Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 270
As the fire got bigger and bigger, the whole capital was in commotion.

One pass to ten, ten to a hundred, the crowd was full of voices and exclaimed again and again, almost all the people, even those who were already asleep, were woken up, put on their clothes and went out to watch this rare spectacle that was rarely seen in a hundred years.

People who are older know that the three main halls were burned once during Emperor Taizong's reign.But within half a month, there were two fires in the Forbidden City, which is really something new and new.

The news of another fire in the Forbidden City was sent out quickly by the post office sent by the office.

Just after midnight, the news reached Yuquan Mountain.

Those little maids had already received Zhu Qiyu's instructions when the Fengtian Palace was on fire, so there is no need to rush to report if there is a fire.

So it wasn't until the morning of the sixteenth day of the first lunar month that the little girl reported the news.

Zhu Qiyu only replied that he knew it, and didn't even read the report, so he continued to get back under the bed, holding Xiao Xiangyu in his mouth, wandering in the land of tenderness, feeling very unrestrained and at ease.

Lin Xiangyu lightly raised her jade arm, took the report, waved the little girl back, and read the report carefully.

Before Lin Xiangyu could ask, Zhu Qiyu replied vaguely: "You don't need to panic, that's what I set the fire on."

Hearing this, Lin Xiangyu asked curiously: "My husband, you ordered the Palace of Compassion and Ning, and I can understand it. But why did you also let you light the Palace of Qianqing? Empress Qian was blind in one eye and lame in one leg. If there are three good things and two bad things, can we still make it clear?"

Hearing this, Zhu Qiyu poked his head out quickly, took the newspaper and read it carefully, and then replied with a bewildered expression:

"I didn't ask someone to order the Qing Palace, I don't know who is pretending to be smart again.

But feel free, we are forty miles away from the Forbidden City, we don't know what happened there, let them go. "

So Zhu Qiyu continued to crawl back into the bed, and did not get up to wash and dress neatly until the sun was high, and came to the West Pavilion to deal with government affairs.

Just as Zhu Qiyu sat down, He Yi handed over the Edict of Guilt.

After reading it carefully, Zhu Qiyu nodded in satisfaction, and ordered He Yi to send it to the cabinet immediately to draw up a formal edict and issue it to the world.

The sixteenth day of the first lunar month was the day when the imperial court officially resumed its work, but when the ministers returned to their respective yamen and looked north, what they saw was the Forbidden City billowing with thick smoke.

There were two big fires in half a month. Even the ministers who had experienced the "thunder and fire from the sky" of the Taizong Dynasty were embarrassed to say that the fire was a "natural disaster".

Chen Xun, Wang Wen and others gathered in the cabinet, discussing whether to go to the Queen Mother to pay her respects.

It stands to reason that the queen mother and empress were so frightened, the cabinet ministers should go to condolences, and ask for a crime by the way.

But now that the emperor has broken his face with the queen mother, if he goes to see the queen mother again, he is suspected of standing in line, and it is easy to give the emperor a bad impression.

The cabinet ministers hesitated until noon, and the emperor's sin edict was passed to the cabinet.

Now everyone scratched their heads even more: last night they received the news of the fire in the Forbidden City, and when they arrived at the cabinet this morning, they saw a bunch of memorials demanding that the emperor issue an imperial edict.

This is all right, the matter has not been sorted out yet, the emperor's sin edict has been drawn up, the efficiency is too terrifying.

Before, everyone was worried that the emperor's hiding in Xishan would affect the efficiency of handling government affairs.Now it seems that everyone is worrying too much.

Chen Xun looked at Wang Wen with the edict of guilt.Wang Wen said with a smile: "Since it is the emperor's will, what's the point? Let's transcribe it intact and pass it on to the Supervisor of Rituals."

Chen Xun heard the words, and quickly replied: "Qianzhi, your calligraphy is far better than mine, so you should write this edict."

Wang Wen nodded with a smile, and wrote as soon as he wrote. Anyway, he has come to this point. He can only live as the emperor's man, and die as the emperor's ghost.Don't even think about staying behind, and it's impossible to turn against the water. Simply smash the cans and smash them, don't think about anything, just follow the emperor all the way to the dark.

This Edict of Guilt had gone through the process of the cabinet, the supervisor of ceremonies, and it was officially released in the afternoon.

A single stone stirred up thousands of waves, and this sinful edict shocked the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty.Although today is the [-]th day of the first lunar month, considering the previous Chinese New Year holidays, today is actually the second day of administration of the Jingtai Dynasty.

So on the second day after the start of the Jingtai Dynasty, the emperor issued an edict of sin.Is there any precedent for this?Did it break the record for the fastest time for the emperors of all dynasties to issue their own edicts?
What surprised the courtiers the most was that the emperor was very tough, and he clearly declared in the Edict of Guilt that he would never live in the palace, build an imperial mausoleum, or establish a queen from now on.And no longer call me, only consider myself a widow.

Moreover, Zhu Qiyu made it clear for the first time that he was forced to take the throne as the king of Qi, and when the Supreme Emperor was welcomed back, he would immediately retire as king of Qi and return to Shandong to become a feudal vassal.

The civil and military officials immediately welcomed the restoration of the Supreme Emperor and ascended to the throne again.

Although this was the unanimous wish of the civil servants and generals of the middle and lower ranks, no one dared to applaud the guilty edict, and no one dared to openly agree with the emperor's abdication and the restoration of the Supreme Emperor.

What a joke, the throne is not a ball, it can be kicked back and forth.The emperor is not a plaything in the hands of civil and military officials. If you say abdicate, you will abdicate. If you say restoration, you will restore it. This is the imperial court.

Therefore, from Jingtai's accession to the throne until the change of seizing the gate, no minister proposed to let Jingtai return the throne to Zhengtong.

Zhu Qizhen lost his teacher and humiliated the country, he was already a sinner of Ming Dynasty.No matter how brazen the minister was, he dared not mention Zhu Qizhen's restoration.No matter what they think in their hearts, the only thing that everyone can express openly is to let Prince Zhu Jianshen be the next emperor.

The people gathered together, discussing and discussing, and in the evening, two more orders from the emperor came.

One is Liao Zhuang, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, Yu Shi Ni Jing, Zuo Ding, and Lin Cong, a military officer, who disobeyed the emperor's order and openly resisted the order.Under the circumstance that the emperor repeatedly emphasized the need to be concise and pragmatic, the memorials he presented rambled thousands of words, and the words were not meaningful.The four of them went home and were suspended from work to await their punishment.

The second is to order civil and military officials to go to the Palace of Compassion to worship the Holy Empress Dowager, and then go to the Palace of Qianqing to pay homage to the Empress Yisheng.

Hearing these two edicts, all the officials looked at each other in blank dismay.The emperor also broke the jar, and directly suspended several leading civil servants who wrote to the emperor to issue an imperial edict.

In addition, everyone was asked to pay pilgrimage to the Palace of Compassion and Peace and the Palace of Qianqing. You must know that these two palaces are still burning.

The poor three masters of the harem, among them Empress Dowager Sun and Empress Qian, are still in shock in the Yinghua Hall in the northwest corner.Empress Zhou patiently comforted the prince in the Qin'an Palace in the Imperial Garden.

When Chen Xun finished gathering all the civil and military officials and lined up outside Fengtian Gate, ready to go to Qianqing Gate, the latest news came from the harem:

The Cining Palace, Qianqing Palace, Xian'an Palace, Renshou Palace, Yangxin Palace, Yongshou Palace, and Yikun Palace were all destroyed.

Yexian's younger sister Jing Cairen, and Boyan Timur's privet talent, had been living in Yongshou Palace as the concubine of the Supreme Emperor.

In this fire, neither Jingcairen nor Zhencairen escaped, unfortunately they were killed.

Empress Qian was overly frightened when she saw his tragic situation, and she was heartbroken because she was in danger last night. Now she has fainted several times and is bedridden.

Empress Dowager Sun caught a cold last night and was also bedridden.

(End of this chapter)