"But he did commit a great crime!"

Zhu Youxiao glared at Fang Congzhe.

Fang Congzhe lowered his head first, and he guessed that the emperor would answer like this.

And next.

Fang Congzhe only continued: "Your Majesty, please forgive me for saying that it is not important whether he has committed a great crime! Because he has a great reputation, even if he really committed the crime of treason, the entire Shilin would not be willing to believe it! Because if he believes it, he will lose the image of the entire Shilin. After all, people like Li Sancai, who are praised by most gentry, represent the image of the entire Shilin. He is different from people like Zhou Yanru. Many people insist on the principle that how could a famous scholar like Li Sancai behave in a bad way? Therefore, the entire Shilin is not unclear about Li Sancai's crimes, even more than Your Majesty!

But this time, you also saw that they would not admit the Shilin who is related to Li Sancai, nor would they believe it. Even if the evidence is conclusive, many of them are not really stupid, but they really don’t want to believe it! This is why, except for the silent officials in the court, almost the entire Shilin is resisting you this time!"

"For those loyal and straight-minded ministers like Huang Kezhang, they dare not betray the emperor and the subordinates dare not go against others' hearts, so they can only commit suicide!"

After Fang Congzhe said this, he looked up at Zhu Youxiao with emotion.

"It seems that there are still few civil officials like Zhang Juzheng!"

Zhu Youxiao sighed.

Fang Congzhe said in his heart: "No one wants to be whipped from the body after death or even implicated his family. If you hadn't been forcibly tied to a rope, you would have retired and returned home long ago and enjoyed your old age."

Zhu Youxiao suddenly glanced at Fang Congzhe at this time: "I won't compromise!"

Fang Congzhe did not show any disappointment when he heard Zhu Youxiao say this, as if he had guessed that the emperor would answer this way. Instead, he glanced at Zhu Youxiao without any wits.

But then, he pretended to be out of control and asked, "Does Your Majesty really force all the loyal and loners of my Ming Dynasty to death?"

"If they really want to make such a choice, it's not just me who will kill them!"

"Are the entire Shilin you just said to force them to death? Why do you let me compromise and not let them compromise? How do I compromise? Do I want to hide in the deep palace like a temple and have been lazy in the palace for decades? Or do you still have to obey your words and compromising while watching the Chaogang become more and more chaotic?"

Zhu Youxiao gritted his teeth and started asking.

Fang Congzhe replied calmly: "But Your Majesty is the lord of the world. Whether it is the revival of the Ming Dynasty or the decline in the future, your Majesty must complete it. No matter what the results are, there will be public opinions in the future. Your Majesty only needs to do his best!"

"Then you are still the Yuanfu of the Ming Dynasty! Your responsibility is not to be mixed with it, but to come up with solutions. I don't care about so many things now. You can only adapt to me as a king, not to me. You Fang Congzhe must give a solution that can maintain the majesty of the court; Li Sancai must kill! Those scholars who make a big fuss in the Jinyiwei must also kill! If you civil officials cannot do it, then I will abandon your civil officials and let internal officials kill them directly. Whether it is the dictatorship of eunuchs or the dictatorship of martial arts in the future, I would rather be as vigorous as Emperor Yang of Sui than to be a benevolent king and be a de facto puppet!"

Zhu Youxiao became more and more excited as he spoke.

Fang Congzhe became more calm and calm as he went back, and suddenly said calmly and sternly: "Your Majesty! Since this is the case, then I suggest using villains. Li Sancai is a hypocrite, and he is naturally good at disguising himself with the power to cover up himself. It is difficult for ministers who are loyal to the country to deal with such people at all costs. If you want to deal with such people, you can only use real villains, because villains do not care about the country and the safety of Your Majesty, but villains are likely to harm the country. Your Majesty, do you really decide to use villains to maintain authority!"

After hearing Fang Congzhe say this, Zhu Youxiao glanced at Fang Congzhe and said to himself: "Old fox, since you have already had a solution, why should you say these depressed words in tears at the beginning? You have to compromise with me? I can see that you are testing me. Fortunately, I was not fooled by you by Huang Kezhang's death and would be discouraged and lose my fighting spirit!"

"Well, there are few true gentlemen and few true villains. Most of them are hypocrites. It's nothing to use a few true villains. As long as the Ming Dynasty can be strong."

Zhu Youxiao said in his heart: "As long as you can realize your ideal, you can even be friends with the devil!"

"I suggest that Gu Bingqian, the Right Minister of Rites, be the Minister of Justice. This person has always liked flattery and favored him. He is not ashamed of evil forces. He is also not ashamed of being a scholar. Therefore, he has not been allowed to be the Minister of the Six Ministry of Justice. However, I believe that if this person is the Minister of Justice, he will not dare to commit suicide, because as far as I know, this person even cherishes his clothes and robes. It can be seen that he has a greedy love for life. He has been flattering me several times, but I have not paid much attention to it."

Fang Congzhe answered without hesitation, as if he had already thought of the ideal candidate for the Minister of Justice.

"Accurate! Immediately plan to order Gu Bingqian to be the Minister of Justice!"

Zhu You proofreaded Gu Bingqian naturally heard about it.

Because he knew that Gu Bingqian was a famous eunuch party leader in history. As Fang Congzhe said, his reputation among the literati and official group was indeed not good.

...

"I obey the order!"

Fang Congzhe replied.

Next, Fang Congzhe returned to the cabinet, and took advantage of the time when other cabinet ministers did not come to serve, he immediately drafted a special order for Gu Bingqian to be the Minister of Justice to the eunuch in the Wenshu room and then handed it to the Silijian to the Wenshu room for approval.

Because it was recommended by the chief assistant Fang Congzhe and the agreement of Emperor Zhu Youxiao, Gu Bingqian's imperial edict was issued very quickly.

Neither the Cabinet nor the Secretariat Commission delayed the time.

But Fang Congzhe sighed after watching the celebrating official leave the palace with the imperial edict appointed Gu Bingqian as the Minister of Justice, and then returned home.

However, what Fang Congzhe did not expect was that when he returned to his home, he saw Gu Bingqian bowing farewell to his son in the main hall of his home. The left Censor Feng Quan also came with Gu Bingqian.

Fang Congzhehan looked down, and he could have a premonition that his son seemed to be even more restless after being broken, as if he was forming a clique.

"The master is back!"

At this time, the butler of Fang's mansion shouted.

Gu Bingqian and Feng Quan hurriedly greeted Fang Congzhe with a flattering smile, and bowed to him: "Yuan Fu!"

Fang Congzhe had no good expression because he really didn't like Gu Bingqian and Feng Quan's character, especially when he saw these two people actually follow his son's path.

When he thought of recommending Gu Bingqian as the Minister of Justice, he felt even more disgusting.

But as a mature politician, Fang Congzhe did not express his emotions directly, and he still nodded lightly: "What happened to you who are not in the department and the hospital suddenly visit the humble house?"

"We came here by Brother Fang Shi. I thought that Yuanfu's house was no better than other places, so I didn't dare to neglect it. I had to ask for leave to come here."

Gu Bingqian replied with a smile.

Feng Quan also nodded from the side and said yes. Seeing Fang Congzhe's serious look, he felt a little nervous.

Fang Congzhe didn't say anything else, but went back to the main hall.

Gu Bingqian and Feng Quan could also see that Fang Congzhe didn't like him, so he left here in disappointment.

As soon as the two of them left, Fang Congzhe asked his son Fang Shihonglai: "When did you interact with them?"
Chapter completed!