"Be bold!"
Seeing Li Ruolian break into the Huangji Hall, Meng Shaoyu, the Minister of Rites, shouted angrily: "Li Ruolian, do you know that during the court meeting, no one is allowed to enter the Huangji Hall without being summoned?"
Chongzhen also frowned, but he knew very well that Li Ruolian was a person who would never rush into the Huangji Palace with a knife during a court meeting unless something important happened.
"Li Ruolian, tell me!"
"Your Majesty, Jinyiwei just received news that hundreds of students gathered in the square in front of the Imperial College, criticizing the government, impeaching Lord Wei, the admiral of the East Factory, and others, and saying..."
"But it doesn't matter!"
"They also said that Your Majesty is fatuous, destroyed the Great Wall, and killed loyal ministers who spoke out and remonstrated. Who will dare to accept remonstrance in the future..."
After Li Ruolian finished retelling, all the ministers trembled instantly. To say this to His Majesty was simply treason.
Chongzhen stood up suddenly, walked to the edge of the ninth floor platform, and stared at Li Ruolian: "Can we find out who they are?"
"Your Majesty, the specific list of personnel has not yet been found out, but from the information we have learned so far, they are all tribute students and scholars from Jiangnan who are in the Imperial College."
When everyone heard Li Ruolian's report, their eyes were thoughtful.
Chongzhen narrowed his eyes. He now knew why Li Ruolian came to report urgently despite the meeting.
Since the time of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Dynasty has emphasized martial arts and neglected literature. It has also promulgated a system that no knighthood can be granted without military merit, cutting off the opportunity for all scholars to be knighted.
However, some privileges are still given to scholars. Starting from scholars, they can be exempted from military service, exempted from paying public grain, use maids, receive preferential treatment by law, have privileges in dressing, and avoid kneeling.
Especially the preferential treatment by law. In the early Ming Dynasty, it was stipulated that even those who committed capital crimes could be pardoned three times. Although this law was later canceled, preferential treatment was still provided.
For example, you can't just arrest someone for interrogation, and you can't use criminal law. Even if you want to punish someone, you have to have your title revoked first.
"Li Ruolian, lead people to surround this group of people. Don't let anyone go. Anyone who dares to resist will be killed without mercy!"
Chongzhen spit out an order coldly.
Then he looked at the ministers and said: "Let's go, we have stayed in this Huangji Palace for a long time, let's go out and get some fresh air!"
"Your Majesty, are you going to the Imperial College?"
Duke Cheng Guo exclaimed: "Your Majesty, it is not safe outside the palace. This..."
"What's this?"
Chongzhen suddenly turned around and stared at Duke Cheng Guo who spoke out with stern eyes: "In this city of Beijing, can't you, so many generals, be able to protect my safety?"
Facing the emperor's oppressive eyes, Cheng Guogong gritted his teeth and said, "Your Majesty, please give me half a quarter of an hour to prepare."
After saying that, he turned to the distinguished nobles on the side and said, "Xin Lehou and Wu Dinghou, you two quickly go to the capital camp and mobilize a thousand elites to escort you!"
The two left in response, and Chongzhen stood at the entrance of Huangji Palace: "The chariot driver does not need to prepare Luan Chai, just use the dragon to chase him."
After waiting for half an hour, he raised his feet and walked out of the palace door. The ministers looked at each other and followed helplessly.
The ministers following Chongzhen had different expressions. Except for the Donglin Party, the ministers who were fighting for other parties all had expressions of gloating in their eyes.
They are all human beings, and they can tell at a glance that the tricks of this group of students are arranged by the Donglin Party.
A group of people from the Donglin Party had extremely gloomy expressions. They were so desperate that they just happened to encounter the Shaanxi Civil War, and the emperor also knew about it.
Many ministers have just been killed, and the emperor is furious. Isn't this the point of a gun?
"Get out of the way, get out of the way!"
Li Ruolian received the order and rushed to the square outside the Imperial Academy with a group of guards in royal robes.
"Surround it up!"
"If you dare to resist, kill!"
Clang... clang...
The long swords of the Jinyi guards were unsheathed, shining brightly in the sun and piercing their eyes, instantly making the noisy square quiet.
"Who are you, we are..."
"Come here, drag him out and give him twenty slaps!"
Li Ruolian yelled angrily, and two Jinyi guards stepped forward, dragged the person who made the noise out like a chicken, and then slapped him in the mouth.
The Jin Yiwei under Li Ruolian are different from the other Jin Yiwei under Qianhu. They are all hunky-backed and have palms like futons. With a slap, the person who made a sound will howl miserably.
This tragic scene was seen by other students, and several couldn't help but speak out again.
Li Ruolian wasn't used to it either. He counted every one of them and beat them as soon as he caught them.
It doesn't matter if you have fame and fame. With His Majesty's support, who is afraid of whom?
After the beating, dozens of students lay on the ground groaning. Firstly, it hurt, and secondly, they were ashamed of being beaten in such a public place.
Being pointed at by hundreds of imperial guards with long knives, this group of scholars, who could scold the emperor at the top and hawkers at the bottom, panicked and wanted to speak out, but they didn't dare to move when they saw the dozens of people lying on the ground.
The wait is long.
I don’t know how long it took, but a burst of neat steps rushed from a distance, mixed with the faint sound of the collision of weapons and armor.
The entire Imperial College was under martial law.
Another quarter of an hour later, the commotion was heard again. Everyone followed the sound and saw the dragon flag fluttering in the distance.
Hundreds of students watching the excitement were shocked, the emperor was here.
Sure enough, as soon as the thought in my mind came to an end, I heard the sharp sound of His Majesty's arrival. Everyone knelt down in unison, even the students who were lying on the ground and groaning.
Long live my emperor, long live long live, sounded like a mountain roar and a tsunami.
Chongzhen disembarked from Long Chu, with Fang Zhenghua and Li Ruolian guarding him. After a quick glance, he walked up to hundreds of students and stared at them coldly.
"Except for the students in the assembly, everyone else, please get up!"
When the ministers who followed heard Chongzhen's words, they immediately thought that 'this group of people' was finished. The hundreds of kneeling students also had a sudden thought in their hearts.
“Who organized the rally?”
"Student Qian Rulin, a student from Haiyan County, is here to meet His Majesty!"
“Why the rally?”
When it came to this, Qian Rulin was also willing to take the risk. He gritted his teeth, stood up and roared at Chongzhen: "I am complaining about Qian Gong and others, and I advise your majesty to keep the virtuous ministers away from the villain."
"presumptuous!"
Fang Zhenghua shouted angrily, reached out and grabbed Qian Rulin's neck, and lifted him up like a chicken. Qian Rulin's face turned red, he grabbed Fang Zhenghua's right hand with both hands, and his feet were dangling in the air.
"Fang Zhenghua, let him down and let him continue. I want to see how he can protest against Qian Qianyi and others."
Fang Zhenghua directly threw Qian Rulin to the ground. The huge impact made Qian Rulin stand up after a while.
"Your Majesty, Mr. Qian impeached the Hakka family. The evidence is conclusive. Why did you kill Mr. Qian and others? You have killed all those who dared to speak out and remonstrated. Who will dare to remonstrate in the future?"
Chongzhen smiled: "They were the ones who wanted to remonstrate, I just helped them."
"Death to remonstrate, death to remonstrate, risking one's life to remonstrate is not true death."
"It's possible to risk death, so I'll maximize this opportunity, okay?"
"If you just talk about death remonstrance, but actually don't want to die, just to gain fame, then it is the crime of deceiving the emperor, and it is also a capital crime.
You shout every day that you let me die, I have to die, I really killed you, and you are here gibbering, do you really think I have no temper? "
"you……"
"And the virtuous minister you mentioned, Yuan Xiaoren, I would like to ask who is the virtuous minister you mentioned? Qian Qianyi?
Do you know what it means to be a beast in appearance, a gentleman on the outside but a villain on the inside, arrogant in appearance, and inconsistent with appearance? Qian Qianyi is. "
Chongzhen's words immediately angered Qian Rulin and hundreds of other scholars. Just when they were about to get angry, Li Ruolian waved his hand, and the Jin Yiwei who was watching didn't get used to it, and directly put his long knife on the neck of the nearby scholar.
"Okay, I'm too lazy to talk nonsense with you."
Chongzhen interrupted Qian Rulin directly: "Tell me, who is the person behind this opportunity?"
