It is now the early winter of the fourteenth year of Wanli, the world outside the hall is white, the grass, trees, birds and birds are hidden, and the charcoal in the hall is burning red, and the golden gourd hammer on the maule is shining.

Zhu Yijun, who was standing on the side of the golden gourd hammer, looked at the Empress Dowager Li at this time and asked, "What happened to my mother?" ”

Empress Dowager Li sneered: "What can I do, I will naturally intercede for your imperial brother." ”

As she spoke, Empress Dowager Li glanced at King Chong, and then asked Zhu Yijun: "What, the emperor really plans to kill him?" ”

Zhu Yijun glanced at King Chong with deep eyes, and did not answer clearly, only said: "Yes or no." ”

"Jun'er!"

"You listen to my advice, he is your imperial brother no matter what!"

"And brothers, friends and brothers, is the principle taught by the saints, and it is also a ceremony that everyone in the world pays attention to! What's more, the royal family and nobles are different from the bureaucrats and the people, they are a family with you, you can't be too upright and offend the royal family and nobles too hard! ”

"Before, your imperial brother was beaten and imprisoned by your rod was already very repugnant to the clan relatives in the world, and now if you kill him because of this, you may not be able to stop their greed, but it will force them to do more risky things."

"When the time comes, it will be the common people who will suffer!"

Empress Dowager Li knew that Zhu Yijun now had a solid foundation in the court, so she did not use a reproachful tone, but said to Zhu Yijun in an exhorting tone.

At this time, King Chong also kowtowed to Zhu Yijun again and said: "The minister must change his past, please give the minister another chance!" ”

After speaking, King Chong looked at Zhu Yijun, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly.

Zhu Yijun also glanced at him, but noticed that there was still a hint of banter in his eyes, and he seemed to be saying that he would dare next time.

Zhu Yijun therefore glanced at the golden gourd hammer on his head, and then said to the Empress Dowager Li:

"However, not killing will only make their greed more difficult to contain, and more people will suffer indirectly because of them!"

"In the past, the emperor's brother colluded with foreign ministers and interfered in court politics just to be imprisoned, which still made many vassal kings have a fluke mentality, and they feel that even if they do too much, they will not be punished for death!"

"That's why King Chong dares to continue to be so nonsense now!"

"Although it seems that these vassal kings are only accumulating wealth and not directly doing evil, you must know that they are doing evil by corrupting the bureaucrats, and most of the bureaucrats, especially the officials below, do not have the concept of family and country, if they are corrupted and do evil, the people of the whole world will suffer because of this!"

"At that time, this price will still be borne by our royal family."

"Your Majesty means to kill the ministers?"

King Chong asked with an angry look on his face, and then hurriedly looked at Empress Dowager Li.

Empress Dowager Li also looked at Zhu Yijun.

Zhu Yijun looked at the Empress Dowager Li: "Do you want to persuade the queen mother again?" ”

Empress Dowager Li said: "I don't want to interfere with you, but I believe that if you do this, the royal family and nobles will be unhappy, and the officials of the foreign dynasty will not advocate his execution, because the "Da Ming Law" does not say that the vassal king must be executed if he does this!" ”

"What's more, isn't there already a clan relative who has begun to intercede for him!"

"You should know what the consequences are of being so unkind."

After Empress Dowager Li said this, she asked Zhu Yijun: "Do you really plan to let your imperial brother kneel in front of you all the time?" ”

When King Chong saw that Empress Dowager Li was still facing him, he smiled lightly at the floor.

Zhu Yijun took off the golden gourd and played with it in his hand.

Suddenly, Zhu Yijun lifted the golden gourd and smashed it on the top of King Chong's skull.

"What are you doing?"

"Stop!"

Empress Dowager Li asked urgently.

King Chong raised his head with some curiosity, but as soon as he raised it, his eyes turned black, and then he felt that Venus had risen all over the world, and the whole person fell to the ground, bleeding like a pour, and his eyes could not be opened.

"Ahh

King Chong also screamed, squinted and saw Zhu Yijun walking towards him with a golden gourd again, hurriedly covering the blood flowing from the wound, and walked out:

"I'm your royal brother! How can you do that! ”

"Your Majesty, I was wrong!"

"Spare my life, I don't dare anymore, I don't dare to do anything wrong, I don't dare to think about your death!"

"I really don't dare! Don't kill me, I beg you! ”

King Chong begged as he walked, and hurriedly said all the true thoughts in his heart.

"If the law can't kill you, I will kill you personally, and see who dares to sin the world!"

Bang!

After Zhu Yijun said, he caught up and smashed a golden gourd on the back of King Chong's head.

King Chong fell to the ground.

Zhu Yijun hammered a few more times, and only stopped when King Chong didn't move.

Then, Zhu Yijun raised his blood-red eyes, lifted the bloody gourd, and looked at the Empress Dowager Li:

"No one can rely on their identity not to take me seriously!"

"I am not a slave of the Zhu family, not a slave of the world!"

"My rules can only be violated by me, no one can violate them, and if you don't do it, you can do it!"

"If the queen mother and the people of the world feel that my actions are contrary to the king's way and should be deposed, then go and abolish me, I am not afraid!"

Zhu Yijun dropped the gourd hammer as he spoke, went out of the hall, and stepped on the snow, leaving bright red footprints one by one.

Empress Dowager Li came back to her senses after a long time, and for a moment she noticed King Chong, who was covered with blood on the ground, and couldn't help but take a few steps back, and said busily:

"Go back to the palace, go back to the palace immediately!"

Empress Dowager Li then hurried back to the palace.

But soon, Empress Dowager Li went to Chen's place again and told Chen's about today's events: "Sister, why did you say Jun'er did this? It's horrible! ”

"You shouldn't go!"

"Who told you to go to the emperor?"

As she spoke, Empress Dowager Chen asked Empress Dowager Li.

Empress Dowager Li said: "The news brought by Aunt Xu (Xu Congcheng) said that King Chong was arrested and taken to Beijing, so I thought that things were not good, so I should persuade Jun'er." ”

"You fool!"

"It's okay if you don't go, if you go, he will have to die if he worships the king!"

Empress Dowager Chen said.

Empress Dowager Li asked, "What do you say?" ”

Empress Dowager Chen smiled: "You only thought that Jun'er was your son, but you didn't think about whose grandson he was!" ”

After hearing this, Empress Dowager Li understood, so she said: "Jun'er is hammering and killing King Chong and said, if I feel that it is against the king's way, I can abolish him with the people of the world." ”

"What?!"

Empress Dowager Chen was suddenly shocked, and stood up and looked at Empress Dowager Li:

"You hurry, quickly send a benevolent edict to the royal family of the world, just say that King Chong is disrespectful to you because of provoking the emperor, and his mouth is not inferior to the wild words, so the Son of Heaven is angry and hammers him, today he feels his filial piety, and specially tells the clan, be sure to strictly manage the children, first abide by the virtues of the ministers, and then talk about friendship!"

"Otherwise, I really don't know how many things we Jun'er will do with imperial means!"

"Our Jun'er is indeed grown up now, and no one in the world can go against his will, but I can only be afraid that he will respect him and love him."

As she spoke, Empress Dowager Chen looked at Empress Dowager Li and shouted, "What are you doing in a daze!" There is no family affection in the heavenly family, you don't want to die violently tonight, just bear this matter for Jun'er! Don't look like you're useless except to add blockage! ”

Empress Dowager Li bowed her head and instructed the female officials beside her: "Do it immediately!" ”

After Zhu Yijun came out of the palace here, he came to serve the imperial secretary, and instructed Zhang Hong: "Yuanfu, Sun Xin, Jiguo Gong, Tieling Marquis and Jinyi Wei Zhang Jingxiu are here." ”

Not long after, Shen Shixing, Sun Xin, Qi Jiguang, Li Rusong, and Zhang Jingxiu came to Zhu Yijun to serve the imperial division.

Zhu Yijun looked at the five people: "Remember, I am now making the following arrangements!" ”

(End of chapter)