"Rebel ministers and thieves, everyone will be punished, and the minister asks the emperor to quickly announce the names of those who collaborate with the enemy to the public, and all of them will be decided, so as to calm the hearts of the people and correct the law of the country. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

As a clear dignitary of the imperial court, the upright and upright Fang Yizhi was furious when he heard this, and he hated to immediately step forward to find out the traitors who collaborated with the enemy, and exterminated his family to vent his hatred.

The rest of the ministers also scrambled to express their approval to show their innocence, and of course, there were many thieves who shouted to catch thieves.

"Skynet is magnificent, negligent but not leaky, from ancient times to the present, how can a traitor ever have a good end? You are acting so blatantly, but you are incapable of deception?! Zhu Youlang looked around at the ministers, and deliberately stopped when he said this.

Many courtiers raised their hearts to their throats along with the emperor's words, and their hearts were full of fear, and with the example of Ding Kuichu, the head of the cabinet, they did not doubt the emperor's determination to deal with the traitors.

The death-like silence in the hall, the falling needles could be heard, the atmosphere was tense to the extreme, and the weak-hearted seemed to be able to hear the sound of the embroidered spring knife unsheathed by the brocade-clothed guards in ambush behind the palace, and their legs couldn't help trembling slightly, facing the threat of death, they were deeply annoyed by the original collaborator, and the timid were close to urinating and incontinent.

Zhu Youlang saw that the time was almost up, and immediately changed his words and said: "The collaborator should have raided his family and exterminated the clan, and he should be severely punished. However, I have always ruled the world with benevolence and virtue, and I have never treated my ministers with deplight, and I really can't believe that you will ignore the way of the saints and do such a reluctance to let the ancestors shame the saints.

I'd rather they just be confused for a while, rather than plotting to commit treason and surrender to the enemy in exchange for glory and wealth.

I don't want to boil beans and burn them, and the monarchs and ministers fry each other, so that the people of the world laugh at each other, and I don't want the Dongyu to sit back and collect the profits without spending a single soldier, and laugh at my Han people as many shameless and cheeky people! ”

Zhu Youlang's words were beyond the expectations of all the ministers, especially those who secretly communicated with the East Prisoner in private, and they exhaled loudly, and the court immediately talked about it, opposing, praising it, sycophancy, and making a mess.

"In the past, Emperor Taizu Gao of the Ming Dynasty swept away the atmosphere of the group, unified the universe, Emperor Chengzuwen Yandu Dingding, the north was poor and the desert was poor, the west was to the Western Regions, the east and south were to the sea, the power of Huayi, the prosperity of the country, the 16th dynasty, the year of Chengping nearly 300 years.

I am prosperous, eternal and unprecedented!

There are also ancestors who do not get along, do not pay compensation, do not cede land, do not pay tribute, the Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies!

In the past, Yingzong was captured and vowed not to beg for mercy; Li Chuang Koujing, the Liehuang Coal Mountain hanged himself; Kou Fujing in the east, Shao Zonglong died in a military battle, and the pseudo Shaowu Emperor was captured and committed suicide by hunger strike.

I am strong in the Ming Dynasty, and I am far from the Han and Tang Dynasties!

However, since Wanli, for decades, slaves and thieves have started in Liaodong, thieves have been chaotic in the pass, and the imperial court has suppressed bandits. As a result, the situation of captivity is increasing, and the thieves are becoming more and more powerful, so that the changes of Jiashen, the mountains and rivers on the surface, have fallen into the iron hooves of foreign races, and they have repeated the mistakes of the two Song Dynasty.

Today, when the country is in a difficult situation, I have put my own safety out of the way, only to rejuvenate the emperor, expelling the Tartars as my own responsibility, in order to reduce the burden of the people, I keep honest and self-clean, long fast cloth, stay away from vocal music, get up early and go to bed late, and dare not have the slightest slack.

Now that the territory of the Ming Dynasty is a corner of Lingnan, I know that it is far from enough to rely on my strength alone, and it is necessary for the monarch and the ministers to work together and treat each other with all sincerity in order to achieve the great cause of Zhongxing, and the size of the merit is in the depth of the trust of the monarch and the minister. ”

Zhu Youlang paused, and said: "I don't cover up the great virtue with a stain, during the Spring and Autumn Period, the king of Chu did not investigate the crime of 'absolute reins', in exchange for the death of his courtiers."

Now I want to follow the example of my predecessors, and I am willing to live in harmony with the ministers of the past, and if the conscience is not clear, I will know what to do in the future, and now I will burn these letters in front of the ministers! ”

When the ministers heard the solemn words, they were all moved, and silently watched as the servants brought a Ding furnace, put it on the Danqi, and lit a charcoal fire.

Zhu Youlang picked up a stack of letters on the imperial case with his own hands, walked to the Ding furnace, and threw them into the blazing fire one by one.

The flames in the furnace flew straight away, and pieces of paper ash flew out of the Ding furnace with the flames, hovered over the Ding furnace for a while, and then floated back into the Ding furnace. The fire gradually went out, and finally only a wisp of green smoke remained, which swirled around the temple beams and refused to disperse for a long time......

At noon, the first assistant of the cabinet, Ding Kuichu, was killed for treason against the enemy and resisted arrest, and the news of burning letters in Zhu Youlang's palace to exchange the hearts of his ministers had spread, and the large and small eunuchs in the inner court had also heard about it.

"Sect Master, the little one really can't figure it out, how can this Shoufu Lord be so good and good as the enemy? Without him in the court, we will have a lot of strong reinforcements in the outer courts, and how can the emperor react so quickly in this matter? With the emperor's meek temperament on weekdays, he will never be able to do this, it's really strange. ”

The queen mother's personal attendants Xia Guoxiang and Wang Kun, the two of them were scarlet and green, walking on the road leading to the inner study hall in the palace city one after the other, the former had a bulging chest and a protruding belly, looking forward to it, but the latter was bowing down and following closely behind the former, looking like he was talking about his life.

"You don't understand such a simple truth, it's really a waste of our family's cultivation of you on weekdays!"

"Little stupid, I hope the sect master will make it clear."

Wang Kun walked slowly, and said as he walked: "Who do you say has benefited the most in this whole thing?" ”

"Rong Xiao's thoughts, by the way, it's Liu Qing's chief soldier, Qingyuan's uncle Chen Bangfu!

Today, the emperor of the early dynasty talked about meritorious deeds, and he was rewarded the heaviest, and now he has been named a marquis, opened the mansion of Wuzhou, and was given to sit to see Jiuqing, and he did not give it away, and he enjoyed all the honors in one day, is it really him? ”

"Humph! He was the one who launched the mutiny last night, he was the one who killed Ding Zhongqiao's family, and he was the one who annexed the Beijing camp outside the city, who else do you say was the mastermind behind this scene besides him? I didn't expect a small local soldier to have such scheming and ambition, it's not simple! ”

"Sect Master, what do you say we should do in the future?"

"Respond to all changes with the same, and see how he acts next, let's see you again, not to mention that he hasn't targeted us now, right?

It seems that I have to find a day to get close to him, if I can make him the second Ding Zhongqiao, it would be great! After Wang Kun finished speaking, he waved his hand lightly, missed this topic, and then glanced at Xia Guoxiang, and said solemnly: "You have to serve the Queen Mother, at the critical moment, she is our talisman, she can save her life, do you understand?" ”

"The little one understands."

"It's good to understand, let's go first."

Xia Guoxiang stood in place, looking at Wang Kun's figure gradually moving away, his thoughts were still stuck on the previous question, and he said in his heart: "In this matter, it seems that the emperor has gained a lot.

There is an example of Ding Kuichu in the past, those gentry with ghosts are afraid that they have put away their crooked thoughts for the time being, and they no longer dare to commit crimes against the wind, and this undercurrent in the Wuzhou Dynasty has been resolved by the emperor, and at the same time, he has also won a good reputation for treating ministers and being virtuous and benevolent, and has redeemed a lot of bad images that were generated by fleeing from hearing the police.

If the trick of burning letters to exchange the hearts of ministers is really the emperor's own idea, then our emperor is not too incompetent! This Ming may last for a few more years, and it may not die quickly! ”

……

Ma Jixiang is very happy now, the fleet is about to arrive in Zhaoqing, he seems to see that the official position of the commander of the Jinyi Guard is already beckoning to him, standing at the bow of the ship, his face is full of spirit, he really wants to learn from the literati to chant a poem on the spot, stretch his pride, but unfortunately he can't understand the literature and ink, so he has to give up.

At this moment, the two imperial guards beside him glanced at each other, and pasted Ma Jixiang with a brush, Ma Jixiang felt a trace of abnormality behind him, and turned around in surprise, and before he could open his mouth to reprimand, the back of his head suddenly had a sharp pain, and then his body weakened and fainted.

"Master Ma, I'm sorry, the emperor has a life, and he is going to send you on his way."

After the imperial guard who stunned Ma Jixiang with his palm knife whispered something in Ma Jixiang's ear, regardless of whether he could still hear it after fainting, he and another imperial guard grabbed his body and threw it into the river.

Ma Jixiang, who fainted, sank to the bottom of the river without the slightest struggle and fed Wang Ba, but it is a pity that a generation of "elite" politicians encountered a traverser who did not play cards according to the rules, and was killed in a daze before he could show his perfect sycophants.

On the same day, the remaining backbone of Ma Jixiang's cronies in the fleet were also disposed of by the dozens of henchmen sent by the emperor.