Chapter 121 Procrastinate, kill immediately! Cut down the power of officials!

   Li Biao covered his chest, pointed at Chen Zizhuang, his face was pale, and he could only say: "You, you, you..."

  Chen Zizhuang emphasized again: "Your Majesty, please correct people's hearts, calm down the false words, and kill the treacherous ministers!"

   Many of the gossip officials in the Manchu and Qing dynasties also gritted their teeth with hatred for Chen Zizhuang, but at this moment they didn't know how to refute.

  Because Chen Zizhuang is too good at speaking.

  伱 If he said that he spoke for his relatives, he would threaten him with the big move of going to jail and asking Dongchang to check who is clean.

  If you follow Li Biao and agree that Sun Chuanting and Zhou Yuji are guilty of original sin, then he will label you as disrespectful and say that Sun Chuanting and Zhou Yuji are employed by the emperor and have nothing to do with relatives.

  If you say that you have a large number of people and you hold the public opinion of the world, he says that you are a dictatorship, and that it is more terrible than foreign relatives intervening in politics and eunuchs' dictatorship.

  The gossip officers of the Qing Dynasty no longer dared to speak out, nor did they dare to threaten the emperor with their numbers, because they were unwilling to label themselves as a dictatorship.

   "What a civil dictatorship, history books and people's words can't reveal its evil."

Tian Qi listened, and slandered: "Scholars are more ruthless when they criticize their own people! This is the first time I've heard this statement. However, I'm not wrong. Now that Daming and his relatives come from a humble background in the harem, there is no longer any threat. Eunuchs are no more than domestic slaves, and they can be eliminated with one hand. Military officials can no longer be prime ministers. The upper and lower officials and schools are all appointed by the Ministry of War. Only scholar-bureaucrats become big, they can speak eloquently, and they are good at explaining mistakes, so it is difficult to fully understand the disadvantages. It is them Only by yourself can you see yourself more clearly.”

   Tianqi looked at Sun Chengzong: "Sir, what do you think of what Chen Zizhuang said?"

  Sun Chengzong looked depressed.

   Can you not ask me!

   Didn't you see that I've been keeping a low profile recently?

  But Sun Chengzong knew that the emperor asked him to test him.

  He knew that among the civil servants Emperor Tianqi cared most about was himself, the emperor's teacher, whether he had one heart with him.

  Sun Chengzong had no choice but to reply: "Your Majesty, what Chen Hanlin said is right!"

   Sun Chengzong's words, although catering to the emperor and acknowledging Chen Zizhuang's point of view, also offended the gossip officials of the Qing Dynasty.

   Li Biao and other Qing rumor officials looked at Sun Chengzong in astonishment.

  Sun Chengzong didn't look at them, just lowered his head, he couldn't really betray the king just for the fame of Shilin.

Tian Qi smiled joyfully, and said: "According to what Mr. Li said, Li Biaoming said that the ministers on the side of the border were wandering around with their relatives, secretly harboring disrespect to the emperor and father. It can be said that the traitor seems loyal, the hypocrisy seems straight, clever and deceitful. Make a decision!"

  Li Biao froze in place after hearing this, and then looked at Zhang Gui: "Uncle Guo! Don't you just say something?!"

In Li Biao's view, all of this was caused by Zhang Gui. Since Zhang Gui appeared, the Ming Dynasty has become more and more disobedient to follow the path their civil officials hoped. Now even civil officials are fighting each other. .

   "Your Majesty, it's not about my Xichang and the Chinese military governor's mansion. It's inconvenient for me to say more than a relative. I ask Your Majesty for permission. I keep silent."

   Zhang Gui replied.

   Apocalypse nodded.

  Li Biao: "..."

  He had to admit that Zhang Gui was not as easy to deal with as ordinary relatives.

Because this uncle of the country will not directly engage in the affairs of the party and the dissidents, and when he gets rid of others, he always uses the imperial guidelines and laws to get rid of someone. It seems that he is not out of selfishness. Dayi buys people's hearts, and more importantly, anyone who chooses to support or stand on his side can be promoted and promoted, so that many people are still speaking for him.

  Li Biao could only be arrogant, and said excitedly: "Chen Zizhuang is clearly your man!"

   "Your Majesty, I am wronged!"

   "Chen Hanlin is a disciple of the Son of Heaven, and the ministers are relatives, and they are all just His Majesty's people. How dare they be masters and servants of each other. To prove the minister's innocence, His Majesty can issue an order for the ministers and Chen Hanlin to go to prison and be strictly investigated by Dongchang."

   Zhang Gui hurriedly replied.

  Chen Zizhuang also echoed: "Your Majesty, I would also like to go to prison and stand trial to prove my innocence!"

  He and Chen Zizhuang did have a selfless relationship, but the court would cooperate tacitly.

Of course, Zhang Gui couldn’t win over Chen Zizhuang, a loyal man who would rather break his family than see his youngest son killed by the Qing army than surrender to the Qing in history. From the beginning to the end, Chen Zizhuang was willing to listen to Zhang Gui’s orders because of the two of them. The idea is the same.

   "Drag Li Biao down and kill him immediately!"

   Tianqi said something impatiently.

  Whether Chen Zizhuang and Zhang Gui had a personal relationship or not, he didn't bother to ask. He even hoped that Zhang Gui would marry more civil servants, so that the literati and bureaucrats would be more divided, so that he, the emperor, could draw in a gang to fight against a gang for checks and balances.

   Moreover, Tian Qi is now most afraid of Zhang Gui saying that he will be sent to prison.

  Tian Qi knew that if he really sent Zhang Gui to prison, not only would the previous dynasty be in turmoil, but the harem would also be in turmoil.

  Besides, he asked himself that the queen was not easy for him to handle.

   "Your Majesty!"

Li Biao yelled depressingly, then glanced at Zhang Gui, and said in his heart: "This is another trick! You know that the emperor will not send you to prison, but you always ask the emperor to send you to prison to prove your innocence. You Dare to go to prison, does he dare to interrogate Wei Zhongxian? Chen Zizhuang must have learned from you, and he will threaten to go to prison together at every turn!"

  Li Biao knew that he couldn't afford to offend Zhang Gui and Chen Zizhuang, who said they would go to prison together, so he was really scared.

Therefore, Li Biao finally only begged Tianqi: "Your Majesty, no matter what, you can't let the ministers be punished for their words, and you can't block the way of speech! The king wants the ministers to die, and the ministers have to die, but your majesty really wants the world. Ten thousand horses are silent, no one dares to speak again?!"

  An Tong also said: "Your Majesty, it is not a pity for me to wait for death, but if I wait for death, I am afraid that no one will dare to speak out!"

   "Your Majesty! The minister thinks that this kind of side matter is almost ruined, and the border minister will die in vain if he speaks out!"

   "What the imperial court has to do now is actually to reform the way of speaking, so that some treacherous people can no longer use the name of blunt speech to damage the imperial court's great government!"

  Chen Zizhuang said.

   Tianqi ignored Li Biao and the others here, and only asked Jin Yiwei to drag Li Biao, An Tong and others down.

   And Li Biao, An Tong and others were indeed decapitated next.

   Turning the conversation back, Tian Qi only asked Chen Zizhuang: "How to change the way of speaking?"

   "First of all, officials can't just be officials!"

"Because, as far as the few officials who only come from civil servants are saying, they are not enough to represent the public opinion of the world. The so-called listening to both is clear, and partial faith is dark. If your majesty really wants to listen to advice, you should hear more people in the world. words!"

   "Therefore, it is necessary to let some righteous and knowledgeable military officials and common people also serve as speech officials, so that they can listen to their words and prevent them from being controlled by civil servants."

"Secondly, an official newspaper should be set up, and the official office should be ordered to set up a newspaper. It is like the "Mansion Newspaper" that publishes national policies and state affairs and informs the world, but it is different from the "Mansion Newspaper". If it is known to the world, His Majesty can also know the world's opinions through the newspapers, and organize personnel to collect all kinds of news and post them on it, so that the world can know it, and let His Majesty know more about the world's affairs through the official newspapers. Not just through speakers and valets."

  Chen Zizhuang brought up the idea of ​​controlling public opinion that Zhang Gui had mentioned to him.

  Yang Jingchen, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, was eager to come out and object.

  In his view, allowing the government to run newspapers and allow non-civilian officials to participate, no doubt, there will be no so-called public discussions in Ming Dynasty, because everyone can speak, it is better not to speak.

  But Sun Chengzong stopped him at this time.

Sun Chengzong secretly asked: "Don't fight! You can't fight against Uncle Guo! The more you fight, the more suggestions he will throw out for reform! Now that the system is reformed, at least the civil servants will follow suit. If you object, believe it or not , he will make His Majesty feel that all civil servants deserve to be killed!"

  Yang Jingchen had no choice but to retreat after hearing this, instead of standing up, he only said: "But in this way, the public discussion will no longer be our scholarly public discussion!"

   "If there is no one, there will be none! Does Daming have the final say in public discussion, or the emperor?!"

  Sun Chengzong asked.

  (end of this chapter)