It has to be said that Zhu Houzhao's outburst on the spot really shocked the hearts of all the officials. In fact, over the years, Zhu Houzhao has given people an impression of being too kind. Even though he had thunderous means, he was covered up by the cabinet elders.
And the impression Zhu Houzhao left on the world naturally became that of a sage monarch who is rare to see throughout the ages.
All the civil and military officials who were kneeling on the ground lowered their heads and did not dare to look up at Zhu Houzhao. Some people were even trembling, especially officials like Zhao Xiong and others who had previously planned to attack Chu Yi.
The shock is naturally conceivable.
"This...how is this possible? How could the emperor have such trust in the Chu thief!"
"It's fake, it must be fake. It's impossible for the emperor to be wary of Chu thieves."
Zhao Xiong and others who were kneeling on the ground were furiously denying the scene they saw, constantly encouraging themselves and strengthening their confidence.
I don’t know how much time passed, but Zhu Houzhao flicked his sleeves coldly and shouted in a deep voice: "Retreat from the court!"
I don't know why, but many officials felt like they breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Zhu Houzhao's decree.
All the civil and military officers dispersed. It is conceivable that these civil and military officers must be filled with emotion. This scene in the court must have given many officials an extremely eye-catching signal, that is, Zhu Houzhao's continued trust in Chu Yi, and the relationship between the monarch and his ministers.
It seems that it is not as simple as they imagined.
As the cabinet ministers, Wang Yangming, Yang Yiqing, Chen Ding and others finally walked out of the hall. At this time, those officials had already left Q7788. It can be said that these officials who finally walked out were all in high positions.
people.
Nine out of ten of these officials were officials who had experienced Chu Yi's era. It was these officials who had experienced the era when Chu Yi single-handedly dominated the world, so they could understand why Zhu Houzhao reacted like that just now.
He was so fierce that he even ordered the two officials who dared to stand up to alienate his relationship with Chu Yi to be beaten to death.
After all, beating an official to death in court is detrimental to the reputation of any emperor, especially a monarch with a generous nature like Zhu Houzhao. Even if he wants to kill someone, he will rarely do it without going through three rounds of investigation.
After the Ministry of Punishment, officials were executed directly.
Stroking his beard, Wang Yangming sneered and said: "It seems that some people are really evil-minded!"
Yang Yiqing smiled slightly when he heard the words and said: "Actually, it's not surprising if you think about this kind of thing happening in the court. Don't forget that our Highness King Wu killed everyone in the past and created many potential enemies for himself. If
If King Wu was still around these years, he would naturally be able to intimidate people with his power. But after King Wu has been away from the court for so many years, many new officials naturally do not know how powerful His Highness is.
If you encourage others, it’s only normal that some people will jump out.”
Chen Ding sighed slightly and said: "Your Majesty seems to be really angry. I don't know how many people will be implicated this time. I just hope that fewer people will be implicated."
Although Chen Ding is pedantic, he is loyal to the imperial court and Zhu Houzhao. What he is worried about is that once this matter expands, who knows how many officials will be implicated, which will eventually affect the stability of the Ming Dynasty.
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Regarding Chen Ding, all the elders know very well. It is not unusual for Chen Ding to say such words. Wang Yangming smiled slightly at Chen Ding and said: "There is no need to worry, Mr. Chen Ding, whether it is His Majesty
Neither His Highness King Wu is the kind of person who kills indiscriminately, but this time His Majesty is so angry that the turmoil in the court is unavoidable. I only hope that there are not so many officials involved this time."
When Zhao Xiong and others walked out of the main hall and bathed in the sunshine, each of them seemed to have walked away from the gate of hell.
These officials who had ulterior motives only felt that they had turned around in front of the gate of hell, and their backs were wet. It was because the power displayed by Zhu Houzhao was too strong. In addition, they had ulterior motives in their hearts and did not collapse on the spot.
His willpower is amazing.
Zhao Xiong and others, who were once again bathed in the sunshine, looked at each other, not daring to leave in a hurry without showing any signs of strangeness.
The emperor has ordered Jin Yiwei and Dongchang to investigate the matter thoroughly. Zhao Xiong and others are not fools. They are sure that there are people from Jinyiwei and even Dongchang secretly observing the actions of any official.
If there is even the slightest abnormality, it may arouse the suspicion of Dongchang and Jinyiwei. They themselves are suspicious. If they are targeted by Dongchang and Jinyiwei, Xu Fu will be defeated by then.
Are they following in the footsteps of Chen Kai and others?
After all the officials left, apart from Wang Zheng and several other chamberlains, Zhu Houzhao and Chu Yi were the only ones left in the hall.
At this moment, Zhu Houzhao said to Chu Yi: "Daban, don't worry, I will not let anyone go this time. I will definitely sweep away these thieves who dare to target Daban, have ulterior motives and sinister intentions, and want to alienate the relationship between you and me.
And Kong, please give me an explanation."
Seeing Zhu Houzhao's excited look, Chu Yi stood up slowly, walked to Zhu Houzhao, looked Zhu Houzhao up and down, sighed softly and said: "Your Majesty has matured, even without Chu, your Majesty is still a sage."
Lord..."
When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he felt happy at first, and then became inexplicably panicked. He looked at Chu Yi and said, "Daban, you...you don't want to leave me."
When I think that Chu Yi took advantage of the opportunity to go to Nanyang and left quietly, it took me more than ten years to find Chu Yi again.
Although Zhu Houzhao had never asked Chu Yi about Chu Yi's ability to enter other worlds, he knew it well. Now Chu Yi's words naturally made Zhu Houzhao feel a little panicked. What if Chu Yi didn't do it again?
If he said goodbye, he couldn't guarantee that he still had the ability to lead Daming to find Chu Yi.
Even in excitement, Zhu Houzhao reached out and grabbed Chu Yi. His expression gave people the feeling that he was afraid that Chu Yi would disappear without a trace in front of him if he let go.
Chu Yi, who was slightly stunned by Zhu Houzhao's reaction, also reacted at this moment. It was obvious that his words caused Zhu Houzhao to misunderstand.
With a slight cough, Chu Yi smiled slightly at Zhu Houzhao and said: "Your Majesty, you are wrong. All Chu's relatives are here. Even if you want to leave, can you say that you can still abandon your relatives?"
After hearing what Chu Yi said, Zhu Houzhao was stunned for a moment and thought about it. It seemed that just as Chu Yi said, based on his understanding of Chu Yi, it was obviously impossible for Chu Yi to abandon Chu Ying and Chu Ning and leave alone.
After thinking about this, Zhu Houzhao felt a little more at ease. He looked at Chu Yi and said, "Big companion, I hope that if you leave in the future, you must inform me. Otherwise, I will feel uneasy!"
Chu Yi saw Zhu Houzhao looking at him with an eager look, and nodded towards Zhu Houzhao.
Zhu Houzhao was overjoyed and said to Chu Yi: "Please accompany me to have a drink, and wait with me for news about Dongchang and Jinyiwei."
While Zhu Houzhao, Chu Yi and others were drinking in the palace, Dongchang and Jinyiwei, who had received the emperor's order, acted as quickly as possible.
Whether it is Dongchang or Jinyiwei, it can be said that they are completely in the hands of Zhu Houzhao. It is because of Dongchang and Jinyiwei as his eyes and ears that Zhu Houzhao can perfectly control the court.
Cao Shaoqin and Yue Buqun, who have now become the rulers of Dongchang and Jinyiwei, were both men brought out by Chu Yi.
The two of them are absolutely loyal and respectful to Chu Yi, but now someone dares to try to challenge Chu Yi in the court. Not to mention that the emperor doesn't agree, even they don't agree.
Without the emperor's will, they would not be able to attack these people. But now that they have the emperor's will, one can imagine what kind of amazing power Jinyiwei and Dongchang will unleash with the emperor's will in hand.
At this moment, where the Dongchang Yamen is, Cao Shaoqin is sitting there dressed in fine clothes. A figure is also sitting beside him. It is Yang Zhi who ascended with Chu Yi.
Yang Zhi was originally in charge of Dongchang affairs under Chu Yi. Now he was naturally assigned to Dongchang. He was also assigned to Dongchang together with him. Lin Chong, Xu Ning and others also enriched Dongchang's strength.
With several powerful celestial beings entering the East Factory, the strength of the top management of the East Factory suddenly increased a lot. At this time, Cao Shaoqin was looking at Yang Zhi with a stern face. Lin Chong said to them: "Several people, His Majesty's decree orders me to wait.
Dig out all the accomplices of Xu Fu, Chen Kai and others, and do not let anyone go."
Maybe Yang Zhi and the others don't recognize Zhu Houzhao too highly, but they are loyal to Chu Yi. Now that they know that someone dares to target Chu Yi, Yang Zhi and the others naturally don't agree.
I heard Yang Zhi sneer and say: "This is easy, then Xu Fu, Chen Kai cannot dare to stand up against His Highness King Wu alone, there must be people behind him, and it is not difficult to dig out these people.
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While he was talking, he saw a stall owner running over with a thick stack of files and said to Cao Shaoqin: "Mr. Factory, regarding Xu Fu, Chen Kai's information has been transferred."
Cao Shaoqin stretched out his hand and grabbed it, and saw a thick pile of case books in front of him. He opened the case book, which contained detailed information records about Xu Fu and Chen Kai.
The level of detail in this case was probably that even Xu Fu, Chen Kai and others would be shocked if they saw it with their own eyes.
With the deliberate support and strengthening of Chu Yi and Zhu Houzhao, the power of Dongchang and Jinyiwei can be said to have spread all over the world, and their strength is extremely astonishing.
Even though Zhu Houzhao is a benevolent king, it is the duty of Dongchang and Jinyiwei to monitor the world. It's just that Dongchang and Jinyiwei are too scary. They are involved in many secrets of all the officials in the world, although they dare not
He knew everything, but he also found out many secret things.
Just like Xu Fusu had close contacts with Zhao Xiong and other officials in the past, it is recorded in this file that every official has his own circle of contacts, but this is normal, even if he is responsible for supervising hundreds of officials
For those lurking informants, the spies will not suspect anything because of this, and will only record them truthfully.
In normal times, these cases are naturally of little use. They are piled up in the secret warehouses of Dongchang or Jinyiwei to eat dust. Or, decades later, the people involved in the cases pass away and the cases lose their intelligence value.
Destroyed centrally.
But once something happens, this usually inconspicuous information will be of great use after being extracted from the case.
Cao Shaoqin glanced at the people who had close contact with Chen Kai and Xu Fu recorded in the file, and the vermilion brush in his hand kept sketching on the file.
After scanning the file, Cao Shaoqin handed it to Yang Zhidao who was standing aside: "Master Yang, you might as well take a look."
Yang Zhi took the file and glanced at the names circled by Cao Shaoqin on the file. He took a quick look and found that there were nearly a hundred people in them.
A cold light flashed in his eyes, Yang Zhi sneered and said: "I would rather kill a thousand people by mistake than miss one, and bring them to interrogation first before talking about it."
Everyone knows that this incident has excited the emperor, and they don’t know how many people will lose their heads because of this. Therefore, Yang Zhi, Cao Shaoqin and the others know very well that what they have to do is to defeat Xu Fu, Chen Kai and the others as quickly as possible.
to dig out his accomplices, even though many people may suffer unreasonable disasters in the process.
Even Lin Chong, Xu Ning and the others did not speak to persuade them at the moment. Perhaps if other people were involved, they would not arrest suspicious people so much. However, who made this incident directly involve Chu Yi.
It can be said that their foundation in the Ming Dynasty is Chu Yi. If someone wants to target Chu Yi, they want to target them. Otherwise, Yang Zhi, Lin Chong, and Xu Ning would not be so angry.
"Arrest people!"
As Cao Shaoqin, Yang Zhi and others unified their opinions, it also meant that the whole Dongchang team had unified their opinions. With an order, teams of Dongchang fans rushed out of the East Factory on horseback.
Followed by stalls of different sizes rushing towards the mansions everywhere.
At the same time that Dongchang took action, Jin Yiwei also started taking action. Whether it was Yue Buqun or Fang La who went to Jin Yiwei to increase Jin Yiwei's strength, Fang Jie and others also started action.
Just over an hour later, those officials who had just returned home from the imperial meeting discovered groups of Jin Yiwei and Dongchang fans running around on the long street.
The doors of the mansions were knocked open in the panic among the mansions, and the ferocious Dongchang Fanzi or Jinyiwei rushed into the mansion like wolves and tigers to take away people.
Zhao Xiong hurriedly returned to his mansion, his face was pale, and his forehead was covered with fine cold sweat.
In the study room, Zhao Xiong looked a little panicked. It took him a while to calm down. Standing in front of the desk, Zhao Xiong pushed the desk. He heard a squeaking sound and saw the floor sliding open to reveal a
At the entrance of the cave, Zhao Xiong walked into the entrance and found a secret room that was not too big or too small.
Inside the secret room is a place that looks like an ancestral hall. In this ancestral hall, tablets are enshrined one after another.
Zhao Xiong knelt down in front of the incense table with a bang, looked at the memorial tablet in the center, and said with infinite hatred in his eyes: "My grandfather is above me, but my grandson is incompetent and failed to bring down the traitor Chu Yi. May my grandfather be in heaven."
, bless my grandson to survive this calamity safely..."
Zhao Xiong's grandfather was an official who was killed by Chu Yi in the past. To be precise, it should be that Dongchang found evidence of corruption and bribery during his tenure, so he was dismissed from office and beheaded.
Zhao Xiong, who was born in a family of officials, was instilled in him the idea of hatred for Chu Yi by his father who demoted him to a commoner since he was a child. Later, by chance, Zhao Xiong entered the court through his own efforts and gradually made friends with a group of people like him.
He is generally a person who hates Chu Yi.
I'm afraid even Chu Yi and Zhu Houzhao could not have imagined that for such a long time, there would be someone who was probably Chu Yi and Zhu Houzhao. It was impossible for them to imagine that for such a long time, there would be someone who was probably Chu Yi and Zhu Houzhao.
To think that after such a long time, there are still people
