Chapter II: Change of Rights
Above the Ming Dynasty, the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty had all lost their minds at this time, and the scene was chaotic. The situation in this Ming Dynasty's supreme power field was about to get out of control at this time, and it was out of control
"That's it!"
Zhu Qiyu shouted, so that the civil and military officials who were carried away by anger gradually regained a trace of calm, everyone stopped talking, stared at Zhu Qiyu with some scarlet eyes, and looked at Zhu Qiyu quietly, even if the emperor could not meet their demands at this time, they could not agree. Moreover, today's Zhu Qiyu has not yet ascended the throne to become the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
For this, the heart sitting on the dragon chair is also clear. Without much contemplation, he made a decision, compared to Da Ming's situation and safety at this time, it was really insignificant to unjustly kill some people. Moreover, even if Wang Zhen's henchmen are relatives, they are not wronged.
With a decision, Zhu Qiyu opened his mouth with a solemn expression, and issued the first holy decree before he came to this world and ascended the throne as the Ming Emperor, a holy decree full of killing and blood: "Wang Zhen perversely, bullying others, harming the country and the people, trapping the country in danger, and putting the emperor in danger, it is really a great crime, and the crime is unforgivable. β
After a pause, he continued: "All the people involved in the case have all raided their homes and exterminated their clans, and all the money and food they have obtained from the raids will be returned to the military department for the defense of the Beijing Division. β
"Your Highness is γγγγγγ! wise" As soon as Zhu Qiyu finished speaking, the ministers below knelt on the ground, all of them burst into tears, and their joy was beyond words.
The Manchu Dynasty civil and military who were originally a little crazy were really crying with joy at this time, hugging their heads and crying. For many years, I have been bullied and oppressed by the eunuchs, making a big fuss and restlessness, and the rivers are declining. Now, the biggest cancer in the court has finally been removed.
Looking at the civil and military officials crying in the court, Zhu Qiyu sitting on the dragon chair sighed with another emotion, no wonder the Ming Dynasty was powerful after the civil fort in history, until he finally occupied the entire court and became the actual controller of the Ming Dynasty.
The loss and suppression of military generals are one thing, but those who are a little weak are also frightened in the face of the collective attack of civilian officials! That's what you see.
Moreover, the emperor training system of the Ming Dynasty is terrible, and not everyone who is longer than the emperor in the hands of the eunuchs and women in the palace can face such a situation and remain strong and calm.
The imbalance of civil and military, so that these civil officials have no opponents to check and balance each other, and the emperor can't manage it, or even dare not manage it, and after a long time, the civil officials will breed greed and desire in their hearts, and there will be many party henchmen, fighting for power and profit, and corruption has become customary, which led to the accelerated demise of the Ming Dynasty.
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A crisis caused by Wang Zhen's henchmen, or the confrontation between good and evil, was resolved, which made Zhu Qiyu breathe a sigh of relief.
He didn't know that the first court riot in the history of the Ming Dynasty caused by this in history was bloodshed and killed people. Those ministers who were carried away by the rage were no longer weak scholars who couldn't pick up their shoulders and couldn't lift their hands, but became mobs, beating to death a Jinyi guard commander promoted by Wang Zhen and two big eunuchs in the palace, and the bloodiness was terrifying.
However, with the issuance of Zhu Qiyu's will, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, who was supposed to be beaten to death by the emotionally uncontrollable minister in the court, Ma Shun and others were also in a catastrophe, but the end was better, not being beaten to death, but being cut off by a knife, which can be regarded as less guilty before death
With the decree to kill Wang Zhen's relatives and their henchmen, the work of purging Wang Zhen's henchmen immediately began in Jingshi.
Due to Wang Zhen's death in the chaos of Tumubao, coupled with the tragic results of the battle of Tumubao, the work of clearing Wang Zhen's henchmen was not hindered in the slightest, and the progress was extremely smooth.
The Jingshi, who was already in danger, was even more panicked after this incident, and the entire Jingshi was in a state of turmoil, and countless officials and eunuchs who were originally beautiful were not only bankrupt in an instant, but even their lives were taken away.
Treat all political opponents with extraordinary iron and ruthlessness. The three divisions are responsible for identifying people, as long as they are involved with Wang Zhen, no matter how big or small the official position is, there is no need to judge, and they will be directly beheaded, their homes will be raided, and their clans will be exterminated.
For a while, before the noon gate, people's heads were rolling and blood flowed like a river.
In addition to inside and outside the Beijing Division, the Daming Palace, which symbolizes the highest power and status, naturally launched a major purge, and the targets were naturally the henchmen promoted by Wang Zhen.
Compared with the outer court, there are many henchmen cultivated by Wang Zhen in the palace.
However, it is also much easier to deal with.
Of course, the purge in the palace is naturally not the turn of the foreign ministers to dispose of it.
Shen Yu Luoyan was originally the personal person in charge of Zhu Qiyu's life and safety, and the two of them were naturally responsible for this kind of thing.
Moreover, Zhu Qiyu will ascend the throne and become emperor in a few days, so he naturally wants to live in this palace, and it is also a very good opportunity to take advantage of this time to clean up a lot.
Don't look at the two of them as weak women, and they don't show any mercy when they kill people.
Countless eunuchs and palace maids and palace guards have been taken down in large numbers.
Compared with all the people involved in the outer court, the eunuchs and palace maids in the inner palace raided their homes to a certain extent, but they did not, but the parties were all beheaded.
Inside and outside the Beijing Division, after the Tumubao, the wanton party and disagreement intensified, and in just a few days, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces who were involved in Wang Zhen's henchmen were connected, and the clan nobles exceeded 10,000 people.
Zhu Qiyu outside the palace is too lazy to care, and besides, he doesn't have the ability to care now.
Although the purge in the palace was also full of blood, it did not mean to kill innocents indiscriminately. For those palace maids and eunuchs who were not involved in Wang Zhen's henchmen, they were all driven to the West Palace where Empress Dowager Sun lived.
At this point, the Great Purge in the Imperial Palace is completely over.
Most of the eunuchs and palace maids were killed, and a small number were driven from the East Sixth Palace to the West Sixth Palace.
In addition, the concubines, princes, princesses, etc., who originally lived in the harem, that is, the eastern harem, were also thrown out and sent to the West Sixth Palace.
In the process, even a few concubines were beheaded, and the reason was naturally Wang Zhen's henchmen.
In the face of such a large-scale massacre of eunuchs, palace maids and Janissake, although Empress Dowager Sun was a little displeased, she didn't say anything, except for crying and missing her husband, Queen Qian didn't care about other things, but it made it a lot easier for Shen Yu and Yan.
They are also more unscrupulous in their performance.
Soon, the palace took on a new look, except for the overcrowding of the West Harem, there was no one in the entire East Sixth Palace, not a single palace maid and eunuch remained, and the same was true of the palace guards.
Soon after, a group of about 1,000 people was stationed in the East Harem, they were men and women, not big grades, each calm and sophisticated, and from then on they would be responsible for all matters in the entire East Harem.
Of course, none of them are physically incomplete.
Zhu Qiyu doesn't like eunuchs, in addition to fighting for power and profit, the smell on his body is unbearable. Moreover, the wife is inhumane.
Therefore, when he was still the prince, he never used a eunuch, even if the emperor had to send a eunuch to take care of his diet and daily life and deal with the affairs of the palace, he was beaten away.
Now that he is about to become an emperor, the eunuch naturally doesn't want it. He had already prepared for this, and the secretaries, guards, etc. had already been trained.
Of course, the eunuchs will not all be canceled for the time being, after all, there are a lot of eunuchs in the entire palace, and they all have a way out, they have no skills, and many people will even starve to death. Moreover, there are many places in the palace that need their presence.
Therefore, many eunuchs were arranged in the front palace and the west harem.
Of course, at this time, the place responsible for accepting the eunuchs and purifying the eunuchs had already been directly ordered by Zhu Qiyu to close them, and there would never be any new eunuchs entering the palace in the future.
At this point, two distinct camps have been formed in the Daming Palace after a large-scale purge. On one side is the West Sixth Palace headed by Empress Dowager Sun and Empress Qian. On one side is the East Sixth Palace, where Zhu Qiyu, the new emperor who is about to ascend the throne, will live in the future.
According to the rules, this is not in accordance with the rules.
However, Zhu Qiyu insisted on this, and no one from Empress Dowager Sun and Empress Qian came out to object, so the matter acquiesced.
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The disposal and cleaning in the palace killed a lot of people, and naturally left a lot of places. Although the eastern harem can't be intervened, the western harem and the front palace still need manpower, at this time, those eunuchs who were originally unwilling in the palace and were excluded by Wang Zhen caught up with the good time and took the throne one after another.
Jin Ying, Cheng Jing, and Xing'an became the three most powerful eunuchs respectively.
Zhu Qiyu will naturally not let go of the Jinyiwei and Dongchang, which are directly controlled by the emperor, but he has not yet registered as the emperor, and there is naturally no way to control the purge.
However, with his current situation, there is no problem in controlling these two violent institutions. As for wanting to completely take it for yourself and arrange for your own people to control it, it will take time.
No matter what the situation outside is, above the court and inside the palace, because after the Great Purge, everyone is now considered a comrade-in-arms in the trenches.
At this time, at the very least, the court and the palace, the highest authority of the Ming Dynasty, have been removed from the cancer and are waiting for a new life.
Not to mention other places, in the eyes of some eunuchs who are now on the throne, it is still strange for the current prison country and the future emperor Zhu Qiyu. Even, in their opinion, it is absolutely weird, not only has they always refused to accept the princess, but even there was not a single eunuch in the palace before, all of them were adopted beggars.
At the beginning, he was impeached by the minister many times because of this, and the Empress Dowager was still alive at that time, and the orthodox emperor also took care of this half-brother a lot, so the matter went with him.
Otherwise, the position of the twenty-four eunuchs in this palace would not be their turn.
The only pity is that the matter of close service can't fall on them, and even the great eunuch Jin Ying can't get close, so he can only hang from afar. Didn't you see two men and two women, four young but extremely calm and beautiful attendants, who followed the prince without leaving a single step?
Looking at His Royal Highness King Yu, His Majesty the future emperor was conscientiously correcting and correcting at this time, and in the distance, several eunuchs who had just held great power couldn't help but nod secretly.
Compared with the orthodox emperor, the new monarch is particularly commendable in terms of diligence and government. After such a long time of reviewing the recital to become an orthodox emperor, I am afraid that he would have been impatiently thrown to the great eunuch Wang Zhen.
It seems that Daming Zhongxing is hopeful!
Thinking about the panic of the current time, it was like they were in a dream.
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Everyone felt that their eyes were dark, and the army that was originally foolproof and could win in an instant was defeated in a blink of an eye, and everyone was shocked, and they never imagined that this was the result.
The sky is falling! It's definitely the sky falling.
No one would have thought that the emperor's imperial expedition would be such a result.
The 200,000 army was destroyed, countless civilian and military generals were killed in battle, the three battalions of the most elite Beijing Division were completely annihilated, the losses left behind in Jingnan were exhausted, and countless grains, grasses, and weapons were even more heavily lost.
The country has no leader, and it has to face the elite Warat Iron Cavalry of the Ming Dynasty who may attack the Beijing division at any time and defeat 200,000 with 100,000, the capital has long lost the peace and tranquility of the past, and everyone is panicked and panicked.
In the palace, Empress Dowager Sun and Empress Qian cried together, and the ministers were like ants on a hot pot, so anxious that they jumped to their feet but had no choice.
In the end, it was Zhu Qiyu, the king of the prison state, who was angry and heavy, showed the advantages and disadvantages, summoned hundreds of officials of the Chinese military to discuss countermeasures, and sent the forbidden army to lock up the whole city to spread rumors and make trouble.
The ministers of the court and the central government also seemed to have found the backbone, and the various yamen began to operate in an orderly manner.
Zhu Qiyu's performance is surprising, this prince who originally had a bad reputation and has never been looked down upon by everyone, and has even been ignored by others, and has never been released to the town, made everyone's eyes shine.
Although the orthodox emperor was floated, he did not return to heaven and should be rescued, but now the situation is turbulent, the society is unstable, and the floating emperor may become the main culprit who threatens the country's security and collapses at any time. Therefore, it is urgent to abolish the monarch and establish a new one.
This is also the fundamental solution to the huge crisis that Daming is currently in. After all, without a leader, nothing can function properly.
So, after some secret discussion, a group of civil and military generals led by Wang Zhi, the veteran of the Four Dynasties, proposed to abandon the captured orthodox emperor and set up a new monarch to deal with the crisis encountered by the Ming Dynasty in front of him and support the building to fall.
All of them are very much in agreement about this.
It was determined that the orthodox emperor Zhu Qizhen was to be abandoned, so the candidate for the emperor who ascended the throne as emperor at a critical moment became a matter of contention among everyone.
According to the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, the new emperor should be succeeded by the son of the previous emperor. But the prince was young, only three years old. On weekdays, there is naturally no opinion on succeeding to the throne as the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of the Emperor Manchu Dynasty.
However, now that the country is in trouble, the Ming court is facing an unprecedented crisis, and the slightest carelessness may ruin the Ming Dynasty. What is needed now is an emperor who can lead everyone to the national disaster and win this tough battle, not a childish emperor who has nothing to do.
At this time, the emperor's eldest son, Zhu Jianshen, was not the best candidate.
Coupled with Zhu Qiyu's various performances after Tumubao, some ministers set their sights on Zhu Qiyu, the king of the state who was not afraid of danger during this time, calmly handled the affairs of the DPRK and China, and stabilized the hearts of the people.
After making up his mind and determining the new monarch, the next step is to persuade the other ministers, as well as the Empress Dowager Sun, who has no power but can abolish the emperor in one word, nod and agree.
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As early as Emperor Zhu Qizhen listened to the words of the great eunuch Wang Zhen and led the army to conquer in person, he had already arranged that after his personal expedition, the major affairs of the state would be handled by the Emperor Wang, and the matters related to the Zongmiao Sheji would be decided by the Queen Mother, that is, the emperor's mother, the Empress Dowager Sun.
This is also to restrict Zhu Qiyu's rights and prevent him from becoming bigger, and the reason why he will not be able to lose his tail when the time comes.
Therefore, as long as the Empress Dowager Sun nods, the abolition of the emperor will go on quickly.
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Empress Dowager Sun is just a very ordinary woman, even if he is now classified as the queen mother, the power is all over the world, and his vision has changed greatly, many things have not changed, ambition and desire for power naturally did not appear in her, and she didn't want to do such a thing, she just wanted to live a peaceful and comfortable life.
Empress Lu, Cixi, a strong woman, and even an emperor like Wu Zetian, who controls the life and death of people in the world, are not what she wants. Otherwise, whether Zhu Qizhen, who ascended the throne at the age of nine, can be pro-government at this time is a question.
Therefore, when Tumubao was defeated, the emperor was captured, and a new monarch was needed, although the Empress Dowager Sun was reluctant in her heart, she also had to consider the problem of Jiangshan Sheji, and in the face of the request of the ministers to abolish the king, the Empress Dowager Sun also agreed.
However, on the issue of the new monarch, Empress Dowager Sun's thoughts deviated from those of many ministers led by Wang Zhi Yuqian.
Not only Empress Dowager Sun, but also Empress Qian and many ministers hoped to support the captured orthodox emperor's concubine, the three-year-old prince Zhu Jianshen, to become the new monarch and inherit the unification.
Because according to the ancestral system, Zhu Jianshen is the eldest son of Zhu Qizhen, and it is logical to inherit the throne.
However, some ministers of the main battle faction, mainly Yu Qian and Wang Zhi, naturally did not agree, and they had already recognized the king of the prison state, and the reason was naturally very sufficient.
Zhu Qiyu, the king of servants, is about the same age as the orthodox emperor, he is already an adult, and he is still the supervisor of the emperor's decree, and he handles state affairs in an orderly and orderly manner. At this critical juncture, inheriting the great unification is more conducive to enabling the country to tide over the difficulties smoothly as soon as possible.
The ministers who supported Zhu Jianshen's succession were opposed to it, and even the Empress Dowager Sun disagreed, believing that this intention violated the ancestral custom and did not conform to the ancestral rules.
Moreover, although the emperor was captured, the emperor's eldest son was still alive. As for saying that Zhu Jianshen is young and assisted by ministers, it is also feasible to do the same as when the orthodox emperor succeeded to the throne.
"At this time when the lord is suspicious, at this moment of crisis, it is the will of the people for the king to inherit the throne, if the prince succeeds to the throne and cannot convince the public, some things that require the emperor to come forward may not be able to do well."
"And when he also coerced the Emperor Taishang first, how should the new monarch deal with himself when facing the Emperor? It is to take care of the love of father and son, and give it to me to bury the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. Or in the name of unfilial piety, he was criticized by the people, and he spread it, wouldn't it embarrass my Ming?!!!!! β
In the face of everyone's criticism and opposition, Yu Qian came out of the crowd, glared at everyone, and spoke like a knife, stating the interests and disadvantages, leaving everyone speechless.
In the end, the Queen Mother nodded helplessly and agreed with the proposal of Yu Qian and others, allowing Zhu Qiyu to inherit the throne and ascend the throne as the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
But on this premise, Empress Dowager Sun ignored the bitter pleas of the crying Queen Qian and many ministers, and said to Yu Qian and other ministers whose anger was uncontrollable: "King Yu ascended the throne for the sake of the Ming Dynasty's country, the ancestral foundation, and the mourning family can agree." However, after King Yu ascended the throne, he must immediately issue an order to establish Jianshen as the crown prince, and return to the government in the future! Otherwise, the mourning family would never agree to King Yu's accession to the throne as emperor. β
In this regard, although everyone has the intention to refuse, they also know that this is the only condition of the Queen Mother. If he does not agree, the new monarch will not be able to stand up, and the social turmoil will not be able to change as soon as possible. After weighing the pros and cons, Yu Qian, the squire of the military department, boldly agreed, and Zhu Qiyu, the king of the state who was directly in prison, agreed.
As for how to explain to Zhu Qiyu, let's wait until the current crisis is over.
This is a compromise between the two sides.
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So, at this critical moment, Zhu Qiyu, the king of the prison state, was embraced to become the new monarch, inherited the unification, and ruled the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, not long after the prison country, on the fifth day after the battle of Tumubao was introduced to the Beijing division, Zhu Qiyu, the king of the prison state, directly became the prince of the Ming Dynasty.
And all this, although he has never interfered, knows it.