Because of Zhu You's reprimand to Liu Ruoyu, Wang Chengen felt in his heart that Liu Ruoyu's behavior was indeed abominable.
Originally, if everyone made a small mistake, if they reported it in time, they would be fined or demoted, and they would also have a long memory, so they would not dare to make it again and be more honest.
But Liu Ruoyu was in charge of the inner court. In order to prove to the emperor his ability to handle major cases and to hold on to others, he had to wait until others committed serious crimes before reporting them. This made everyone in the inner court tremble, fearing that he would Mistakes made inadvertently will be written down by people in the factory, waiting for them to accumulate into big mistakes.
"This slave is guilty!"
"This slave is guilty!"
"This slave is guilty!"
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Liu Ruoyu had no choice but to kowtow and confess his guilt.
Although he had prepared for this, he was still a little scared after meeting Emperor Zhu Youxiao.
There was no way, the majesty of the emperor was not something he could avoid being afraid of if he wanted to.
Zhu Youxiao asked again: "Tell me, what is your crime?"
After Zhu Youxiao asked this, Liu Ruoyu began to calm down.
After calming down, Liu Ruoyu regained some courage and replied: "I want to make progress too much. I don't want the traitor to stay with the emperor and endanger him, so I can't help but secretly contact the foreign ministers, but I don't dare." What we are doing together with the foreign ministers is just exchanging some information in secret! Please give me a clear warning!"
"Well, you are quite honest."
Zhu Youxiao replied.
"But it's hard to escape guilt."
After saying that, Zhu Youxiao directly gave the order: "Liu Ruoyu has bad intentions for making friends with foreign ministers. He shall be punished with death. He shall be dragged down and await punishment!"
"Your Majesty!"
At this time, the eunuch Gao Qiqian stood up and said: "Although Eunuch Liu misunderstood your intention and did not consider everyone in the imperial court, he is loyal to you! Please take this for your consideration." For the sake of his loyalty, please spare him the death penalty!"
At this time, Lu Zhi, the eunuch and eunuch of the internal affairs department, interceded for Liu Ruoyu and said, "Your Majesty, Mr. Liu and his foreign ministers are also trying to get rid of the traitor Wei Zhongxian. Your Majesty doesn't know that Wei Zhongxian has already colluded with the foreign ministers to control the imperial court, and Mr. Liu in order to keep The emperor's safety is the reason why he had to take this step. Please forgive him for the death penalty because of his good intentions!"
"That's right! Your Majesty, Eunuch Liu has served your Majesty for so long. There is no credit but hard work. The whole inner court can be in peace now because he has been careful for the Emperor until now! All these slaves and maids can see In my eyes, I really can’t bear to see him talk about death because of this today. This will chill the hearts of the servants in the inner court, Your Majesty!”
Eunuch Li Zongzhou also began to plead for Liu Ruoyu.
"Your Majesty, Mr. Liu is highly virtuous and has always cared for the young and old in the inner court. This is well-known by everyone. He is also loyal to you, your Majesty. Please spare him the death penalty!"
Eunuch Wang Zhijun also said the same.
"Please, Your Majesty, spare Eunuch Liu from the death penalty!"
Except for Wei Zhongxian and Wang Chengen, all the eunuchs present begged for Liu Ruoyu's favor.
They had to do this because they all knew that if they did not intercede for Liu Ruoyu today, Liu Ruoyu's people would expose their heinous crimes to the emperor for a long time. Now they and Liu Ruoyu are both prosperous. , one loss, all loss.
"That's great. It looks like my inner court is almost becoming your Eunuch Liu's inner court! I'm sorry that I don't have a dog by my side, but a wolf! And it's a white-eyed wolf!"
Zhu Youxiao laughed coldly.
"Your Majesty's words make me feel ashamed. Your crime deserves death!"
Liu Ruoyu replied with tears in his eyes, and then kept banging his head on the floor. His head was gradually bruised and bleeding, waiting for His Majesty the Emperor to compromise, but the Emperor still had no intention of sparing him the death penalty.
And Liu Ruoyu continued to kowtow.
It was not until the sound of rapid footsteps was heard that Liu Ruoyu stopped kowtowing, straightened up, and began to look coldly at the aloof Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Youxiao was still sitting upright, looking calm.
"Report to the Emperor! Something bad has happened! From the north of the imperial city, from the direction of the inner court offices, a large number of eunuchs suddenly appeared with weapons, shouting 'kill'! Let's come towards the Daming Garden. From the perspective of the eunuchs, only I’m afraid they’re here to break into the royal chariot!”
It was Zhang Tongchang who quickly entered the hall.
Logically, when he entered the garden, he needed to let the eunuch report it first, but now that the matter was urgent, he had to rush in directly and report it to Principal Zhu You immediately.
Wei Zhongxian and Wang Chengen were both surprised after hearing this. Naturally, they had guessed that Liu Ruoyu was going to rebel.
It's just that they don't know when Liu Ruoyu prepared the weapons and when he prepared these people.
Wei Zhongxian couldn't help but thought: "After all, I still underestimated Liu Ruoyu!"
Wei Zhongxian also shouted loudly: "Liu Ruoyu! You are brave!"
Zhu Youxiao only smiled slightly, but he didn't feel afraid at all.
Liu Ruoyu was also laughing, and stood up with a smile before Zhu Youxiao called him back.
Liu Ruoyu replied: "I dare not hide this from the emperor. These people were bought by my servant during my time in the factory. They were either spies planted by the powerful gentry outside, or they were caught by my servant for committing crimes. But They are all obeying the orders of the slaves now. The slaves control them not to harm the emperor. The slaves know that if the slaves harm the emperor, it will break the rules. But the slaves know that the emperor is a strong master. The slaves cannot do it. I have absolutely no choice but to treat you like this, your Majesty, but now I am doing this just to remonstrate with your Majesty and ask Your Majesty to kill the traitor Wei Zhongxian immediately, and I will cut my neck to atone for my sin!"
Liu Ruoyu knew that even if he coerced a group of desperate eunuchs and threatened the emperor's life and death when the garrison in the capital arrived at the Daming Garden, he would still be unable to escape in the end. The loyal ministers and generals of the royal family would not let him go.
You know, the Ming Dynasty's most powerful army, the Guards, is stationed in the capital.
Wei Zhongxian did not expect that Liu Ruoyu hated him so much that he would not hesitate to use military tactics to get rid of him.
Liu Ruoyu did hate Wei Zhongxian, and his hatred suddenly reached its peak at this time.
Because he was unwilling to lose to Wei Zhongxian.
You must know that he was an eunuch from Nei Shu Tang, which is equivalent to a Hanlin among civil servants, and also equivalent to someone from the northern Qing Dynasty in later generations.
He has his own pride, and he cannot accept the outcome of losing to Wei Zhongxian.
But Liu Ruoyu can now be sure that he was indeed defeated by Wei Zhongxian. Wei Zhongxian did not collude with Yuan Keli and others. Moreover, at some point, he also obtained evidence of the crime of cabinet minister Wei Guangwei, and he must have also found out himself.
Therefore, Liu Ruoyu smiled coldly at Wei Zhongxian: "Wei, even if our family loses to you, you won't be able to live!"
Wei Zhongxian was not angry because of this, he just said: "Our family has never regarded you Liu Ruoyu as our opponent. If the emperor hadn't asked you to check and balance our family, based on your attitude towards our family in the past, our family would have easily given in." If you can't get along in the inner court, don't think that our family doesn't know what you do, we are just too lazy to care!"
But on the bright side, Wei Zhongxian still knelt in front of Zhu Youxiao: "Your Majesty! Please give me this slave to die. If this can make Liu Ruoyu give up his rebellion and protect the Emperor, my slave is willing to die immediately. It is an honor for me to dare to hold grudges and to be loyal to the Emperor!"
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