Ming Jiajing: Starting from Immortality

Chapter 77 Prince Yu turns evil and joins the game himself!

brute!

It was like a silent slap in the face of Zhang Juzheng, Li Chunfang and Chen Yiqin.

When Yan Song plotted to kill Xia Yan, the chief minister of the cabinet, Zhang, Li and Chen had all already served as officials in the court. The memorials they wrote, in which they denounced Yan Song as a traitor, are still included in the Wenyuan Pavilion.

More than ten years later, Zhang Juzheng pleaded for Yan Song in front of the emperor.

Has the attitude towards Yan Song changed?

No!

Zhang Juzheng still hated Yan Song, but in order to indirectly save his mentor Xu Jie, personal feelings came into play.

Li Chunfang and Chen Yiqin both hated Yan Song, but for the sake of their future selves, their own selfish thoughts were at work.

This phrase "bastard" not only insults Yan Song, Xu Jie, and Yan Shifan, who brought disaster to the country and the people, but also insults Zhang Juzheng, Li Chunfang, and Chen Yiqin.

The three of them felt a burning sensation on their faces.

"Zhang Juzheng."

Zhu Houcong's eyes suddenly pierced him: "Since Emperor Chengzu Wen established the cabinet, for more than a hundred years, I am the only one who has killed the cabinet chief. Xia Yan can die, and Yan Song can also die. Thousands of officials have died in the two capitals. I don't care if more people die."

Having said this, Li Chunfang and Chen Yiqin knelt down again. They could not bear the murderous intent.

The "arrow" shot by Yan Song thirteen years ago hit Yan Song right between his eyebrows thirteen years later.

孽 孽!
"As for the leaders of the literati you mentioned, they are just those old people who are standing up for Xu Jie. Go back and tell them that they are already 73 years old and can't fail to become saints!"

Zhu Houcong directly mentioned the master that Zhang Juzheng was afraid of, with a hint of threat in his tone.

In the past forty years, Nie Bao served as an official in the court for thirty-four years. He returned to his hometown and lived in retirement in the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing. He was promoted to the Minister of War. It was impossible for Zhu Houcong to forget this influential figure who once dominated the civil officials, military generals, and literati.

However, the reason why Nie Bao left officialdom was not because he was old and weak and could not handle the heavy workload, but because of the huge amount of corruption!

Xu Jie's greed was inherited from his teacher Nie Bao. When Nie Bao was the prefect of Suzhou, the amount of bribes he accepted was countless.

After his corruption was exposed, Nie Bao was allowed to return home to live out his life because of his influence in the court, military and literati.

If Nie Bao continues to be reckless and attempts to interfere in the affairs of the court, both the past and the future will be settled together.

Old people always say: "Seventy-three and eighty-four are two hurdles."

Seventy-three is the age at which Confucius died, and eighty-four is the age at which Mencius died. It means that people cannot live longer than saints, so these are said to be two hurdles.

Nie Bao was a famous minister of the School of Mind. Whether he believed it or not was aside from the question of whether he should be believed or not. But as long as Nie Bao dared to intervene in this matter, Zhu Houcong was prepared to personally prove to Nie Bao what it meant to not listen to the advice of elders and suffer the consequences.

Zhang Juzheng also knelt down, "I obey your order!"

"We obey your order!" Li Chunfang and Chen Yiqin followed closely.

Having reached this position, naturally, they are not the kind of people who "know what is impossible but do it anyway".

There is no way I would sacrifice myself for someone who is doomed to die.

Under Zhu Houcong's majestic gaze, the cabinet knelt there, not daring to move.

just.

Zhang Juzheng didn't dare to move, but that didn't mean that others didn't dare to move. Huang Jin walked into Yuxi Palace in the rain. "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness Prince Yu is kneeling in front of Yuxi Palace and begging the Emperor to spare the lives of Yan Song and Xu Jie!"

At this moment, a bolt of lightning struck the sky outside the palace, lighting up the sky and earth, followed by a loud thunder.

The sound of thunder not only exploded between heaven and earth, but also in the hearts of the three people in the cabinet.

The emperor had just expressed his will to the cabinet incisively and vividly, but now, Prince Yu suddenly appeared outside the Yuxi Palace and sang a different tune from the emperor.

He knelt in the rain, and Huang Jin couldn't pull him up.

The father does not know the son, and the son does not know the father, it has come to this point.

As early as when Prince Yu led the ministers to submit a memorial, Prince Yu's Mansion had been sealed by the East Factory.

However, Prince Yu still holds the throne, and in accordance with the ancestral system of Emperor Taizu Gao, the so-called fiefdom only restricts Prince Yu from meeting people, but does not restrict anything else.

The simplest thing is that the door of Prince Yu's mansion is not locked, and Prince Yu can go in and out at any time, but that represents the emperor's attitude that Prince Yu wants him to reflect on himself.

It is said that after establishing himself as the Prince of Yu, Prince Yu stopped studying and started practicing martial arts instead. Even the twenty personal bodyguards and sixty guards that the Emperor had bestowed upon Prince Yu were replaced by Prince Yu.

He practiced martial arts, changed guards, and disobeyed the emperor by leaving his home and entering the palace, kneeling down to ask the emperor to forgive his subjects who had committed heinous crimes.

All his actions make him look more like a rebel than a son or a prince.

Zhu Houcong looked through the palace door at Prince Yu kneeling in the rain, then looked at Zhang Juzheng, "You are making a fool of yourself, the elders. I will not keep you here any longer."

"Your Majesty, please leave!"

Zhang Juzheng, Li Chunfang and Chen Yiqin hurriedly bowed and slowly retreated. If it were not for the rules of etiquette, they would have wanted to turn around and run away.

Before the three of them walked out of the palace gate, they heard Shengyin's order, "This is coercion. I hate being coerced. Let him kneel, he can kneel as long as he wants, even if he kneels to death."

……

In front of Yuxi Palace.

Li Chunfang and Chen Yiqin took the umbrellas handed to them by the eunuch on duty without looking around, and walked straight out.

Zhang Juzheng sighed, walked over, and held the umbrella over Prince Yu Zhu Zaihou's head. "Your Highness, this won't help. The more you get involved, the more the Emperor will hate Elder Yan and Minister Xu. Go away now!"

The emperor vowed to kill Yan and Xu, not only because of the serious crimes they committed, but also to destroy the factional disputes within the court.

In the 39th year of the Jiajing reign and before, almost half of the officials in the capital were from the schools of Yan Song and Xu Jie. There were also countless of their students and former officials in Nanjing City and the thirteen provinces, causing unrest in the court and the country.

Now the emperor is determined to put an end to the increasingly fierce factional disputes. The balance of the court has been broken. Anyone involved will only increase the emperor's vigilance.

"Master Zhang, I have no way out!"

Prince Yu looked at Zhang Juzheng, who had shielded him from the wind and rain but had half of his body wet. He couldn't tell whether it was tears or rain on his face. "Prince Jing is coming to Beijing! Master Zhang, do you know what that means?
I know that I can't save Lord Yan or Minister Xu by doing this, but I can win back the hearts of their disciples."

Prince Yu knew clearly what he wanted.

He didn't need to really rescue Yan Song and Xu Jie, he just wanted to let the disciples of the Yan and Xu families see his desire to save Yan and Xu, and his determination to do anything for his supporters.

No matter how young the emperor looks, he is almost sixty years old. He and Prince Jing are his only children, and Prince Jing's bad behavior is known to everyone in the court and the country.

Even if one day the emperor wanted to abolish his throne, how could the court and the public be willing to let someone like King Jing be the only crown prince?
As Prince Jing is about to arrive in the capital, Prince Yu is determined to join the game!
(End of this chapter)