On July 22, for the old emperor's funeral, on the 23rd issued the emperor's edict, ordering the emperor's eldest son Zhu Changluo to be the emperor, and issued 2 million taels of gold to the nine-sided soldiers, and the world's mining taxes were dismissed, so the world rejoiced.

Zhu Changluo summoned the ministers and said that his father and emperor ordered Zheng Guifei to be crowned queen, and the ministers were opposed, believing that there was no such precedent in all dynasties, and if Zheng Guifei was named the queen, then where would Wang Gongfei (Zhu Changluo's biological mother) be. Zhu Changluo also pushed the boat down the river and put the matter on hold for the time being.

Zheng Guifei was angry and afraid, so she gave Zhu Changluo eight beauties, Zhu Changluo accepted them all, without the father who was like a shadow on his head, he completely let go of himself, and had fun with beauties every day, so happy.

On the first day of August, Zhu Changluo officially succeeded to the throne, changed the next year to the first year of Taichang, and promoted a large number of officials, almost all of whom were from Donglin, and filled in all the holes left by his father. These days, Zhu Xiaoqi is busy with it, all kinds of etiquette need to be attended by him, the eldest son of the emperor, every day like a puppet, being led to the east and pulled to the west, fortunately, the body is well exercised and can still be supported.

On the third day of the eighth month, he officially entered the East Palace, and the grandson was finally going to become the prince, and he was so happy that he burned incense and worshiped the Buddha, Li Jinzhong kowtowed eighteen times in front of Wang Cairen's spirit, and his scalp was red.

On the tenth day of the eighth month, his father, who had just been emperor for ten days, fell ill. The reason for his illness, Zhu Xiaoqi heard Li Xuanzhi once scolded hatefully: "These fox spirits. "It should be the same when you think about it. A medical officer was summoned for treatment, but there was no improvement.

On August 14, Zheng Guifei's confidant, the eunuch Cui Wensheng, the eunuch of the Ministry of Ceremonies, presented the emperor with "Tongli Medicine", Cui Wensheng was in charge of the imperial pharmacy, and Tongli Medicine was actually rhubarb, which was equivalent to a laxative. So the emperor pulled thirty or forty times at night, and his body became even weaker. On August 20, the emperor issued an order to make Zheng Guifei the queen mother.

On the evening of August 21, the emperor summoned Zhu Xiaoqi. He drove away all the eunuchs and palace maids first, and then said, "I'm just afraid that my body will not work." Raising his hand to stop Zhu Xiaoqi and continued: "I still know my body, you don't need to say more." I'm worried that after I leave, you are too young, and some people are only afraid that they will not necessarily obey you, and there will be a situation where the yang and the yin will be violated, so I want to make Li Xuanzhi the imperial concubine, and she will be the imperial concubine after I go, so that I can help you in the future. ”

Zhu Xiaoqi replied: "Father Emperor Ji has his own natural appearance, and his health will be fine." ”

"I know you have filial piety, but there is no need to talk about it. How do you feel about me doing this? ”

"The child doesn't understand, why not be crowned queen? Wouldn't that be more helpful to children? ”

"You are still too young and ignorant, are the Queen Mother and the Imperial Concubine the same thing? I want her to help you, but I don't want her to hold you down. If you don't listen to the Queen Mother's words, some people will say that you are not filial, but the Imperial Concubine does not have this problem, do you understand? ”

It seems that I really don't understand the political struggle, and I just take it for granted, and I just want to help as much as possible, but I don't expect that if the help is too big, it may become a resistance. No one can guarantee that Li Xuanzhi will have other things on his mind after becoming the queen mother, it seems that his father is thoughtful.

"Choose to treat the child as if you were your own child, and you can be the imperial concubine."

"There is a good word in this sentence, like, like biological and not biological, so we have to use her to help you block some unfavorable remarks or something, but also to guard against her, can't let her be big, if you can figure it out, I can rest assured."

"The child understands what his father means, please rest assured."

On August 22, the emperor summoned Fang Congzhe and others, and asked Zhu Xiaoqi to listen to the government. He instructed the ministers that he would no longer go to court for the time being, and that he should take care of his body carefully, and that the affairs of the state and the crown prince would be entrusted to them. and thought that his poor health was because Cui Wensheng was improperly medicated, and expelled him from the palace, and at the same time proposed to crown Li Xuanzhi (Xi Li) as the imperial concubine.

That night, in the residence of Zuo Guangdou, the imperial history of Zhejiang Province, focused on a few people, including Liu Yixian, Han Yi, Zhou Jiamo, Zhou Jiamo, Li Ruhua, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Sun Ruyou, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Yang Lian in the left of the military department, Gao Panlong of Guanglu Temple, plus Zuo Guangdou himself, these eight people are the most important people in the Donglin Party who are now in Beijing, and today the emperor wants to make Li Xuanzhi the imperial concubine, so he was convened by Zuo Guangdou to discuss countermeasures here.

First of all, Sun Ruyou spoke: "If Li Xuanzhi becomes the imperial concubine, if he can't bear to say anything in the future, she will be the imperial concubine, and she has raised the prince for many days, and then she is afraid that it will seriously affect the new emperor, but I am afraid that although the new emperor is not her, it will be better than her." ”

Liu Yixian said: "I, the sages of Donglin, have been fighting for the position of today for many years, so I ascended the throne today, I Donglin was able to stand in the court, and the prince ascended the throne. "Because everyone is in the same vein as Donglin, there is no scruple when speaking.

Yang Lian frowned, glanced at Liu Yixiao, but did not speak.

Zhou Jiamo said: "For today's plan, let's drag it first, if it is delayed to today, it will be unbearable for her at that time." ”

Yang Lian frowned again, and said: "Li Xuanzhi has always been favored by the emperor, if he is named the imperial concubine, his arrogance will be particularly arrogant, and it is really hard to say what he will do when his desire is difficult to fill, I must not let him succeed!" Find out the reason to drag it out first, contact Wang An, and report to me immediately if there is something in the inner palace. ”

Everyone agreed with him, and Zuo Guangdou said: "If you make her a concubine, I'm afraid that Wu Zhou's matter is not far away." ”

Everyone discussed it, and finally decided that the concubine of the first emperor and the current emperor's wife and the prince's biological mother have not yet been crowned, and Li Xuan's concubine must not be done before theirs, and the emperor has no way to object to such a reply. Let's drag it out for now, and then we'll talk about it when we can't drag it anymore.

On August 24, the emperor sent people to urge Li Xuanzhi to be a noble concubine. Sun Ruyou, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, replied that it was necessary to first seal the queen of Shenzong, the emperor's biological mother as the queen mother, and then the emperor's original match, and the prince's biological mother as the queen, so that it would be the turn of the imperial concubine.

On August 29, Li Kezhuo, the head of Honglu Temple, said that there was an elixir to be presented to the emperor. The eunuchs did not dare to call the shots, and reported the matter to the cabinet minister Fang Congzhe. Fang Congzhe said: "He is called the elixir, so he doesn't dare to believe it." So I didn't let it be reported. At this time, the emperor summoned the minister again and proposed to make Li Xuanzhi the imperial concubine now, and the minister was very surprised, which was too anxious. Zhu Xiaoqi smiled bitterly beside him, what Li Xuanzhi said to him just now was not something that the imperial concubine could send, and when he was thinking about it, Li Xuanzhi suddenly entered the hall and said to him directly: "Brother, you come out for a while." Then he turned around and walked out first, without even looking at the emperor and the minister in the whole process.

Zhu Xiaoqi looked at the emperor, the emperor nodded helplessly, he had to turn around and walk out of the palace. Li Xuanzhi said: "Brother, didn't I tell you, why don't you tell the emperor directly, I want to be the queen." Zhu Xiaoqi whispered: "Niangniang, this kind of thing has to be done slowly, isn't there a saying that if you want to hurry, you can't reach it, come step by step, you can't be in a hurry." ”

Li Xuanzhi was angry and said loudly: "Brother, what I do to you, you know, are you unwilling to help me with such a thing?" Go and go, just say it. Zhu Xiaoqi had no choice but to turn around and enter the hall.

Everyone was looking at him, so he had no choice but to approach the emperor and whispered, "Niangniang said that she wants to be the empress." Although the voice was small, in this silent hall, everyone heard it. The ministers were dumbfounded, one by one, you look at me, I look at you, I can't believe it.

At this time, Sun Ruyou, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, hurriedly knelt down and said: "What the emperor just said about sealing the imperial concubine, the minister will do it immediately." The emperor understood and said, "Okay, okay, go and handle it quickly, and retreat." Zhu Xiaoqi thought: "You can't blame me, I persuaded you, why are you in such a hurry, wouldn't it be better to get the imperial concubine first, now the situation is very bad." ”

At this time, the emperor heard that someone had come in to offer immortal medicine, so he asked him to offer it, and Li Kezhuo prepared a pill at noon and presented it. After the emperor took this red pill, he felt much better and wanted to eat. After eating, he ordered Li Kezhuo to enter another one in the evening. Zhu Xiaoqi felt that this thing was not very reliable, so he asked the imperial doctor, and the imperial doctor also felt that it was unreliable, but he couldn't prescribe better medicine, so he had to suggest to the prince that it was okay to take one a day, and not to eat it continuously.

So Zhu Xiaoqi went to make a suggestion to the emperor's father, and the emperor was not feeling well for more than 20 days, and now he feels much better after eating this thing, so he rejected the prince's suggestion and ate another one in the evening. Zhu Xiaoqi stayed on guard until the third watch sounded (eleven o'clock in the evening), and saw that the emperor had nothing to do, so he went to sleep with confidence.

Before I could sleep for a while, I was woken up. Wang An whispered outside: "The emperor has died." ”