Chapter 9 Apocalypse: I am a tyrant!

  Tianqi nodded, and said: "I am more sure now, no matter what I do, the civil servants will not be satisfied with me."

   As he said that, Tian Qi sneered: "It turns out that they didn't want me to be a sage and benevolent lord for the sake of the world, but for themselves!"

  …

   "Since this is the case, why should Your Majesty care about their opinions!"

   "Whoever creates evil words should be executed!"

   "Otherwise, today they can threaten His Majesty to execute ministers with evil words, who knows if they will use evil words to force His Majesty to sin against himself and even abdicate in the future?"

   Zhang Gui let Tianqi know the real intentions of the scholar-bureaucrats, the purpose is to fight back, so that Zhu Tongmeng, the first person who dared to threaten him with death, should die.

  Now, seeing that Tianqi has said this, he knows that the time is ripe, and he encourages Tianqi.

Tianqi glanced at him, nodded again, and sent the **** Wei Chao to order: "I will pass on my will, and the military department will give you Zhu Tongmeng's gossip to deceive the emperor and murder the royal family. According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, whoever makes the gossip will be executed!" Immediately declare the canonical punishment!"

  Zhang Gui smiled slightly, satisfied in his heart, and cupped his hands: "Your Majesty is holy!"

   "I don't need to care if they scold me, but I will never let them dare to murder my relatives at will!"

  Tianqi left a word at this time, then turned around and said to Zhang Gui: "You and I enter the palace together to see if the emperor's heir will be okay."

"yes!"

   Zhang Gui replied.

  Secretary Supervisor.

  After Wei Chao arrived here, he reported to Wang An, who was in the supervisor of ceremonies: "Old ancestor, the emperor sent a decree to punish Zhu Tong Mingming!"

   "What, canon punishment?!"

  Wang An stood up straight after hearing this, and asked, "What happened?"

Wei Chao then replied: "The medicine offered by Uncle Zhang Guo cured the emperor's heir, and after chatting with him a few words, His Majesty left the palace. This purpose."

   "It was cured!"

  Wang An went back to his mansion to rest before Zhang Gui brought the medicine into the palace, and because of this, he didn't know about it until now.

  Wang An was disappointed for a while.

  Wei Chao asked: "Is this purpose to be drafted?"

   "Don't make any plans yet! He Zhu Tongmeng is a speaker, how can he be convicted for his words? This will insult the emperor's name."

  Wang An said.

   Then, Wang An said again: "I'll go see the emperor first, and see if I can persuade the emperor to withdraw his intention."

"yes!"

   Wei Chao replied.

  So, Wang An first came to Tianqi.

  Seeing him coming, Tianqi asked, "What's the matter?"

  Wang An replied: "The emperor wants to pass the decree to kill Zhu Tongmeng. The old slave wants to ask, should the supervisor of ceremonies directly issue the decree, or should the cabinet and the six divisions issue the decree?"

  In today’s Ming Dynasty, the emperor’s decree directly assigned to the middle official, that is, the supervisor of ceremonies, is called Zhongzhi, while the decree drafted by the cabinet is called Mingfa’s imperial decree.

  Generally speaking, many courtiers do not recognize the Zhongzhi, because if they recognize the Zhongzhi, it is inevitable that they will be flattered that they only obey the orders of the emperor and their father.

  Tianqi glanced at Wang An, and said, "Zhongzhi, just ask Jin Yiwei to do this."

  Wang An suddenly prostrated himself on the ground: "The Emperor Mingjian, after all, Zhu Tongmeng is a speech officer. Jin Yiwei only has the right to arrest, but not to execute. I think it is better to order the Ministry of Punishments to deal with this matter."

  Seeing this, Zhang Gui glanced at Tian Qi, and thought, "This Wang An is obviously ignorant."

Tian Qi sneered: "How about this, you send someone to tell Zhu Tongmeng to come to see me, now that Zhang Gui has really cured the emperor's heir, I want to hear how he defends himself. Go to the Ministry of Justice."

   "The old slave obeys the order!"

  Wang An replied.

   "Your Majesty wants to see me?"

  Zhu Tongmeng stuffed a meeting ticket to the **** who came to pass the decree for him to enter the palace, asked a question, and then asked: "Is it because the emperor's heir died young?"

   "The emperor's heir did not die young, he was cured by Uncle Zhang Guo, and now his fever has subsided."

  The **** replied.

"Yeah?!"

  Zhu Tongmeng was quite disappointed after hearing this, and said in his heart: "I didn't expect Zhang Gui to have some medical skills, so he escaped a catastrophe!"

  …

  After Wang An left, at Tianqi's place, Zhang Guizheng said to Tianqi: "Your Majesty, it seems that you can only rely on yourself."

   Tian Qi replied solemnly: "I know!"

   "I have seen His Majesty!"

When Zhu Tongmeng came to Tianqi, Wang An also came back with the decree: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Punishment refuted the decree of the Supervisor of Rituals, saying that this may be a coquettish edict. Please Your Majesty, the cabinet will issue an edict. Sign and issue, otherwise, it will be suspected that the internal ministers will kill the officials and violate the ancestral system."

  Zhu Youxiao actually came out with a Shangfang sword, and said with a sneer: "I guessed this would be the result! The key is, if I issue an edict, can the cabinet and the Six Branches execute it for me?"

   Saying that, Zhu Youxiao drew his sword out of its sheath and looked at Zhu Tongmeng.

  Zhu Tongmeng felt that something was wrong at this time, and listening to Wang An's words just now, it seemed that the emperor had issued an order to kill the officials, so he asked: "Your Majesty summoned the ministers, why?"

"What else can happen? Didn't you say that my emperor's heir fell ill because of the lawlessness of the emperor Zhang Gui? But why did Zhang Gui really save him now? Want to help him? It can be seen that what you said is demonic words! According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, fabricating demonic words should be executed!"

   Tian Qi gritted his teeth and said.

  Zhu Tongmeng immediately clasped his hands and argued: "Your Majesty! Officials have the right to hear rumors and talk about things. This is the ancestral system and cannot be regarded as evil words. Your Majesty cannot kill ministers, and violate the ancestral system and block the way of speech!

  Suddenly, a sword, like a silver snake, quickly penetrated into Zhu Tongmeng's abdomen.

  There was only a puff, Zhu Tongmeng felt a numbness all over his body, his eyes began to blur, and then he was surprised to find that a sword had been submerged in his abdomen, and the blood began to soak his robe, and the pain began to rise.

  Zhu Tongmeng raised his head in astonishment, and looked at Tianqi in horror: "Your Majesty, this is you."

   "Damn you!"

   Tianqi gritted his teeth.

   Then, Tian Qi drew out the sword.

  The sword has turned red.

  Tianqi asked: "What crime is it according to the ancestral system?"

   No answer.

  Because everyone was scared to death.

  Tianqi simply turned his head to look at Wang An and the others, blushing and asked loudly: "I ask you, what is the crime of the emperor killing the officials according to the ancestral system?!"

  Wang An stared blankly at this scene.

  He never thought that the emperor would do such a thing, and directly killed the speaker himself.

  He thought that he had really successfully used the Ministry of Punishments to refute the emperor's edict.

   As a result, he didn't expect that the emperor announced that Zhu Tongmeng came, not to listen to his self-defense, but to kill him.

  Zhu Tongmeng himself was also surprised.

  He had to admit that Tianqi was too bullying to do so.

  Because the ancestral system is impossible to stipulate what punishment the emperor should receive for doing something wrong.

  Now he can only hold his bleeding stomach, look at Tian Qi, and say angrily: "Tyrant! Tyrant!"

  Puff!

   Tian Qi stabbed with his sword again, with a mocking expression: "I am a tyrant!"

"ah!"

  Zhu Tongmeng didn't expect that he would add another sword to his body because of this: "Your Majesty, why are you like this? Are you not afraid of leaving an eternal infamy?!"

   "This is the fate of murdering my relatives!"

   Tian Qi said with a smile, then raised the **** sword, looked at Wang An: "You haven't answered me yet."

   "The emperor calm down!"

  Wang An knelt down at this time: "The emperor is the king. If the king wants the minister to die, the minister has to die. There is no crime."

   "It is good to have no sin."

Tian Qi replied, and then looked at Zhu Tongmeng: "I know that if you follow the normal procedure, I can't kill you, you can't cure you of slandering the royal family, and even cheating me under the guise of divine punishment, but I will kill you like this now." Without you, how can you bear me?"

  Zhu Tongmeng looked at Tianqi in puzzlement, and dying, said: "Who made you so disregard the righteousness of the monarch and ministers, who made you make up your mind to do this nonsense, please tell your majesty."

  (end of this chapter)