Civil servants pay the price for the so-called truth they insist on and the reputation they have accumulated for a lifetime.

Scholars have entered the officialdom, they are no longer scholars, they have read Confucius and Mencius Jingyi and gradually become a weapon in their hands, this weapon can promote themselves, but also make the emperor compromise, has always been unfriendly.

However, this time, the civil officials finally planted their heels in the hands of the emperor, and what caused them to be planted was the so-called "truth" that they regarded as invincible in the past.

The stubbornness of the civil officials also filled Zhu Houzhao's heart with anger again.

At the request of "continue fasting", the civil officials, who were exhausted from hunger, could not help but be shocked and angry.

Huang Lu, the initiator of this incident, finally knelt down heavily in front of Zhu Houzhao, and said in a hoarse voice: "Your Majesty, all the blame is from the minister, and the minister asks His Majesty for his guilt, if His Majesty is dissatisfied, even if the minister comes, how innocent is his colleagues in the court, he is dragged down by the minister to the ......."

Zhu Houzhao smiled coldly: "Huang Qing has just been praised by me, what is the crime?" I don't understand a word of what you're saying. ”

"Your Majesty's ......"

"I also said just now, people who can't stand it can walk out of the temple on their own, I will not blame, don't you understand what I said?"

Huang Lu bowed to the ground, tears raining down.

It's not that I don't want to go, but I can't go. Getting up and leaving the temple is tantamount to losing the truth and losing the reputation.

If the civil servants lose these two things, what will they have left?

However. I want fame, I want truth, and I want my life at the same time...... How can there be such a good thing in the world?

In the crowd, Li Dongyang's eyes were firmly fixed on Qin Kan, his expression was bitter, and he shook his head and sighed.

It seems that the young man is messing around, but after careful consideration, this young man understands the shortcomings of the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty very thoroughly, otherwise he would not have such a bad but irreproachable bad idea.

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obviously planted it but refused to admit it, Zhu Houzhao's temperament of eating soft and not eating hard became more and more angry. Both sides refused to give in. Doomed to an escalation of the conflict.

The fast continued, and finally some ministers couldn't bear it, after all, they were old and pampered on weekdays. How could I have ever been so tormented. Day 3. Four old ministers fell in the east hall. was fainted by hunger, fell on the futon and still bit his cheeks, and even his posture revealed a stubbornness that would never be soft.

The eunuch hurried into the temple. Carrying the four old ministers out of the house, Zhu Houzhao didn't say anything, only said lightly and continued to fast.

The fourth day was already the limit of the ministers' endurance, and there were more than 50 ministers who fell on this day. As usual, the eunuchs were still carried out of the palace, and their family members took them home to recuperate, and they were finally freed from the sea of suffering.

On the fifth day, more ministers fell.

Of course, it is not excluded that there are indiscriminate and full of numbers, and they refuse to admit it, as long as they pretend to faint and fall to the ground, they can be carried out of this temple, which is comparable to the palace of Hades, and it can be regarded as a decent way to go down the steps.

Countless ministers who had fainted from hunger were carried out, and there were forty or fifty people left in the hall who knelt still, and judging from their staggering figures, they probably wouldn't last long.

Zhu Houzhao, Qin Kan and Liu Jin have been letting the wind and waves rise, sitting firmly in Diaoyutai, and so many ministers have fallen, but the three of them have ruddy faces and radiant faces, and nothing has happened.

It's not good to be too calm, and the three of them finally aroused the minister's suspicions.

Among the remaining forty or fifty people in the hall, Fei Hong, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, gritted his teeth and stood up, staggered to Zhu Houzhao, and looked the three of them up and down with a sloppy gaze.

The three of them were looked at by Fei Hong for a while.

Zhu Houzhao bared his teeth at him: "Look at what!" ”

Fei Hong moistened his white lips and said weakly: "Your Majesty, the minister only has one thing to ask you." ”

"What?"

It seemed that he knew what Fei Hong was going to ask next, and the three of them were suddenly a little flustered, Qin Kan looked around, and saw that everyone in the hall was in a trance, their eyes were scattered, and no one seemed to pay attention to this side, so Qin Kan took advantage of Fei Hong's unpreparedness and gently kicked Fei Hong's heel......

Fei Hong was hungry for five days, he was already weak to the extreme, and he relied on one breath to hold on, how could he stand Qin Kan's yin trick in the vain lower plate, he felt that his heel was kicked, and Fei Hong fell on his back before he had time to ask.

Zhu Houzhao cooperated very tacitly, stood up and said in surprise: "Fei Shilang also fainted!" Hurry! Lift him out of the shackles! ”

The tone was as happy as something......

Who knew that Fei Hong, who fell to the ground, did not faint, and when the little eunuch came to carry him, he grabbed the hem of Zhu Houzhao's dragon robe and refused to let go, and said weakly: "Minister...... The minister hasn't fainted yet! The minister has questions...... The minister hasn't said anything yet......"

Zhu Houzhao squatted down and forcefully broke Fei Hong's fingers one by one, and said angrily: "Fei Shilang is really naughty, you obviously fainted, and you still don't admit it...... Quick, carry away, carry away. ”

"Your Majesty...... Chen, I really didn't faint ......."

"I'm dizzy, but you didn't notice it." Zhu Houzhao waved his hand perfunctorily at Fei Hong, who was drifting away. Fei Hong's unwilling figure disappeared in the Taimiao.

The three of them looked at each other and wiped a cold sweat.

"Your Majesty, should we just pretend to be dizzy?" Qin Kan said worriedly: "The ministers of the palace are dying of hunger, and the three of us are alive and well, Your Majesty, this is not appropriate." ”

Zhu Hou glared: "We are younger than them, and it is reasonable to be alive and well." ”

Qin Kan was puzzled: "But...... Just now, when the minister stumbled on Fei Hong, he was seen......"

"Who?" Zhu Houzhao's gaze is very murderous.

Qin Kan raised his chin somewhere in the hall, and the three of them looked at it, but saw Li Dongyang's eyes dodging slightly, gritting his teeth in the last place, and falling to the ground softly, with an "ah" in his mouth.

Qin Kan almost spewed out saliva.

This old fellow...... What kind of university scholar, just go out and touch porcelain.

Zhu Houzhao expressed full appreciation for Li Dongyang's acquaintance, others fainted and were only carried away, and when Li Dongyang carried him away, Zhu Houzhao actually ordered Li Dongyang to be given ten branches of 100-year-old ginseng. One hundred taels of gold.

Li Dongyang suddenly opened his eyes when he was carried out, and exchanged glances with Zhu Houzhao and the three of them silently.

Everyone knows each other that this is Zhu Houzhao's hush money for him.

Of course, Li Dongyang fainted at the right time definitely not for Zhu Houzhao's reward. Among the civil officials in the court, Li Dongyang is the most sleek as an official, when the inner and outer courts joined forces to punish the Nine Tigers, he was the first to object, Liu Jian Xie Qian took the initiative to resign from the office, but he did not react, Liu Jin was in power. He gave Liu Jin a gift in private. There are many words to welcome, and now that Zhu Houzhao and Qin Kan are bad, he also cooperates tacitly......

Like Qin Kan, Li Dongyang uses his ambitions in his own way.

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The dozens of remaining ministers in the palace still did not fall. It can be described as a die-hard in the court. can be called a starving Xiaoqiang.

The integrity is appreciated. It's a nasty practice.

Zhu Houzhao is a young man after all, young people lack patience, and the five days spent by the monarch and the minister are already his extreme. The remaining dozens of people in the hall made Zhu Houzhao worried.

Obviously, they were all so prostrated that they only had one breath left, as if a gust of wind could blow them down, but they just didn't fall.

I can't beat it, I can't scold it, Zhu Houzhao has a headache.

"What should I do?" Zhu Houzhao looked at Qin Kan as if he was asking for help.

"I can only wait for them to faint from hunger...... Qin Kan said with a wry smile: "If Your Majesty wants to speed up the speed of their fainting, maybe Gonggong Liu can take a stick and stun them one by one." ”

"Why is it a miscellaneous family?" Liu Jin glared at Qin Kan and said dissatisfied.

Qin Kan said sincerely: "Because among the three of us, Gonggong Liu looks the most powerful." ”

Zhu Houzhao shook his head and said: "It's not appropriate to stun them, it's too rude, our five days of hard work are all in vain, Qin Kan, think of another way, I really don't want to waste time with them anymore." ”

Qin Kan was silent.

In silence, he glanced sympathetically at the dozens of remaining ministers in the hall, and then, as if playing a trick, Qin Kan took out something from his arms.

Zhu Houzhao stared at it and was overjoyed.

"Good stuff! Qin Kan, you're so bad, you actually carry this kind of thing with you......"

Qin Kan smiled bitterly: "A few days ago, the minister often entered the palace, and he originally planned to throw a ...... that was openly joking with Duke Liu at the celebrant eunuch."

Liu Jin's old face suddenly turned miserable.

What a bad animal, it's not like the miscellaneous family has never seen this thing of poison gas bomb, and you use it to "joke" with the miscellaneous family?

Zhu Houzhao didn't care so much, lowered his voice and said excitedly: "What kind of charter?" ”

Qin Kan sighed: "Your Majesty, we should also faint......

"What happens after you faint?"

"Naturally, it was ...... after the judgment of Duke Liu"

Liu Jin clenched his fists angrily: "Why is the miscellaneous family broken? ”

Qin Kan's gaze swept towards Liu Jin's lower body, his lips moved, and he couldn't bear to speak, but the meaning in his eyes was very clear,...... Because you were already cut off.

Liu Jin's old face was miserable again......

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The stalemate between the monarch and the minister was broken with Zhu Houzhao's weak and slightly contrived "Ah, I'm dizzy".

There was a sudden rush in the hall, and the little eunuchs rushed into the hall like a rush to the sky, and without saying a word, they lifted Zhu Houzhao and walked out.

Qin Kan looked anxious and followed Zhu Houzhao's side closely, and everyone hurried out of the Taimiao with Zhu Houzhao in their arms.

Liu Jin walked unwillingly at the back, and before leaving the palace gate, he glanced at the stubborn ministers in the hall who were still holding their breath without fainting or leaving, and let out a slight snort in his nostrils.

Liu Jin stepped out of the threshold, as if he had thrown a piece of garbage, and a smoking object was thrown into the hall by him, and then, Gonggong Liu closed the door of the hall very well and walked away.

There was a dull explosion, and the hall was suddenly filled with a choking yellow smoke, followed by a panicked scream from the ministers, angry shouts, and ...... The sound of painful scratching of the wall and banging on the door.

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PS: Sorry, it's late...... There is one more, you sleep, I continue to code words...... (To be continued.) )