Chapter 38: Shi Kefa begs for mercy

After Zhu Youzhen said this, he flicked his sleeves angrily and came to the door, looking into the distance like an eagle falcon.

For the Confucian scholars who claimed to be the elite of the empire, he never looked down on them.

And Shi Kefa didn't expect His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Youzhen to treat them like this.

If it weren't for the fact that Zhu Youzhen was a king, he would even have the urge to reprimand Zhu Youzhen angrily.

But now he could only hold back his indignation, and justified:

"The Beijing division has fallen, hundreds of officials are committed to thieves, and they are incorruptible and shameless, and they should indeed be killed!

But Weichen dared to think that His Majesty should not insult the world's scholars because of this, the so-called Confucian scholars have been uneven since ancient times, and it is difficult to distinguish between loyalty and treachery;

Your Majesty, as the king of a country, should be close to the virtuous ministers and far from the villain;

Nowadays, there are many people who have betrayed the enemy and betrayed the country in the court, all because His Majesty has been deceived by the eunuchs, so that the villain is full of temples, and the gentleman is far away from the rivers and lakes, so that there is today's disaster, Your Majesty should not blame the scholars of the whole world for this, and hold a grudge against Confucius. ”

Shi Kefa became more and more energetic the more he talked, and he didn't care about Zhu Youzhen's face at all, and directly said that this result was caused by Zhu Youzhen, the emperor's favored eunuch.

Zhu Youzhen admitted that Emperor Chongzhen before he crossed over did not know how to control the hundred officials, and was repeatedly deceived and used by the hundred officials.

But as a king, he can't allow others to put his beak.

What's more, he is also very disdainful of Shi Kefa's prejudice of throwing the pot directly on the eunuch without going through his brain.

The eunuch is missing a part, and he has always been discriminated against and even slandered by civil officials, and Zhu Youzhen also knows it.

But as a king, he has never reused eunuchs much, and now he is also carrying this pot of favoring eunuchs.

As a result, Zhu Youzhen's roar suddenly skyrocketed by ten points.

"Presumptuous!"

Zhu Youzhen shouted angrily.

Shi Kefa couldn't help but keep his mouth shut.

"Shi Kefa, slandering the monarch's father, his crime should be punished, drag it down, and be decided!"

Zhu Youzhen shouted coldly.

For Shi Kefa, Zhu Youzhen has always loved and hated this.

He loved him because he was also faithful and observant.

But I also hate this person for being pedantic and incompetent, with great ambitions but no foresight.

In the original history, after Gao Jie was killed, he could obviously rectify Gao Jie's department to strengthen Huaiyang's defensive strength, but he discriminated against Gao Jie's department, who was born as a thief, and even advocated the capture of Pingkou, narrow-minded, and only thought of martyrdom and death in Yangzhou, but he didn't know how to defend the city.

Now, in this time and space, he directly accuses himself of being the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department and the head of the Donglin Party.

This is undoubtedly a challenge to one's own authority.

As the emperor, Zhu Youzhen knew that if Shi Kefa was not severely punished at this time, he would definitely not be able to control the Donglin Party when he arrived in Jiangnan in the future!

Although he didn't want to kill such a virtuous minister as Shi Kefa, although it was useless, he was indeed a moral benchmark in the minds of today's scholars and doctors, and his reputation was very high.

Shi Kefa was a little stunned, he didn't expect that His Majesty would suddenly kill him today.

However, at this time, he also realized that he was indeed too much just now, which can be described as a rebellion, but this is also because His Majesty Zhu Youzhen directly belittled all the scholars in the world, and even insulted Kong Yan Shenggong as a cheap species, and he, as a disciple of Confucius and Mencius, had to correct the prejudice of the king.

But Shi Kefa also knew the essence of the king's death and the minister's death.

He was still able to comply with this, took off the black veil on his head very regularly, prostrate on the ground, and made a big salute to Zhu Youzhen.

At this time, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Tongzhi, had already appeared behind Shi Kefa with two Jinyi Guard captains, and the embroidered spring knife had been pulled out.

Shi Kefa didn't expect him to come to this point, and the whole person was in a state of confusion.

He was just canonized as a cabinet scholar but was about to be executed in an instant, and no one would have thought of such an ending.

Shi Kefa was dragged outside and sat on his knees.

And the commander of Jinyiwei made Tongzhi Li Ruolian personally raise the knife:

"Shi Ge Ministry, this official has always respected you as an honest and honest official, but this official didn't expect you to slander the monarch so much, my Ming Emperor has been on the throne for more than ten years, conscientious, diligent and thrifty for the country, several times under the edict of self-sin, after leaving Beijing, it is for the people of Tongzhou to cry bitterly, please blame the sky, and even for the people of the world, regardless of the previous suspicions, to appease the thieves, but you are so slanderous and disgusted by the monarch's father and the eunuchs, stupid and incompetent, why do you not die thank the world!" ‘

Li Ruolian, as an official of the entourage, has long been regarded as a god by Zhu Youzhen, not to mention that he, as a brocade guard, is a slave of the Son of Heaven, so he should be in the same breath as the Son of Heaven, so he is also resentful of Shi Kefa.

Shi Kefa couldn't help but burst into tears, when did he think that he would end up with a reputation for slandering his father.

But now, Shi Kefa also knew that it was too late for him to regret it, so he had to smile sadly: "Shi Mou has no face to face the first emperor even if he is on the ground." ”

At this time, Li Mingrui, the governor of Huaiyang, came over and happened to see Li Ruolian holding an embroidered spring knife to kill Shi Kefa.

Li Mingrui couldn't help shouting: "Stop! ”

Then, Li Mingrui hurriedly asked Li Ruolian what was going on and why he suddenly wanted to kill Shi Kefa.

Li Ruolian told Li Mingrui that Shi Kefa had an argument with Emperor Zhu Youzhen in front of the hall today and violated Long Yan.

After hearing this, Li Mingrui couldn't help but beat his hands in anger, and he didn't know what to do when he looked at Shi Kefa:

"Pavilion Elder, Pavilion Elder, you are not reckless, you not only abandon your father, but also ignore the overall situation of the world, ignore the safety of my majesty, and put Your Majesty in danger, your death will undoubtedly become the first traitor of the Ming Dynasty!"

Shi Kefa has always had the most serious reputation, and he was a little shocked when he heard Li Mingrui say that he would become the first traitor of the Ming Dynasty when he died.

And Li Mingrui continued at this time:

"For example, today, Your Majesty has been disappointed in my Ming scholars, but Your Majesty is a wise gentleman with knowledge, and knows that the monarch and ministers cannot be chaotic, otherwise they will not be able to work together to revive the Ming Dynasty, so he directly added you as a scholar of Wenhua Palace, as a show of favor, and it can be regarded as a show of favor to the hundred officials in Jiangnan;

Since the elder of the pavilion is the head of the hundred officials in the south of the Yangtze River, he should be more grateful for the grace of the king, but His Majesty's order is to obey the will, and he should not be so easy to disobey the king, this is an unwise move, His Majesty has to kill you for the sake of the monarchy, and you are also trapped in the rigidity of the relationship between His Majesty and the hundred officials in the south of the Yangtze River.

If the Ming Dynasty dies, it will all be because of your Shi Kefa! If the literati lose their morality to the monarch and even flatter the foreigners because of you, the world's scholars will be stinky for 10,000 years, and it will also arise because of your history! ”

Li Mingrui's words made Shi Kefa suddenly understand, and he also knew how much of a sin he had committed.

Don't say a word.

Shi Kefa immediately turned around and kowtowed in the direction where Zhu Youzhen, the son of heaven, was:

"Wechen is guilty, Wechen is guilty, Your Majesty! Wechen is guilty! I beg Your Majesty to spare the ministers not to die, if the ministers dare to disobey Your Majesty again in this life, please ask Your Majesty to punish the nine clans! ”