Chapter XXVII: Impeachment

As mentioned last time, Liu Feng was surprised to see a mysterious person in the prison. The mysterious man talked with Liu Feng for a long time, put on his hood again, and left the prison in the dark.

The next day, it was the day of the great court meeting of the Shu Han Dynasty, and the ministers came to the main hall early to wait for the arrival of Liu Bei, the emperor of Shu Han Zhangwu.

"The emperor has arrived!" With a sharp eunuch's voice sounding, Liu Bei walked out of the tent and sat down on the golden dragon chair in the center.

After the ministers knelt down and worshiped the mountain and shouted long live, Liu Bei shouted, "All the ministers are exempt from courtesy", and the ministers stood up and stood in line.

"If there is something to start, there is nothing to retreat!" The voice of the eunuch sounded again.

This is a conventional practice, a signal to start the morning meeting, and it has the same effect as when elementary school students are in class, the class leader calls "stand up", and then everyone calls "good teacher" together.

So, the ministers reported to Liu Bei one by one on various matters, and Liu Bei also discussed with Zhuge Liang and other ministers of the humerus to deal with state affairs one by one.

The sun outside rose higher and higher, and more than half of the morning time had passed with a sigh, and it was close to noon, and all the major military affairs had been discussed by the court, Liu Bei breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to order a retreat. After all, he was very old, and he was a little sleepy after the morning meeting, and he was thinking about hurrying back to the back garden, finding a certain concubine to have lunch, and then hugging her for a while.

At this time, Taifu Xu Jing came out of the ranks, presented a book of music with both hands, and said loudly: "Enlighten the emperor, the ministers have something to play." ”

The eunuch went over and took Xu Jing's recital to Liu Bei, but Liu Bei didn't look at the recital, and asked directly, "Oh?" What else is there to do? ”

"The Ten Sins of the Minister's Impeachment of the Prince."

"Boom!" The entire hall was boiling, and the ministers disregarded the loss of honor in front of the king, and they began to talk about it.

"Taifu! Do you know what you're talking about? Liu Bei said sharply.

"Your Majesty, as the prince and the prince, has the responsibility of teaching the prince, the prince makes a mistake, and the minister cannot escape the blame, and the minister asks His Majesty to surrender to me. However, now that the prince has made a big mistake, if the minister does not correct it, he will be wrong again and again. In order to enable the prince to embark on the right path as soon as possible, the minister will not give up. Xu Jingyi said in a straight way.

Taifu is one of the three dukes, mainly to assist the emperor in governing the country, although he is also the prince's master in reputation, but this role is very weak, especially Xu Jing, who has never taught Liu Hou anything. Liu Hou rarely had contact with him, let alone how close he was.

Liu Hou's real teacher, Jiang Wan in Wen, and Zhao Yun in Wu, have nothing to do with Xu Jing. Maybe it was in this way that Xu Jing would make a move on Liu Hou, of course, there must be other reasons, otherwise, who would go and shoot at a prince for no reason.

"Hmph, you'd better be able to give a reason." Liu Hou was very unhappy that someone criticized his baby son, and he didn't even say "Qing family", and directly called him "you", after all, this son has always made him very satisfied with his appearance, which made him have a lot of face.

"The minister impeached the prince for the ten deadly crimes, one of which was to start a war recklessly, destroy the harmonious relations with the allies, lead to the prolongation of the war, and the displacement of the people;

second, the reckless use of military force, years of conquest, wasting national funds, shaking the foundation of the dynasty;

Third, they raised private soldiers and secretly developed their own forces with bad intentions. Your Majesty, the minister heard that the prince had privately expanded his army in Nanzhong, and now there are hundreds of thousands of troops, which is really appalling;

Fourth, privately appointing officials to seal Xinjiang, forming a party for personal gain, and attempting to divide one side;

Fifth, he was brutal and unkind, slaughtering countless Yi people in the Nanzhong region, exterminating countless tribes and destroying countries, and using many Yi tribes as slaves to earn ill-gotten gains for their own mining;

Sixth, he sacrificed his roots to the end, emphasized business and profit, preached strange and skillful skills, and led a large number of people to turn into profit-seeking merchants who did not do anything to produce, or were bound by the prince to work like slaves in various workshops. Nowadays, a large amount of land is abandoned and uncultivated, and there is no harvest.

In the long run, our dynasty will inevitably suffer from a shortage of food, and eventually starve to death, and the treasury will not receive enough food for the army;

Seventh, privately manufactured weapons with bad intentions. Muskets and thunderbolts are all weapons of mass destruction, and the prince makes them privately and uses them privately, but they can't be controlled in the army of the country.

Eighth, privately set up official positions, privately improve the wealth, the entire Ministry of Industry and the Hong Army are all out of the prince's favor, and its intention to invite people to buy people's hearts is clearly revealed;

Ninth, the extreme desire for poverty and luxury, looting the people, and even robbing the people's property. I believe this is obvious to all, since the prince led the army to go on the expedition, he has continuously transported the looted property back to Chengdu for sale, earning a lot of black money into his own pocket, but never handed over a penny to the national treasury;

Tenth, privately open mineral deposits and take the mineral deposits that belonged to the national dynasty as their own. In all dynasties, the mineral deposits were state-owned, and those who mined them privately were beheaded, but now, the prince actually controls several mineral deposits, making people mine day and night, and let them seek personal benefits for themselves. ”

As Xu Jing's sonorous voice just landed, the ministers began to discuss again.

"Nonsense!" Liu Bei slapped the armrest of the dragon chair and scolded involuntarily. The hand was painful, and I couldn't help but think that this dragon chair was still made by a skilled craftsman from the Ministry of Industry of my son, otherwise it would still be the previous couch, where would there be a handrail to make my hand hurt.

Zhuge Liang was at the front of the group of ministers, glanced at Xu Jing, and rolled his eyes, what kind of bullshit crime is this? This Xu Jing simply doesn't know what to say.

"What the minister has stated, every sentence is true, please make a clear statement." Xu Jing said.

"A bunch of nonsense, a bunch of nonsense, Adou has been smart since he was a child, and his character is pure, how can it be so unbearable as you say, Xu Jing, you must know that falsely accusing the prince is a big crime." Liu Bei was so angry that he began to be unkind when he spoke.

"Your Majesty, facts speak louder than words, whether these things are true or not, please send someone to find out." Xu Jing said.

"Prime Minister, what do you think?" Liu Bei didn't know how to refute Xu Jinghao, and decided to kick this burden to Zhuge Liang, he knew that Zhuge Liang would never let himself down.

Sure enough, Zhuge Liang saw Liu Bei's eyes asking for help, and had completely received his signal and knew his thoughts, so he calmly paced out and said:

"Taifu, please come up with evidence, otherwise, falsely accusing the prince is not a trivial matter."

"These things are known to passers-by, and His Majesty only needs to know it when he checks it, so why do you need any evidence." Xu Jing said.

"Hmph, in fact, you don't need to check to know that Taifu is falsely accused, these things, anyone with a discerning eye knows what's going on.

First of all, one of them, Dongwu has been eyeing my Shu Han, three or four times to seize my Jingzhou, last time it was a blatant sneak attack on Jingzhou City, if it wasn't for the prince to see through Lu Meng's treacherous plan in time and fight back in time, I am afraid that Jingzhou has fallen, and Guan Gong has been killed.

This time, Eastern Wu rebelled against Meng Huo, Yonghong, Gao Ding and Zhu Bao to rebel against the country, but the crown prince led his troops to defeat them and subdue Nanzhong. If it is said that starting a war and breaking the covenant is also what Soochow does, what does it have to do with the prince.

On the contrary, the crown prince went around to put down the rebellion and the people who were also affected by the war, to create a stable environment, and to make proper arrangements for the displaced people to settle the refugees displaced by the war. Therefore, the crown prince only has merit and no fault.

Taifu reverses black and white like this, does he have ulterior motives? You don't say that Dongwu broke the covenant, but it means that His Royal Highness the Prince broke the covenant, is it that Taifu and Dongwu have anything to do with it? ”

Zhuge Liang's words were sharp, and only then did he refute the first sin, so that Xu Jing broke into a cold sweat. People fought Confucianism back then, and so many resourceful people in the entire Eastern Wu were not his opponents alone, although this Xu Jing was also a celebrity, but his eloquence was not a little bit different from Zhuge Liang.

"Second, the crown prince has been fighting for many years, but he has never asked the treasury for a penny or a grain of grain. May I ask the Taifu, how can you say that the national funds are wasted? I would like to ask which army in the past dynasties did not need to spend a large amount of inventory in the treasury to go out on the expedition, only His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, he never had to worry about the imperial court when he went on the expedition, and he always raised his own food and salary to share the worries of the country. Who can do such a feat?

Third, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince personally allowed the formation of the Hong Army back then, and Liang remembered that His Majesty promised that he could lead as many soldiers as he could afford to raise by himself. Therefore, the crown prince did not expand the army privately, and besides, this time before the prince accepted the prisoners and expanded the army, he had already presented a fold to His Majesty, and His Majesty agreed with his approach.

Take 10,000 steps back, do you know who is the main general of the prince's troops? It's General Zilong! Who is General Zilong? General Zilong followed His Majesty to the south and the north for 20 years, and his loyalty to His Majesty was obvious to all.

The other generals in the army, Zhang Bao, Guan Xing, and Guan Suo, were all sons of His Majesty's righteous brothers, as well as Sima, Changshi Guo Youzhi and Fei Yi in the army, all of whom were sent to the prince by His Majesty back then.

You say, is this army the prince's private army? Do you think that His Majesty could not command this army? ”

Hearing this, Liu Bei couldn't help but be secretly proud, he and Zhuge Liang had already planned this matter before the Hong Army was founded. At that time, Zhuge Liang talked about this problem, and Zhuge Liang told Liu Bei at that time that with Zhao Yun as the commander of this army, no matter how large the Hong army developed in the future, it was not finally in Liu Bei's own hands.

"Fourth, the county guards of the six counties in Nanzhong are all people sent down by His Majesty, although the prince also built two people, but these two are Guan Gong's subordinates. Especially Mi Fang, he is His Majesty's brother-in-law, you say, is he close to His Majesty or to the prince? How can it be said that it is necessary to form a party for personal gain and divide one party?

Fifth, how can there be a reason for immortals to fight a war, barbarians are cruel, if they can't be scared and disabled, can they be pacified and won Nanzhong? Besides, the prince is not a brutal person at all, and he tries not to kill anyone who can.

Didn't you see that he successively recruited Gao Ding, Vulture Bone, and Zhu Bao, and harvested hundreds of thousands of prisoners without spending a single soldier? These captives were not killed, some were used to expand the army, and some were used to carry heavy troops.

As for mining, it was the prince's policy of cashing in for work, and Wen Wei (Fei Yi) had already written this policy into a detailed chapter and presented it to His Majesty. Liang thought that this strategy was wonderful, which could not only provide disaster relief, but also complete various major projects of the imperial court, which was really a meritorious act. In my opinion, if there are natural and man-made disasters there in the future, and there are displaced people, we might as well use this good strategy to solve the problem.

The barbarians who are mining in the peach blossom mine are not slaves, they are treated very well, they have a house to live in, they can eat enough at every meal, they can still have a little meat every 10 days, they are warmly dressed, they can go to the hospital for free if they are sick, and their children can go to school to study.

Let's ask, in that county in the world, can the people of that county be treated like this? This kind of treatment is not to say being a slave, I think the world in ancient legends is nothing more than that.

If Taifu doesn't believe it, he can take a trip to the peach blossom mining area to see if those barbarians are living in dire straits. ”

ps. Ask for collections, ask for all kinds of tickets.