Ming Dynasty: I risked my life to teach the prince, the emperor begged me not to die

Chapter 403 Chen Ce was impeached again

Today, the Cabinet, six ministries and the Censorate organized a small court meeting.

The Ministry of Rites sent another letter to Japan, but Japan still turned a deaf ear to the Ming Dynasty's warnings, and the Japanese pirates in the southeast continued to cause chaos.

It is obvious that the threat of Ming's military exercises in the East China Sea did not deter the Japanese at all. Not only did it not deter them, they even became more aggressive in the southeast of Ming.

This time the attitude of the Ming Dynasty's top leaders has changed somewhat. At first everyone still had hope and planned to resolve the threat from the southeast in a peaceful way, but now they are more inclined to war.

But if we really want to start a war in the southeast, we must be sure of how to fight, what military targets to hit, the preliminary preparations, the manifestos, etc.

It takes time to prepare for a war and actually start an active war.

Outside the Jinshen Palace, Yang Tinghe's request for a meeting interrupted the small court meeting.

Emperor Hongzhi said to the eunuch, "Announce."

Yang Tinghe bowed to Emperor Hongzhi and said, "Your Majesty, I want to impeach Chen Ce, the Right Eunuch of the Eastern Palace."

Emperor Hongzhi: “…”

"Let's discuss this later."

Yang Tinghe cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, this matter is of great importance. It concerns the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. We have to discuss it!"

Emperor Hongzhi had no choice but to ask Yang Tinghe: "Oh, it's about the Crown Prince, what's going on?"

If all the gentlemen were not present, Emperor Hongzhi would have wanted to kick Yang Tinghe out directly.

Yang Tinghe said, "Yesterday, Chen Yude secretly took the prince out of the palace without regard for the prince's safety. As the prince's instructor, he actually made the prince make a promise in front of the people, promising that the heavy rain would stop in two days."

"For such a trivial matter, he actually encouraged the prince to make a promise. This is not the conduct of a teacher in the East Palace."

"The people outside the city cheered. If the heavy rain does not stop for two days, the prince's dignity will be gone. As a teacher and a minister, if you are not loyal to the king, how can you be a teacher?"

"If the Crown Prince continues to allow Chen Yude to teach him, the future will be disastrous. Your Majesty must be vigilant!"

Emperor Hongzhi rubbed his forehead and asked, "How could there be such a thing? This Chen Ce is really outrageous!"

Liu Jian bowed and stepped out of the line, saying to Emperor Hongzhi: "Your Majesty, what Lord Yang said is not without reason. The prince is the heir to the throne, the future emperor, so the moral integrity of teachers is particularly important. After all, Chen Ce is young, so it is reasonable for him to act a little frivolously."

"But as Lord Yang said, Chen Ce is not worthy of the position of Imperial Tutor of the Eastern Palace. Your Majesty, please carefully consider the future of the Crown Prince."

Qin Hong stepped out and asked, "This is Lord Yang's one-sided statement. It is unknown whether Chen Yude has his own reasons or something else. Your Majesty, should you also summon Chen Yude to ask for an imperial decree?"

Emperor Hongzhi nodded and said to Huai'en, "Go and call Chen Ce."

"According to the order!"

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When Chen Ce heard that Yang Tinghe had really started to impeach him, he immediately understood the whole story. The allegations of misleading the crown prince and being unworthy of the position were all false.

In the final analysis, Yang Tinghe felt that his credit was taken away by himself. It was clearly he who suggested to the Crown Prince to exempt taxes and benefit the people, and then he did the same thing. In Yang Tinghe's eyes, he was just repeating what he had said, so how could he feel balanced?

However, Chen Ce really didn't want to argue too much with Yang Tinghe, so he said to Huai En: "Well, Yang Tinghe's impeachment is correct. Please tell the emperor that I am ill and it is really not appropriate for me to go to the palace. How to deal with it is entirely up to the emperor to decide, and I am willing to accept it."

Huai En: "..."

This……

"Master Chen, if you have any difficulties, you can also tell this old servant and I can pass on the message for you." Chen Ce shook his head and said, "I have no difficulties. Thank you, eunuch."

He didn't want to waste time fighting with Yang Tinghe. If the position of Donggong Yude was really dismissed, Chen Ce didn't care. He never wanted to take it in the first place. It was forced upon him by Emperor Hongzhi.

Huai En said helplessly: "Okay, I will return to the palace to report now?"

Chen Ce nodded: "Okay!"

After Huai En left, Chen Ce went to the kitchen to boil medicine in the heavy rain. Xiao Hua tilted her head and asked Chen Ce, "Brother Chen, why don't you defend yourself when people bully you like this?"

Chen Ce smiled and said, "Because it's meaningless. Instead of wasting energy on these unnecessary fights, it's better to think about other things."

"Cough cough cough."

The weather gradually turned colder and Chen Ce started coughing again. Xiaohua quickly handed the handkerchief to Chen Ce and carefully patted his back and stroked his chest.

Looking at the blood on the handkerchief, Xiaohua began to cry again.

This is also the reason why Chen Ce did not want to waste his energy arguing with Yang Tinghe. His condition began to gradually worsen.

"It's okay." Chen Ce comforted Xiaohua, drank the prepared medicine, took a short rest, and then went to the study to open Xu Jing's letter.

September is almost here, and next year Tang Yin and Zhu Zhishan will also return to Peiping to continue to take part in the imperial examination.

Xu Jing has been in the southeast for two years, and the time has passed by so quickly.

Xu Jing's letter said that the three Zhejiang departments and the Fu family were secretly colluding, Japanese pirates were rampant in the southeast, and the officials in the southeast were in collusion to make huge profits from smuggling.

These were all discovered by Xu Jing through secret investigations.

Chen Ce never expected that Fu Yuan would collude with the three Zhejiang departments... He was playing with fire and getting burned!
Chen Ce sat at the desk and thought for a long time. He picked up a pen and wrote a letter, and then asked Madam Wu to send it to Fu Yuan.

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Jinshen Palace.

Huai'en conveyed Chen Ce's words to Emperor Hongzhi word for word.

After hearing this, Yang Tinghe bowed to Emperor Hongzhi and said, "Your Majesty, Chen Ce has confessed his guilt. I ask Your Majesty to dismiss Chen Ce from the post of Imperial Palace Master."

Emperor Hongzhi looked at Yang Tinghe calmly and asked the ministers of the six ministries in the cabinet, "What do you think?"

Liu Jian cupped his hands and said, "Since Chen Yude has realized his mistake, I ask the emperor to exempt Chen Ce from punishment, but he really cannot continue to serve as the East Palace Instructor. The Crown Prince is related to the foundation of the country, so we have to be cautious."

Qin Hong and Xu Guan wanted to come forward to defend Chen Ce, but now they were powerless and they didn't know what Chen Ce was thinking.

Or did Chen Ce do this on purpose because he didn't want to serve as an official in the Eastern Palace?

Why did he suddenly take the prince to do such an outrageous thing? Why did he instigate the prince to make a promise that the rainstorm would stop, giving people something to talk about?

Qin Hong and Xu Guan knew that Chen Ce would not be so ignorant. He was a smart man and would never make such a low-level mistake, unless he really didn't want to be an official in the Eastern Palace anymore.

The two glanced at Yang Tinghe thoughtfully. Perhaps Chen Ce was disappointed with the struggle in the Eastern Palace, so he gave up being an official.

Hey!
The two men were powerless. Although they wanted to protect Chen Ce, they could not help but feel that Chen Ce himself did not want to be an official. Otherwise, with his intelligence and talent, he would never let Yang Tinghe catch him.

Even if he was caught, with his eloquence, he would not be dismissed from office as long as he took the initiative to defend himself!

(End of this chapter)