Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 363 The Qian Family Inexplicably Causes Disputes, Zhao Hui Strongly Proves His Loyalty

No matter how Sun and Zhu Qizhen persuaded him, Zhu Qiyu remained unmoved.

Zhu Qiyu vaguely remembered hearing someone say that the power of the emperor only exists ten steps away, within a thousand miles.

Thousands of miles away, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, so he can't be so careful.

Within ten steps, the emperor is also a mortal and has only one life.

So don't look at Zhu Qiyu's momentum now, but once he lives in the Forbidden City, as long as one of the thousands of court ladies and eunuchs is Zhu Qizhen's die-hard loyalist, find an opportunity for Zhu Qiyu to come and do it, and everything will be fine. It's all over.

This "come up and down" may be drugging, strangling the neck, or reaching out and pushing the emperor while he was walking by the water.

It's easy to dodge open spears, and hard to defend against dark arrows.

Who knows what fantastic ideas the opponent will come up with, in short, once there are more people around, it will be inevitable and impossible to guard against.

Since there was no result in the dispute, Empress Dowager Sun looked at the several clansmen sitting at the same table, hoping that they could stand up and persuade the emperor to change his mind.

Among the clans present, the highest seniority was Princess Yongjia, King Min, and Prince Consort Zhao Hui.The one with the most noble family background is Zhu Wengui, king of Soochow County.

Princess Yongjia and the Sun's family had long had a feud, so naturally they stood on Zhu Qiyu's side with all their hearts.

King Min and Princess Yongjia are siblings, so naturally they advance and retreat together.

The king of Soochow County was released from prison by Zhu Qiyu, regained his freedom, and gave him preferential treatment as a prince, so his position is also very clear.

Sun didn't expect these three people to say anything good, but pinned her hopes on the son-in-law Captain Zhao Hui.

The four generations of Taizong, Renzong, Xuanzong, and Zhengtong all treated Zhao Hui very well. When Zhao Hui married Princess Baoqing, Renzong, who was still the prince, personally sent his aunt to marry. are extremely rare.

But as soon as Zhao Hui opened his mouth, Sun was disappointed, and only listened to Zhao Hui's persuasion: "Since Your Majesty has made up his mind, there is no need for the Empress Dowager and Emperor Gongrang to persuade.

Your Majesty lives comfortably in the western suburbs, which is good for your family and the country.

You see, it has only been two years since His Majesty ascended the throne, already twelve concubines are pregnant, and they have successfully given birth to their eldest son.

It can be seen that Yuquan Mountain in the western suburbs has a suitable climate and nourishes people with water and soil.
Besides, His Majesty has not neglected government affairs. Now that the wars in the four directions have gradually subsided, the state affairs are in order, and the Ming Dynasty is already thriving.

So His Majesty can live wherever he likes, so why bother. "

After finishing speaking, Zhao Hui immediately added: "It is His Majesty's matter of appointing a concubine, and it is also His Majesty's private matter. It is also up to His Majesty to decide at his own discretion."

Hearing this, Sun Shi, Qian Shi, and Zhu Qizhen all changed their expressions.

Zhu Qizhen was particularly surprised, he didn't expect that he had only been hunting in the north for two years, and the court structure had changed so much.Most of the clansmen, nobles, civil and military ministers present here are actually on the side of the emperor.

Listen to what Zhao Hui said: the emperor can leave the imperial city and live in the western suburbs.The emperor does not establish a queen, but chooses concubines freely, that's fine.If you co-author the emperor, you will be completely free, right?

Sun and Zhu Qizhen were just about to think carefully about how to counterattack next.Unexpectedly, Empress Qian suddenly answered the call and asked Zhao Hui:

"Great-grandfather and aunt's words are wrong. In the past, His Majesty was only taking over the throne, and it was reasonable not to have a queen. Now that His Majesty has officially accepted the abdication, it would be decent not to have a queen?
Have you seen any dynasty or generation that only had emperors but no queens? "

Hearing this, Zhao Hui immediately retorted: "If according to what the Empress Dowager said, since Your Majesty has accepted the abdication, he should completely follow the established rules of the emperors of all dynasties?
If things were done in accordance with the established rules, the emperors of all dynasties would appoint their own sons as princes, and the princes would inherit the throne.

I have never heard of any emperor who passed the throne to his nephew when he had a son.

According to what the Empress Dowager said, Your Majesty appointed the empress and gave birth to a son with the empress.Then should his son-in-law be established as the prince, or should he inherit the throne?Please also ask the Empress Dowager to clarify. "

Empress Dowager Sun and Zhu Qizhen each gasped when they heard the conversation between the two.

Neither of them expected Qian to make such remarks suddenly, and even less did they expect Zhao Hui to seize the loophole in it and fight back mercilessly.Even if ordinary people know the loopholes in it, they will choose to turn a blind eye and close their eyes, not daring to embarrass the Sun family too much.

Empress Dowager Sun and Zhu Qizhen didn't want to be too entangled in the matter of setting up a queen. If they really forced Zhu Qiyu to make a queen, it would inevitably involve the question of whether the emperor and the queen's sons have the right to inherit the throne.

Isn't this rushing to force Zhu Qiyu to change the crown prince?

So on this issue, Queen Mother Sun, Zhu Qizhen, and Zhu Qiyu have the same attitude, and they don't want a real queen to appear.

Everyone can understand Zhao Hui's attitude. This is a vote of honor to the emperor, and from then on he can only stand on the emperor's side.

But Empress Qian's attitude is a bit intriguing. I don't know if she really lacks political savvy, said something wrong on the spur of the moment, or deliberately put the current prince on the fire to roast.

Anyway, the possibility of Empress Qian giving birth to a son is very small, and Empress Zhou is Empress Qian's deadly enemy. It is not sure how Empress Qian became blind and lame.

It is not ruled out that Empress Qian is deliberately cheating Empress Zhou and Prince Zhu Jianshen.

At this point, the atmosphere of the banquet became more and more tense. Except for the table where the two emperors were, everyone else was silent, and no one wanted to meddle in it.

Not only the civil and military officials did not speak, but Zhu Qiyu himself also did not speak.

Anyway, for Zhu Qiyu, he would never be a queen.

After two years of running in with the concubines, a balanced and harmonious mode of getting along has been established.

Zhu Qiyu summed up three principles.

First, try to maintain fairness as much as possible.

Human nature is such that we don't always worry about scarcity but inequality.

Zhu Qiyu equalized the status, title, treatment, and duty of the fifteen favorite concubines.

Even Zhu Qiyu gave a clear solution to the most difficult problems of queen status and prince registration:

When I was alive, I didn't set up a queen, and the fifteen concubines were equal and equal.

The prince must treat the fifteen mothers and concubines equally, kowtow and salute every year and festival, and he will serve them wholeheartedly in the future.

Zhu Qiyu has reserved the position of little kowtowing bug for his eldest son without authorization, and everyone will kowtow when he sees him.

As for himself after his death, he and his concubines went to the coast of Shandong to find a place with a pleasant scenery to be buried together, such as the imperial mausoleum and ancestral temple, let's go and have fun.

If your son insists on placing a tablet for the queen in the ancestral temple, you can honor the daughter of the Guo family in Wudinghou's mansion as Queen Jingtai.

In a word, everything should be divided as evenly as possible, and no one of the fifteen favorite concubines should fight, and no one should fight.

In the words of Lao Tzu, it means not presenting what one desires, so that one's mind will not be disturbed.

In addition, the fifteen favorite concubines grew up together, like sisters, so there was no spark for conflict.

Zhu Qiyu's second principle is to stop completely and never find a new woman again.

When he first became emperor, Zhu Qiyu really thought about the Sangong and Liuyuan and the three thousand beauties.

But with the passage of time, Zhu Qiyu gradually understood that if he wanted to have a peaceful backyard, a comfortable life, and personal safety, he should stop taking in new women.

(End of this chapter)