Daming: I can’t kill such a greedy prince-in-law?

Chapter 584: Events escalate, emergency imperial meeting (Subscribe please!!)
Li Shanchang felt quite happy when he thought that he could finally surpass Ouyang Lun.

Li Shanchang couldn't help but look towards where Ouyang Lun was, only to find that Ouyang Lun was still standing straight, but was actually sleeping. He seemed to not care about all this at all and was extremely calm.

What a disgusting guy, he is always so indifferent.

Li Shanchang had experienced all kinds of storms and his state of mind had become extremely stable, but it was really difficult for him to fall asleep in such a situation.

Oh shit!

This Ouyang Lun really treats the Hall of Supreme Harmony as his own home!
snort!
The calmer and more indifferent you are now, the longer I will wait until I seize control of the Beijing-Pingcheng Railway from you and then march north to take over the entire grassland. At that time, I will want to see whether you, Ouyang Lun, can still remain calm!
"Your Majesty is here!"

As Leo's voice sounded.

Zhu Biao, wearing a dragon robe, walked out.

Unlike his usual gentle smile, this time Zhu Biao's expression was quite solemn.

"I have met your Majesty!"

"My dear friends, no courtesy!"

Zhu Biao sat on the dragon throne and then raised his hand to ask all the officials to stand up.

At this moment, a voice of an eunuch was heard again outside the palace, "The Emperor has arrived!"

The voice just fell.

Zhu Yuanzhang walked in with his hands behind his back and a gloomy face.

"Father!"

"Your subjects greet the Emperor!"

The ministers saluted again.

"Forget it!" Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand, then sat down on the smaller dragon chair brought by Wang Zhong, and said to Zhu Biao, "Your Majesty, please continue. We are just here to take a look."

Zhu Yuanzhang's face was terribly gloomy, and it was obvious that some news had also reached Zhu Yuanzhang's ears.

Seeing this awakening, the other officials were all trembling inwardly, only Li Shanchang was delighted. Naturally, the bigger the matter, the better, as this would be the only way to have a chance to take down Ouyang Lun completely.

As for Ouyang Lun, he was completely asleep and probably didn't even notice that the emperor had arrived.

Zhu Biao sat down again only after he saw Zhu Yuanzhang sitting down.

The solemn expression on Zhu Biao's face increased a little. Based on Zhu Biao's understanding of his father, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, he was afraid that this incident must have made Zhu Yuanzhang extremely angry, otherwise he would not have come directly over without even saying hello.

What happened on the Beijing-Pingcheng Railway obviously touched Zhu Yuanzhang's inner red line.

It seems like something big is going to happen today. After all, even the retired emperor Zhu Yuanzhang has personally inquired about this matter, so it will definitely not be left unresolved like this!

The most important thing is to see who the emperor is setting fire to!
This was almost the consensus of all the officials present. Of course, no one wanted to offend the retired Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, as this was almost like seeking death.

At present, the risks on the side of the Prince Consort's party are very high.

This idea was not only held by the officials of the Huaixi Party, but also by the officials of the Prince Consort Party. They also felt that the Emperor and the Supreme Emperor would not let Ouyang Lun off easily this time. Once Ouyang Lun fell, the officials of the Prince Consort Party would have a hard time in the future!

The officials of the Huaixi Party were already thinking about how to get their hands on the Beijing-Pinggu Railway once Ouyang Lun fell. This could be said to be the greatest political legacy left by Ouyang Lun. Of course, they could also take advantage of the victory to further defeat other officials of the Prince Consort Party! Some previous grievances had to be settled.

Zhu Biao glanced at the officials in the hall, then glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang who still had a gloomy face, and then he said: "I have called all of you together today, I believe you should know what is going on."

"The Beijing-Pinggu Railway is the foundation of our Ming Dynasty. If anyone dares to have evil intentions in this matter, it is not tolerated by the law of the country, and I will definitely not tolerate it!"

"My dear ministers, do you have anything to say?!"

In fact, after Zhu Biao spoke, Li Shanchang was extremely anxious and wanted to express his own opinion. After hearing Zhu Biao's question, he immediately stood up and spoke.

"Your Majesty, I have heard about this matter a long time ago!"

"I never thought that under the attention of the Supreme Emperor, Your Majesty, someone would dare to commit a crime. It is simply incomprehensible!"

"There has always been a practice of excluding dissidents, but to do it so obviously, saying one thing in front of His Majesty and the Emperor, and another behind his back, is really outrageous!"

"Fortunately, the person sent by this old minister to handle the Beijing-Ping Railway issue this time is Qi Tai. I believe Your Majesty is familiar with Qi Tai. For the sake of the overall situation, Qi Tai has never wavered even when threatened and persecuted by certain people!"

"Qi Tai is a man of outstanding ability, a rare young talent in the Ming Dynasty. I hope Your Majesty can make more use of Qi Tai and let him make more contributions to the construction of the Ming Dynasty railways!"

Li Shanchang said everything he wanted to say in one breath.

The words were very obscure, but no one at the scene was stupid, so they could naturally hear the implicit meaning of Li Shanchang's words. He was simply accusing Ouyang Lun of abusing his power and excluding dissidents, and at the same time praising his own people, laying the groundwork for Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao to replace someone to lead the construction of the Beijing-Ping Railway in the future!
This was a clear message to Zhu Biao and Zhu Yuanzhang that Qi Tai was a very good person and choosing Qi Tai as the person in charge of the Beijing-Ping Railway was a good choice!

Li Shanchang had been thinking about these words for a long time, and it can be said that he thought of them word by word. In the previous battles with Ouyang Lun in the court, Li Shanchang was defeated repeatedly, which was a great blow to Li Shanchang. However, Li Shanchang became more and more courageous, and after each failure he would seriously think about the problem.

Finally, Li Shanchang concluded that his previous failures were all due to him being too impatient and each time he directly attacked Ouyang Lun.

But Ouyang Lun was as slippery as a loach, and he was eloquent and could turn black into white. With some luck, Li Shanchang was defeated miserably every time!
Therefore, Li Shanchang no longer directly questioned Ouyang Lun, but discussed the matter at hand and indirectly attacked Ouyang Lun through specific things. The most obvious manifestation was that he did not mention Ouyang Lun in every sentence, but every sentence was related to Ouyang Lun!

There are several benefits to doing this.

One advantage is that in this way, they can attack or defend without worrying about the risk of getting themselves into trouble. Another advantage is that giving the decision-making power to Emperor Zhu Biao and Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang will not cause dissatisfaction from the Emperor and the Emperor.

"Your Majesty, please make the decision and return the Beijing-Pingcheng Railway project to a bright and clear world, rather than to the backyard of certain people!"

As Li Shanchang said this, officials from the Huaixi Party at the scene responded one after another, expressing that they shared the same views and positions as Li Shanchang.

"Your Majesty, please make your decision!"

"Your Majesty, please make your decision!"

The officials shouted in unison.

At this moment, no one mentioned a specific name tacitly, but everyone knew who they were referring to and what it was about!
Seeing a group of officials behaving like this, Zhu Biao and his men were already prepared, but when they actually saw this scene, they were still a little surprised.

Compared with Zhu Biao, Zhu Yuanzhang seemed calmer.

Zhu Yuanzhang was very familiar with Li Shanchang and the Huaixi Party, and was also very clear about Li Shanchang's tactics. He did not comment because it was not yet time for him to take action.

Zhu Biao saw that Zhu Yuanzhang had no intention of speaking. He thought for a moment and said, "What happened on the Beijing-Ping Railway has caused an uproar in public opinion. The court must deal with it. Only in this way can we give an explanation to the people and the workers of the Beijing-Ping Railway!"

"Brother-in-law Ouyang, you are the person in charge of the Beijing-Ping Railway, so you should first tell us your opinion! Brother-in-law?!"

After Zhu Biao finished speaking, he realized that Ouyang Lun had fallen into a dream, so he quickly called out again.

Be nice!

My dear brother-in-law, please be more careful!
Although you often sleep during government meetings and court meetings, you also have to consider the situation!

Didn't you see that the emperor is here? And the things discussed today are mainly about you, how can you still sleep? !

Um! ?

Ouyang Lun was sitting there dreaming when he heard someone calling him.

Then he slowly opened his eyes, yawned, and said, "Your Majesty, what did you just say? Can you say it again? I have been staying up late every day to check the drawings in such a short period of time. It's not that I want to sleep, but I really can't help it!"

Hearing this, Zhu Biao winked at Ouyang Lun frantically, and his meaning was obviously to ask him to pay attention to the retired Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Yo!"

"The Emperor is here too! I am sorry for the rudeness. I am here to see the Emperor!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was very angry now. Apart from the matter of the Beijing-Pingcheng Railway, Ouyang Lun was also sleeping during the court meeting!
However, Zhu Yuanzhang did not intend to get angry and yell now. He planned to wait a little longer.

"Brother-in-law, you should first tell me what happened to the Beijing-Ping Railway recently. Now it's all over the outside world. It's said that you excluded dissidents in order to control the Beijing-Ping Railway alone, causing public resentment. Some people even suspect that you are trying to gain huge benefits from it!"

Hearing what Zhu Biao said, Ouyang Lun rolled his eyes.

"Your Majesty, these are just rumors. You don't believe them, do you?"

"Of course I trust you, but the rumors are so fierce outside, the people believe it! Now the court must give an explanation to the people! If you have anything to say, everyone is here now, please speak up and we will think of a solution!"

Zhu Biao said anxiously.

"What's there to say about this? I have always followed the court's rules. This is especially true for the Beijing-Pingcheng Railway, which has various rules and regulations. There is no problem at all!"

"As for the claim that I made huge profits from the Beijing-Pingyuan Railway? This is even more nonsense! It's totally unfounded, so don't pay attention to it! After a while, the people will forget about it. If you take the initiative to explain, people will get even more aggressive and keep explaining and finding loopholes in you. It's endless and annoying. Instead of doing this, it's better not to explain at all. If you have the guts, just show me the evidence and nail me to death!"

"If you can't do it, then be quiet and don't affect the progress of the Beijing-Pingcheng Railway!"

Of course, Ouyang Lun's following words were not directed at Zhu Biao.

But everyone at the scene could see that Ouyang Lun was not interested in this matter at all!
It can be said that I didn't take it to heart at all.

Hearing this, Zhu Biao subconsciously looked at Zhu Yuanzhang who was sitting next to him. At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang's face was gloomy and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly. He was obviously surprised by the Chinese spoken by Ouyang Lun.

At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang had already started to complain about Ouyang Lun in his heart.

Ouyang Lun's temper really hasn't changed at all!

Even though things have developed to this point, they are still so stubborn.

To be honest, Zhu Yuanzhang actually admired Ouyang Lun's character!
But the Beijing-Pingcheng Railway is now Zhu Yuanzhang's most important project, so he absolutely cannot allow anyone to use the Beijing-Pingcheng Railway to cause trouble, not Ouyang Lun, not Li Shanchang! !

Zhu Yuanzhang had already received a lot of information from the Jinyiwei about the things happening on the Beijing-Ping Railway construction site, and he could use this incident to warn everyone.

Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang did not speak, the officials of the Huaixi Party could no longer sit still.

"Prince Consort Ouyang is wrong! If the court does not respond to such a big problem, the people will definitely think that the court is covering up something!"

"Humph! In my opinion, Prince Consort Ouyang's remarks are just an excuse for himself!"

"Could it be that Prince Consort Ouyang really wants to monopolize power and doesn't want anyone else to get involved?!"

"Ouyang Lun, you are so audacious! This Beijing-Pingcheng Railway is a treasure of our Ming Dynasty, and it belongs to you alone?"

"Ouyang Lun, don't even think about evading this time!!"

The Huaixi Party officials naturally could not accept what Ouyang Lun had just said. They started to speak to Ouyang Lun and became more and more agitated.

"Ouyang Lun, you allowed your subordinates to harm my Huaixi disciples!"

"In order to support the construction of the Beijing-Pingcheng Railway, my Huaixi people gave up their good life and took the initiative to go to the frontline construction site to support. You just found a random reason to drive them out of the construction site and even accused them of a false crime! You exiled them to the frontier!"

"How could I, a Huaixi disciple, let you bully me like this? You must give us an explanation today!"

The one who pointed at Ouyang Lun most fiercely was the rising star of the Huaixi Party, Shaoqing of the Taichang Temple, Huang Zicheng!
With just a few words, Huang Zicheng aroused the hatred of the Huaixi Party officials towards Ouyang Lun.

Faced with these accusations, Ouyang Lun remained quite calm and didn't even look at Huang Zicheng.

"Originally, I didn't want to make a big deal about this matter. After all, it really affects unity!"

"But now it's like this, I have no choice but to say it."

Ouyang Lun spoke lightly, and then he looked at Li Shanchang who was gloating over his misfortune.

"Master Li, others may not know the truth about what happened at the Jingping construction site, but you know it, don't you?!"

Upon hearing Ouyang Lun's words, Li Shanchang's smile froze.

the truth!?
Is there any other hidden secret behind this matter?
The atmosphere in the hall suddenly changed.

You should know that the officials who could be called were all ministers of the third rank and above. They were mainly divided into three groups. One was naturally the largest group of officials from the Huaixi Party, the other was the neutral faction which was the second largest group, and on the other hand, there were only a few people from the Prince Consort's Party.

This is also normal. The rise of the Prince Consort Party was relatively short, and there are really not many officials above the third rank.

Among those who have just criticized Ouyang Lun, many are officials from neutral factions. They are greatly influenced by public opinion and Huang Zicheng's instigation.

But Ouyang Lun's words just now made them wake up.
(End of this chapter)