Not a moment later.
Zhao Zhigao burst into tears, kowtowed to the ground with his mouth closed:
"Your Majesty! Da Si Kou is right. If you don't keep secrets, your ministers will lose. Based on this, it is concluded that the ministers leaked the secrets. This is not the way for a king to judge his ministers! Woohoo!"
"Zhao Rumai!"
"Thunder, rain, and dew are all gifts from heaven. As a disciple of the sage and a disciple of Neo-Confucianism, don't you even understand this truth?! You must be here to make the great Sikou your accomplice!"
Shen Shixing suddenly yelled at Zhao Zhigao.
Yang Wei, the Minister of Punishment, couldn't help but tremble after hearing this.
Immediately, he glared at Shen Shixing fiercely, and then explained to Zhu Yijun:
"Your Majesty clearly shows you!"
"I did not leak secrets, nor was I a party member of Zhao Chengzhi, but ordered or knew about his leaking secrets;"
"I am speaking out for Zhao Chengzhi today. I am only doing my best to serve as a minister. I am admonishing you and your father not to believe the words of your ministers, which will harm your sage!"
"Your Majesty wants to kill or cut into pieces Zhao Chengzhi, and even if he wants to kill or cut into pieces his Majesty, I will only admit it frankly. I don't dare to complain, nor do I dare to say that your Majesty's move is not an act of a wise king!"
"I will only think that this is because I did not understand what I was admonishing, I did not protect myself clearly, I am ignorant and harmed the country, and I should be punished by my father!"
After Yang Wei said this, beads of sweat covered his forehead and his body began to tremble slightly.
What Shen Shixing said to Zhao Zhigao was probably not meant for him.
"Your Majesty, please!"
"The minister only reported the information provided by Jinyiwei truthfully, and did not say anything about the immorality or disloyalty of the court ministers. Therefore, what Chief Kou Shicai said is obviously wrong!"
"The minister wants to ask the chief minister, did the minister say that Zhao Chengzhi leaked the secret, and did he force the emperor to listen to the minister's words?!"
"And as Yuan Fu said, thunder, rain, and dew are all God's grace. Your Majesty is a wise king, and everything is just at your Majesty's disposal."
"How your Majesty wants to deal with it depends on your holy will."
"As a minister, it is better if you understand; if you don't understand, you are just being ignorant, and your death will not be in vain!"
Zhang Jing followed Yan's words and tried his best to give Yang Wei eye drops, even temporarily forming an alliance with Shen Shixing.
"His Majesty!"
Yang Wei wanted to say more.
Zhu Yijun waved his hand: "Okay! I know you are not a comrade."
Then, Zhu Yijun looked at Zhao Zhigao: "I know that you didn't want me to gain martial virtue, and you were afraid that I would become even more unafraid, so you used this method!"
"So that those in the world who don't want our country to win foreign wars will have a more leisurely opportunity to stop this major national policy;"
"After all, there must be many big families in the world who, like the Xu Jie family, make profits by smuggling materials to other countries, and even help other countries rise to resist our own dynasty, and in this way maintain their status as a noble clan;"
"However, since I have been appointed by Heaven and I am also your king and father, you cannot disobey God's will and your king's will."
Zhu Yijun waved his hand as he spoke: "Drag him down!"
"Your Majesty, I really don't have it, I really don't have it!"
Zhao Zhigao still tried his best to deny it. He was still denying it until he was dragged off.
However, the fact that Zhao Zhigao was ordered to be beheaded was indeed a big shock to the civil servants of the Manchu Dynasty.
No one expected that after the emperor Zhu Yijun only reserved the death penalty for collaborators and traitors, the first person to be beheaded for collaboration with the enemy would actually be Zhao Zhigao, a high-ranking scholar in the Imperial Academy with a bright future.
certainly.
No one would have thought that the subtle way of sending porcelain bottles and noodles back would be discovered by Jin Yiwei.
"Why didn't Yuan Fu remonstrate and stop the king's father from using force to kill people?"
When the ruling ministers left the Shi Yusi, Yang Wei, the Minister of Punishment, couldn't help but question Shen Shixing.
Shen Shixing glanced at the blue sky and white clouds outside the red eaves and said: "I am not the Grand Master. I am the chief assistant. I work for His Majesty, not to reason with His Majesty! What's more, the truth that should be said was already in the Grand Master's time. I have finished telling His Majesty, Your Majesty is now a wise king, and what you need is a minister who can do things, not a gentleman!"
"But it won't be torn into pieces."
Yang Wei said.
Shen Shixing said: "The majesty of the saint is great. Zhao Zhigao is not careful and he should be in trouble like this!"
"I'm afraid Qingliu won't want to."
"You can get your wish even if you don't want to!"
Shen Shixing replied without any doubt, and then left with the sunset in his hand.
Yang Wei was stunned for a while, and then he also walked over.
…
It didn't take long.
Zhu Hanlin Qingliu of the Hanlin Academy knew that Zhao Zhigao was about to be punished for being suspected of leaking secrets to the barbarians because Sun Jigao, a bachelor at the time, was appointed as the new emperor.
"Lingchi Hanlin, this has never happened before!"
"Hanlin Zhao Chengzhi will be beheaded because he was accused by factory officials of liaising with barbarians to leak imperial military aircraft! Is this convincing?!"
Wang Jiaping, a lecturer at the Hanlin Academy, therefore started talking to other Hanlin Academy officials.
"This is definitely a frame-up by the eunuch Zhang Jing!"
At this time, editor Wang Maode directly came to a conclusion.
After receiving the order, Sun Jigao also said: "Zhao Chengzhi has always been an honest official and a decent man. It is impossible for him to do such a thing! We have to speak for him, and we cannot let Quan in the middle of the court give up a Hanlin Ci in vain. I am guilty of being a traitor to the barbarians! Wouldn’t this bring shame to the entire Hanlin Qingliu?”
"That's right!"
"Those who enter the Imperial Academy are all well-educated people with noble moral character. How could they do such dirty things!"
"Your Majesty cannot be allowed to believe the words of the sycophants in the inner court! We have to go to Zhao Gong."
Wang Jiaping also echoed.
"Shang Shu!"
Not long after, Zhu Yijun received many memorials from Hanlin officials speaking for Zhao Zhigao, so he sent Zhang Jing to ask: "What else did the factory guard find about Zhao Zhigao?"
Zhang Jing replied: "Back to my lord, the factory guard really found some clues."
"Say it!"
"yes!"
After Zhang Jing agreed, he said: "The Jin Yiwei investigation found that Jin Hua, a slave of the Zhao family, opened a silk and satin shop in the capital half a year ago. It stands to reason that many powerful officials and gentry opened silk and satin shops in the capital, but the strange thing is that, Although the silk and satin shop he opened in Jinhua is large, it never sells silk and satin to outsiders. It only transports silk and satin one boat after another to the south. But obviously silk and satin are expensive in the north and cheap in the south. Only silk and satin have always been transported from south to north. If it is sold in the north, what will he do with it being transported to the south?"
"Therefore, the people in the factory guard wanted to check it out carefully, but they haven't found it yet because they are not allowed to copy the shops without any reason to avoid being investigated by the criminal investigation department; but this Jinhua silk and satin shop does not recruit new people, so I can only think of buying off his original employees, but most of his employees are experienced people in the government, and I haven’t found an opportunity to bribe them yet.”
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun said: "Now that Zhao Zhigao is a traitor to the barbarians, the reverse production in his name can be confiscated. Your factory guards should confiscate it immediately!"
Zhu Yijun said: "In this way, you will preach my edict to the imperial minister and let him draft an edict to appoint you as the chief imperial envoy, and select Wang Jiaping, the imperial lecturer, Sun Jigao, the academic scholar, and Wang Maode, the editor, as the deputy imperial envoys. Go check on the Zhao Zhigao clan! This will give me a chance for your factory guards to kill these arrogant Hanlin elites."
"My slave obeys the order!"
At this time, Zhang Hong came up and reported: "Your Majesty, Wang Zhuan, the right minister of the Ministry of Punishment, reported that some Hanlin officials stopped the Ministry of Punishment from removing Zhao Zhigao from the imperial prison for execution, saying that we need to wait for the emperor's new decree."
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun sneered and said to Zhang Jing: "Just in time, you go and declare the decree and take Zhao Zhigao to identify his family property."
"yes!"
Zhang Jing first came to the Shi Yusi and conveyed the edict to Sun Jigao, the new official.
Sun Jigao immediately bowed his hands towards the Qianqing Palace and said, "Your Majesty, you are wise!"
Then, Sun Jigao glared at Zhang Jing, and immediately began to write an imperial edict asking Zhang Jing and several other Hanlin officials to inspect Zhao Zhigao.
Not long after.
Sun Jigao came to the prison with Zhang Jing, Bai Yiqing and other Dongchang officials who held the imperial edict.
At this time, the imperial edict was filled with many Hanlin officials.
Wang Jiaping was the first to stand up and asked Zhang Jing, "Did the factory master get the emperor's new decree?"
Zhang Jing nodded: "That's right!"
Immediately, Zhang Jing read the imperial edict.
Wang Jiaping and other Hanlin officials were quite surprised and excited after hearing this.
"Your Majesty is indeed wise and does not only believe in the words of the factory guard!"
Wang Jiaping spoke first, and said to Zhu Hanlin: "Masters, please believe us, we will not let the factory guards unjustly accuse Duke Zhao!"
"That's right, everyone please leave."
Sun Jigao also followed suit.
Wang Maode even came over to Zhao Zhigao and said, "Don't worry, sir, we will not let the factory guards cover the sky with just one hand!"
Zhao Zhigao was about to cry but said without tears: "With all the gentlemen here, my heart is at peace!"
