Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 353 Shameless civil servants and military morale

After Ruan Dayue said that, with a smile on his face, he bowed to Zhu Youjian again:

"Your Majesty! Thunder, rain and dew are all the grace of the king; if your majesty kills them, no matter who they are, they will receive them! If your majesty saves them, no matter who they are, they will all live! No one can influence your majesty, long live my emperor!"

After speaking, Ruan Dayue raised his arms and shouted: "Long live my emperor!"

"Long live my emperor!"

"Long live my emperor!"

"Long live my emperor!"

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When Ruan Dayue shouted, all the officers and soldiers of the Guards raised their arms and shouted.

At this moment, the officers and soldiers of the Guards all sincerely shouted long live.

Especially Dong Zhining and others, because His Majesty Zhu Youjian would really kill Shilin for them.

And the people who gathered outside the officers and soldiers after hearing the news also shouted, these literati have always been aloof and bully the city, and the officers and soldiers of the Guards, especially the Second Guards Army, regularly enter Nanjing to carry out pro-people activities, so the common people They also loved the guards and Zhu Youjian very much, and they all shouted.

At this moment, Gao Hongtu suddenly felt that he had come to the wrong place, and felt that his situation was very embarrassing.

In the whole scene, he, the chief minister of the cabinet, did not shout long live, as if he was a sinner, and these officers, soldiers and common people were the loyal people who followed His Majesty.

Gao Hongtu felt helpless for the first time, and began to panic, shouting secretly: "Oh my God, how could this happen, all those who died at this moment are my scholars of Ming Dynasty, these are the hearts of the people, why do the common people Cheers to Your Majesty!"

At that time, a sudden gust of wind and heavy rain came, and the rustling sound of rain suddenly sounded on the hot street.

The bluestone slab suddenly fell into a puddle of stagnant water, and countless splashes were stirred up by the heavy rain.

Zhu Youjian let the heavy rain wash away, and laughed directly.

He was so happy at the moment, he never thought that he would have so many people supporting him.

In particular, Ruan Dayue's performance made him no longer afraid of the civil servant group.

Zhu Youjian came over and kicked Gao Hongtu to the ground:
"Gao! Don't think that I dare not kill you! See it, hear it, who are the courtiers and people who are loyal to me!

Now you can either wear the black yarn on your head and join me in the great cause, or you can kill yourself with this long sword and be buried for your scholar-bureaucrats!

Don't think that if I leave your Gao family, I can't carry out the salt tax reform. If you, Gao Hongtu, don't come to the salt tax reform, as well as Ruan Dayue, Zhang Dayue and even Li Dayue, your Gao family's salt industry will naturally be rewarded by me them! "

After Zhu Youjian finished speaking, he threw the long sword in front of Gao Hongtu:

"Old man, if I hadn't led the army here, you, the chief assistant, would have been taken away by the rebellious officials and thieves here!"

With that said, Zhu Youjian walked directly towards Gao Hongtu's mansion.

But by chance, he saw that Chu Guozuo was still alive, and Chu Guozuo crawled towards him: "You tyrant, Daming will surely perish by your hands, by your hands."

"If I didn't kill you, Da Ming might die, but if I kill you today, Da Ming will never die again, but I am indeed a tyrant, I am a tyrant, hahaha!"

Zhu Youjian laughed wantonly, and only dropped four words: "Hacked to death with random knives!"

Immediately, several Dongchang fan servants came over, and Wang Chengen took the lead directly. Chu Guozuo's body was chopped to pieces countless times.

So far, all the members of the Duan Literature Society gathered in Nanjing City have been slaughtered!

Zhu Youjian walked into the high mansion, but saw his ass wriggling in a dog hole: "Who is it, come out for me!"

Chen Shiding in the dog cave was rather depressed and embarrassed at this time.

He originally wanted to escape, but because he was too fat, he couldn't get out or retreat at this time, so he could only smile awkwardly:
"Your Majesty, don't blame me. Because I found a cricket very good, I wanted to catch it and offer it to Your Majesty, but I was trapped."

Zhu Youjian almost burst out laughing.

He didn't know who this red-robed official was. Although he thought it sounded familiar, after all, he saw a lot of high-ranking officials every day, so he couldn't guess it, so he had to give Dong Zhining an order: "Drag him out."

Just like that, Chen Shiding, the left servant of the Ministry of Officials, was dragged out, and stood in front of Zhu Youjian with a look of embarrassment.

"Ah, I just remembered, are you Chen Shiding, the new left servant of the Ministry of Officials?"

Zhu Youjian asked a question. He had heard about Chen Shiding countless times from Wang Chengen earlier, so he naturally knew that he was an important member of Guan Shaoning's party, and he took a meaningful look at Gao Hongtu who was still kneeling outside. :
"Send an order to Xia Yunyi to surround Gaoge's old mansion, and no one, man, woman, or child in the mansion will be let go."

Zhu Youjian didn't plan to do anything to Gao Hongtu.

In his consciousness, although Gao Hongtu is as pedantic and stubborn as Fan Jingwen and others, at least he is loyal and does not want to harm himself. This is different from the reactionary gentry in Jiangnan such as Guan Shaoning. After all, people like Guan Shaoning It is to subvert their own regime and even harm themselves;
But now that Chen Shiding would appear in Gao Hongtu's mansion, Zhu Youjian had no choice but to start to doubt Gao Hongtu.

If Gao Hongtu really might be the real mastermind behind the scenes, and Gao Hongtu's status is so high, then he must not just kill Gao Hongtu to punish the courtiers.

All the people in the Gao Mansion had to be buried with them, otherwise it would not be enough to compensate him for his tolerance and trust in Gao Hongtu.

Of course, Zhu Youjian is only skeptical now. After all, he doesn’t think that Gao Hongtu’s city is deep enough to be able to direct a scene where he is besieged by members of the Duan Literature Club. However, at the most critical moment, he chose to surrender to himself at the cost of the destruction of the Donglin Party, in order to ensure his own rule.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian just ordered people to temporarily surround the Gaofu.

He was too lazy to talk nonsense about Chen Shiding. Now that he had decided to use violence against those with ulterior motives, he didn't want to hide his dislike for Chen Shiding and other chaotic parties.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, it is the humble minister, long live my emperor!"

Chen Shiding knew that he couldn't escape today, and he also knew that he had to be obedient no matter what, otherwise, with so many guards at the moment, he could only be hacked to death like Chu Guozuo.

Therefore, without saying a word, Chen Shiding softened his knees first, contrary to the preferential treatment that Daming gave to senior officials in the ministry in the past, and directly bowed down in front of Zhu Youjian.

However, Zhu Youjian still patted the table:

"Ridiculous! You said just now that you were looking for crickets for me. As the left servant of the official department, you are not doing your job properly. You are looking for crickets for me here. Are you really confused or are you sarcastic that I am a foolish king? Just now Chu Guozuo said that I am a tyrant. You just satirized me. The faint kings who like crickets are very courageous, and someone will drag him down and behead him directly, his family property will be lost, and all men, women and children of the nine clans will be distributed to Dongfan!"

Chen Shiding turned pale when he heard this. How could he have imagined that his Majesty Zhu Youjian would understand the reason why he just made up a dog hole, so he kowtowed in a hurry:

"Your Majesty, please forgive me. I don't mean that. I'm just playing with things. I'm willing to serve Your Majesty's cattle and horses like Mr. Ruan Ge. As long as Your Majesty is willing to forgive me, I'm willing to expose, yes, I expose, expose the Ministry of War Ye Huizhen, the servant of the right, colluded with the Baiyi Sect and Jiannu spies to force the palace to rebel!"

(End of this chapter)