Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 261 The Emperor Plans Lu Zhongxiao's Death
Regarding the emperor's idea of ​​building a large Anle Hall, the eleven inner court eunuchs present absolutely agreed with both hands and feet.

Most of the eunuchs have no children. After old age and frailty, they have no one to rely on, and their evening scene is very bleak.

Although there is an Anle Hall in the imperial city, it is too small and there is no freedom, so they can only be locked up in the imperial city for a lifetime.

The royal family took the so-called leakage of secrets too seriously. The eunuchs lived in the Anle Hall when they were old, and the maids went to the Clothes Bureau when they were old.Those who go to An Le Tang are fine, but those who go to the Laundry Bureau have to wash their clothes until they die.

What's the use of these so-called broken secrets? Now that Zhu Qiyu is sitting in the Prince Qi's mansion, he can clearly understand what Queen Mother Sun said and did.

The imperial palace is a big sieve that leaks air everywhere, so stupid emperors like Daming will go to superstitious Forbidden City.

It's better now at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Jiajing and Tianqi had a son and died a son, and a son was born and a son died. These two poor people are still living in the imperial city. It's so beautiful, it's true Makes people speechless.

There is also the famous Emperor Wuzong Zhengde, who couldn't have a son, so it's fine if he doesn't think about it, and he dared to run to the Leopard Room. That place is not as good as the Forbidden City.

With the tragic experience and lessons of the predecessors and future generations, Zhu Qiyu summed up his own life-saving principles, the most important of which is to never let any eunuchs or maids get close, especially never let them come into contact with him. diet.

Based on this principle, Zhu Qiyu has made up his mind to severely suppress the number of eunuchs and court ladies in the imperial city to less than three thousand.

Retain the necessary supervisory bureaus such as the Rites Supervisor, Yuma Supervisor, Yuyong Supervisor, and Internal Official Supervisor, and greatly reduce the number of people.

The eunuchs and court ladies with less than 3000 people are slightly more controllable.The [-] court ladies and eunuchs have so many mouths and different thoughts that they can't be monitored even if they want to.

If any emperor dares to guarantee that he can manage the imperial city with more than 1 people airtight, then I can only say that there are many cows that are not plowing the land, but are flying into the sky.

Seeing the emperor wandering away, it is not easy to rush.After a long while, Zhu Qiyu came back to his senses, and told everyone: "You all go to the east duty room and wait, I will talk to you one by one.

Ruan An stays first, and the others go to Dongdong to check the house first. "

When everyone heard this, they quickly retreated.

Zhu Qiyu spent half an hour talking with Ruan An about the renovation of the Nangong Palace and the construction of the Anle Hall.Ruan An is the most experienced architectural talent in the inner court, and Zhu Qiyu entrusted these two projects to him with confidence.

Afterwards, Wang Cheng and Shu Liang, and Zhu Qiyu talked in detail about the placement of eyeliner in the palaces of various princes.At the end of the talk, Zhu Qiyu emphasized:

"The most important thing is to take advantage of this opportunity to reward the eunuchs to the kings, and put more eyes and ears in the Xiangwang mansion, so as to closely monitor Xiangwang's every move.

Among these princes, Prince Xiang is the most disobedient to me.It is best for him to be quiet. If he has any unreasonable thoughts, or intends to help the Supreme Emperor restore his restoration, then don't blame me for being rude. "

Wang Cheng and Shu Liang quickly replied: "Your Majesty, don't worry, this servant will do it now."

Zhu Qiyu changed his amiable expression, and said to the two: "Wang Cheng will temporarily take charge of the seal of the supervisor of rites. After Jin Ying and Xing'an come back, Jin Ying will still be in charge of the seal of the supervisor of rites and the admiral of Xing'an will supervise the East Factory in name.

But after the two of them came back, they would both die within a year or two.

At that time, you have almost experienced it, and you can officially take up the position.At this stage, you should learn more and see more, accumulate more contacts, and recruit more cronies.

Don't be impatient, and don't be arrogant, you still have a long way to go.I regard you as confidantes, so I mentioned you.I hope you don't let me down. "

The two quickly kowtowed to show their loyalty, Zhu Qiyu waved his hands: "You go, let Lu Zhong come in."

As soon as Lu Zhong came in, he poured beans out of a bamboo bucket and told Zhu Qiyu carefully what happened in the Palace of Compassion and Ning last night.

In the Compassionate Ning Palace, there is Gao Ping as Lu Zhong's eyeliner.In the past few days, Gao Ping secretly contacted several eunuchs whom he was familiar with on weekdays, and persuaded them to fall to the emperor together.

Therefore, during this call, Lu Zhong had more abundant and detailed information, and he was more confident in front of the emperor, and he talked for half an hour.

In the end, Lu Zhong concluded: "Your Majesty, on the first day of the Jingtai Dynasty, the Empress Dowager planned the arson case of the Fengtian Temple in order to characterize it as a natural disaster, and then publicized to the people of the world that your Majesty's immorality caused anger and resentment." .

When the three main halls were on fire for the first time, even Emperor Taizong couldn't explain it, and was chased by the courtiers to challenge him.Your majesty's foundation is no better than Taizong's back then, so you have to guard against this.

There are also the Soochow Kings, the Great Khan of Wala, and the Great Khan of Tatar who are in Beijing. Your Majesty must also be cautious about their safety. "

Zhu Qiyu nodded very seriously, and then asked: "If things are dry today, and there are still fireworks and firecrackers in the inner court, do you think the Compassionate Ning Palace will accidentally catch fire like Fengtian Palace?"

Lu Zhong heard that in the winter, he would sweat immediately.Did the emperor mean to let himself go to the Compassion Palace?
Facing this kind of choice, the life and death of wealth and honor can be decided in one thought.

If you make the right choice and do things well, you will be prosperous and rich, and enjoy endless enjoyment.

If you make the wrong choice and mess things up, you can get on the road early.

However, the reason why Lu Zhong took refuge in the emperor early was that he wanted to gamble his life and fight for wealth.So after a brief shock, Lu Zhong made a choice:

"On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, during the Lantern Festival, the inner court will set off fireworks and firecrackers. If one is not careful at that time, there must be a fire in the Palace of Compassion and Peace.

At the end of the day, he will be willing to die for His Majesty, and bring his cronies to rescue the Empress Dowager without risking his life to ensure her safety. "

Hearing this, Zhu Qiyu smiled wryly in his heart: This guy is too hardworking. In order to get ahead, he even dared to kill the Queen Mother.

It's no wonder that this guy dared to bring up the golden knife case in history. He is really soft and afraid of hard, hard and violent, and violent.It's just right to use Lu Zhong, a lifeless person, to deal with the Sun family.

Now Zhu Qiyu feels more and more that he is completely opposite to Jingtai's employment style in history.Yu Qian, whom Jingtai used as his own father, was sent away by himself.

Lu Zhong, Xu Youzhen and others that Jingtai disliked became more and more important to him.

Lu Zhong gritted his teeth and expressed his loyalty, but he couldn't get the emperor's response. He couldn't help but boldly glanced at it, only to see that the emperor was distracted, with a wry smile on his face, and he didn't know what he was thinking.Could it be that I was wrong?Didn't the emperor want to burn and kill the queen mother?

Lu Zhong was beating drums up and down in his heart, and after waiting for a while, when his clothes were almost soaked in cold sweat, he heard Zhu Qiyu reply:
"It's normal for the Compassionate Palace to have a fire, but you must not hurt the Empress Dowager, otherwise, I won't be able to hold it back for the time being, and I will have to confess your head to the world."

Hearing this, Lu Zhong couldn't help but began to wipe his sweat with his sleeves.

Zhu Qiyu smiled and said: "You don't have to be so nervous, I never deceive my cronies, I just let you understand the pros and cons of it.

I won't play tricks with you anymore, lest you get it wrong and trap me and your own life.

The thing should be like this: on the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the palace staff accidentally set off firecrackers and fireworks, causing fires in many palaces such as the Palace of Compassion and Peace, the Palace of Renshou, and the Palace of Mental Cultivation.

In the end, the fire spread and could not be extinguished. The Compassion Ning Palace, Xian'an Palace, Renshou Palace, and Yangxin Palace were burned to the ground by the fire.

Lu Zhong, the commander of Jin Yiwei, and Gao Ping, who was on duty in the Palace of Compassionate Ning, risked their lives to rescue the Holy Empress Dowager from danger.

Lu Zhongsheng was promoted to Tongzhi as the commander of Jinyiwei, and Gao Ping was promoted to the general manager of Yinghua Palace.

Except for Gao Ping, the eunuch who has made great contributions to fighting the fire, all the eunuchs and maids in the Palace of Compassionate Ning were all killed.

Afterwards, rumors spread in Beijing, saying that the Empress Dowager Shangsheng killed her wife with a concubine first, and then lost her education to the Supreme Emperor, which led to the change of the civil castle, and the Supreme Emperor went north.The Empress Dowager Shangsheng finally offended the sky because of this, so that disasters fell from the sky, and most of the harem was burned. "

(End of this chapter)