The discussion of Xu Buji in the world is still continuing, and it has begun to become more and more intense, and what really opened the curtain of this war is a song from Henan.

The identity of the official who wrote this letter is not too prominent, just a left-hand senator, an official of the fifth grade, and his background is also very simple, Han Linlang was born, and he once served as the president of Jiangxi University, a typical academic official.

This official directly wrote a letter to Zhu Yunwen, the content of which roughly means that the East Palace has not yet been established, and there is no need to determine the prince and master first.

You can postpone it for a few years, wait until the East Palace agrees, and select the best recruiters according to the situation of the prince, and at the end of the year, Zhu Yunwen is at the peak of the Spring and Autumn Period, and the princes under his knees are also talented, so he can put aside the idea of establishing a prince for the time being, and then take the examination for a few more years, and wait for several princes except Wenkui and Wenqi to grow up and merge into the Shi exercise, and consider it according to the national conditions.

At first glance, this is just a letter of harmony and mud, but it has completely become the beginning of a great upheaval in officialdom.

Zhu Yunwen participated in a big court meeting, and read this song out of Shuangxi at the big court meeting, and asked at the end.

"Really?"

As a direct party to the incident, Xu Buji's answer is, of course, to avoid suspicion and humility.

"The virtue is thin and talented, He Yanxi occupies the position of the third duke, and I hope that His Majesty will take back his life."

Almost the next moment when Xu Buji's humble words fell, the official Shangshu, who was also from Suzhou, stood up and opened his mouth.

"The crown prince and the prince are the important positions of the country, how can there be any reason to say it in vain, not to mention that since Your Majesty has been entitled, it is the greatest affirmation of Xu Ge's achievements in power, and the minister thinks that Xu Ge Lao is competent enough to serve as the prince and prince."

For a time, the court was divided into two factions, first in the cabinet, Wang Yusen and Kuang Yihe stood up successively and thought that Xu Buji's addition of the title of prince and teacher was appropriate, and there was no reason for virtue to be unworthy.

Zhu Yunwen's eyes fell on Zhu Wenkui.

"The cabinet ministers and the ministers of the ministries have spoken one after another, Wen Kui, you are the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, please also express your opinions."

Zhu Wenkui, who couldn't keep silent when he drove the ducks to the shelves, had no choice but to stand up and say stubbornly: "Erchen secretly thinks that Xu Ge Lao is in a proper position as the prince and teacher, and he is completely worthy of the heavy responsibility. ”

The die is cast!

When Zhu Wenkui opened his mouth to express his promise of not being jealous, there was no need for this court meeting to continue to discuss.

Zhu Yunwen snorted and said indifferently: "Henan's performance is completely a speech that ignores the overall situation, so let's go back to my hometown." ”

The first official to be dismissed because of this incident appeared!

Above the court, those Beijing officials who had openly opposed Xu Buji earlier felt nervous all over, and they felt that the end was coming.

They have actually made the most serious mistake of the political line.

As the saying goes, standing on the wrong line.

Although Zhu Yunwen didn't have trouble coming to these officials in the court, after the scattered dynasty left, the moment Xu Buji walked out of the Fengtian Hall and looked back, the hearts of this group of court officials were completely cold.

As they expected, less than a month after the meeting, the cabinet began to demote, transfer, and dismiss nearly 100 officials in Beijing one after another in various ways.

A political storm destined to spread across the country began to brew.

"Ge Lao, how should this new official be promoted?"

Above the officialdom, a radish and a pit, go to the old one, there will naturally be a new top, and there will never be a shortage of officials in the reserve echelon to fill it.

When the official secretary Shangshu found Xu Buji's mansion to ask for advice, the latter scolded him directly.

"How did you choose you to be the secretary of the ministry, and you still need to ask me?

Is it that there is no order in the Ministry of Officials and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, or do you have any relatives in the family of the Ministry of Officials who need to be arranged, who has the ability to change whom, who can do a good job of the new responsibilities after the new job will be promoted, you don't even know the basic principles of recording officials, you can still ask with a shy face, I don't think you can do it. ”

In this way, Xu Buji, who was originally a fellow countryman, was dismissed by Xu Buji the next day because of such a clever question, and it became a joke in the officialdom.

However, Xu Buji's attitude also made everyone understand that this great turmoil is not that Xu Buji intends to exclude dissidents, but because of political opinions, a large number of old bureaucrats with the wrong political line must be abolished.

Or, the reason why Xu Buji did this was just to save his life, and in front of Zhu Yunwen, he made a upright and impartial posture, so as not to make himself fall into the image of an unauthorized minister in the eyes of the emperor.

Regardless of whether it is true or not, the courtiers still respect Xu Buji, except for Zhu Wenqi of Quanzhou.

When he learned the news from Nanjing, Zhu Wenqi sat down completely in his office.

No matter how Zhu Wenqi thought about it, he couldn't understand what could make his father trust Xu Buji so much, and even put on such a big show, the purpose was to clear all the opponents of Xu Buji's official position?

First added the title of prince and prince to Xu Buji, then encouraged local provincial officials to express their political opinions, and finally, all those who opposed Xu Buji were replaced or directly deposed.

"Father, this is simply giving Jiangshan Sheji to Xu Buji!"

Zhu Wenqi gritted his teeth angrily, jumped to his feet in the office and scolded Xu Buji.

"The traitorous minister is in power, the disaster is disturbed, the disturbance is superb, it should be killed, it should be killed!"

After scolding, Zhu Wenqi was still angry in his heart, and immediately rushed to the big companion who was urinating next to him and said: "Prepare the car, this palace is going to Nanjing to face the saint!" ”

It's time to prepare for the last stand.

The road to Beijing was smooth, including when entering Chengtianmen, Zhu Wenqi did not feel the slightest obstacle, and the chariot arrived all the way to the Qianqing Gate, and waited for Zhu Yunwen's summons.

"Who told you to come back?"

saw his son, but Zhu Yunwen's face was not good-looking, and his face was cold.

"There are so many things in Quanzhou, you say throw it down, you just throw it away, what kind of official are you doing, bastard!"

In the face of Zhu Yunwen's criticism, Zhu Wenqi had no intention of making a mistake, kneeling on the ground and holding his head, complacent and unconvinced.

"Father, the son is here, just to ask the father to face up to the changes in the court, Xu is not jealous of this fang, and can no longer be the head of the cabinet, if the father continues to be arrogant of this person, in the future, our Zhu family will change the surname Xu."

"You are presumptuous!"

Zhu Yunwen really blew his lungs in anger, kicked a few steps down the imperial steps, slapped Zhu Wenqi in the face, and leaned the latter back, but soon knelt down again, with bloodshot at the corners of his mouth, and looked at Zhu Yunwen with tears in his eyes, full of grievances and dissatisfaction.

"Family and country affairs, Jiangshan Sheji, when will it be your turn to teach me what to do!"

Zhu Yun gasped angrily, pointed at Zhu Wenqi's nose and scolded: "Don't be Lao Tzu who doesn't understand what your kid thinks in his heart, you never want to hide those bullshit tricks in your heart in front of Lao Tzu." ”

"If the father thinks about his sons like this, the sons have nothing to say, but the sons just don't accept it."

Zhu Wenqi gritted his teeth, and his mouth was hard and ruthless: "Xu Buji does have some ability, but this person is arrogant and domineering, after this time he was crowned as a Taishi, in just one month, from the center to the locality, he actually dismissed and replaced nearly 3,000 officials, if Your Majesty is in charge, all the officials in this world should be out of the Xu Mansion and become his private protégé Xu Buji!"

Father, you can still suppress him if you are alive, if you are gone, the eldest brother will be the emperor, and the third and fourth will be the emperor, who can still suppress him. ”

As soon as the words came out, the entire warm pavilion was silent, and Shuangxi's eyes widened in shock.

Zhu Yunwen trembled with anger and sat down on the table.

"You're looking forward to my death now, aren't you?"

"Erchen has no such thoughts." Zhu Wenqi smashed down, and his beard turned red in an instant, oozing a few drops of blood.

"Everyone in the world calls the emperor long live, but it is an indisputable fact that the great-grandfather emperor was called for more than 30 years and still died of serious illness. If the father didn't prepare early, wouldn't he have to wait until Xu Buji's tail was too big to learn from his great-grandfather, open the butcher's knife, and eliminate the ministers.

If he is so unreasonable, and the unjust case is punished, then the father's hard work for more than 20 years will not be in vain, so the sons only want to ask their father to dismiss Xu Buji. ”

"Huh." Zhu Yunwen sneered twice: "Remove him, how about you come to be the first assistant of the cabinet?" ”

"The retainers are not worthy."

"You still know you're unworthy!" With a bang, Zhu Yunwen slapped the case: "What are you worthy, is the prince worthy!" Or is it more desirable for Lao Tzu to give you the position directly. ”

"Is that a rat matched at both ends?" Zhu Wenqi raised his neck and asked, which made Zhu Yunwen stunned.

After being silent for a moment, Zhu Yunwen said in a deep voice: "Who do you say is the head of the rat at both ends?" ”

"Who else but big brother."

There is also no way out at all, Zhu Wenqi simply put everything on the bright side: "The eldest brother is convinced of Xu Buji in his heart, your father should know best, today's affairs, the eldest brother turned to support Xu Buji, isn't this the two ends of the first rat." In order to comply with the wishes of his father, he openly ignored the harm of Xu Buji's sitting on the society, what is the difference between this style and those flattering princes and ministers. ”

"So, I'm a faint king in your eyes now, right?"

At this moment, Zhu Yunwen really felt that his heart was cold: "It seems that I made you the prefect of Quanzhou wrong, I should let you be the commander of the Nanjing garrison, so that you can bring the soldiers to me, and force me to abdicate with a knife and a gun." ”

"Erchen never thought of it!"

Zhu Wenqi's eyes wept: "Since ancient times, the monarch wants his ministers to die, and the ministers do not die because they are disloyal, and the father wants the son to die, and the son does not die because of unfilial piety." Even if the father and the emperor give death, the son will never be disgraced and unfilial.

But what Erchen said, every sentence from the bottom of his heart, the eldest brother acted this time, and changed his position as the eldest son of the emperor at will, how could it be done by the king, Erchen knew that he was wrong, and he was willing to make a mistake to the end, and he would not regret it until he died. ”

"You've taught me."

Zhu Yunwen's smile was even colder: "I quit drinking after I was drunk and made a mistake, and I have never been involved in it for more than ten years, who said that if you are a gentleman, you can't know your mistakes and regret your mistakes?"

Those who don't change their mistakes are not called emperor domineering, it's just a hard mouth and sticking gold on their faces.

The importance of the country, where is the turn of the emperor to act willfully, the mistake must be changed, otherwise what will happen to the livelihood of tens of millions or hundreds of millions of people in the world.

When you yourself were in Quanzhou, you also said that only those who carry a country are qualified to be called emperors, and there is no reason to make the people suffer for the emperor's faults, and now you tell me in turn that being an emperor must be wrong to the end, and you must be arbitrary, and I think you are the first rat at both ends! After so many years of basic politics, I have learned it in the belly of a dog!

Don't be high-sounding, what is for the country, for the community, the selfishness in your heart, I am your father, I can see through it at a glance, and your fox tail can't be hidden here at all. ”

After scolding a few more words, Zhu Yunwen was completely tired and waved his hand: "Don't go back to Quanzhou, I see that you have been a prefect for a few years, but you have to remember that this is what I gave you, and I can give it to you and you can take it all back, from now on you will be a worker or a farmer, whatever you want, get out." ”

For what reason did Zhu Wenqi insist on opposing Xu Buji.

Is it really just a private gap with Xu Buji, or as Zhu Wenqi himself said, is he worried that Xu Buji will sit big and endanger Zhu Ming's imperial power.

Judging from the election of officials after the turmoil, Xu Buji did not take this opportunity to install his so-called party henchmen, fellow villagers, and old people, which is also Xu Buji's consistent style as an official for more than ten years.

Zhu Wenqi has always been smart, and there is no reason why he can't see it.

It's just that this kid is not only smart, but too selfish.

Because he wants to be emperor.

A prince who doesn't want to be an emperor is not a good boy.

Who in the world doesn't want to be an emperor?

Zhu Wenqi wants to do it, Zhu Wenkui also wants to do it, and Zhu Yunwen's other sons want to do it.

This is normal.

But what Zhu Wenqi wants to be is a real emperor, an emperor like Zhu Yunwen.

Instead of releasing power to the cabinet, like the Zhao and Song dynasties, the emperor of the world.

The power of the cabinet is constantly increasing and dividing the imperial power, so is such an emperor still qualified to be called an emperor?

During the military parade, Zhu Wenqi admired his god-like father infinitely, so Zhu Wenqi also wanted to be such an emperor.

Then, the supreme power must be held in the hands.

With the constitution of heaven in his mouth, he follows the law.

Based on this, Zhu Wenqi chose to break the cauldron and sink the boat, hoping that Zhu Yunwen would take back his life and fight Xu Buji.

But for now, he has to die and come back to life, which should be a failure.

Outside the door, several little eunuchs walked in, dragged Zhu Wenqi with a sad face and left.

This is equivalent to directly pronouncing Zhu Wenqi's fate.

To be a worker, to be a peasant?

"Go to your mother's, say goodbye, and go wherever you want in the future, and I won't ask again."

This was the last sentence of Zhu Yunwen that Zhu Wenqi heard before he was dragged away from the warm pavilion, and at the same time, Zhu Wenqi also knew that in the next few decades, he would probably not be able to hear his father's voice.

After arriving in the harem and telling the reason, Gu Jing directly covered her mouth and looked at the baby son kneeling in front of her with teary eyes.

As a mother, Gu Jing never thought that seeing her son, such a happy and festive thing, would be a birth and separation.

"You're confused."

Although she is a concubine, Gu Jing is a palace maid after all, and she has never thought about anything wrong for decades, how to top Ma Enhui as the queen, and how to let her son compete for the position of the prince, and she will be a queen mother or something in the future.

These Gu Jing never thought about it, never did.

From a palace maid to an imperial concubine, this is already the biggest and biggest dream in Gu Jing's life.

"Why do you want to disobey your father?"

Gu Jingshi wanted to slap Zhu Wenqi a few times, but with her weak personality, she finally put it down in vain after raising her hand several times, and she could only cry when she was angry.

"Because my son is not convinced."

Zhu Wenqi bit his lip: "My son is not convinced, and my son has never lost to his eldest brother, including in this matter." ”

When he chose to write a letter to Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Wenqi had already considered it.

"The eldest brother told me back then that he was very dissatisfied with Xu Buji, but my son never thought that the eldest brother would be so unclaimant, and after seeing his father's intentions, he immediately changed his position to support Xu Buji.

If you don't have such a firm position, how can you be worthy of being a prince, how can you be worthy of leading such a great country in the future, and how can you be worthy of leading the entire Minglian! Therefore, the sons and daughters did the opposite, broke the kettle and went directly to their father, but the father was confused. ”

"You're still hard-mouthed until now."

Gu Jing was also angry, crying and scolding: "Haven't you faced up to your mistakes at all, get up quickly, and go to your father with your mother to confess your mistakes and repent." ”

"I never missed it."

Enduring crying and grievances, Zhu Wenqi knocked three times in a row, got up, and said goodbye in a sad voice: "Mother, the son-in-law is leaving, you have to take care of your body." ”

Zhu Wenqi left very simply, only when he walked out of the Chengtian Gate, he looked back at the palaces and palaces with infinite nostalgia.

Looking at the coachman who had been guarding himself all the time, Zhu Wenqi smiled bitterly, took out a gold medal from his arms and handed it over.

"In the future, you don't have to accompany me, and I have nothing to give you, if you take this brand and melt it, you should be able to replace it for more than half of your life."

The coachman took it in silence, as if he knew everything, and while he was waiting, the Imperial Front Division had already sent someone to inform him.

Zhu Yunwen took back everything from Zhu Wenqi, and this coachman from Jinyiwei naturally would not continue to defend him Zhu Wenqi.

"This is a letter addressed to Your Highness."

Looking at the letter handed by the coachman, Zhu Wenqi took it and looked at it, laughed low after a while, and finally raised his head and laughed, tearing it to pieces.

"What a mockery, the dragon swims in shallow water and is played by shrimp, hahahaha."

The letter was written by Xu Buji, and the content was very simple, only five words.

"Congratulations to the second prince."

This is simply a handful of salt directly sprinkled on Zhu Wenqi's wound.

And just when Zhu Wenqi was miserable and miserable, in the Wenhua Palace, an edict was sent in.

"Immediately promote Beiping City to the Beijing Prefecture, change the original Beiping Political Envoy Department to Hebei Political Envoy Division, appoint Zhu Wenkui as the deputy of the Hanlin Academy and the Beijing Prefect, and tomorrow will take up his post, and the cabinet, together with the ministries and departments of Nanjing, will move the capital to Beijing on the first day of October."

Once the decree is decreed, the overall situation will be decided.

Although Zhu Yunwen did not directly appoint the crown prince, everyone believed that Zhu Wenkui was the prince.

The Hanlin Academy is a reserve school for central cadres, and as the deputy of the Hanlin Academy and the prefect of the capital, it is properly prepared to take over.

Moreover, the book of the Ministry of Rites is only the second product, and the Hanlin Academy is clear that it is the first product, and the deputy of the academy is naturally from the first product.

A senior member, the highest rank in officialdom.

When everyone's eyes looked at Zhu Wenkui again, there was humility and respect in their eyes.

Zhu Wenkui, who was only the person concerned, looked outside the palace gate, and seemed to see a lonely and desolate figure through layers of barriers.

He sighed heavily.

"Wenqi, you are confused."