Just when the Diao people were escorting the emperor to victory, on the tower of Chengtianmen in the Nanjing Imperial Palace, Princess Kunxing finally appeared and faced the millions of soldiers and civilians who petitioned......

There must be millions.

Nanjing currently has a population of more than 2 million, more than one-third of which walked in front of the Chengtian Gate, and with the addition of the two guards and a large number of Huangzhuang militia, they crowded the entire royal street, and even the city walls on both sides were crowded with people. The front is full of soldiers, completely red, even the civilians behind have also played the red flag, although the Ming flag is not yet, but the flag of the red bottom dragon hugging the sun and the moon has long been used as a military flag. In particular, the navy, and even those whaling ships and merchant ships, in order to scare the countries along the way, also fly this flag, which can be said to have become a de facto symbol of the Ming Empire.

The civilians also followed the example of the army and took out the flags made in the factory.

Anyway, this kind of flag is made in Nanjing.

There are a large number of factories under the logistics department, including those that specialize in making flags, and they are all hoarded in the warehouse, just open the warehouse, move it out of it, and send it down to find a bamboo pole.

The whole royal street is red.

On the city wall, Princess Kunxing looked back at Yang Qing, who was half a step behind......

"Be brave!"

Yang Qing said.

Princess Kunxing gave him a blank look.

Anyway, of course the princess knew how he tricked his brother, but he was also born in the emperor's family, and she understood this kind of thing very well, after Yang Qing's bewitchment of the empress during this time, she had already prepared for this day. No matter what Yang Qing does, it is to clear the obstacles for her, if she wants to become the empress of the Ming Dynasty, she must step on her brother, and at most save her brother's life after ascending the throne.

Then she took a step forward.

Already like a little young woman, she calmly looked at the red sea in front of her.

"The soldiers and civilians of the Ming Dynasty!"

She shouted.

Her voice was too small, even the guards soldiers in front of Chengtian Gate couldn't hear it clearly, in the era when there were no microphones and loudspeakers, her voice could reach the sky for dozens of meters.

"Silence!"

Yang Qing yelled at a copper trumpet next to her.

His voice was loud enough.

In front of Chengtian Gate, and even the guards on the south side of the Outer Wulong Bridge first calmed down, and then quickly passed backwards, and the originally boiling millions of soldiers and civilians gradually quieted down from front to back, and they all looked up at the eldest princess Kunxing in a dress. For this figure, the Nanjing military and civilians are already very familiar with it, Her Royal Highness the Princess, who is missing half an arm to be exact, has used her private money to feed countless orphans, treated countless patients, and countless students have been educated in the school named after her. In the eyes of most people, she is like a Buddha of all families, and even a symbol of wealth for everyone, her head is printed on banknotes and gold coins.

She represents almost everything.

"Whether my brother is guilty of treason or not still needs to be tried, but if he is guilty, I will not bend the law for his personal gain, and I will accept any sentence that the people have against him. If the Four People's Assembly officially deposes him and elects me to inherit the country left by the first emperor, then I will also obey the decision of the Four People's Assembly!

I'm ready!

I am willing to take over the responsibility passed down by Taizu, continue to protect the land of China, and lead the people of China to declare the teachings of God in the world! ”

Princess Kunxing said.

This doesn't need to be relayed by Yang Qing.

At least the soldiers of the Guards in front of the Chengtian Gate heard it clearly.

"Hooray!"

"Long live the Empress!"

……

Immediately the cheers rang out, and then the guards fell to their knees and bowed to the princess on the tower of Chengtianmen, and then the people behind them also understood and bowed to the ground with cheers. In this way, the wave of prostrations continued to push back, like a wave of pushing, and on the long royal street in front of the entire Chengtian Gate, millions of soldiers and civilians knelt down, bowing to their empress and shouting long live.

Including on the city walls.

The Jinyi guards on both sides and some of the officials and generals who came out also knelt down to the empress and shouted long live to her.

Duke of Chu ......

Well, Chu Guogong is no exception.

Kneel and kneel, anyway, they may kneel and who will kneel at night!

Of course, now they can't really call Her Majesty the Empress, after all, she hasn't really ascended the throne yet, and it is still the prison country who is kneeling at the moment, which is not arrogant or anything, and many people usually shout long live to the prison country. As for the rest, it still depends on the final trial result of the Four People's Assembly, maybe His Majesty the Emperor is still innocent, maybe His Majesty the Emperor has really been wronged, maybe......

Well, not for sure.

I don't dare to say anything.

Otherwise, the millions of soldiers and civilians in front of Chengtian Gate will not agree!

In fact, this million-dollar parade has already made a final decision on this matter, no one dares to stop this general trend, and whoever dares to stop it will end up like the rotten confucian who was trampled to death. The latter was picked up by the patrolmen with shovels after the crowd had passed, and at least 10,000 people had passed over him, and he was trampled to the point that he almost merged with the street.

"The soldiers and civilians of the Ming Dynasty, I hereby order you, as a prisoner of the country, go back and wait, wait for the news of the Four People's Conference, and I will also go back and wait, waiting for the call of the country and the people!"

The princess said.

After saying that, she saluted the millions of soldiers and civilians outside, and then turned around and left......

However, things are not so simple, because the trial of the emperor by the Four People's Congress must first have a special court, and there must be a presiding judge, which also cannot be a minister of the imperial court, whether it is Dali Temple or the Criminal Department, they are not qualified to judge the emperor. According to the interpretation of the Ming state, the emperor is the hereditary ruler of the country, and he appoints his own subordinates to govern and defend the country, whether it is the army or the court officials, he appoints his appointed vassals. Then there must be a presiding judge with a civil identity, plus several judges who are in the same trial, and even a special agency, which is independent of the imperial court and is not responsible for civil judicial trials, but only for the trial of the emperor.

It's not the same as in Europe.

The European judges of those monarchs are in the name of Yahweh, under the principle of divine authority of kings, the hand according to the Bible has the right to judge all monarchs, this is not a man judging the monarch, this is God judging the monarch.

But the Ming is really in the name of the people.

It's not even in the name of Haotian God, although it's okay in this name, but this way it returns to the principle of divine power, and this is what Yang Qing doesn't want to see, and no one represents Haotian God, originally he was the most suitable, but he was already a vassal of the emperor. The rest can't find a Taoist priest, so many factions of Taoism are still unclear, in fact, Yang Qing is very disappointed in them, because of the faction problem, they have limited support for him even Haotian God's explanation, and even if the most orthodox Zhang Tianshi is actually an official of the emperor, he is still a vassal of the emperor.

So only in the name of the people.

Well, the independent big fame has made a shining appearance.

But it can't be called this name, there must be one that is more in line with its identity, such as the people's judge, this name is very appropriate. The people's judges, who are not responsible for judging the people, but only for the emperor who commits crimes, and the judicial officials appointed by the emperor have no right to judge the emperor, but have the right to judge the people who have committed crimes.

This would solve the problem of judges.

This judge was hired by the assembly of the four peoples, and the representatives of the four people voted for a few candidates, preferably those who were knowledgeable and truly respected, and then they would form this special court for the trial of the emperor as the people's judges.

This is not enough.

There must also be a prosecution.

There must even be a permanent body dedicated to supervising the emperor and reporting the emperor's crimes, as the imperial historians used to do, but the imperial historians only had the power to admonish, and they did not have the power to prosecute the emperor. This position, which resembles an independent procurator, is also named the people's procurator, and is only responsible for supervising the prosecution of the emperor and prosecuting the emperor's crimes to the people's judges, but if the emperor does not commit a crime, then he has no right to do anything to the emperor.

Both positions were permanent, but were only useful when the emperor committed a crime.

As for keeping it on a regular basis.

The Four People's Congress will not be able to support a few people.

In fact, these two positions were quickly welcomed by the industrial and commercial capitalists, because they also hoped that in the future, there would be some real threat to the emperor, who would be able to supervise the emperor, and everyone would understand that the imperial history was useless, and the imperial history was also appointed by the emperor. At the end of the day, they have really begun to think about the future, about a more rational and perfect state system, a state system that can supervise the imperial power to the greatest extent, and the people can really have weapons against the imperial power.

Everything now is just because of Yang Qing.

It was Yang Qing who needed to judge the emperor, so there was a trial of the emperor, all of this was just the result of his manipulation behind the scenes, but what if the emperor in the future also committed a crime?

What did the people do to him?

These two positions are very useful.

If the emperor really wants to commit a crime, let the people's prosecutor prosecute him, and there is no need to even prosecute, as long as the emperor knows that if he does not correct it, he will be prosecuted or even tried, in this case, even for the sake of face, the emperor will make some concessions. As long as the emperor can be forced to make concessions in this way, it means that the people have real power to restrain the emperor, instead of passively accepting the imperial power as in the past.

Despite such constraints, strength is still required.

But......

The question of presence or absence has been resolved.

This is already progress.

The Ming Dynasty has come to this day, whether it is Yang Qing's intentional guidance, or the people's wisdom and enlightenment, or the ideological progress brought about by the new national system, a new national system has become the general trend, but the imperial power has always retained the last fig leaf, but now even this fig leaf has been torn off, and the torrent of change has been truly released.

These two positions are just the beginning.

Real change has just begun.