After Marven was promoted and left, Zhu Houzhao went to Cining Palace to ask for peace, and it was the gift of the Son of Man to settle the province in the morning and dusk.

Zhu Houzhao also abides by the moral etiquette that should be in this era.

Zhu Houzhao will also often do his filial piety, and play in front of the Empress Dowager Zhang to make her happy, and at the same time, his inner court will not be as serious as the previous dynasty.

But today's Zhu Houzhao obviously can't laugh.

Wang Shu's death shocked and surprised him, but more importantly, it made him realize that his political opponents had never been more merciful than himself.

Zhu Houzhao didn't know if Ma Yongcheng and Wang Yangming, the commanders of Dongchang, were also killed along with Wang Shu.

But from the worst point of view, maybe there is really no one left, Wang Shu was killed, and Zhang Yu and other murderers who killed Emperor Hongzhi were also killed.

Zhu Houzhao had a sense of frustration and anger, especially when he thought of Li Dongyang's smug look.

Zhu Houzhao listlessly walked into the gate of Cining Palace and came to the Empress Dowager Zhang.

The female official Ruyi obviously realized that Zhu Houzhao's expression was displeased, and she hurriedly and consciously held her nose.

The Empress Dowager Zhang also put away her smile: "My son, what's wrong with you?" ”

"The child felt guilty because of an incident that led to the slaughter of several Zhuangzi and the death of thousands of villagers, if the child had not listened to his mother's advice and did not investigate the cause of his father's death, these innocent people would not have been affected."

Zhu Houzhao exhaled a long breath.

The Empress Dowager Zhang smiled slightly, although the harem was not allowed to interfere in political affairs, she could also hear some meaning from Zhu Houzhao's words, and only said: "Then do you still want to investigate?" ”

"If you don't check it, kill it directly!"

Zhu Houzhao put the hand stove handed by Ruyi on the table heavily, and looked outside.

"These wolf-hearted people, if they only kill Wang Shu and others, I can still bear them, and even obey them to be tough, but they have caused thousands of people to be slaughtered by the Tartars, and I can't bear it!"

And the Empress Dowager Zhang couldn't help but feel nervous when she heard this, she was stunned for a moment, and then sighed: "You are more impatient than your father!" The queen mother doesn't know whether it's a blessing or a curse, but thinking about it, your father is quite forgiving, but he also ended up like this, maybe you will do it better, I hope God can bless my son, bless Daming! The queen mother is a deep boudoir, so she can't help you much! ”

"Don't worry, the queen mother, they can't help me!"

Zhu Houzhao ordered someone to pass the meal, and after finishing the meal with the Empress Dowager Zhang, he returned to the Qianqing Palace.

As Zhu Houzhao said to the Empress Dowager Zhang, he knew that Li Dongyang and others were treacherous and cunning like foxes, vicious and ferocious like jackals, and even the enemies he would face in the future were not only these, but also the Tartars outside the fortress, but Zhu Houzhao was not afraid.

Today's Zhu Houzhao is no longer the Zhu Houzhao who grew up in the deep palace, as a person who has experienced several times of life and death in later generations, he has never seen any kind of wind and waves, therefore, he is not afraid of any threat.

As he said to Ma Wensheng and others, it's a big deal, he can re-establish a new ruling order and create an anti-emperor for himself.

Although the current Zhu Houzhao does not know the specific circumstances of Wang Shu's murder case, he decided to make a desperate attempt to deal with Li Dongyang and others strictly!

Not for anything else, just for the thousands of people who were killed because of the murder of Wang Shu!

Zhu Houzhao wants to let the gentry of the world know the price of poisoning living beings! Even in the future, he wants the Tartars to know the price!

At this time, Zhang Yong came to Zhu Houzhao, and Zhu Houzhao handed Zhang Yong the will that had been prepared by the celebrant supervisor:

"I now appoint you as the eunuch of the Fengyang garrison, and at the same time, I have asked the military department to cooperate in bringing two battalions of regimental troops to you for the time being;

You send a battalion of troops to Henan to escort all the relatives of Liu Jian's nine clans to Fengyang to take custody and confiscate their family property!

At the same time, you also have to send a battalion to Zhejiang to escort all the relatives of Xie Qian's nine clans, and also escort them to Fengyang to watch and confiscate their homes!

When the time comes, you will prepare the army of the Eight Guards and One Division in Fengyang, and when I announce your intention to enter Beijing, I will bring these criminals into Beijing to be executed! The old protégé of the ten clans will not move for the time being, and let the East Factory deal with it when the time comes! Do you understand? ”

"The minister understands!"

Zhang Yong didn't expect that his emperor would connect the three ministers and the ten clans, and he had always hated the three ministers, so he responded excitedly.

Zhu Houzhao said and looked at Gu Dayong again: "You go to Beizhen Fusi now, interrogate Wang Yue, Li Dongyang and others strictly, and if they refuse to speak, they will fabricate a piece of evidence for me to conspire against them!" ”

Gu Dayong knew that the emperor was murderous, and now he no longer paid attention to the evidence, so he also nodded busily and said: "Don't worry, the emperor will do it!" ”

……

Ma Wensheng couldn't help but shake his head when he left the Forbidden City.

As an official who has been up and down for many years, and has been in contact with Zhu Houzhao for so long, Ma Wensheng can guess what the next emperor Zhu Houzhao is going to do.

But Ma Wensheng still couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Your Majesty, this is a desperate bet!" ”

"But isn't it, but what can be done, with the temper of our majesty, I am afraid that there will be a bloody storm, but this is not the Taizu Dynasty in the end, the old man is worried that if this continues, the monarchs and ministers hate each other, and they are enemies of each other!"

Jiao Fang also sighed.

"Now that he has taken the life of the prince, if he can't bear it, he will make a big plan, our majesty is still too young and impatient, and now there is no conclusive evidence to eradicate the traitors, and even the new policy with the reform of the rule of officials can no longer be implemented! What a pity! ”

Even with Xu Jin, he shook his head helplessly, and said: "But these people are too ruthless and too urgent, and they dare to let the Tartars go deep into Guanzhong to slaughter the people, this is not to make Your Majesty suspect that they are doing it." ”

"The forced dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, and they couldn't care so much, but they were worried that it would be Governor Yang Yiqing or Governor Lu Zhonghe or the two of them who cooperated with Li Dongyang in the DPRK to do this, if it was the two of them, it could be seen that the power of these three ministers was really not small! Your Majesty wants to forcibly clean them up, but I am afraid that the resistance will be even greater! ”

Ma Wensheng said.

"Rao is a person who is a person who is a third cabinet minister is not to be underestimated, these three cabinet ministers have presided over the court for so many years, from the governors of various places to the six departments of science and road, where are not their people, it is estimated that this Li Dongyang has just entered the Jinyiwei prison, and there will be groups of officials to intercede for him!"

As Jiao Fang spoke, he saw a large group of officials in front of him blocking his way, one of whom was Chen Yuanyan, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, and stood up first:

"The two cabinet assistants, please stay, the lower officials just heard that His Majesty has sent the first assistant to the brocade clothes to guard the prison, I don't know what crime the first assistant has committed, and who impeached him, or was he instigated by the traitor, so that the elders of the four dynasties and the old ministers left by the first emperor were sent to prison for no reason? Please also ask the two cabinet assistants to solve the doubts of the lower officials! ”

Seeing this, Ma Wensheng hurriedly said: "Don't panic, Your Majesty is just angry for a while, the prince of Shangshu was killed, and thousands of villagers were slaughtered by the Tartars. ”

"Although the thunder, rain and dew are all Jun's grace, why don't you advise the second assistant! Seeing Shousuke in prison, and persecuted by the factory guards? ”

Chen Yuanqian asked directly.

Jiao Fang couldn't help but be furious when he saw this: "The officials of Southern Province really have no rules, how do you know that Lord Cifu did not advise!" Since you are a minister, you should have been born to operate the rules and regulations for the imperial court, why did you gather people to make trouble under the walls of this palace, what kind of system! ”

Jiao Fang's accusation, these officials were not afraid, as soon as Xin Yi's Like gave the matter, he even pointed at Ma Wensheng and Jiao Fang and shouted: "The traitors don't fall, the emperor's tomb cries at night, the earthquake in Qifu, they are traitors, they are eunuchs, why bother asking them!" ”

A cadre of officials even responded because of this, pointing at Ma Wensheng and Jiao Fang and others and scolding: "Traitorous ministers, you are traitorous ministers, what qualifications do you have to live in the cabinet, you are just inviting your majesty to collude with eunuchs, if you talk about virtue but no different from martial arts, and now you have framed Shoufu and imprisoned, it is not a traitor!" ”