"Ladies and gentlemen, the princess of the prison country has a decree, and Ling Er and the others will leave the noon gate immediately."

However, Liu Neng's words came out, and these officials did not move at all.

"Why, my lords, do you want this governor to say it again?" Liu Neng sneered.

"Lord Liu, if you want to fight or kill, please please, as long as the princess of the prison country does not agree to our request, it is impossible for me to wait to go back!" Yu Shi Qiao said with a stalk around his neck.

"Yes, if we don't take back the will to remove the Gao Ge Lao, and if we don't take back the holy decree of selling land and plundering people's wealth, we won't go back!" Other officials also shouted.

"So, you're going to force the palace?" Liu Neng said coldly.

"Forcing the palace? What a crime! It is worthy of being the Admiral of the Jinyi Guard, and it is your business to frame slander. We are just civil officials with no soldiers and no power, but we can't afford such a big crime as forcing the palace, so we are kneeling and asking the prison country to take back our fame. Guo Weijing recognized the trap in Liu Neng's words at a glance, and said directly.

"Hehe, you people are eloquent, and you live by playing with your lips, and this governor will not argue with you. The princess of the prison country passed down the edict, and the order could be retreated, otherwise it would be to force the palace or disobey the prison country. The Governor once again warns you to retreat immediately, otherwise the Governor will be unkind!" ”

"The monarch has been, the ministers admonished, the princess of the prison country is young and ignorant of current affairs and is deceived by traitorous ministers, and we and other imperial history officials should die to admonish the prison country! The surname is Liu, if you have any means, it is impossible for me to retreat! Guo Weijing shouted righteously.

"Yes, as long as the princess of the prison country doesn't listen to the advice, I won't retreat!" Other officials, encouraged by Guo Weijing, also shouted.

Liu Neng said coldly: "So don't blame Bendu." With a wave of his hand, hundreds of brocade-clothed guards and big men carried leather whips and forced them towards the officials.

"Stop, stop......" An old voice came from a distance, Liu Neng turned his head to look, and saw the old Qian Qianyi carrying his official robe forward, and ran over with a flying stride.

"Your Excellency!" The other Jinyi guards all looked at Liu Neng. Liu Neng waved his hand heavily without thinking about it.

Hundreds of brocade guards raised their whips at the same time and struck the kneeling officials in front of them.

"Bang bang bang ......" a dull thrashing sounded, followed by a pig-killing howl.

These officials are pampered on weekdays, and they have never suffered any hardships, let alone been whipped, but when one or two whips fall on their bodies, some people cry wolves.

"Stop, stop, Lord Liu, you still don't stop!" Qian Qianyi ran to Liu Neng's side and stopped him repeatedly.

Liu Neng waved his hand, and the whipping stopped.

"Elder Qian Ge, this governor is acting on orders!" Liu Nengmu said with a wooden face.

"This pavilion knows that you are under order, but do you have a decree from the princess of the prison country? Is it the princess of the prison country who asked you to abuse the minister? Qian Qianyi asked coldly.

"This governor is the admiral of Jinyiwei, the minion of the Son of Heaven, and it is the duty of Jinyiwei to picket hundreds of officials. Now these people gather outside the noon gate to knock on the palace and coerce the princess of the prison country, how can the governor ignore it? ”

Seeing that Qian Qianyi actually set up a shelf in front of him, Liu Neng snorted in his heart with disdain, waved his hand, and his Jinyi guards continued to whip.

"You ......" Seeing that Liu Neng didn't give himself any face at all, Qian Qianyi's face was pale, but there was nothing he could do. Liu Neng is the Admiral of Jinyiwei, and he has the title of Marquis, and his status is not below him as a scholar, even if he doesn't give face, he has no way to take Liu Neng.

The whipping continued, and the leather whip mixed with iron wire whipped on the body, and even if the clothes were torn and the skin was opened, in just a short time, many officials were whipped and bleeding, and the ghosts and wolves howled.

"Admiral Liu, Marquis Liu, can you give the old man a little thin noodles first, and stop beating people for the time being. So I went into the palace and met the princess, and begged her to pardon them. Trembling all over, Qian Qianyi pleaded sadly.

"The princess said very clearly, if you know that you are wrong, go back, and those who are stubborn will be forced to commit the palace!" Liu Neng didn't pay attention to Qian Qianyi at all, and turned his face away.

"Qian Ge doesn't need to intercede with us!" Forcibly enduring the severe pain in his body, Qiao Kepin shouted: "You have been admonished by Zheng Chen, and I, as the imperial historian, must adhere to my duties even if I am beaten to death." Colleagues, many sages look at us, even if they are killed, they can't admit it! ”

In the Ming Dynasty, those who dared to risk death were all righteous men respected by everyone, and those who were beaten by the emperor were heroes in the hearts of many officials. Especially in the Jiajing and Wanli dynasties, officials were proud to be beaten with a cane.

Thinking about the past when those ancestors were beaten with the cane, these young imperial officials immediately plucked up their courage, and they immediately became famous all over the world after suffering this experience, so the pain in their bodies gradually decreased, and the leather whip fell less painfully.

Looking at the situation in the field, Qian Qianyi stomped his feet and walked towards the inner palace, "Everyone, this pavilion will enter the palace to ask for a visit to the prison and ask her to forgive her for her crimes." ”

......

Qian Qianyi, as a cabinet scholar, has the right to enter the inner palace freely, and when he saw him coming, the guards guarding the noon gate did not stop him and let him in.

Qian Qianyi went straight to the inner palace, and after entering the warm pavilion, he found that Shi Kefa, a scholar of Shoufu University, was already in the warm pavilion and was persuading Princess Kunxing.

"Although these officials acted excessively, they were not intentionally disobedient because they were worried about the government.

Your Highness, you can scold them, but please don't do that with a cane. The old minister was worried that he would break the backbone of the reader, and he never dared to speak up again, which was the sorrow of my Daming. “

Shi Kefa did not persuade from the right and wrong of things, but used precedents such as Wei Zheng, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty in history, to explain the importance of advice to Princess Kunxing. A holy monarch should be able to listen to advice, not suppress his ministers at every turn, that is not what a holy monarch does.

"Motosuke, is this palace not allowed to admonish? There is a way to admonish and admonish, have you ever heard of which dynasty and which generation of courtiers forced the palace to ask the king to adopt the advice? Princess Kunxing was not fooled, and asked coldly.

"Well, these officials are too young, and they are indeed a little excessive, but they have no malicious intent." Shi Kefa explained with some embarrassment.

"Hmph......" Princess Kunxing sneered, young? Which of those officials outside the noon gate is no bigger than Chen Yue, the king of Qi is leading thousands of troops and horses to fight against Manchu, but they are dragging their hind legs in the rear, but in the name of Zheng Chen's advice, it is really damning!

At this moment, Qian Qianyi walked into the warm pavilion and fell to the ground, "The old minister asks His Highness to give an order, don't beat again, if you beat again, you will die." ”

"Jin Yiwei has already started beating people?" Shi Kefa was taken aback, and hurriedly knelt down beside Qian Qianyi, "Please give an order from Your Highness, don't fight again, those officials are already weak, and it will not end well if they take their lives." ”

Princess Kunxing said lightly: "Okay, so the two pavilion elders will go and persuade them, as long as they are willing to retreat like this, the palace will not be to blame." ”

Shi Kefa and Qian Qianyi glanced at each other, and said helplessly: "Weichen obeys the order." ”

……

The cabinet was on duty, and Wang Yin asked with a smile: "Seeing Brother Bai, do you think these officials will listen to Yuanfu's persuasion?" ”

Lu Zhenfei shook his head: "How is it possible?" If they were beaten back with a whip, how could these people flaunt the iron bones of their advisors? What kind of face will be posted to impeach others in the future! ”

"It's really happy," Wang Yin said with a smile, "Over the years, whenever there has been something in the DPRK and China, there have been these people jumping up and down and dragging their feet, resulting in nothing being done." The political struggle between the DPRK and the DPRK has involved too much energy, and if we fight their arrogance now, our various measures can be implemented smoothly. ”

Lu Zhenfei shook his head: "It's not necessarily a good thing, Taizu set up the Metropolitan Procuratorate to supervise the officials of the world and use it to check and fill in the gaps." Now that the imperial historians have been beaten, what should we do if there is a problem in government affairs in the future? And who will supervise the picketing? ”

Wang Yin was stunned for a moment.

"King Qi's subordinates also have a pacification division, and each battalion has a pacification officer, which is used to picket military discipline and implement rewards and punishments. And the duty of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is the same as that of the Pacification Division in the army, although it is annoying, it is inseparable.

Therefore, the Metropolitan Procuratorate must not ban it, but should carry out rectification, change its pragmatic style of talking and sitting on the road, and not rush to impeach like a mad dog when encountering things, but all impeachments should have something to say and should be accepted with conclusive evidence, instead of listening to the wind and rain. Lu Zhenfei said eloquently.

"I see what Brother Bai said." Wang Yin was impressed.

……

Shi Kefa and Qian Qianyi rushed outside the noon gate and began to persuade the officials to leave, as Lu Zhenfei guessed, where were these imperial histories willing to give up easily?

The so-called shameful knife is difficult to sheath, if they are beaten back by a whip, they must become a joke in the court! If you encounter this kind of thing in the future, can you still stand up and shout with confidence?

Of course, there are also some of them who can't stand the beating and want to run away. But if the others don't leave, no one dares to retreat first, for fear of falling into the reputation of a deserter.

"Yuanfu, you don't need to persuade you, if the prison country refuses to accept our advice, you will be beaten to death here, and we will never give up!" Qiao Kepin endured the pain in his body and gritted his teeth.

"You, you ......" Shi Kefa wore out his mouth, seeing that these people still looked like they didn't eat oil and salt, and didn't know how to persuade them. He has been in officialdom for a long time and knows the seriousness of the situation, these people may be able to win the reputation of a minister, but I am afraid that he will not want to enter the official career again in this life. Now it is different from the past, the king of Qi is the auxiliary government, and the princess is in charge of the country, this Ming Dynasty is completely different from any previous period.

As the governor of the capital, Chen Yue, the king of Qi, originally had his own set of teams, and cleaning up the people who supported him in the court was probably what he wanted to do the most. But these subordinates are too uncompetitive, and they easily give them an excuse to clean up the court.

"Yuanfu, it's not that I don't give you face, but you have also seen that these people are stubborn and gather people to force the palace, if they ignore the royal family, what will be the face? As the Admiral of the Jinyi Guard, I am embarrassed to be responsible. Liu Nengpi said with a smile, stretched out his hand, and was about to order his subordinates to continue to beat.

Shi Kefa knew that he couldn't persuade these imperial officials, but he also knew that as the head of the hundred officials, if he allowed the Jinyi guard to beat these officials in front of him, his reputation as the head of the hundred officials would also be ruined.

Thinking of this, Shi Kefa opened his arms and stood in front of the officials, "Lord Liu, this pavilion can't persuade them, and if you don't have a face to enter the palace and see the prison again, if you fight, you will hit this pavilion first!" ”

"Motosuke!"

"Motofu ......"

The officials screamed, tears in their eyes.

"Motosuke, you, why are you doing this?" Qiao Kepin couldn't cry.

Shi Kefa shook his head and stopped talking.

Shi Kefa stood in the way, which made Liu Neng unable to do it. Shi Kefa is a scholar of the first auxiliary university, he can't whip him.

Liu Neng's face changed drastically, and he put down his arm helplessly.

"Admiral, what are we going to do?" One of his men came up and asked.

Liu Neng thought about it and ordered someone to immediately enter the palace to meet the princess of the prison country and report what happened here. Now that Shi Kefa is in front of him, it is beyond his ability.

"Shi Kefa is blocking the fight?" Princess Kunxing was stunned for a moment. After thinking about it, he ordered someone to pass on Lu Zhenfei.

"Princess, Yuanfu can't help it, it's not against you." Lu Zhenfei carefully explained Shi Kefa's helplessness, and then said: "Since Yuanfu is in the way, there is no way to beat these people in public, but they dare to gather people to knock on the palace, and a crime of disobedience to the monarch will not be able to escape." You can issue an edict and let the Jinyi guards arrest them all, put them in prison, and then slowly concoct their crimes. The dismissal of the official who should be dismissed, the demotion of the demotion that should be degraded, in short, in the future court, there can never be such a thing of contempt for the king. ”

……

Outside the noon gate, Shi Kefa finally waited for Princess Kunxing's will. The great eunuch Ma Xiang personally went to the noon gate and read out the will of the princess of the prison country, Qiao Ke hired Guo Weijing and a group of officials to commit disobedience and commit the crime of great disrespect, and ordered Liu Neng, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, to take them all down and put them in the prison for interrogation!

After Ma Xiang passed the decree, Liu Neng immediately ordered, and the Jinyi guards worked in groups of two to arrest all the bloodied officials who were beaten.

"Lord Liu, I hope to treat these people well and leave some dignity for scholars." Shi Kefa said to Liu Neng. So far, this is already the best result, the princess of the prison country is kind-hearted, and the Jinyi guard only beats people with a leather whip, not a terrible court staff, these people are just bloody and look terrifying, but most of them are skin injuries. If you had used the court staff, you would have been beaten for such a long time, and I don't know how many people would have been beaten.

Liu Neng didn't speak with a cold face, and bowed his hand and left.

The outside of the tumult was cleared at noon, leaving only scraps of clothes and blood spots everywhere. Looking at this scene blankly, Shi Kefa only felt physically and mentally exhausted, and only felt that everything he did was meaningless.

"Motosuke, let's go back!" Qian Qianyi sighed on the side. Most of these officials who were taken down from prison were seventh-rank imperial historians and sixth-rank petty officials, but they were the backbone of the officials and the foundation of the Donglin Party. Now that these people have been lost, how to fill the void is really difficult.