On the 29th day of the seventh month, the drums on the official street were beaten, and Meng Zezhi's first court meeting after his ascension to the throne was held at Huangji Gate.

Different from the previous dynasties, after Emperor Taizu ascended the throne, considering the severe winter weather, the officials performed in turn, and the officials were unable to stand for a long time, so the ceremony and the performance were separated. After a brief ceremony, the ministers who are busy will go to the palace in Huangjimen to perform their duties in turn, and those who have nothing to do will return to their respective yamen to work.

This is what is commonly referred to as 'government at the gate'.

After arriving at Emperor Guangde's place, twenty-two years later, because of his health, he stopped the Wu Dynasty and only opened the Morning Dynasty. Later, he changed the system of the Early Dynasty to reduce the frequency of the Early Dynasty. On the ninth day, it means to go to the puja nine times a month instead of every day of the month.

After Meng Zezhi succeeded to the throne, he had no intention of being diligent in government and simply continued to use the old system of the previous dynasty.

Qianqing Palace, in Zhaoren Hall.

Hearing the knock on the door, Lu Li, who had not slept all night, recovered from his thoughts. He took a deep breath, stretched out his hand and pushed the person below him, and whispered, "Long live, it's time to wake up. ."

Meng Zezhi reached out and grabbed Lu Li's hand on his chest, humming a few times, not really remembering it.

Lu Li pursed his lips, took his hand out of Meng Zezhi's hand, touched it down, and rubbed it quickly or slowly. .

When the dough swelled and deflated, Lu Li's hands were sore.

No matter how much drowsiness it was, it all disappeared at this moment.

Meng Zezhi's face was full of gluttony, and he couldn't be more satisfied with Lu Li's way of awakening.

He kissed Lu Li's forehead: "You sleep for a while, I'll go to court."

"Yeah." Lu Li replied.

Meng Zezhi got up and got out of bed, with scratches all over his back and waist.

The recent Lu Li was very enthusiastic, with a taste of the last indulgence.

Meng Ze knew what he knew, and then decisively decided to have a showdown with Lu Li later.

After washing up under the service of the maids, Meng Zezhi walked out of Zhaoren Hall.

Leaving Lu Li lying on the bed and hurting himself.

After a few whips, Jingyang's bell rang loudly, and the hundred officials followed the ranks of the left and right, and entered the Huangji Gate.

After a while, surrounded by eunuchs and palace maids, Meng Zezhi walked up to the throne in square steps, and dignifiedly accepted the visit of the civil and military officials.

"Long live my emperor! Long live!"

To be honest, this kind of self-respect and the surrender of all the people is really refreshing. Meng Zezhi's eyes swept over the officials who were kneeling on the ground in rows in the hall, and he breathed a sigh of relief, and then said slowly: " Everyone loves to be flat."

"Thank you!"

Meng Zezhi did not speak, and all the civil and military officials silently bowed their heads and did not move.

A month ago, the tragic situation outside the Meridian Gate was still vivid in my mind. Thousands of bloody corpses are stacked like mountains, and it is said that it took a whole day to clean up the blood on the ground.

At that time, the Shenji Battalion, which was in charge of defending the city, was not damaged.

In addition, these days, Shenji Camp has been arresting people everywhere. Anyone involved in the case of the Eighth Prince's rebellion has been confiscated and sent to prison, and the prisons of the three divisions (the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Court) are overcrowded.

For a time, people in the capital panicked.

Then there is the big eunuch Tao An who is standing next to the throne. On the day the eighth prince rebelled, he publicly admitted that both Gan Zhengfu and Tao An belonged to the ministers of the household. Tao An did not move like a mountain.

What does this mean?

It means that Tao An was a man of Meng Zezhi from the beginning to the end.

——The eighth prince is being played around.

Combined with the performance of Emperor Guangde at that time, I am afraid that he did not know about it.

What a scheming and a means this is!

Even a group of five princes were also heartbroken by Meng Zezhi's unfathomable city government.

Meng Zezhi opened his mouth and said, "I look up to the Emperor Taizong Wu of the imperial examination to cover the long grace, pay the divine weapon, and control the world. I look up to the sage's decrees, respect the heaven and the ancestors, be diligent in the administration and love the people, and serve the three selfless things..."

"...Emperor Taizu once said in the second year of Jianping: The way of being a king is to know people and to keep the people safe. Today, the military affairs of the southeastern provinces are not leveled, and the people are suffering from tragic attacks. Promote the virtuous and pacify the ugly, so as to protect the foundation of our country for hundreds of millions of years.

"Long live wise, ministers and others must do their best and never give up."

Listening to the people on the throne mouthing 'Feng Di', 'Wu Bei', 'Dang Ping', and remembering that the other party insisted on using the word 'Wu' as the year title, all the civil servants couldn't help but feel numb in their scalps.

What about Liu Yuan and Emperor Diwen?

It is enough to have Emperor Guangde as a warlike emperor. If there is another Emperor Ningwu, the people of the world will suffer!

It's just that although they think so, no one dares to touch Meng Zezhi's bad head at this time.

"Everyone loves to be flat."

"Thank you!"

After talking about political ideals, Meng Zezhi took two sips of tea from the tea bowl on the table, and then said, "Tao An, declare the decree."

"Yes."

Tao An bowed to Meng Zezhi, then took a scroll of imperial edicts from the tray held by the little eunuch who was standing beside him, and began to sing: "Fengtian carries the emperor, and the imperial edict said: I am only born with the people and the monarch. Benevolent Yu Zhaoshu Xian is in Taihe, and he is in charge of Huayi and Xixi...Yi Tan's kindness in You will serve the sake of reformation. The world can be forgiven: those who have sins are very forgiven and unjust, they will be forgiven by Xian!"

The so-called “permanent forgiveness” refers to those who commit murder, arson, tomb robbery, robbery and other crimes who are not forgiven.

"...In addition, the elderly and the orphans will be given two feet of silk and one bucket of rice... The three-year tax difference between Zhengzhou Prefecture and Kaifeng Prefecture in Henan will be exempted, and Fengyang, Huai'an, Xuzhou, Chuzhou, and Yangzhou will be exempted from tax this autumn in Zhili. All taxes and grains are exempted, and the rest of Zhili's prefectures, Shanxi, Zhejiang, Fujian... are exempted by half..."

After the fall of the Eighth Prince, Meng Zezhi had copied a lot of good things from him and all his henchmen. The cash alone had six million taels, not to mention the piles of rare treasures.

You must know that during the Guangde period, the fiscal revenue of the national treasury was only a little over 8 million taels a year.

Thanks to their blessings, Meng Zezhi dared to exempt taxes so aggressively.

Hearing this, the courtiers kneeling in the hall could not help but breathe a sigh of relief, since Meng Zezhi was able to hold the people in his heart, at least it meant that things weren't too bad.

"...Since February of the 18th year of Guangde, there have been other secrets in the case of fraud in the imperial examinations. Civil and military officials, military and civilians, etc. have been implicated in the reinstatement of officials, the deceased civil officials have been given preferential exemptions from their families, and the descendants of military officials have inherited them. Those who return to their original nationality are the people, those who are sent by the army to the outlying areas are still returning to the Wei, and those who are prostitutes are released to the Ning family. When they enter the official land, they will be returned according to the amount..."

In the eighteenth year of Guangde, in order to deal with the eldest prince, the second prince tried his best to come up with a case of imperial examination fraud. After the incident, the eldest prince was imprisoned, more than a dozen officials involved in the case were pushed out of the Meridian Gate and beheaded, and their family members as many as two or three hundred people were either exiled or charged as prostitutes.

The expressions of all the ministers changed. This decree was clearly aimed at overturning the unjust case. It was just because the royal family's face was taken into account, it was not stated clearly.

When even a minister choked and shouted: "Long live wise."

I think these victims have his old acquaintances in them.

The ministers reacted, and Shan shouted "Long live benevolence".

"...Because the king of Tang (the eighth prince) rebelled, there were many people involved, and the officials of the court withered away, so in the first year of Ningwu, Enke was added. Announcement to the world, Xian envoys heard about it!"

"Long live my emperor! Long live!"

After the process is over, it's time to divide the spoils.

Could it be that the civil and military officials took a short breath.

I only saw Tao An taking another scroll of the imperial decree, and started singing: "Fengtian carries the emperor, and the system says: Holy benevolence is widely transported, and wherever the sky is overturned, there is no respect for relatives. Mrs. Xiao, the wife of the Duke of Er Song, Kunyi Yuxiu, the moon room is hanging Jing, Jinxian wears the clouds, and has raised me for more than nine years. I am grateful and deserve to be favored. It is Yijia Fenger as a holy lady, a prince, and he does not kneel when he enters the court, and he is not famous for his praise."

All the ministers were shocked, never expecting that Meng Zezhi's first imperial decree for the reward was actually given to the Xiao family.

Being a prince, not kneeling when entering the court, not being praised... What kind of honor is this?

For a while, everyone didn't know whether to envy Xiao Shi or sympathize with Song Guogong being climbed on the head by his wife.

There was already an eunuch in Song Guo's mansion to announce the decree, so this imperial decree was directly led by Zhao Lingwu.

After a moment of awkwardness, Zhao Lingwu only had joy in his heart. The better Meng Zezhi treats the Xiao family, the more light he will receive from the Duke of Song's residence.

Sure enough, Tao An continued to sing: "...The Duke of Ersong, Zhao Lingwu, the military commander and generals are the backbone of the court, and the country's dry city. One thousand households in Tegal food towns, and the descendants of the three generations will be enshrined."

Three generations of descendants—

Zhao Lingwu was ecstatic, and it was all in vain that he did not kneel when he entered the court, and praised him without a name. This is the real benefit.

"Long live, long live, Xie Wuhuang!"

All the ministers are envious, and they are looking forward to their reward more and more.

"The Duke of Zheng's Qiangongcheng... Add five hundred households in Shiyi, and enjoy the prince's salary."

"Li Chengyuan, the commander of the Shenji Camp... Feng Wu Kangbo, three hundred households in the city."

"Xiao Deren sacrificed to the wine at the Imperial College... Feng An Pingbo, three hundred households in the city, and the left servant of the Rites Department."

"Lu Zengxiang, Minister of the Ministry of Industry... Moved to the Minister of Household, and entered the University of Wenhuadian."

...

"Sun Zhongyu, the prefect of Wenzhou... Fengdu's salt transfer envoy, Sidu's transfer envoy."

...

It was already an hour after the hundreds of volumes of imperial edicts were issued.

When one person attains the Tao, the chicken and the dog ascend to heaven. Nothing more than this.

Meng Zezhi looked at the red-faced civil and military officials in the hall, and said slowly, "Since the awarding of rewards is over, let's talk about the conspiracy of King Tang (the Eighth Prince's Party)."

Hearing this, all the ministers looked solemn.

Lu Zengxiang immediately stood up: "Long live the report, King Tang conspired, the evidence is conclusive, and all his party members should be dealt with according to the law, it's just King Tang..."

Meng Zezhi said indifferently: "According to my will, according to the last order of the late emperor, kill—"

"What?" The expressions of the ministers changed drastically.

How could Emperor Guangde want to kill his own son?

His intention was clearly to imply that Meng Zezhi, after a hundred years, would defy his 'will' to pardon the King of Tang and gain a good reputation for filial piety and benevolence.

Unexpectedly, Meng Zezhi actually wanted to make a fake show.

That's his real brother!

There was a chill in everyone's heart.

"The king of Tang conspired for rebellion, and the crime should not be punished. To kill him, one is to make the punishment clear, and the other is to warn the world that the prince breaks the law and is guilty of the same crime as the common people." Meng Zezhi said coldly.

If you don't kill the eighth prince, how can you be worthy of the tens of thousands of innocent people in Qingzhou who died tragically.

What's more, what if he keeps the eighth prince, what if he reveals the matter of Tao An's poisoning and murdering Emperor Guangde.

There is also the second prince, Meng Zezhi also did not intend to let go.

Anyway, this is not his real brother, and he doesn't mind being an emperor who is feared by all officials.

This reason, the ministers have no way to refute.

The author has something to say:

Meng Zezhi: Smile like a scumbag.

Lu Li: Comfortable enough to curl up your toes.

The title of Lady Fengsheng is really appropriate here, so use it. (covers face)

The content of the imperial decree of the award in this chapter is written by the author himself or cobbled together from the Internet. Because the content is too complicated, it will not be listed one by one.