General Constitution of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 4 Are You Running Away? !

The sudden thunderstorm stunned everyone on the Temple of Heaven.

Naturally, Ning Jue was also included.

Yan Song, who was closest to Huanqiu, came to his senses first, and looked at the altar on Huanqiu in disbelief.

The sacrificial utensils, talismans, three animals, melons and fruits used by Tao Zhongwen on the altar have all turned into charred.

But the censor who stopped Tao Zhongwen was unscathed and just stood there blankly on Huanqiu.

There is a burning smell everywhere in the Temple of Heaven.

While Yan Song was still immersed in the shock, Xu Jie who was standing behind Yan Song also recovered his strength.

Xu Jie lifted his robe, knelt down facing Jiajing, and shouted:
"Your Majesty, the heavens and the earth are wrathful, this is a sign of great evil!"

Xu Jie's voice woke up all the officials around him.

The king, the father of heaven, the mother of earth, is the son of heaven.

To put it bluntly, the so-called emperor is the mandate of heaven to replace the herdsmen.

Comparing everything in the world to an estate, the owner of this estate is Tian, ​​and the Son of Heaven only has the right to use it.

The so-called Fengtian Chengyun emperor, even if it is the case, first Fengtian Chengyun, and then the emperor.

This thunderbolt hit Tao Zhongwen's altar.

This matter is said to be small, at best it was a thunderstorm.

But on a bigger scale, then these Confucian scholars will not be troubled.

At this time, Xu Jie had not yet joined the cabinet, and he was holding the title of minister of the Ministry of Rites. This sentence was most suitable for him.

With Xu Jie's words.

The onlookers also knelt on the ground facing Jiajing.

Only this time, the officials did not shout long live, but were waiting for Jiajing's order.

Jiajing, who had always believed in destiny, was really panicked at this moment, and immediately looked at Tao Zhongwen beside him.

Before Jiajing could speak, Tao Zhongwen's body froze in place, and then spit out a mouthful of blood.

"Your Majesty, this minister has usurped Huanqiu and caused God Haotian to be angry. Please punish him for the crime of usurpation!"

Tao Zhongwen fell to his knees in front of Jiajing with a "plop", every hair on the top of his head was trembling.

He doesn't know if the explosion of thunder caused Heaven and Earth to anger him.

But if this matter doesn't end quickly, these scholar-bureaucrats are afraid that they will go down the slope and chop themselves off to sacrifice to heaven.

Tao Zhongwen's reaction was seen by Jiajing.

Jiajing also gradually calmed down.

At this time, we must not give Baiguan another chance to speak.

The scene of offering sacrifices to the sky today is much larger than the usual one where Yumen listened to the government.

If the officials talk about each other, not only can they use the timing to force Jiajing to make a hasty decision, but they can also take advantage of the chaos.

"The monarch and the ministers are one, and your crime is also my fault! It is my oversight!"

"Decree, from now on, I will fast for 49 days to quell the wrath of heaven!"

The unity of the monarch and the ministers is equivalent to dragging all the civil and military officials present into the water.

Even if he is guilty, it is still "Your crime, mine fault."

The difference is a thousand miles away.

After Tao Zhongwen's conversation with Jiajing, he chose everything that Cai Ning Jue said just now.

Waiting for Ning Jue to come back to his senses.

Jiajing sat on the dragon chariot directly.

Huang Jin and Lu Bing also escorted Jiajing's dragon chariot away from the Temple of Heaven.

"I……"

Looking at the back of Jiajing going away, Ning Jue was stunned.

Old Taoist priest, you tm came back and chopped me up!

A thunder scares you back? !

Ning Jue looked at Huanqiu behind him in disbelief, unable to accept what had happened for a while.

Until he walked up to the altar in person and saw clearly the mess on the ground.

Only then did I confirm that I was not mistaken.

Thief God!

Who's going to blow up thunder in winter!
Ning Jue, who wanted to cry but had no tears, looked almost desperately at Xu Jie in front of him.

"Teacher... Will the student report to the Ministry of Criminal Justice or the prison?"

I saw Xu Jie in front of Ning Jue, looking at Ning Jue kindly like a spring breeze, twisting his beard and saying: "You don't have to go anywhere, just work honestly in the Metropolitan Procuratorate!"

Catch Ning Jue?
Give me a break.

This is something that even the emperor dare not mention, if any thunder falls on the capital again, wouldn't the person who arrested Ning Jue be taken advantage of?

Listening to Ning Jue raised his head suspiciously and looked into the distance.

I saw that on the vast square of the Temple of Heaven, all the officials were watching themselves.

There was envy, admiration, and even jealousy in those eyes...

"Ning Bingxian is so virtuous!"

I don't know who shouted.

"This old man is [-] out of [-]. If I see Ning Bingxian today, I will die without regret!"

Most of the officials who spoke out were marginal figures with no hope of promotion.

With nothing to rely on, he naturally doesn't have so many worries when speaking.

It's just that it's only limited to this, if they really die, then they have to weigh it again.

As for the real important ministers in the court, although none of them dared to speak up, they all cast admiring glances at Ning Jue from the bottom of their hearts.

Ning Jue on the steps was completely numb.

His chest seemed to be blocked by something.

That day, Ning Jue meditated for a long time in the Temple of Heaven by himself.

With the departure of all the officials, Ning Jue was the only one left in the huge Temple of Heaven.

Even the little firemen who guarded the Temple of Heaven did not go forward to urge Ning Jue to leave.

Because they know.

Ning Jue is different from those ministers in that he can speak for that matter.

It shows that Ning Jue has already put personal life and death honor and disgrace aside.

This is unprecedented for those high-sounding scholar-bureaucrats in the previous dynasty.

Of course there are hundreds of officials like Yang Shen and his son.

But the people in these palaces know better than anyone else.

All the scholar-bureaucrats were holding high-sounding banners.

But the actual purpose is to fight differences between parties.

Although they are dead remonstrance.

But when they made admonitions, they wished to throw away all the responsibilities that they should have provoked.

On the contrary, it seems to be admonishing for the sake of admonishing.

Ning Jue is different.

In Ning Jue, they saw a courage to see through life and death.

It is a kind of awe-inspiring righteousness with a strong Confucian romanticism.

What the weak cannot say, but the strong would rather bend than bend.

They may not know who Ning Jue is, where he came from, and where he is going, but they know who Ning Jue is for.

This is a loyal minister, an admonishing minister, and an "adult" worthy of their admiration!
Undoubtedly, if the emperor killed Ning Jue just now.

That Ning Jue's name will become the leading existence in the Jiajing Dynasty in the history books.

Jiajing is sober and did not fulfill Ning Jue.

Ning Jue was devastated, because Ning Jue didn't expect that it would be so difficult to be executed by the emperor in the Jiajing Dynasty.

Most other dynasties ruled the world by virtue.

Jiajing, an old fox, really rules the world with the emperor's mind. In Jiajing's eyes, the structure of the court is like a big net. Jiajing only needs to control the few people in the front to control the whole world, while Ning Jue There was not much chance for him to personally issue an edict to execute himself.

(End of this chapter)