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Yesterday, as soon as the news that the Son of Heaven was going to use Jinyiwei to escort Li Zhi's newspaper came out, the whole court was in an uproar. The officials of the court and the central government were full of righteous indignation, and they all said that the Ming Dynasty had never done such a ridiculous thing in the more than 200 years since the establishment of the dynasty.

In the past few months, Li Thief has plagued the gentry and has become the enemy of the world's corporal forest. His newspaper remarks are enough to punish his heart. If it weren't for the fact that the external troubles were unsettled, the internal troubles were surging, and if it weren't for the Ming Dynasty's need for Li Thief's soldiers and horses, even if the civil officials put the emperor in the air, they would have mobilized the world's soldiers and horses to recruit Li Zhi. If you transfer 200,000 troops to conquer Li Thief, can Li Thief's soldiers and horses withstand it? Li Thief's soldiers and horses can fight again, and one can fight ten?

That is, under the heavy pressure of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the country needed Li Thief to defend against foreign enemies, so he pinched his nose and let Li Thief continue to rage in Tianjin.

Li Zhi was scolded as a Li thief by the world's scholars because he collected taxes from the gentry in Tianjin. In the teahouses and taverns in the capital, no one dared to perform the big drama of "Qingshankou" and "Fanjiazhuang Chopping Yuetuo" that were often staged last year. Who dares to perform these scenes, and they will be smashed by the scholars.

This time, the Son of Heaven requisitioned Li Zhi to support Jinzhou, and Li Zhi delayed sending troops, which had already ordered the Chinese Wu Lianzhang to attack. Li Zhi bargained with the Son of Heaven through oral transmission by the eunuchs, and the civil officials did not know the details. But after that, the Son of Heaven did not urge Li Zhi to rush to Jinzhou, but issued an inexplicable decree to allow Li Zhi to publish newspapers in Shandong.

As soon as this decree came out, public opinion in the capital was like a fried pot, boiling over. The gentry all said that Li Zhi was now issuing a report on orders, and his momentum was unstoppable.

The evaluation of the Son of Heaven by the civil officials and gentry also fell to a record low. Where is the Son of Heaven still the Ming Jun who quietly abstained from Wei Zhongxian? The Son of Heaven has become a blind man, deceived and deceived by the Li thief.

Among the large and small teahouses in the capital, there are no newspaper readers like Tianjin, but there are impassioned readers, who stand up one by one and loudly scold Li Thief for having no court and the Son of Heaven being mediocre. The harshness of his language and the fierce wording of his diction are so fierce that I am afraid that the Son of Heaven will be angry when he hears it.

A scholar wrote a satirical sentence and sent his family to write it on the wall of the main road in the capital with paint, called "The Emperor of the Immortal World, sit in the south for fourteen years, and watch the beacon fire rise everywhere; A good general to save the country, urging troops again and again in December, busy Shandong to send reports! The scholars of the capital gathered around this sarcasm and applauded. The officials of the capital only dared to applaud when they stood aside, and no one dared to track down the scholars who destroyed public property.

This wave of cursing the Son of Heaven and the Li thief, as the Li thief dragged on day by day and did not send troops, and as Li Zhi was busy suppressing the gentry in Shandong to issue newspapers, the more troublesome and more fierce. And on December 27, with the edict of the Son of Heaven to send brocade guards to guard Li Zhi's newspaper in Shandong, this wave reached its peak.

The Son of Heaven actually used the royal power to protect Li Thief's newspaper, and the world was the enemy.

The people in the forest no longer scolded the "mediocre son", and the scholars felt that the scolding was useless. Public opinion has turned into a discussion of "the Son of Heaven has no way, what is my generation?" "The world is the world of the people, not the world of the monarch!" "The Son of Heaven is the enemy of the people of the world, how can the people of the world be foolish and loyal? ”

In such an atmosphere, even if the scholars in the capital raise the flag to rebel, I am afraid that no one will be surprised.

At the court meeting on the 28th, more than 100 civil officials walked into the imperial palace with blue faces. It is not so much that the hundred officials bowed down in the hall to explain the matter to the Son of Heaven, but that more than 100 sages and the Son of Heaven confronted each other on the Emperor's Palace. The atmosphere was dreary and unprecedented.

The official of Honglu Temple sang with a whip: "If there is something to play, there is nothing to retreat!" ”

But for half a day, not a single civil official spoke. The civil servants stood there with their tooth cards, silent one by one, but they seemed to be ready to explode at any time.

Zhu Youzhen didn't know whether to announce his retirement from the dynasty or continue to wait for the civil officials to break out, and he was a little nervous for a while.

After a long time, a waiter from the Ministry of Rites, Xu Siqing, walked out. He walked to the hall, his face stiffened, and suddenly said loudly: "Xu Siqing has three things that are unknown? ”

Zhu Youzhen, the son of heaven, saw that someone had finally spoken, ignored this Xu Siqing's rudeness, and said kindly: "What is wrong? ”

Xu Siqing said loudly: "There are three ministers who are unknown!" First, why did the mainstay of the Ming Dynasty regard the siege of Jinzhou as 100,000 Dongnu and did not help? The Son of Heaven used to say that Li Zhi was the mainstay. Now that there are police in Jinzhou, the Son of Heaven issued an edict to transfer troops, and Li Zhi is the mainstay, why can't he save it? ”

Zhu Youzhen heard this and nodded.

Li Zhi, as the chief soldier of Tianjin in the Ming Dynasty, Xingguo Bo, did not send troops to reinforce Jinzhou under the imperial court, which is really unreasonable. Zhu Youzhen also knew that public opinion was turbulent, and Zhu Youzhen naturally couldn't favor Li Zhi in this matter.

"Xing Guobo rescued Jinzhou this time, and he delayed sending troops, which is indeed a loss of rules. I will issue a strict order tomorrow, and I expect that it will not be long before Xingguobo's army will be sent to Ningyuan. ”

Hearing the explanation of the Son of Heaven, Xu Siqing snorted coldly, and said: "The second minister is unknown, why did the Son of Heaven actually use the holy decree to allow Li Zhi to kill people in Shandong?" Li Zhi was a military officer in Tianjin, but he privately published a newspaper to attack the world's sergeant. It is necessary not only to issue newspapers in Tianjin, but also in Shandong. To the gentry who opposed their extreme rhetoric, the butcher's knife was raised. ”

"At this time, in the battle of life and death in Jinzhou, Li Zhi's 20,000 soldiers and horses did not go to Liaoxi, but they were stationed in Shandong to slaughter Shilin, how could it be done? And all this is actually done by order, and the minister is puzzled. ”

When Zhu Youzhen heard this, he was silent.

The scholars' resistance to Li Zhi's newspaper was already to the extent that everyone was united. Zhu Youzhen's edict allowing Li Zhi to run a newspaper and garrison troops in Shandong was on the opposite side of the world's corporals. Regarding the disgust of the people in the world about this matter, Zhu Youzhen has already realized it.

Zhu Youzhen thought for a while and said, "I have already ordered Xing Guobo to pay attention to the wording of the newspaper and stop attacking the gentry..."

Before Zhu Youzhen finished speaking, Xu Siqing said loudly: "The third minister is unknown, the Son of Heaven recruits Li Zhi, and Li Zhi should not." Li Zhi slaughtered Shizi in Shandong, and the Son of Heaven actually sent a ticket to 'send a thousand brocade guards to assist'. Since ancient times, only the king acts, and the minister assists, and I have never heard of a courtier raising a butcher's knife to kill Shilin, and the monarch stepped forward to help in a panic. ”

"I don't know, which one is the king? Which is the minister? Another day, should we bring it to Tianjin, and the mountain calls long live and fall at the feet of Li Zhi? ”

Hearing this, a cheer suddenly rang out in the ranks of civil officials. The court, which should have been quiet, lost order for a while.

A group of civil servants stood up with tooth tags in hand.

"Minister He Shishou seconded the proposal, dare to ask Your Majesty and Li Zhi, which is the minister and which is the king?"

"The minister and the king directly seconded the proposal!"

"Minister Liu Zunxian seconded it!"