As the adults roared in unison at the top of their lungs, the huge sound echoed in Xiyuan and never subsided for a long time.
The sound waves came to my face.
Shen Lie secretly picked up his ears and frowned slightly. He felt like his head was buzzing and hundreds of flies were flying around his ears.
"Your Majesty, please return to the palace!"
As the adults followed Zhang Juzheng and several important cabinet ministers on the ground, they all began to kowtow. The huge pressure brought by the figures one after another made people breathless.
Okay!
Each of these scholars was more energetic than the other. The noise was overwhelming, and their energy was even more powerful than the rude warriors of Jinyiwei!
This mountain is in the midst of a tsunami.
Shen Lie finally noticed that these adults were clearly prepared.
If the emperor does not move back to the palace today and insists on going his own way despite the advice of his ministers, this matter will never be over!
"coming!"
Shen Lie thought silently in his heart that the legendary forced labor was coming. He had seen such scenes countless times in novels.
But only when I was actually there did I realize how terrifying it is to be forced to have an abortion.
This is a cruel move!
As long as the emperor did not agree, the officials would kneel under the sun and could not get up. If the emperor did not come to court, the officials would come to Xiyuan to look for him.
Now the cabinet and all six offices have been shut down, which is equivalent to a government shutdown, and the power center of the entire empire has completely come to a standstill.
Shen Lie thought this scene looked a bit familiar.
Anyway, the ministers and the emperor are at odds to see who can consume more energy than the other!
If the emperor refuses to bow his head even to death, the ministers are not helpless. When the news spreads, they will immediately be labeled as a coward.
Then the scholars from all over the world will rise up and attack.
Foolish king!
If you were the emperor, would you be afraid?
He looked at several elderly officials with gray hair and skinny bones in the crowd, and then looked up at the sun that was gradually beginning to burn in the sky.
Shen Lie couldn't help but become even more worried. These old gentlemen must be in their sixties or seventies, and they didn't look very strong.
If this person has been exposed to the sun for a long time and suddenly sticks out, or one or two of them kneel to death, the consequences will be disastrous.
Everyone's mouth is golden!
Shen Lie seemed to have seen the spectacular scene of rumors flying in the streets and brothels and restaurants, and the scholars wearing Confucian robes and holding folding fans spitting and scolding the foolish king.
This is the characteristic of Ming Dynasty officialdom.
Sell directly to seek glory, sell fame to gain reputation.
This is the famous saying in history: "Shan Jun sells straightness."
What does that mean?
As a scholar of the Ming Dynasty with great integrity, he would never bow down for three buckets of rice, let alone fear the majesty of the imperial power.
Therefore, many scholars or officials who consider themselves to be pure scholars will deliberately ridicule the emperor, or even curse, in order to express their character as scholars.
This is the so-called Shilin Qingyi.
Shen Lie remembered that he had read a book, and there was a person in the book. During the Wanli period, a scholar named Zou Yuanbiao won the Jinshi.
Who is this person?
This man is the leader of Jiangnan Donglin Party, and together with Gu Xiancheng and Zhao Nanxing, he is known as the Three Lords of Donglin.
Originally, if he won the Jinshi title, he would be successful, and he would have a lifetime of glory and wealth. Emperor Wanli also had the idea of relying on him.
It just so happens that this guy doesn't take the usual path and likes to do something out of the ordinary.
At that time, Zhang Juzheng's father passed away. According to the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng, as the chief minister, should resign and go home to observe mourning for his deceased father for three years.
This is called Dingyou, which is a Zhou ritual.
But at that time, the reform led by Zhang Juzheng's cabinet was at the most critical moment. How could he resign and go home at this time?
So the teenage Emperor Wanli issued an order to seize love.
Winning love means that for the sake of the country, Zhang Juzheng does not have to go home to observe filial piety. The emperor only allows him to wear plain clothes to work, not to drink, and not to participate in various celebrations.
Isn't this a very reasonable thing?
The imperial court could not leave Zhang Juzheng, which any normal person could understand, but Zou Yuanbiao didn't think so. He saw his opportunity to make a name for himself.
So he immediately wrote a memorial to curse the emperor!
The young man Wanli was furious and ordered on the spot to strip Zou Yuanbiao of his title of Jinshi. He also rewarded him with eighty imperial sticks outside the Meridian Gate, and then exiled him to Guizhou.
Five years have passed in the blink of an eye.
Emperor Wanli suddenly remembered this guy, and his anger subsided a little, so he transferred this guy back to the capital from Guizhou and arranged for him to become an official.
But dogs can't change their habit of eating shit. A few days after arriving in the capital, the Donglin leader wrote an impassioned memorial to Emperor Wanli.
This time he criticized Emperor Wanli for living too comfortably and being unable to be pure in heart and desires.
Emperor Wanli was trembling with anger, but he was concerned about the elegance of scholars and the dignity of the court, so he wrote three words on the memorial with his imperial pen.
"knew."
It stands to reason that as an emperor, he has already given a lot of face to a scholar. This guy should know what is good and what is good, but I never expected that Zou Yuanbiao really didn't know how to praise!
This Zou Yuanbiao wrote another memorial to Wanli on the spot, and this time he started scolding Emperor Wanli for talking nonsense, being dishonest, and not correcting his mistakes even if he knew they were wrong!
He also used an eight-character allusion in the memorial.
"If you want others, don't hear it, don't do it if you don't want it."
It is unbearable!
Wanli was furious on the spot and pushed Zou Yuanbiao outside the Meridian Gate and beat him up. Then he sent him to Nanjing for retirement and would never be hired. However, this guy was still complacent after returning to Jiangnan.
As a result, he gained great fame and enjoyed the admiration of scholars all over the world.
Isn't this a disease?
Zou Yuanbiao is not the only one who does this kind of thing, but a large number of scholars do this, just like the smelly and hard stones in the latrine.
These people have no national interests in their eyes, let alone national justice. They only have selfish interests in their eyes, and they regard scolding the emperor as the capital to make themselves famous.
At this moment, Shen Lie looked at the ashen-faced Emperor Wanli in the pavilion, sympathizing with him from the bottom of his heart, and began to understand why he had not been in court for twenty-eight years.
Following Shen Lie's random thoughts.
Under the scorching sun, time passed like this minute by minute, and Xiyuan, in the confrontation between the monarch and his ministers, fell into endless embarrassment.
It was already May weather at this time.
The Dragon Boat Festival has passed.
At noon, the sun in the sky became more and more fierce, making people dizzy due to the sun's rays, but the monarch and his subjects were still stubbornly confronting each other.
The ministers refused to stand up, and Emperor Wanli remained silent.
Not to mention the imperial guards in armor who were all dripping with sweat, Zheng Shuyi's group of concubines and maids were all dripping with sweat.
Even Shen Lie felt dizzy for a while and felt a little unbearable. He couldn't help wiping his sweat and secretly moving his sore calves.
The taste is so sour and refreshing.
Shen Lie secretly looked at Zhu Yijun, whose face was already ashen in the pavilion, and then at Zhang Juzheng, who was kneeling outside the pavilion, and sighed quietly in his heart.
Spend it.
Another hour passed.
When Shen Lie was feeling unbearably thirsty, Zhang Juzheng's hoarse voice came to his ears again: "Your Majesty has refused to repent, so I can only...beg for the bones!"
It seems that the stalemate is no longer going to continue, the chief assistant and emperor's master of the Ming Dynasty has launched another ruthless attack!
As soon as I heard the words begging for bones.
There was an uproar all around.
Begging for bones means resigning to old age and returning to one's hometown. However, these words came from the mouth of Zhang Juzheng, the Grand Master of the Ming Dynasty and his first assistant, which was really shocking!
In an uproar.
I saw the ministers holding down Zhang Juzheng, who was looking sad and angry, and they all burst into tears and began to cry loudly: "No way!"
