Wang Chengen took a breath and said hesitantly: "Your Majesty, think twice. Once this prince is sealed away, he will not be able to take him back."
Zhu Youjian laughed and said, "Of course I know."
Wang Chengen said: "Your Majesty, please be careful. Li Zhi is now the master of a town and nine provinces, and he has nothing to do with his words. If your Majesty makes him a prince again, he will be really powerful. I'm afraid that Li Zhi will manipulate the power a little bit."
, all civil and military officials in the dynasty will become his minions."
"Your Majesty, if you make the prince a prince, I'm afraid your Majesty won't be able to suppress him."
Zhu Youjian was very unhappy when he heard this.
Frowning, Zhu Youjian shouted: "Wang Chengen, do you want to alienate me from the Prince of Tianjin?"
Wang Chengen was frightened by the emperor's words and panicked. He knelt on the ground with a plop, and Zhang Huang shouted: "The Holy Master clearly shows that even if you give me a hundred courages, I will not dare to alienate the Holy Master and the prince."
Zhu Youjian frowned and looked at Wang Chengen, and said: "The gentry rebels surrounded the capital, and the world was in chaos. Now that Wang Qin and Wang Qin of Tianjin County have made a great contribution to the rescue, how can we not reward him?"
"Li Zhi is a loyal minister!"
"This princely title must be sealed no matter what."
Wang Chengen was lying on the ground, not daring to speak.
Zhu You stroked his beard, thought for a while, and asked, "How did the Prince of Tianjin win this battle?"
Wang Chengen raised his head and said: "I don't know, but the scout who reported the news said that Shi Kefa had been killed and Wu Sangui of the Jiangbei Army had been captured by the Tianjin County King."
Zhu Youjian's face sank when he heard Wu Sangui's name.
"Let the Prince of Tianjin escort Wu Sangui into the capital, Lingchi!"
Wang Chengen quickly agreed: "I understand, I will go and deliver the order right away."
Zhu Youjian stood on the corridor, thought about it again, and said: "Let the Ministry of Rites prepare for the canonization ceremony and prepare for the ceremony of crowning the prince."
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On the third day of March, the sky in Beijing was clear and spring was in full bloom.
The execution ground in front of Caishikou Gate was surrounded by people from the capital who were watching the excitement. The people were beaming with joy as they looked at the condemned prisoners on the execution ground.
Wu Sangui, the commander-in-chief of the Jiangbei Army, and seven generals of the Jiangbei Army were kneeling in the middle of the execution ground, with their bodies tied up.
The people were very happy to see Wu Sangui beheaded. After all, it was the people who benefited from the emperor's reforms. Although the people in the capital were not farmers and did not directly benefit from the policy of equalizing land taxes, the emperor's courts also benefited the people of the capital.
In the past, those officials, gentry and powerful people were like overlords in the capital, bullying and dominating the market. Even if the people were bullied by these people, they had nowhere to complain and could only swallow their anger.
But after the emperor reformed the law and opened courts, the people were surprised to find that someone really made the decision for them. The judges were all very fair, and many of them were even old judges transferred directly from Tianjin. They were completely unfair.
The judiciary will be influenced by the power of officials and powerful people.
The common people in the capital flocked to the court to accuse the officials and powerful officials of all kinds of wrongdoings. The judges handled the cases impartially and with integrity. Over the past few years, fewer and fewer people filed lawsuits, but the various illegal behaviors of the officials and powerful officials were greatly curbed.
.Nowadays, the people in the capital are not afraid of the powerful and powerful who marry beautiful wives, and those who do business are not afraid of the government servants coming to disturb them. They no longer need to show filial piety to officials, big and small.
The citizens of the capital hated the rebels like Wu Sangui who wanted to overthrow the reform.
Wu Sangui knelt on the execution ground, trembling as he looked at the joyful citizens below.
Li Zhi wanted to kill his nine tribes and sent people to various places to arrest his relatives, but the emperor wanted to delay him. Wu Sangui, a general who failed in the rebellion, was being punished the most severely and horribly.
Next to the execution place, there were several witnessing officials sitting on the execution platform, including the Minister of the Ministry of War, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, the Minister of Dali Temple, and the Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. In the middle of these civil servants sitting around, sat the Emperor's confidant, Si
The ceremonial eunuch Bingbi Wang Chengen.
The civil servants looked at Wu Sangui with solemn expressions. At this time, the Jiangbei Army had been defeated, and the gentry's attempt to control the court had become an illusion. Even if the civil servants sympathized with the Jiangbei Army and Wu Sangui, they would never dare to show it.
Now the civil servants are thinking about the situation in the imperial court.
Now that the Jiangbei Army no longer exists, there are only 20,000 new troops left, while Li Zhi has hundreds of thousands of powerful troops, and the 60,000 Huben Army is in the suburbs of Beijing. What will happen next depends on Tianjin County
Wang Lizhi’s thoughts.
These days, especially since the Jiangbei Army besieged the capital, the civil servants have been very disrespectful to the emperor and even threatened him. Will Li Zhi hold these civil servants responsible for disrespect?
In the following court, whether it is the emperor or the highly accomplished master Li Zhi who has the final say, everything is confusing.
Wang Chengen sat on the execution platform and looked at the faces of the civil servants on the left and right, knowing that these civil servants were thinking about the current situation. Now there is only one army in the world that can fight, the Huben Army, and Li Zhi's strength is really outstanding.
The civil servants were all thinking about how to get along with Li Zhi.
Wang Chengen's face didn't change at all, he just sat there waiting for Li Zhi.
After a while, the people far away on the road suddenly shouted, and countless people passed the message: "The Prince of Tianjin is here, please clear the road!"
"The King of Tianjin is coming, make way!"
Originally, the people crowded the road, but seeing Li Zhi's support, the people all crowded to both sides of the road and forced a road more than two meters wide in the middle for Li Zhi to pass.
Li Zhi wore a gorgeous royal guard of honor, wore a four-clawed golden dragon robe, and rode a tall horse toward the execution ground under the protection of his personal guards.
Wherever the guard of honor went, the people were silent, as if making any noise was disrespectful to Li Zhi. Everyone looked quietly at Li Zhi on the horse, paying the most respectful attention to Li Zhixing, who defeated the rebels and saved the emperor.
present.
Seeing that Li Zhi was so supported by the people, the civil servants looked at each other for a while and did not dare to neglect. They all walked down the execution platform.
They walked all the way to the front of the execution ground, and each of them bowed their arms to the ground in the direction of Li Zhi, turning their waists more than a hundred degrees.
Li Zhi rode slowly to the front of the execution ground and jumped off the horse.
"Excuse me!"
As soon as the civil servants stood up straight, they looked at Li Zhi secretly.
Chen Wenyue, Minister of the Ministry of War, looked around, raised his hands and said: "This time the prince defeated the Jiangbei army, the emperor's new law has been preserved, and the emperor's world has been defended. It is gratifying and congratulatory for the prince to have accomplished a world-class feat. We are waiting for you."
The civil servants in the capital intend to arrange a banquet to congratulate the prince on this great achievement."
Hearing Chen Wenyue's words, Li Zhi sneered in his heart.
Treating yourself to a meal is a lie, but testing whether you will kill civil servants is a real thing.
If I refuse this banquet, I am afraid that the civil servants will be in chaos. They may abandon their official position and flee or even assassinate Li Zhi. And if I accept this banquet, I am afraid that the civil servants will slowly move closer to me and rely on me to form a
A new party, a party more powerful than the emperor.
