Li Rubai died, committed suicide, and used the Qingfeng sword that drank the blood of Jiannu in his mansion to observe the affairs of Ye Xiang's imperial Qianmen on the first night, one day earlier than the original history. When the pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info heard the news, Ye Xiang was listening to the reports of the various divisions in turn on the throne of the middle gate of the Qianqing Gate.

The Imperial Gate is the Chang Dynasty, and the location was originally in the Huangji Gate, but due to the destruction of the Huangji Gate, Ye Xiang changed it to the Qianqing Gate.

The civil and military officials got up at 3 o'clock in the morning and went outside the noon gate in order of generals, close attendants, princes and horses, five prefectures and six departments, Ying Tianfu and miscellaneous officials in Beijing. Wen left (east) and Wu right (west) waited for the bell to open the door (5 o'clock in the morning), and then entered from the left and right doors respectively, to the outside of the Qianqing gate, stood facing each other on both sides of the imperial road, and waited for the emperor to sit on the throne set in the door, and then sound the whip.

The officials of Honglu Temple praised the class, and the civil officials entered the class according to their grades, bowed three times, and then returned to the two sides of the royal road to stand in shifts. The cabinet official stepped forward and stood under the door of the Dongdan Majesty, and behind him there was the official of the Qin Mission, and the Hanlin Yuan and the Zhan Mansion took turns to hold the edict; The Jinyi Guard is erected in His Majesty Xidan, after the celebrant and the superintendent.

After the official announcement of Honglu Temple, "those who have something to do will enter the class, and those who have nothing to do will enter the class", and those who have nothing to do will go to the door in order to play, and the two imperial historians will picket the behavior of the hundred officials next to the throne to avoid losing their manners in front of the king; After the performance is completed, the officials of Honglu Temple will kneel and play. 'Whip again.

The emperor drove down the steps to the south, and the hundred officials withdrew in turn and returned to their respective yamen to take charge of official business.

The order of the prelude is the Governor's Office, the Twenty-two Guards, the General Administration Division, the Criminal Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Supervision of the Imperial History, the Judgment Division, the Ministry of Officials, Ying Tianfu, the Terracotta Division, the Taichang Temple, and the Qin Tianjian.

Under the monarchy, matters related to the national economy and people's livelihood have to be decided by the emperor alone, on average, 150 pieces will be received every day, a total of more than 400 things, please wait for the emperor to take the idea, such a high-intensity work in the Ming Dynasty only two emperors can insist, Taizu and Chongzhen. Ye Xiang is not a workaholic, after all, there are many political affairs, he thinks that as long as he grasps the main contradictions, the most important thing at the moment is the matter of Li Rubai played by Fang Congzhe a few days ago.

The previous matters were jointly decided by the cabinet and the celebrant supervisor, and it was also decent, Ye Xiang agreed one by one, and finally it was the turn of Huang Jiashan of the Ministry of War to step forward.

"What the minister did today has been handed over to the Like before, please ask Your Majesty to approve Yang Ho and punish Li Rubai and Li Ruzhen?"

According to the rules, in the early dynasties, the various yamen and officials who needed to face the matter, the general administration department entered the book, each with a handbook, indicating the event played, and the gift department received the photo.

In the battle of Salhu, all three of them were at fault, Yang Hao's command was wrong, Li Rubai withdrew without a fight, and Li Ruzhen was stationed in Tieling and did not send troops to rescue.

Ye Xiang still has the same attitude, "Yang Hao and Li Ruzhen will be handed over to the Three Law Divisions." Li Ruzhen's matter has been relayed by my companion, after all, his father and brother have fought in Liaodong, and proper care should be taken, not to mention that he also obeyed Yang Hao's order to retreat, as for the casualties, at most it is not strictly controlled, it is better to do it according to the meaning of the emperor and the imperial examination. ”

"Your Majesty, if you don't cure Li Rubai's crime, how can you be worthy of Juniper, Liu Wei and 50,000 souls who fought to the death with Jiannu last year, even if he is the same as Ma Lin, he can be forgiven for his defeat in the end, but he fled without a fight, which is an insult to my Ming soldiers, and it is even more worthy of the words of a saint." Huang Jiashan still argues on the basis of reason, "Now that Liaodong is invading, the border people are dead and injured, and the livestock and grain are immeasurable, the emperor, for the sake of the law and discipline, the ministers and others risk death to ask Your Majesty to arrest Li Rubai and punish the crime." ”

"I said ......"

"Please ask the emperor to arrest Li Rubai."

Ye Xiang also wanted to argue to stall for time, because Wei Jinzhong's newspaper had not yet been published because it had to be remade with smaller fonts. As soon as he opened his mouth, he was interrupted by the shouting of Fang Congzhe and Hanlin and other officials standing in the distance, and nearly a hundred civil officials standing in the square knelt down as if they had received instructions.

"Please ask the emperor to arrest Li Rubai."

What's going on? In addition to the group of people from the Right Dan Majesty Celebrant Supervisor, a group of military ministers, including Luo Sigong, the Jinyi Guard, also knelt down.

At this time, the sun has already emerged from the east, reflecting the red wall and yellow tiles. Ye Xiang had only seen everyone kneeling together at the enthronement ceremony, and it was hazy, and now this scene made him feel a trace of anger in his heart, "Huang Jiashan, are you trying to force the palace?" ”

"The minister is guilty of capital crimes, and the minister does not dare." Huang Jiashan also knelt down at some point, he is now difficult to ride a tiger, only to hold on, "Your Majesty, if you don't arrest Li Rubai, the people's hearts are unstable, and Liaozuo is difficult to peace; Only by strict law and discipline can there be long-term peace and stability, please think twice. ”

Ye Xiang understood, the ministers felt that the law did not blame the public, and they thought that they were young and might not dare to punish them severely. Ye Xiang was embarrassed, and everyone was now standing on the moral high ground, thinking that Li Rubai should die, even if he didn't die.

If Li Rubai is moved to defend again, he will tear his face with the military generals of Wenchen. Who said that the thunder, rain and dew are all Jun'en, this is obviously involuntarily, Ye Xiang was helpless, and instructed Wang An, "Accompaniment, send someone to pass on Li Rubai." ”

Wang An didn't go out, but walked to the throne, took out the fold from his arms, bowed down and said, "Long live the lord, just now Li Rubai's family came to the noon gate to ask for a fold, and someone said that Li Rubai had committed suicide in the study last night. ”

"Really?" Ye Xiang was still thinking about how to resolve this embarrassment, he was shocked when he heard the news, he didn't believe his ears, how could Li Rubai, who had been relieved before, commit suicide, there was no sign at all.

"For such a big matter, his family would not dare to bully the king. Moreover, the slave has already sent the ministers, and it will not be long before there will be news. ”

Ye Xiang knew that Li Rubai's suicide was eight or nine years old, so he opened the fold and read it carefully. This fold is considered Li Rubai's will, in which he said, "The minister knows that his sins are unforgivable, and he is sympathetic to the temple and the temple of light, and he is still breathing, and the emperor's grace is vast, and he is inscribed in the five." Although the minister has a relationship with Nurhachi, the leader of the Liaodong thieves, he will never forget the public for his own selfishness and regard the major affairs of the military as child's play, as the world says. Last year, after receiving the military order of Yang Jingluo's division, he knew that the general trend had gone, and he couldn't bear to let tens of thousands of athletes die in vain under the iron hooves of Jiannu...... A few days ago, I saw His Majesty's eloquence and strategy, and Daming Zhongxing is just around the corner...... It is not a pity for the ministers to die, in order to avoid His Majesty being reprimanded by the ministers, the dilemma is that the ministers have nothing to repay, but to die to become the monarch and minister...... The criminal Li Rubai wept in September of the first year of Taichang. ”

After watching the recital, Ye Xiang was silent, and now Li Rubai committed suicide, fulfilling the demands of the ministers and making up for the guilt in his own heart, but pushing Ye Xiang into an incompetent situation. There is a saying, I will not kill Beren, but Beren will die because of me.

If Li Rubai had disobeyed the order to enter the division, looked for Jiannu and fought to the death, and finally the whole army was annihilated, this might have met the expectations of the ministers, and maybe everyone would have joined him in taking the initiative again. The first vocation of a soldier is obedience, and from this point of view, he is not wrong; A soldier should treat death as if he were at home and die on the battlefield, and from this point of view, he seems to be wrong again.

Ye Xiang sat on the throne and was uncertain in his heart, as if he was angry, he ignored the ministers who wanted to put Li Rubai to death.

Time passed slowly, and Wang Guochen finally appeared in everyone's field of vision, but he was not alone. Behind him, a burly brocade guard in armor followed briskly with a stretcher covered with a white cloth, followed by eight or nine people, some old and young, some male and some female.

Wang Guochen went behind the ministers of Liqianqingmen, and after seeing Wang An's gesture, he first turned back to stop the stretcher and everyone behind, and then quickly ran up to His Majesty Dan and knelt down in front of Ye Xiang, "Long live the lord, Li Rubai did commit suicide, and the slave had the courage to carry his body into the palace, please long live the lord to punish the crime." ”

The reason why Wang Guochen was so bold was all Wang An's orders, Wang An had heard that Ye Xiang had privately summoned Li Rubai in the inner teaching field, and said comfortingly, it is said that the monarch and the minister had a very happy conversation. After learning that Li Rubai committed suicide this morning, he asked Wang Guochen to act like this, because he was sure that Ye Xiang would not be angry.

As Wang An expected, Ye Xiang really didn't care about these small sections, and after hearing the report, he immediately got up, walked down from the Qianqing Gate Dan Majesty, stepped forward to lift the white cloth, and checked the corpse.

Li Rubai did commit suicide, the left neck was nearly three inches crossed, the blood had coagulated, and he was still in the same robe he saw last time, and the blood stains were faintly visible. He is quite neatly decorated, which shows that his family has been tidied up.

Ye Xiang looked at the kneeling men and women and asked, "You are all Li Rubai's family?" ”

"Back to the emperor, the guilty minister is the eldest son Li Huaizhong." Among them, a burly man in his 50s knelt down and replied, "There is also the second brother who is loyal, the third brother who is loyal, and the rest are all family members." ”

Li Huaizhong was originally the deputy commander-in-chief of Gushan in Yansui, Shaanxi, but he was dismissed because of Li Rubai's affairs, so he called himself a criminal minister. He didn't summon his father until the Son of Heaven had summoned him, so he had the courage to say, "Your Majesty, my father was wronged, and my father obeyed the orders of the teacher, although there was a fact that the army was not strictly governed, there was indeed no suspicion of collaborating with the enemy and cowardly fighting, and recently the ministers took advantage of the Liaodong wreck to insult Yu ...... father, and no one could bear to hear the foul language, so that my father blamed himself even more, and killed himself last night."

"Shut up!" Ye Xiang saw that the more he talked, the more outrageous it became, and hurriedly stopped him. Then he turned back and saw the kneeling ministers looking back and peeking at each other, and said, "Get up, come, and see, is this the result you want?" I'm satisfied. ”

Everyone neither got up nor stepped forward, but whispered, and finally Fang Congzhe, who was on His Majesty Dan, took the lead in getting up and ran to Ye Xiang, "Your Majesty, the minister was the first assistant, and he was responsible for Yang Hao, Li Rubai, and Ruzhen, please punish the emperor." ”

"Punishment, of course, there will be punishment, those present, one is counted as one, after retreating, they are not allowed to ride horses or sit in sedan chairs, and they all walk to the big teaching field to see off those soldiers who are about to leave the division." Ye Xiang shouted again, "Where is the commander of the Jinyi Guard?" ”

Luo Sigong hurriedly got up from His Majesty Dan, and ran to kneel down in small steps, "The minister is here." ”

"Send someone to escort Yang Hao to the Great Sect, and I want to use him to sacrifice the flag." After speaking, Ye Xiang entered through the inner right door without looking back, and went back to the Heart Cultivation Palace.

The first court meeting made the relationship between the monarch and the minister so blunt, and the ministers had their own thoughts, regardless of the drinking stop of the imperial history, they approached the stretcher one after another, wanting to check, until Wang Chengen stepped forward to announce his will, "The emperor decreed that Li Rubai's family should be buried according to the original grade; The ministers have not yet sent their official equipment to the pole gate, and they will discuss it at a later date. Chin this. ”