"emperor!"
"Something bad has happened, Your Majesty!"
On this day, Zhu Gaoxu was enjoying tea, when an eunuch hurried in.
"Why are you so alarmed?"
Zhu Gaoxu asked in confusion.
Before the eunuch could speak, Nie Xing hurried in.
"Your Majesty, a group of officials outside Qianqing Palace are crying bitterly in Fukue, begging the Emperor to take back his orders and kill Yang Shiqi!"
"Fu Que?" Zhu Gaoxu looked solemn, then sneered again and again.
"Fu Que" refers to the behavior of officials and citizens to go beyond the normal procedures and kneel down in front of the palace gate and directly submit a letter to the emperor. It is also called "Shou Que" in history books. To put it bluntly, it means that officials kneel at the palace gate and cry loudly to express their gratitude to the emperor. This fight against the emperor's supreme authority!
The "Fu Que" of ministers can be roughly divided into two categories. One is the emperor - a procedural act with a ceremonial color in the bureaucratic political tradition, such as the "Fu Que" of officials imploring the crown prince to succeed the emperor; the other is the "Fu Que" of officials. It is a public situation in which the ministers openly resist the monarch's will when there is a serious conflict between the political opinions of the monarch and his ministers, but there is no breakup yet.
For example, at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, when the Jin soldiers went south to encircle the Song Dynasty, the Grand Prime Minister Li Bangyan advocated ceding territory and suing for peace. Officials and scholars in Beijing, led by Chen Dong, a student of Etai, and tens of thousands of people "Fu Que" asked Li Bangyan to be killed, and Li Gang, the official of the main war faction, was reused. , As a result, Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty, under pressure from his ministers, appointed Li Gang as the defense envoy of the capital, and the purpose of appointing hundreds of officials to the palace was achieved in disguise.
In the history of the Ming Dynasty, bureaucrats and scholar-bureaucrats also fought against each other many times. The intense conflict between emperors and ministers was very prominent in the history of Chinese imperial politics.
For example, in the second year of Hongwu, Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to depose Mencius to enjoy the Confucius Temple because of Mencius's theory that the people valued the emperor over the emperor. Angry, but because of Qian Tang's resistance, he issued an edict to restore the status that Mencius deserved.
After Renzong Zhu Gaochi succeeded to the throne, he indulged in sensuality. Li Shimian offered wine in the Imperial Academy and accused Renzong of his indecent behavior. Renzong ordered the warriors to hit his ribs with gold melons, but Li Shimian still insisted on his accusation. By the Chenghua period, the scholar-bureaucrats group The number of disputes between "Fu Que" and the emperor began to increase.
The most famous incident is the great ceremonial dispute between the Taoist emperor Zhu Houcong, also known as the "Zuoshunmen Massacre".
When Wuzong Zhu Houzhao died, he had no children. The scholar-bureaucrats and the empress dowager discussed and decided that the prince Zhu Houzhao, the prince of the feudal dynasty, would succeed to the throne, who later became Emperor Shizong of Ming Dynasty and Emperor Jiajing.
Emperor Jiajing wanted to posthumously crown his biological father, Prince Xingxian, as emperor and change his name to Emperor Xiaozong as Emperor Bokao. The scholar-bureaucrats led by Yang Tinghe, the chief minister of the cabinet, believed that this move would disrupt the imperial system and be inconsistent with etiquette. They repeatedly raised objections, but Zhu Houcong refused to listen. A great ceremonial dispute broke out with the ministers.
On the 15th day of July in the third year of Jiajing, the ministers led by Yang Tinghe knelt down at the Zuoshun gate, shouting "Emperor Taizu Gao" or "Emperor Xiaozong", and the sound was heard throughout the room... At noon, he ordered to record all the officials. Names of the ministers: the leader, the scholar Fengxi, Zhang Chong, the censor Yu Ao, the doctor Yu Kuan, Huang Shixian, Tao Zi, Xiang Shifang, the temple is Zhengwu Dechun, eight people were sent to prison.
So Yang Shen, who compiled and reviewed Wang Yuanzheng, shook the door and burst into tears. For a while, all the officials cried, and the sound shook the court. The superior was furious and ordered the arrest of 134 people including Ma Li, a member of the fifth rank and below, and ordered them to be imprisoned and tortured. The officials and aunts of the fourth rank and above were ordered to be punished." Hanlin Editor Wang Xiang and 17 others were imprisoned. Death was caused by the imperial staff, and Feng Xi, Yang Shen, Wang Yuanzheng and others were all banished to the garrison.
In the following years, all the officials involved in Zuoshunmen's "Fu Que" activities were denounced and eliminated. Sejong gradually realized his wish to dedicate his biological father to the king and call him his ancestral temple. This was the largest and most tragic event in the history of the Ming Dynasty. The "Fu Que" resistance incident of the ministers.
It's just that Zhu Gaoxu never thought that he, the emperor of martial virtue, would be lucky enough to encounter the high-end scene of hundreds of officials in the palace.
It seems that those gentry and gentry could not sit still after all, and began to use all their energy and connections to put pressure on the court!
Nie Xing's face looked a little unhappy, because he, the Jin Yiwei, had not noticed anything as important as Baiguan Fuque!
In a sense, this can be regarded as a dereliction of duty by the Jinyiwei. After all, one of the main duties of the Jinyiwei is to supervise all the officials. But now all the officials are crying bitterly. He, the commander of the Jinyiwei, only got the news, which is tantamount to giving him a severe blow. Nie Xing, the commander of the Imperial Guard, slapped him!
Because of this, Nie Xing rushed over in a hurry.
"Your Majesty, this minister failed to supervise me well. Please forgive me!"
Seeing Nie Xing's ugly expression, Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand indifferently.
"it's not a big deal."
"It didn't take long for Jinyiwei to be rebuilt, so it's understandable that the supervision was poor."
"However, this matter can be a wake-up call for Jinyiwei. You still have to catch the intelligence as soon as possible!"
After all, he was his confidant brother who had always followed him, and Zhu Gaoxu didn't want to blame Nie Xing harshly for these trivial matters.
Of course, you still have to beat when you need to, but you can do it once and not again. Otherwise, Zhu Gaoxu will have to seriously think about whether Nie Xingshi is suitable for sitting in this position.
Nie Xingshan laughed twice, patted his chest and made a promise.
At this moment, the wailing and shouting of hundreds of officials outside the Qianqing Palace were deafening, which made Zhu Gaoxu extremely annoyed.
Seeing this, Nie Xing tentatively said, "Your Majesty, would you like me to bring some men over and drive them away?"
What he said was "drive away", not "arrest and imprison".
After all, there were hundreds of officials in Fuchou this time, including many of the seven ministers and other high-ranking officials. If they were all arrested and imprisoned, the court would not be able to function properly, and it would also do great damage to the reputation of Emperor Wude. !
"What are you driving people away for?"
Zhu Gaoxu chuckled and said: "This is a high-end event!"
"Since they have nothing to do after they are full and are willing to kneel down and cry and howl, then we can just follow their wishes!"
"Come on, come and have a look with me, big scenes like this are really rare!"
"Um, bring my little bench and some snacks like melon seeds and peanuts."
After a while, the two parties met.
But Quan Jin and others were stunned in place, and they even forgot to cry.
They saw Emperor Wude, whom they had longed for, ordering someone to bring the dragon chair, then sitting on it carelessly, grabbing a handful of melon seeds, and looking at themselves and others with relish.
What does this damn thing mean?
Brother, this is the "Hundred Officials' Palace"!
In such a serious scene, it’s a bit inappropriate for you to eat melon, watch a movie and eat melon seeds here, right?
Seeing all the officials stop, Zhu Gaoxu frowned immediately.
"Who is that? Keep crying!"
"Who told you to stop? Keep crying for me!"
Baiguan: "???"
Am I crazy?
Are you a human being?
Brother, can you be more serious?
Zhu Gaoxu looked at these officials coldly, without any mercy.
"Where is the Jin Yiwei?"
"Whoever doesn't cry, I'll beat him until he cries!"
Hearing this, Nie Xing showed a sinister smile on his face.
Your Majesty's method is really...too stupid!
But I like it!
"Who is that? Go to the imperial hospital and summon all the imperial doctors!"
"I just want to see how long you can cry and how sad you can cry!"
Baiguan: "!!!"
