Every time he thought of this, Zhu Youxiao sighed endlessly in his heart.
It is really sad that a monarch indirectly became the person who destroyed a dynasty because of his cowardice.
If you can't even keep your loyal ministers and capable ministers, how can you talk about the great cause of ZTE?
Now these people want to use Liang Ji and An Lushan to scare themselves and force them to take action, which is really a good calculation.
If it had been someone else, it might have been really useful, but unfortunately the monarch they were facing was from a different era than them.
"What does it mean since ancient times? Are you qualified to say whether the emperor sits in court and whether civil servants govern the country?"
"Since you are talking about the old events of the Han and Tang Dynasties, I will also use the old events of the Han and Tang Dynasties to respond to you."
"You only know that there is Anlu Mountain and Liang Ji, but you also know that there are also great generals Wei Qing, Li Ji, Su Dingfang, Yue Fei and other famous generals who have been famous for generations?"
"This dynasty also has General Xu Da and General Chang Yuchun. How many people can compare to their military exploits throughout history?"
"If military generals have too much power, some people will indeed become more ambitious, but it mainly depends on the monarch."
"I am not the infant emperor of the Han Dynasty, nor am I the dim-witted Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty in his later years. You keep mentioning these old things in front of me all day long, just to keep your own power and position. Do you think I don't know?"
"Military generals will cause chaos due to ambition, but civil servants will not?"
"Are Qin Hui of the Song Dynasty and Hu Weiyong of the Hongwu Dynasty any better? This situation always varies from person to person and has nothing to do with whether he is a military general or a civil servant."
"On the contrary, it's you. What is the purpose of your heart-breaking words today?"
"What do you want to warn me about? Do you want to remind me that you have not been thoroughly investigated and punished severely?"
"Now that there are all the witnesses and material evidence, you are still confusing right and wrong here. You are really shameless. You keep claiming that you want to learn the way of the saints. I want to ask you now. The way of the saints is to tell you how to deceive the superiors and deceive the subordinates. You are full of talk.
Are you a train driver?"
"If you don't want others to know, unless you do nothing yourself, how are you different from those corrupt officials who had their families confiscated and exterminated when I was in the capital?"
"You do one thing in front of your face and another behind your back. How do you officials protect each other and collude with the merchants and gentry to harm the people? Do you really think that no one in the world knows?"
"You are really not ashamed to keep saying it is for the sake of the country. Compared with your words and thick skin, you should be at the top of the Ming Dynasty."
Wu Yizhong replied slowly:
"If Your Majesty thinks so, there is nothing I can do about it. I have been studying the books and ways of the saints since I was a child. I have entered the official career just to assist Your Majesty in making the country and the country prosperous and benefiting the people. There is not a day that goes by that I don’t think about it or act.
, I hope the country can become strong and prosperous!"
Zhu Youxiao stood up, smiled and clapped his hands and said:
"Okay, these four words of benevolence, justice and morality, you pretend to be impeccable and worry about the country and the people all day long, but under your governance, the people of Xi'an Prefecture have not become rich, and it is even difficult to solve the problem of food and clothing."
The officials paid no attention to the emperor's unusual behavior. Wu Yizhong still said in a selfless tone:
"My ministers are full of ambition but not strong enough. In the dynasty, there are too many people like Qin Bangping and Chen Guang, which is why we are here!"
"I fully understand your Majesty's desire to serve the people and revitalize the country. However, if you want to prevent this kind of thing, you must first kill all these people. This is what the people of the world want!"
Wu Yizhong's words completely angered the imperial guards in the hall. According to his opinion, those of them who joined the army to eat food should be sent to the guillotine?
Especially Ma Xianglin, the leader of the Royal Forest Army. At this time, his anger has been completely aroused.
Once upon a time, Qiu Chengyun, the eunuch who was in charge of the army, also spoke to his father in the same tone. Just because the reception was disrespectful and did not go as they wanted, they would kill you.
In his opinion, eunuchs and civil servants are both of the same nature, and no one is better than the other, but the civil servants only have greater momentum and authority.
What he hated most in his life were people like Wu Yizhong, who only thought about intrigues and intrigues every day, seeking personal gain without caring about the overall situation.
Zhu Youxiao naturally felt Ma Xianglin's mood swings. These words were indeed too serious, and basically had the meaning of beating them all to death with one stick.
Zhu Youxiao took a long knife from a guard, holding the scabbard in one hand and the handle in the other, looking at it and said:
"When I was in the capital, what the court officials said was almost the same as yours. They all said it was for the people, for the court, and for me. But what was the result?"
"When I sent people to investigate and confiscate their homes, which one was not rich and wealthy? Let alone others, how many of the people in their hometown didn't hate them to the core?"
"On the surface, they are morally upright and only serve the public and not private interests, but there are not many dirty things they do behind the scenes? Haven't the people been harmed enough by them?"
"I have repeatedly reminded you of my kind words. It is you who do not take my words seriously. Why, who does the emperor mean to you?"
"In front of me, you dare to falsely accuse meritorious ministers and generals. You are already guilty of an unforgivable crime. It's just that you don't want to repent. You actually dare to show off and talk nonsense here."
Immediately the inspector Wu Hong burst into tears, and he knelt on the ground heartbrokenly and said:
"I really do this for Your Majesty, for the people, and for the livelihood of all people in the world. If that day comes, all lives will be in ruins, and I will regret it at that time. I hope Your Majesty will not act out of emotion."
"With the army in the hands of such ambitious people, it is a huge threat to the country. Is Your Majesty really going to go his own way and destroy our two-hundred-year-old country?"
All of them are movie kings. The civil servants in the late Ming Dynasty were countless times ahead of their colleagues in other eras just by their acting skills.
Zhu Youxiao stood the long sword upright on the ground, pressed the top of the handle with both hands, and said with great power:
"My general, I myself can trust you. Don't think that I don't know what your intentions are. I would like to remind you that now is not the Wanli Dynasty. Why do you still want to highlight your reputation with your mouth?"
"And you, an old man, speak without restraint. At this time, you are still making slanderous remarks. You really don't know how to die."
"What I have said will always be fulfilled. Come here, the inspector Wu Hong willfully slandered and spread rumors. When he was an official, he used his private life to represent the public. As the inspector in charge of the laws and prisons of a province, he knew the law and broke the law.
, crime plus one!”
"According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, he was sentenced to be cut in half, his body hung on the gate of the government office for three days, and three tribes were annihilated!"