Daming heir

Chapter 417
At this moment, Zhai Shan, Minister of the Ministry of Officials of the Ming Dynasty, was angry, helpless, and full of grief and indignation.

With just a cup of tea, several fire bubbles rose from the corners of his mouth.

Then he didn't bother to pay attention to these physical pains. After overturning the case in the official office, he led the people in the yamen to the Meridian Gate.

"The hall, the hall."

"Slow down..."

The little official in the yamen chased after him, waving his hands and shouting loudly.

But Zhai Shan was full of impatience: "If you don't go, the court will be over!"

The clerk held a boot in his hand, and a thick coat under his arm, which seemed to be wrapped with something: "Minister, you haven't put on your boots yet."

Zhai Shan was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that he only felt a burst of coldness on the sole of one foot.

He snatched the boots that were sent over, held them in both hands, bent over and pouted his buttocks to stuff his feet inside.

The little official said at the side: "The little one is worried about what happened today. In order to avoid the department hall staying there, I should also take this thick coat. The little one also stuffed a cotton pad inside. Put it on the ground and hide it with a robe."

Zhai Shan put on his boots, stuffed his trousers, got up and looked sideways at the little official, but he didn't say much, he just said, "Follow me to the Meridian Gate, and we'll see the situation before we talk."

Almost at the same moment, and the matter was divided into front and back, the bigwigs in the court rushed to the palace again.

But at the core of the entire scene where all the officials knelt and forced the palace, the inside of the palace behind the Meridian Gate seemed very peaceful.

Wearing golden armor, the big Han generals who want to compare with the heavenly soldiers are mighty and solemn.

The women in the palace wear crony belts, and under the leadership of the female officials, they walk lotus under the glazed palace, and from time to time they imagine what the women outside the palace walls will be like.

On the contrary, those rootless servants, without outside thoughts, are just collecting their sons and looking for food, climbing up the 24 yamen, climbing on top of other people's heads and standing and shitting.

Inside and outside the Meridian Gate, there are completely two appearances.

Qianqing Palace.

From above the steps in front of the hall, one can pass through the palace gate at a glance and look at the three halls ahead.

At this moment, there is still dew outside the temple, and the sunlight that floats out of the ridgeline has not yet spread the temperature to the earth.

In front of the palace, the founding emperor of Ming Dynasty, Hongwu Emperor, was only in single clothes, wearing the coarse linen clothes that had not been discarded all the year round and was full of patches, standing on the floor tiles with his hands on his hips, looking calmly at the Jingshen Hall outside the gate of Qianqing Palace.

Sun Gou'er took a robe from the bedroom and came out, and came behind Zhu Yuanzhang: "Your Majesty, before the morning dew falls, let's add some clothes."

"You dog slave, do you think I'm getting old?"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked back sideways, staring at Sun Gou'er coldly, with a gloomy tone.

Sun Gou'er's heart trembled, and he immediately knelt down with his robe rolled up.

The emperor would only call himself the emperor except when he was angry or encountered important events in the country. Otherwise, it has always been the local dialect of Fengyang, the central capital.

But what scares Sun Gou'er even more is that the emperor is asking him if he feels old.

Sun Gou'er slammed his forehead on the ground with a bang, "Your servant is guilty, and your servant deserves to die. Your majesty has the spirit of dragon and horse, and the holy body is healthy, so he will live forever."

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes softened, and he waved his hands with a cold snort: "Get up, I'm not scolding you."

But Sun Gou'er couldn't stand it, and knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty is angry, and it is all the fault of the servants. It is the servants who did not do well, and the servants should be punished."

"Yeah, even you dog slave knows that if you offend me, you will be punished." Zhu Yuanzhang said half a sentence, but looked outside the palace gate again.

Sun Gou'er didn't dare to say anything.

The emperor was obviously talking about the civil servants outside the Meridian Gate at the moment who were kneeling silently in the palace.And when he was scolded, it was just that Chi Yu was hurt by those eggless civil servants.

After a while, Sun Gou'er quietly raised his head and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, do you want to let the grandson return to the palace?"

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand: "He crossed the river overnight and entered the city early, so let him go back home to rest."

Zhu Yuanzhang, who felt sorry for his eldest grandson, rejected the proposal, and asked, "Where is the prince, it's time to come here."

Sun Gou'er moved his legs: "The prince just sent someone to deliver the message, and he will be here in a while."

"Dog slave, get up, eggless coward."

Zhu Yuanzhang squinted at Sun Gou'er and cursed.

Under the palace wall next to the three main halls, Zhu Biao hurried to Qianqing Palace, and the servants of the Eastern Palace who accompanied him were also thrown away by the crown prince.

Zhu Biao's face was very ugly.

Since the last time the imperial gate of Fengtian Palace was in charge of politics, he didn't know about the collective impeachment of all the officials, and today, all the officials knelt and forced the palace outside the Meridian Gate.

The imperial court of Daming seems to have changed from the imperial court he was familiar with back then.

"The grandson returned to Beijing, why didn't he return to the palace to pay his respects?"

Zhu Biao's heart was in a mess, and he suddenly stopped and asked.

However, there was no reply from behind, which made Zhu Biao frown.

When he turned around, he saw the servants of the East Palace hurriedly chasing after him.

"Returning to Your Highness, Grandson entered the city today and went to the gate tower of the Meridian Gate. Afterwards, he passed a message to return to the palace, saying that he would go back to the palace first, and then enter the palace at night to pay his respects."

Zhu Biao's brows became more and more solemn, and the space between his brows was about to be squeezed into a mountain, and he snorted coldly: "He caused all the troubles. Now that something happened, he's going to hide for a while."

The prince scolded his son a few words.

The companions and servants in the East Palace dared not make a sound, they could only lower their heads to observe whether the shoes they wore today were correct.

Zhu Biao probably became more and more angry as he thought about it, and he waved his sleeves violently: "Zhuzi!"

After yelling and cursing again, he picked up his steps again and rushed to Qianqing Palace.

When Zhu Biao finally rushed to Qianqing Palace under pressure, Zhu Yuanzhang had already had breakfast.

A bowl of porridge, a dish of pickled vegetables, a dish of fermented bean curd, and a tea egg.

Zhu Yuanzhang held a bowl and crossed his legs, and sat in the side hall of the bedroom, sucking white porridge. When he saw the prince coming, he pointed at the empty seat in front of him with chopsticks: "If you haven't eaten, do it yourself."

"Son..." Zhu Biao was about to say that he had already eaten breakfast, but after thinking about it, he smiled again, nodded and said, "Oh, I'm just hungry."

After all, Zhu Biao sat opposite the old man, and he didn't need anyone to wait on him. He took the bowl and chopsticks and filled half a bowl of porridge from the big sea bowl on the side. He picked up some pickles and stirred them into the porridge, and he sucked up like Zhu Yuanzhang. .

Zhu Yuanzhang finished his porridge first, put down the bowl and chopsticks, wiped his lower lip, and looked at the prince: "I know everything about the matter in front of the Meridian Gate."

In the Qianqing Palace, if it weren't for the buildings that belonged exclusively to the royal family and the majesty of the palace, it would be hard for people to think that these were the two most noble men in the whole world.

On the contrary, they looked like an ordinary father and son.

Zhu Biao drank his porridge with his head down, nodded his head and said, "My son has heard about it, and he probably did it in a moment of anger. Today's pickles are really good, but the Xu family's wife made them?"

Zhu Biao replied in parallel, looking up at Sun Gou'er beside him.

The corner of Sun Gou'er's mouth was a little stiff, he glanced at the emperor, and then said in a low voice: "Return to Your Highness, it was made by the women of Xu's family. Turn back, the servants sent some jars to the East Palace."

Suck, suck.

Zhu Biao held the bowl with a smile and continued to drink the porridge.

Zhu Yuanzhang turned his eyes to look at the prince in front of him, and laughed: "Are you going to intercede for those people outside?"

"My son didn't say that."

Zhu Biao finished his porridge, put down the bowl and chopsticks, looked up at the old man, and replied with a serious face.

Zhu Yuanzhang stretched out his hand and nodded: "Your son made this matter, you still want to intercede for those people?"

"Reckless." Zhu Biao saw that he couldn't hide, so he could only speak in a deep voice: "At this time, it is concluded that the Kong family is the right way. With righteousness in hand, even if you want to avoid the preferential treatment of fame and fame, there is also room for relaxation. Now two things When they got together, there was trouble, and righteousness was lost."

"Then I make an order to convict those who caused trouble outside."

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes were dim, and he carefully watched the changes in Zhu Biao's face.

Zhu Biao's heart was in a mess, and he looked up at the old man helplessly, with a look of embarrassment on his face: "You can't just toss your son because of outside things."

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted: "Then tell me, what I want to do. If you say what to do, I will do it."

Zhu Biao curled his lips: "Didn't your grandson say that our Yingtian City is so big, there are plenty of places for them to kneel, and let them kneel."

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled slightly: "Then you won't beg for mercy?"

Zhu Biao couldn't help heaving a long sigh: "Let's let that scorpion make trouble."

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"What the hell are they doing?"

"Who will give me an accurate word!"

In front of the Meridian Gate, Zhai Shan, who hurried over from the official office, looked at the officials kneeling all the way from the Meridian Gate to Duanmen with a livid face.

Most likely, Ren Hengtai, Ru Yu, Yu Xin, and Wang Jun, who came forward, stood on tiptoe and looked under the Meridian Gate, but they didn't reply to Zhai Shan's words.

They are all messing with each other, and they pretend to be deaf and dumb when they encounter things.

Zhai Shan hummed dissatisfiedly, waved his hands and didn't care what these people were thinking, and continued to rush to the Meridian Gate with the small officials.

Ren Hengtai and Ru Yu looked at each other, their faces were expressionless, but there was some seriousness hidden in their eyes, seeing that Zhai Shan was probably going to persuade these officials, they followed silently.

Yu Xin and Wang Jun, who were left behind, looked relaxed because of the presence of the old gods.

The two fell behind and walked forward very easily.

Zhai Shan appeared in front of the officials kneeling quietly in front of the Meridian Gate with a mouthful of fire bubbles.

"What are you going to do?"

Zhai Shan stood on his feet and began to growl: "Where is this place, have you forgotten? You are still in a daze! You even blocked the Meridian Gate. You are all the ones who eat the king's salary, and you don't want to share your worries for the king. , but this adds to the worries of the monarch. In your hearts, there is still half of the righteousness of the monarch and ministers!"

In front of the Meridian Gate, the majestic Minister of the Ministry of Officials of the Empire, like a woman at the entrance of the vegetable market, is spitting stars.

However, the officials in front of him were silent, and no one was willing to answer the official secretary's accountability.

Zhai Shan was so anxious that he was about to jump his feet: "Even if there is something to do, you can write a memorial and present it to the imperial court. As officials of the court, you are acting like this at this moment, but you are still half official, it is really out of style .”

"Let's all go back. If you don't believe me, then send the memorial to the Ministry of Officials, and I will personally bring the memorial to His Majesty."

In front of the Meridian Gate, all the officials remained silent, turning a deaf ear to Zhai Shan's persuasion.

The Jinyiwei Qianhu officer who was present quietly stepped forward, came behind Zhai Shan, and said in a low voice: "If the department hall thinks something is wrong, just one word, and the subordinate officials will drive all these people away."

"presumptuous!"

Zhai Shan immediately turned his head with deep eyebrows and cold eyes, staring angrily at the Qianhu official of Jinyiwei who opened his mouth to test.

The Qianhu official curled his lips: "You can continue with that department. As long as these people don't do things that offend the Ouchi, we will never intervene."

Zhai Shan heavily exhaled the turbid air in his chest, gritted his teeth and turned to look at the officials who suddenly went mad again today: "The Daming Sheji is above the court, and it is all in your hands. You delay here One point, the place will be delayed for one day. Is this the way of loyalty to the emperor in your heart?"

"Let's not talk about it, this year there is still the thing that happened to the Jingcha. Today, if you are making trouble here, aren't you afraid that you will be judged by the Jingcha in the future, and you will all be judged by the next?"

No matter how good or bad it is, Zhai Shan had no choice but to use threats and lures.

Ren Hengtai and others who came belatedly also arrived at Zhai Shan's side at this time.

Wang Jun looked at Zhai Shan, whose face was pale with anger, sneered in his heart, and turned to look at the officials kneeling in front of the Meridian Gate.

Wang Jun opened his mouth and shouted: "What Shangshu Zhai said is true. You are being confused now! Even if there are thousands of difficulties and thousands of words, you can write a memorial and submit it. What do you do by kneeling here? The same thing? Don’t you want to be this official anymore?”

He had just finished speaking when an official in a blue robe raised his head and puffed out his chest.

"It doesn't matter if this official is improper!"

"Yes! It doesn't matter if it's inappropriate! If Shangshu Zhai thinks that what we did is wrong, he can take the black hat from our head now!"

"When did it become a mistake to ask for a face saint?"

"..."

One stone set off a thousand waves, and as Wang Jun spoke, all the officials in front of the Meridian Gate finally exploded.

Ren Hengtai opened his mouth, but finally bumped into Ru Yuan beside him.He felt that the voice of Minister of the Ministry of War must be louder than his own.

Ru Yu was a little helpless, looked at Zhai Shan whose hands were already trembling in anxiety, and finally took a step forward, saying solemnly, "Shut up!"

As expected of a member of the Ministry of War, Ru Yuan's roar directly suppressed the chaos in front of the Meridian Gate.

Seeing that all the officials were silent, Ru Yu snorted coldly: "If you don't want to leave, no one can drive you away. But if you kneel here, you should explain clearly what you want to do. Is it true? Are you full, kneeling here to digest food?"

"Ru Shangshu, dare to ask what happened to Kong Sheng's family, so that the whole family was escorted to the capital?"

"Before the members of the Kong family entered the capital, I heard that His Majesty wants to take the honor of being a man of great fame in the world. Why?"

"Could it be that His Majesty can't tolerate us, and some people are deceived, fabricating the matter of the Kong family, under the guise of a wrong case, in fact, to drive me away?"

"We are all farming and studying people. We have studied hard for ten years, and our family is poor and has no rice. The court's kindness is a great honor for us and others. It is because the family studies are prosperous and the world's cultural context is prosperous. Talents come forth in large numbers. Now it is rumored that we will seize the world. The great honor of being a scholar, I dare to ask all the ministers, do I, Ming, not want to be a scholar?"

"If the imperial court really has this idea, why should I wait for dozens of years to study hard? Studying and becoming an official is the community of the world. If the imperial court does not allow us to wait, what face do we have to stay in the court? In vain More jokes."

"This officer."

"It's not right!"

A few red-robed officials, who were obviously the leaders, knelt in front of the hundred officials, speaking with certainty.

As soon as the attributive came out, countless voices echoed in front of the Meridian Gate.

"It's not right!"

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