Ye Zhen regretted it after shouting this, and immediately knelt down in front of Zhu Houzhao in panic.

The civil officials of Taichang Temple who were present also looked at Ye Zhen in astonishment, and they were all wondering why Ye Zhen suddenly called the emperor respectful at this time, and he was not inferior.

Zhu Houzhao also laughed angrily, and he walked up to Ye Zhen step by step: "Tell me, why are you suddenly so irritable?" ”

Ye Zhen's whole body trembled, only to feel a chill in his back, and hurriedly said: "Minister, minister just, just, it's just that I really can't stand this aphrodisiac medicine, although the traitor is shameless, but Your Majesty can't let me and other innocent ministers be implicated by it!" ”

After Ye Zhen forcibly explained, he smiled awkwardly at Zhu Houzhao.

Although Zhu Houzhao has not yet been convinced that this matter is Ye Zhen's so-called, he has already suspected Ye Zhen in his heart, an official who dares to ask himself as the emperor in front of everyone, which shows that this person has no reverence for himself as an emperor in his heart, or he has long hated it.

Zhu Houzhao believed that this time was the most panicked time in Ye Zhen's heart, and the psychological defense line was also the weakest, so after Zhu Houzhao walked back to the throne, he took advantage of Ye Zhen's loss of soul and asked: "Ye Zhen, what kind of medicine is this aphrodisiac, but the fascination is scattered?" ”

"It's not! It's a! ”

Ye Zhen replied smoothly, and suddenly realized that he had missed his mouth, and looked around in a panic, and then kowtowed to the ground again: "Your Majesty!" Minister, minister, minister just heard, just heard! ”

"Ye Shaoqing! Who gave you the audacity to dare to deal with Your Majesty like this! ”

Without waiting for Ye Zhen to continue to explain, Taichang Siqing Liu Jie pointed at Ye Zhen with a pair of overindulgent black circles, and scolded, he is not a stupid person, although Ye Zhen himself did not admit it at this time, he can also be sure that Ye Zhen is the one who secretly drugged His Majesty the Emperor, therefore, at this time, he also instinctively angrily scolded Ye Zhen.

was reprimanded by Liu Jie like this, Ye Zhen couldn't make up the nonsense that he thought of for a while, so he had to continue to kowtow directly: "Your Majesty, the minister is wronged, the minister is wronged!" ”

Yang Yuanyi, the Taifu Temple, also walked over with the back of the chair, and after arching his hand towards Zhu Houzhao, he pointed to Ye Zhen:

"What have you wronged, in front of Your Majesty, you dare to call Your Majesty respectful, it can be seen that you have long had the heart of disobedience, and now Your Majesty just asked slightly, and the courtiers in the hall did not know the name of this medicine, so you quickly said it alone, Ye Zhen, you are in vain as my minister of the Ming Dynasty!" I didn't expect you to harbor such evil intentions! ”

There is a way that the wall is down, and everyone pushes it.

Whether they didn't want to let themselves continue to take this medicine with infatuation, or performed for Emperor Zhu Hou to take care of themselves to avoid being implicated, the civil officials of the Taichang Temple family present all scolded Ye Zhen, some suggested Ling Chi, some suggested that they should destroy their families, and some spit directly regardless of the monarch's manners.

Zhu Hou looked at the chaos, only smiled faintly, and immediately ordered: "Take it down, and the three law divisions will discuss the crime!" ”

Zhu Houzhao believed that as long as Ye Zhen's conspiracy was exposed, even if he, the emperor, did not give specific instructions, the state apparatus of the empire would give Ye Zhen the most severe punishment for his murder of his father.

Because the current system and Confucian thought of the Ming Empire are actually in principle to maintain the majesty of their own emperor.

Once the culpability for the murder of the emperor is revealed, even if the emperor does not pursue the blame, the ruling class of the empire will not agree, and in order to maintain the monarchy's patriarchy and Confucian ethical order, they will severely punish such the following crimes.

Wang Hua, the first assistant of the cabinet, originally hated the officials who used such means behind his back, because he couldn't understand why as an official in the court, as a scholar who should be determined to assist Ming Jun Anbang in governing the country, would become a demon who wanted to turn His Majesty into a faint monarch and turn the pure white world into a muddy world.

But now, Wang Hua can't mention how much hatred he has for Ye Zhen, the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, he doesn't need to ask why Ye Zhen did this, as the son of Ye Qi, the former head of the household department who changed the Chinese law and benefited the world's Hui merchants, the Ye family, who could have relied on salt to benefit and become rich, had to bear the huge losses brought about by the reform of the salt government, and it was normal to have hatred for today's emperor who was determined to innovate.

It's just that what Wang Hua doesn't understand is why Ye Zhen, who has suffered a lot of losses and is still a famous family, did he do this, can the interests of the family really be so big that he cares about the safety of the country.

Wang Hua had to admit that His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Houzhao won again this time, and he was able to find clues through the daily life of more and more indulgence every day, and he had to admit that his emperor was indeed meticulous, but he also had to admit that his emperor had obviously not let down his guard against his civilian clique.

In this regard, Wang Hua, the first assistant of the cabinet, was not happy at all, his ideal relationship between monarchs and ministers should not be like this, it should not be calculated by each other, suspicious of each other, and harmed each other, but to work together to build this country to the extremely prosperous era, chasing Yao Shun far away, and forcing the Han and Tang Dynasties.

Zhu Houzhao didn't think so in his heart, Wang Hua didn't think so, he didn't target the entire civilian bureaucracy, he didn't really want to favor domestic slaves, and he didn't want to be a dictator, but a series of events told him a fact, that is, there are many people who want to harm themselves, and there are many people who want to use themselves.

"Wait for the resignation!"

Wang Hua and the others withdrew from the main hall, Zhu Houzhao looked at them silently, did not say a word, he believed that there were still idealists in the Ming Empire, and he believed that as long as he was the emperor who had always shown his determination to rule the world, there would still be a group of people who were public or like-minded people who followed him to govern the world.

Now, the problem in front of Zhu Houzhao is how to prevent someone from using means in his own diet, his profession is the emperor, so naturally he can't cook in person, and there are many people in the entire royal food supply chain who rely on this supply chain to support their families, even if they want to cancel it, they can't cancel it, which will make a large group of people lose the means to make a living.

But Zhu Houzhao always had to prevent such a thing from happening again, he had to make an order, from now on, Taichang Temple set up tasting officers, who took turns to taste in front of the emperor every morning, noon and evening, and set up male and female tasting officials, he couldn't just think about the safety of his own emperor, and the safety of the palace concubines had to be considered.

The news of Ye Zhen's execution by Ling Chi soon spread throughout Beijing through major newspapers and periodicals, and even spread throughout the major cities of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time spread the story of intending to frame His Majesty the Emperor and make His Majesty the Emperor a faint monarch.

So much so that in the future, even if there are unfavorable rumors about His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Houzhao, people will choose to doubt whether some shameless civil officials are deliberately pouring dirty water on His Majesty the Emperor.

The control of the civilian clique in public opinion is becoming less and less, and as the public knowledge of the Ming Dynasty, they are often questioned even if they make some useful arguments.

Xia Yan didn't have the energy to participate in the condemnation of Ye Zhen's behavior, he respected Emperor Zhu Houzhao very much, but he was not willing to be a courtier who only knew how to sing praises for His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Houzhao, he had his own ideals.

He wants the Ming Dynasty to rebuild the rule of Hong Yongxi Xuan, he wants the Ming Dynasty to have the appearance of the prosperous era of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, his favorite poem is not the first-class literary "wet apricot blossom rain, blowing the face does not chill the willow wind", nor is it the heroic and free "a cloud of smoke and rain Ren Pingsheng", but "recalling the heyday of the Kaiyuan Dynasty in the past, Xiaoyi still hides ten thousand families".

Xia Yan didn't know if the poet's words could be taken seriously, but he felt that what the emperor Zhu Houzhao said at Beijing Normal University was very right, and the strength of the empire should not be reflected in the fact that all countries came to the court, but in the fact that the common people did not know the suffering of hunger and cold, and the outside world did not have the heart to intrude.

But Xia Yan felt that he regretted that he did not become a pro-people official, because of the science he studied at Beijing Normal University, and because of his talent, he was appointed by Emperor Zhu Houzhao as the first person in charge of the Ordnance Bureau.

But he did not slack off because of this, and sought his own government in his position, looking at the Franc cannon and the Franc machine warship captured from the Franc man.

Xia Yan had to admit that if the Ming Dynasty's craftsman registration system was not banned, if invention and creation were not encouraged, and if His Majesty did not attach importance to the skills of a hundred craftsmen, the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty had only thought of turning the emperor into a puppet who only knew how to sacrifice to the heavens, and they only thought that if they relied on holding the Four Books and Five Classics in one hand to let the people farm and pay rent with peace of mind, the Ming Dynasty is now only afraid that it has lagged behind the Francophone in terms of armament.

"If there is no Your Majesty, a small battle of Tuen Mun may not be so easy to win, but Xia believes that my Chinese meat eaters will not rest on their laurels to the point of not knowing the master's skills to control the enemy, but Xia is worried that if there is no motivation for innovation within the Ming Dynasty, we will always learn from these Fanyi, maybe you and my generation will learn, but if we encounter the troubled times, meet the end of the foreign rule, these Fanyi who began to be longer than us in terms of skills will be stronger than us in learning one day! I think I need to take a look at the world of Western Ocean! Can't just let their missionaries come to my Daming, and my Confucian scholars of Daming have never set foot on their land, Xia wants to go to His Majesty and send an envoy to the Buddha Langji! ”

Xia Yan wrote in a letter to his classmate and friend Zhang Xuan.

Without waiting for Zhang Xuan to reply, Xia Yan went to Zhu Houzhao in the summer of the ninth year of Zhengde, and asked His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Houzhao for permission to let him envoy to Western countries.

Zhu Houzhao approved Xia Yan's tour of the Western countries, no matter what, the great masters of this era are willing to go out more to see and always support.

Wang Hua, the first assistant of the cabinet, knew that he was not as sensitive as his predecessors Ma Wensheng and Jiao Fang in reforming the government, but he was deeply affected by the new things in the outline of the constitution, and decided to do his best to establish a good relationship between the monarch and the minister during his tenure as the first assistant of the cabinet, so as to realize the real Zhengying dynasty.

Wang Hua, the first assistant to the cabinet, asked for permission to preside over the first cabinet meeting on the construction of spiritual civilization, and he bitterly criticized a traitorous minister who opposed His Majesty for the sake of family selfish interests, and said:

"Colleagues, the so-called civil death admonition, military death war, we are civil ministers, we can die because of advice, because of righteousness, but not because of selfish interests, because of disloyalty! Wang believes that the cabinet, various ministries, and various provinces and localities should set up a loyal monarch society organization to promote the idea of loyalty to the monarch and the country within the yamen, and avoid the trend of insulting our Shilin by a cadre of colleagues for personal gain! ”

Wang Hua said and personally bowed his hand to Xia Yan, the right attendant of the military department: "There is no shortage of ministers of the country in my Ming Dynasty, although there are selfish and loyal people like Ye Zhen, and there are also ministers like Xia Shilang who do not hesitate to travel far and wide for the world, no matter what, we are courtiers, we should chase traitors, and clean up the source!" ”

Wang Hua has a very high status in Shilin, and as soon as he did this, all his protégés and former officials followed up to engage in this kind of spiritual civilization construction activities, and Xia Yan, who was personally handed over by him, the first assistant, was also coincidentally praised as Zhang Qian of the world.

But in any case, Zhu Houzhao was still very satisfied with this, in his opinion, Qingliu officials are not useless, if they can be like Wang Hua is committed to maintaining the ruling order of the empire and correctly guiding the imperial thoughts, it is also a matter of benefiting the country and the people.

Of course, Zhu Houzhao also knew that if it weren't for Wang Hua's investment in the royal industry by his son Wang Yangming, who made his Wang family a bureaucratic capitalist who aligned with the interests of the royal family, he Wang Hua, a powerful man of the Qing stream, would not have become so loyal to the emperor.

Although, this time the Ming Empire began to understand the Western world with an active and confident attitude.

However, at this time, Alfonso, the commander of the fleet stationed in Manchuria, did not welcome the Ming Empire's sudden initiative to envoy to his own Franc Machine, because he believed that the Ming Empire's innocent capture of Tuen Mun Island and even the capture of Andra and others and the forcible demand and payment of a huge amount of atonement for the crime of aggression were impolite to his Franc Machine.

After learning that the Ming Dynasty and the Guangguang Naval Division occupied Tuen Mun Island and captured Andra and other Franc machine people, the entire Franc aircraft fleet stationed in Manraka was completely shaken!

Alfonso immediately shouted to let Da Ming know that it was powerful, and immediately prepared to send troops to attack Da Ming.

However, when Alfonso was still preparing, the Daming Naval Division led by Fu Jue and Wang Hong had arrived at Manraka Batam Island, and this time, Daming brought five main sail warships, twenty hard sail warships and more than 50 other auxiliary ships, which was already a large fleet in the entire South Seas.

Alfonso obviously did not know much about the strength of the Ming fleet, at this time he was stationed in Manraka with only fifteen warships, and the total strength was only more than 1,000 people.

Not only that, but under Wang Hong's coercion and temptation, Yang San and other Han Chinese, who followed Andra and other Franco-interpreters, had already informed him of the true situation of Manraka, so as soon as the Ming fleet arrived at Batam, Wang Hong galloped towards Alfonso's main fleet anchorage at Manraka with five main sail warships.

While Alfonso was still standing on the side of the ship enjoying the quiet sea breeze, five Ming sail warships had already appeared at the end of the horizon.

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