Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 804 Farce

Hundreds of officials from the Three Law Departments and the Sixth Branch Corridor, driving hundreds of carriages and pulling hundreds of coffins, came to the gate of Chengtian in a mighty manner.

The person on duty at Chengtianmen is Luo Sigong, the envoy of Jinyiwei Beizhen.

Since Wei Zhongxian was ordered by Zhang Jing to take charge of Jinyiwei, he has vigorously supported Wang Zhizhen who "betrayed" He Liu in the Wei, and deliberately suppressed Luo Sigong.Poor Luo Sigong, the majestic Fushi of Beizhen, has now been reduced to being a watchdog outside the Chengtian Gate.

Luo Sigong yelled at Xu Jin: "Deputy Metropolitan Xu, what are you doing?"

Xu Jin replied: "We want to enter the palace and remonstrate with the emperor! According to the ancestral system, officials must go to the emperor's bedroom to give a speech, and the imperial guards in the palace must not stop them!"

Luo Sigong pointed to the thin willow coffins on the more than 100 carriages, and said loudly: "But the ancestral system did not say that officials can bring coffins into the palace! My lords want to enter the palace to give a memorial, I have no right to stop you. However, these carriages must stop outside the Chengtian Gate, and are not allowed to enter the palace for half a step!"

Xu Jin said impassionedly: "Then trouble Commander Luo, when we all die outside the main hall of Yongshou Palace, put our bodies in these thin willow coffins!"

The room for the supervision of ceremonies.

Zhang Jing was sitting upright on the teacher's chair, closing his eyes and resting his mind.

Holding a thick booklet in his right hand, Wei Zhongxian walked into the guard room: "Eunuch Zhang, the officials have already entered the Chengtian Gate! They are walking towards the main hall of Yongshou Palace!"

Zhang Jing opened his eyes and asked, "Are you ready for everything I asked you to prepare?"

Wei Zhongxian patted the booklet in his hand, and replied: "The answer to Mr. Zhang is all ready!"

Zhang Jing nodded in satisfaction: "Okay, count the [-] East Factory servants you selected, and let's go to Yongshou Palace."

In the main hall of Yongshou Palace.

Emperor Wanli looked at more than 100 speech officials kneeling outside the hall through the main entrance of the hall.He frowned, and said in his heart: These noisy crows are coming to force me again!
Xu Jin and other officials, each holding a brochure in their hands.They shouted in unison: "Please follow the ancestral system, and immediately appoint the eldest son of the emperor as the heir!"

Emperor Wanli rubbed his temple with his right hand, his head hurt a little.

The cries of the officials were repeated and repeated.Over and over again, just say, "Please follow the ancestral system, and immediately appoint the eldest son of the emperor as the crown prince!"

Emperor Wanli suddenly remembered a nursery rhyme that the emperor's sister Zhu Xiang told him when he was five years old: "If you don't listen or listen, you bastard will read the scriptures. If you don't read or look, you bastard will lay eggs."

Not long after, Zhang Jing led Wei Zhongxian into the main hall.

Emperor Wanli pointed to the bluestone slabs outside the hall, and the officials who were kneeling all over the ground asked Zhang Jing, "Do you have any ideas?"

Zhang Jing replied: "Please return to the dragon couch to rest for an hour or two. After an hour or two, the servants will ensure that the bluestone slabs outside the hall are cleaner than ever."

Emperor Wanli questioned Zhang Jing: "Could it be that you want to use force to drive those officials away?"

Zhang Jing kowtowed and said: "Your Majesty, our Ming Dynasty has an ancestral system. No one can drive away officials who speak outside the emperor's bedroom. Slaves will not use force to drive them away."

Emperor Wanli was at a loss: "Without force, can you persuade these crows away with just one mouth?"

Zhang Jing played tricks on purpose: "Your Majesty, just go to Longta to take a rest. The servants will guarantee with their heads that when you wake up, the eunuchs will naturally disperse."

Emperor Wanli thought for a moment, and thought: If Zhang Jing doesn't even have the ability to drive away the eunuchs, there is no need for me to abandon He Liu and protect him as a treacherous eunuch.

Thinking of this, he stopped talking, left the front hall, and went to the dragon couch in the back hall.

Zhang Jing and Wei Zhongxian came to the entrance of the main hall. More than 500 Dongchang fan servants held long sticks and stood upright around the officials.

Zhang Jing told Wei Zhongxian: "Close the door of the palace, don't let their noise disturb the emperor's dream."

Wei Zhongxian joined forces with eight young eunuchs to close the gate of the palace.

Several fan servants brought Zhang Jing a chair, and Zhang Jing sat on the chair, ignoring the officials who shouted in unison.

"Please obey the ancestral system and immediately appoint the eldest son of the emperor as the crown prince!" The shouts resounded through the sky.

Shouting at the top of their lungs, smoke came from the throats of all the speakers.After a few sticks of incense, the shouting changed from loud and clear to hoarse.

Wei Zhongxian offered Zhang Jing a cup of tea.Zhang Jing sipped the tea "piercingly", and looked at the speech officials kneeling on the ground with a half-smile.

Xu Jin finally couldn't bear it anymore.He asked Zhang Jing loudly: "Eunuch Zhang, what do you mean by letting these vicious Dongchang fan servants stand beside us? Are you going to use force to drive us away?"

Zhang Jing chuckled: "Hey, Vice President Xu, how dare I dare! Speakers have the right to speak directly to the emperor, this is the system established by the great grandfather! In the 45th year of Jiajing, the speakers carried the corpse into the Admonishing Lord Jiajing to open the internal transport warehouse to make up for the deficit of the national treasury, Lord Jiajing did not dare to let the imperial army drive away the officials. I, Zhang Jing, a stinky slave with no roots, how dare I violate the system set by the great grandfather ?”

Xu Jin said angrily: "Then why don't you quickly let these gangsters from the East Factory go?"

Zhang Jing gave another smirk: "Oh, Vice President Xu. The Dongchang Fanservants are under the command of the Dongchang Admiral and Eunuch, which is also the ancestral system. You, the right deputy capital censor, seem to have no right to let the Fanservants withdraw. Forget it, you call yours, we stand ours, well water does not interfere with river water."

Xu Jin couldn't say no to Zhang Jing, so he had no choice but to continue shouting to the officials over and over again, "Please follow the ancestral system, and immediately appoint the eldest son of the emperor as the heir apparent."

After half an hour, the throats of the officials were about to burst from shouting.

Xu Jin thought to himself, going on like this is not an option.Suddenly, he thought of Yang Lian who sacrificed his life for righteousness in order to bring down Yan Song.Hai Rui, who is the leader of the court and regards death as home.

Xu Jin stood up and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty, since ancient times, it has been a battle to the death with martial arts, and remonstrance with death! Today, I must follow the example of the sages and remonstrate with the emperor with death! I hope that the death of my minister will make the emperor change his mind and follow the ancestral system!" "

After finishing speaking, Xu Jin bumped his head against the stone railing in front of the main hall.

Before Xu Jin's head touched the stone railing, what he thought was: Hit it down hard, Xu Jin!After this collision, you will be like Mr. Zhongzhi and Mr. Zhongjie, and you will be famous through the ages!
When his head touched the hard stone railing, he changed his mind: What if after I die, the emperor decrees that the historian will not write my name in the history?What if after I die, the emperor still insists on going his own way and appoints the third son of the emperor as the crown prince?Then am I dead in vain?

Xu Jin still lacks the courage to die boldly.He is looking for a reason for himself to live on.

In the blink of an eye, Xu Jin deliberately held back some of his forward momentum.

"Boom~poof~"

Xu Jin's big head hit the stone railing, but he only smashed his head, but his brain didn't come out.He fainted, but his life was not in danger.

Zhang Jing smiled and told one of the servants beside him: "That little one, what are you still doing in a daze? Hurry up and bandage the wounds of Deputy Xu's capital, so that he can continue to speak to the emperor and become our great loyal minister of Ming Dynasty!"

(End of this chapter)