Chapter 430 Who is the ruler and who is the minister?
On December 28th, in the morning of the Huangji Palace, all the officials were silent.
Yesterday, when the news came out that the emperor would use royal guards to escort Li Zhi's newspaper, the whole court was in an uproar. All the officials in the court were filled with righteous indignation. They all said that in the more than 200 years since the Ming Dynasty was founded, there had never been such a ridiculous thing.
In the past few months, Li Thief has harmed the gentry and has become the enemy of the gentry all over the world. His newspaper comments are enough to hurt people's hearts. If the external troubles had not been settled and the internal troubles were raging, and if the Ming Dynasty did not need Li Thief's soldiers and horses, even the civil servants would
If the emperor is ignored, soldiers and horses from all over the world will be mobilized to conquer Li Zhi. If an army of 200,000 is mobilized to conquer Li Thief, can Li Thief's soldiers and horses be able to withstand it? No matter how powerful Li Thief's troops are, how can one of them defeat ten?
That is to say, under the heavy pressure of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the country needed Li Thief to resist foreign enemies, so he pinched his nose and allowed Li Thief to continue to run rampant in Tianjin.
Because Li Zhi collected taxes from the gentry in Tianjin, he was scolded as a Li thief by scholars all over the world. The dramas "Qingshankou" and "Fanjiazhuang Beheading Yuetuo" that were often performed in teahouses and taverns in the capital in the past few months have been eliminated.
Anyone who dares to act. Who dares to act in these scenes will have his shop smashed by the scholars.
This time, the emperor mobilized Li Zhi to support Jinzhou, but Li Zhi delayed sending troops, and Wu Lianzhang of the DPRK was already attacking. Li Zhi and the emperor bargained orally through the eunuch who passed the order, and the civil servants did not know the details. However, the emperor did not urge him after that.
Li Zhi rushed to Jinzhou, but instead issued an inexplicable imperial edict, allowing Li Zhi to publish newspapers in Shandong.
As soon as this order came out, the public opinion in the capital was like a pot exploding. The gentry all said that Li Zhi was sending the report according to the order, and his power was unstoppable.
The evaluation of the emperor by the civil servants and gentry has also dropped to the lowest point in history. How can the emperor still be the wise emperor who quietly pursued and destroyed Wei Zhongxian? The emperor has become a blind emperor who was blinded and deceived by Li Thief.
In the large and small teahouses in the capital, there were no newspaper readers like those in Tianjin, but there were impassioned scholars. One by one, they stood up and loudly scolded Li for his lack of respect for the court and the emperor's stupidity. His words were so sharp and fierce that the emperor might have heard them.
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A scholar wrote a satire and sent his family to write it with paint on the wall of the main road in the capital. It was called "The immortal wise king sat in the south for fourteen years and watched the flames of war. He was a good general who saved the country. He rushed his troops in December and was busy."
Report from Shandong!" The scholars in the capital gathered around this sarcasm and applauded. The government officials and police officers in the capital stood aside and only dared to follow the applause. No one dared to pursue the scholars who destroyed public property.
This wave of cursing the emperor and Li Zeyi became more and more violent as Li Zeyi delayed sending troops day by day and as Li Zhi was busy suppressing the gentry and publishing newspapers in Shandong. On December 27, as
The emperor issued an edict to send royal guards to guard Li Zhi's newspaper in Shandong, and the uproar reached its peak.
The emperor actually used royal power to protect Li Thief's newspaper and make enemies of the world's scholars.
Scholars no longer scolded the "foolish emperor". The scholars felt that scolding was no longer useful. Public opinion had turned and turned into a discussion of "the emperor is immoral, what about us?" and "the world belongs to the people of the world."
The world is not the world of the monarch!", "The emperor is the enemy of the people of the world, how can the people of the world be foolish and loyal?"
In such an atmosphere, no one would be surprised if the scholars in the capital raised their flags to rebel.
At the court meeting on the 28th, more than a hundred civil servants walked into the Huangji Palace with livid faces. Rather than saying that the officials prostrated themselves in the palace and told the emperor what was going on, it would be better to say that more than a hundred scholars and sages were confronting the emperor in the palace.
The atmosphere in the Supreme Palace was unprecedentedly dull.
The officials of Honglu Temple sounded their whips and sang: "If you have something to do, report to the court; if nothing happens, leave the court!"
But for a long time, no civil servants spoke. The civil servants stood there with toothpastes in their hands, all silent, but they seemed ready to explode at any time.
Zhu Youjian didn't know whether to announce his resignation or continue to wait for the civil servants to explode. He was a little nervous for a moment.
After a long time, Xu Siqing, the Minister of Rites, came out. He walked into the hall, his face was stiff, and he suddenly said loudly: "Xu Siqing has three things you don't understand?"
When Emperor Zhu Youjian saw that someone finally spoke, he ignored Xu Siqing's rudeness and said politely: "What's the matter?"
Xu Siqing said loudly: "There are three things I don't know! First, why is it that the mainstay of the Ming Dynasty can't help Jinzhou when one hundred thousand Dongnu besieged the city? The emperor used to say that Li Zhi was the mainstay when he saw people. Now there is a police in Jinzhou, and the emperor issued an edict to mobilize troops.
Li Zhi is the mainstay, why can't he save him or not?"
After hearing this, Zhu Youjian nodded.
As Li Zhi was the commander-in-chief of Tianjin and the uncle of Xingguo, it was unjustifiable that he did not send troops to reinforce Jinzhou under the call of the imperial court. Zhu Youjian also knew that public opinion was fierce, so Zhu Youjian naturally could not favor Li Zhi in this matter.
"Uncle Xing Guo's delay in sending troops to rescue Jinzhou this time is indeed out of order. I will issue a strict reprimand tomorrow. It is expected that not long after, Uncle Xing Guo's army will be sent to Ningyuan."
Hearing the emperor's explanation, Xu Siqing snorted coldly, and then said: "I don't know why the emperor actually issued an imperial edict to Li Zhi to kill people in Shandong? Li Zhi, as a soldier in the Tianjin army, secretly published a newspaper to attack the world's scholars. Not only that.
If you want to send a report in Tianjin, you have to send a report in Shandong. For the gentry who oppose his extreme remarks, I will raise a butcher's knife."
"At this time of the life-and-death battle in Jinzhou, Li Zhi's 20,000 troops did not go to western Liaoning, but instead stationed in Shandong to massacre the scholars. How unreasonable? And all this was actually done in accordance with the order. I can't understand why."
When Zhu Youjian heard this, he fell silent.
The resistance of the scholars to Li Zhi's newspaper has reached the level of unity. Zhu Youjian issued an edict to allow Li Zhi to run a newspaper and station troops in Shandong, which was on the opposite side of the world's scholars. This matter will arouse the world's scholars.
Zhu Youjian had already realized his disgust.
Zhu Youjian thought for a while and said: "I have ordered Uncle Xing Guo to pay attention to the wording of newspapers and stop attacking the gentry..."
Before Zhu Youjian finished speaking, Xu Siqing said loudly: "Three of the ministers are unclear. The emperor summoned Li Zhi, but Li Zhi did not respond. Li Zhi massacred the scholars in Shandong, and the emperor actually sent a vote to 'send a thousand brocade guards to assist'."
Since ancient times, it has only been the rule that the king acts and the ministers help. I have never heard of a minister raising a butcher knife to kill a scholar, and the king stepping forward to help in panic."
"I don't know. In this Ming Dynasty, which one is the king? Which one is the minister? One day, should we go to Tianjin together and bow down at the feet of Li Zhi with the long live the mountain?"
Hearing this, the ranks of civil servants suddenly burst into applause. The court room, which was supposed to be quiet, lost order for a moment.
A group of civil servants stood out holding dental plaques.
"I, He Shishou, second the proposal. I would like to ask Your Majesty and Li Zhi, which one is the minister and which one is the king?"
