After Ye Zhi shouted this, he regretted it and immediately knelt down in front of Zhu Houzhao in fear.

The civil servants of Taichang Temple present also looked at Ye Zhi in surprise. They were all wondering why Ye Zhi suddenly called the emperor's honor at this time and said no rudely.

Zhu Houzhao also laughed in anger. He walked to Ye Zhi step by step: "Tell me, why are you suddenly so irritable?"

Ye Zhi trembled all over, and felt a chill on his back, and hurriedly said, "I am just, but I really can't stand this aphrodisiac. Although the traitor is shameless, Your Majesty cannot let us innocent ministers be implicated by it!"

After Ye Zhi forced his explanation, he smiled at Zhu Houzhao awkwardly.

Although Zhu Houzhao has not yet proved that this matter was what Ye Zhi said, he already suspected that Ye Zhi was in his heart. An official who dared to scold himself as an emperor in front of everyone shows that this person has no fear of himself as an emperor, or has long hated him.

Zhu Houzhao believed that this was the time when Ye Zhi was most panicked, and his psychological defense was also the time when he was the weakest. Therefore, after walking back to the throne, Zhu Houzhao took advantage of Ye Zhi's loss of soul and asked casually: "Ye Zhi, what kind of aphrodisiac is this aphrodisiac, but it is a disgusting thing?"

"No! It's a heart-sweeping powder!"

Ye Zhi replied casually, and immediately realized that he had missed his mouth. He looked around in panic, and then kowtowed to the ground again: "Your Majesty! I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I,

"Ye Shaoqing! Who gave you the courage to dare to deal with Your Majesty like this!"

Before Ye Zhi could continue to explain, the Taichang Temple Minister Liu Jie pointed at Ye Zhi with a pair of dark circles of excessive indulgence and cursed him. He was not a stupid person. Although Ye Zhi himself did not admit it, he could also be sure that Ye Zhi was the one who secretly gave medicine to His Majesty the Emperor. Therefore, at this time, he instinctively asked Ye Zhi about his anger.

After being scolded by Liu Jie like this, Ye Zhi couldn't make up the lies that he thought of for a moment, so he had to continue kowtow: "Your Majesty, I am wronged, I am wronged!"

Yang Yuanyi, the chief of the Taipu Temple, also walked over with the back of the chair, bowed to Zhu Houzhao, and pointed at Ye Zhi:

"What are you wronged? You are the only one in front of You, you dare to call Your Majesty the honor, but you have already felt unjust. Now Your Majesty just asked a little, and the court officials in the hall did not know the name of this medicine. You said it quickly. Ye Zhi, you are abhorrent as my minister of the Ming Dynasty! I didn't expect you to have such a ill-intention!"

There is a saying that the wall is falling and everyone pushes it.

Whether it was not wanting to continue to take this infatuated and entertaining medicine, or performing to the emperor Zhu Houzhao to avoid being implicated, the civil servants of the Taichang Temple present scolded Ye Zhi, some made suggestions for scattering their homes and extermination, and some made suggestions for scattering their homes and extinguishing their clans, and some made them frothing regardless of the demeanor in front of them.

Zhu Houzhao looked at a chaos, smiled faintly, and then ordered: "Take it down, and the three courts will discuss the crime!"

Zhu Houzhao believed that as long as Ye Zhi's conspiracy was exposed, even if the emperor did not give specific instructions, the empire's state machine would give Ye Zhi the most severe punishment for his behavior of murdering the king and father.

Because the current system and Confucian Neo-Confucianism thought of the Ming Empire are actually in principle maintaining the majesty of its own emperor.

Once the crime of murdering the emperor is revealed, even if the emperor does not pursue the matter, the ruling class of the empire will not agree. In order to maintain the monarchy and patriarchy and Confucian ethical order, such acts that are committed are severely punished.

The chief minister of the cabinet, Wang Hua, originally hated the official who used such a method behind his back because he could not understand why, as an official in the court, as a scholar who should be determined to assist the wise ruler in peace and governance, he became a demon who wanted to turn His Majesty into a foolish monarch and turn the innocent world into a turbid world.

But now, Wang Hua cannot raise a great hatred for Ye Zhi, the young minister of Taichang Temple. He doesn't need to ask why Ye Zhi did this. As the son of Ye Qi, the former Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, who renovated the Central Law and benefited the world, the Ye family, who could have relied on salt profits and became rich, had to bear the huge losses caused by reforming the salt administration. It is normal for him to hate the emperor who is eager to reform today.

But what Wang Hua didn't understand was that even if there were great losses, it was still why Ye Zhi, a famous family, did this? Could the family's interests really be so great that they ignore the safety of the country?

What Wang Hua had to admit is that Emperor Zhu Houzhao won again this time, and was able to discover clues through his daily life that was becoming more and more indulgent in every day. He had to admit that his emperor was indeed meticulous, but he had to admit that his emperor had obviously never put aside his guard against his civil servant groups.

Wang Hua, the chief minister of the cabinet, was not happy at all. His ideal relationship between the monarch and the minister should not be like this. It should not be a plot, suspicion, and harming each other. Instead, it should work together to build this country to a prosperous era, chasing Yao and Shun, and forcing the Han and Tang dynasties.

Zhu Houzhao didn't think so in his heart, Wang Hua thought so. He was not targeting the entire civil servant group, nor did he really want to favor domestic slaves, nor did he want to be a dictator, but a series of incidents told him a fact, that is, he wanted to harm many people and use many people.

"I'm going to leave!"

Wang Hua and others withdrew from the hall. Zhu Houzhao looked at them silently without saying a word. He believed that there were still idealists in the Ming Empire. He believed that as long as he, the emperor, had always shown his determination to govern the world, there would still be a group of people who were the public or like-minded people who followed him to govern the world.

Now, the question facing Zhu Houzhao is how to avoid someone using their own means of food. His profession is the emperor, so he naturally cannot cook in person. Moreover, there are many people in the entire royal food supply chain who rely on this supply chain to support their families. Even if they want to cancel, they cannot cancel it. This will cause a large group of people to lose the means to make a living.

But Zhu Houzhao had to prevent such a thing from happening again, and he had to issue an order. From then on, Taichang Temple set up a trial officer, and took turns to try in front of the imperial court every morning, noon and evening. He also set up a trial officer for men and women. He could not only think about the safety of his emperor, but also the safety of the concubines in the palace had to be considered.

The news that Ye Zhi was executed by Ling Chi quickly spread throughout the city of Beijing through major newspapers and magazines, and even major cities of the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, the story of intentionally framed His Majesty the Emperor and made His Majesty the Emperor become a fool. Under the intention of the Second Secretariat, people were stunned by this matter, and even became more and more disgusted with the hypocrisy and shamelessness of the literati and doctors, and they all criticized the selfishness of Ye Zhi and others.

So much so that in the future, even if there are any unfavorable rumors about the Emperor Zhu Houzhao, people will choose to doubt whether some shameless civil servants are deliberately throwing dirty water on His Majesty the Emperor.

The civil servant group's control over public opinion is becoming increasingly poor, and as public intellectuals of the Ming Dynasty, they are often questioned even if they say some useful arguments.

Xia Yan did not have the energy to participate in the condemnation of Ye Zhi's behavior. He respected Emperor Zhu Houzhao very much, but he was not willing to be a minister who only knew how to sing praises to Emperor Zhu Houzhao. He had his own ideals.

He wanted the Ming Dynasty to rebuild the rule of Hong Yongxi and Xuan. He wanted the Ming Dynasty to have the prosperous era of Kaiyuan. His favorite poems were not the first-class literary style, "I want to wet the rain of apricot blossoms, and I don't blow my face coldly", nor the heroic and free and easy "I can live a lifetime with a rain of mist and rain", but "I remember the prosperous days of Kaiyuan, and the small town still has thousands of families."

Xia Yan didn't know whether the poet's words could be taken seriously, but he felt that Emperor Zhu Houzhao was right at the Capital University. The power of the empire should not be reflected in the coming of the country, but in the common people's lack of hunger and coldness, and the external lack of intrusion.

But Xia Yan felt regretful that he did not become a people-friendly official. Because he studied science at the Beijing University and because of his talent, he was appointed as the first person in charge of the Ordnance Bureau by Emperor Zhu Houzhao.

But he did not slacken in this way. He was in his position and looked at the Flang cannons and Flang warships seized from the Flangers.

Xia Yan had to admit that if the Ming Dynasty's craftsmanship system was not banned, if invention and creation were always discouraged, if His Majesty had not attached importance to the skills of all crafts, the Ming Dynasty's court officials had always wanted to turn the emperor into a puppet who only knew how to sacrifice to heaven and listen to lectures, and if they only wanted to let the people farm and pay rent with the Four Books and Five Classics in one hand, the Ming Dynasty was afraid that it would be behind the Folang Jiren in terms of military orders.

"If His Majesty had not been His Majesty, it might not have been so easy to win a small naval battle in Tuen Mun, but Xia believes that the Chinese meat eaters would not be so proud that they would not know how to learn from the barbarians' skills to control them. But what Xia is worried about is that if there is no motivation for innovation within the Ming Dynasty, we will always learn from these barbarians. Perhaps our generation will learn from them. But if we encounter troubled times and encounter the end of the foreign rule, will these barbarians who are beginning to be better than us in their knowledge one day? I think it is necessary for me to see the world of the Western barbarians! We cannot just let their missionaries come to my Ming Dynasty, and the Confucians of my Ming Dynasty have never set foot on their land. Xia wants to submit a memorial to Your Majesty and serve as a missionary on Folangji!"

Xia Yan wrote in a letter to his classmate Zhang Cong.

Before Zhang Cong could reply, Xia Yan sent a memorial to Zhu Houzhao in the ninth year of Zhengde, asking Emperor Zhu Houzhao to be approved and asked him to go to Western countries.

Zhu Houzhao approved Xia Yan's memorial to inspect Western countries. In any case, the literati and officials of the Ming Dynasty in this era were willing to go out more and see that they always had to support them.

The cabinet chief Wang Hua knew that he was not as quick as his predecessors Ma Wensheng and Jiao Fang in reforming the government, but he was deeply influenced by new things in the constitutional outline, so he decided to do his best to establish a good relationship between the monarch and the minister during his time as the cabinet chief, and achieve a true dynasty.

The cabinet chief Wang Hua asked for an order to preside over the first court discussion on spiritual civilization construction in the cabinet. He criticized a group of treacherous ministers who opposed His Majesty for the self-interest of his family in Wenhua Palace and said:

"My colleagues, as the saying goes, Wen dies in his advice, Wu dies in his battle. Since we civil officials, we can die because of advice, and die because of justice, but we cannot die because of personal gain or die because of disloyalty! Wang believes that the cabinet, various ministries and localities in various provinces should establish loyalty to the king and the country to promote the idea of ​​loyalty to the king and the country within each yamen, and avoid the tendency of colleagues to insult our scholars and forests for their own gain!"

Wang Hua said that, and personally bowed to Xia Yan, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War, and said, "I am a Ming Dynasty and have many officials from the country. Although there are people like Ye Zhi who are selfish and selfish and loyal, there are also ministers who are like Xia who are willing to travel across the ocean for the sake of the world. In any case, since we are court officials, we should expel traitors and be honest and clear!"

Wang Hua had a very high status in the Shilin. After he did this, all his disciples and officials carried out this kind of spiritual civilization construction activity. Xia Yan, who was bowed by him as the chief assistant, was coincidentally praised as Zhang Qian of the current generation.

But no matter what, Zhu Houzhao was still very satisfied with this. In his opinion, Qingliu officials were not useless. If they could be as committed to maintaining the imperial ruling order as Wang Hua, it would be a matter of benefiting the country and the people.

Of course, Zhu Houzhao also knew that if Wang Hua had not made his son Wang Yangming invested in the royal industry and made his Wang family become a bureaucratic capitalist who was consistent with the royal interests, he, Wang Hua, would not have become so loyal to the emperor's affairs.

Although, this time, the Ming Empire began to understand the Western world with an active and confident attitude.

But at this time, Alfonso, the commander of the fleet of Florence stationed in Malaga, did not welcome the Ming Empire's sudden voluntary envoy to his Florence Kingdom, because he believed that the Ming Empire's innocent capture of Tuen Mun Island and even captured Andra and others and forcibly demanded and paid a huge amount of atonement money for invading sins was an impolite act to his Florence Kingdom.

After learning that the Ming Dynasty, Guangdong and Guangxi Navy occupied Tuen Mun Island and captured Andra and other Flangji people, the entire Flangji fleet stationed in Manlacia was completely shocked!

Alfonso immediately shouted that Daming would know that it was powerful, so he immediately prepared to send troops to attack Daming.

However, while Alfonso was still preparing, the Ming Navy led by Fu Gui and Wang Hong had arrived at Batam Island in Manraga. This time, the Ming Dynasty brought five main sail warships, twenty hard sail warships, and more than fifty other auxiliary ships, which was already a considerable fleet in the entire Nanyang.

Alfonso obviously didn't know much about the strength of the Ming fleet. At this time, he had only fifteen warships stationed in Malacca, and his total strength was only more than a thousand.

Not only that, under Wang Hong's coercion and temptation, the Han people such as Yang San, who followed Andra and others as the translator of the Flangji people, had already informed him of the true situation of the Malacca. Therefore, as soon as the Ming fleet arrived at Batam Island, Wang Hong rushed to Alfonso with five main sail warships at the main fleet docking point of the Malacca.

While Alfonso was still standing on the side of the ship to enjoy the quiet sea breeze, five Ming sail warships had appeared at the end of the horizontal line.
Chapter completed!