Liu Zongzhou replied: "Although Ye Tingxiu is not guilty, but because he is a protégé of the minister, the minister does not dare to intercede for him; The minister knows that His Majesty has no grudge against Dao Zhou, but because he is too straightforward, he provokes His Majesty's anger and hands over the court staff.

"Zodiac Zhou is crazy and deceitful, and he deserves to die!" The young man's heart is a wild heart, Chongzhen can't wait for the zodiac to die at the moment, so he looked at this Liu Zongzhou, who relied on the old and sold the old, viciously.

"According to the law of the country, there are no more than three crimes in the minister's death: one is rebellion, the second is the loss of the territory, and the third is greed. In addition, the emperor usually hates the people who are the ministers and workers forming a party, and Dao Zhou has no party; Dao Zhou's direct admonition today is out of a heart of right and wrong, like a fish in the throat, he has to vomit, there is no such thing as forming a party, such as saying that Zhou has a party, the three-foot boy refuses to believe it, the minister and Dao Zhou have known each other for decades, and they know that he really has no party. ”

"If you don't fight the Zodiac Zhou today, you can't clean up the dynasty, you don't have to say more, go down!" Chongzhen's white face was covered with a layer of green qi, and the eunuchs behind him were all shocked by his cold aura.

"The minister is sixty-three years old this year, and there are not many ...... days in the world" Liu Zongzhou, a veteran of the Four Dynasties, is not a good person, he stubbornly defended.

"Go down!" Chongzhen's tone had changed, and the tone of the first word was too high, making the courtiers listen to it particularly harshly.

"May Your Majesty ......" Liu Zongzhou was old after all, and his speech speed couldn't keep up with Chongzhen, so he rolled his eyes.

"Go down!" Chongzhen's voice was high-pitched and sharp, so frightened that the eunuchs looked at each other, they didn't know when the emperor would have been castrated, otherwise how could he make such a familiar tone?

"May Your Majesty be the lord of Yao and Shun, and I don't want Your Majesty to have the name of killing virtuous. Since Your Majesty ascended the throne, he has been working hard for the country for 11 years! However, things in the world have become worse and worse, and they are almost out of control. The ministers were afraid of crime and disguised wrongdoing, and refused to fulfill their duties; one or two ministers who dared to speak out were often severely punished; therefore, above the court, the righteousness was not extended, and the emperor was isolated. "Liu Zongzhou boasted that he was a veteran of the four dynasties of Wanli, Taichang, Tianqi and Chongzhen, and his identity was enough, so he wanted to ask for a favor for his old friend Huang Daozhou.

Since Wanli, it has become a common practice for the Tu doctors to form cliques and tilt against each other, and I deeply hate this and do not tolerate it at all. Thou hast the name of being upright, how can thou not know that the ecliptic system and the ecliptic are exhaling from the nostrils...... Go down!"

"If the minister does not speak today, he will not retreat from death. The old man Liu Zongzhou was also stubborn.

Finally, Chongzhen began to get impatient, and he said in disgust, "What else are you talking about?"

"The minister thinks that the current overall situation is erosive, and the crux of it lies in the lack of righteousness and the isolation of the emperor, so there are talents in the world but they cannot use them, and they cannot do their best; they cannot raise soldiers when they are paid; they are too vain to raise soldiers; they are unable to manage the troops when they have generals, and they cannot fight when they have soldiers.

Zodiac Zhou Shicai's performance, although it is too straightforward, is really a good medicine to save the country. The ancients said that good medicine is good for disease, and good advice is good for action. If Your Majesty wants to win the hearts of the people who have been lost, you must carry out the government of Yao and Shun with the hearts of Yao and Shun. If the law is still severe, so that those who speak out will often be severely punished, and if the people are more and more difficult to live in by talking about accumulation every day, then the affairs of the world will be unquestionable!"

After a pause, swallowing a stream of heat, Liu Zongzhou, the imperial historian of the left capital, raised his head and continued: "Your Majesty is angry at the difficult times and is determined to seek treatment, but the way of the two emperors and three kings has not had time to pay attention. ”

"It's not that I don't pay attention to it, but the ministers are responsible for me!" Chongzhen scolded Lao Liu angrily, and suddenly turned to the inner servant and asked jumpingly: "Has Huang Daozhou beaten up?"

Wang Dehua, the eunuch who held the seal of the celebrant eunuch, heard the emperor's inquiry, and immediately knelt down and replied: "Now the execution is about to be carried out." ”

"Fight! Don't be appeased!" Chongzhen turned around and squinted at Liu Zongzhou, and said angrily: "You famous Confucian ministers will only attribute their mistakes to the court and me, and try to gain a high name;

"Since Your Majesty has reprimanded Huang Daozhou, the more the minister can't help but finish his words. After saying it, although there is no regret in death. ”

"It's really annoying that you are so stubborn! Okay, after beating Huang Daozhou and Ye Tingxiu, let you say that you will get up for the time being!" ”

"Then you will wait on your knees. ”

The two gods stood in mid-air in a daze, their stomachs aching from the scene below, so the thunder kept rumbling and rolling over the Forbidden City.

The west pier outside the noon gate had already prepared for execution, but Wu Mengming, the envoy of the Jinyi guard, and Cao Huachun, the eunuch of the Dongchang Commander, thought that the emperor might pardon Huang and Ye's staff after listening to the plea of Liu Zongzhou, the imperial history of the left capital, so they did not move the execution for a long time.

Now they no longer hesitated, and with a shout, the staff began......

As Chongzhen's confidant and eyes and ears, Cao Huachun sat on the west pier in front of the noon gate, monitoring the executions of his subordinates, while Wu Mengming, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, sat on his right and directed the execution, and there were about 30 eunuchs and officials of the Jinyi Guard from Dongchang, standing on the left and right of Cao Huachun and Wu Mengming.

At the foot of the west pier stood a hundred Jinyi banner schools, wearing pleated scarlet robes, holding vermilion sticks, and standing there with their chests folded. Huang Daozhou, a young man in his fifties, was pressed face down to the ground, and his hands and feet were tightly tied with ox tendons. There were four eunuchs who were executed, and they dragged Huang Daozhou from all sides with ropes, so that his body could not turn, and when Chongzhen said the words "Fight quickly, don't be appeased" on the golden platform, the eunuchs who accompanied him immediately passed this sentence out of the noon gate.

Wu Mengming knew that Liu Zongzhou's plea was not accurate, so he commanded the flag schools: "Hold the stick!"

"Stick aside!" the 100 flag schools standing below shouted in unison, and the sound shook the noon gate.

As soon as the shouting stopped, a big man walked out of the Jinyi Banner team and poked a red lacquer stick on Huang Daozhou's thigh.

Wu Mengming shouted, "Fight!"

The 100 flag schools below shouted in unison again, "Fight!" and began to fight.

After three beatings, Wu Mengming shouted loudly for fear that Cao Huachun would speak ill of him in front of the emperor: "Really fight!"

One hundred flag schools shouted: "Fight hard!"

In this way, every five beatings is replaced by a person who is executed, and he still shouts "real beating" as before.

Wu Mengming knew very well that Huang Daozhou was a contemporary Confucian, and he could not bear to let Huang Daozhou die immediately under the rod, so he never drank the three words "fight with heart"; once he drank these three words, the execution of the flag school would only take a few sticks to result in Huang Daozhou's life.