Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 415 The Emperor Determined to Force Against Eunuchs
Zhu Qiyu has always been the one who loves women the most, so he personally held most of the notebooks and sent the three concubines not far from the palace gate.

Then the favorite concubines took the playbook from Zhu Qiyu's hand and carried it to the gate of the palace.

After leaving the palace gate, there are personal guards and eunuchs on duty, so there is no need for the concubines to do these rough jobs.

The favorite concubines went to deliver the playbook, while Zhu Qiyu wandered aimlessly among the mountains, rivers, streams and lakes along the path paved with white marble.

In recent days, Zhu Qiyu has not been idle, but has been thinking about a very serious question: should he take this opportunity to force Gong to let the emperor rebel.

According to the original plan, it should take another two or three years before forcing them to rebel.

Because Emperor Gong Rang rebelled as soon as he returned to Beijing, it seemed that there was no family affection between brothers.In the eyes of people all over the world, eating looks a bit too ugly.

Moreover, the court is not stable, and the hearts of the people have not yet returned. It seems that it is too eager to do it now.

However, the situation is constantly changing, and people's thinking is also changing along with it.Especially as the emperor, it is impossible to think what he thought when he first came to the throne, and what he still thinks now.

The current situation is very suitable for the emperor to rebel.

The third prince has passed away, and the second prince is seriously ill.The death of Empress Hu was thoroughly investigated, and the Sun family was in danger.Sanyang was liquidated and the national policy of Renxuan Dynasty's overall contraction was denied.

The hearts of the people have not yet been attached, and there are still many subjects and common people who want to be the 'orthodox emperor'.At this time, the wind direction of public opinion was tilting towards the Emperor Gongrang again.

Cao Jixiang had just participated in the battle to pacify the civil uprising in the southeast, and took advantage of the opportunity of the supervising army to recruit a group of dead servants under his command.At this time, there are still tens of thousands of soldiers from the old Beijing camp in Datong, and these people are all devoted to the emperor.

And I just transferred [-] pro-army troops to Shanxi, and my troops in the capital are a bit empty. I have a very legitimate reason to transfer another [-] Beijing soldiers stationed in Datong back to the defense.

In this way, I have created all the conditions for the emperor to rebel.

After this game is settled, Sun's title as queen mother can be abolished, and she can be completely confined.Then take the Queen Mother's seal and hand it over to the Queen Mother.

But Zhu Qiyu didn't dare to set a time limit for the plan this time, and he couldn't tell how long it would take for the chess game to be completed, it might be a month or two, or it might be half a year.

Zhu Qizhen and his subordinates Xing'an, Cao Jixiang and others are not that stupid, and the atmosphere is not in place, so they will not easily rebel.

This brings me back to the question: Why did Cao Jixiang, Cao Qin's uncle and nephew in history rebel?

The reasons given in the history books are all nonsense, and they are not in line with normal human nature at all.

Because anyone with a little brain, as long as they stand in Cao Jixiang's perspective, will understand that there is absolutely no possibility of success in rebellion.

As far as Cao Jixiang's people are concerned, even if he retreats ten million steps, he successfully invaded the imperial city and controlled the Sun family and Zhu Qizhen.

Then, can the capital be controlled?
Even if you take another ten million steps back, your character is against the sky, and even the capital is under control, aren't the civil servants, generals, and vassal kings in that place not diligent?Can you fight against the entire Ming Dynasty with thousands of people?

If you don't rebel, at most one or two people will be beheaded.After the rebellion, Cao Jixiang was tortured and the Cao family was exterminated.

Why bother is this?
Therefore, the change of Cao Qin in history is completely inconsistent with normal logic, let alone human nature.

God only knows what happened.

The only thing that makes Zhu Qiyu feel gratified is: history has proved that such a strange thing as eunuchs rebelling against them will really happen in reality.

Zhu Qiyu shook his head vigorously. This game of chess can only be manipulated by himself.You can't discuss with He Yi, Huang Pu and other confidantes, and you can't tell your favorite concubines.

If the king does not keep secrets, he will lose his ministers, and if his ministers do not keep secrets, he will lose his integrity. This is the most reasonable saying.

But in the afternoon, all the memorials were sent back to the cabinet.

All the playbooks about the request for establishment have not been approved.The reason was that the emperor was seriously ill and comatose, unable to see things.

Regardless of whether the cabinet scholars believe it or not, and whether the six ministries and nine ministers believe it or not, anyway, the officials do not believe it.

Soon, a large number of speech officials reached a new consensus: this time not only to suggest that the imperial court recruit women from all over the country, enrich the harem, and choose talents to establish a queen.Moreover, it is also strongly required that the emperor and the new empress stay in the Kunning Palace.

The reason is also very simple, the reason why the two princes were poisoned was all because there was no real queen in the harem.

If a new empress could be elected to take over the Kunning Palace and take charge of the harem, such disasters would naturally not happen again.

So the queen must be chosen, and there will be no compromise this time.

As for taking the current emperor's favorite concubine as the queen, the officials will never agree.

The public opinion is such an atmosphere now.

Wang Wen chose to sit idly by and let the censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate make as much noise as they like.

And Kou Shen, the censor of the right capital, became the leader of the censors.

The speech officials of the six subjects, led by Zou Gan, the Minister of Rites, all quoted scriptures and wrote excellent articles, completely forgetting the rule set by the emperor that no false words are allowed.

Among the inner courts, Xing'an was the busiest, sending letters back and forth between Nangong, Yinghuadian, and Lijian.

The Sun family and Zhu Qizhen are closely watching the movements of the government and the opposition.

Especially Zhu Qizhen, now that his condition has improved, and the current situation is moving in a direction favorable to him, he cheered up and summoned Chen Xun, Wei Ji, Yu Shiyue, and Zou Gan.

I don't know when, the Minister of Rites has become a favorite.

No matter what you do, you must first ask the Minister of Rites for his opinion to see if it is in line with the etiquette.

Zhu Qizhen sat upright, and asked the four ministers of the Ministry of Rites: "How is my brother's condition, can you visit me?"

Chen Xun replied: "Your Majesty, I went to visit, but I only saw the concubine. The concubine said that it is not convenient for foreign ministers to visit her majesty's residence, so there is no need to come to pay her respects. So I had to come back again."

Zhu Qizhen nodded, knowing that although Chen Xun said it lightly, in fact he might have been severely reprimanded by the concubine.Otherwise, these ministers, who are full of benevolence, morality, sages and etiquette, how could they give up.

Without entanglement, Zhu Qizhen continued to ask: "Have you visited the imperial physician?"

Chen Xun shook his head: "Your Majesty has not seen any imperial physician."

"Ah? How can this work? The emperor is sick, how can he not see the imperial doctor. You just came back like this? Why didn't you persuade me? Don't care about anything, what does the court want you to do?"

Unknowingly, Zhu Qizhen also began to reprimand him.

Chen Xun replied with a look of grievance: "I have tried to persuade you, and I have been persuading you more than ever. In the end, the concubine angrily reprimanded the officials and said: 'The emperor just doesn't see the imperial doctor, so it's useless to talk more.

If you have the ability, you can mobilize the army to attack Qi Wangfu.

As long as you can break through Prince Qi's Mansion, you can do whatever you want the imperial physician to treat the emperor, life and death are all up to you to fiddle with. '

The concubine uttered a theory of condemnation, saying that the ministers and others were spying on the privacy of the emperor, intending to raise troops to rebel.What could the minister do, he had no choice but to plead guilty and quit. "

Wei Ji, Yu Shiyue, and Zou Gan also nodded in agreement.

For these four ministers, the concubine is more difficult than the queen mother.

At least the queen mother must take into account her identity and influence in her words and deeds.

But the concubine didn't care at all, and no matter what she said, the ministers couldn't think of her.

The concubine was playing tricks, insisting that Chen Xun and others thought of rebelling and murdering the emperor.What are you going to do, scold the concubine, beat the concubine, or abolish the concubine?
Everyone had no choice but to leave in despair.

Zhu Qizhen asked helplessly: "Is the younger brother sick or not?"

Wei Ji replied: "You are not joking. Your Majesty said that he is sick, so it is a real illness. And when I attended the last court meeting, I did see that Your Majesty's eyes were bloodshot and his complexion was dim. It seemed that the body of a dragon was weak."

Zhu Qizhen nodded secretly, Wei Ji's words were still very reliable.Moreover, all the important ministers of the Xiaochaohui participated, everyone saw the emperor, and Wei Ji had no room for lying and making up.It seems that regardless of the severity, the younger brother is at least really sick.

After thinking for a while, Zhu Qizhen continued to ask: "Since my younger brother can't watch the court, who is in charge of the military and political affairs now?"

(End of this chapter)