Seeing Yu Jideng and Shen Li being rebuked by Shen Yicheng, Xu Zuo and Wen Chun could not help but shake their heads.
How could he be an assistant minister of the Cabinet and the Minister of the Board of Rites with his ability to talk big? How embarrassing.
With this level of skill, they would not survive more than three days in the Imperial Censorate. The mad dogs in the Imperial Censorate worked hard every day to scold their basic skills from the moral high ground. After a few years of hard work, they directly achieved an invincible golden body.
If these mad dogs were placed in the market outside, they would be able to scold those peddlers until they were foaming at the mouth.
As the strongest team in the Verbal Cannon Heavenly Team, verbal cannons were a fundamental skill!
As the leaders of the mad dogs in the Imperial Censorate, Xu Zuo and Wen Chun were naturally the best at verbal cannons. Moreover, there were still 30 elite verbal cannons behind them. If they took turns, they could exhaust Shen Yicheng to death.
Sometimes, normal officials really couldn't tell the difference between these imperial censors and shrews in the marketplace.
One of them wore official robes, while the other wore ordinary clothes.
Xu Zuo took the stage first.
"Vice Minister, I heard that His Majesty asked the Cabinet to confer Xiao Zhennan the title of Duke Qin. You agreed, and the Cabinet also agreed, right?"
Shen Yicheng raised his head and looked at Xu Zuo, then nodded.
"Yes."
Xu Zuo was a little surprised and asked, "You agreed just like that? You agreed to such an unreasonable and excessive request? As the vice minister in charge of the affairs of the cabinet, you agreed just like that? "
"Yes."
Shen Yicheng still replied with two words.
Xu Zuo was even more surprised. He looked at Wen Chun with some surprise. Wen Chun clearly did not expect Shen Yicheng to be so straightforward. The excuse he had prepared was immediately rendered useless.
Xu Zuo's ability to react on the spot was quite good.
"As the second-in-command, you have the right to reject such an unreasonable decree. Why didn't you?"
Shen Yicheng was confused.
"Why should I reject it? What did it mean to be unreasonable? I don't understand. "
"You …"
Xu Zuo looked at the confused expression on Shen Yicheng's face. He opened his mouth but could not say anything for a while. Wen Chun saw that the situation was not good and immediately stepped forward to take over the conversation. "Vice Premier, are you saying that this edict is reasonable?"
Shen Yicheng frowned and thought for a moment.
"Isn't it?"
"Ah?"
Wen Chun looked at Shen Yicheng in surprise: "Xiao Zhennan's contribution is great, and it doesn't matter if he is conferred the title of Duke, but how can he be conferred the title of Qin? Qin was the former title of Emperor Taizong of Tang! Since Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, in all the dynasties, except for the Meng Yuan Empire, no one has given the title of Qin to an outsider! "
Shen Yicheng looked even more surprised.
"Is that so? Why didn't I know about it? "
Wen Chun and Xu Zuo began to suspect that Shen Yicheng was playing dumb.
"Second Chief, are you pretending to be stupid? Who in the imperial court doesn't know about this?! "
Wen Chun asked loudly.
"This … this old man really didn't know! This … Is it written in the Law of Daming? "
Shen Yicheng looked very anxious.
Wen Chun and Xu Zuo looked at each other. Shen Li and Yu Jideng looked at each other.
This …
"The Law of Daming is a law, how can it write such a thing?"
Xu Zuo said angrily.
"Then … Yu Bu Tang, is there an explicit rule in the imperial court that the title of Qin is not conferred to an outsider?"
Shen Yicheng asked again.
Yu Jideng blinked and looked at the strange eyes cast by the other three people. He was slightly flustered. After coughing a few times, he shook his head: "This kind of thing is customary, how can there be an explicit rule? Everyone in the world thinks so, so it is done. Why is there a need for an explicit rule? "
Shen Yicheng nodded and said, "Oh."
"This is not good. There are not many people in the world who understand the big principles. Mortals are always prone to make mistakes. If you don't explain it clearly and there is no explicit rule, they will dare to take advantage of the loophole. This loophole will make you speechless and unable to rely on it. What should we do? Yu Bu Tang, what do you think? "
Yu Jideng felt that what Shen Yicheng said was very reasonable, and he was speechless.
"This is true … This … What does this have to do with this?! Let's talk about the matter as it is! We are talking about the matter of Xiao Zhen being conferred the title of Duke Qin in the South Jin Kingdom! What does it have to do with the law and etiquette?! "
Yu Jideng suddenly realized that he had been led into a trap, and the other three people were looking at him with very unfriendly eyes.
"How can it not have anything to do with it? If there is no explicit rule in the Daming, how can we go against His Majesty? Could it be that this was the so-called convention? Without it in black and white, His Majesty will not admit it! What should I do? "
Xu Zuo suddenly felt angry. "Vice Chief, don't talk about it! If you don't agree with this, it will absolutely not pass. Only if you agree can it be passed! You're just flattering me! Welcome the Emperor's will! "
Xu Zuo couldn't find a suitable entry point, so he could only force it and put Shen Yicheng on the line.
"Yes! Flattery! Welcome the Emperor's will! Vice Chief! How can you do such a thing?! "
Yu Jideng said hurriedly.
Shen Yicheng looked frightened.
"Oh my! Everyone, please don't speak carelessly! This old man … This old man really has no other way, right? Without the law as a basis, how can I go against His Majesty? Xiao Zhennan's credit is indeed great, and he is indeed born in Qin.
The Yan 'an Guards have been in Qin since ancient times. His Majesty gave Xiao Zhennan the title of Qin on the grounds that he was born in Qin. This is sympathy and comfort for the meritorious minister. This is His Majesty's grace. What His Majesty wants to do is done by a minister. How can it be called flattery? "
Xu Zuo opened his mouth but didn't say anything.
Was he supposed to say in public that the Emperor's order was bullshit and that their order was the truth?
He could only criticize the Emperor's action from a moral point of view, and then use the moral concept of moral integrity to prove that Shen Yicheng was a man without moral integrity, so as to defeat Shen Yicheng ideologically. To achieve this goal, he had to first prove that the Emperor's edict was unreasonable and wrong.
Was it really wrong?
Clearly, this answer was very ambiguous, perhaps even between the two. There were many opinions on whether or not this answer was wrong, and it was very inappropriate to kill him with a single blow. This was not a conferment of a king, and of course a king could not be conferred to an outsider, but a duke could be conferred.
Normally, it was not too much to be conferred a Duke after such a great contribution. So the core of the problem was whether the title of "Qin" was overstepping the boundaries.
Of course, it was impossible to be conferred the title of King of Qin, which was overstepping the boundaries for a minister with a foreign surname. It was hard to say whether the title of Duke of Qin was overstepping the boundaries. If you insisted that Qin was the title of King of Qin, how to explain the title of King of Qin, which had been conferred by Daming?
King of Qin would think that the ministers were targeting him.
Because the problem was not the Duke or the King, but "Qin".
"Qin is the title of King of Qin, how can it be given to a minister with a foreign surname?"
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