This plea for mercy came very quickly!
Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly.
However, Zhu Youxiao had no intention of killing Yang Lian.
Just as Chongzhen should not suppress the eunuch party too hard after he came to the throne and forced Wei Zhongxian to commit suicide, leaders like Yang Lian who represent the power of the Donglin Party should not attack too hard.
Because in this period of internal and external troubles, any excessive behavior will aggravate the empire's internal strife and accelerate the empire's demise.
However, Zhu Youxiao wanted to see how many people would intercede for Yang Lian.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao did not express his attitude towards Wei Dazhong's intercession for Yang Lian at this time. Instead, he asked Wang An: "Which other ministers have interceded for Yang Lian?"
Wang An replied: "There are also Zuo Guangdou, Wang Wenyan, Han Xu..."
Zhu Youxiao heard Wang An read a long list of names without seeming to stop, so he had to interrupt Wang An: "Okay, tell the clerk to bring all the memorials pleading for Yang Lian to me. I want one." Take a look."
Wang An had no choice but to comply.
Suddenly, Wang An came with a large pile of memorials.
Zhu Youxiao took a look.
It's two feet thick.
so much?
Zhu Youxiao frowned because of this, and said without hesitation: "It seems that Yang Lian is quite popular?"
Wang An laughed: "Before the death of the temple, he said that Yang Lian was truly loyal to the emperor. Emperor Daxing could inherit the throne, and he also contributed a lot. I just didn't expect that he would be so discourteous in front of you, the emperor. Like an old slave, I forgot my sense of propriety at that time and only focused on helping you, the Emperor, to inherit the throne."
"So, he is still a hero. If he were not such a loyal minister, neither my father nor I would be able to inherit the throne, right?"
Zhu Youxiao asked.
After hearing this, Wang An couldn't help feeling chills on his back and knelt down: "I made a mistake when I made a mistake. Please punish me!"
"Get up."
Zhu Youxiao smiled lightly. He already knew Wang An's attitude.
But Zhu Youxiao didn't want to point it out, he just said: "These memorials are all here, you can step back."
Wang An was quite surprised after hearing this. He looked up at Zhu Youxiao and asked, "Your Majesty, if you stay in China, you may cause criticism from all over the world! Why don't you issue a cabinet draft?"
Zhu Youxiao glared at Wang An: "How can I be the emperor and need you to teach me?"
After hearing this, Wang An hurriedly kowtowed: "This old slave is guilty of death! This old slave is guilty of death!"
"Whether you should die or not is up to me. It's up to you to decide. If I tell you to step back, just step back!"
Zhu Youxiao said something.
"I thank you, Your Majesty. I will resign now!"
Wang An stood up and stepped back facing Zhu Youxiao, then deliberately stumbled at the threshold. When Zhu Youxiao looked back at him, he wiped his forehead in feigned fear.
Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao cursed in his heart: "Old man! If you are so cautious, why are you still sitting next to the civil servants, without thinking about whose slave you are?"
Before Wang An left the palace, Zhu Youxiao said again: "If there is still a memorial to plead for Yang Lian from the General Affairs Department, report it to me as soon as possible! I want to see it in person!"
"Yes, old slave, remember this!"
Wang An replied, feeling quite surprised for a moment, thinking to himself that since the emperor planned to leave these memorials unprocessed, why would he read them in person?
…
After Wang An left, Zhu Youxiao suddenly ordered: "Wei Dynasty, I will serve you with pen and ink."
In the Wei Dynasty, he was an eunuch who served Zhu Youxiao.
As soon as Wei Chao heard that Zhu Youxiao asked him to serve him with pen and ink, he hurriedly sighed, and then immediately started researching Zhu Youxiao's ink himself.
The Wei Dynasty is now even more excited than Zhu Youxiao, because as Zhu Youxiao's personal eunuch, and Zhu Youxiao becomes the emperor, he will definitely rise as the tide rises.
As soon as Wei Chao finished polishing his ink, Zhu Youxiao asked Wei Chao to wait outside the door, and then he began to write down the names of the memorials while turning over them.
When Zhu Youzheng had almost finished writing these names, Wang An hurriedly ran over: "Your Majesty! A new memorial has been delivered."
When Wei Chao saw Wang An coming again, he felt a little unhappy. He knew that Wang An personally ran errands to deliver the memorial just to stay with the emperor for a while longer and to maintain his position.
When Zhu Youxiao saw Wei Chao looking unhappy, he naturally guessed the reason.
Zhu Youxiao didn't let Wang An in at this time, and just asked: "Who does it belong to?"
"Shao Zhan was also the censor of Henan Province, Xu Guangqi, and Zuo Zhongyun, Sun Chengzong."
Wang An replied.
Upon hearing the two people Wang An was talking about, Zhu Youxiao stopped writing in his hand.
Zhu Youxiao pondered for a while, and suddenly asked Wei Chao, who was ten steps away: "Who is in charge of the cabinet now?"
"Second assistant, Mr. Liu Ge."
Wei Chao replied.
Zhu Youxiao nodded and said to himself: "Good guy, I have contacted the people in the cabinet before I even entered the ceremonial department."
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao mentally gave up the idea of reusing the Wei Dynasty in the future.
Zhu Youxiao asked again: "Where is Fang Congzhe?"
When the Wei Dynasty heard Zhu Youxiao asked about Fang Congzhe, he couldn't help but glance at Wang An, and then replied: "Yuan Fu went to inspect the tomb of Emperor Daxing."
Zhu Youxiao didn't ask any more questions after hearing this.
Zhu Youxiao remembered that Liu Yishen had pleaded for Yang Lian in front of the Qianqing Palace, but when Wei Dazhong and others sent the memorial to him, Liu Yishen was in the cabinet.
This obviously means that Wang An and Liu Yishui are in the same group.
The reason why Wang An asked him to submit Wei Dazhong's memorial to the cabinet for voting just now was because he wanted to give Liu Yishen a chance to vote to exonerate Yang Lian, and then forced himself, the emperor, to express his position.
From Zhu Youxiao's point of view, it was obvious that people like Wang An and Liu Yishui had guessed that he had no real intention to kill Yang Lian.
Therefore, Wang An submitted Wei Dazhong's memorial when Liu Yishen was on duty and Fang Congzhe was not in the cabinet, just to give Liu Yishen and himself a chance to forgive Yang Lian, and at the same time to test his attitude towards Liu Yishen and Yang Lian. .
But Zhu Youxiao didn't want to follow Wang An and others' wishes, so he only said to Wei Chao: "When Yuan Fu comes back, ask him to come see me!"
"My slave obeys the order!"
After hearing this, Wei Chao glanced at Wang An again.
Wang An also raised his eyes and glanced at Zhu Youxiao in surprise, feeling a little uneasy in his heart.
At this time, Zhu Youxiao covered the paper on which he recorded the name of the official who begged Yang Lian, and then said: "Wang An, bring in the memorials of Xu Guangqi and Sun Chengzong."
"yes!"
Only then did Wang An bring in the memorial.
Zhu Youxiao said no more.
That afternoon, as soon as Fang Congzhe came back, he entered the palace because he received Zhu Youxiao's order to see him.
As soon as Zhu Youxiao saw Fang Congzhe, he gave Wei Dazhong's memorial to Fang Congzhe: "Yuan Fu, please ask for a vote on how to deal with Wei Dazhong's plea for Yang Lian."
In fact, what Zhu Youxiao wanted to see the most was that Fang Congzhe, Yang Lian's political enemy, interceded for Yang Lian. Only in this way would he forgive Yang Lian, and thus cool down the increasingly fierce party strife within the Ming Dynasty since the late Wanli period.
"Your Majesty, you are like your father. Yang Lianyang is arrogant and disrespectful to your Majesty. He is bullying your Majesty when he is young. Such rebellious people should abandon the market to uphold their authority. Wei Dazhong only interceded for Yang Lian and did not act as a minister throughout the article. Because of the unjust anger of the king and father, his heart can be punished, and I propose that he be sent to prison and sentenced to death!"
Fang Congzhe did not answer according to Zhu Youxiao's ideas, but demanded that Yang Lian and Wei Dazhong be severely punished.
