The emperor wants to remove the title of lord, which is a more serious situation.

And the reason why Zhu Houzhao wants to do this is not only the one mentioned earlier.

In addition, he also knew that the amount of money involved in the salt class was really large, and it was not possible to clean up the shortcomings in it. So you can't be a little soft,

Because he is soft here, he will put a lot of pressure on the people who directly execute, they don't know if the person they arrested is right, they will think that maybe the emperor's determination has not arrived, and finally let it go.

When that happens, what will they do?

These people are all this Hou and that uncle, it is not easy to find their faults, the emperor is very busy, and he can't support them every day.

That's the saying: 'Nothing soft can be done'!

So even if Britain said it publicly, Zhu Houzhao couldn't agree.

Emotionally, he dislikes these people who sell illicit salt, and rationally, he can't let them go easily.

It's just that some of these reasons can be said, some can't, and his courtiers may not all understand them, and maybe they will have some slight complaints against him from now on.

Hundreds of years later, his reputation is not much better.

And for the moment, he doesn't care about this, anyway, some people say it's good, and some people say it's bad. All he cared about was whether these people did what he wanted them to do.

The British public is old and has a high status, and he finally opened his mouth once, but the emperor refused in person, and he also felt uncomfortable.

At that time, Emperor Hongzhi had a generous personality and was very good at speaking many times. Now all I can say is ...... Everything has changed.

Thinking like this in his heart, he also began to recall the first emperor, and then he couldn't help but feel sourness in his heart, so that he slowly sobbed and shed tears.

An old man wept in front of him,

Zhu Houzhao is very inexplicable,

"British duke, what are you crying for?!"

"Back to Your Majesty's words. Wechen wants to ...... first"

Halfway through the words, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, and a cold sweat broke out behind his back, if he really wanted to say that he wanted to be the first emperor, he wouldn't want to get out of the Qianqing Palace safely today.

“…… Think...... Thinking of the ancestors, if Xu Zhong, the Marquis of Yongkang, knew that the descendants were so stubborn, he would definitely be furious and angry. ”

Zhu Houzhao stood up from the dragon chair and slowly approached him, "I heard that people always feel nostalgic for the past when they get old. Is this the case in the UK? ”

The British Duke suddenly felt very frightened.

He has been up and down in the court for decades, and naturally understands the emperor's meaning, which means that he is old!

"The old minister lost his honor in front of the king, please punish Your Majesty!"

“…… Punish the sin, and then punish your sin, don't you feel that I am even more impersonal? ”

"The old minister doesn't dare!"

The emperor's prestige is increasing, and it is indeed frightening to say such things.

Zhu Houzhao waved his hand, "Let's all go down." ”

"Yes, the ministers are leaving!"

After they all took two steps back, Zhu Houzhao thought of something, "British duke." ”

"The old minister is here."

"Everyone in the palace knows my character, and I guess you know it. But to make you understand, I'll say it again. In fact, it's also simple, the weekday or occasional mistakes are all tolerant, but it's just a major matter related to the country and the people, and you must not make a mistake. ”

"The old minister understands."

Zhu Houzhao took a note, lowered his head to read, and said the last sentence at the same time,

"Yes. Don't use your status as a prince to influence the trial of the salt class. ”

Britain is terrified.

He just said a word of love for Yongkang Hou, but he didn't expect it to arouse the emperor's secret anger.

And the efforts of the British Duke have not been effective, so who can the court count on?

Jin Yiwei went to Yangzhou to clean up the salt of Lianghuai, and then he will definitely clean up the salt of Liangzhejiang, Changlu and Shandong.

How can you run by that time?

Two days later, Zhu Houzhao went to Yongshou Palace, and when he arrived at the palace gate, he smelled the surging smoke, he felt strange, but he turned in and found that there was a eunuch wearing a Taoist robe, lighting incense with a stove, and he was actually casting a spell!

The surrounding eunuchs and palace maids knelt quite reverently, while Huaiyan and Huaixiao sat on the left and right, closing their eyes, as if sensing heaven and earth.

A eunuch has become a fairy!

Zhu Houzhao was stunned, this incident really shocked him, so much so that he calmed down unusually in anger.

Maybe he allowed the eldest princess of Yongkang to take them to pray to God and worship Buddha, so everyone else acquiesced that it was okay.

After all, Xian Temple and Xiao Temple have also summoned some monks into the palace.

Many old people in the palace still have memories of this.

Even when Huaiyan and Huaixiao saw him coming, they were not particularly frightened by what they had done, but naturally got up to greet him and said, "The concubine greets Your Majesty." ”

The father-in-law who did the work had a rich face, and the earlobes of his two ears were indeed fat, looking like Maitreya Buddha.

At this time, he also pretended to worship him, "The minister has seen Your Majesty." ”

Zhu Houzhao's mind paused for a while, and finally couldn't help laughing angrily,

This matter is also 'to blame yourself', what kind of feudal superstition, power is such a thing, how many people are addicted, you show a little bit of it, I don't know how many people are staring at it in a different way.

"I didn't know that the palace attendants were still hiding the Taoist. Who got it? ”

Huaixiao saw that the emperor seemed to be in a wrong mood, so he hurriedly reported, "Your Majesty is angry, the people of Yongshou Palace have seen that their concubines have recently worshiped God and begged for children, so they said that there is a Wan Shen Yuan Taoist in the palace study, who has advanced magic skills and can communicate with the gods." So the concubine invited the Taoist chief to come here to cast a spell. ”

This Taoist chief does have a unique temperament because of his wealth and white skin, "Your Majesty, you are polite." ”

Zhu Houzhao thought of what the eldest princess Yongkang said to him, and he felt that something was wrong.

So he temporarily suppressed his anger, squinted his eyes and asked, "Wan Dao Chang, your spell is so profound, you should know how these two nobles can give birth to a prince for me, right?" ”

"The minister knows the heavenly palace, the middle knows the world, and the lower knows the earth. His Majesty's problems are naturally known to the ministers. The crux of the two nobles giving birth to the prince is not actually in them, but in the emperor. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"The emperor wants to extend the incense for me, this is humane. The people of the world are all trillion, and they all want to enjoy the human race, God has the virtue of a good life, Your Majesty has been angry recently, and he has been punished lightly, but he doesn't know that the heavy is the light root, and the quiet is the restless king......"

This old fellow said that the Taoist priest looked like a priest, and the emperor became more and more annoyed when he heard him speak every word, and when he heard him flicker on the words of 'light words and heavy punishment', he could no longer bear it.

Syllable!

Zhu Houzhao did it himself, he stepped forward and slapped this person hard.

The crisp sound startled everyone in the Yongshou Palace,

Also because of the excessive strength of his hands, the old Taoist couldn't keep his balance and fell directly to the ground!

With a bang, everyone fell to their knees.

"Your Majesty is angry!"

"Someone, pick up his robe! Pretending to be a ghost and pretending to be a ghost in the palace! ”

Then four or five men rushed up,

This Wan Dao Chang didn't have such a full temperament at this time, and he begged for mercy like a fart and urine, "Your Majesty, there are gods three feet above your head, and some things would rather be believed than not!" ”

"Liu Jin."

"The slave is here."

"I'll leave it up to you."

"Your Majesty commands."

Zhu Houzhao already had a general idea, and he asked first: "Huaixiao." ”

"Minister...... The concubine is here. "The girl's family had never seen the emperor so angry, so the whole person was already frightened.

"Who told you this Wan Shen Yuan for the first time?"

"Yes...... It's eternal...... Eunuch in the Palace of Eternal Longevity. ”

There was one person kneeling around, who was panicking.

“…… Wuqing. ”

"Your Majesty spares your life, Your Majesty spares your life, Your Majesty spares your life......"

Zhu Houzhao put one hand on his waist and pointed at the two of them with the other, "Liu Jin, you arrest these two people and check them like I did this time!" Turn the Forbidden City upside down, and I have to find out the people behind it! ”

"I agree with the two nobles to send their sons and maids, and these slaves and maids dare to take advantage of this loophole to bring these things to the palace! What are you doing, do you want to be the second Li Guang?! ”

"You go now, I don't need you to serve here! If there is no result in this matter, I want your head! ”

Liu Jin didn't dare to say anything, got up in a panic, and then instructed his subordinates, "Hurry up, carry these two people away!" ”

The Lord's Counsel,

The ministers moved these thoughts,

The purpose behind this is actually one, to prevent the expansion of the salt class.

They all want to live.

But to Zhu Houzhao's surprise, even this method was used.

It seems that the dishonest people in this palace are going to take this opportunity to clean up! With a plan in his heart, he first appeased the harem,

In fact, there are many rules in the palace, and you still have to pay attention to some etiquette during the day, but Huaixiao and Huaiyan are a little scared silly, and when Zhu Houzhao went to hug them separately, he didn't dodge.

"You two need not be afraid, this matter has nothing to do with you. I will go back to the Qianqing Palace first, and then come back in the evening. ”

……

On the way back to the Qianqing Palace, he had already asked You Ji to be called.

At the same time, when he passed by the attendant's room, he summoned Yan Song.

"Draw up a decree and order the eunuch Zhang Yong to return to Beijing."

"Yes."

Yan Song didn't know anything else, so he didn't think much about it.

How the ministers arrange it is not just a sentence from the emperor.

After a short time, You Zhi also arrived, and he knelt down in front of the emperor.

"I ask you, has the chief eunuch of Shangshan been summoned?"

You Ji is a little weak-hearted, if he has any results, he will come to report it a long time ago.

"Continue the trial! If there is any way to use any method, I don't believe that these people are all hard bones! ”

At this moment, Zhu Houzhao was indeed a little upset. In fact, he is too smart, he can see through many things, he really wants to be an emperor who swallows dates, where is he angry with these ridiculous things every day.

In fact, sitting in this position, he understood that the Ming Dynasty would die.

Because even people like the British Duke don't take the common people seriously, Zhu Yuanzhang said that the people are easy to abuse, and God is difficult to bully, who of them remembers this sentence?

Ordinary people are still counting on the upper ones to be benevolent and fartty, and the ones above are thinking about how to get a little more out of your heads.

……

There was a creak, and the dungeon of Zhaoji was opened.

Zhu Houzhao couldn't wait to leave the palace and came here.

Gu Zuo sat on the dry grass, perhaps because of the lack of light, his face was only against the tabletop, and he was writing something hard at this time, perhaps because he was too attentive, so he didn't notice the sound of the outside world, and he didn't even know that someone had walked outside his cell.

"Gu Shilang, the emperor has come to see you."

Mao Wenwen saw that he still didn't move, so he called out a little louder, "Gu Shilang, the emperor has come to see you!" ”

Card.

Gu Zuo's pen paused, and he was stunned for a moment before turning his head slightly.

Looking at each other, the feeling is strange and familiar.

Immediately afterwards, Gu Zuo got up and bowed to Zhu Houzhao through the wooden door.

"The criminal minister Gu Zuo, knock on the emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live!"