The officers and soldiers of the Imperial Guard Battalion had now surrounded the entire Liu family.
After seeing this scene, the Liu Family Nursing Home did not dare to be as arrogant and domineering as before. Instead, they stood there honestly and looked at Liu Hongjie, the head of the Liu Family, who came after hearing the news.
Liu Hongjie, on the other hand, was not afraid, and directly asked Qi Changguo, the general who came on horseback: "This is the residence of the chief minister, what are you going to do?!"
Qi Changguo replied: "According to the decree, all members of the Liu clan will be arrested!"
After hearing this, Liu Hongjie felt quite disappointed and hurriedly asked: "Can you take me to see your Majesty first? Hasn't Your Majesty never thought that my brother is now the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty. Does the Ming Dynasty still need my brother to worry about him?" !”
Qi Changguo glanced at Liu Hongjie rather mockingly, and then replied: "We are not responsible for reporting the news, we are only responsible for following orders."
After saying that, Qi Changguo replied: "Get someone!"
"yes!"
The officers and soldiers of the Imperial Guard Battalion came up with guns and detained Liu Hongjie on the spot.
Liu Hongjie didn't dare to let the guards in his house shoot. He didn't dare to really go against the imperial court, and he knew that he was no match for the imperial court.
Of course, Liu Hongjie's nursing staff did not dare to mess around in front of the imperial guard camp.
"I want to see His Majesty!"
"I want to see His Majesty!"
"I want to see His Majesty!"
"He can't do this. My brother has been scolded so much for him and done so many things to offend people on his behalf. How can he ignore my brother's face!"
"Your Majesty, why are you so heartless? We, the Liu family, are doing this to fight chaos for you!"
Liu Hongjie struggled desperately and shouted.
He hoped that someone could spread his words to the emperor's ears.
Next, the Liu family and others were also arrested.
…
Zhu Youxiao met Liu Hongjie not long after, and asked: "Hiding firearms privately, brazenly massacring and calling out the wronged people in front of my emperor, are your Liu family going to rebel?"
Liu Hongjie replied: "We don't want to rebel!"
"Then who gave you the courage to despise me and the laws of the country like this?!"
Zhu Youxiao shouted and asked.
"It was given by your Majesty and also by my brother."
Liu Hongjie replied truthfully.
"What does this have to do with Liu Aiqing?"
Zhu Youxiao asked seriously.
"He is the chief minister, and he has all the power in the government. Naturally, our Liu family is confident. As long as he doesn't really want to murder you, the emperor, will the emperor still punish my Liu family?
Unless the emperor doesn’t want to rely on him to offend the world’s scholar-bureaucrats, doesn’t want to rely on him to carry out style construction, and doesn’t want to rely on him to ban land transactions in the world! He has already offended the world for the sake of the emperor and abandoned the future of the Liu family. Shouldn't Your Majesty be lenient to our Liu family? ! "
Liu Hongjie replied.
"You bastard!"
Zhu Youxiao kicked Liu Hongjie directly.
Liu Hongjie immediately fell to the ground, his chest hurting, but he still said fearlessly: "If your Majesty wants the eldest son to ascend the throne and become emperor, shouldn't you continue to use my brother?"
Zhu Youxiao pointed at Liu Hongjie and became very angry: "How can Liu Hongxun have a brother like you?!"
"What's so strange about this? It's like our Liu clan didn't expect to have a bastard like my brother! We only know that we have a country, but we don't know that we have a family!"
Liu Hongjie replied.
"What do you mean?"
Zhu Youxiao asked.
"Your Majesty, shouldn't you know best? Those who have land cannot increase their land rent, and the rent is limited by the imperial court. They are also free of all agricultural taxes, making it increasingly difficult for landlords to annex. If this continues, my Liu family will be completely destroyed sooner or later!"
"The key is that my brother also asked our Liu family to take the lead in setting an example, asking me to divorce all the concubines in the family, and also asked my Liu family to take the initiative to allocate the fields to tenant farmers!"
When Liu Hongjie said this, he said: "I will not rest, nor will I divide the fields. Not only will I not rest, nor will I divide the fields, but the whole Liu family is unwilling to do this! If it weren't for the fact that he was the chief minister or the elder brother, he would have been Expel him from the clan!"
Zhu Youxiao continued to ask Liu Hongjie: "Do you think it is wrong for your brother to serve the country rather than the family?"
"Yes! Big mistake!"
Liu Hongjie replied.
Zhu Youxiao continued to ask: "Why?"
“If the family doesn’t survive, what’s the use of the country?!”
Liu Hongjie continued to reply.
"So, you, the Liu clan, have turned a deaf ear to Liu Hongxun's words of advice, and even used his signature to secretly form alliances with the government, form gangs, and engage in all kinds of evil things, desperately trying to make money, and even boldly Do you dare to commit murder in front of me?"
Zhu Youxiao asked.
Liu Hongjie replied: "Yes, I dare not hide it from your majesty. A gentleman's merits can only be killed after five generations. The death of a family is inevitable. Just like the death of one person, a person has his end and so does his family! Instead of obeying his elder brother If you want to wrong the entire tribe and bring about the end of the family, why not rely on your brother’s power to prosper first!”
"Fortunately, everyone in the world accepts my idea and is willing to be associated with the arrogant and domineering chief minister's family. Instead of scorning my Liu family like before, even though they respect the Liu family on the surface, they hate it deeply in their hearts, so that they are left alone. , now even if I am not at home, I still feel like a busy person!"
Zhu Youxiao didn't expect that Liu Hongjie was still a pessimist, and couldn't help but angrily said: "Don't make excuses for your own sins! Everything has a cause and effect, whether it rises or falls. You can destroy your own family, but don't blame my king for being ruthless. !”
"His Majesty!"
Liu Hongjie was naturally disappointed when he heard what Zhu Youxiao said. He shouted quickly and said:
"Your Majesty, the same applies to the country. The Ming Dynasty will surely perish in the future. This is the trend of the world!"
"Instead of being ruthless to the world in order to prevent its destruction, your Majesty, why not spread your benevolence and be the emperor of peace, free and at ease!"
"With the current national strength of the Ming Dynasty, even if His Majesty ignores the government, he can still survive the second thirty-four years! Wouldn't it be great to be the Emperor of Peace and share the prosperous age with the people of the world?!"
"What a reason for His Majesty to ignore government affairs. Do you want His Majesty to become a coward?!"
Lu Xiangsheng asked Liu Hongjie angrily at this time.
"Old Lu Ge has misunderstood! Liu just wants your majesty to enjoy the happiness provided by the people of the world without having to work hard and extend his life for tens of thousands of years! Besides, with your majesty's wisdom, he has nothing to do with the foolish king. Up."
Liu Hongjie replied.
"I would like to have some leisure time, but you people are too insatiable. If you don't beat them all the time, you will start doing evil again. Even since I came to the throne, I have been beating them all the time. You, Liu Hongjie, can still rely on your brother, who is the chief assistant, to do it under the lamp. Hey, if you don’t take me and the imperial laws and regulations into consideration, how can you let me have my leisure time?”
Zhu Youxiao said, "In addition, you said that the fall of the Ming Dynasty is inevitable and cannot be stopped. I admit that the clan of the Ming Dynasty cannot be passed down for hundreds of generations or even for eternity, but this does not mean that I will You can do whatever you want, do you understand?"
"This nation and this world have inheritance. We must be worthy of the people behind us. Just because the world's destruction is irreversible, it does not mean that you can kill those people who complain about injustice at will!"
"If you do this, you will suffer backlash in the future!"
"If I do this, the situation after the fall of the Ming Dynasty will be even worse. Then it may not be the fall of the country, but the fall of the world. Do you understand?!"
"The so-called subjugation of the world means leading beasts to eat humans. Human life is as cheap as an ant. People of the same clan kill each other. How can anyone with a conscience put their descendants in this kind of hell on earth!"
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