Jiajing Chengming

Chapter 319: I will make a kneeling statue of you, and let you be trampled by millions of people!

Zhu Houcong looked at Tao Huai, who was trembling on the ground, and said in a deep voice: "I will give you a chance to confess and be lenient."

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Zhu Houcong then asked Tao Huai: "Who made the eldest prince disappear to scare me?"

Tao Huai couldn't help but raise his eyelids after hearing this.

He had been waiting for the news related to the eldest prince.

But what he didn't expect was that when he learned the news, he was already in prison.

"I don't know everything, but I know that Tao Xie, the Minister of the Imperial Household Department, was involved!"

Tao Huai raised his eyes and replied.

Zhu Houcong couldn't help but look up after hearing this.

Fei Hong, Xie Qian and others couldn't help but raise their eyes.

Fei Hong even took the initiative to say, "Your Majesty, Tao Xie is also from Yuyao, and is from the same hometown as Grand Tutor Xie Gong! He was promoted from the post of Grand Secretary of the Imperial Household Department in Nanjing to the position of Grand Secretary of the Imperial Household Department."

"It can be seen that the imperial recommendation may not necessarily select the real talent, and it is difficult to hold the recommender accountable. If it is recommended by one person for a special appointment, the recommender can still be held accountable."

Zhu Houcong nodded, said something off topic, and then continued to ask Tao Huai: "How do you know this?"

"He is of the same clan as mine, and he told me what I had said."

Tao Huai replied.

Zhu Houcong nodded and ordered Tao Xie to be brought in as well.

Tao Xie was soon taken to the main hall, and he looked at Xie Qian and Tao Huai with a complicated expression.

Zhu Houcong then looked at Tao Xie and said, "Look at what they are doing. If you don't want others to know, then don't do it yourself!"

"Tao Xie, you have reached this position, yet you still do such a treasonous thing. Do you really think that I can't find you, or do you think you are luckier than the previous officials?"

"Wealth is found in danger."

"If His Majesty hadn't been forcing us to do this, who would be willing to take such a risk?"

"The Xie family is giving in step by step, but what did Xie Qian get? His family was destroyed!"

"So, as long as Your Majesty does not stop, I cannot stop even if I want to. I will either be coerced into doing such a thing by them, or be exterminated like the Xie family as a lesson for not cooperating!"

"Your Majesty, why do you have to ask when you already know the answer? The root of the problem is your Majesty's fault! We did not intend to commit such a treasonous act!"

Like Tao Huai, Tao Xie did not feel that he had done anything wrong.

People like him belong to the category of NPD, who are inherently lacking in the ability to reflect, but have a strong talent for blaming others.

Zhu Houcong was furious when he heard this: "So, everything is my fault?"

"It's your fault!"

Tao Xie said with gnashing teeth.

He now completely disregarded the hierarchy between the monarch and his subjects, and no longer bothered to imitate the others in expressing their awe of the emperor. Instead, he completely trampled underfoot the moral values ​​of loyalty and filial piety that he did not really take to heart.

He did this in order to provoke Zhu Houcong, break down his defenses, and even make Zhu Houcong repent, submit to him, and accept his teachings.

Zhu Houcong knew that the way to deal with such an extremely narcissistic person was to not prove himself.

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Zhu Houcong nodded and said, "You are right, but what can you do to me?"

"What do I want? Can you stop me? Those who obey me will prosper, and those who disobey me will perish. I want to skin you, Tao Xie, and who in the world dares not to obey?"

Tao Xie gritted his teeth, as if he had punched cotton. He did not expect Zhu Houcong to admit it directly. He did not get angry, nor did he try to prove that he was right to strictly ban the sea. Instead, he asked him calmly what he could do to him.
Tao Xie then sneered: "So, the eldest prince has been missing for a while, and I think Your Majesty must be very scared."

"you're right."

"I was frightened."

"Therefore, I will skin you alive, exterminate your entire clan, and carve your crimes onto an iron plate, printing them for the world to see!"

"I will also make a kneeling statue of you and place it at every important road and scenic spot, kneeling before the people of the world for thousands of years!"

"I will also build public toilets everywhere and turn your kneeling statue into a toilet, so that people all over the world can filch you with feces and urine. I will also place your head on the busiest street in the capital, so that millions of people can trample on it!"

Zhu Houcong spoke lightly, saying the cruelest words in the calmest tone.

Fei Hong, Xie Qian and others were already terrified.

Xie Qian was even more glad that he did not choose to trample on the rules, but directly opposed the emperor, so that the emperor did not choose to deal with him outside the rules.

Otherwise, if the emperor really dealt with me outside the rules, I would definitely end up like Tao Xie.

Not only Fei Hong and Xie Qian, even Tao Huai who was kneeling on the ground opened his mouth wide.

Tao Xie's arms began to tremble slightly, his lips twitched, and then he roared at Zhu Houcong in a timid manner: "You tyrant! Aren't you afraid of being cursed for eternity?!"

"I'm not afraid." "I'll make you endure more cuts than Liu Jin during the Ling Chi process, and I'll make you into a specimen for the doctors to observe and learn from. I'll weigh your heart, liver, and lungs, and soak them in water, so that you will never be able to reincarnate."

Zhu Houcong continued to speak calmly.

Tao Xie clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, and stared at Zhu Houcong, but he was unable to refute.

Tao Xie then looked at Fei Hong, Xie Qian and others: "You are the elder ministers, are you willing to see him do such a tyrannical act? Are you going to sit back and watch?"

Zhu Houcong knew that he was trying to attract others of his own kind, wanting them to join him in blaming himself as the emperor, isolating himself as the emperor and making himself as the emperor fall into self-doubt.

So, Zhu Houcong spoke again:

"Whether they are willing or not, I will do it."

"Tao Xie, do you think they can really stop me?"

"Are you stupid, or are they stupid?"

As Zhu Houcong spoke, he asked Tao Xie in return.

Tao Xie's breathing began to become heavier.

The calmer Zhu Houcong was, and the more he looked at him like an ant, the more he couldn't stand it.

Xie Qian and other veterans knew countless people, so how could they not know how to deal with Tao Xie and why the emperor said so?

Therefore, Xie Qian knelt down first:

"Thunderbolts and raindrops are all grace from heaven! There is no king or father in the world who is not wrong. Tao Xie's crimes are extremely evil, and no punishment from Your Majesty is excessive. If I, an old minister, say more, I will be no different from a traitor. The same is true for all the officials in the court. If they say more, they will be no different from traitors."

"I second the proposal!"

Fei Hong replied.

Wang Ao followed up and said, "I second this proposal!"

Wang Qiong said: "Your Majesty, I have never seen such a stupid and evil traitor!"

"So I think it is most appropriate to exterminate his entire clan, so that his descendants will not corrupt the morals of the world and lower the intelligence of the people! Because I am afraid that those who have his blood in the future will become thieves and prostitutes! I even suspect that he is not a descendant of pure Chinese blood!"

Tao Xie looked at Wang Qiong with fiery eyes.

Because Wang Qiong's words were too poisonous! Not only did he devalue Wang Qiong, who always thought highly of himself, but he also said that his bloodline was not straight, which was like pointing at his nose and scolding him for being a born bad seed!

"Wang Qiong, don't go too far!"

"No matter how stupid I am, I'm not more stupid than you. You almost died."

Tao Xie said to Wang Qiong with gritted teeth.

Zhu Houcong then looked at Tao Xie and said, "You finally admitted that you were stupid, but the second half of your sentence is not right. Wang Qiong will never let his entire clan be in trouble!"

"And what Lord Wang said is very right."

"A fool like you doesn't deserve to have your bloodline passed down to future generations."

Zhu Houcong continued speaking and also began to attack Tao Xie.

"No, I'm not stupid!"

"You are stupid. If you hadn't been determined to govern and take advantage of the gentry, you wouldn't have what you have today."

"Imperial Physician Zhou would not have died, the heir to the throne would not have been targeted, and no one would have thought of burning down the Queen Mother's bedroom."

"No eunuch or nobleman will betray you!"

"You are the stupidest person!"

Tao Xie denied it excitedly, and then he roared at Zhu Houcong madly, without any fear, and then sneered:

"I know, Your Majesty, you want to ask me why the eldest prince's wet nurse Zeng disappeared, and why she secretly hid the eldest prince when no one was paying attention."

"Then let me tell you, this was actually the idea of ​​Guanglu Temple Minister Xiong Yiqi!"

"He conspired with Liu Jing, the former eunuch guarding Zhejiang and the current eunuch of the Imperial Palace, to find a pair of elderly people who looked similar to Zeng, and then told Zeng through Liu Jing that the elderly couple were her parents."

"When Zeng came out, she read it secretly and then believed it. Then Liu Jing and Xiong Yiying threatened her that if she didn't do what they wanted, they would kill her parents. Her parents would die because of her and she would be charged with being unfilial."

"The wet nurse you chose is indeed a loyal, filial, honest and kind person! She really did it because she was afraid that her parents would be killed, but she also felt that doing so would be unfair to the eldest prince, so she did not choose to hide the eldest prince secretly, then choose to leave and then pretend that she found him. Instead, she chose to swallow gold and commit suicide!"

"You must be wondering why people like me and Xiong Yiqi were able to rise to the top and be chosen as the Minister of the Imperial Household Department and the Minister of the Imperial Household Department."

"That's because when Jia Yong, the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and Jiang Qing, the Doctor of the Ministry of Personnel's Selection Department, were in charge of the selection, they and many other upright people couldn't resist the temptation of money!"

"Money makes the world go round. Your high salary and bonuses can't stop corruption, nor can they stop people like us who can make money from entering the court and occupying high positions!"

"So, you are stupid. You are so stupid that you think you can really clear up the bureaucracy. You don't know that people become officials just to make more money!"

Tao Xie then told everything and looked at Xie Qian and the others:

"You are also stupid. You are stupid because you know His Majesty is so stupid, but you are still afraid of him and listen to him!"

(End of this chapter)