Wang Chengen took a breath and said hesitantly: "Think twice, once this prince is sealed, he can't take it back." ”

Zhu Youzhen laughed and said, "Of course I know. ”

Wang Chengen said: "The emperor is cautious, Li Zhi is now the ruler of one town and nine provinces, and he is full of words. If the emperor crowns him as a prince again, it will be really powerful. I'm afraid that when Li Zhi manipulates the power technique a little, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty will become his minions. ”

"The saint, the prince has been sealed, and the saint may not be able to suppress him."

Zhu Youzhen's face was very unhappy when he heard this.

Frowning, Zhu Youzhen shouted: "Wang Chengen, do you want to separate me from the king of Tianjin?" ”

Wang Chengen was frightened by the words of the Son of Heaven and fell to his knees, and Emperor Zhang shouted: "The Holy Mingjian is to give the slave and maid a hundred dares, and the slave and maid will not dare to separate the saint and the county king." ”

Zhu Youzhen frowned and looked at Wang Chengen, and said: "The gentry rebels surrounded the capital, and the world was in chaos. Now that Wang Qinwang of Tianjin County has made great contributions to saving the driver, how can he not be rewarded? ”

"Li Zhi is a loyal minister!"

"This prince's title, no matter what, is to be sealed."

Wang Chengen prostrate on the ground, not daring to speak.

Zhu Youzhen stroked his beard, thought for a while, and asked, "How did the King of Tianjin County win this battle?" ”

Wang Chengen raised his head and said, "The slave doesn't know, I only heard from the scout who reported that Shi Kefa had been killed, and Wu Sangui of the Jiangbei Army had been captured by the king of Tianjin. ”

Hearing Wu Sangui's name, Zhu Youzhen's face sank.

"Let the king of Tianjin take Wu Sangui into the capital, Ling Chi!"

Wang Chengen hurriedly agreed: "I understand, the slave will go to deliver the decree." ”

Zhu Youjian stood on the road, thought about it again, and said: "Let the Ministry of Rites prepare for the canonization ceremony and prepare for the ceremony of sealing the prince." ”

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On the third day of the first month of March, the sky in Beijing is clear and spring.

The execution ground in front of the entrance of the vegetable market was surrounded by the people of the capital who were watching the excitement. The people were beaming and looked at the condemned prisoners on the execution ground.

Wu Sangui, the commander-in-chief of the Jiangbei Army, and seven generals of the Jiangbei Army knelt in the middle of the execution ground, with all kinds of flowers tied up on their bodies.

The people are very happy to see Wu Sangui beheaded, after all, it is the people who benefit from the Son of Heaven's change of law. Although the people of the capital were not peasants and did not directly benefit from the policy of equalizing the land endowment, the court of the Son of Heaven also benefited the citizens of the capital.

In the past, those eunuchs and gentry were like overlords in the capital, bullying and dominating the market. Even if the people are bullied by these people, they have nowhere to complain, so they can only swallow their anger.

But after the Son of Heaven changed the law and opened a court, the people were surprised to find that someone really made decisions for themselves. All of those judges are very fair, and even many of them are old judges who were directly transferred from Tianjin, and they will not influence the judiciary at all because of the power of the eunuchs and the powerful.

The people of the capital poured into the court, accusing the officials of all kinds of wrongdoings. The judges handled the case impartially and impartially. Over the past few years, there have been fewer and fewer people who have filed lawsuits, but the various illegal acts of the eunuchs and the powerful have been greatly curbed. Nowadays, the people of the capital are not afraid of being strong and worried about marrying beautiful wives, and those who do business are not afraid of the officials to fight the autumn breeze, and they no longer need to pay filial piety to officials.

As for Wu Sangui, a rebel who wants to overthrow the law, the citizens of the capital hate it to the core.

Wu Sangui knelt on the execution ground, looking at the happy citizens below, trembling.

Li Zhi wants to punish his nine clans, and he is sending people to arrest his relatives in various places, and the Son of Heaven wants to delay him. Wu Sangui, a military general who failed in the rebellion, is being punished with the most severe and terrible punishment.

Next to the execution ground, there were several witnessing officials sitting on the execution platform, including the military department secretary, the criminal department secretary, the Dali temple and the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. And in the middle of these civil officials, there sat the confidant of the Son of Heaven, the eunuch Wang Chengen.

The civil officials looked at Wu Sangui with solemn faces. By this time, the Jiangbei army had been defeated, and the gentry's attempt to control the imperial court had become an illusion. Even if the civilian officials sympathize with the Jiangbei Army and Wu Sangui now, they will never dare to show it.

Now the civil officials are thinking about the situation in the imperial court.

Now the Jiangbei Army no longer exists, and there are only 20,000 people left in the new army, while Li Zhi has hundreds of thousands of male soldiers in his hands, and the 60,000 tiger army is in the suburbs of Beijing. What the next situation will become depends on the mind of Li Zhi, the king of Tianjin.

These days, especially since the Jiangbei Army besieged the capital, the civilian officials have been very disrespectful to the Son of Heaven, and even threatened the Son of Heaven. Will Li Zhi pursue these civil officials for the crime of great disrespect because of this?

In the next court, whether it is the **** of the Son of Heaven or Li Zhi, who has high merit, has the final say, everything is confusing.

Wang Chengen sat on the execution platform, looking at the faces of the civil officials on the left and right, and knew that these civil officials were pondering the current situation. Now there is only one army in the whole world that can fight, and Li Zhi's strength is too prominent.

The civil servants are all thinking about how to get along with Li Zhi.

Wang Chengen's face remained unchanged at all, and he just sat there waiting for Li Zhi.

After a while, the people on the far side of the road suddenly shouted, and hundreds of people passed the word: "The king of Tianjin is here, quickly get out of the way!" ”

"The king of Tianjin is here, give way!"

Originally, the people were crowded on the road, but seeing Li Zhi's dependence, the people all crowded to both sides of the road, and forced to make way in the middle of a road more than two meters wide for Li Zhi to pass by.

Li Zhi played a gorgeous guard of honor of the county king, dressed in a four-clawed golden dragon robe, and rode a high-headed horse towards the execution ground under the protection of his personal guards.

Everywhere the guard of honor went, the people were silent, as if making any noise was a great disrespect to Li Zhi. Everyone quietly looked at Li Zhi on the horse, and saluted Li Zhi with the most reverence for Li Zhi, who defeated the rebels and saved the Son of Heaven.

Seeing that Li Zhi was so popular with the people, the civil officials and Wang Chengen looked at each other for a while, and they didn't dare to slack off, and they all walked off the execution platform.

They walked all the way to the front of the execution ground, and one by one they reached the ground in the direction of Li Zhi, completing their waists more than 100 degrees.

Li Zhi slowly rode to the front of the execution ground and jumped off the horse.

"Excuse me!"

As soon as the civil officials stood up straight, they looked at Li Zhi secretly.

Chen Wenyue, the secretary of the military department, looked left and right, and said: "The king of the county defeated the Jiangbei army this time, then the new law of the Son of Heaven is kept, and the world of the Son of Heaven is defended." The king of the county will make the next great achievement in the world, which is gratifying, and the civil officials of the capital and other officials in the capital intend to set up a banquet to congratulate the king of the county for this great achievement. ”

Hearing Chen Wenyue's words, Li Zhi sneered in his heart.

It's fake to invite yourself to dinner, and it's true to test whether you will kill the civil officials.

If he refuses this banquet, I am afraid that the civil officials will become a mess, and I am afraid that they will abandon the official and flee, and even assassinate Li Zhi. And if they accept this banquet, I am afraid that the civil officials will slowly move closer to themselves and form a new party, a party that is more powerful than the Son of Heaven.