Outside the noon gate, hundreds of officials still knelt down to petition for the abolition of the prince and the establishment of another prince, and even some officials brought their belongings and prepared to live in front of the noon gate to fight a protracted war.

Different from the dispute over the national capital of the Wanli Dynasty, although Zhu Cihong is the eldest son of the emperor and the queen, but now the queen has more than one son-in-law, Zhu Cijiong, the third son of the emperor.

Because Zhu Cihong is too strong and very disobedient, in the face of the huge crisis, the civil officials can't take care of the primogeniture inheritance system, as long as it is a son-in-law, they will push it up, and there are a lot of reasons.

An imperial historian moved his kneeling sore legs, and said to the left deputy imperial history: "I said Lord Fang, can we make such a petition to make the saint decide to abolish the crown prince?" ”

"Yes, it's been two days, and Your Majesty not only didn't give us an answer, but also quit the court, how should this be!"

The left deputy of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Procuratorate said: "Don't worry, colleagues, the crown prince privately transferred troops to Shanxi to dig up the roots of my Ming gentry, as long as we insist on petitioning, I believe Your Majesty will make a decision!" ”

Fang Kezhuang learned through some news that the emperor had long been extremely dissatisfied with the prince's dominance, and only tolerated the prince again and again because of the Tatar entry and the battle of Liaodong, according to his understanding of the emperor over the years, he knew that this Emperor Chongzhen was a person who loved power very much, and he could not allow others to get involved in power, maybe he already had the idea of abolishing the prince in his heart, and what they had to do now was to continue to influence the obedient emperor.

Other officials are also somewhat clear about Emperor Chongzhen's inner thoughts, when the Qing army entered the customs in the ninth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Yujian, the king of Tang, privately recruited troops to resist the Qing Dynasty and was imprisoned on the high wall of Fengyang; When the Liukou wantonly went south of the Yangtze River, Chang Yanling, the Marquis of Nanjing Xungui Huaiyuan, wrote a letter asking for orders to command thousands of clans of the Chang clan to go to Jiujiang to assist in the defense, but the emperor also refused.

One is a feudal king descendant of the imperial family, and the other is a descendant of the founding lord Kaiping King Chang Yuchun, both of whom have the heart to serve the country, but they are both guarded against by the emperor, which shows how strong the inner defense line of the Chongzhen Emperor is.

This time, the prince privately transferred troops to Shanxi to get people, and what he did had a big impact on the emperor, and the prince's prestige was rising day by day, which seriously affected the highly centralized imperial power, as long as the ministers worked together to work hard, it was not impossible to abolish the prince!

Thinking of this, all the officials gritted their teeth and continued to kneel outside the noon gate in the cold to petition and shout, asking His Majesty to abolish the crown prince and re-establish the prince.

At this moment, the officials suddenly heard a sound from the east, and soon saw a large number of heavily armed men and horses coming from Duanmen to Wumen Square.

Zhu Cihong reined in the reins of his horse and waved his right hand, and immediately a team of guards from the Yongwei battalion began to arrest the petitioning ministers.

The ministers felt that something was wrong, and when they began to see the prince leading the troops coming, not only were they not afraid, but they were also faintly excited, the prince was playing with fire, and he dared to lead the troops into the noon gate.

These ministers didn't know that they had experienced a lot of winds and waves, but they didn't expect Zhu Cihong to arrest people as soon as he came, and he didn't even say a word about the scene.

"I'm an official of the imperial court, what are you going to do?"

"Presumptuous! Do you dare to arrest the old man? ”

Zuodu Yushi Fang Kezhuang scolded: "His Royal Highness the Prince, what do you want to do? Arresting us and other important ministers of the court before the noon gate is to seek to usurp the throne? ”

A guard raised the butt of his rifle and smashed it into his back, knocking Fang Kezhuang to the ground on the spot, and yelled: "Shut your dog's mouth!" ”

The old Yu Shiqi's hands trembled, and his face was full of grief and indignation: "Insulting Sven, really insulting Sven!" ”

Facing the heavily armed and murderous guards of the Yongwei Battalion, the officials panicked and knew that the crown prince was going to move seriously.

Zhu Cihong raised his horsewhip and pointed at the group of ministers who jumped on their feet and said: "The eldest son inherits the throne, which is the ancestral system set by Emperor Taizu of our dynasty. ”

"Let's not talk about the abolition of the crown prince, you collude with traitorous profiteers, bend the law for bribes, the evidence is conclusive, and you dare to quibble?"

As he spoke, Zhu Cihong asked Xu Sheng to pull out the list and read it aloud one by one in public.

Xu Sheng held a long document in his hand, and said in a loud voice: "The left deputy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is the imperial history of Fang Kezhuang, Chongzhen accepted a bribe of 10,000 taels of silver from the Fan family in Shanxi on March 21, and 3,000 acres of fertile land in Tongzhou, and the person in charge was Fan Wuliu; Chongzhen accepted a bribe of 8,000 taels of silver from the Shanxi Wang family on the sixth day of the fifth month of the eleventh year, and there were two pawnshops in Daxingcheng, which were handled by Wang Zaier, and Chongzhen was ...... in the twelfth year.

"Wang Duo, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, received ...... on June 17, the 11th year of Chongzhen"

"Liu Hanru, the imperial history of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Procuratorate......"

"Zhang Fengxiang, the left waiter of the Ministry of Works......"

"The Criminal Department gave Sun Chengze ...... in the matter"

“......”

As the names and crimes were revealed in public, the more the officials in front of the noon gate heard it, the more frightened they became, how did the prince know about these things about himself?

This small book was searched from the eight major Jin merchants, and it was thought that these profiteers were worried that the officials would eat and wipe clean, so they made a backup record, but unfortunately it was obtained by Zhu Cihong, which saved him a lot of trouble.

The small book records which official is what year, month, and day, and how much money and land he received from the Jin merchants are very detailed, even if there is no small book of the eight Jin merchants, the Ministry of Intelligence has already checked the old background of the Beijing officials clearly, and the human and material evidence can be pulled out.

Zhu Cihong glanced at them in disgust and said, "What else do you have to say?" ”

The left deputy of the Imperial Procuratorate is strong, impeaching others all the year round, walking in the forefront of anti-corruption, the imperial court said that he "impeached the treacherous and treacherous, spared no effort", and now he is corrupt and perverts the law, which is really ironic.

There is also Wang Duo, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, who was originally a waiter in the East Palace, and also gave a lecture to Zhu Cihong, but unfortunately he himself has a bad character, how can he still set an example for the prince to quote scriptures.

Seeing that this group of officials were dumbfounded, Zhu Cihong waved his hand and said, "Take them all and take them away!" ”

An old man who was a speaker in the Sixth Branch Corridor suddenly shouted, "Your Majesty! Look at it, the prince is going to rebel! ”

The old man responded, and the ministers immediately cried and began to perform to their heart's content, trying to make things bigger.

Xu Sheng went up and slapped him a few times, which made the old man's nose and mouth bloody, and the Yongwei battalion also punched and kicked other crying officials.

The guards were extremely heavy and merciless, how could these old men be able to bear it, and they killed a few old immortals on the spot.

The guards scolded while beating, so that you dare to fucking go to the book and abolish the prince, Lao Tzu will pick your skin today and kill you a dog!

For a while, there was a wail outside the noon gate, and some honest and timid officials kneeling on the ground were shocked when they saw this tragic situation, and the Ming Dynasty has always treated civil officials with courtesy for more than 200 years, and if the emperor provoked it, he would only receive a court rod, how could he be slapped and punched and kicked by a group of Qiu Ba in public as he is now.

Wang Duo, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, shouted in pain: "The etiquette system does not exist, there is no way in the world, and chaos is about to arise!" ”

"Put your grandma's pig dog stinky toad fart!" A guard kicked him to the ground, and slammed the butt of his gun at him a few times, only then did he drag away the slumped member of the imperial court.

As the saying goes, when a show meets a soldier, it is unreasonable, and judging from the current situation, not only Xiucai, but also the people who raise people and Jinshi who meet soldiers may not be able to say clearly.

Xu Sheng asked, "Your Highness, do you want to send them to the heavenly prison?" ”

Zhu Cihong snorted coldly: "How can the heavenly prison suppress these treacherous evils, all of them are sent to the Taimiao to worship the ancestors and send blood food!" ”

Zhu Cihong was worried that the night would be long and dreamy, and Chongzhen stopped him after getting the news, so he had to come and play first, and if he wanted to abolish his position as the prince, he was ready to be abolished first!

Zhu Cihong has a small goal in life, in the three places of Jingshi Taimiao, Zhongdu Emperor's Mausoleum, and Nanjing Xiaoling, each kill a group of misguided ministers to worship their ancestors and send blood and food, in order to comfort the soul of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang in the sky!