Chapter 689: Denunciation
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Therefore, Empress Dowager Zhang suddenly said that King An wanted to replace Zhengde with Zilong, and then the chief regent, they were both surprised and suspicious.
What made them even more incomprehensible was that Empress Dowager Zhang openly said the existence of Zilong, as if she was no longer afraid that someone would pursue Zilong.
At the moment, the ministers couldn't help but talk a lot, and even the people sitting in the seats were all talking to each other one by one, obviously caught off guard by the big gossip of the palace.
After the ministers discussed for a while, Empress Dowager Zhang continued: "The mourning family can be guaranteed by personality, the Son of Heaven is born to the mourning family and the first emperor, and there is only such a child, as for the inexplicable Xu Zilong, it is obviously Zhu Ningxiao in order to seize power, where did he find a person who looks similar to the Son of Heaven!"
"Zhu Ningxiao is so ambitious!" Although the British Duke also wanted to overthrow Liu Jin, he didn't know the specific things about Zilong, so he also thought that everything was as Empress Dowager Zhang said, and immediately said out loud, "Fortunately, now that Yang Yiqing and Lord Yang have led the troops and quelled Zhu Ningxiao's rebellion, then Xu Zilong, I'm afraid that he will also die in battle, right?"
"This is the second reason why the Mourning family wants to interfere in politics!" Empress Dowager Zhang saw that the British Duke had inadvertently accommodated a tone for herself, and immediately said quite happily, "In Duke Liu's secret report, it was mentioned that in this imperial court, there are many important ministers, who have seen Xu Zilong, and they all believe that this thief is the younger brother of the Son of Heaven, and they all reached a private agreement with Zhu Ningxiao to support Xu Zilong and quietly replace the Son of Heaven!
"Ah?" Cheng Guogong was also stunned when he heard this, he reached an agreement with the British Duke Meritorious Military Attache and the Qingliu Civil Officials to clean up Liu Jin and prevent him from continuing to confuse the government, so in this Ningxia War, several other border armies were immobile.
But from beginning to end, they were not told that there was such a number one person as Xu Zilong, and they did not know Xu Zilong's true identity. At this time, Empress Dowager Zhang said this, and the two princes couldn't help but believe it.
Li Dongyang also smiled bitterly, he never thought that he didn't go to break this matter, but Empress Dowager Zhang took the initiative to break it. And because she was so tongue-in-cheek, Zilong's identity became an impostor, and she also got an excuse to interfere in politics.
At this time, he also regretted a little, he shouldn't have worried about the secret of Zilong's identity in the first place, but should have told him to the two princes, so that today's situation would not appear.
Sure enough, after being stunned, Cheng Guogong also looked at Li Dongyang suspiciously, and his eyes were quite stern, obviously asking whether what Empress Dowager Zhang said was true or false.
If Li Dongyang continues to be silent, then his crime will be great, and his intention to collude with foreign feudal lords and pretend to be the emperor with others is really a crime of bullying the monarch and a great rebellion.
Besides, if Li Dongyang continues to be silent, Zilong's identity will always be that chaotic minister and thief, which makes the extremely upright Li Dongyang unbearable.
At that moment, Li Dongyang cleared his throat, and he was ready to argue with Empress Dowager Zhang in public about the beginning and end of the incident, and return Zilong and Zheng Jinlian's mother and son to justice.
It's just that he didn't have time to say anything, but Xu Guangzuo on the side suddenly preemptively said: "Queen Mother, you kept saying before, but you said that everything came from Liu Jin's secret report, that is to say, all this is just Liu Jin's one-sided words, how can you rely on Liu Jin's one-sided words to brazenly remove the head of the dynasty and want to interfere in politics like this?"
Xu Guangzuo is also extremely smart, and he grabbed Liu Jin's secret report to attack the illegal loopholes of Empress Dowager Zhang's interference in politics. Cheng Guogong, who was originally a little angry, also thought deeply when he heard this, nodded his head, but he also understood.
Cheng Guogong and British Gong were originally dissatisfied with Liu Jin's arrogance, and now everything that Empress Dowager Zhang said is based on Liu Jin's secret report, how can this convince the two princes.
At the moment, they also understood that there were two factions fighting at the moment, on one side was the civil officials headed by Li Dongyang, and on the other hand, there was Liu Jin's party who was obviously partiality with Empress Dowager Zhang.
So Cheng Guogong and Ying Gong glanced at each other, and they both saw the meaning in each other's eyes, and immediately kept silent, leading a group of generals, but standing beside Li Dongyang.
Empress Dowager Zhang didn't expect that Xu Guangzuo would be so difficult, and even Chengguo Gong, British Duke, including Li Dongyang, had been persuaded by herself.
And looking at Li Dongyang's posture, it is obvious that he wants to clarify the things of the year with himself. It's a bit annoying and difficult to deal with, but there's always a way.
But Xu Guangzuo ignored this stubble, and blindly wanted to prove the legitimacy of his political interference, but it made Empress Dowager Zhang seem to have all her strength, but she couldn't use it.
Liu Jin was silent for so long, seeing that Xu Guangzuo suddenly became sharp-toothed and sharp-tongued, so difficult to deal with, and he also had a secret hatred in his heart, seeing that the Empress Dowager Zhang couldn't resist it faintly, he also intervened: "Xu Guogong, can't the secret report of the old man's three factories and one guard be enough to corroborate?"
"Haha! Is it yours for the three factories and one guard?" Xu Guangzuo smiled coldly, grabbed a loophole in Liu Jin's words, sneered a little, and then said directly without waiting for Liu Jin to attack, "Since the Taizu of this dynasty, although the Jinyi Guard has been established, the Jinyi Guard has always only had the right to investigate, arrest, and interrogate, and the emperors of the past dynasties have also tolerated the existence of the Jinyi Guard's edict for convenience!"
However, how can any emperor be directly convicted of a crime without investigating the news of Jinyiwei or the East Factory and the West Factory, and the person who is convicted is still the head of the court?"
"This ......" Liu Jin was also speechless when he heard this, this is indeed no precedent.
Xu Guangzuo didn't wait for Liu Jin to refute, and then retorted: "What's more, since it is said to be a rumor, then the minister heard that the six departments gave the matter, as well as the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and even Yang Yiqing and Lord Yang, have already investigated some evidence of Liu Gong's crimes!
"Old man's incriminating evidence, what incriminating evidence do you want to say?" Liu Jin realized that it was not Yang Yiqing who was in trouble tonight, but Xu Guangzuo, who had been ignored by himself.
It's just that Xu Guangzuo has collected some evidence of his crimes, and how can he have the confidence to seem to be able to bring himself down? Liu Jin was also secretly surprised in his heart, waiting for Xu Guangzuo's so-called incriminating evidence.
The ministers in the hall were also surprised when they heard this, some of them knew that someone would attack Liu Jin tonight, and some didn't know, but whether they knew it or not, they didn't know that it was Xu Guangzuo who took the lead.
For a while, the ministers couldn't help but look at Xu Guangzuo to see what evidence he could come up with to convict Liu Jin. After all, since Liu Jin took control of the government, from Liu Jian onwards, countless people want to bring him down.
But with the passage of time, in the past few years, most of the people who wanted to bring down Liu Jin were overthrown by Liu Jin, and Liu Jin not only did not fall, but his power became more and more stable, so that he grew to the point where he is now dictatorial.
Xu Guangzuo also smiled, took out a pile of paper from his arms, put it on his head respectfully, and said: "This is Liu Ke's illegal evidence of Liu Jin's crimes collected by Liu Ke and many officials from all over the world, including corruption, bribery, private conferral and other crimes, and so on, please also ask Your Majesty to take a look!"
If the Queen Mother was there, Xu Guangzuo should have added the Queen Mother, but now he inserted it on the grounds that the Empress Dowager Zhang's interference in politics violated the ancestral system, so he didn't mention the Empress Dowager Zhang.
And the ministers, who were originally curious, couldn't help but hide the disappointment on their faces after hearing Xu Guangzuo's words. Liu Jin and Empress Dowager Zhang were even more smiling, as if Xu Guangzuo was not an impeachment report.
After all, in the court, except for a very few, more or less, there will be bad deeds on their bodies. As a eunuch in charge of the seal of the celebrant and the eunuch, Liu Jin must have a lot of things to teach and receive privately, but these things must not be completely hidden.
He has survived for so many years, obviously these things are not very important, at least not so important that he Liu Jin has to go to work.
As long as he said that this was the emperor's intention when he defended himself, and the emperor was generally towards Liu Jin, he would naturally not get along with him, and he would be raised high, fall gently, and fall lightly.
This is the real reason why countless people have denounced Liu Jin over the years, and Liu Jin has still been able to survive. At that moment, Liu Jin didn't wait for Xiao Huangmen to go down to get those incriminating evidence, but with a light hand, the thick pile of incriminating evidence rose into the air, and in an instant, it reached the palm of his hand.
And he didn't look at it, he put it directly on the imperial case, and said nonchalantly: "Please Your Majesty to take a look!"
Emperor Zhengde also picked up the incriminating evidence with an expressionless face, flipped through the pages one by one, and in the end, as the ministers expected, he was not angry at all, but looked at Xu Guangzuo strangely, and said: "Xu Guogong, is this the incriminating evidence you said?"
The ministers all sighed, obviously understanding that Zhengde didn't care about these so-called incriminating evidence at all, and they all felt that Xu Guangzuo's appearance was not worth it.
The British Duke and the Cheng Guogong are even more strange, this Xu Guangzuo can have such courage, come out alone to defend Li Dongyang, and also accuse Liu Jin and Empress Dowager Zhang, obviously not brave and unscrupulous, how did they get to this point, but they became so naïve?
Yang Yiqing had already understood at this time that Xu Guangzuo was obviously a candidate secretly arranged by Zilong. Xu Shizilong had already guessed that he, Li Dongyang, Yang Tinghe, Zhang Yong, and a series of people who had emerged were all hacked by Liu Jin and preemptively charged with crimes.