Wanli 1592

Chapter 779

Pushing away the rows of corpses, Shen Yiguan walked into the Qianqing Palace with blood all over the floor.

The people behind him had different expressions, some were hiding their faces and weeping, some were pale and even trembling, but no one was willing to fall behind, and no one was willing to leave the queue at this time.

Inside the Qianqing Palace, as far as the eye could see, there was no one there except for the main hall with the closed gate directly opposite.

That's right, at this moment, who else can there be?
Wouldn't it be weird if there were?

Shen Yiguan took a deep breath, stepped forward, and walked towards the main hall.

He knew very well that Zhu Yijun was here and he couldn't go anywhere.

The moment of the final showdown is approaching.

The queue moved forward slowly, and the high-ranking officials and the mainstays arrived at the bottom of the steps of the main hall. In the past, when there was a court meeting, the high-ranking officials met the emperor in the main hall, and the mainstays were waiting here for the edict.

Everything in the past is vivid, but now standing here again, the situation is very different.

They didn't personally kill any of them, but there was no doubt that none of them could get away with it.

From the moment they catch up with the queue, they have no possibility of defense.

Shen Yiguan stood at the bottom of the steps, raised his head slightly, looked at the main hall with the closed palace gate, and then glanced at Luo Sigong again.

Luo Sigong understood, and as soon as he raised his hand, six soldiers with big arms and round waists stepped forward and stood on both sides of Shen Yiguan's front, ready to deliver a message for Shen Yiguan.

"Minister, cabinet secretary, Shen Yiguan, please see Your Majesty!"

Shen Yiguan tidied up his official uniform and hat, and then loudly begged to see him.

Since it was not a rebellion, but a coup d'état, it should look like a coup d'état, and the proper etiquette should not be lacking. After all, it was a coup d'état, not a rebellion, and Shen always would not do anything that subverted the rules.

The six soldiers exercised their vocal strength and opened their mouths loudly repeating Shen's consistent words.

"Chen, the second minister of the cabinet, Shen Yiguan, please see Your Majesty!!!"

repeat three times.

The voice was so loud that Shen always believed that the emperor should have heard it no matter what.

There seemed to be no movement inside the door.

Shen Yiguan was about to shout again, but before he could say anything, a side door of the main hall of Qianqing Palace suddenly opened.

A trembling figure with white hair came out from inside.

"Chief?"

"This……"

"Why is the chief assistant here?"

There was a little commotion among the high-ranking officials and the mainstays for a while.

Unlike them, Shen Yiguan seemed to have expected this scene a long time ago and was not surprised.

He calmly watched Zhao Zhigao close the side door, then turned around, walked slowly to the edge of the steps step by step with a cane, and looked down at himself.

"Shoufu."

Shen Yiguan bowed.

"Jianwu, you have finally come to this step."

Zhao Zhigao's voice was also very calm, as if he was not affected by the coup at all.

"It's not that the lower officials must leave, but that the traitors are forcing each other hard. If not, I'm afraid of causing harm to future generations. I really have to. I hope the chief assistant will forgive me."

Shen always remained the same respectful.

Zhao Zhigao sighed.

"So, you killed Song Shixiang?"

Shen Yiguan's pupils shrank.

"As a matter of necessity, Shi Xiang's family members, the lower officials will take good care of them. They said to the outside world that they suddenly died of an epidemic, so as not to damage their relatives and family members. The descendants will raise their careers, and the lower officials will take care of them a little bit. What does the chief assistant think?"

Zhao Zhigao nodded: "Do you plan to treat this old man in the same way?"

"Chief!"

Shen Yiguan raised his head: "Shen Yiguan will never harm the first assistant! As long as the first assistant is there, Shen Yiguan will still be the second assistant."

"Don't say that."

Zhao Zhigao said: "Jianwu, this old man has always thought that although you love power, although you are ostentatious, and although you like luxury, but you are not to such an extent, this old man thinks that you are a vicious person and will treat you with conspiracy and power. My enemy, but I didn't expect that the old man missed it.

The old man thought that you took Zhang Jiangling as your goal, as the pinnacle, trying to reproduce the glory of Zhang Jiangling that day, but I never thought that you would become Sima Yi, Jianwu, you tell the old man, what exactly do you have in mind?Do you really want to be Sima Yi? "

Shen Yiguan shook his head resolutely.

"The first assistant has misunderstood. I dare not be Sima Yi, and I will never be Sima Yi. What I want is to kill the rebels, stabilize the world, abolish the innocent king, support a new one, and rebuild the prosperous world. !"

Zhao Zhigao took a deep breath.

"Rebuild the prosperous world? Jianwu, don't say these useless words in front of the old man, tell the truth! Tell the truth to the old man! What do you want?"

Shen Yiguan pursed his lips and nodded.

"The chief assistant has a question, and the lower officials dare not hide it. What the lower officials want is to take all the power from the cabinet, so that the unrighteous king will not harm the overall situation of the country!"

Zhao Zhigao was taken aback for a moment, and then asked, "Isn't the cabinet's authority enough now?"

"not enough!"

Shen always answered very clearly: "Dongchang, Yumajian, Silijian, these are all scourges! Not to mention wasting state funds, but those who deceive the king's heart to deceive the superior and the inferior will be eunuchs! If they are not eliminated, everyone in the world will be killed." No promise!"

"Can't you leave something for His Majesty? It's the ancestor's rule for the Imperial Horse Supervisor to lead the emperor's personal soldiers!"

Zhao Zhigao asked again.

"No! The current situation is changing, and the rules of the ancestors must also change!"

Shen Yiguan firmly said: "The matter has come to this point, I really can't take half a step back, please forgive me."

"It's common sense to leave some servants to serve His Majesty, and it's also common sense to leave some guards to guard the palace. Isn't that okay?"

Zhao Zhigao asked again.

"It is natural to have a few internal guards and soldiers, but everything must be arranged by the cabinet. Whether it is the royal family's expenses or the royal family's employment, everything should be entrusted to the cabinet for arrangement, and the cabinet allocates special funds for processing. There is no other possibility. "

Shen Yiguan looked at Zhao Zhigao: "Shoufu, this is the end of the matter, so don't be obsessed with it anymore. You have done enough for Daming. Together with the officials, please Your Majesty abdicate and welcome the new emperor to the throne. The first assistant is still the first!" auxiliary."

Zhao Zhigao ignored Shen Yiguan, walked tremblingly down the steps with a cane, and walked up to Zhao Shiqing.

"Zhao Butang, do you think Shen Ge always does this, is it okay?"

Zhao Shiqing looked at Zhao Zhigao nervously, stepped back involuntarily, bowed, and said, "Of course...it's possible!"

Zhao Zhigao showed disappointment, and walked up to Cai Guozhen, trying to hold Cai Guozhen's hand.

"Cai Butang, you and I are both veterans, do you think what Shen Ge meant, is it okay?"

Cai Guozhen quickly took a step back to avoid Zhao Zhigao's hand.

"Old Shen Ge's words are very reasonable, and the lower officials deeply agree!"

Zhao Zhigao's face became more disappointed.

He walked up to Yang Yikui again.

"Yang Butang, do you mean the same?"

Yang Yikui was straightforward.

"Looking back, Sue, yes!"

Zhao Zhigao closed his eyes, leaned slightly, opened them again, and looked around, as if he was looking for something in the crowd, and the people he saw couldn't help taking a few steps back, for fear that he would find him.

Then, Zhao Zhigao saw Shi Xing who was hiding behind, Shi Xing didn't have time to dodge, Zhao Zhigao looked straight at him, at that moment, Shi Xing saw a look of despair on Zhao Zhigao's face.

Zhao Zhigao sighed.

"You guys, do you think it's right to do this?"

Zhao Zhigao's voice was filled with tears, and he looked around at everyone he could see, every civil servant and military officer with a salary from the Ming Dynasty.

"Do you think it's okay to do this?"

"Can you just sit and watch the Ming Emperor be deposed?"

"Are you holding Daming's salary and being officials of Daming, but you want to stand by and watch such outrageous things, or even work as minions?"

"Have you all forgotten the teachings of the saints?"

Zhao Zhigao's voice was not loud, and his tone was not strong. Rather than scolding, he was crying, and after speaking, he was still crying, choked up and unable to speak.

But facing him were the ministers who lowered their heads and said nothing.

"Manchurian civil and military affairs, there is not a single joint... There is not a single joint!!"

Shen Yiguan walked to Zhao Zhigao's side, and stretched out his hand to support Zhao Zhigao.

"Shoufu, you have done enough."

Zhao Zhigao shook his head again and again.

"I have been an official for decades, and I have never done a single practical thing for Daming, and I have never done a single thing that is beneficial to the people. Damn, nothing is better than me. I am ashamed of Daming and Your Majesty. Ashamed of the teachings of the saints!"

Zhao Zhigao shook off Shen Yiguan's hand, walked up the steps tremblingly again, walked to the main entrance, and knelt down slowly.

"Your Majesty! The veteran is incompetent! I can no longer protect Your Majesty!!"

Zhao Zhigao yelled at the door at the top of his voice, then bowed three times, then got up, turned to look at Shen Yiguan.

This time it was a real glare like never before.

Shen Yiguan never imagined that Zhao Zhigao could look at him with such eyes.

"Traitor! I wish I could kill you!!!"

Shen Yiguan's expression changed suddenly, and he immediately realized something.

"Quick! Go stop Shoufu! Quick..."

Before Shen Yiguan finished speaking, his eyes widened in shock.

Jin Yiwei and the soldiers who had just rushed a few steps also stopped suddenly.

Zhao Zhigao threw off his cane and rushed towards the pillar at the gate of the palace.

Zhao Zhigao's gray-haired head slammed into the pillar hard.

With a muffled sound, Zhao Zhigao's head bounced off the pillar, and his body fell beside the pillar.

Blood dripped down his forehead to the ground.

(End of this chapter)