Chapter 320 You want to get away

Author: Potato Sweet Potato Pie

Chapter 320 You want to get away

The road construction issue collapsed, and even though there were a series of twists and turns, it was not passed in the end.

Seeing that all the important ministers were opposed, Emperor Hongzhi had no intention of further discussion and directly announced his resignation.

Back in the Palace of Qianqing, Zhu Youtang's face immediately turned ugly. He picked up the brush on the imperial desk and held it in his hand. The pen barrel broke directly into two pieces.

Xia Yuan's eyelids also twitched. It was made of sandalwood and was worth at least three hundred taels of silver.

Of course, this is not important. No matter how valuable this brush is, it is not his and has nothing to do with him. The emperor can break it if he wants to.

The poor and short-minded Emperor Hongzhi had always been thrifty, but now he broke a valuable writing brush, which was obviously spreading anger.

The court is not only a place where the monarch and his ministers discuss state affairs, but also a arena for tit-for-tat confrontation between monarch power and ministerial power.

Thousands of horses and horses were silent, and the court became the emperor's hall of speech. Whatever the emperor said, the ministers would only agree to it and shout "Long live the emperor, long live, long live, long live the emperor."

Scenes like this would only occur if one has a servile physique like Braid Chao.

Those ministers just now were already shameless, but the ministers in the Braided Dynasty were a thousand times, ten thousand times more shameless than them! Throughout human history, we will never find such a group of shameless people again.

Taking pride in being a slave and scrambling to be a slave, character and pride have long been thrown out of the window.

Like a group of servile pugs, wagging their tails and begging for mercy, when their owner praises them for being a good dog, they are overjoyed and want to set off firecrackers to celebrate.

That was the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

And this is the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty is famous for its character. It has character, but this so-called character has gone to the other extreme. Many ministers who claim to have character are proud of resisting the imperial power. If they are pulled out to beat them, then Then he realized that he would honor his ancestors and become famous all over the world.

If he was killed by the emperor without making any mistakes, it would be a generous act of justice and his name would remain in history.

There is nothing wrong with political disagreements like today, it's just that everyone has their own positions.

Even though Emperor Hongzhi was very angry, he still never thought about killing anyone or dragging anyone out to make trouble.

I can only rage here incompetently and vent my anger with a brush.

With a snap, another one broke.

Xia Yuan swallowed his saliva and said, "Your Majesty, why don't we just stop building the road, or wait?"

Before he finished speaking, Emperor Hongzhi glanced over and said sternly: "You don't have to test me here, I must repair this road!"

As he spoke, he snapped another brush.

"No, sir. Oh, then I'll be relieved."

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Emperor Hongzhi ignored him and began to fiddle with the brushes in this tube again. Thanks to the large number of brushes in this tube, after breaking four more brushes, his anger seemed to have finally dissipated.

He threw the broken pen on the imperial desk casually, and Xiao Jing stepped forward to help clean it up, as if he was used to it.

His anger subsided, and looking at the broken brushes, Zhu Youtang began to feel sorry for the damaged brushes again, and asked: "Didn't I say earlier that ordinary brushes in this tube can be used, why did you give me this Put this sandalwood brush in the pen holder?"

Xiao Jing hurriedly said: "Your Majesty Mingjian, this sandalwood brush is an extremely ordinary brush. Usually it is made of jade."

Xia Yuan smacked his lips quietly. Hearing this, his father-in-law was still addicted to pouting his writing brush.

"Change it for me and make it a bamboo one."

Hearing this, Eunuch Xiao was in trouble, "Your Majesty has a distinguished status, how can this imperial pen be made of bamboo? This is inappropriate."

"Change it for me!"

"Yes, slave, I will change now."

Xiao Jing didn't dare to say anything more. He responded, took the broken brushes and bowed out, looking for a bamboo brush.

Emperor Hongzhi sat behind the imperial desk, picked up the cup of tea and was about to drink it, but found that it was empty. He knocked hard on the table and said, "Go and pour me some tea!"

The remaining eunuchs in the palace trembled with fright, then hurriedly responded and walked out quickly.

Then, Zhu Youtang began to ramble: "Since I came to the throne, I have been diligent and caring for the people. My ancestors have entrusted the country to my hands. I am walking on thin ice and work conscientiously. I dare not slack off for a day. Everything I think about is for my country and the Ming Dynasty.

Sheji.

Road construction like this is obviously a great undertaking that will benefit the country and the people for a long time, but every one of them strongly opposes it. In their words, if I insist on pursuing this matter, I will waste people and money, be inconsiderate, and do not cherish the people's power.

Jun!"

Xia Yuan understood. It turned out that the reason why the emperor's father-in-law was angry was not because he was suppressed and opposed, but because he was inconsiderate and did not care about the people's power.

It's probably like that. You can say other things, but you actually say that I don't care about people's power. What a fart!

Perhaps it was also because of this incident that it triggered Emperor Hongzhi's rebellious mentality. If he was not allowed to repair it, then I would insist on it!

"Your Majesty, what these ministers say is actually quite reasonable. It does cost a lot to build roads. It is inconsistent with the national conditions of the Ming Dynasty. It is difficult for the national treasury to support such a huge project."

Seeing Emperor Hongzhi's eyes glance over, Xia Yuan changed his words and said: "Of course, this road must be built, but it should be done slowly and slowly. If the steps are too big, it will be pulled easily and the foundation will be unstable."

After coming back from the next court, Xia Yuan had been thinking whether these ministers were against him as a person or simply against this matter.

He couldn't help but think about it. He attended two court meetings in total, and each time he became the focus of the courtiers and the object of their opposition.

Finally, after thinking about it, I have both, but I am more opposed to this matter.

In this matter, he took it for granted, thinking that infrastructure projects such as road construction were good and would benefit the country without any harm, but he ignored the most basic national conditions.

The treasury of the Ming Dynasty was really too poor. Even if they had money, those ministers would not agree to such trouble.

Many ministers in the DPRK have a heart to serve the country and the people. Of course, they have selfish motives and want to make money for themselves.

But I also had that thought in mind: The Ming Dynasty was a very large building, and it was a very large and impressive building. If you remove a brick yourself, the house will definitely not be affected.

So I felt at ease and dug bricks out of this building.

But building a road is not just a matter of taking out a brick. It is a matter of tearing down a wall. If the wall is torn down, the house will collapse.

They had dug out bricks, but they never thought about letting the house collapse.

So they all opposed this.

Zhu Youtang snorted and said: "You speak for them, but now that the matter has come to this, there is no room for retreat. If we retreat, the ministers will gain power and the monarch's power will be difficult to show. It will be difficult to promote this matter in the future."

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At this point, Emperor Hongzhi suddenly stopped talking, looked at him deeply and asked: "Do you want to withdraw?"
Chapter completed!