Early the next morning, before the light of day, a group of ministers gathered outside the noon gate, most of whom had clashed with the emperor in the Qianqing Palace yesterday, as well as important court officials such as Zhao Yongning, Shen Wenbin and the six Shangshu, who aimed to mediate, but also understood that their strength was only a drop in the bucket.

At this time, it was not yet the right time, and the holy car had not yet arrived at the noon gate, but the Jinyi guard had already been waiting for it, and every few feet above and below the city tower, there was a person standing with a sword, covered in golden armor, shining even in the gray skylight.

The criminal officers of Dongchang and the Criminal Department, dressed in dark green court clothes, were standing in a row in the open space in front of the noon gate, waiting for the arrival of the emperor. Whips, rods, shackles, flails, long and short knives that shimmer with cold light, and all kinds of torture racks with old blood stains are all displayed on the side, and the mere look at them is terrifying.

Many people who got up early to set up stalls to make a living saw such a battle outside the noon gate from afar, which was very different from the emperor in the past, so they didn't make a living, and ran around to tell each other, and soon gathered a large number of people to watch the excitement, although they were all blocked by the Jinyi guards far outside the Jinshui Bridge, but their interest was undiminished, pointing at the city tower and those torture instruments.

Shen Wenbin saw that the noon gate was getting more and more lively, and the anxiety and anxiety in his heart could not be increased, he turned his head to look around, and said to Zhao Yongning beside him: "When is this happening, why haven't Lord Lu and Master Fu been yet?"

Zhao Yongning was dressed in a red court dress with a first-class immortal crane complement, wearing a crown, and a serious face, because Lu Wenyuan and Fu Qian were delayed, he ranked third in the cabinet, and the burden of mediating between the emperor and the ministers fell on his shoulders, and Shen Wenbin and the six Shangshu were waiting for him to speak. Zhao Yongning was also very bottomless in his heart, but it was not easy to teach people to see it, so he had to sigh and said: "You should be calm and don't be impatient, even if Lord Lu and Master Fu are here, I am afraid that it will be difficult to stop the emperor." ”

Shen Wenbin only felt breathless, and sighed softly: "Does the emperor really want to punish in front of the people?"

While the two were talking, the sky was already dark, and the ministers who wanted to fight the emperor to the end had already arrived, and they were spontaneously standing in several columns in the open space in front of the noon gate. The executioners put all kinds of torture instruments on display, originally at the signal of Zhu Shiyang, who was angry yesterday and said that he wanted to make a decision with the ministers outside the noon gate, and he regretted it a little afterwards. But as soon as the Son of Heaven said it, there was no reason to take it back, so Zhu Shiyang came up with this method, and only hoped that the ministers who were making trouble would be afraid to see the torture instrument and dare not go against him again.

How do you know that these ministers have read the books of sages all their lives, and they are afraid in their hearts, and the integrity and character of the scholars do not allow them to retreat from the battle, so they only blindly sneer at the brocade guards and criminal officers who are full of them, but they see that those criminal officers don't know where to put their hands and feet, so they have to look at the city tower.

When the big bell on the bell and drum tower slowly struck the mao, Zhu Shiyang started from the Qianqing Palace. Different from the light clothes in the past, the line of honor guards is extremely complicated and luxurious, several pairs of eunuchs in front of the palace holding incense ding, copper furnace, and tail in front, Zhu Shiyang sits in the center of the Nine Dragons and eight people carrying the imperial chariot, covering the Huangluo umbrella cover, and the two pairs of palace maids behind him are holding peacock feather barrier fans, and Guixi and Shuangxi are accompanying them. Because it was the royal driver who came to the noon gate in person, the commander of the Jinyi guard was dressed in a flying fish suit, embroidered with a spring knife at the waist, and personally led dozens of subordinates to escort the car.

In the middle of the city tower has been placed a double dragon play beads gold lacquer rouge wood chair, Zhu Shiyang slowly stepped forward, sat on the dragon chair, looked down at the city tower, only to see that in the open space outside the noon gate, there were already many ministers standing densely, spontaneously lined up in several rows and columns, standing upside down. Zhu Shiyang didn't count them carefully, and he knew that there were many more troubles in the Qianqing Palace than yesterday, and he couldn't help but feel a little bottomless in his heart. In addition, the cabinet ministers and officials of the six ministries who did not participate in it all stood in the outer circle.

When everyone saw the arrival of the saint, they all knelt on the ground and shouted, "Long live the emperor, long live." Although the people outside the Jinshui Bridge were too far away to see the emperor's face clearly, they only looked at the black-crowned mink fur, full of bright yellow and dazzling eyes, and they already felt that the nobility was compelling, and they hurriedly followed the ministers to kneel down, and shouted "long live" in their mouths.

Zhu Shiyang was silent for a while, and said softly: "Let them be flat." Gui Xi, who was beside him, heard this, and hurriedly glanced at Shuangxi, and Shuangxi raised his voice and shouted: "Flat-"

The ministers and the people downstairs in the city stood up in a stumbling manner, and Zhu Shiyang saw that the ministers who made trouble in the Qianqing Palace yesterday were very different from the others, just because except for the curious people at the other end of the Jinshui Bridge, the Jinyi guards, the executioners, and the courtiers standing on the periphery all stood with their heads bowed respectfully, and none of them dared to look up at the city tower where Zhu Shiyang was. The troublemakers did not shy away from it, one by one, they stalked their necks, raised their heads and looked at Zhu Shiyang, looking like they were not afraid of power. Zhu Shiyang became angry when he saw it, and ordered Gui Xi in a deep voice: "You go down to announce the decree." ”

Guixi nodded and agreed "yes", Shuangxi took out a bright yellow silk embroidered mahogany brocade box, a button made of ivory, opened it and put a scroll of holy decree in it, which was also a bright yellow silk brocade, the same color as the box, and the gold and silver threads on it were intricately embroidered with auspicious clouds and cranes and five-clawed flying dragons. Shuangxi presented the box to Gui Xi, who respectfully asked for the decree with both hands, and went down to the city tower to announce the decree, followed by several imperial eunuchs.

Gui Xi went down to the city tower, went out of the noon gate, and walked up to the torture platform that the Dongchang Fan Service had set up overnight yesterday. As soon as the holy decree in his hand was unfolded, everyone observed the words and looks, and they were already kneeling on the ground in an uproar. The torture table was facing the troublesome ministers, Gui Xi looked around, and saw that although they were all kneeling, they all looked unconvinced. Gui Xi sneered slightly, straightened his waist and read aloud:

"Fengtian carried the emperor, and the edict said: You and others are originally virtuous ministers of the imperial court, and they are in charge of the society, but they don't distinguish between right and wrong, listen to rumors, threaten the first assistant, and threaten me to the extreme. First kneeling outside the Fengtian Palace, and then going to the Qianqing Palace to make trouble, the following offenses, there is no difference between respect and inferiority, and there is no distinction between high and low. Now I am thinking about your loyalty to the country for several years, and I believe that you have only been bewitched by traitors, and you have not noticed it for a while, as long as you can repent in time, I will not blame the past, if you are blindly obsessed, I will punish you and others with fifty court rods, and the secretaries should think about it clearly. (The ability is limited, and I can't translate the ancient text, so I write it in the vernacular, and everyone is more tolerant.) ）

This holy decree was dictated by Zhu Shiyang and drafted by Gui Xi, and it did not go through the Hanlin Academy and the cabinet at all, which really showed Zhu Shiyang's domineering tone to the fullest. The ministers now don't have to look up at the tower, just by listening they can figure out the high-minded, high-flying face when he speaks. Everyone was even more indignant, only saying that he had made a mistake and was so arrogant, and he should fight him to the end.

Gui Xi finished reciting the holy decree, and seeing that everyone had no reaction, he couldn't help but pinch his voice and said: "Do you adults not understand or what? The emperor wants to open the net and let everyone go." The emperor is so generous, and the adults also have to know the current affairs, right? If you figure it out, you will step back by yourself, and fifty court canes are not played next to each other. ”

The ministers still knelt upright on the ground, and if they hadn't heard it, they were obviously in a gesture of resistance. There are young and vigorous inside, and they secretly breathe out of their noses. Gui Xi stood on the high platform, how could he not know? Zhu Shiyang was on the city tower, and when he saw that no one retreated, he was also angry in his heart, and secretly clenched the armrest of the dragon chair.

Gui Xi sneered under his head, and raised his voice: "What? There is no one?" As he spoke, he waved his hand at the brocade guards standing on the side, and dozens of brocade guards held torture sticks in their hands, and immediately surrounded the ministers in the open space. Gui Xipi said with a smile: "In this case, don't regret it, your lords, as soon as the court staff falls later, it doesn't mean that you can stop." I think you've seen it before. ”

When Wang Xian, the secretary of the General Administration, heard him mention the old matter of beating the official, he became more and more angry in his heart, and snorted coldly: "If you want to beat, you will be beaten, why do you need to talk more." The ministers have come for the sake of justice this time, how can they be afraid of fifty of the court staff?"

Fortunately, Zhu Shiyang sat high and couldn't hear what he said, otherwise he would inevitably be angry again. Gui Xi has always been the most disgusted to see the sour faces of this group of courtiers, so he snorted coldly at the moment and waved his hand to the commander of the Jinyi Guard, who was in charge of the execution, and the commander of the Jinyi Guard immediately shouted: "Ready!"

Hearing this, the brocade guards moved, dragged the ministers kneeling on the ground over, and pulled out the cow tendon ropes that had been prepared from their waists, and tied the ministers' hands and feet tightly.

The execution of the Jinyi guard depends on the instructions of the people, especially the court staff, although it is only a stick to beat the buttock, but the strength and technique are very particular. Most of the Jinyi guards who performed the torture were trained to cover a piece of rice paper on the brick and hit it repeatedly with a court staff until the brick broke and the rice paper did not break. Therefore, the strength is very good, if you want to be killed with thirty rods, you will never be dragged to forty rods, and if you want eighty rods to be left alive, you will never be sent to see Hades.

The tortured brocade guards now secretly looked at Gui Xi, who was the main punishment, and saw that he was wearing a pair of silver silk boots on his feet, and his toes seemed to be inadvertently slightly outward. This is a great way in it, just because there is no living mouth, it all depends on the toes of the main torturer, if it is the outer eight characters, it must be killed, if it is the inner eight characters, it is only to hurt the body and not the life. Now Gui Xi's toes are outward, and he actually wants to beat all these ministers to death. There are dozens of ministers in this class, and they are all of not low grade, although the Jinyi guards have tortured countless people, they have never had the experience of killing so many people with a cane, and they can't help but be frightened for a while, and secretly make eye contact.

Zhu Shiyang saw that the brocade guards were in place on the city tower, and as long as the "execution" order was issued, the court staff would fall, and he knew that there was no room for recovery. He had only confronted him outside the door in the afternoon yesterday in a moment of anger, but now that he had calmed down, he had already regretted it, because there were many ministers in this class, and not only the officials of the speech, but also the officials of various ministries and departments, and if he punished them, it would be equivalent to declaring himself an enemy of the entire former dynasty. If the monarch and his courtiers are on the same page, the result can be imagined. As soon as Zhu Shiyang thought of this, his heart sank to the bottom, and he closed his eyes and couldn't bear to look at it anymore.

At this time, I heard someone shouting loudly downstairs in the city: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the ministers have a book to play!"

Zhu Shiyang suddenly opened his eyes and looked down the city tower, only to see an official in a crimson official robe squeezed out of the crowd, holding a piece of music high in his hand, looking like Fu Qian. The onlookers heard Fu Qian's shouting and hurriedly made way for him. Fu Qian hurriedly ran to the open space, and when he saw that Jinyiwei was ready to be executed, he was even more anxious, so he knelt down on the ground and shouted to the city tower: "Your Majesty, and use the punishment slowly, the minister has an important recital to go up." ”

The ministers who were tied up like zongzi in the open space heard that the situation had changed, and they all turned their heads to look at Fu Qian. Gui Xi stood on the high platform and said coldly: "My lord, if you have anything important, it's not too late to wait until the punishment is over." ”

Fu Qian glanced at him anxiously, and said in a loud voice: "It's Lord Shoufu's recital, please ask the emperor to read it before using the punishment." ”

Fu Qian's voice was clear and loud, Zhu Shiyang had already heard it on the city tower, and hurriedly ordered: "Don't torture him first, let him come up." ”

Shuangxi agreed "yes", and hurriedly shouted: "Let's use the punishment slowly, Master Xuanfu Qianfu goes upstairs." ”

Immediately, a royal eunuch went down to the city tower and lured Fu Qian up. I saw that Fu Qian seemed to have come in a hurry, and in the cold winter wax moon, there was a fine layer of sweat on his forehead, and he came forward to kneel down on the side of Zhu Shiyang's throne and said, "Minister Fu Qian knocked to see the emperor." ”

Zhu Shiyang turned his head slightly to look at him and said, "Well, bring the chapter." ”

Fu Qian hurriedly raised his hands above his head, Zhu Shiyang took it and opened it, first looked at the signature at the end, and saw that it was indeed Lu Wenyuan, so he turned to the front to take a closer look.

Fu Qian knelt on the ground, not daring to raise his head easily, only to hear Zhu Shiyang slowly flipping through the music, making a subtle rustling sound, and there was a dead silence up and down the city tower. After a long time, he heard Zhu Shiyang's breathing gradually become shorter, and from Fu Qian's point of view, he could see that when he straightened his back, he drove his bright yellow coat to slide down the throne, and suddenly "snapped" the song, and asked in a trembling voice: "Where is he now?"

Fu Qian's heart sank, he bowed his head to the ground, and said, "Shoufu left Beijing last night, and now he doesn't know where he is going." ”

Zhu Shiyang was quiet for a while, then suddenly got up, ran straight to the city tower, strode like a meteor, and shouted: "Quickly mobilize the soldiers and horses of the capital and the Yamen of the Fusi of the north town to go out of the city to search and arrest, and be sure to find Lu Wenyuan back for me!"

Seeing that the incident happened suddenly, Shuangxi had already bluffed the six gods and had no master, and followed with a rolling belt. Fu Qian straightened up, and seeing that the emperor had not gone far, he hurriedly raised his voice and said, "Your Majesty, what about this court ......staff?"

Zhu Shiyang had already run to the vicinity of the stairs in a blink of an eye, and the line of honor guards couldn't cope with it, and they reluctantly followed behind him one after another. Zhu Shiyang turned around and hurriedly said: "What kind of punishment are you using, everyone get out and find the first assistant for me!" As he spoke, he lifted his clothes, and went down to the city tower with three steps and two steps, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The ministers downstairs in the city saw the emperor like this, they didn't know what was happening, they looked at each other for a while, and the brocade guards got the emperor's order, and they threw down the court staff one after another, gathered on the other side of the clearing, and went to search for Lu Wenyuan outside the city. Seeing that the crisis had been resolved, the onlookers stepped forward to untie the ropes on the hands and feet of their colleagues lying on the ground. The two groups of ministers looked at each other, both confused.

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