Above the court, the ministers were excited.

The occupation of the military camp has become an unspoken rule, and these ministers in the court are not unaware, but they are all vested interests, so they all turn a blind eye, and even take the initiative to act as the umbrella of those gentry and wealthy families.

Most of these people's wealth was obtained through the annexation of land, even if some people were from poor families and did not do these things in their original families, but with their high positions and powers, this kind of thing was inevitable.

Even Li Banghua, after entering the court, the county decree also gave his family a large piece of land in various theoretically legal names.

It's just that after Li Banghua learned about it, he returned these fields.

But how many Manchu officials can push back the money sent to the door like Li Banghua.

After all, for the vast majority of officials, they have been studying hard for decades, not for this bit of power and money.

Although this matter was nominally done by Gao Yushun, anyone with a discerning eye can see that if Sun Chuanting did not send troops to support, how could it be possible to control so many places with Gao Yushun's little brocade guard, this matter must be led by Sun Chuanting, and Gao Yushun is just helping Sun Chuanting take the blame.

Although they didn't know why Gao Yushun, the prison army, would cooperate with Sun Chuanting so much, Sun Chuanting's move not only lifted their fig leaf, but even touched their interests, so they couldn't tolerate it at all.

At this time, before Lao Zhu arrived, a group of ministers were noisy and shouting, their expressions becoming more and more angry, as if Sun Chuanting had done something heinous.

It's just that some ministers noticed the silent Zhou Yanru and couldn't help but wonder a little.

This Shousuke-sama, when his die-hard supporter Wu Changshi was killed last time, he didn't say a word.

Even if because of Wu Changshi's death, the influence of this Shoufu Lord on officials has decreased a lot, he didn't care at all, but seemed to have completely become the emperor's echo worm, what the emperor said was what he said, and there was never a time to refute.

And many of the people who were killed in Tongguan this time originally followed his path, but he still didn't say a word, it seems that he was really frightened by the emperor.

Thinking of this, those indignant officials couldn't help but glance at Zhou Yanru with some disdain.

It is simply an insult to them to be an official of the same palace as such a brave person, and it seems that he will not be able to do it for too long.

Thinking of this, some ministers, especially Wei Dezao, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, secretly moved their minds in their hearts, and they were ready to wait for this time to try to get Zhou Yanru, the first assistant, down.

Anyway, Zhou Yanru has no power in the DPRK now, even if he fails, he is not afraid of his counterattack, which is simply beneficial and harmless.

Wei Dezao, who had made up his mind, silently withdrew his gaze, trying not to let outsiders notice his thoughts.

And Zhou Yanru listened to the discussion in his ears, even if someone was insinuating accusations against him, he didn't react at all.

It's just that he seems to be calm, but he sighs silently in his heart.

After today, this full hall of colleagues, I don't know how many people will be less.

After following Lao Zhu for more than two months, after really starting to do practical things, Zhou Yanru found that following Lao Zhu was really motivating.

Because Lao Zhu dares to delegate power and has a decision, as long as what you want to do is recognized by Lao Zhu, then you can do things without hindrance, who dares to stumble on you, without waiting for you to speak, Lao Zhu will directly do it.

In the past two months, the court seems to be calm, but in fact, more than a dozen officials, large and small, have been invited to prison.

It's just that because those people's official positions are not high, and they come forward every time, these people still think that they are eliminating dissidents, and they don't think much about Lao Zhu at all.

I don't know that these people were basically taken down by Lao Zhu, and after they were eliminated, Lao Zhu quickly promoted a group of new officials.

The biggest characteristic of these officials is that they have no party or faction, and they were originally the masters who were excluded and sat on the cold bench.

Now that they have been promoted by Lao Zhu like this, they are naturally loyal to Lao Zhu.

Now, the court is still the same court, but it is very different from the situation that was full of party disputes during Chongzhen's reign.

Except for a very few sensitive-minded officials, no one has noticed that there are now some new faces in all the real power departments of the court.

This also means that Lao Zhu has begun to gradually take full control of the imperial court.

Two months ago, these people only thought that the emperor was crazy, so they killed so many people at once.

But only Zhou Yanru knew that Lao Zhu at that time, because of his lack of control over the imperial court, had already killed very restrained.

Now, Sun Chuanting is investigating the invasion of military fields, and it is very likely that Lao Zhu is behind him, otherwise how could Gao Yushun cooperate with Sun Chuanting so much.

And now, they still dare to jump out against it, this is simply jumping into the ghost gate by themselves.

It's just that although Zhou Yanru knows better than anyone else in his heart, he didn't come out last time, and he won't come out this time.

During this time, it was really comfortable to work under Lao Zhu, so some of them didn't have years, and he gradually extinguished.

As the first assistant, if he can really do something practical and be a real stream, it is not unacceptable to him.

Of course, in addition to wanting to be famous in history, there is another important reason that prompts Zhou Yanru to do things in a down-to-earth manner, that is, Lao Zhu's name is too scary, and there is also the Jinyiwei who was cleaned up by Lao Zhu and then strengthened, which is also too terrifying.

In his home, there were only three Jinyiwei spies he found by chance, and even one was an old servant who had been with him for more than 20 years, who had followed him from his hometown and was loyal to him, but he didn't know when he was infiltrated by Jinyiwei.

This is only what he discovered, so how many did he not find?

Therefore, in the depths of Zhou Yanru's heart, no one dared to believe it, even his own son, so he couldn't afford to resist Lao Zhu at all, so he could only be honest and honest.

"Papapa~"

As Luan Yiwei waved the whip in his hand and made three loud explosions, the entire court suddenly fell silent.

After Lao Zhu sat down and the ministers made a big salute, Lao Zhu glanced at the ministers with a calm face, knowing that someone would definitely jump out today.

Therefore, he opened his mouth and said: "You Aiqing's expression looks a little bad, is something bad happening again?" ”

Hearing Lao Zhu take the initiative to ask, the ministers who had the intention of impeaching Sun Chuanting suddenly couldn't stand, and immediately someone took a step forward directly and said loudly:

"Your Majesty, Zhang Qi, the director of the Ministry of Rites, impeached Sun Chuanting for being arbitrary and autocratic, and killing the people without permission for personal gain, causing the people's resentment to boil, and I hope Your Majesty will punish him severely."

Zhang Qi said, took out a copy of the fold from his sleeve, and held it in his hand.

After Zhang Qi finished speaking, Zhou Zhong, the secretary of the Hanlin Academy, and Qin Wang, the director of the Ministry of War, also stood up and impeached Sun Chuanting at the same time.

"Oh, Sun Chuanting has only been in office for two months, has he made so many messes?"

Lao Zhu looked at the group of people who stood up, his tone was very calm, and then after Wang Chengen presented the folds, he flipped through them at will, and then said: "Look at what you said, Sun Chuanting is indeed a little inappropriate. ”

After saying this, Lao Zhu raised his head and said: "It's just that now is the time to employ people, and the imperial court still needs Sun Chuanting to exterminate Li Zicheng, how about letting these things go first?" ”

As for Lao Zhu's possible protection of Sun Chuanting, these ministers had long anticipated.

After Lao Zhu said these words, Wei Dezao and Zhang Jinyan jumped out directly in the matter.

"Your Majesty, the minister impeached Sun Chuanting, acted beyond his authority, as a supervisor, killed officials without permission, plotted against him, and was suspected of dictatorship!"

Wei Dezao raised the fold in his hand, although his tone was calm, but the content of his words was very vicious.

As the governor of the three sides, Sun Chuanting can be in charge of the military and political power of the three provinces, coupled with the sword of Shang Fang given by Lao Zhu, the power is monstrous.

But at this time, Wei Dezao said that he was suspected of dictatorship, what is autocracy, that is self-reliance, that is rebellion.

In addition, Sun Chuanting wantonly killed officials, although those officials were killed because they colluded with the local squire, but "Chongzhen" didn't know, not to mention that Sun Chuanting killed not one or two this time, but hundreds, thousands.

At this moment, they are all talking about gold, and Chongzhen is already suspicious, so he doesn't believe that Chongzhen can still be indifferent in this situation.

"Oh, autocracy?"

Sure enough, after hearing the word autocracy, Lao Zhu seemed to suddenly have a spirit, he sat up slightly straight, and then took the initiative to speak: "Wang Chengen, bring the fold over and show it to us." ”

Seeing Lao Zhu's attitude, the ministers below instantly knew in their hearts, and some ministers who were originally killed by Lao Zhu last time also put down the worries in their hearts at this time.

After Lao Zhu carefully watched the recital, there was a trace of coldness in his eyes, but he didn't show it, but slowly said: "Does anyone still want to impeach Sun Chuanting?" ”

Zhou Yanru below, listening to Lao Zhu's words, felt that Lao Zhu was clearly asking these ministers, does anyone still want to die?

But those ministers didn't hear it, because they thought they understood Lao Zhu's attitude, these ministers rushed to stand up and said one after another: "Your Majesty, the ministers also impeach Sun Chuanting." ”

The ministers below, dozens of black pressed ones came out.

Zhou Yanru looked at these people who were looking for their own death, and closed his eyes a little unbearably.

Although there are at least a few thousand officials in the capital, there are only one or two hundred people who are qualified to stand in this Jinluan Palace.

Last time, dozens of them were killed by Lao Zhu, and now dozens of them have come forward, if they are killed by Lao Zhu again, then more than half of the officials of this court will be killed by Lao Zhu.

It's just that Lao Zhu didn't mean to be soft, just like Zhou Yanru thought, last time he endured the killing intent and didn't do it, it was because of the lack of control over the imperial court, plus the Beijing camp had just started training, and there was no combat effectiveness, so if something happened to him, it was difficult to solve it.

But at this moment, he has been precipitating for two months, and the entire capital is under control.

Originally, even if there was no excuse, he wanted to find an excuse to kill, and since they were sent to the door together at this moment, he naturally would not be polite.

After Wang Chengen led someone to carry the folds to the table, they were piled up with the previous folds, and the yards were high.

Lao Zhu glanced sideways at Cao Huachun, who was in charge of the East Factory, Cao Huachun, who had been told a long time ago, immediately understood what Lao Zhu meant, and nodded directly slightly, indicating that he understood.

Seeing that Cao Huachun received his own hint, Lao Zhu didn't care about it anymore, took out a copy from the fold casually, and then opened his mouth to read: "Hanlin Academy's Jishi Zhou Zhong." Impeachment ......"

Lao Zhu hadn't finished reading yet, Cao Huachun, who had just received the hint, stood up directly, and said without regard to etiquette: "Your Majesty, the minister impeached Zhou Zhong, the secretary of the Hanlin Academy, formed a party for personal gain, privately occupied the military household Tuntian, oppressed people with power, and caused death. ”

"Oh? And the evidence? ”

Lao Zhu said with interest: "It's the first time we've seen an impeachment with evidence." ”

"Cao Huachun, present your evidence."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Cao Huachun waved his hand, and the Jinyi guard, who had already prepared outside, walked in with a thick confession.

Lao Zhu asked Wang Chengen to put these testimonies on the other side of the table, and then opened them and said while reading them.

"I didn't expect Zhou Zhong that you have a lot of property, two thousand hectares of fertile land, it's really an eye-opener for us."

Lao Zhu's tone was a little sarcastic, but when he saw the back, his face was a little unsightly, "Just because of a piece of land, you actually put pressure on the local county government and killed a family of thirteen." ”

"Zhou Zhong, you damn it!

！ ”

To be honest, although he asked Cao Huachun to collect these evidences, Lao Zhu didn't know the specific details.

After seeing these courtiers so unscrupulous for the first time at this moment, his heart was instantly filled with anger.

He just started to see these evidences, with such a thick testimony, how many people Zhou Zhong has killed over the years!

Although most of these things were not done by him, the root cause was that he used his position to put pressure on the officials below.

Even if he didn't do it, he was the mastermind, and those county officials and officials who really did it were nothing more than his Zhou Zhong's accomplices.

Lao Zhu flipped down a few times, and the more he looked at it, the more angry he became, and finally he couldn't stand it anymore, so he stood up and smashed these confessions towards Zhou Zhong with his head and face covered.

"The court has raised you for so many years, is this how you repay the court?"

"The people regard you as a parent, why do you regard the people?"

Speaking of anger, Lao Zhu simply walked down from the dragon chair and kicked Zhou Zhong with one kick, "You pig and dog are not as good as you, you are in vain!" ”

"Your Majesty spares your life, and the minister is wronged!"

Zhou Zhong, who was kicked over by Lao Zhu, almost turned his back on his breath directly, he took the time to glance at the confessions that fell to the ground, and his face suddenly changed greatly, and then he begged for mercy: "The minister doesn't know anything about these things, and I hope Your Majesty will give the minister some time, and the minister will definitely find out these things." ”

"Let's give you time, have you given those people time?"

Lao Zhu, who was furious, did not mean to be appeased at all, and said directly in a cold voice: "Come on, send this dog thing to the edict for us." ”

"What the court has given him over the years, we want you to take it back from him little by little!"