Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 13 His Majesty's Meaning

Sun Chengzong's meaning is actually very clear. He just wants to tell Zhu Youxiao that you use the eunuch party because the eunuch party is obedient. The old minister understands, but you can't just use the eunuch party.

Moreover, Wei Zhongxian, the leader of the eunuch party, has offended many people for you, so it's time for you to give up this dog.

The cunning rabbit dies, the running dog cooks, this is just a common emperor's technique, why can't your majesty use it.

Zhu Youxiao also naturally knew what Sun Chengzong meant. He also knew about the nine-thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian that it was impossible for this great eunuch who had diverted many conflicts for him to have a good ending. Just like Liu Jin, their last point To use the value is to be executed by the emperor, and then regain the heart of the minister.

But Zhu Youxiao didn't think that Wei Zhongxian's path would lead to death, he still needed him and continued to do things for himself.

However, in order to paralyze the majority of the moderate Donglin Party, he had to take some measures against Wei Zhongxian, at least not allowing him to stay in the Prison of Rites.

"Li Mingrui is your student, right?"

Zhu Youxiao asked, the Li Mingrui he mentioned was the later official who advised Emperor Chongzhen to move south on the eve of Li Zicheng's destruction of the city, and he was a more pragmatic follower.

Li Mingrui was indeed Sun Chengzong's disciple, but Sun Chengzong didn't understand why Li Mingrui was valued by His Majesty, but now he couldn't ask any more questions, so he nodded.

"You instruct him to impeach Wei Zhongxian, but remember, I don't want Wei Zhongxian to die now, let him take care of himself. If I am not satisfied, not only will I not dismiss Wei Zhongxian, but I will kill him head of!"

A companion is like a tiger, Sun Chengzong is aware of this, but at this moment he is more excited.

Because this shows that His Majesty the Emperor already has the intention to abandon Wei Zhongxian, and let his disciples impeach Wei Zhongxian, which obviously means to increase the prestige of himself, the new scholar.

One of his disciples impeached the most prominent figure in the court. Who dares to say that he has no intentions in it, and in the eyes of outsiders, it means that he is more favored by the emperor than Wei Zhongxian.

In this way, whether it is the eunuch party or the Donglin party, I am afraid that they have to give themselves face.

The eunuch party naturally had to curry favor with him because he was more favored than Wei Zhongxian, and the Donglin party was naturally willing to follow him because his protégé could impeach Wei Zhongxian.

It is now August, when the autumn rain is lingering and the cold wind is blowing, Li Mingrui, who had already been waiting outside the palace gate, couldn't help stamping his feet.

From the day he learned that his mentor, Sun Chengzong, had been revived by Emperor Zhu Youxiao, he had been so excited that he hadn't slept well for several days, so much so that today he learned that his mentor entered the palace as soon as he entered the capital.

He impatiently came to wait outside the palace gate.

In the drizzle like a silver thread, the figure of his mentor Sun Chengzong gradually changed from blurred to clear. Li Mingrui, who had changed from a heroic boy to a middle-aged man, hurriedly patted the raindrops on his body, and quickly ran to the In front of Sun Chengzong, he made a long bow:
"Master, please be respected by the students!"

"Get up, I haven't seen you for a few years, and you have added a lot of gray hair."

Sun Chengzong couldn't help sighing, remembering the scene when he commented on the world's articles in the Gongyuan and swung troops to kill the enemy in Liaodong.

"Ever since the teacher was dismissed and returned to his hometown, the students have been restless. Now that the teacher returns to the court, the students' white hair will turn green." Li Mingrui forced a smile.

Sun Chengzong didn't say much, let Li Mingrui support him while walking and sighed: "You have been in the Imperial Academy for five years, right?"

"The student was a Jinshi in the second year of Tianqi, and it has been five years and five months."

Li Mingrui replied with a wry smile.

Although the official position of the Imperial Academy is clean, he is also a poor official, and he himself is from a poor family. He is not as reliable as an official from a gentry family for many days. During the years of being an official, Li Mingrui has not even bought a single winter coat. The teacher Sun Chengzong was dismissed, and he didn't want to join Donglin, nor did he want to join the eunuch party, so now the official has not been promoted, and the family is more and more embarrassed.

These are nothing, Li Mingrui, who has long regarded himself as Liu Yuxi of the Ming Dynasty, feels even more aggrieved because his lifelong ambitions cannot be fulfilled, but his immediate boss is the treacherous villain Sun Zhixie, who even got the chance to listen to the sky nor.

Li Mingrui didn't tell Sun Chengzong his suffering, but Sun Chengzong could also see the plight of his student from his patched collar shirt.

"For these years, because your mentor is either in Liaodong or living at home, you haven't had time to support you, and you don't want to leave other relationships. Fortunately, your majesty remembers you. From today on, you can switch to the emperor's sect."

Sun Chengzong said.

Li Mingrui didn't understand what his teacher meant, but he heard Sun Chengzong say again: "Who is the most powerful in the court now, do you know?"

"Of course it is Wei Zhongxian who is known as nine thousand years old," Li Mingrui replied.

Sun Chengzong nodded: "You write a report to impeach him."

Li Mingrui couldn't help being startled, wondering why the teacher asked him to impeach Wei Zhongxian, the most powerful person in the court, right after his reinstatement.

You must know that neither the Donglin Party nor the Xinwang Zhu Youjian failed to overthrow Wei Zhongxian, and even caused the Xinwang to expel the capital from the capital, and the Donglin Party also impeached Wei Zhongxian, and countless people entered the Jinyiwei Imperial Prison.

I am just a review of a small Hanlin Academy, and I am not a member of the Sixth Division or the Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. If I annoy His Majesty because of this, His Majesty can directly kill myself.

Before Li Mingrui could ask, Sun Chengzong sighed with emotion: "Your Majesty is not a faint king, he has already seen all the major events in the world!"

As he said that, Sun Chengzong took another look at Li Mingrui: "When impeaching, pay attention to the measure. Don't want to kill Wei Zhongxian like the Donglin Party, and don't scratch the itch. You can decide the measure yourself. Besides, this is His Majesty's intention."

"What do you mean, Your Majesty?"

Li Mingrui was confused. One had to know that it was because the officials impeached Li Jinzhong and threatened His Majesty to punish Wei Zhongxian severely, which made His Majesty Long Yan furious, and directly ordered Wei Zhongxian to be named "nine thousand years old".

In less than two years, His Majesty started to hate Wei Zhongxian?

But according to His Majesty's performance recently, there is no such sign.

Sun Chengzong nodded.

Seeing this, Li Mingrui couldn't help but believe it, and felt a little excited. If he defeated Wei Zhongxian, he was destined to make great contributions and leave his name in history. This is simply a great thing for him.

Li Mingrui, who was overjoyed, couldn't help asking: "Sir, do you know why His Majesty ordered the students?"

"Because you are neither Donglin Party nor Eunuch Party."

Sun Chengzong got into the sedan chair after saying a word, only Li Mingrui was still in place, until a gust of wind howled past, he helped the black gauze on his head, and walked back.

(End of this chapter)