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Chapter 213 A good show

"Your Majesty... Something happened at the Wumen Gate!"

Zhu Chunchen looked solemn and walked into the office quickly. He saw Emperor Chongzhen meeting Xu Guangqi. He felt nervous and hurriedly bowed: "I have lost my etiquette before me, please ask Your Majesty..."

"Xu Qing... I need to worry more about the Wubei Academy."

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Zhu Chunchen and said to Xu Guangqi, who had a slightly frown, "After all the talents summoned arrive in the capital, we will report this to me. I will summon them at that time, especially those Western missionaries. I will have a good chat with them and see if there are still those good things in addition to the Ming Dynasty."

Xu Guangqi hurriedly bowed and said, "I will receive the order!"

Emperor Chongzhen knew what kind of order the world outside the Ming Dynasty was and what circumstances it was in at this stage, and what kind of situation it was in, and also understood what changes it would be made after the Ming Dynasty.

However, within the Ming Dynasty, I didn’t know much about this. Emperor Chongzhen wanted to connect the Ming Dynasty with the world in his own way.

Influenced by the idea of ​​the Heavenly Kingdom in the Dynasty, a mainstream thought of the Ming Dynasty was that there was nothing to explore in the world outside the Ming Dynasty.

Even if the territory outside is vast, it is not as rich as the Ming Dynasty. In fact, this is not the case. If the maritime ban can be gradually opened up in a true sense, the pressure faced by the state can be greatly alleviated accordingly.

Who could imagine that when the Ming Dynasty court repeatedly jumped to open the sea and ban the sea, the southeast of the Ming Dynasty, which is closest to the South China Sea, was popular among the people for maritime trade. How much money can be earned every year with hot overseas goods such as porcelain, tea, silk, etc.

However, most of the money earned was not circulated in the Ming Dynasty, but was hidden in the cellars, or they would buy land.

In the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, most of the powerful, officials, gentry, landlords, merchants under the southeast of the Ming Dynasty were rebels, and they made a lot of money and enjoyed the privileges they gave them. The key was to scold the court for being tyrannical and should not seize profits from the people. Isn’t this a pure and exquisite self-interest group?

"Say, what happened?"

Emperor Chongzhen frowned and looked at Zhu Chunchen and said, "Can you call you, the Duke of the Ming Dynasty, the left governor of the Beijing Guards, act so panicked. Is someone gathering a group to rebel? Or do you want to attack the palace?"

Zhu Chunchen hurriedly bowed and said, "Your Majesty... It was the Jinyiwei who escorted Yuan Chonghuan and paraded in various courtyards in the capital to show public opinion. This led to many people in the court and the civilians. They were very angry about this and said Jinyiwei..."

"They are indignant, I am not indignant yet."

Emperor Chongzhen stood up and said coldly: "The Jinyiwei supervised the Yuan case according to my will. What does the Jinyiwei do and what does not do? What are their qualifications? Here we are pointing fingers.

Some people always have a lucky mentality.

If the national dynasty is not changed, something big will happen sooner or later.

Let's go, I want to see how much these people can make trouble. Xu Qing, go and call everyone from the Military Affairs Office to accompany me to the Meridian Gate to see this rare grand occasion.

Wang Dehua! You send someone to Wenhua Palace, call Han Yuanfu, Li Biao and others, all of them go to the Meridian Gate, and also ask them, the cabinet ministers, to accompany me to have a good look!"

"I will receive the order!"

"I will receive the order!"

Regarding the public opinion orientation in the capital in recent times, Emperor Chongzhen knew what was going on. Without the support of ministers in the court, it would definitely be impossible to rely on a group of Qingliu and scholars to know so much about the inside.

Scholars participated in politics and made decisions in politics and statutory affairs. It was explicitly prohibited in all dynasties, but in the Ming Dynasty, it gradually became a trend and could even influence the court.

Although Emperor Chongzhen knew that the Ming Dynasty's civil servant group was a huge and complicated existence, it was still possible to deal with some people alone.

Luo Yangxing was asked to escort Yuan Chonghuan to parade in the streets, and asked the gathered storytellers to arrange short stories. Emperor Chongzhen's backup plan was waiting for the right opportunity to attack.

"Your Majesty, you shouldn't indulge the factory guards like this. Luo Yangxing is a traitor. This move sets the power of our country's dynasty, where is the law and discipline of the Ming Dynasty?"

"Are you blind? Why do you collude with these Jinyiwei? Let us go, you guys, it's time to help the country!"

Outside the messy Meridian Gate, a group of emotional officials and Imperial College Supervisors rushed to the wall of people blocking their eyes, trying to kill the loyal Jinyiwei, destroy the erected wooden signs, and tore up Zhang Bu's big-character poster.

"Damn, these guys are all crazy!"

Standing on the Meridian Gate Tower, Tang Guozuo, saw the chaotic scene in front of him, was so anxious that he sweated on his forehead and cursed: "Hurry up... and then he can draw some people to stabilize the situation."

Tang Guozuo was so angry that he was doing his job well, but he didn't expect that this would happen. This was called the Jinyiwei stationed at the Meridian Gate, who was beaten up by these officials and scholars, and he was stabbed to the emperor and the matter was broken.

"This is really a big deal~"

When the familiar voice appeared on the Meridian Gate Tower, Tang Guozuo was stunned and turned around with wide eyes. Seeing Emperor Chongzhen surrounded by a group of people, he hurriedly ran forward and bowed, "My minister Tang Guozuo, pay homage to Your Majesty."

"Yeah, no gift."

The top leader of Emperor Chongzhen, with no joy or sorrow, said, "You guys, I asked you to see a good show. This should be rarely found in my Ming Dynasty."

Following behind, Han Dong, Li Biao and other cabinet ministers, as well as Xu Guangqi and other military ministers, all had different expressions, and many of them had sweat on their foreheads.

"Is this a declaration of authority to me?"

Emperor Chongzhen stood with his hips on his hips, looked at the situation outside the Meridian Gate, turned to look at Han and the others, and said, "Once, it was simply stated that the Jinyiwei did not lynch Yuan Chonghuan, and asked the people in the capital to know how Yuan Chonghuan deceived the emperor and how he did it.

I have been so open to my horizons. There are so many people gathered in the Meridian Gate to reveal their so-called propositions.

Li Biao, don’t you have anything to say?”

"minister…"

Li Biao, who was named in public, trembled and hurriedly bowed: "Your Majesty... I don't understand, Your Majesty..."

"Don't understand? Don't know?"

Emperor Chongzhen smiled, pointed his hand at Li Biao, and said, "Li Biao, Li Biao, do you think in your heart that except for you, you are smart and smart, everyone else in the Ming Dynasty is a fool?

Have you forgotten what you did some time ago? You are so noble that you forget so much."

A cold sweat broke out on Li Biao's forehead, his head was lowered, and a panicked expression appeared on his face. Could it be that the emperor knew what he had done in private?

Han Du, who was standing with his hands down, felt upset at this moment. The thing he was most worried about was still happening. The emperor was about to take action.

"Han Qing, I will leave the things that happened outside the Meridian Gate to you, the chief minister of the cabinet, to do it."

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Han Dong and said indifferently: "No matter why they came, who was instigated by them, I don't want to listen to what they said.

Some people in the court wanted to pull Yuan Chonghuan out of the Jinyiwei and hand it over to the Three Laws for supervision. And I was so impatient that I felt more and more that I felt in my heart how much Yuan Chonghuan had done behind my back.

Li Biao, please submit a memorial to resign yourself. I will leave you some face, otherwise you can go to the Ministry of Justice to explain. Don’t think that if I am in the inner court, I will not know what’s happening outside.”

Li Biao was stunned.

Han Du was stunned.

The others present were either shocked, unbelievable, or surprised, unable to believe what they heard.

"Duke Chengguo, stay here." Emperor Chongzhen shook his sleeves and looked at Zhu Chunchen who was stunned and said, "Assist Han Qing in quelling the Meridian Rebellion.

If anyone dares to contradict Han Qing and dares to despise the laws and regulations of the Ming Dynasty, they will be arrested and handed over to the Ministry of Justice!”

"I will receive the order!"

Emperor Chongzhen left, ignored Li Biao and the others at all. He struted with his head held high and walked into the afternoon gate, as if he had never been here.

Emperor Chongzhen knew that the public opinion orientation that suddenly arose was Liu Zongzhou and Li Biao, who were doing it secretly, but more people were involved and did not find out clearly.

Some ministers in the court thought that if they were to set off public opinion orientation, they could force themselves to give in. That purity is a dream thing.

The reason why the Jinyiwei supervised the Yuan Chonghuan case was that Emperor Chongzhen wanted to use this case to defeat some ministers who were innocent and did not do practical things, and use the rules of the game they followed to ask them to step down first, and then discuss the crimes based on Yuan Chonghuan's confession.

Although Li Biao's reputation is not as good as Yuan Chonghuan, he is the second assistant to the cabinet after all, and it is unreasonable to dismiss him without any reason.
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