"When the ministers hear the advice, they all hope that your majesty will be Yao and Shun, but if they don't hear that they are responsible for assisting the ministers, they will be regarded as Gao and Kui. Which one?"
"Your Majesty has the wisdom to accept advice, but the assistant ministers have no words to accept."
"The Emperor Gao learned from the mistakes of the previous generation and did not have a prime minister. All matters were assigned to the ministry. The power was not supported by the ministers, and the titles were easily changed."
"Emperor Wen first established a cabinet and participated in aircraft maintenance. At that time, his official rank was not high, and he had no ambition to be arbitrary."
"In the past two hundred years, there have been those who are good at doing power and fortune, but they still avoid the name of prime minister and dare not live there. This is because of the ancestral law."
"It was Zhang Juzheng, the great scholar, who had been expelled from Gaogong for three or four years. When the admonishment officer discussed the matter, he must say: 'I abide by the ancestral law.' Please follow the ancestral law." Right!"
Zhang Juzheng was in the duty room of the cabinet, and with trembling hands, he was reading again the original copy of Liu Tai's impeachment sent by the Supervisor of Ceremonies.
At this time, the eunuch of the clerk's room came over: "I have a decree, Mr. Xuanyuanfu Zhang comes to see you!"
After hearing this, Zhang Juzheng naturally knew that it was Zhu Yijun who wanted to announce him suddenly for some reason. Before finishing reading Liu Tai's memorial, he took Liu Tai's original copy and a resignation memorial he had prepared and went to the Palace of Qianqing.
"Sir, are you ready to resign?"
Zhu Yijun asked.
Zhang Juzheng first handed over his resignation letter: "Your Majesty, your Majesty! In the more than two hundred years of our country, there has been no disciple who has slandered the teacher, but now there is. How dare I not abide by my duties and throw myself into a tree to slander him?" I can only resign."
After Zhang Juzheng said this, Zhang Hong took the resignation letter from Zhang Juzheng and handed it to Zhu Yijun.
After Zhu Yijun unfolded it, he turned directly to the end, and holding his ink pen, he personally wrote two beautiful red characters "Not allowed" on the back of the memorial, and threw it directly in front of Zhang Juzheng: "Not allowed!"
Then, Zhu Yijun said: "The cabinet heard the decree. Fu Yizhen, the former censor of Henan Road Examination, does not need to be re-tried. He is guilty of deceiving the emperor and is executed! Liu Tai, the censor of Liaodong patrol, is in chaos and is suspected of interfering with military power and scheming against evil. Guards in brocade robes will escort him back to the capital immediately and execute him immediately!"
"In addition, the imperial examination is not allowed within three generations of his father's family, mother's family, and wife's family!"
Zhu Yijun said at this point: "I have said that they may not be that bad personally, but that does not mean that the party members behind them are not bad, so I will not use torture to kill them, I will just abandon the market."
"But the gangsters behind him must be punished! Although it is impossible to find out who the gangsters are, the family members and in-laws behind him must be questioned about their faults. And I will not implicate innocent women and children. I will only disqualify them from starting a business for three generations. Prevent his unhealthy family traditions from affecting the world!"
"Immediately draft an imperial edict and send it to your supervisor!"
Zhu Yijun didn't bother to ask Zhang Juzheng if he had miscalculated. Should he admit that he, the emperor's student, was right? Should we not have illusions about the bureaucracy as a whole, thinking that as long as one is frightened, the rest will not dare to say anything? As a result, this time it was your own disciples who started to attack you. Next, will there be other people from the same year who also attacked you?
After all, no matter what he, the young emperor, does now that risks the disapproval of the world, it will eventually be considered to be Zhang Juzheng's idea, and Zhang Juzheng will take the blame.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun would not embarrass Zhang Juzheng, so he directly issued an order. Qian Gang arbitrarily ordered Fu Yizhen and Liu Tai to be executed.
This is also why Zhu Yijun did not directly execute Fu Yizhen before this, but gave Zhang Juzheng face.
"I obey the decree!"
Zhang Juzheng did not persuade Zhu Yijun on the grounds that he should not be killed because he was an official.
Because he knew why Zhu Yijun did this, and also knew that all this was for the success of the restructuring.
Moreover, he himself lost the bet and underestimated the reactionary nature of the bureaucracy as a whole. People just don’t dare to kill people to ruin your affairs. If they don’t chop off a few heads, they will only fall short of the success. If you lose your head, they will be grateful to you, will not scold you in the future, and will be kind to you.
Therefore, Zhang Juzheng directly agreed and drafted such an edict after returning to the cabinet.
Zhang Siwei also saw this in the cabinet at this time and asked: "Uncle, did the Holy Spirit summon you to announce a decree?"
"I have requested that Fu Yizhen and Liu Tai be executed. The three clans will not be allowed to take the imperial examination for three generations to punish their party!"
After Zhang Juzheng said this, Zhang Siwei was stunned on the spot.
It didn't take long for the imperial edict to reach the Sixth Section, and soon to the Ministry of Punishment and the Fusi Yamen of Jinyiweibei Town.
During this process, the decree that Fu Yizhen and Liu Tai were sentenced to death and that the three clans and three generations were not allowed to take the imperial examinations became known to the officials of the Manchu Dynasty, which naturally caused an uproar in the public opinion, especially the officials of the imperial court.
"Not to mention restricting the way of speech, not to mention being good at exerting authority, but now they want to directly kill the speech officials, implicating the three families who made speeches. Jiangling is so domineering, where should the king and father be?!",
"A man must fight to the death for justice, how can he sit back and watch the chaos in Jiangling!"
At this time, Zhu Nanyong, the censor of Huguang Province, spoke about this matter in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
After hearing this, Fujian Taoist Censor Jingsong asked: "What do you think?"
Zhu Nanyong said directly: "The only way is to go to Jimen Fuque and intercede for Duke Fu and Liu! Let the empress dowagers of the two palaces know about this matter. Although the emperor was young and was deceived and kidnapped by Jiang Ling and his eunuchs, it does not mean that the empress dowagers of the two palaces also If we can be deceived and kidnapped by Jiang Ling, as long as we go to Benfuque to ask for an audience with the Emperor and the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces, we will definitely let the Queen Mothers of the Two Palaces and the Emperor know about Jiang Ling's crime!"
After hearing this, Guangxi Taoist Censor Hu Wei nodded: "That makes sense! The Queen Mothers of the two palaces have always been kind and courteous, and they strictly teach the emperor to be a benevolent and virtuous king. How can he sit back and watch His Majesty being deceived by Jiangling and ruining his virtue?"
"I contacted other colleagues, especially colleagues in the Sixth Section, so that more people could go to Fuque with me, and let the empress dowagers of the two palaces know that not everyone in the outer dynasty is his Jiangling party, and even the enemies of the outer dynasty have long been ashamed of him. very!"
Zhu Nanyong said.
"Okay! Let's go to Donghua Gate and wait."
Hu Wei echoed.
Zhu Nanyong said and left the Metropolitan Procuratorate first.
But Zhu Nanyong did not go directly to the Liuke Gallery after leaving the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Instead, he first came to the Shenzhai compound where he had been before. He met the ministers he had met before and said with a smile: "Mr. Ge, As you expected, after the lower official’s initiative, many censors from the Metropolitan Procuratorate have decided to go to Huijimen Fukue!”
"That's good! Someone from the Liu Ke Gallery and the Hanlin Academy have also been back and forth! Now we are just waiting for the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces to tell them. You will tell Prince Consort Xu and Prince Consort Hou to go to the palace to see the Queen Mother. Let the Queen Mother know about their Fu Que, so they can rest assured that the Queen Mother will not fail to intervene in the matter, and they don't have to worry that no one will come to rescue them during the imperial war."
The cabinet minister started talking after hearing this.
"yes!"
…
It was already afternoon when the civil servants went to Huiji Gate to visit the palace.
The sky gradually became gloomier and colder, with dense clouds and soon heavy snow fell all over the sky.
Even the eunuch who was lighting the lamps in the palace had just gone out for a short while and came back laden with broken jewels and jade.
At this time, the fire in the Palace of Qianqing was booming.
Accompanied by Zhang Juzheng and Tan Lun, Zhu Yijun personally awarded Qi Changguo, Li Rusong, Chen Lin, Ma Gui, and Liu Wei the military medals that Zhu Yijun had previously requested the Ministry of War to produce.
Military merit medals are made of python jade, and are inlaid with gold, silver or brass to distinguish the size of military merit.
And because these five people performed very well last year, the military medals they received were all inlaid with gold and jade.
General Zhu Yijun's medals of merit were distributed to them one by one, and each of them was given a Xiuchun knife.
In the real Ming Dynasty, not every Jin Yiwei would own the Xiuchundao. In fact, it was only owned by high-ranking Jinyi military attachés.
The same goes for Feiyu suit.
Zhu Yijun personally awarded these people the Python Jade Military Medal and the Xiuchun Sword, which was naturally regarded as an honor to win the hearts of those who were awarded.
"Thank you, Your Majesty! I will do my duty to the King and do not dare to slack off!"
As the commended military generals faced the heavy snow outside the palace from the north, holding jade and swords, they saluted the Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun, who was standing in the palace wearing a Yishan crown, a gong embroidered round collar and a tuanlong cloak. At this time, Zhang Jing walked quickly from outside the palace, crawled in front of Zhu Yijun like a snowman, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty! Many courtiers came to Fu Que from Huiji Gate, saying that they wanted to plead for Fu and Liu. When you meet the emperor, you must expose the face of the powerful official!"
Ahem!
Tan Lun, who was standing behind Zhu Yijun, couldn't help coughing and looked at Zhang Juzheng in surprise.
He had been busy preparing to bring meritorious members of Jingwei's martial arts into the palace to receive military medals, so he didn't know about Zhu Yijun's order to execute the two censors.
"Go and see!"
"Follow me and have a look!"
After Zhu Yijun said that, he walked out first.
