Why did the emperor rebel?

Chapter 173 The Dilemma of Honor and Qi

Jingyang Palace.

When Zhu Qiyu arrived, Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Hang were having dinner with Empress Dowager Wu, along with their eldest brother and second sister.

The eldest brother is Zhu Qiyu's eldest son, born of the Hang family. His name is Zhu Jianji. He is a few months younger than Zhu Jianshen. He has just learned to speak, but his words are still unclear.

The second sister is Zhu Qiyu's legitimate daughter, born of the Wang family, named Gu'an, she is a few months younger than Zhu Jianji, and she can't even speak now.

The brother and sister had just had their fill, and were being looked after by the nanny, playing on the couch.

Seeing Zhu Qiyu stepping in, he shouted excitedly in the direction of his father.

"The emperor is here, but it's unfortunate that you came. Ai's family just had a meal, otherwise you can still have a meal."

Empress Dowager Wu was obviously very happy, and she was still in the mood to joke.

Zhu Qiyu glanced at him, and it was indeed a coincidence that he came, and the palace people started to clean up the leftovers.

Avoiding the greetings of a thousand palace people and the Hang family, Zhu Qiyu sat down on the pier, and also said with a smile.

"The mother concubine is scolding her son. It's my son's fault for not being diligent enough these days."

Mrs. Wu stretched her waist, sat down on the couch, picked up her second sister who could only say "Yah Ya", snorted softly, and said.

"Ai's family is accompanied by grandchildren, so you can help you with the government."

The whole family had a conversation together. Ji Geer can stand up now, but he still likes to crawl around.

There were two little dolls, and the lively and bustling interior of the warm pavilion made Zhu Qiyu's gloomy mood dissipate a lot.

But after all, the two children were still young, and they became tired after playing for a while, so they were taken down by their mothers to rest.

At this time, Mrs. Wu also restrained her smile and asked.

"But what's bothering you?"

Without much hesitation, Zhu Qiyu told Wu Shi about the news brought by Lu Zhong.

After thinking about it, he simply told the matter about Ren Li.

After listening, Wu's face remained calm, but his brows were also slightly frowned, and said.

"What you said about Uncle Ning Yuan is indeed worthy of attention. After all, he has made great achievements in this battle. After returning to Beijing, if he is not rewarded and reused, it may cause the dissatisfaction of his relatives."

"However, you don't have to worry too much. Even if he is a member of the Sun family, he can't make trouble now. At most, he can use it for self-protection. It is impossible for him to force the palace to rebel. That's great. You let him go to the five-army governor's mansion. , just don’t let him command the army.”

In the capital, there are only a few important places.

Jingying, Jingwei Commander Division, Jinyiwei, Dongchang, and Wucheng Bingma Division, these are basically the military forces that can be mobilized by the capital.

Although the Dudufu of the Five Armies is the highest institution of military generals, it does not have the right to deploy troops, only the right to command troops.

So in fact, the problem of Ren Li is not difficult to solve. As Wu said, as long as he is not allowed to command soldiers, everything is easy to talk about.

however……

Zhu Qiyu sighed and said.

"It's easy to talk about a gift, even if you have merit, it's easy to arrange, but the matter of the gift makes my son feel a little bit alert."

"The influence of the Xun Qi is deeply rooted. Ren Li is considered to be someone who has very little relationship with the Xun Qi in the capital, but he is still so suspicious."

"If he is really a member of the Sun family, then it is really hard to know how many other powerful relatives in Beijing have ulterior motives."

Zhu Qiyu has always felt very headache about Xun Qi.

So far, honored relatives have been the main source of military officials, which is related to the Ming Dynasty's military household system.

Hereditary honors and relatives are actually a high-level military household system.

If you want to move, it will involve too much.

It's not that he didn't think about conferring some new relatives during this war.

But the problem is that Daming's title is still very precious, except for the special case of the Jingnan Battle.

Leading the army to a big victory and killing more than ten thousand enemies is just like an earl.

If you want to be named a Marquis, I'm afraid you have to capture Yexian or Tuotuobuhua alive to barely qualify.

In this battle, there were a few who were worthy of being knighted, but they were only a handful.

People like Yang Hong, Guo Deng, and Tao Jin.

But the problem is, people like Yang Hong and Guo Deng are all generals guarding the border. After being knighted, it is impossible to withdraw them.

The rest who can be credited are basically generals who are not low in status.

Like Tao Jin, although he does not have a title, he still inherits his father's position, and is closely related to the honor group and cannot be separated.

You must know that the entanglement of relatives does not only refer to senior relatives with titles.

Down to the middle and low-level relatives of the commanding colleagues, commanding affairs, and thousands of households, it is also an extremely huge network of relationships.

Moreover, this kind of intertwined relationship is either serving under the account of the master general, a life-and-death friendship, or an in-law relationship in which they marry each other.

This is much stronger than the so-called fellows from the same hometown as the civil servants.

Take Tao Jin as an example, although he is only the acquaintance of the commander-in-chief of the commander-in-chief of the Five Armies, he inherited his father's position as the commander of the Yangzhou Guard.

His wife is the concubine of Bo Liangyao in Baoding.

After being transferred to the capital, his son Tao Fu took the granddaughter of Leping Township Bo Chen Huai.

Tao Jin's concubine daughter was married to the son of Ge Yuan, the commander of the capital.

Under such circumstances, even if he gave Tao Jin the title, would that guarantee his loyalty?I'm afraid not necessarily!
Relying on these backgrounds, coupled with his own military achievements, he will naturally be bound by these backgrounds.

Those who really have no background, who can be single-handedly promoted by him, basically do not exist.

Because such a person, in tens of thousands of battles, can kill a few thieves at most, unless he is lucky and shoots some important person, otherwise, he also needs to be promoted step by step.

But in this way, they will inevitably integrate into these relationship networks on the way up.

This point, compared with Wen Chen, is simply incomparable.

Civil servants are all taken from Jinshi, and most of them have nothing to do with officialdom before they are elected.

Even if there are elders in the family who are officials, as long as they are not powerful officials like Yan Song, otherwise when they survive to the point where they can influence the court, the elders will basically retire.

Their relationship network is more of the same hometown and the same family, but this kind of relationship is obviously simpler and more unstable than that of relatives.

Now that something like Ren Li has happened, Zhu Qiyu is really uncertain how to treat these sons and relatives.

If you want to use them, you don't know when you will be rebellious, but if you don't use them, you must use civil servants, which will inevitably lead to an imbalance between civil and military.

After hearing Zhu Qiyu's words, Wu Shi also fell silent, and after a long while, she opened her mouth to speak.

"The Ai family can't give you much help with the affairs of the outer dynasty, but with so many years of experience in the harem, the Ai family can tell you."

"A person's position is not necessarily affected by the forces behind him. Everyone has a weakness. The key is whether you can really pinch this weakness."

Weakness?

Zhu Qiyu frowned and did not speak.

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