Gu Dayong, who looked like a madman, had his hair disheveled, and said in a sharp voice with an extremely unwilling look: "I want to prove to your majesty that I am better than you. What you can do for your majesty, I, Gu Dayong, can do the same..."
Chu Yi looked at Gu Dayong with pity, and sighed softly: "Yes, you are indeed better than Chu. Chu will never be able to covet millions of taels of gold and silver, or harm hundreds of thousands of people.
If you want to prove to His Majesty that you are better than Chu in these aspects, Chu really has nothing to say."
Gu Dayong, who was yelling at Chu Yi, suddenly felt as if someone had strangled his neck when he heard the words. He breathed heavily, pointed at Chu Yi, his face turned pale, and finally sat down on the thatch pile.
Chu Yi really came here to see his old friend. If he really came to mock Gu Dayong, Chu Yi really didn't have the intention.
Looking at Gu Dayong's devastated look, Chu Yi said: "You know what you are doing. Chu admitted that he had deliberately plotted against you, but he did not directly target you. In the end, it was all nothing."
It's your greed that's causing trouble, and it's all your own fault!"
Gu Dayong laughed miserably, raised his head and looked at Chu Yi and said, "What will your Majesty do to me?"
Chu Yi shook his head slightly and said: "Your Majesty will only hand you over to the three departments for trial. As for how your Majesty will deal with you in the end, even Chu doesn't know."
Hearing what Chu Yi said, Gu Dayong nodded as if he had expected it and said: "Your Majesty is very affectionate. If you really want him to issue an order, Your Majesty will definitely not be able to do it. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter...
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Gu Da murmured in his mouth, lowered his head slightly and ignored Chu Yi.
Chu Yi glanced at Gu Dayong, turned and left, and at the same time said to Qian Ning: "Take good care of Gu Dayong!"
Above the court, Zhu Houzhao, who was originally in a low mood because of Gu Dayong, was sitting on the dragon chair and looking at the civil and military officials below.
First, the chief minister of the cabinet, Jiao Fang, was assassinated, and then Gu Dayong was taken down by his decree. It can be said that the two minds of the civil and military officials were paralyzed in this way.
Whether they are the Chief Assistant of the Cabinet or the Chief of Ceremonies, they are definitely the two leading figures in the court, one inside and one outside.
The news that Gu Dayong was sent to prison has spread. It can be said that no one knows about it by now.
There seemed to be some silence in the court, whether it was the officials who were previously attached to Chu Yi, or the officials who were attached to Gu Dayong after Gu Dayong came to power, or even those who had ambiguous attitudes and wandered between several factions.
, I don’t even dare to take the initiative to speak now.
Zhu Houzhao had a sullen face. Before everyone could figure out Zhu Houzhao's attitude, few people dared to take the initiative to provoke the emperor.
The chief minister of the cabinet and the chief minister of rituals have had accidents one after another. It would be strange if the emperor was in a good mood.
Zhu Houzhao glanced at a chamberlain beside him, and heard the chamberlain say sharply: "If you have something to report, leave the court if nothing happens!"
Apparently Zhu Houzhao was preparing to discuss something.
The officials below looked at each other, but no one took the initiative to stand up.
Among the ranks of civil and military officials, a figure slowly walked out. Who could it be if it wasn't Yang Yiqing, the Minister of War?
Yang Yiqing saluted the emperor with a serious look on his face and said: "Your Majesty, there is an urgent report eight hundred miles outside the pass. The people on the border have rebelled one after another. Thirteen new guard posts have been built. Soldiers in ten have mutinied. The Jurchen tribe of the three guards in Jianzhou has revolted.
After looting the place, Governor Zheng Daguan begged the imperial court to send troops to exterminate the bandits and quell the unrest outside the customs!"
Yang Yiqing is the Minister of the Ministry of War, so the 800-mile emergency has to go through the Ministry of War. Although the urgent letter was sent to the palace before the emperor's case, it still left a document at the Ministry of War, so Yang Yiqing knew about the urgent military report outside the customs.
Not surprising.
Even not long ago, Zhu Houzhao urgently summoned Yang Yiqing to the palace, where the emperor and his ministers discussed the matter together.
The monarch and his ministers looked at each other, but at this moment, except for a few civil and military officials in the dynasty who knew the news, the other officials did not know anything about it.
After Yang Yiqing finished speaking, he saw several white-haired officials with a bit of red light on their faces. One of them stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, I am impeaching cabinet ministers such as Jiao Fang, Wang Hua, Wang Shouren, Yang Yiqing and others.
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This imperial censor was really bold and actually impeached several cabinet ministers directly, but many officials now looked eager to try.
Zhu Houzhao, who noticed this, couldn't help but sigh in his heart. After all, he had been sitting in the court for several years. Zhu Houzhao was well aware of the factions among the civil and military officials.
These officials who jumped out are almost all people with stubborn ideas. Although these people are not the mainstream in the court, they are still very influential. These people are old-fashioned and refuse any changes. They always use the ancestral system to
Obstructed the implementation of many policies of the imperial court.
Just like the commercial tax, mining tax, etc. that Chu Yi had previously promoted, this group of officials were the main force of opposition from the imperial court. Similarly, Chu Yi's opening up the sea, building warships, and training the navy also met with crazy opposition and impeachment from these officials.
It was a pity that the emperor had strong support, and Chu Yi had gathered a large number of officials around him, forming a new interest group, so these new policies could be implemented without purging the court.
Relocating the people to the borders, setting up additional military posts outside the Pass, and completely controlling the areas outside the Pass under the management of the imperial court, these policies are beneficial to both the country and the people.
However, in the eyes of this group of officials, this is a violation of the ancestral system, an act of militarism, and a move that harms the country and the people. It can be said that since the cabinet implemented this policy, officials have written letters of impeachment almost every day.
It's a pity that this was decided by the emperor himself, with the full support of the cabinet and the Supervisor of Ceremonies. This group of officials, who had no power at all in the court, could only write letters constantly to express their dissatisfaction.
If the actual implementation of the relocation of people goes smoothly, these officials will naturally not be able to cause any trouble. However, such a big change has occurred outside the customs. The first thing these officials thought of was not how to deal with the matter, but a question.
They were so excited that they felt as if they had been injected with chicken blood.
This is a great opportunity to bring down several cabinet bosses. If they can bring down Wang Shouren, Yang Yiqing, Wang Hua and other cabinet bosses, this will definitely be a great victory for them.
As one of the censors opened his mouth, a dozen officials immediately jumped out and frantically impeached Yang Yiqing, Wang Shouren and others, regardless of the emperor's gloomy face.
Suddenly more than a dozen officials spoke at once, causing chaos in the court as if there was a riot.
"That's enough..."
Hearing a loud shout, Zhu Houzhao suddenly stood up and looked down at the officials who were restrained by him with a gloomy face.
Especially the dozen or so white-haired veterans who claimed to have seniority and were censors were looking at Zhu Houzhao with dull expressions, as if they did not expect that the emperor who usually treated them with great courtesy would actually
Will scold them suddenly.
"Your Majesty, how could you be so rude..."
"As the emperor, I should set an example at all times and set an example for the world. How can I be like this..."
Zhu Houzhao frowned and looked towards his subordinates subconsciously. Even as an emperor, it would be difficult for him to resist these old stubborns. After all, he couldn't possibly order these old ministers to be dragged out and beaten to death one by one.
In the past, with Chu Yi in charge, these old stubborns were afraid of Chu Yi, and naturally few people in the court would jump out to cause trouble for him. Later, it was Gu Dayong. Although Gu Dayong said that he could not control these old stubborns, he still
Gu Dayong was so thick-skinned that he could even scold these officials in the court.
Therefore, Zhu Houzhao did not have to face these old stubborns directly, because whenever these old stubborns jumped out, either Jiao Fang, Chu Yi, or Gu Dayong would deal with them without him opening his mouth.
But now, Jiao Fang was injured, Chu Yi resigned, and Gu Dayong was imprisoned again, leaving no one to suppress these old stubborns.
Seeing these old stubborns becoming interested one by one, pointing at Zhu Houzhao as if they were lecturing his grandson, Wang Hua and Yang Yiqing couldn't help but frowned as they stood there.
At this time, one of the nobles, Wu Xun, roared and cursed at an old censor with a ferocious look: "Bold Wang Yan, are you going to rebel? Have you ever asked me?"
As the commander of the Four Guards of Tengxiang, Han Kun is definitely at the forefront among the newly promoted nobles. At this moment, he stands in front of the old censor Wang Yan with an angry look like a lion, only to see the old censor Wang.
Yan was so frightened that he took two steps back, his body went limp, and he sat down on the ground.
