The next morning.
Morning court in Fengtian Hall.
Everyone in the court knew that an unprecedented purge had taken place in the southeast.
Although the Emperor had not brought this matter up on the table, everyone had a tacit understanding.
"If you have a memorial, you will be dismissed." The eunuch asked as usual.
The officials were silent.
Just as the eunuch was about to announce his retreat.
"Your Majesty."
"The Left Imperial Censor of the Imperial Censorate, Wei Guozhong, requests an audience.”
Zhu Youtang frowned." What's the matter?"
All the censors of the Imperial Censorate were currently being held in custody by the Five Armies Military Department and couldn't enter or leave.
Now that the Left Qian Imperial Censor had an audience, Zhu Youtang could not help but have some doubts.
"Replying to the emperor, the Left Qian Imperial Censor Wei Guozhong has a list of Imperial Censorate officials colluding with the Southeast officialdom and wants to personally present it to the emperor.”
Zhu Youtang nodded and said,"Let him go to the palace."”
"The Left Qian Imperial Censor Wei Guozhong is here.”
When the officials heard this news, they could not react for a moment.
What was the meaning of this?
Was there really someone in the Imperial Censorate colluding with the officials of the Southeast?
What kind of organization was the Imperial Censorate? This was one of the three divisions, responsible for supervising the officials!
There were actually people among them who colluded with the Southeast officialdom?
Before the officials could react, Wei Guozhong, the censor of the Left Qian Capital, had already walked into the Hall of Heaven's Tribute.
"This humble subject kowtows to my emperor.”
"Rise."
Zhu Youtang waved his hand.”
The eunuch beside him prepared to go down and take the list from Wei Guozhong's hands.
Wei Guozhong's face was filled with vigilance as he shouted,""Your Majesty! This list involves the high officials of the court and the emperor's attendants. I want to personally hand it over to my emperor!”
As soon as he finished speaking, the expressions of all the officials changed. Everyone cast a vigilant gaze at the officials beside them.
How big was the net in the southeast?
Everyone was shocked.
Zhu Youtang narrowed his eyes, dismissed the chamberlain, and said to Wei Guozhong,""Correct!"
Wei Guozhong walked up the marble stairs step by step and was close to Zhu Youtang.
Zhu Youtang didn't notice him either. All his eyes were focused on the list in his hand.
At this moment.
The situation suddenly changed.
The plot was revealed!
"Die!"
Wei Guozhong's expression was ferocious. He raised his dagger and stabbed at Zhu Youtang in an instant!
The dagger was dipped in poison, and if it were to come into contact with it, it would definitely die!
Zhu Youtang's expression was indifferent as he looked at Wei Guozhong in a daze.
"Your Majesty!"
"Protector beast!"
"Bastard! How dare you assassinate my emperor?"
Everyone in the Hall of Heaven's Tribute froze on the spot, petrified.
Before the officials entered the palace, they needed the Golden Armored Guards to search their bodies.
However, before Wei Guozhong came, he had specifically instructed that no one could touch this list.
Therefore, the list had not been searched by the golden-armored guards.
However, it was precisely because of this negligence that he was given the opportunity to assassinate.
As long as the Emperor died, the situation in the southeast would be stabilized in a short period of time.
As long as the officials of the southeast were given enough time.
This battle could still be turned around!
All of Wei Guozhong's assets were in the Southeast. He could die, but in order to protect his family, he had to make his death meaningful.
"Emperor, I'm sorry!"
Zhu Youtang looked at him indifferently and did not move.
All the officials thought that Zhu Youtang was frightened.
However, who would have thought that the two most inconspicuous little handmaidens with yellow caps lurking behind Zhu Youtang would fly to Zhu Youtang at an extremely fast speed.
Bang!
The two maids snatched the blade with their bare hands and kicked Wei Guozhong a few meters away from the steps.
Then, with a loud bang, Wei Guozhong fell hard on the Hall of Heaven's Tribute.
Everything happened too quickly.
The officials did not have time to be shocked. The two maids with yellow covers respectfully returned to Zhu Youtang's back.
The officials rubbed their eyes hard and stood rooted to the ground in shock.
Wei Guozhong was even more shocked.
What was that?
How was this possible?
He had thought that today was the best time to assassinate him.
Without the Brocade Guard and the East Chamber, who could protect the little Emperor?
But what was this?
Wei Guozhong looked up unwillingly and stared at the two palace maids who were fanning themselves behind Zhu Youtang.
Their hair was tied up in a conch bun, and their faces were equally delicate. They were also wearing red narrow-sleeved shirts, white shawls around their shoulders, green skirts that dragged the ground, and "Concentric Knot Belt" floating around their skirts.
She bent her waist and straightened her belly, standing slim and elegant, like two moving willows behind Zhu Youtang, or like two swaying lotus flowers. She was gentle and charming. However, no matter if they were willows in the wind or lotuses on the water, with Zhu Youtang standing in front, no one would notice them.
Standing in front of them was the emperor of Ming Dynasty who enslaved Turpan and exterminated the Wala and Tartar tribes like a rising sun!
Zhu Youtang's brilliance was too dazzling.
Who would pay attention to two young girls who were fanning?
They were just two little palace maids fanning themselves.
Each of them held a "barrier fan" in their hands. The handle of the fan was only as thick as a thumb and about twelve feet long. It was a "barrier fan" with five-colored pheasant feathers as the fan surface.
When the emperor went out, they would cover the sun and dust for the emperor. When the emperor was in court, they were the two decorations behind Zhu Youtang. They were the same as the two "barrier fans". As time passed, everyone ignored their existence.
However, things that were useful and things that he used every day were two different things.
He had hidden the sword for ten years, but it was still a sharp sword that could kill.
Everyone gasped at this moment. Only then did they notice the fierceness of the two little palace maids behind Zhu Youtang!
Zhu Youtang looked at Wei Guozhong, who was lying on the Fengtian Hall, and suddenly laughed out loud."Good, good! Great Ming's civil officials have backbone!"
"She can even do things like assassinating the monarch and plotting rebellion!”
"I don't see you taking up your sword to fight against the Japanese pirates in the southeast. In the war in the northern border, you impeach your colleagues!”
"The officials of the Imperial Censorate are all my left and right arms.”
Zhu Youtang stood up with his hands behind his back and said with a dark face,""Do you think that without the East Chamber and the Embroidered Uniform Guards, I have no trump cards?”
In the past two years, Zhu Youtang had always had a mysterious force beside him-the Shadow Guards!
They mixed in with the palace and lurked beside Zhu Youtang.
They were inconspicuous.
Zhu Youtang did not use them.
Because nothing could threaten Zhu Youtang's life.
Today, Zhu Youtang's eyes were all on the list in Wei Guozhong's hands. He had never thought that the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty and the high officials of the Imperial Censorate would assassinate him in Fengtian Hall!
If it wasn't for the Shadow Guards, Zhu Youtang could have dodged, but what if he was accidentally cut by the poisoned dagger?
Would he still be able to live then?
Zhu Youtang was really angry.
"Call over the Commander of the Brocade Guard's South Garrison, Qing Long!”
"Wei Guozhong! I trusted you and appointed you as the Left Imperial Censor of the Imperial Censorate. I didn't expect you to have second thoughts about me! Good! Good! Very good! Since I can't get your loyalty with my favor, then I'll use a knife and axe to take out your true heart!”
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