Chapter 5 Queen Mother II

How to convince the Queen Mother?

If you want to convince someone, the most important thing is to move with emotion and reason.

For a woman, the most important thing is the former.

To be honest, Zhu Qizhen doesn't have much affection for the Queen Mother.

It's not that Zhu Qizhen is unfilial, but the relationship between the Queen Mother and Queen Sun is awkward, and Zhu Qizhen rarely goes to Cining Palace. And the royal family affection is weak, not because the royal family is naturally like this, but because of the situation.

Whether it is the Queen Mother or Zhu Qizhen's side, there are a group of people waiting for them, and the palaces of the two sides are far away, and it will take several miles to walk.

Zhu Qizhen rarely saw the Queen Mother except for asking for peace.

And feelings have always been cultivated.

Even if it is a biological mother and son, they have never lived together, and they can't talk about any feelings.

But Zhu Qizhen knew that the Queen Mother must have feelings for one person, that is, Emperor Xuanzong. This is his entry point, Zhu Qizhen fell to the ground, and said with a crying tone in his tone: "Grandson, I just want to survive." ”

The Queen Mother said angrily: "Who dares to kill you?" ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "How dare you not dare, Emperor Taizong entered Nanjing, what will happen to Prince Yiwen's lineage." The Wu Shu people are still inside the palace walls. Please read the queen mother's face in the face of her father, and give her grandson to death here, don't let her grandson be humiliated too much. ”

The Queen Mother finally turned her head and said, "Why is this so? ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Born as a prince, if you are not an emperor, it will naturally end up like this, how can your grandson be an exception, but after the death of your grandson, please ask the queen mother to take care of the second brother, and seal the domain in a remote miasma as soon as possible, or save your life in case of emergency." ”

The Queen Mother is old.

There are not many wrinkles on the queen mother's face, but most of her hair is gray, but she is very delicately dressed, and she is meticulous all over her body, but her face is expressionless, and her eyes are full of bloodshots.

I don't know if it was because I was sad about the death of Emperor Xuanzong, or because I was moved by Zhu Qizhen's words in front of me.

Zhu Qizhen didn't look up, continued to bury his head on the ground, and said: "Even if the queen mother doesn't miss her grandson, she must read it to her father, and she can't let her father cut off the incense." ”

The Queen Mother said: "Don't say it, you are the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, and no one can touch you." Get up. ”

Zhu Qizhen raised his head, I don't know when, he was already in tears, if before, there was still a trace of deliberateness, but after that, he said the fear in his heart.

The Queen Mother looked at Zhu Qizhen's face, and from between her eyebrows, she could still see the appearance of his son Emperor Xuanzong, and said, "You can rest assured, it will not end here." ”

If Zhu Qizhen's performance deceived the Queen Mother, he underestimated the Queen Mother.

Before the Empress Dowager Zhang's Jingjing, she was already married to Emperor Renzong, and she didn't know how many winds and waves she had seen. As for generals such as Zhang Fu.

She who has not seen.

Zhu Qizhen's little trick, if he can hide it from her.

It's just that she was so moved because what Zhu Qizhen said was the truth.

There is only the truth in the world, which hurts the most.

Zhu Qizhen thought that the Queen Mother was not close to him, so he had the idea of translocation, but he underestimated the Queen Mother.

It is true that Empress Sun spends the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, and protects Zhu Qizhen tightly, preventing the Queen Mother from touching it, almost moving, as if she is a fried cat.

It's just that his son Xuanzong regards this fox as the tip of his heart, such as this trivial matter, and he has a conflict with his son, but it is too much.

But it's not that the Queen Mother doesn't like him as a grandson. After all, it's her eldest son and eldest grandson, how can she not like it. It's just that when she has time, she thinks that it is not only a royal matter, but also the overall situation of the world.

Is the Ming Emperor easy to do?

Zhu Yuanzhang dismissed the prime minister, and the power belonged to the six ministries. It can be said that the power of the world is concentrated in the emperor. Zhu Yuanzhang is a workaholic, who gets up almost every five watches, sleeps at night, handles government affairs, and never talks about holidays.

Jianwen didn't say anything, Emperor Yongle took charge of the machine and attributed the affairs to the prince. The Empress Dowager has also seen Emperor Renzong handle government affairs in this way, even if there are cabinet scholars to share government affairs.

However, Neng Zhu is not a prime minister, and there are still a large number of affairs for the emperor to decide. In the Ming system established by Zhu Yuanzhang, what is needed is an adult emperor who can perform his duties normally.

There has never been a place for the young master.

And now there is a young master.

That is, before Zhu Qizhen became an adult. The power system of the Ming Dynasty will not be able to function normally.

This is the big thing that the Queen Mother has in mind, and it is definitely not because of a little estrangement between Zhu Qizhen and the Queen Mother.

It is because the Ming system has decided that it needs an adult monarch, that is, a long monarch.

Otherwise, changes will have to be made within the existing system.

Emperor Xuanzong has already realized this.

Emperor Xuanzong pushed everything to the Empress Dowager, and even gave the Empress Dowager the power to weigh the system.

At this time, there was hardly anyone who could restrain the Queen Mother.

If Empress Dowager Zhang wants to come to the court like many queen mothers of the previous generation, there is no hindrance.

But Empress Dowager Zhang can't and won't do this.

One is her body.

To be old is to be old.

If she was ten years younger, what would it be like to do this, but Zhu Qizhen is only nine years old now, and it will take ten years to be mentally mature and able to take on the responsibility of the emperor independently.

But does the Queen Mother have ten years?

If, in between, there is a case, and the emperor still can't govern in person, then who will replace her? Is it Empress Sun?

I have to say that Empress Dowager Zhang doesn't look down on Empress Sun for 10,000.

This is also for a reason, Empress Dowager Zhang's father is a commander, and her brother is a martyr, who has experienced so many ups and downs, and has long built Empress Dowager Zhang and participated in political affairs many times during the Xuande years.

For the things that are in charge of the world, Empress Dowager Zhang is confident and can do a good job.

But Empress Sun, in the eyes of Empress Dowager Zhang, is just a woman who doesn't know the general situation, and the matter after the abolition of Emperor Xuanzong is the stain on Emperor Xuanzong's life, even if it is a thousand years, it can't be washed away.

Behind this, it was all done by the Sun family.

Such a woman, who does not know the general situation and does not know what the world is, if she puts power in her hands, she does not know what the world will become of cholera.

Second, it is the Ming generation, from Emperor Taizu, who interfered very strictly in the harem, and the harem was not allowed to interfere in politics, and even the principle of choosing concubines can be seen.

The emperors of the Ming Dynasty married their wives in small families. 、

Empress Dowager Zhang is a special case.

She doesn't want to destroy the law of her ancestors, and she can see that how she really comes to the dynasty to weigh the system may not be a good thing for her mother's family.

So she had to think of another way.

Regency with the Prince. Isn't it?

King Yue is not in good health and has been lingering on the sickbed. In her opinion, among her three sons, the first person to leave would be King Yue, but she didn't want Emperor Xuanzong to go ahead.

Yue Wang is not available. The only thing that can be used is King Xiang.

King Xiang's talent, the Queen Mother knows.

He is a well-known virtuous king of the clan, both virtuous and pro.

It is precisely because of this that the Queen Mother unknowingly took the golden book of King Xiang.

From the very beginning, the Queen Mother had no intention of abolishing the establishment. It's just that some things are suspicious.

It's just that the Queen Mother is also hesitating.

Because she knows that it is easy to let King Xiang regent, but it is not easy to let King Xiang return to power. I can't say that the uncle and nephew are going to meet each other.

The palms and backs of her hands are full of meat, how can she bear it.

In history, Empress Dowager Zhang hid the golden book of King Xiang in the palace and kept it secret, and only seven days later did she make orthodoxy ascend the throne and let Wang Zhen hold the power of red with the eunuch of ceremonies.

That is, the Empress Dowager Zhang, this decision opened the history of the Ming Dynasty and the eunuchs as the internal ministers.

Empress Dowager Zhang made the most appropriate arrangements during the period of the young emperor and had to reuse the eunuchs, because it was easiest to recover power from the eunuchs.

And it is precisely because it is so easy that the emperors of the later generations of the Ming Dynasty have introduced eunuchs into the government, so that it has become a precedent.

These changes were not something that Empress Dowager Zhang could think of at that time.

However, what Zhu Qizhen did in this matter affected Empress Dowager Zhang's choice after all.

Zhu Qizhen's small actions and performance in front of the Empress Dowager Zhang can't be hidden from the Empress Dowager Zhang. But it also impressed Empress Dowager Zhang.

Empress Dowager Zhang secretly said in her heart: "Could it be that this is my family's prodigy?" ”

Zhu Qizhen's performance made Empress Dowager Zhang have other plans.