Signed to Zhu Cihong, Prince of the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 121 Chapter 121, the official memorial is busy with impeachment, and the palace of Cihong sits firmly
The next day.

Chongzhen looked at the pile of memorials in front of him, and was a little stunned.

"These are all for impeachment?"

In front of Chongzhen, Wang Chengen smiled wryly and nodded: "Yes, those speech officials impeached them."

Generally speaking, other memorials would be drafted by the cabinet, and then approved by the supervisor of ceremonies, but this kind of matter was of great importance after all, and of course it had to be sent to Chongzhen.

Chongzhen looked a little ugly, picked up these memorials and read them one by one, and found that all of them were a strong criticism of Zhu Cihong.

It is not in accordance with the rules for the prince to act recklessly, shoot at will in the palace, and obstruct Wu Sangui's execution of the order, which is relatively minor.

Some people simply said that the prince was too murderous and was really a tyrant. He must be severely punished, otherwise the prince should be removed and someone else should be established.

"It's so unreasonable!" Chongzhen slapped these memorials directly on the table, and said very annoyedly: "What are Li Banghua and Shi Bangyao doing? Can't even control the officials under their hands? Go and get them both Come here, I want to see how they explain it to me!"

Soon, Li Banghua, the censor of the left capital, and Shi Bangyao, the censor of the right capital, stood in front of Chongzhen.

Chongzhen said unhappily: "What's going on with you two? Why do I suddenly have a lot of memorials to impeach Xun'er today?"

After hearing these words, the heads of the two Great Ming officials looked at each other and smiled wryly.

Li Banghua said helplessly: "Your Majesty, you also know the role of our speech officials, that is to give a memorial to scold people. In the past few days, everyone has been holding back, because Daming is really in danger, at a moment of life and death, But now... that's different."

Shi Bangyao also said: "Yes, Your Majesty, you have to know that all the officials have to speak out. After so many days, they have already been unable to bear it. Now they just have a chance. Isn't that just going up hard?" Is there a memorial yet? Although the ministers and others have persuaded them, but all these people are united as one...the ministers and others can't help it."

Chongzhen couldn't help being dumb when he heard the words.

Li Banghua said again: "Actually, I have already done a lot of work. If you don't believe me, you can take a look at it. Those memorials with milder words were written by people from our side. Those memorials that can make your majesty angry are probably six. The department is on the other side of the matter."

Chongzhen: "..."

Chongzhen couldn't help stretching out his hand, casually flipped through the memorials in front of him, and found that it was exactly as Li Banghua said.

The Ming Dynasty's official system is actually divided into two parts, one is the Metropolitan Procuratorate under the jurisdiction of the left and right capital censors, which is the unit to which the two ministers standing in front of Chongzhen belong, and the other is the six divisions.

The Six Sections were a department directly under the emperor's jurisdiction in the matter. They were only responsible to the emperor, and at the same time they had the authority to intervene in the affairs of the six ministries. This resulted in them not only having the "virtual power" of impeachment, but also the real power of jurisdiction, and their combat effectiveness was compared to that of the capital. For the procuratorate, it is even higher.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was often seen that the Six Divisions gave memorials to scold the chief assistant and the cabinet elders, and then the cabinet ministers of the Ming Dynasty not only had no way to fight back, but sometimes they had to carefully explain or even resign.

Forget it, even the emperors dare to hate, and they are not afraid of the emperor getting angry.If the emperor really gets angry and demotes a speech official, he will become famous in the whole Ming Dynasty in an instant, and the official class will definitely escort him in the future and let him become a high official.

This is why Emperor Chongzhen was so speechless when he realized that it was the main force in the impeachment of Zhu Cihong in the Six Divisions.

After a moment, Chongzhen waved his hand helplessly and said: "You two go down, remember to restrain the officials under you, don't let me see these memorials again!"

Li Banghua and Shi Bangyao naturally agreed again and again, and then left.

After the two left, Wang Chengen couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty, as far as I know, these two imperial censors didn't just talk about it in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and there are many civil servants who seem to be relatively close to Shangshu Wu Sangui." of."

Chongzhen was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Didn't Wu Sangui want to find out the truth for Lang'er? He probably won't let his people submit a memorial to impeach him."

Wang Chengen: "..."

Wang Chengen felt that His Majesty was too naive!
Wang Chengen hesitated for a moment, and didn't continue to speak. He had been with Chongzhen for so many years and already knew the character of His Majesty the emperor very well.

Wu House.

Wu Sangui looked at the several officials in front of him, and said with a smile on his face: "Everyone can honor the official's residence today, Wu is very grateful."

Several speech officers looked at each other, and one of the oldest speech officers said with a smile: "Your Majesty Wu, you are too polite. It is my honor to be invited by a senior official like your lord. "

The two sides touted their friendship, and then Wu Sangui got straight to the point.

"You all must know that Mr. Wu was ordered to handle the case two days ago. He originally wanted His Royal Highness Fang Gongqian to come and question him. Who knew that His Royal Highness would be furious and shoot around with short-fired guns. Mr. Wu's Several subordinates were injured in order to protect Wu, and Wu almost couldn't meet with you!"

As he said that, Wu Sangui kept sighing, looking scared.

The expressions on the faces of the officials also changed, and it was still the same old official just now who said: "I have heard about this matter, and to tell you the truth from Wu Shangshu, I originally wanted to publish the memorial immediately. I was impeaching this matter, but later I received an invitation from my lord, so I thought to listen to my lord's opinion first."

Wu Sangui said sternly: "Wu just wants to ask you this matter. To tell you the truth, there is a lot of discussion in the government and the opposition, and everyone thinks that Wu is targeting His Royal Highness, but God is sorry, Wu is just If you want to fulfill His Majesty's order, you need to investigate the case clearly.

They are relatively close friends with Wu, if they also made a memorial to impeach the prince, people will think that Wu is really going against the prince.So please look at Wu's face, and don't go to the memorial to impeach the prince, how about it? "

Wu Sangui's words were obviously beyond the expectation of several officials.

The old speaker couldn't help but said: "Master Wu doesn't want me to impeach the prince?"

Wu Sangui said sternly: "That's right. Wu just wants to find out the truth and report it to His Majesty. He doesn't want to engage in any political struggle, let alone fight against the prince to the end."

Several officials were silent for a while, and then the old official said: "Since Mr. Wu has already spoken, then I will not present the memorial for this time."

Wu Sangui was overjoyed, cupped his hands and said, "Thank you guys, Wu will definitely repay you in the future!"

After a while, Wu Sangui personally sent a few officials away and then returned to the study.

After only one person remained, Wu Sangui finally relaxed and showed a smug smile.

"Everyone in this world thinks that I am going to mobilize people to impeach the prince, but I am against it! As long as my people don't impeach the prince, your majesty will definitely think that I am just doing things impartially and not against the prince. To that At that time, if this official presents the facts that are not good for the prince, His Majesty will naturally be greatly shaken. Prince, prince, you just wait carefully!"

Wu Sangui's move is actually called—retreat as advance!

Wu Sangui thought for a while, picked up a pen and wrote a memorial, and sent it to the palace immediately.

The content of the memorial is very simple - the whole incident has come to light, and please Your Majesty to hold a court meeting tomorrow, and the ministers will tell the truth!
Duanben Palace.

Zhu Cihong got off the carriage and yawned a little tiredly.

Today, Zhu Cixiang mainly went to select the prince's personal army. As mentioned before, the people in Beijing were very enthusiastic about joining the prince's personal army. Even many active soldiers and officers came to apply.

After two days of tossing, Zhu Cihong finally finalized the quota of 3000 people.

As soon as he got off the carriage, he saw Fang Gonggan walking up in a hurry, and said: "Your Highness, something is wrong. Your Majesty will break our wings this time. I am afraid that the storm is coming. We must plan ahead and do it early." Just deal with it!"

Zhao Qian waved his hand, and said calmly, "Let's serve the meal first, and talk about it while eating."

A while later, while eating, Zhu Cihong listened to Fang Gongqian's report.

"All the power of Dongchang was imprisoned by the emperor?" Zhu Cihong frowned, looked at Fang Gong and said, "Didn't you prepare some secret power in advance?"

Fang Gongqian was dumbfounded: "Secret power?"

Zhu Cihong shook his head and said: "You, you are already engaged in secret work, don't you know what is called the Three Caves of the Cunning Rabbit? Remember in the future, keep some hole cards out, don't let everyone in the palace see our hole cards, understand ?"

Fang Gong hurriedly said: "What Your Highness said is very true, this slave must learn from the lesson and make persistent efforts!"

Zhu Cihong said: "You can't leave the palace now, so you can inquire about the situation in the palace, right?"

Fang Gong nodded and said: "To tell you the truth, Prince Wang Chengen came over specially this afternoon, saying that the speaker has sent a lot of memorials to His Majesty, and he is impeaching you."

Fang Gongqian originally thought that Zhu Cihong would be furious, but this was not the case.

"The speaker is just a mouthful. Let them scold me well, and I won't lose two pieces of skin."

The so-called existence is reasonable. The system of officials in Ming Dynasty has lasted for more than 200 years. So many strange emperors have not changed the system of officials. Why?

Because the official class needs a channel, a channel that can communicate with the emperor.

Impeachment is a manifestation of this attitude, and the intensity of the impeachment represents the anger of the officials. Once all the officials initiate impeachment, it means that the officials have reached the bottom line and are about to explode. The emperor must find a way to solve this matter.

As His Royal Highness Zhu Cihong, on the one hand, he really has no way to change the current speaker system, which is something only the emperor can do; on the other hand, he really doesn't care.

Fang Gong became impatient: "Your Highness, if this goes on like this, Wu Sangui will only make more progress and make things worse."

Zhu Cihong chuckled: "Intensify? Then I will just kill him at that time."

At this moment, Wang Chengen suddenly appeared again.

"I have seen His Highness the Crown Prince. His Majesty ordered the old slave to come forward to deliver an order, and invite His Highness the Crown Prince to attend the court meeting tomorrow."

Zhu Cilang paused and laughed.

"I didn't expect this Wu Sangui to be so quick-tempered."

It seems that everything will be resolved tomorrow!

　In the past two days, the child’s kindergarten is on holiday, and he has to attend the graduation ceremony, and then he has to register the child for elementary school, check up and other messy things, so there will only be one update today and tomorrow, everyone forgive me.After these two days of busy work, it will start to explode on the 1st of next month (the day after tomorrow), and strive for four or five changes every day. It is estimated that it will explode for five or six days.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)