After the night passed, and the courtiers did not find out that Zhou Yanru, the elder of the cabinet, Hou Sui, the squire of the military department, and the governor of Jinyiwei were gone.

The hundred officials suddenly realized in their hearts that they had made a lot of trouble yesterday, but I am afraid that it was also because of these people. It's just that what the courtiers can't figure out is that Luo Yangxing is an old man when he was in Chongzhen's submerged mansion, although he has been working as a humanoid background wall on the platform in recent months, but why did he even arrest him?

When it came to the court meeting, after the ministers finished the ceremony, Chongzhen didn't wait for the ministers to play, so he said directly: "Yesterday's incident was that someone fornicated with the palace ban and tried to assassinate him. Now the mastermind and accomplices have all been imprisoned. ”

Chongzhen's voice fell, and the expected humming scene did not come, but was silent as death, and all the ministers looked at Chongzhen with inquiring eyes.

To put it bluntly, the assassination of Chongzhen, because it happened outside the Donghua Gate, is enough time to spread throughout the capital. If the city gate had not been blocked before the incident, it is estimated that it would have been transmitted to Tianjin Wei at this time.

Chongzhen looked at the ministers below, and he was also full of emotion in his heart. Look, it's these people, all the sanctimonious and well-dressed beasts, who have played a huge empire that couldn't find an opponent in the world at that time, to death! Since then, Shenzhou has sunk, and it has not been able to return to the position of the world's number one empire for hundreds of years.

Chongzhen, who hated these righteous gentlemen more and more in his heart, simply said: "Wang Chengen, announce the edict." ”

After Wang Chengen took out the holy decree and read it, the courtiers under the imperial rank were as if they had been smashed on the head with a sledgehammer, and they were all stunned.

A series of names, the elder of the pavilion, the governor of the Jinyi guard, the squire of the military department, a series of Ling Chi, and a series of raids on the nine clans, finally made the ministers in the court clearly understand that in the main hall, the man sitting on the dragon chair is the son of the day, and is no longer the king of faith who allows them to fool.

Wait until Wang Chengen reads: "Wang Mou, the prisoner of the country, openly assassinated in broad daylight, and his crime is unforgivable." Dressed in brocade clothes, the guard will be a member of the ten clans. Thought that the latecomer commanded. ”

When the ministers in the court heard this, they talked about it, and immediately there was a royal history who knelt down and played: "Your Majesty, except for Emperor Chengzu's punishment of the ten clans of filial piety, there has never been a saying of the ten clans since ancient times, Your Majesty's punishment has not been spared, and the ministers please change the punishment to the nine clans." ”

Chongzhen glanced at the imperial history meaningfully and asked, "What if I must raze his ten clans?" ”

That Yushi is also a bold man, in order to fight for a clear name, he doesn't even care about life and death, but just stalks his neck and says: "If Your Majesty doesn't change, you will be the king of the Emperor!" As an imperial historian, the minister has the responsibility of advising His Majesty and picketing hundreds of officials. Today, Your Majesty wants to perform this torture, and the minister would rather die on the palace! ”

Chongzhen looked at the imperial history with his eyes, but said to Wei Zhongxian, who was standing aside: "I want to hear about this master of the imperial history who is guilty of a straightforward admonition. ”

Who is Wei Zhongxian? To be able to be "nine thousand years old" as a eunuch, how can it be easy to get along? Immediately said loudly: "Yushi Zhang Wansheng, the third year of the Apocalypse Jinshi and the first, appointed as the editor of the Hanlin Academy, and the fifth year of the Apocalypse was promoted to the Imperial History Doctor." His family has a lot of surplus wealth, so he is quite honest and honest, and he has never accepted gifts and filial piety. ”

When the ministers in the court heard this, they secretly said in their hearts, look, it has to be us righteous men and gentlemen, even Wei Gelding can't find anything wrong!

didn't want Wei Zhongxian's next words, but it made them fall into an ice cave.

However, the widow was very sick. In March of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Xiaoyu was a concubine and tortured to death before April.

In May of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Xia He, the head of the Red Mansion, was accepted as a concubine, and in July, Xia He died.

In February of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Qiu Yu of Nachun Yuyuan was a concubine, and in April, Qiu Yu died.

His father, Zhang Laocai, had a lot of land in his hometown in Shanxi, and relied on the fame of Zhang Wansheng in the imperial history, and skillfully seized more than 300 acres of fertile land, forcing a total of five tenants to death. ”

After saying it with a smile, Wei Zhongxian asked Zhang Wansheng again: "Lord Yushi, what our family said, is there a lie?" ”

Chongzhen and the ministers only looked at Zhang Wansheng's sweaty appearance, and knew that what Wei Zhongxian said was true.

Without waiting for the ministers to come up with any excuses to excuse Zhang Wansheng, the angry Chongzhen shouted: "Someone! ”

When there were even two Jinyi guards on duty in front of the palace, the Han general came over and knelt down and shouted, "The minister is here!" ”。

Chongzhen said angrily: "What an incorruptible Lord Yushi! What a guilty offender! Didn't you say that you would die in the temple today? I will meet your request, so that you may be benevolent and die! ”

Then he pointed at Zhang Wansheng and said to the two Jinyi Wei Han generals: "Take it!" Knock this fang to death on the dragon pillar! ”

When the two Han generals heard this, they said in unison: "Obey the order!" ”

One by one, grabbed Zhang Wansheng's arm, and then freed up a hand, held down his head, no matter how Zhang Wansheng struggled and begged for mercy, he slammed into the dragon pillar.

Poor Zhang Yushi, who had been studying hard for ten years, was hit and his head was cracked, and his whole face was as if he had opened a dyeing shop, and the red and white flowed down together, and he couldn't live.

The ministers in the court were frightened when they boarded, and then they realized that the emperor on the dragon chair, since he ascended the throne, there have been pavilion elders, imperial history who have been stripped of skin and grass, and it is not one person or two, Haoge, the eight Jin merchants, etc., are all precedents. In terms of the weight of killing, I am afraid that it is far beyond Emperor Chengzu and comparable to the founding Emperor Hongwu.

Ignoring the appearance of the ministers, Chongzhen said to Wang Chengen: "Continue to read." I want to see who has anything to say! ”

Only this time, it was until Wang Chengen had read out all the wills, and no minister dared to jump out to oppose it.

Chongzhen, who has no objections, is becoming more and more unhappy, in total, you are all the king of mouth cannons? Dead friends don't die poor? It's no wonder that this Ming Dynasty is not destroyed in the hands of you!

When a courtier speaks, the horn is angry and he will die; The courtiers don't speak, and Chongzhen is also unaccustomed to it. The angry Chongzhen looked at the ministers below and said, "What's the matter, dumb?" Didn't you just say that you wanted to talk one by one? Does anyone still want to say that I am the king of the Emperor?

Aren't they all called upright gentlemen? This is my Ming Hundred Officials? I think that future generations can write a book, which is called the Appearance of Ming Officialdom!

Look at the appearance of all of you well-dressed beasts, which of you dares to pat your chest and say that you are clean!? Are you worthy of your uniform? The people paid their taxes, and they raised a bunch of things like you?

I have a word for you. Erlu Erfeng is all the people's fat and people's ointment. If anyone takes the people's money and then oppresses the people, I will punish him for the nine clans!

Don't feel too good about yourself and think that without you, this Ming will be over. There are people who want to be officials outside! I don't have much else, it's just that there are a lot of people! ”