Emperor Longqing summoned the court officials to negotiate the old system for Li Yanzhi to discuss the matter. In addition to ministers and censors, King Lu, King Zhou, and even King Jing also arrived. Hu Jingzong, King Jing, was the teacher of King Jing, and also followed him.

There was news in the palace that the Jinyiwei informed the Lu Mansion that Lu Bing was already ill at this time. Lu Errong rushed to Beijing to take care of him. After hearing this, Lu Bing couldn't help but feel disappointed: "Except for King Lu and King Zhou, there are all small characters who are making trouble, but it's a pity."

Lu Errong said next to him: "Dad just cares about recuperation, no matter what they do. These people are definitely not opponents of Mr. Xu."

Lu Bing said: "Those little censors are really not worth laughing at, but if King Lu and King Zhou are all here, this matter is a bit difficult to deal with. After all, what we have to make decisions this time is the affairs of the sect's mansion, that is, the family affairs of their Zhu family. Although the chief minister is big, when the emperor meets King Lu, King Zhou, and King Jing, when it comes to this matter, it is just uncles and brothers talking about their own affairs, and the cabinet is not easy to interrupt. If he insists on speaking, it is rude." He ordered someone to inquire again, but said that King Lu of Zhou went in first, and King Jing and the ministers were still waiting outside. Lu Bing pondered slightly and said: "Xu Jie is Xu Jie after all. Now, those little censors are afraid that they don't even know how to die."

Outside the Golden Palace, Zhu Zhejiang and several censors gathered together and said, "Li Zhe was arbitrarily changing the ancestral system and rebelled against the court's principles. Today, the emperor was in charge of the court, and the kings were guarding him. The reason was with us. We just happened to support the emperor and demote the treacherous officials in this matter. Whether the court can rebuild its prestige is today!"

A censor named Yu Wenlong said: "It's just that Zhenhai Marquis is powerful now, and the prime minister prefers him. Today's court meeting may not be smooth."

A few young and energetic people said: "This matter is related to the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. Even if we are beaten by the court, we will do whatever we want!"

Zhu Zhejiang smiled and said, "I have already prepared the coffin after I sent the mansion report. If the ministers of the palace are unreasonable today, I will be killed in the Golden Palace. It is also called the evil people who know that there are still strong iron ministers in the Ming Dynasty, so they dare not act recklessly!"

When the censors heard this, they all applauded and their momentum became stronger.

Hu Jingzong secretly reminded King Jing, saying: "Today, as long as the prince can grasp the right measure, he can rebuild his trust with the son of today. Now that the enemy is in front of him, His Majesty also needs the support of his brothers. As long as he demoted Xu Jie and deposed Li Zhe, the world will definitely be. Prince, you will be the prince of the government! By then, although you are not the emperor of the Nine Five, you will be above ten thousand people!"

They didn't expect that they would wait outside the hall and wait, but they didn't see the emperor summoning him. From dawn to noon, King Jing thought that he and Longqing were brothers, and King Lu and Zhou were both side branches. The side branches went in first, but asked the brothers to wait here for a long time. I was afraid something was wrong, so I was a little afraid. Wei Liangbi had already been sick and did not come, so Ye Hong also wanted to retreat.

It was not until noon that the court came to summon him. It turned out that Xu Jie and Ding Rukui went to the palace to ask for a meeting in the morning and reported many other important matters. In terms of means, the little emperor was not Xu Jie's opponent. He became nervous when he heard about the war and rebellion. In fact, the Ming Dynasty is so vast, and the years have not been very good. It is very easy to find out a few unrest and disasters. But how big the unrest and disasters are, it depends on what the chief minister said. The little emperor had a short knowledge and heard that it was a turmoil and disaster. He thought that such a thing could not be delayed, so he took the court's proposal back. Until noon, the imperial kitchen brought lunch, and Longqing invited the two prime ministers and the King of Lu and Zhou to eat together. After the meal was finished, he suddenly remembered that King Jing and the ministers were still outside.

King Jing and the ministers came before dawn. According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, since the court meeting can be long or short, if the court meeting is long and cannot temporarily retire during the middle of the journey, it will be a problem. Therefore, the ministers usually restrained themselves from drinking water or even eating before the court meeting, so they would not be embarrassed when they were in court. After waiting for this all morning, they were so hungry that they were dizzy and their original momentum was gone. Everyone cursed Xu Jie in their hearts to control the palace and deliberately harming others.

After entering the hall, King Jing and others were stunned. Longqing was polite to King Jing. He got off his seat and took his hand, which moved the little prince. At this time, King Lu of Zhou was ranked on the left and right. Zhu Zhejiang was about to speak, but Xu Jie reported: "This time, it is about the affairs of the kings and princes outside the four generations, and he is not a direct descendant. Therefore, some alienated relatives have come from thousands of miles away, hoping to be summoned by His Majesty and participate in the court discussion."

Emperor Longqing thought that what he wanted to discuss this time was their business, and it was also necessary to let several representatives of the royal family come in. He said, "Xuan. They are all descendants of Emperor Taizu and my relatives."

Feng Bao then went to summon him, but Hu Jingzong and others secretly called him something wrong. In a moment, more than 100 beggars came. Although there were only more than 20 families, more than 100 people were there, and they were all crying and making a big fuss.

Emperor Longqing hurriedly shouted: "Ge Lao, who are they?"

Xu Jie said: "These are all your Majesty's clan relatives."

Although Emperor Longqing also heard in Li Yanzhi's memorial that the royal family was poor, he did not expect that they would be so desolate? Hu Jingzong thought: "Xu Jie is so hateful! Even if the royal family is desolate, why is it like this? These must have been made on purpose." It would be too easy for these powerful ministers to buy a few desolate royal families.

However, it was not Xu Jie's idea to find these people, but Li Yanzhi sent someone to search. When Xu Jie saw these people, he knew what Li Yanzhi meant.

The little emperor didn't expect this to happen for a moment. He felt very sad and his judgment on this matter immediately changed.

The Minister of Rites then said: "Today, the court is discussing that in order to alienate relatives, the Navy Governor and the Marquis of Zhenhai Li Zhe believed that it was appropriate to open school and go to business to prevent the clan from being in trouble. What do the ministers, princes, and clan relatives think?"

"No!" Zhu Zhejiang shouted: "The system of the clan mansion was personally decided by Emperor Taizu. How can it be changed without permission?"

Xu Jie and others didn't even refute, but the clans shouted: "Don't carry Emperor Taizu out indiscriminately! If Emperor Taizu knew that his descendants were going to starve to death, they would have to do this!" "You officials have high titles and generous salaries, so naturally they don't want us to study and school as well." "The rules of our ancestors were originally good, and they were all broken by you, such a group of corrupt scholars!"

Dozens of people shouted together, and the Golden Palace immediately seemed to have become a vegetable market! Zhu Zhejiang had a lot of truth, but he couldn't tell it when facing them. The Zhu family's genes were not very elegant, and these people had become civilians. They spoke rudely and rudely. Although they had no position or power, and even had no titles, they were clan relatives after all. In front of the emperor, they were "our own people". Besides, there were many people, and the voice was louder. Dozens of people pointed at Hu Jingzong and even cursed swearing.

Zhu Zhejiang shouted: "I'm thinking about you all! I heard Li Zhe today..." I was interrupted by the noisy voice, "Tomorrow..." I was disrupted again, "You can't just look at today, you have to look at the future..." I was interrupted again, "You can't just look at me, you have to look at the world..." After being disrupted seven or eight times in a row, Zhu Zhejiang became anxious, but he couldn't speak even when he was anxious. He was irritated first, and then stomped his feet. He heard the royal family becoming more and more outrageous. He couldn't help but jump up and pointed at the group of people and shouted: "You ignorant people! How could Emperor Taizu have such a group of unworthy descendants like you!" This time, he lost his demeanor.

The Golden Palace suddenly became quiet, and everyone looked at him. No one heard his reasonable words, but the last two sentences made everyone hear clearly.

The little emperor was not happy to make noise from the poor royal family, but after hearing the last two sentences, he moved all his disgust to Zhu Zhejiang. King Lu snorted and said, "Emperor Taizu's unfilial descendants! Humph! Who are you scolding?"

Zhu Zhejiang knew that he had said the wrong thing, but he didn't know how to take it back. He stayed there and didn't know what to do. The little emperor asked Xu Jie: "Ge Lao, who is this person?"

He didn't recognize this minister, so Xu Jie reported Zhu Zhejiang's official position. Zhu Zai'an said, "All the kings and the prime minister are here, why is it his turn to speak like a minor official?"

This sentence is even more powerful than the ten thousand insults of the royal family. Zhu Zhejiang, who promised his loyalty to the emperor, immediately trembled in pain.

"Your Majesty... I... I don't mean that!" But Zhu Zaiye was impatient to listen to him. He thought that although he wanted some obedient loyal ministers, this loyal minister must at least have some ability. What's the use of this person in front of him? So he ordered someone to drive Zhu Zhejiang out of the palace.

After hearing this, Zhu Zhejiang collapsed to the ground and didn't know what to do. The Jinyiwei had come forward to drag him up. Zhu Zhejiang felt dizzy and floating. His original plan was to argue with the powerful ministers. In that case, even if he failed, he was even beaten by the court and executed, it would be a bold move to go out!

But Xu Jie did not speak, but a group of gangsters named Zhu found by Li Yanzhi surrounded him and spitted. They fought with these people. It was not proud to win, and it was even more humiliating to lose. The emperor he was loyal to did not understand himself, and even took himself seriously. At this point, Zhu Zhejiang suddenly realized how illusory his loyalty was. He fell down and couldn't get up.

Although he was born on the coast, he was an old-fashioned official in his bones. Wei Liangbi and others were looking forward to the great benefits after defeating Xu Jie, so they looked back when they saw the disadvantages. Before Zhu Zhejiang entered the palace just now, he felt that this matter was strange and might fail. But not only did he not retreat, he felt a strange excitement, fantasizing that Xu Jie persecuted him like Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao, and Qin Hui, while he was persecuted like Yue Fei, enduring the strange injustice of the world, so as to arouse resonance among the people of the world! The crueler Xu Jie persecuted him, the more his loyalty was demonstrated, and the more people in the world miss him. The history books will be written in big books and the scholars and the scholars will be praised, so he will die without regrets! Thinking of these, he felt inexplicable pleasure!

But today there was nothing, and Xu Jie did not persecut him. The expected situation of loyalty and treacherous opposition did not happen. He only faced a group of gangsters. No matter how he dealt with it, he felt meaningless. What made him even more unacceptable was that he was just so out of control. Before the discussion on reform had even reached the point, he was kicked out for this reason. Obviously, the people in the world would not resonate with his pain, and historical books would not record him. Even contemporary figures would probably only treat this as a joke after knowing this matter. If so, what is the meaning of his adventure today?

After the collapsed Zhu Zhejiang was carried out, the atmosphere in the Golden Palace suddenly became very strange. Anyone with a little reserved scholar dared not provoke those urban royal families. Everyone was afraid that Zhu Zhejiang would be ruined and laughed at the world.

After a long period of dismay, the little emperor felt uncomfortable and shouted, "Everyone is talking!"

Hu Jingzong took the risk and asked King Zhou, and King Lu said, "Two princes, we are both outsiders, so it's hard to talk to. The two princes are royal pillars, so I don't know what to think about this matter."

King Lu said: "I think this is good."

The censors who opposed this matter were shocked when they heard this. When they looked at King Zhou again, they saw that he was nodding, obviously agreeing!

The reason why the conservative officials dared to take the risk of launching an attack this time was that they believed that they had found a political force that was enough to fight against and even suppress Xu Jie and Li Yanzhi - that is, the kings of the foreign vassals. The King of Lu and King Zhou originally came for this matter, otherwise what would they do in Beijing? So Hu Jingzong came to "ask" their idea to use them to suppress those poor royal families, King of Lu and King of Zhou themselves, and their status was high. If they spoke, those poor royal families would not dare to be as rude to Zhu Zhejiang.

Unexpectedly, what he introduced was not a good medicine that suited their expectations, but a poison that could completely disintegrate their plans!

"Your Majesty," said the King of Zhou: "I think that the proposal of Zhenhai Marquis is also a solution. Although this is the rule set by the ancestors, Emperor Taizu only had a dozen sons when he formulated this rule, but now there are countless descendants of our Zhu family! This is exactly this time, and that time."

"Yes." King Lu also said: "In fact, the rules set by Emperor Taizu were changed a lot between Chengzu and Ren and Xuan dynasties. So, I think whether this is possible is not because of the rules of the ancestors that cannot be changed, but because of whether it is beneficial to the clan and the Ming Dynasty."

When the poor royal family heard this, they shouted: "Yes, yes, my master, this is good for us."

Longqing's eardrums were rumbling by their shouts. He was just a talented man. If he was placed in an ordinary group, he wouldn't realize anything. If he was placed in the middle of Xu Jie, Zhang Jing and others, he would seem a little cowardly by comparison. He couldn't react for a moment and didn't understand why the remarks and positions of King Zhou and King Lu suddenly changed.

Even the emperor was helpless for a moment, and the censors who had lost their leaders and backers became even more at a loss.

At this time, Xu Jie stood up and set the tone for this court agreement, saying: "When the Marquis of Zhenhai submitted a memorial before, His Majesty already thought this matter was feasible. All the relatives of the clans of the side branches supported this matter."

The clans shouted: "Yes, yes, we support you!"

Xu Jie continued: "Now King Zhou and King Lu also agree with this matter. It can be seen that the memorial of Zhenhai Hou is to follow the heavens and respond to people, so all the kings and the royal family agree with it. As for the nonsense that some foolish people say, I don't need to pay attention to them."

The decision was decided like this, and the little emperor could not find anything wrong, so the court proposal ended here.

After the court was over, King Zhou and King Lu followed Xu Jie for a long time. Seeing that there was no one around, King Zhou said flatteringly: "Old Master Xu, although the Ministry of Revenue is tight, after cutting down those despicable clans, we should not have to recycle our manor and deduct our salary, right?"

It turned out that before entering the palace last night, the Minister of Revenue had had a head-on with the two kings, saying that Taicang's money was tight recently and could not afford so many royal families. The vassal kings should share the joys and sorrows. Therefore, the court was preparing to recycle the vassal king manor that had been rewarded for nearly 50 years and discount the money to deal with the upcoming financial crisis. Taking back the vassal king manor is not against the rules of the ancestors, and using the rich vassal kings to support the poor royal family, this matter will inevitably be supported by most poor royal families. In addition, the cabinet has promoted it, this matter is probably successful in almost every ten things!

When King Lu of Zhou heard this, he stopped doing it. That night he came to see Xu Jie, begging him not to use his sword. Xu Jie said, "But now the court has no money. The royal family must be raised. There is no way, so he can only transfer the wealth and help the poor. The two princes are the most kind and the leaders of the vassal kings. They are expected to agree with this matter."

When King Lu heard this, he sneered: "Those gangsters of the slaughtered clan just happened to be the right one. In fact, they have no titles or honors. If they have no titles and no honors, what are the benefits of Yuguo and Yu family? Let's cut them off."

Xu Jie said: "They don't have a salary, they are afraid they will starve to death."

"Then let them make a living by themselves!" said the King of Zhou: "Those who have hands and feet also need money from the country to support them, and they are not ashamed!"

Of course, when he said this, he did not expect that he actually relied on the taxes paid by the court, and his consumption alone was greater than that of a thousand ordinary clans. (To be continued. If you want to know what happens next, please log in.qidian., more chapters, support the author and support genuine reading!) (To be continued)
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