Nanjing, the Great Hall of the Four Peoples.

"Tell them who made you collude with Jiannu!"

Wang Fuzhi said.

At this moment, he was standing in the middle of the speaker's seat, surrounded by more than 200 permanent representatives, and beside him was Ding Qixiang, who had just been brought back, standing there honestly with shackles, and behind him was Liu Nan, who was in a standing cage. Liu Nan looked blankly at the round hall with a solemn atmosphere, most of the three-story circular seats were empty, and only the lowest floor of the speaking table was full of people, staring at them in the light of whale wax.

"Your Majesty!"

Ding Qixiang said.

There was an uproar all around, and although this was almost a secret that was not made public, his confirmation still caused a commotion.

"You are responsible for your own words, this is the Great Hall of the Four Peoples, your words involve the current emperor, lying will be punished as a great rebellion, you repeat, who instructed you to collude with Jiannu?"

A delegate stood up.

"It's His Majesty the Emperor!"

Ding Qixiang took a deep breath and continued: "It was Your Majesty who asked me to carry a secret letter to the Northern Capital and hand it over to the pseudo-scholar Chen Mingxia, who then took me to see the slave chief Dorgon. ”

"What's MeSign about?"

A delegate asked.

"Your Majesty invited Dolgon to send troops south, and then in the name of Dolgon's southern invasion, he drove his own expedition, and summoned the King of Qin, King Gui, and Duke of Shu to meet with soldiers, and gathered 100,000 troops to kill the Duke of Chu in the south, and returned the capital to Nanjing to His Majesty. After the completion of the deed, the land of Shandong was rewarded to Dolgon, the Ming and Qing dynasties formed a brotherly alliance, the Qing Dynasty took the Ming as a brother, rewarded the King of Qin with tens of millions of silver, cut Fujian, Taiwan, and Hainan Island to the Gui Domain, and entered the Duke of Shu as the king of Shu and returned to the king of Yunnan to the king of Shu. ”

Ding Qixiang said.

Those deputies blew up in an instant.

In particular, the Shandong deputies immediately scolded......

They're just having a good life.

After three years of filling in the holes in Yangqing, the promotion of sweet potatoes and corn in Shandong has finally been completed, and even potatoes in some places have begun to be planted in small quantities because the climate has allowed. This kind of thing is basically Huaibei can barely withstand the problem of seed degradation, although degradation is still inevitable, but the rate of degradation can already ensure that farmers can keep their own seeds for use. The problem is that the colder the lighter, because the cold can minimize the spread of the virus in the potato, so the potato made Russia, and China, in addition to the southwest plateau, the main production area is Inner Mongolia and the northeast, that is, the climate is cold enough. Both viral and physiological degradation decreases with increasing latitude and altitude.

The promotion of potatoes in the Ming Dynasty even surpassed that of Europe.

At this time, Europe still did not consider it an important food.

The promotion of these improved varieties and the application of guano have made Shandong's grain self-sufficiency rate exceed ninety.

Although it is still not enough.

But fortunately, Yang Qing gave them another supplement, that is, trawlers, which are not high-tech, in fact, not only European countries at this time, but even Japan are already using trawl fishing. But there are still no non-fishing countries like Daming, mainly gillnets, and Yang Qing has been using trawl nets in Zhoushan fishing grounds for many years, which is nothing more than promoting them to Shandong.

This area is more suitable for trawling.

The fishery is the best supplement to Shandong's food.

Even the army purchased canned whale meat, a by-product of whaling in Dengzhou, nearby, although after eating it for so many years, the soldiers of the army had reached the level of hatred for Spam by the American army in World War II......

But they have to keep eating.

Even the originally deserted Luxi area has begun to rely on animal husbandry, and the population has recovered.

After all, the main thing there is to fear of digging the Yellow River.

But at present, although the Mongolian cavalry of the Qing army can still see the Yellow River, it is almost impossible to dig the Yellow River under the cavalry patrol of the Ming army along the river. If it weren't for the gathering of a large number of people, just animal husbandry and a small amount of land reclamation, this problem could be completely ignored, and Yang Qing was just too heavy on the shadow of the copper tile box break. In particular, the cotton spinning industry in the south has an increasing demand for cotton, and these places themselves are good cotton-producing areas, so of course they cannot be wasted like this. Yang Qing has now also begun to encourage large-scale cotton cultivation on rented land in this area, although all the land there is no longer official land, but merchants can go to large-scale rentals, and then just pay the rent every year.

It can be said that at this time, Shandong is regaining prosperity little by little, not only the ordinary people, but even the remaining gentry are satisfied, after all, in the past, they had to deal with the hungry people who rebelled every day, and they might be wiped out one day.

Now paying taxes in exchange for peace.

In this case, the emperor actually wanted to sell Shandong to Jiannu?

It's just unbearable!

"Treason!"

"Betrayal of the country!"

……

Several Shandong representatives shouted angrily.

Those representatives of Fujian and Yunnan nationalities were equally indignant, especially those from Fujian, who had fierce competition with Guangdong over the years, especially in whaling. In fact, unlike Yang Qing knew, the whaling industry in Guangdong has always existed, Xu Wen's whaling industry was already very developed in the late Ming Dynasty, and whale oil was already a tribute in the early Ming Dynasty. Just like Brother Hammer in the depths of the ocean in the movie, Xu Wen fishermen jumped off the fishing boat in the same way and pierced those giant whales with a whaling fork.

This is different from the Zhoushan fishermen who worship the whale as a fish god.

Yang Qing brought comprehensive prosperity.

It also brought fierce competition, with the lack of his large ocean-going whaling vessels, the Fujian and Guangdong small whaling vessels, which were mainly offshore whaling, often clashing along the entire coast from the Gulf of Tonkin to the Taiwan Strait.

Or even attack each other.

Of course, pretend to be a pirate for a vest attack.

"Silence, what do you say about the evidence? Where's the secret letter? ”

A delegate said.

The secret letter was naturally with Dolgon, but Dolgon's reply was a formal covenant, and he accepted all the requests made by His Majesty, and made a formal alliance between the two sides, and also asked His Majesty to provide him with a quantity of food for the southern invasion. This covenant was made in duplicate, and then Liu Nan and I carried it back and handed it to His Majesty, one of which was signed, stamped and handprinted. Originally, the plan was for us to take it back to Dorgon to complete the alliance, but we were captured and fell into the hands of the brocade guard! ”

Ding Qixiang said.

His words are not all true, it is obvious that an old fox like Ding Qirui knows that it is in their best interest to let him say something, in fact, Ding Qirui must have talked to Ma Shiying a long time ago before he came. He was quickly recalled from Huguang because of Ding Qixiang's matter, as Ma Shiying's confidant, the latter must have asked him about this matter, and also planned for him how to protect himself.

Of course, Ma Shiying knew about this matter, and the most important thing was to condemn the emperor to death for treason.

It's all old foxes.

They don't make mistakes in this kind of thing.

Yang Qing just lacks an excuse to abolish the establishment, if the Ding family can help him confirm the emperor's treason, then he will pardon the Ding family in return, and his performance can't hide from these real old foxes.

"I prove that what he said is true!"

Liu Yu shouted in the back of the cage.

"Shut up, you're not qualified to talk here!"

One delegate rebuked.

Liu Nan honestly shut up, shrunk in the cage with a grudge and continued to look outside.

"Why did Chu Gong say that there was no such thing?"

The representative asked.

"I don't know about this, but the covenant was taken from me, and I saw it handed over to the Jinyi Guard!"

Ding Qixiang said.

"Are you sure about that?"

The representative asked.

"Sure, delegates, I've come to this point, is it necessary to lie and deceive you? This plan to form an alliance with Jiannu and jointly deal with the Duke of Chu was planned by my uncle Ding Kuichu and Mao Qiling, with the participation of Qian Qianyi and King Qi. When they were in Xiangyang, they also bewitched His Majesty to imprison the King of Tang, and the King of Tang wanted to take His Majesty to Wuchang according to the original itinerary, but they were afraid that His Majesty would fall into the hands of the Duke of Chu and would not be able to continue the plan, so they imprisoned the King of Tang and the Duke of Qianguo and forced them to transfer the escort army, and then rushed to Huoqiu with His Majesty's voice.

But His Majesty has been in contact with Jiannu for a long time.

His Japanese slaves were purchased by the Datong Society in the Japanese Kingdom, transported to Tianjin by the Dutch merchant ships, and then transported to Yanmen Pass by Jiannu, who was in charge of Jiang Xizhe of the Datong Society. Moreover, His Majesty also sent Zhu Zhiyu to the Northern Capital, but he did not go to see Dolgon, but only met Chen Mingxia and Dolgon's favorite minister Ning Wan. ”

Ding Qixiang said.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have another witness!"

Wang Fuzhi said.

Then the captain walked in.

"This captain is from the staff headquarters, and the Tang King has a great favor to him, and he was unhappy because of the encounter between the Tang King and the Duke of Qianguo, so he once provided me with something."

Wang Fuzhi said.

"Jinyiwei has secretly arrested Jiang Xizhe and found out that His Majesty cooperated with Jiannu, and the latter transported the Japanese slaves to Yanmen Pass, but was prevented by the Duke of Chu from continuing the investigation, but Jiang Xizhe was still imprisoned in Beiya. In addition, after the two prisoners arrived in Fengyang, Jinyi Wei Fengyang Station once sent two reports to Chu Gong, one was an interrogation report, but the other was not known to be what, and was locked up by Chu Gong immediately. ”

The captain said.

"Are you sure you're not lying?"

A delegate asked.

"It's about Duke Chu, how dare I lie!"

The captain said.

"What else do you need to ask, the emperor has been colluding with Jiannu since he was in Chang'an, and it is just logical after he comes back, he has done whatever it takes to deal with Duke Chu. But the Duke of Chu was still covering up for the emperor, even if he had obtained conclusive evidence that the emperor had colluded with Jiannu and Jiannu to form an alliance, he would rather hide this thing. For this reason, the emperor even did not hesitate to burn the Tang King and the Duke of Qianguo to death, compared with this unsympathetic and unrighteous faint monarch, the Duke of Chu was really benevolent and righteous. Zhu Cihong is not loyal to the country and the people, and it is unfilial piety for the descendants of the Zhu family to forget the foundation of the Taizu and the hatred of the first emperor. Ignoring the kindness of the Duke of Chu to the rebuilding of the Zhu family, protecting the first emperor and welcoming his return to the south, it is unkind and unjust to deliberately harm him.

How can such a disloyal, unfilial, unkind, and unrighteous person be a king?

We are the representatives of the people of the world, the people of the world today, and now we should follow the story of King Zhou Li, and if there is no way, then the world will chase it together, and I hereby formally propose to you as a permanent representative of the Four People's Congress,"

Wang Fuzhi said and looked around.

"Depose this faint monarch and set up another meritocracy!"

He went on to say.

"Depose the Faint King!"

"The son of the first emperor is not the only one, why should this kind of disloyalty, filial piety, benevolence and injustice stay any longer, let him get out!"

……

There was a roar all around.

"Ladies and gentlemen, how can there be any ministers who abolish the monarch!"

One of the delegates said abruptly on his feet.

"Yes, even if Your Majesty is wrong, it is not something we can abolish, and besides, Your Majesty is the king of a country, even if he has dealings with Jiannu, it cannot be said that he is guilty, he is the king of a country, and he naturally has the right to form an alliance with other countries......"

Another representative said.

"Is it an alliance with Jiannu?"

Wang Fuzhi sneered.

"Huh?!"

The representative did not dare to answer this question.

After all, it is easy to be scolded as a traitor, and the relationship between Jiannu and Jiannu has been set when Chongzhen was in power, and then after the continuous rendering of Yang Qing's reign, any peace with Jiannu is suspected of being a traitor. And they are not considered hostile countries, but the rebels of the Ming Dynasty, they are traitors, they are the slaves who were originally protected by the Ming Dynasty, regardless of the grace of the Ming Dynasty, betrayed the Ming Dynasty in a vain attempt to split the Ming Dynasty, and slaughtered countless Ming people in Liaodong and Guannei, their crimes can never be pardoned, and they must be completely exterminated. Anyone who violates this principle can be regarded as a traitor, so the alliance with Jiannu is itself a traitor.

Not even the emperor.

This is Zhu Cihong's father's decision, as a son, he violates the principles established by his father, and that one who is disobedient and unfilial will not be able to run.

So this argument doesn't work.

And these opposing representatives don't dare, a suspected traitor will scare people to death, even if they speak for the emperor, they have to think about the consequences.

"But how can a minister depose a king?"

That representative goes back to the original argument.

"When did the representatives of the four people become the ministers of His Majesty? The Four People's Congress represents all the people in the world, and is the one who is elected by all the people in the world to supervise the imperial court, and the Zhu family is the master of the world with the merit of Taizu's expulsion of the Tatars and the restoration of China, and the Four People's Assembly is the one who supervises the Zhu family. ”

Wang Fuzhi said.

"Yes, this is what the emperor announced to the world with a holy decree!"

A delegate said.

"The establishment of the Four People's Congress is today!"

Wang Fuzhi said.

"But there is no real evidence of His Majesty's collusion with the establishment of slaves!"

The representative said.

"What if there is evidence?"

Wang Fuzhi asked.

"If there is evidence, all the permanent delegates of the Four Peoples Assembly are present, and the emperor is brought here to confront the other prisoners to determine whether he is guilty of treason. If they are guilty, they are to vote together, and if the majority is in favor of deposing the emperor, they are to be deposed and the meritocracy of the sons of the previous emperor is to be deposed, and if the majority still wishes to retain his throne, he is retained. But he must not decide to abolish the emperor so hastily, no matter what he has done, he is the king of a country and the lord of the Ming Dynasty at this time. ”

The representative said.

"What do you guys think?"

Wang Fuzhi asked the other representatives.

The latter talked a lot, and then raised their hands in favor of such a disposition, it is obvious that this is more formal, this is the abolition of an emperor after all, it is true that he cannot be so hasty, at least he must be given a chance to speak.

"So ......"

Wang Fuzhi looked around again.

"Immediately ask the Duke of Chu to come here to be questioned!"

He said.