"them?"

"who are they?"

Ganqing Palace.

The bitter north wind kept knocking on the rich door, and the dim white light gradually disappeared in the black clouds.

Zhu Youxiao looked at the lit candlelight and asked Wei Zhongxian coldly.

Wei Zhongxian crawled on the ground, his face flushed, and he replied tremblingly: "I don't know, what is the original words Mo Yu, who was placed next to Fang Shihong in the East Factory, said!"

Zhu Youxiao looked at Wei Zhongxian wearing a big red robe on the ground and said, "You did a good job in this matter. It is great to be able to report it to me in time. They are threatening Fang Congzhe on the surface, actually threatening me! Next, we must let the East Factory make every effort to ensure the safety of Fang Congzhe and the people related to him, and find out who kidnapped Fang Shihong as soon as possible! In addition, immediately tell the people placed beside Fang Congzhe and do their best to prevent Fang Congzhe from committing suicide!"

"I obey the order!"

Wei Zhongxian replied.

Next, Zhu Youxiao asked Wei Zhongxian to retreat.

But Zhu Youxiao himself had no intention of continuing to read the memorial. He remained aside and was thinking about countermeasures.

Zhu Youxiao knew that the Donglin Party was not strictly considered a party like later generations, but just a group of civil servants with common interests and political demands.

After the emperor's severe crackdown on the civil servants of the Donglin Party, it will definitely cause a significant reduction in the power of the Donglin Party, and many civil servants will automatically lose their Donglin color.

But Zhu Youxiao also knew that this did not mean that many civil officials in the civil servant group were willing to be driven by the emperor because of this, nor did it mean that all civil officials dared not be close to the civil servants who taught at Donglin Academy, namely the civil servants of the Donglin Party.

Because in Zhu Youxiao's view, civil servants and gentry who control most of the wealth in society must pursue political power without being willing to be controlled by the emperor.

Zhu Youxiao knew that this could not be solved by his emperor being stronger.

Although he killed a group of civil servants, it did not stop some powerful and powerful gentry behind some civil servants from wanting to fight against the essence of the emperor's manipulation.

Now that Fang Congzhe's son Fang Shihong is kidnapped, Fang Congzhe is threatened, it is obviously the reaction of these civil servants and the powerful and powerful gentry behind them to the reaction of the emperor Zhu Youxiao after killing a large number of civil servants this time.

After all, if you attack the emperor Zhu Youxiao directly, the possibility of success is too low, and the cost will be very high after failure. Moreover, because the emperor is both the person they want to fight against and the guarantee of their privileges, they can only settle for the second best to start with the civil servant Fang Congzhe who listens too much to the emperor.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao said that these civil servants were actually threatening him.

Zhu Youxiao had to admit that the reason why the prime ministers in the late Ming Dynasty were more useless than the other was that they could not blame the prime minister himself. It was the nature of this era that most powerful and noble gentry did not like strong prime ministers, just as they did not like strong emperors.

After all, these civil servants prefer to manipulate the emperor or the prime minister to become their agents.

"Emperor, Yuan Fu asked to see you now. Do you think it's clear or not?"

At this time, Liu Ruoyu walked in quickly and asked Zhu Youxiao for instructions.

Zhu Youxiao raised his deep black pool eyes, nodded, and clenched his fists.

Not long after, Fang Congzhe walked in, holding the memoir in both hands, breathing slightly rapid. As soon as he arrived in front of Zhu Youxiao, he crawled on the ground. He fell to the ground because he was too anxious to kneel down, but he said impatiently: "I have seen Your Majesty!"

Zhu Youxiao glanced at him with a squinted look: "I know you are coming, I'll give you a seat!"

Liu Ruoyu hurriedly helped Fang Congzhe up and helped him sit on the soft stool beside him.

Fang Congzhe sat down with his body and carefully handed out the memorial: "I am here to hand over the resignation of the official position, please ask Your Majesty to let me go back to my hometown."

Speaking of this, Fang Congzhe choked up his voice, shivered, and then knelt on the ground again, his forehead pressing against the cold floor tiles.

Zhu Youxiao did not answer Fang Congzhe clearly, and only said, "I know they don't want an obedient person around me. Even if they know that Fang Congzhe left the court, I will not use them, but they will still get rid of you Fang Congzhe, because only in this way can they force all the people around me to stand on the side of them. Only in this way can I force my will to go out of the Forbidden City if I don't have their consent!"

Zhu Youxiao said again, "They want to turn me into a canary and raise it in the cage of the Forbidden City, and use my name to satisfy their selfish desires, but they also put the pot of the world in the future on me!"

Fang Congzhe didn't dare to answer when he heard this. After all, he admitted that this was the fact, but he himself was also a civil servant, so it was difficult to directly admit that we just wanted to put the emperor under house arrest in the Forbidden City and just follow our mercy.

Zhu Youxiao suddenly yelled at Fang Congzhe: "But I don't want to be merciless!"

When Zhu Youxiao yelled, Fang Congzhe was so scared that he trembled and his spine became cold.

Zhu Youxiao waved his sleeves directly: "Because your insatiable greed has not many days of peace and peace! You Fang Congzhe is from Daxing, the capital, you should know that how many refugees outside the city are starving to death, this is still at the feet of the emperor, and the outside will only be more miserable than this! And how many restless forces in the border outside the pass are eyeing each other, and they have been in the cabinet for so many years, and they know better than me! But then you can replace my Ming robe and serve the new dynasty again, and where is my Ming dynasty?"

Fang Congzhe naturally wanted to Zhu Youxiao and cried out in a flash: "Your Majesty, they kidnapped my son and asked me to commit suicide. If you don't let me resign, I will have to commit suicide! Please ask Your Majesty to allow me to resign and give me a chance to survive, wuwu!"

Even ants have a love of secret life.

As a human being, Fang Congzhe naturally didn't want to die just like this. Zhu Youxiao naturally understood this and knew that Fang Congzhe wanted to let him go and allow him to resign so that he would not have to commit suicide to leave the power center of the empire.

"I know that your request is not excessive and reasonable. I am indeed not a kind person, but I cannot agree to you!"

Zhu Youxiao replied directly, gritted his teeth and said, "I must do this! I must be cruel to everyone. Not only them, but you, Fang Congzhe, and even myself, must be cruel! There is no way, since you, Fang Congzhe, have become my chief assistant, you will either die in their hands or in my hands!"

Zhu Youxiao said and stared at Fang Congzhe: "I want to get out of here without any hesitation?"

Then, Zhu Youxiao sneered: "Impossible!"

Fang Congzhe cried even more excitedly: "Your Majesty! I beg you!"

Fang Congzhe knocked his head pounding.

"No need to knock it anymore, it's useless!"

Zhu Youxiao shouted loudly and said, "I am not afraid! What are you afraid of? Do you really think they can cover the sky with one hand? In fact, they are the most cowardly people, do you know! Just like you, Fang Congzhe, are so cowardly now! Don't you see that they are extremely arrogant behind their backs behind their backs, but they are all a group of guys who are strong outside and do things. They only dare to do something shameful. If you have the ability, they will directly rebel. Do you believe that I will seize the opportunity to kill the nine tribes next time, and they still dare not make my rebellion explicitly? Do you know why? Is it because I am still the master of this world!"

Zhu Youxiao said that, squatted in front of Fang Congzhe and patted Fang Congzhe on the shoulder: "Continue to be my chief minister, my dear! As long as you continue to be loyal to me, I will only give you the Fang family forever in the future, and will not make your Fang family life difficult to protect! Otherwise, although I cannot control them now, it is still easy for me to destroy your Fang family, and it is easier than them!"
Chapter completed!