Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 846 The world where only the governor was injured is completed
Of course, these are all things that need to be done behind the scenes.

On the surface, the prince had done something so "outrageous" that the emperor had to express his attitude. During the court meeting, he appeased the ministers and expressed his love for them.

However, the officials are not easy to fool.

After several urgings, the emperor only made thunder but no rain, so they chose another way to force the emperor to take action.

A week later, when the emperor was dealing with official documents, the eunuch brought news.

The students of the Imperial Academy gathered outside the palace, requesting the emperor to issue an edict to reprimand the prince.

"The emperor and the scholars and officials share the world, how can you kill people at will?"

"How can you directly order the execution of a second-rank official without a trial by the three judicial officials? Isn't that disregarding the laws of the country?"

"The prince has lost his virtue! The prince has lost his virtue!"

"The prince might be planning a rebellion, so he asked for the power to mobilize troops. The governor might have discovered clues that the prince was planning a rebellion, so the prince ordered him to be executed. The governor is innocent, the governor is innocent!"

"The dynasty has nurtured scholars for hundreds of years, and in a few days they sacrificed their lives for justice, daring to be the first in the world!"

The commotion of the Imperial College students was so great that it soon attracted the attention of the entire capital.

Whether they were officials, nobles, or foreign envoys, they all wanted to see how the current emperor was going to deal with this emergency.

Shaoqing, the chief steward Dai who was beside the emperor in the palace, came out of the palace gate and scolded the students of the Imperial College with a cold face:
"Taizu has issued an order: Students are not allowed to participate in political discussions. Don't you know that? Why don't you leave immediately?"

Manager Dai hit the point with just one sentence.

The reason why these students from the Imperial College dared to cause trouble at the gate of the imperial palace was that they had grasped a rule. No matter how guilty a second-rank official was, he should be tried by the three judicial departments before being dealt with. How could he be beheaded with just a single sentence? With the prince's current actions, don't the court laws become waste paper?
Chief Steward Dai also seized on this rule: You students want to talk about the laws of the court. Well, since the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizu Gao has issued an order that you scholars are not allowed to participate in discussions of court affairs. Now you dare to make trouble at the gate of the palace. Aren’t you also ignoring the laws of the court?

After Chief Steward Dai finished speaking, some students from the Imperial College began to consider withdrawing.

But the leaders were obviously unwilling to give up.

They put forward a new view:
The governor was a second-rank official who was loyal to the country and devoted his life to it. Now he died on the way to disaster relief. He should at least be given a proper funeral, and the court should also give him a posthumous title, and a good one. Otherwise, how can it reassure the hearts of scholars all over the world?
This time, Manager Dai didn't even have the energy to get entangled with them.

Directly criticized the behavior of these students:
"You are forcing Your Majesty, being disloyal and unfilial, criticizing the Crown Prince, and even dare to make a fuss about your status as a student. If you don't want this status as a student, then just go back home!"

After saying that, he flicked his sleeves and left.

After Manager Dai left, the students at the door looked extremely unhappy.

Especially the leaders, whose faces were as black as coal.

Among the people who came today, some were instructed by others, and some followed blindly, but they had one thing in common: fame.

Manager Dai's words blocked their path to fame.

If they continue to force us, we will be regarded as people who have no king or father, are disloyal and unfilial, and there will be no point in gathering at the gate of the palace.

Without a unified goal, the leaders of the students tried to keep them, but they were still unable to stop the other students from leaving.

In the palace, Chief Steward Dai looked at the students' backs as they left and smiled easily.

It's ridiculous that a group of young people dare to sell direct invitations when they have nothing!

Today's disturbance was just a small ripple in the palace life over the past few decades. It did not cause any ripples at all and was not difficult to deal with at all.

At this time, Liu Shishi glanced at the progress bar and found that only one-third of the third episode had passed.

"I thought the third episode would be a bit dull due to the suppression of the crown prince, but I didn't expect it to be so exciting!"

Zhou Mo smiled happily: "Don't worry, this time the script of "Zhu Lou" has enough protagonists and enough perspectives, so basically every episode will have explosive points, and the style of the explosive points is much richer than "I Want to Be the Emperor"."

Liu Shishi completely believed what Zhou Mo said, but there was one thing she didn't quite understand.

"Is it possible that the fighting power of this Dai Zongguan was designed to be too strong? He actually dared to be so aggressive against the students of the Imperial College, and he was able to refute the students and leave them speechless."

Zhou Mo paused the TV show and explained to Liu Shishi, "It's actually not that bad. The eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty started to study in the palace since Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, some of the more famous eunuchs in history had a good level of knowledge. Otherwise, they would not be able to do jobs like approving documents.

Of course, except Wei Zhongxian, this guy was illiterate.

The four eunuchs in "Red Mansion" are not ordinary people in terms of setting. Compared with the ministers in the court, these guys may not have enough knowledge in literature, but they are more capable and experienced in waging struggles than the others. Otherwise, I would not have added several plots of intrigue among the four eunuchs in the whole play. "

When Liu Shishi heard Zhou Mo talking about the "intrigue among the four eunuchs", she smiled knowingly.

She had read the scripts related to these plots, which were both funny and cruel.

As we all know, due to their physiological conditions, eunuchs basically have no offspring. And because they can only live in the palace, they like to adopt a bunch of godsons and grandsons to cultivate their own power and confidants in the palace.

The plot of "the four eunuchs' intrigue" designed by Zhou Mo can be explained in one sentence:
"Eunuch xx, if you dare to send someone to punish my son, then I will dare to send someone to punish your son!"

Behind the four eunuchs are four people who stand at the pinnacle of power in the palace. They will not easily go to war with each other. Even if they do, they will not go directly to themselves or the eunuchs around them.

Therefore, the targets are usually people around the eunuch.

This kind of punishment could be as minor as slapping you a few times when meeting you, or as serious as making you disappear into a deep well in the palace that has been dry for many years.

Anyway, the palace is so big and there are so many dry wells. It would be a shame not to throw something into it.

"How can someone who can successfully survive in such an environment and ascend to the throne not be strong in combat?"

After listening to Zhou Mo's explanation, Liu Shishi nodded secretly.

"From this point of view, Chief Steward Dai is really capable. He easily resolved the offensive of the Imperial College students with just a few words."

Zhou Mo nodded slightly, and then added: "But it's just this once. The next wave of attack will not be something he can break."

The next offensive?
Liu Shishi looked at Zhou Mo, who did not answer this time but resumed the broadcast of the TV series.

After the commotion in the Imperial College, the court returned to its previous rhythm.

But everyone knows that this rhythm is just the calm before the storm.

A few days later, a piece of gossip emerged in the capital.

The fundamental reason for the drought in the Central Plains and Qi and Lu regions is the immorality of the current emperor.

The emperor's virtue was flawed, so God punished him to show him how to correct it.

Now the prince went to the disaster area, not only did he not provide disaster relief properly, but he also killed the governor without authorization, which was a great disrespect to God. If this is not corrected in time, it will surely lead to a greater disaster...

Since Dong Zhongshu, a Confucianist in the Han Dynasty, proposed the theory of the correspondence between heaven and man, the saying that "God uses disasters to warn the emperor of his lack of virtue" has always been one of the most important methods for court officials to regulate and admonish the emperor's behavior.

"Heaven and man are in harmony" is a double-edged sword. The emperors relied on the doctrine of "Heaven and man are in harmony" to increase the sacredness of their status, but naturally they were also subject to certain constraints. After the emperor saw the relevant memorials, he could no longer handle the memorials of his ministers in a very calm manner.

During the more than ten years since he ascended the throne, the word "virtue" has always been the topic he is most reluctant to touch upon.

The reason was that when the throne was handed over to the previous emperor, he was not the crown prince originally. It was the former crown prince and the current emperor who fought until both were injured, so he was able to take advantage of the situation.

Before he ascended the throne, in order to avoid rumors of "while the snipe and the clam quarrel, the fisherman benefits", he specifically told his ministers that "I am not virtuous enough. If I cannot do xxx in the future... it means that I am not worthy of being the emperor."

These words are actually an agreement.

Don't do this kind of "profiting from misfortune" behavior in the court. When I become the emperor, I will give you enough status and respect.

Now, many years have passed, the emperor has more and more power and his position is becoming more and more stable. Few court officials would bring up the original agreement. After all, such words are like rubbing salt into the emperor's wounds, and every time they say it, it means offending the emperor.

However, once it appears, it often means that the court officials have begun to fight back against the emperor, and the emperor needs to make some concessions.

The court officials expressed their opinions in this way, and the emperor did make concessions.

The prince has been in the disaster-stricken area for more than a month now. Excluding the time on the road, he has spent another month in the disaster-stricken area.

Over the past 30 days, the disaster situation in the affected areas has been effectively controlled.

The number of refugees has been pacified, the merchants who hoarded grain and raised prices have been fully controlled, several rebellious forces have been suppressed, and the court has issued an edict to exempt taxes for three years.

After the prince left, as long as the people who followed him could follow his example, the two disaster-stricken areas would be able to return to their previous condition.

Half a month later, the prince returned to the capital and submitted all the materials to the court, including the evidence of the governor's guilt, the list of officials who performed well in disaster relief, his own actions, and his assessment and prediction of the situation in the disaster-stricken areas...

The court officials remained silent while the prince reported to the emperor.

Although the governor's work is important, it must be put behind disaster relief.

It was not until the crown prince finished his report that the court officials started talking about the governor.

As to whether the governor should be put to death, there was no room for rebuttal as early as when the evidence of the prince-governor's guilt was presented.

The prince was not a fool. On the contrary, he was very capable and had sorted out the governor's case clearly early on.

The issue that needs to be refuted now is that the prince executed the governor privately.

The officials of the Eastern Palace were the first to come forward and said that the situation was critical. The prince was helpless and had no guilt. Besides, the governor was unforgivable and killing him was an emergency measure.

After the official of the Eastern Palace finished speaking, the courtiers who opposed the crown prince also stood up:
You are already taking emergency measures before the war breaks out. If a war breaks out in the future, can you also take emergency measures?
Have you ever heard of "leaders follow suit"? If the prince does this, can others do the same in the future? During the Chongzhen period, hadn't Yuan Chonghuan had enough of his experience?

Both sides held their own opinions and argued endlessly.

He started by quoting classics, then started swearing, and almost got into physical combat in the end.

The emperor watched the court officials bickering with each other in silence until they were all exhausted. Then he gave a look to Dai, the chief steward beside him.

When Manager Dai received the message, he swung the whip in his hand on the spot.

clap clap clap!
There were three crisp sounds, and the entire court fell silent.

The emperor scolded his ministers for their disrespect for etiquette in the palace, then left the court and asked the prince to follow him.

No one knew what the emperor and the prince talked about after they left, but not long after, news came out from the palace that the emperor and the prince had a fierce quarrel while discussing matters.

The next day, the emperor's decree was announced from the palace.

He ordered the crown prince to study behind closed doors in the East Palace.

He ordered several princes, including the third, fourth, and fifth princes, to become directors of the six ministries.

Not long after the emperor's edict was announced, another edict came from Changning Palace.

The orphans of the former crown prince were also ordered to study administration in the six ministries.

The above decrees caused a major earthquake in the entire court.

Ordering the prince to study behind closed doors in the East Palace doesn't mean anything.

Ordering a few princes to join the six ministries' board of directors doesn't mean anything.

But putting this together, something clicks.

The court officials repeatedly pondered the relationship between the two decrees, and combined with the idea of ​​a fierce quarrel between the emperor and the crown prince in the palace, everyone had the same idea:
Emperor, do you want to change the crown prince again?

At this point, the first chapter of "Zhu Lou", the disaster relief chapter, officially ends.

Summarize the gains of several main characters:
The emperor relied on the prince to solve a drought and once again consolidated power in his hands.

Several princes successfully entered the six ministries, greatly increasing the possibility of winning the throne.

The retired emperor took advantage of the conflict between the emperor and the crown prince to re-insert his hand into the court.

"It seems that only the crown prince was injured. He went through so much trouble to make this trip, offended the civil officials, and was asked by the emperor to study behind closed doors. The competition from others has become more difficult... This crown prince is too miserable."

After watching the first four episodes, Liu Shishi’s first reaction was that the prince had suffered a great loss.

"Maybe not." Zhou Mo said casually.

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"The prince did not gain nothing, he actually gained something." Zhou Mo held up two fingers: "First, during the disaster relief process, he mixed his hands in the army and left his own traces, and the emperor did not erase these traces later.

Second, the prince also provided many officials with opportunities for promotion during this disaster relief, and these people will be used by him in the future."

Liu Shishi raised her eyebrows.

"So, doesn't that mean everyone wins and no one loses?"

"Yes, I have."

"Who?"

"The dead governor."

"..."

(End of this chapter)