My Daming New Empire

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When Zhu Zhanji saw Liu Shun rushing over, he immediately understood what he meant.He stood up all of a sudden, but he didn't stop Liu Shun from committing suicide, but asked the Jin Yiwei who held the knife in the palace not to stop him.

Liu Shun must die, even if he is stopped now, he will be beheaded.

Now that he is dead, he doesn't have to implicate his family, and he can gain a clear name.

It made him more grateful than his life.

As soon as he stretched out his hand, the eight brocade guards on both sides stopped immediately.

"His Royal Highness, you belong to all the people of the Ming Dynasty. When His Majesty leaves Beijing, you must not leave Beijing..."

Liu Shun rushed to the steps in front of Zhu Gaochi, without pausing at all, pointed his head at a corner of the white marble steps, closed his eyes, and hit it with all his might.

Zhu Zhanji looked at his hollow skull expressionlessly, and his body twitched for a while. When he lay down, his eyes were already straightened, he breathed out more, and breathed in less.

Zhu Zhanji sighed, and ordered Jin Yiwei on both sides: "Carry it down..."

Although the eight Jinyiwei seldom saw this kind of thing, they knew what to do.Four people hugged his limbs, and easily lifted him behind the ministers, and carried him out through the side door.

As for the cure, it is impossible.Even if he doesn't die now, he must die.

The remaining four people hurriedly cleaned up the scene, and one of the Jinyi guards took out a cotton handkerchief and wiped away the blood splattered on the edge of the steps.

The strength of this kind of impact is limited, and if you want to see the scene of brains splattering, you can't see it.

At this time, two young eunuchs quickly brought over a copper basin, one with water and the other with a large rag, and they quickly cleaned up the blood without making a sound.

All the ministers were silent and stood in place, Zhu Zhanji couldn't help but sighed, and looked back at Zhu Gaochi.

This look felt a little wrong, because Zhu Gaochi's eyes were straightened, and there was a feeling of being out of his mind.

At this time, Zhu Di who was sitting on the top floor yelled loudly: "Who else objects?"

"The minister objects..."

Yang Pu, a scholar of Youchunfang University and a scholar of Hanlin University, spoke out from the crowd behind him, then stood up and knelt in the center.

Yang Shiqi sighed, followed him, and knelt down beside Yang Pu. "The minister objects..."

"The minister objects..."

"The minister objects..."

More and more scholars came out, including the subjects of the Eastern Palace, but most of them were Hanlin scholars.

Although Hu Yan, Guozijian Jijiu, was also a member of the cabinet, he couldn't see dozens of Confucian scholars being punished together, so he also came out and knelt down. "I object!"

University Scholars are a very special group in Daming. Although most of them are only below the fifth rank, because of their noble status, even the seventh rank is eligible to participate in the Dachaohui.

It's just that in general, they don't have decision-making power.In other words, although they can express their opinions, they have no voting rights, which is equivalent to staff and secretaries.

The appearance of these people was expected by Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanji. It would be strange if no one spoke for Zhu Gaochi.

Ever since Zhu Gaochi was established as the prince, he had a large number of civil servants around him. Some of these people were arranged by the emperor, and some of them wanted to get close to the prince, and later became ministers of the dragon.

They waited for more than ten years, and now Zhu Di is 60 years old, and the prince is about to take over the throne smoothly, but now he has to be sent away from afar.

These people have to fight no matter what.

What's more, with Liu Shun as an unruly scapegoat, Zhu Di has vented his anger. They are just against it, and they will not die because of it anyway.

When Hu Yan came out, it added a layer of protection for their safety.

Looking at the more than 30 people kneeling in the center of the hall, Zhu Di stood up, walked to the railing, held the white jade dragon pillar in his hand and said, "You are all ministers of my Ming Dynasty and my Zhu family, but not just the prince's ministers." .Why object?"

As the chief subordinate officer of the prince, Yang Shiqi originally had the idea of ​​making great achievements, but recently he suffered a near-desperate blow.

If His Royal Highness is sent out, stay away from the capital.Not to mention two years, even if it was just one year, all the relationship networks they had established before were finished.

This is not just a matter of supervising the country, but also an important part of controlling the entire Ming court's governance channels and establishing its own power.

If the grandson is allowed to supervise the country, even if the emperor dies in the future, the prince will succeed to the throne smoothly.But all the power is controlled by the grandson, and the prince is just a puppet emperor!

The crown prince is now a puppet, what should they do?

Betray the crown prince and seek refuge with the grandson?I am afraid that he will be beheaded by the prince and grandson immediately.

After all, they are father and son, and they are not allowed to be half-hearted.

Therefore, they can only bite the bullet and fight.

Yang Shiqi knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, there is a saying in "Hanshu.Wudi Ji" that the rule of human relations is the general rule of the country. Your majesty is the father, the prince is the son, and the grandson is the grandson. Even His Majesty should abide by the laws and regulations and the code of conduct, and the Dao cannot be reversed."

Zhu Di sneered and said, "I'm not dead yet, but you are thinking about my position. But you don't know..."

The minister below whispered, Zhu Di couldn't help but stop questioning, but saw Zhu Zhanji take a big stride, jumped to Zhu Gaochi's side, pulled him by the collar, and pulled him into his arms.

Then, pinch Zhu Gaochi's tiger's mouth with one hand, and help him dredge his meridians with the other hand on his back. "Quickly send the doctor!"

He felt that Zhu Gaochi's state was not right just now, he seemed a little hysterical.After such a big thing happened, and he suffered such a big blow, it is understandable that he lost his mind for a while.

But he didn't recover for a long time, and he almost fell over just now, which is a bit serious.

He was sensitive and was paying attention to Zhu Gaochi's situation. Seeing that something was wrong, he quickly jumped over and helped Zhu Gaochi stabilize.

The ministers below also saw that something was wrong with Zhu Gaochi's state. Seeing him fainting and falling, he couldn't help crying, but was rescued by Zhu Zhanji.

Under the dredging of his internal force, Zhu Gaochi coughed twice and regained consciousness.But just as he was about to speak, he suddenly coughed violently, and then saw a cloud of blood spray out of his mouth.

Zhu Di on the stage saw his son vomiting blood, his expression was still cold and he was not moved at all.

As a generation of iron-blooded emperors, he has four sons. Although a concubine died when he was young, he still has three legitimate sons.

Today, the third generation has nearly twenty grandchildren, including Zhanji, his favorite grandson.And the fourth-generation great-grandson also has more than a dozen of him, and he doesn't particularly care about a son who vomits blood that he doesn't like very much.

This throne, this country, and the inheritance of the Zhu family are all more important than this son.

There were already prepared imperial physicians in Fengtian Hall, and two imperial physicians rushed over with their medicine boxes on their backs. One of the imperial physicians took out a jade box of cooling oil, and just squatting next to Zhu Gaochi, he gave it to Zhu Gaochi. Wipe it on.

Zhu Di's eyes swept over the faces of the civil and military officials below, and he said loudly: "You have to ask the reason, this is the reason! The crown prince is weak, how can he manage the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains of Daming for me?"

With this sentence, the ministers who said it bowed their heads one by one.At the moment when the prince vomited blood, no one was sure about his health, so how could he refute Zhu Di's words?

Even Yang Shiqi and Yang Pu were dumbfounded. It is well known that the prince is in poor health, and he often couldn't even walk by himself.

However, they never thought that the prince would not be able to support the emperor.

If the plot develops like Emperor Gaozu and Prince Zhu Biao, what are they fighting for?