It was like a slap of thunder, which continued to explode in Zhu Youzhen's ears.

As soon as he came, he knelt down and bowed, and they all asked to kill Wang Chengen, Zhu Youzhen didn't understand why these people suddenly unanimously dealt with Wang Chengen, and why they suddenly hated Wang Chengen.

Zhu Youzhen looked back, and these important ministers of the empire who were pulled up by himself were still kneeling in place without shock.

Zhu Youzhen suddenly felt a sense of loneliness and helplessness.

"Bastard!"

Zhu Youzhen roared angrily and kicked at Fan Jingwen, who was closest to him.

Fan Jingwen endured the severe pain in his abdomen, snorted in pain, and did not dare to complain.

Seeing this, Zhu Youzhen sat back on the chair in a gloomy voice, his voice low and trembling: "What if I don't follow?" ”

"Weichen is willing to hang up his crown and leave, whether to kill or chase is based on His Majesty's decision!"

Fan Jingwen stumbled, but still resolutely said this, and consciously took off the crown on his head, put it on the golden step with a sonorous sound, and knocked his thin forehead with silver hair heavily on the ground.

Bang!

A tear fell on the dazzling crown of beams, impregnated with brocade.

Qi Biaojia and Liu Zongzhou also made the same choice.

Looking at the crown of beams and beams placed on the golden steps, Zhu Youzhen realized that the so-called true gentlemen did not disobey the king's will, and these people were even more difficult to deal with than the villain.

Wang Chengen was also very shocked and frightened, and like Zhu Youzhen, he spontaneously generated a wave of resentment, a kind of anger of betrayal!

Wang Chengen thought to himself that although he was the most trusted minister around Zhu Youzhen since he moved south, he had never been arrogant in front of civil officials.

Even if Shi Kefa was in charge of the Seal Celebrant Supervisor, he did not have any complaints, and even said that Shi Kefa was indeed more suitable for the Palm Seal Celebrant than himself on the grounds that Shi Kefa was above him.

Even if he was in charge of the East Factory, he was only acting on orders, never easily creating a big case, and never used his power in the East Factory to report his personal anger.

But now, because he randomly arrested a little student Gu Lin, he would provoke these civil officials to say that they wanted His Majesty to kill him, and even threatened to resign.

What did you do wrong?

Wang Chengen could only be silent, looking at the Ming Emperor Zhu Youzhen, and secretly shouted in his heart: "Your Majesty, if you kill Weichen, Weichen will never complain, but if you kill Weichen at this time, Your Majesty will no longer be able to control Wenchen!" ”

Zhu Youzhen's fists were clenched very tightly, it was impossible for him to kill Wang Chengen according to the ideas of these people, because Wang Chengen represented himself, and he was a sharp sword hanging over the heads of civil officials, if he killed Wang Chengen, it would be equivalent to cutting off his arm, and from now on, no one would oppose the civil officials.

And Zhu Youzhen can't kill these civil officials in front of him, not only because he can't do without these civil officials, but also because their loyalty is the foundation of this empire to maintain the ruling order.

Zhu Youzhen was in a dilemma.

He knew that what these civil officials hated was not Wang Chengen, but the secret service of Dongchang, the hand of the emperor was stretched too long, and he hated that his methods were too tough.

From the killing of the ministers before the southward migration to the Qian Qianyi case and Wang Duo case and Zhang Shenyan's case after the southward migration, he relied on the way of Dongchang to suppress all those who did not obey him, but at that time, it was only aimed at the officials of the Jiangnan family, and it was a time of turmoil, external contradictions occupied the main position, so that the civil officials could only accept the strength of Dongchang.

But now that the world is a little peaceful, the civil officials naturally do not want to see Dongchang continue to override the imperial administrative order, ignore the laws and regulations, and act arbitrarily, and it is normal for the opinions of Dongchang to become bigger and bigger.

However, what Zhu Youzhen didn't expect was that this time Dongchang only arrested a small student, and it had not yet set off a big case, why did these courtiers and civil officials react so much, and they did not hesitate to gather to force themselves!

Zhu Youzhen now has military power under his control, and these important ministers of the six cabinets cannot threaten him, he can completely kill or depose these people, and then re-employ a group of officials.

But Zhu Youzhen also knew that if he did this, he would completely break the backbone of civil officials, and the empire would no longer have loyal iron bones in the court in the future, and there would be a large number of fortunate people.

"Who is using them and instigating them to do such a thing, a student was arrested, so he gathered and asked him to kill Wang Chengen, and then let himself evil Fan Jingwen and other civil officials of the six cabinet departments, he either obeyed the arrangement of Fan Jingwen and others, or killed them, so that the court was empty, and then there were people with ill intentions on the throne, it was really a good calculation!"

Zhu Youzhen secretly thought so, and then angrily threw Yupin to the ground.

……

At this time, Shaoning, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, was clinking glasses with Ouyang Da in the matter, and said with a smile: "With Your Majesty's character, these old scholars of the court are afraid that they will all have to be dismissed, and then there will be several more important positions in the Manchu Dynasty, and our people will also go up, as long as we have real power, we can't let the imperial court be so unscrupulous to promote commercial taxes, take the benefits of the people, and make us have no place to live." ”

"According to the lower officials, I'm afraid that I can't even save my life, with Your Majesty's temper, which time didn't kill him and bleed like a river, it's a pity, these are all loyal and good ministers who he has cultivated himself, these people have made us suffer, and now it's time for Your Majesty to get rid of them, let the world's scholars see, this is the consequence of only for the country and not for the family!"

Ouyang Da said with a smile.

At this time, Zuo Jinmao, a student, asked: "What the students are worried about now is whether Friend Gu will not be able to stand the methods of Dongchang and recruit everything he knows." ”

"What are you afraid of, is it that they are not afraid of death, and we Wu people are afraid of death, since we are officials in the court, if we want to fight for power, we must be prepared to be killed, Gu Lin also knows that this official and the governor Huoda are only, and then there is Brother Ouyang, if Your Majesty wants to do a big case and kill me and Fan Jingwen and others, then all the gentry in the world will be chilled, what else can he do to fight with the Qing Dynasty!"

As soon as Guan Shaoning said this, Tu Guobao, who was also here to accompany him, couldn't help laughing, and secretly hoped that Zhu Youzhen could raise the prison again, drive all the gentry to his side of the Qing Dynasty, and win more people's hearts for his Qing Dynasty to go south again.

"From the official's point of view, Your Majesty is only afraid that you will not do this, although Your Majesty is ruthless, but not faint, otherwise since the move to the south, we will not be pressed everywhere, in short, no matter how Your Majesty chooses, it will be Your Majesty and Fan Jingwen and other officials of the Northern Party of Zhejiang and the Central Committee of the People's Republic of China who will lose both, and we will reap the benefits of the fisherman no matter what, but I hope that Your Majesty will still compromise, so as not to hurt the harmony of the monarch and the ministers, and the impact on the Ming Dynasty and the society will not be great, but it is just that Your Majesty can no longer arbitrarily control us and other civil officials."

Chen Shiding, the head of the Hanlin Academy, said this, Tu Guobao smiled coldly, and couldn't help but glance at Chen Yuding, he didn't want the situation to be like what Chen Shiding, the head of the Hanlin Academy, said, so that the internal contradictions of the Ming Dynasty would not intensify, and the difficulty of destroying the Ming Dynasty would naturally increase if it was not intensified.

(End of chapter)