Jiang Chu raised his head coldly, his eyes were full of tears, and his voice trembled slightly: "Back to Your Majesty's words, the minister is clothy, naïve by nature, and His Majesty will not give up, and he is entrusted with the imperial history of Jiangnan, and he is also ordered to evaluate the political performance of Jiangnan officials on behalf of the sky as an assistant organizer, although the co-organizer should be respected by the chief questioner.
But the minister knows that everything the minister is given by His Majesty, so everything the minister does, only listen to the emperor, only for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, and will never listen to the instructions of others, and no one can influence the minister's original intentions. ”In the end, his face was already full of tears, and he only listened to his words and said with a deep feeling: "As for this impulsiveness, all responsibilities, in the final analysis, are all the fault of the minister, and it is related to others."
But the minister confessed to His Majesty that if this kind of thing happened again, the minister's choice would not change. ”It is as if a child who has been wronged can finally spit out his heart.By the end, Jiang Chuhan couldn't cry anymore.Emperor Chongzhen was a little irritated and said: "It's useless to cry, Hong Chengchou is the person I personally promoted, you beheaded the person I promoted, this is saying to the whole world, I have eyes!"
Even if Hong Chengchou has a different heart, you, the official, will not let you be promoted!
”Listened to the emperor's words.Jiang Chuhan wiped away his tears and said, "I beg Your Majesty to give you knives and scissors." ”Emperor Chongzhen said unhappily: "What do you want to do?"
Do you want to die?
”Jiang Chuhan hurriedly explained: "The minister doesn't dare to ignore the monarch's father for injustice, the minister just has something to present to His Majesty." ”There was no sound inside, and after a while, the curtain was lifted, and the fat eunuch came out with a tray with a gold-handled knife on it, and kindly reminded: "You can take it easy, if you move a knife in front of Your Majesty, you will be hacked to death by a knife if you go out of line." ”Jiang Chuhan smiled at him gratefully, then picked up the knife, separated a large hole at the bottom of the clamp, and then took out a well-sealed oilcloth bag from it, and then cut the other side of the clamp, and took out the same oilcloth bag.Looking deeply at the thing in his hand, Jiang Chuhan let out a long breath of turbid breath and said: "For this thing, the minister almost lost his life, and today he can finally present the Son of Heaven!"
”The fat eunuch asked softly, "What is this?"
”Jiang Chuhan slowly opened the oilcloth bag, and one letter after another appeared in front of his eyes, and the fat eunuch couldn't help but exclaim, "What is this?"
”This is a very surprising sentence, and even the emperor in the curtain is stunned.I saw Jiang Chuhan put together these letters in the two bags, and said with a long sigh of relief: "Your Majesty, I don't know if Your Majesty knows about the organization of the Heaven and Earth Society?"
”The sandalwood in the main hall was swirling, the needles could be smelled, everyone looked at the emperor behind the curtains, and Emperor Chongzhen did not ask the fat eunuch Huang Jin to pick up those letters, but asked fixedly: "Heaven and earth will?"
What do you mean?
”"Back to Your Majesty, there is a really unspeakable reason why the minister beheaded Hong Chengchou."
Jiang Chuhan said in a deep voice: "Two hundred years ago, there was an organization called the Heaven and Earth Society, a generation of gate lords, whose lifelong goal was to overthrow the regime and establish the country, and the minister had conclusive evidence to know that Hong Chengchou was one of the elders in this organization!"
And Hong Chengchou is just one person in this organization!
And these letters are the correspondence between Xu Guang, the chief elder of the Heaven and Earth Society, and many officials of my Ming Dynasty and Waiyi, including the correspondence with Hong Chengchou!
”After a pause, Jiang Chuhan continued: "When Weichen first entered Beijing, he was almost killed because of these letters, these letters involved the entire territory of my Ming Dynasty, and even the situation of the Tile Tartary, Tatar, and Houjin, once it is not handled well, it may make my Ming Dynasty instantly wolf, so Weichen is foolish, first cut Hong Chengchou, take away the letter, so as not to have many dreams at night, and this letter Weichen also risks death, willing to risk the disapproval of the world, willing to risk the thunder of His Majesty, and must also let His Majesty be the first to see, thunder and rain dew, It is all up to the king, so that my Ming will not be turbulent, so that the Ming will not fall into internal strife, so that the ministers know that everything is in the emperor's heart, and it is all determined by His Majesty!
”The frenzy on his face made the fat eunuch's eyes light up, and he said in his heart that he really didn't see it, this guy's sycophant skills are perfect!
The first time I saw His Majesty, I made such a high-level sycophant, but I didn't know that it was thanks to Wu Mengming's guidance that Jiang Chuhan had a target.Clang!
With a crisp and pleasant sound, the thick pale yellow curtain rolled to both sides.Jiang Chuhan saw a round sitting table covered with bright yellow cushions, and next to the sitting table was a jade chime on a rosewood shelf, and a pestle of the same color was obliquely inserted in it, and the crisp chime sound must have sounded from here.But his gaze stopped there, he didn't dare to look up again, after all, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty had not yet had the habit of looking at people.But there was a person sitting there, and Jiang Chuhan heard a clear voice from there: "Are you worried that someone will use this as a chapter to force me to comply?"
”"The minister is stupid," Jiang Chuhan hurriedly lowered his head: "Maybe it's a mediocrity disturbing himself, but as long as there is a possibility, the minister is willing to do so." ”"Huh!"
Emperor Chongzhen laughed out loud: "It's good to be young, you have no worries when you have momentum, and you don't have so many messy things in your head." ”Jiang Chuhan sneered: You are only more than a year older than me, and you have the cheekiness to say such old-fashioned things.was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but listened to the emperor continue: "But there are also disadvantages in being young, and you don't think about the problem thoroughly, have you ever thought about such consequences?"
Let's not talk about Wen Shoufu first, let's just say that these officials, no matter what your motives are, you handed over these letters to me, which is equivalent to offending so many people, so you are not afraid that they will give you small shoes to wear?
”"Of course, the minister is afraid that his career will be blocked, and he will even be imprisoned."
Jiang Chuhan said loudly: "But the minister is afraid that someone will use this to blackmail the monarch's father, so that His Majesty will make a choice as a last resort, in order to maintain the authority of the lord, Weichen is not afraid even if he is broken to pieces!"
”"Hahaha" Emperor Chongzhen laughed loudly, and said with undisguised meaning: "I really didn't see the wrong person. ”As he spoke, he stretched out his thin and slender hand, and Wang Chengen, the great eunuch who had been standing beside him, presented the letters.Chongzhen looked at the letter carefully, at first his face was calm, but slowly, his eyes became cold.He has lived in the deep palace for a long time, but his grasp of authority is tighter than that of the previous emperors, and the secret is nothing more than the control of personnel and financial power, so there is a miracle of replacing forty-nine Zaifu in the seventeenth year of his reign.Emperor Chongzhen sat there watching and pondering, Jiang Chuhan knelt on the ground, Wang Chengen stood indifferently, there was no other movement in the hall, but occasionally heard the rustle of the paper, which seemed quiet.Time passed slowly, until the shadows on the ground became shorter and shorter, and the emperor slowly put down the letters, and his face calmed down completely.Chongzhen finally asked, "Have you read these letters?"
”Jiang Chuhan gritted his teeth and said softly: "I don't dare to deceive Your Majesty, after reading it, the minister found out that it must not be leaked, and can only be handed over to the Holy Judge." ”Emperor Chongzhen nodded slowly, the expression on his face was very complicated, with some approval, but also with anger that could not be concealed, he turned his head and asked Wang Chengen, "Do you know what is on this letter?"
”Wang Chengen pursed his face and said simply: "The slave doesn't know." ”Chongzhen said coldly: "Let me tell you, it's a secret letter from officials from all over the country and a certain rebel gang!"
”Wang Chengen was stunned, looked at Chongzhen blankly and said, "No, right?"
”"Humph!"
Chongzhen snorted angrily and said: "Except for the six departments of Gyeonggi and the various divisions, almost all of the twenty-seven states of my Ming Dynasty have dealings, and they actually include the list of officials of the thirty-six provinces in Jiangnan who have taken bribes!"
”As he spoke, he slapped the table and said, "I have raised so many people, and I have to fight against me!"
”Wang Chengen hurriedly knelt down and said, "Your Majesty is angry!"
”"No wonder Jiang Chuhan wants to kill Hong Chengchou to stabilize the situation!
And secretly take these letters!
”Chongzhen's chest rose and fell violently, and his face was pale: "It is said that raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, these people actually turned against me in the end!"
Kill me!
I want to step down!
”"This gang of thieves, silverfish, robbers, hooligans, and the next three indiscriminate" If you listen to this series of curses alone, no one will associate them with the supreme of the Ming Dynasty and the most noble man in the world.In fact, even if you see it with your own eyes, it is difficult to equate this foul-mouthed person with the golden profession of the emperor.But the absurdity of reality is often beyond people's imagination, and this foul-mouthed person is indeed the king of hundreds of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty, His Majesty Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty.I saw Emperor Chongzhen put his hands behind his back, circled around the bright yellow side, and scolded loudly, and the eunuchs fell to the ground like cicadas, lest they become victims of His Majesty's anger.It wasn't until the emperor had scolded enough and was tired of scolding that he sat on it, closed his eyes and looked up to the sky panting.Looking at the emperor's red eyes, Jiang Chuhan muttered in his heart: You won't blame me for handing him the hot potato and giving me small shoes to wear, right?
In fact, he was not so timid, and he was scared by Wu Mengming.Obviously, the ministers of Chongzhen who overthrew Wei Zhongxian's eunuch party were a little demonized, at least the emperor didn't blame Jiang Chuhan at all, he gradually adjusted his breathing, his expression returned to calm, and said slowly: "The Great Dao is easy and difficult to cultivate, and I know that it is up to me and from the sky." ”As he spoke, he opened his eyes, stood up, shook his wide sleeved robe, floated up, and came to Jiang Chuhan's front and said, "If it weren't for the accumulation of Yin Virtue, there would be a group of demons as obstacles.Do you think these people are my demons?
”"The courtiers are weak in their words, and they don't dare to talk nonsense when they are young."
Jiang Chuhan said softly."
Speak!"
Chongzhen's voice was noticeably higher.Jiang Chuhan was cold.Hurriedly said: "Back to the saint, Weichen is arrogant, according to Weichen's opinion."
It is certainly a demonic obstacle for such a thing to appear in the imperial court, but it is also a big demonic obstacle for Waiyi to be eyeing my Ming Dynasty. ”