Chapter 164: The Empress Dowager Collapses

After the Imperial Garden tour, the Empress Dowager's body and bones plummeted and fell into a state of dying. Every day is day and night, there is less time to be awake, more time to be in a coma, and even when you are awake, you can't say that you are completely awake, and you have begun to speak incoherently.

He called King Xiang's nickname many times.

But King Xiang is already in Luchuan.

After all, the Empress Dowager did not wait for the birth of the prince. On June 15, he died.

Three months ahead of history.

But I don't know if this Zhu Qizhen is more worried about him than the orthodoxy in history.

The death of the Empress Dowager made the whole country grieve together, and the world was silent.

During the Yongle period, when competing for the throne with the King of Han, the Empress Dowager participated in it, and after Renzong ascended the throne, she participated in almost all major political **.

If Emperor Renzong is the proposer of the policy of resting with the people, then the Empress Dowager is the person who implements this idea, since Renzong ascended the throne, to the present nearly two years, although the frontier can not be said to be without beacon fire, but there is no big war in the sea, and the people have recovered from the rush and hard work in the Yongle years.

Although Zhu Qizhen has proposed such a big project as Hebei water conservancy, Yu Qian is a capable minister after all, and under his auspices, he dare not say that the people have not suffered from construction, at least very few people have died because of water conservancy projects.

Even Zhu Qizhen had to admit it. The people were able to be stopped, and the power of the Queen Mother was greater.

Therefore, the Empress Dowager has high prestige not only in the officialdom, but also among the people.

Whether Zhu Qizhen is really sad, or in order to inherit the political prestige of the Empress Dowager, he can only do a big deal about the Empress Dowager's funeral. Zhu Qizhen personally supported the spirit, and the funeral specifications were so large that he followed up with Xuanzong's funeral.

And this funeral has become the biggest event in the seven years of orthodoxy.

After this funeral.

Zhu Qizhen took refuge in the temple and didn't see anyone.

The palace was worried and had to ask the queen to persuade him.

In the temple, it is a place to worship the ancestors and ancestors.

Zhu Qizhen sat on the futon, and in front of him were Taizu, Taizong, Renzong, Xuanzong, and the portraits of the four emperors were lined up.

Zhu Qizhen sat here, as if he was defending his thesis, accepting the questions of these emperors.

No, Zhu Qizhen is accepting his own questioning.

His feelings for the Empress Dowager have always been complicated.

The imaginary enemy of politics at the beginning, and the pillar of his heart later.

In doing many things, Zhu Qizhen can do it boldly, the reason is very simple, there is the Queen Mother. The Empress Dowager can cover for him.

It's like when you were a kid.

As soon as the Empress Dowager went, Zhu Qizhen first felt relieved in his heart, because no matter whether the mountains spoke or not, where the mountains were, they were a force in themselves

Pressure.

No matter how far the Empress Dowager is still in power, as long as the Empress Dowager lives, her words can cause a major political impact.

It is impossible for Zhu Qizhen to do anything without taking into account the opinions of the Empress Dowager.

The Empress Dowager is gone, and this pressure is gone.

Is this a good thing for Zhu Qizhen?

No, the reliance in my heart is gone.

At this moment, he has really become a loner, and he had some doubts in his heart before, and he can choose to talk to the Queen Mother, but now, who can he talk to?

Yang Pu, Yu Qian, Wang Zhi, Cao Nai, Zhang Fu, Hu Hu?

No kidding.

How could Zhu Qizhen talk to them from the bottom of his heart.

They are all Zhu Qizhen's right-hand men and ministers of the humerus, but they are also Zhu Qizhen's opponents and enemies.

Only he knows the world and what direction he wants to take it. He felt like a blind swordsman.

I don't know where I'm going, I don't know where my enemies are coming from, I don't know where my friends are coming from.

The only thing that can be done is to walk forward, step by step, and draw your sword and slash at any sound that comes close.

As for the path he chose, whether it could really lead to light or darkness, even Zhu Qizhen himself was shaken.

The purpose of Wang Anshi's reform is not necessarily not good, whether Wang Anshi is a traitor or a famous minister, but I have to admit that the old and new party disputes caused by Wang Anshi's reform directly led to the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty.

There are many things that Zhu Qizhen hadn't thought about before, but at the moment, he analyzed them carefully.

If a man grows up in an instant, it is when he realizes that there is no one to rely on, all of whom rely on himself.

It's like the throne of the Fengtian Temple, it looks very gorgeous, but behind it is the Nine Dragons Pillar, which has a dragon-shaped relief on it, which is unreliable, and the distance between the two sides is very far, and it is impossible to put your hands on the armrests.

You have to sit up straight.

Zhu Qizhen reflected on himself in his heart and forgot the time for a while.

Suddenly, she heard a knock on the door of the Taimiao, and Qian Wan'er walked into the Taimiao with a basket and a big belly.

As soon as she entered the temple, Qian Wan'er's breathing became tight.

This place is like an ancestral hall for ordinary people, and outsiders are generally not allowed to enter, even Qian Wan'er is not qualified, which is why the people below have to invite the queen over.

Zhu Qizhen immediately helped Qian Wan'er over and said, "Why are you here?" ”

Qian Wan'er said, "Your Majesty, you've been in there for several hours. The people below were worried, so they asked me to call. ”

Zhu Qizhen looked at the sky and said, "I'm worried about you." ”

After a long time in ancient times, Zhu Qizhen also learned to see the sun with one hand

The skill of reading the hours.

Qian Wan'er said: "Your Majesty bears the weight of the world, the Empress Dowager is gone, even if Your Majesty is sad, you can't be like this, the concubine wants to come, the Empress Dowager is in the spirit of the sky, and she will not let you be like this." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "I know. ”

Although Zhu Qizhen was sad about the death of the Empress Dowager in his heart, there was an element. But very little. Because Zhu Qizhen has long since transformed into a political figure, he may have such and such disguises, but in essence, his interpretation of the death of the Empress Dowager is interpreted from a political **.

Qian Wan'er grabbed Zhu Qizhen's hand with both hands and said, "Your Majesty, even if there is no Empress Dowager, you still have the Queen Mother, me, and the child." ”

"You're going to pull yourself together even for us."

Zhu Qizhen looked at Qian Wan'er, and his heart was touched.

He could see that the girl in front of him was in love with him. He was originally fulfilling the obligations of an emperor, because the harem was harmonious, so that he could spend more time on court politics.

Speaking of which, the time he spent pondering Yang Pu's thoughts was far more than the time he spent thinking about the queen.

But this fool moved his true feelings so easily.

Zhu Qizhen smiled slightly and said, "I know, I will cheer up." Zhu Qizhen helped Qian Wan'er and said, "Let's go, I'm hungry, it's always not good to eat in front of the ancestors and ancestors." ”

Qian Wan'er's face turned red and complained: "It's not that you didn't eat at noon, I just brought some snacks in." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Good, good, good, it's my fault." ”

In this way, Zhu Qizhen helped Qian Wan'er out of the Taimiao.

The afternoon sun shone in front of them, blurring their figures.

The portraits on the walls, looking at their backs with inexplicable eyes, seem to be like divine light.

With the departure of the Empress Dowager, the influential figures in the Yongle period have also become part of history with their stories, but Zhu Qizhen has to step on their afterglow and continue to move forward.

The era of the Empress Dowager is over, and it is also over, from the Hongxi period to the present, I dare not say that it is absolutely peaceful, but it is a relatively peaceful era.

But with the departure of the Empress Dowager, the sound of war drums from the grassland has been eager to try.

Twenty years of peace have continued, but every remaining day of peace is precious.

A thread that has been taut is under the combined pressure of the monarchs on both sides, waiting for the day when it will break.

Zhu Qizhen's era is mixed with blood and light, and it is coming step by step.

It's just that he doesn't know whether it's light or darkness. But he could only go on on his own terms.

A war from Liaodong, Xuanda, Yulin, Ningxia, Gansu, and Hami slowly kicked off.