Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 411 Unable to return to heaven, the third son died young Lu Gao was ordered to thoroughly investigate the mastermind
Xiang Jingtai's proposal of "imprisoning Nangong" is the representative work of Xu Zheng and Huang Jian.

In the sixth year of Jingtai, Emperor Jing and the crown prince had died long ago. At this time, Xu Zheng was still secretly talking about the matter, and proposed to "move the emperor and the former crown prince to be the king of Yizhou today".

Such a loyal minister of Jingtai is hard to find with a lantern.

It's a pity that Jingtai in history not only refused to listen, but sold Xu Zheng after changing hands.

As a result, Zhu Qizhen was reset, and Xu Zheng was left behind for three days.

Jingtai in history is really upright.Therefore, Jingtai did not kill Zhu Qizhen because he had no real power, and it was really unlikely that he would be ostracized by Yu Qian and other civil servants.The main reason is that Jingtai himself doesn't want to do anything at all.

The current Zhu Qiyu is still very different from the benevolent King Jingtai in history.

Zhu Qiyu's attitude now is very simple: you respectfully let the emperor and his family live in the imperial palace in Fengyang, the central capital, and you will have endless glory and wealth.

But if you insist on staying in Beijing to raise an argument, then I’m sorry, I also have a large family, and they are also old and young, women and children, and they also need to survive.

If you refuse to leave, my beloved concubines and my sons and daughters will all be killed sooner or later.

It wasn't until the afternoon, when it was getting dark, that Zhu Qiyu told He Yi: "Do justice, issue an order to An Guogong and Wu Dinghou to lift the martial law in the capital."

He Yi asked: "Your Majesty, will the martial law be lifted, including the palace?"

Zhu Qiyu nodded.

In fact, martial law has no practical significance to Zhu Qiyu, it is used to set off the atmosphere and show off force.

The common people in the capital may not all care about the political situation.These internal conflicts in the royal family are at best a topic of conversation after dinner, and quite a few people don't care.

But after such a martial law, most of the people in the capital will take the initiative to understand the reasons for the martial law.

In this way, within three days, the news of the inner court eunuch poisoning the prince and blaming the emperor will reach everyone's ears.

Then, after a little bit of public opinion guidance, the spearhead will be directed at Queen Mother Sun and the Sun family.

As for the purpose of showing off force, it is even simpler: let everyone inside and outside the capital, as well as the ruling and opposition parties, know that the emperor can control the army and can defend it.Whoever dares to commit rebellion will only be brutally suppressed.

When it was time for dinner, news came from the capital.The two princes were critically ill, especially the third prince, who was younger and more fragile, and couldn't hold it anymore.

Zhu Qiyu was helpless after hearing this.Things have come to this point, to be honest, Zhu Qiyu himself doesn't understand what the eunuchs in Nangong are doing.

Strictly speaking, only two or three of the sixteen concubines dedicated to Zhu Qizhen were considered as Zhu Qiyu's placement, but they could not participate in such a major event.

The other women in Nangong are all from Zhu Qizhen.

Little eunuchs like Zhang Min are far from being trusted, and can only be said to be able to exert a little influence on them.

As for the rest of the people, Xing'an, Chen Xiang, Ruan Lang, Cao Jixiang and others are all real trusted followers of Zhu Qizhen.

In other words, Zhu Qiyu's influence on Nangong is actually very limited.

So Zhu Qiyu came up with a bold idea: he judged wrongly, the eunuchs or concubines in Nangong were really fighting among themselves.

Even the eunuchs and concubines of Nangong united together to stir up trouble secretly, adding fuel to the flames of the entire poisoning incident.

I always thought that under the huge external pressure, Nangong would temporarily become monolithic. It seems that I still underestimated human nature.

Xing'an and Ruan Lang are Zhu Qizhen's hard-core confidantes that have been proven by history.That problem may be caused by Chen Xiang and Cao Jixiang.

Well, yes, although all the palace servants of the Shangshan Supervisor have been imprisoned, someone still has to cook for the masters of the palace.

So Zhu Qiyu made another decree, ordering Chen Xiang to concurrently serve as the supervisor of Shangshan, and has the right to temporarily recruit personnel and materials from Guanglu Temple.

To the south of Shangshanjian, next to it is Guanglu Temple.

Although the cooks of Guanglu Temple may not be as good as the imperial cooks of the Shangshan Supervisor, it is better than letting the emperor's family go hungry.

The messenger stepped on his horse and delivered the decree to Nangong within an hour.

Chen Xiang successfully took back the Shangshan prison again, he couldn't help being overjoyed, and immediately went to the Shangshan prison to arrange meals.

However, despite Zhu Qiyu's good intentions, the Emperor Gongrang's family almost didn't have dinner.

Everyone was terrified, fearing that a bite of food would not be eaten well, so they followed.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next day, the news spread in the capital.

But civil and military officials were surprisingly quiet.

Even the Kodao speaker had nothing to say for a moment.

This sudden incident cannot be dealt with by everyone.

And the ministers couldn't play it.Before the Jingtai Dynasty, there had always been a tacit understanding between the royal family and the ministers: they did not recognize the possibility of the royal family being assassinated.

After today's son ascended the throne, he publicly admitted that the son-in-law captain Shi Jing had murdered Princess Shunde, and sentenced him to Lingchi.

But in the end, when Princess Shunde was killed, she had already married out of the palace, so it was not considered a disaster in the palace, and Daming never paid much attention to the princess.

But now that the prince is poisoned in Nangong, once he is publicly convicted, it will completely break the rules and admit that the royal family may be assassinated.

Therefore, the ministers were unwilling to go to the forum to discuss it, and they were unwilling to disclose the matter, let alone point it at the empress dowager.

Zhu Qiyu didn't care about it, the people in the capital would discuss it.You used public opinion to fight against me before, now it's time for me to use the other way and give it back.

Public opinion will coerce you to play.

The parties faced each other in silence for several days.

The direction of the wind in the entire capital is extremely strange: there are a lot of discussions among the people, and the court is as calm as water.

On April 24, the calm was finally broken.

An obituary spread all over the capital: the third prince died of a serious illness and died in the middle of the night on April 23.

Concubine Wan Chen was so sad that she fainted four or five times in a row.Gongrang the emperor was furious and demanded a thorough investigation of the Shangshan Supervisor.

Zhu Qiyu got up early in the morning, just washed up, and then waited for the court officials to arrive.

Just these few days, Zhu Qiyu stayed up all night.

When I came to Qingyun Pavilion today, all the ministers saw it: the emperor's eyes were red and bloodshot, and his face was full of despair and helplessness.

Seeing this situation, the ministers could only express sympathy and comfort to the emperor.

Zhu Qiyu sighed heavily, then waved his hands feebly: "Tell me all of you."

When everyone heard the words, they all looked at Wang Wen.

Wang Wen stood up and replied helplessly: "My Majesty, the humble minister is incompetent. The Metropolitan Procuratorate, together with the Ministry of Criminal Justice and Dali Temple, interrogated the palace officials involved for many days, but they still failed to make them confess their crimes and confess to the envoy."

Xiao Weizhen, Minister of Dali Temple, immediately stood up and played: "Your Majesty, the Sanfa Division has done its best, so please ask Your Majesty to order Jin Yiwei to take over."

Zhu Qiyu nodded: "Let Menda and Lu Gao, commanders of Jinyiwei, take over. They are still locked up in the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Order Menda and Lu Gao to go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate for interrogation."

Everyone agrees on this point. If someone is imprisoned in Jinyiwei Prison, there is a risk of being murdered and silenced.Relatively speaking, the Metropolitan Procuratorate is much safer.

Zhu Qiyu added: "I will send my own troops to temporarily defend the Metropolitan Procuratorate until the case is concluded."

When everyone heard this, they were silent in their hearts. The "pro-military" mentioned by the emperor certainly did not refer to Jin Yiwei.

In the Jingtai Dynasty, Dongchang and Jinyiwei were not trusted and valued by the emperor, and their sense of existence was extremely low, which is a good thing.

Next, Chen Xun asked for instructions on the arrangements for the funeral of the third son of the emperor.

Zhu Qiyu thought for a moment, and then replied: "Chase him as the King of England, and give him a dignified burial as a prince."

Everyone also had no objection, Chen Xun replied: "Your Majesty, respectfully let the emperor request that the Empress Zhou and the Crown Prince also be moved to live in Nangong, and his attitude is extremely firm, and the ministers dare not obey the imperial edict without His Majesty's order.

How to reply to the Emperor Gongrang, I also ask the Holy One to show me. "

This is something Zhu Qiyu himself did not think of.According to Zhu Qiyu's speculation, the reason why Zhu Qizhen made such a request was because he was suspicious of Queen Zhou and wanted to call her to her side for supervision.

The second is to ensure the safety of the crown prince.After all, Queen Zhou and the Crown Prince live in Kunning Palace, so it is more convenient for the villain to do it.Moved to Nangong, beside Zhu Qizhen, others still have some scruples.

And if you are in a hurry, you can close the gate of Nangong and stand still.

(End of this chapter)