Fang Congzhe withdrew his application for resignation and returned home honestly.
Now Fang Congzhe only has one thought, that is, he regrets why he went to Beijing to take the Jinshi examination in the first place.
"Today's Holy Emperor is different from the Temple. Faced with the situation that the Temple is controlled by the world's ministers, the Temple only fights through laziness and neglect of government, but now the Supreme Lord wants to confront the enemy head-on, and even threatens to destroy our entire family. Our Fang family can only gamble with the Holy One. If we win, we will be extremely rich, and if we lose, we will be in disgrace for eternity!
Son, don’t blame your father for being cruel. You have never listened to your father’s teachings, and you are the one who is most likely to bring trouble to our Fang family. Just like this time, your father has clearly told you not to leave the city, but you still go out. This is the second time that you have been kidnapped by them and your father has been threatened by them. In order to prevent you from causing trouble to our family again, my father will definitely break your legs so that you will not be able to leave the house from now on! "
After Fang Congzhe finished speaking, he shouted: "Hit me!"
So, the noble slave of the Fang Mansion held a huge stick and greeted Fang Shihong's legs, who was tied to the spring stool.
Fang Shihong shouted: "Father! No! Father, no!"
"ah!"
Fang Shihong screamed immediately after receiving the first blow, and then cursed in pain: "Old man! Why are you so cruel!"
"ah!"
Fang Shihong screamed again.
…
"Your Majesty, Fang Shihong's leg was broken by Fang Congzhe."
Wei Zhongxian reported to Zhu Youxiao on this day.
"oh?!"
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao smiled lightly and said: "Fang Congzhe did this out of help, and I forced him to do it! However, you have to tell the people placed around Fang Shihong in Dongchang to guide Fang Shihong and let him know what happened. The reason why he is disabled is not because his father is cruel or I am heartless, but because the gentlemen who are against his father don’t like his father! If Fang Shihong doesn’t have this consciousness, get rid of him!”
When Zhu Youxiao said the last sentence, Wei Zhongxian found that his emperor's expression was particularly cold, and he couldn't help but shudder for a moment, and hurriedly said: "I obey the order!"
at this time.
Liu Ruoyu came over and reported to Zhu You: "Your Majesty, this is the memorial that Xue Wenzhou impeached Yuan Fu and Fang Congzhe for regicide, which caused the late emperor to take poison and collapse. The cabinet dare not draft it." , so please give your holy judgment!”
Zhu Youxiao took the memorial and sneered in his heart: "Now that they are here, I know they will make a fuss about Emperor Taichang's death!"
…
"The memorial to impeach Fang Congzhe for regicide has been handed over by Duke Xue. Do you think Fang Congzhe will commit suicide?"
Jie Xuelong glanced at Xue Wenyi and asked about Qian Qianyi and others.
Qian Qianyi smiled first and said: "Even if he doesn't commit suicide, he will resign on his own initiative! The most important thing now is to see if today's emperor will give Fang Congzhe a favor!"
Xue Wenzhou nodded and agreed: "If the emperor doesn't give him a favor, then the emperor is really a ruthless and hard-hearted person! But if this is the case, what should we do?"
"Don't forget, we said before that the reason why we kidnapped Fang Shihong and threatened Fang Congzhe was actually to see the emperor's reaction. If the emperor really wants to continue fighting like this, then we can only stay with him to the end, for the safety of the country and the entire country. If the scholar-bureaucrats can rule the world together with the emperor, we must make the emperor submissive! We still have many methods, because the imperial court still relies on us in Jiangnan to support it!"
Qian Qianyi laughed as he spoke.
Jie Xuelong also stood up confidently: "That's right! We basically rely on our Jiangnan supply for grain, Liao wages, and salt. Without us, even the Donglu would not be able to annihilate them today!"
After Jie Xuelong said this, the other civil servants who were still considered Donglin civil servants all laughed.
"Next, we have to go to Zuoshunmen to cry and remonstrate, in the name of the late emperor's injustice, and demand that the emperor severely punish Fang Congzhe and others who committed regicide and rebellious ministers! We also require all civil servants to go, and the noise must be loud. Whoever does not go to protest the injustice of the late emperor, who will It’s disloyal! And it requires the emperor to severely punish Fang Congzhe and other rebellious ministers. If the emperor disobeys, it is unfilial! The purpose of this is to demonstrate to the emperor, the more people, the better!”
Qian Qianyi started talking at this time.
Jie Xuelong nodded: "That's exactly the reason! Everyone has to go!"
…
At that time, Zhu Youxiao had not yet dealt with Xue Wenzhou's request, and he only stayed in the center temporarily. Not long after, he saw Wei Zhongxian running back in a hurry: "Your Majesty! Many courtiers were kneeling outside Zuoshun Gate, saying they wanted to serve as the late emperor's son. No justice, please punish Fang Congzhe and others for regicide and rebellious minister!"
Liu Ruoyu was shocked after hearing this, and couldn't help but look at Zhu Youxiao, thinking to himself that these people clearly wanted to force the palace, and they obviously would not stop until Fang Congzhe, the chief minister who listened to the emperor's words, was killed, and he didn't know what the emperor would do. response?
Wei Zhongxian was also looking at Zhu Youxiao. He was also curious about what his emperor would do. Would he compromise with the officials?
Zhu Youxiao raised his eyes and looked at the two of them. He knew that this cry and remonstrance against Fang Congzhe would come sooner or later. After all, these civil servants had threatened Fang Congzhe, which was equivalent to threatening himself, the emperor, and now they came to kneel and remonstrate to force him. As the emperor, he expelled Fang Congzhe from the court according to their intentions.
But what Zhu Youxiao can imagine is that if he really expels Fang Congzhe from the court, no one in the new cabinet will dare to listen to him as the emperor, because the emperor is afraid of the entire civil servant group, so as civil servants, they Why betray your own civil servant group? At best, you can only create a balance and thin mud between the emperor and the civil servant group.
However, Zhu Youxiao already had countermeasures for this.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao immediately ordered: "Transmit the edict to the cabinet, the six ministers, the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the five governors and students of the Ming Dynasty Lecture Hall, as well as the official of Jinyiweitang and the chief of etiquette Bing. All the eunuchs above and above come to see me on the Zuoshun Gate Tower!"
"According to the order!"
Wei Zhongxian and Liu Ruoyu both replied
…
Half an hour later.
Outside Zuoshun Gate, a large number of civil servants, including Xie Xuelong, Xue Wenzhou, Qian Qianyi, etc., were kneeling here. There were no less than a hundred of them, and all of them were filled with indignation and justice.
Jie Xuelong and others were not afraid because they came to Zuoshunmen to kneel and remonstrate, because they came here to demonstrate to the emperor, and in the name of protesting against the late emperor, they vindicated the names of these people and showed that they were Because of loyalty and filial piety, I had to kneel down and remonstrate with the emperor to kill Fang Congzhe!
Jie Xuelong shook his eyebrows, with a look of pride on his face like other civil servants. He could imagine how their today's feats would be recorded by his own people in the Hanlin Academy History Museum, and would be admired and sung by subsequent scholars and officials.
"Your Majesty, please punish Fang Congzhe, the rebellious minister who committed regicide! Otherwise, Your Majesty will suffer from filial piety!"
At this time, Jie Xuelong took the lead and raised the memorial high and shouted. The other civil servants followed suit and let the goose-feather heavy snow fall on their black gauze hats and official robes.
