Brocade clothing as the country

Chapter 614
The sun was rising very high, but the capital was still under martial law.

It was a chaotic night last night. Even if most people in the capital didn't see it, they could still hear the shouts of killing outside. Even in their own courtyard, they could still see the flames everywhere.

Originally, before dawn, all the adults in the court should go to wait outside the Meridian Gate. Last night in the early morning, there were guards yelling through the door, telling each household to close the door, take care of their own courtyard, and do not go out without notice.

After breakfast, eunuchs, ministers of the cabinet, ministers and ministers of the six departments, the capital censor and deputy capital censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate came to the palace... and so on, anyone who is qualified to participate in the court meeting The senior officials all sent decrees to enter the palace, and these civil officials saw a group of honorable military generals riding horses on the way. After calculating it carefully, almost all the top civil and military figures in the capital had arrived.

The Forbidden City, once rich and majestic in the past, is more like a fortress today. The perimeter is guarded by soldiers from the Forbidden Army. Horses and thorns are all available. The soldiers are holding knives and guns behind the fortifications.

Inside are the guards in armor. There are not many guards. They usually wear brocade robes, and the nature of the guard of honor is stronger. Today, they are all wearing full armor, holding spears and big knives, and they are also patrolling nervously.

The officials who entered the palace were all worried. There was a great chaos last night. Could it be that something happened to the emperor, and today everyone should come over and order others...
After arriving at the Qianqing Palace and seeing Wanli with a gloomy face on the dragon chair, he was relieved that the emperor was fine, so there would not be any major changes, and he would continue on the normal track.

The Qianqing Palace usually summons the ministers in the Great Court Meeting, when hundreds of officials kowtow, three times a month, the emperor usually receives the ministers to pay homage at Fengtianmen, and discusses matters with the cabinet in Wenyuan Pavilion. It is already bad to do so today. The rules, but the incident is so extraordinary that no one can care about it.

"Last night there were thieves and rioters in the palace, and there were thieves and rioters in the capital. The widows are fine, the Empress Dowager Cisheng is fine, and the palace is fine!"

Before the eunuch could sing the salute, Emperor Wanli, who was sitting on the throne, spoke coldly. After saying this, all the ministers breathed a sigh of relief, and they all bowed down to the sage.

"Last night's chaos, Zhang Siwei and Zhang Aiqing went to the capital camp at night to pass the decree and dispatched troops to Beijing. This is a great achievement. Shen Aiqing persuaded the noble families of the capital to send their families to quell the chaos in the city. It is a great achievement with courage and insight."

"I'm terrified, but luckily my father is fine, so I don't dare to claim credit for it!"

Zhang Siwei and Shen Shixing both came out and knelt down, and the officials who had been staring at Emperor Wanli noticed that Zhang Siwei and Shen Shixing's faces were quite haggard. Although they were wearing court clothes, they looked dusty.

Some people lowered their heads, and some people exchanged glances with each other. They thought that these two were disciples of Zhang Juzheng, the chief assistant of the cabinet. Zhang Juzheng died of illness, and the two of them lost power. I didn't expect such meritorious deeds. It seems that the two of them have no status. People can be shaken, so don't think about the positions of the first and second assistants.

Emperor Wanli nodded coldly, and said again:
"A meritorious service is a meritorious service. The widow should be rewarded. You two, get up!"

The two people below got up. The two of them had been in the court for many years, so the etiquette of advancing and retreating would naturally not be wrong. However, after getting up, Zhang Siwei couldn't help but glance at Shen Shixing, but Shen Shixing bowed his head and remained silent.

"Mr. Zhang is gone, the mourning is still unresolved, but there is such a big change in the palace, but there is such a big change in the capital, Huang Sen, how do you do Shuntian Fu Yin?"

Yin of Shuntian Mansion is the third grade, named "Xiao Jiuqing", so naturally he is also below at this time, for such a big mess happened in the capital, Yin of Shuntian Mansion was supposed to take the responsibility, Huang Sen stood in the queue with a serious expression on his face Pale, when he heard this, he swayed, but he still staggered out and knelt on the ground, kowtowed and apologized:

"Last night's chaos, I have committed the crime of negligence, please be punished by Your Majesty!"

Looking at Yin Huangsen of Shuntian Mansion who was kneeling on the ground, Emperor Wanli snorted coldly, ignored him, and said indifferently:

"Jinyiwei is the eyes and ears of the emperor, spying on all directions. There was such a big disturbance last night. Jinyiwei had so many households and so many soldiers. What did they do? The chaos was put down last night. The people on the street were servants from Shuntian Mansion and two hundred households from South Street. It's Liu Shouyou, the heir to the Chen family of Uncle Xiangcheng and the buyer of the Tang family!!"

When the name was finally mentioned, Emperor Wanli suddenly raised his voice. The commander of Jinyiwei was the first military official at the court meeting, and Liu Shouyou's face was ashen. Hearing Emperor Wanli's question, he didn't even have the strength to stand out No more, just kneeling on the ground, or paralyzed there.

A military official didn't even have this responsibility. Emperor Wanli's eyes showed a bit of disdain, and even the other people in the court looked down on him.

But Liu Shou had this result, and everyone felt that it should be. Back when Zhang Juzheng was in charge, the Jinyiwei's intelligence was first sent to Zhang Juzheng's side before arriving in the palace. Zhang Juzheng controlled the Jinyiwei in his hands. North Korea and China have an overwhelming advantage.

Such people are unlucky, everyone is happy to see them, and there are not a few people who take pleasure in other people's misfortune. Emperor Wanli glanced at him in disgust, and said coldly:

"Dereliction of duty and incompetence, with you guarding by my side, I can rest assured, I'm afraid it's too late to worry, because you are the son of a famous official, and you have lost your official title, go home and think about your mistakes behind closed doors!!"

The change of such key positions requires the cabinet to vote and the supervisor to approve the red, but now who cares about this, Zhang Siwei even took a step forward and bowed to accept the order, and said in a solemn voice:
"The minister leads the order!!"

With the countersignature of the cabinet, Liu Shouyou's fate was decided. Liu Shouyou seemed to have no bones, and he lay on the ground directly.

Liang Menglong, the new Minister of the Ministry of Officials and also a cabinet scholar, glanced at Shen Shixing, then at Zhang Siwei, and then lowered his head. Almost everyone in the hall did the same.

Zhang Siwei is just a cabinet scholar, and the name of the second assistant has not been determined. Today, he takes the lead everywhere. Has the position of the first assistant been assigned to him?Everyone's doubts are doubts, but no one is stupid enough to ask questions.

Emperor Wanli just glanced at the throne, without any doubts, he glanced around, and said again:
"Cao Yi, the avant-garde commander of the government army, made meritorious escort last night. This is credit to the country and the country, to the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty, and to Feng Yi Yongbo. The cabinet will discuss it and submit it as soon as possible!!"

All the people in the cabinet in the palace were leaders, but they found the difference. Just now, all the orders were made by officials and no one else was allowed to speak. However, Cao Yi’s award was for everyone to discuss. Since it was said in the court Come out, it must have been with the Queen Mother and Feng Bao, but the heat and cold are worth considering.

"Zhao Yuande from the Ministry of Criminal Justice! Wu Sui from Dali Temple!"

Hearing Emperor Wanli's cold greeting, two people in the courtier line trembled and hurriedly knelt down. Zhao Yuande was the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and Wu Sui was the Zuo Qing of Dali Temple. Emperor Wanli glanced at them and said directly:
"Inside and outside the capital, many villains and rascals took advantage of the chaos last night to do evil, looting, burning and killing. The thieves didn't do much, but they did a lot. Don't let one go, don't kill one less!!"

The murderous intent in the words, if it were in the past, there would definitely be ministers who would come out to advise, saying that benevolence and righteousness should be the first, and that killings should not be indiscriminate.

Emperor Wanli said so much in a hurry, his throat was dry, and he stretched his hand aside, the little eunuch hurriedly took the teacup, Emperor Wanli took a sip, frowned, and threw the teacup down in front of the throne, the teacup responded Shattered, the little eunuch serving the tea was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly. He didn't know what he had done wrong. The temperature of the tea should be just right when he brought it up, but why the Long Live Lord dropped the teacup.

Now at this time, touching the emperor's anger is a dead end. Tea and broken porcelain splashed on the ministers in front, and everyone bowed their heads and did nothing but ignore it.

"Retire!!"

Emperor Wanli didn't have a seizure, he just stood up and turned his head and walked towards the palace. The eunuchs who sang the ceremony were all stunned. When the emperor walked out, they shouted "Back the court", and the ministers in the court looked at each other , They all remained silent, and no one exchanged opinions, they all dispersed in silence.

Except for the court, he didn't sleep all night. Emperor Wanli, who was frightened all night, was stung by the sun. He covered it with his hand. The chaos last night was mainly concentrated in the palace of Zheng Guifei. It was the same as usual, but the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke and blood did not disperse, reminding Emperor Wanli that he had walked a circle between life and death last night.

He stopped, and the eunuchs behind him also stopped. Zhang Cheng was in charge of the palace, and Zhao Jinliang stayed there to look after the courtyard. They were the only eunuchs who had been close to Emperor Wanli these years. Although he wanted to please him, he was afraid of losing his sense of proportion, so he could only stop behind his back.

It wasn't until Emperor Wanli waved his hand that someone hurriedly arranged a soft sedan chair, and someone came forward and asked:

"Long Live Lord, are you going to the Imperial Study Room?"

"Go back to Concubine Zheng..."

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"... Lin Shulu died in King Lu's bedroom. Lin Shulu's most trusted companion, Shuangxi, wore armor and held a spear, and died before the place where Lord Long Live lived last night... According to the survivors caught last night, Lin Shulu was Sanyang The head of the church, and his cronies both inside and outside call him the master..."

In the Palace of Mercy Ning, Feng Bao bowed and talked about last night's situation. He couldn't help but tapped his eyebrows with his fingers. There were only four people in this room, the Empress Dowager Li, Feng Bao, Zhang Cheng, and Zhang Jing. Everyone's complexion was not good, and Empress Dowager Li's complexion was ashen. Feng Bao looked at the people in the room again, coughed dryly, and continued to speak:
"Some people say that as long as Lord Long Live... King Lu ascends the throne, everyone will be rich and powerful..."

The Empress Dowager Li snorted coldly, Feng Bao immediately bowed his head and remained silent. According to the past, the Cisheng Empress Dowager would be furious, but after waiting, only a long sigh was heard.
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