At the palace court meeting, after the ministers finished worshipping three times and knocking nine times, a large number of people began to bite the Jinyi Guard.

Xie Lingxue, Minister of Rites, stepped forward first: "Yesterday, Jinyiwei arrested people in the pig market in Xi'an County, and actually interrogated and executed them on the spot, with tens of thousands of onlookers!" These seriously affected the reputation of the imperial court! ”

Xu Hongzhi, director of the Intelligence Department, stepped forward: "Your Majesty, we have just received information, it turns out that the county magistrate of Luoyang is the brother of Lu Chengzhi, the deputy commander of Jinyiwei!" ”

Guan Feiyu, deputy director of the Secret Division: "Your Majesty, the Secret Department has just received news that the Luoyang County Magistrate is communicating privately with his brother Lu Chengzhi, the deputy commander of Jinyiwei, and is preparing to fornicate Zhao Zhengbao and sacrifice Chang'an!" This is a great rebellion! ”

Emperor Zhu Honghua listened to it and began to disagree, because after all, a bunch of people report each other every day, and the emperor is tired of hearing it.

But the more people said it, the more it sounded like the truth, and the emperor began to get angry.

Emperor: "What the hell is going on!" Is the deputy commander of the Jinyi Guard here? Who said a few days ago that they were going to set up a brocade guard? Liu Xingchao, is that you? ”

It seems that the IQ of this emperor is worrying.

Liu Xingchao, the head of the inner court, was proud, and the emperor's words immediately made his face gloomy. He went to such great lengths to harm people, and the emperor thought that he was not doing well.

Liu Xingchao stepped forward: "Your Majesty, this is completely my business, I am only responsible for the security of the palace." Your Majesty, don't you remember? This is the opinion of the Senate and the Prime Minister! And Ma Jiahui beside you, the words of the senators he conveyed. ”

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The emperor's former eunuch, Ma Jiahui, stood next to the dragon chair.

The Emperor turned his head to look at him.

Ma Jiahui: "Your Majesty, there must be something strange at this time. Jinyiwei has just been established, how big is the deputy commander? How big an official is the county magistrate of Luoyang? The county magistrate of Luoyang is just acting like a show, and has no power at all. It's like the palace is in the palace district, and there is still a district chief in the palace district, but is the boss of the palace district the head of the palace district? Definitely not, there are thousands of people above him who are higher in rank than him. They are all petty officials, and no one wants to rebel. ”

Prime Minister Li Guozhong stepped forward: "Your Majesty, two months ago, when the New God Sect Army attacked Tongguan, when the Divine Sect Supervisor Zhang Leyi tricked the commander of the Tongguan Army to go out to negotiate, it was Lu Chengzhi who bitterly persuaded the army commander not to go out. At the beginning, the New God Cult army composed of one million slaves and civilians went to fight Tongguan guarded by 10,000 Tongguan troops, and he was the one who commanded the defense. 10,000 Tongguan troops, all the troops were wiped out, and none of them surrendered. He was also the last to be rescued in the pile of corpses. Don't believe your majesty, look! ”

Li Guozhong tore Lu Chengzhi's clothes.

Lu Chengzhi was covered with scars, some of which were crimson scabs, and some of which were shocking white scars that appeared when the scabs fell off. There were several holes, knife marks here and there, and a noticeable scar from the left shoulder to the right hip.

Lu Chengzhi, who is shirtless, is like a demon returning from hell.

Lu Chengzhi: "Although I am a child of the Lu family in Luoyang, I have never been to the Central Plains for a day!" Their family has nothing to do with me! I'm just the second son of the Lu family, and they don't treat me as a human being at all! I am willing to lead the army to attack the Central Plains and hang the head of my father and brother on the city wall of Luoyang! If this statement is not true, I am willing to die of sores all over my body! ”

Everyone looked at him in amazement.

Kong Youli: "Monarchs, ministers, fathers, sons, sons!" You're ......."

Kong Zhilun: "Dad, what's the matter with you!" Stop it! ”

Li Guozhong: "Your Majesty, Lu Chengzhi has been conscientious and conscientious since he took up the post of deputy commander of Jinyi Guard, and he has arrested a large number of rebels in Gyeonggi Province. Your Majesty, we are not blindly arresting rebels, not just arresting innocent civilians like some departments. Every rebel we arrested had sufficient human and material evidence, and they confessed. ”

Emperor: "Oh? Where is it? ”

Lu Chengzhi fastened his shirt, looked at the circle of people around, and said, "I have sent someone to break into the interior of the Gyeonggi rebels and obtained all the information. Everyone said that Zhao Zhengbao was too frightened to move, and even he said so, and sent people to send a letter of allegiance to the emperor every day. However, all this is fake! He is a traitor, and he is secretly overthrowing the court step by step in an orderly manner! He has established his own small court, and he has all of what the Ming court has. He even issued his own paper money, confiscated all the gold, silver and paper dollars in Hebei and the Central Plains, and then spent the money on the territory of the imperial court. He not only used the money to buy grain and grass in the provinces, but also used it to bribe the imperial court and provincial officials. Hmph, maybe some of you present have also taken Zhao Zhengbao's money! ”

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Xie Lingxue, the Minister of Rites, stepped forward and stared at Lu Chengzhi: "There is no evidence, people are worried about the sky, and they will lose their prestige!" ”

Lu Chengzhi sneered and said, "What you say is unfounded, what I say is well-founded." ”

He faced all the ministers and said, "Cho Zhengbao has a department called the Secret Operations Department, and that department has a monthly fund of 2 million gold yuan, which is used to buy off various officials, bandits, and gangs in Gyeonggi. I caught his brokers and tortured them to extract confessions, and I arrested a group of people and seized a batch of evidence. The people I'm talking about below are just a few of the ones in this network, and there are probably many others out there. ”

He took out a piece of paper and read:

Zhen Guanghua, the storyteller of the Enchantress Hotel in Chang'an, Xi'an County, collected a total of 213 gold yuan and was responsible for slandering and squeezing the imperial court. This guy was still telling jokes and insulting the emperor and the court at 12 o'clock last night.

The deputy gang of the Xi'an County Book Gang advocated the rising sun, collected a total of 657 gold yuan, and privately printed 10,000 banned books. These forbidden books are all printed with great rebellious thoughts.

Qin Aowei, the old eagle of the Osmanthus Xiangqing Building in Chang'an County, collected a total of 378 gold yuan and was responsible for collecting intelligence. She uses her girls to gather information.

Sun Yangxu, the younger brother of Sun Yangxu, the head of the Sun family in Weicheng, collected 3,000 gold yuan to transport weapons. At least fifteen hilltop cottages in Gyeonggi received a variety of weapons, including pistols and poison gas, that Cho Jeong-pau had supported.

Tian Deming, chairman of the Gyeonggi branch of the Buying and Selling Committee, spends as much as 100,000 gold won a year and is responsible for building up private gangs in Gyeonggi.

He also has under him: Yan Jingming, Bu Pengyue, Sugar Yunchen, Zhu Feijiao, Che Chenzhao, Mi Xiuran, Cha Xiucheng, Tan Peng, and Vinegar Bojian, who are respectively the masters of the Salt Gang, the Cloth Gang, the Sugar Gang, the Pig Gang, the Che Gang, the Millet Gang, the Tea Gang, the Charcoal Gang, and the Vinegar Gang in Gyeonggi, who sold illicit goods, resulting in serious losses in the imperial court's tax revenue.

Shi Pengfei, a history teacher at Imperial University, spreads demonic ideas in class every day to confuse students.

Ren Gaohan, the president of the Imperial Student Union, founded the Seeking Society without authorization and gathered every day to discuss politics.

Ruan Minh Duc, the right protector of the beggar gang, collected 1,000 gold yuan and was responsible for collecting intelligence. It is speculated that the supervisor may also be a spy, and the leader of the beggar gang cannot rule out suspicion.

Mao Junli, the deputy supervisor of the Eunuch Gang, collected 2,000 gold yuan and was responsible for collecting intelligence. It is possible that the eunuch overseer is a spy.

Geng Gundam, the fourth protector of the Cult of God, is a spy for the leader of the Central Plains Pseudo-God Cult.

Liu Lerong, an assistant to the Confucian superintendent, is suspected of being a spy.

The governor of Gyeonggi Xianyang County, Su Jingxi, is suspected of being a spy.

Cao Feijiao, the commander of the Royal Army in Weinan, is suspected of being a spy.

Cai Kaize, the eunuch of the harem master of ceremonies, is suspected of being a spy.

In addition, the actions of some people in the Jiangnan Party, the Young Warriors Party, and the Confucian Party were also suspected of being spies. ”

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And so he finished.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

Someone said, "You make up a novel, you say yes?" ”

Lu Chengzhi: "I was afraid that some people would say this, so I specially brought the evidence. ”

Prime Minister Li Guozhong next to him: "Come on, bring the evidence!" ”

Dozens of people came up carrying a pile of things.

All these things were piled up on the main hall, like a hill, with gold and silver dollars, paper gold and silver dollars, and many other things, and even a few cages of pigeons.

Lu Chengzhi said:

"This pile is the seized funds, a total of 188956 gold dollars.

This pile contains the confessions of each of them, and the accusations of those around them.

This stack of information was something they didn't have time to send, and it contained the information of every official of the imperial court, the details of every garrison in Gyeonggi, and the direction of every road in Gyeonggi.

This mass is their program, banners, signs, slogans, posters.

There were many rosters, codebooks, instructions, correspondence, meeting minutes, forbidden books, pamphlets, seals, fire seals.

The largest pile was the weapons that Zhao Zhengbao smuggled into Gyeonggi, including spears, bayonets, pistols, machine guns, bombs, poison gas cylinders, and several cages of pigeons for communication.

Your Majesty, look at this pigeon, an authentic Central Plains carrier pigeon. ”

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Zhao Zhengbao is too much!

If you rebel, you will rebel, pick up a knife and cut people, what are you doing with these moths? It makes you feel like you can really change the dynasty.

However, those posters are quite good, with the images of the emperor, the head of the inner court, and the prime minister, painting them like obscene pugs, and painting Zhao Zhengbao and his subordinates as righteous and awe-inspiring.

One of the paintings is: Zhao Zhengbao smashed Emperor Zhu Honghua with his fists under the gaze of God, Confucius, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Guanyin, and Guan Erge.

Even I had to laugh out loud.

Those slogans written in white and red or red and black are written concisely and eye-catching, and they hit people's hearts, such as-

"The prince will have a kind of Xiangning!"

"Do you want to enjoy all the glory and wealth? Follow the Zhao family to rebel! ”

"It's better to live than to die, it's better to die!"

"Willing to cut all his body, dare to pull the emperor off the horse!"

"Rebel before you die!"

"You dare to even commit suicide, why don't you rebel?"

"It's getting dark!"

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I also saw the gas bottles, which I had personally supervised, and the yellow liquid in them, which could poison the whole hall when it spread.

Thinking of this, he immediately hid behind.

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Emperor Zhu Honghua's face changed greatly, he slapped the dragon chair angrily, and "snapped": "Kill them all!" Kill the Ten Clans! ”

Prime Minister Li Guozhong: "Your Majesty, Lu Chengzhi is loyal and courageous, and his ability is outstanding. I ask to resign from the post of commander of the Jinyi Guard, and ask Lu Chengzhi to take charge of the Jinyi Guard and be directly responsible to the emperor. ”

Emperor: "Yes! ”

Li Guozhong continued: "The traitors blocked Tongguan, and the traitors in the world were ready to move. In troubled times, we must use the law, and I ask you to rebuild the Royal Law Ministry. ”

The Royal Law Ministry was a long-ago ministry that was responsible for making laws. Later, other departments felt that this department was too annoying and could not do what they wanted, so they jointly abolished it - it should be formed into a legal department.

Liu Xingchao: "Ministry of Law? If you have a Ministry of Law, why do you need a Ministry of Law? ”

Li Guozhong: "It turns out that the Ministry of Justice is completely useless!" ”

Minister of Justice: "Nonsense! You're useless! ”

Li Guozhong: "What's your use?" ”

Minister of Law: "Whatever the emperor says, we will make it a Ming law!" ”

Li Guozhong: "Since the emperor's words are the law, what use do you want!" ”

Yang Mingyang, the Minister of Survival, stepped forward and said, "What is the law? Not by anyone's word, but by the law! The Ministry of Law shall take the law as the standard, legislate, judge, arrest, and punish! ”

Liu Xingchao: "Isn't the Criminal Department just legislation, trial, arrest, and punishment? What is the use of the Ministry of Law? ”

Li Guozhong: "The Royal Law Department will be responsible for legislation and trials, and the Criminal Department will be responsible for arrest and punishment. ”

Liu Xingchao: "What? The Criminal Department is only responsible for arresting people? Just in prison? Isn't that just a servant? Don't give me this thankless! I disagree! ”

Ma Jiahui, the former eunuch of the imperial palace, came up: "This is the meaning of the senatorship." They had agreed to re-establish the Royal Ministry of Law, with 10,000 officials and their own staff. ”

Liu Xingchao: "I propose that Li Feiyu, who is in the forbidden army, be the head of the law department. I think he has a very theoretical level and a lot of practical ability. ”

Ma Jiahui: "The senators will have their own candidate: Yang Mingyang, Minister of Survival. ”

Yang Mingyang: "I will definitely live up to my mission!" ”

Liu Xingchao was furious: "You are all decided, and you are pretending to discuss something with me!" ”