Seven hundred and sixty-eight, do you want to be a man, or do you want to be a chess piece?
Faced with Shi Xing's angry accusation, Chen Yiguan obviously did not intend to plead guilty.
"Rebellion? Hehehehe..."
Chen Yiguan shook his head: "I am almost seventy years old, why do I rebelled? What reason should I rebel? Ishibutang, don't you think it's ridiculous for me to rebel? What's the benefit of my rebellion?"
"The most ridiculous thing in the world is that you, the person who did ridiculous things, told me in front of me that I asked you absurdly! Chen Yiguan, you killed the eunuchs from the Imperial Horse Prison, transferred the troops from the Four Guards and Warriors Prisons to the Beijing Camp, and brought the Beijing Camp soldiers to the palace. What are you going to do? If you are not rebelling, what are you going to do?"
Shi Xing stared at Chen Yiguan: "There are also the people outside, no matter whether I know or not, they are all well-known people in the court. What are you doing? The ministers and ministers of various departments and nobles! What are you doing?!"
Chen Yiguan looked at Shi Xing.
"Good question! Ishibutang, we are like-minded and determined to kill the rebels, so we gather here to kill the rebels and create a new world."
Shi Xing looked strange.
"Destroy the rebels? Create the world again? Hahahaha! Chen Yiguan, your reason is very useful! Then I ask you, do you know if you want to kill the rebels?"
Chen Yiguan shook his head.
"Of course you don't know that Your Majesty was bewitched by these rebellions, and turned a deaf ear to all this, and looked down on our pleas. We were forced to take the risk of doing this in order to avoid the overthrow of the Great Ming Dynasty. This is to clear the lord!"
"Qing the lord? Your Majesty didn't know that you were the rebels who should be killed in my eyes? Who are you going to kill? Who are you rebels? If there is a rebellion, why don't I know? I am the Minister of War! How come I don't know?!!"
Shi Xing roared at Chen Yiguan.
Chen Yiguan took out an envelope from his arms.
"Look first, then talk about it."
Shi Xing snatched the envelope with a handful of papers full of words. Shi Xing read it quickly, first shocked, then angry, Shaoqing, Shi Xing slapped the letter paper in his hand on the table.
"Xiao Jixin rebelled?! How could Xiao Jixin rebell? Chen Yiguan, if you want to frame and frame, you can use some clever means! I don't believe such a random thing, no one with a normal mind will believe it! Who would believe it?!"
"It's right not to believe it. This shows that Shibutang is sober. Like Shibutang, none of the dukes outside believe it. Of course, Xiao Jixin will not rebel. He is His Majesty's loyal minister, but they still sit outside and still obey my orders."
Looking at the furious Shi Xing, Chen Yiguan nodded unexpectedly, and then took out another envelope to Shi Xing.
"The letters just now were made up. After I planned to kill Xiao Ruxun and pacify this, let the historian record be circulated in the history books. If you look at this, this is true. Of course, I will know that it cannot be circulated in the future."
Shi Xing took the envelope and opened it to read it quickly. Half saw it, Shi Xing was stunned.
"This... Wang Xijue suddenly resigned three years ago..."
Chen Yiguan nodded.
"That's right, Wang Xijue's resignation three years ago was not a normal resignation. At that time, His Majesty planned to issue an edict when Xiao Ruxun led his troops to Tianjin Guard to secretly lead his troops to the capital to serve the king.
The reason was that Zhang Wei forced the palace to deceive people too much, and the purpose was to capture all the court officials, launch a mutiny, and directly blame us. Because the incident happened suddenly, no one expected that even so, Wang Xijue did his best to join forces with the Queen Mother to stop His Majesty's actions.
The matter was finally settled, and they all thought that His Majesty would settle down. Unexpectedly, His Majesty was planning more things. The Tengxiang Four Guards and the Warriors Battalion were not enough, and they had to train troops in Xishan.
His Majesty originally planned to let Xiao Ruxun bring foreign troops to the capital to cooperate with us, control us and regain power, but now, His Majesty seems to plan to take it slowly and let Xiao Ruxun control the Beijing camp first. The ultimate goal is still mutiny and we will be beaten all in one go."
Chen Yiguan poured himself a glass of wine, drank it in one sip, and spoke slowly.
"Do you understand now? Shibutang, Xiao Ruxun reported that the Shanxi incident happened, Your Majesty no longer trusted me to wait. He knew what I was doing at the local level, knew that I had undermined his power, and even the Jinyiwei was infiltrated by me, so he felt uneasy and wanted to regain his own power."
Shi Xing opened his mouth and said nothing.
What Chen Yiguan said is really terrible.
And the next thing is even more terrifying.
"Your Majesty wants power, and he is asking me to wait for my life. We are tacitly aware of this. Once Your Majesty obtains military power, your Majesty will know everything we have done over the past hundred years. The first thing that is to bear is the cabinet and the six ministries. How many of us can survive?
Let alone wait, our family will be blamed. The Jin Party is the lesson for us. In fact, we have no way out. From the beginning of obtaining military and financial power, there is no way out. Only by putting the emperor in a weak position can we survive. Otherwise, we will die without a place to bury us.
If others don’t say it, Ishibutang, tell me about yourself. How many people have given you so much money in recent years? How many people have given you so much money in their filial piety? How many people are trying hard behind your back?”
Chen Yiguan took the wine glass and walked around Shi Xing to the door, looking at the civil and military ministers in the hall.
"You are like this, I am like this, Zhao Butang is like this, Cai Butang is like this, British Duke, Ding Guo Duke is like this, Yongkang Hou is like this, and civil and military officials in the court, how many people are not like this?"
Chen Yiguan turned his head and looked at Shi Xing: "All the court, civil and military officials, who are not greedy, who do not accept gifts? Oh, maybe there are, but they are not greedy, what about their family members? What about their clan members? What about their disciples and their old friends?
Shibutang, guess, have your family and your tribe members in your hometown used your power to forcefully buy and sell for evil? Are there any people who have enclosed land? Are there any people who avoid taxes? Are there any people who have all the family, including your relatives and friends, who have never violated the law?
After a closer look, everyone is breaking the law, more or less, we have broken the law, and there is no one who is not breaking the law. Sitting in this position, holding the power of life and death, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars passed by, but only receiving the salary of dozens or hundreds of taels. Tell me, how many people are balanced? How many people can not break the law?
You should be clear that what Your Majesty wants is that officials violate the law, so that he can seize the handle of us, let us do our best to do our best, guard the country and power for him, and so on, if we are disobedient, we will abandon us.
At that time, I was given a crime of corruption at will, and once I checked it, he would be able to get the glory of a wise ruler, his status was more stable, and the people's hearts were in my hands. What about us? It was just a sad abandoned chess piece.
You, me, Zhaobutang, Caibutang, Yangbutang, British Duke, Dingguo Duke, all the lords of the court were originally chess pieces in the hands of His Majesty, but now it is not. Do you know why it is not now?
Because both military power and regime are controlled by the Lords, they have taken over the lifeblood of the country, and the civil and military officials of the court work together to undermine Your Majesty's power. In this way, Your Majesty cannot use us as chess pieces.
We will advance and retreat together, maintain consistency, obtain financial power, control military power, and make your Majesty's order unable to be implemented without our consent. In this way, we can become our respective masters, rather than chess pieces that you can abandon at any time in your Majesty's hands.
Think about Hongwu and Yongle. At that time, we were in danger of ceremonies. Emperor Taizu exchanged hundreds of thousands of officials' lives to bring eternal powers to the Ming Dynasty, but this is too miserable for you and me, right?
I finally got this power, but now some people have emerged to rob this power, bring back the rules of Taizu Chengzu at that time, and turn us all into chess pieces again... Shibutang, do you want to be a human being or a chess piece?"
Shi Xing was stunned on the spot.
Chapter completed!