Chapter 3 The Burning of the Hongde Temple
Zhu Youzhen saw that Wei Zhongxian's goods were soft, so he withdrew his gaze, and after scanning for a week, he found that Empress Zhang was nodding at him.
Zhu Youzhen also nodded at her, and he naturally understood the rules of resignation and resignation.
"Your Majesty has just passed away, and he is lonely and grief-stricken, and the ministers have stopped talking about it."
After Zhu Youzhen finished speaking, he wiped his tears.
The ministers who are kneeling are naturally not fools, they know more about the truth of three resignations and three concessions, after all, in the past seven years, three emperors have died in the Ming Dynasty, and they are very familiar with the process of the first emperor's funeral and the new emperor's accession to the throne.
Seeing that Zhu Youzhen cooperated with them in the performance, the ministers stopped persuading each other, and began to ponder the recital of the second persuasion in their hearts.
Zhu Youzhen was idle and had nothing to do, so he accompanied the waves of imperial relatives and important ministers who came to mourn and mourn, and by the way, he got to know them again.
On the same day, the courtiers began to persuade twice, and the last time there was a joint letter from the people from all over the Ming Dynasty, as well as auspicious people from all over the country.
Purple smoke was found on Mount Tai in Shandong, a clear spring emerged in the desert in the northwest, a giant dragon flashed in the southeast sea, and a seven-colored divine bird was found in the southwest.
Zhu Youzhen looked at the joint names of these people from all over the country, and then looked at the auspicious rui that emerged from all over the country.
Zhu Youzhen really wanted to say that there is no picture and no truth.
But then I looked at these gray-haired court officials, and I couldn't bear it, and it was not easy to get together so many materials in a few hours.
Zhu Youzhen finally reluctantly agreed, and then set to ascend the throne tomorrow.
The ministers were relieved when they heard this, for fear that this master would not understand the rules, and he would learn from Wang Mang's nine persuasions and nine blind tosses, so he quickly knelt down and shouted long live.
Zhu Youzhen waved his hand, signaling all the ministers to get up, and then walked to the head of the cabinet, the scholar of the Jianji Palace, Zuo Zhuguo, the prince and the secretary of the Ministry of Shangshu Huang Liji, and patted him on the shoulder.
"Time is tight, the task is heavy, work overtime at night, work hard, and work hard."
Huang Liji was stunned, and he didn't come to his senses for a long time.
When Zhu Youzhen walked out of the hall, he reacted and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed.
"The minister will live up to His Majesty's trust."
Zhu Youzhen walked outside the hall, heard Huang Liji's thanks, and then spit out the latter half of the sentence in his heart: "For the sake of your persuasion, I may be able to spare you a life." ”
Huang Liji is a person, and Zhu Youzhen is an understanding and a refined egoist.
Back then, in order to vote for Wei Zhongxian, he ignored the overall situation of Liaodong, and suggested that Wei Zhongxian kill Xiong Tingbi in Liaodong with the sentence "A piece of paper is deserved in the middle of the night", and Zhu Youzhen knew about this.
Later, with this extremely heavy vote, with the help of Wei Zhongxian, Huang Liji became the first assistant of the cabinet.
Now, seeing that the new emperor has ascended the throne, he quickly abandoned his ally Wei Zhongxian, and began to take the lead in persuasion, wanting to get the first share of Zhu Youzhen's political circle.
To deal with such political opportunists, Zhu Youzhen just said "get out."
After arranging for tomorrow's accession to the throne, Zhu Youzhen, who had cried for a day of mourning, was really tired, and went directly back to his temporary residence in the Forbidden City, Hongde Hall.
Zhu Youzhen, who returned to the Hongde Palace, drove out all the eunuchs who accompanied him, and collapsed on the bed alone.
This work is too tiring, much more tiring than the work of the old fritters before me.
After a while, I heard someone talking outside.
"Who's making a fuss outside?"
"Your Majesty, Huang Liji, the first assistant of the cabinet, asks to see you."
Zhu Youjian got up and sat down.
"Xuan."
Huang Liji entered the hall to salute, and after the salute, he explained the intention.
Huang Liji is here to communicate with Zhu Youzhen about the details of tomorrow's enthronement ceremony, mainly to remind Zhu Youzhen what he needs to do tomorrow, but don't show up on the day of his accession to the throne, it will be in the annals of celebrity history.
Of course Zhu Youzhen understands this truth, isn't it a rehearsal, he has done it before, and there will be rehearsals for major events held in the local area.
However, the leader will not go to the rehearsal, this is all done by the secretary, and on the day of the event, the secretary will guide in advance.
Of course, Zhu Youzhen, who is the acting emperor of the Ming Dynasty, will not go to the rehearsal of the enthronement ceremony, and has his own eunuchs to do the work, and on the day of his accession to the throne, there are also eunuchs to guide him.
For a few details of tomorrow's accession to the throne, Zhu Youzhen quickly remembered that Huang Liji originally wanted to communicate with Zhu Youzhen again to contact his feelings, but Zhu Youzhen then yawned, and Huang Liji saw this and retired empathetically.
No wonder faint kings like to use traitors, the main reason is that they are too empathetic, you can understand the traitors with a look and an action, and then arrange them for you properly, people's inferior nature, sometimes it is really difficult to overcome.
Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen began to understand the confessions of the heads who entered the previous unit.
"It's not that I'm not strong-willed, it's mainly that the criminals are too cunning, and there are bad people among the masses."
At night, Zhu Youzhen sent all the eunuchs around him out, and then went to the boat to get some food, and went to bed.
In a daze, Zhu Youzhen smelled a smell of smoke, and then choked him up.
Hongde Hall is gone.
But Zhu Youzhen was not in a hurry at all, listening to the shouts of "go to the water, go to the water" outside, but no one came to put out the fire for a long time, so he understood what happened.
With a slight turn of the ring on his hand, Zhu Youzhen disappeared into the Hongde Palace.
Back on the boat, the sun was still shining, and the time seemed to have not changed.
I drank a cold beer, ate two pieces of bacon, and measured the time.
Zhu Youzhen felt that the fire should be almost saved, and if it couldn't be saved, it was estimated that it would be burned out, so he returned to the palace in style.
Sure enough, the Hongde Hall was in ruins.
In the darkness, a group of eunuchs were crying and shouting, and their voices shook the sky.
Under the moonlight, a woman in plain clothes stood out.
"Look for it quickly, His Royal Highness King Xin must still be alive." His voice was hoarse with a hint of sadness.
"Niangniang, please mourn, blessings and misfortunes, I am afraid that His Royal Highness King Xin is already unexpected."
A sharp voice sounded, who could it be if it wasn't Wei Zhongxian's pickles.
"Wei Zhongxian, there is no thunderstorm and lightning today, and there is a fire in Hongde Palace, you must have caused the ghost."
Seeing that the situation between the DPRK and China had taken a turn for the worse, Zhang Yan was a little angry at this time, and her words were a little out of proportion.
"Oh, my thousand-year-old mother, you can't talk nonsense, it's common to walk in the palace, so why don't you do anything with me."
Zhu Youzhen stood quietly in the shadows to watch Wei Zhongxian's performance, and then touched the pistol with a silencer on his waist, and was ruthless, but he still held back.
"On this big night, everyone doesn't sleep, why did you come to my Hongde Palace?"
Zhu Youzhen came to everyone like a bell, and immediately scared Wei Zhongxian.
"Nine thousand years old, you have to hold on to your bones." Zhu Youzhen stepped forward to support Wei Zhongxian.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Majesty." Wei Zhongxian was a little incoherent and quickly knelt on the ground.
And Zhang Yan saw Zhu Youzhen standing here alive, and cried with joy for a while.
"Lonely out for a walk, this Hongde Hall burned like this, the palace needs to be more cautious in the fire prevention, in addition to this wooden structure of the hall is really easy to walk the water, in the future to see if it can be repaired, first draw up a charter for the Ministry of Engineering."
Zhu Youzhen circled around the ruins twice and said slowly.
The eunuchs and palace maids looked at Zhu Youzhen, who was like a divine help, and they all knelt on the ground, and they didn't dare to come out.
Zhu Youzhen saw that no one accepted him, so he was not annoyed, walked up to Zhang Yan and Queen Zhang, and gave a salute.
"The imperial sister-in-law doesn't have to worry, the lonely life has its own heavenly help, and the small people can't hurt the lonely."
When Zhang Yan heard this, she smiled with tears in her eyes, and then nodded vigorously.