The officials had a complete showdown. This was their last resort. They had to kill Qin Bangping and Chen Guang.
The humiliation they suffered has become the shame of Shilin. In the entire Shaanxi Province, everyone who knows the inside story will laugh at them behind their backs. They have completely become the laughing stock and become the entertainment objects for others to talk about after drinking.
In three to five months, their deeds in Xi'an will be spread throughout the world. By then, not only those around Xi'an, but also the entire officialdom and scholars of the Ming Dynasty will laugh at them.
Although they are officials mainly for personal gain, they also care deeply about reputation.
Many of them are ambitious. Who doesn't want to be a scholar leader and be respected and looked up to by others.
Especially to establish a high and upright image among the emperor, colleagues in the officialdom, and scholars, it takes a lot of time and energy to invest, basically the entire official career.
Although they are just local officials now and are inconspicuous in official circles and scholars, they may one day make political achievements and be promoted to the capital.
Moreover, what is reputation? Reputation is not determined by the size of the official position. Even if some people sit in the high position of Six Ministers or Ministers, they may not have a sense of presence among the scholars because of their unclear reputation.
Some people may never hold an official position in their lives, but they firmly occupy high positions as scholar leaders and are respected by thousands of people.
But to have this status, there must be no stain in life, especially when people like them are suppressed and humiliated by lowly military officers, no one will look down on them.
So no matter which angle they stand on, they must find their place. No matter what, they must kill these two men who have brought stains to them. Only in this way can they still have room for redemption and opportunities to keep their reputation. .
In order to achieve their own goals, they can slander without any limit.
And they also believed that the killing move they performed would definitely achieve their goals and effects.
From ancient times to the present, no emperor can tolerate the existence of anyone who can threaten his throne, let alone the rise of a person with such ambitions.
As soon as this young emperor ascended the throne, he seized power without hesitation, organized and trained a new army, and personally led the army to conquer. He had done so many things, and it was obvious that he cared more about these things.
"Qin Bangping has already written a memorial to explain this matter to me clearly. They followed the military laws and military orders set by me and acted on orders. I also specially commended them!"
"Wu Aiqing should stop making a fuss about this matter. The duty of a soldier is to unconditionally obey military orders. Their handling of this matter was not wrong."
"I believe they have already warned you. It's just that you insist on going your own way and don't take the general's laws and my will seriously."
"They didn't hold you accountable for trespassing into the military camp. Instead, you used this matter to hold them accountable. Isn't this a slap in the face?"
The emperor's remarks shocked the officials. They heard it right. The emperor just defended them. After all, they had thought about this.
But I never expected that the emperor would protect them to such an extent. With them being attacked by the army with firearms, was it their fault?
At this time, Wu Yizhong was deeply dissatisfied and had to argue with the emperor.
"His Majesty attaches great importance to military affairs and neglects civility. It is really not in line with the law of governing the country and ensuring the peace of the people. History can serve as a guide. In the past dynasties, if military commanders were given too much power, they would eventually be counterattacked."
"Liang Ji and He Jin of the Han Dynasty, Sima Zhao of the Wei Dynasty, the military governor of the Tang Dynasty, and Lan Yu, the powerful general of this dynasty, were either treacherous ministers who dominated the country and disrupted the government's agenda, or they were arrogant and arrogant, and raised armies to cause harm to the country and the people. Chaotic rebels and rebellious ministers.”
"The source of all this is, isn't it caused by the general's power?"
"Does Your Majesty not know these old things? Are you going to repeat the tragedy of the previous dynasty?"
"Throughout the past dynasties, the emperor sat at the court, civil servants governed the country, and the generals only led the troops to fight. Your Majesty took over local city defenses in the form of an army and deprived the local officials of their authority. Looking at history, is there any precedent?"
"Isn't your Majesty's move imitating the Tang Dynasty's vassal system?"
"With such indulgence, within ten years, won't our Ming Dynasty produce another An Lushan and Shi Siming?"
This is one of the skills that officials are best at, telling historical events to frighten the current supreme ruler.
But it was such a simple conspiracy, and countless emperors still fell into it, without any power to refute it.
Emperor Chongzhen was frightened like this. In the 16th year of Chongzhen's reign, the Ming army fought a decisive battle with the Manchu Qing Dynasty in Songshan and was defeated.
The last remaining troops in Jiubian and the capital were wiped out, leaving only the two fugitive generals Wang Pu and Wu Sangui with some remaining defeated troops.
Within the pass, bandit leaders such as Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Luo Rucai made a comeback, and the power of the rebel army reached its peak. The rebel army attacked cities and plundered territory along the way. Important cities such as Kaifeng, Luoyang, and Xi'an fell one after another. Things in the Central Plains were no longer possible.
Emperor Chongzhen wanted to move south to Nanzhili and try to revitalize the country, but he did not dare to speak out and could only hint to a young low-level official.
As a result, as soon as he opened his mouth in the court, he was ridiculed by a group of people led by Guang Shiheng. Emperor Chongzhen, who was trying to live quietly, sat in a high position and watched all this silently, seeing the last person who was willing to speak for him. A loyal minister was reviled by his fellow ministers and resigned from office without doing anything.
Not long after, Emperor Chongzhen proposed that the prince should go to Nanjing to prevent unexpected events in the capital. It was Guang Shiheng who took the lead in opposing the proposal and brought out the old events of Suzong of the Tang Dynasty.
Emperor Chongzhen, who had always been opinionated and self-willed, and who valued power very much, could not bear this. He was so frightened that he panicked and immediately decided to end the discussion on the prince's move southward and never mention it again.
The result was that Li Zicheng invaded Beijing and the Ming Dynasty was officially declared destroyed. He himself left a sentence, saying that I was right, and it was all the ministers who were wrong, who missed my important event.
After saying this famous saying that was widely circulated in later generations, he himself hanged himself and it was over.
This sentence was pure blame-shifting. Until the moment of his death, he had not yet figured out why the Ming Dynasty came to this point and why the Ming Dynasty perished.
However, just such a remark, coupled with his moral integrity to commit suicide and sacrifice for his country, instantly raised his image by several levels.
But in fact, the things he did during his reign were like pigs and dogs. Even if he was an emperor in a peaceful and prosperous era, and a prosperous dynasty was handed over to him, with his IQ and talent, he might not be able to compete with Emperor Sui Yang. Just like that, it ruins the family and harms the people.
But his three sons were harmed by him, especially the most important prince, the orthodox heir of the Ming Dynasty, who disappeared from the world.
Facts have proved that the emperor cannot be afraid of trouble, especially in front of his courtiers. His authority cannot be questioned or challenged, and no one is allowed to dare to look directly at it.
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