Chapter 634: The Fall of Gwangju
Zhu Cilang is not used to their problems, and these censors deserve to die.
As soon as he entered the Huangji Palace, Zhu Cilang looked around his ministers: "Li Yan and Hong Niangzi entered Xinyang City, both of which are my intentions. At present, bandits are everywhere in Henan, but you are here. I am not targeting anyone, I am listed as ministers here, you are all scum!"
The censors' mouths are like killing knives. They cited the scriptures to curse people indirectly. The typical example is "If you hit me, I will scold you. If you hit me again, I will scold you."
The mouths of these censors are sometimes even stronger than those on the battlefield. Although there is no war of smoke, their power cannot be underestimated.
Wouldn't it be enough to kill them all, or drag them out one by one and hit the 20 big boards again, and the beating to death is over.
In fact, governing a country is similar to a company. If you fire all your employees, who will maintain the operation of the company?
At the beginning, Zhu Cixuan thought that he would kill treacherous officials one by one with the historical list. Although it was very pleasant, the court system would collapse quickly.
It was really that simple. Emperor Chongzhen, who had supreme power, did not need to beg the ministers to donate money to save the Ming Dynasty. He just copied the ministers' homes and was going to be done.
The emperor's power is not a divine authority, but comes from the support of the ruling class. The landlord class such as princes and ministers is the so-called ruling class. They control the military, economic and other aspects of the country. If the emperor can protect the interests of most of them, they will give the emperor power and obey the emperor's decrees. Once the emperor's decrees harm the interests of most of them, the emperor will be ruthlessly abandoned and become a commander-in-law, and may even bring about death.
A smart emperor will balance all forces and use the hands of his ministers to kill political enemies. Zhu Cilang targets everyone as soon as he comes. I am not targeting anyone, I mean everyone here is a hot topic.
The court officials were in a bad mood. If Hong Niangzi and Li Yan were in trouble, Zhu Cilang would be humiliating the ministers directly.
No wonder the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked. The prince is so virtuous. How good can the Hongmao be?
The prince is crazy and offended all the ministers as soon as he opens his mouth. Isn’t this seeking death? If you, a prince, have no support from the court officials, you will not know that your future will be difficult.
Emperor Chongzhen was also shocked. He never expected his son to be so rebellious, so he shouted angrily: "The prince is arrogant!"
Unexpectedly, Zhu Cilang ignored it this time: "My father, Hong Niangzi and Li Yan alone led the people of Luoshan County to Xinyang City to fight against the trespassers. The trespassers were a 400,000 army. The officials and workers kept proclaiming how loyal they were and had the ability to let them go. My son asked boldly, "Who is here, who is willing to suppress the bandits? I am willing to give him the position of the Grand Marshal of the World, who will go?"
As soon as this statement was made, the ministers who were still aggressive immediately lowered their heads. It would be okay to ask them to be big trolls, but no one can do it in leading troops to fight.
Zhu Cixuan looked around and shouted angrily: "You still dare to impeach Hongniang, what about your face!"
No one answered, he was shameless. At this time, the ministers probably knew that they had done a bit too much. After Zhu Cilang asked this, he immediately lowered his head in shame, and no one dared to say anything.
Zhu Cilang's eyes were cold and looked around everyone: "Who can defend Xinyang City without Hong Niang? Is it your Chengguo Duke or your Minister of War, your Minister of Rites, or your Grand Secretary in front of the Palace! Hong Niang fought bloody battles on the front line, and Xinyang City plus the reserve team was only 10,000, and the bandits were 400,000! Come and try it, you say that the governor of Xinyang Pi Hongxuan can defend the city, let's see!"
As he said that, Zhu Cixuan threw the stack of files in his hand on the faces of the ministers: "This is the loyal ministers and martyrs you proclaim, Pi Hongxuan, the loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and the loyal ministers. This is the Pi Hongxuan, who is on your memorials, who is on the side of Yue Wumu and Wubi Guan Yu, when will you open your eyes and see? Are you blindfolded by lard or your ears deafened by poison? You can't see, can't you hear! Let such a dog official who is unforgivable and cut into pieces go to guard Xinyang City?"
What Zhu Cilang threw to the ministers was evidence of Pi Hongxuan's corruption and abuse of power collected by Li Yan and others in Xinyang City. In the file, it deducted military pay, embezzled bribes, occupied civilian land, bought and sold officials... All these things, as long as they were made money, Pi Hongxuan would not be left behind.
Relying on such a dog official to guard Xinyang City, I am afraid that when Li Zicheng was at the city, Pi Hongxuan had already opened the city gate and knelt down to greet him.
The ministers lowered their heads and picked up the files and saw them. They were shocked. Everyone whispered to each other, looking embarrassed.
It turned out that in order to impeach Hong Niang, these ministers deliberately raised Pi Hongxuan's political achievements. What's more, they tried their best to gild Pi Hongxuan's face and compared Pi Hongxuan to Guan Yu of the Three Kingdoms and Yue Fei of the Southern Song Dynasty. It seemed that Pi Hongxuan was there, and the thief Li Zicheng was vulnerable.
Unexpectedly, the higher the heel, the harder the heel. Zhu Cixuan got the file, and slapped them in the face.
"Your Highness, the old minister really doesn't know that Pi Hongxuan is such a person. How could this happen..."
"Your Highness clearly understands that I am blinded. I really don't know that Pi Hongxuan is so despicable and shameless, and is corrupt and corruption."
At this time, the ministers began to rush to blame, and Zhu Cilang was not at all embarrassed by them: "Without the Hong Niang, Xinyang City has become the territory of the thieves. They killed all the people of our Ming Dynasty. Open your eyes and see, how long do you crow the censors want to be foolish? When the country is destroyed, when the thieves enter Beijing City, you will either hold your head and cry and hang your thieves for dying, or you will defect to the thieves and be treacherous ministers who will be scolded forever!"
The ministers knelt down with a thud and looked at Emperor Chongzhen: "Long live the emperor... I'm confused..."
In recent days, the helplessness and entanglement that surrounded Emperor Chongzhen's heart was speechless by Zhu Cilang's words. Emperor Chongzhen was happy that perhaps he would have let his son return to the palace, so these hypocritical ministers would not be so arrogant.
Emperor Chongzhen stood up and was about to scold his ministers. Suddenly, a burst of rapid footsteps came from outside the hall. Then an eunuch held a document in his hand and shouted loudly: "Anti-report, urgent report, Henan urgent report, Guangzhou is lost, and the thieves are capturing Guangzhou!"
Everyone was shocked when they heard this, including Zhu Cilang. He turned around in shock. The eunuch rushed to the Huangji Palace, knelt on the ground with a thud, and burst into tears: "Long live the emperor, Henan urgently reported!"
Chapter completed!