Under the soft grinding and hard bubble of Wan Guifei and the malicious slander of Wei Xing, Zhu Jianshen, who was suspicious by nature, finally decided to abolish the prince and set up Zhu Youqi, the king of Xing, as the prince.

Boarding the dragon chair under Liang Fang's service, Zhu Jianshen clenched his fists a little crampedly, glanced at the ministers, and found that everyone bowed their heads and was silent, so he relaxed slightly.

After giving Liang Fang a look, Liang Fang reluctantly took out the holy decree: "Under the holy decree, I respectfully accept the mandate of heaven, reign over all nations, and the prince of the East Palace, insatiable, moves the silver money in the inner treasury." Not honoring the concubine, is for unfilial piety, not sympathetic, is unkind, forming a party for personal gain, is unwise, today under the peace for a long time, King Xing has the posture of an emperor when he is young.

For the sake of the Daming Jiangshan Society, the prince Zhu Youzhu was abolished, demoted to King An, and the prince Zhu Youqi was proposed.

Tianjian Kong Yan, Wang Zhang Youhe, Qinzai, so the edict! ”

Holding the yellow blank holy decree in his hand, and saying the words that Emperor Chenghua had explained before, Liang Fang was frightened and felt happy at the same time.

This ambitious and far unrealistic emperor did not really write his thoughts on the holy decree, and if he really wrote it on the holy decree, I am afraid that it will become impossible for him to retract his fate.

Liu Jian, the speaker of the prince's East Palace, was the first to object: "Your Majesty, the prince is the prince of the past, and you can't easily abolish it!" ”

Zhu Jianshen said with a dark face: "Why not, the prince is immoral, I can't be without a prince for a day, I have a son, what can I do if I change one!" ”

The palace trial paper official, the East Palace attendant lectured on Li Dongyang a thousand steps: "Your Majesty think twice, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is benevolent and has never done anything immoral, what His Majesty said is purely unwarranted, please also ask Your Majesty to be aware of it, and return His Royal Highness the Prince's innocence!" ”

"You mean, I don't ask right or wrong?" Zhu saw the deep yin and surveyed the tunnel.

"Don't dare!" Li Dongyang is neither humble nor arrogant.

Shoufu Wanan raised his eyelids, and seeing that Liu Ji and Liu Jue didn't speak, he closed his eyes slightly, and didn't hear anything.

A few pavilion elders don't speak, and the six Shangshu don't speak, whether they are papier-mâché and clay sculptures, at least these bigwigs don't speak, except for Li Dongyang and Liu Jian and a few other people in the East Palace who speak for the prince, others don't dare to say anything.

Zhu Jianshen seemed to be very dissatisfied, and said loudly to Wan'an: "What does Elder Ge have to say?" ”

Wan An opened his eyes, bowed his head and said tremblingly: "What Your Majesty thinks is what the old minister said, long live long live, long live!" ”

didn't say why, the old man of the Long Live Pavilion repeated his old trick, and without saying a word, he knelt on the ground and shouted long live. The other officials, big or small, had nothing to say, so they could only kneel down and say long live.

According to the previous rules, only after the deliberations are completed, will the mountain shout long live, and when Wan An is so engaged, the courtiers all look at Zhu Jianshen with blank eyes.

Zhu Jianshen said with a dark face: "Liu Ji, do you think my move is also ridiculous?" ”

Liu Ji, who was nicknamed Liu Mian by the people of the rivers and lakes, was the most greedy of the three pavilion elders, and received three thousand taels of silver, but the idea of this pavilion elder was impartial.

He pretended not to hear: "Your Majesty, the old minister is old and frail, and his ears are not very bright, I don't know what His Majesty said just now?" ”

A few small officials in the rear almost didn't laugh, this Liu Mian is really good at making excuses, isn't he afraid that the emperor will think that you are old and useless, let you be a scholar?

Of course, the emperor did not let Liu Mian Zhishi, and ignored the government all the year round, and Zhu Jianshen didn't even know who else he could use to be this cabinet scholar after letting Liu Mian Zhishi.

"Liu Jue, you say." Zhu Jianshen's tone suddenly became calm, and those who were familiar with him knew that this was the emperor's patience to a limit.

Liu Jue squinted his eyes and said, "The minister doesn't dare to say it." ”

"The Great Dynasty Meeting, if there is anything you dare not say, just say it, I forgive you for your innocence." Zhu Jianshen is rare to be generous.

Liu Jue said lightly: "The old minister agrees with Lord Li's statement, the prince of the East Palace is my Ming prince, and he can't talk about the abolition of the establishment lightly." Today's prince is benevolent and known to the whole country, I don't know where His Majesty learned that the prince is not virtuous? The old minister thinks that the person who says this kind of right and wrong in His Majesty's ear is the one with ill-intentioned intentions, and he should punish the nine clans! ”

Zhu Jianshen slapped the dragon chair suddenly: "You shut up for me." ”

After getting used to being called lonely, all of a sudden even the word "I" came out, which shows that Zhu Jianshen has been annoyed to a certain extent. Few people below knew the emperor's thoughts, and Liang Fang, who knew the emperor's thoughts, had no place to speak in this huge court.

"The minister thinks that the prince's loss of virtue is a big deal, and what His Majesty said is very reasonable, and the minister respectfully asks His Majesty to change the establishment of the king of Xing." Immediately, 'knowledgeable' courtiers popped up.

The person who stood up and spoke was none other than Zhang Peng, the secretary of the military department who rarely spoke in the court. Mr. Zhang Peng, who has reached the age of sixty-five, is considered a very good scholar, but he has no part in speaking in the court, so Zhang Laoshangshu has become a clay sculpture of Shangshu like other Shangshu.

He is upright and has always dared to be the first, and he stood up to speak with the trend, which made many people feel puzzled.

It stands to reason that if it is Liu Ji and Liu Mian who stand up and echo it, others will not have any ideas, this person is originally good at speculating on the heart of the king. However, it was Zhang Peng, the secretary of the military department who has always had the name of uprightness, who stood up, which inevitably surprised people.

Zhu Jianshen showed a secretive smile, and nodded again and again: "It seems that Zhang Aiqing still understands the matter, do you still have seconders?" ”

When a group of wall grasses were about to echo it, they heard Zhang Peng suddenly say: "Please Your Majesty Rong Chen finish." ”

Zhu Jianshen said happily: "But it doesn't hurt to say it." ”

"The old minister, when there are old eyes in the south, Your Majesty is in the prime of life, but he is also as confused as old and decayed? The minister agreed to re-establish the prince, and the day His Majesty announced it to the world was the time when the old minister hung his neck and the old tree. Your Majesty believed the words of the woman and the villain, and even said such a bastard as changing the prince, so, the day of the death of my Ming Dynasty is not far away, and the old minister has no face to face Taizu Taizong. Zhang Peng didn't pause at all, finished speaking in one breath, and then stared at Zhu Jianshen with a pair of small eyes.

These words made Zhu Jianshen feel panicked, and Zhang Peng was born as an old minister, and the ups and downs of the sea for forty years have made this old Shangshu lose his fear of the emperor. Of course, he was also ready to bear the wrath of the emperor.

"Come, pull this old man down to the court staff forty." Zhu Jianshen's face was so gloomy that he was about to bleed, and he said angrily.

Immediately, Liu Ji stepped forward and kicked Zhang Peng and begged for mercy: "Your Majesty Mingjian, Lord Zhang's old eyes are dizzy, so he said such a rebellious remark, please Your Majesty for the sake of Lord Zhang's dedication to the Daming Society, spare his life!" ”

Forty canes are no joke, and if those guards really want to fight, they are afraid that they can beat a healthy strong man to death without twenty rods. What's more, Zhang Peng is now a dying old man, and if he really wants to be beaten with a stick, that old life will be lost.

Liu Jue also stood up to speak for Zhang Peng: "Your Majesty think twice, Lord Zhang is old, please ask Your Majesty to spare his life for the sake of his years of hard work, no merit and hard work." ”

Two of the three pavilion elders stood up to speak for Zhang Peng, and the other Shangshu lords also stood up to speak for Zhang Peng.

Only Wan An was silent with half-squinted eyes, as if everything that happened in the court had nothing to do with him.

In fact, he had already thought about it in his heart, after being a cabinet scholar for so many years, Wan An, who had become a human spirit, did not think that Zhu Jianshen was a whim. What he was thinking about was whether this was the emperor's own intention, or the meaning of the harem, or was this simply a temptation by the emperor to the courtiers?

Someone interceded for Zhang Peng, Zhu Jianshen became more and more unhappy, he was so angry that his face flushed, and he said angrily: "Shut up for me, Liang Fang, pass the decree!" ”

"Zhang Peng, the secretary of the Ministry of War, is disrespectful to the old and disrespectful, so he was cut off from the post of secretary of the Ministry of War and given to return to the old pastoral. Li Dongyang, a lecturer in the East Palace, was dismissed and returned home, and Liu Jian, an official in the East Palace, bewitched the prince and was demoted to a commoner. The series of orders made the courtiers feel a little incredible.

Is the emperor convulsed? Why do it? Let's not talk about the two in the East Palace, let's just say Zhang Peng, he is the secretary of the military department, and the general soldiers in various parts of the army have a great relationship with him, and he dismissed the sixty-five-year-old secretary of the military department, who can take on the heavy responsibility?

You must know that although the Ming Dynasty does not have as many wars as when the country was founded, the Tatar Wara has been committing border crimes year after year, and there are not a few proud soldiers in the border towns. With Zhang Peng here, he can still suppress it, Zhang Peng is gone, who can suppress it?

Then, Zhu Jianshen ordered Liang Fang to draft a holy decree: "The prince is immoral, go to his throne, and King Xing will enter the East Palace." ”

As soon as the words fell, the hall was so quiet that even the sound of a needle falling on the ground could be heard, and it seemed that the emperor had made a decision, which made everyone feel a little incredible.

After a while, no one spoke, Zhu Jianshen glanced at Liang Fang, Liang Fang waited for a while, but there was still no minister to speak, he had no choice but to open his mouth: "If there is something to play early, nothing to do..."

"Chen Qintian, Supervisor Zheng Liang Liyong, has something to play!" A figure hurried in from afar.

Zhu Jianshen frowned, but still waved his hand to make Liang Fang stop shouting.

The Qintian Prison Supervisor, who was dressed in a long Taoist robe and looked very lean, was kneeling on his knees: "Your Majesty, something is wrong. ”

Zhu Jianshen said with a straight face: "What's wrong, I'm not dead yet!" ”

Liang Liyong said tremblingly: "Your Majesty, the earthquake in Mount Tai has caused countless deaths and injuries to people and animals, and I am afraid that the world will change." Chen watched the stars last night, the purple was faint and weak, and the Taiwei star was in danger of extinguishing. The minister was frightened, and played His Majesty non-stop on the stargazing platform, afraid that there would be a change in the East Palace! ”

Zhu Jianshen's face turned blue and white for a while, and he waved his hand and said impatiently: "Scatter the dynasty, Liang Liyong stays, I have something to inquire about." ”

The ministers left one after another, only Liang Liyong remained and knelt next to Fengtianmen, until everyone dispersed, and Zhu Jianshen asked Liang Fang to take Liang Liyong towards the Taihe Palace.