Chapter 317: Making a Big Trouble in Fengtian Palace (2)
When the officials in the outer court heard the emperor's laughter, they all looked at Zhu Houzhao. Some eyes were full of resentment.
"Your Majesty, someone in the court openly spoke nonsense and slandered important officials of the imperial court. I don't know what's so funny about this?" Liu Jian said angrily.
Zhu Houzhao realized that he had lost his composure and hurriedly covered his mouth with his hand and coughed twice to cover it up.
"Marquis Jianchang, do you know the consequences of slandering and slandering important officials of the imperial court? Is there any conclusive evidence for what you just said?" Li Dongyang shouted in a deep voice.
"Yes, where is the evidence? Show us the evidence. If there is no evidence, you are slandering and criticizing an important minister in the court. You should be dealt with immediately and severely punished."
"The majestic Marquis of the Ming Dynasty actually roared at the court, treating the emperor and all the officials in the court as nothing. How can he be tolerated when he is so arrogant? He should be captured immediately and severely punished."
All the officials talked and shouted one after another.
For a time, the officials in the outer court shared the same hatred of the enemy, and they were all filled with righteous indignation, their faces turned red, and they kept shouting.
Zhang Yanling responded with a sneer. When the shouting stopped, she said in a deep voice: "I have no evidence. But do I need evidence?"
Li Dongyang shouted in a deep voice: "What do you mean by this?"
Zhang Yanling said coldly: "You can frame me, you can slander my brother for supporting bandits and collaborating with bandits with just one mouth, and you even want to send my brother to the Beizhen Fusi for examination. What evidence are you relying on? Bei Town
Where is Zhenfusi? Everyone in the world knows that you just want to beat me to death and kill my brother Zhang Heling."
Xie Qian shouted angrily: "Zhang Heling has already admitted that Li Heizi is his slave, and Li Heizi is a Shandong bandit. Isn't this obvious?"
Zhang Yanling laughed and said: "Sir, thank you. You keep saying that Li Heizi became a bandit in Shandong. Where is the evidence? Please bring Li Heizi here. How about we all verify it with our own eyes and listen to his confession with our own ears?"
Xie Qian was stunned and speechless, and didn't know how to answer for a while.
"Haha, if my guess is correct, you have never even seen Li Heizi's face. You just connected this matter with my brother based on hearsay. You don't have any evidence. Since you can slander me based on hearsay
My brother is a bandit. I can also suspect Master Min of being a bandit based on hearsay. I also suspect that Liu is a bandit.
Adults can communicate with foreigners. Anyway, just talk, and naturally no evidence is needed. You can do it, and so can I. Is that the reason? You can't be allowed to do this kind of thing, and we are not allowed to do it, right?
Do you need state officials to set fires and not allow people to light lamps? Then you officials in the outer court are too overbearing." Zhang Yanling sneered.
Only then did everyone understand the purpose of Zhang Yanling's random accusations and accusations. Some people were worried about Zhang Yanling, while others secretly praised Zhang Yanling's courage. This method was quite clever. Unless there is conclusive evidence, the outer court will
I'm afraid I can't make a fuss about this matter.
Liu Jian said coldly: "You are using strong words to make excuses. Your Majesty, what the Marquis Jianchang said is completely sophistry. He casually made false accusations against important ministers in the court. Your Majesty should severely punish this matter. Otherwise, how can the court maintain order and rules in the future?"
Can you say that?"
Liu Jian took the approach of forcing the emperor to express his position. He knew that if he continued to quarrel with Zhang Yanling, he might not be able to argue with him. After all, he was not strict enough in theory, and he did catch a loophole. In this case, there was no need to reason with him.
.Just use the emperor’s words to shut up Zhang Yanling.
Zhu Houzhao watched a big show today. He was originally in a bad mood when he went to court today. He was very angry after reading Li Mengyang's statement. Of course he didn't want to punish Liu Jin and others. But Liu Jin and others did do bad things, and
There are witnesses testifying. The Zhang brothers don’t want to be punished either. Although for
His two uncles didn't have much favorable impressions, but it was too far-fetched to say that Zhang Heling was a bandit. But he was worried that the Waiting would chatter endlessly and would not give up. In his heart, he felt that the Waiting gang would not give up.
People are still quite afraid, as if they have always done something wrong in front of them.
So today, he originally wanted to give some symbolic punishment to Liu Jin and others and the Zhang brothers according to the wishes of the outer court. Although he was not happy about doing so, it was not his original intention.
However, after he went to court, he found that this matter became more and more interesting. As soon as Zhang Yanling's mad dog bite words came out, Zhu Houzhao immediately understood Zhang Yanling's thoughts. This uncle of his was indeed a scoundrel, and he used this
The practice of treating a person's body according to his ways.
However, although his reasoning was a bit confusing, the people in the outer court were actually a little flustered. Liu Jian's appearance when he was accused by Zhang Yanling of collaborating with the enemy was so ridiculous. His face was red, his ears were flying, his manners were completely lost, and he was so angry. It's true that evil people still need evil people.
grind.
From this, Zhu Houzhao suddenly understood something in his heart. Zhang Yanling was not afraid of these people in the outer court who looked extremely majestic and spoke great truths. Why should he be afraid of them? They were just acting in panic after being criticized.
Are they losing their composure? What are they afraid of? Who are they afraid of?
With Zhu Houzhao's intelligence, he quickly knew the answer. The people in the outer court were also afraid. He was afraid of them, and they were afraid of him. Why? Because he was the emperor.
Faced with Liu Jian's obvious words of coercion, Zhu Houzhao felt disgusted in his heart. He suddenly wanted to try to contradict the chief assistant bachelor of the cabinet and the minister appointed to him by his father.
"Liu Shoufu, I want to know, you said that Li Heizi, the servant of Hou Ninghou's family, was a bandit. Have you caught Li Heizi?" Zhu Houzhao asked.
"..." Liu Jian was stunned for a moment, then frowned and said, "Your Majesty... the issue now is not whether Li Heizi has been captured or not, but the issue of Marquis Jianchang slandering important officials of the imperial court, telling nonsense, and disrupting the court."
"No, no, no, I don't see it that way. Let's not talk about the Marquis of Jianchang for now. What I'm asking is, you said that the Marquis of Shouning supported bandits and was suspected of collaborating with bandits. So, have you caught Li Heizi? You have to.
Is there evidence?" Zhu Houzhao felt the embarrassment of Liu Jian and others, and became a little excited and became more courageous.
"As far as I know... Li Heizi has not been brought to justice. But some people say they saw Li Heizi becoming a bandit and causing chaos in Yuncheng, Shandong." Liu Jiandao.
Zhu Houzhao smiled and said: "That means that Marquis Jianchang is right? You haven't figured out whether Li Heizi has really become a bandit, so you come to accuse Shouning Marquis of being a bandit? How is that different from Zhang Yanling's behavior just now?
"Although Zhang Yanling's words and deeds just now are inappropriate, is it appropriate for you to do this?"
"..."
There was silence in the palace. Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and other civil servants all stared at Zhu Houzhao who was sitting on the throne. Zhu Houzhao's thin body was huddled in the court uniform, looking extremely ill-fitting and extremely weak and inconspicuous. However, although he looked thin
, but it seems that it cannot be bullied.
"The Marquis of Shouning is a marquis conferred by the late emperor. I think it is very inappropriate to accuse a marquis of being a bandit without any solid evidence. As long as you have conclusive personal and material evidence, that's all. Otherwise, how can you do this so easily?" Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you. If you can do this, how can you blame the Marquis of Jianchang for doing the same? If the wind of casual accusations prevails, what will our Ming Dynasty become like? Have you ever thought about it? "
Zhu Houzhao's tone changed from gentle to more confident. Although his tone was not harsh, it was already accusatory.
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Liu Jian opened his mouth to speak, but Li Dongyang grabbed his arm.
"What the emperor said is absolutely true. This matter was caused by the improper conduct of the ministers. This trend cannot last forever, and this matter should not continue to be discussed. Everything must be supported by evidence, otherwise it will become a false accusation? Your Majesty is wise. I know my mistake." Li Dongyang said solemnly.
There were buzzing sounds in the court, some were shocked, some were annoyed, and some were approving. Li Dongyang knew when enough was enough, and knew how to advance and retreat. If he continued to entangle at this time, he would probably expose the purpose of the outer court even more. However, they all had A common emotion is disappointment.
"There is no need to apologize. I know that you are thinking about the country and the country of Ming Dynasty. You hope to eradicate bad governance and eliminate abuses. This matter ends here. Hou Ninghou and Jianchang Hou, what do you two think?" Zhu Houzhao said .
Zhang Yanling and Zhang Heling hurriedly bowed and said, "Your Majesty is wise, and all I have to do is obey your orders."
Zhu Houzhao nodded and said, "Step back."
Zhang Yanling and Zhang Heling thanked her and stepped down. When Zhang Yanling walked towards the honored train, a group of honored officers looked at him with mixed emotions in their eyes. Some were excited, some were concerned, some were guilty, and some were indifferent.
This group of people may not have thought that Zhang Yanling would dare to directly challenge the group of people in the outer court in the court, and even pointed at Liu Jian's nose and said that he was a collaborator. It was simply unbelievable. I thought that the Zhang brothers would be in bad luck today, but the result was a big surprise. Unexpectedly, Zhang Yanling actually did something that most of them wanted to do but did not dare to do. It was such a pleasure to go tit-for-tat with the officials in the outer court. But it seemed that except Zhang Yanling, no one among the nobles dared to do this.
Zhang Yanling smiled and nodded at them, saluted Xu Guangzuo and Zhang Mao, who looked indifferent, and stood in the train.
"Master Hou, you did a great job. This is how you should deal with them. Master Hou slapped their mouths so hard today that they stared but couldn't do anything. They were so angry that they were so angry." Zhu Lin squeezed to Zhang Yanling's side and whispered.
"The fun is yet to come, what does this mean? Just wait and see the fun." Zhang Yanling whispered.
Zhang Mao, Xu Guangzuo, Xu Yande, Zhang Lun and others on the side heard it clearly and cast surprised glances.