Chapter 218: Sin yourself edict

As for those petty officials, they had very few opportunities to see the emperor. At most, they only had a glance from a distance in the morning court, or they met with several officials together with the emperor when reporting on their duties.

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The emperor is very sacred in their hearts.

The Emperor of Japan is known as a living god, but in ancient times, as the Son of Heaven, the emperor's holiness was no worse than that of the Emperor of Japan. It was even higher.

Therefore, as soon as Zhu Qizhen's edict came out, high-level officials directly contacted the decision-making officials, and they had already guessed some of Zhu Qizhen's intentions, so they felt that the emperor was playing rogue.

But the middle-level and lower-level officials never thought of this, or they didn't think about it at all.

Although some of these officials were trying to be gregarious, some officials really cried.

After all, in general, the emperor Zhu Qizhen did a good job, was diligent and caring for the people, and was always very timely in providing disaster relief. He had a good reputation among officials and the people.

Liu Qiu walked out of the queue on his knees and said: "I beg your Majesty to take back your order. Wa Ci is just a clown, and it's just a lucky break. Why do you have to do this to your Majesty? I would like to go out to the town to announce the greatness and fight for your Majesty's thieves."

"Please help your majesty fight against thieves."

"I beg your Majesty to take back your order." Zhou Chen did not expect that Zhu Qizhen would play like this, and for a moment he felt like a needle had been inserted into every pore in his body.

Without him, Zhou Chen, as the chief assistant, is the most responsible for this sinner edict incident.

After all, everyone now accepts that the chief minister of the cabinet is the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty. Although he is still different from the prime minister in terms of authority, he is actually the head of the hundred officials.

Since he is the leader of the ministers, who should be the most important minister if he wants to humiliate him and die?

Fortunately, this is not the Han Dynasty.

If it was the Han Dynasty and Zhu Qizhen did this, Zhou Chen would probably have no choice but to wipe his neck.

For a time, all the ministers also tried to persuade him.

Zhu Qizhen signaled, and Fan Hong shouted at the top of his lungs: "Quiet."

As soon as Fan Hong shouted, countless Han generals naturally shouted in unison, immediately suppressing the voices of the ministers.

Zhu Qizhen stood up and walked to the steps and said: "Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there has never been a loss of one hundred thousand soldiers, but this incident happened when I was in power. It is such a shame and humiliation. How can I turn a blind eye? How can I turn a blind eye?"

If you can deceive yourself and others, your children and grandchildren will be unworthy, and the power of your father and ancestors will be dissipated. Every time I think about this, I don’t know how to meet Emperor Taizong under Jiuquan."

Zhu Qizhen's words were originally 30% genuine and 70% performance, but as he spoke, he was moved by his true feelings and his eyes became red.

However, what he was thinking about was not how to explain to Emperor Taizong, but how to explain to himself.

It’s been fifteen years. It’s been fifteen years since he traveled through time.

I felt that I had worked hard enough, but I still received a slap in the face. Is it true that I am so incompetent? Or is this the case tomorrow?

Well, I have always been busy working almost all year round, not having fun with things or beauties. Once there is important news, I have to get up to deal with it even after I close my eyes.

Don't dare to slack off even a little bit.

Isn't all this useful?

"So what if I whitewash peace? I have escaped the humiliation of today, but how can I escape the verbal and written criticism of future generations? I am determined not to be like this."

Zhu Qizhen said: "I will not destroy the tile thorns. I have no words to see my ancestors. Even if they die, they must cover their faces with a white cloth to avoid being buried with their faces covered."

As soon as this statement came out, even the ministers were shocked. Liu Qiu said: "Your Majesty, this------,"

In the eyes of the ancients, matters of life and death should never be taken lightly. Little did they know that although Zhu Qizhen had doubts about time travel, other than that, he was a complete atheist, believing that death is like a lamp going out.

After he died, even if his body was played with eighteen shapes, he didn't care. A piece of white cloth meant nothing.

Zhu Qizhen stretched out his hand, and Fan Hong immediately took out the imperial edict in his hand. After Zhu Qizhen touched it carefully, he said: "Fan Hong, order King Ni to enshrine this edict in the Taimiao, so that the ancestors will know about me.

If you don't want to destroy Wa Ci and kill him first, then don't take him out of the Ancestral Temple. Even if I fail to complete it, my descendants should follow my thoughts and punish Wa Ci for his hatred."

Then Zhu Qizhen got up and left.

This early morning court ended like this.

But Zhu Qizhen left, but the officials below refused to leave.

For a time, Zhou Chen was surrounded by countless ministers, and they all said anything. Some said, Zhou Chen, as the chief minister, how could you let your majesty do this? Some said, Zhou Chen, your majesty is like this, Zhou Chen, how can you be content with your position?

.Extremely shameless.

In short, Zhou Chen was bombarded by countless people.

If there weren't many big Han generals guarding him, some might even have punched Zhou Chen.

Zhou Chen said loudly: "Everyone, please be patient. I'm going to see Your Majesty right away to ask Your Majesty to take back the order." Then Zhou Chen, protected by the guards, immediately left for Qianqing Palace.

Cabinet ministers are treated almost the same way.

Several cabinet ministers, six ministers, and even the general of the Fifth Army Governor's Office, as well as Liu Qiu, all asked for an audience. Even Zhang Fu also asked for an audience. Although Baoding Hou Mengying had taken Zhang Fu's place at this moment, Zhang Fu's cabinet minister position

Not exempted.

Zhu Qizhen sorted out his thoughts in Qianqing Palace. He also knew in his heart that such a thing was indispensable, but at this point, no one would dare to stop the battle between Ming Dynasty and Wasi. Even the government and the public opposed it.

The fighting has turned into noise.

Although Zhu Qizhen sacrificed all his reputation, even in the history books, he could not escape it. But as long as he can complete his political ambitions, this is nothing.

"Your Majesty," Fan Hong said, "all ministers would like to see you."

Zhu Qizhen touched his face with a wet towel. He had tears just now. Now he sobered up and said, "Invite him in."

No matter how clumsy his methods were, whether he failed to get on the stage, or whether he hurt himself or the enemy, he finally accomplished his political goal, because the passive situation in the Maoerzhuang battle became active.

But even so, some things are inevitable.

Not long after, the ministers all arrived.

Zhu Qizhen didn't wait for them to say anything, so he said: "I know what you want to say, but Jun Wu is joking. Since I have said it, I will never take it back. If you want me to take back the sinner edict from the Ancestral Temple, I will destroy Wa."

prick."

"Now that you are here, I am about to ask you that the imperial court divided millions of hectares of land to support the army. Since I came to the throne, I have never treated the army badly. It can be said that I trust you, but there is a situation like this. What is the problem?

Where? The iron army of my great ancestor Taizong has turned into dregs now."

Zhang Fu felt sad in his heart. At this moment, he had received a lot of news, such as the defeated generals who had returned, and he also understood the entire Maoerzhuang war process.

He admitted that the combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty cavalry is not as good as that of Taizu Taizong, but it is not dregs. Most of the problem lies with Cheng Guogong.

But at this moment, Zhu Qizhen has made a golden statement to characterize this matter, so he said that it is dregs of tofu, and it will only be dregs of tofu from now on.

"Your Majesty," Wang Ji said immediately: "The guards have been decaying for a year or two, not a day or two. In the early years of Zhengtong, Dongli Gong sent the Qing army censor to inspect the guards all over the world. There was a shortage of more than one million, and the Ming Dynasty

There are more than three million troops, which is a shortage of nearly one-third, and this was the number ten years ago."

"Now the vacancies are only above this, not below. Soldiers in various guards are slaves of officers. They beat and scold at every turn, even marching in the military. Their lives are worse than death. Even the common people will not marry military households. I am in Yunnan

The guardsmen I saw were almost beggars, so the former Duke of Guizhou died of fear due to the Luchuan Rebellion. He was not afraid of Luchuan, but frightened by such soldiers. How could he pacify Luchuan?"

"As for the thousands of soldiers of Yeliu Zong who fought in three provinces for many years, it was not because of the decay of the guards. What was the reason for this? If at the time of Taizu, one guard was enough to control them, but they raised 100,000 troops and sent heavy generals to take charge of them.

.The Fujian Guard Army has suffered heavy casualties. Now your Majesty pays heavily to support the Beijing camp and the frontier troops, but some of them are actually in the hands of the soldiers. I have heard that last year, your Majesty inspected the army many times, so that the long-term workers near the capital were all
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