Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 581 The emperor is determined to respect the Queen Mother’s cabinet and side with Liao Zhuang in prison
Lin Xiangyu asked a tricky question: "What will your husband wear to the Ancestral Temple tomorrow?"

Zhu Qiyu was asked: "Wearing casual clothes on such a solemn occasion tomorrow is a bit excessive.

But tomorrow I am going to depose the emperor. I will wear the emperor's crown, and then I will take off the eldest brother's crown in the middle and force him to put on the prince's clothes. It seems too petty to succeed.

Besides, I really don’t like wearing emperor’s clothes. I don’t like clothes that are too complicated. "

Lin Xiangyu smiled and said: "What a cunning and eccentric emperor. Then you can only ask your imperial concubine, His Highness Qiantose."

Ningxiang replied: "Don't you still have to ask? I have already prepared all my clothes. My white clothes and jade crown are my husband's favorite.

Lao Tzu has a saying: "Soldiers are an ominous weapon and are not the weapons of a gentleman. They should be used as a last resort. Tranquility is the best."

It is victorious but not beautiful, and those who are beautiful are happy to kill people.Those who kill people in Fule will not be able to succeed in the world.

Good things happen to the left, bad things happen to the right.The general on the left is on the left, and the general on the right is on the right. It is said that they will be treated as funerals.

Those who kill people will be mourned and mourned, and those who are victorious will be treated with funeral rites. '

My husband won both the last mutiny in the capital and this Oara invasion, but together he also killed 7 to [-] people, so it makes sense to wear white clothes.

Another meaning is that you are wearing white clothes to mourn the 50 soldiers, nobles, civil and military ministers who died in Tumubao.From this perspective, not to mention that the civil and military officials present could not refute. Even if the ancestors in the Ancestral Temple had spirits in heaven, they could not say that the husband was wrong.

Finally, as the saying goes, if you want to be pretty, be filial.White clothes and a jade crown can further show the husband's chic and elegant temperament.

It is much better than wearing the emperor's attire to give the onlookers the impression of a power-hungry man obsessed with profit. "

Zhu Qiyu nodded: "Good, the empress in the palace knows my heart well, so let's do it like this. You two will go tomorrow and serve the mother and concubine.

The Queen Mother's seal is in the hands of the mother-in-law. After the review tomorrow, the cabinet will prepare an edict in the name of the Queen Mother and then stamp it with the Queen Mother's seal.

Things like abolishing the Emperor's name cannot be done in my name. "

Lin Xiangyu asked: "Will your husband finally respect your mother as the empress dowager?"

Zhu Qiyu nodded affirmatively: "Well, not only for the convenience of deposing the emperor, but also to add insurance to the lives of our family.

If something goes wrong with me one day, my mother-in-law can appoint a new king in the name of the Queen Mother.Otherwise, if the name is not right and the words are not correct, then there will be a crown prince but no queen mother, and the trouble will be big. "

"My husband is very lively, what could go wrong? Don't say such unlucky words."

"Hey, just in case, it's best if nothing goes wrong."

After the discussion, Zhu Qiyu stayed at home to recharge his batteries.

At the same time, in the cabinet, important ministers confirmed their positions for the last time.

First of all, Neo-Confucian scholars like Wei Ji and Xue Xuan, who believed in Cheng and Zhu, were not in favor of abolishing the emperor.

But I don’t agree with it, nor am I particularly opposed to it.

After all, no matter how much you respect Cheng and Zhu, you cannot blatantly oppose Confucius and Mencius. "Mencius Wan Zhang I" clearly states: Confucius said: 'There are no two days in the sky, and there are no two kings in the people'.

"Book of Rites: Zeng Ziwen" also writes in black and white: "There are no two days in the sky, no two kings on the earth, no two masters of the family, no two superiors."

It was Zhu Xi who separated the two chapters of "The Great Learning" and "The Doctrine of the Mean" from the "Book of Rites" into a separate book, which together with the "Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius" formed the Four Books.

Therefore, as a Cheng-Zhu believer, it is wrong to openly overturn the "Book of Rites".

The fact is here, the emperor is completely fed up with the two saints being respected together.

Everyone on the way to the cabinet also saw that there were heavily armed emperor's troops everywhere.

Anyone with eyes can see that the emperor hopes that people will jump out to oppose the deposed emperor.Focusing the massacre is much less worrying than killing them one by one.As a master of Neo-Confucianism, Xue Xuan is thinking of a sentence from Lao Tzu: "Higher virtue is done without action but without thought; inferior virtue is done without action but with thought; superior benevolence is acted upon without thought; superior righteousness is acted upon but with thought."

If you don't respond to the gift, you will throw it away. '

Coincidentally, Wei Ji also thought of the next sentence of Lao Tzu: "Therefore, if you lose Tao, then you will be virtuous, if you lose virtue, then benevolence, if you lose benevolence, then righteousness, and if you lose righteousness, then etiquette."

A husband who is polite and loyal has little loyalty and is the head of chaos. '

Translated into vernacular: The emperor talked for a long time about morality, etiquette, feelings and family ties, trying his best to show warmth and brotherly respect, but in the end no one responded or appreciated.

There is no other choice but to follow what I said. If someone refuses to respond to the gift, then he will kill.

Etiquette cannot move you, but a steel knife can.

People like Wang Wen, Jiang Yuan, and He Wenyuan who have clearly been on the same team will not be entangled.

Technocrats like Zhou Chen don’t struggle.

After everyone played riddles for a while, Wang Wen asked: "It is a natural law that a mother is more valuable than her son. The country cannot be without a queen mother for a long time. I would like to write a letter and insist that the Holy Emperor honor the noble concubine Xuan Yi as the empress dowager. What do you think?"

All the people present understood that to dethrone Gong and give him the title of Emperor, the Queen Mother's decree was required.

Therefore, Wang Wen, the chief minister, was asking everyone to take sides. Agreeing to honor the Queen Mother was equivalent to agreeing to depose the emperor.

However, honoring Emperor Xuanyi's concubine as the empress dowager was indeed a matter of course, and no one could express any objection.

At the same time, this is also a decent step for everyone to step down.

In the end, everyone agreed.

Wang Wen was not surprised by this result at all. From Tumubao to the present, the important ministers who were loyal to Xuan Miao and Gong Rang Emperor include Zhang Fu, Wang Zuo, Kuang Ye, Cao Nai, Hu Xi, Wang Zhi, Wang Ao, Yu Qian, Yang Hong, Shi Pu, Jin Lian, Xu Qi, Zou Qian, Chen Yi, Li Xian and so on.

This large number of people died and walked away.All the important ministers who might have jumped out to oppose the emperor were dealt with.

It is precisely because of this that he came to the step of deposing the emperor.

The fact that the emperor, who has always acted cautiously, dared to propose deposing the emperor meant that there was no resistance to the matter.

Of all the cabinet ministers, ministers, and ministers in Beijing, only Liao Zhuang, the minister of rites, was still willing to play around.

But obviously, the emperor's crushing of Liao Zhuang to death was no different from crushing an ant to death.

Sure enough, in the afternoon, Liao Zhuang was sent to Jinyiwei Prison on the charge of writing documents to pay tribute to Xu Wala's mission.

If this crime is proven, there will basically be no need to live anymore.

In Jinyiwei's prison, Shu Liang took care of Ruan Lang and Wang Yao for the last time and confirmed that there were no problems, and then he felt relieved.

Seeing that Shu Liang was about to leave, Lu Gao hurriedly asked for instructions: "Duke Gong, how should this Liao village be judged?"

Shu Liang sneered: "If you come out to hang out, you have to pay back. I have a weird relationship with the emperor every day. I think I think the emperor is a living Bodhisattva."

Doesn't he like yin and yang? You just need to give him a breath. I don't need to teach you anything else, right? "

"I understand, I understand, I understand."

Lu Gao understood the idea and quickly followed the order.

That night, everyone involved had a lot of sleepless nights.

(End of this chapter)