Chapter 1077: Harmony
After a day of commotion, everyone was exhausted, and all the officials below the third rank returned to the yamen, and each yamen had a high-ranking official in the ministry to sit in charge, eat, drink, and lazar, and no one was allowed to leave. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The hundred officials were sent away, and the remaining high-ranking officials gathered in the cabinet, and a strategy must be come up with how to decide.
"We only have one night, so let's all talk freely." After Tang Yi finished speaking, he sat silent, he didn't speak, and the people below didn't dare to speak.
What should we do at this juncture?
Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao took it, Empress Dowager Li was imprisoned in Cining Palace, the emperor temporarily lived in Qianqing Palace, and there were people from Jinyi Guards outside, they couldn't toss, but they couldn't contain the fire in the paper.
The two sides on the Golden Palace were tense and desperate for each other, and all means were taken out.
Wait until your head cools down, can you not be afraid?
used the army, imprisoned the Empress Dowager, and rebelled. As long as the news spreads, maybe all parts of the country will raise the army of the king and crusade against the unsubordinate. At that time, the big guys will be heinous criminals, and they will be exterminated by the nine clans and dig graves!
What can I do?
After thinking about it, there is only one way, and that is to really rebel!
Hubu Shangshu Wang Guoguang suddenly stood up, fell to his knees, and wept profusely.
"Old Tang Ge, the Li family is mad, killed the first emperor, and his biological mother is immoral, Your Majesty, uh no, Zhu Yijun, it's Zhu Yijun, he is a ten-year-old doll, and he is no longer qualified to be the emperor. For today's plan, I also ask the old man of Tang Ge to make it difficult, command all sides, and stabilize the Ming Dynasty! ”
As soon as he said this, several ministers stood up and fell to their knees.
"Elder Tang Ge, Lord Tang, our life and death are all in your thoughts, just ask the world, who else can be more qualified than you to ascend the throne and become the emperor!"
The gang knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and Wang Guoguang took the lead in shouting long live. The others were still hesitating, but after thinking about it, they quickly understood that there was no turning back when they opened the bow, they were already a collective rebellion, and as long as the Zhu family became the emperor, they would settle accounts with them sooner or later.
Rather than causing disaster to his wife and children, it is better to assist Tang Yi to ascend the throne, and he can also be a hero from the dragon, and he can save his life, glory and wealth, almost in an instant, everyone reached a consensus, only Gao Gong, Ge Shouli, Zhao Zhenji, and Gao Yi were left with four old ministers, clenching their fists, bitter and bitter and deep and silent.
Tang Yi glanced around and said quietly: "Don't be busy, everyone, wait." So saying, he bowed his hand to the four old ministers and invited them to the next room.
As soon as the four of them sat down, Tang Yi opened his mouth and said, "I will never be the emperor." ”
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and Gao Yi immediately said: "Tang Ge Lao, you are a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, the old man knows it, but the situation is stronger than people." Zhao Kuangyin did not have the intention of usurping power, but with the addition of the yellow robe, he had to do so now. ”
Tang Yi shook his head, "Do you remember what Zhang Juzheng said when he was arrested?" ”
The faces of the four elders were even more ugly, they had lived for most of their lives, and they had never thought of betraying Daming. But then again, Concubine Li and the others have already shown their butcher knives, so they won't resist if it's too difficult, and let others cut off their heads?
One person or two people may be able to endure it, but that's one or two thousand officials!
When the fish is killed, they have to flick their tails, not to mention a group of big living people.
So far, no one should complain, no one should blame, if you want to blame, blame the Li family for being too vicious!
"Tang Ge Lao, you are Wen Tao Wu strategy, rare in the world, since presiding over the new policy, outstanding achievements, well-known, ascending the throne and sitting in the palace, it may not cause much waves, Ge Lao, you just nod!" This time it was Ge Shouli who spoke, even the old ministers who kept the etiquette, it seems that Tang Yi is really going to be the emperor!
"What I said just now was not a joke, nor was it because I wanted to pretend to be a loyal minister, it was indeed from my heart." Tang Yi sighed: "Princess, today's incident is too painful. It's time to rethink imperial power. ”
The four old ministers looked at Tang Yi in a daze, not knowing what he was going to say.
"One family and one surname, for the lord of the world, since the Qin and Han dynasties, the imperial power is getting worse day by day, the prime minister of the Han and Tang dynasties can still sit with the emperor and discuss, but in the Ming Dynasty, there is no longer even a genuine prime minister. The imperial power is getting heavier, but the risks are getting worse day by day. Take the Ming Dynasty as an example, Yingzong succeeded to the throne at an early age, and was instigated by the eunuch Wang Zhen. Emperor Xianzong became the emperor, favored Wan Guifei, made a miasma, the country was in chaos, and there was almost no queen. The rest of the Wu Sect, Sejong, and I all have personal experience, and the pain is painful. After careful calculation, the first emperor can be called a benevolent monarch who is hard to find in the world, but after his death, the crown prince was young, and the harem was erected to coerce the Son of Heaven, act recklessly, corrupt the court, and expel the old ministers, and today they are going to slaughter hundreds of officials! What is the world's ministers? Are pigs and dogs inferior? ”
Tang Yi roared angrily: "The safety of the world is tied to one person, one family, and it has been full of evils, to the point of being out of control. Shouldn't we reflect? ”
Tang Yi knocked on the table and said loudly: "The princes of Fang have supported Tang as the emperor, and the left and right are just another round of rise and fall and chaos!" Once Tang sits in that position, he and the princes should be so opposed. Do you want everyone to kneel and bow for me? Will you be willing? Do you want Tang to follow Zhao Kuangyin and release the military power with a glass of wine? ”
Several old ministers looked at each other, all surprised by Tang Yi's honesty, but they also knew that what he said was not wrong at all.
Since Longqing, Tang Yi has continuously improved the status of Wenchen, like Zhao Zhenji, Gao Yi, etc., not only the elders, but also the scholars, Tang Yi has called them brothers and sisters, friends in the same department, and they are very familiar with each other.
Just like Zhao Kuangyin back then, he didn't become an emperor, and he was a good friend with others, but when he became an emperor, for the sake of royal dignity, for the sake of commanding the world, and for the sake of being arbitrary, he had to relieve the old guys of military power, hold them high, and raise them like pigs.
If Tang Yi became the emperor, he would be happy and suffer a lot.
But he is not the emperor, let the Zhu family continue to work, what should the Wenchen of the Manchu Dynasty do, this time it was the death of the first emperor, the lord Shaoguo doubted, when the imperial power was the weakest, if the world was stable, even if it was as strong as Tang Yi, he would not be able to resist the imperial power.
No one wants to joke with their lives, but what the hell should I do?
Gao Gong, who had been silent, seemed to have an understanding, he thought of what Tang Yi said to himself before, Tang Yi pursued the reality of the hypocrisy, as long as the emperor was high and the real power was controlled by the cabinet, maybe now is the best time!
"Old Tang Ge, what do you think, let's just say it, the old man has already died once, it's a big deal!"
"Thank you, Zhongxuangong!"
Tang Yi bowed, "I think there are a few most important things at the moment, first of all, to get back the right to approve the red, by the head of the cabinet to assist the seal, the foreman, the current cabinet of the six elders, should immediately replace one, and in the name of the cabinet, immediately send an order to the world to supervise and maintain local tranquility, especially the garrisons in various places, not to cause chaos." Second, officials should be immediately appointed to try the cases of Li and Feng Bao and others who assassinated the first emperor, and they should be punished in a canonical manner, made public to the world, and obtained the understanding and approval of all parties. Finally, in view of the raging imperial power and the great harm, we must start to study and truly limit the imperial power and achieve the reality of the hypocrisy! ”
There was nothing to say about the first seizure of power, and the next day the Li family was publicly interrogated, and everyone's face was not very optimistic.
"Tang Ge Lao, after all, the Li family is the emperor's biological mother, if he doesn't abolish the emperor and only deal with his mother, when he grows up, he will definitely take revenge!" Zhao Zhenji coughed and said: "The old man has not long lived, but there are still so many young officials, I am worried that they will be liquidated." ”
"So the third one is very crucial!"
Tang Yi insisted: "We must discuss what the emperor can and can't do in the future." As long as the emperor has no power, even if he wants to find fault, there is no way! ”
"That's not right!"
Gao Yi shook his head and said: "Tang Ge Lao, the imperial court governs the country with loyalty and filial piety, three outlines and five constants, layer upon layer, pressing on the shoulders, as long as he is the emperor, don't care about the virtuous and foolish, he will always be right!" ”
"Gao Mintang has a high opinion, so we must overthrow the Gangchang, don't use what is inexplicable loyalty and filial piety to govern the country, everything is based on the law first, and people first. Killing people for no reason, from the Son of Heaven to the peddlers and pawns, whoever commits a crime is all in one word: death! What the emperor said, of course, was right, but what was wrong was wrong, there was no golden mouth, and there was no arbitrariness. Sitting on the dragon chair is an ordinary person. All decrees must go through the procedures of the imperial court, and there is no department attached to it, that is, a piece of waste paper! ”
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Tang Yi talked with the four ministers for an hour, and he threw out the concepts that there were many people in the heart school over the years. For example, the emperor is no longer the master of Kyushu Wanfang, he is just a symbol and representative of the country, the wealth of the world belongs to everyone who creates wealth, not to the emperor, and the courtiers accept the support of the people, and it is the people of the world who are responsible, not the emperor alone. As for governing the country, we should put law and reason first, not power and position. Not only the peasants and businessmen, but also the equality of the four people, but also the equality of the king and the common people before the law......
Frankly speaking, too many of Tang Yi's propositions have greatly exceeded the content of the Magna Carta, and the impact on the four old ministers is also incomparable.
If it was really according to Tang Yi's words, that emperor really didn't have any taste, no wonder he didn't want to do it!
In normal times, they are absolutely unacceptable, but what can they do now?
Either listen to Tang Yi's words and completely set the emperor in the air, and the big guy doesn't have to worry about liquidation, continue to beat the drum and buy sugar, and do his own thing. Otherwise, he will assist Tang Yi to ascend the throne and replace Zhu Ming......
The four of them thought for a long time, stood up together, and said solemnly: "We are willing to work together with the elder to open up a new situation!" (To be continued.) )