Zhu Yuanzhang finished his seizure, looked coldly at the colorless civil officials and said:

"Now that we're done, what else do you have to say?"

......After a long dead silence, he snorted contemptuously: "If you have nothing to say, then retreat." ”

Eunuch Wu was just about to sing 'retreat from the dynasty', but when he saw Li Shilu, the secretary of Dali Temple, suddenly came out of class, he said loudly:

"Minister Li Shilu has something to say!" He has a Shandong accent, obviously from the hometown of Confucius and Mencius, and he can't be looked down upon.

"Speak." Zhu Yuanzhang supported the jade belt around his waist with both hands and looked at Li Shilu coldly.

"Yes, the emperor is creating a thousand years of meritorious deeds, where it means what it means, that is, to show the descendants of the eternal law, why not abandon the holy learning and worship heresy? Far from the royal road and abandon the sub-holy evil? ”

Seeing that Boss Zhu was unmoved, Li Shilu sighed for a long time, and continued: "The minister knows that His Majesty is now deeply addicted to crooked reasoning and heresy, and even the status of Yasheng has to be moved, and His Majesty will definitely not listen to the minister's remarks." So I returned to His Majesty's court, begged for permission to return to my hometown! ”

After speaking, he slammed the ivory wat board in his hand to the ground.

Although his words were neither hurried, nor humble, nor arrogant, this action revealed his true emotions.

With a click, the wat board broke into three pieces...... When he landed, he was full of surprise.

The civil servants looked at Li Shilu with admiration, and many people were eager to resign with him. But they were worried about the emperor's reaction, so they looked at the top of the golden platform together.

I saw that Boss Zhu's face was angry and turned into a pig's waist, looking at the wat board that was broken into three, he nodded and said:

"Okay, well, since you don't want to be our official, then be more thorough, Uncle Boyi doesn't eat Zhou Su, and you don't eat our food!"

Saying that, Zhu Yuanzhang roared and said, "Arrest him and kill him on the spot!" ”

The man with the knife immediately rushed up and overthrew Li Shilu to the ground, and then two grabbed his hands and two grabbed his feet, lifted them high, and slammed them on the hard stone ground!

In the exclamation of the hundred officials, there was a muffled bang, and Li Shilu was bled by the seven orifices that fell, and he did not move after a few convulsions.

The civil servants were so shocked that no one spoke up at all......

"Hmph, it's not a pity to die!" Zhu Yuanzhang waved his sleeves and turned away.

"Retreat from ......the Dynasty" It wasn't until the emperor got off the golden platform that the eunuch Wu, who woke up like a dream, hurriedly sang.

Hu Weiyong and Cao Guogong hurriedly sent off our emperor loudly, but today's congratulations were sparse and weak......

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As soon as the court dispersed, the civil officials hurriedly surrounded him to check the life and death of Li Shilu.

"Zongkong, Zongkong!" In the midst of everyone's chattering calls, he did not respond.

Xue Xiang squatted down, his finger probed the tip of his nose, and Shaoqing said gloomily: "The person is gone." ”

"Ahh The hearts of the civil servants sank suddenly, and many people burst into tears.

When they lifted Li Shilu up, they found that he had already lost his brain, and it turned out that he had been knocked to the back of his head just now......

"Brother Zongkong, die for Mencius, die a well-deserved death!" Zheng Jiu sighed, and the cries rang out, and the civil officials knelt on the ground one after another to see Li Shilu off.

Under the golden platform, the prince looked at this scene with a stern expression, and said to the sixth child: "See, Confucianism has no shortage of defenders who are benevolent and righteous. ”

"yes." The sixth man said that it was not a shock to be fake, this was the first time he had seen this kind of scene, and he felt Alexander. "In this way, it is estimated that Shilin will fight to the end with our grandfather."

"So even if it's an emperor, you can't do whatever you want." The crown prince sighed and said, "Father shouldn't have touched Mencius today." ”

"Yes, that's their god card, and if they move, they are going to poke the hornet's nest." Lao Liu nodded, in fact, he had a good impression of Mencius. But I didn't expect the old thief to have such a heavy grudge against Mencius.

"Damn, I can't stop crying." The fourth child walked to the other side of the prince and stood still, looking at the civil officials who were kneeling and crying beside Li Shilu's corpse with an unkind expression. "I'll chase them away."

"Don't add fuel to the fire." Zhu Biao shook his head categorically and said, "Now we are very passive. ”

"Then let them mourn here?" The fourth said unhappily.

"It's better than crying outside the palace, right?" Zhu Biao said in a deep voice.

"Really." The fourth child thinks about it, at least crying here, outsiders can't see it.

"You two go back first." Zhu Biao said to the brothers again.

"Yes, big brother." The fourth and sixth stepped back.

But the prince walked down the steps and headed for the group of civil officials.

"Prince, be careful." Li Wenzhong hurriedly came over and whispered.

"It doesn't matter." The crown prince shook his head and stepped into the civil office.

Li Wenzhong and Hu Weiyong hurriedly followed, one left and one right to escort the prince.

Sure enough, as soon as the prince walked in, the civil officials surrounded him, crying and shouting:

"Prince, you want us to call the shots!"

"Prince, you are also a disciple of Confucius and Mencius, but you can't watch the avenue fall and be indifferent!"

"Yes, Prince, I can't ignore it!"

Zhu Biao nodded, and raised his hand to signal them not to speak yet.

When the civil servants were quiet, he asked, "What is the name of the official who was killed by the rod?" ”

"It's called Chen Wenhui." Someone replied, "It's a royal history." ”

"Tell him to go down and leave his family alone. When I went back, I persuaded my father that this was not a rebellion, and it would not cause disaster to his wife and children. Zhu Biao said to Hu Weiyong.

"Yes, Prince." Hu Weiyong responded obediently.

"On behalf of Chen Wenhui, thank Your Highness for your kindness." As soon as the civil officials saw that there was a door, they hurriedly said: "But the prince, this is not enough, the saint was expelled from the Confucian Temple, the Yasheng was kicked out of the Confucian Temple, the saint's study was degraded, and the imperial examination was dismembered...... My Holy Sect has reached the most dangerous moment, I can't be silent any longer, I have to speak up for the Holy Sect! ”

"This palace will definitely speak for you, but at this moment, my father is angry, and everything this palace says now is in vain." The crown prince sighed and said, "You send Li Tingwei's body back first, and when your father calms down, the palace will talk about it." ”

"Your Highness, it's not that we don't listen to the will, but we really can't go out like this." Zheng Jiucheng cried and said:

"We came in with Yasheng's tablet, but we didn't win anything, and we didn't say anything, and we didn't want him to go back to the Temple of Literature. If you go out like this, you don't know where to put Yasheng's tablet! ”

"Yes, Chen Wenhui and Li Shilu can't die in vain, they must let the emperor change his ways, otherwise we won't leave!" At this time, a squire said something that immediately triggered the echo of the civil officials:

"We will kneel here and wait for the emperor to take back his order."

"If the emperor doesn't take it back, we will kneel for a day until we all kneel and die in front of this Fengtian Gate!" The civil servants reached an agreement and decided to kneel together until the end......

(End of chapter)