Chapter 136 I Love Moisturizing Things (Subscription Request)

"His Majesty!"

"Your Majesty, please think again!"

Qiu Yue and Wang He were anxious for a moment and begged for mercy for Zheng Mao.

When Zheng Mao heard that he was going to be executed immediately, his swollen eyes finally opened a crack.

His face was filled with horror.

He never thought that he would be convicted and executed for impeaching Yan Shaoting.

Zheng Mao's face was filled with fear.

"Spare...life..."

at last.

When Zheng Mao was dragged to the palace gate by the Dongchang men who rushed in under orders, he shouted.

Big teeth and big mouthfuls of blood gushed out.

The gold bricks were covered in blood.

The officials inside and outside the palace changed color when they saw it and were terrified when they heard about it.

However, no one dared to speak out.

The mistakes made by Yan Shaoting and the charges he brought against him were too serious.

Who would have thought that adding a sentence about the destruction of the country in order to describe the enormity of the crime would lead to such an investigation?

However, since it involves the country, the people, and the destiny of the Ming Dynasty, even if some people present wanted to help, they did not dare to speak out.

Zheng Mao was finally dragged out of Yuxi Palace.

Inside the main hall of Yuxi Palace, the atmosphere suddenly became extremely cold.

Jiajing lowered his eyes and glanced at everyone present.

It feels like a single word can decide life and death!

He scanned the faces of each person, and finally asked calmly: "Gentlemen, do you want to speak for Zheng Mao?"

No one said anything.

Especially the censors present, they bowed their heads deeply.

Not long.

Lu Fang and Huang Jin had already assigned people to start washing away the bloodstains left by Zheng Mao on the ground.

Buckets of water were poured onto the ground outside the palace, flowing to the feet of the censors.

The frightened people quickly moved away.

Like a frightened bird.

Jiajing, who was silently feeling the decision of life and death without anyone interrogating him, smiled coldly in his heart.

He took the opportunity to say, "The cabinet is aware that officials from all ministries should not talk about other things when impeaching others from now on. When impeaching others, if they make false accusations against the country, they will be severely punished!"

Yan Song, Xu Jie and others bowed silently.

"I will take your orders."

Under the leadership of the cabinet ministers, the various ministries, five temples and nine officials present could only follow suit and receive orders.

You have to obey orders.

The emperor killed Zheng Mao today for the sake of justice and for the sake of the Ming Dynasty. No one can criticize him.

But the story doesn’t end there.

Especially Qiu Yue and Wang He.

Their knees, kneeling on the ground, were soaked with water and Zheng Mao's blood.

Zheng Mao's plea for mercy before he was dragged away was still echoing in my ears.

The rabbit dies and the fox is sad.

Qiu Yue and Wang He looked at each other silently.

There is a look of death in their eyes.

Qiu Yue, who was the chief official of the Ministry of Rites, was the first to speak: "Your Majesty, Zheng Mao's words about the year of the country's prosperity were inappropriate.

However, Yan Shaoting's six major crimes could not be escaped. Yan Shaoting stirred up the court, which only harmed officials and civilians. He broke the law and brought chaos to the court, so he had to be severely punished!

I am the Minister of Rites, in charge of the rituals and laws of the country. It is my duty to impeach him. I humbly ask Your Majesty to issue an order to restore order. I will die without regrets!"

Qiu Yue was generous and fearless. He had no fear of being convicted and executed, and his eyes were shining.

To die is to die.

If you die today, tomorrow all the scholars will praise you!
Qiu Yue has made up his mind to impeach Yan Shaoting to death.

Wang He naturally didn't want to be outdone, so he clasped his fists and kowtowed to the ground.

"I second the proposal!"

"As long as Yan Shaoting is not removed, the country will not be at peace."

"The imperial court is strict and we dare not cause chaos. The national law is clear and we cannot let it go easily."

"I beg you to die for your advice and ask Your Majesty to remove Yan Shaoting to set things right and to make the court and the people fair."

Both of them impeached Yan Shaoting for death.

No fear at all.

It was quiet in Yuxi Palace.

Jiajing's eyes turned to Yan Shaoting.

You guys should solve this problem yourself.

After giving Yan Shaoting a look, Jiajing just sat back and watched.

He is already very satisfied today.

This small opportunity to test the waters, with no one daring to comment, was enough to give rise to more thoughts in his mind.

We’ll discuss this later.

Yan Shaoting received a small look from the Taoist priest.

He nodded and lowered his head, then turned to look at Qiu Yue and Wang He, and then looked at the censors around him and the censors outside the hall.

Yan Shaoting snorted coldly.

A trace of sadness and anger gradually appeared on his face.

Then.

His face was full of tragedy and injustice.

"I feel guilty!" Yan Shaoting shouted, which made people around him jump and look over at him.

Xu Jie, who had been silent today, looked over with a frown.

He never expected Zheng Mao's death.

While feeling sorry for him, he was also a little more wary of Yan Shaoting's ability to argue sophistry.

After Yan Shaoting shouted, his face was full of sadness and solemnity as he said: "Since I have been under your protection, I have never been lazy in state affairs. I dare not say that I can't avoid it day and night, but I also think about it with my eyes open.

Although I am young and incompetent, I have never been fond of wine and women. I only want to share your worries and help my colleagues in the court."

Yan Shifan, who was beside Old Yan, couldn't help but widen his eyes and glared at his son secretly.

I was just offended again.

Yan Shaoting continued, "Zheng Mao accused me of six major crimes, one of which is that I was born under the protection of a family and was in charge of various affairs. Since I entered the court, I have made no contributions. All the high-ranking officials in the court and the public are corrupt officials. If your Majesty and the cabinet do not trust me, how can I be in charge of various affairs? Zheng Mao accused me of this crime. Is it questioning the king? Questioning the cabinet?"

sophistry!

This kid is quibbling again!
Even the emperor and the cabinet were involved.

Xu Jie's heart was moved and he immediately realized the meaning of Yan Shaoting's words.

however.

Gao Gong glanced at Xu Jie and said, "Yan Shaoting is in charge of all matters, all of which were decided after the emperor's approval. He is innocent!"

Yan Shaoting glanced at Lao Gao with some confusion, then continued speaking.

"Zheng Mao impeached me for taking power over the factory guards and harming officials and civilians. Since I took up the post of Jinyiwei, I have only driven out the Imperial Observatory's Director Zhou Yunyi in front of the Meridian Gate in the twelfth month of last year, and also worked with grain merchants in Beijing to dismantle grain and rice to relieve the disaster in the capital at the beginning of the year.

Do you think that I am guilty of these two actions?"

Yan Shaoting looked at Qiu Yue and Wang He with a stern gaze, and swept his eyes over the censors present.

For a moment, everyone was speechless.

Zhou Yunyi’s story cannot be told openly. Although he had a broken leg, he survived because of Yan Shaoting.

What’s even worse is that Zhou Yunyi is still Yan Shaoting’s student!
As for the use of the Jinyiwei to arrest grain merchants in Beijing, it was more because of the disaster in the capital.

These two things are absolutely beyond criticism.

One is shamelessness, the other is incompetence.

But in the main hall of Yuxi Palace, Yan Shaoting's voice never stopped.

"Your Majesty has been so gracious that you have granted me the title of Jinshi. I am honored to be a disciple of the Emperor, and the Cabinet has not rejected my opinion. How can I deceive His Majesty's ears, words, and vision? Or does Zheng Mao think that Your Majesty is a foolish monarch and that the Cabinet is full of flatterers and sycophants?"

"If I am granted the title of Jinshi, it will chill the hearts of scholars all over the world. Doesn't that mean that scholars all over the world only care about fame and fortune, and don't care about the emperor or father?"

"I was in charge of providing relief to the disaster-stricken capital, rectifying Changping, building new factories, clearing silt and cultivating fields. I didn't know that I have now become someone who does not perform my duties as an official, but is instead wasting time in the wild and playing with the flowers."

"It is even more absurd that I have any connection with the nations. Since the beginning of the year, the national policy of increasing silk production in the southeast and selling it overseas was decided to increase the revenue of the court and fill the deficit.

I don't know. How can it be considered as colluding with foreign countries if we negotiate with foreign merchants and get a deposit of 3 million taels of silver for the court even though we don't have any silk?
I don't understand, the purpose of the factory guards going to Southeast Asia is to find high-yield crops for the country, but it has ruined the reputation of our dynasty? Don't the people of our dynasty value farming and eating high-yield crops? "

After Yan Shaoting said this.

Yan Shifan quickly glanced at Gao Gong, and then said, "If Yan Shaoting hadn't brought in money many times, how could you have received your salary these days? You are really shameless!"

There was complete silence in Yuxi Palace.

Gao Yao, in particular, felt that he had suffered an unprovoked disaster.

Many people even looked ashamed.

Yuan Wei also said with a sad face: "If it weren't for the fact that Your Majesty had allocated the money that Yan Shidu earned from overseas from the treasury a few days ago to give us three months' salary, my family would really be unable to make ends meet.

Yan Shidu is a good man, how could he become a traitor and rebel? I just can't understand it at all!"

As Yan Shifan and Yuan Wei finished their conversation.

Gao Gong finally got the chance.

Gao Gong just snorted coldly and looked coldly at Qiu Yue, Wang He and other censors.

He had always been quite dissatisfied with this group of censors.

Does nothing.

He just does things like pointing fingers all day long.

If you really ask them to do something, they will just say they can't do it.

Gao Gong said coldly: "Since the beginning of the year, the court and the inner court have received 7 million taels of silver. The inner court received 4 million, and the Ministry of Revenue received 3 million.

Afterwards, Your Majesty allocated one million from the inner treasury to the Ministry of Revenue, and granted three months' official salary to all the ministers.

There is no such thing as doing good things in this world, and there is no reason to do things wrong!
Although high-yield crops grow overseas, if there really are such treasures, they should belong to our Great Ming. Even if it is difficult to have high yields in our Great Ming, as long as it can feed the people, it is a good thing.

As censors, how can you ignore the facts and impeach the ministers just for the court disputes?"

Wait until Gao Gong finishes his speech.

Yan Shaoting was already looking at Lao Gao with doubt in his eyes.

There seems to be something wrong with Lao Gao these past two days.

Why do you keep speaking for yourself?
Could it be that Lao Gao chose to join because he couldn't beat them?
But no matter what, Yan Shifan, Yuan Wei and Gao Gong spoke up one after another to support Yan Shaoting.

Even the Minister of Revenue Gao Yao, who suffered an unexpected disaster, had to stand up.

Gao Yao stepped out of the line, bowed his hands, and said in a deep voice: "Since the beginning of this year, the court has made up some of its deficits with the money obtained by Yan Shidu. If the Southeast matter is carried out next year, I think by this time next year, the court will no longer have any deficits."

Gao Gong finally spoke again: "The court is in great difficulty right now. Yan Shaoting may have acted in an extreme way, but he is doing everything. Who among you dares to say that you can do things as effectively as he does?"

Gao Suqing's questioning echoed in Yuxi Palace.

There was complete silence all around.

Because no one dares to say that they can do all these things as well as Yan Shaoting.

Jiajing also sighed silently.

It was only since the beginning of the year, but Yan Shaoting had already done so many things for him.

Jiajing's thoughts flowed silently, and for a moment he actually felt countless emotions.

He silently looked at Yan Shaoting, whose face was filled with grief and anger.

This kid is quite good.

Jiajing looked at the so-called dignitaries of the Ming Dynasty in the hall, his eyes flickering.

There are countless court officials.

I only love to moisten things!

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