The Most Powerful Man in the World

Zhu Houzhao nodded slightly, and then signaled the three of them to get up and said, "You all get up and wait by the side."

After thanking the emperor, the three got up, and at the same time the emperor sent an edict to summon Gu Dayong.

Cao Shaoqin's three people were half escorted and half guarded and brought back to the palace. If this was the case in the past, Gu Dayong could go to see the emperor at any time, but this time he was placed in the side hall.

This kind of treatment has not been experienced for many years at least. You must know that in the past, Gu Dayong existed as the emperor's personal servant. Although he dared not say that he would see the emperor whenever he wanted, he would not As it is now, sitting in the side hall waiting for the Son of Heaven to summon him.

Sitting in the side hall, Gu Dayong's expression changed, and his mind was full of thoughts.

Gu Dayong knew very well in his heart that there must be a reason for the sudden change in the emperor's attitude towards him that he did not know.

As for what it was, Gu Dayong didn't dare to think deeply, because Gu Dayong was afraid.

If everything he did was known by the emperor, how should he face the emperor?

For a while, Gu Dayong felt a little regretful in his heart, whether he had done a little too much, but soon Gu Dayong justified himself in his heart.

Just when Gu Dayong was sitting in the side hall and the center was uncertain, he saw the little eunuch guarding outside the door and said to Gu Dayong: "Director Gu, Your Majesty has summoned!"

Gu Dayong suddenly stood up, strode forward, and soon his face was full of smiles. He walked into the imperial study, Gu Dayong trotted, rushed to Zhu Houzhao's desk, and bowed at Zhu Houzhao's feet. : "The old slave has seen His Majesty!"

If this were the case in the past, Zhu Houzhao would have laughed and scolded him to get up, but this time it was different.

When Gu Dayong bowed down, Zhu Houzhao looked down at Gu Dayong with a complicated look on his face, and did not let Gu Dayong get up immediately.

Although Zhu Houzhao's reaction said that Gu Dayong couldn't see it, but lying there, he seemed to feel the hesitation in Zhu Houzhao's heart.

After a dozen or so breaths, Gu Dayong's heart almost sank to the bottom, and only then did Zhu Houzhao open his mouth and say, "Master, get up!"

He breathed a sigh of relief, and when Gu Dayong got up, he stumbled and almost fell, which shows how flustered Gu Dayong was in his heart.

He looked at Gu Dayong lightly, but now when Gu Dayong looked at Zhu Houzhao again, he didn't see the kindness of the past, instead, it was filled with a dignity of the emperor, and the majesty of the emperor looked at Gu Dayong's eyes. It was Ling Gu Dayong's heart thumping.

It was at this time that Zhu Houzhao suddenly became angry, and suddenly smashed the memorials on the table at Gu Dayong, and said angrily: "Gu Dayong, these are all good things you did, It really pisses me off!"

A bunch of memorials fell on Gu Dayong's body, Gu Dayong shook his body, his heart trembled, and he looked over subconsciously.

In front of him, there is a memorial scattered, but the content written on the memorial is shocking.

This memorial was made by a prefect. A section of the Huaihe River broke due to floods, causing hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile fields to be submerged in floods. Hundreds of thousands of people suffered from floods, causing countless casualties and mourning.

Just a glance, Gu Dayong felt a little chill in his heart, but he clearly remembered that the money for the management of the Huai River was the first money he had embezzled, and it was as much as one million taels. In the cellar of his mansion.

He thought it was just part of the money for repairing the river. There has been no flood disaster over the years, so he greedily paid for this sum of money, but he didn't expect a flood disaster.

Of course, if it's just a flood disaster, that's all. The key floods caused the dams to be washed away, which directly led to flooding and caused great losses.

The prefect sent a memorial to Tian Ting, and it turned out to be Xiang Tian impeaching him Gu Dayong, so Gu Dayong almost fainted after reading it.

At least a dozen memorials were scattered on the ground, and Gu Dayong did not dare to look at others. If all these memorials were to impeach him and expose his guilt, then it is clear that the emperor's attitude has changed greatly today.

How many illegal and chaotic things he has done, others don't know, but Gu Dayong's heart can't be clearer, and the same is true, Gu Dayong's heart is so frightened.

Gu Dayong, who lowered his head, looked up at Zhu Houzhao, just to see Zhu Houzhao looking at him with disappointment and sadness.

"Wuwuwu, Your Majesty, the old slave is wrong, the old slave knows it is wrong, please also see that the old slave has served by your Majesty's side for so many years, for the sake of no credit and hard work, give the old slave another chance. Bar……"

Gu Dayong, who was lying on the ground, couldn't help but hug Zhu Houzhao's legs tightly, and cried bitterly with snot and tears, while crying and talking about his past with Zhu Houzhao.

Obviously, Gu Dayong also knew that Zhu Houzhao was a man of great affection. He had done so many things, if he really said it, even cutting his head a hundred times was not enough. Old love to impress the emperor.

I have to say that Gu Dayong knows Zhu Houzhao well. When Gu Dayong was lying on the ground hugging his leg and crying bitterly, Zhu Houzhao's original anger turned into hesitation.

If I really want to say, Zhu Houzhao is definitely a rare emperor, but he is not a qualified emperor.

Zhu Houzhao's generous and affectionate temperament is destined to be deceived by others. As an emperor, if he is not a bit decisive in killing, he is naturally not a qualified emperor.

If he wanted to clean up Gu Dayong, Chu Yi would be able to get rid of Gu Dayong without much effort, but Chu Yi ignored Gu Dayong's repeated provocations, so he wanted to remove Gu Dayong. Leave it to Zhu Houzhao to deal with it.

Only Zhu Houzhao can handle Gu Dayong impartially and impartially, then he can be regarded as a qualified emperor.

Cao Shaoqin, Qian Ning, and Yu Huatian, who had been standing by the side, looked at Gu Dayong who was lying on the ground crying bitterly. If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, I'm afraid that few people would dare to believe that he was so humble and embarrassed. It turned out to be Gu Dayong, the chief executive who was so powerful not long ago that almost no one dared to offend.

Seeing that the emperor was quite moved by Gu Dayi's old feelings, he heard the sound of hurried footsteps outside the imperial study, followed by the voice of a servant: "Eight hundred miles to speed up the military report, eight hundred miles Expedited Military News..."

Zhu Houzhao suddenly raised his head and looked at the servant.

Taking a step forward, Gu Dayong seemed to be in a hurry to report the result, and then presented it to the emperor flatteringly: "Your Majesty, please look..."

Zhu Houzhao took the military newspaper, checked the seal, and then opened the paint. Looking at the expedited military newspaper, Zhu Houzhao's expression became more and more ugly and gloomy.Suddenly, Zhu Houzhao suddenly raised his leg and kicked Gu Dayong, who was standing in front of him. At the same time, he said angrily, "Gu Dayong, you did a good job!"

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Originally, Gu Dayong was crying bitterly and admitting his mistake while holding Zhu Houzhao's leg, but it made Zhu Houzhao hesitate.

Zhu Houzhao was not that kind of violent monarch. In the palace, everyone said that the royal family was ruthless. Zhu Houzhao did not lack any warmth in his childhood, but the people who really accompanied him were Ru Gu Dayong and Chu Yi. Servant.

After more than ten years of getting along, even kittens and puppies should have some feelings, not to mention someone like Zhu Houzhao.

Of course, Zhu Houzhao could clearly see the crimes committed by Gu Dayong. If they were punished as crimes, it would not be too much to drag Gu Dayong out and chop off his head.

It's just that Zhu Houzhao looked at Gu Dayong crying bitterly, and his heart softened, and he felt a little remorse in his heart. With a great power in his hands, Gu Dayong would not have done so many wrong things.

If there is no accident, as long as Gu Dayong honestly begs the emperor, then Zhu Houzhao may not really be determined to kill Gu Dayong.

But the sudden arrival of the [-]-mile expedited military report made Zhu Houzhao furious. The feeling of sympathy that was born because of Gu Dayong's hard pleading suddenly disappeared, and the only thing left was That full of anger.

Even Zhu Houzhao kicked Gu Dayong angrily because of the [-]-mile rush of information above. As the emperor, although Zhu Houzhao said that his actions were a little off, he would not get angry easily on weekdays.

Gu Dayong was stunned by being kicked directly by Zhu Houzhao. Although it was said that that kick knocked Gu Dayong down, for Gu Dayong, this kick was nothing at all.

But Gu Dayong would rather Zhu Houzhao kicked him and vomited blood. He was seriously injured. He could feel the anger contained in Zhu Houzhao's kick on him.

With a thud in his heart, Gu Dayong was completely panicked. To say that he had some expectations before, but now his heart gradually sank.

However, Gu Dayong turned over and climbed towards Zhu Houzhao, trying to hug Zhu Houzhao's leg again, but this time Zhu Houzhao took a step back and stared at Gu Dayong so coldly.

Gu Dayong, who had never seen Zhu Houzhao so angry, was stared at by Zhu Houzhao, the whole person seemed to be frozen, lying there, he didn't dare to take a step forward, he just begged: "Your Majesty. , the old slave is wrong, the old slave is wrong..."

He threw the [-]-mile urgent military report on Gu Dayong's body, only to hear Zhu Houzhao coldly say, "You did a good job!"

Gu Dayong looked at the expedited military newspaper scattered in front of him. The military report came from the three guards of Jianzhou outside Guanwai.

Although he said that he didn't read it carefully, but only seeing that the military report came from the three guards of Jianzhou, Gu Dayong's face changed.

Ever since Gu Dayong was appointed as the chief executive officer of Sli by Zhu Houzhao, all he wanted was to compare with Chu Yi, or even surpass Chu Yi.

But Chu Yi is not only a superpower, but more importantly, Chu Yi has a large number of loyal supporters in the Ming army.

Not to mention the rest, just by looking at the resumes of the newly promoted nobles in the court, it can be seen that almost all of these people are from Chu Yi's family.

It can be said that Chu Yi's influence in the army is even stronger than that of the Son of Heaven.

Gu Dayong naturally wanted to have a certain degree of control. After all, as the chief supervisor of the ceremonies, he not only had to have a group of people above the court to cheer for him, but also in the local area, especially in the army, there must be supporters.

The important area of ​​Beijing Camp is almost a monolithic piece built by Chu Yi, especially the commanders and governors of Beijing Camp are almost all loyal supporters of Chu Yi. Gu Dayong wants to start from Beijing Camp, although it is not impossible, but he has to. face great difficulties.

Even the level of the Son of Heaven is not easy, so Gu Dayong naturally turned his attention to the outside of the capital.

It happened that the imperial court implemented the policy of immigrating to the border, and hundreds of thousands of people left the customs in batches to go to places outside the customs. So many people wanted to settle outside the customs, and naturally they needed the army to sit in.

Gu Dayong couldn't move the Beijing army for a while, but he could send his henchmen out.

There are many high-ranking officials in the capital, including Jiao Fang, Wang Shouren, Yang Yiqing and other bigwigs, and the emperor is high, so there is not much room for Gu Dayong to exert himself.

But at the local level, Gu Dayong's words were more effective than the imperial decree. Several military generals who were attached to Gu Dayong and were depressed were promoted by Gu Dayong one by one as officials of one thousand households.

Outside the customs, more than a dozen newly established guardhouses were all occupied by people from Gu Dayong.

If these people really have the ability, it is impossible for them to be unhappy in the army, but these generals in the army used to accumulate a lot of family wealth, relying on bribing Gu Dayong, but through Gu Dayong. He was transferred out of Beijing Camp by himself.

Thousands of officials in one place are like real tyrants of the land, especially since the imperial court is immigrating to the frontier, the military and government are parallel, and the imperial court has given these thousands of officials a lot of authority, it can be said that it is necessary. , these thousands of officials can even decide with one word, which is a bit more powerful than those civil ministers who are in charge of government affairs.

It is conceivable that these scum in the army, who have no ability in themselves, go to places where they are not crazy to drink soldiers' blood or even extort the local people and squeeze the people.

After all, so much gold and silver are given to Gu Dayong, they always try to find it back, don't they?

It took only a short period of one or two months to take office. These dozens of thousands of officials were stunned to complain about the officers and soldiers of the thousands of households, and even the people in the real border couldn't stand their exploitation. Resentful.

Finally, not long ago, the people of Shibian really couldn't stand the oppression of these thousands of officials and held high the banner of righteousness to rebel.

To be honest, these people's rebellions are all rabble. If the soldiers and soldiers under the thousands of officials are a little careful, they can easily calm the people's chaos.

It's a pity that these thousands of officials can't wait to squeeze their soldiers clean, and it's just like knocking the bones and sucking the marrow.

It is conceivable that under such circumstances, more than a dozen thousand households and tens of thousands of soldiers were unable to suppress the civil unrest of tens of thousands of people.

The chaos was getting bigger and bigger, and finally the governor in charge of Jianzhou Sanwei couldn't suppress it. The news was rushed through [-] miles and appeared before the emperor's case.

Zhu Houzhao knew about Gu Dayong's involvement in the Jianzhou Sanwei. After all, if Zhu Houzhao couldn't even notice that Gu Dayong was involved in the army, then what the emperor did was too inappropriate.

After all, the Beijing camp was not involved, so Zhu Houzhao acquiesced to Gu Dayong's actions, and he was also the director of the supervisor of li, and Gu Dayong was loyal to him. He is not good.

But Zhu Houzhao never thought that the people sent by Gu Dayong would make such a big mess.

The civil turmoil that originally had tens of thousands of people has now spread to more than a hundred thousand people, and even the Jurchens of the Jianzhou Sanwei, who had just been suppressed, jumped out of the chaos to disrupt the Jianzhou Sanwei.

The embezzlement of funds from the river caused the river to burst its banks, and hundreds of thousands of people suffered heavy casualties. Now, it has led to civil unrest outside the customs, and the backlash has spread to the sky. Even if Zhu Houzhao is serious, he is completely disappointed with Gu Dayong.

Looking at Gu Dayong's dejected appearance, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but say, "Gu Dayong, do you have anything else to say?"

Gu Dayong, whose mind was already broken at this moment, heard Zhu Houzhao's words, and could not help but look forward to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, this old slave is loyal to you, it's all Chu Yi... Yes, everything is Chu Yi, He was hurting me..."

It's fine not to mention Chu Yi, Gu Dayong actually dared to say that Chu Yi killed him, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but said angrily: "You dare to mention Chu Dafan, Chu Dafan is not greedy for money, not fond of beauty, not good at With all these kinds of things, what can you compare with Chu Da Compan, even if you have [-]% of Chu Da Compan's ability, I will not be so disappointed."

While speaking, Zhu Houzhao waved his hand towards Qian Ning who was standing there and said, "Qian Ning, put Gu Dayong into the imperial prison, put him under strict supervision, and wait for the trial of the three divisions and the official punishment."

Qian Ning took a step forward and respectfully said, "My minister leads the order!"

His eyes swept over Cao Shaoqin and Yu Huatian, and finally Zhu Houzhao said to Yuhuatian: "Yuhuatian, I order you to transfer the evidence you have collected about Gu Dayong to the Criminal Department for corroboration!"

At this moment, Gu Dayong, who was quite lost, suddenly heard that the emperor asked Yu Huatian to hand over the evidence of his crime to the Ministry of Punishment, and his expression suddenly changed, his eyes were red, and he looked at Yu Huatian fiercely.

It would be fine if it was someone else who collected his own criminal evidence, but now Gu Dayong heard that it was Yu Huatian who collected his own criminal evidence. In Gu Dayong's opinion, if it wasn't for Yu Huatian, his own Things don't necessarily break out.

The most important thing is that Yuhuatian can have today, everything is thanks to him, without his promotion, Yuhuatian is just a little eunuch, how could he become the superintendent of Xichang.

He was really kind to Yu Huatian, but as a result, Yu Huatian actually investigated his own crime. This is Chi Guoguo's betrayal.

Gu Dayong, who felt that he had been betrayed by Yu Huatian, couldn't help pointing at Yu Huatian and said sharply: "Yu Huatian, it's actually you, our family is really blind, how could we raise a white-eyed wolf like you. "

While speaking, Gu Dayong couldn't help but jumped towards Yuhuatian and flew towards Yuhuatian, with a crazy look, and screamed: "Our family is going to kill you, kill you!"

"Escort, escort!"

Gu Dayong's sudden action shocked Cao Shaoqin and Qian Ning, almost instinctively blocking the emperor.

Chapter 2 It's all my fault! 【[-] more】