Chapter 318: Showdown
Not only the civil and military officials of the imperial court who stayed in Beijing, but even the important ministers of various ministries brought by Zhu Youxiao were also involved in this dispute and attacked each other for their respective interests.
Zhu Youxiao sat on it, quietly watching the ministers below tear up, but his heart was calm and traceless.
There's nothing more enjoyable than watching a bunch of mouth cannons spray each other, and if not, watch it a little longer.
Zhang Shize, the son of the British Duke Zhang Weixian, and the head of the relatives who joined the emperor's camp not long ago, and Xu Wenjue, the son of Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, are also not exempt from vulgarity.
The two of them stood up one after another and said a few words briefly to show the position of the relatives of the north and the south.
Xun Qi was almost unaffected in this reform, and in addition, he had been subdued by Zhu Youxiao before, so naturally they all stood on the side of supporting the reform.
Zhang Weixian and Xu Hongji, respectively, are the heads of the relatives of the north and south of Beijing, and they did not come this time, which is also an opportunity for their sons to show their faces and shake their majesty in front of people.
As soon as these two people spoke, Yu's relatives were relieved and stood up one after another to confront the ministers.
I thought that the relatives would be able to stop this meaningless war of words by joining in with a clear position, but who would have thought that these people would be even happier with their scolding.
Seeing the more chaotic Anding Palace, Zhu Youxiao, who was sitting on it, frowned, a little unhappy.
At the same time, in the north and south of the Ming Dynasty, civil and military officials and relatives were mixed together like mud, just like shrews scolding the street in the vegetable market.
Is this still worth it?
If you can't even unify the opinions of the gang of people you brought out, let alone stop the disputes in the Jingshi court, Zhu Youxiao coughed lightly, intending to make everyone stop.
However, this time, I don't know if the people below scolded Huan Shi or not, Zhu Youxiao coughed a few times, but no one strangled him.
On the side, Wang Chaofu, the steward of the Qianqing Palace, noticed the emperor's face, his hands and feet trembled, and he hurriedly pinched his throat and shouted:
"Everyone, stop for a moment, Your Majesty has something to say!"
The ministers raised their heads in amazement, only to see Zhu Youxiao looking at them with a gloomy face, and looking at that expression, he almost cut them all down on the spot.
The ministers were frightened and hurriedly returned to their positions.
At this time, Zhu Youxiao spoke.
"Yes, yes!"
"You courtiers of the Ming Dynasty, you don't even care about your emperor when you quarrel, it's very good, what a bunch of good courtiers!"
Zhu Youxiao looked around the steps, stood up, stood up with his sword at his side, and said lightly:
"You are all important ministers in the court, that's why I took you out to tour the south, but I never expected that you were the same as those people in Jingshi!"
"Look, look, what is the difference between the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty and the shrews in the vegetable market scolding the street?"
The ministers of civil and military affairs were so frightened that their faces were as white as earth, and they fell to the ground one after another, trembling.
Feng Quan, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, was the one who knew Zhu Youxiao's mind the most among the people who came out, and he realized that this was a good time to welcome the king, so he quickly stood up and asked for the guilt first.
"Your Majesty is angry, and the minister is guilty!"
As soon as he said this, Yu's ministers couldn't stand stupidly like this anymore, so that the emperor couldn't get off the stage, so they had to ask for guilt one after another.
Zhu Youxiao naturally couldn't cut down all these courtiers, he sat down, held the sword in one hand, looked around the stairs with cold eyes, and said in a non-obsitive tone:
"Now that the results of this big test have been decided, except for the 500 people who have been selected as officials in other places, the rest of the former Nanjing officials, from next month, all salaries will be stopped and will not be paid again."
"If you are still here and want to be an official, I am not reluctant, this sword is not vegetarian, I also used it to cut the toast in the southwest, it is just right to cut them!"
"If you want to be an official so much, go to the underworld to be an official!"
As soon as these words fell, the ministers already knew that the emperor meant to continue the reform, and it seemed that the emperor's intention to reform had been decided, and even eight horses could not pull it back.
Any further exhortation is useless except to anger the emperor.
Zhu Youxiao took out his sword, stroked the sharp blade with his fingers, glanced at the corner of his eye, and said expressionlessly: "Look at you, where is there still a little bit of the appearance of important ministers of the court?" ”
"Don't think that I don't know, those officials who have fallen behind in the big test, although they have lost their official status, have not been idle since returning to their hometowns, and even on the way back to their hometowns, they are very busy."
"The court sent them back to their hometown, originally for their own good, but they intensified their efforts, testing my bottom line again and again."
Zhu Youxiao sighed, staring at the blade, he saw the helplessness on his face from the depths of the shining blade.
"They are all pretentious people!"
"Wei Zhongxian is the one who is treacherous and evil, and I am the one who is willing to be deceived, why is it that I bring up such a good thing, as if I want your life?"
"Come, tell me, what do you think?"
"Huh?"
After Zhu Youxiao finished speaking, he suddenly raised his head and looked at the civil and military ministers below one by one.
The Anding Hall was diametrically opposed to before, no one said a word, and whenever Zhu Youxiao's eyes looked at a person, that person trembled, and he didn't dare to come out.
The heavy breathing of the ministers, Zhu Youxiao seemed to be able to hear it clearly.
"Okay, don't say it."
"I will speak for you, and you will listen to me well."
Zhu Youxiao got up, this time no longer sitting on the chair, but directly sat on the imperial steps leading to the throne, and the sword in his hand was sideways to the ministers.
"There is now a Wuxi Academy in Jiangnan, and a group of pretentious sages, after being deposed by the imperial court, they all gather there every day in the name of lecturing."
"What are they talking about? It is the government of the court, the traitorous ministers in the court, the mediocre monarchs, and the eunuchs who are the ones they talk about. ”
Zhu Youxiao observed their faces through the light of the sword, and it was not without surprise that these words made the civil and military officials present all break out in a cold sweat and their legs were weak.
"What do you say about eunuching and harming the country, my generation of scholars should be killed by the society and the king."
"What do those people know, and they have heard a lot of these words, they also think that in the court, the eunuchs are in chaos, I am a mediocre lord, a courtier, and they are all eunuchs who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic."
"Listen, what a nice thing to say..."
Just as Zhu Youxiao's ministers were speechless and red-faced, he suddenly stood up, pointed to the next minister, and asked coldly:
"Imperial History of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Court ——!of the Imperial Court
"There's one of you... Well? ”
Zheng Xiu trembled, then knelt down in a hurry, and hurriedly proved himself:
"Your Majesty, the ministers and ministers were invited to go there, and the ministers went here to persuade them not to comment on current affairs, but they didn't listen."
"The minister's heart for His Majesty, the sun and the moon can be seen!"
"Don't look at the sun and the moon, they have to look after you court officials day and night, how can you still have this kung fu." Zhu Youxiao sneered, turned around and said:
"In addition, I also heard that there is a Guozi priest wine named Tang Binyin, this time I cut the Nanjing Ministry, he lost his official son, and after returning to his hometown, he pulled ordinary friends and established something..."
Speaking of this, Zhu Youxiao thought for a moment, and then suddenly realized:
"Oh! That's right, Xuankun Party! ”
"Tsk, this party is terrible, Wuxi Academy is famous among scholars and people, they are amazing, Jifu, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi and other places have their branches."
"Don't say it, I really didn't expect that this group of people who had no achievements when they were officials in Nanjing would have such great ability after being laid off."
Zhu Youxiao was talking to himself above, sometimes laughing wildly, sometimes his face was like frost.
But every minister of civil and military affairs in the Anding Hall can hear it, and what is revealed in this smile is how helpless and cold the emperor is!