I am Emperor Wanli

Chapter 365 Be Brave to Criticize Yourself

The previous King of Tang, Zhu Zhou, died in the 43rd year of Jiajing. His son Zhu Shuohui was only three years old and had not yet been appointed as the crown prince. The procedure was to first appoint him as the crown prince of Tang and then pass on the title of King of Tang.

Therefore, the affairs of the Tang vassal state were temporarily handled by Zhu Zhoucai, Zhu Zhoucai's younger brother, the Prince of Wencheng.

The palace found four boxes of weapons and armor. Everyone knows what this means!

rebel!

You'll be beheaded!

Zhu Zhoucai repeatedly defended himself: "Your Highness, I am innocent, innocent! Those weapons are not real weapons, they are used for performing. I like to watch martial arts and I am addicted to them. I love to play a role in martial arts.

I asked my men to buy these weapons outside so that I can use them in martial arts performances. Your Highness, they are really only for performances. I am living a good life, why would I rebel for no reason? "

Zhu Yijun did not answer him, but pointed at Feng Bao.

Feng Bao replied slowly, "In reply to your Highness, the East Depot sent a report that they immediately traced the four boxes of armor. It was the steward of the Tang Palace who colluded with the local officials of Nanyang and stole them from the armory. The local civil and military officials involved in the case have all been arrested and handed over to the Pacification Office."

The other three kings also understood the whole story.

Prince Wencheng Zhu Zhoucai was temporarily in charge of Tang vassal affairs. He became complacent and acted recklessly in the palace. He asked his confidants to buy him several sets of martial arts costumes for his operas.

The top beam is crooked, and the bottom beam is crooked too. The trusted manager colluded with the local officials in Nanyang and stole several sets of armor from the armory.

You don't have to spend much money and you can still report more expenses later. This is the same kind of nonsense in all the princes' palaces.

Normally, no one paid attention to it. When a few sets of armor were lost from the armory, they just reported the loss and covered it up. No one knew about it, and that was it.

Zhu Zhoucai happened to be in a critical situation as the crown prince wanted to reorganize the various vassal states and royal families.

Secretly keeping weapons and armor.

Intent to rebel!

Just listening to the charges, it seems that the crime is aimed at exterminating the entire family.

The three kings looked at Zhu Zhoucai, feeling pitiful, angry, ridiculous and hateful!

But the third prince also came to his senses. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had a lot of negative information on the various vassal states and royal family members. If anyone didn't know what was good for him, he would flip through his little notebook and dig out your negative information to enforce the law and make an example of you!
He has the East Factory and the Embroidered Uniform Guard in his hands, so what can't he find out?
Among all the princes and royal family members, who doesn’t have a pile of shit under his butt?
When I checked, I couldn't even remember a single one.

Zhu Zhoucai knelt on the ground, his mouth open and closed. His triangular eyes showed an innocent look. He wanted to say something but didn't know what to say.

Zhu Yijun began to speak.

"Lord Wencheng, the weapons in the armory are not for performing. Your excuse is inappropriate. Think about it again. What other excuses can you come up with?"

Zhu Zhoucai's eyes turned around for more than ten times, and suddenly he said, "I report that Tang Fan Wenyuan Wang Zhu Zhouyou and Beizheng Wang Zhu Yutan are the ones who secretly hid weapons and raised assassins!"

The faces of the three kings Zhu Ying, Zhu Zaiting and Zhu Zaiyao changed drastically!

Zhu Zhoucai, you are going crazy!

You are going to die, so you have to drag a few more people down with you, right? Do you think that if you drag everyone into the cesspool, you won't stink anymore?

It stinks just as bad!
"Report? You don't need to report. I know all the dirty things that the princes and royal families have done. Come here!"

"exist!"

Four guards came in from outside.

"Take Zhu Zhoucai away. Feng Bao, pass on the imperial edict that Zhu Zhoucai has hidden weapons and is plotting rebellion. He is to be stripped of his title and demoted to a commoner, and handed over to the officials for interrogation."

"Yes, sir!" Feng Bao waved his hand, signaling the four guards to drag Zhu Zhoucai away.

As Zhu Zhoucai's wailing and begging for mercy gradually faded away, silence returned to the Great Light Hall.

Zhu Yijun looked at Zhu Ying, Zhu Zaiting and Zhu Zaiyao, turned back to his chair, picked up the teacup and took a few sips, then said: "Three clan members, please sit down and talk. We are all relatives from the same clan, there is no need to be estranged."

Your Highness, it’s not that I don’t want to sit, it’s that my legs are weak and I can’t walk to the seat.

It’s not that I’m unfamiliar, it’s mainly because I’m timid and can’t stand being scared.

After the three of them slowly sat down, Zhu Yijun continued, "Three clan members, what do you think of the self-examination, self-correction, self-criticism and criticism that I just mentioned?" The three kings looked at each other, as if they understood, but not completely. But they didn't dare to answer carelessly, in case they answered wrongly and angered this little ancestor, he would take out a small notebook from his pocket and take out all our cow gall and dog treasures, then we might have to accompany Zhu Zhoucai, a fool, in the mortal world.

Zhu Ying, the oldest prince of Chu, bravely asked, "Your Highness, we are stupid and don't quite understand."

Zhu Yijun said kindly: "If you don't understand, just ask. This is the right attitude. What I said about self-examination and self-correction, self-criticism and criticism is actually very simple.

The corruption among the princes and royal families is well known to everyone, so there is no need to speak out. What is even more despicable is that some people actually killed officials because of this. "

Killing officials?
King Zhu of Zhou was so anxious that his heart almost jumped out of his throat.

In the end, I couldn't escape.

"Hai Rui, the Right Deputy Censor of the Metropolitan Censorate, was ordered to go to Jingzhou City to investigate the thirteen major crimes of the Liao King. I didn't expect to find out a lot of old accounts of Liao Fan, as well as the affairs of other vassals, which were shocking!

When passing through Xiangyang and Kaifeng, he talked to his old friends there, but he didn't expect that his words would reach the ears of some royal family members in the local palace. When Gangfeng Gong returned to Anbaoli Post Station in Xiong County, Baoding Prefecture, he was ambushed and killed.

The main culprit was captured and quickly confessed. He"

Zhu Yijun paused deliberately.

Prince Zhu Zai's legs went weak, and he fell to his knees with a thud, kowtowed repeatedly and apologized: "It is my fault that I did not discipline my children properly, please forgive me, Your Highness!"

Prince of Chu Zhu Ying and Prince of Anfu Zhu Zai Yao looked at each other and saw the extreme fear in each other's eyes.

Assassinating an imperial official is as serious a crime as secretly hoarding weapons and armor, both of which are treason!
He just went to the palace to say a few words. The Tang vassal state was defeated, the Zhou vassal state was also defeated, so are our Chu vassal state and Xiang vassal state far behind?
"Feng Bao, help King Zhou up." Zhu Yijun ordered.

Feng Bao stepped forward and helped Zhu Zaiting, who was almost completely limp, back to his seat. He was sweating and staggering, as if he would fall down at any moment.

But he knew in his heart that since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince still spoke like this, it meant that he could still be saved!
Zhu Ying and Zhu Zai Yao had similar thoughts. The Crown Prince was still so friendly. Firstly, this case must have been done by some people in Zhou Fan without Zhu Zaiting's knowledge. He was responsible for not disciplining his child strictly, but his crime was not serious.

Secondly, although His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants to discipline the various vassal states and royal families, he will not kill them for the time being.

Zhu Yijun continued, "The vassal clans have become so rotten, how can we not rectify them? But how can we change them? I have many concerns. You are all the same clan and relatives of Emperor Taizu, and you are all my flesh and blood. If I beat you, I will kill the brothers of the royal family."

Zhu Ying and Zhu Zai Yao nodded repeatedly.

Zhu Zaiting also forced a somewhat ugly smile on his face and nodded.

Yes, yes, yes, Your Highness, you are right!

"So we need to self-examine and self-correct, and carry out self-criticism. We need to first find our own mistakes and identify the problems. Only by finding the problems can we solve them and correct the mistakes.

This is self-criticism.

Find the root of the problem, and then dig deeper into the various problems. Let everyone criticize and self-criticize what problems each domain has. Find your own problems first, and then point out the problems of others.

Only in this way can we find out the problems of the various vassal clans and dig deep into them. The most important thing is that the problems are found by the various vassal clans themselves and they submit them to the court for investigation, so that others will not be able to say anything. "

The third prince said, Your Highness, could you please speak in plain words? We are a little dizzy from all the beating around the bush.

Zhu Yijun looked at the expressions of the three people and continued, "Of course, self-criticism, self-examination and self-correction are like squeezing out abscesses and removing rotten flesh. This kind of scraping the bone to heal the wound requires great courage.

But my three clan members, if we don't have the courage to criticize ourselves and make up our minds to self-examine and correct ourselves, what will happen if others come to examine us? It won't be like scraping the bones to heal the wound, but like chopping off the hands if there's abscess on the hands, or chopping off the legs if there's rotten flesh on the legs!"

The three kings looked at each other and immediately nodded vigorously at Zhu Yijun.

“I understand, Your Highness. We all understand.”

We can investigate the dirty deeds of the clans and you can protect us to preserve the vitality of the clans. If we let the civil officials investigate, not to mention the vitality, the clans will be extinct.

Zhu Yijun saw the expressions on the faces of the three princes and knew that they all understood. He smiled and said, "Three relatives, you are the leaders of the Three Feudatories. You must take up this responsibility and learn from the King of Liao. First, conduct self-criticism and find out your own shortcomings and problems. Only in this way can you dig deeper and find out the problems of this feudatories.

Only by squeezing out the pus, removing the rot, scraping the bones and healing the wounds can we make a brand new start.

My fellow clan members, please remember what I said."

The three kings immediately knelt on the ground and said in unison: "We will remember this in our hearts and follow it immediately!"

(End of this chapter)