do not think that the war Good strategy! For such an important matter of state affairs, you should speak up!"

"It is enough for the Imperial Academy to do its job well, and the important affairs of the country are decided by the important ministers!" Zhu Youtang knew that there were indeed some officials in the Imperial Academy who advocated peace, so he said with a straight face.

Zhang Zhen was not afraid of offending a group of important officials at all, and looked contemptuously at Li Yu and other officials in front of him: "Your Majesty, the important officials you rely on today are not virtuous officials, and the virtuous officials of this dynasty have always come from the Imperial Academy. There are many charming ministers in Zhongduo, so please listen to the opinion of the Imperial Academy! As far as I know, Liu Shilang of the Ministry of Rites is against starting a war, but you are determined to go your own way to make him want to resign and return to the field!"

"Zhang Zhen, I have made it very clear just now! Today is not a discussion about whether to go to war, nor who should be discussed with the country's important affairs. If you continue to mess around, you will be expelled from the court! How dare Liu Daxia hide the Southwest archives privately? Sending Wang Zhi to ask for it, but Liu Daxia dared to refuse to return it, this is a treasonous act!" Zhu Youtang found that the old man was holding on to the matter and insisting on it, and he was showing the emperor's airs.

Zhang Zhen looked like he didn't even pay attention to Zhu Youtang, and continued to pester him: "Your Majesty, loyal words are hard to hear! Liu Daxia hid the Annan file because he wanted a truce from the court, and refused His Majesty for the stability of millions of people in the southwest. The number one loyal minister!"

"Loyal minister? Is it possible to openly disobey my will? Someone, expel Zhang Zhen from the court, and he will be exempted from the court from now on!" Zhu Youtang's face darkened, and he immediately gave the order.

Liu Jian, the left servant of the Ministry of Rites, and other ministers stood up and asked for mercy: "Your Majesty, calm down, Zhang Xiuzhuan is dedicated to serving the country, please don't punish him for his outspoken words!"

Zhu Youtang looked at this group of courtiers who begged for mercy, and finally understood why it was so difficult to govern the country. None of this group of educated hooligans was very useful, but they were all first-class masters.

"For the sake of the future of the Great Ming Dynasty, don't go to war, talk about swordsmanship, please punish Wang Zhi. The loyal minister is the country, and I am willing to admonish you with death!" Zhang Zhen pointed at the stone lion over there, and rushed forward go up.

"Stop him quickly!" Seeing that Zhang Zhenzhen was about to crash into the stone lion, Wan An hurriedly reminded the officials below.

Wang Xiangzheng was about to lead the two Jinyi guards to arrest people, but when he saw the little old man rushing to the other side, his heart immediately rose to the top of his throat.

boom!
Zhang Zhen's head hit the stone lion's strong chest muscles heavily, and a splash of blood immediately splashed out.

It's just that this time it's different from Shangbaosi Shaoqing Li Quan's time, not a white and clean young fat man ran out, and now there are mostly a bunch of old guys in front of him.

Finished!

When Wan An saw this man bump into the stone lion, Dang Lian realized that something was wrong.

Zhang Zhen was knocked to the point of bleeding, her body seemed to be staggering and unable to stand still, and there was a satisfied smile on her face, as if she had done something extraordinary: "Stop the war, cut the bark straight, get rid of the ailment, and use it widely." Xian, to Zhongxing!"

But as soon as the words fell, the whole person fell to the ground.

(End of this chapter)