Chapter 167 Zhang Chaozhong Enters Beijing
“Hu…hu…hu…hu…hu…hu…hu…”
After dozens of breaths, Zhu Youjian temporarily suppressed the thunderous anger in his heart.
To be honest, he was really injured this time, and felt a sense of grievance that "I would have been looking at the bright moon, but the bright moon shines on the ditches."
Because of the historical manifestations of Huang Daozhou and others' vows to fight against the Qing Dynasty, Ni Yuanlu even followed Emperor Chongzhen to die after he hanged himself. Zhu Youjian always treated Ni Yuanlu, Huang Daozhou and other Donglin Party members differently.
Even Qian Qianyi, who was infamous for thousands of years because of "the water is too cool", Zhu Youjian did not act like other time travelers because of his behavior of rebelling against the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty after surrendering to the Qing Dynasty. When he heard Qian Qianyi's name, he wanted to kill him quickly.
Even because of Qian Qianyi's soft and fiddling personality, Zhu Youjian had high hopes for him, hoping that by controlling Qian Qianyi, he could achieve his goal of splitting the Donglin Party.
But Zhu Youjian forgot that Qian Qianyi has a weak personality and is indeed easily at his mercy, but in the same way, Qian Qianyi is also easily at the mercy of others!
"The mud is the mud, and it can never be supported on the wall!" Zhu Youjian cursed hatefully, expressing his disappointment with Qian Qianyi.
Although the emperor was still angry, Lu Jiude knew that the emperor's anger had dropped below the level line, so he plucked up his courage to persuade: "Why should your Majesty be sad for such a ruthless person? I am willing to lead the soldiers of the Four Guards to pacify him!"
Zhu Youjian's face darkened when he heard this, then his heart moved and shouted sternly: "Gao Quan, where is Gao Qiang?"
When the voice fell, Gao Quan and Gao Qiang immediately led the guards into the hall, fell to the ground, and responded loudly: "Your Majesty, I'm here!"
Zhu Youjian said expressionlessly: "Take down everyone except Lu Jiude and Luo Yangxing in the hall!"
"Yes, your Majesty!"
Gao Quan, Gao Qiang responded and immediately led more than a dozen guards to the eunuchs and palace maids in the hall.
"Your Majesty is kind!"
"Your Majesty, please spare me!"
The eunuchs and palace maids all thought that the emperor wanted to kill someone to silence him, so they hurriedly robbed the ground with their heads and cried and begged for mercy.
It is not for the eunuchs and palace maids to think of Zhu Youjian so much, because when Zhu Youjian ascended the throne, he gave favors to the inner court one after another, such as letting the palace maids go out of the palace, opening internal hospitals, implementing the pension system for eunuchs and palace maids, etc.
At first, the eunuchs and palace maids thought that Zhu Youjian was a very kind-hearted king and was very grateful to Zhu Youjian, but they also looked down on him a little.
But the good times did not last long. After Zhu Youjian ascended the throne for a while, he did not see how he punished the foreign ministers. Instead, all the cards fell on the inner court.
First, in the name of the corruption case of the Three Halls, a group of eunuch leaders who cling to Wei Zhongxian were cleaned up, and then thoroughly investigated the imperial village, and a group of eunuchs in charge of the imperial village were cleaned up.
The most fearful thing about the eunuchs and palace maids was the cooking and killing incident. Since ancient times, it has been common for eunuchs and palace maids to pass on news to foreign ministers, and eunuchs and palace maids have become accustomed to this.
But they never expected that Zhu Youjian's tolerance for colluding with foreign ministers was so low, and he even imposed the punishment of cooking and killing the eunuchs and palace maids who colluded with foreign ministers. He was simply a tyrant of Jie and Zhou!
So when they heard Zhu Youjian's order to take them down, they were all scared and cried and wailed.
"Shut up to me!" Zhu Youjian shouted angrily: "What kind of morality is crying? I have not said that I will kill you, but I will be wronged in the past few days.
Gao Quan and Gao Qiang took them down, imprisoned the room, nailed them to wooden boards, and isolated the inside and outside. In addition to daily diet, I want to let a fly not fly in."
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Gao Quan and Gao Qiang responded.
"Thank you for your kindness!"
Hearing that the emperor was just imprisoning them instead of killing people to silence them, the eunuchs and palace maids felt relieved. Thank God, their lives were finally saved.
Zhu Youjian was a little angry. Who did these eunuchs and palace maids imagine him as?
Although he had cooked and killed a group of eunuchs and palace maids who colluded with foreign ministers before, he was not a tyrant who killed people for fun. His main purpose was to deter those eunuchs and palace maids who did not abide by the rules by cooking and killing torture, so as to achieve the purpose of punishing the past and preventing the future and making the inner court clean.
But Zhu Youjian was still too naive. After the torture of cooking and killing, news in the palace continued to spread outside the palace. Not only did Zhu Youjian's torture not only did not have the effect of deterrence, but instead made the spy lurking in the inner court even more hidden.
After taking all the eunuchs and palace maids out, an eunuch entered the hall and reported: "Your Majesty, Eunuch Zhang Chaozhong is back."
Zhu Youjian was overjoyed when he heard this and said, "Hurry up!"
After a moment, Zhang Chaozhong entered the hall with a frosty face on his face, worshiped Zhu Youjian's great reverie, and cried bitterly, "Your Majesty! I was in danger several times and thought I would never see Your Majesty again!"
Seeing Zhang Chaozhong's true feelings, Zhu Youjian couldn't help but sigh. He hurriedly walked from the imperial throne to Zhang Chaozhong, helped him up, patted his hand and said, "Thank you for your hard work, you are much thinner."
Zhang Chaozhong was even more grateful when he heard this. He wanted to get the emperor's care, even if he died, he would be willing to die.
After his emotions recovered slightly, Zhang Chaozhong told his experience of going south to Fujian to recruit Zheng Zhilong.
When Zhu Youjian heard that Liu Xianglao dared to lead troops to attack the imperial envoy and caused the death of 500 officers and soldiers of the Fujian Navy, he really wanted to set up a large army now, tear Liu Xianglao to pieces, and exterminate the nine tribes into one.
When Zhu Youjian heard that Tang Bin, Qian Dejia, Zhao Chongwen and others led a large army to besiege Zhang Chaozhong, but instead was defeated by Zhang Chaozhong, Lin Yi and Zheng Zhihu, and his clan was killed. He couldn't help but feel great and shouted "Well, kill!"
However, Zhang Chaozhong knelt down and apologized to Zhu Youjian: "Your Majesty, I have caused a big disaster. Whether it is the smuggling account books I accidentally obtained or the detriment of the world to kill Qian Dejia, Zhao Chongwen and other nine clans of Xuzhou officials, they have offended the Southeast clans. They will inevitably incite public opinion and must kill the ministers and then go quickly."
Zhu Youjian waved his hand and said, "This generation dares to attack and kill the imperial envoy, and does not take me and the court seriously. They are all rebels without a king or a father. What's the point of killing?"
Zhang Chaozhong said with concern: "But in this way, they use public opinion around the world to force Your Majesty to kill the weak ministers. Wouldn't it be difficult for Your Majesty to do?"
Zhu Youjian smiled bitterly and said, "Haha, they not only want to force me to kill you, but also want to force me to retreat to the harem. Luo Yangxing knows him the information that the Jinyiwei just got."
When Zhang Chaozhong learned from Luo Yangxing's mouth the wolf ambitions of Han Yu and others, he couldn't help but grit his teeth and said, "There is no king or father in this generation, and everyone should be killed!
Your Majesty, there are 200 Zheng's soldiers and 3,000 Huai'an troops who have returned to the capital this time. They are all bloody soldiers who have seen in the battle of Xuzhou. As long as your Majesty has issued an imperial edict, I am willing to raise the army to break through the family of the traitor and raise the heads of the traitor in front of the imperial court!”
Chapter completed!