The failure of a foolish king does not mean that the entire royal family has lost their hearts.
Emperor Taizu Gao, who was a commoner in Huaiyou, had no suspicion of relying on authority; he was fighting violence for the people and had no intention of foreshadowing divine weapons.
There is no better way to achieve the justice of the country.
If Yang Qingyuan wants to usurp the throne, not to mention those who follow him, not even the neutral faction, including Cao Xueyang and others who are following him to kill Zhu Zhankun, will oppose him.
A detailed list of those who succeeded in usurping the throne in the history books, from Wang Mang to Cao Pi, from Sima Yan to Liu Yu, from Yang Jian to Zhao Kuangyin, either relied on their fathers, generations of family planning, or their own years of management.
Only in troubled times like the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms can one have strong soldiers and strong horses, and a person who can separate one side can claim the title of emperor.
And how old is Yang Qingyuan!?
Counting from the time he entered the imperial examination at the age of fifteen, it has been ten years now, five of which were spent in the Hanlin Academy.
And he was actually in charge of the army for less than two years. The generals in the army just respected his ability and obeyed his authority.
The aggressive ministers followed Song Wenyan, the new champion, through the hall to the entrance of Hanyuan Hall, and stopped a few feet in front of Yang Qingyuan.
With Song Wenyan and other direct ministers standing in front of them, even some fishermen in troubled waters were confident.
"Yang Ni", "thief", "rebel", all the officials shouted angrily.
If they hadn't known that Yang Qingyuan was the best master in the world, these officials might have rushed forward and devoured his flesh.
Amid the roars of the crowd, Yang Qingyuan stood quietly.
Chen Jinru, who had just been hiding behind Song Wenyan, stood up again and said, "Yang Qingyuan, you traitor, you raised an army in the dark night, attacked the imperial city, and murdered the emperor. It is really a heinous crime. Today, Chen
Even if you risk your life, I still want you to give an explanation to the world."
Chen Jinru's words were righteous and serious.
Under his leadership, the officials also responded one after another.
"Yes, this thief must be severely punished."
"Give the world an explanation!"
The ministers echoed loudly, causing a wave of noise that echoed in Hanyuan Hall.
This is probably what a thousand people mean!
However, their behavior also showed their powerlessness at the moment.
Facing Yang Qingyuan, a "sycophant" who launched an army to kill the king, they could only denounce him with angry curses.
But if talking can kill people, what's the use of swords?
Of course Yang Qingyuan will give an explanation to the world, but it is definitely not the explanation that these people in front of him want.
If Yang Qingyuan could be made to hand over his military power and commit suicide to apologize by scolding him, what kind of standing army would Zhou establish? Just let these civil servants scold Beiqian and Houjin to death.
Yang Qingyuan looked at the civil servants who were getting more and more excited and thought they could spray him to death. But his heart became calmer and calmer!
He knew that these people were at the end of their rope and all they had left was this mouth.
Yang Qingyuan is not a reckless man. Most of the time he likes to make decisions before taking action.
Before raising troops, Yang Qingyuan had deduce the subsequent political situation.
Breaking the Daming Palace and killing Zhu Zhankun is a vicious event that may not have happened in thousands of years.
And it was not a secret assassination or murder, but an open and honest attack on the imperial city, killing them with one sword in front of so many people.
This kind of incident can be traced back to Jin Taizu's killing of Gaogui Township Duke in the street.
There will inevitably be fierce backlash from the officials.
The crudest way to solve the current situation is:
kill!
The ministers Shilin only had pens in their hands, while Yang Qingyuan had a sword in his hands.
The so-called "people's hearts" and "public opinions" are composed of individuals.
When your knife is fast enough, people's hearts will be scattered and public opinion will be killed.
The most typical example is above the Blue Star, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs and China was sinking.
The Manchu Qing Dynasty used its power to issue a "hair-shaving order", requiring people to shave their hair and change clothes.
This, of course, caused dissatisfaction among the people. But the barbarians didn't care about public opinion and people's hearts, and just killed them with swords.
Keep your hair but not your hair!
The struggle between the Han people and the Manchus lasted for thirty-seven years, but finally failed. Those who fell under the butcher's knife were left with mountains of bones and rivers of blood.
But in order to survive, he eventually had to shave his head and change clothes.
This is not an isolated case. There are also Korean hair-cutting orders and Japan's hair-cutting and sword-cutting orders, which are all similar.
Yang Qingyuan was finally able to kill all the opponents with the help of weapons and power.
But Yang Qingyuan's reputation is equally bad. He will be ranked alongside the likes of Wang Mang, Dong Zhuo, and Er Zhurong. Scholars will smear Yang Qingyuan on various occasions. In the next three hundred years, Yang Qingyuan will be the most famous folk drama in the world.
There is no such thing as a villain.
Even if Yang Qingyuan doesn't care about this, he can't do this!
First, his bottom line makes him unwilling to kill so many innocent people. He can kill mountains of corpses on the battlefield, but he cannot wield the butcher knife against so many people who do not deserve to die.
Secondly, his purpose in raising troops was not to seize power.
It is to repay justice to Yanyi and to establish a new political order.
A coup is a means, not an end.
His purpose was to take Da Zhou forward.
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Faced with the aggressiveness of Chen Jinru, the censor of Youqian City, and Chen Wenting, minister of punishment, Yang Qingyuan just asked in a calm tone, "What explanation do you want?"
Yang Qingyuan's rhetorical question confused Er Chen, who was originally aggressive. Although the ministers were still angry at this moment, Er Chen felt a chill down his spine.
Under the unprecedented grand occasion just now, the two of them almost forgot that the man in front of them was in charge of a 150,000-strong military force in the divine capital.
Even though Yang Qingyuan was an orthodox civil servant, he was definitely a ruthless master. How long had the bones been buried outside Jinyang City?! The grass on the graves of the army of the Later Jin Dynasty had not grown tall yet!
Maybe Yang Qingyuan couldn't kill all the officials who were making trouble, but it was definitely not impossible to kill the two leaders to scare the monkeys.
The reason why a group of people led by Chen Jinru were so proactive and kept jumping up and down was that they didn't actually care much about justice, or even about Zhu Zhankun's death. All they cared about was themselves.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! They are Zhu Zhankun's cronies. Both Chen Jinru and Chen Wenting were originally staunch princelings and were promoted after Zhu Zhankun ascended the throne.
Yang Qingyuan launched a coup and launched an army to kill the emperor. At this moment, Zhu Zhankun's die-hard supporters, Cao Shouzheng and Li Hongyi, have disappeared. Others don't know why. How can someone at Er Chen's level not know why?!
Next, the direct lineage of Li, Cao, and Zhu Zhankun will all be purged, and it will be a legitimate purge.
At least 70% of the officials in the imperial court have financial problems and cannot withstand investigation.
Chen Wenting and Chen Jinru didn't want to sit still and wait for death. They always had to struggle to the death.
But now Er Chen discovered that if they continued to cause trouble, they might not be able to wait until the court's purge time, and would be treated as chickens and killed by Yang Qingyuan now.
In fact, there are many people who think like Er Chen. Both Cao Shouzheng and Li Hongyi are like towering trees in the court, with many party members attached to them below.
A great politician once quoted a saying: If there is no party outside the party, there will be imperial ideas, and there will be no factions within the party, and all kinds of strange things will happen.
Officialdom is actually a arena of struggle among political factions.
Even though the officialdom of the Great Zhou Dynasty was relatively clear, it still could not change this situation.
Regardless of the Chang Dynasty and the Great Dynasty meetings, many officials have not even met Zhu Zhankun, the newly crowned emperor, a few times. What's more, they may have never met Zhu Zhankun in private, so they can talk about loyalty to the emperor.
Today, the biggest reason for being so intense is actually just to protect myself!
Er Chen was dumbfounded, but Song Wenyan was not. He was not a paper tiger like Er Chen. Although he was a little pedantic, he was upright and unyielding.
"Yang Qingyuan, you are an unfaithful and unfilial person! How dare you ask for an explanation for killing your Majesty? Hand over your military power, go back to your home to reflect on your mistakes, and wait for the court's decision!!"
Facts have once again proven that quitting fans and returning to dislike them is much scarier than anti-fans.
This Song Wenyan was originally a big fan of Yang Qingyuan, but now he wants to kill Yang Qingyuan.
At this time, asking Yang Qingyuan to hand over his military power, meditate on his mistakes, and wait for his consequences is tantamount to asking Yang Qingyuan to kill him at his own risk.
Although Song Wenyan's statement is politically immature, it is indeed the inner thoughts of many people.
Rebellious ministers and traitors should be found and punished by everyone.
Severely punishing regicides is a basic political demand.
Looking at Song Wenyan's sincere and fearless eyes, Yang Qingyuan knew that Song Wenyan was a gentleman although he was conservative in thinking and clumsy in politics.
"Zhu Zhankun died, although the princes came with anger, I can understand it. But I would like to ask, when the emperor unjustly killed the great scholar, where were you gentlemen?! Where is the justice of heaven?!"
Yang Qingyuan's question made the more than a hundred officials who were questioning him angrily in Hanyuan Hall become slightly quiet, and the momentum that was originally boiling also stagnated slightly.
Among the people who spoke out for Yu Yanyi at that time were the Youdu Censor who was standing in the palace with his eyelids drooping, Cheng Qingsong of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Li Weiguang, the Zuodu Censor who was concentrating with his eyes closed, and Zuo Qiandu Censor who assisted Yang Qingyuan in his rebellion.
Shi Li Xunhuan.
Most of the people behind Er Chen and Song Wenyan not only did not stand up for the so-called justice at that time, but they were also the promoters of Yu Yanyi's unjust case.
The reason why he stood up at this moment was, firstly, to protect himself, hoping to use the power of everyone to defeat Yang Qingyuan, and secondly, because Yang Qingyuan's act of regicide trampled on the order of the entire court, no matter whether it was a moral person like Song Wenyan.
People who are trying to fish in troubled waters will subconsciously want to punish them!
Moreover, there is an unspoken rule in the court - the law does not punish the public.
For most people, although they are not angry with Yang Qingyuan's actions, they definitely do not have to fight against Yang Qingyuan at the cost of their lives.
While everyone was thinking for a moment, someone stood up. Shen Rumo, the Minister of Civil Affairs, was once a disciple of Qian Muqian, but later he broke with Qian Muqian and Yang Qingyuan in order to win Zhu Zhankun's favor.
Of course, he also got what he wanted, a Bachelor of Jianji Palace, one of the candidates for the future Grand Bachelor.
"Yang Qingyuan, if you want your minister to die, but if he refuses to die, he will be unfaithful. Even if the emperor is at fault, it will not be your turn to kill him. What's more, raising an army to rebel is an unforgivable crime. Also, where are the Grand Scholar Li and Cao Shangshu?!
Isn’t it possible that I suffered from your murderous attack too!?”
Traitors are often hated more than enemies!
So Shen Rumo is also very anxious. He betrayed his mentor for the sake of his position in the cabinet. Once Yang Qingyuan takes power, he will definitely not suffer the consequences!
"I dare to ask, Mr. Shen, where do you say you are disloyal if you want your minister to die?!"
"this……"
Regarding the ability of the junior brother in front of him, Shen Rumo knew very well that the mobile Tongwen Museum was not created by himself.
Seeing that Shen Rumo was speechless, Yang Qingyuan said, "The saying that the king wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die, is just from a book of Jianghu stories. Except for Master Dong, the sages of the Confucian school have never made such an argument."
Yang Qingyuan has the concurrent position of being a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy. Although there are objections among the Hanlin bachelors about his regicide, no one will question his talent and learning.
"Meng Sheng has a saying: If the king treats his ministers like his hands and feet, then his ministers will regard him as his heart and soul; if his ministers regard his ministers as dogs and horses, then his ministers will regard him as a countryman; if his ministers regard his ministers as grass and mustard, then his ministers will regard him as a bandit. Mr. Shen
, as a disciple of Confucianism, but you do not read the books of sages, you are in vain as a scholar!"
The Emperor is not unattainable, there are still people who can rival him morally.
Even the emperor must abide by the words of the sages.
Whether it is Taoist or Confucian.
Yang Qingyuan is citing Mencius' words now just to retaliate against Shen Rumo.
At the same time, it is also to change the topic.
After this sentence, the focus of officials has changed from how to severely punish Yang Qingyuan to whether Yang Qingyuan's regicide is in line with the words of the saint.
Argumentation is part of human nature.
The countless trolls on Blue Star’s network prove this point.
Just as everyone in the team began to discuss, Song Wen Yanzheng raised his right hand to stop the quarrel among the officials.
Then Song Wenyan took three steps forward, looked at Yang Qingyuan squarely, without any fear on his face, and said loudly: "Yang Qingyuan, I know that you are talented and have the talent of heaven, and I am not as good as me! But, for the crime of regicide, even if you say nothing,
There is no way to escape. Now that you have military power, the ministers dare not hold you accountable."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "But right is right! Wrong is wrong. Right and wrong are right and wrong. History will have its own fair judgment!"
Song Wen straightened his clothes and said, "Today, others are afraid of the sword in your hand, but I am not afraid. I am not angry with the emperor for killing a great scholar, but I am also not angry with you for regicide. My civil servants in the Zhou Dynasty are not only those who are wise in protecting themselves, but also greedy.
People who are afraid of death. Although I am not a loyal person, I am willing to follow the example of Duke Yan Wen! You... do it!"
Wenyan of the Song Dynasty was a gentleman in the traditional Confucian sense, and he was also appreciated by Emperor Yanyi and Emperor Taizongwen. This was not only due to his good imperial examination essays, but also to his loyal and upright character.
Although there may be deviations due to lack of experience, no one is born with experience.
He has now seen clearly that Yang Qingyuan holds military power and wants to punish him, but it is just a dream.
The essence of these people who followed him to denounce Yang Qingyuan was that most of them were just fishing in troubled waters, while Chen Jinru and Chen Wenting, who were righteous and righteous, were just trying to take advantage of the situation.
It was really clear that those who were thinking about Da Zhou were the silent bosses in the palace.
What kind of character is Cheng Qingsong from the Metropolitan Procuratorate?!
During the Yanyi case, he knelt down and fainted in front of Hanyuan Hall twice, begging to take back his life.
Qian Muqian is a leader in the literary world, but he still refuses to speak.
This shows that these big shots are all dissatisfied with Zhu Zhankun's unjust killing of Yu Yanyi.
Although he is the number one scholar in a new subject, he has a humble position and cannot be changed with words. He can only die and use his own death to prove Yang Qingyuan's fallacy.
Song Wenyan's words moved all the officials watching in the Hanyuan Palace.
Li Weiguang, the censor of Youdu, said directly, "Yang Hou, the number one scholar of the Song Dynasty, is a gentleman and a man of integrity. You must not harm him."
Of course, Yang Qingyuan would not take action against Song Wenyan. Instead, as he wanted, he unexpectedly pointed at Chen Wenting and said, "This thief is an accomplice who framed the great scholar, capture him!"
Chen Wenting looked confused. No, Song Wen scolded you, what does it have to do with me?!
Yang Qingyuan's push and pull completely resolved the atmosphere of Song Wenyan's death remonstrance.
The unjust murder of Yu Yanyi was the biggest unjust case in the dynasty. The charges against Yu Yanyi and Chongwen Yuan were drawn up by Cao Shouzheng and Chen Wenting, and the punishment was also weighed by them.
Yang Qingyuan now arrests Chen Wenting, but there is no big problem.
However, Yang Qingyuan's move was like a punch to cotton in the excitement of the crowd just now.
What's going on!?
Seeing Yang Qingyuan take away Chen Wenting, the ministers were puzzled and felt sad. Chen Wenting was probably dead. What if Yang Qingyuan wanted to continue to take action?!
Killing the chicken will eventually scare the monkey.
Seeing Yang Qingyuan leading people out of Hanyuan Hall, the ministers didn't know what to do?!
Soon after, Wang Hua entered the Hanyuan Palace. He came to take over Yang Qingyuan's unfinished business.
Yang Qingyuan is now carrying the name of regicide, so it is impossible for the ministers to sit down and have a good talk with him.
But Wang Hua was different. He was the number one scholar in the 13th year of Yong'an. He had once served in Yue and Yangzhou. At this time, he was still a bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion and the general affairs envoy.
That day in front of the imperial city, Zhu Zhankun was vigorously presented with the five major crimes. Who wouldn't respect his character?!
It is naturally the best choice for him to come forward.
Among the ministers, Chen Jinru was still a little confused and reluctantly walked to Qian Muqian's side.
"Master Qian, you are highly respected, this...?!"
Qian Muqian rolled his eyes at Chen Jinru. What was this man thinking? His mind was like a mirror.
"If you want to fight for the country, just go ahead and I won't stop you."
Chen Jinru was silenced by these words. Not only was Yang Qingyuan highly skilled in martial arts, he also held military power. If he had a way to kill him, why would he be jumping up and down here?!
Wang Hua ignored the angry Chen Jinru and saluted Qian Muqian, Cheng Qingsong, Zhu Wuwu, Zhongshan King Xu Zhongshou and other big men.
"Master Qian, Mr. Cheng, the Prince of Changping County, and the King of Zhongshan. The country cannot live without a king for a day. The matter of establishing a new king must be put on the agenda as soon as possible!"
The most urgent task now is to elect an emperor.
These are all old foxes in the political world, except of course the silly Xu Zhongshou. They naturally know that Wang Hua is here to discuss with them as Yang Qingyuan's spokesperson.
"What do Dehui think?!"
Qian Muqian asked, he was Wang Hua's master, and both of them were Yuezhou people or township party members.
"The lower official thinks that it should be decided by the ministers and the empress dowager will issue the decree. As for the recent government affairs, I have to trouble the princes and ministers of various ministries!"