Chapter 305 Removal of two cabinet ministers
Du Yihong was completely afraid of the cruel and ruthless king in front of him. It was not an exaggeration to describe it by any means, and it was also ingenious. He thought that the biggest was nothing more than torture and then torture, and then to be sentenced to death, just like loyal ministers such as Yang Lian, but Du Yihong did not expect that His Majesty would let him be the Grand His Majesty and arrest his wives and concubines.
"It's not the fault of my beloved, I'm not wrong. I'm just doing my duty as a minister and writing a letter to advise me. I haven't said that I've committed a crime. I just want to have a fact with my beloved Chen Qing, that is, is I a lustful king?" Zhu Youxiao smiled and said a few words, and then ordered Wang Chengen to invite his concubine, Queen Zhang Yan and Huipin, and then said to Du Yihong: "I have one next person now, one concubine, Du Aiqing, where did you come to the conclusion that I'm lustful."
Du Yihong was a little embarrassed. But after saying this, in order to make the content of the memorial more shocking, sometimes he would inevitably say it exaggeratedly. But he did not expect that His Majesty would be more serious with him and wanted to prove to himself how many concubines he had. Moreover, he said that Zhu Youxiao was lustful because he heard other people's rumors and did not do a detailed investigation. After all, the censor of the Censorate was just a bowl of rice that was heard and heard.
Seeing that he didn't speak, Zhu Youxiao looked very wronged, so he simply asked himself: "I don't know the answer, right? Well, I will teach you how to do it. I will ask you first, how many wives and concubines you have. If you don't know, count them now. If you dare to deny one of these wives and concubines in front of you, I will kill one of them!"
Du Yihong raised his head in horror after hearing Zhu Youxiao's words, looked at Zhu Youxiao, and also looked at his wives and concubines. In other words, he must admit that it is true that these women are their own women, otherwise he will watch these women who are in love with him die because of him.
At the same time, his wives and concubines also looked at Du Yihong. They naturally hoped to live well. Some people had already begun to call out softly: "Master!"
Du Yihong did not speak immediately. He was thinking secretly. He knew that His Majesty wanted to make him admit that he had countless wives and concubines, and His Majesty is only one concubine now. But if he admits it, it means that his reputation will be completely destroyed. Although his wife and concubines are nothing to do with this dynasty, and are often praised as romantic and elegant affairs, the bad thing is that Du Yihong once threatened not to love beauty and was just a wives in life.
But now if you admit that these are all your wives and concubines, then Your Majesty must spread this matter and exaggerate it in the Daming Daily to make yourself a pervert. In this way, your report will become a deception of the king, and even not only will it not be famous in history.
After thinking about it, Du Yihong resolutely made up his mind and said, "The only wife of He is the one with the wife of the Huochang. He has never taken a concubine. Please be aware of it!"
"Du Aiqing is worthy of being a good minister who is self-disciplined. The deep love between her husband and wife really makes me and the queen amazed. Since this is the case, I will release my wife He." Zhu Youxiao said, and ordered: "Send the order to send Du He back, and the other women will be dragged down and locked up in the death row, including the sisters named Xiangxue Xianghe."
"Master!" The concubines looked at Du Yihong with tears in their eyes. They didn't expect that the master who always loved her like a treasure would be so cruel and deny it. One of the women with a charming charm even burst into tears: "Master, I am the concubine you married by the matchmaker. You said that because I gave birth to a son for you, you wanted to help me be a normal wife, but now why don't you recognize me!"
Du Yihong's heart was bleeding. He didn't want to admit that they all said they were women, otherwise he wouldn't have pleaded directly with Zhu Youxiao at the beginning, but His Majesty obviously didn't want to forgive him so much.
Du Yihong understood that His Majesty was trying to mess with him, and by the way he slandered the entire civil service group and let him slap himself in the mouth. Therefore, for his reputation, he did not dare to ask His Majesty to forgive his deception of the emperor, nor did he dare to admit that the dozens of women in him were his own people.
The crying woman in front of her was extremely shaking between the bed, and the lovely twin sisters were even white and narrow in diameter, but Du Yihong could only watch His Majesty throw them into death row today. Between women and Qingyu, he chose the latter.
Zhu Youxiao hated Du Yihong very much. He didn't expect Du Yihong to be so cruel. He did not hesitate to touch him for the so-called reputation, and now he is even willing to abandon his women. According to the news from the Dongchang report to Zhu Youxiao, many women have become mothers and have children for Du Yihong.
Du He did not say anything, and she didn't expect her husband to make such a decision. She glanced at her husband muffled and left the palace under the escort of the eunuch.
After that, Zhu Youxiao walked to Du Yihong leisurely: "Well, I didn't expect that you, Du Yihong, are so resolute. I have a Beijing Express and the latest special issue of Daming Daily, which discusses the details of your life about Du Yushi. Let's take a look. It's not just about embezzlement and lustfulness, but it's also considered a slander for the emperor. But the fact that you indulge your relatives and annex the land of your neighbors is enough to make the people of the Ming Dynasty remember it. For this reason, I have ordered Zhang Dai, the chief editor of Daming Daily, to use "
Du Papi" reveals the faces of these gentry and landlords today. With stories, poems, lyrics, music and operas, etc., it is more about rooting the image of Du Papi in thousands of households, so that the billions of people in the Ming Dynasty know that there is a man named Du Yihong, nicknamed "Du Papi", who is a real unforgivable person who embezzles the wealth and ointment of the people! Don't worry, I will not kill a loyal and upright minister like you, but I can't control what newspapers and magazines such as Daming Daily and Beijing Express do."
After hearing this, Du Yihong felt a sudden slap in his heart. He naturally understood why His Majesty did this. This was obviously to grasp his own pain and to completely stink himself. Who wouldn't know that Daming Daily and Beijing Express are the weapons of killing His Majesty's control of public opinion. Once His Majesty does this, he will truly be intoxicated for thousands of years.
Du Yihong can no longer guess what His Majesty is thinking now. At first, he used the lives of his wives and concubines as the *** and admitted that he was a noble minister who loved romanticism and did not live a hard life. Now he directly used the Daming Daily as a weapon to coerce himself. Seeing that he did not admit it on his own initiative, he thought of using public opinion to make him use public opinion to slander himself.
"Please give me a death sentence. I dare not hide anything from your Majesty. As long as your Majesty is willing to spare me, I will tell me who the lord is." After Du Yihong said that, Zhu Youxiao waved his hand and said, "No need, you should take care of yourself after you go down. I am no longer interested in knowing who is behind you. I just want to tell you that this world is still my world. You have already made my reputation damaged. If you are injustice, I can make you silent forever!"
Zhu Youxiao said that, and ordered people to carry Du Yihong down. At this time, Zhu Youxiao ordered Wang Chengen: "Of the young and family-less women who were waiting to be executed were temporarily left in the harem, the rest of the women who had children took their children to Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan to reclaim wasteland, and those who had children were given widowers from each army as their widowers."
"Your Majesty is a benevolent king." Seeing this, Wang Chengen couldn't help but flatter him, and Zhu Youxiao sighed, "Oh, I am always so kind." As he said that, he sent an order to let the Hanlin Academy record the truth about his forgiveness of Du's wife and concubines, but he was not allowed to mention that all the adult males of Du's immediate family members were executed.
Du Yihong was still recovering from the castration wound in the prison of Gongyuan. The four cabinet ministers were still waiting for Zhu Youxiao's interrogation in the prison of Jinyiwei. The official newspaper in the capital had already begun to work hard, and the image of Du Papi began to be published in newspapers.
Like Du Yihong, these editors who serve in newspapers are also literati and like exaggerated techniques. In addition to the name Du Yihong has not changed, Du Yihong's official position was artistically processed by the Censor of the Censorate and became the magistrate of the county magistrate who is more well-known to the people.
At the same time, Du Bapi also secretly supported his relatives to annex the land, harming his neighbors, and turned into a magistrate named Du Yihong to plunder and impose heavy taxes, which led to several injustices of Dou E. In the end, he was exposed by His Majesty, who was secretly visited and returned to the classic story of his majesty for heavy punishment.
In this way, Du Papi's image quickly became popular all over the country of the Ming Dynasty. Countless people remembered the classic character Du Papi and began to turn their attention to the basic officials of the court with Du Papi's characteristics. At the same time, the stories of His Majesty's private visits to attack several corrupt officials like Du Papi were also circulated in major newspapers and magazines.
Regardless of whether the truth or falsehood of the people, they just don’t have the wonderful enough stories and whether they are substituted or not, like the online articles in later generations, and they can also be a little enlightened. Therefore, the image of His Majesty the Emperor was willing to turn into a peddler to visit the livelihood of the people in order to understand the sufferings of the people was established.
In the past, the images of cracking down on corrupt officials and relieving the suffering of the people were all in the hands of civil servants. Now this is the first time that his Majesty the Emperor is the protagonist. In an instant, Zhu Youxiao's prestige and credibility as the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty have been enhanced. Some civil servants wanted to use the southern tour to say that His Majesty plundered the daughters of the civil servants, and his plan to take care of his own affairs was also wiped out.
Four cabinet ministers Qian Qianyi and others who were detained in the imperial prison were also taken to Zhu Youxiao at this time.
The four of them are now two monks - they are confused. Qian Qianyi doesn't know if Du Yihong has poured dirty water on him. Li Mingrui is worried that if Du Yihong really says that the commander behind the scenes is Qian Qianyi, will His Majesty think that it was his commander, or will Du Yihong directly blame him?
Zhou Yanru could not understand the thoughts of His Majesty at this moment. He arrested all four of him and was imprisoned in the imperial prison, which made him unable to get any news. Now that he saw that the four people were fine, he guessed that Du Yihong probably said nothing, but he felt a little disappointed, because according to his speculation, no matter who Du Yihong said was the envoy, His Majesty would not simply believe Du Yihong, but wanted to protect the person pointed out by Du Yihong.
But now Du Yihong said nothing, which means that the four cabinet ministers are still safe and sound, while Zhou Yanru couldn't follow any further.
"These are all confessions of Du Yihong, and there are detailed records in it, which record the treacherous people who are trying to slander me to achieve ulterior motives! I originally wanted to bring all these people to justice and deal with them severely, but I think that since you are important officials in the court and have always been steady, you have hurt the harmony between the king and the minister because of this matter. So I decided to learn from Cao Cao and burn Du Yihong's crimes!"
"However, there are two who have something to do with Du Yihong. I have to deal with Zhou Daodeng and Zhou Yanru. You two will let go of Wusha and retire by yourself." Although Zhu Youxiao's words were downplayed, they were like a bolt from the blue to Zhou Yanru. According to his idea, the result should be to dismiss Qian Qianyi and Li Mingrui, but why did it become to let himself and Zhou Daodeng retire.
Zhou Daodeng was still expressionless. He knew that at this time, the more he said, the more trouble he would cause, so he chose to remain silent.
Zhu Youxiao captured the expressions of the four people. Qian Qianyi and Li Mingrui both breathed a sigh of relief, but Zhou Yanru flashed with a hint of disappointment. Zhou Daodeng even smiled slightly, as if very calm!
Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao also guessed who was causing trouble. After the four of them left, he ordered Wang Chengen: "Transfer the order to the East Factory and send additional personnel to supervise Zhou Yanru, especially his notes and narratives, and find ways to enter his mansion."
Zhu Youxiao knew that some historical figures would definitely not be willing to sink into it, but sometimes they could not use it, because these people would only use conspiracies and tricks to the interests of their small group.
An ordinary memorial to the censor made two cabinet masters dismissed from office in the entire cabinet, which forced many ministers with some selfish concern to consider the methods and abilities of His Majesty today. At this point, no one dared to make a big flaw in his current majesty today.
Just when Li Mingrui and Qian Qianyi both breathed a sigh of relief and sighed that there were still ministers in the court who were unwilling to be lonely, the royal party ushered in a huge good news, that is, the current emperor Huipin gave birth to a prince. This was indeed unexpected news for Zhu Youxiao, but it was just the beginning of a new era for the ministers.
The royalists began to be more confident in following His Majesty's current errands, because His Majesty had children, and the political system would last for a hundred years. At least there was no need to worry that His Majesty would let King Xin be the emperor, resulting in a situation where he was in vain.
The diehards who opposed Your Majesty's new policy had to secretly be glad that they did not openly oppose Your Majesty, and even began to slowly move closer to Zhu Youxiao. After all, Your Majesty has children now, which also shows that the Ming Dynasty does have hope of revival, and they also have the opportunity to turn the tables.
Chapter completed!