After having lunch, Queen Zhou was about to start weaving again. Suddenly she saw the Crown Prince walking in quickly with a man in his arms. Queen Zhou was shocked and hurriedly got up to greet him.

"Your Majesty...ah...what happened to your father..."

She was just about to ask the emperor why this was happening, when she suddenly saw that the person Zhu Cixi was holding was actually her husband, Emperor Chongzhen, and Empress Zhou's face suddenly turned pale.

Zhu Cixiang smiled slightly and said:

"Don't worry, Queen. Your Majesty and your father had a few drinks. My father is not very drunk. When you heard him calling your mother's name, Your Majesty will send him to your place right away..."

"Oh, then the queen mother can rest assured...this child is talking nonsense..."

When she heard that the father and son were drinking and the emperor was drunk by his son, Empress Zhou was very happy. This is what a family looks like. Chongzhen used to be a very old-fashioned person.

But soon after she heard Chongzhen calling her name in her dream, Empress Zhou's pretty face immediately turned red. She glared at her son with an irritated look, and immediately helped put Chongzhen on her phoenix couch.

Zhu Cixi quietly glanced at his mother and said with a smile:

"Mother, take good care of your father. The emperor must resign in advance..."

"Your Majesty..."

Just when Empress Zhou was about to ask what the two men were talking about, Zhu Cihong slipped away. She smiled and shook her head, then waved to the palace maids and eunuchs beside her:

"Everyone, please step back!"

…

As soon as Zhu Cixi left Kunning Palace, the system prompt sounded:

"Ding, has the host signed in?"

"Sign in!"

"Ding, congratulations to the host for signing in with three thousand flintlock guns and half a million rounds of lead bullets!"

"Ding, congratulations to the host for signing in two thousand rifled guns and two hundred thousand rounds of mini bullets!

"Ding, congratulations to the host for signing in two thousand grenades, twenty mortars, and two thousand mortar shells!"

The system has not prompted me to sign in for a few days. I did not expect that the sign-in reward today would be so generous.

Zhu Cixi was overjoyed and a little helpless at the same time, but he actually had three thousand flintlock guns.

Mini bullets for rifled guns have already been developed, so what’s the use of a flintlock gun?

However, he soon came up with an idea and decided to equip a mysterious team with three thousand flintlock guns.

August 9

Emperor Chongzhen found that the Huangji Hall was very deserted early in the court, and there were many vacancies in the two groups of civil and military ministers. He knew that those officials should never be able to go to court.

After paying homage, the ministers immediately knelt down in the Huangji Palace and impeached Zhou Yuji, the commander of the Weiwu Battalion, Sun Yingyuan, the commander of the Longteng Army, Li Ruolian, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, and others.

Except for the cabinet and a few ministers, most civil and military ministers, including nobles, all supported the impeachment of the crown prince's generals.

They were charged with raiding officials' mansions without authorization and brutally killing ministers. This was no different from building slaves and rogues.

Of course, some people took the opportunity to impeach the crown prince. Such a cruel crown prince must not inherit the throne, otherwise the Ming Dynasty will be in danger!

More than a hundred officials resigned, and they wanted to threaten Emperor Chongzhen with the closure of the yamen.

Demanding severe punishment for the Crown Prince and his subordinates, and the disbandment of the East Palace Guards and the Imperial Guards.

Zhu Cixiang sat next to Chongzhen without saying a word. He wanted to see how the emperor would handle the matter.

Ever since he knew what the crown prince had done, Emperor Chongzhen had guessed that today's scene would happen. He had long been mentally prepared for this, and today he was no longer as hesitant as before.

The crown prince once said that there were many people who wanted to be officials in the Ming Dynasty. Emperor Hongwu Gao killed many corrupt officials, but there were still many scholars vying to be officials.

All resigned officials Chongzhen must be punished accurately, and the officials who yelled the most fiercely were killed with a cane.

The officials who impeached the crown prince and the censor who impeached the officials under the crown prince will all be punished with thirty rods.

Li Ruolian was so angry that he was impeached by hundreds of officials. When Emperor Chongzhen's decree came down, he immediately ordered the Jin Yiwei to take action, beating these old guys until they cried for father and mother.

Zhu Cixiang was greatly surprised by the emperor's actions. He did not expect that he would be so decisive today.

I secretly gave the emperor a thumbs up, and then walked outside the Meridian Gate to enjoy the battle of hundreds of officials.

The crackling sound of the imperial staff outside the Meridian Gate being slapped on the buttocks of the officials kept ringing, mixed with the miserable howls of the officials, like a symphony that was difficult for ordinary people to understand!

Seeing that Shi Bangzhao, the censor of Youdu, was beaten to pieces, Zhu Cihong stepped up to him and said:

"Master Shi, why are you doing this? Have you forgotten the ancestral system established by Emperor Hongwu Gao and embezzled sixty taels of skin and grass? My father has been very kind to you today. Think of the people who are starving to death. Are you watching?

Look at those corrupt officials, none of them deserve to die..."

Although Shi Bangzhao was beaten to pieces, he still insisted on his opinion:

"Your Highness, where does your behavior place the laws of the Ming Dynasty? Officials who break the law should be dealt with by the Ministry of Punishment. You cannot use lynching. How is this approach different from that of bandits?"

Zhu Cixi smiled coldly:

"Send it to the Ministry of Punishment for disposal. Corrupt officials have been rampant for so many years. Where does the Ming Dynasty law stand? Are all the officials of the Ministry of Punishment dead by then? You old stubborn, do you know what it means to use heavy codes in troubled times?"

"Don't kill him, I want him to see with his own eyes how the Ming Dynasty was revived..."

Zhu Cixiang told the Jin Yiwei and turned around to return to Huangji Palace. If Shi Bangzhao's family had not been loyal to the Ming Dynasty after hanging the southeast branch in Chongzhen, Zhu Cixiang would not have said a word to him.

Seeing the Crown Prince leaving, Shi Bangzhao was speechless for a moment.

The officials who were held in thrall by the Imperial Staff were filled with hatred when they looked at the back of the Little Killing Star. The Emperor is now unscrupulously defending the Little Killing Star. These noble officials will have a hard time in the future!

Most of the officials in the Huangji Palace were missing. Zhu Cixiang glanced around and found that there were only more than a hundred civil and military ministers present.

Zhu Cixiang knew that these officials were not necessarily loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and there were many officials who acted according to the prevailing situation or who were too afraid to step forward.

Yang Shicong is one of them. He escaped again by relying on his sixth sense that is higher than ordinary people.

The chief ministers and ministers of the cabinet were all new officials who had joined the cabinet. They were grateful to the emperor and the prince, and no one came forward to support the impeachment of the prince or his officials.

More than 20 people including the British Duke in Xun Guili, Liu Wenbing, Liu Kongzhao, Wang Xiantong, Zhang Qingzhen, Zhang Guoji, and Prince Consort Duwei remained unmoved.

Seeing Zhu Cixi return to the court again, Chongzhen's face darkened slightly. The court was like child's play, coming and going was not normal.

Zhu Cixiang did not pay attention to the emperor's face at all. He bowed to Chongzhen and said:

"Father, how do you plan to deal with Gao Yingxiang, the leader of the bandits, and Yang Guli, the son-in-law of Jian Nu?"

Chongzhen originally planned to deal with Gao Yingxiang and Yang Guli after Jiannu came out of seclusion. When the crown prince suddenly asked about it, he immediately said:

"The decree is passed that three hours later, Gao Yingxiang, the leader of the thieves, and Yang Guli, the son-in-law of Jiannu E, will be executed at Caishikou. All the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty came to watch the execution, and they were all carried away by the officials who were unable to walk with the imperial staff!"

Li Ruolian, a talented scholar, hurriedly accepted the order:

"Follow the decree"

Zhu Cihong and the officials in the Huangji Palace understood the emperor's intention. The purpose of disclosing Ling Chi, Gao Yingxiang and Yang Guli was to deter corrupt officials and those who defended them.

Three hours later, at the entrance of a vegetable market in the capital, Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang and Jiannu Er's son-in-law Yang Guli met for the first time in the capital of the Ming Dynasty. They were tied face to face to two wooden pillars, with a distance of five meters between them! Like the Ming Dynasty,
Chapter completed!