"The students have thanked the Holy Lord."

After being stunned for a moment, Xia Yunyi and the other scholars thanked each other.

Although they didn't quite understand what the Holy Lord had just said for a while, they really felt the meaning of the sincere teachings that flowed out of the Holy Lord's words.

The civilian and military generals present were also envious.

The heart said that this group of scholars is the real protégé of the Son of Heaven.

Chongzhen waved his hand, and then turned his gaze to Xie Xuelong: "Xie Ge Lao." ”

"The minister is here." Xie Xuelong hurriedly took a step forward, and couldn't help wiping his tears, "Holy Lord, seeing that your dragon body is unharmed, the old minister really has mixed feelings in his heart......

"It's a fluke, I wasn't on the ship at the time."

Chongzhen did not say much about the details of the Yangzhou murder case, let alone tell the truth.

With a perfunctory remark casually, Chongzhen said again: "Now the old Shi Ge is resigning from his post at home, Gao Hongtu asks for Zhishi, Jiang Yueguang is also at home waiting for trial, and the cabinet will rely on you to provoke the beam." ”

When Shi Kefa came out of the hall just now, he had already met Chongzhen.

Chongzhen begged him to stay in the cabinet, but Shi Kefa politely refused.

The emperor only invited him once and then came back to go straight, which was very humiliating.

Shi Kefa's concerns, Chongzhen can also understand, it is nothing more than wanting the decency of civil officials.

Previously, he was suddenly shocked to hear the bad news of Chongzhen's assassination, and Shi Kefa didn't care about his personal name for the sake of the Ming Dynasty.

But now that he knows that Chongzhen has nothing to do, he can't just invite him once and return to the cabinet, so that he Shi Kefa will become a laughing stock in officialdom.

Chongzhen estimated that if he hadn't asked for ten or eight times with official documents, Shi Kefa would not have come back to go straight.

But the government can't be stopped, someone has to support it, and it depends on Xie Xuelong and Lu Zhenfei.

"The minister is terrified." Xie Xuelong hurriedly said, "The minister will definitely do his best to handle the affairs of the cabinet for the saint and the Ming Dynasty together with the elder Lu Ge, and he will definitely not miss the state affairs." ”

"Okay." Chongzhen nodded and said, "The first urgent task is to recall Elder Liu Zongzhou from Shanyin......"

As soon as the words fell, a little eunuch hurriedly ran in, and whispered a few words in the ear of He Zhikong, the eunuch of Bingbi, He Zhikong's face froze, and he ran to Chongzhen in small steps.

"Long live the lord, the Liu family in Shanyin has just sent someone to report the funeral."

"Master Liu Zongzhou has already driven the crane west two days ago."

Chongzhen couldn't help but sigh when he heard this, but Liu Zongzhou still didn't survive this year.

In another time and space, Liu Zongzhou died because he was unwilling to surrender to the Qing hunger strike, and there was no talk of surrendering to the Qing in this time and space, so most of them were killed by Zuo Guangxian and the others.

Xia Yunyi, Fang Yizhi and other scholars also looked gloomy.

But Liu Zongzhou's student Huang Zongxi was so angry that he gritted his teeth.

"Piff, Zuo Lao Piff, I, Huang Zongxi, and Er swear not to stand together!"

If Zuo Guangxian had stayed here, he would have been severely beaten by Huang Zongxi, who had beaten an official of the imperial court in public in the lobby of the Criminal Department when he was in Beijing.

It's just that if you can hide from the first year of junior high school, you may not be able to hide from the fifteenth.

Judging by Huang Zongxi's reaction at this time, Zuo Guangxian's blow is estimated to be undodgable.

Chongzhen said to Meng Zhaoxiang again: "Meng Qing, your Ministry of Rites will agree on the gift and nickname of Lord Liu as soon as possible, and I will transfer another 1,000 from the Internal Affairs Office, forget it, or transfer 3,000 taels of silver for funeral silver, and then send 16 officials to Shanyin to attend the funeral of Lord Liu on behalf of the imperial court and me, this matter needs to be done as soon as possible." ”

"Command." Meng Zhaoxiang received the holy decree and left in a hurry with the officials of the Ministry of Rites.

Chongzhen said again: "Since the elder Liu Zongzhou is no longer there, then the Youdu Imperial History, together with the Shangshu of the Criminal Department and the Ying Tian Governor, will reopen the three halls to try the case of Zhan Yangzhi and Ma Mingluo Tongkou." ”

"This?" Chongzhen's move caught the ministers present off guard.

Do you want to retry the cases of Zhan Yangzhi and Ma Mingluotongkou? And it's still a three-class triage?

Chongzhen said: "The law is the law, even if it is me, I can't trample on the law at will because of private abolition of the public. ”

"Of course, the case of killing the monarch and plotting rebellion will eventually be tried in three sessions."

"However, the food has to be eaten one bite at a time, and the matter has to be done one by one, so let's try the case of Tongkou first, as for the case of killing the monarch and plotting against him, let Jinyiwei investigate and collect evidence first, but I can assure you here that Jinyiwei is limited to investigation and evidence collection, and there will be no private torture hall, let alone torture to extract confessions."

Hearing this, the ministers present suddenly stood in awe of Chongzhen.

They originally thought that Chongzhen would release Ma Mingluo unconditionally.

After all, Ma Mingluo is the number one emperor party, the real son of heaven.

However, Chongzhen did not treat Ma Mingluo differently because he was a close minister of the Son of Heaven.

Chongzhen obeyed the law so much and talked about the rules so much, but the panic caused by a large number of Donglin Chang officials going home to await trial quickly settled down again.

It seems that the Holy One is still willing to abide by the political rules.

As long as the saint abides by the political rules and is willing to act in accordance with the laws of the Ming Dynasty, then it will be fine.

To be honest, the civilian and military generals present were really worried that Chongzhen would do whatever he wanted with his personal prestige and military power in his hands.

In fact, even Gao Hongtu admitted that Chongzhen already had the capital to do whatever he wanted, the aura of enlightenment in the coal mountain, the exploits of the two defeats in Xuzhou, plus the more than 6,000 Qinwang scholars in the Shizi battalion, and the imperial party, if Chongzhen really wants to do something without the civilian clique, it is already difficult for the Donglin Party to stop.

It is also useless to incite officials to strike on a large scale.

This is also the main reason why Gao Hongtu is so anxious to kill the king.

You can't let Chongzhen grow anymore, otherwise you will really become the Emperor Chongzhen.

Once Chongzhen really becomes the Emperor Chongzhen, then starting from Sanyang, the efforts of their civil official group for more than 200 years will be in vain, which is unacceptable to Gao Hongtu.

But fortunately, it turned out that the worries of the civil and military officials were unnecessary.

At that moment, Zhang Shenyan, the imperial historian of the right capital, Lu Zhenfei, who was also the secretary of the criminal department, and Jin Xuan, who was dressed in mountain armor, came out at the same time, and they all bowed their hands and said, "The ministers have the order." ”

Chongzhen asked Jin Xuan again: "Jin Qing, Ma Mingluo is now locked up in Yingtianfu Prison, right?" ”

"Yes." Kim Hyun said, "The minister once persuaded Ma Mingluo to go home to await trial, but he refused. ”

"It's right that he doesn't go home to await trial, otherwise it really wouldn't be clear." Speaking of this, Chongzhen said to Zhu Cihong, Zhu Cijiong and Zhu Cijiong's brothers, "Let's go, go with my father to meet our old Zhu family's God of Wealth." ”

The insistence on reopening the three sessions just now is to stress the rules and abide by the laws and regulations of the Ming Dynasty.

But at this moment, taking his three sons to visit Ma Mingluo in Yingtianfu Prison is the attitude that an emperor should have.

Even if he is my close minister, he will be tried if he commits a crime, but before he is finally convicted, Ma Mingluo is still my close minister, and I still believe in him and respect him.

This is also considered a calf guard.

……

At this time, in the prison of Ying Tianfu.

The cell boss walked into Ma Mingluo's solitary cell with a wooden plate carrying a few hard dishes and a pot of wine.

"My lord, it's time for lunch, the villain bought you the hard dishes of Liubiju, as well as the old Huadiao wine from Xianheng's old shop." The cell boss laid out the food and drinks one by one on the small wooden table.

Ma Mingluo put down his book and walked to the small table and sat down.

"Cell boss, thank you, remember how much money you spent, and I'll pay you back when I get out."

"No, it doesn't actually cost a lot of money." The cell boss waved his hand and said, "We Ying Tianfu Ya are the old customers of Liubiju and Xianheng old stores, and the price is very fair. ”

Ma Mingluo smiled, picked up the wine cup and drank it all.

"Good wine!" Ma Mingluo smashed his mouth twice and praised, "Ten years of Chen Huadiao!" ”

"My lord, when it comes to wine tasting, this is it." The cell boss gave a thumbs up.

At this time, another voice suddenly sounded: "Ma Qing, your food is very good?" ”

"Holy?" Ma Mingluo was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and when he turned around and saw that it was really Chongzhen, he quickly stood up and bowed, and the cell head next to him had already knelt on the ground.

"Cell boss, add a pair of chopsticks to me."

After Chongzhen finished speaking, he sat down opposite Ma Mingluo again.

"Command." The cell boss got up and flew away.

"Flat." Only then did Chongzhen signal Ma Mingluo to get up, and then asked, "Ma Qing, where are your shackles and shackles?" ”

"Holy Lord, how can a minister be such a small person." Ma Mingluo got up and said, "I deliberately wore shackles and shackles to sell such things as selling miserably to the saint, and the minister couldn't do it." ”

"I appreciate Ma Qing's character."

Chongzhen said: "Don't be shocked by the humiliation, although you are in adversity, you will never exile yourself, this time I have suffered such a big grievance, I didn't cry when I saw me, and I didn't complain." ”

smiled, and said: "Even when you are in prison, you don't forget to enjoy the wine and food." ”

Zhu Cixiong and Zhu Cijiong, who were standing next to him, also laughed aloud, only Zhu Cijiong's little face was wrinkled.

"Holy Lord, don't boast about your ministers anymore." Ma Mingluo sighed and said, "When the minister was taken away from the city that day, he saw that the people all over the city were smashing the ministers with rotten vegetable leaves, rotten eggs and stones, and the minister really wanted to give up at that time. ”

"But you didn't give up." Chongzhen said, "You Ma Mingluo survived after all, didn't you." ”

Ma Mingluo nodded and said: "The main thing is that I don't want to live up to the holy grace, the minister has to be worthy of the trust of the saint, and the holy lord entrusts the huge internal affairs office to the minister, and the minister has to take on this responsibility for the saint." ”

"But Holy Lord, you shouldn't come to visit the ministers in the Heavenly Mansion Prison."

"You've done this to give your ministers enough dignity, but you've put yourself in a disadvantageous position."

Speaking of this, Ma Mingluo said again: "The people of Jiangnan are ignorant, they will believe whatever the Donglin Party says, and the Donglin Party will definitely create public opinion and accuse the Holy Lord of ignoring the law to protect the ministers." ”

"Donglin Party members?" Zhu Cijiong said, "This time they are afraid that they will not be able to take care of themselves." ”

"Can't take care of yourself?" Ma Mingluo said, "What does His Royal Highness King Ding's words mean?" ”

Zhu Cijiong said: "Deputy Director Ma, the Donglin Party members are suspected of participating in the murder of the monarch and plotting rebellion, and they have been collectively at home, now they should think about how to clear their own hands." ”

(End of chapter)