Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 235 Empress Sun and King Hesitation

Zhu Qiyu was not playing tricks before ascending the throne. He had to be promoted to be King of Qi before he would ascend the throne. This is what angered King Xiang the most:

My son-in-law only got the ordinary title of King Xiang. You, a son of a concubine born to a lowly servant, came from such a humble background that you are not even worthy of a nanny. How dare you be the King of Qi.It's really hard to find such a thick-skinned person in this world.

Empress Dowager Sun didn't care much about this: "The king of Qi is the king of Qi, Zhu Qiyu is also petty in this regard, and he insists on being the king of Qi just to make it sound better.

After all, he was born as a bastard, so his vision is a little narrower.Moreover, he has never lived in the imperial palace since he was born, he is used to being wild outside, and he has no affection for the Forbidden City.

Since he became the emperor, he refused to move into the palace, and this was the most troublesome point. "

King Xiang understood the meaning of Queen Mother Sun's words, if Zhu Qiyu did not enter the palace, it would be very difficult for him to do anything, and there would be no place to use the sterilization medicine.

Moreover, King Xiang had already heard that Zhu Qiyu had changed his concubine and kicked out the old man from Prince Yi's mansion.Now, all the people that Empress Dowager Sun and Empress Qian had worked so hard to put beside Zhu Qiyu were abolished.

Even the original Concubine Wang, Wang, was blocked there by the emperor, absolutely unwilling to let her be the empress.

King Xiang asked curiously: "Is it true that Princess Yan can't be allowed to take the throne? We can use etiquette to forcibly promote Wang to the position of queen. Don't the ministers even stand up to defend the etiquette?"

Empress Dowager Sun smiled bitterly and said: "Yes, Wang Ao, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, just because he said that Wang should be made queen, didn't he just get kicked by the emperor to be the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi for military affairs?

Don't make unnecessary attempts anymore, you don't know the current emperor, he is not someone who can be manipulated by others.

Feeling the conscience, the emperor is not bad, but he hates the Wang family so much, and he didn't do anything.If you continue to push him, you will really piss him off. Killing Mrs. Wang is just a matter of waving your hands.

King Xiang should quickly think of an idea for me and find some feasible solutions. "

King Xiang immediately asked after hearing the words: "I don't know the current situation in Beijing. Now that Oirat has been repulsed and the crisis in the capital has been lifted, please ask the emperor to abdicate and make the prince the emperor. Will the ministers support it?"

Empress Dowager Sun glared at King Xiang. This guy was either pretending to be stupid, or he was taking the opportunity to express his loyalty.As for the abdication of the emperor and the ascension of the crown prince, not to mention the impossibility of the ministers agreeing, even the Empress Dowager Sun would find it funny to hear it.

When Daming was at stake, Zhu Qiyu was asked to take the blame.Now, under Zhu Qiyu's wise leadership, it was so easy to hit Wala hard, and the crisis was resolved, and he was about to be kicked away immediately, which was beyond the scope of general wickedness.

Empress Dowager Sun replied helplessly: "The army in the capital is now all in the hands of the emperor. I am sorry for Qi Zhen and failed to teach him well.

He first sent the [-] elite Beijing troops loyal to him to the south to suppress the rebellion, and then took the rest of the army to Tumubao.

In the end, things developed like this. The nobles who were loyal to the Supreme Emperor either died in the Tumu Fortress, or they led the army outside like Uncle Jingyuan, Marquis Ningyang, and Marquis Anyuan.

The emperor refused to issue an edict ordering Marquis Anyuan and others to return to the capital, and then the situation was completely stuck, turning into an unsolvable deadlock.

The emperor ordered the recall, but the emperor refused; if Marquis Anyuan and others dared to return to the capital without authorization, it would be treason, and the emperor could justifiably make them disappear from this world immediately. "

Empress Dowager Sun discussed with King Xiang for a while, but they couldn't discuss why.Except for sending someone to assassinate the emperor, I have thought of all the other ways I can think of:

Sterilization pills won't work!The emperor only ate things made by his favorite concubine himself, and didn't even look at other things.

It won't work to buy someone who serves the emperor personally!Fifteen orphans who served the emperor personally, bought their families?They have no family.Buy them themselves?Each of them was treated at least twice better than the queen, and the one hundred and eighty thousand silver was not taken seriously at all.

The mutiny forced the emperor to step down, it didn't work!The capital is now full of the emperor's army.

Using public opinion to force the emperor to abdicate to the crown prince will not work!Now the emperor's prestige is rising steadily. If you want to use the emperor like a monkey, come and go as soon as you call, the civil and military officials will not agree, and the people of the world will not agree.

It won't work to bring the Supreme Emperor back and fight against the emperor in court!Now Yexian's attitude has changed, he wants to use the Supreme Emperor as a life-saving weapon, and he doesn't even consider returning the Supreme Emperor in a short time.

In short, both of them thought about it, but nothing worked.

In the end, after discussing with each other, the two reached a consensus that they would crouch down and give in, waiting for the opportunity.This is consistent with the plan proposed by Zhu Qizhen when the two dragons met under the city of Beijing.

Another auxiliary method is to infiltrate secretly, marry nobles, and win over civil servants and military generals. Once the emperor is negligent and reveals his flaws, he will give the emperor a fatal blow.

The two discussed for nearly an hour, and it was not good for King Xiang to stay any longer.

It was because the Empress Dowager Sun had been in charge of the harem for many years and had accumulated a lot of power to suppress the palace people. She made an exception and had a secret talk with King Xiang alone for an hour.

But at this time, the chief eunuch of the Compassionate Ning Palace has been replaced by Ruan An by the emperor from Jin Ying.Although Ruan An was an old eunuch with a lot of experience and had always been relatively neutral, Empress Dowager Sun was not sure whether he had taken refuge in the emperor.

After sending King Xiang away, Empress Dowager Sun immediately ordered her father, Sun Zhong, Marquis of Huichang, and Jiang Yi, the eldest son of Marquis of Dingxi Jiang Gui, to be summoned to the palace.

At the same time, in the West Flower Hall, Zhu Qiyu was lying leisurely on the soft couch, surrounded by two concubines, one pinching his shoulders and the other beating his legs, feeling very comfortable.

Originally, Zhu Qiyu didn't relax like this, but came to Xihua Hall alone early to wait for the ministers.It's a pity that no one came when I waited left, and no one came when I waited right. It was really boring, so I called the two concubines over to serve.

Now there are only He Yi, Xu Zheng, and Huang Jian left in the hall of Zhongshushe. The three of them are knowledgeable and knowledgeable, and they all sit with their backs behind their backs at a distance, and they don't come to disturb the emperor's elegance.

After sending Bai Gui, Xiang Zhong, Ye Sheng, and Yao Xian away, Zhu Qiyu felt much more at ease.Now the remaining six members of Zhongshushe are all his cronies, and they don't have so many scruples about what they say or do.

Zhongshusheren who will be introduced in the future will definitely not be accepted if they do not accept the vote.

Now it is time to transition from the stage where customers bully the shop to the stage where the shop bullies the customer.

As for where are the ministers?
The cabinet, the Imperial Academy, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the six ministries and six departments have already exploded. How can anyone care about the emperor.

Early in the morning, Yue Zheng not only handed over the blood letter requesting the restoration of Empress Hu to the cabinet, but also said goodbye to his colleagues one by one in the Imperial Academy, basically treating today as the last day of his life.

After such a commotion, the news spread in the large official area to the south of the imperial city.

It has been 14 years since Hu Hou was abolished in the third year of Xuande, and Yue Zheng wrote the letter in the 20th year of Zhengtong.

For 20 years, all ministers turned a blind eye to Confucian etiquette and turned a deaf ear to it.

After 20 years, someone finally stepped forward and opened the prelude to the Jingtai ceremony.

Soon Yue Zheng was called to the cabinet, and Chen Xun persuaded him eagerly: "Yue Jifang, you were the candidate last year, and you are not yet 30 years old. You have a bright future in the future, why bother?"

Hurry up and withdraw the blood book, we will suppress the matter for you.Although the emperor will definitely know, we will explain it for you at that time, saying that you were young and energetic for a while, and went astray, and now you have learned about your mistakes and corrected them.

Your Majesty is merciful, even Xu Youzhen can forgive her, and she won't take you too seriously. "

Yue Zheng shook his head resolutely: "Ji Fang accepts the kindness of the elders. But I have made up my mind. Before leaving home, I ate the meal and drank the farewell wine. I will withdraw the blood book now. How can you be a human being?"

When Chen Xun heard the words, he turned to look at Wang Wen.Wang Wen turned to look at Zhou Chen, Zhou Chen looked at Jiang Yuan, and Jiang Yuan looked at He Wenyuan.

He Wenyuan looked left and right, and found that people's eyes were all on him in the end.

He Wenyuan had no choice but to raise his hand and let everyone say: "Everyone sit down, everyone sit down, and Ji Fang sits down too. It's so cold, everyone should drink a cup of hot tea to warm up before talking."

Jiang Yuan smiled wryly and said, "Why are you sitting still? You're going to lose your head. What's the use of drinking tea?"

He Wenyuan smiled and said: "Hey, it's already like this anyway, everyone, don't rush and don't panic. Sit down and drink tea first, and then we will stay in the cabinet for an hour, and when the matter is fermented and everyone knows it, we will bring Ji Fang went to meet the Holy One.

It's useless for us to think about it here, when the time comes, the Holy One will make a clear decision.

Anyway, it won't be as serious as losing his head, at most he will be exiled, and it is even possible that Ji Fang will be promoted instead. "

Everyone couldn't think of a better way, so they had to listen to He Wenyuan, and spent an hour in the cabinet, leaving the emperor alone, until the emperor got impatient and called the favorite concubine to relieve the boredom, and then everyone came out of the cabinet.

According to He Wenyuan's proposal, instead of going to the nearest Donghuawen, everyone went out of the Meridian Gate, and went around to the area where the six ministries, the five army governor's mansions, Jinyiwei, Imperial Academy and other official offices gathered outside Chang'an Gate.

Civil and military officials stopped to watch one after another, and anyone with a little sense could tell that this stone would definitely stir up waves, and that the government and the public could have a lively and prosperous New Year.

(End of this chapter)