Chapter 2 Good News (2)
Chapter 2: Good news comes (2)
"Zhou Aiqing, I think you look worried. Is something wrong at home?" Zhu Yinglong asked Zhou Tingru, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, with a warm smile.
"No, nothing happened in the family of Weichen?" Zhou Tingru was one of them. The emperor was dissatisfied with him. He had already noticed that three points had come, and hurriedly leaned over and said with his head down.
"After I announced such a great news, you didn't have a smile. Do you think I shouldn't clear out the rebellion and recover the country?" Zhu Yinglong's smile disappeared completely and he asked sternly.
"The emperor forgives the crime. I just heard this good news suddenly. I was a little dull in surprise, not unhappy." Zhou Tingru hurriedly knelt down to defend himself.
"What a clever mouth!" Zhu Yinglong said in his heart. If it weren't for the touching of his whole body now, he would have to rely on him to understand the movements of Mao Wenlong in Dongjiang. He wanted to drive this person out of the court now, and his face cleared a little, "So that's the case. I was stunned when I heard this good news. I guess this is also normal, just be calm!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Zhou Tingru felt relieved when he saw the thunder and the raindrops were small, and stood up and said.
"I haven't been to court for a month. I believe my dear friends have many things to report today, so let's start!" Zhu Yinglong returned to the dragon throne and sat down, looked down and said.
Chen Yangmei, the left censor of the Censorate, made a list of words: "Henan Censor Zhang Ne has a memorial to impeach Luoyang's Fu Wang for being accused of being a usurped."
When involved in the royal family, Zhu Yinglong had to be careful and said in a deep voice: "Come on!"
Wang Chengen responded and transferred the memorial from Chen Yangmei to Zhu Yinglong's hand. Zhu Yinglong took a look and gave it to Wang Chengen and said, "You read it to all officials!"
Wang Chengen took over the memorial and started to read it word by word. The general meaning was that King Fugong Zhu Changxun used ceremonial guards to travel in Luoyang's fiefdom, and even used gongs to whistle. There were also vessels that could only be used by the emperor in the palace, etc., which exceeded the status of the prince.
Zhu Yinglong has an indifferent attitude towards these. In his own time and space, as long as he does not harm the interests of others, no one will care about you even if you wear dragon robes all day long. At most, you will be regarded as a madman and there is no crime. In a society with strict feudal hierarchy, this is a serious crime. Ordinary people cannot even wear the color of their clothes casually, and the styles of clothes are standard. The styles of clothes between gentry and ordinary people are completely different. The outer robes of gentry and noble people can wear round collars or oblique collars, but ordinary people can only wear oblique collars. If you wear round collars, once you find that your identity is wrong, no one will report it. Once you are reported, this is the crime of usurpation. The government can directly throw it into prison without asking about the circumstances. The crime can be big or small, from the confiscation of the house and the extermination of nine clans to the few sticks.
"My dear friends, what do you think?" Zhu Yinglong kicked the ball and first attacked King Fu. Li Yongzhen had already reported to him. Zhu Yinglong also wanted to see the reactions of all officials to these royal relatives first.
After a while, no one came forward to express his opinion, Zhu Yinglong simply named him.
"Old Old Han, please take the lead, let's talk first." Zhu Yinglong first pointed out the cabinet chief minister Han Du.
"I have to report to the emperor that King Fu is the emperor's personal father, the younger brother of Emperor Guangzong, and the uncle of the emperor. As the old minister, the emperor can issue an order to severely scold him. I believe King Fu will wake up and will not commit it again." Han Du, the chief minister of the cabinet, said.
"What Master Han said is very appropriate!" An official agreed.
"What Master Han said just now, I don't dare to agree!" Chen Yangmei, the left censor, stepped out and said loudly.
"Report to the emperor, according to the knowledge of the empress, the Fu King Zhu Changxun was arrogant and domineering in Luoyang, setting up a private court, taking human life, bullying men and women, bullying the market, and doing everything evil. The people wished to eat their meat and sleeping with their skin. Now they have committed serious crimes of usurpation. Although they are the emperor's uncle, the prince's crime of committing the same crime as the common people, it would be too light to just scold them!" At the end of his speech, Chen Yangmei glared at Han Du fiercely.
Han Yu was not angry at all. He didn't want to express any opinions at all. The matter involved the royal family. After all, it was the emperor's family affairs. If he couldn't do it well and he was involved, it would be more of a loss. Besides, the emperor's attitude was unclear, and no one could say it at this time.
"Qi Zanyuan!" Zhu Yinglong turned to the son-in-law Qi Zanyuan.
"I am here!" Qi Zanyuan hurriedly stepped out and leaned over to respond.
"Qi Zanyuan, you are the prince consort, who is in charge of the clan mansion, and King Fu is also half of your uncle. What do you think?"
"I am, I am..." Qi Zanyuan was anxious and hesitated, and hesitated and said nothing.
"I have something to do with Luo Yuyi, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, and I have something to do, and I will report it to the emperor!" At this time, a man suddenly broke out and interrupted the prince-in-law, who was still thinking about how to reply.
"Mr. Luo, Prince Consort Qi is replying to the emperor's words. How can you interrupt at will?" Yang He, the Minister of Justice, came out and scolded him lightly.
Qi Zanyuan breathed a sigh of relief. When he heard Yang He scolding the Minister Luo Yuyi, he couldn't help but feel very hated. If this prince-consort could reply, he wouldn't be so nervous. He finally came out to help me block it. You pushed it up. What's your heart? He couldn't help but hate Yang He in his heart.
Yang He didn't know that he accidentally offended the prince-consort. From then on, the prince-consort caused him a lot of trouble, and even deliberately stepped on him a few steps.
Zhu Yinglong didn't know how to get this honest prince-consort off the stage. Someone happened to block him and said, "It's okay, Luo Aiqing, you said!"
"I didn't actually intend to stop the prince-consort Qi's reply, but the news about the King of Fu is also about King Fu." Luo Yuyi paused for a moment and then said:
"I reported to the emperor that King Fu was the favorite prince of Emperor Shenzong during his lifetime, and was born to Concubine Zheng. Emperor Shenzong originally wanted to make him the crown prince, but was obstructed by his ministers, so he granted him to Luoyang, which is rich in the world, and as compensation. During the country, he gave King Fu 20,000 hectares of tax and silver at a time. During the reign of Emperor Shenzong, the mining supervisors and tax envoys sent by the court were mostly for King Fu to use. However, King Fu still felt that it was insufficient after the vassal period, so he submitted a report to Emperor Shenzong, asking for the confiscation of Zhang Jiangling's property, the miscellaneous taxes along the river from Jiangdu to Taiping and Sichuan to pay tea, and the salt well income was rewarded to himself. He also asked to obtain 3,000 salt inlets, set up a store of Luoyang, and monopolize Luoyang and surrounding salt markets. Everyone in the world knows that "the emperor consumes the world with a fat king, and Luoyang is rich in the great inner city."
"The emperor consumes the world with a fat king, and Luoyang is richer than the big neighbor?" Zhu Yinglong murmured these two sentences, as if he was thinking about it.
"Luo Yuyi, you are too presumptuous. What the emperor is talking about is how to deal with the crime of blessed king usurpation. What is your intention to bring out a person who has been dead for decades? Besides, the former emperor has restored his reputation and status. Isn't that enough?" Han Du stood up and rebuked.
Luo Yuyi asked disapprovingly: "Her Ge Lao, since the court has restored Zhang Jiangling's reputation and status, why can't he return his property?"
"Non-no, Zhang Jiangling's property was given to King Fu by Emperor Shenzong. How could the current emperor take it back from King Fu and return it to the descendants of Zhang Jiangling?" Han Yu smiled angrily and suddenly felt that his tone had been out of the way, so he quickly leaned over to apologize, but Zhu Yinglong did not blame him.
"Luo Yuyi, what do you want to say to me?" Zhu Yinglong asked in a deep voice a little unhappy.
Luo Yuyi hurriedly turned around and knelt down and said, "I want to ask the emperor to severely punish the King of Fu, punish the crimes he deserves, and take back all the tax benefits he deserves from the court."
As soon as these words were said, public opinion in the hall was in an uproar. All the ministers accused Luo Yuyi of using the subject to his use of the situation. Treating the royal family and the royal family in this way was a cause for the emperor's unkindness and filial piety, and they all demanded to punish him.
"Report to the Emperor, the prefect of Luoyang, Henan Province, the people wrote a letter to the people, and reported that King Fu bullied men and women in Luoyang, bullied men and women, bullied the market, was arrogant and extravagant, and the people complained and begged the court to punish him for his crimes!" Huang Daozhou, the Tongzhengsi, reported one by one, and the entire hall was silent.
The people's ten thousand words of the people are different, and they are related to the people's contradictory feelings. Now no one dares to come out to accuse Luo Yuyi of asking for punishment for the request of King Fu. Everyone uses their brains to think about how to clear the relationship between the King Fu later.
"Come on!" This was like a sentence, and Zhu Yinglong was secretly happy. Li Yongzhen acted quickly and stared at King Fu Zhu Changxin so quickly, so he took him to take action first.
Zhu Yinglong quickly browsed the crimes of the King of Fu listed on Wanyan Book. The more he read them, the more angry he became. The crimes written above were enough to be shot hundreds of times and thousands of times in his own time and space. Zhu Yinglong angrily threw Wanyan Book down the imperial stairs. He knew that there were not many good things among these royal relatives. He didn't expect that the crimes they committed were simply too numerous to write. This Wanyan Book was not written by one person, but written by all the people who were persecuted by Fuwang. Except for those who could not write, the contents were written by people who wrote them on their own, and they were all bloody and tears, which made people feel sore after reading them.
"Check, check it out, and check it to the end. If the things on this are done by King Fu, I will never tolerate it!"
All the officials were stunned. Sun Chengzong walked over and bent over to pick up Wanyanshu. After browsing for a moment, it was already shocking and terrifying. His body couldn't help but tremble and said to Huang Daozhou: "Mr. Huang, is the writing on this true?"
"I was shocked when I received this Wanyan Book. I took the initiative to suppress it first and quietly ordered someone to go to Luoyang to inquire. Although I had never found it all, what I saw with my own eyes matched the writing on Wanyan Book!" Huang Daozhou reported.
"Since what is said in Wanyan's Letter is true, then the cabinet will discuss it first and send an imperial envoy to Luoyang to investigate the Fu King!" Zhu Yinglong issued an order directly.
"Abide by the Emperor's Holy Order!"
"Okay, I'm tired. I'll discuss this morning. Let's all go away!" Zhu Yinglong pretended to be tired.
"Retreat!"
The officials dispersed and talked a lot. Of course, the one who talked the most was King Fu. Some were happy and some were worried that the emperor would not show mercy to the royal family and relatives. Then the officials who had committed any crimes, especially those who had contact with King Fu, were even more worried, fearing that one day the emperor would pursue them.
Chapter completed!