Zhu Houzhao didn't expect that Jiang Wei would dare to use this as a threat, so he couldn't help but ask:

"Did you not hear me? I have already said something first, and those who block it will be killed immediately!"

"Your Majesty is a saint. The saint will not kill his ministers because of his loyal words!" Jiang Wei buried his head and said with this as an excuse.

Zhu Houzhao suddenly didn't know how to refute Jiang Wei, thinking that this guy actually put a high hat on him and threatened him, meaning that if he killed him, he would not be a saint.

Zhu Houzhao did not pay attention to Jiang Wei anymore, because Jiang Wei's words actually could not threaten him. He did not care about the name of the Holy Lord or the Holy Lord. He turned to look at Qiu Yue: "Why are you standing there? You cut it off!"

"yes!"

Qiu Yue pulled out his knife and walked directly towards Jiang Wei.

Jiang Wei suddenly stood up and wanted to run away: "Your Majesty! Please go back to the palace! I will go back to the Ministry of Rites to submit a memorial first! I hope Your Majesty can return to the palace!"

Click!

Jiang Wei obviously didn't expect that Zhu Houzhao would really kill him, and he reacted a little slower. After hearing the sound of the steel knife being sheathed, he just stood up and wanted to run away, but he didn't have time, causing half of his head and half of his body to be chopped to the ground by Qiu Yue, who was already brave.

Paji!

Jiang Wei, who was only half of his body and a head, looked at Zhu Houzhao in shock, but closed his eyes before he could speak.

"move on!"

Looking at the blood all over the ground, Zhu Houzhao was helpless and gave him a command. He didn't know if this was a foreshadowing, which was destined to cause a bloody storm when he was about to go to Jiangnan.

...

At this time, Jiangnan was still singing and dancing to peace.

Song Kai, the inspector of the Southern Zhili Censor, had just come out of the room of Yuan Zhongan's concubine. He had a lot of fun last night that his waist was still sore. He had to turn his waist and ask his aide: "Have the court's approval been received?"

"Censor Song, you don't have to wait for approval!"

At this time, Liang Ze, the Jinyiwei Qianhu, suddenly appeared at the Yuedong Gate and waved his hand directly: "Take it down!"

So, the two Jinyi lieutenants immediately stepped on their boots and ran towards Song Kai. Song Kai was also very surprised when he saw this. He didn't expect that Jinyiwei would come to take him directly, and he couldn't help but shout:

"You! What are you doing? I am the inspector and the censor is not guilty and responsible. Why do you lock me up at will!"

"According to the order! Zhenjiang Prefecture Taxation Bureau, Suzhou Prefecture Chongming County Taxation Bureau and Zhenjiang Prefecture Taxation Bureau were slaughtered. As the inspector, you have the right to supervise local military affairs. But now under your jurisdiction, the water bandits and pirates are so rampant that it is enough to show your dereliction of duty! Therefore, I took you! I will go to the Jinyiwei Prison and strictly interrogate you for the suspicion of raising enemies!"

When Liang Ze was talking, the two Jinyi Captains had already seized Song Kai with his backhand, and Song Kai also said with a harsh and cowardly voice:

"I have already explained in the memorial that I was in Nanjing at that time. The disaster for the water bandits and pirates was that Su Song's army was ineffective in preserving the road and the general of Zhenjiang. I have impeached them. What is the relationship with this matter? Even if I hold me accountable, it should be investigated by the Censorate! Your Jinyiwei requested the imperial edict without permission, which is an act of disrupting the court!"

Liang Ze ignored Song Kai's questioning. After all, he was only responsible for taking people. He didn't understand the rules of the court and was too lazy to understand them.

Song Kai felt a little scared at this time. After all, he knew in his heart that this matter could not escape from him, but he could not admit it now, and he could only use the rules to stop the Jinyiwei from using his own behavior.

Civil servants and gentry have always hated the Jinyiwei interfering in the judiciary and taking people for no reason, because this will make them unable to use their power to avoid the rules of the court to do things. Therefore, literati have always criticized the Jinyiwei for interfering in the judiciary and arresting court officials as a bad policy, but they do not know how they trampled on the law and abused the common people when they were officials.

But as the emperor, Zhu Houzhao obviously needed the Jinyiwei, especially an old fox like Song Kai. If he could not catch his mistakes according to the rules, he would even have no choice but to do anything about him. It would be much easier to have Jinyiwei.

Now that Zhu Houzhao first asked the Jinyiwei to arrest Song Kai, the governor of Southern Zhili, to prevent the case of Wang Yangming, the governor of Southern Zhili, from pursuing the Tax Bureau, the inspector Song Kai made an interference, and also caused the gentry of Jiangnan to lose the largest protective umbrella in the officialdom first, preparing for further crackdown on these local gentry in Jiangnan in the future.

...

Jiangnan was a concentrated place for gentry, so the Jinyiwei came here to take away a custodian, which naturally attracted the attention of the gentry, let alone the gentry's home.

On the day when the inspector Song Kai was arrested by the Jinyiwei, Yuan Zhongan, a juren from Suzhou, immediately called a group of gentry: "Everyone, Lord Song was taken away by the Jinyiwei. We cannot watch this matter! Jiangnan is not a capital city, and the Jinyiwei cannot let the Jinyiwei do this. Besides, once Lord Song is captured, we cannot escape any matter if we interrogate it!"

"The people who are all famous scholars are all famous scholars, and their families are not without officials. The court dares to take people in Jiangnan at will, which is undoubtedly a shame to us, the Jiangnan family! We cannot let the court do this! We have to organize the scholars and forests to go to the yamen to petition, and let the parents and officials submit memorials to the court, asking the court not to destroy the reputation of the honest officials and obey the opinions of the people in Jiangnan!"

At this time, Gu Xiantong, who had been a minister of the Hanlin Academy in Nanjing, also started talking.

Yuan Zhongan nodded deeply: "I heard that the court has added a governor of Nanzhili, and will take office soon. This Zhongcheng is the son of Wang Shouren, Zhejiang and the top scholar Wang Hua. At that time, it will be up to Mr. Gu to introduce him. After all, you are considered his uncle. Wang Hua and you were also in the same imperial examination as the Jinshi."

"It's okay, I don't think he dares to be enemies with our entire Jiangnan gentry!"

...

As soon as Wang Yangming, the governor of Nanzhili, arrived in Nanjing, Gu Xian and a group of gentry in Jiangnan handed over a post to ask for their visit.

Township officials and students have always been the two most typical representatives of the local privileged class in the Ming Dynasty, and one of the two major harms that led to the collapse and even destruction of the Ming society. The other is clerks. Now these township officials and students in Jiangnan have come to ask for a visit, and Wang Yangming dared not to see them. He also knew that these local officials and gentry and scholars had always wanted to interfere with local government affairs, but as officials of the pastor, they were inseparable from these gentry leading the local grassroots to obey their own rule.

But Wang Yangming didn't expect that so many people would come this time, and he actually had his father's family friend Gu Xiantong. And when these gentry came, they would bow to him and said sincerely:

"Futai! We are here to plead for the Song Dynasty. Song Dynasty was a clean official! During his tenure in Jiangnan, he rested with the people, studied and cultivated rivers, and had outstanding political achievements. The scholars and people in Jiangnan all felt that they were kind and built a temple for them. Why did the Jinyiwei lock the Jinyiwei lock up for no reason, causing the clean officials to be wronged? Therefore, we asked the people to ask the Futai Lord to memorize the court and return the Song Dynasty to be innocent!"

"Yes! Lord Futai is also an official appointed by our court. Can we just sit down and watch the factory guards rampant in Jiangnan and ignore the rules of the court? Do you think this is a humiliating act?"

Yuan Zhongan also said.

"Everyone, please come up quickly. I am not sure about the fact that I have taken office for the first time. However, the Jinyiwei is the personal army of the emperor and is controlled by Your Majesty. I have no right to interfere, so I am helpless. However, I can turn your request to the heavens. I believe Your Majesty will not ignore what you are asking for!"

After all, Wang Yangming finally persuaded the gentry to leave. At the same time, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that it was really not easy to come to Jiangnan to be the governor of Nanzhili. Just now, so many officials and gentry have been involved in government affairs and even forced the court to release Song Kai.

Before I knew it, I became a member of these gentry in Jiangnan. I thought to myself, no wonder Your Majesty wanted to come to Jiangnan in person. Otherwise, in Jiangnan, far from the capital, I could not follow the emperor's orders, and could only obey the public's opinion. But now the public opinion is controlled by these gentry in Jiangnan.

But no matter what, Wang Yangming still submitted a memorial to Zhu Houzhao for the requests of these gentry in Jiangnan.

...

At this time, Zhu Houzhao, who was still on the road, also received a memorial from Wang Yangming about the request of the Jiangnan gentry to release the inspector censor Song Kai. He couldn't help but laugh, and took the memorial to Song Kai who had been entrusted to him: "Song Kai, you have such a great face! You have just been captured by the Jinyiwei, and these Jiangnan gentry went to the governor to plead for you!"

"Your Majesty! I am innocent! I really don't know what crime I have committed, so I asked you to send the Jinyiwei to take me! Since Your Majesty asked me to inspect Nanzhili, I should trust me, but now Your Majesty believes in slander and takes me for no reason, which makes the people dissatisfied. I have no intention of holding people hostage and opposing Your Majesty. I only ask Your Majesty to resign! Let me rather return to my hometown!"

Song Kai yelled with confidence. After he knew that the gentry of Jiangnan was pleading for him, he not only did not feel scared, but instead became confident. After all, he now knew that the entire Jiangnan gentry was supporting him behind him.

"Public opinion? Do you dare to threaten me with public opinion! The gentry in Jiangnan means that they have public opinion? You Song Kai deserve to be as popular as the public opinion! Stop fooling me! I am not a three-year-old child! The cabinet refuted your memorial to ask for the tax bureau to be revoked, and then you submitted a memorial to the tax bureau being slaughtered. You really think that people from the central court are fools! Can't you see that there is anything in this?

No, it’s not that you and the gentry behind you can’t see it, but that you are unscrupulous! Yes! You want to threaten me and the court with this, and are telling me that if I don’t obey your request, more such tax bureaus will be slaughtered and more innocent people will be killed! Yes, right!"

Zhu Houzhao asked Song Kailai loudly.

Seeing that Zhu Houzhao exposed the past purpose of himself and the gentry of Jiangnan, Song Kai did not defend himself: "Your Majesty said this, I don't know how to answer. Now I just want to ask Your Majesty one thing, does Your Majesty want to offend the entire Jiangnan gentry, and will you leave a stigma for the ages?"

"presumptuous!"

Zhu Houzhao kicked Song Kai on the spot and pointed at Song Kai: "You still dare to threaten me!"
Chapter completed!