But this matter will not end because of Zhu Youxiao's toughness.
The fact that Li Sancai was about to be executed by the three clans made many civil servants in the court feel uneasy.
In addition, Zhu Youxiao also wanted to execute the two civil servants Zhou Shunchang and Lian Guoshi, exile the civil servants who followed Zhou Shunchang and Lian Guoshi to besiege Xu Guangqi, and even exile Zuo Guangdou and the civil servants who did not participate in the morning court.
Therefore, for a time, many civil servants in the entire capital were extremely dissatisfied with the emperor.
In an unknown deep courtyard, some Donglin officials were meeting secretly. In order not to let Dongchang's spies know, they didn't even come together.
"This tyrant! Yu just didn't go to court, and now he has to be exiled!"
Yu Maoheng, the young minister of Dali Temple who was wearing casual clothes, was the last one to come. As soon as he arrived, he started to talk to Qian Qianyi and other Donglin officials with tears in his eyes, gnashing his teeth.
"Yu Gong is careful to say that now we must first find a way to rescue Zhou Gong, Lian Gong, Zuo Gong and even Mr. Xiu Wu. However, I am afraid it will be useless to remonstrate directly. For now, we can only place our hope on the people of the world and let all the officials and gentlemen in the capital know as soon as possible. Regarding this matter, when the time comes, we call on all the officials and gentlemen to go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate and ask the Metropolitan Procuratorate to speak up on their behalf. Let the emperor know that if he really treats us as a rotten dog, then he will lose the hearts of the entire world! "
Qian Qianyi clasped his hands behind his back, looked at the hall full of Donglin officials with frowning eyebrows, and started talking.
At this time, Zhou Qiyuan also stood up and echoed Qian Qianyi: "What Mr. Qian said is that now that I, Donglin, have lost power in the court, I can only place my hope on the people of the world. What's more, Mr. Xiuwu is the leader of our scholarly forest and can win the world." People hope that as soon as this matter is known, all the people in Beijing will definitely avenge Mr. Xiuwu!"
"Yes, Your Majesty is going against the trend. He thinks that he can do whatever he wants by suppressing hundreds of officials with harsh policies. He is too self-righteous. Mr. Shugo is not someone he can kill if he wants!"
Donglin official Li Yingsheng also spoke, breathing a little quickly, and he was obviously very excited because of this incident.
"Mr. Xiuwu is naturally not an ordinary person, but this incident also made Qian realize the dangers of factory guards. You can think about it carefully. Whenever there are factory guards running rampant in a dynasty, we and other scholars will have a hard time, and eunuchs or power He will become domineering and treat our Shilin as fish and meat! Now that Mr. Xiuwu is in this disaster, it is also caused by Dongchang's trouble, so we cannot let the factory guards be so tyrannical! Otherwise, there will never be peace in this world!"
Qian Qianyi spoke again at this time.
"That's right, factory guards are more harmful than foreign bandits! Why don't we take advantage of the opportunity to intercede for Mr. Xiuwu this time to force the emperor to remove the factory guards and denounce the shortcomings of the factory guards. If the emperor refuses, then wait Then the world will be in chaos!"
Li Yingsheng responded first.
"It is impossible for the emperor to remove the factory guards! Unless the emperor is willing to rule the world with us scholar-bureaucrats instead of ruling the world alone, otherwise, it is impossible to cut off his minions! To prevent the factory guards from being the emperor's minions, we can only play Yingmiao again Regarding the past, we need some truly staunch men among our scholars who are not afraid of death and dare to stand up in front of the emperor to uphold justice in this bright world and kill the traitors! Only in this way can the traitors be frightened and not dare to help the tyrants do evil!"
Qian Qianyi spoke excitedly.
The old story of the Yingmiao mentioned by Qian Qianyi refers to the fact that during the Zhengtong period of the Ming Dynasty, most of the civil servants who relied on their honors were killed in the Tumu Fort. When the emperor was weak, he directly killed the commander of the Imperial Guard in the court.
Li Yingsheng responded excitedly: "Then let us show our courage as a scholar-bureaucrat back then! I would rather castrate Quan and rape a concubine than live an ignoble life! We should immediately call on our fellow scholars to go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate and write a letter on the bus to appeal for Mr. Xiuwu's injustice. , please ask the emperor to remove the factory guards!"
"That's right, we should cry out for Mr. Xiuwu's injustice and ask the emperor to remove the factory guards!"
After hearing this, all the officials in Donglin nodded excitedly and responded.
Therefore, under the secret instigation of Donglin officials, many scholars and students in Beijing soon knew that Li Sancai was about to be captured by the Yi tribe, and they began to spontaneously go to the capital to investigate according to the call of Donglin officials. Come from the hospital.
Because next year will be the second year of Tianqi, and now it is the time when the Beizhili Township Examination is approaching, so there are particularly many scholars in Beijing.
At that time, more than 500 scholars came to the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
The entire Metropolitan Procuratorate was besieged.
"We, the scholars, would like to avenge Mr. Xiuwu today. Please ask the princes of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to submit a brief statement to the emperor on our behalf!"
"Mr. Xiuwu is highly respected and well-known throughout the country. How can he be arrogant and corrupt? This must be a trap for Dongchang! I hope the princes of the Imperial Procuratorate will convey our grievances to the emperor. If the emperor does not comply with our wishes!"
"The eunuch of power brings harm to the country, and the traitorous sycophants dominate the court. Could it be that all the officials in the Metropolitan Procuratorate are greedy for life and afraid of death!"
Juren Wu Changshi and others gathered outside the gate of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, raising their arms and shouting loudly.
The censor Li Yingsheng was particularly satisfied because of this. He couldn't help but look at the other censors in the Imperial Palace: "Everyone has seen it, this is the people of the world! Are we, as censors, really inferior to these younger generations? ?!”
"General Xian, these scholars are fooling around and don't take the court's rules and regulations seriously!"
But Feng Quan, the censor of Zuodu, didn't think so, so he came to Cao Yubian, the censor of Zuodu, to talk about it.
Cao Yubian glared at him.
Wang Zhiyin, the deputy censor of the left capital, even scolded Feng Quan: "When did you wear a pair of trousers with a eunuch and a traitor? You are so willing to be his loyal dog! No, I forgot, you are a loyal dog. This is a loyal dog sent by his thieves to our capital procuratorate! If it hadn’t been for you, Duke Zhou and Duke Sun wouldn’t have been ruined!”
"That's right! Nowadays, even the Metropolitan Procuratorate has despicable and shameless people! How can we expect the court to be clean and fair now!"
Li Yingsheng also echoed.
The other censors also started sarcastic and sarcastic towards Feng Quan, staying far away from Feng Quan.
"General Xian, do you also think that what these scholars outside are doing is right?"
Feng Quan asked Cao Yubian at this time.
"Justice comes naturally to people's hearts. How can you, a villain who only knows how to flatter others, know this?"
After Cao Yubian said this, he went directly to the gate of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and shouted to the scholars who were shouting: "Quiet, everyone! Quiet, everyone!"
Soon, the scholars who surrounded the Imperial Court fell silent.
At this time, Cao Yubian began to say: "I am the Censor of the Duchayuan. Do you have a copy of the memorial? If so, please submit it. I, the Duchayuan, will help you submit it to the Holy Emperor!"
"Thank you, General Secretary. This is my memorial!"
Wu Changshi first handed over the memorial, bowed to Cao Yubian and said.
At that moment, everyone handed them over, and Cao Yubian asked other censors from the Ducha Yuan to come over and take over the memorials from these scholars.
…
"To report to the Emperor, Cao Yubian has received the memorial from the scholars who complained about Li Sancai."
Not long after, Wei Zhongxian came to Zhu Youxiao to report.
Zhu Youxiao turned cold after hearing this: "I don't believe it, I can't even kill a soldier!"
