In fact, without waiting for three days, on the day Li Dongyang was arrested and went to the Jinyiwei Zhaozhuo Prison, countless officials stopped Ma Wensheng and others and began to ask Ma Wensheng and others to beg Emperor Zhu Houzhao to release Li Dongyang, saying that it was a request, and it was the entire civil servant group that forced Ma Wensheng and others to ask Zhu Houzhao to release Li Dongyang.

This phenomenon was very common in the late Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty in history, and the Donglin Party used this trick:

That is, they force the cabinet ministers to put pressure on the emperor. Many times, the cabinet ministers are not pleased. Pleasing the emperor will naturally be attacked by the entire civil servant group. Pleasing the civil servant group will naturally make the emperor dissatisfied. In this way, the emperor can only rely on the eunuchs.

But many times, cabinet ministers are still willing to choose to please the entire civilian group.

First, they themselves are civil servants, and they sit on the side of civil servants. Second, they offend the emperor at most and are dismissed from office, but the consequences of offending the entire civil servant group are even more serious. Zhang Juzheng is an example.

Of course, at this time, Ma Wensheng and others naturally didn't know who Zhang Juzheng was, nor did they know the ending of Zhang Juzheng's offense to the civil servant group and forced his whole family to starve to death. However, seeing so many officials scolded him and Jiao Fang and others for being eunuchs and treacherous officials also made him realize the strength of the Qingliu civil servant group.

Ma Wensheng never thought of breaking up with the entire civil servant group. He was slandered as colluding with eunuchs and even felt very wronged. But he knew that nothing he said now was meaningless, so he could only let an official point at his nose and scold him.

I don’t know that it was the Zhuoliu civil servant who was born inferior to the Qingliu civil servant, just like the ordinary college students in later generations who were in front of key college students. Even though Ma Wensheng is now the first rank of official positions, even though he was selfless and decisive when rectifying military officers and the army, he did not know how to control them in front of these so-called Hanlin Censors.

Jiao Fang, who was born in Hanlin, did not have such a mentality. She couldn't help but want to go and angrily scold these Qingliu officials who didn't take him seriously, but was pulled back by Ma Wensheng:

"Mengyang stops! These people are all Qingliu, either in Hanlin or in Kelang Censorate. In the future, you need to lead the reform. If you offend them at this time, it will be harmful to the new policy and not beneficial, and your personal career will be of no use!"

Jiao Fang retreated helplessly.

Xu Jin also walked up to ask, "What should we do now? It's a trivial matter for these people to call us treacherous ministers, but it's so concise that they have been blocking outside the palace gate. If His Majesty knew, His Majesty wouldn't be ruthless!"

After Ma Wensheng's nitroglyceride tablets were melted, he gritted his teeth and stood up resolutely and shouted: "Please go back first. Your Majesty was so angry that he sent the Prime Minister to the imperial prison. We will enter the palace again. Yu Yu conveyed your request to the Prime Minister and ask for the Prime Minister. Please do not stay here, so as not to increase the situation and not to be beneficial to the Prime Minister and to you!"

"Bah! I want to pretend to advise us to leave and ask the emperor for credit. Don't think that we can't recognize your Ma Wensheng's trick. Today, the Jinyiwei will not let the Prime Minister's assistant be released, so I will not be able to kneel down!"

An official named Xin Yi spat at Ma Wensheng directly and shouted loudly.

So, all the officials responded and knelt directly on the ground.

"The Jinyiwei will not let the Prime Minister go, so I will kneel down for a long time!"

"The Jinyiwei will not let the Prime Minister go, so I will kneel down for a long time!"

"The Jinyiwei will not let the Prime Minister go, so I will kneel down for a long time!"

...

Ma Wensheng could only spit his face and was not easy to say anything else.

Jiao Fang and Xu Jin were very angry when they saw this, but they were not easy to blame now.

At this time, Gao Feng led a large group of imperial soldiers to appear and surrounded the palace gate inside and out.

Seeing this, Ma Wensheng was shocked and asked Gao Feng: "Eunuch Gao, what is this for?"

Gao Feng did not answer Ma Wensheng's words, but just stood quickly on the right side of Ma Wensheng and others.

At this time, accompanied by Guo Rong, Liu Jin and others, Zhu Houzhao appeared in front of Chen Liren, Xin Yi and other officials who pleaded for Li Dongyang.

Zhu Houzhao asked directly: "Who was spitting at Ma Gefu just now and stood up!"

Seeing so many soldiers appearing, and Zhu Houzhao's reputation of killing the censors had long been spread in the court, these Qingliu officials were consciously silent after seeing Zhu Houzhao appear. Now Zhu Houzhao asks this, but he doesn't answer.

Zhu Houzhao gave Guo Rong a wink and said, "If you dare to vomit, you dare to take it!"

Guo Rong commanded the two Jinyiwei and hurriedly dragged out the clerk to the director Xin Yi.

The fact that these Qingliu officials gathered outside the palace gate could not be hidden from Zhu Houzhao. As soon as Zhu Houzhao learned about this from Gao Feng, he rushed over and happened to see the scene of these Qingliu officials humiliating Ma Wensheng and others.

Zhu Houzhao was in a bad mood, so naturally he would not give these people good results. Moreover, for the sake of the future new policy reform, he had to support his civil servants who obeyed his own, so that he could ensure that some civil servants who were eager to reform did not completely turn to the civil servant group like Wanlishi.

So, when Xin Yi was dragged out, Zhu Houzhao directly ordered: "Beat to death by sticks, and beat it here!"

"yes!"

Guo Rong hurriedly ordered someone to press Xin Yi to the ground and began to be beaten by Jinyiwei with a stick.

Xin Yi was already panicked when he was dragged out. He didn't expect that he had just cursed Ma Wensheng but was discovered by His Majesty. And seeing that in this way, he wanted to be severely punished by His Majesty.

Therefore, when he heard Zhu Houzhao beating himself to death, Xin Yi shouted directly: "Your Majesty! Although my behavior just now was reckless, it was also caused by hating the treacherous ministers as a result. Your Majesty cannot punish me for this!"

"Your Majesty, although Xin Yi is eccentric, he is young and has no intention of offending the emperor. I hope your Majesty will forgive him for his death!"

Seeing this, Ma Wensheng hurriedly begged for love.

Zhu Houzhao ignored Ma Wensheng and said, "I have already made a clear order. Those who do not give Ma Ge’s assistant face will not give me face! Those who humiliate Ma Ge’s assistant will humiliate me! Less than two months after I issued this order, you knowingly violated it! It shows his evil intentions! Beat to death!"

As soon as Zhu Houzhao finished speaking, the stick in the Jinyiwei's hand hit Xin Yi!

Bang!

ah!

Xin Yi screamed in vain: "Your Majesty, please spare me! I know the crime!"

The stick naturally didn't stop.

He greeted Xin Yi's body one after another, and immediately beat him up and regretted it. Only then did he realize the consequences of offending Ma Wensheng.

Not long after, Xin Yi broke the femur and died of excessive blood loss.

And at this time.

Zhu Houzhao didn't mean to stop, but continued to ask: "Who called Ma Gefu and others a treacherous minister? Come out!"

The Qingliu civil servants present at the scene had lost half of their courage when they saw Zhu Houzhao appearing. Now that Xin Yi was beaten to death, they suddenly lost their courage. Now they dare not admit that they had scolded Ma Wensheng and others as treacherous ministers. Chen Yuanren, the leader, consciously buried his head lower.

Zhu Houzhao had already discovered him. After giving Guo Rong a wink, two Jinyiwei walked to Chen Yuanren.

But Chen Yuanren waved his hand immediately and said, "It's not me! It's not me! I didn't scold me, it was him, it was Zheng Jingshi who scolded me first!"

The Censor Zheng replied directly: "You are slandering! It's you! Your Majesty, I can testify that Chen Yuanren scolded first, and he knew that the chief minister was arrested first, and then called on us to plead with the chief minister!"
Chapter completed!