At this point, Wu Mengming had no choice but to go to Qianqing Palace to apologize to Emperor Chongzhen.

The civil service group staged such a large-scale demonstration that they even mobilized the Imperial Academy and the Hanlin Academy to force the palace to be imprisoned.

This kind of thing had never happened in the more than two hundred years of Ming Dynasty history, and Chongzhen felt extremely ashamed.

When the imperial edict was rejected by the Cabinet and the Ministry of Punishment, Emperor Chongzhen Long Yan was furious. He wanted to kill many people. Officials from the Ministry of Punishment of the Cabinet and Hanlin, the Imperial Academy's supervisor, all wanted to kill.

In fact, Emperor Chongzhen did not want to completely break up with the civil service group, so as not to ruin his image as a wise emperor that he had maintained for many years.

After Wu Mengming, the commander of the Jinyiwei, was also a civil servant, Chongzhen hoped that he could resolve this matter.

As the emperor, he has already made concessions and removed Li Ruolian and Gao Wencheng from their posts. It would be best for the civil service group to take a step back and put an end to this matter.

After Wu Mengming left, Chongzhen had been waiting anxiously for news about him. He had been in poor health recently and fell asleep on the Long Bookcase without realizing it.

As soon as I fell asleep, I had a dream. In the dream, the civil servant group finally stopped fighting against him. When he went to court, they knelt down in the Huangji Hall and shouted, "My Emperor is Holy Ming", and Chongzhen laughed.

"Your Majesty, Lord Wu, please see me!"

Suddenly, Wang Chengen's voice sounded in his ears. Chongzhen opened his eyes and raised his head. Only then did he realize that it was just a dream.

Chongzhen felt a little uncomfortable because his sweet dream was disturbed by Lao Wang, but he did not blame Lao Wang.

"What's disturbing my sweet dream?"

Wang Cheng'en, the most loyal eunuch in history, also saw the emperor smiling just now. He really hoped that the emperor's dream would come true, but unfortunately it backfired.

Wang Chengen bowed and said:

"Your Majesty, Wu Mengming, commander of the Jinyi Guards, would like to see you!"

Chongzhen immediately became energetic after hearing this. He immediately adjusted his sitting posture and said:

"Summon!"

"Follow the decree"

Wang Chengen received the order and bowed out of the Qianqing Palace. Soon Wu Mengming, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, came to Chongzhen. His knees softened and he knelt down on the ground and kowtowed:

"Your Majesty, I am incompetent, please punish me!"

A dream is just a dream after all. Chongzhen could already see something was wrong from Wu Mengming's expression:

"Wu Mengming, what's going on?"

"Bang bang..."

Wu Mengming kowtowed to Chongzhen three more times:

"Your Majesty, I deserve to die for my crime. The conflict between the Jin Yiwei and the demonstrators caused serious casualties..."

Wu Mengming's words were unclear, and Chongzhen thought that Jin Yiwei had been injured by the prison guards:

"Wu Mengming, how many casualties are there in the Jinyi Guards? Is anyone among the prison guards injured? Please tell me clearly!"

Wu Mengming should explain the matter directly. He was hesitant and unable to explain the reason. Wang Chengen was so anxious that he wanted to go up and give Wu Mengming a kick.

How did Wang Chengen know that Wu Mengming was still in a state of confusion at this time, and he really didn't know how to report it to the emperor.

Seeing that Chongzhen was angry, he told what happened:

"Your Majesty, there was a serious conflict between the Jin Yiwei and the demonstrators, resulting in the casualties of more than 600 prison students..."

What happened was far beyond Chongzhen's expectation, and it was exactly the opposite of the situation in his dream. Chongzhen suddenly trembled all over as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

After a while, Chongzhen grabbed the memorial on the imperial case and hit Wu Mengming on the head, then stood up and kicked Wu Mengming over:

"What? What did you say? I promoted you to be the commander of the Royal Guards. You repay me like this. You are extremely incompetent. Someone will send Wu Mengming to death row..."

"I am guilty of death! Your Majesty, take care of your dragon body!"

Wu Mengming touched his head to the ground. He did not dare to ask Emperor Chongzhen to spare his life. No one could bear such a thing, and the Jinyiwei Yamen might disappear.

The palace guards came in and were about to drag Wu Mengming out, but were stopped by Wang Chengen:

"Your Majesty, it's still very chaotic outside. It won't be too late to deal with Mr. Wu once the matter is found out!"

Chongzhen was already confused at this time. He really didn't know how to deal with this matter, let alone how to explain it to the civil service group. He just felt that something was going to change.

"Wang Daban, how do I investigate? Who can take care of my worries?"

Lao Wang thought that the prince acted decisively, bowed and said:

"Your Majesty, you can listen to my advice."

Hearing the word "prince", Chongzhen suddenly became furious:

"Don't mention that treacherous son to me, he is the cause of all this..."

After losing his temper, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly remembered the civil servants outside the Qianqing Palace:

"Are all the civil servants who have been admonishing us still there?"

"Your Majesty, they are all gone."

Those civil servants remonstrated as if they were in court. The emperor did not show up before dark, so they patted their butts and got up and returned home.

Hearing that all the officials had left, Chongzhen felt a little more relaxed. He was really worried that those officials would kneel outside Qianqing Palace day and night and refuse to leave.

There was really no one to discuss it with, and none of the civil servants in the cabinet, Chongzhen, wanted to meet him. In desperation, he finally prepared to discuss it with the traitor:

"Tell me the traitor to see me!"

"According to the order!"

Wang Chengen received the order and immediately rushed to Zhongcui Palace.

Zhu Cihong was not as hard-working as Chongzhen. When Wang Chengen asked to see him, he had already slept.

After being woken up by Hu Bao, Zhu Cixiang immediately got up, changed his clothes and headed to Qianqing Palace while being waited on by two personal maids.

"See you, Father!"

Seeing Chongzhen sitting there with a pale face, Zhu Cixiang hurriedly stepped forward to salute, but Chongzhen ignored him at all.

Zhu Cixiang smiled awkwardly, stood up, poured a glass of water and placed it on the imperial case in front of Chongzhen:

"I wonder why my father summoned my son and ministers late at night?"

Chongzhen looked at the traitor in front of him, and he finally spoke:

"It's all the trouble caused by you, the rebellious son. The civil servants remonstrated in the Qianqing Palace, and the Imperial Academy and the Hanlin Academy also forced the palace. I ordered the Jin Yiwei to go and persuade him to leave.

Who would have thought that a serious conflict would occur, causing a large number of casualties among the supervisors and literati? Don’t you think you are awesome? Tell me what you think!”

Zhu Cixiang was secretly amused when he heard this. It seemed that the farce he directed had left his father at a loss.

As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, how could he abuse himself like this? He would arrest those who deserved to be killed. To deal with this group of corrupt scholars, the country must be governed with iron and blood.

Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong cannot be captured for the time being. The Jiannu slaves in Liaodong cannot be defeated for the time being. If we cannot be tough on the civil servant group, the Ming Dynasty will be completely finished.

Zhu Cixiang cupped his hands and said:

"Father, now you know why Emperor Tianqi and Emperor Wanli stayed in the harem and couldn't leave! They just didn't want to face the ugly faces of these corrupt scholars.

Back then, Emperor Hongwu Gao defeated my Zhu family with just one bowl. How did he deal with corrupt officials? In one word, kill!

These literati are just workers of my Zhu family. Since they have obtained their fame after ten years of hard work, they must serve the Ming Dynasty and the people of the world, instead of always rebelling against the emperor for the sake of their own interests.

The Imperial College and the Hanlin Academy were institutions that promoted and trained officials of the Ming Dynasty. They should always consider the people and the emperor, instead of following the civil servant group and opposing the imperial power all day long.

Their behavior is no different from treason. The ancestral motto of the Ming Dynasty states that the students are not allowed to discuss the military, state and government, and what do these students in the Imperial College mean? In troubled times, heavy rituals are used, and the Jin Yiwei kills well!" I like the Ming Dynasty. In the prosperous times, we started from the Prince Supervising the country.
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