My father is Chongzhen? Then I have no choice but to rebel.

Chapter 58 It’s not easy to be the emperor’s lackey!
For a moment, everyone felt extremely confused, but they didn't know what to say.

Because the imperial edict clearly stated that the emperor had recognized Lu Xiangsheng's previous achievements and wanted to rehabilitate him!
Moreover, the ministers present were all aware that Lu Xiangsheng had been wronged.

If they continued to argue, they might get themselves implicated. After all, everyone knew that Lu Xiangsheng was wronged, but no one took the initiative to tell Chongzhen about this.

So immediately, everyone fell silent.

Looking at everyone who was instantly silenced, Zhu Cilang felt secretly happy.

Soon, Wang Chengen announced the adjournment of the court, the ministers left one by one, and Zhu Cilang also returned to the Eastern Palace.

But this time, Xue Guoguan did not go out of the palace, but went straight to the cabinet office.

Xue Guoguan has basically arranged everything at the Daming Newspaper, so there is no need for him to supervise it at the moment.

The content of the newspaper had been prepared long ago according to Zhu Cilang's instructions, so it could be printed directly.

All other content has changed today, but the content on the front page remains unchanged. It will have to be published for three consecutive days!
The purpose is to let everyone know how much the court values the re-establishment of the factory guards!
Seeing Xue Guoguan step into the Wenhua Hall, the expressions of the other four cabinet ministers present immediately turned unhappy.

There are currently six cabinet members: Zhou Yanru, Zhang Zhifa, Zhang Sizhi, Jiang Dejing, Fan Fucui, and Xue Guoguan.

Among them, Zhou Yanru, Zhang Sizhi, Jiang Dejing and Fan Fucui were members of the Donglin Party.

Zhang Zhifa is a member of the Qi Party.

Xue Guoguan was a member of the emperor's party.

The small team of six people was divided into three parties!

Among them, Zhang Zhifa was forced in by Chongzhen in order to prevent the Donglin Party from dominating the market.

Xue Guoguan was inserted by Zhu Cilang in order to balance the power of the cabinet.

Although there are three factions in the cabinet now, it's no surprise that Xue Guoguan is definitely the one being marginalized by the others.
After all, it is not easy to be the emperor's lackey.

So when facing Xue Guoguan, the other cabinet ministers just pretended not to see it.

But their ignoring of Xue Guoguan did not prevent Xue Guoguan from taking the initiative to pay attention to them.

Immediately afterwards, Xue Guoguan came to several other cabinet ministers with a smile on his face, and handed each of them a copy of the Daming Daily that had just been printed this morning.

"Come on, come on, everyone, don't be polite. Here's a copy of the Daming Daily, freshly published this morning, for everyone. It's my gift to you all!"

Everyone's faces turned a little ugly. After all, everyone knew that the Daming Daily was hosted by Xue Guoguan.

Giving this thing as a gift, isn't that a slap in their face?
Especially when he saw the content of the headline of Daming Daily, Zhou Yanru's face instantly turned cold.

After flipping through it for a while, he became even more angry!

Because the contents of other pages of the Daming Daily have changed, only the front page still has yesterday's content.

Posting the same content for two days in a row, isn't this making fun of them?
Zhou Yanru was so angry that he was about to throw away the Ming Daily in his hand.

But before he could do anything, Xue Guoguan's voice suddenly rang out.

"Lord Zhou, I advise you to think carefully. This contains the Emperor's decree. If you just throw it on the ground, wouldn't that be considered disrespectful to the Emperor?"

When Zhou Yanru heard this, although he gritted his teeth in hatred, he could only gently place the Daming Daily in his hand on the table.

But the next second, he seemed to have thought of something, and then said coldly:
"Master Xue, according to what you mean, after ordinary people buy the Daming Daily, do they have to keep it?"

"If it accidentally falls to the ground or is ignited by firewood, wouldn't that be disrespectful to the emperor?"

When the other three ministers heard this, their eyes suddenly lit up, and then they looked at Xue Guoguan with a gloating look on their faces.

Didn’t you say that disrespecting the Ming Daily is disrespecting the emperor?
So, do ordinary people have to worship the newspapers after buying them and reading them?
However, Zhou Yanru obviously had a plan for this.

He still smiled and said:

"Most people are ignorant. The Daming Daily exists only to inform them of the court's various policies and measures. After reading the Daming Daily, the people can of course do whatever they want with it."

"To be completely disrespectful, the people can use it to burn paper or go to the toilet. Your Majesty is well aware of the greater good, so why would you bother with the people?"

"But you, Lord Zhou, are different! You, Lord Zhou, are not an ignorant commoner. You know what the Daming Daily truly represents."

"And you shouldn't be short of paper money for burning and toilet supplies, right?"

"So, if someone like you disrespects the Ming Daily, wouldn't that be dissatisfaction and disrespect towards His Majesty?"

When Zhou Yanru heard this, he was so angry that he couldn't speak for a moment.

Because even though Xue Guoguan's words were tricky, that was exactly what he meant!
He couldn't refute it at all!
After a long time, Zhou Yanru shook his sleeves and went to the side to handle official business alone!
Seeing that Zhou Yanru was completely obedient under Xue Guoguan's governance, the other cabinet ministers naturally did not dare to do anything.

No matter how vicious and glaring the words on the Ming Daily are, they can only pretend not to see them.
Zhu Cilang returned to the Eastern Palace and originally wanted to see how Bi Maokang's research on the flintlock rifle was going, but then he thought, it was only seven o'clock and Bi Maokang might not have gotten up yet.

So he decided to take a rest first.

However, at this moment, a noise suddenly came from the palace next door.

Zhu Cilang raised his eyebrows slightly and asked the guard beside him curiously:
"What's going on? Who's there?"

The guard replied respectfully:

"It's Master Bi Wenxuan."

Bi Wenxuan, Bi Maokang's son, was the one Zhu Cilang had previously entrusted with the glassmaking task.

Zhu Cilang was slightly taken aback when he heard Bi Wenxuan's name, and then asked:

"Why is he here so early?"

The guard shook his head:

"Your Highness the Crown Prince has misunderstood. Lord Bi did not arrive early, but has not left since last night."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Cilang was speechless.

Although making glass is urgent, there is no need to stay up all night without sleep, right?
Although he thought so in his heart, his feet involuntarily walked towards that direction.

Through the window, he saw Bi Wenxuan standing by the fire, staring at it without blinking, his expression so focused that he seemed to have forgotten everything around him.

Zhu Cilang took a quick look and found that the glass making had reached the final step.

As long as it is all melted and then cooled, you can get glass.

Seeing this, he finally did not disturb Bi Wenxuan.

After all, we have reached the last step. We will succeed if we persevere a little longer.

Now it seems that choosing Bi Wenxuan to be responsible for glass manufacturing was indeed a wise choice.

After returning to the Eastern Palace and changing into clothes that were convenient for movement, Zhu Cilang went to the Imperial Stables to practice horse riding, because he didn't want to be like Chongzhen in the future.

(End of this chapter)