The officials who withdrew south with Zhu Youzhen naturally hated Qian Qianyi's murder of the king.

After all, most of them abandoned their family business and followed the Ming Emperor Zhu Youzhen to Nanjing.

Both politically emotionally and in the new competition for interests.

They have a special relationship with Emperor Zhu Youzhen.

Therefore, they were eager to directly destroy the Qian Qianyi Nine Clans.

The officials of the Donglin Party were dumbfounded.

Qian Qianyi, who was kneeling on the ground, and five other people were more or less related to them as teachers and students or in-laws.

The power of the Jiangnan gentry is intricately intertwined.

If it is really as Shen Jiaxing said, if the nine clans are exterminated, there are also many ministers in the DPRK and China who will inevitably suffer from the disaster of killing.

However, what Wang Duo and other Donglin Party officials would not think of was the words of the Household Zuo Shilang Party Chongya.

I only heard Dang Chongya say: "Your Majesty, if Weichen is not mistaken, just now, among the Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces present, there are many colleagues who are saying that Qian Qianyi is a loyal minister, so it seems that these ministers who say that Qian Qianyi is loyal to the monarch are only afraid that they are suspected of participating in the rebellion, since they want to punish the nine clans, these people can't let go!" ”

Dang Chongya's words made most of the Donglin Party people present couldn't help but show panic.

They really didn't expect that this party Chongya would directly ask His Majesty to kill all the people present who had just stood up and said that Qian Qianyi was a loyal minister.

For a while, these Donglin Party officials couldn't help but secretly regret it.

Now not only because of Qian Qianyi's rebellion, but also because of Qian Qianyi's rebellion, he is also worried about his life.

Wang Duo, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, and Li Youlong, the right attendant of the Criminal Department, were sweating on their foreheads and cold on their backs.

After the left waiter of the household department, Dang Chongya, said.

Zhu Youzhen glanced at the Manchu ministers coldly: "I said that Qian Qianyi is a loyal minister, and those who recommended Qian Qianyi to me just now should stand up." ”

As soon as Zhu Youzhen's words fell, he waited for a long time, but no one stood up.

Zhu Youzhen, who originally wanted to spare the lives of several ministers in the court, couldn't help but be even more angry when he saw this, these people didn't even dare to admit what they had said, just this responsibility, if they didn't bring the sacrificial knife at this time, it would be useless in the future!

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen had to personally drink the order: "Wang Duo, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, Li Youlong, the right attendant of the Nanjing Criminal Department, and Chen Zhilan, the bachelor of Nanjing Hanlin!" Do you want me to invite you out myself? ”

Before that, the one who rushed to say in front of him that Qian Qianyi was a loyal person belonged to the three officials who shouted the most fierce.

And Zhu Youzhen also knew that Wang Duo and others also rushed to Hangzhou to pick up the prince, but they did not go out of the city to Zhenjiang to pick up the old ministers of the East Palace.

Zhu Youzhen naturally wants to take this opportunity to get rid of this group of people who don't have the same heart as him!

Wang Duo, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, Li Youlong, the right attendant of the Criminal Department, and Chen Zhilan, the scholar of the Hanlin Academy, all knelt down in despair: "Your Majesty forgives your sins!" ”

Zhu Youzhen wanted to use Qian Qianyi's murder of the king to make a major case of rebellion, so as to blow the arrogance of Jiangnan officials and let them know that they knew how powerful they were.

Therefore, the suggestions of Kim Xuan, Shin Jiayun, and Dang Chongya who intended to expand the intensity of the crackdown were naturally adopted by Zhu Youzhen.

If Qian Qianyi didn't kill a few big people like Shangshu Shilang in this case, Zhu Youzhen would not be a qualified emperor.

"Escort all these contract rebels to Taipingmen Prison! Strict interrogation to see if there are still cooperating thieves? ”

Zhu Youzhen's characterization of Qian Qianyi's murder case as a case of rebellion naturally deliberately intended to expand the intensity of the review in order to deter the ministers of the DPRK and China.

As long as there are ministers who dare to disobey his will, Zhu Youzhen does not mind linking these disobedient ministers with Qian Qianyi's rebellion.

For the edict, there are naturally also in Nanjing.

During the Hongwu and Yongle periods, Jinyiwei handled many major cases in this edict prison in Nanjing, and the murder sites of this edict and the Dali Temple of the Criminal Department were all in the Taipingmen area.

It is often rumored that the area used to cry ghosts and wolves every night during the Hongwu Yongle period, but now it has disappeared, but now I am afraid that it will also resume crying day and night.

The specific execution of Qian Qianyi and others.

Zhu Youzhen has not yet made a final decision, he wants to kill them one by one, and the entire Ming civil officials who killed him are obedient.

However, at this time, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Zhu Cihong, who was listening to the government on the side, knelt down at an inopportune time, fell to the ground and cried bitterly:

"Please also ask my father to forgive Master Wang, after all, they are old ministers of the Three Dynasties, and they should not be punished by this!"

Zhu Youzhen rolled his eyes, thinking that his fifteen-year-old prince was really kind-hearted, but he didn't have any political wisdom.

"Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that although His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not participate in the case of the Qian Party's rebellion, he also has the crime of negligence, His Majesty clearly intended to let him live in Hangzhou temporarily, but he obeyed the meaning of Wang Duo, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, and went to Nanjing first without His Majesty's will, and went to Nanjing without going out of the city to greet him, which is really unfilial!"

Chen Chunde's words were not only to say that the prince was not sensible, but also to remind Zhu Youzhen and Wang Duo that officials who only had the prince in their eyes could not stay, so Zhu Youzhen naturally strengthened his belief in killing Wang Duo and others after listening to Chen Chunde's words.

"Humph!"

Zhu Youzhen flicked his sleeves at Zhu Cihong, and sat back:

"The prince has no virtue and no loyalty and filial piety, but he is young, although he will not be investigated for capital crimes, but he must not be punished, the prince will be punished for breaking the law and the common people, and he will be imprisoned in the Zongren Mansion and confined for three months!"

"Father, the son really doesn't", the crown prince Zhu Cihong never realized that he would be accused of unfilial piety, nor did he expect that he would be so guilty of listening to the ministers' words and coming to Nanjing first.

He is still a young man, and when he heard Chen Chunde say that he and Zhu Youzhen wanted to confine him, he only knew how to defend and did not know how to obey.

However, what Zhu Youzhen is most disgusted with is that Zhu Cihong, as the prince of a country, is still simple.

In his opinion, even if Zhu Cihong is only fifteen years old, as the future successor of the empire, he should also have a certain amount of political wisdom, and he should know that he is not only the emperor's son but also a stumbling block to his imperial power.

According to Zhu Youzhen's idea, if Zhu Cihong is a qualified prince, he should not leave Hangzhou until he gets his will.

Even, Zhu Cihong can take the initiative to send someone to get rid of himself as the emperor and then go to Nanjing to ascend the throne, which is better than being instigated by a group of Nanjing officials to rush to Nanjing before him.

That is, Zhu Youzhen and Queen Zhou have had the joy of fish and water these days, and they are husband and wife, and they can't bear to hurt his son again after killing his wife's father-in-law.

Otherwise, Zhu Youzhen wanted to kill or replace this prince who would only be used as a gun by civil officials.

"Shut up!" Zhu Youzhen shouted angrily at Zhu Cihong, and ordered the guards to forcibly drag Zhu Cihong down.

And Zhu Cihong was already so aggrieved that he couldn't do it, and he also glanced at Chen Chunde angrily.

Chen Chunde buried his head and sighed secretly, although his behavior today was hated by the prince, he also hoped that the prince would be more mature than before.

After all, His Majesty wants to be domineering, and the art of hegemony has always been either your death or my life, so no one is sure when Your Majesty will be in danger, and whether the crown prince who ascends the throne can inherit the great cause is naturally very important to the situation after the Ming Dynasty.