The Emperor of the Apocalypse died, and the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty died, but the Ming Dynasty has to continue to be inherited, and only in this way can the interests of all people be stabilized.

Birth, old age, sickness and death are natural laws, and even if there are too many doubts in between, what can be done?

This must be investigated, but the inheritance must be carried out.

After all, this country cannot be without a king for a day, and the society cannot be without an emperor.

Moreover, the current Ming Dynasty is not really stable and healthy, and the increasingly fierce civil unrest in Shaanxi and Gansu is almost full of cabinet books.

Whether it is counterinsurgency, disaster relief, or the selection of officials, this needs to be finalized by the Ming Emperor!

Not only these, but more importantly, who can support the new monarch to ascend the throne and become the emperor in this special period, then make a minister from the dragon, and his future prospects are absolutely limitless.

It turns out that human desires are endless.

Especially for people who have experienced failure, their hearts are desperate for power, because they are fed up with that state of cold eyes.

People are selfish and short-sighted, not everyone can see the future trend clearly, let alone find out everyone's development situation, they can only make judgments based on the present.

Concubine Li Kang, Concubine Zheng Guifei, and Empress Zhang, these are the three forces represented by the current court.

Because of the aftermath brought by Zhao Zongwu, Empress Zhang, the emperor of the Apocalypse in this life, did not have the kind of life recorded in history, and gave birth to a white and fat child, so she lived better than anyone else.

Now that the Emperor of the Apocalypse is dead, although he did not set up a crown prince during his lifetime, as the eldest prince born to the queen, he has a unique advantage, but the queen Zhang was born in an ordinary official family after all, and the allies around her are not as many as imagined.

On the contrary, it is Concubine Li Kang and Concubine Zheng Guifei, who are deep and have a lot of power, and they are also determined to win this competition for the storage position.

If you don't succeed, it means eternal depression!

With all these thoughts, the inner court, which had been silent for many days, became lively again, and the forces led by Concubine Li Kang and Concubine Zheng Guifei gathered, and Empress Zhang only learned the news after being reminded by Wei Zhongxian.

It is worth pondering that the forces gathered in the inner court this time do not have the shadow of the Ming Dynasty, not even one.

This seems to be a potential tacit understanding, since the change of the civil fort, the Ming army suffered a heavy blow, and the Ming lords of the martial heirloom gradually faded out of the court, although all dynasties have nobles in power, but that is also mostly the favor of the emperors of the past dynasties, and it really has nothing to do with the old nobles.

As a result, the nobles headed by the Duke of England, the Duke of Chengguo, and the Duke of Pingguo did not come.

Sometimes these civil officials of the Ming Dynasty just take themselves too seriously, and they always feel that the current situation is still as it was in the heyday of the past, and everything is what they say!

As everyone knows, at the time of the rise of Jiannu, after the rebellion of Zhao Zongwu, the Duke of Dingguo, became a trend, Wei Zhongxian and his party showed off their might, and the civil power was gradually declining.

Why don't the British play out?

Because they are all waiting for an opportunity.

"A kingdom cannot be without a king for a day! Today's Ming Dynasty still needs to be inherited, but the Daxing Emperor has not established a prince, and now the Ming Dynasty is in danger, when the new monarch ......"

On such a major occasion, it is definitely necessary to have a small minion to make an opening statement, to lay the foundation for suppressing other forces for the object of his allegiance.

In this kind of unnutritious rip-off, time passed little by little, and the people gathered in the Qianqing Palace slowly dissipated their original reserves, and were replaced by aggressiveness in order to obtain power.

Originally, only the officials of various forces competed here, but in the end, the mainstream became the leaders of all parties, such as Concubine Li Kang, such as Zheng Guifei, such as Empress Zhang, such as Wei Zhongxian, and ......

Everyone kept arguing over the empty throne in front of them, and even the officials under them kept arguing, just like a vegetable market.

Concubine Li Kang's expression was a little resentful, but her eyes became more and more determined, and she said: "The election of the second prince by this palace is not simply for his own selfish interests, thinking that the eldest prince is weak and sick, if he is suddenly elected to the throne, if something unexpected happens, it will definitely be a big deal!"

This emperor is not so easy to be!

This palace has experienced such a thing, and this heart understands that the current Ming Dynasty can not experience such a tragedy again, once this kind of thing happens, I am afraid that the country will be ......."

The example given by Concubine Li Kang is the example of Emperor Taichang and Emperor Tianqi ascending the throne one after another, and it is precisely because of this phenomenon that the Ming Dynasty has twists and turns, and finally evolved into the current situation.

After listening to Concubine Li Kang's story, Empress Zhang's face looked ugly, she had never thought of things at this level, but when she thought of her emperor's frail and sickly body, she was also worried about it.

Listening to Concubine Li Kang's story, Wei Zhongxian didn't think so.

Now all forces must choose the most beneficial candidate for themselves, such as that Concubine Li Kang wants to protect the second prince, if in this game, Concubine Li Kang can win, then her status can be taken to the next level, originally the name of Concubine Kang was obtained from the Emperor of the Apocalypse when she bribed Wei Zhongxian, after all, Concubine Li Kang is the adoptive mother of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, although the previous memories are not so good, but after all, she is also the adoptive mother of the Emperor of the Apocalypse!

If Concubine Li Kang wins in the end, I am afraid that she will become Empress Zhang, who is above the biological mother of the second prince Fan, and is promoted to the queen mother according to the etiquette system.

At that time, there will be Wei Zhongxian, Zheng Guifei, what is the matter with them?

Stay where it's cool!

In the same way, Zheng Guifei wants to protect the three princes, and once Zheng Guifei's plan succeeds, then Zhu Changxun, the blessed king who is far away in Luoyang, will take this opportunity to return to Beijing, and then he will take advantage of the opportunity to grasp the authority step by step, so that although he is not the emperor, he enjoys no different treatment from the emperor.

At that time, Wei Zhongxian and Concubine Li Kang will stay where they are cool......

But no matter which of the above two situations occurs, this will be unfavorable to Wei Zhongxian, but Empress Zhang, maybe her son has not become the emperor, maybe he can't hold great authority, but in terms of etiquette, she is also the orthodox queen mother, of course, it's just an empty shelf.

In such a situation, Wei Zhongxian definitely didn't want to let his authority disappear for no reason, he definitely wanted to fight for it to the maximum!

"Concubine Li Kang, I don't dare to agree with your rhetoric!" Cui Chengxiu stood up indifferently, bowed to the dragon chair hanging in the air, and then said: "In terms of etiquette, the prince born by the queen is the most legal, listening to what Concubine Li Kang said today, it is as if my Ming Emperor's throne is a sword mountain and a sea of fire, if the eldest prince ascends the throne and becomes the emperor, he will die tragically?" ”

Cui Chengxiu is worthy of being the minion next to Wei Zhongxian, with just one look, he realized what his factory father meant, and immediately reacted.

And after listening to what Cui Chengxiu said, Concubine Li Kang was so choked that she couldn't speak at all, even if Concubine Li Kang was arrogant, but at this time she couldn't find the words to fight back.

"Huh." Concubine Zheng Guifei, who was beside her, said with a smile at this time: "Cui Shangshu's words are a bit too targeted, the state affairs are busy, and this palace knows better than anyone else in his heart, in the final analysis, this is the family matter of the Zhu family, who will be the emperor and who will inherit the throne, it should be agreed by the royal family."

As a courtier, you have at most one suggestion qualification, you keep talking about etiquette, so please ask Cui Shangshu to tell the palace, which one of the etiquette laws makes you dare to be so domineering!! In the end, Concubine Zheng's face became gloomy.

As far as the general trend is concerned, although Wei Zhongxian absolutely controls the court situation, because Zhao Zongwu came back to do these things, the desires of many people in Beijing have been released, which also makes Zheng Guifei and Li Kangfei dare to stand up, the reason is that there are many ministers behind them to support, and even some nobles have already stood up.

For the sake of this throne, they constantly argued here, and at this time, His Royal Highness King Xin, who was originally recuperating at home, appeared at the palace gate in good spirits at this time.

Because Zhao Zongwu sent a letter to the palace to confront him, this finally made Zhu Youzhen make up his mind in his heart, no matter what, he must become the emperor, if he can't become the emperor smoothly, Zhao Zongwu alone dares to ride on his neck and, not to mention that Zhao Zongwu has such a big revelation in his hands.

So at the request of the three strategists around him, Guo Mingling, Zhang Changsi, and Kong Minxin, Zhu Youzhen decided to have an upright game.

The Qianqing Palace on this day is destined to be unusual, no one would have thought that Zhu Youzhen, who has no influence on weekdays, would actually appear at this time, let alone that he would unite many officials, and those officials who should have been behind Concubine Li Kang and Concubine Zheng Guifei actually recommended Zhu Youzhen in a grand manner.

It's incredible.

The sudden change made Concubine Li Kang and Concubine Zheng Guifei already stunned, and even Wei Zhongxian didn't expect such a change.

Wei Zhongxian didn't know how Zhu Youzhen did it, he could gather so many officials in Beijing to help him quietly, and at the same time, Wei Zhongxian also remembered what Zhao Zongwu had said, it seems that all the speculations that Zhao Zongwu had speculated before were true!

Only now it's too late to know all this.

And at this moment, Zhao Zongwu, who had been precipitating for a long time, gathered his Jinyi Guard's large army also arrived, looking at the Forbidden City in front of him, Zhao Zongwu knew in his heart that this would be a fateful game.

Zhu Youzhen, he can't be the emperor at all!!!