Please call me Your Majesty!

Chapter 69: New situation, Chu Shizhao feels that he has to give it a try!

Chu Shizhao did not give even the slightest face to the ministers in the court.

In another three years, these ministers will be wiped out. What's the point of Chu Shizhao giving them face?
If these people were useful, Chu Shizhao would not have reached this point.

It was precisely because these people were useless that Chu Shizhao just gave up.

Gaining their support is of no use at all, so Chu Shizhao had no intention of gaining the favor of these people.

Moreover, Chu Shizhao is now just a prince, and it would be bad for him to get close to the ministers in the court.

Only by confronting his ministers openly and expressing his dissatisfaction could he gain the protection and support of Emperor Yongjin.

the most important is.

This point has been proven countless times in simulations.

I believe that the aristocratic families in the Zhou Dynasty have only one way to go, which is death.

Their logic is that it never matters who is at the head; what matters is whether the family can maintain prosperity in the future.

So even if they can't win and surrender, they still have a way out.

A fence-sitter in the trenches.

Of course, Chu Shizhao is not trying to generalize. There are still strong people among the aristocratic families, but this thing has a cyclical theory.

The first generation is talent, the second generation is human, and after the third generation they generally begin to anthropomorphize, unless they can maintain the superior family tradition.

Then, after these aristocratic families have gone through another cycle, suddenly a powerful and capable person will emerge to maintain the glory of the family, but if such a person does not emerge, they will gradually disappear from the stage of history.

Faced with this situation, when the Huns came, they defended the city symbolically, and when they failed, they surrendered. When the rebels came, they also defended the city symbolically, and when they failed, they surrendered.

Chu Shizhao felt that those military governors whose brains were full of muscles might become more lovable after being fooled by them.

At this moment, Emperor Yongjin sitting on the dragon throne broke the silence.

The ministers were completely afraid to respond.

Because Chu Shizhao was too brave, whoever took up the conversation would be hit hard no matter how strong or weak he was. The most embarrassing thing was that some of the things Chu Shizhao said were the truth.

"Fourth Brother, you are too presumptuous." Emperor Yongjin sighed and said, "I think this memorial is biased, and what you said is just groundless speculation."

"How can I trust your words?"

"As for how to deal with you, I will make the decision myself." Emperor Yongjin said after pondering. His original intention was to save Chu Shizhao, but his attitude was not firm.

And now, seeing Chu Shizhao attacking his ministers in this way, Emperor Yongjin's attitude immediately became firm.

"Take the fourth brother back first." Emperor Yongjin waved his hand.

He now didn't dare let Chu Shizhao continue to serve in the court.

Give him a few more words.

Emperor Yongjin couldn't imagine what else Chu Shizhao could do.

This kid is really crazy!
The ministers in the court did not dare to speak.

The sudden attack by the Prince of Jin was simply too much for these ministers to handle.

The incident caused by Chu Shizhao this time made it very difficult for these ministers to save their situation.

After all, the ministers are not really united, and some of them are eager to kick down the people above them and take over themselves.

If Chu Shizhao died accidentally, the situation would become even more chaotic. Even if it wasn't true, it would become true.

The most important thing is that Emperor Yongjin's words have openly shown his desire to protect his son, and if anything goes wrong with Chu Shizhao, Your Majesty can take advantage of it.

Therefore, Chu Shizhao's "Memorial on Public Security" not only scolded all the ministers, but he was also able to escape unscathed.

The day after this court meeting, the whole Chang'an became a little different.

It is not known who deliberately promoted Chu Shizhao's "Memorial on Public Security" so that most people in Chang'an knew about it.

He became famous in Chang'an almost instantly. The most important thing was that the poor people living near the nine gates of Chang'an had indeed received favors from Chu Shizhao.

The most uncomfortable ones were undoubtedly the ministers who were named in the court by Chu Shizhao's death, especially Wang Ruizhen.

Because his 100,000 acres of fertile land in Songjiang County really exist.

There's no way to hide this.

On the other hand, the matter of Lu En's son Lu Yi is still somewhat confusing and there is room for explanation, but Wang Ruizhen has no way to defend himself.

Local officials had impeached this matter before, but Emperor Yongjin mostly ignored it. Now that there is another impeachment, Emperor Yongjin's attitude has become much more ambiguous.

It can be said that Chu Shizhao's almost fatal advice in the "Memorial on Public Security" not only did not lead to his death, but instead he became famous throughout the country, and made all the scholars suddenly realize that Emperor Yongjin was not so "inhumane" after all.

This directly opened the era of impeachment.

There is no other way. Impeaching the higher-ups can not only bring you fame, but it may also help the higher-ups vacate their positions. If you defeat a few big guys, you might even go down in history.

However, there were a few short-sighted censors who, instead of impeaching the ministers, followed Chu Shizhao's example and impeached the "Emperor Yongjin", believing that it was the Emperor Yongjin who did not govern the country well enough, leading to such corruption in the world.

These people had their necks washed by the executioner on the spot by Emperor Yongjin.

After a lot of discussion, the scholars almost figured out the mentality of Emperor Yongjin, and started to "bombard" the ministers in the court.

In order to maintain his dignity, Wang Ruizhen resigned to Emperor Yongjin on the spot, trying to retreat in order to advance.

However, Emperor Yongjin did not intend to give Wang Ruizhen the opportunity to escape unscathed.

He was willing to take out the memorial in which Chu Shizhao was pointing fingers and cursing at him because he wanted to clean up the court. You think the situation is not right and want to retreat. Is that really possible?

Just stop doing that.

Emperor Yongjin had long wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to take action, but there had never been a good opportunity or a leader. Now that the court has been consolidated for more than a decade and has the strength of the central army, it is time for Emperor Yongjin to do a lot.

but.

At the same time, Emperor Yongjin made a decision that surprised everyone.

King Jin Chu Shizhao was allowed to settle in the palace and returned to the palace where Chu Shizhao had originally lived.

The reason for doing so, Emperor Yongjin himself said, was that he wanted to correct Chu Shizhao's prejudice, and he still believed that the content of the "Memorial on Public Security" was unfair.

Some ministers thought that this was His Majesty's attempt to save some face from the "Public Security Memorial", while some ministers smelled something unusual.

You should know that Emperor Yongjin's eldest son, Chu Shixu, was driven out of Taiji Palace and had to live in the prince's palace outside the palace in Chang'an.

Chu Shizhao, as the fourth prince, was able to live in the palace.

Is this the way to do it?
Your Majesty wants to make Prince of Jin Chu Shizhao the Crown Prince? !

Chu Shizhao was numb.

In this situation, in his opinion, there are only two possibilities.

One is the attitude Li Shimin used towards Li Chengqian and Li Tai. He wanted to favor his two sons, but ended up losing his sense of proportion.

However, Chu Shizhao's elder brother, Chu Shixu, did not live in the palace.

So the possibility of this is almost negligible.

The remaining possibility is that Sun Quan used the "Two Palaces Dispute" strategy in order to weaken the power of the Jiangdong gentry, and attacked the aristocratic families on both sides who supported different princes.

That's pure jail time.

The most ideal outcome for Chu Shizhao is definitely not to enter the palace and become a "prince" who is seemingly loved by his father and has the possibility of inheriting the throne.

Instead, he spoke rudely and acted radically, which displeased Emperor Yongjin. Then he randomly picked a place and sent Chu Shizhao to be a vassal and farm.

Chu Shizhao could accept Jinyang, Lu County, and even Datong, and he had room for maneuver.

What do you mean by putting me in the palace?

In this kind of situation, Chu Shizhao felt that he had to simulate it!

He wanted to see what was going on.

(End of this chapter)