But Xiong Kaiyuan's actions successfully aroused the anger of Emperor Chongzhen. He saw that Xiong Kaiyuan was obviously going to attack Zhou Yanru, but when he said it, he was full of yin and yang weirdness, and he was very angry, and he made him clear what he meant. Xiong Kaiyuan has been covering up, pointing at Sang and scolding Huai. In the end, Emperor Chongzhen did not want to listen to him, and ordered him to step back and write what he was going to say in this chapter.

But Zhou Yanru is powerful after all. After Xiong Kaiyuan was summoned this time, he heard the advice of many friends and fellow villagers, and they all thought that Zhou Yanru was still lenient and old among the previous prime ministers, and it was definitely not a wise move to impeach Zhou Yanru. Xiong Kaiyuan, who was hesitant at both ends of the first rat, was so unsharp, and in this chapter of the remedy, he just repeated what he had said when he was called, "Only on the second of the ministers, I respectfully list the upper news, and the ministers play the clouds: ......"

And Emperor Chongzhen, who was full of fire, saw Xiong Kaiyuan's worthless supplement, and felt that he was simply being tricked by this villain, so he was furious and immediately sent Jinyi Wei to arrest Xiong Kaiyuan and send him to Beizhen Fusi for torture.

Jiang Yun and Xiong Kaiyuan are just two small people in the court, and the so-called "crimes" are just a few irrelevant words when the emperor solicits direct words, and they do not have any fundamental conflict with the emperor and the cabinet ministers on major national policies, but they are regarded by the emperor as the great enemy of the country, and they are sent to the darkest Jinyi Wei Zhenfu Prison to torture to extract confessions.

The courtiers talked about the emperor's unprovoked anger, and they were also quite unhappy with Jiang and Xiong. Zhou Yanru was even more disturbed because Xiong Kaiyuan's imprisonment was to attack himself. So at the next imperial meeting, the ministers and ministers of the ministry and the cabinet defended Jiang Yun and Xiong Kaiyuan one after another.

Among them, Liu Zongzhou, the imperial history of the left capital, who is famous for Taoism, said the most sincerely: "The imperial court has its own system for the speech officials, and the speech officials enter the speech, and they can use it if they can use it, and put it away if they are not available." Even if there is a deserved crime, it should be brought to justice and convicted according to the circumstances. Now Xiong Kaiyuan and Jiang Yun are manic and ignorant, and they can't be innocent. But at present, the emperor is eager to speak, and the second minister is imprisoned because of his words, which is very harmful to the holy government and the country, and I am afraid that it is not the emperor's original intention to ask for words. The ministers hope that the emperor will bow down to the difficulties of current affairs and let go of the magnanimous measurement as the sky, so as to open up the way for the ministers to admonish. ”

Originally, this kind of thing, Emperor Chongzhen vented. Just dismiss these two little people from office. But at this time, Emperor Chongzhen had already penetrated into the tip of the bull's horns, and he felt that Liu Zongzhou's words were extremely harsh, thinking that he was obviously ridiculing himself for his narrow measurement and abuse of lynching.

So Emperor Chongzhen was furious and said forcefully: "The Three Law Divisions and Jinyi Wei are all the yamen of the imperial court. What is the difference between public and private? You said that the official has his own system, is it corrupt and corrupt the law, deceive the king, and confuse discipline? Shouldn't anyone be asked? ”

"Xiong Kaiyuan is sparse. There must be someone who is the mastermind, and the person who wants to come behind this is Liu Zongzhou! ”

In this way, the powder keg was ignited. Cabinet ministers Zhou Yanru, Jiang Dejun, Wu Fu, Zhang Guowei, Secretary of the Ministry of War, Feng Yuanbiao, Squire Lang, Xu Shiqi, Secretary of the Criminal Department, and Fan Jingwen, Secretary of the Ministry of Industry. Jin Guangchen, the imperial historian of the Imperial Palace, and the martial ministers of the five prefectures defended Liu Zongzhou together, and even wet their sleeves with bitter tears. However, Emperor Chongzhen became more and more annoyed and insisted on dealing with it on a large scale.

After this unhappy summons, Emperor Chongzhen issued a decree to dismiss Liu Zongzhou from his post and punish the criminals. The Cabinet resolutely resisted this. Withholding the decree and not issuing it, they jointly implored the emperor to retract the order. Emperor Chongzhen has rarely encountered such a boycott since he came to the throne, and he didn't want to get into trouble with the courtiers to the point of being like fire and water, so he had to change the order to dismiss Liu Zongzhou as a citizen. Xu Shiqi and Jin Guangchen were also dismissed and demoted respectively for this case.

And the ministers were able to survive the struggle, but Jiang Yun and Xiong Kaiyuan, who were small people, they could not escape. On the day after the call, Emperor Chongzhen issued a secret edict to Luo Yangxing, the commander of Jinyiwei: "Take Xiong Kaiyuan and Jiang Wei's lives, and report the news of their death." ”

And when Luo Yangxing saw the secret decree, he was immediately shocked. Jinyiwei has always been a powerful tool of the emperor to enforce tyranny, and in the history of the Ming Dynasty, he secretly executed many people for the emperor. But most of the directors of the Jinyi Guard who aided in the abuse did not end well, not to mention, the "Five Tigers" who presided over the Jinyi Guard during the Apocalypse were all executed for lynching and killing.

What's more, Luo Yangxing and Xiong Kaiyuan are fellow villagers, and they originally had some friendship, and this matter has been full of turmoil, and two people were killed in a hurry, and the courtiers were held accountable, who is responsible? Luo Yangxing discussed with Jinyiwei's friends for this reason, and decided to refuse to carry out the emperor's secret decree, and also intended to reveal the content of the secret decree to the courtiers. But in order to deal with the emperor, the Zhenfu Division still used poison on Jiang Yun and Xiong Kaiyuan.

Because the officials began to discuss the matter of the emperor's decree and secret judgment, Zhou Yanru and other ministers repeatedly struggled, and in the end, Emperor Chongzhen still had to decide to transfer Jiang and Xiong to the criminal department, but the mood of killing the two to vent their anger was still not eliminated.

However, the prison words played by the Criminal Department were obviously avoiding the important and light, and he severely reprimanded the Criminal Department for "not interrogating and not recruiting" and "deceiving and playing favoritism", and then ordered: Jiang and Xiong were to be given a court cane outside the noon gate, with 100 canes each, and they were still sent to the Zhenfu Division for torture after the cane.

For Jiang Yu and Xiong Kaiyuan, who were already dying of breath and were injured in torture, a hundred court staff was almost synonymous with death. Fortunately, the eunuchs and Jinyi guards who were imprisoned and executed were afraid that the death of the people would cause a collective protest from the courtiers, so they showed mercy when they were in the court staff, and the two of them were saved. Even so, Jiang Yun was already angry and unconscious after being beaten with a hundred rods. His younger brother Jiang Gao was also an official in Beijing, and he rushed to pour human urine into his mouth, and finally woke up.

The incident of Jiang Yun and Xiong Kaiyuan, the two little people, tossed for a whole month, and Emperor Chongzhen finally regained a little psychological balance through his big action against them.

Although Jiang Yun and Xiong Kaiyuan were lucky to save their lives, the ministers of the court were even more disappointed with the emperor and the political situation. If in the past, their criticism of the emperor was limited to "extremely strict" and "too smart", at this time they clearly felt that he was narrow-minded, cruel and irresponsible.

An important sign of the sharp decline in the prestige of Emperor Chongzhen was that he was bent on killing two ministers but could not do so, which was unthinkable a few years ago. It was only the resistance of the courtiers to the emperor that was by no means a check and balance on the autocratic imperial power in a positive sense, but a kind of negative disintegration of people's hearts.

In addition, the Xungui group was also quite dissatisfied with Emperor Chongzhen, and they thought that the emperor's attitude towards Wu Shigong was simply a false accusation. In the eyes of the nobles, it is a "virtue" for the military generals and nobles to fly and dominate outside, not to mention that many nobles also regard Wu Shigong's career as a "good example" for reviving the honorable group.

And this time, Emperor Chongzhen's attitude towards Wu Shigong was already a faint threat to the two princes' mansions, and the relationship between the branches and vines even spread to most of the mansions of the nobles in the capital. How can this not make the nobles vigilant?

Therefore, the behavior of the Runing Army to show its strength inadvertently stimulated the contradictions between the DPRK and China. By this time, Emperor Chongzhen had already betrayed his relatives. (To be continued......)

PS: Thank you all for your support for more than a year. I'll add another chapter today.

There are still two or three months to finish this book, and the new book is chosen between urban and fantasy, but it has to be approved by the editor, so it is not decided which book to write in the end, and I hope that friends will put forward their own suggestions.

So next, I will collect new book materials, and the update will definitely not be interrupted, so I hope that the new and old books will be seamlessly connected.

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