Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 272 The Controversy Between the Concubine and the Concubine Has Been Made Semi-public
Entering Donghua Gate, the more they walked in, the more frightened King Xiang and Sun Zhong became.

The three main halls were burned down.The Renshou Palace and the Hall of Mental Cultivation were burned down.

The Compassionate Ning Palace, Qianqing Palace, etc. are all burnt out.Xian'an Palace and Yongshou Palace were also burned down.

In other words, more than half of the entire Forbidden City was burned down.

King Xiang sighed worriedly: "There are so many palaces, how much money will it cost to rebuild them. Daming is already in a troubled time, and if such a toss is going on, it will waste the people and money, and the national strength will be even weaker."

Sun Zhong sneered: "His Royal Highness King Xiang is really worrying too much. His Majesty will not rebuild these palaces at all. How can we talk about wasting people, money, and national power?"

King Xiang had only been in the capital for 20 days, so he didn't know enough about the emperor.It is better to instinctively think that all emperors should love the Forbidden City very much. As for Zhu Qiyu's behavior of running to the western suburbs, in King Xiang's mind, it was a pure trick of retreating to advance, and it was used to deceive the world.

But Sun Zhong could see very clearly that the emperor was sincerely not interested in the Forbidden City at all, and the emperor was also extremely resolute in reducing expenditures to allow the people of the world to recuperate.

The emperor would never do things such as overhauling the palace and wasting people and money.

Although the positions are different, Sun Zhong still agrees with the emperor's actions in military and political affairs.

What troubled Sun Zhong the most was that his daughter, the Empress Dowager Sun, and his eldest son, Sun Jizong, had completely different ideas from his own.These two refused to admit defeat, and insisted on fighting the emperor.

Thinking of this, Sun Zhong sighed heavily: "Fight, fight, fight, fight, the whole Sun family will be wiped out."

King Xiang and Sun Zhong couldn't convince anyone, so they kept silent all the way, and went straight to Yinghua Hall.

To say that Empress Dowager Sun and Empress Qian are also aggrieved now.

The dignified Holy Empress Dowager actually lives in this small Yinghua Hall in the northwest corner of the Forbidden City.

Empress Qian was even worse, with no place to live.The better palaces were all burned down, and two of the West Sixth Palaces were burned, leaving four.Only the East Sixth Palace was intact.

But the problem is that the West Sixth Palace and the East Sixth Palace are for the emperor's concubines, and the dignified empress lives in the West Sixth Palace and the East Sixth Palace.Especially when another empress, Zhou, occupies the Kunning Palace, once she lives in the East and West Sixth Palaces, it means admitting that she is inferior to others from now on.

Although Empress Qian was not as stubborn as Wang Shi, she couldn't bear this anger.

In the end, there was no other way, and Empress Qian had to live in the side hall of the Yinghua Hall of the Empress Dowager Sun.

In this way, both of them were bedridden in the Yinghua Palace, which saved the imperial physicians from having to run around.

Sun Zhong and King Xiang sat in the outer room, talking to Queen Mother Sun through the screen.

Since Queen Mother Sun is bedridden, in order to avoid suspicion, there is no way to dismiss the palace people.

So Empress Dowager Sun made a change, leaving behind two confidant maids, and four young eunuchs headed by Gao Ping who had loyally rescued her before.The rest of the palace people rushed to the side hall to serve Empress Qian.

At this time, King Xiang took out the copy of the Edict of Guilt, and started talking to Queen Mother Sun.

King Xiang's subordinates were not short of powerful aides, and within half a day they dismantled the emperor's sinful edicts and analyzed the emperor's intentions closely.

King Xiang said to Empress Dowager Sun: "Look, sister-in-law, the emperor said that he was the only son of Empress Zhen when he came up, obviously he wanted to fight for the throne.

If the emperor really established his own eldest son's identity, then changing the crown prince and transferring the lineage would be a matter of course. "

Sun Zhong nodded involuntarily when he heard the words. This analysis is completely correct.

Empress Dowager Sun was also silent when she heard the words.The emperor's entry point is really too tricky and vicious.

If the emperor only starts from the position of prince and forcefully promotes the change of prince, then in terms of morality and etiquette, the emperor will inevitably fall into extreme passivity, and will lose the hearts of his subjects all over the world.

If the emperor started from the fault of the Supreme Emperor's personal conquest and forcibly denied the legal system of the Supreme Emperor, it would be difficult to convince the public.The ruling and opposition parties, in fact, don't care much about how many soldiers died in Tumubao.

Now that he was defeated first and Wala was hit hard, there is no need to dwell on the past.

But starting with the dispute between the concubine and the concubine, the situation is completely different.

The Empress Dowager Sun killed her wife with a concubine. This is an ironclad fact, and it is also a weakness that the Empress Dowager Sun cannot get around no matter what.

So Zhu Qiyu made up his mind to fight to the death with the emperor's faction in the dispute between the concubine and the concubine.

Although it is very difficult to win.

But once the winner is decided in the battle between the concubine and the concubine, the winner takes all.

And in this regard, Empress Hu occupies a righteous position and is deeply sympathized by the people of the world.

Even Liao Zhuang, Zhang Lun, and Zhong Tong, ministers who firmly identified with the Supreme Emperor, did not dare to stand up and confidently deny Empress Hu's status as the first wife.

As long as they dare to stand up and say that Queen Hu is not a word, Zhu Qiyu will immediately send them to Caishikou.

This is the power of Confucian etiquette, a concubine is a concubine, and a concubine is a concubine.If you dare to deny your first wife, I dare to kill you openly.

Zhu Qiyu's difficulty lies in how to make the whole world recognize her identity as the son of Empress Hu.

As long as this pass is taken, you can flat push and crush all opponents later.

Now Zhu Qiyu's strategy has become a conspiracy.The Empress Dowager Sun knew it, King Xiang knew it, and all the civil and military officials, the government and the opposition will also understand it one after another.

But this is not important, the important thing is who can win the hearts of the people in the world.

This is the so-called, whoever wins the hearts of the people wins the world.

King Xiang and Queen Mother Sun analyzed the emperor's intention to avoid living in the western suburbs, and made it clear that after the Supreme Emperor returned to Beijing, he would retire as a prince and welcome the restoration of the Supreme Emperor.

Sun Zhong, on the other hand, was more disturbing, and persuaded the Queen Mother once more, hoping to completely give up the fight for the throne, and let the family seek prosperity and wealth.

From Sun Zhong's point of view, it really doesn't make any sense.When the emperor reigns, the Sun family is a marquis; when the Supreme Emperor is restored, the Sun family is still a marquis, and there is no big difference between going back and forth.

If I have to say it, I am a marquis who was promoted by the current emperor.When the Supreme Emperor was in power, he was only an earl.

The three broke up unhappy like this, not long after King Xiang and Sun Zhong left, Shu Liang and Zhang Yong came to Yinghua Hall together to greet Queen Mother Sun.

Empress Dowager Sun was patient, and after a few words, she wanted to send the two of them away.

Unexpectedly, Shu Liang replied: "I would like to report to the Empress Dowager that there is a decree from the Holy Spirit to kill all the palace servants in the fire-fighting palaces."

When Queen Mother Sun heard this, her heart skipped a beat, and she immediately sat up from the bed.

This is the advantage of righteousness and fame. The emperor insisted on killing these palace people, and even the empress dowager couldn't stop them.

Empress Dowager Sun knew that the emperor's mind had been made up and there was no need to discuss it.He had no choice but to sigh, and asked Shu Liang: "Gao Ping and the other three young eunuchs put their lives on the line to save this palace from the sea of ​​fire. I wonder if the emperor will consider them for saving this palace's life. Spare them not to die?"

Shu Liang replied: "I would like to report to the Empress Dowager, these four little eunuchs can not be dealt with for the time being, and the servants will report to His Majesty for the order."

Empress Dowager Sun nodded, lay back on the bed, and closed her eyes helplessly.

Seeing this, Shu Liang directed dozens of young and strong young eunuchs to come in, and pulled out the queen mother and all the palace people around the queen.

Immediately afterwards, another group of new palace servants came in, took the place of the old ones, and became the close servants of Empress Dowager Sun and Empress Qian.

On the morning of the second day, on the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, Zhu Qiyu's edict was passed on to the Yinghua Hall: Gao Ping had made great contributions in rescuing him, and he was promoted to be the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor and the director of the Yinghua Hall.

In order to change the loopholes in the defense of the inner court, the Neiyi Shichang was established, and Zhang Yong served as the admiral eunuch of the inner factory, responsible for supervising the palace people in the entire imperial city.

(End of this chapter)