Chen Shiding didn't expect that His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Youzhen would still let him die.

This made Chen Shiding very indignant, he had given up his dignity and betrayed his comrades in the hope of surviving.

But now Zhu Youzhen still won't give him a chance to live, and he can only beg bitterly again.

Zhu Youzhen smiled coldly, he knew that although Chen Shiding was a standard gentleman like Chen Shiding in the eyes of outsiders, he was actually a sanctimonious femme fatale.

As the emperor at the moment, he uses powerful means, these people will naturally linger and beg for themselves without a bottom line, but as long as they give them a chance to live, they will shamelessly show how unyielding they are, and even have words to desperately pour dirty water on themselves, the emperor, to achieve the purpose of showing their holiness.

Even the history of the Ming Dynasty has not recorded the killing of Fang Xiaoru by the Yongle Emperor, but it has been rendered by the literati to become a historical truth known to the public.

Zhu Youzhen knew that no matter whether he killed a civil official like Chen Shiding today, he would inevitably be splashed with dirty water, in this case, he might as well not spare these civil officials, and it was better for him to monitor this culture more in the future than to compromise with these civil officials for the sake of his reputation.

"Thunder, rain and dew, all are Jun's grace, I have given you self-hanging, and I have been extra tolerant of you, so there is no need to say it again!"

As soon as Zhu Youzhen's words fell, the crown prince Zhu Cihong hurriedly ran over and knelt on the ground with a crying face: "Father, please spare Master Chen!" ”

"Who told you to come here!"

Zhu Youzhen asked coldly, now Zhu Cihong is eighteen years old, but the whole person still does not have the calmness that the emperor and prince heir should have, and now when he is quite dissatisfied with the princelings, he still runs out frizzily to intercede is enough to see that the political wisdom is obviously insufficient, but he will also risk offending himself to intercede for these civil officials, which shows that these civil officials who are dissatisfied with themselves do have a good relationship with the prince.

In this way, these people will have to be killed.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong obviously didn't notice the fierce look on Zhu Youzhen's face, and only replied: "It was Fang Daban who told his son, father, Master Chen, Master Ye, what mistakes did they make, it is worthy of your father's anger, and your son will have to rely on them to ascend the throne in the future!" Please don't kill them! ”

Ruan Dayue and Wang Chengen couldn't help but have black lines in their eyes, and they both sweated for Zhu Cihong, if Zhu Cihong just pleaded for intercession just because Chen Shiding and others had taught him, at most it shows that his temperament is simple and emotional, but now he directly said the purpose of interceding for them and it was for his future accession to the throne, and the implication was naturally that he only thought about becoming the emperor in the future, rather than obeying the king and seeking a long-term strategy for the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youzhen was angry at this time, he still had some feelings for Zhu Cihong, after all, he inherited Zhu Youzhen's memory, but with the deepening of the contradictions and estrangement between them, now he and Zhu Cihong have long been like strangers, but now Zhu Cihong also directly revealed that he wants to inherit the unification.

At this moment, Zhu Youzhen, who has been an emperor for a long time, has a feeling that his own things have been remembered, and he couldn't help but ask Zhu Cihong: "Do you think that as long as I die, this great position will always be yours?" ”

Zhu Cihong nodded instinctively but then shook his head again and looked at Chen Shiding, Chen Shiding was also very depressed at this time, and he didn't know how to remind Zhu Cihong.

And Zhu Cihong stood up strangely, and actually wanted to beat Ruan Dayue, according to what the master of the East Palace taught him, in his opinion, his current embarrassment was caused by Ruan Dayue, so he shouted directly: "It's all you, a traitor, I want to kill you!" ”

Ruan Dayue can only hide, after all, Zhu Cihong is still His Royal Highness the Prince.

"Stop!"

Zhu Youzhen yelled.

Zhu Cihong obediently walked back again: "Father! Erchen didn't mean anything else, Erchen just, Erchen just didn't want to. ”

"Enough! Don't say it, making you the crown prince is my biggest failure! Zhu Youzhen shouted, and hurriedly shouted to Wang Chengen: "Proposed purpose, the prince has no virtue and no wisdom, mediocre qualifications, repeatedly committed crimes, ignorance of the overall situation and naïve, no understanding of the filial piety of the monarch's father, and no way to appoint meritocracy, so he will be deposed immediately, and the eunuch of the East Palace Zhan Shifang will be killed!" ”

Zhu Youzhen's sudden decision made Wang Chengen quite shocked, and he was also busy persuading: "Your Majesty, the position of the prince is very important, and you can't be easily deposed!" And the prince is legitimate, and now he is rashly moving, which may make the society unstable. ”

"Now there is no need for the Wanli period, he Zhu Cihong is the prince that the civil officials want to establish, not what I established, and now it is the world of me that is not the world of civil officials, why can't it be abolished, so that you can draft the will!"

Zhu Youzhen's sudden decision to depose the crown prince at this time was not really an impulsive move, he knew that his complete suppression of civil officials was not his own slaughter of civil officials, but to take back the power of the prince, and only when the emperor had the right to choose the heir did it mean that he completely surpassed the Confucian system of establishing heirs and establishing a long term to restrict the imperial power, and completely suppressed the interference of the civil official group in the imperial power.

In this way, the civil officials who hoped to change their political pattern and obtain political benefits by changing the king completely lost the opportunity to re-evaluate, because Zhu Youzhen, the crown prince decided by the emperor himself, was bound to be the crown prince who had the same political opinion as himself.

The crown prince he is now deposing is to completely control the Ming Dynasty and not give the civil officials the slightest chance to override the monarchy.

Although Wang Chengen, who was born in the inner study hall, is a eunuch, he is also deeply influenced by Confucianism, and at this time, it is indeed difficult for him to help Zhu Youzhen make such a shocking move, and when he was hesitating, Zhu Youzhen also felt that he did not need to embarrass Wang Chengen, who had been with him for so long, so he looked at Ruan Dayue: "Ruan Aiqing, come on, your literary talent should be above Wang Chengen." ”

Wang Chengen and Lu Jiude both looked at Wang Chengen, Zhu Cihong also looked at Wang Chengen at this time, Chen Shiding knew that his capital crime was inevitable, after all, even the prince could not intercede for himself, and he no longer pleaded with Zhu Youzhen, in order to thank the prince Zhu Cihong for his intercession, he directly threatened Ruan Dayue: "Ruan Dayue, if you dare to make this will, you will betray Confucianism and be despised by my world's corporal doctor!" ”

Ruan Dayue smiled slightly, he himself was already a person who was despised by the scholars and doctors all over the world, and even the current crown prince Zhu Cihong dared to beat himself in front of the king, what else could he care about, just with Zhu Cihong's attitude towards him, he did not hesitate to give his hand: "Weichen obeys the order!" ”

"Father-in-law Lu, please lead the way", Ruan Dayue smiled, while Lu Jiude snorted, although he was very resentful of Ruan Dayue for supporting His Majesty so bottomlessly, but he couldn't say anything at this time, after all, this was His Majesty's will, and there was also the bottomless support of the civil official Ruan Dayue.

(End of chapter)