1298 The lord is strong, and the minister is weak
Feng Shoufu pretended to be stupid, and the ministers couldn't ask anything useful from his mouth, so they could only keep an eye on the people around Qin Xiaoyan, from the guards to the eunuchs who served.
The purpose of these ministers is very simple, that is, to find out when the emperor left the capital? Who helped him leave the capital privately? Who helped him hide his whereabouts after he left the capital?
Asking these questions is not to get to the bottom of it, but to take the initiative when the emperor comes back and confront the emperor.
If the lord is strong, the minister is weak, and if the minister is strong, the lord is weak. Qin Shiyan is a powerful monarch who has held all his power in the palm of his hand since he ascended the throne. Although the courtiers were allowed to give their opinions and give them room to discuss, they were never given the right to decide.
Obviously, the current situation of Great Qin is that the main and strong ministers are weak and the courtiers of the weak side are naturally unwilling and want to increase their right to speak.
However, it is not easy to win power from a powerful emperor. Qin Xiaoyan is resolute and decisive on weekdays, and there is basically nothing wrong in government affairs, and the courtiers just want to fight for power, but they can't find a place to start.
Therefore, when they saw that Qin Shanyan had made a mistake, they began to hold on to it, trying to use this incident to suppress Qin Shanyan's momentum so that they could fight for power from him.
Qin Xiaoyan disregarded the society of the country and left Beijing without regard for his own safety, no matter what the reason, it was not right to do so. If they had first-hand information, they would have taken advantage of it, and they would have been able to gain greater benefits when they confronted the emperor. At the same time, it can also remove the useful people around the emperor in the name of traitors and villains.
Help the emperor leave Beijing without permission, and help the emperor create the illusion that he is still in the capital...... Even if they act according to the emperor's orders, it is illegal, as long as they find out that this is wrong, even the emperor will not be able to protect them.
Before, those ministers just wanted to find out the fault of Feng Shoufu, give Feng Shoufu an a charge of flattery and bullying, and then squeeze him out of the power center, but ......
Feng Shoufu is too cunning and doesn't give them a chance at all.
couldn't do anything to Feng Shoufu, so those ministers aimed at the emperor's henchmen. It's just that those people are all diehard loyalists of Qin Shiyan, and no matter how many adults ask, they can't ask words other than "don't know" from their mouths.
These people are Qin Xiaoyan's henchmen, and in the face of the minister's questioning, they can choose not to say it, but they can't escape the charge of dereliction of duty. Especially the commander of the forbidden army and the chief eunuch who took care of the emperor.
Their task is to protect the emperor and serve the emperor, and now the emperor is not in the capital, but they say that they don't know anything, isn't it a dereliction of duty?
Several powerful ministers discussed it and decided to ask to enter the temple to see the emperor, and then ask the emperor to issue an order to lock up these irresponsible forbidden soldiers and eunuchs, and wait for the emperor to come back, and then let the emperor convict. But before they could do it, Qin Xiaoyan's will came.
Jiangnan and the capital are separated by thousands of miles, even if Qin Xiaoyan is quick to speed up and travel day and night, it is impossible to arrive in just a few days.
On the way, I received the news that Feng Bijin knew that those ministers who were full of food and had nothing to do, relying on the old and selling the old, relied on their identity and resources to do something to the people around him. Qin Xiaoyan didn't care whether his whereabouts would be exposed, so he wrote a letter by himself, and Feige passed the book to the commander of the forbidden army, asking him to convey the will of the saint on his behalf.
When Qin Shiyan's order reached the commander of the forbidden army, the commander of the forbidden army was confronting those ministers who were making trouble. The meaning of these ministers is very clear, the commander of the forbidden army is derelict in his duties, and the whereabouts of the emperor are unknown, and they ask to see the emperor.
Although the Emperor Taishang was paralyzed in bed and unable to speak, Qin Shiyan did not dare to take it lightly, and still sent heavy troops to guard him and not allow anyone to approach. Before Qin Xiaoyan left Beijing, he repeatedly explained that no one was allowed to contact the Emperor Taishang without his order.
No matter what these ministers say, the commanders of the forbidden army firmly carry out Qin Shiyan's orders, and refuse to give in.
The troublesome Wenchen originally wanted to wait to see the Empress Taishang, pull the Emperor Taishang into their camp, and in the name of the Emperor Taishang, lock up all these irresponsible forbidden soldiers and eunuchs, but ......
They can't even see the face of the Emperor now.
These ministers were very annoyed, pointed at the nose of the commander of the forbidden army and scolded him, scolding him for dereliction of duty, failing to protect the emperor, and not worthy of being the commander of the forbidden army at all, and should be questioned according to the law.
In the end, several Wenchen became angry, ignoring the army, shouting loudly to ask the commander of the forbidden army for questioning, but there were forbidden troops inside and outside the temple, who would listen to their orders?
Not to mention that there are forbidden troops all around, even if there are officials, they don't dare to ask the forbidden army for their crimes.
The forbidden army is the personal guard of the Son of Heaven, and the people who can enter the forbidden army are not only themselves, but their family members are also people trusted by the emperor, otherwise the emperor would not have stayed with them, and the officials would not dare to touch them at all.
These ministers could accuse the prosessor of dereliction of duty, but they had no authority to dispose of them. The only person who can order all the forbidden troops to be kidnapped is the emperor.
It's useless for these civil servants to cut their throats, no matter how stupid the commander of the forbidden army is, he will not obediently hand over the military power because of a few words from them, and let them dispose of it.
No matter what those ministers said, no matter how reasonable they were, the commander of the forbidden army just did not move, firmly guarded outside the temple, and did not allow them to enter the temple.
A few Wenchen were crazy, they may have selfish intentions in their hearts, but everything they said and did was not wrong.
The emperor disappeared from the capital without warning, but these people who protected the emperor didn't know anything. Although there is news that the emperor is in Jiangnan, no one has given a letter of approval in Jiangnan, shouldn't they ask these people for their crimes?
You must know that the safety of the emperor is related to the society of the country, the emperor left Beijing without permission, and these people around him must be questioned and beheaded according to the law, they are just acting according to the laws of the ancestors, what is wrong?
It's a pity that they don't have military power in their hands, and no matter how reasonable they say, it is empty talk that they can't transfer troops and take people.
In the end, these ministers also understood that it would be useless for them to continue to make trouble, but ......
They made trouble to this point, and they just walked away in disgrace, so faceless?
In this case, they just have to hold on, and they have to hold on, until someone gives them the stairs.
Qin Shiyan's order is the best step.
When the ministers were about to make trouble, Qin Xiaofang's letter came!
"The emperor has a letter, and he will return to Beijing in ten days, and the emperor will return to Beijing to mention the problem after ten days." Qin Xiaoyan's letter was not a secret order, and the commander of the forbidden army showed Qin Xiaoyan's letter generously.
"This is the emperor's word." Wenchen, it may not be possible to recognize weapons, but there is no problem in recognizing the emperor's words.
"The emperor is going back to Beijing?"
"When I return to Beijing ten days later, is the emperor really in Jiangnan? From Jiangnan to the capital, it will not be possible to reach it in ten days. ”
"Why didn't the emperor write it, why did he leave Beijing?"
"Why didn't the emperor write, where is he now?"
"The emperor can explain, what do you want me to do?"
"Did the emperor say that in ten days, do you want us to go out of the city to greet you?"
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It is human nature to bully the weak and fear the hard, if these questions are in front of the emperor, these ministers will never dare to ask, and they only dare to mention them when the emperor does not come back. As for whether the commander of the forbidden army can answer, they don't care at all.
The commander of the forbidden army was almost annoyed by these people's questions, and he wanted to endure it, but he found that the more patient he was, the more these people intensified, and he didn't understand what it meant to accept it when he saw it.
The commander of the forbidden army was so annoyed that he immediately lowered his face and said: "I have asked people to write down the problems of all the adults, and when the emperor returns, I will present the problems of all the adults to the holy case one by one." Of course, I'll have the names of the adults memorized. ”
"No, no, no, no. We just said casually, and we didn't mean anything else, we still have to go back to deal with official business, and we have to prepare to welcome the saint back to Beijing in ten days. When the troublemaker saw that the commander of the forbidden army was so strong, he immediately retreated.
Although they caught the emperor's fault, they still felt that the emperor was not confident enough. They just want the emperor to admit his mistake when he left Beijing without permission, and then take this opportunity to seize a little power, but they don't want to make trouble and get themselves in.
"In that case, let the adults disperse. As for going out of the city to welcome the Holy Lord back to Beijing after ten days, Xia Guan hopes that all the adults will think carefully before doing it. The saint is not a flamboyant person, and the adults must not want to displease the emperor. Seeing these people, the commander of the forbidden army was actually not afraid of threatening the emperor with death, and kindly reminded him.
Qin Xiaoyan left Beijing without permission, even if the courtiers later knew about it, it didn't mean that Qin Xiaoyan wanted the world to know. These adults said that they would go out of the city to meet Qin Shiyan in ten days, undoubtedly to let the people of Great Qin know that their emperor had left Beijing willfully and privately.
"The saint will return to Beijing, I won't know if I will arrive, how can I not go to greet him in person if I know." A certain adult who thought he was smart said with a hypocritical face.
The Forbidden Army Commander gave him a cold look, "You can try." "If you want to use this to force the emperor to back down, these people are too naïve.
These adults occupy the righteousness and occupy the moral supremacy, they can accuse the emperor of not doing it, saying that the emperor has made mistakes, but ......
They seem to forget that they are not perfect people either, and that they have a lot of faults in them. The emperor wants to get them, even if he can't find a mistake, he can make a mistake.
The commander of the forbidden army can be sure that these few adults who want to take advantage of the opportunity to fight for power will definitely be unlucky in the future.
Their saints are not as good as the emperor, and they will give face to these civil officials even if they are not happy for the sake of their good name. They are practical people, and the happier these people are now, the more miserable they will be in the future......
A note to readers: Three hours of writing a chapter, the keyboard is so hard to type, I'm going crazy!