"Ignoring the laws of the country, committing crimes, raping and abducting women of the people, and then willfully humiliating, torturing, and killing people if they disobey, and disregarding human lives. This is the only crime!"
"As a minister of the Ministry of Rites, if you don't respect the etiquette and laws, keep an outside wife privately, and gather in a private village outside the city to provide for their filth and disorder, you are guilty of two crimes!"
"His nephew secretly sought out ghostwriters, deliberately provoked wars among various states, and deceived his son in order to gain fame. His fame should have been revoked, but the Ministry of Rites protected him and turned a blind eye, causing public opinion to become turbulent and scholars to be noisy. This is the third crime!"
"These three crimes not only violate the national law, but also arouse the anger of the people. As the Minister of Rites, with a high reputation among scholars in the world, they are even more serious! Your Majesty, please investigate thoroughly!"
Zhou Yinglong's sonorous voice echoed in the empty hall for a long time.
The civil and military officials of the dynasty, who were accompanying the eunuchs, all watched with eyes, nose and nose, and their hearts were beating wildly in their motionless bodies.
The expression of the Censor Zhongcheng suddenly became gloomy, and he was obviously very dissatisfied with Zhou Yinglong's irregular participation in the music. Although this approach was also in line with the regulations of the Censorship Platform, in the eyes of His Majesty, I am afraid that it was him, the Censorship Zhongcheng, who criticized the Censorship Platform. Loss of control.
Emperor Chongning sat high on the stage, holding the memorial handed over by Zhou Yinglong in his hand. He did not open it, but squinted at the distant and small figure of the censor in his field of vision.
"I am terrified!"
Shi Dingzhong hurriedly followed the rules, holding the wat board in both hands and bowing his back.
"Your Majesty, Shangshu Shi has always been loyal to the country. It is known to the world that this person heard some gossip from nowhere and used it to criticize an important minister of the country. I ask your Majesty to punish such people for making false claims. ! Set the record straight!"
Shi Dingzhong was able to achieve the position of Minister of Rites, so he naturally had several of his own people under his command. Hearing this, he immediately stood up to refute Shi Dingzhong.
And the first move was the familiar court method. What the hell, let’s muddy the water first.
"Your Majesty! This person is just a supervisory censor. At this annual meeting, he wants to bite important officials in order to gain fame. He has sinister intentions and is disrupting the order of the imperial court! I ask your Majesty to punish this beast severely!"
"Your Majesty, Spring is just around the corner. What is the intention of this person to criticize the Minister of Rites, who is in charge of Spring affairs? He must have the intention of destroying the dynasty's talent recruitment ceremony. I suspect that he is a spy of the Northern Liang Dynasty. Please put him in the Heibingtai Secret Service." Careful interrogation!"
Immediately, two more of Shi Dingzhong's accomplices stood up to defend him and counterattacked. However, what was unexpected was that whether it was the British Duke Lv Rusong, who was vaguely rumored to be flirting with Shi Dingzhong, or the prime minister who, as the head of a hundred officials, was supposed to look after the six ministries. Qin Weizhong was as motionless as an old monk in meditation.
In fact, the whole lineage of De imperial concubines who were offended by the Shi family's feud with Xia Jingyun, including leaders such as Wei Yuanzhi, the Minister of Household Affairs, and Wang Ruoshui, the left minister of the Ministry of Rites, remained silent, acting as if the matter had nothing to do with them.
The incident happened suddenly, the leader did not speak, and the people below did not dare to move without permission.
As a result, after a few Shi Dingzhong's hardcore counterattacks, not only did the hall not have the hustle and bustle that would have occurred when impeaching a minister, but it fell into a strange calm.
Several ministers who were out of the queue stood there blankly, with bursts of cold sweat breaking out on their backs, not because they guessed anything, but because they couldn't guess anything.
At this moment, Emperor Chongning spoke.
"Shi Qing, what do you have to say?"
Shi Dingzhong's waist almost broke, and he straightened up with difficulty, "Your Majesty, today is the opening of the new year's meeting. It is the time when all things in the country are changing. I don't want to ruin the elegance of Your Majesty and the other ministers with my own affairs. Please allow me to do so." I will submit a letter to defend myself tomorrow."
Emperor Chongning said directly: "Accurate!"
"Your Majesty!" Zhou Yinglong was obviously very dissatisfied with the result and spoke loudly!
"Zhou Yinglong, do you still understand the importance of superiority and inferiority? Resign yourself to me!"
Censor Zhongcheng gave a cold drink, and Zhou Yinglong retreated to the team with a look of reluctance.
It's like dropping a stone into the deep pond of a flat lake. Although there is a moment of excitement, no matter how big the splash is, it will slowly return to calmness, and then it will be as calm as if nothing happened.
Emperor Chongning and all the officials went through all the procedures of the New Year's Meeting together, and then went back to their homes in peace, talking and laughing.
"Asshole! Zhou Yushi, do you still have my official in your eyes? Do you still have the Yushitai!"
At the censor's desk, the censor Zhongcheng looked at Zhou Yinglong coldly, "The impeachment of six ministers is such a big matter, why don't you talk to me first? Why do you have to report it directly? You wanton and wanton, you treat this court as your family Is the latrine ready?"
Zhou Yinglong calmly looked at the absolutely important minister in front of him who had entered the center, but his expression showed no fear at all, "Master Zhongcheng, which regulation of the Censorship Station states that we, the Censor or the Censor, must report to you first?" ?Which regulation prohibits us from directly submitting petitions to impeach officials?"
Hearing Zhou Yinglong's words, Yushi Zhongcheng calmed down, narrowed his eyes, and said coldly: "This has been the case for decades, and many talents have come and gone without objection. Zhou Yushi thinks that you are the one who stands out. An extraordinary person?"
Unexpectedly, Zhou Yinglong's expression remained unchanged, and he even snorted coldly, "Has this been the case for decades? It is these decades of practice that have caused Yushitai to fall to this level!"
He looked around and looked at the surrounding censors, "Comrades, do you remember what the Censor's Terrace looked like decades ago? Since the founding of the dynasty, the Censor's Terrace has been an important place for the central government and the court. The Censor Zhongcheng must enter the center, and serve as the Censor to serve His Majesty. The Censor supervises all officials and supervises military affairs. Although he has a humble position, he is powerful. Everyone who enters the Censor Station thinks that it is their duty to clear away the accumulated abuses of the country and return the court to a clean and prosperous world! Everyone respects everyone! But now!"
"This censorship platform has become useless. The censors are no longer sharp swords to clean up the world, but loyal dogs fighting for power! If you want to bite, let it go out to bite, no matter whether the person is good or bad! If you don't want to bite anyone, With an order, everyone will be silent, even if the person's crime is extremely heinous! This is not what I said, this is what the officials said! It is what the people said! In a day like this, do we want to have such a reputation? "
"Lord Zhongcheng, you keep talking about the rules, but I would like to ask, if I discuss it with you in advance, can I still participate in this book?!"
Zhou Yinglong's awe-inspiring righteousness actually aroused the sympathy and hatred of many frustrated censors, so much so that the censor Zhongcheng did not dare to offend the public for a while! ——
"Who does Zhou Yinglong belong to?"
In the imperial study, Emperor Chongning stood by the window with his hands behind his hands and asked.
Xuanhu, the head of the Black Ice Platform, stood not far behind him and respectfully recounted the information he had just urgently found, "This person was a second-class Jinshi in the sixth year of Chongning. He first entered the Imperial Academy and later entered the Yushitai. After working in Yushitai, because of his arrogant nature and dislike of making friends with colleagues, his official career has stagnated and he has made little progress for more than ten years. He is humble and has no one to recruit, and there is no faction at the moment. "
"No faction?" Emperor Chongning was a little surprised. He turned to look at Xuanhu and spoke more clearly, "For example, does Concubine De have any interactions with him? Or the Su family?"
Xuanhu said firmly: "No."
Emperor Chongning stepped forward slowly, "In other words, this is his personal move? Is it not a political dispute?"
Xuan Hu hesitated for a moment and then said: "This person has been lonely for many years. Now I don't know where I got this news. So I chose today's opportunity to report directly to Your Majesty in order to gain fame. The censor uses reputation as a pretext for promotion." Ben, it’s not a strange thing.”
"But the strange thing is, with his ability, how did he learn such news!"
Emperor Chongning pointed out his doubts, "I remember that the female official in Zhaoyang Palace who committed suicide was not able to find the person behind it in the end?"
Xuanhu said: "At the critical moment of pursuit, the key person committed suicide directly, and the clues were broken. But we can basically identify him as a big shot in Zhongjing City."
"I don't want to hear such words, I want the exact person."
Xuan Hu quickly knelt down and said, "This slave is incompetent. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."
"I don't want to hear your words anymore. You have to repay me with greater achievements, instead of kneeling on the ground and asking me to forgive you!"
"yes!"
Emperor Chongning sat back on the couch, "Are the things he impeached true?"
Xuan Hu nodded, "It's all true, there's no exaggeration."
"Okay, let's get down!"
Emperor Chongning waved his hand, and Xuanhu bowed and retreated.
He sat alone in the royal study, picked up a jade Ruyi, and tapped his knees lightly.
"Shi Dingzhong, Shi Dingzhong, are you loyal or not?"
(End of chapter)
