Chapter 178: Cultivating Your Dao Honestly
The ministers dispersed, and only Emperor Jiajing and Chen Di were left in the main hall of Yongshou Palace. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
There was a terrible silence.
After a long time, Emperor Jiajing finally spoke: "Chen Di, how are you going to treat me?" β
Chen Di arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, I am a courtier of the Ming Dynasty!" Naturally, he will treat the emperor with the etiquette of a courtier! β
Emperor Jiajing chuckled: "At this time, there are only you and me in the palace!" You don't have to be perfunctory with this kind of rhetoric, right? You are a real rebellion, and you and I both know this. I just want to ask, what will you do with me! β
Chen Di said: "Your Majesty, I said, I am a courtier of the Ming Dynasty!" Everything I do is for the sake of Daming! Dare to ask the emperor, you have been on the throne for more than 20 years, has the Ming Dynasty become stronger or weaker? β
Emperor Jiajing was speechless for a while: "This γγγγγ β
Chen Di said: "As far as I know, since the emperor succeeded to the throne, there have been disasters and famines in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, corruption among officials has become commonplace, and the livelihood of the small people is difficult!" The Ming army is weak, and only the Japanese can invade a province of the Ming Dynasty! The Tatars were able to hit the capital! May I ask the emperor, has Daming become stronger or weaker? β
Emperor Jiajing was annoyed and angry: "Chen Di, what do you know? Do you think it's easy to govern the world? Do you think I don't want peace in the Ming Dynasty? Don't want the prestige of the Ming Dynasty to spread all over the world? β
Chen Di said: "Thinking and doing are two different things! Confucius said that the people are precious, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light! But everything you do, Your Majesty, is to protect your throne! Where is it for the people of the Ming Dynasty? It's easy for me to build the elite division of the Flying Tiger Army in Zhejiang, just because there is a 1 in 10,000 chance of threatening the emperor's position, you will dismember the Flying Tiger Army? Also, the emperor was obsessed with cultivating immortals and asked, how much national money has been spent on cultivating temples and Taoist temples over the years? Can the emperor know that every penny of these state funds is the people's fat and the people's ointment? The emperor regards the people of the world as grass mustard, how can the Ming Dynasty not be weak? β
Emperor Jiajing said: "What do you know? I follow the way of Lao Tzu and rule by inaction! β
Chen Di retorted: "Inaction? If you do nothing, you will sit back and watch the people go hungry; If the rule of inaction is to sit back and watch the foreigners bully my Ming Dynasty at will and slaughter my Ming people, then I think Lao Tzu should be opened in the coffin and whipped the corpse! β
Emperor Jiajing said: "Okay, don't say those useless words!" I just want to ask when the Metropolitan Governor will kill me? When did the yellow robe ascend the throne and change the dynasty? β
Chen Di shook his head: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the emperor's throne is not rare for me Chen Di!" What I want is a prosperous country and a strong people! The army of the Ming Dynasty is invincible! Everyone in the Ming Dynasty has food to eat and clothes to wear! β
Chen Di pulled out the Longquan sword and cut off a palace lamp in front of the hall with a sword.
"I, Chen Di, would like to swear by the Longquan Sword! If I abolish the light and stand on my own, and change the dynasty, it will be like this lamp! Chen Di swore an oath.
Emperor Jiajing snorted coldly: "Misdemeanor!" If you really want to be for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, you should hand over the military power and ask me for the guilt! β
Chen Di also sneered: "Hand over the military power? And then wait for the Japanese to capture one or even several provinces of Daming? Hand over the military power? And then wait for the Tatars to enter the Kou again and fight under the capital of the Ming Kingdom? Your Majesty, you can't catch up with Altan Khan, the leader of the barbarians! Altan Khan still knows how to prepare for war and lead the army to sweep in all directions! As for you, you will only send the warriors into the cold palace! Use mediocre people to control military power! Doing so will ensure that your throne is worry-free. But when it really comes to foreign invasion, the Ming army will be vulnerable! β
Emperor Jiajing was speechless for a while.
Chen Di said: "Your Majesty, the words of the sage are ahead!" The people are precious, the community is secondary, and the king is light! For the long-term peace and stability of the Ming Dynasty, for the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, and for the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty. I will take all your rights! In the future, you will still be the most honorable emperor of the Ming Dynasty! But I'm not going to give you any more rights to this mediocre one! β
Emperor Jiajing said: "I understand, do you want to learn from the traitor Cao Cao?" Coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes? β
Chen Di nodded: "I want to learn Cao Cao!" But Cao Cao may not be a traitor! I think that the Han Dynasty was weak, Cao Cao held the authority, Guang'an the people's livelihood, cultivated military forces and prepared for war, attacked the barbarians in the north, and determined the Central Plains, if there was no Cao Cao, the Han would have died long ago! The people of the Han Dynasty have long been slaughtered by the barbarians! With Cao Cao's military strength, he really can't beat Sun Wu and Liu Shu in the south? The reason why he was reluctant to pour his troops south was that he was afraid of seeing the northern barbarians enter and slaughter the Han people! β
Emperor Jiajing said: "What nonsense! β
Chen Di shrugged his shoulders helplessly: "A bunch of nonsense is a bunch of nonsense!" In the future, the emperor, you will be comfortable and comfortable in Yongshou Palace, cultivating your immortals! Of course, I advise you to eat less of the mercury silver elixir! The government has me, and there is Yan Song! The emperor should stop interfering! β
Emperor Jiajing said: "That's it, that's it." Now that I have fallen into your hands, I have become a veritable puppet, and I can only be at your mercy! I only ask you to be kind to me, and be kind to my princess Xiaoyan! If you can do these two things, I can't thank you enough! β
Chen Di said: "The emperor is the most noble son of heaven in the Ming Dynasty, and Princess Xiaoyan is my Chen Di's favorite wife, so I will naturally treat the emperor and Princess Xiaoyan well." β
Emperor Jiajing closed his eyes: "Very good, I am going to meditate on the Tao, and please retreat from the Metropolitan Governor!" β
Chen Di turned around and walked towards the outside of the main hall of Yongshou Palace. While turning around, Chen Di took away the jade seal placed in front of Emperor Jiajing's case.
Yan Song was waiting for Chen Di in front of the hall: "Di'er, all the Xia Party officials have been detained by the Flying Tiger Army!" β
Chen Di handed the jade seal to Yan Song: "Father-in-law, please immediately draft a decree to replace all the important positions of the six departments and yamen in Beijing with our own people!"
Yan Song took the jade seal and said in surprise: "The jade seal is the seal worn by the Son of Heaven, which is equivalent to Wang Yan, how can you γγγγγ β
Chen Di said: "Seal the letter is the authority!" Now the power of the court is in the hands of the father-in-law and his son, and the jade seal is used! β
Yan Song said worriedly: "It is said that the emperor has already sent a secret envoy to transfer the Tianjin Guard Army into Beijing, and we have to guard against itγγγγγ β
Chen Di said nonchalantly: "My father-in-law will only worry about political affairs in the future!" I have a son in the military! What is the need for the Tianjin Guards? β
Yan Song said again: "There is one more thing, there are hundreds of Xia Party officials in the capital!" They are already in custody, what should they do next? β
Chen Di said one word coldly: "Kill!" β
Yan Song said: "Hundreds of Xia Party officials, do you want to kill them all?" β
Chen Di nodded: "Father-in-law, the grass needs to be eradicated!" The fact that these people are alive is a hidden danger! It's better to die clean! For the long-term peace and stability of the Ming Dynasty, they can only be killed! β
Yan Song looked at Chen Di, the righteous son. A chill arose in my heart.
Throughout the history books, there are countless cold-blooded ministers, but none of them can catch up with Chen Dizhi's ruthlessness!