Zhu Houzhao saw that several officials showed regret, except for Ma Wensheng, the secretary of the ministry, Jiao Fang, the left attendant of the ministry, and Xu Jin, the left attendant of the military department, all shook their heads.

Zhu Houzhao was pleased in his heart, thinking that this showed that no one among these civil officials could not guess the cause of Emperor Hongzhi's death, nor did no one sympathize with Emperor Hongzhi's death, nor did all of them have no dissatisfaction with the three pavilion elders.

Now except for Empress Zhang, who is still sobbing, Zhu Houzhao and Baiguan are not crying anymore, and the scene is stiff for a while.

"Your Highness, you have also heard His Majesty's edict, you must follow the three pavilion elders to learn to govern the world in the future!"

Zhang Yu spoke again at this time.

Zhu Houzhao could hear the meaning of Zhang Yu's words, and the implication was to remind himself to hurry up and say something like "the world will please ask the three elders", because only in this way can the three elders get the support of the three elders, and the three elders will kneel down and call themselves "Your Majesty", and then all the officials will also call themselves "Your Majesty!" ”

Zhu Hou illuminated that this is the joint efforts of the inner court and the cabinet to force himself, the emperor, to be soft, and to force himself to lower his posture.

In this way, it will be difficult for him to become an emperor who adheres to the dynasty alone, after all, he will be suppressed in terms of momentum, and if he is suppressed by civil officials at this time, he will be completely suppressed in the future.

I want to be the emperor who says everything, how can I let you get your wish!

Zhu Houzhao knew that he was now seriously asking why they didn't worship him, it would definitely go against his simple and ignorant character, so he still hugged Queen Zhang like a child and cried:

"Queen Mother, they don't seem to want me to be the emperor, they want to give my father's country to others, you see they don't kneel to me! Whining! Mother, are we going to be killed by them? ”

Although it is normal for a fifteen-year-old boy to say such shocking words hysterically when his father died, for many officials, it is just a heart-wrenching statement.

No matter how much the civil officials and eunuchs dare to harm Zhu Houzhao, they don't dare to know what to do with Zhu Houzhao!

Therefore, now that Zhu Houzhao said this, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian, who were waiting for Zhu Houzhao to salute him first, suddenly turned pale with fright, and they were deeply afraid that they would be reprimanded by other officials and nobles who sympathized with the royal family faction and wanted to usurp power and mess with the government.

Even the celebrant Zhang Yu was so frightened that he didn't know what to say.

After hearing this, Ma Wensheng, the secretary of the ministry, felt more pity for Zhu Houzhao and Empress Zhang, and saw that the orphans and widows were so frightened and felt that they were ashamed of Emperor Hongzhi, so he immediately knelt down first:

"Wechen don't dare! Wechen knocks to see His Majesty the new Emperor! Long live my emperor, long live, long live! ”

The official department is a heavenly official, in charge of the power of the officials, has always been the only official position to fight against the cabinet, and Ma Wensheng is a veteran of the four dynasties, and there are many of his protégés in the court.

"Wechen knocks to see His Majesty the new Emperor! Long live my emperor, long live, long live! ”

Zhu Houzhao saw that this was very satisfactory, and thought that his goal had been achieved, so he didn't need to ask the elders of the three cabinets of your cabinet first, and let many civil officials worship him first, and now look at the elders of your cabinet or not, if you don't worship, you don't want to set up yourself as a prince, and you want to bully the monarch!

Liu Jian, the first assistant of the cabinet, Li Dongyang, the second assistant, and Xie Qian, the third assistant, all had crooked nostrils at this time!

But they weren't angry, Zhu Houzhao was angry, it was Ma Wensheng.

In their opinion, Zhu Houzhao is just a child talking nonsense, after all, the emperor of the city government knows that at this time, how can he not make the prince the emperor, wouldn't it be a big chaos in the world!

Originally, Zhu Houzhao was talking nonsense, saying that these civil officials didn't want to set him up, and their three pavilion elders still wanted to explain it well, and asked Zhu Houzhao to make a promise to follow the laws of his ancestors before kneeling down to him, but these three pavilion elders didn't expect that Ma Wensheng and other officials would directly deprive them of the power to represent the civil official group and kneel down to Zhu Houzhao first.

Liu Jian, the first assistant of the cabinet, glanced at the second assistant Li Dongyang and the third assistant Xie Qian, and then sighed helplessly, and then knelt down as well: "Knock on Your Majesty the new emperor, long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

Li Dongyang and Xie Qian also knelt down and shouted long live to Zhu Houzhaoshan.

There is no way, Ma Wensheng, a heavyweight official, has knelt down, they can't help but kneel, if they don't kneel, they will really be said to be a rebellion of the Ming Dynasty!

But what made them angry was that the first credit for supporting the new monarch was actually given a gun by Ma Wensheng!

The elders of the three pavilions knelt down, and the officials such as the Shangshu Shilang who followed the old party of the three pavilions also knelt down.

The eunuch Zhang Yu also knelt down, as an internal official, he was still a minister on the surface, and the foreign ministers were all kneeling, if he didn't kneel, it wouldn't be like it.

In this way, Zhu Houzhao was supported by all officials.

Zhu Houzhao continued to wipe his tears from his eyes, pretending to be stupid and refused to say that he would like to say that he would like to be invited, and now he has successfully made these old foxes worship him, and he has not made any compromises, which cannot but be said to be the first step to success.

Liu Jian played with the concubine for a long time last night, and his waist and knees were already sore, but now he has been kneeling on the ground, so he has to carry a pleading tone:

"Your Majesty, Emperor Daxing is newly mourned, there is no owner in the world, I hope that Your Majesty will deny himself and grieve, ascend the throne early, and ascend the throne one day!"

"Hongu is sad! Father, father! I can't stop these tears, and I don't know why, I want to cry enough! Zhu Houzhao burst into tears and roared.

Zhu Houzhao was sad, so that Ma Wensheng and other ministers loyal to Emperor Hongzhi were very moved when they heard it, but Li Dongyang and others had to look more painful, so they could only kneel honestly, the prince was benevolent and filial, and he was sad and weeping because of his father, and he couldn't help but let his family cry enough, and he had to cry with him.

Li Dongyang couldn't stand kneeling, the weather was already hot, and they were wearing thick clothes, and Emperor Hongzhi was frugal and didn't even use ice cubes, kneeling on the ground was like kneeling in a steamer, so he couldn't help but kowtow to Zhu Houzhao and said:

"Your Majesty, the world is looking forward to governance, begging Your Majesty to mourn and change, ascend to the throne early, and immediately establish the date of enthronement by the Ministry of Rites!"

Xie Qian also hurriedly said: "It should be so, please don't hurt the dragon body, please don't hurt your majesty, be considerate of your subordinates!" ”

Zhu Houzhao was proud in his heart, seeing that these people were almost kneeling, the three pavilion elders also gave a soft statement that they wanted to establish the day of accession to the throne, so they hurriedly sobbed and said: "Aiqing, please get up, I don't know what to do in this palace, you can watch it." ”

Liu Jian and other cabinet scholars were satisfied in their hearts, and they already had some suspicions that Zhu Houzhao might deliberately play with his cabinet ministers like this, but when they saw that he was still talking with childishness, calling himself from the palace, they still thought that Zhu Houzhao was an unreasonable child, so it was naturally easy to manipulate.

Seeing this, Ma Wensheng hurriedly reminded: "Your Majesty, you should call yourself me!" You are now the emperor, not the crown prince. ”

Zhu Houzhao nodded hurriedly: "What Ma Aiqing said is, I, I will leave the matter to you, it is getting late today, and I am going back to the room to rest." ”

Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian, the three elders, saw that Ma Wensheng had stolen the limelight again, and couldn't help but turn cold, and glanced at Ma Wensheng with unkind eyes.

Zhu Houzhao smiled secretly when he saw this, it is best to let Ma Wensheng fight with you, so that I can profit and control the government.