"Your Highness, the old minister has no virtue and is not qualified to serve as the prince's tutor or a bachelor. I beg your highness to allow the old minister to retire and return home!" Song Lian took off his official hat and knelt on the ground, his eyes full of contentment. It is decisive.
"I am incompetent and unable to stop the traitors from harming the country. In this case, I resign and return to the countryside..."
Behind Song Lian, dozens of officials followed suit, took off their official hats, and knelt on the ground.
Zhu Yu looked serious, "Are you forcing me?"
"Old minister, you don't dare!" Song Lian said: "Today, the King of Wu wields a sword to kill the ninth-grade patrol inspector and the third-grade circulation envoy. In the future, there will be no one else that the King of Wu will not dare to kill.
What King Wu killed was not just an inspector or an operational envoy, but also the national law of my great cause.
The ministers are incompetent and can neither stop the King of Wu nor change His Majesty's mind.
In this way, there is no way to continue to stay in the palace, with the corpse lying in plain sight. "
"Your Majesty, please agree!" everyone said in unison.
While everyone was talking, more and more officials ran into the East Palace and knelt down.
In the blink of an eye, there were more than a hundred people kneeling on the ground.
Zhu Yu sneered in his heart. He also received Zhu Jun's memorial. The chaos in Yangzhou had exceeded his expectations.
These people are colluding up and down in an attempt to frame a prince. Isn't this audacious?
Even if it is an ordinary case, forging an unjust case, all the participants will be implicated.
What's more, this matter also involves a prince.
The Shen family forged fake salt and supported the enemy and collaborated with bandits, which made people laugh.
Prince Wu's Mansion makes a profit of two to three million taels a year, so how much profit does it take to make fake salt?
The idea of collaborating with the enemy and collaborating with the bandits is even more groundless. The pirates are close to the sea, and there is an inexhaustible supply of sea water. Boil the sea and turn it into salt. There is no need to risk going to Yangzhou to transport salt.
It has always been difficult to ban illegal salt sales in coastal areas, and pirates are not fools.
Thanks to Zhu Jun's mistake, he went to Yangzhou first. If not, how should this matter be handled if it happened?
These people think that forcing an uterus will work, but they are wrong.
If it was an ordinary trivial matter, it would be fine, but this had already touched Zhu Yu's bottom line.
If they dare to frame the prince today, will they dare to point fingers at him, the prince, in the future?
Whether they are from the Huaixi branch or from the eastern Zhejiang branch, they all have knives in their hands, but if this knife is pointed at the owner, it will break!
"Okay, since you want to resign, I won't stop you. Everyone has his own ambitions. Please go slowly, I won't send you off." Zhu Yu said: "Come here, pass on the news about me. Who wants to resign?" , there is no need to come over, just hand in your resignation directly.
Gudu agreed.
But before leaving, the affairs at hand must be handed over. Soon, Gu will draft a replacement official.
Everybody get down! "
Everyone was stunned!
This isn't right.
Why did the prince just agree without saying a word to save him?
Song Lian was also stunned, "Your Highness..."
"Mr. Song, I have always admired you, but what I admire is your personality and knowledge. Judging cases is not your specialty, so don't follow others' opinions. This will only implicate you and destroy the reputation you have accumulated over decades!"
Zhu Yu took a deep look at Song Lian and said, "That's it for now, so you can do what you want!"
Song Lian felt a dull feeling in his heart, "Your Highness, veteran..."
"Your Highness, how long will you continue to condone and protect the King of Wu?" An official stood up, "Do you want me to be killed here before you take a look at us loyal ministers with a heart of fists?"
"Death does not prove that you are right, and the trial of the case is even more so. What happened yesterday, the Yangzhou magistrate tried the case, and it was full of loopholes. Do you know the truth or did you handle the case yourself?
As if seeing each one with his own eyes, he concluded that the Shen family was a traitor.
I want ironclad evidence, not these lies that can be exposed as soon as they are exposed.
As for the ninth-level inspection officer, he had been greedy for ten thousand taels of silver in three years. It was already cheap to kill him. If Fan were in Gu's hands, he would definitely be killed!
The father gave Lao Liu the right to behead first and then tell the story later, so why didn't he have the qualifications to kill the traitor?
Or are you afraid, because Lao Liu doesn't follow the rules, are you afraid that this sword will fall on your heads? "
Zhu Yu's words made everyone speechless, but he continued, "Even if you all crash and die here today, I can't let you be shaken.
When the truth comes out in the future, if Lao Liu is really wrong, Gu Gu will prove it to you personally.
If they are wrong, I will make you suffer forever!
Now that you are ready to force yourself into the palace, you must bear the consequences and get rid of them all. "
Zhu Yu's words made everyone present turn pale.
Even the death remonstrance failed.
No one expected that the prince and emperor would be so determined.
"Go home and wait for the news. If you dare to call your friends, you will be punished with words and pens, and beheaded!
If you spread rumors before the truth is determined, beheaded!
If you dare to step out of the house easily, behead!
If you instigate others to resign, behead them! "
Four chops in a row made everyone present tremble with fear.
"Your Highness, do you want to be a single husband?" A censor asked bravely.
"If the truth is wrong, do I have to agree with you to be a wise king?" Zhu Yu pointed at the censor and said: "You are trying to coerce me with the public's words. Is this the loyalty and patriotism you keep claiming?"
A long time ago, Zhu Jun chatted with him and talked about the harm of party strife. Zhu Yu didn't take it seriously at first.
But now, he suddenly understood what Zhu Jun meant.
In the future, if these scholars are allowed to dominate the family and manipulate power, it will be the greatest harm.
He finally understood what it meant that the troubles of a scholar were worse than those of a noble family.
When Lao Zhu came back from Fengyang, he said this to him, but he didn't really mean it.
This time he woke up.
Now that the Huaixi line is suppressing them, they are okay. If the world is peaceful in the future and the military equipment is relaxed.
How terrible would it be to use literature to control military force?
The censor's face turned livid after being scolded. If these words were spread, what shame would he have?
"Your Highness, I am a minister..."
"Everyone get out, remember what I said, if you are guilty, I will never let you go!" Zhu Yu said angrily.
Song Lian looked at his most proud student with mixed emotions. He kowtowed three times and left immediately without looking back.
Once Song Lian left, the others couldn't stay any longer.
Originally, the group wanted to get together and chat.
But the people from the Guards Division rushed over and separated them.
"Masters, I will send you home. From today on, I ask you to rest at home!"
Everyone was really scared now. The emperor and prince's toughness frightened them.
Is there really a problem?
There were still some people who arrived late, but when they saw the people from the Arch Guard escorting these people, they were all frightened and stood still.
They didn't dare to talk to each other, and all of them looked blue in the face.
Immediately afterwards, Lan Yu and other generals entered the palace with a large number of forbidden troops. This scene made them tremble with fear.
