In the face of Shi Xing's angry accusations, Shen Cheng obviously did not intend to plead guilty.

"Rebellion? Hehehehehehe......"

Shen Yi shook his head: "The old man is almost seventy years old, what kind of rebellion?" What is the reason to rebel? Shi Butang, don't you think it's ridiculous for an old man to rebel? What good will it do to the old man if he rebels? ”

"The most ridiculous thing in the world is that you, the man who has done the ridiculous thing, said to me in front of me, and it was ridiculous for me to ask you questions! Shen Zhengyi, you killed the eunuch of the Imperial Horse Prison, and also transferred the men and horses of the Four Guards Battalion and the Warrior Battalion away, replaced them with the Beijing Battalion soldiers, and brought the Beijing Battalion soldiers to the palace, what are you going to do? If you're not rebelling, what are you going to do? ”

Shi Xing stared at Shen Yi: "And this group of people outside, whether I know them or not, they are all people with heads and faces in the court, what are you doing?" There are still nobles in the various departments! What are you doing?! ”

Shen always looked at Shi Xing.

"That's a good question! Shibutang, we are like-minded, determined to kill the rebellion, so we gathered here to kill the rebellion and recreate the world. ”

Shi Xing's face was strange.

"Kill the rebel? Reinventing the Wheel? Hahahaha! Shen Zhengyi, you used this reason very well! Then let me ask you, you want to kill the rebels, does Your Majesty know? ”

Shen Yi shook his head.

"Of course Your Majesty doesn't know, Your Majesty has been bewitched by these rebellions, turned a deaf ear to all this, and turned a blind eye to our pleas, we were forced to be helpless, in order to avoid the overturning of the Great Tomorrow, we had to take the risk of doing this, this is on the side of the Qing Jun!"

"Qingjun's side? Your Majesty didn't know that you secretly transferred troops into the palace, don't you think that in my eyes you are the rebel who should be killed? Who are you going to kill? Who is rebellious? If there is rebellion, how can I not know? I'm the secretary of the military department! How could I not know?!! ”

Shi Xing yelled at Shen Yi.

Shen Yi took out an envelope from his arms.

"Look first, watch it later."

Shi Xing snatched the envelope over, there were a few pieces of paper full of words in the envelope, Shi Xing read it quickly, first shocked, then annoyed, and leaned less, Shi Xing slapped the letter paper in his hand on the table.

"Xiao Jixin rebelled?! How could Xiao Jixin rebel!? Shen has always been, if you want to frame him, use some clever means! Don't say I don't believe in this kind of nonsense, no one in their right mind will believe it! Who would believe it?! ”

"It's right if you don't believe it, this shows that Shi Butang is sober, like Shi Butang, none of the princes outside believe it, of course Xiao Jixin will not rebel, he is a loyal minister of His Majesty, but they are still sitting outside, still obeying the old man's orders."

Looking at the angry Shi Xing, Shen Yi nodded unexpectedly, and then took out another envelope and gave it to Shi Xing.

"Those letters just now were made up nonsense, and the old man planned to kill Xiao Ruxun to settle the matter, and let the historian record it in the history books for future generations, you look at this again, this is true, naturally, I will know it, and it can't be passed on to future generations."

Shi Xing took the envelope, opened it for a quick reading, and when he saw half of it, Shi Xing was directly stunned.

"This ...... Three years ago, Wang Xijue suddenly retired, it was ......"

Shen Yi nodded.

"That's right, Wang Xijue's retirement three years ago was not a normal retirement, at that time, His Majesty planned to take advantage of Xiao Ruxun's arrival in Tianjin Wei with his troops, and issued an edict that Xiao Ruxun secretly led troops into King Qin.

The reason is that Zhang Wei forced the palace to bully people too much, the purpose was to capture all the courtiers such as us, launch a mutiny, and directly blame us and others, because the incident happened suddenly, no one expected it, even so, Wang Xijue still did his best to join the Queen Mother to stop His Majesty's action.

The matter was finally calmed down, and they all thought that His Majesty would settle down, but they didn't expect that His Majesty was actually planning more things, and Teng Xiang Siwei and the warrior battalion were not enough, and they also had to train troops in Xishan.

Your Majesty originally planned to let Xiao Ruxun bring foreign soldiers to the capital to cooperate with the inside and outside, control all of us, and regain power, but now, His Majesty seems to be planning to take his time and let Xiao Ruxun control the Beijing camp first, and then say, the ultimate goal is still to mutiny and wipe out all of us. ”

Shen Yi poured himself a glass of wine, drank it in one gulp, and slowly spoke.

"Do you understand now? Shi Butang, Xiao Ruxun informed, Shanxi incident, His Majesty no longer trusts us and others, he knows the things we are doing in the local area, knows that we have hollowed out his power, and even the Jinyi Guard has been infiltrated by us, so he feels uneasy and wants to regain his own power. ”

Shi Xing opened his mouth and didn't say a word.

What Shen has always said is really terrible.

And the next words are even more terrifying.

"Your Majesty's request for power is to ask for our lives, this point, we tacitly know, once Your Majesty gets the military power, all the things we have done, all the things we have done for more than a hundred years, Your Majesty will know, the first to bear the brunt is the cabinet and the six ministries, how many of us can survive?

Don't say that I waited, I waited for my family to be blamed, the Jin Party is a lesson for us to wait, we have no way out, from the beginning of getting military and financial power, there is no way out, only by putting the emperor in the air, we can survive, otherwise, we will die without a place to be buried.

Others don't say, Shi Butang, tell me about yourself, how many people have given you how much silver over the years, how many people have you paid filial piety to how much silver, and how many people have worked hard behind your back? ”

Shen Yi took the wine glass, bypassed Shi Xing and walked to the door, looking at the full hall of civil and military ministers.

"You are like this, the old man is like this, Zhao Butang is also like this, Cai Butang is also like this, the British Duke is like this, Dingguo Gong is like this, Yongkang Hou is also like this, the Manchu Dynasty is civil and military, how many are not like this?"

Shen Yi turned his head to look at Shi Xing: "The whole dynasty is up and down, civil and military officials, who is not greedy, who does not accept gifts?" Oh, maybe there is, but they are not personally greedy, what about their families? What about the clansmen? What about the protégé?

Shi Butang, guess what, did your family, your clansmen in your hometown, use your power to buy and sell? Is there a rodeo? Is there any tax avoidance? Your family is full of people, including your relatives and friends, have you ever broken the law?

Carefully check, everyone is breaking the law, more or less, we have all broken the law, there is no one who does not break the law, sitting in this position, holding the power of life and death, tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of appropriations flow through the hand, but only take the dozens of hundreds of taels of Lu, you say, how many people are balanced? How many people can avoid breaking the law?

You should know that what Your Majesty wants is for officials to break the law, so that he can seize the handle of us, let me and others do things honestly for him, guard the country for him, and guard his power, so that once I am disobedient, I will abandon us.

At that time, casually detain me and others on a corruption charge, check one accurately, and then he can get the glory of Mingjun, his position will be more stable, and the people's hearts will be in his hands, but what about us? It's just a pathetic abandoned pawn.

You, I, Zhao Butang, Cai Butang, Yang Butang, British Duke, Dingguo Duke, and the Manchu Dynasty were originally pawns in the hands of His Majesty, but not now, do you know why it's not now?

Because the military power and political power were all in the hands of the princes, the princes held the lifeblood of the dynasty, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty worked together to empty His Majesty's power, so that His Majesty had no way to use us as pawns.

We advance and retreat together, maintain unity, obtain financial power, control military power, and make Your Majesty's holy order impossible to implement without our consent, so that we can become our respective masters, not pawns in the hands of Your Majesty that can be discarded at any time.

Think about Hongwu, think about Yongle, at that time, I waited for the court officials to be precarious, Emperor Taizu exchanged hundreds of thousands of officials' lives for the Ming Dynasty, but this is too tragic for you and me, isn't it?

It's hard to grab this power, but now there are some people who want to snatch this power back, bring back the rules of Taizu Chengzu, and turn all of us into pawns again...... Shi Budo, do you want to be a human being, or do you want to be a chess piece? ”

Shi Xing was stunned on the spot.