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Chapter 319 The Battle for Rights
Especially Chen Wenliang's party members above the court, represented by Du Yang and others, saw Chen Wenliang's embarrassed appearance, and they all sat down on the ground in despondency like a mourning concubine.

Who would have thought that Li Huan would suddenly do this to them. You must know that before they came to participate in this grand court meeting, they had already discussed that they wanted to impeach Li Huan and put Li Huan to death.

However, Li Huan is still fine now, but they have become prisoners.

Thinking of this, Du Yang suddenly said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, Li Huan is self-respecting with his troops and intends to seek rebellion. His crime is punishable. Your Majesty, please punish Li Huan, the thief."

Du Yang's shout also knocked several of them down to the ground, and the pale-faced officials woke up from the shouting, and all of them immediately looked forward to the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, the traitor Li Huan intends to plot rebellion. Your Majesty, please kill this thief."

At this time, Du Yang and the others seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw.

They have seen Li Huan's ruthless means before, and too many colleagues showed Li Huan's ruthlessness with their tragic end.

If this falls into Li Huan's hands, with the crimes they committed, if Li Huan finds out, no matter who they are, they will not end well.

So their last chance to survive is to get rid of Li Huan, as long as Li Huan is removed, and then find a way to ask the emperor to hand over their case to the third division for trial, at that time, the officials of the third division can naturally turn big things into small ones , they can escape unharmed.

Either Li Huan died and his family was destroyed, or their family was ruined. After thinking about these, several officials headed by Du Yang naturally kowtowed desperately to the emperor and impeached Li Huan.

Even Du Yang raised his head and shouted at Li Dongyang, Yang Tinghe, Liu Yu, and Wang Jia who were standing there: "You are important ministers in the court, how can you just sit back and watch Li Huan and other treacherous people?" To bring disaster to the world, you must eliminate traitors for the country."

Zhu Hou took care of Du Yang and the others, couldn't help but frowned and said, "Come here, take Chen Wenliang and Du Yang down for me."

Following the emperor's order, several hulking imperial city guards came striding forward, stepped forward and directly set up Chen Wenliang and Du Yang and walked away towards the distance.

Du Yang and the others were dragged away like little chickens, but Du Yang and the others kept yelling, shouting to kill the traitor Li Huan.

After a few people were taken away, calm was restored on the large square in front of the Qianqing Palace.

"Hahaha, I'm happy, I'm really happy, what's this called? It's called stealing chickens and not getting a lot of rice. My ass is not clean, and I want to frame my loyal and brave minister of Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Fu stroked his beard and laughed loudly, obviously seeing that Chen Wenliang and others were impeached but put himself in it, not to mention how happy he was.

All the members of the Xungui family looked at Li Huan with admiration in their eyes.

Li Huan really deserved to be favored by the emperor, even if so many officials impeached him, it still could not affect the emperor's favor on Li Huan.

You must know that even if they saw so many officials impeaching Li Huan for rebellion just now, they couldn't help feeling a little bit worried, for fear that the emperor would have a suspicion of Li Huan.

After all, the impeachment of hundreds of officials is also a fact. If the crime of disrespecting the court's decree and supporting the soldiers is true, it will be a capital crime.

The officials in the field, such as the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War, were obviously affected by the capture of Chen Wenliang and others. For a while, no one dared to stand up and continue to impeach Li Huan.

Of course, the most important thing is that Li Huan took down Chen Wenliang, one of the main forces to impeach him, who was the censor of Zuodu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which was completely beyond everyone's expectations.

In an instant, Baiguan seemed to feel the power and oppression from Li Huan again.

It's just that this kind of calm lasted for less than a dozen breaths, and it was broken immediately with the sound of an old voice.

"Veteran Tan Wang, attendant of the Imperial Academy, pays homage to His Majesty."

I saw an old man standing up slowly. Although his body was a little tall and straight, his whole body looked hale and hearty, and he bowed down to the emperor full of spirit.

All the scholars in the Imperial Academy are the best among scholars of the Ming Dynasty. It can be said that non-Jinshi and rank are not eligible to enter the Imperial Academy, and even nine out of ten of the cabinet ministers are from the Imperial Academy.

Therefore, although the Imperial Academy has no substantive rights in the various ministries of the imperial court, it is definitely regarded as a noble minister, and no one dares to underestimate the Hanlin Academy in the Imperial Academy.

After all, most of the important ministers above the court were born in the Hanlin, and they entered the government offices of various ministries from the Hanlin. Therefore, the Hanlin Academy can be said to be a holy place in the minds of the scholars of the Ming Dynasty.

Once a senior high school Jinshi, if he can enter the Hanlin Academy again, then it is almost no surprise that this person's career as an official will be straight up, and even if he enters the Sixth Ministry in the future, it is not empty to enter the cabinet.

Tan Wang, as a student in the Imperial Academy, although he has no hope of official career due to his advanced age, but as one of the few old Imperial Academy members, Tan Wang's accumulated contacts in the Imperial Academy for so many years are absolutely amazing.

It can be said that even Chen Wenliang, the censor of Zuodu, who was taken down by the emperor not long ago, may not be able to compare with him when it comes to connections.

Seeing Tan Wang standing up, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but look serious and said, "Does Tan Qing's family have a play?"

Tan Wang took a deep breath, and said with a serious face: "The old minister impeached the mighty general Li Huan, held his troops in self-respect, and openly violated the court's laws and regulations. I implore your majesty to investigate strictly, so as to calm the hearts of China and foreign countries."

Although it is said that Tan Wang did not impeach Li Huan like Chen Wenliang and others had the intention of treason, but simply coercing troops to respect himself and violating the court's laws and regulations is no different from conspiracy.

Originally seeing that Chen Wenliang failed to impeach Li Huan and was even exposed by Li Huan, and put himself on the line, he was secretly disappointed that he could not join Li Huan.

Seeing Tan Wang, a highly respected old Hanlin, stand up suddenly, many officials were immediately refreshed and looked at Tan Wang expectantly.

Tan Wang's complexion was rosy, his hair was gray, and he was full of energy. He looked at Li Huan without fear and said, "Li Huan, this old man has always been a man of integrity, neither greed nor possession, and law-abiding. If you want to deal with this old man just as you did with Chen Wenliang disappointed."

Lin Pingzhi, who was standing by the side, glanced at Tan Wang, and whispered in Li Huan's ear, "General, according to Jin Yiwei's records, Tan Wang really has no evil deeds, he is just a bookworm. A nerd, otherwise, with his status as a Jinshi and a scholar in the Imperial Academy, it is impossible to waste many years."

There are so many officials in the Ming Dynasty, although there are more officials who have no bottom line, but there are also many people who are not corrupt or take possession, and obey the law.

Obviously, Tan Wang is one of the representatives of the very few officials who can be called clean and honest.

Facing the impeachment of such an official with no evil deeds, as Tan Wang said, he really couldn't deal with it by exposing the other party's crimes.

However, Li Huan seemed quite calm, bowed his hands to Tan Wang and said: "Shidu Tan has a breeze in his sleeves, his integrity is like water, and Li admires it."

Tan Wang, who was stroking his beard, looked at Li Huan with a look of arrogance, and flicked his long sleeves: "Li Huan, are you convicted?"

At this moment, Zhu Houzhao, who had not spoken all the time, suddenly shook his head slightly at Tan Wang and said, "I'm afraid I will disappoint Tan Shidu, Li Qing is really innocent."

As soon as Zhu Houzhao said this, all the officials immediately looked sideways at him, and they looked at Zhu Houzhao who took the initiative to offend Li Huan in astonishment.

Tan Wang couldn't help shaking his bearded hand, took a deep breath and bowed to Zhu Houzhao, saying: "Your Majesty is the king of sages, and he should be a virtuous minister. Excuse people like Li Huan with ulterior motives?"

"Your Majesty, you must have been deceived by the traitor Li Huan!"

An official couldn't help but open his mouth to the emperor, with a heartbroken look seeing that the emperor was deceived by Li Huan.

This official also has gray hair, and like Tan Wang, he is from the Hanlin Academy. Obviously, like Tan Wang, he is also a clean and honest person who is not afraid of Li Huan turning his old background.

Zhu Houzhao glanced at Tan Wang and the others, and even more at the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, then got up from the throne, stood tall, and stood on the imperial steps, half a body taller than all the officials present. bit.

Seeing that Zhu Houzhao cast an apologetic look at Li Huan first, and then slowly said: "My family, I ordered Jin Yiwei and Dongchang to send a secret decree to Li Qing's and Wang Qing's families a month ago, order Taking advantage of the opportunity of great victory, the two selected elite divisions from the army to incorporate into the Beijing camp, and ordered the two to station the army in Yan'an Prefecture, Shaanxi..."

"What, how is this possible!"

"Your Majesty, this decree is an official decree without the Supervisor of Rituals and the Cabinet. How could Your Majesty issue such a decree without discussing the matter with the important officials in the court?"

Immediately, Bingke stood up from the incident, his face was full of anger, and he slammed at the emperor unceremoniously.

Not only the staff of the military department, but almost all of the staff of the six divisions stood up at the moment, including the officials of the six divisions, big and small, who were all spitting on the emperor one by one at the moment.

Although it is said that the six divisions are only subordinate to the seventh rank, each of these officials is an existence that even the cabinet elders dare to criticize, and even the emperor's will dare to refute.

The six divisions together with the thirteen supervisory censors together constitute the supervision system of the Ming Dynasty officialdom, collectively known as Kedao.

Because the Sixth Section has the responsibility to supervise and review the emperor's will and even the official documents of the cabinet, so when they learned that the emperor issued such an important decree without the cabinet and without the supervision and review of the Sixth Section, the officials of the Sixth Section felt greatly shocked Humiliation in general.

Immediately, dozens of officials from the six departments all stood up and complained about the emperor.

In the face of the madness of the officials of the Sixth Division, even Zhu Houzhao, who is the emperor, could only endure it, but after the officials of the Sixth Division made such a fuss, it also had an advantage, that is, it proved that Li Huan did not act without edict. Private support for self-respect.

Although the central decree was not issued through the channels of the cabinet and the supervisor of ceremonies, it was the emperor's decree after all. This alone can free Li Huan from the suspicion of supporting the soldiers.

All the ministers in the cabinet were also frowning slightly at this time, obviously feeling that the authority of the cabinet had been affected because the emperor issued an imperial edict to Li Huan without going through the cabinet.

The imperial decree can be said to be a document with legal effect issued by the emperor after discussing with the court officials and then filed by the court. It can be said that it is recognized by the emperor and the court officials.

The Zhongzhi is obviously a manifestation of the will of the emperor, and it is not circulated through the court's cultural management system, so the court often does not recognize the legal effect of the Zhongzhi.

The central decree and the imperial decree are obviously the respective manifestations of the imperial power and the power of hundreds of officials.

Zhu Houzhao issued the imperial decree to Li Huan, ordering him to recruit elites to enter the capital camp. In the eyes of all officials, because what Li Huan enshrined was the imperial decree, it had no legal effect, but also because the imperial decree represented the will of the emperor. On the contrary, I really can't stop Youyou's mouth.

After all, in the eyes of the people all over the world, the golden words of the emperor are the imperial edicts, and the common people are not as clear about what is called an imperial edict and what is called an imperial edict like people in the officialdom.

Chief Assistant Li Dongyang coughed lightly, and said to the Son of Heaven: "Your Majesty, why don't you discuss such important matters with the ministers? Military and state affairs are not child's play. Could it be that Your Majesty does not trust us and the ministers in the cabinet? If so, the ministers are panicked. Please His Majesty allows the veteran to retire and return to his hometown..."

Not only Li Dongyang, but Yang Tinghe, Wang Jia, and Liu Yu also stood up and asked the emperor to resign.

The cabinet was obviously stimulated. Although it was just a central purpose, the meaning was different.

They can not pursue this central purpose, but they cannot ignore or condone such a central purpose issued by the emperor that is related to the country's major affairs.

If the cabinet does not respond in the slightest to this, it will inevitably increase the power of the emperor, and the emperor will often ignore the cabinet to issue orders, so the existence of the cabinet is meaningless.

Even if they offend the emperor, as cabinet ministers, they must stand up and clearly express their dissatisfaction.

This is directly related to the struggle between the imperial power and the power of the cabinet. As the saying goes, after generations of hard work, the cabinet has finally separated most of the power from the imperial power. If it is lost from their current cabinet If so, I'm afraid they will be cursed by future generations one by one.

The sixth division, the thirteen supervisory censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the cabinet ministers all stood up at this time, and the focus was no longer Li Huan's rebellion, but the emperor's deliberation behind their backs. The potential threat of issuing such an important decree is gone.

If it is said that the Son of Heaven only issued a decree for some insignificant and trivial matters, then they can treat it as invisible and maintain the situation of harmony between the monarch and his ministers, but such an important decree cannot be ignored, and it cannot be ignored. Who knows what will the emperor will issue behind their backs next time?
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