Chapter 402 Jiang Bin's Suspicion
Zhu Houzhao passed away, and Zhu Zaijiang naturally ascended the throne. The chapters are updated the fastest
The six ministers of the court were appointed to assist the young master, and it seemed that the death of Emperor Wuzong had passed in silence.
And is this really the case?
Of course it cannot be that simple.
The most important figure in a feudal dynasty is the king of a country. Whenever the king dies, the young lord ascends the throne. The world will inevitably be in chaos, and the reason is very simple.
Some people want to take risks when the new emperor is not stable in order to make a profit from it. Some people are afraid that the emperor and the minister will take some special measures to stabilize the current vested interests.
As soon as the court dispersed, the six ministers of the guards immediately gathered in the main hall of the Ganqing Palace.
Zhu Zaijiang knelt on the dragon chaise, lying on the dragon table, holding a brush in his hand and writing and painting on paper.
Jiangxia and the other six ministers were discussing the memorials handed over by the ministers when they were discussing the morning court.
Some issues such as the issue of the delay in the payment of food and salary in a certain place, the six people can basically make a decision without discussing for too long.
Anyway, it is all the money that should be given. Now the Ming Dynasty treasury is still sufficient, so I will give it directly. At most, I will strengthen the tracking of some money and don’t let officials embezzle too much in the middle. As for you, you are not greedy at all, the six ministers who are in charge of life understand it very well, and this is simply impossible.
In order to speed up the pace, some controversial memorials will be ranked last, and after all the discussions are completed, the six people will come up with the last controversial memorial to discuss.
Yang Tinghe took out the last memorial and said, "Okay, now it's time to talk about this memorial, the memorial handed over by the right deputy envoy of the Censorate. You have already read the content just now. The five major crimes of impeaching Ma Yongcheng, Gao Feng, Luo Xiang, Wei Bin, Qiu Ju, and Gu Dayong were impeached and cheated, using public notices, killing innocent people indiscriminately, taking human lives, and damaging loyal and kind people. What do you think?"
After Yang Tinghe finished speaking, his eyes turned to Xia Yuanming first because he was the right commander of the Censorate, and he had the highest official position in the entire Censorate. This memorial was handed over by his direct subordinates, and it can basically be said that he meant it.
Xia Yuanming is from Yang Ting and his faction, so Yang Ting and asked Xia Yuanming to speak first, obviously trying to deepen the tone of this matter and let this matter pass.
To be honest, this matter should not be controversial. The six people of Ma Yongcheng, Gao Feng, Luo Xiang, Wei Bin, Qiu Ju, and Gu Dayong are themselves one of the "Eight Tigers". When Zhengde was in power, they did do a lot of greedy and flattering things, and it is not worthy of being killed.
However, Jiang Xia did not agree to attack these six people at this time, so the memorial was delayed until the end before it was taken out to discuss it.
Xia Yuanming said: "These six people flatter and deceive the master and do many evil deeds. Not killing is not enough to calm the anger of the people, and not killing is not enough to uphold the court."
After Xia Yuanming finished speaking, he looked up at Jiang Xia, then looked at his nose and nose, and did not speak anymore.
Yang Tinghe looked at Wang Qiong again at this moment and asked, "What does Lord Wang think about this?"
Wang Qiong was straightforward and spit out two words: "It should be killed."
Yang Ting and the other three people all expressed their opinions, and the next three people were left from Jiang Xia and the others. According to prestige, Yang Tinghe looked at Li Dongyang first.
But Li Dongyang smiled at the corner of his mouth and turned his head to look at Jiang Xia.
Jiang Xia waved his hand and said, "I think I should kill you too."
After hearing this, Yang Tinghe was slightly shocked and thought to himself: "Didn't you say just now that you can't kill you? Now you say you should kill you."
Sure enough, Jiang Xia had a later text. After pausing for a moment, he immediately vomited out a "but". "But, it's definitely not killing now."
"Why?" Yang Tinghe asked.
Jiang Xia said: "Now that the new king has just ascended the throne, the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty are in a panic moment. If so many murders are committed at this moment, it may make some ministers inside and outside the court feel panic and uneasy."
"Teacher Jiang is such a bad word." Wang Qiong said: "Now, because the civil and military officials of the court are unstable, there are loyal ministers and good generals who do not know their future and destiny, and there are also sluts who have evil intentions to make mistakes. It is precisely because of this that we must kill these six people.
These six people do many evil deeds and kill them. First, they can make those loyal ministers and generals understand that they are determined to be clear-minded in the court, and they will never let treacherous ministers and traitors control the government, and even more so that the sluts will not let the sluts show their power. In this way, the loyal ministers and generals will be at ease. Second, they can shock those sluts and tell them that being treacherous ministers and traitors will have such an end, so that they will not dare to act rashly."
Wang Qiong's words were so powerful that Jiang Xia, who had always been good at speaking, didn't know what to say.
Yang Tinghe nodded after Wang Qiong finished speaking and said with great recognition: "It's OK."
Jiang Xia was silent for a while and only said, "If you must kill, I can't stop you, but I would like to remind you that killing these six people will lead to chaos."
After saying that, Jiang Xia looked back at Zhu Zaijiang.
At this time, the little guy just pasted his entire face on the paper and rolled it around for a while. When he raised his head, his entire face was covered with ink.
Zhu Zaijiang looked at Jiang Xia with a smile and said, "Tao Fu, do you think I look like Zhang Fei!"
Jiang Xia suddenly laughed. He stood up and said to him: "You can see if this matter is settled. I will take the emperor to wash his face." Then he walked to Long Coffee, reached out to hug Zhu Zaijiang and said: "Come on, the Grand Tutor teaches you to sing a song today. I will sing you and sing a song. Prepare, get up...Dou Erdun, the blue-faced, steals the horse; Guan Gong, the red-faced, fights Changsha..."
While singing, Jiang Xia walked out of the Qianqing Palace with Zhu Zaijiang in his arms.
Three days later, there were crowds of people outside the Meridian Gate. On the execution platform, Ma Yongcheng, Gao Feng, Luo Xiang, Wei Bin, Qiu Ju, and Gu Dayong were kneeling on the ground one by one, with a death penalty card inserted behind him.
Zhengde Eight Tigers, Liu Jin and Zhang Yong have all died at Jiang Xia's hands. Now that the remaining six people die again, the Eight Tigers are equivalent to being destroyed.
The news soon spread to the capital, and Jiang Bin, who had been paying attention to the trends in the capital, received the news almost the first time.
Originally, Jiang Bin and Ma Yongcheng did not have much intersection. At most, they had heard of each other's names and knew that there was another person in the court.
If Ma Yongcheng and the others are alive, Jiang Bin will not have any benefits. If he dies, it will not have any impact on Jiang Bin.
But the time when Ma Yongcheng and his friends died was exactly the time when Jiang Bin was the most sensitive, and the nerve that was most sensitive to him was triggered.
Ma Yongcheng and the other six, including Liu Jin and Zhang Yong who had already died, they and Jiang Bin all have the same characteristic. That is, they all flattered themselves by taking Zhu Hou's photos.
To put it nicely, it is called to think about the superior intention and to what he likes. To put it badly, it is called flattery and confusing the holy listening.
Such people generally have one common characteristic, that is, when they promote their emperors to reign, they can make a fortune. But if that emperor dies, they will be the first to kill the new monarch ascends the throne.
Now all the Eight Tigers have been killed. Let’s count the people around Zhu Houzhao at that time. Except for Jiang Xia who became one of the six major ministers with extraordinary abilities and skills, the rest of the people have basically died.
The only one left is him, Jiang Bin.
He killed Ma Yongcheng and the others and Jiang Bin felt that this was a sign that it was very likely that the next person to be cleaned up would be him.
Just as Jiang Bin was still thinking about countermeasures, wanting to see if he could join the line with whom among the six ministers and chose to surrender to one person to ensure safety, a communique issued by the Ministry of War was sent to Xuanfu and handed over to Jiang Bin.
The content of the Tongling was very simple, which was to ask Jiang Bin to go to the capital to report his work.
As border generals, it is normal to report their duties in the capital. Generally, many border generals are happy to report their duties in the capital, because this way they have the opportunity to clear up and down the road, so that they can live a better life in the border, or be able to transfer from border back to the capital as soon as possible, and any official with real power in the capital will be transferred.
However, when Jiang Bin received this order, he seemed to feel that he had received a death talisman, and he thought to himself.
Generally, the report will only start notifying the work at the end of the year. Why should we advance this year?
Why did it happen to be when Ma Yongcheng and the other six of them were killed?
What do the ministers in the capital want to do? Could it be that they want to trick me into the capital and then capture and kill me in one fell swoop while I don’t have a large army to protect me?
You can't go! You can't go to the capital!
After considering it, Jiang Bin immediately began to pretend to be sick to delay the time he went to the capital.
Why did the capital issue an order to Jiang Bin to report his duties in advance? It was a coincidence that when discussing whether to kill Ma Yongcheng and the other six people, Jiang Xia once predicted that if he killed Ma Yongcheng and the other six people, there would inevitably be a big chaos in the border.
So after Yang Ting and they killed Ma Yongcheng and the other six people, they immediately issued an order to Jiang Bin, asking him to report his duties in the capital so that they could explore his bottom line.
But Jiang Bin was suspicious and even claimed that he was sick and did not enter the capital.
This made Yang Tinghe nervous.
You should know that the border generals belong to the Ministry of War, under Wang Qiong, and Wang Qiong is his Yang Tinghe.
Once something happens to the border, the first board will hit Wang Qiong first.
If we investigate the reason, Yang Tinghe, Xia Yuanming and others may be arrested and attacked by Jiang Xia and others because of this.
So now Jiang Bin says he is sick and does not enter Beijing, so neither Yang Tinghe nor Wang Qiong can sit idly.
After thinking about it, Yang Tinghe felt that this order was issued by the Ministry of War. If you, Jiang Bin, will only receive a bad review in the performance evaluation of the Ministry of War. Then the official will issue you an imperial edict. If you do not accept the order and enter the palace, you will be disobeying the order.
So, Yang Tinghe directly found Zhu Zaijiang and asked for an imperial edict. To put it bluntly, it only required the consent of more than half of the ministers to be responsive to issue it.
Yang Tinghe found Yang Yiqing, who was also a man who knew about military affairs. He knew that there might be any consequences for the border generals not to receive orders, so he agreed to issue this imperial edict.
Chapter completed!