Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 67 The Furious Chongzhen
Cao Huachun took the brocade and looked at it at a glance.

"Well, why did you report this now?" Cao Huachun looked at the handwriting on the brocade, and his face changed drastically.

"Hmph, these officials must have deceived and deceived the people, forcing the people to turn against them, and they were afraid that such things would be exposed and delay their own future." Chongzhen shouted in a cold voice, full of anger.

"Cao Daban, don't stop me, I'm going to kill Shi Fenglai today, this old dog, dare to lie to me like this. And those officials in Shaanxi, I'm going to kill them alive, how dare you Concealing the military situation, everyone should be killed, everyone should be killed!"

Cao Huachun looked at the furious Chongzhen, and hurriedly persuaded him: "Your Majesty, as the saying goes, a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. Your Majesty is a man of gold, an emperor and a nobleman. How can he do this by himself? Such things are still left to you." Let the old slave's Dongchang do it. How can His Majesty go in person? Wouldn't this dirty His Majesty's hands?"

"Furthermore, Your Majesty, where did the emperor personally kill a courtier? It has never happened in the past thousands of years. Even the wise and powerful Taizu and Chengzu did not personally kill a courtier. Your Majesty, no. "

Chongzhen was a little taken aback when he heard Cao Huachun's last words, his heart felt selfish, and then he sat down slowly on the ground.

Seeing this, Wang Chengen next to him hurriedly brought a chair covered with cotton pads and put it under Chongzhen's buttocks.

Chongzhen let out a long breath, looked at Cao Huachun, and said, "Cao Daban, get up. It's cold on the ground!"

Seeing that Chongzhen had calmed down a bit, Cao Huachun hurriedly stood up from the ground.

Chongzhen is a very face-saving and extremely conceited person.

When he heard Cao Huachun's words, the anger in his heart also decreased a lot.

Chongzhen has always regarded Taizu and Chengzu as idols, and now he has figured out a lot after listening to Cao Huachun's advice.

"Cao Daban, it seems that you are still loyal. I almost made a mistake." Chongzhen said to Cao Huachun with sincerity.

Chongzhen is a man, and it is commented in history books that although he has the ambition to govern the country, he has no talent for governing the country.Hardworking but mediocre.He is ruthless, insidious, conceited, arrogant, good-faced, with a weak personality. Although he has many flaws, he has a strong temper and is not a person who easily compromises.

In fact, to put it bluntly, Chongzhen can only be an emperor in the Taiping era, but not the last emperor.

Gao Yingxiang was actually responsible for the rebellion this time.

At that time, Yang He, the governor of the three sides, wrote a memorial, which clearly stated, "There may be disasters."However, Chongzhen allowed Shi Feng to lie, and only noticed the auspicious omen of the so-called "thousands of red clouds" above, thus ignoring the latter.

If he hadn't been so overjoyed, hadn't listened to Shi Feng's nonsense, and had sent troops to investigate, the result might have been different, and he might have been able to stop the rebellion.

However, not only did he not send anyone, but he also thought that Yang He's nonsense remarks kept the memorial in the middle, and he didn't take Yang He's memorial to heart at all.

Now that there was a rebellion, he immediately shirked responsibility and put all the blame on Shi Fenglai and Shaanxi officials.

Chongzhen believed that if it wasn't for Shi Feng's nonsense and Shaanxi officials' concealment and failure to report, how could it be possible for those few thieves to become big?

All in all, I am right, and it is you courtiers who are wrong.

If it wasn't for Shi Feng to confuse the public, how could I not be able to see the problems inside with my wisdom and martial arts?
Chongzhen kept thinking in his heart, and soon put all the responsibilities on the officials.

Chongzhen looked at Cao Huachun standing next to him, sighed, and said, "This Shi Feng is ashamed of me, ashamed of me. If he hadn't been deceived by him, how could there be such a rebellion in Shaanxi?"

Chongzhen put down the sword in his hand, his face was full of remorse, he kept saying: "Shi Feng came to mislead me, Shi Feng came to mislead me."

With regret on his face, Chongzhen kept talking, did he say these words for himself, or for people like Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen?Or, let the eunuchs like Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen spread their words to make those foreign ministers think that he himself was deceived?
And the rage just now, how much is real, and how much is fake?Or who is it for?
All this, only Chongzhen himself knows, others have no way of knowing.

Chongzhen looked at the extremely messy Nuan Pavilion, and said to Wang Chengen: "Find some quick-legged ones, and clean them up quickly, and then bring Shi Feng to me. I want to ask him if he has evil intentions."

Chongzhen's eyes shot out two rays of light, and they pierced directly into Wang Chengen's chest.

Wang Chengen trembled and ran out hastily.

Zhu Youjian's elder brother Zhu Youxiao has been hiding in the harem all his life doing his own carpentry work. He can't be said to be submissive, but he is not as sharp-edged as Chongzhen.

Chongzhen sat on a chair and let the imperial doctor bandage his right fist.

After a while, Chongzhen waved to the imperial physician, signaling him to leave.

The imperial physician carried the medicine box on his back, kowtowed three times and bowed nine times to Chongzhen, then stepped back and left.

Chongzhen sat again in front of the imperial case that had been tidied up by Cao Huachun and others, quietly looking at the brocade on the imperial case.

A quarter of an hour later, Shi Fenglai hurried to the Nuan Pavilion.

"My minister has met His Majesty, long live Your Majesty, long live, long live."

Shi Fenglai looked at Chongzhen's cold face, and his heart trembled for no reason.He hastily kowtowed three times and bowed nine times, and performed a great gift.

Chongzhen looked at Shi Feng, who was kneeling on the ground with his butt pouting tall, and said with a smirk: "Hehe, it turns out that it is Mr. Shi Ge, the chief assistant of the cabinet of my Ming Dynasty. Who do I think it is?" ?”

Shi Fenglai did not dare to raise his head to look at Chongzhen, but he heard a lot of information from Chongzhen's tone.

Coming here this time is a misfortune rather than a blessing.

Shi Fenglai's head was pressed tightly to the floor of the warm pavilion, and his body was shaking non-stop because of nervousness or fear.

Chongzhen sat on the seat, holding the ginseng tea that Cao Huachun brought for him again, and sipping it one by one.

He just stared at Shi Fenglai who was kneeling on the ground, without saying a word for a long time.

Shi Fenglai's head was dripping with cold sweat, but he didn't dare to reach out to wipe it off, so he could only hold back.

Chongzhen put down his teacup and finally spoke.

"Shi Aiqing, I want to ask you, what do you think of this eight-hundred-mile urgent document." Chongzhen threw the brocade silk on the table next to Shi Fenglai's head, and said in a cold voice.

Shi Fenglai hastily raised his head and picked up the paperwork on the ground.

"Gao Yingxiang, Ansai County, Yan'an Prefecture rebelled? This, this is impossible. Now that the Holy Son of Heaven is in power, how could there be rebellion? This must be fake, it must be fake."

Shi Feng came to understand the reason why Chongzhen came here for him in a flash.

It stands to reason that the eight hundred miles of emergency related to military affairs will first enter the Ministry of War, then be sent to the cabinet by the Ministry of War, and finally sent to the imperial court.

But Chongzhen had just ascended the throne, fearing that the present courtiers would deceive others like they did during the reign of Tianqi, so they changed the rules to go directly to the palace.

Sitting in his seat, Chongzhen saw that it was Shi Fenglai who was in a panic, and said with a sneer, "Hehe, can there be a fake for expediting at [-] miles? Who dared to rush at [-] miles? It’s a lie. Could it be that Mr. Shi is already old and incompetent?”

When Shi Fenglai heard Chongzhen's words, he instantly aged ten years.

How could Shi Fenglai not understand the meaning behind these words?
Shi Fenglai's head was dripping with cold sweat, I'm afraid he won't be able to be the chief assistant.

Shi Fenglai knelt there blankly, thinking of many things in an instant.

When he was young, he was selected as a scholar, and the whole family had high hopes for him.

After winning Juren, the whole family was in a state of excitement.

In the end, the fortunate Jindian Chuanlu sang his name in the Jinluan Hall, won the second-class Jinshi, and was elected to the Imperial Academy.

Until now, he has been an extremely talented minister and has become the chief assistant of the cabinet.

However, this scenery has not been fully enjoyed, so it ended up like this.

I have only been the chief assistant of the cabinet for a few months, and this position has not been warmed up yet, and it has become like this. (Shi Feng came, entered in November in the seventh year of Tianqi, and retreated in March in the first year of Chongzhen.)
For a moment, sadness came from it, and Shi Fenglai actually shed tears.

Chongzhen looked at Shi Feng coming, and said with a sneer, "Master Shi, I think you are in poor health, why don't you go home."

Shi Fenglai knelt there blankly, and after a long time, he took off his black gauze hat and put it on the ground, "I, I, I am very old, and my eyesight is dim. People, minister, please beg for bones!"

Chongzhen looked at Shi Fenglai, and said in his heart: "This Shi Fenglai is a man of current affairs. Since you are so agile, I can't be ruthless."

"I've approved it, you can do the lecture tomorrow. I can approve it too!" Chongzhen said flatly.

Shi Fenglai was choked with sobs for a moment, he grabbed the ground with his head, and lay down on the ground, "Minister, minister, thank you Lord Long En!"

"Okay, you go out."

Chongzhen waved his hand at Shi Feng, like chasing a dog, driving Shi Feng back and forth.

Standing aside, Wang Chengen hurriedly lifted Shi Fenglai from the ground and walked outside.

The moment he stepped out of the Nuan Pavilion, Shi Fenglai howled unceasingly.

Hearing the wailing from Shi Feng outside, Chongzhen said with a sneer, "How can such a person who sits on a vegetarian diet be the head and assistant of the cabinet? If it wasn't for my fear of being said by my subordinates that I am weak and indifferent, I will definitely take you into prison. Now that I spare your life, you are still crying, I really don’t know what to do."

Cao Huachun, who was standing beside him, trembled for no reason when he heard Chongzhen's words.

It was less than a year since he ascended the throne, and he had black hands against the chief minister of the cabinet. Once this kind of thing got out, it would of course cause an uproar.Even if the matter calms down, there will be a heavy mark left in the history books, and the name of this stupid king will never be taken off.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, there has never been a cabinet minister who lost his head while he was alive.If once in the hands of Chongzhen at this time, he was thrown into prison and beheaded.

Once the stain is left, it can never be removed.

For the sake of his own reputation, Chongzhen had no choice but to let Shi Fenglai go and let him write a letter to beg for the bones.

(End of this chapter)