Chapter Four hundred and forty-six. The Great Court (6).
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As the "Zhao Party" officials took the lead in criticizing Huang Yourong, the original calm situation in Huangji Palace was suddenly broken, just like a huge stone hitting the calm water, causing an uproar.`
Then, officials continued to make statements, which were the same as those of the "Zhao Party" officials. Most of them criticized Huang Yourong.
"Your Majesty, I also want to impeach Huang Yourong for his crime of causing harm to the country and causing chaos in the government! During Your Majesty's southern tour, Huang Yourong suppressed dissidents, formed cliques for personal gain, formed gangs, and favored nepotism... All kinds of evil deeds are all crimes that cannot be punished! I hope Your Majesty will punish him severely.
Huang Yourong, take the correct approach!"
"Your Majesty, during this period of time, Huang Yourong has either manipulated power to harm the country, harmed loyal people, or resorted to fraud for personal gain. All he has done is the nature of a traitor and he has hidden evil intentions. Your Majesty, you must not condone and support traitors!"
"Your Majesty, I heard that Huang Yourong has poor personal ethics and takes pleasure in molesting young girls all day long. Over the years, I don't know how many young girls have been harmed. How can he enter the cabinet and become a role model for all officials with such bad conduct?
How will the common people view the officials of the imperial court? Please ask Your Majesty to remove Huang Yourong from his official position to set the record straight!"
"Your Majesty, as far as I know, Huang Yourong is actually a very corrupt official. Over the years, he has embezzled, misappropriated, or accepted bribes, amassing tens of millions of taels of silver. The circumstances are so serious that it is really shocking. Such a huge amount
It can be said to be a rare beetle in history, and I hope your Majesty will investigate it closely!"
"Your Majesty, Huang Yourong not only has corrupt personal ethics, brought harm to the country, and corrupted the government, but he is also stupid and incompetent! During His Majesty's southern tour, he was unable to control the political situation. All the strategies he pursued were full of loopholes, and he also insisted on going his own way and being stubborn.
For his own use, the situation between the government and the opposition has become increasingly chaotic, and both the officials and the people are complaining. I hope your majesty will take notice!"
"Your Majesty, I also want to impeach Huang Yourong..."
"His Majesty……"
As soon as several "Zhao Party" officials finished speaking, they saw people from among the hundreds of officials coming out to impeach Huang Yourong. Either criticizing Huang Yourong's personal ethics, criticizing Huang Yourong's policies or measures, or impeaching Huang Yourong for his ignorance and incompetence.
Or perhaps pouring dirty water on Huang Yourong...
The officials who impeached Huang Yourong came from the major factions in the DPRK and China, including officials from the "Zhao Party", officials from the "Zhou Party", officials from the "Princeling Party", officials from the "Shen Party", and many neutral officials... They impeached Huang Yourong.
The reasons are different, either because of old grudges between each other, or because of the secret instigation of the backers, or because of the anger mentality of the commercial tax rectification, or simply because they just want to see Huang Yourong in a state of embarrassment...
Even many former "Yellow Party" officials saw Huang Yourong's imminent downfall and were afraid that they would be implicated. In order to clear their relationship with Huang Yourong, they even made articles to impeach Huang Yourong - in fact, among hundreds of officials,
Among them, it turns out that these former "Yellow Party" officials behaved the most fiercely and ruthlessly...
After all, Huang Yourong was about to fall, and it would be impossible to retaliate against them in the future, so the officials, no matter which faction they were from, were all confident and bold, rushing to add insult to injury and take advantage of the situation.
For a time, there was a scene of excitement in the Huangji Palace. In the words of hundreds of officials, Huang Yourong had become a corrupt official who was ignorant, incompetent, ambitious, greedy, mentally dark, and used power to harm the country. He was simply worthless.
Although, there are still some "Yellow Party" officials who are die-hardly loyal to Huang Yourong and speak out to defend Huang Yourong - such as Lin Wei, the Minister of Rites, and Zhang Cheng, two of Huang Yourong's die-hards. In addition, Huo Zhengyuan, the university scholar, and Chen Dongxiang, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, also defended Huang Yourong for various purposes.
They also spoke out to defend Huang Yourong - but after all, they were only a minority, and their voices were soon drowned in the wave of opposition to Huang Yourong.
What is "the wall is pushed down by the crowd"? Obviously this is the situation now.
In fact, this is not the first time Zhao Junchen has seen such a situation. About a year ago, when the former cabinet minister Wen Guanliang fell, he also encountered the same situation - at that time, Huang Yourong was still the leader in besieging Wen Guanliang.
One of them, he didn't expect that just a year later, Huang Yourong himself would encounter the same desperate situation. In a way, it was also a cycle of cause and effect.
Of course, whether it was Wen Guanliang or Huang Yourong, the reason why they fell and lost power was because of Zhao Junchen's secret promotion. It is not an exaggeration to say that Zhao Junchen was the mastermind behind the scenes.
Therefore, seeing Huang Yourong being bullied and robbed by officials, Zhao Junchen did not feel the slightest pity, but was secretly vigilant in his heart.
Because Zhao Junchen knew that if one day he was about to fall and lose power, he would inevitably face the exact same situation.
After all, officials like Zhao Junchen and Huang Yourong have defeated a large number of competitors, violated the interests of too many people, offended too many colleagues in the DPRK and China, and coupled with the despicable mentality of some villains,
After their fall, they will inevitably usher in a situation where "everyone pushes down the wall", and even Zhao Junchen is no exception.
Let’s not talk about those Qingliu and political opponents who usually regard Zhao Junchen as enemies. Let’s talk about the “Zhao Party” officials such as Zuo Lanshan, Zhan Shanchang, and Chen Dongxiang. Although they usually treat Zhao Junchen with respect and obedience, but if Zhao Junchen
If there are signs of downfall one day, then they will definitely abandon Zhao Junchen and find a new master as soon as possible. In order to clear up their relationship with Zhao Junchen, they will also use the most violent means to criticize Zhao Junchen, just like today
Some former "yellow party" officials are generally.
Therefore, having reached this point, Zhao Junchen has no other choice but to continue to move forward.
Let’s not talk about the performance of the officials and Zhao Junchen’s psychological activities.
However, just as officials were excited about the impeachment of Huang Yourong, Huang Yourong's temporary ally, Cabinet Assistant Shen Changmao, finally couldn't help but speak out.
Now, Shen Changmao has become the new Cabinet Assistant. It is the time when the limelight is at its peak. In addition, Shen Changmao himself has a strong character and will retaliate. All officials are unwilling to offend him easily. Therefore, when they see Shen Changmao coming out, all officials
Everyone fell silent and waited for Shen Changmao to express his opinion.
"Your Majesty, I believe that Huang Yourong is a veteran in the cabinet and in the court. He has always been trusted by your Majesty. Even if there are occasional flaws in his administration, he will never be as heinous and without merit as some officials have impeached him!
On this occasion, Your Majesty, why don't you listen to Mr. Huang Ge himself? Perhaps there are other reasons for the impeachment of the officials."
Shen Changmao's words seemed fair, but in fact they were a secret warning to Emperor Deqing - Huang Yourong was a veteran in the court and had always been highly regarded. If you allow officials to criticize Huang Yourong wantonly, Huang Yourong will become
A treacherous official with an unforgivable evil, wouldn't you, Emperor Deqing, also have the same fault of misusing others and misunderstanding others?
In fact, this can be regarded as the inherent method of Emperor Deqing - when Emperor Deqing wanted to bring down a certain minister, he would often deliberately leak the news, and then many officials would naturally impeach him for various purposes. This minister, while Emperor Deqing said nothing during the impeachment of hundreds of officials, just allowed the officials to criticize this minister wantonly, in order to create the momentum that Wanfu pointed out...
In the end, even if the minister can clarify the various charges for which he was impeached, his prestige, reputation, face, etc. will all be gone after this incident. At that time, how can he continue to be based on Court? But there is only one option left: "please resign and become an official".
Except for Zhou Shangjing, Emperor Deqing's move was absolutely unfavorable.
Emperor Deqing used this method when he gave up Wen Guanliang. Now when he wanted to give up Huang Yourong, he also used the same method.
The method is old, but it does work.
Shen Changmao also saw Emperor Deqing's thoughts, so he issued a warning in secret.
After all, according to Shen Changmao's plan, now is not the time for Huang Yourong to fall - at least until Huang Yourong transfers all his power, connections, and authority to Shen Changmao, Shen Changmao will not allow Huang Yourong to fall, otherwise Huang Yourong will The control of the "Yellow Party" will be gone, and Shen Changmao's plan to annex the "Yellow Party" will also encounter a lot of trouble.
In fact, not only Shen Changmao, but even Emperor Deqing did not want Huang Yourong to fall immediately.
After all, because of the prince's rectification of business taxes, the interests of all the officials were violated, and they all held resentment in their hearts. Therefore, Emperor Deqing still needed Huang Yourong to stand in his current position to continue to attract the anger of the officials and let Huang Yourong Become a source of frustration for the officials. Only after the officials' resentment has been vented to some extent, is the right time for Huang Yourong's complete downfall.
Therefore, after hearing Shen Changmao's statement, Emperor Deqing nodded slowly and said: "What Shen Aiqing said is reasonable. Even if he is impeached by hundreds of officials, I will still give Mr. Huang Ge a chance to defend himself."
After saying that, Emperor Deqing turned his gaze to Huang Yourong and said calmly: "Mr. Huang Ge, do you have anything to explain and clarify regarding the impeachment of the officials?"
However, it was said that during the impeachment of Huang Yourong by hundreds of officials, Huang Yourong's behavior was actually very calm. Even when he was criticized by the former "Yellow Party" officials, Huang Yourong did not have too many mood swings, but his expression became more and more defeated, and his body The shape is also slightly stooped.
After all, Huang Yourong had anticipated the current situation in advance and gave up resistance in advance.
However, Huang Yourong also knew that even though he had given up resistance, if he wanted to return to his hometown to retire in peace, there were many crimes that he absolutely could not admit to - he could admit that he was stupid and incompetent, had bad personal ethics, and even committed corruption and bribery. But we must never admit that we have misled the country and disrupted the government, formed cliques for personal gain, or harbored evil intentions!
So, Huang Yourong came out and replied: "Your Majesty, I do not agree with all the charges that my colleagues have impeached me on!"
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