Chapter 54. The Tragic Scholar
Frustrated, his face was pale, and the official Yingzhen, who was secretly cool, said:
"Your Excellency, as the secretary of the Criminal Department, this palace asks you, slandering the emperor, how to deal with it?"
When Guan Yingzhen, who was originally good-looking, heard this, his face suddenly sank, and in front of thousands of scholars, how could he answer Guan Yingzhen?
At this time, if it weren't for the fact that there were hundreds of thousands of people on the side looking at him, he really wanted to suddenly pretend to be dead and avoid this hot potato. www.biquge.info But in the current situation, he could only suppress the unhappiness in his heart, walked out quickly, and said softly to Concubine Zheng:
"Concubine Niangniang, slandering the emperor if the evidence is true, will be decided. What's more, it can be punished. Just ....."
"Did you hear that?"
Before Guan Yingzhen could finish speaking, Concubine Zheng shouted angrily at the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces.
As soon as these words came out, the civil officials frowned, and the generals and nobles also shook their heads. These thousands of scholars gathered here, if this method is really practiced, it is estimated that the Ming Dynasty will be in chaos.
Sure enough, the scholars soon began to make a fuss, and they scolded Zheng Guifei one by one for being a woman, why did she meddle in the affairs of the imperial court? Where are the civil and military officials? scolded Hou Guoxing's mother and son for being treacherous and villainous, colluding with Concubine Zheng Guifei, and bullying the world's scholars.
The people, who were already extremely dissatisfied with the scholars, looked at the scholars, and dared to openly question the concubine Niangniang, and insulted Lord Hou's mother and son at this time, but they were not to be outdone, and the two sides began to scold each other.
In the hearts of this group of simple people, now with the support of the emperor and the old concubine, how can this group of scholars make a fuss. And just now he had taken advantage of the battle, and he had no fear of the soldiers. All of a sudden, the two sides were again on edge.
Looking at the group of scholars who were still trembling under the fists of the people just now, kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy, they dared to be so rude in the face of the imperial concubine, although they said that they didn't like this Zheng Guifei because of their father, but so openly insulting the imperial concubine was nakedly slapping the royal concubine in the face.
Zhu Youxiao, who was already angry, suddenly felt a burst of sadness, a burst of nausea, and couldn't bear it, with a blue face, he violently pushed away the surrounding guards, walked out quickly, and yelled at the noisy group of scholars around him:
"Do you want to rebel? Or should I help you? ”
Looking at the angry Zhu Youxiao, the officials looked at each other, with complicated expressions on their faces. The people saw that the Son of Heaven was angry, and slowly knelt down, and when they heard that Zheng Guifei on the side of the drum, Zhu Youxiao was able to stand up in front of these hundreds of thousands of people, and they were also full of surprise, and turned their heads to look at Wang An, Ke Baba, and Hou Guoxing, who were following him, as if they were thinking about something.
After a moment of shock, the scholars reacted without fear, shouting loudly about wrongdoing, talking about what the world is doing, and they can't say anything to others, they are dedicated to the country, but now they are suffering such injustices and so on. What's more, he actually cried out about the injustice of heaven, the treacherous way, the building will fall, and the country will not be a country.
"In! Dare! Put! Shop! He who! Kill! Nine! Tribe! ”
Zhu Youxiao, who was still trembling just now, suddenly quieted down, his face was blue, his fists were clenched, his teeth were gritted, and he slowly shouted these words word by word in that cold tone.
The voice was not loud, but it entered the yin wind of the nine shadows, and slowly inserted into the noisy crowd, and slowly inserted into the minds of hundreds of thousands of people.
Even Hou Guoxing, who was comforting Kebaba just now, suddenly turned his head to look at the young man who was standing in front of the scholar with a pale face.
Accompanied by Zhu Youxiao's words, a sharp horn sounded.
Under the leadership of Luo Sigong, the five hundred cavalry quickly turned over and mounted their horses, and quickly formed a sharp arrow formation, just waiting for Zhu Youxiao's order, they would not hesitate to rush into the group of scholars and kill him in a river of blood.
Soon, there were a series of horn sounds.
The forbidden army, who were already heavily armed, turned their guns and aimed them at this group of soldiers who dared to defy the authority of the Son of Heaven.
Luo Sigong gritted his teeth, his face was pale, and his palms were slightly sweating, the current situation was something he was unwilling to face, as long as Zhu Youxiao gave an order, the cavalry would naturally rush into this group of ignorant sour Confucians, no matter what the outcome of this group of scholars was, this black cauldron of slaughtering scholars would be regarded as a backdrop.
The generals of the forbidden army are very distressed, in fact, they can participate in such a struggle at their level, but after Jinyiwei took the lead in blowing the horn, he and the others had no choice, otherwise waiting for them might be Zhu Youxiao's anger.
"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”
"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”
Five hundred cavalry, tens of thousands of forbidden troops let out their last roar before they charged!
The soldiers, who were still boiling just now, began to tremble in the face of this murderous intent, and the shouts slowly quieted down, and they slowly knelt down.
People are always afraid of death, when they found the seventeen-year-old boy Tianzi opposite, the boundless killing intent in his eyes. They chose to back down.
When they found that the five hundred cavalry in front of them were all blue-faced, and the war horses were already irritable, and they could rush in at will, they chose to give up their own innocence in the world.
When they found that the spears of the forbidden soldiers were already aimed at them, and the murderous aura with the breath of death had enveloped them, they chose to sell their knees.
Zhu Youxiao looked at the scholars in front of him coldly, his eyes were full of boundless killing intent, he didn't seem to feel that the scholars had chosen to compromise with him, and slowly raised his right hand.
"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”
Saddle right away! Bow and wind! Just wait for the bloodless right hand to fall.
"The emperor thinks twice!"
"No! Emperor! ”
In addition to the sound of the soldiers kowtowing and begging for mercy, the sound of war horses digging the ground, suddenly two more voices came out.
Yang Lian, this thin figure was in front of the cavalry who was ready to charge, he knelt in front of the cavalry, facing Zhu Youxiao, kowtowing stiffly.
Hou Guoxing, the traitor who had just forced the scholars to almost die, grabbed Zhu Youxiao's right hand, which was about to fall, next to Zhu Youxiao, and then shouted in his ear.
Hearing this sound like thunder in his ears, Zhu Youxiao's whole person shuddered, and his blood-red eyes began to push away the boundless killing intent.
He looked at Hou Guoxing in front of him, at the tens of thousands of people kneeling on the side, as well as the thousands of scholars who kowtowed and begged for mercy, and Yang Lian, who used his body to block the war horse.
After a long time, Zhu Youxiao sighed, waved his hand, and signaled the cavalry to retreat. His boundless hatred just now suddenly surged to his head, and he wanted to kill the sour Confucians in front of him who dared to defy the authority of the Son of Heaven in front of him. Unexpectedly, when the scholars had already compromised, they almost gave the order......
After seeing Zhu Youxiao's eyes regain clarity, Hou Guoxing hurriedly took two steps back, knelt on the ground and said:
"The emperor forgives his sins!"
If Zhu Youxiao's right hand fell down just now, waiting for this Ming, it is estimated that it will be a landslide and a crack. But no matter what, he grabbed Zhu Youxiao's hand that was about to fall in public, which violated the authority of the Son of Heaven.
Wang An, who was already frightened and bloodless on the side, saw Hou Guoxing risking death to hold the emperor's hand, let out a sigh of relief, and hurriedly knelt in front of Zhu Youxiao, kowtowed violently, and cried:
"The emperor is angry, the emperor is angry!"
While talking, he kept glancing at Fang Congzhe and Liu Yixiao in the cabinet.
Looking at the situation in front of him, Fang Congzhe, who didn't want to interfere, hurriedly knelt beside Zhu Youxiao and persuaded him. And Liu Yixiao, who was pale, was also afraid that this incident would cause irreparable consequences, so he knelt down. Guan Yingzhen and Zhao Lanxing also knelt down. The civil and military officials also knelt down one after another.
Zhu Youxiao looked at the civil and military officials who knelt on the ground expressionlessly, sorted out his words, pointed to the soldiers who kowtowed in front of him and begged for mercy, gritted his teeth and said:
"I lost my mother since I was a child, and the Rongke clan raised me for many years, and now that I have ascended the throne, why not let my family be rich? How dare you question my decision? When he was unhappy, he even affected the people, pushed his house, destroyed his field, and cut off his foundation? Is this the book of the sages you read? ”
At this time, the scholars no longer had the courage they had just now, crying that they and others were also sincere to the country, listened to rumors, and did bad things with good intentions. Wait a minute.
Zhu Youxiao stared at Liu Yixiao again and said:
"Lord Liu, you tell me what to do with these people."
At this time, Liu Yixiao was in a dilemma, and after thinking for a while, he said:
Otherwise, the scholars will each have 20 rods, and the cases of the people suing the scholars will be tried immediately in the criminal department, and if there are people who steal chickens and dogs, they will be imprisoned. Those who bully men and women, kill people and set fires, are decided.
This is a relatively serious punishment for the scholars, and the latter sentence is actually dispensable for the scholars, even if they have done murder and arson, they have already dealt with it cleanly, even if the criminal department really deals with it, with their own and other people's networks, they can't find anything.
It's just that this cane twenty is a bit difficult for them to accept, you must know that Daming's talent is not kneeling when he sees officials, not to mention this kind of ugly thing of cane punishment in public. For a while, the scholars below were mourning.