The death of Emperor Chongzhen, in fact, the imperial court and the harem have been prepared for a long time.

As early as the beginning of the year, after Emperor Chongzhen suddenly fainted, his consciousness woke up from time to time, and he had been hanging on to his life by relying on the medicine stickers used by the imperial doctors in the palace.

The disease of Emperor Chongzhen was the stroke that the ancients heard about, in fact, after the Taiyi disease was diagnosed, the Ming cabinet began to sit up and prepare for its future.

The emperor's mausoleum does not need to be worried about the cabinet ministers, as early as the beginning of Chongzhen's succession, the imperial court has begun to build a mausoleum for him, and it has been completed for more than 20 years.

And what the ministers need to prepare is actually before and after Emperor Chongzhen's return to heaven, so that the entire imperial court power will be safely handed over to the crown prince Zhu Cihong.

When Chongzhen was alive, his character was originally strong for a long time, but before the royal capital moved south, the positions of the cabinet ministers and ministers in the court were constantly in and out, and the imperial power in his hands was unprecedentedly concentrated.

Although after the royal capital moved south to Yingtianfu, Emperor Chongzhen gradually began to control his emotions, and no longer wantonly suppressed his subordinates as he did when he was the capital of Shuntianfu, but after years of accumulation, he also made his subordinates tremble and panic when they did things.

Fortunately, after he suffered a stroke, he couldn't ignore the government, and the crown prince Zhu Cihong gradually began to supervise the country with the help of ministers, but the death of Emperor Chongzhen did not cause too much political turmoil.

However, although Zhu Cihong has been on the throne of the crown prince for twenty-three years, there are competitors such as Yongwang Zhu Cizhi and Lingwang Zhu Cihuan by his side.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong was born to Emperor Chongzhen's original wife Empress Zhou, and he is the eldest son, so he can be regarded as the eldest son of the root and the red land, and it is logical to inherit the throne.

However, behind the Yongwang Zhu Cizhi and the Spirit King Zhu Cihuan, they were born to Emperor Chongzhen's most favored Tian Guifei, and behind Tian Guifei, there was a family of officials and eunuchs who were not small.

Tian Guifei also knew that if she didn't fight at this time, then when everything settled, it would be extremely difficult for her and her three princes to see each other in the palace again.

Even if he knew that the possibility of fighting for the throne was not high, and the ratio of the forces supporting the crown prince and supporting King Yong in the court was about two to one, Tian Guifei and the forces behind her still wanted to fight again.

The struggle for imperial power has always been extremely dangerous, and at the same time, it is a matter of rich returns, so even the six ministers who are already extremely popular ministers are inevitably caught in it, which makes a wave in the court.

When he received a secret letter from the emperor about his death, he also received a letter from Jiang Fengyuan, the first assistant minister of the central cabinet, asking for help.

Shoufu Jiang Fengyuan was originally the prince's teacher, and he was the head of the lecturer when he was in the East Palace, and later after Emperor Chongzhen suffered a stroke, he was promoted to the position of the head of the sword, in fact, he had clearly informed the outside world that Emperor Chongzhen had chosen.

However, King Yong's seat teacher is not idle, but Qian Qianyi, the secretary of the household department of the imperial court, as a member of the Donglin Party, his power in the court cannot be underestimated.

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Therefore, seeing that the struggle for imperial power between the DPRK and China was unstable, the first assistant Jiang Fengyuan first thought of helping, which was the old man of the Ming Prince, Taifu Sun Chuanting, who was far away in Luoyang.

As long as Sun Chuanting, who has more than half of the Ming Dynasty's troops, sits in the royal capital of Tianfu City, and clearly expresses his support for the prince's land, then the slightest party struggle in the court will be stopped.

Inspector Sun Chuanting also knew the reason why Jiang Fengyuan was worried, so even if the Xuzhou Mansion was still unstable at this time, and the officers and soldiers in the army had not recovered from the previous defeat, he had to hurry to Yingtianfu City.

Sun Chuanting knew very well that at this time, the Ming court must not have any more turmoil, otherwise it would occupy half of the northern country, and the Hongtang army that had already fought the Yellow River would take the opportunity to continue to advance and completely destroy the centuries-old foundation of the Ming Dynasty.

After Ying Tianfu ushered in the most authoritative and capable big man in the Ming Dynasty, he was originally in a stormy government, but as expected, according to Jiang Fengyuan's thoughts, there was not much action.

Inspector Sun Chuanting entered the royal capital, in addition to worshiping Chongzhen, the first thing he did next was to go to meet the crown prince Zhu Cihong, which directly showed his attitude.

A group of Donglin party members headed by Qian Qianyi, although they were unwilling at this time, but they were helpless, if Emperor Chongzhen overthrew Wei Zhongxian's eunuch party before, the Donglin Party was its most important helper, then in the next 20 years of government councils, the Donglin Party's high and unpragmatic spiritual attitude also made Emperor Chongzhen clear.

Like Emperor Chongzhen, even if the Donglin Party received a lot of help from the Donglin Party when he ascended the throne before, but when it came to actually doing things, the Donglin Party people were unable to deal with it, so that Emperor Chongzhen did not hesitate to expel most of his ministers from the court.

Therefore, the strength of the Donglin Party may still be quite small among the people, but in terms of the imperial cabinet, they are much less influential than when Chongzhen first ascended the throne.

By the side of the crown prince Zhu Cihong, Chongzhen was negligent in discipline, but when choosing a teacher, Emperor Chongzhen still did his best to do some effort, at least the Donglin Party had a good talk about chaos, but in fact, the useless scholar was directly stopped by Chongzhen outside the Duanben Palace.

Now, when the imperial power is handed over, if the Donglin Party wants to re-enter the political center stage, it is bound to find another prince who can be used by them and send him to the dragon chair.

It's just a pity that although the civil power of the Donglin Party is not small, they can only admit defeat in the face of Jiang Fengyuan, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, and Sun Chuanting, the crown prince and grandson, who hold real power.

Seven days after Chongzhen's burial, the new emperor Zhu Cihong ascended the throne and changed the Yuan to Jianlong, which began another dynasty story.

And the historical figure that Li Tianyang was most familiar with once came to an end, and the whole world trend finally began to become the existence of a familiar scene that Li Tianyang could not see no matter what.

After staying in Yingtianfu for more than half a month, Sun Chuanting once again returned to Xuzhou Mansion in the dust, waiting for Hongtang's southward army to attack again.

However, in return for supporting Emperor Jianlong's accession to the throne, Sun Chuanting reported his comparison of the strength of Hongtang's army and his next response to the imperial court, which was unanimously recognized by the imperial court and gave him full support.

Of course, it is not that there are no courtiers who have come forward to attack it, after all, the plan formulated by Sun Chuanting is too ugly, and he even has to give up a large area of land on the north bank of the Yangtze River, which is too unbelievable and incompetent in the eyes of many ministers who have not been on the battlefield and have not fought with the Hongtang army in person.

However, Sun Chuanting's years of accumulation, as well as the trust and support of the new emperor's first assistant, finally allowed his strategy to be approved.