Fengtian carried the emperor, and the edict said: The crown prince Zhu Jianshen is talented and intelligent, and he has learned from the words and deeds of Confucius and Mencius, and he often feels that the order is in Lunxian. In order to follow the etiquette and Taoism, I deposed the crown prince Zhu Jianshen as the prince and demoted him to the title of King Yi, Qinya!"

The celebrant sealed the eunuch Xing'an, and after reading this holy decree in a sharp voice, he directly stunned the civil and military officials of the court inside and outside the Fengtian Palace.

Although everyone had been mentally prepared to abolish the crown prince early, no one expected that it would come so suddenly, and the emperor did not wait for the process of the court discussion at all, and came to read out the holy decree first.

At this time, even if the old Xunqi group and the civil official group want to oppose it by upholding the etiquette law, they don't know how to cut in for a while.

However, there are more than one thing that shocked the civil and military officials, after Xing'an read out the edict of the abolished prince, the little eunuch next to him immediately presented another holy decree, he slowly rolled it up, cleared his throat and continued to read.

"Fengtian carries the emperor, and the edict says: The emperor has never ruled the world, and he has never failed to respect the heavens and the ancestors. Respect for the heavens and the ancestors of the truth is soft and far-reaching, recuperate and recuperate, a total of the benefits of the four seas for the benefit, the heart of the whole day for the heart, to protect the state in the future, to rule in the chaos, to work diligently all night, sleep is not to be missed, for the long-term national plan, close to it."

"I have been on the throne for four years in accordance with the edict of the Emperor Tai, and I have not been tired of working hard and dare not be comfortable with all the important affairs of the military and the state, and the employment of people and administration. The foundation of the sect is in the storage position, God blesses the people as the king, and the father has the son of the world. The eldest son of the current emperor, Zhu Jianji, is handsome and well-educated, and he has the talent to prosper the Bang family, and the inheritance of the unification should be returned to the Holy Son."

"Therefore, he was established as the crown prince, and he is hereby in the East Palace, and he respects the heavens and respects the country. Chin Ya, the fifteenth day of the fifth month of the third year of Jingtai."

That's right, the second decree read by Xing'an is the edict of Zhu Jianji, the eldest son of the emperor, as the prince!

If it was said that the civil and military officials had not reacted at the beginning, when the edict of the crown prince was read out, they finally recovered from the shock, and for a time it can be said that the audience was in an uproar.

"Since ancient times, the abolition of the East Palace has been a solemn etiquette, how can it be such a child's play?"

"The crown prince is only seven years old now, how can he understand that Xu Zailun took the initiative to abdicate the throne?"

"The prince is not at fault, please think twice!"

"It is not in accordance with the etiquette to be abolished like this, and I ask Your Majesty to take back your order!"

The group of Yanguan Qingliu standing outside the hall exploded first, they were already gearing up, ready to oppose Yi Chu in righteous words at the court meeting, and they could not accept the emperor's sloppy Yi Chu no matter what.

Some of the more excited young officials even had the idea of rushing into the palace to speak up, but Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu may have expected such a scene to happen, and the Jinyi lieutenants and Han generals who were waiting on the side quickly surrounded and lined up to prevent the officials from making radical moves.

At this time, Zhu Qiyu no longer had the fear and weakness that he faced with the opposition of hundreds of officials in the imperial court at the beginning of his succession, and he looked at everything that happened outside the palace with extremely indifferent eyes. There can be no appeasement and retreat in the matter of Yi Chu, otherwise it will be approached step by step by the clear stream of the official, resulting in no retreat.

In addition, Zhu Jianji, the eldest son of the Emperor of the First Moon Dynasty, was infected with wind and cold, and after several months of investigation, in addition to finding that someone was suspected, he could no longer find any substantive evidence, which made Zhu Qiyu feel a little frightened, and at the same time made his heart as strong as iron.

After waiting for the brocade guards to temporarily suppress the hustle, Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu set his eyes on Chen Xun, the first assistant of the cabinet in the front row.

As the saying goes, "Raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while", Zhu Qiyu took Chen Xun, who had weak qualifications and prestige, and promoted him step by step to the status of surpassing Yu Qian's position as a supreme minister by adding Shaobao and Prince Taibao, Hubu Shangshu, and Huagai Hall Scholar.

Three years of preparation is waiting for today's easy storage, and it is time for these pro-confidants to play a role.

Sure enough, when he saw the emperor's gesture eyes, Chen Xun took a deep breath, and stood up against the possibility that he might be infamous in the future, and said, "The country of Guyun has a long monarch, and the blessing of the society is the same."

"The emperor's eldest son, Zhu Jianshen, is in the East Palace, which is expected by everyone, and the ministers congratulate Your Majesty!"

What are you looking forward to?

Hear Chen

Following these words, most of the civil officials inside and outside the Fengtian Hall were directly stunned, how shameless it must be to stand up to the mouths of the people and say the four words that everyone wants.

Before the Qingliu people present could refute it, the crown prince and the secretary He Wenyuan took the initiative to stand up and say: "God bless the king of the people, and the real legacy is in the four seas; The Father has the son of the world, and the Father is solid for ten thousand years."

"Father-to-son transmission is the unchanging etiquette and Taoism for generations, congratulations to Your Majesty!"

Compared with Chen Xun, who originally had the title of the first assistant of the cabinet, he only lacked qualifications and prestige. He Wenyuan is a pure marginal official, and in the sixth year of orthodoxy, he offended hundreds of officials because of the Battle of Luchuan, and Zhishi stayed at home for a full time.

Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu gave him a chance to recover, and he also gave the holy family an incomparable grace, and this grace of knowing was destined to He Wenyuan to be the hardcore of the imperial party. Regardless of the mainstream opinion of the Chinese official group of the DPRK, he will definitely agree with Yi Chu on the emperor's side.

In addition to Chen Xun and He Wenyuan, the two important ministers came out, and soon Wang Yining, the cabinet minister, Shang Shu Yiming of the Ministry of War, Wang Wen, the imperial envoy of the capital, and Jiang Yuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, etc., all stood up and expressed their support for Yi Chu clearly.

In an instant, the expressions on the faces of the ministers inside and outside the Fengtian Hall were very different, especially those young Qing gossip officials, their pupils were full of incredulity, as if they couldn't believe their eyes.

For a long time, the mainstream voice of court officials has not held high the banner of etiquette and law to oppose Yi Chu?

Why did it come to this day, the scarlet robes and important ministers in the court jumped back one after another, choosing to support the emperor and abolish the crown prince. Where are the words and deeds of the saints they read, where are the etiquette, righteousness and shame, and the original important ministers in the court are all "hypocrites"?

At this time, the changes in the court have taught many young officials a vivid lesson, this is the essence of bottomless officialdom!

Holding on to the last glimmer of hope, the officials and Qingliu set their sights on Wang Zhi, the secretary of the ministry, and Hu Hu, the secretary of the ministry, who are the two pillars of the real ranking of civil officials.

As long as these two people stand up and lead the opposition, then the civilian-official clique can still unite and force the emperor to make concessions!

"Otsuka Zai, as a heavenly official of the Ministry of Officials and the head of a hundred officials, shouldn't he stand up and set things right?"

"Please also ask Otsuka to come out and correct the king!"

"Dazong Bo is the elder of the Six Dynasties, and his prestige in the court is unparalleled, so he should speak up."

"The Ministry of Rites is in charge of the sect's legal decrees, and it should advise Your Majesty on the right and wrong!"

At this moment, the Ming Dynasty's officials and Qingliu finally showed their side of not being afraid of power, even if the other party was the supreme emperor.

There may be many shortcomings in the official, and for many people, he may be no different from a "professional troll". But it is undeniable that only with such a group of upright and even somewhat "naïve" people exists, can the entire court or country have a chance to correct its mistakes.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, when the official Qingliu was interrupted by the "Great Rites Discussion" and became the tongue of the party dispute between the DPRK and China, the entire dynasty inevitably went downhill.

However, in the face of the indignation and protest of the civil officials, Wang Zhi, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and Hu Hu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, who stood at the head, acted as if they had not heard it, as if they were standing still.

The emperor issued two holy decrees in a row, coupled with the appearance of many cabinet ministers, and he has already revealed his determination to win. Wang Zhi is a weak person, and the most he can do as an official is to follow the trend, and he will never do anything against the current.

As for Hu Hui's ability to become a veteran of the Six Dynasties, and now he is still standing firmly in the forefront of civil officials, it explains a lot of problems in itself, and he has long been accustomed to protecting himself.

Many of the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty were able to "admonish to the death with literature and fight to the death with martial arts", but they did not include them.

Looking at the scene of support or silence in the hall, Zhu Qiyu showed a long-lost smile on his face. In three years, he reversed his disadvantage of having no foundation in the court, and finally tasted the sense of power that belonged to the emperor.

Command the world, don't dare to disobey!

No one in the court objected?

The occurrence of this strange scene has completely broken through the understanding of middle and low-level officials, and the original clamoring rance of etiquette and Taoism is the same in the face of power

This one is vulnerable!

Just when everyone thought that Yi Chu's dust had settled, Yang Ji, who was standing in the corridor outside the hall, suddenly shouted: "Da Sima, Yi Chu said to cater to the wishes of the gods."

"The pillar of the public state, has it become a sycophant?"

Yang Ji looked at Yu Qian's back with a sad and angry face, and when the rumors of Yi Chu spread, he wrote a letter to Yu Qian, the secretary of the Ministry of War, hoping that the other party would oppose it from the perspective of the family, the country, the world, and the etiquette and law.

As a result, this letter was like a stone sinking into the sea, and I didn't wait for Yu Qian's response for a long time.

Now that Emperor Yi Chu is challenging the etiquette law, no one in the Manchu Dynasty dares to stand up against it. Yu Qian's selfless character was once Yang Ji's "white moonlight" in the officialdom, and he vowed to become such a national soldier, so he applied to the military department after the imperial examination to become a political jinshi.

But Yu Qian's silence made Yang Ji's ideals and goals annihilated, it turned out that in the face of power and wealth, Yu Qian was no different from ordinary people!

Hearing the cry of grief and indignation in this life, Shen Yichen looked back at the unfamiliar face outside the hall, and the other party was already in tears at this time.

To be honest, Shen Yichen can understand the feelings of this young official very well, in a sense, Yu Qian is also a ray of light on his life path. Shen Yichen can be tactful, compromised, and degenerate by himself, but he never wants to see Yu Qian give up the justice in his heart, even if many times the interests are not consistent with Shen Yichen's goals.

Everyone doesn't want to become Yu Qian, but everyone hopes that there is such a Yu Qian who would rather bend than bend!

If Yu Qian changes, it means that the ideals and justice in his heart have collapsed, and it is not surprising that there is such a painful look of collapse.

"Presumptuous, roaring at the court, what a crime!"

In the face of Yang Ji's crying, Wang Wen, the imperial envoy of the capital, immediately stood up and reprimanded, as the boss of the supervision department, he had the authority to be in charge of the discipline of the court. In addition, now that the dust has settled on Yi Chu, it is impossible for any strong opposition forces to appear, of course, the icing on the cake has to be performed in front of the emperor.

"Not guilty!"

Almost at the moment when Wang Wen's voice fell, a loud and deep voice came out from the front row of the civil official, and the person who said this sentence was Yu Qian!

Seeing the appearance of this scene, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty focused their eyes on Yu Qian, compared to the surprise of others, Shen Yichen was more of an indescribable complex emotion.

He didn't want to be in this kind of thing that was a foregone conclusion, Yu Qian still stood up and insisted on the principles in his heart. But I don't know why, Shen Yichen silently expects that Yu Qian will not choose to protect himself.

After all, there were too many refined and self-interested people in the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, and there was only one upright Yu Qian!

"Your Majesty, people cannot stand without faith, industry cannot prosper without faith, and countries will decline without faith."

"As early as the beginning of His Majesty's accession to the throne, he had already made an oath with the Queen Mother and the hundred officials, and appointed Zhu Jianshen, the eldest son of the Emperor, as the prince, and passed on to him a hundred years later. Now that the crown prince has been deposed without fault, has Your Majesty forgotten the original oath?"

As soon as Yu Qian said this, it was like dropping a bombshell in the Fengtian Temple, you must know that he was the first Conglong hero to support Emperor Jingtai, and theoretically the two sides belonged to the same interest group.

In addition, now that the Emperor Taishang has been in the sky, there is no possibility of the transfer of the imperial system in the future, Yu Qian reminded the oath made by the emperor back then, which is simply a pot that cannot be opened.

Opposing Yi Chu to say this, Yu Qian was already equivalent to offending the emperor, but when he never expected it, he did not mean to stop, and continued to say righteously: "The matter of Yi Chu, most of the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty are afraid of the interests and harms, and they dare not say anything different. On the contrary, those who figure out what they want will be promoted for a while."

"So that there is a miracle of the Taibao of the Manchu Dynasty, a book and two books, so that the atmosphere prevails, is it the luck of the family and the country?"

At this time, Yu Qian finally said his heart, in fact, compared to Yi Chu, he was more concerned about the flattery of the DPRK and China.

In recent years, in order to compete for the right to speak in the court, Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu has been promoted to the rank of official as long as he agrees that Yi Chu is on his side. You must know that during the orthodox dynasty of Ming Yingzong, the titles of three young people, three orphans, three divisions and so on were precious and abnormal, and they were even exceptional

The first assistant of the cabinet can only be ranked second-class, and there is no way to step into the ranks of first-class official residences by virtue of the additional title.

As a result, Zhu Qiyu added the title of Yipin in three years, and distributed it as if he didn't want money, and now the cabinet minister doesn't have the titles of three young and three orphans on his head, so he is embarrassed to go out to say hello.

If it is said that the proliferation of titles is still within the acceptable range, then the indiscriminate issuance of official positions has already substantially affected the operation of the center of the court, dragging each other back and leading to administrative inefficiency.

Yu Qian knew that his silence on the matter of Yi Chu had led to his separation from the emperor, but if he changed or continued to turn a blind eye, then Yu Qian would not be able to become a national warrior.

Today, he finally said the chaos caused by the emperor for Yi Chu, even if he did not hesitate to lose his official position and ask for the guilt. As an official, you must have the consciousness of serving the country and the people, and as a literati, you must have an unyielding character and integrity.

Once flattery prevails, the country will not be a country!

(End of chapter)