Lee Shan Chang's intestines were already green with regret. Why did he have to step into this muddy water at this time?
He did not want to answer.
However, he had to answer Zhu Yuanzhang's question.
After thinking for a moment, Lee Shan Chang bowed and said,
"Your Majesty, I would never dare to indulge my family in occupying land!”
"I believe in the Duke of Korea, but if you didn't do it, do you know who else did it?”
Zhu Yuanzhang did not give up, causing Li Shan Zhang's forehead to be covered in sweat.
Finally, he gritted his teeth and said,"I don't know!"”
"Yes!"
Zhu Yuanzhang ignored Li Shanchang and turned to Zhu Liangzu."
"Do you know Yongjia Marquis?"
"Your Majesty, I was wronged. I didn't know!”
Zhu Liangzu quickly waved his hand, afraid that Zhu Yuanzhang would suspect him.
"This subject is dedicated to the country and has been thinking day and night about how to be loyal to my Great Ming!”
"Your Majesty, I wouldn't dare!"
Zhu Liangzu finally decided to deny this matter.
Old Zhu could not help but laugh.
He was scared by Old Zhu's laughter and did not know what the emperor was thinking.
In the next moment, Old Zhu had already abandoned him and turned to Liu Ji.
"Mr. Liu, you are in charge of the position of Imperial Censor and supervise the words and deeds of the officials on behalf of me!”
"Do you know what happened in Fengyang?"
Liu Ji sighed and bowed."
"Your Majesty, I have failed to investigate!"
"I will investigate the matter of Fengyang thoroughly when I return!“
The Emperor let Liu Ji go and continued to ask the officials of the six departments,
One by one, Zhu Yuanzhang asked. Every official who was asked by Zhu Yuanzhang was frightened.
How could no one among the officials know about the Fengyang incident?
On the contrary, the dukes and marquises occupied the fertile land of the people.
This is the usual practice of all dynasties,
After experiencing the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the world had long been in a mess.
Even if the dukes and marquises encroach on fertile land and the people flee,
It would not make people unable to live.
Although the founding emperors of the past dynasties were involved in such matters, they were not as involved as Zhu Yuanzhang.
After a round of questioning, the moral high ground of the officials had long disappeared. What was left was the panic of their own calculations.
"It's over, a bunch of motley crew!"
Li Shan Chang saw the Emperor's behavior and sighed. He glared at Zhu Liangzu.
His gaze fell on the silkpants Zhu Rong, whom he had always looked down on, and he sighed with emotion.
As the head of the officials, he thought that he was more scheming than others.
This time, they came with the name of righteousness. They originally wanted to kill Zhu Rong.
However, he had stirred up a shocking case.
Now, not only was he fine, but he had also made a great contribution.
On the other hand, he, Huaixi Wenwu, would probably be in big trouble this time.
He threatened the emperor, but he was caught.
With Zhu Yuanzhang's personality, he would definitely not let them off easily.
The founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty was not a magnanimous person.
"Is this how you scholars behave?”
Emperor Zhu's sarcastic words made all the officials present wish they could crawl into the cracks in the ground.
Lee Shan Chang knew that if he stayed here, he would only be embarrassing himself.
He immediately knelt down and said loudly,
"I, Li Shanzhang, have committed the crime of oversight and wronged the King of Wu. Please punish me, Your Majesty."
"I, Hu Weiyong, mistakenly believed the rumors. Your Majesty, please punish me!”
"I, Liu Ji, mistakenly believed the rumors and wrongly accused His Highness the King of Wu. Your Majesty, please punish me!”
After Li Shan Chang knelt down, the others realized that the situation was hopeless and followed suit.
Everyone was extremely aggrieved, but there was nothing they could do.
Zhu Yuanzhang sneered in his heart. Now he knew how to plead guilty and accept punishment?
If it wasn't for his tacit understanding with Old Fifth, using the matter of Fengyang to turn the tables, these people would have really dared to force him to cripple his son today.
Thinking of this, the Ming Emperor liked Zhu Rong even more.
Although this unfilial son of his usually looked unreliable, he was still reliable at critical moments.
Now, it was time for him to help this guy vent his anger.
Old Zhu turned around and said,"
"Since you know that you're innocent, everyone will be fined a year's salary!”
"After the morning court session tomorrow, go and receive thirty strokes of the cane yourself!”
The officials were filled with regret. The emperor had punished them just like that. A year's salary was gone. Was he planning to let them live in the northwest wind?
Not to mention that he would be beaten up.
But that was not all.
Zhu Yuanzhang continued,
"Regarding the Fengyang matter, I will start a special case!”
"If the local officials know about this and do not report it, they will be immediately executed and their three families will be exiled!”
"Zhu Xian, the son of the Marquis of Yongjia, has no respect for his superiors and has misbehaved. He will be punished with a hundred strokes of the cane and stripped of his official position.”
As soon as Emperor Zhu opened his mouth, countless bloody heads fell to the ground.
The officials present were silent out of fear.
He walked up to Zhu Liangzu, the Marquis of Yongjia.
Zhu Liangzu's face was already covered in sweat.
"Yongjia Marquis Zhu Liangzu has military matters to attend to, but he went out of the military camp to seize the position of general!”
"A hundred and fifty canes!"
Zhu Liangzu's face was completely drained of blood.
The Emperor was really merciless this time. He had originally thought that the Northern Expedition was imminent and the Emperor did not dare to deal with him at this critical moment.
Who knew that Old Zhu would be so ruthless? Not only did he directly strip him of his military power,
Why caning a hundred and fifty?
With these 150 strokes, he, Zhu Liangzu, would lose half his life.
"Emperor, please reconsider!"
"Emperor, Marquis Yongjia is one of the main forces of this northern expedition. Your Majesty cannot change generals in the face of battle!”
"Your Majesty, please reconsider!"
Zhu Liangzu's punishment shocked Huaixi Cultural Relics.
The officials once again asked Emperor Zhu to marry them.
Zhu Yuanzhang replied lightly,
" Great Ming Dynasty, there's no one that can't be missing!"
When Li Shan Chang heard this, he felt like he had lost his parents.
As Zhu Liangzu begged for mercy, he was dragged out by the palace guards.
After a while, Zhu Liangzu screamed,
It circled outside the hall and gradually turned into the sound of breathing.
Lee Shan Chang understood the Emperor's determination and sighed,
He stood up and took his leave.
He seemed to have already predicted his ending.
The Emperor waved his hand and let the officials leave.
Those high-spirited officials who entered the palace were like stray dogs when they left.
"This old man won't be able to hold the position of Left Minister for long!”
After leaving the palace, Hu Weiyong and Li Shan Chang sat in a carriage. Li Shan Chang sighed and said,
Hu Weiyong was shocked and replied,"
"Minister Li, could it be that His Majesty is going to make a move against me, Huaixi Civil and Military Officials?”
Lee Shan Chang shook his head.
"That won't be the case. I, Huaixi Civil and Military Affairs, am still the pillar of the Ming Dynasty. The emperor needs us for many things!”
"No matter how angry he is at us for forcing him to abdicate, he can't touch the foundation of the Ming Dynasty!”
"However, as the leader of Huaixi, this old man has already been hated by the Emperor!”
"I'm afraid that I have to leave this time, but I, Huaixi, can't have no one in charge of the court. Hu Weiyong, it's up to you in the future!”;
Hu Weiyong smiled bitterly.
"Minister Li must be joking. Everyone knows that you are my teacher. If you leave, how can the Emperor still use me?”
Lee Shan Chang sneered.
"If he doesn't use you, who else can he use?"
"Is Liu Ji really going to be the prime minister? If His Majesty wasn't afraid of Liu Ji, why didn't he make him a duke, but an earl?”
"Don't worry, the Zhu family's world still needs to be supported by us Huaixi people. This won't change!”;
"However, this matter should also be a reminder to those old brothers. Don't think that just because you have the merit of following the dragon, the emperor won't deal with you!”
"Tell them to quickly return the fertile land they occupied and apologize to the emperor!”
"This is their only chance to escape. Otherwise, when the northern expedition is over, it will be time for His Majesty to settle the score!”
Hu Weiyong quickly noted down Li Shan Zhang's words.
He could not help but sigh.
"I just don't understand why such a good situation has become like this.”
"That Prince Wu is truly blessed by the heavens!”
"It's already a great blessing for him to be able to obtain a divine item like the sweet potato in the market!”
"I didn't expect him to be so lucky. He actually escaped our trap!“
Lee Shan Chang thought of Zhu Rong, and his face turned gloomy.
This devil was inexplicably difficult to deal with. They had originally looked down on Zhu Rong.
In the so-called Holy Doctor farce, Zhu Rong was just a tool for them and Zhu Yuanzhang to fight for justice.
It was indeed good that Zhu Xi could write down the agricultural classics, but such a book with strange skills was not worth mentioning to scholars.
The so-called sweet potato could also be attributed to Zhu Xiong's luck.
In short, even now, Lee Shan Chang looked down on Zhu Xiong's ability, but he was very angry at his luck.
"Sooner or later, this Prince Wu will teach him a lesson!”
"Forget it, let's not talk about it anymore. Let's set up as soon as possible!”
Compared to Huaixi's civil and military officials,
The Emperor of Ming in the palace was in a good mood.
It was clearly a situation where he had to compromise and even sacrifice his son.
He was actually beaten back by this unfilial son Zhu Rong with a set of Bastard Fist.
Old Zhu had heard about Feng Yang from Xu Miaoyun.
However, he had chosen to bear with it for the sake of the Northern Expedition. Secondly, he had not fully investigated the matter.
Now that Zhu Rong had revealed himself, although it had ruined Old Zhu's original plan...
But he was still very happy.
This unfilial son was indeed impatient. This was his son.
Zhu Yuanzhang was glad that he had known about Fengyang in advance. Otherwise, he might not have been able to take Zhu Yao's words.
However, although he was happy, it didn't mean that Old Zhu would let Zhu Rong go.
After the others left and only his own people were left, Old Zhu snorted coldly.
"Fifth brother, are you getting better at framing me?”
Zhu Rong smiled awkwardly. He had no choice.
He knew that Old Zhu was reminding him about the tunnel incident last time, so he quickly added,
"Imperial Father, your son can't stand seeing you being forced by those people, right?”
" You don't have to thank me. Reporting illegal things is my duty as a prince…"
"Thank you?"
Old Zhu was originally in a good mood, but he exploded with anger again.
Didn't you cause all the f * cking trouble? Do I have to thank you for cleaning up your mess?
"Don't talk nonsense. How much do you know about Fengyang?”
Zhu Rong thought for a moment and told Zhu Yuanzhang everything he could say,
One clearly knew a lot, but could only select a portion of the content to say.
One of them obviously knew, but still pretended to know for the first time.
Zhu Rong and the emperor were showing off their acting skills.
Zhu Biao and Xu Miaoyun were watching from the side. They could only hold back their laughter.
"Humph!"
After listening to Zhu Xiong's detailed account of the incident, Old Zhu's anger grew.
"It seems that they really treat me as blind and deaf in this deep palace!”
"Is this forcing me to restart the inspection?”
As soon as he said the word 'check',
Everyone present was shocked.
Zhu Biao shouted,"Father, your son thinks it's inappropriate!"”
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