As Zhu Qizhen spoke, his tone became more and more cold.

He is not interested in playing tricks with these old foxes. To be honest, these ten thousand horse bandits are nothing in Zhu Qizhen's eyes.

Randomly mobilizing the beheading troops of Hulong Villa, or the [-] troops of Shenji Battalion, they can crush them.

What Zhu Qizhen cares about is that some people dare to secretly help these Liaodong horse bandits and raise these horses. This is what Zhu Qizhen hates the most.

These aristocratic families and local tyrants really didn't die enough, and they dared to resist Zhu Qizhen's iron and blood rule.

To Zhu Qizhen, this is simply a provocation!

The aristocratic family doesn't have a good thing, what he really wants to do this time.

That's right!

Just as Yan Song thought in his heart, he took the opportunity to directly kill another group of aristocratic families, and make another wave of huge entanglements.

These aristocratic families, only when they are killed until they are frightened and scared, and they dare not fight against the emperor again, will they obediently submit to their feet.

"These big families in Liaodong, damn it!"

Zhu Qizhen clenched his fists, his eyes were sharp, and he was very disdainful: "A group of idiots, who don't engage in overseas trade to plunder foreign wealth, but come to fight against me, are so stupid that they are hopelessly stupid."

You know, since the opening of the sea ban, the aristocratic families in the south have earned a lot of dividends.

Because of this, these aristocratic families are very supportive of Wang Zhuqizhen's many policies.

Because for this group of wealthy families, as long as they can make money, that's all.

As for those who want to resist Zhu Qizhen's policies, but also want to get the bonus of opening the sea, and want to annex the land, Zheng Chenggong has already let Zheng Chenggong copy and exterminate the family.

Zheng Chenggong, Governor of the Navy, faced these aristocratic families who searched for the people's fat and anointment, and his performance was called cold-blooded and ruthless.

The entire coastal area was terrified of being murdered, and the sea was dyed red.

When those aristocratic families talked about Zheng Chenggong, who didn't grit their teeth, wishing to eat his flesh and drink his blood?

However, Zheng Chenggong, with Zhu Qizhen as his support, is simply not something that these people can bring down.

Even if they wanted to frame Zheng Chenggong, there was no way to do it. How could a navy governor who couldn't even bear to eat meat tell the emperor that he was a corrupt official?

Is it true that Cao Zhengchun's Dongchang is for dry rice?

Although many civil and military ministers in the court have relations with the southern aristocratic families, who would dare to fight against the emperor for them?

If so, there is only one end, being ransacked by Jin Yiwei and exterminated!

Everyone understands, how many buttocks of these court ministers can be clean?

As long as the emperor speaks, Dongchang and Jin Yiwei will go to investigate, and they will find evidence to kill in minutes!

Everyone understands these unspoken rules, but no one will mess around, as long as they don't go to death, the emperor often turns a blind eye to these things.

However, this time when the horse bandits attacked the West Factory, it completely touched Zhu Qizhen's bottom line. If these unscrupulous people dare to secretly support the bandits, they will all die!

"His Majesty……"

Seeing the emperor's attitude, Yan Song hesitated to speak, still hesitated.

If the emperor is determined to set off a large number of killing companies, it may be very troublesome. Which of these aristocratic families is easy to deal with?

The most important thing is that the radish will be pulled out to bring out the mud!

At that time, a large number of officials will surely fall.

It is precisely because of this that Yan Song has a different view on this matter, otherwise, why would there be so many messy things, and troops would have been sent to solve them long ago.

This matter is a dilemma for Yan Song, let alone other officials.

Each of these ministers has a network of relationships, and it will be very troublesome if they are too involved and punished too much.

Moreover, what Dongchang and Jin Yiwei like to do most is to make matters worse and kill innocent people indiscriminately.

If the emperor wants to launch a big purge at this time, then the entire thriving court will probably have to pay a heavy price for it.

However, Yan Song and the others took a look at Zhu Qizhen who was sitting on the dragon chair. This iron-blooded emperor did not look like he would let those aristocratic families go.

In this case, the only thing to do is to minimize the involvement, otherwise tens of thousands of people will be involved.

After thinking about this, Yan Song knelt on the ground, clasped his fists and said, "Your Majesty, think twice."

"Your Majesty, think twice."

Seeing Yan Song's attitude, Xu Jie, Gao Gong and other ministers also knelt down directly. How could these old foxes not know what Zhu Qizhen meant?

Too big Zhulian is also not what they want to see.

Otherwise, if this knife is cut down, I don't know how many people will be unlucky.

"Think again?"

Seeing the request of the ministers, Zhu Qizhen laughed back angrily: "Mr. Yan Ge, come and tell me, I still want more money."

Why think twice? "

"Yuhuatian, Lord Xichang, my personal eunuch, a good minister of the royal family, a great general who has made great achievements on the grassland, is now attacked by horse bandits and seriously injured, how should I think twice?"

"There is such a large gang of horse bandits in Liaodong, which is a disaster for the country and the people. Come and tell me, how did this gang of horse bandits get here?"

"Come and tell me, why should I think twice?"

Zhu Qizhen was full of murderous intent, staring at these important court officials.

Under the pressure of the imperial court, the Liaodong gangsters have already chosen to fight to the death. These ministers actually begged him to think twice, it is ridiculous!

How else to think twice?

Let go of these traitors?

impossible!

"This...Your Majesty, the matter of the horse bandits should be investigated or should be investigated. The black hands behind the scenes, those who should have ransacked their families or exterminated their families, but I beg Your Majesty, can you let go of people who have little connection with this matter."

Yan Song cupped his hands and said, he wanted to try his best to save as many people as possible.

He had already seen that His Majesty was so angry that he clearly wanted to use this incident to kill a large number of people. As for who His Majesty wanted to kill, Yan Song was still unable to determine.

However, he still hoped that the emperor would show mercy.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Qizhen got up suddenly, and pointed at Yan Song bitterly: "Yan Song, you, the chief minister of the cabinet, have disappointed me too much today!"

. . . . . .

Chapter 63 The Fierce Confrontation in the Court

Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Qizhen rose up against the case, facing this group of important officials of the court, he sneered and said: "Tell me, this ten thousand horse bandits, such a large group of people, the surrounding people didn't react at all, and neither did the officials of Liaodong." Played it to the court, is this normal?"

"I think they have long wanted to overthrow my Great Ming Dynasty, right?"

Zhu Qizhen had a cold smile on his mouth, which made Yan Song and others feel a little chilled when they saw it.

"Your Majesty, I think that when this matter is thoroughly investigated, horse bandits of this scale are no small matter, even if they sneak into the mountains, but with so many people, where does their food come from?

Xu Jie, who was kneeling beside Yan Song, his eyes lit up and said: "All of these can be investigated, but anyone who has contacts with these people should be damned."

Xu Jie's words touched Zhu Qizhen's heart, because he wanted to use this incident to kill a group of people in Liaodong.

Even if they didn't do this matter, they will be responsible for the blame.

Hearing Xu Jie's words, Zhu Qizhen nodded in satisfaction.

"This cabinet minister, usually with a natural bitter face, is indeed a well-known good man and peacemaker. However, at this critical moment, Li Ping is more ruthless than Yan Song."

Zhu Qizhen looked at Xu Jie and sighed in his heart.

The real ruthless person always has a smiling face, as if he is a good friend with everyone, but as long as he shows his fangs, he is definitely the most ruthless one.

However, if you think about it, how can a pure old man be able to be the second assistant to the cabinet?

"Don't be fooled by the smiles of the court ministers. If you can get along well in the court, no one is a rich man, and no one is a good person."

Zhu Qizhen secretly warned himself.

However, he has always had an attitude of killing those who dare to offend the majesty of the emperor and threaten the safety of the country.

And Yan Song, the first and assistant minister he has always supported, actually lost his mind and wanted to help his enemy survive, which made Zhu Qizhen very dissatisfied.

Now that the second assistant of the cabinet stood up and stood decisively on the emperor's side, Zhu Qizhen still felt a little comforted.

"I also think what Xu Ge said is right. These rebels will be a disaster if they are not killed. They should all be killed!"

Suddenly, Zhao Hengchen echoed.

"The minister also agrees."

Yu Qianzai, Minister of the Ministry of War, also stood up and expressed support for Xu Jie's suggestion.

At this moment, Yan Song was stunned.

Why did these ministers suddenly change their attitudes and all support the emperor to engage in Zhulian?

How is this going?

Are these people crazy?

When Yan Song looked at Zhao Hengchen, Zhao Hengchen turned his head directly, glanced at other places, and did not look at Yan Song at all.

Zhao Hengchen's purpose in making such a choice is obviously to preserve his glory and wealth.

More importantly, when Yan Song said try not to engage in Zhulian, Zhao Hengchen noticed that a look of disappointment flashed in the emperor's eyes.

When the chief minister of a cabinet is not trusted by the emperor, or even disappointed by the emperor, the position of the chief minister of the cabinet is not so stable.

Zhao Hengchen is making amends, he must at least let the emperor know that although Zhao Hengchen has a good relationship with Yan Song.

But Yan Song is Yan Song, and Zhao Hengchen is Zhao Hengchen!

He, Zhao Hengchen, is loyal to His Majesty. When Yan Song and His Majesty disagree, Zhao Hengchen will support the emperor without hesitation.

No matter how good Yan Song's relationship with him was, and he even fell asleep on his feet, he still supported the emperor!

Similarly, Yu Qian also noticed such a situation.

As a staunch person who only cared about the people and ignored the emperor, Yu Qian knew that it was not good for him to always leave such an impression on the emperor.

And he also knew that it was the emperor's trust and promotion that Yu Qian was able to achieve today.

So he must support the emperor's opinion.

"Don't you know that a large number of people will die?"

Suddenly, Yan Song roared like a tiger.

"Old Yan Ge, don't forget that those people who are going to die are all traitors and thieves. They are all people who deserve to die. Those people want to overthrow the Ming Dynasty and even endanger the safety of the capital. Do you think these people can stay here?" down?"

Xu Jie refused to give an inch, and confronted each other.

Zhu Qizhen stood tall as a dragon chair, silently watching from the sidelines.

He just quietly watched the battle between Yan Song, the chief assistant of the cabinet, and Xu Jie, the second assistant of the cabinet.

Zhu Qizhen has always supported the open and secret fight between these two people.

He found that Yan Song, an old fox, sometimes hides small thoughts in his heart, and seems to be unable to keep pace with himself in certain things.

For example, now, Yan Song actually thinks about killing fewer people, rather than how to better maintain the Ming Dynasty.

This made Zhu Qizhen very dissatisfied.

If we insist on killing less people, then the Jurchens of Jianzhou in Liaodong will conquer Shanhaiguan sooner or later and replace the country of Daming.

If you don't take this opportunity to kill 10,000+ people, when will you be able to meet this kind of god-given opportunity again?

On this point, Yan Song is really completely inferior to Xu Jie.

Although Xu Jie was full of ambitions, he wanted to get Yan Song down and sit at the top of the cabinet himself.

But at this moment, in Zhu Qizhen's eyes, Xu Jie is a better courtier than Yan Song, at least he knows how to protect the country and society of the emperor.

Suddenly, Yan Song looked at Zhu Qizhen, he saw the determination of the emperor's eyes!

He suddenly thought of a terrible thing: perhaps, the person who seriously injured Yuhuatian and attacked Xichang was sitting on this palace.

Yan Song raised his head and said loudly: "Your Majesty, there are a large number of people who don't know the situation at all, and many of them are the brains of these families to collude with these Liaodong bandits and even horse bandits. I don't believe them. All the men, women and children in the family have joined the horse banditry, and it is even more impossible for everyone to have an affair with the Liaodong banditry."

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