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On the first day of October, the Emperor's Palace was facing upwards early, and the atmosphere was solemn. After the officials of Honglu Temple finished singing the beginning of the court meeting, the officials in the audience fell silent.

The civil officials are waiting for the Son of Heaven to make trouble.

The day before yesterday, the Son of Heaven released Hong Chengchou. The news spread throughout the capital in one day, and all the civil officials knew about it.

Now that the Guan Ning army has lost the battle, the imperial court has no way to take Li Zhi. Since he was unable to defeat Li Zhi, he had to kill a few people to be responsible for Li Zhi in order to appease Li Zhi.

The Donglin Party transferred the Guan Ning Army into the customs to crusade against Li Zhi, and the banner given by the Son of Heaven was "Rectify the local order in Tianjin", and the Son of Heaven left a hand here. Now that it has been defeated, the Son of Heaven has no responsibility at all, because according to that banner, the Son of Heaven does not have the right to start a war for the Donglin Party at all.

Originally, the best scapegoat was Hong Chengchou. Hong Chengchou has always been promoted by military merits, and he has not had a deep relationship with the DPRK and China, so killing him to give Li Zhi an explanation has little impact.

However, the Son of Heaven let Hong Chengchou go.

The truth in this is not difficult to figure out, obviously the Son of Heaven will not offend the Donglin Party for Hong Chengchou. Now that Hong Chengchou is not dead, it must be Li Zhishang who rescued Hong Chengchou. Li Zhi and Hong Chengchou worked together twice to fight against Dongnu, probably Li Zhi did not hate Hong Chengchou who was ordered to do things.

In this case, since it was Li Zhi who rescued Hong Chengchou, then the Son of Heaven would definitely have to kill people according to Li Zhi's Shangshu. In the final analysis, the wave of "toppling Li" in Shandong is the operation of the Donglin Party, and the person Li Zhi wants to kill must be the bigwigs of the Donglin Party.

However, it is not so easy for the Son of Heaven to kill the people of the Donglin Party.

In the court, the civil officials stood together with tooth cards in their hands, silently one by one. No one played the court affairs, and no one spoke, and the atmosphere in the court was not so much that the emperor was dealing with major affairs, but that the civil officials and the Son of Heaven were confronting each other.

In that atmosphere, Wang Chengen, who was standing on the side, was very nervous. In the cool weather of October, a fine sweat flowed from Wang Chengen's forehead.

After a long time, Zhu Youzhen broke the silence in the court.

"The entry of the Guanning Army into the customs this time was originally to clean up the local order in Tianjin. However, the traitorous ministers made an obstacle, and the Guan Ning army finally attacked the Duke of Jin in Luanzhou, which made a big mistake! The 400 miles of land in western Liaoning left by the ancestors were completely abandoned. More than 10,000 Guan Ning soldiers were killed in the battle, and the vitality of the Guan Ning army was greatly damaged. ”

Li Zhi, the Duke of Jinguo, was even more angry. The Duke of Jin Guogong has no two hearts for the country, but before I knew it, he was attacked by the Guan Ning army. ”

"The traitorous minister manipulates the government to influence the military situation, and the crime is unforgivable!"

Hearing the words of the Son of Heaven, the faces of the civil officials changed slightly. Obviously, the Son of Heaven has pushed the responsibility away and is going to take the Donglin Party.

Who is the Son of Heaven going to kill?

The answer was soon revealed.

"Zhou Yanru, the first assistant of the cabinet, privately passed orders to control the border army, and played tricks to deceive the king, and was the culprit of the Guanning army's rebellion. I have made up my mind to take away Zhou Yanru's official position. Go to prison and wait for the review of the three divisions! ”

When Zhou Yanru heard this, his face was no longer colorless, and he knelt on the ground with a plop.

The Son of Heaven has already made the charges so clear, what are you waiting for review? Since he is the culprit of the soldiers killed in the battle of the Guanning Army, and the culprit of the unprovoked attack of the Duke of Jinguo, he must be killed.

Zhou Yanru couldn't imagine that he had been up and down in the sea for decades, and in the end it ended like this, and he knelt on the ground and couldn't speak for a while.

The civil servants in the court looked at each other, but no one spoke.

Although Zhou Yanru is also considered to be the Donglin Party, he joined the Donglin Party halfway. In the early years of Chongzhen, when Zhou Yanru entered the cabinet for the first time, Zhou Yanru and the Donglin Party did not deal with each other, and the Donglin Party also created folk songs to satirize Zhou Yanru.

Zhou Yanru moved closer to the Donglin Party when he was reactivated in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen Chongzhen. At that time, Zhang Pu, the leader of the Restoration Society, wanted to control the government through Zhou Yanru, raise huge sums of money to bribe key members of the East Forestry Party in the DPRK, and finally let Zhou Yanru serve as the first assistant. Since then, Zhou Yanru has defected to the Donglin Party because of this relationship, and vigorously used the officials of the Donglin Party.

For Zhou Yanru, the Donglin Party is optimistic. But after all, he joined the Donglin Party halfway, and although he was the first assistant of the cabinet, he was not considered the leader of the party. After the defeat of the Guanning army, Li Zhi's momentum was unstoppable, and someone needed to stand up and take responsibility, Zhou Yanru couldn't run away, and the Donglin Party must abandon his pawn to protect the commander at this time.

The civil officials glanced at each other and acquiesced in the Son of Heaven's treatment of Zhou Yanru, and no one objected.

Zhou Yanru is such a smart person, seeing that no one speaks for him, he understands that he is going to die this time. He crawled on the ground and shook his body, and shook the black hat to the ground.

Several brocade guards walked up, grabbed Zhou Yanru's hands from behind, escorted him down, and sent him to the edict prison to prepare for interrogation.

Zhu Youzhen saw that no one objected to Zhou Yanru by himself, so he took a breath and said: "Zheng Sanjun, the secretary of the ministry, assisted Zhou Yanru in helping Zhou Yanru to abuse the people, and influenced the border army's entry into the customs without authorization, which eventually led to the Luanzhou Rebellion!" Dismissal! ”

However, Zheng Sanjun is more important than Zhou Yanru in the hearts of the Donglin Party.

Before Zhu Youzhen's voice fell, Li Yuzhi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, jumped out and said loudly: "The minister thinks that the Son of Heaven is inappropriate!" ”

"Zheng Sanjun has been in the public service all these years, and his moral character is well known. He did oppose Li Zhi, and it was all loyal words. However, the matter of influencing the border army is purely imaginary. ”

Zhu Youzhen said loudly: "I have made up my mind, no need to say more. ”

Hearing the words of the Son of Heaven, Zheng Sanjun was drenched in cold sweat, and he actually sweated through his official robe. In the unwilling eyes of the civil officials, several brocade guards walked up, took off Zheng Sanjun's black gauze hat, and escorted him down.

Looking at Zheng Sanjun's back, the civil officials sighed. This Zheng Sanjun is a hardcore Donglin Party, and his killing by the Son of Heaven can be described as a major loss for the Donglin Party.

Then everyone looked at Liu Zongzhou.

In the past few years, everything that has opposed Li Zhi has been Zhou Yanru, Zheng Sanjun and Liu Zong and Zhou Chong in front. At this time, Zhou and Zheng had already been sent to prison, and Liu Zongzhou was naturally next.

Zhu Youzhen also looked at Liu Zongzhou, he paused, and was about to attack Liu Zongzhou.

However, before Zhu Youzhen could speak, the elder Li Jiantai stood up and said loudly: "The Son of Heaven has killed two people in a row, and he still won't let Liu Zongzhou go?" Does the Son of Heaven want to kill people according to Li Zhi's recital? ”

Hearing this, Zhu Youzhen's face immediately changed.

The phrase "kill people according to Li Zhi's recital" is what Zhu Youzhen said when he was furious about the Tibetan silver case in Taifu Temple and was about to kill someone. After saying this, Zhu Youzhen returned to the Qianqing Palace and was rushed into the palace by the assassins. This sentence has become a warning with obvious threats.

This sentence almost means that the civil officials will collectively attack the Son of Heaven.

Sure enough, as soon as Li Jiantai finished speaking, the civil officials came out one after another.

"Chen Fan Jingwen seconded the proposal! The Son of Heaven has killed two people, and these two people are enough to bear the responsibility for the defeat of Luanzhou. ”

"Minister Zhang Jinyan seconded the proposal! The Son of Heaven should not create another killing! ”

"The ministers seconded it! The Son of Heaven must not kill Wenchen again! ”