Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 425 The Empress Dowager Was Surprised by Inner Court Rumors The Sun Family’s Collegial Position Split
Even though the Right Minister of the Ministry of Punishment and the Zuo Deputy Du Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate are both of the third grade, it is not just a difference between a left and a right.

Nowadays, Guangxi and Yunnan are the frontiers of attacking Cochin.

The left deputy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the censor, the governor of Guangxi, and the counselor for military affairs, will make great contributions if they do it well.

And one more thing will happen in Guangxi next year: Guangxi native Huang Yu killed his younger brother and his family. In order to avoid the crime, he wrote a letter to ask Yi Chu.

Then Jingtai in history uttered his famous saying: Thousands of miles away, there is such a loyal minister.

In the end, Huang Zhen was not only acquitted, but also promoted several grades.

At that time, Li Tang, the governor of Guangxi, was completely defeated, and he immediately resigned from office and returned to his hometown.

Zhu Qiyu shook his head, in his own hands, there would never be such a childish political means, and then continued:

"Chen Jun, the head of the household department, was promoted to the doctor of the Guangxi Qingli Division of the household department.

Zeng Hui, a doctor in the Ministry of punishment, was promoted to Guangxi Youshenzheng.

Mou Feng, who was awarded the supervisory censor, patrolled Yunnan.

Xia Xun, awarded the supervisory censor, patrolled Guangxi.

Gao Ming, awarded the supervisory censor, patrolled Guangdong.

So be it, promote these six people today.

Tomorrow we will continue writing the will. "

After Suxi finished writing the edict, she couldn't help praising: "My husband is really interesting, now ministers play ministers, queen mothers play queen mothers, emperors play respectful emperors, husbands play husbands.

Everyone is going their own way, and no one is confronting them head-on. "

Zhu Qiyu smiled and said: "It's like this when masters play tricks. In the early stage, there are countless foreshadowings and countless trials. When they are really handed over, within one or two moves, the winner and loser will be decided.

Let's play slowly, now Emperor Gongrang is still very sober and shrewd.

I want to confuse him step by step, and finally after he completely loses his correct judgment on the situation, the time to decide the outcome will come. "

Suxi smiled and said: "My husband really has calculated people, do you have any other intentions?"

Zhu Qiyu shook his head, Qianxue and Suxi went out to work around.

In the afternoon, these memorials made a big circle and returned to the cabinet.

Then, under Zhu Qizhen's explicit instructions, the cabinet approved Zou Ganzhi's proposal, and summoned the vassal prince to Beijing to review the case of poisoning the prince.

The reason why the cabinet approved it so quickly was that the emperor had agreed to summon the vassal king to Beijing to congratulate him and meet the emperor.After all, Gong let the emperor come back from Wala intact, and he also needed confirmation from the princes and clansmen.In case there is a problem in the future, everyone blames the emperor.

The most tiring one here is Wang Wen. As the emperor's most trusted cabinet minister, he has no way to meet the emperor, but also has to figure out the emperor's mind and lead the emperor's other trusted cabinet ministers to act.

It's really a test of the tacit understanding between the monarch and his ministers.

Fortunately, until now, Wang Wen has not made any omissions, which is extremely rare.

At the end of the day, Wang Wen had three more subordinates.

Li Tang just assumed the title of Zuo Fudu Yushi, and went to Guangxi to be the governor, and Wang Wen couldn't control him.

Mou Feng, Xia Xun, and Gao Ming were three new scholars who were appointed as supervisory censors, and they patrolled Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guangdong respectively.

Wang Wen has long understood that among this year's Jinshi, the earlier they are appointed, the more the emperor values ​​them.

In the recent political struggle, the emperor retreated step by step, showing weakness everywhere.But when it comes to employing people, the emperor is still very tough.

The more than 40 Xinke Jinshi who submitted letters to fight with the emperor all sat on the bench.Moreover, the emperor made no secret of the fact that the appointment of these people was done by the Ministry of Rites.

Every Jinshi, one person is sent to the six departments to observe politics.

However, it was the first time that more than 40 Xinke Jinshi were directly sent to the Ministry of Rites to observe politics.

But the emperor has long been used to absurdity, and no one would argue with the emperor because of these new scholars.

The rest of the Scholars had a bright future. Some were assigned to the Imperial Academy, and they worked part-time in the cabinet while working as scholars in the cabinet; Some of those who served as speech officials were assigned to Dali Temple, the Secretary of General Administration and other real power yamen for training.

Good things don't go out, bad things pass thousands of miles.

But it was said that Queen Mother Sun soon learned the news that Gong let the emperor summon the vassal king to Beijing.

Although Jin Yingyi's faction of eunuchs had been completely eliminated from the inner court, Gao Ping, the director of the Yinghua Palace, was given the position of eunuch Bingbi, the supervisor of ceremonies, so that Empress Dowager Sun could still keep informed of the situation in the court from the supervisor of ceremonies.

It's just that with Jin Ying's loss of power, Empress Dowager Sun had to rely more and more on Gao Ping.

When Gao Ping finished reporting the latest government situation, Empress Dowager Sun asked quietly: "Gao Ping, what do you think should be done next?"

Gao Ping replied: "The emperor summoned the vassal king to Beijing to remove the suspicion of the Sun family. The empress dowager need not worry."

Empress Dowager Sun shook her head: "Isn't this killing one thousand enemies and harming oneself eight hundred? Originally, the emperor didn't deliberately blame the Sun family for poisoning the prince.

Although the emperor's starting point for doing this is to keep a handle in his hand so that he can use it to restrain the palace.

But in this way, the situation is not unacceptable.Just keep quiet like this, and when the limelight passes, it will be fine.

But Qi Zhen insisted on arguing and making things bigger, for fear that others would not know that the Sun family was involved.

Now it's all over, everyone knows, everyone in the world is watching, and everyone knows that this palace and her family are suspected of poisoning the prince and framing the emperor.

You have given me the details for Ben Gong, what exactly is Qi Zhen thinking? "

"This one……"

Gao Ping hesitated and hesitated, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't dare to say it.

The Empress Dowager Sun saw Gao Ping's hesitant to speak, she knew the inside story at a glance, and quickly promised: "Gao Ping, don't worry, the only one I can rely on now is you.

If you can help me get through this difficult time, I will definitely reward you a lot. "

Hearing this, Gao Ping had no choice but to boldly reply: "Your servant will die, I have heard some rumors about the Empress Dowager these days."

"Oh? What rumor?"

Empress Dowager Sun immediately became interested.

"The Empress Dowager forgives the death penalty of the servant, and the servant dares to speak."

"Understood, don't be so long-winded, let's talk about it quickly."

Only then did Gao Ping reply: "Qi Madam, there have been rumors in the palace recently that His Majesty was not born of Madam Majesty, but was born to a prince by someone in the palace, who was secretly carried by the Empress Dowager and raised under his own name.

But His Majesty has become suspicious, and sent Xing'an, Chen Xiang, and Cao Jixiang to secretly investigate in the palace. "

The Empress Dowager Sun frowned tightly when she heard the words: "What a trick to sow discord, my son was so easily fooled? Is he stupid to send someone to investigate?
Once the emperor 'arranged' the evidence and asked him to 'verify' that he was not the real son of the palace, how could his orthodoxy exist?

At that time, "the truth will be revealed to the world", not only he, the "orthodox emperor", will become a joke, even the well-known crown prince will no longer have to be. "

The more Empress Dowager Sun talked, the more angry she was, she almost called Zhu Qizhen an idiot.

Gao Ping lowered his head, not daring to answer.Empress Dowager Sun scolded the emperor Gong Rang, she would have problems with whatever she said, and the safest choice was to shut up.

Empress Dowager Sun had scolded enough, and then looked at Gao Ping who had been bowing his head in silence. She was very satisfied, so she sighed and said to Gao Ping:

"Gao Ping, you go and order people Xuan Hui Changhou to enter the palace, as well as the elder brothers of the palace. It's already at this time, don't care what outsiders think, just let them all come."

Gao Ping quickly took orders and left.

An hour later, Sun Zhong brought Sun Jizong and Sun Xianzong to Yinghua Hall.

After family rituals were performed and everyone sat down, Empress Dowager Sun ordered Gao Ping to tell the whole story again, and then asked his father and brother for their opinions.

Sun Zhong is the parent of the Sun family, so naturally Sun Zhong spoke first.

Sighing first, Sun Zhong persuaded: "The empress dowager, if the civil castle is defeated, let the emperor be captured, and when the son ascends the throne, then the Sun family is doomed.

In my opinion, let it be like this, the emperor has already spoken out, if we go any further, our Sun family will be wiped out.

The day before yesterday, the minister had already met the emperor, as long as our Sun family gave up their titles and returned to their hometown to farm; the queen mother and Gongrang the emperor took the whole family to live in Fengyang Palace.

Even if this is the case, the emperor promised not to delve into it.

As the saying goes, if you keep the green hills, you are not afraid of running out of firewood.It's better than our whole family dying. "

Empress Dowager Sun was very hesitant when she heard the words, she really didn't expect her father to say such a thing.

(End of this chapter)