Chapter 880 Against the Sky (Medium)

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In front of the Jinluan Palace, a rare coup d'état occurred in an instant. Gao Gong was embarrassed, and all the officials were shocked, thinking that they were the victors, but they turned victory into defeat, all for the sake of inevitable defeat, but they turned defeat into victory. Many people are still in a dream, and it is difficult to determine whether what has just happened is really an illusion.

But there was one man, who remained absolutely conscious, and he stepped forward and, in full view of everyone, pulled the sleeve of the eunuch who had sent the decree.

"Elder Shen Ge, what are you doing here?" Zhao Cheng panicked for a while.

"I want to face the saint, and ask Gonggong Zhao to do it on my behalf." He said in a deep voice

"Noodles...... Face saint? Zhao Cheng was startled at first, and then immediately said inwardly: "You, do you want to resist the order?" ”

"Of course this official doesn't dare." Shen Mo shook his head and said word by word: "But the departure and stay of Shoufu is a major matter of the country." Now there is no impeachment by a hundred officials, which shows that his grave crime is great. did not let him defend himself, so that the people of the world were convinced, and he used the central decree to remove him like this, which would inevitably lead to rumors and panic. Let me meet the emperor on behalf of the hundred officials, ask if it is indeed the holy will, and then it is not too late to receive the decree. The silent voice was not loud, but it shook everyone's ears and went crazy, the first assistant was killed on the spot, and the second assistant was openly disobeyed in front of the public, is there anything more sensational in the world?

"Mr. Shen, are you burnt up, right?" Zhao Cheng was dumbfounded and said: "This is a holy decree, and the holy decree is naturally a holy will."

"The problem lies in this will, which is contradictory and uncertain." Silent but unmoved, he raised the yellow silk in his hand and said to himself: "As said above, when the first emperor was dying, he took the hand of the old man of the high pavilion and entrusted him with the world. Naturally, it is extremely recognizable of the loyalty of the elders. Sage Yun, 'three years have not changed the way of the father', although the emperor is still in the age, but the name of benevolence and filial piety has spread all over the world. How could it be that after only six days of ascending to the pole, when the first emperor's body was not cold, it was concluded that the people entrusted by the first emperor to the world were disloyal? Isn't this saying that the first emperor did not know people? So I can't believe that this will came from the emperor."

"The emperor is still young, and he has two palaces to call the shots" Zhao Cheng is already sweating, which is a big deviation from the script, how can he know how to play this small role?

"Shut up, don't slander the two palaces" Before Shen Mo could speak, one person behind him broke out first, and it turned out to be Xu Wei, the priest of the country. Xu Fatzi's beard was all open, his face was full of anger, and the halberd pointed at the other party and said: "In the two hundred years of the dynasty, the most taboo thing is to do politics in the harem. The two mothers abide by the law and never ask about political affairs. How could they openly violate the family law of their ancestors, stretch out their hands to the outer court, and take out the ministers of the first emperor as soon as they came up? I have such a precedent in the Ming Dynasty, is there any trouble in this, can it be done without asking clearly? ”

"Then you wait, the slave maid will go and ask for instructions...... Seeing that Da Jiuqing was also angry, Zhao Cheng couldn't stand it at all, and rushed back to the inner palace with a roll.

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After Zhao Cheng left, the officials in the square could no longer suppress it, and began to chatter and talk to each other...... Before, they were completely intimidated by the emperor's might, and they were frightened by the fall from the peak of power, and they were all silent, not daring to say anything. However, the second assistant came forward and adhered to the principles, and he must comply with the procedures before agreeing to accept the order. stopped a thing that seemed to everyone to be unrecoverable...... Although it seems that this behavior is more like doing it knowing that it cannot be done, so that people do not see the hope of success. But this pause, the pressure of imperial authority generated in a specific environment and a specific state has also disappeared. The big stone that was pressing on Baiguan's heart loosened, and they began to return to their normal thinking, and what happened to the other party was exchanged in a whisper.

It doesn't matter if you don't talk about it, if you talk about it, you'll be shocked, what just happened? With a central decree, the prime minister of the dynasty and the chief minister of care for his life were ruthless and completely fired. But is this edict really the meaning of the emperor, of course not, the emperor is less than ten years old, so what does it mean for the two palaces? It's hard to say, but just like what Xu Wei, the priest of the country, said, the two palace mothers live in the forbidden palace, how much do they know about outside things? I haven't listened to Feng Bao yet

Yes, it is Feng Bao's will, which must be from Feng Bao's understanding of the death of the first emperor since the death of the emperor, and the Beijing officials are naturally familiar with what has happened in the past ten days, not to mention that in the past two days, in order to impeach Feng Bao, the officials have issued a big exposé, and they have already made Feng Bao's evil deeds public...... Isn't there an edict in it?

Determined that all this was done by the dead eunuch, the hundred officials were immediately extremely angry and terrified -- how sensational and absurd was that the chief assistant of the cabinet, the chief Gu Ming, the first minister, the meritorious and honest minister, who was not a party or a group, and was loyal and unparalleled, was deposed by a eunuch without making any mistakes? What the notorious Wang Zhen and Liu Jin didn't dare to do back then. If he succeeds, then among the princes of the Manchu Dynasty, which one of them can not be removed by him at will?

Could it be that an era even darker than Liu Jin's period is coming? It seems to be certain, you must know that when Wu Zong ascended to the pole, he was already fifteen years old, and now he is just ten years old, and the gap between these five years is likely to be five years when Feng Bao did more evil than Liu Jin. How many of the Gongon Princes present can survive? A strong feeling of disgust and resistance rapidly fermented and swelled in the hearts of hundreds of officials, making everyone's breathing thicker, their hearts beating faster, anger rising from their hearts, and evil growing to their guts......

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This is the fission moment that Shen Mo has been suppressing his own strength, carrying the accusation of 'shrinking turtle', and has been waiting for it

He had been waiting for this moment for ten years, but it was already earlier than he expected......

In the art of war, it is said that the time and place are favorable, and if you want to achieve great things, you can't do without three things, and if you want to create a great change that has not been seen in 3,000 years, the requirements are even more demanding. At least there must be a once-in-a-millennium opportunity, all kinds of favorable conditions are available, and all kinds of unfavorable factors must be in the weakest period. In this way, it is possible to change the trajectory of the powerful inertial train of history.

The slogan of 'the king and the scholar share the world' has been shouted for thousands of years. However, the imperial power, and the eunuchs derived from it, wantonly bullied the vassals, in fact, did not stop for a moment. Naturally, the struggle between the vassal power and the imperial power has not stopped for a moment, since the Yongle of the dynasty, under the pressure of the ministers, the emperor gradually left the court, no longer concerned with specific government affairs, and only held the final veto, and the struggle with the ministers was also handed over to the eunuchs. After more than 100 years, it was generally a process of rising vassal power and declining monarchical power, until it reached its peak in the early years of Jiajing.

The successive emperors before Jiajing, from Renzong, Xuanzong, Yingzong to Xianzong and Renzong, either actively or passively recognized their roles. But history is never a straight line, but a spiral, where there is oppression, there is resistance, and the same is true for the emperor, so there is a strong king like Jiajing, and naturally there is a fierce confrontation with the increasingly arrogant vassals. As a result, the emperor, who was naturally invincible, knocked his tail-cocked vassal power to the ground after paying a heavy price. Thus began the ** period of several decades.

However, in the later period of his reign, Emperor Jiajing was obsessed with Dandao and had no intention of governing the country; And because he was equally merciless to the eunuchs, the status of civil officials rose again. But the key is that after his son, Emperor Longqing, ascended to the pole, the emperor who lacked enthusiasm for governing the country but was very self-aware, simply adopted the rule of vertical arch and handed over the power of the country to his masters.

It was from this moment that the precarious country gradually began to pick itself up and come out of the quagmire of various crises. In the past six years, the border has been clear, the treasury has been full, and the people have always known the joy of life...... All this makes people firmly believe that the rule of the Son of Heaven is the most suitable for the Ming Dynasty. In the radical Jiangnan area, the possibility of hypocrisy has been openly discussed......

The most intuitive and powerful evidence is Gao Gong's "Chen Wushi Shu", which is clearly a political program that limits the power of ministers. Gao Gong is not a cross-over, he was born in a scholarly family, received traditional education since childhood, and then entered the court as an official for 30 years, which can be said to be the emperor's favor. But such a program came from the hands of the prime minister of the dynasty, and Gao Gong could not have a whim, of course, it was feasible and must be popular.

Of course, it will not get the hearts of the mother and son in the palace.

But this is the second golden opportunity - the lord and the young minister suspect that this sentence is not a joke. 'The emperor is only ten years old, what does he know how to govern the country?' This is not just Gao Gong's words, but everyone's thoughts. And the queen mothers of the Ming Dynasty are all from humble backgrounds, lack sufficient pattern and political acumen, and cannot support their sons like the queen mothers of the Song Dynasty, so the weakness of the imperial power is a foregone conclusion. The ministers had no respect for the first emperor, and now in the face of orphans and widows, the word awe is impossible to talk about.

Therefore, the power of imperial power is at its lowest ebb.

The crest of the vassal power and the trough of the monarch's power intersected at this moment. Once missed, it is missed, and there will never be such an opportunity again.

Recently, Shen Mo has a stronger and stronger feeling that all his previous efforts are for this moment, all for this time, to be able to stand on this occasion, to have enough weight to say such things, and then sacrifice everything he has to the new route that is about to open......

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Officials don't think as far as Shen Mo thinks, they just think about what is in front of them, and it's exciting enough. Especially the protégés of Gao Gong, the main force of the impeachment of Feng Bao, they are terrified to realize a clear future - if this central decree becomes a foregone conclusion, if Gao Gong ends up with no human and no ghosts, then what awaits them?

Is it as simple as a tree falling and scattering? Feng Bao, who has mastered the supreme power, will definitely retaliate wildly. Ordinary high-arch party members may only be punished and dismissed; Hardcores like them must be treated with special favors, don't forget, Feng Bao and Dongchang, which is a place that specializes in creating unjust prisons, asking for crimes, exile, and even beheading, implicating the whole family to be in the army, and the wife and children being sold into the sect division...... It's all to look forward to.

Han Ji, Luo Zun, Cheng Wen, Lu Shude, and Song Zhiwen all fell into boundless fear. The officials of their six science corridors had already gathered together, and they no longer had their usual arrogance at this moment, but were at a loss for what to do, and asked each other: "What should I do?" "What to do?" "What to do?"

Just as they were wailing like lost dogs, they suddenly heard a sneer on the side. In the bleak wind and cold rain, this sound was particularly harsh, which naturally attracted the angry eyes of Han Ji and others: "What, are you gloating?" ”

But when he saw the person who spoke out clearly, their anger disappeared again, because that person was Chen Wude in the engineering department, and Feng Bao stole the materials in the palace and built a private house, which he poked out. So everyone is a grasshopper on a rope.

"Lao Chen, you're laughing at a fart," Song Zhi asked with a straight temper and scolded: "When are you still smiling?"

"I laugh at you riding a donkey to find a donkey," Chen Wude still sneered and said, "Isn't it just for this time that Emperor Taizu set up the Six Science Corridors?" ”

It was really a word that woke up the people in the dream, and the section chiefs were excited: "Yes, we have the right to refute in our hands, and we can refute the emperor's inappropriate edict, and there is anyone in the world who can justifiably reject this chaotic fate more justifiably than us?" ”

The so-called 'refutation' is to 'seal and return the emperor's inappropriate edict and refute the incorrect chapters of the ministers. In the supremacy of the monarchy of the orthodox dynasty, more emphasis was placed on the sanctity of the imperial order than on the absolute authority of governance and the monopoly of the cadres. There are actually very few emperors like Taizu who have to do everything, and they can't be busy. Even Taizu, who has absolute authority, is worried that his unscrupulous descendants will mess around and bury his country. Therefore, the right to refute the emperor was given to his subordinates, and he was worried that this power would be abused and threaten the status of his descendants, so he set up six departments with humble official positions to control this power.

It's just that doing this kind of thing not only requires authority, but also has to have guts, you have to be not afraid of the emperor's grudge, and dare to bet on your career. Therefore, this power has only been used a few times in the past two hundred years, and in recent decades, it has been completely dusty, and it is no wonder that everyone can't remember it.

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The next chapter has to be released in the evening, and things must not be so simple......