94 The Palace
This morning court was not absent, and officials from the Sili Supervisor and the six cabinet ministries were separated on both sides. Behind them were those with lower ranks.
Emperor Chongzhen was a little stunned when he saw this attitude. He felt that there were a lot of people today. Could it be that something was going to happen again?
As expected, just after the ceremony was finished, the censor Yang Zhiqi below made a comment: "I have a good idea to report, and I want to impeach the cabinet assistant minister to delay his work, but I have to let Your Majesty down."
When Wei Zhaocheng, the assistant minister of the cabinet, heard this, he understood it and immediately stepped out of the list to respond and said, "Although there is no chief minister now, how can we work hard and never delay our work?"
"Since that is the case, why has the memorial of the subordinate officials impeaching the Jinyiwei's illegal act not been found yet?" Yang Zhiqi immediately asked after hearing this.
"Yes, my impeachment memorial is also not handled?" Another censor Jiang Gongchen also asked.
It was not just him, but in just a short while, a group came out.
When Emperor Chongzhen saw this situation, he immediately understood that so many people came today because of this matter.
Wei Zhaocheng responded calmly and said, "When you wait for the impeachment memorial, the facts are there. The cabinet immediately signed a ticket and handed it to the Silijian. As for why there is no result yet, this should be asked to be the Silijian."
Wang Chengen came this morning. Seeing them like this, he wanted to speak, but he saw Liu Zongzhou, the left censor, also reported: "Your Majesty, the factory guards have been famous for a long time, and many unlawful things are well known to everyone. Now many colleagues in the Censorate reported the truth to strengthen the rules of the court. I would like to ask Your Majesty to make a decision impartially!"
Obviously, Wang Chengenlai didn't need to express his opinion. These people guessed that Emperor Chongzhen had left the memorial to the end.
The discussion had been discussed before, and he would fight against the emperor one by one, so that the emperor would not be able to bear it. But Liu Zongzhou did not agree with this. In his opinion, it was the emperor's problem in the final analysis. Therefore, he was too lazy to go to Silijian first and fired directly at Emperor Chongzhen.
Seeing him like this, the others had no choice but to go on the table together, creating a huge momentum and creating a situation where everyone shouted and beat him. In this way, Emperor Chongzhen must consider the opinions of most people, and maybe he will no longer cover up the Jinyiwei and that person.
"The Jinyiwei ignored the power given by His Majesty and acted rampantly, so he should be severely punished!"
"Your Majesty, I went to see the miserable master. It was because the Jinyiwei destroyed his family. It was so miserable!"
"Just just because he looked at the Jinyiwei Liu, a wealthy family was destroyed. This is really shocking. Is there anything that Jinyiwei dare not do?"
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Emperor Chongzhen looked at them coldly and kept the accounts for them in his heart: Censorate, Ministry of War, Ministry of Personnel, Ministry of Rites... It is really that there are no shortages of all the yamen in the court. Is this a force to the palace and force me to surrender to them?
Thinking of this, he suddenly felt a little lucky.
At the beginning, I thought that in order to take care of the teacher's face, I would keep all these memorials. If this is the case, now facing so many ministers, and I have to say one by one that there is a victim or evidence, unless I leave with my sleeves, it will be a bit difficult to deal with.
Even if I agree and take out a few serious circumstances to punish them, judging by the posture of these ministers, I probably won’t give up. I will definitely ask for punishment for all illegal Jinyiwei.
While he was thinking, he heard the cabinet minister Wei Zhaocheng, Zhang Sizhi and others come out together to report: "Your Majesty, the factory guards are harming the world, and the disaster of the Tianqi Dynasty is still in front of you, so you must not tolerate it!"
When the other civil servants saw this, they all went out together and shouted, "Your Majesty, you must not tolerate it!"
"Bold!" Seeing this, Wang Chengen immediately stepped out and shouted angrily, "What a bold thing, are you forcing Long Live Lord?"
Hearing this, Liu Zongzhou was not afraid and immediately replied: "You dare to ask the prince, how can you deceive Your Majesty at all when we report? If you want me to see, it must be your factory guards who do illegal acts behind your back. You are so brave, right?"
"Yes, the factory guards are all the emperor's personal troops, representing the emperor outside!" Zhang Sizhi immediately agreed, "You factory guards are corrupt and abuse of power, that is to slander the emperor's face. You are so brave!"
With the two of them taking the lead, the other civil servants agreed, and they were not as afraid of Wang Chengen on weekdays, and they followed suit and questioned one by one.
They believe that united as one, and this time it is rare that everyone works together, and the emperor must handle all the memorials. If this is true, even if the emperor does not agree to ban the factory guards, then basically, the factory guards have dealt with so many people, and they will be almost ruined.
At this time, Emperor Chongzhen was already a little impatient. He was about to slap the table and talk, but he heard the eunuchs outside the hall telling: "The commander of the Jinyiwei, Duke Xingguo, requesting an audience."
This voice made the hall quiet a little. They all thought, is this real person coming by himself?
"Sir, please!" Emperor Chongzhen immediately ordered.
His words also made many civil servants hear it harshly. The emperor was so polite to that person. Is he going to cover up?
To be honest, before, many people's impeachment memorials were actually targeted by Zhang Mingwei. For example, the name of "Mr.", such as Zhang Mingwei's daily words and deeds, and even some people have heard of Princess Kunxing and want to impeach them.
However, in the end, these impeachments were all suppressed. It was not that they did not impeach, but that they had to concentrate their firepower and impeach the Jinyiwei's illegal affairs first. As for other matters, they were just trivial matters. What they wanted was to ban the factory guards like in the early years of Chongzhen, or let the factory guards die in name only.
In just a moment, Zhang Mingwei had already entered the hall. Behind him, two Jinyiwei lieutenants were holding a thick stack of melodies in their hands.
At the first moment, everyone was attracted by Zhang Mingwei. It was really that Zhang Mingwei was wearing a python suit, which was too dazzling, making these civil servants look at it as dazzling as they saw it! They felt that Zhang Mingwei had a strong arrogance. Is this arrogance specially coming to demonstrate?
Thinking of this, they couldn't help but feel secretly hating. It was just right and I'll make you look good later!
At the same time, Zhou Kui also went to the palace to see his daughter. Not only that, even Zhou Bi'an came with him.
While on the way, they already knew what the officials were going to do in the morning court. While gloating, Zhou Bi'an said to Zhou Kui: "Dad, we have to hurry up. If the emperor finally punished the man and took his title, then we would not be able to use this as a reason to ask my sister to help us win the title!"
After hearing this, Zhou Kui nodded repeatedly, and did not dare to delay the journey.
But who knew that this time, what they were a little unexpected was that Empress Zhou actually sent someone to tell them that if there was nothing important, they would not have to go to the palace.
Zhou Kui was very annoyed by this. This kind of thing has never happened before. Besides, it is absolutely important to be promoted to a position!
Chapter completed!