Looking at his meaningful eyes, Wang Qiong was thoughtful.

If there is anyone in the current cabinet who is not of the same mind as Yang Tinghe, it is only Prince Liang, who served as the first assistant during Yang Ting's and Ding Wei's period.

And Prince Liang, who accompanied Emperor Zhengde to the south to conquer King Ning, also had stains related to his ministers and fortunate ministers.

Wang Qiong also knew that in the Guangzhou Mansion in Prince Liang's hometown, the Liang family's reputation and crimes were the same.

The cabinet is about to expand, but it won't reach six or seven people all at once, right?

Could it be that Liang Chu has already received any news, Yang Ting and them are going to squeeze Liang Chu out first?

Unlike the turbulent waves on the side of the civil officials, the side of the military generals is much calmer.

Anyway, the power of the court probably has nothing to do with them, and now they are barely in a class, just because the ancestral system is like this.

The third drum sounded, and the civil and military officials finally began to quickly line up in order of rank.

Before dawn, the left and right doors in front of me were slowly opened.

Through the deep doorway, the shadow of Fengtianmen, which is difficult to see the whole picture, appears in front of it, and there is no glazed tile that can reflect the light of the morning sun.

Everything is like a new pilgrimage with an unclear tone at this moment, how will the Holy Will adjudicate some things? Who will the Grace fall on?

At this time, Zhu Houxi had already stood up from the canopy hall.

He didn't sit down, Zhang Zuo and Huang Jin behind him were holding a box in their hands, and there were several eunuchs in the clerical room behind him holding plates, among which there were many notes.

Coming out of the Fengtian Hall and going down the steps, Zhu Houxi walked towards the West Corner Gate in front of the right.

The etiquette rules are like this, Zhu Houxi looked at the not wide place over there and felt a little helpless.

In fact, he can be regarded as going up and down under the "eaves".

The royal gate listens to the government, which sounds very high-end, but it is just sitting in the "gatehouse" to discuss national affairs.

It's just that the eaves of this gatehouse are very wide, and there is enough depth for four bays.

The east and west corner doors are much smaller, and they are not above the gimbal, and the momentum is much weaker.

When you get there, many people have to stand in the open air outside the "eaves".

When Zhu Houyu arrived at the place and sat on the throne set up there in advance, the official of Honglu Temple began to sing, and Zhu Houxi's first court finally began.

From his field of vision, first of all, there were the honor guards and guards on both sides of the door, and then there were the hundreds of civil and military officials lined up on both sides.

At this moment, they are all wearing black belts with horns tied over their court clothes to show their mourning.

Zhu Houxi was also not dressed in a gown, he quietly watched Yang Tinghe and Xu Guangzuo and others take the lead and walk in.

There were only thirty or forty people who could walk into the porch, and the rest were outside.

After they finished prostrating, Zhu Houxi said quietly: "Calm down." I heard the report just now that the court counselors, except for Cui Yuan, the commander of the horse, and a few others were all here due to illness. When you ascended the throne, you all met your majesty, and you are no strangers to it. Elder Yang Ge, do you have uncomfortable eyes? ”

Yang Tinghe's tone was a little excited and even choked up: "Your Majesty is in mourning and looking at the court, and the minister is excited, and he is out of shape for a while. ”

Zhu Houxi smiled and nodded.

I really said that I came, and I don't know if I was really moved, or I remembered Zhu Houzhao, who often didn't go to the court, or I had a premonition that today's court meeting was estimated to be difficult, and I already wanted to cry.

His gaze swept over the crowd one by one, stayed on Yuan Zonggao's body in the distance for a moment, and then shifted to Yan Song and Xia Yan.

One is edited by the Hanlin Academy, and the other is in the military department.

Around Yan Song are all the nobles of the Hanlin Academy, including Cui Yuan's son and daughter, Liu Long.

And near Xia Yan, there are two very active people: Zhang Jiuxu and Qi Zhiluan, who are all in the ministry, and Qi Zhiluan, who is in the middle of the matter.

Qi Zhiluan put on two very lethal notes. The first is to ask Zhu Houyu to recall Fei Hong back, and the second is to ask Zhu Houyu to speak widely, let the ministers of civil and military affairs at home and abroad and those who have not been honored by military merits write from themselves, and let Kedao investigate the impeachment of traitors and villains.

Fei Hong and Zhu Houxi had already ordered to be invited, and the other piece of music was still kept.

And Zhang Jiuxu was even more ruthless: he impeached Liang Chu by name, four of the six Shangshu, and many bigwigs in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Zhu Houxi took his gaze back and said, "I have seen the past month and the past few days, and I have watched it for four days. ”

Yang Tinghe took the lead and knelt down again to praise: "Your Majesty's diligence is really a blessing of the Ming Dynasty." ”

Zhu Houxi smiled: "Looking at it, plus checking the accounts for four days, my feeling is: There is no good person in the court, and I am going to die." ”

The civil and military ministers who were still praising each other just now couldn't get up on their knees.

For some reason, Yang Tinghe felt relaxed for no reason: Sure enough.

He knew that there would be a moth, didn't he come on time?

said that there was no good person in the DPRK, Yang Tinghe didn't think it was terrible: he had seen a lot of alarmist things.

This is the first time that the new monarch openly discussed state affairs before the hundred officials, and when it came to the audit, some people couldn't help but feel uneasy in their hearts.

After all, they are not like Yang Ting and a few people who have already dealt with the emperor a few times, and their impression of the emperor is still shallow.

Zhu Houxi gestured to Zhang Zuo: "I made a statistic. During this time, in your recital, I asked people to excerpt all the words you said a lot, Zhang Zuo, read it to everyone. ”

"The slave obeys." Zhang Zuo opened a piece of paper in his hand, stepped forward and said aloud: "At the behest of Your Majesty, excerpts from the speeches of the ministers, and the counts are as follows:"

“…… Villain, count ninety-three times. ”

"Attached to the party, eighty-eight times."

"Seventy-nine times."

"Blinded, seventy-four times."

"Jiang Bin, count sixty-eight times."

"Power rape, count sixty-one ......"

Zhang Zuo read out the high-frequency words in the ministers' recital vividly, and the people who listened to it had never seen such an expression, and they were a little stunned for a while.

These are just high-frequency words, but they all know about the court. From the frequency of the occurrence of certain words, it naturally points to three important topics: the courtier fight, the Chenhao rebellion, and the eunuch chaos.

Didn't you hear that Wang Qiong and Liang Chu also appeared in high-frequency words?

After Zhang Zuo finished reading, Zhu Houxi pointed to the side with so many notes: "Four cabinet ministers, six Shangshu and court officials, and ministers and eunuchs...... Almost all of those who were impeached by name were included. In your mouths, every one of them deserves to be punished. Seventy percent of the work I saw in the four days was the elimination of traitors, the party and the dissent, and personnel disputes, and the second percent was specific state affairs, and only a few people in this state affairs came up with personal strategies. Above the court, has it always been like this? ”

No one answered.

Above the court, it is indeed the case, and most of the energy is fighting each other.

This is the center of the empire, and different people in the same position will naturally play completely different roles.

Isn't it the biggest state affair to appoint others?

As for other state affairs, isn't there always a precedent, and it is just a matter of relying on personal ability to make suggestions and suggestions, set the direction and supervise the people, and let the people below do it?

What's more, this is the time to set things right, and the new monarch will inherit the throne, and he will already experience such a storm.

Now, everyone was wondering what the emperor's intention was in saying this.

"Get up." Zhu Houxi looked at them who got up with Xie En, "When I was a child, I heard villagers talking in Anlu, saying that those who are officials should be pulled out and lined up, and they may be wronged if they are all cut down, and they almost all deserve to be cut off one by one." Elder Yang Ge, what do you think of this remark? ”

Yang Tinghe was named and had to stand up to refute the emperor's sudden words: "Why should Your Majesty take such ignorant remarks to heart? ”

"Fools? Ignorant? Zhu Houxi sneered, "So the courtiers have studied hard for many years, so they are not stupid and ignorant, right?" In the recital, most of my Ming officials are indeed guilty, doesn't this just show the correctness of the people's opinions? ”

"Your Majesty, the hundred officials are guilty or not, and the department should check it according to the law." Of course, Yang Tinghe knew the trap in Zhu Houxi's words, and he also replied, "If you listen to it, you will be clear, and I hope that Your Majesty will take state affairs as the priority and deal with it prudently." ”

Zhu Houxi nodded: "How to deal with it prudently?" ”

"As Your Majesty's Edict of Enthronement said, first eliminate traitors and dismiss immorality; Then stay away from the villain, and make a pilgrimage. persuade students to open courses and appoint virtuous ministers; Broaden the way of speech and clarify the rule of officials; Thin and light endowment, the implementation of benevolent government; Monarchs and ministers complement each other, and then to Zhongxing. ”

No matter how Zhu Houxi once commented on "Hongzhi Zhongxing", Yang Tinghe's thinking will not change.

What he is saying now also represents the interests of the majority of civil servants.

All in all, don't toss, let them, the "virtuous ministers", shepherd the world on their behalf. It is necessary to deal with the virtuous ministers in person, listen to the suggestions of the virtuous ministers to govern the world, and do not be dragged by villains to recklessly use military force, build large-scale construction, and work the people and lose money.

It's all the same old routine, how many years ago Yao Shun Shengjun did it when he was in power, and the goal of the monarch's life was just to return to the legendary era of the past.

Zhu Houxi sighed lightly: "If this court meeting has been saying something like this, then it will not be held in the future." ”

Yang Tinghe was shocked, and the other important ministers were no better, and they all knelt down again.

"Your Majesty! Why? In all dynasties, the king diligently regarded the dynasty as the rule of the world. If not, then traitors will run rampant, and the people will suffer. What is wrong with the words of the minister, that His Majesty should have such a fallacy? ”