No one was absent from the morning court this time, and the Supervisor of Ceremonies and officials from the six cabinet ministries were on both sides. Behind them are those with lower grades.
Emperor Chongzhen was stunned for a moment when he saw this posture. He felt that there were a lot of people today. Could it be that something bad was going to happen again?
As expected, just after the ceremony was over, Yang Zhiqi, the imperial censor below, came out first and said: "I have my own intention to report. I want to impeach the cabinet minister for his procrastination in doing things, and he has failed your majesty's entrustment."
When Wei Zhaocheng, the assistant minister of the cabinet, heard this, he understood it and immediately came out to respond: "Although there is no chief assistant now, the few of us who work hard have never been procrastinated in doing things."
"If that's the case, why has there been no result yet in the official's memorial to impeach Jin Yiwei for his illegal conduct?" Yang Zhiqi asked immediately after hearing this.
"Yes, and my impeachment memorial has also not been dealt with?" Another censor, Jiang Gongchen, also came out to ask.
It wasn't just him, a group of people came out in just a short while.
When Emperor Chongzhen saw this situation, he immediately understood that so many people came today for this matter.
Wei Zhaocheng responded calmly: "Wait for the impeachment memorial. All the facts are there. The cabinet has drafted it as soon as possible and submitted it to the Supervisor of Ceremonies. As for why there is no result yet, you should ask The right person is the Supervisor of Ceremonies."
This morning, Wang Chengen came. Seeing them like this, I wanted to speak, but I saw Liu Zongzhou, the censor of Zuodu, also came out and said: "Your Majesty, the factory guards have a bad reputation for a long time, and many illegal things are known to everyone. Now everyone is observing Many colleagues in the court have reported the truth to the public, and in order to uphold the discipline of the imperial court, I ask your majesty to make a fair decision!"
Obviously, there was no need for Wang Chengen to express his position. These people all guessed that Emperor Chongzhen had kept the memorial.
What we had discussed before was to fight him step by step to give the emperor some face, so that the emperor would not hold on for the sake of face. But Liu Zongzhou disagreed with this. In his opinion, in the final analysis, it was the emperor's problem. Therefore, he didn't even bother to confront the Supervisor of Ceremonies first, and directly fired at Emperor Chongzhen.
Seeing him like this, the others had no choice but to join in, one after another, creating a huge momentum and causing everyone to shout and fight. In this way, Emperor Chongzhen would definitely consider the opinions of the majority of people, and maybe he would not do it again. Protect Jin Yiwei, protect that person.
"The Jin Yiwei ignored the power given by His Majesty and acted illegally. They should be severely punished!"
"Your Majesty, I went to see the master of suffering, and my family was ruined by the Jin Yiwei. It was so miserable!"
"Just because of one look at Jin Yiwei Liu, a well-to-do family was completely destroyed. This is really shocking. Is there anything Jin Yiwei dare not do?"
"..."
Emperor Chongzhen looked at them coldly and kept tabs on them in his mind: The Imperial Procuratorate, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Rites... It is true that all the yamen in the imperial court are not lacking. Is this forcing the palace, forcing me to submit to them?
Thinking of this, he suddenly felt a little lucky.
At first I thought, in order to save my husband's face, I would keep all these memorials. If this is the case, it would be really difficult to deal with so many ministers now, and they are all showing out one by one that there is a perpetrator and there is evidence, unless they throw up their sleeves and leave.
Even if he agrees to punish a few of the worst offenders, looking at the attitude of these ministers, they probably won't give up and will definitely demand that all Jin Yiwei who break the law be punished.
While he was thinking about it, he heard the cabinet ministers Wei Zhaocheng, Zhang Sizhi and others marching out to report: "Your Majesty, the factory guards are causing harm to the world, and the disaster of the Tianqi Dynasty is still before our eyes. We must not tolerate it!"
When other civil servants saw this, they also came out one after another and shouted: "Your Majesty, you must not tolerate this!"
"Bold!" When Wang Chengen saw this, he immediately stepped out of the queue and shouted angrily, "How brave are you? Are you forcing Long Live Lord?"
Hearing this, Liu Zongzhou was not afraid and immediately replied: "May I ask you, Mr. Wang, whether what we have played has deceived Your Majesty in the slightest? In my opinion, it was your factory guards who did the illegal things behind His Majesty's back. It was you who You are the bravest, right?"
"Yes, the factory guards are all the emperor's personal soldiers and represent the emperor outside!" Zhang Sizhi immediately agreed, "You factory guards are corrupt and pervert the law. That is a smear on the emperor's face. You are so brave!"
With the two of them taking the lead, the other civil servants all followed suit. They were not at all afraid of Wang Chengen as usual, and they followed up and questioned one by one.
They believed that they were united and this time it was rare for everyone to work together, and they must let the emperor deal with all the memorials. If this is the case, even if the emperor does not agree to ban the factory guards, basically the factory guards will be almost useless after dealing with so many people.
At this time, Emperor Chongzhen was already a little impatient. Just when he was about to bang the table and speak, he heard the servant outside the palace reporting: "Commander of the Jinyi Guards, Duke Xingguo is requesting an audience."
This sound caused a slight silence in the hall. They were all thinking, is the real master here by himself?
"Sir, please!" Emperor Chongzhen ordered immediately after hearing this.
His words also made many civil servants feel harsh. The emperor was still so polite to that man, was he determined to protect him?
To be honest, in the past, many people's impeachment memorials were actually directed at Zhang Mingwei. For example, the title of "Sir", Zhang Mingwei's daily words and deeds, and even some people have heard about Princess Kunxing and want to impeach her.
However, in the end, these impeachments were pressed down. It was not that they should not impeach, but that they should concentrate their firepower on impeaching Jin Yiwei for his illegal activities first. As for other things, they are just trivial matters. What they want is to ban the factory guards like they did in the early years of Chongzhen, or to let the factory guards exist in name only.
In just this moment, Zhang Mingwei had already entered the palace. Behind him, there were two royal guards in golden robes, holding a thick stack of memorials in their hands.
For the first time, everyone was attracted by Zhang Mingwei. It is true that Zhang Mingwei is wearing a python suit, which is too dazzling and dazzles these civil servants no matter how they look at it! They felt that this Zhang Mingwei had a strong sense of arrogance. Did he come here specifically to demonstrate?
Thinking of this, they couldn't help but secretly hate it. They came just in time and will make you look good later!
At the same time, Zhou Kui also came to the palace to see his daughter. Not only that, even Zhou Bian also came.
On the way, they already knew what the officials were going to do in the morning. While gloating at the misfortune, Zhou Bian said to Zhou Kui: "Dad, we have to hurry up. If the emperor finally punishes that person and takes away his title, Well, then we can’t use this as an excuse to ask my sister to help us win the title!”
After hearing this, Zhou Kui nodded repeatedly and did not dare to delay at all along the way.
But this time, what they didn't expect was that Queen Zhou actually sent someone to tell them that if there was nothing important, there was no need to enter the palace.
Zhou Kui was very angry about this. This kind of thing had never happened before. Besides, things like promotion and promotion are definitely important!
So, he finally entered the palace with his son after replying that it was urgent.
