Ming Dynasty: At the beginning, the house was ransacked and the ancestral temple was burned down.

Chapter 46 Alarmism!

Qianqing Palace.

Deathly silence.

Zhu Yijun, who had just woken up, had been sitting on the dragon bed with a solemn expression and said nothing after listening to an 'urgent matter' reported by Zhang Jing.

"Your Majesty? The ministers are all kneeling outside the Huangji Gate. What are your... plans...?" Zhang Jing asked cautiously and anxiously.

In fact, Zhang Jing didn't want to ask. He even wanted to pretend to be dead and keep silent. But it was getting dark, and all the ministers, led by the cabinet minister Shen Shixing, were still kneeling outside the Huangji Gate and threatened that they would not see the emperor. I will never leave my face!

The reason for this large group of people kneeling outside the Huangji Gate can be said to be something that many people did not expect, not even the emperor Zhu Yijun himself.

When Zhu Yijun heard that the ministers were kneeling outside Huangji Gate and refused to leave, he thought it was Shen Shixing who finally couldn't help but plead for Zhang Juzheng after seeing the memorial.

What I never expected was that the reason for these ministers' "forcing the palace" was actually to force him to completely give up the "inner court drills" on the grounds that the emperor was not feeling well today!
  These cunning ministers said that the reason why the emperor was unwell must be because he accidentally injured his body during internal exercises, so he became unwell.

This is just like the people of later generations a few hundred years later. Whenever there is something wrong, my mother will say that it is because of playing on the mobile phone.

In Zhu Yijun's view, this excuse is simply alarmist!

Zhu Yijun even didn't understand this inexplicable excuse for forcing the palace. He looked at Zhang Jing and asked, "They didn't mention the memorial? Didn't they mention a word about Zhang Juzheng?"

Zhang Jing's face was very ugly. He shook his head and nodded again.

"What's going on? Is it true or not?" Zhu Yijun asked again.

"When I replied to the emperor, they didn't mention the memorial, but..." Zhang Jing's face wrinkled and he replied in embarrassment:
  "But the memorial... was circulated everywhere... and everywhere it went, people were scolding... They were all calling the person who wrote the memorial... worse than a beast..."

"Has it spread everywhere? Who spread it? Didn't the Secretary of General Affairs not copy it?" Zhu Yijun asked doubtfully.

Zhang Jing answered truthfully: "It was from Shen Ge Lao Zhuan. He took the memorial to Liu Ke Langfang and read it out loud in front of all the ministers. After everyone heard this, they could only join in condemning the people on the other side..."

"Shen Shixing?" Zhu Yijun was shocked. He could hardly believe what he heard. "Did he spread the news everywhere? Are you sure it's not Xu Guo?"

"Back to your lord, it's really Mr. Shen Ge, everyone saw it with their own eyes." Zhang Jing replied helplessly.

Zhu Yijun was stunned. He was already prepared for Shen Shixing to come to him with the memorial and discuss it privately. He was also prepared for Shen Shixing to pretend not to see the memorial. He was even more prepared for Shen Shixing to pretend not to see the memorial. Breaking the jar, preparing to plead for Zhang Juzheng in public.

But no matter what kind of preparations he made, Zhu Yijun never expected that Shen Shixing would take the memorial to six subjects and read it out in public!

Isn't this a backstab to him, the emperor?

Could it be that Shen Shixing has forgotten Yin Jian? Could it be that Shen Shixing wants to be the next Zhang Juzheng?
  Zhu Yijun didn't know what Shen Shixing was thinking. He only knew that he was very angry now. He said angrily:

"What a Shen Shixing! He actually dares to take the lead in making trouble to force the palace! He doesn't want to be the chief minister anymore!"

Zhu Yijun stood up from the dragon couch angrily, ready to go and see what other 'means' those rebellious ministers wanted to use to force him, the emperor, to submit to them!

Just when Zhu Yijun was so angry that he couldn't move anymore, the next few pieces of news he heard were like fierce lightning, which struck him so hard that he didn't know how to move!

Especially his good brother Zhu Yili, King of Lu, brought many 'surprises' to his biological brother!
  ... Gangneung.

"Wang Yuanyu! Are you crazy?" Yu Shenxing's eyes widened and he looked at Wang Xijue in disbelief, as if he was looking at a madman.

"Ke Yuan, you believe me! Zhang Taiyue's stolen money is definitely more than this!" Wang Xijue pressed Yu Shenxing's shoulders with both hands and tried his best to explain:

"Jin Yiwei couldn't find it no matter how hard he searched, it must be because Zhang Taiyue had long expected that he would be liquidated after his death!

So he told his son to put all the valuable treasures into his grave for burial!
  But far, as long as we open Zhang Taiyue's tomb, the money he embezzled can be made public! "

"You're crazy...you're really crazy!" Yu Shenxing shook off Wang Xijue's hand on his shoulder as if to ward off evil spirits, took a few steps back, and then asked, "Why don't you follow me?" Can I discuss it in advance?"

Wang Xijue took back his hand slightly disappointed and replied: "I have my own plan, there is no need to discuss it with you."

Yu Shenxing was angry, and he asked: "Even if you have your own plan, it cannot be such a cruel plan! Zhang Taiyue is already dead! Do you still want to open his coffin and kill his body, crushing his bones?" Will the ashes make his bones restless?"

"It's not that exaggerated!" Wang Xijue patiently explained: "I just opened his tomb to have a look. I didn't say that I wanted to open his coffin and kill his body, let alone crush his bones and scatter his ashes!"

"Heh..." Yu Shenxing smiled with dull eyes and asked, "Is there any difference?"

Wang Xijue was silent...

Yes, the graves have been dug up, which is just one step away from opening the coffins and slaughtering the corpses, crushing the bones and scattering the ashes, so what's the difference?

Even though he ignored it in his heart, Wang Xijue, who was stubborn and arrogant at heart, still said stubbornly: "If Zhang Taiyue's tomb is really full of treasures, then he deserves to be crushed and ashes, doesn't he?"

"What if not?" Yu Shenxing asked.

"If not, I will bear all the blame. I will plead guilty to the emperor, and finally kill myself in front of Zhang Taiyue's grave and expose his body in the wilderness." Wang Xijue replied seriously, and he spoke the truth.

Yu Shenxing sighed helplessly. He knew that the reason why Wang Xijue did this was not to take revenge on Zhang Juzheng, but because of his stubborn character.

In comparison, Yu Shenxing was more curious about another thing now. He asked: "By the way, how did you think that Zhang Taiyue would take the family property to be buried with him?"

Wang Xijue did not hide anything and directly told everything that happened between him and Zhang Jingxiu.

After hearing all the process, Yu Shenxing's expression became solemn. He seemed very suspicious and asked uneasily:

"Yuan Yu, the six-year-old child you are talking about is really Zhang Taiyue's son Zhang Jingxiu? Not Zhang Taiyue's grandson Zhang Chonghui? That kid Zhang Chonghui is full of lies! You shouldn't be fooled by him, right?"

"How is that possible!" Wang Xijue laughed, "That baby is Zhang Juzheng's son. I asked Chen Qianhu."

"Why don't I believe it..." Yu Shenxing always felt that something was wrong, and asked again: "The Zhang family has been confiscated, where did he get the valuable jade pendant? Are you sure that the jade pendant belongs to him?"

The series of questions made Wang Xijue frown, and he said with some displeasure: "Ke Yuan, is this how you look at me? Do you think that I, Wang Yuanyu, will be played by a six-year-old baby? I'm not that unbearable!"

(End of this chapter)