Chapter 461 What are your qualifications?
Ji Mingzhu had just agreed to meet the prime minister and others when Prime Minister Lin and Prime Minister Peng entered the side hall with the cabinet and Kong Shanren, who had come to Beijing to report on his work.
As they entered, all the palace maids and eunuchs serving in the hall retreated, including Zhu Zhengchun, who was still the chief steward, and Xiao Dongzi, who had been serving Xixi.
Chunque looked around and hesitated for a while whether to leave. After hesitating for a while, she finally decided to stay.
She couldn't leave. If she left, when she returned to Haizhou, her master would not know anything about her. Wouldn't it be a waste of her trip?
So Chunque not only did not leave, she was even very tactful and moved a chair for her young master.
The people in the side hall were all adults, so it was no problem for them to stand there for as long as they wanted, but her young master was young and she couldn't stay with them like this.
As a result, when he moved his chair over and was about to ask Xixi to sit down, he saw Ji Sheng calmly pull the chair to the opposite side of Ji Mingzhu, and then hold Xixi in his arms.
He looked at Lin Xiang and the others leisurely, stretched out his hand and said, "Okay, everyone, start now."
After Ji Sheng finished speaking, Xixi followed suit and also stretched out her little hand and said to Lin Xiang and others: "Let's start."
Minister Lin and Minister Peng: "..."
When they come here to perform!
While Minister Lin and Minister Peng were arguing over their affairs, Ji Mingzhu's eyes were always on Kong Shanren.
Kong Shanren faced Ji Mingzhu's gaze and bowed slightly to her.
A sarcastic smile appeared on Ji Mingzhu's face.
As expected, once people enter the big melting pot of officialdom, loyalty and the like are bullshit.
Minister Lin looked at Ji Mingzhu, who was no longer as glorious as before, and took out the evidence he had obtained today that could overturn the Zhou family's treason case. He said to Ji Mingzhu, "Your Highness, have you seen these letters?"
Ji Mingzhu looked at the envelope with her name on it, her lips curled coldly, "So what if I've seen it, so what if I haven't."
"Do you really believe that I would take a butcher knife and attack my own family?"
Minister Peng didn't have the same good attitude as Minister Lin. He said directly: "Women are the most vicious. Who..."
"You're not right!"
Before Peng Xiang began his impassioned accusation, he was interrupted by an unexpected person.
Xixi looked at Peng Xiang with dissatisfaction, "The most vicious woman has a wrong heart."
Prime Minister Peng looked at the angry Xixi, and after thinking about it carefully, he realized that the little emperor was also a woman, so what he said was indeed inappropriate.
"My words were inappropriate, Your Majesty, please forgive me."
Xixi nodded her little head not very happily. She was young now and could only understand.
Seeing that Xixi didn't insist, Prime Minister Peng turned to Ji Mingzhu and continued, "People's hearts are unpredictable. Who knows what the princess is thinking?"
"Perhaps the princess had long since grown tired of Zhou Cungao, so she deliberately set a trap to trap him, leaving him waiting in vain for help and ultimately dying in battle..."
"Fart, cough, cough!"
Ji Mingzhu yelled and started coughing violently. When Ji Mingzhu spat out a mouthful of blood, Peng Xiang frowned and stepped back, while Lin Xiang and Kong Shanren stepped forward subconsciously out of worry.
Nanny Wang hurriedly came to Ji Mingzhu with a handkerchief and gently patted her back.
As she wiped the blood from Ji Mingzhu's lips with red eyes, she shouted at Peng Xiang: "Are you taking advantage of my prince's weakness and want to pin all these false accusations on him?"
"You said those letters were real, so are they true? I also said that these letters were fabricated by you to deliberately slander our prince!"
"Everyone knows that your Highness and General Zhou share a deep bond. Everyone knows that when the general was isolated and helpless in the northern border, your Highness went everywhere to collect food and pave the way for him. Everyone knows that the Zhou family was executed and exiled, and your Highness could have rested easy with his status, but he still disbanded the princess's residence in order to be exiled with the Zhou family."
"Now you want to overturn the Zhou family's verdict and convict our prince based on a few small letters. I tell you, that's impossible!"
Minister Lin looked at the angry Nanny Wang and explained, "We are not accusing the eldest princess of anything. We just want to ask her some questions based on the facts."
"It's well known that the Princess raised food and fodder for the Zhou army in the capital, but..." Prime Minister Lin opened the letter and said to Ji Mingzhu, "The shipment of that life-saving food and fodder to the northern border was delayed for three days."
"Your Highness, do you know how many people will die in three days?"
Ji Mingzhu leaned against Nanny Wang, looked at Prime Minister Lin with a cold gaze and said, "Back then, the Northern Territory asked you for food and fodder time and again, but you kept putting it off."
"Now you're blaming me, the one who collected food for the North. You really have the nerve to do that."
Ji Mingzhu's sarcastic voice was like a slap in the face of everyone.
What qualifications do they have to point fingers at me when they have done nothing?
Lin Xiang was silent for a moment and said, "The national treasury was empty at that time, and we..."
"Do you find it interesting to say this to me? Don't you know why it's so empty?"
Nanny Wang gently stroked Ji Mingzhu's back. After she calmed down, she took the soft pillow next to her and let Ji Mingzhu lean on her more comfortably.
"The Zhou family's current situation is inextricably linked to you."
She did have selfish motives at the time. In order to force Zhou Cungao to see the true face of the imperial court, she deliberately delayed the transportation of grain and grass to the northern border.
But is this her fault?
If it weren't for her, the Northern Territory and Zhou's army would never have been able to wait for the food and grass; if Zhou Cungao had compromised with her, this batch of food and grass would not have been delayed at all!
So, she was right.
The fault lies with the imperial court and the ministers who indulged in pleasure and factional struggles; the fault lies with Zhou Cungao. If he had been willing to support himself, he would not have died on the battlefield.
Originally, they didn't have to go through all these hardships. They could only be blamed for being ignorant. She was not wrong!
"Master Kong." Lin Xiang called out Kong Shanren helplessly.
Kong Shanren took a step forward and bowed deeply to Ji Mingzhu. Then he stood up and said respectfully, "The two Prime Ministers came here just to ask Your Highness to bear witness. We have no intention of raising an army to accuse you of anything."
"Kong Da Nao, are you blind? Couldn't you see when they were pouring dirty water on my head?"
Ji Mingzhu dared to say that as long as she softened her attitude a little, this basin of dirty water would definitely be poured on her head without a drop of spillage.
There is no one more suitable and dramatic mastermind behind the murder of the Zhou family than Ji Mingzhu.
As long as the news comes out that Ji Mingzhu is the mastermind behind the scenes, it is estimated that the entire Great Zhou will focus its attention on her.
At that time, the imperial court could naturally help the Zhou family overturn the verdict, hand over the northern border, and take back her remaining power and return it to the royal family.
However, she will not be their stepping stone.
She, Ji Mingzhu, will not be anyone's stepping stone.
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