"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that such a righteous man descended from heaven, but His Majesty is blessed by the first emperors of the Ming Dynasty, so that such a righteous man and righteous teacher have repeatedly defeated the Tartars, and it is the blessing of His Majesty, the blessing of the Ming Dynasty, and the blessing of the world. Congratulations to Your Majesty! ”

The first to stand up is the cabinet chief assistant Wen Tiren, although this person is the cabinet chief assistant, but he is only in his early fifties, very well maintained, white skin, tall figure, comfortable eyebrows, three long beards under the chin, a graceful bearing, is a famous beautiful man in the Ming officialdom.

However, this Wen Shoufu is not a straw bag that is not useful, otherwise he would not be the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty. You must know that the current emperor has been in power for twenty-seven years, and there have been forty or fifty first assistants alone, and the average tenure of each person is only half a year.

The main reason is because this majesty is moody and suspicious, and ordinary people can't serve him.

And after this Wen Shoufu became Shoufu two years ago, he has been steady, and there is no sign of being replaced, which shows his ability.

And Wen Shoufu's most powerful ability is to figure out the sacred heart, never be the bird that takes the initiative, and the emperor never does things if he doesn't like them. The emperor likes to do things carefully, in short, to give full play to the golden mean.

Of course, this person's vision and insight are also there, and the emperor can also say one, two, three, or four when he consults, so he can be a man, knowledgeable, and low-key and stable enough.

His words may seem like flattery, but they are also very particular. first put all the credit on the emperor's head, and did not mention the conflict between Yuan Chonghuan and Jiang Chuan in half a sentence, which was obviously a steady move to ask for directions.

Now no one knows the emperor's true thoughts, after all, Yuan Chonghuan is a big celebrity in front of the emperor now, although Wen Tiren is also very unhappy with Yuan Chonghuan, but he will not mention this stubble before the emperor clearly states that he wants to deal with Yuan Chonghuan.

The cabinet leaders and assistants have changed so frequently, not to mention the cabinet ministers after this assistant. Nowadays, those who can become cabinet ministers are smart enough, low-key enough, and good enough to do things.

As soon as the other ministers saw that Lord Shoufu had set the tone, they all got up and congratulated in unison: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Daming!" ”

When people are old, they always like to listen to something that is happy and can make them happy. Over the years, Ji Zhengde has heard too much bad news.

So the words of several cabinet ministers made him happy, Long Yan was happy, turned his head and looked at the prince who didn't speak on the side and asked, "Prince, what do you think?" ”

The prince is still young, and he has only been the prince for half a year. He has the strengths of young people, and he also has the disadvantages of young people.

In the past six months, I don't know how many people have said bad things about Yuan Chonghuan in front of him, which has caused His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to be very disgusted with Yuan Chonghuan in his heart.

It's just that his father believes in Yuan Chonghuan, so he has no choice but to keep silent.

Today, his father brought him to sit in on the court discussion with his ministers, and the content of the discussion was still a secret report of Jinyi Wei that was unfavorable to Yuan Chonghuan, does this show that his father intended to punish Yuan Chonghuan?

And young people are born with a good impression of heroes, and Jiang Chuan, the leader of the rebel army in the secret report, is also very young, but he is loyal to the country, leading his subordinates to crisscross Liaodong, and the Tartars who beat them lost their soldiers and lost their armor.

In other words, everyone is young. The prince thinks that what Jiang Chuan can do means that he can do it. Invisibly, the prince regarded Jiang Chuan as his spokesperson. This can also be understood as a sense of substitution.

But this Yuan Chonghuan, when he arrived in Liaodong, did not want to attack the Tartars, but he was jealous of the virtuous and wanted to annex the righteous army, which was too despicable and shameless.

The prince already saw Yuan Chonghuan as unpleasant, but now that he has a real hammer, he is even more angry.

Seeing his father's question, the prince got up and said loudly: "Father, the son thinks that Jiang Chuan is really a righteous man, scattered all his family wealth, established a righteous army, repeatedly hit the Tartars, and defended my northern Ming Dynasty. This kind of behavior can be called loyal and righteous, and it should be announced to the world, commend his merits, and confer his official title, and reward his merits, so as to show the kindness of his father and the court, so that Jiang Chuan can continue to serve my Ming Dynasty, expel the Tartars, and make it an example in the world, and call on more righteous people in the world to come out and serve the court. ”

The old emperor nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "There is growth, and meritorious service will be rewarded, so that people can forge ahead." This is the way to use people. ”

Seeing that his words were affirmed by his father, the young prince was even more excited, and then said loudly: "Father, since there is merit and reward, it must also be punished." Yuan Chonghuan was deeply favored by the emperor, supervised Liaodong, took office for more than two months, did not make a big merit, but was jealous of the virtuous and jealous, wanted to seize the power of the Jiangchuan Righteous Army, and drove my Ming border army to go to the Sichuan Righteous Army for his own selfishness, so that the righteous people are cold, and the people of the world are cold, which is really a great crime, and asked his father to recall him to the capital, punish the crime, and take the heart of the righteous and the heart of the people of the world. ”

Young people are easy to get excited, and in the end, they were all moved by themselves, and the prince actually knelt directly on the ground and asked the emperor for his life.

Wang Chengen served the emperor all his life and can be said to be the person who knows the emperor best. As soon as the prince said that he would be punished, he knew that something bad was going to happen, and hurriedly glanced at the prince, but the prince didn't see it at all, he only cared about his generous statement, and fell into his own emotions and couldn't extricate himself, Wang Chengen sighed and turned his head to look at the emperor.

Sure enough, the smile on the emperor's face had disappeared, his face became darker and darker, and after the prince finished speaking, he snorted coldly: "Are you finished?" ”

The prince also felt that his Lao Tzu seemed to be a little angry, but he still stubbornly said: "Erchen is done." ”

"When you're done, get out of here! Go back to your East Palace and think about it behind closed doors! When you figure it out, when will it come out again! The old emperor suddenly became furious, pointed at the prince and shouted.

After being an emperor for so many years, the majesty of the old emperor is not something that ordinary people can bear. Long Yan was furious, the prince fell to the ground in fright, looking at his emperor Lao Tzu with a frightened face, he didn't know how he angered him, he praised himself just now, and suddenly thundered and angry, what the hell is going on.

Several ministers hurriedly knelt on the ground and said in unison: "Your Majesty is angry, the prince is young and thoughtful, Your Majesty wants to take care of the dragon's body." ”

The Emperor glanced at them, snorted heavily, and said no more.

Wang Chengen hurriedly stepped forward to help the prince and whispered: "Your Highness, you can go back to the East Palace first, and wait until Your Majesty is angry." ”

The prince's face turned pale, and he saluted in frustration and was helped out of the Dongnuan Pavilion by Wang Chengen.