Ming Jiajing: Starting from Immortality

Chapter 29: All officials force the emperor to abdicate, Yan Song uses his killer move!
Ok Hee Palace.

The palace door opens.

Two Jinyiwei immediately stepped forward.

Jinyiwei Commander Lu Bing was shocked.

What serious matter has happened that has caused me to come here?

"Those people should be here." Lu Fang, the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Household Department, was sitting on the stool at the palace gate when he suddenly said this.

Lu Bing's mind couldn't keep up with this old ancestor. When he heard him say this, he could only look at his subordinates and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Just look up." Lu Fang answered directly.

Lu Bing's hair stood on end at once. He raised his head abruptly and looked towards the forbidden gate of the palace wall, and was immediately startled.

He is worthy of being a martial artist.

Looking from afar, half a mile away from the Forbidden Gate, I saw many people running towards it!
"Someone is really coming!" Lu Bing was surprised and suspicious. He looked carefully again and this time he could see it more clearly.

The birds on the civil officials' robes and the beasts on the military officials' robes come into view.

"Sir, it's the officials, there are more than a hundred people rushing to the Forbidden Gate." The two Jinyiwei finally told the secret report they had received not long ago.

Obviously, the secret report is of little value now that the person is already there.

Lu Fang still sat there without moving, his lips moved slightly, and he laughed like a night owl: "Gao Gong, you are awesome!"

Conversation at Prince Yu’s Mansion.

Not only did the Jinyiwei know about it, but the Dongchang knew it as well. The Dongchang even knew the names of some of the Jinyiwei's informants in Prince Yu's Mansion.

This is not to say that the Dongchang's intelligence capabilities are very strong. It is simply that the Jinyiwei was previously under the supervision of the Sili, and he knew some things about the Jinyiwei by relying on his high status.

As the emperor's half-brother and uncle, Lu Bing helped Prince Yu a lot, but he also took the opportunity to plant a number of informants in Prince Yu's mansion.

Perhaps Lu Bing did not do it on purpose, it was just a habit, but Prince Yu's Mansion was indeed the place where the Jinyiwei had the strictest surveillance.

Any disturbance in Prince Yu's Mansion would be reported secretly to the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

In comparison, the East Factory's methods were more direct. When Prince Yu gave birth to a prince, according to the rules, the palace had to send twenty palace maids and twenty eunuchs to take care of him.

The current East Factory is directly managed by Chen Hong, the chief eunuch of the Imperial Household Department. Chen Hong is also a ruthless man. The dozens of people he sent out have all registered their names in the East Factory and are considered to be the East Factory's informants.

But Chen Hong was a man who would take advantage of opportunities and avoid danger. After learning the details of the conversation between Prince Yu, Gao Gong, and Zhang Juzheng, he knew that he had heard something he should not have heard, so he reported it to Lu Fang.

At that time, Lu Fang knew that the cabinet struggle had officially entered a life-and-death stage.

The reason lies in Gao Gong's mouth.

The phrases "a great man" and "the likes of Yan Song" were such indiscriminate attacks that even the most marginalized Prince Yu could not accept it. He was so angry that he almost vomited blood on the spot, not to mention the father and son of the Yan family and Xu Jie who were classified as traitors.

You can be a traitor, but you can never admit it.

Lu Fang didn't know how many trump cards Yan Song could use, but he knew that one of the biggest trump cards of the civil service group was to kneel down in the palace and cry for advice.

The emperor no longer lived in the Forbidden City, so these officials came to the Western Garden to cry.

In front of the forbidden door.

There were people like Yan Maoqing, the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice. There were about a hundred of them, each holding a memorial in their hands, and they all knelt in front of the Forbidden Gate.

The imperial guards on duty in front of the forbidden gate of Xiyuan were all elite soldiers. They had been on the battlefield and experienced bloody battles one after another. They remained calm even when a knife was on their necks. They were iron-blooded men of the Ming Dynasty. Logically speaking, they had seen all kinds of big scenes, but they had never seen a scene like this where hundreds of people knelt down and cried when they met.

The commander of the imperial guards had heard that more than 30 years ago, in order to argue with his ministers over the "Great Ceremony Debate", the current emperor had more than 200 officials collectively submit a petition outside Zuoshun Gate. On that occasion, the emperor was furious and beat more than a dozen people to death on the spot, injured dozens of people, and arrested dozens of people.

After that, although some officials submitted memorials, they were only a few at most, and there had never been such a large number of people submitting a collective memorial.

The commanders and soldiers of the Western Garden Imperial Guards couldn't help but get nervous when they saw such a big commotion. They lined up and guarded the forbidden gate with swords and guns.

The person leading the imperial guards on duty today was none other than Chen Hong.

Although guarding the forbidden gate of the Western Garden is of great importance, according to regulations, it is enough to have a eunuch from the Ministry of Justice to lead the imperial guards on duty, and there is no need for Chen Hong to go there personally.

but.

The Ministry of Justice was also under the jurisdiction of the chief eunuch of the Imperial Household Department.

After seeing the secret report from Prince Yu's Mansion, Lu Fang knew that his godson was trying to shirk responsibility on purpose, so he found a "dry shore" for Chen Hong to stay until the matter was settled.

Chen Hong stood on the steps in the middle of the forbidden gate, feeling extremely annoyed, and shouted, "What are you doing? Are you going to rebel?"

"In our Ming Dynasty, there are only ministers who die for their remonstrances, and no ministers who plot treason! We have this memorial to the emperor, and we want to see him!" Yan Maoqing knelt at the front, holding up the memorial high, and said.

Chen Hong's anger suddenly rose. "There are ways to submit a petition. First submit it to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and then the Ministry of Rites will hand it over to the palace. You have been an official for many years, don't you even know this little rule?"

Before the imperial financial meeting last year, the Imperial Household Department still acted as the incarnation of the emperor. Whenever there was a memorial, the chief eunuch of the Imperial Household Department had to read it first. This reduced one hurdle in the process of submitting a memorial, but added another hurdle in Chen Hong's heart.

That's all power.

Luo Longwen, who was kneeling beside Yan Maoqing, replied loudly: "I am the Minister of Public Administration. We have impeached Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng for so long, but the Yuxi Palace has never released the case. We must present this memorial directly to the emperor and ask the emperor to accept the advice!"

All the officials kneeling here had colluded in advance and said in unison: "Your Majesty, please accept my advice!"

Xiyuan was a forbidden palace for more than 20 years, and the emperor was a quiet person. It was very quiet regardless of day or night. The roar of more than a hundred people reached the sky.

Many spring birds on the trees were startled and flew away, scaring away many birds on the nearby hill as well.

Lu Bing panicked a little and walked towards the forbidden gate to suppress those who dared to ask the emperor for an explanation.

"Don't panic, Commander Lu. Chen Hong can handle it." Lu Fang stopped Lu Bing.

"If this alarms His Majesty the Emperor..."

Lu Bing was extremely anxious and was about to argue, but Lu Fang interrupted him, saying, "Shocking the emperor? Commander Lu, you have seen such incidents before, right?
Thirty or forty years ago, weren't there more people who wanted to preach to the emperor? Wasn't the scene bigger than this? There wasn't even a cabinet minister, how could it frighten His Majesty?"

Lu Bing stopped.

However, Chen Hong could not stand any longer and his face was filled with anxiety.

Regarding cabinet matters, more than ten thousand memorials were kept in the palace without being sent out. His Majesty’s meaning was very clear, he didn’t want to bother with it.

If these officials were allowed to continue making trouble, it would alarm His Majesty, and he would be afraid that his career as the chief eunuch of the Imperial Household Department would be over.

Gradually, Chen Hong's eyes flashed with ferocity, one hand raised in the air, and suddenly chopped down, "Hit!"

"Yes!" Following a roar, the Western Garden Imperial Guards and the eunuchs of the Ministry of Justice started fighting.

In an instant, whips and sticks were swung, and Luo Longwen, Yan Maoqing and others were thrown to the ground.

(End of this chapter)