On the second day, there will be a large court meeting.
When Zhu Qiyu arrived at Fengtian Hall, he found that Prince Zhu Jianji had already arrived in advance, sitting one step shorter than him, looking blankly outside the hall in a daze.
Hearing Zhu Qiyu's voice, the prince did not stand up to salute.
Xing'an just wanted to remind.
Zhu Qiyu waved his hand to stop him. The two father and son still had a feud overnight. It was rare for the bastard to come to a big court meeting. Don't disturb his interest. After the court, the father and son went to Dongnuang Pavilion for a drink. Why wouldn't the estrangement be eliminated?
He sat down and nodded to Xing'an.
His Highness the Honglu Temple officials immediately started singing.
All civil and military officials were included in the hall.
salute.
The great meeting begins.
Today, all officials know very well that there is only one thing: to impeach Bai Gui, the envoy of Huguang Chengxuan and Sizuo.
Everything else is trivial.
As expected, the Metropolitan Procuratorate took the lead in launching an attack.
Xiao Weizhen and Li Shi, both censors on the left and right, came out at the same time and asked Your Majesty to severely punish Bai Gui as a warning to others.
Zhu Qiyu remained silent.
He wants to delay.
Zhang Zhe was dragged into Beijing until Bai Gui defended himself.
But how could the civilian clique let him succeed?
Except for a few princelings, including Chen Xun, Shang Ren and others, who all came forward to second the proposal and requested Zhu Qiyu to immediately issue an imperial edict to severely punish Bai Gui, on the contrary, no one said anything as regards the Tang family's relatives.
Chen Xun, Shang Ren and others were loyal to Zhu Qiyu.
But he is also a member of the civil service group.
Moreover, these people also have small calculations. His Majesty has always wanted to take the Zen throne. If His Majesty is to take the Zen throne, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will definitely ascend the throne and rule immediately when he reaches his age.
One emperor and one courtier.
Prince Zhu Jianji ascends the throne, and princelings Zhang Peng, Wang Yue and others will be reused.
Shang Ren, Chen Xun and others also had conflicts with the civil service group because of their loyalty to Zhu Qiyu.
So they also want to change their savings.
If the crown prince is changed, Your Majesty will no longer think about the Zen position.
In another ten or twenty years, Chen Xun, Shang Ren, Wang Wen and others will develop their power in the court and become leading civil servants. Moreover, the king will be soft and gentle, which will be more conducive to their future political career.
But there is one exception.
First, Zhang Peng, the deputy censor of the capital, came out to object, saying that as Bai Gui was a border official of the second rank of the Ming Dynasty, it was against the rules to punish him without clear verification.
Then Wang Wen came out to second the proposal.
Wang Wen will be seventy years old soon.
I have been working as Minister of the Ministry of Justice for many years, and recently I have plans to return to my hometown. Therefore, I do not want to offend His Majesty and the Crown Prince. It is harmless to express my position at this time.
The civil service group will not regard him as a princeling.
Zhu Qiyu remained silent.
The ministers made impassioned speeches.
Zhang Peng was unable to cope alone, and in the end he simply stopped talking.
At the critical moment, Zhu Jianji stood up, with a sullen face, one hand behind his back and the other twirling the jade pendant around his waist, and he glanced at the civil and military officials in the hall expressionlessly.
Asked: "Has the issue of Maori children invading the Hetao area been resolved?"
Everyone was stunned.
I don’t know what kind of medicine His Highness the Prince sells in his gourd.
Zhu Jianji continued: "The foreign troubles have not been eliminated, but all the ministers and ministers are seizing on the slightest mistake of an outstanding political envoy to destabilize the country's rear. What is their intention?"
Yao Kui, the Minister of Rites, listed the list: "The hero of the Zhaoxun Pavilion in the Song Dynasty, the Duke of Wei, Zhao Pu, once said: To fight against foreigners, you must first settle the domestic affairs. I believe that just because foreign troubles disturb the border area of Hetao, the domestic affairs should be more peaceful, and the affairs of Huguang cannot be postponed.
If the war in Hetao goes unfavorably, the Miao people in Huguang are in chaos again, and the country, the country, and the country will be in trouble due to internal and external troubles."
This makes sense.
Zhu Jianji hummed, "Yao Shangshu's words are reasonable, but I just want to ask: Chief Bai Gui worked hard in Huguang, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. If there was no impeachment, how could there be chaos in Huguang?"
Something happened?"
There was nothing wrong with Huguang.
But just because you impeached Bai Gui, if not dealt with, it will lead to unrest among the people. Speaking of which, this situation was deliberately created by Tang's relatives and the civil service group.
Regardless of the safety of the country, these people should be killed!
Yao Kui was happy and undaunted, held his head high and said loudly: "Your Highness, what you said is wrong. The peace in Huguang is just a facade. If the war with the Maoli Children was in full swing, the people of Huguang could not bear Bai Gui's chaotic government and rebels gathered together to rebel."
The court will be caught off guard. Now that the evidence of the crime is conclusive, as long as the culprit is punished quickly, the people will rush to praise each other. Why is there internal trouble? If we delay and do not give an explanation to the people, we will worry about military disaster!"
Whoops, dozens of civil servants came out all of a sudden, "I second my opinion!"
Zhu Jianji laughed in his heart.
Headache.
I have to say that it is really easy for the emperor to control one or two civil servants. He can kill them for any reason. Especially in the Ming Dynasty, they did not have the same worries as the Song Dynasty. They could kill them as they wanted.
But once the civil servant group unites, the emperor will have no choice.
Not to mention the prince himself.
Zhu Jianji regrets that...
If I had known earlier, I should have concentrated on cultivating princelings over the years, and I wouldn't be so passive today.
I sighed inwardly.
no solution anymore.
He turned around and looked at Zhu Qiyu expressionlessly, "What the ministers said is reasonable and reasonable. Your Majesty, please give your verdict."
After saying that, he went back.
In the eyes of outsiders, he has tried his best to save his future father-in-law.
It just didn't work out.
But Zhu Qiyu is a little strange.
This is not like my son's style.
To surrender so quickly?
impossible!
Is the bastard harboring something evil again?
Still silent.
Anyway, I won’t issue an order. Without my order, none of you would dare to deal with Bai Gui. Once the chapter of Bai Gui’s self-defense comes out, no matter what, some crimes need to be verified.
At worst, he's just a demoted official.
But now that the decree has been issued, Bai Gui's crime has been confirmed, and he will probably be punished to the end.
In this case, Bai Gui will become a criminal!
Influence on son's wedding.
Zhu Qiyu is already in his thirties, and he is still very excited when he thinks that he will be able to hold a fat grandson in his arms in a few years.
But how could the civil service group and Tang's relatives make Zhu Qiyu happy?
As soon as I saw that His Highness the Crown Prince was asking His Majesty to make a decision, there was a roar. Suddenly, all the civil servants in the court, except Zhang Peng, the deputy censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Wang Wen, the Minister of Punishment, Li Shuang, a doctor in the Ministry of Household Affairs, and Zhao Chunjiao, a foreign minister in the Ministry of Etiquette,
Peng Shi, assistant minister of the cabinet, Zhu Zhang, a member of the civil service department, Xue Hui, a lieutenant in the military department, and other civil servants all excepted one after another, knelt down and said, "please ask your majesty to judge."
For those who have not knelt down, Zhang Peng is the Imperial Master.
Wang Wen has his own plan.
The rest of the doctors and Yuanwailang all held official positions in Zhanshi Mansion in the East Palace.
Considered a princeling.
Of course they would not agree to punish Bai Gui immediately.
His Royal Highness has a second-rank official, a feudal official, as his father-in-law, who is a powerful help to the East Palace, and these officials of the Zhanshi Mansion, whether they are or not, have been branded as princelings.
The key point is that these people know that the position of Prince Zhu Jianji is unshakable, and they are now ministers of Conglong.
There is no need to get too involved with the civil service group.
As for personal interests and family interests, they will have plenty of opportunities to fight for them after the prince ascends the throne and they become the emperor's favorites.
