Chapter 99 Kuai Dao’s plan to gain control of the emperor and his ministers
Chongzhen leaned over and asked: "Isn't this forced to write these?"
The corners of Wang Fenglin's mouth twitched twice, and a pair of eyeballs turned rapidly twice, and then he said like a deflated ball: "Your Majesty, we sincerely wish Chang Xiao a happy birthday!"
Everyone else was startled, what did Wang Fenglin mean? Now is the time to step on Chang Xiao, and the Wang family and the Chang family are at odds with each other. Why did he let himself go at this time?
Others don't understand, but Wang Fenglin is a smart man. He knows very well that no one can do anything to Chang Xiao today, not for any reason, but based on the hymns written by them in a moment of confusion.
Thirty court officials wrote poems for Chang Xiao's wedding, and hung red flowers around the city as if Chang Xiao was showing off to the public. If at this time he said that he and more than thirty other ministers were forced by Chang Xiao,
Yes, then Chang Xiao will definitely ask how he forced them. Did he use a knife? Did he use a gun? Were there any threatening words? They will be speechless by then.
Chang Xiao never persecuted them from beginning to end. Moreover, once they admitted that they were persecuted, then their official career would probably come to an end from now on. The reason is very simple. If they are persecuted so easily, then in the eyes of the emperor, they are
People who have no integrity. Such people are useless.
An official can have average poetry or mediocre political achievements, but he must not lack integrity. This is the bone of a literati. Today, if he admits that he is often laughed at and forced to write a hymn without a knife, a gun, or even a word, he will die.
If flowers surround the city, then he will become a laughing stock and a person without integrity after leaving the gate of the palace. This is something that the smart man Wang Fenglin cannot bear!
What frightened Wang Fenglin even more was that Chongzhen asked the meaning behind this sentence. This question was very clever and mysterious. It seemed to wake him up and ask him to think carefully about whether he was being forced.
If someone else asked Wang Fenglin this sentence, he might just blurt it out and say that he was forced. But when the emperor asked, he had to think carefully about what Chongzhen meant by this sentence.
Obviously Chongzhen was biased towards Chang Xiao, no, not biased, but simply stood with Chang Xiao. This made him suddenly understand something. He knew that Chang Xiao was just a move by Chongzhen, and he also understood why Chang Xiao
Xiao dared to do such a thing yesterday because the emperor stood behind him!
Chang Xiao is not a frivolous teenager at all, nor is he stupid, nor is he heading straight for a dead end, but he is extremely wise and fearless!
Wang Fenglin keenly smelled a hint of conspiracy. Wang Fenglin understood that the civil servants wanted to regard Chang Xiao as a knife that stabbed Chongzhen, but how could Chang Xiao not be Chongzhen's sword that slashed civil servants?
Chongzhen was going to deal with the officials, thereby concentrating power in his hands! No matter how you think about it, an emperor who was so diligent that he was almost crazy, an emperor who only slept for two hours a day, and an emperor who had not enjoyed dance music for several years.
An emperor who is devoted to political affairs should be a possessive emperor who wants to hold everything firmly in his hands.
Wang Fenglin suddenly understood and kept silent from then on. He knew that a violent storm was coming, and if he said a wrong word at this time, he would be shattered to pieces!
Wang Fenglin, who is also a gentleman, admitted that he sincerely congratulated Chang and smiled. Others would not say that they were forced. No one who can get into this court is a fool. Even if he can't understand it at first, but
Wang Fenglin's unusual behavior also made them think clearly. Although they did not expect Wang Fenglin to think as deeply as he thought, at least they understood that they could never be forced.
Eighteen of the more than thirty smiling groomsmen were in court. At this time, these seventeen people came out in unison and said respectfully: "We really sincerely congratulate Chang Tongzhi."
The situation was suddenly reversed, and Chang Xiao suddenly gained more than a dozen comrades from being alone.
Wang Changxu has been around for more than 20 years and has only made so many so-called friends. At this moment, they all drew a clear line with Wang Changxu and stood on Chang Xiao's side! At this moment, Wang Changxu was a loner, completely alone.
All alone!
The current situation is that Chang Xiao and Jin Yun are definitely an unmarried couple who are in love with each other. Whoever objects, the eighteen officials in the court who have been asked for gifts three times by Chang Xiao cannot agree! They object to Chang Xiao and Jin Yunzhi
Those who are in love with each other are those who oppose them, and those who are in trouble with them!
This change is a bit dizzying.
Wang Changxu's eyes widened even more, but he rolled his eyes and screamed again.
The censor next to him quickly translated: "Chang Xiao broke into the official residence privately, beat up the court officials, and robbed my family's property. Please ask the emperor to make the decision for you!" Obviously Wang Changxu also knew that he could no longer be entangled in Jin Yun's affairs, so he changed his perspective.
Continue to attack Chang Xiao.
"That's enough!" Chang Xiao didn't speak, but Chongzhen had already spoken calmly.
Chongzhen stood up slowly, looked at Wang Changxu with cold eyes, and said lightly: "Wang Changxu, who are you, Jin Chang?"
Wang Changxu was stunned, looking at Chongzhen inexplicably, and the fear in his heart suddenly bloomed.
Wang Changxu didn't know how to answer, and Chongzhen didn't want him to answer, so he continued to ask: "It was you who boasted about Haikou in front of Jinyun, saying that you could persuade me not to kill Chang Xiao?"
The muscles on Wang Changxu's face trembled slightly, and the two balls trembled back and forth on his face.
"After Chang Xiao came out of the palace, you told Jin Yun that it was you who persuaded me to let Chang Xiao go, and it was all your fault? Why have I never seen you come to plead for Chang Xiao?"
Wang Changxu was already prostrate on the ground at this time, shaking like chaff and unable to utter a sound. He also understood at this time that Chongzhen was biased towards Chang Xiao, and he was finished.
"It's time to hit!" Chongzhen slammed Wang Changxu's 10,000-character memorial of blood and tears that he had been holding on to Wang Changxu's head.
"The fourth dimension of the country is propriety, justice, integrity and shame. Wang Changxu, where are your propriety, justice and integrity? Are you going to kill the daughter of an old friend? Or are you using such dirty and dirty methods? I think Chang Xiao will be beaten lightly. If I was Chang Xiao, I would definitely kill him."
You, a ruthless, unrighteous, deceitful bastard, will never be allowed to have you shamelessly come to the court and speak shamelessly until I beat him half to death! Drag me out!" Chongzhen was obviously furious at this time, and his voice was frighteningly loud.
The emperor's anger is beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Even Chang Xiao felt his heart and liver trembling under this anger, and his whole body's true energy was restricted and all retracted into the alchemy furnace in his lower abdomen. Even if the real dragon emperor had no cultivation level, he would be extremely angry.
Extraordinary.
The golden-armored guard standing outside the door immediately stepped forward and dragged Wang Changxu out, who was shaking into a ball.
The court fell silent for a moment, and no one dared to speak.
Chongzhen took a few breaths, slowly sat on the throne, glanced at Chang Xiao, and asked lightly: "Chang Xiao, do you know your sin?"
Chang Xiao hurriedly said: "I know the crime."
"What's the crime?"
"No matter how bad Wang Changxu is, he will be punished by the emperor according to the national law. If I beat him, he is indeed guilty!"
"Don't do this again!"
"yes!"
At this time, all the ministers could see that the emperor's butt was sitting on Chang Xiao's side, or as he said, what does it mean that he is not allowed to do this in the future? This was not even a reprimand. Seeing it, Chang Xiao became
Another Jiang Bin.
Chongzhen looked at the frightened eyes of the courtiers below looking at Chang Xiao, with a kind of faint joy in his heart. Chang Xiao really had two tricks. Three times five divided by two shocked the courtiers, and he did so in a way that made him feel most at ease.
Way.
A private conversation between Chongzhen and Chang Xiao made Chongzhen suddenly enlightened in the chaos, thus confirming the idea that in order to deal with the outside world, one must first calm down the internal affairs, and to stabilize the internal affairs, one must first regulate the officials.
And governing officials is not just talk, it is definitely a more difficult problem than fighting against the Jurchen Tatars, because for more than two hundred years since the Ming Dynasty, civil servants and military generals have formed a set of conventions, which cannot be broken at all, even if he
Chongzhen could not fight against the inertia of the officialdom for more than two hundred years. There was only one way to govern officials, which was to destroy and rebuild the official order. Only when everything was new could Chongzhen be in control!
But although he had a strategy, Chongzhen felt that he had no way to start. The court was like an iron plate, and even though he had iron teeth and copper teeth, he couldn't find a place to bite!
But now, Chang Xiao simply told him what to do!
Chongzhen understood at this time that the reason why everything in the court was not under his control was because he did not have a sharp knife in his hand! And Chang Xiao was obviously a sharp knife that came to his door!
Chongzhen understood very well that what frightened people about Chang Xiao was not his domineering methods or his unreasonableness, but because he was the emperor standing behind him. If Chang Xiao was still a son of aristocratic family, Wang Changxu would have to go through so much trouble.
They can crush him!
In other words, everything Chang Xiao had was given to him by Chongzhen. The courtiers who feared Chang Xiao were actually ultimately afraid of him, the emperor.
Don't think that those so-called foolish kings who appoint treacherous ministers are really faint. In fact, they are not faint. They understand very well that those so-called greedy ministers and treacherous ministers are just kites in their hands. The thread is still there in the end.
In the hands of the emperor, there are countless greedy ministers in the world, but there are really very few greedy ministers who can threaten the emperor's throne. At most, they are like Wei Zhongxian, who took power for a period of time after the emperor's sudden death.
However, no matter how powerful Wei Zhongxian is and he is called nine thousand years old, he is still just a clown. This can be seen from the fact that Chongzhen was destroyed in a flip of his hands.
In fact, the greedy minister is just a tool in the hands of the emperor. There are always many things that are inconvenient for an emperor to do. At this time, the greedy minister needs to appear in full force. If an emperor needs to do too many things that are inconvenient for him to do,
, then the wealth of this greedy and treacherous minister will last forever. Undoubtedly, Chongzhen now needs a treacherous and greedy minister who wields power. It is best to be a lonely minister who offends the government and the public! Such a lonely minister will never be able to make trouble.
, will definitely not threaten his imperial power.
Chang Xiao's actions offended almost all the courtiers, which happened to be what Chongzhen needed most!
Chongzhen had already thought of the ending for Chang Xiao at this time. After he replaced the censors who were unwilling to do anything and only knew how to talk nonsense and those civil servants who only knew intrigues but were unwilling to share the worries of the court, Chang Xiao would
Carrying the reputation of a treacherous minister, he was executed by Ling Chi. At that time, Chongzhen, who killed the traitors and restored the world's purity, was still a sage emperor. At that time, the court and the world should be under his control.
All the charges were handed over to Chang Xiaolai.
Now that he had this idea, Chongzhen decided, on the one hand, to compensate Chang Xiao, and on the other hand, to raise Chang Xiao up. He would indulge Chang Xiao. Anyway, there are only a few officials in the court who really do things.
I can count them all on my hands, and Chang Xiao can do whatever he wants with the rest of them, just get rid of them all and replace them with new ones.
Chongzhen has his own thoughts, and Chang Xiao also has his own thoughts. In Chang Xiao's eyes, everything has just begun. This will be a story about raising tigers and causing trouble. In the end, the people who raise tigers will be eaten by tigers and not even the dregs will be left.
There is no emotion in the court, let alone family affection. There is only the laughter of the victors and the sobs of the losers, and nothing else.
Chang Xiao and Chongzhen's eyes briefly touched each other inadvertently, and then they separated. Both sides saw the pitifulness of the other, and also saw the highest peak they would reach in the future.
In San Dynasty, all the ministers were not in a good mood today, because they all had a feeling that the emperor's authority had been expanded again, and the territory of these civil servants had been compressed, and their necks were a little tight, as if
They felt a little tight in their chests as they were trapped by something.
It seemed that even the sky above our heads had become hazy.
The wind picked up slowly, and it seemed like a blizzard was just around the corner.