Zhu Yijun raised the corner of his mouth slightly at this time, and then watched Shen Yongmao and others kill all the celebrities and officials who had just asked to kill Wang Xijue and Li Ruhua.
At that time, some officials from the school rushed out and killed the scholars outside who were complaining about injustice.
The screams kept coming.
After a while, the killing stopped.
Then, Shen Yongmao waited until he threw away the knife, and all of them came over with blood on their faces and knelt in front of Zhu Yijun.
"I have violated the law of the country by killing national traitors without asking for permission. I am willing to be executed!"
Bang!
Shen Yongmao said and knocked his head into the red snow.
"His Majesty!"
Liang Menglong stood up resolutely at this time and said sternly to Zhu Yijun:
"Your Majesty, they really deserve to die for committing crimes in front of the emperor! It's not an exaggeration to be killed by a thousand cuts!"
"I ask Your Majesty to issue an order to deal with these lawless and rebellious people strictly!"
"His Majesty!"
"I have no contact with these pro-military guards officers' schools, nor have I had the opportunity to contact them, so I did not expect that they would do this for me!"
"But by doing this, they are treasonous and disrespectful! They should be killed!"
"What's more, killing the scholar-bureaucrats of this dynasty without authorization in front of the emperor is an unprecedented thing since the founding of the country. It is outrageous. Failure to kill is not enough to set the course of the dynasty!"
Wang Xijue also expressed his attitude.
Although these middle- and lower-level pro-military guardsmen who launched the riot just shouted, "Everyone who falsely accuses the old man should die," and it was clear that they were standing up for Wang Xijue, Wang Xijue obviously did not appreciate it, and was even very angry, so that his words were full of murder. The language of cutting.
Because he looked at the celebrities, officials and scholars who fell in the snow, and now he had a feeling of hurting others.
Just now, when Ning Cheng'an and others slandered him as a cruel official in front of the emperor and even forced the emperor Zhu Yijun to kill him, he didn't say a word and seemed to let him slander him.
Because he had long been prepared to be killed unjustly by the emperor.
In this case.
Although the emperor seemed to be very ruthless, he knew that he had ended up in such a situation voluntarily, which could be regarded as making the emperor fully realize that even if a civil servant like him was willing to work hard to treat the people as human beings, it would be useless.
After all, the entire bureaucracy is reactionary.
Therefore, even if your emperor uses the righteousness of the country to force individual bureaucrats to betray their own class and fight for power for the people, the result will only be that this individual bureaucrat who betrayed his class will be strangled by the entire bureaucratic group!
and.
It will also be the entire bureaucracy that forces you, the emperor, to kill your own people you have trained.
After all, this is to eliminate corvee and prevent the powerful people from enslaving the people. This is a reform that has never been seen in history, and it is also a reform that digs the roots of the land.
Dong Shouyue, who had not been killed because he had not expressed his intention to kill Wang Xijue and Li Ruhua just now, couldn't help but feel even more surprised when he saw Wang Xijue's attitude from the sidelines, so that he had no time to grieve for the death of his father and Yue Weng.
For a moment, he couldn't tell who was his friend and who was his enemy.
But things in the world are complicated here.
What's more, Zhu Yijun was deliberately complicating things for him and muddying the waters so that the reactionaries who opposed the liberation of the people would not be able to target him as the emperor.
Li Ruhua was equally unappreciative.
Like Wang Xijue, he actually would rather see the emperor kill them unjustly and force the emperor to compromise with the entire bureaucracy than see such a situation where the subordinates suppress the superiors.
Therefore, Li Ruhua stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, the arrogant and powerful generals cannot be retained and must be punished!"
"I second the proposal!"
Luo Wanhua, the Minister of Civil Affairs, also agreed.
Naturally, civil servants could not tolerate this situation.
"His Majesty!"
"I ask your Majesty to issue a decree to pardon the death penalty for the military minister who killed the thief today, and to practice benevolence!"
But this time.
Qi Jiguang stood up and said resolutely:
"In the past, when the Yingmiao was hunting in the north and the Tatar army gathered, the capital was in danger, but the powerful eunuch King Zhen Yu's party had not been eliminated, so that the government could not be unified. Therefore, there were ministers who hated evil as much as enemies and angrily went to Emperor Jingtai without asking for orders. He killed the imperial guard Ma Shun and other traitorous members of the party. Seeing that they were loyal and brave people, Lord Su Min resolutely asked for forgiveness for the minister's crime."
"Today I also serve the public purpose and ask Your Majesty to issue an order to pardon the loyal and brave men who are close to the army and guard, spare them the death penalty, and only banish them so that they will no longer act recklessly."
"I dare not directly ask His Majesty to pardon them completely, as Yu Gong did, and undermine His Majesty's majesty. However, I only ask Your Majesty to remember their military exploits and their determination to serve the country, and not to kill them or implicate their families. After all, they dare to serve the country. Killing thieves proves that there is nothing wrong with the family tradition."
Qi Jiguang prostrated on the ground as he spoke: "Your Majesty, please accept your advice!"
"His Majesty!"
"The Prime Minister's statement is totally false!"
Wang Xijue stood up at this time and said: "How can Xiaojun Wu Bian be compared with the ministers and civil servants?!"
"In the past, it was an act of loyalty for the ministers and ministers to kill thieves in front of Emperor Jingtai. Today, Wu Bian Primary School is obviously guilty of the following!"
"Isn't it an act of loyalty for Wu Ben Primary School today?"
Nanchang Marquis Liu Wei couldn't stand it any longer, so he stood up and asked Wang Xijue, and then said to Zhu Yijun with tears in his eyes:
"Your Majesty, I never like to interfere in court affairs, but I really don't think there is any difference between today's Wu Bian Primary School and those scholar-bureaucrats who killed Wang Zhenyu's party in the past!"
"I also agree with the Prime Minister's words and ask your Majesty to forgive the death penalty for killing the thief today!"
"In addition, as an admiral of the personal army, I am guilty of lax teaching, and I also apologize to Your Majesty. However, Your Majesty can kill the ministers, please do not kill them!"
"They are still young. It's not that they don't know the laws of the country, but they are just like those civil servants back then. They only thought about killing thieves and forgot the laws of the country. Your Majesty is the emperor, so you can be merciful."
"What's more, in the past, those civil servants killed close ministers of the emperor, such as the commanders and envoys of the Imperial Guards, and they could be forgiven by the world. Today, those who are close to the military guards only killed the gentry who had committed crimes. Can't they be forgiven by the world once?"
"His Majesty!"
"I believe that what happened today is different from the past when the courtiers in front of Emperor Jingtai killed Wang Zhenyu and his party, because those people in the past were ministers and ministers!"
Luo Wanhua, the Minister of Civil Affairs, continued to say something at this time.
The opinions of the civil and military ministers were clearly divided.
"But now these people are the emperor's personal guards!"
Qi Jiguang shouted back at this time.
Luo Wanhua remained silent on the spot.
"His Majesty!"
"I believe that the prime minister only asked for the death penalty of the thief's close soldier Wei Zhongyong, instead of directly pardoning him. This is already more upright, fair and holy than the ministers and ministers in front of Emperor Jingtai in the past!"
"Does Your Majesty really think that the pro-military and guard-friendly official schools are not worthy of being exempted?!"
"The Holy Majesty, with the Heavenly Constitution in his mouth, can not only kill those who break the law, but also spare those who break the law. Everything depends on the splendid oracle!"
"No one in the world has the right to ask His Majesty what to do, they are only qualified to ask His Majesty what to do!"
Zhang Jingxiu, the commander of Jinyi Guards, the left governor of the rear army governor's mansion, also came out at this time and expressed his views directly to Zhu Yijun.
"Your Majesty, civil servants who violate the law can be controlled, but arrogant soldiers and generals who violate the law cannot be controlled."
At this time, Wang Xijue once again gave out a reason and glared at Shen Yongmao angrily.
He couldn't even think about it now, why did Shen Yongmao participate in such a stupid thing? Now, Qi Jiguang used the past civil servants' violations of the law to plead the emperor's excuse for the military officials' violation of the law. This suddenly aroused the issue of whether civil and military officials should treat them the same way.
"Your Majesty, I would like to ask Mr. Wangge, aren't the evil gentry who just slandered him and Li Fengxian as corrupt and cruel officials who violated the law, and even threatened the king and father to kill them, aren't they thieves?"
At this time, Zhang Jingxiu asked.
Zhu Yijun looked at Wang Xijue: "Answer his question."
"yes!"
Wang Xijue raised his hand and said yes, and then said: "Your Majesty, I don't think they are thieves!"
"Then you are saying that I am really a cruel official, really killing good people and taking credit, really taking bribes and perverting the law?"
"Lian Jinyiwei and Dongchang were both in Shenpi Gong in the past?"
Zhang Jingxiu asked.
When Wang Xijue was asked this question by Zhang Jingxiu, his eyes widened immediately, and then he hurriedly knelt down in front of Zhu Yijun:
"Your Majesty, can I take back what I just said? What I mean is that the soldiers who killed the evil gentry today are not thieves. I am not saying that the evil gentry is not a thief. I made a mistake and misheard Kingo's words."
It was obviously a snowy day in the twelfth lunar month, and Wang Xijue suddenly had beads of sweat on his head.
He was in a hurry to suppress the warriors, but he was accidentally tricked by Zhang Jingxiu's words.
"His Majesty!"
At this time, Li Ruhua stood up again to help Wang Xijue and said: "Even if these Wu Bian primary schools are loyal and brave men, they must be killed today, otherwise the Ming Dynasty will inevitably suffer the disaster of the Five Dynasties again, because military ministers are different from civil servants after all, and civil servants will violate the law." , the most harm to the people, but the military officials who violate the law harm the world!"
"Your Majesty, if the civil and military laws are different, it will be more likely to harm the world. On the contrary, although the world will have a king and father in the future, there will actually be no king and father!"
"Because nowadays local bureaucrats and gentry often regard the king's law as nothing, because the law is useful for military affairs but not for literature!"
"Such an unfair law has been in place for hundreds of years since Tumu Fortress, which is why no one abides by the royal law."
"Today I just ask your Majesty to spare them the death penalty instead of not punishing them. This is a great progress in the laws of this dynasty and a great progress in the majesty of the king and father. If your majesty really doesn't do this, wouldn't it be tantamount to killing yourself?"
Qi Jiguang spoke clearly again, kowtowed directly and said: "I would like to ask your majesty again to forgive the crime of being a member of the imperial guards to death!"
"Your Majesty, please spare them the death penalty!"
Liu Wei also knelt down and kowtowed on the snow.
Then, Zhang Jingxiu also knelt down: "Your Majesty, please spare them the death penalty!"
"Your Majesty, please spare them the death penalty!"
"Your Majesty, please spare them the death penalty!"
"Your Majesty, please spare them the death penalty!"
…
For a moment, the entire palace and all the military officials, from the princes to the small banner soldiers, all knelt down with guns in hand.
Inside and outside the entire palace, under the heavy snow, densely packed armors were kneeling.
The mountains roared like a tsunami, like iron dragons begging Zhu Yijun, begging to be merciful to them.
Wang Xijue couldn't help but widen his eyes when he saw this scene.
The other civil servants fell silent on the spot.
Even Dong Shouyue and other celebrities who were not killed fell silent.
Dong Shouyue even looked frustrated and said, "We have completely lost!"
Zhu Yijun looked at Wang Xijue at this time: "Mr. Wang Ge, what do you think now?"
After Zhu Yijun asked, Luo Wanhua, Liang Menglong, Li Rulong and other civil servants all looked at Wang Xijue.
Wang Xijue knew that he had to consider the overall situation at this time, so he said helplessly:
"Your Majesty, I now feel that the soldier who killed the evil gentry today is actually justifiable!"
"Because, in all trials of crimes, one must first ask about their motives, and then determine whether they are unforgivable. Their motives are good. First, they hate these evil gentry for bullying the emperor too much, and they did wrong things out of loyalty. "Secondly, I knew that if I didn't do this today, my military prestige would be damaged, so I forgot the rules and did this for the sake of countering the rebellion."
"I thought about it and concluded that, no matter what, Your Majesty is about to personally conquer the rebellion. In order not to upset the morale of the army, we should not care about the crimes of the loyal and brave men, but give them the opportunity to avoid the death penalty by performing meritorious deeds!"
(End of chapter)
