Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 311 The Great Official Prestige

With a swipe, all the officials looked at the head of the civil servants in unison.

Xie Xuelong took half a step back without any trace, and stood behind Shi Kefa.

Shi Kefa took a step forward, and said proudly: "Whether it is according to the instructions of the emperor's ancestors or according to the Confucian etiquette, the crown prince should be established as the new king, and there is absolutely no reason to support the eternal king!"

"Shi Kefa!" Gao Hongtu's eyes instantly turned cold.

"Do you really know, what consequences will your persistence lead to?"

"The old man only knows that abolishing the elders and establishing the young is the way to create chaos!" Shi Kefa said coldly, "Back then, the sages of our Donglin Party did not hesitate to add a stick to their bodies and swore to the death to fight for the foundation of the country with the Holy One. Li Xiao."

"Of course it was right to fight for the foundation of the country back then." Gao Hongtu said, "But it's just this moment, and that moment."

"During the Wanli Dynasty, the country of our Ming Dynasty was relatively stable, but now there are thieves and slaves standing side by side, and the country is in danger of being upside down at any time, so we must not follow the rules and stick to the rules."

Shi Kefa snorted coldly and added: "Speaking of the danger of being upside down, it is the actions of Mr. Gao Ge that really may lead to the overturning of our Daming and the upside down of the people. Throughout the ages, there have been so many bloody lessons caused by the abandonment of the elders and the establishment of the young. Isn’t it enough to make Mr. Gaoge wary?”

"Come here, please get old Shige out!"

Gao Hongtu knew that he couldn't talk to Shi Kefa, so he had no choice but to drive him away.

Killing Shi Kefa must not be killed, and this precedent cannot be set.

If Gao Hongtu killed Shi Kefa today, how would he know if the next Chief Assistant who succeeded him in power would also kill him?Once this rule is broken, the dignity of civil servants will disappear.

When even two Beijing soldiers stepped forward, trying to set up Shi Kefa.

"Give it up!" Shi Kefa shouted back the two Beijing soldiers, and said coldly, "I have legs myself."

Walking to the entrance of the main hall, Shi Kefa turned back to Gao Hongtu and said, "Gao Hongtu, please do it yourself, don't let the decency of civil servants and bureaucrats since the Song Dynasty go to waste!"

What Shi Kefa said was that since the Song Dynasty, there have been basically no powerful officials like Cao Cao, Wang Mang, Huo Guang, and Yu Wentai among the civil servants. Power ministers, then the efforts of countless Confucian ancestors for hundreds of years will be in vain.

To put it bluntly, the ancestors of Confucianism have been working hard to get rid of the cycle rate of the dynasty.

Sages such as Zhu Xi, Zhou Dunyi, Cheng Yi, Cheng Hao, etc. have been working hard to do one thing, trying to establish the legitimacy of the scholar-officials and the emperor to rule the world from a legal point of view, so as to realize the true sense of governance. Suppress the generals and realize the long-term stability of the Han dynasty.

Such efforts are still paying off.

At least in the Ming Dynasty, there was no real power minister.

In the Song and Yuan Dynasties, powerful ministers appeared only when the world was in chaos.

Shi Kefa was warning Gao Hongtu not to set a precedent for killing ministers with different political opinions indiscriminately, and not to become a minister of power, otherwise, once this precedent is set, it will never be stopped later.

"I don't need Shi Ge to worry about this matter."

Watching Shi Kefa walk out of the hall, Gao Hongtu asked again: "Who else objects?"

"The servant objects!" Xie Xuelong said without hesitation, "With the crown prince here, there is absolutely no reason to establish the eternal king. Does Gao Ge always want to expel the servant from the court?"

Gao Hongtu frowned.

Because Shi Kefa can be treated as an official who has become an official, and he can be directly invited out of the court.

But it's not good for Xie Xuelong, Xie Xuelong is the current cabinet bachelor, and he is the fourth assistant!Moreover, his four assistants were produced through Ting Tui, and even the emperor could not drive him away without reason.

Otherwise, he would really be the powerful minister that Shi Kefa said.

But soon, Gao Hongtu thought of Han Tuozhou, Shi Miyuan, Jia Sidao, Lu Xiufu and others.

How similar is the current Ming Dynasty to the Song Dynasty after Yiguan went south?For the sake of the Ming Dynasty to last forever, so what if he learns from Jia Sidao and other four people?

It is not impossible to be a minister of power.

I, Gao Hongtu, will bear the infamy for thousands of years.

Well, the most important thing is that Gao Hongtu has always been worried about Xie Xuelong's backstab.

At that moment, Gao Hongtu's eyes turned cold, and he said Leng Sensen, "Xie Xuelong, you are a villain with two ends of a mouse, you are a villain who has both ends of the mouse, and you have jumped out before the servant has settled accounts with you. Are you bullying me, Gao Hongtu, not to dare to kill?"

Xie Xuelong stretched his neck and said: "Here is the head, Mr. Gao Ge just take it."

"Xie Xuelong, you asked for it yourself." Gao Hongtu shouted sharply, "Take it with me!"

However, the Beijing camp soldiers guarding both sides of the main hall and the porch in front of the hall did not respond, as if they hadn't heard it.

"Huh?" Gao Hongtu frowned, and shouted angrily, "Where is the capital camp? Quickly take down the thief Xie Xuelong!"

Xu Hongji, who was standing at the head of the military officer squad, also felt ashamed, and shouted at a military officer leading the team: "Wang Tingzuo, what are you doing standing there? Didn't you hear Elder Gao Ge's orders?"

Wang Tingzuo showed bitterness on his face, and asked, "My lord, are you really going to take down Mr. Xie Ge? This is the current court elder."

"Nonsense." Xu Hongji said unhappily, "Mr. Shi Ge has retired, and Mr. Gao Ge is now the chief assistant. Do you listen to the chief assistant or the fourth assistant? Hurry up and take Xie Xuelong down!"

Wang Tingzuo had no choice but to take the Beijing soldiers forward.

However, the Beijing soldiers had just approached, and Xie Xuelong shouted: "Who dares to do it?"

Wang Tingzuo and the Beijing soldiers behind him did not dare to move, and the military officer of the Ming Dynasty was afraid of the civil servants from the bottom of his heart.

"Give me the knife!" Yuan Pengnian couldn't hold back any more during the ceremony, and took a step forward to pull out the waist knife from Wang Tingzuo's waist, and then approached Xie Xuelong with the waist knife straight.

This is to imitate Lu Bu as the palace and kill ministers.

But Xie Xuelong also had disciples who were officials in the court.

At that moment, several disciples stood in front of Xie Xuelong and shouted sharply: "Yuan Pengnian, what do you want to do?"

"If there is any more words to establish the crown prince, I will kill him without pardon!" Yuan Pengnian's stern eyes swept over Xie Xuelong's face, and then at the civil servants and generals in the hall, his warning was palpable.

Many officials shrank immediately, saving their lives was the most important thing.

But Meng Zhaoxiang, Wu Linzheng, Wu Ganlai, Chen Liangmo and other officials were fearless.

They were not afraid of hundreds of thousands of thieves besieging the city back then, how could they be afraid of you?
Fan Zhongjie, the left servant of the Ministry of Officials, also took a step forward, rubbed his neck and said, "Come on, during Yuan's work, here is the head of my official, please take it away quickly."

"Fan Zhongjie, you really don't know how to compliment!"

Yuan Pengnian sternly shouted: "It was Mr. Gao Ge who overcame all opinions and recommended you as Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Officials. Are you trying to avenge your kindness? Oh?"

"It's a joke." Fan Zhongjie said coldly, "My official is paid by Daming's salary, and I am an official of Daming, not the left servant of his Gao family's official department. What right does Mr. Gao Ge have to privately hand over the servants of the Ming Dynasty? ?”

"You?!" Yuan Pengnian walked up to Fan Zhongjie, "Fan Zhongjie, don't force me!"

Fan Zhongjie said coldly: "Don't say anything more about Yuan's affairs, just take the official's head away!"

"Do you really think I dare not kill you?" Yuan Pengnian raised his waist knife as he said that, as if to chop at Fan Zhongjie.

There was an exclamation in the main hall, but Gao Hongtu's face was like water, and he had no intention of stopping Yuan Pengnian from the beginning to the end, because he had already seen that it would be impossible not to kill a few people today to frighten the officials.

However, before Yuan Pengnian's knife could be cut down, footsteps suddenly sounded outside the hall.

Immediately, a large group of Caojiang soldiers poured into the hall, led by two generals wearing phoenix-winged helmets and mountain armor.

Even the bucket hats and helmets of the Cao Jiang soldiers wore visors.

Gao Hongtu frowned, and shouted: "It's none of your business here, go and watch outside the hall."

However, the two military generals in Caojiang Town paid no attention to it, and walked forward on their own, and soon reached the center of the Golden Luan Palace.

Not just these two generals.

Even the hundred or so caojiang soldiers kept on stepping.

Soon, hundreds of caojiang soldiers guarded both sides of the hall.

At the same time, hundreds of caojiang soldiers guarded the corridor.

"Didn't you hear that?" Gao Hongtu suddenly became angry, "The Ministry of the Pavilion asked you to go out and wait!"

At this time, the general who was walking on the left and slightly in front finally spoke: "Boss Gao Ge is such a powerful official, let's drive away Mr. Shi Ge, even I will be driven away too?"

"I?" Gao Hongtu was stunned when he heard the words.

All the civil and military officials in the hall looked at each other in blank dismay, Zhen?
Because this military general is full of spirit and speaks quite loudly, almost all the civil servants and military generals in the hall heard him, and his self-proclaimed name just now is clearly Zhen.

On the other side, Yuan Pengnian, who was holding a knife in his hand, turned pale with fright.

At this time, the military general who spoke just now put his hands on the visor, and then pulled the visor away little by little in front of Gao Hongtu, Xie Xuelong and other hundred civilian and military generals.

"Your Majesty?" Gao Hongtu was instantly stunned.

At this moment, Gao Hongtu's brain was completely shut down, and he could no longer think.

No one could bear this huge mental shock, how could it be possible?
"Your Majesty?" Officials like Jiang Yueguang, Xie Xuelong, and even Meng Zhaoxiang, Wu Linzheng, and Fan Zhongjie were dumbfounded.

The only exception may be Lu Zhenfei. He actually knew the inside story, but he was just acting all the time, keeping Meng Zhaoxiang, Wu Linzheng and others who went to disaster to Jiuqing a secret.

"Father!" The child Zhu Cizhao was the first to react.

Just now Gao Hongtu and Shi Kefa were arguing about making him emperor, and Zhu Cizhao was like an outsider. After meeting with Chongzhen, he hurriedly rushed down from the throne.

"Father, it turns out that you are still alive, which is great."

Zhu Cizhao rushed down Danchi, rolling and crawling, and hugged Chongzhen's thigh.

In the next second, Zhu Cizhao's eyes and nose flowed down, and he burst into tears.

"Okay, don't cry." Chongzhen patted Zhu Cizhao's little head, then turned around and said, "Lang'er, Jiong'er, come and persuade your fifth younger brother to stop crying and rub me against me."

(End of this chapter)