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Chapter 2 The Doubts of the Officials

"His Majesty!"

For a moment, when Zhu Houzhao was in a daze, he saw three officials wearing imperial python robes and jade belts and wearing beam crowns kneeling on the ground with a thud, and crawling in like a wolf howling.

The front one had a narrow face and was short, with old eyebrows as sharp as a knife, and deep eye sockets.

An old mouth that seemed to have eaten all over the world was crying and trembling. The crying made Zhu Houzhao's ears deaf, but it was dry on the ground and no tears were seen.

Zhu Houzhao recognized that this person was the chief minister of the cabinet and Liu Jian, the Grand Secretary of the Huagai Palace!

Then one of the people had yellow beards on their faces, and their triangular eyes seemed to have a hint of sneer, but their tightly pursed lips kept twitching, and their heads were pounding on the ground, and they shouted: "Your Majesty! Why are you here? Woo woo!"

Zhu Houzhao knew that this person must be Li Dongyang, a Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion, undoubtedly!

Then, the person following the person covered his face with his sleeves and cried. His old eyes, like a falcon, seemed to be looking at Emperor Hongzhi's coffin, as if he was afraid that Emperor Hongzhi would wake up.

Even if this person covered his face, Zhu Houzhao could guess that this person should be Xie Qian, the Grand Secretary of Dongge!

Because there were only these three cabinet masters during the Hongzhi period, the civil officials in the era praised Li Gong's plan, Liu Gong's decision, and Xie Gong's voice. The implication was that these three important officials supported the Ming Dynasty and made great contributions to the Hongzhi Restoration.

But what Zhu Houzhao has to wonder now is why these three cabinet masters cried so tragically?

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but think: "Is it because I died of my father, or are you dead father?"

However, at this time, Xie Qian was crying and suddenly looked at Zhu Houzhao. Zhu Houzhao also saw his gaze and couldn't help but think: "You can't find that I'm traveling through time. Since the three of them were crying so tragically, the crown prince who is really dead now must cry!"

So, Zhu Houzhao also burst into tears in Queen Zhang's arms: "Mother, Mother!"

"Son of the Emperor!"

Queen Zhang also started crying, but Zhu Houzhao found that her mother had been clenching her fists before. Generally speaking, clenching her fists was extremely insecure from a psychological point of view. He couldn't help but think that even if the emperor died, she would become the queen mother. What made her sad and lacked insecure?

At that time, an old eunuch who was also wearing a python robe and had no need to face but stood up and walked to Liu Jian and three other cabinet ministers, and helped the three cabinet masters up first: "Three cabinet masters, don't be too sad. The emperor of Daxing has already given a will. He said that the prince was fifteen years old and was very happy and should be a supporter. Now the world has to be supported by the cabinet masters!"

Zhu Houzhao recognized that the eunuch was the eunuch of the Sili Supervisor and the admiral of the East Factory. He was also the second largest figure in the inner court, second only to the eunuch of the Sili Supervisor Wang Yue, but what puzzled him was why Zhang Yu didn't come to support himself, the prince and the queen Zhang, but first helped the three elders.

Are these three elders the world the largest, or the crown prince the largest? Even if you don’t support yourself, you have to support your mother first. After all, filial piety is the most important, but why the hell is the support of the three elders the first?

When did the civil servant group's status be so great that the second-ranked figure in the Silijian want to kneel down and lick it?

At this time, other civil and military officials appeared one after another, and Liu Jian and other cabinet masters also began to accept the orders.

"I will receive the order, and Liu Jian (Li Dongyang/Xie Qian) will live up to the entrusted by Emperor Daxing, and will do my best to assist the new emperor, strictly abide by the Emperor Daxing's policies, and safeguard the people!"

Zhu Houzhao understood what these three cabinet masters meant. Anyway, he would definitely forget the emperor's boss' instructions, would assist your son, and would follow the system you were emperor's emperor and would not reform easily. The implication is that if he became an emperor and wanted to reform, they would definitely stop him on the grounds of following the will.

What a scheming!

At this time, Zhang Yu, the chief supervisor of the Sili, came to help Queen Zhang and Zhu Houzhao up: "The Empress and Your Highness should not be too sad, be careful of the phoenix body and the dragon body."

Zhu Houzhao was quite unhappy and thought to himself that Zhang Yu, the eunuch of the East Factory, did not know whether it was because of his low political EQ or deliberate efforts to do so. He first helped the cabinet ministers. Not to mention that Emperor Hongzhi has passed away, he can be regarded as the new emperor, and Empress Zhang will naturally be the new queen mother. But Zhang Yu is better, and he still calls the titles of "Your Highness" and "Empress".

Zhu Houzhao felt more and more that Zhang Yu, the eunuch who was the chief eunuch of the Sili Supervisor and the admiral of the East Factory, was colluded with the civil servants, and Emperor Hongzhi was really likely to be killed by them.

But Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but look at the civil and military ministers in the hall, but none of them were willing to come forward to question the death of Emperor Hongzhi.

Zhu Houzhao felt very uneasy about this. As far as he knew, Emperor Hongzhi was very kind to civil officials. When Li Mengyang chased and beat his brother-in-law in the court, he didn't even take the civil officials. Now none of these civil officials have nostalgic feelings to question Emperor Hongzhi's death?

Can people be so cruel and ruthless?

"Eunuch Zhang!"

Just when Zhu Houzhao was quite puzzled, a minister with thick eyebrows and white hair came out and suddenly called out to Zhang Yu, the Silijian.

Zhu Houzhao noticed that this person was Ma Wensheng, the Minister of Personnel!

Zhang Yu, the Silijian, also turned around: "I wonder what the Otsukazu can give me?"

"I was summoned by Your Majesty a few days ago. At that time, Your Majesty was in good health and felt a little ill. I don't know why he suddenly fell ill and died? Can you ask who the imperial physician who was consulting for Your Majesty today? Is the prescription still there?"

Ma Wensheng raised his own doubts.

Zhu Houzhao was quite moved, thinking that Ma Wensheng was a veteran of four dynasties and was given the grace of Emperor Hongzhi. He even thought about Jun's grace and knew that he would dare to raise doubts at this time.

At the same time, Zhu Houzhao could also guess that if Emperor Hongzhi was framed, Ma Wensheng would definitely not have participated in the murder of Emperor Hongzhi.

"What does Otsukakuya mean? Do you mean your Majesty or you were killed? Eunuch Zhang is the chief clerk and the admiral of the East Factory. Do you think he will frame Your Majesty?"

At this time, Xie Qian came out to question Ma Wensheng.

At the same time, Liu Daxia, the Minister of War, also stood up: "Is the Datuma old and stupid? His Majesty has never listened to medical advice and only used Taoist secret red pills as medicine. Therefore, it has come to the result of today. We have also persuaded you many times, but it is still the case. Do you still want to start a major case? Now that the Emperor Daxing has just passed away and the new emperor has not ascended the throne, what do you want to do!"

Zhu Houzhao wanted to laugh in her heart. Liu Daxia was praised as a famous minister in later generations, but now she began to turn black and white. In order to cover up some facts, even Emperor Hongzhi became a little bit weird. He even said that Emperor Hongzhi did not listen to medical advice and was caused by taking elixirs.

Everyone knows that Emperor Hongzhi drove away Taoist priests and the likes from the Chenghua period as soon as he ascended the throne. Now Liu Daxia is splashing dirty water on Emperor Hongzhi at will. Do you really think that the dead can't speak?

Because of the cabinet minister Xie Qian, Minister of War Liu Daxia and other aid supporters, Zhang Yu, the chief clerk of the Ministry of War, was not panicked, and knelt in front of Zhu Houzhao and Empress Zhang and cried: "Empress, Your Highness, I am wronged! I have offended Dazhongzao, but I was framed by Dazhongzao in this way. In order to prove the old slave's innocence, I am willing to be buried with you! Woo woo!"

"Okay! Brother Fu Tu (Ma Wensheng), it's a very important time now, don't make trouble!"

Cabinet chief Liu Jian spoke.

At the same time, Li Dongyang, the second assistant to the cabinet, nodded and said, "The chief minister said very well. The emperor of the Great Han Dynasty has just passed away and the new emperor has not ascended the throne yet. The world cannot be without a king for a day. This matter should be discussed in the future. Now, we will stabilize the court first."

The chief minister and second assistant of the cabinet have set a tone, and the Minister of Personnel Ma Wensheng had no choice but to turn his sleeves: "Your Majesty's death, can't you even investigate it? Are you still your Majesty's loyal minister?"

The chief assistant of the cabinet, Liu Jian and the second assistant of the cabinet, Li Dongyang, ignored Ma Wensheng, and Xie Qian even smiled contemptuously. Liu Daxia, the Minister of War, even snorted coldly.

Zhu Houzhao can naturally see that the inner court's ritual supervision and the outer court's cabinet must have been colluded with each other, and Ma Wensheng and others are obviously not the same party as them. But in general, he and his mother Zhang can be regarded as orphans and widows. At present, they cannot shake others at all, so they can only cry! Only crying can arouse the sympathy of all ministers and allow him to ascend the throne successfully to the throne and become the emperor.

"When I become the emperor, let's fight again!"
Chapter completed!
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