Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 321
As the date of Zhu Qizhen's wonderful emperor returning to Beijing approaches, giving birth to a child has become Zhu Qiyu's most urgent task.

The number of children is related to the throne, inheritance and stability.

The strategy Zhu Qiyu chose was to stabilize the situation, and then fight slowly with the Emperor's faction.

As long as you have the eldest son and multiple princes, your family's cronies can feel at ease.Then use the method of soft grinding hard foam and blunt knife to cut flesh, slowly win people's hearts, and finally completely change the concubines and transfer the imperial line.

Although Xuanzong's brainless method of killing the whole family is the fastest, Zhu Qiyu doesn't intend to learn from it.

In theory, there should be a qualitative difference between killing the emperor's family and killing the prince's family.

It's easy to kill the Supreme Emperor's family, but how to deal with the aftermath?How big of a backlash will it cause?How many hidden dangers are left?It's hard to tell.

Zhu Qiyu still decided to endure more hardships and suffer more crimes, so as to leave a refreshing and powerful empire to his descendants.

As for the Empress Dowager, the Supreme Emperor, the Supreme Empress, and the Prince, they can all die.In this way, the ruling and opposition parties have nothing to say.

However, it is difficult to say how long these people are destined to live.

After giving instructions to the eunuchs who controlled the inner court, Zhu Qiyu went home to sleep.

I have nothing to say for several days.

On the first day of September, Shuntian Prefecture will try to release the list.

In this meeting, the weight of the eight-part essay was greatly reduced, and Wang Yue, who was the number one in policy theory, was appointed by the emperor as Jieyuan.

More than a thousand people participated in the Shuntianfu Examination, and only one of the 120 people was selected in the end.

One of these 120 people has obtained the honor of juren, and has initially qualified to be an official.

Some people are happy and some are worried, but to everyone's surprise, the emperor even published the answer sheet of No.1 policy theory.

This time another stone stirred up waves.

First of all, Wang Yue himself was completely on board the thief ship.

Just based on the political stance expressed by Wang Yue in the answer sheet, he was firmly branded as an imperial party, and he couldn't wash it off even if he wanted to.

If the Shanghuang faction regains power in the future, Wang Yue will never be able to be reused for the rest of his life.

For Wang Yue, the other candidates had to admire and bow down.The courage to put all one's eggs in one basket and gamble with one's life's future is absolutely beyond the reach of others.

What everyone else thinks is that if you fail the exam this time, it’s a big deal to take the exam next time.

Wang Yue, on the other hand, saw the truth in an exam, or he would go to high school in one fell swoop, and in the future he would become a prime minister and become the prime minister.Or they can't recover after a setback and go home to farm and farm.

In the end, Wang Yue won the bet.

No one would have imagined that today's emperor not only wants to deny the orthodox dynasty of the Supreme Emperor, but also intends to carry out a thorough liquidation of the Xuande dynasty of the late emperor.

It's just that, where does the jurisprudence of today's son's succession come from?

The vast majority of people still can't figure it out, the emperor is obviously acting as the Supreme Emperor and rules the world, and if he denies the Supreme Emperor, can his own legitimacy still be justified?

As for denying the first emperor, it challenges people's cognition even more.

Throughout the dynasties, it is rare to see an emperor who denies his father.

Even Li Shimin publicly killed his brother and seized his heir, but he didn't do anything to Li Yuan.

There are very few people who can understand today's world.But Wang Yue is one of them.

Wang Yue guessed Zhu Qiyu's mind in all odds: Zhu Qiyu wanted to base his legitimacy on Wenzhiwugong, not purely on blood.

As for why Xuanzong had to be denied, it was only because what Xuanzong did was too disgusting, and it really exceeded Zhu Qiyu's tolerance limit.

But there is only a little tolerable, and Zhu Qiyu doesn't want to do something that completely negates Xuanzong.

For this kind of thing, Wang Yue is optimistic.

The Ming Dynasty now needs to fight in the four directions of the southeast, the north, and the west. Once there is a war, the opportunity to make contributions will come.

Since Wang Ji made Uncle Jing Yuan, there are many civil servants who want to follow suit, especially the young and strong civil servants, quite a few of them are eager to try.

The current situation is that important ministers like Chen Xun, Wang Wen, and He Wenyuan are not very interested in pursuing titles.Talented and young civil servants like Xu Youzhen, as well as young talents like Wang Yue, have great interest in pursuing titles.

Bai Gui and Xiang Zhong, who are now counselors for military affairs, are also strong contenders for the earl.

Moreover, there is a case of buying a horse bone with a thousand pieces of gold. The current emperor, under tremendous pressure, made the legendary eunuch Liu Yongcheng an earl.

Eunuchs can confer earls, Wang Yue infers from this that the upper limit of titles for civil servants is definitely not limited to earls.With the deepening of the war, it is entirely possible for civil servants to be named marquises.

Wang Yue's judgment was right. Zhu Qiyu had already made up his mind that as long as Wang Ji was willing to come to his camp, he would give Wang Ji the title of Marquis.

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When the capital gradually returned to calm, the [-] imperial army stationed in Gansu had already mobilized their troops and sharpened their swords.

The yamen of Shaanxi Xingdusi was established as Wang Ji's temporary Chinese army.

Sitting in Ganzhou, Wang Ji mobilized the army in an orderly manner, ready to attack with the whole army at any time, went deep into the grassland, defeated Yexian's remnants in one fell swoop, and welcomed the Supreme Emperor back to Beijing.

As for the return of the Supreme Emperor, do you want to support the restoration of the Supreme Emperor, and in the name of the Supreme Emperor, command a hundred thousand elite Ming troops to fight back to Beijing?
The answer is no, Wang Ji would not be so crazy.

The current situation is like this. You can sympathize with the Supreme Emperor, or you can secretly express your disapproval of the emperor in your heart, but openly supporting the restoration of the Supreme Emperor is fundamentally unpopular.

Even the elite of the [-] Ming army who had fought with Wang Ji for many years could not accept this logic.

The army publicly supported the restoration of the Supreme Emperor, which probably never happened in the past dynasties.

More importantly, Wang Ji is not the only one stationed in Ganzhou now.

Li Xuan, the Duke of Cao, was appointed by the emperor as the Protector of the Western Regions, guarding the local military officer in Gansu, and concurrently in charge of the Xingdu Division of Shaanxi.

Li Xuan was not a fuel-efficient lamp either. In addition to mobilizing [-] elites from various guards in Gansu to gather in Ganzhou, he also had [-] elites of the Gansu-Liang Frontier Army that the emperor had brought back from the army of the Marquis of Ningyang.

Therefore, Ganzhou now has a total of 15 troops assembled: Wang Ji's [-] battle-hardened Jingying troops, and Li Xuan's [-] elite Ganliang frontier troops.

Among the nine border towns that were gradually formed in the Ming Dynasty, the frontier troops in Gansu Town were the most valiant.Ganzhou, Suzhou, and Liangzhou have always produced elite soldiers.

Therefore, Li Xuan's [-] elite frontier troops were enough to control the situation.

Although Wang Ji had no intention of opposing the emperor at all, Zhu Qiyu still planned for the worst.

As for why the [-] army is enough to suppress the [-] army, it has to be attributed to the role of righteousness.

Wang Ji's [-]-strong army consisted of old men and young men, and the soldiers didn't want to openly oppose the emperor for no reason.

If Wang Ji directly pulls a big banner and asks everyone to support the restoration of the Supreme Emperor, 10 people out of 1 people are willing to respond to Wang Ji, which means Wang Ji's popularity is really good.

When Li Xuan's [-] troops suppressed [-] rebels, it would be as simple as the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.

(End of this chapter)