Chapter 66: Nine Deaths and One Life
"I see...... I see. ”
"It's okay, it's good that I don't have anyone to follow."
While the ministers exclaimed, they were all secretly glad that they had a heart.
But more people looked at the chubby figure at the front of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs.
When the crown prince Zhu Gaochi impeached Zhu Gaochi in the civil and military forces, he kept his eyes closed and did not say a word, obviously this person had long known everything Zhu Gaochi had done.
After the courtiers finished reading the performances from Xi'an Mansion, Lantian, Geng Zhong, Zhuge Xuan, Zhou Zhengxiong and others, Zhu Di stood up from the dragon chair, and said while moving his hands and feet:
"We haven't killed anyone for too long, you really should be our knife, don't you want to call?"
"Your Majesty think twice!"
Seeing Zhu Di's movement of his wrist, the ministers of civil and military affairs immediately knelt down in an uproar!
The ministers knelt together, and they did not stop Zhu Di's murderous intent, only the crown prince Zhu Gaochi was gone.
It's just that although Zhu Gaochi knelt down with a group of officials this time, he didn't intercede for those officials except for one sentence: "Father and emperor think twice".
Although the six books of Shangshu pleaded again and again, it was to no avail.
"Where is Jin Wuwei?"
"In!"
With Zhu Di's order, a row of golden-armored guards poured in from outside the Fengtian Palace, standing murderously behind the ministers.
"Yu Xin, the head of the household department, the left servant of the military department, Qi Tai, the supervisor of the imperial history Huang Ming, and the supervision of the imperial history Du Shihui...... If you don't argue right and wrong and make false accusations, damn it, pull it down, and behead it! ”
"Yes!"
The unison of hundreds of Jin Wuwei should have shocked the entire Fengtian Temple.
"Your Majesty, no! Your Majesty, no! ”
Many Wenchen knelt down and pleaded with tears in their eyes.
There is one of the six Shangshu in this, Yuxin, the Hubu Shangshu, if it is so easy to kill, not to mention whether the Hubu will be chaotic, the entire Ming officials will be in danger, and the entire civil service system may even collapse because of this.
"Father, no!"
The crown prince Zhu Gaochi, who was kneeling on the ground, also stood up in shock and stopped him in a loud voice.
Among the old ministers, Jin Wuwei, who was about to arrest people, suddenly stopped and looked at Zhu Di on the dragon chair.
The entire Ming Dynasty knows the status of the prince, and also knows that when the prince speaks, Zhu Di will listen to it to some extent.
The earth-shaking officials who had just cried out also hurriedly silenced them, lest His Majesty the Emperor not hear the voice of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
"Chi'er, you want to intercede for them?"
Zhu Gaochi bowed down and bowed his hand first, and then said calmly after making a courtesy:
"Yes, the sons want to intercede for these ministers, but they don't ask their father to pardon their crimes, they just want to ask their father to die around them, and let them go to Shaanxi to see the situation in Shaanxi in person."
"Huh...... You and Lao Ba are in the same mind, and they are reluctant to kill.
You two brothers are just too kind-hearted. ”
"Father, it's not because of good hearts, but because the ministers really don't sin to death.
Yu Xin is the head of the household, and he has the responsibility of supervising the salt and iron in the world, although the fourth brother has reported that he is making salt in Lantian, it is indeed a little inappropriate for him to sell it to the Northern Yuan;
Qi Tai is the left squire of the military department, and his duty is to monitor the soldiers and horses of the world, especially to guard against foreign enemies;
As for the other imperial historians, they were originally responsible for the rumors, and although they were wrong, they did not sin to death. ”
"Hmmm......"
Zhu Di listened to the words of the crown prince Zhu Gaochi, and the anger in his heart decreased slightly, he didn't have to kill people, but the actions of these civil officials were too inferior, and what was directly and clearly retaliated was.
And the target of this retaliation was his son, which made him a little unbearable.
It is impossible to calm him down, but it is really not suitable to kill all of these eighteen people.
"Yes, Your Majesty, they are not guilty of death, and I ask Your Majesty to forgive them."
Zuo Chunfang, Zuo Zanshan, Liu Shiliu, also stood up and bowed and pleaded:
"Your Majesty, you set the "Da Ming Law" for the purpose of clarifying the canonical punishment, not killing people for the sake of temporary likes and dislikes, and the minister asked the Criminal Department and Dali Temple to jointly investigate the guilt of several officials, so as to correct the "Da Ming Law"."
Liu Shiliu was a great Confucian in the world and a literati leader after Song Lian's death, and Zhu Di would also listen to his words.
And Zhu Di really doesn't want to kill more, but he won't let it go gently.
"Prince, you, the Criminal Department, and Dali Temple have jointly investigated this matter, and the damn one will be beheaded by us! If you don't give a damn, throw Shaanxi away, let them go to Shaanxi for the winter! ”
"Yes!"
Zhu Gaochi bowed down, his face was relieved, but there was a sneer on the corner of his mouth.
And Liu Shiliu, who was behind him, opened his mouth, and in the end only one sentence came out, "Your Majesty Shengming".
"Your Majesty Shengming!"
The other officials kneeling on the ground trembled and responded.
"Thank you...... Thank you, Lord Longen......"
Yu Xin, Qi Tai and the others thanked them with pale faces.
In the northwest in winter, and there are no houses in the northwest, even if they are not beheaded on the spot, they will inevitably die!
Just now they saw the recital sent back by King Liang, which clearly said that there were no houses in Lantian, and the stone and wood were too far away.
King Liang wanted to use the cattle and sheep skins returned from the trade to sew tents for the winter, and applied for a large number of cattle and sheep from the Northern Yuan to be slaughtered.
In the northwest, where there are no houses to protect from the cold, as long as a snowfall, tens of thousands of people can die!
The officials in their early eighteens were all dead-hearted.
Especially Yu Xin, who now hates Li Shanchang to death in his heart.
He was reminded by Li Shanchang to impeach Zhu Gaoxuan, but he didn't expect Zhu Gaoxuan to think that someone would impeach him, so he reported and applied for it early.
When he was escorted out of Fengtian Temple, he was thinking in his heart, should he bite Li Shanchang out?
After biting out, what will be the benefit to yourself, and what price will you pay.
However, until the prison of Dali Temple, he did not make a decision.
'Well, leave it to fate. ’
Yu Xin sighed and did not resist.
On the other hand, Zhu Di's court meeting is not over yet.
Waiting for the civil and military queue to stand again, Zhu Di found Jia Lin, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry in the crowd, and said:
"Jia Lin, you look at these drawings, and judge their value now."
Zhu Di's voice fell, and the old eunuch Ma He sent a stack of drawings that Zhu Di had prepared long ago to Jia Lin.
At the same time, several little eunuchs followed behind him, with their backs to Jia Lin to separate the eyes of the others.
When Jia Lin saw Zhu Di's arrangement, he also knew that these drawings were not trivial, so he quickly put his eyes on them.
At first glance, he didn't look at the drawings, but at the handwriting, and when he saw that it was not the handwriting of Zhu Gaoxuan, the king of Liang, he was greatly relieved, so he focused on the content.
"Hmm...... This drawing is a bit ...... It's a bit whimsical. ”
At first, he didn't see the good or the bad, and he was blunt about his feelings.
"Yes, it's whimsical."
Zhu Di on the dragon chair also felt the same way, if Zhang Jun hadn't personally told the work scene of the big plow rake in front of him, he would have thought it was whimsical at the first time.