Chapter 341: The Emperor's Cry

The so-called officials in the court, Mo provoke eunuchs, although the eunuchs have physical disabilities, and they do all the work of serving people in the palace, but the political energy of these people is not small. Not to mention that the internal officials of the Han and Tang dynasties were in trouble, and in the Ming Dynasty, where civil officials ruled the world, how many auxiliary ministers fell in the hands of eunuchs. Du Han beat the little eunuch, which not only did not conform to the etiquette system, but also caused a basket for the eight ministers. The eight ministers, who are half-kings and half-ministers, are really a little carried away.

The status of the eunuchs in the Qing Dynasty was very low, and the little eunuch who was beaten was an errand runner, and he did not have the energy to be an important minister, but he could complain, and he could gossip. So that night, the queen mother of the two palaces knew that the eight ministers wanted to stay in the middle of the fold, and she lost her temper and beat the eunuch. The honest Empress Dowager East is still worried about annoying the eight ministers, but the competitive Empress Dowager West is already angry and wants to scratch the wall.

In the eyes of the Empress Dowager Xi, her son is the emperor, she herself is the empress dowager, and the eight ministers are just their courtiers. The eight ministers actually wanted to return to the middle of the book, that is, they committed the following crimes, which was to despise and challenge their power. Where are there such ministers in all dynasties, and the eight ministers are going to rebel. She also made up her mind that when she "met" tomorrow, she would give the eight ministers a good look.

When it really came time to "meet", both parties were angry and wanted to give each other some color. Without waiting for the eight ministers to speak, the Empress Dowager Xi took the lead and announced that she would accept Dong Yuanol's suggestion in its entirety. At the same time, he ordered that the Empress Dowager invited by Dong Yuanol to immediately submit the affairs of the court to the Council of Princes and Ministers for decision, and also requested that this meeting should also draw up a specific list of the Prince Jian's participation in auxiliary politics and the addition of a master to the heir emperor, waiting for the Empress Dowager's ruling.

The fierce Su Shun and the others didn't know that the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces was also fighting, and they immediately felt that the Queen Mother was not going to "drown" Dong Yuanol's excerpts, but to catch them off guard, which was of course more powerful than "drowning". Without waiting for the eight ministers to express their opinions, the Empress Dowager of the West asked the eight people to "write the decree to see" (that is, "to draft the decree") according to the above meaning. Prince Yi Zaiyuan probably felt that he was the chief minister, and at this time he should have a refutation of the queen mother's decree. However, when this was sudden, Zaigaki's talent really didn't know how to effectively refute it. Su Shun pulled him from behind again, stopping Zaiyuan's refutation of the Queen Mother. The eight ministers didn't say anything, and withdrew from the hall "by order".

The eight ministers naturally went back to be equipped with a cruel medicine, but the queen mother of the two palaces was vague. They just came to quarrel with the eight ministers, but they didn't expect that the eight ministers were too courtiers this time, and they really went to draw up the decree, and now it will be their turn. If this is really for the princes and ministers to discuss, the top of the list of princes and auxiliary ministers must be Prince Gong Yixin, and it will not end well at that time. When the queen mother of the two palaces began to discuss whether to withdraw her fate and appease the eight ministers, the cruel medicine of the eight ministers had already been prepared. They completely ignored the Empress Dowager's decree, and started a new stove according to the established purpose, intending to "refute" Dong Yuanol.

Generally speaking, the Minister of War is responsible for "undertaking the decree", but drafting the edict is the job of the military aircraft Zhangjing, who will write according to the content of the decree relayed by the Minister of Military Aircraft, and submit it to the Minister of Military Aircraft for review and polishing, and then submit it to the emperor for promulgation. Therefore, the eight ministers immediately found a military plane on duty, Zhang Jing, and called Wu Zhaolin, and the eight ministers "stated the decree" according to their opinions and ordered him to draft it. But although Wu Zhaolin eats this bowl of rice, he is an outsider after all, so the proposed purpose is to Su Shun, which seems to be a little painless, far from being severe enough, and cannot achieve the effect of "refuting it". So Su Shun decided to discard this draft and invited the draft that Jiao Youying had drafted yesterday. Jiao Youying was originally born in Zhangjing, a military aircraft, and it was his old business to draft this matter, but he just made a draft yesterday, and today he was polished by everyone, which was not only refuted, but simply scolded.

Jiao Youying's draft of the decree begins with the big hat of "I make a pilgrimage to the saint and inherit the reason for hanging the curtain to the Queen Mother". In order to scold the pleasure, he simply wrote off the power distribution agreement that had been reached between the eight ministers and the queen mother, "taking care of the fate and hanging the curtain", after all, it was a secret discussion that could not be put on the table, and directly said, "I am entrusted by the emperor of the imperial examination at the beginning of the imperial examination, how dare I change the old system of the ancestors?" ”。 At the same time, it was emphasized that "and the Emperor Kaute sent Prince Yi Zaiyuan and others to praise the government affairs, and all events that should be decreed must be issued with a seal after being drafted and submitted by the king's ministers and others." Not only did he ignore the agreement between the eight ministers and the queen mother after the "four-day secret discussion", so that the queen mother and the emperor returned to the status of "rubber stamp", but also stared at the eyes and said nonsense, because whether it was the "imperial reward" seal or the "Tongdaotang" seal two stamps, they have always been in the hands of the queen mother of the two palaces, where did the six-year-old little emperor have any "stamps" behavior? From this point of view, even the qualification of the Queen Mother's "rubber stamp" has been denied. And accordingly, he categorically refuted Dong Yuanol's "asking the Queen Mother to govern the government, which is very wrong!" ”

Regarding the section on Dong Yuanol's invitation to Prince Yu to send one or two people to participate in the auxiliary government, it is said that "Fu Nian Huang summoned Zaiyuan and other eight people on the 16th day of July, so that they could assist them wholeheartedly, and they admired the sacred heart of the body, which has its own deep meaning, how dare it be easily added?" And Dong Yuanol "must want to be sent separately among the princes, what is his sincerity?" "So" is especially unworkable. At the same time, he solemnly pointed out, "The relationship between the above two ends is very important, and it is not the opinion of the subordinates!" That is to say, in the future, no one is allowed to mention the two things of listening to the government and the other Prince Jian's auxiliary government.

It is enough to sternly refute the "above two ends", and even such a high-sounding thing as sending a master to the little emperor is rejected with "no discussion" without any explanation. This makes it inevitable that the ministers all over the world will feel that Su Shun and the other eight people are too domineering, because it is not too much to say that the master "Qiwo Shengcong" is sent to the world. In fact, this is also something that can't be helped, Dong Yuanol said a total of three things, the first two scolded a bloody dog, and the third one was directly replaced by what you said correctly, which is really a bit logically confusing.

Jiao Youying's edict in this draft, "Asking the Empress Dowager to govern the government, is very wrong", which is very happy, but it is too wild. Because this is undoubtedly a reprimand of the empress dowager in the tone of a little emperor in the Huanghuang edict, which must not be allowed to happen in the Qing Dynasty, which "rules the world with filial piety". There are also the words "what is the sincerity and what is the heart", which is undoubtedly a secret accusation that King Gong and other close relatives have a heart of disobedience. Later, on the seventh day of the eighth month, Wang Yixun of Alcohol County, who had just slipped back to Chengde with his distant nephew Wang Puxu of Dingjun, saw this edict and was so angry that he almost ate it. But now it's not his turn to be angry, and his eldest sister-in-law, the Empress Dowager Xi, has really begun to scratch the wall.

When the eight ministers presented the "edict" drafted by Jiao Youying to the "imperial review" of the empress dowager of the two palaces, the Empress Dowager of the West rolled her eyes, and she and the Empress Dowager of the East had just soothed the minds of the eight ministers, and they really fed the dog. The two of them did not expect that Su Shun and others would openly "exaggerate", not only did they take their words confessed in person as the empress dowager as a deaf ear, but also drafted such an "edict" that ran counter to their original intentions and even reprimanded themselves for "very wrong" in the name of their six-year-old son. The empress dowager of the two palaces naturally refused to admit this "edict", and the eight ministers began to fight, and finally they were almost coerced to put their seals on the "edict", and the two sides fell into a very fierce quarrel.

"Who made this edict write like this?" If the Empress Dowager Xi hadn't been afraid of her identity as the Empress Dowager, she would have jumped up, and the eight ministers were really too deceitful. The eight ministers all knelt in a regular manner, but they didn't care at all about the thunderous Empress Dowager West, and the little emperor in the arms of the Empress Dowager was startled by her mother.

"Back to the words of the Queen Mother, it was jointly formulated by the minions and others." Zaiyuan is nominally the head of the eight ministers, so as usual, he should reply first. Of course, he just put on a name, but in fact, these words were all explained by Su Shun in advance.

"Well prepared! Let me ask you, what is the meaning of 'Superior'? "The Queen Mother of the West is almost angry.

"What the emperor said is called 'Edict'." The Empress Dowager Xi's question, Su Shun did not explain before, and with Zaiyuan's intelligence, he could only do such an echo.

"What would a six-year-old emperor say? Who will speak for him? The Empress Dowager West grabbed the handle at this time, pointed to the little emperor who was nestled in the arms of the Empress Dowager Dong, and asked sharply.

In the Qing Dynasty, the queen mother called the emperor "emperor", not at all like the description of many film and television dramas in later generations, how can the son be his mother's. And there is also the subtext in the words of the Empress Dowager of the West in this sentence, her meaning is very clear, the emperor can't speak, of course, the emperor's mother, the empress dowager, should speak for him.

"Back to the words of the Queen Mother, it is for the sake of the emperor's young age that he can't personally adjudicate the big government, so the Daxing Emperor sent a few servants to praise the emperor." Su Shun saw that Zaiyuan couldn't resist it, and couldn't help but play back and forth. He also understood that the emperor couldn't speak, and it was up to a few of them to speak for the emperor, without the empress dowager's beak.

Having said this, Su Shun's meaning is already very clear, and in his place, it has become a delusion for the queen mother to listen to politics. And faintly once again overturned the power distribution agreement that had been reached after the "four-day secret talks" between the two sides, but he did not say that he was dead. If the Empress Dowager wants to overthrow the Zanxiang government system, the Empress Dowager will breach the contract first, and as long as the Empress Dowager does not breach the contract, the eight ministers are still willing to admit the results of the "four-day secret talks".

"Then let me ask you, is it wrong for Dong Yuanyu to ask Jian to send the Prince of Jinzhi to work with a few of you?" Su Shun is strict in the end, so the Queen Mother Xi is not only irrefutable but also helpless, so she has to take a step back and change the topic.

The Empress Dowager of the West put down the curtain for the time being, even if you say that the curtain is not in line with the ancestral family law and the will of the Daxing Emperor, but it is understandable to ask the little emperor's uncle to govern together, right? The Empress Dowager of the West asked very much, and it was very powerful when she grabbed Dong Yuanol's "Reason for Keeping the Scriptures" article, as Dong Yuanol said, "Since ancient times, emperors have not taken kissing and respecting the virtuous as an urgent task", King Gong and King Alcohol are the uncles of the little emperor, if you want to "kiss", you can't do without them to participate in the auxiliary government anyway. Zaiyuan, Duanhua, Sushun and others are "sparse clans", so it is naturally difficult to answer at this time, otherwise they will be suspected of "seizing power".

"Back to the words of the Queen Mother, the ministers will praise the government affairs according to the last orders of the emperor, and if the queen mother listens to the words of the people, the ministers cannot obey the edict." Su Shun was inconvenient to answer, and Du Han, the number two person, jumped out. He is the son of Emperor Xianfeng's master Du Shoutian, Du Shoutian helped Emperor Xianfeng and King Gong to seize the throne, so his identity is naturally different.

However, Du Han's words were too intense, "can't be edicted", as if he was resisting the decree, and the law was already a big rebellion. And "the queen mother listens to people's words" Yunyun directly pointed out that the queen mother colluded with outsiders to overthrow Xianfeng's will. This is a bit of a scolding street, you say that we take power, I will say that you have turned your back on your husband.

At this point, there is no room for the two sides to turn around, and the Queen Mother of the West is ten times more powerful, and in this situation, she can't ignore the face of the Queen Mother to scold the minister in the palace. Du Han and Su Shun and others were also embarrassed, Du Han's words just now belonged to rushing words, and they said it casually, they are also people who want to face, and they are embarrassed to do this kind of thing when they are scolded in court.

"Anyway, it's always the right thing to do if you send a master to the emperor, right?" After a moment of stalemate, the "honest man" Empress Dowager came out to "play a round", in fact, there was nothing to say.

"What the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother said is that the minions and others don't want to do this, but they just add a master to the emperor, enlighten Shengcong, and the bandits are fine, and there is no room for negligence. Now they are doing it again, and if they are sent in a hurry, the minions and others cannot be blamed even if they die. Besides, the emperor is enlightened, and a master is enough. After returning to Luan, the minions and others discussed properly and asked for their own orders, and then they could handle it calmly. Su Shun took this opportunity to hurry up, in fact, he also wanted to resolve the deadlock, but unfortunately he couldn't accept it when he saw it, although the words were tactful, but in the end he still refused. It's not that he doesn't give the queen of the two palaces, but he has to kill Dong Yuanol, so what Dong Yuanol must say is all wrong.

"It's not even enough to send a master to the emperor, the eight of you are too domineering, do you still have the emperor and the queen mother in your eyes?" The Empress Dowager Xi was about to go crazy, she couldn't bear it anymore, and loudly reprimanded Su Shun and the others.

"Back to the words of the Queen Mother, the servants and others will personally inherit the dying entrustment of the Emperor Daxing, assist the emperor, praise all government affairs, and cannot obey the orders of the Queen Mother, even if you ask the Queen Mother to see the excerpts before, it is originally a superfluous thing!" Su Shun also rushed upwards angrily, and at the same time felt that he should use this to "teach" the extremely difficult queen mother, so he immediately said in a loud voice.

Su Shun's voice resounded through the palace, like a flat ground wind and thunder, the situation has reached the point of tension, the six-year-old emperor who grew up in the deep palace, where has he seen this formation, and suddenly cried in fright.