Seeing that Zhao Junchen did not return, Zhu Heyu understood Zhao Junchen's thoughts. Although his eyes became colder, he was secretly surprised. He felt that Zhao Junchen's style had changed drastically since he returned to Beijing and was completely different from before.
According to previous reports, Zhu Heyu had impeached Zhao Junchen more than once, but at that time, Zhao Junchen only knew how to kowtow to Emperor Deqing repeatedly, look at Emperor Deqing with pitiful eyes, and hope that Emperor Deqing would do it for him.
He calls the shots.
But now, Zhao Junchen not only dared to refute, but also had the courage to speak back against him!
In fact, there was nothing Zhao Junchen could do about it.
In Zhao Junchen's view, Emperor Deqing's attitude towards the crown prince Zhu Heyu was very subtle. He was jealous and jealous because of Zhu Heyu's outstanding reputation, and he had to defend Zhu Heyu because of his status as the prince.
And today, when he was confronting Zhu Heyu, what kind of mood and thoughts did Emperor Deqing have? Was he secretly happy after seeing the prince's frustration? Or was he secretly dissatisfied when he saw Zhao Junchen contradicting the prince? Even Zhao Junchen couldn't guess.
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However, Zhao Junchen could only do this. Today is different from the past. Since Zhao Junchen has decided to establish his own faction, he must show his ability in front of the officials. If it is the same as before, he will only ask Emperor Deqing for help.
, the reputation he finally built up will be completely destroyed, and no one will ever trust him sincerely in the future.
What's more, through Zuo Lanshan, Minister of Industry and others, Zhao Junchen also knows that Wen Guanliang, Huang Yourong, Shen Changmao and others have now secretly reached a tacit understanding. If the prince is too strong towards Zhao Junchen, maybe they will
To add insult to injury, by that time, even Emperor Deqing would be hard-pressed to protect Zhao Junchen. Therefore, Zhao Junchen also had to suppress Prince Zhu Heyu's momentum to prevent Wen Guanliang and others from taking action at will.
However, in order to avoid Emperor Deqing's dissatisfaction, although Zhao Junchen was quarreling with Prince Zhu Heyu, he was also seizing every opportunity to please Emperor Deqing.
After all, whether Zhao Junchen's three capital crimes according to Prince Zhu Heyu are capital crimes, major crimes or minor crimes, and even whether they are guilty or not, ultimately depends to a large extent on Emperor Deqing.
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On the other side, after glaring at Zhao Junchen, Zhu Heyu continued to talk about Zhao Junchen's crimes.
"The second crime is that Zhao Junchen bewitched the Holy Lord..."
This time, Zhu Heyu had just started, when Zhao Junchen interrupted: "Your Highness, please be careful what you say."
Zhu Heyu saw that he had just opened his mouth and was interrupted by Zhao Junchen again. His face was so cold that it almost turned to ice. He asked in a cold voice: "Why should you speak cautiously? This prince has just opened his mouth. Could it be that he said something wrong?"
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Zhao Junchen sighed and said: "Your Highness, I have advised you a few days ago that the four words 'bewitch the Holy One' should not be used casually. Only villains can bewitch the Holy One, and only cowardly kings can be bewitched by villains.
Prince, it’s okay for you to think that I am a villain, but the current Holy Lord is a rare wise king and holy master since ancient times. Even if I am a villain, how can I be deceived?"
After hearing what Zhao Junchen said, Emperor Deqing nodded and looked at Zhao Junchen with quite satisfied eyes, while Prince Zhu Heyu gritted his teeth and stared at Zhao Junchen without saying anything.
But Zhao Junchen continued: "In addition, your majesty has already deemed the charge of disrespect as inappropriate. Your majesty said it so eloquently, so that charge will not be established, and the charge that you, Prince, will impeach next should be a crime."
One of them is right."
Prince Zhu Heyu suppressed his anger and continued to hold up the book and read: "The 20th crime is that Zhao Junchen misled the emperor and made the pancreas exclusively from the inner treasury to compete with the people for profit and ignore the people's livelihood for his own benefit.
, robbing the people of their wealth and inviting rewards, causing resentment among the people and causing a bad response. Tens of thousands of soapberry craftsmen among the people have lost their foundation, and tens of thousands of people have lost their livelihood. This is an unjust crime that harms the people!"
Having said this, Prince Zhu Heyu glared at Zhao Junchen again. Although he changed "bewitching your Majesty" to "misleading your Majesty", he still listed it as "the second sin". Obviously in his mind
, Zhao Junchen’s crime of gross disrespect, which brought the reputation of the court and the king into disrepute, is still established.
Zhao Junchen was slightly startled this time, he did not expect that Prince Zhu Heyu would bring up such charges.
In Zhao Junchen's view, it is normal for the state to compete with the people for profits. Otherwise, how could there be a salt and iron monopoly policy? But in the view of Prince Zhu Heyu, competing with the people for profits is obviously a big crime.
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In the final analysis, it is the same principle as "those who steal hooks will be punished, and those who steal the country will be martyred". It is a mistake to compete with the people for small profits and will bring disgrace to the court. However, competing with the people for big profits is a national policy and is inevitable to increase national power.
No matter how much money you make from Yizi, it cannot be compared with salt and iron. It is just a small profit.
Regarding this, Zhao Junchen's heart suddenly changed. After a moment of silence, he finally retorted: "I still dare not admit that the prince impeached me for such a crime, nor can I agree with it. The inner treasury specializes in making pancakes, and for
It is the soap locust craftsmen who have lost their livelihood, so how is it my fault? Is it possible that in order to take care of the livelihood of those soap locust craftsmen, we must force the people of the world to abandon the more effective soap and continue to use the soap locust.
No? Isn't that putting the cart before the horse? What's more, the "Book of Changes" says: "Heaven moves vigorously, and a gentleman strives to constantly strive for self-improvement." Pancreatic juice is better than soap locust. It is inevitable that those soap locust craftsmen will lose their livelihood. If they can, they can
If you strive for self-improvement and create something more useful than pancreatic juice, shouldn’t you still be afraid of losing your job?”
After a pause, Zhao Junchen continued: "What's more, since His Majesty decreed that the inner treasury will exclusively produce soap, the inner treasury has been recruiting soap locust craftsmen from all over the past few days. Those soap locust craftsmen, unless they themselves
If the craftsmanship is not good enough and cannot be used by the internal treasury, how can other soapberry craftsmen with real skills lose their income and make a living?"
Prince Zhu Heyu said in a cold voice: "Sophistry!! Since ancient times, except for salt and iron, which are related to the country's strategy and need to be exclusively handled by the court, the court has always allowed the common people to produce and sell other small items.
Only in this way can tens of thousands of people make a living, and that pancake is just a small thing. As far as I know, it is not difficult to make. But you misled your majesty and made it special. You are not competing with the people for profit.
how?"
As he spoke, Zhu Heyu bowed to Emperor Deqing and said: "I would like to ask my father for advice. Since the soap was exclusively made by the inner treasury, the response from the people has been quite bad. Many merchants and craftsmen of soap locust have lost their way of making a living.
, is also a sign of dissatisfaction with the imperial court. Competing with the people for profit has always been a taboo of the imperial court. Father, you must not be deceived by Zhao Junchen!"
Emperor Deqing couldn't help but frown slightly. He used to only care about the money that the pancakes could bring, but now after listening to what Zhu Heyu said, he also felt that the pancakes were exclusively made by the inner treasury and could indeed compete with the people.
It is suspected that it will harm his reputation as an emperor.
However, if Emperor Deqing was asked to give up the profit from the pancake, as an emperor who was used to poverty, Emperor Deqing would not be able to part with it.
Therefore, Emperor Deqing subconsciously looked at Zhao Junchen.
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