"Aiqing, please get up!"

Zhu Houzhao personally helped Xu Jin up, and at the same time looked at the bloody official uniform placed on the hands of the officials.

The Ministry of Rites is still Mao Cheng.

Zhu Houzhao was not impressed by this person, there were many officials in the Ming Dynasty, and he had no way to understand everyone.

He only knew that this Ministry of Rites Shangshu Mao Cheng was pushed up by the court after Zhang Sheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was executed.

Zhu Houzhao didn't know if Mao Cheng was a qualified secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

But he knew that in the eyes of the six ministries and nine qings, he Mao Cheng must be qualified, otherwise he would not be recommended by the court as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

The Ming Dynasty's system seems to be democratic, but it is not democratic.

The emperor decides on the promotion or demotion of an official.

However, according to the requirements of the so-called holy monarch, in order to select suitable officials, especially court officials, it is necessary to promote the court.

The participants of Ke Tingtui are all civil officials, and they are civil officials with great power.

So to speak.

The high-ranking officials of the imperial court who were above the rank of third-rank squire and the governor of the fourth-rank rank or above were democratically elected within the civil official group.

This is also the reason why the civilian clique can become bigger, and the officials elected by the civilian clique are naturally officials who are in line with their own interests.

Naturally, this is also the reason why there are often civil officials, especially high-ranking civil officials, who fight for power with the emperor, because they are selected by the civil official group and therefore represent the interests of the civil official group.

Zhu Houzhao can guess why Mao Cheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was killed by Xu Jin, and it is very simple to be afraid, it is nothing more than that Mao Cheng wants to be the leader of the civil official group, and he wants to lead the entire civil official group to do a big thing to reverse the situation!

Zhu Houzhao ignored these civil officials who were still prostrate in front of him, still trembling with fear because Li Tiantian and He Tai were beheaded, and he only took Xu Jin into the city.

Zhu Houzhao believes that the deaths of Li Tiantian and He Tai can let these civil officials know the fate of asking them to kill Xu Jin at this time!

This will also allow these people to be restrained.

Right now.

Zhu Houzhao just wants to enter the city and return to the palace!

First, he also misses his family in this era, Empress Dowager Zhang and Empress Xia, worried about whether they have been affected by the political turmoil, after all, even Xu Jin did something to kill the Ministry of Rites Shangshu on the spot, Zhu Houzhao can guess that the political turmoil in the capital is not small.

The second is that he wants to return to the center of the empire immediately and control everything, because he is the Ming Emperor! All ill-intentioned people must cease from this moment on!

Xu Jin followed behind Zhu Houzhao, still not wearing the Liang crown of a first-class official, because he knew that the emperor did not kill him now did not mean that he would be forgiven by the civil official group.

But Xu Jin was obviously a lot more down-to-earth at this time, he knew that Emperor Zhengde was back, which meant that he could deter all the small ones, and the day of the Ming Dynasty would not change!

The Guards entered the inner city and the imperial city one after another, strengthened the garrison of the capital, and officially announced to the capital and the loyalty of this empire that the Ming Emperor is still the lord of the world!

At this time, the capital is very quiet, and the spring sun is sprinkled on the blue bricks and tiles, and also on the people's bodies, only reflecting the swaying figures.

Nothing seems to have happened.

The gates of the city were suddenly opened, and the officials in brocade robes gracefully saluted their king: "Congratulations on the great victory of our emperor!" ”

Zhu Houzhao didn't speak, nor did he show a smug look, but hurriedly walked onto the Jinshui River Bridge.

The blue Jinshui River reflected the blue sky and white clouds, and also reflected the surprised faces of the officials, who were surprised not that Zhu Houzhao came back, but that Xu Jin was still following Zhu Houzhao.

The ceremonial department Shangshu was one of the nine secretaries, and his status among the Chinese officials in the dynasty was second only to the cabinet scholar and the important minister of the official department Shangshu.

In the eyes of civil officials, this is already a capital crime that is enough to be executed!

They can't tolerate the existence of such powerful ministers, just as they can't tolerate the emperor who kills his courtiers without permission, and they kill important ministers who represent the will of their civil bureaucracy!

But.

These officials who could wait for Zhu Houzhao outside the noon gate were much bigger and less courageous, so naturally they didn't dare to ask those civil officials outside the city gate why Zhu Houzhao didn't kill Xu Jin.

Zhu Houzhao took Xu Jin into the palace.

The palace doors were closed.

Because the cabinet scholar Wang Hua supervised grain in Tongzhou, he took care of Taicang.

Therefore, in the entire capital, only Xu Jin, a civil servant, can meet Zhu Houzhao within the palace ban.

The officials were very jealous of Xu Jin.

Even Cai Zhen, the captain of the horse, can't stand this, he is a nobleman, but he is a nobleman who loves to read sage books and is worried about the world's society, he doesn't want a Wenchen like Xu Jin to appear in the Ming Dynasty, so just to suppress a Wenchen like him.

"The death of the prince can't just be settled! He Xu Jin is just a minister of the Son of Heaven, what qualifications does he have to kill important ministers of the court! If he is allowed to enter the Ministry of Rites and kill Shangshu this time and is not punished, then won't all the princes in the world want to be intimidated by the prestige of the cabinet, so where will I be, in the future, we and other civil officials will be subject to the cabinet, but I am afraid that the honors and military generals will also be subject to the cabinet! ”

Liang Chu, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, saw the thoughts of Cai Zhen, the commander of the horses, so he took advantage of this to raise the matter first, and directly stated that this would make his civil officials subject to the cabinet ministers, and would also make the military generals and other military generals subject to the cabinet.

Cai Zhen, the commander of the horses, naturally resonated, he was really worried that the cabinet would become bigger, especially if someone like Xu Jin controlled the cabinet, in that way, the world would only continue to reform according to the emperor's wishes, and the little prince would be killed today and tomorrow would investigate the pirates of Yanzheng and Qingqing, and the interests of a powerful person like himself who did business with the status of the emperor would be greatly damaged.

Cai Zhen, the commander of the horses, was not afraid of civil officials, and even he liked Qingliu civil officials to govern, because Qingliu civil officials would only criticize the emperor for being a holy monarch and would only follow the laws of his ancestors, only emphasizing etiquette and ethical order, and would not reform and would not affect his own interests.

But he was afraid that a powerful minister like Xu Jin would control the cabinet and be the eagle dog of His Majesty the Emperor, which would make the next New Deal reform more and more violent, and even affect the interests of his own relatives.

"The Son of Heaven is young, so happy, anxious to succeed, and the generation of cool officials is relied on by the emperor with the so-called strictness, and becomes a powerful minister for a while, first there is Ma Wensheng, and now Jiao Xu is in charge, Tai'a moves down, and Daming is still dim!"

Cai Zhen, the commander of the horses, couldn't help but sigh.

The other civil officials also sighed, and when they thought that only Xu Jin could see the emperor, and they couldn't even enter the palace, they naturally became even more resentful.

At this time, Zhan Shi Jiang Mian came over: "Everyone! Jiang and several colleagues decided to admonish His Majesty outside the city, admonishing His Majesty to kill Xu Jin, but how could Xu Jin and his ilk pretend to ask for guilt but actually sell miserably, and slandered His Majesty, His Majesty believed his words, and directly ordered to kill Li Tiantian and He Tai! ”

"What! Your Majesty is so protective of him and Xu Jin! ”

Jiang Mian's words shocked all the officials present, although they had already seen that Zhu Houzhao still favored Xu Jin.

But at the moment, these officials can only be resentful in their hearts, and naturally there is no way to take Zhu Houzhao, and there is no way to take Xu Jin for a while.

……

At this time, Zhu Houzhao had just finished listening to Xu Jin's report on what had happened in the capital in the past few days.

Zhu Houzhao nodded after hearing this, he had to admit that Jiao Fang was worthy of being a scheming old minister, and he really guessed what might happen in the capital based on a rumor.

But what made Zhu Houzhao even more pleased was Xu Jin's behavior, because if Xu Jin didn't dare to kill the Ministry of Rites at a critical moment, and if he was a cowardly and afraid of compromise and concession, then the capital would not have died only one Ministry of Rites Shangshu.

"Gather the ministers, let my uncle also go to the court, I didn't expect that he and his relatives would also jump out to criticize the government, what does the Metropolitan Procuratorate do, and even the captain of the horse dare not participate?"

The uncle in Zhu Houzhao's mouth is naturally Cai Zhen, the commander of the horses.

Cai Zhen, the commander of the horses, didn't expect that the first imperial court meeting held by His Majesty the Emperor after returning to Beijing would actually call him, but he was not worried that Zhu Houzhao would deal with him, because he was a relative of the emperor after all.

Cai Zhen, the commander of the horses, and a cadre of civil and military officials all walked into the hall and saluted Zhu Houzhao together.

Zhu Houzhao asked directly to the point: "Do you really want me to be captured alive, and do you want me to die early?" ”

Officials were silent.

Zhu Houzhao smiled coldly when he saw this, sometimes he really wanted to kill all these people!

But seeing these officials disappointed and helpless themselves, he found it funny.

But.

Those who should be punished still have to be punished, and since some people have jumped out, they have to pay for it.

"Liang Chu, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites!"

"Cai Zhen, the commander of the horses!"

"Zhan Shi Jiang Mian!"

……

According to Xu Jin's dictation, Zhu Houzhao called out these civil officials and relatives who made waves after he left Beijing.

Liang Chu, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, and Cai Zhen, the captain of the horse, all stood up, they glanced at Xu Jin, with hatred in their eyes, they knew that this failure was all because of Xu Jin's stubbornness!

"Tell me, why are you in such a hurry to establish a new emperor?" Zhu Houzhao asked.

Liang Chu, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, replied first: "Return to Your Majesty!" It was because we misheard the rumors that Your Majesty was defeated outside the country, and the Northern Hunt did not return, so we had to do this for the sake of the Daming Jiangshan Sheji! ”

"Rumors? A rumor or two will make you, the left waiter of the Ministry of Rites, restless! Can't wait to re-establish a new king! How much do you hate me! ”

Zhu Houzhao suddenly slapped the back of the chair, stood up, and pointed at Liang Chu and reprimanded.

Prince Liang fell prostrate on the ground and said tremblingly: "The minister doesn't dare, the minister doesn't dare!" ”

"Why don't you dare, you dare to force the cabinet to abolish the establishment, and you still say you don't dare!"

Zhu Houzhao said and pointed to Cai Zhen, the commander of the horses:

"And you! As a member of the court, you should have kept to yourself, who gave you the power to make you make a big deal in the court! You are a colt, not Liubu Jiuqing! Do you want me to be the emperor? It's a pity that I didn't get your wish, my dear uncle! I am the eldest son of Emperor Hongzhi of the Ming Dynasty, I am the orthodox of the Ming Dynasty, and I have been granted by the Mandate of Heaven, do you think you and these civil officials can make me an emperor? It's so easy to think about! ”

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