In 1449 AD, it has been a hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty at this time has long since lost its prosperity at the beginning of the founding of the country. At this time, the Ming Dynasty, like all dynasties in history, was full of contradictions and drawbacks.

The national strength of the Ming Dynasty has begun to decline.

Due to the radical changes caused by internal and external contradictions, finally, in July of the 14th year of the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty, the descendants of the Yuan Dynasty sent troops to attack the Ming Dynasty.

This is the first time that the Ming Dynasty has been invaded by foreign enemies after sweeping the Quartet for a hundred years after the establishment of the country.

The situation is not encouraging.

This time, Warat attacked Daming on a large scale, and the Warat army, known as the 100,000 army, was divided into four ways and launched attacks on Daming from four different directions.

Among them, the first road attacked Liaodong, the second road attacked Gansu, the third road attacked Xuanfu, and the last route was also personally led by Marshal Wara to attack Datong.

For a time, four of the nine important towns of the Ming Dynasty were attacked at the same time.

Danger that has never been seen since the founding of the Ming Dynasty is coming.

When the news reached Beijing, the whole dynasty was in an uproar and the whole world was shocked. The Ming court, which has been peaceful for a long time, from the emperor to the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, to the common people, did not expect that a war would come suddenly. The Ming Dynasty, which was obviously ill-prepared, held military meetings one after another to discuss countermeasures, but they were never able to reach an agreement.

Above the court, there was a fierce debate between the war and the civil and military officials, and the civil and military officials even almost fought a big fight, but no one could convince anyone. The young orthodox emperor Zhu Qizhen sat firmly in the Fengtian Temple, with a solemn expression but with a touch of excitement, he watched coldly, looked at the noisy and inextricable ministers of the court, and did not say a word.

In the end, Zhu Qizhen, who was really noisy, turned his head and asked Wang Zhen, the most trusted eunuch beside him, "What does Mr. think?" ”

At this time, Wang Zhen was waiting for this sentence!

As an emperor who has been trained and watched grow up, Wang Zhen is undoubtedly the most trusted by Zhu Qizhen, and I don't know how many times this kind of questioning has happened after the emperor took office.

In the face of the emperor's inquiry, the great eunuch Wang Zhen had already made a mark in his heart.

He also led the army to attack the Ming Dynasty first, which may seem like a disaster to others, but for Wang Zhen, the eunuch who is now in power, it is a good opportunity to make a name for himself and leave a name in history.

You must know that Wang Zhen admires our Emperor Taizong Zhu Di very much, as a down-and-out talent who is not high or low, Wang Zhen in the palace who wielded a knife from the palace, as long as he wins this battle, relying on his current power, he will at least be like Zhu Di to make the entire Ming Dynasty fearful, and his power and status will be even greater.

That was the first reaction in his mind when he first heard about Warakori.

At this time, don't talk about the Ming Emperor Zhu Qizhen, even the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are waiting for his decision.

Many people are already dead at this time, Zhu Qiyu's attitude of trusting Wang Zhen has long been known to them, and Wang Zhen's decision can even be said to be Zhu Qizhen's decision. And some civil and military ministers who have dealt with Wang Zhen for decades and do not deal with each other have been able to guess Wang Zhen's decision.

Although they are high and powerful, they cannot influence the emperor's decision, which is why their faces changed drastically when Zhu Qizhen asked Wang Zhen for advice.

Wang Zhen's eyes were full of smugness, he arrogantly glanced at the ministers, and then leaned over, and said in his sharp and unique eunuch voice: "This is a major national matter, and the old slave is not qualified to point fingers here, but since the emperor asked, the slave and maid naturally have to answer, and the slave and maid mean that the main battle is not to be discussed!" ”

Glancing at Zhu Qizhen, he knew Zhu Qizhen very well in his heart, and had a new idea, he said with a serious expression: "The ambition of the wolf son of Wara invaded the Ming Dynasty, and his behavior should be punished by the nine clans, and my Ming Dynasty must not wait to ignore it.

As soon as these words came out, the voices of opposition and approval were connected, and the Fengtian Temple suddenly fell into an uproar.

Zhu Qizhen's eyes became brighter and brighter, which was what he longed for.

"Your Majesty, the ministers are not against the main battle, but the emperor is personally driving, and it is absolutely impossible!" The ministers objected solemnly.

"It's ridiculous, the emperor's personal expedition not only shows the prestige of my Ming Kingdom, but also can instantly quell this battle, what's wrong?" Wang Zhi sneered;

Zhu Qizhen, who had never spoken, also turned slightly cold, and he said: "This matter is according to what the king said, I will drive the royal expedition in person and calm the war." ”

"The Emperor's ,、、、、、、、!" The Manchu ministers had few opponents, but they were all real ministers.

But it's useless, this matter is not only Wang Zhen's selfishness, Zhu Qizhen also has this plan.

Therefore, under Wang Zhen's strong advice, the orthodox emperor Zhu Qizhen ignored the opposition of the ministers in the court, and not only issued an order to resist, but also drove the conquest in person.

So far, it has opened the prelude to the complete decline of the Ming Dynasty.

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In the imperial garden of the palace, Empress Dowager Sun and Empress Qian looked much better than they did two months ago.

When I learned about the change in the civil fort, that kind of blow was tantamount to the sky falling, and now that I think about it, it still makes people's hearts chill and their faces are shocked.

Fortunately, now that everything has passed, although the emperor in front of him is not his own, he is not as respectful as the orthodox emperor to himself. But for now, it's pretty good.

At this time, nearly three months have passed since the Tumubao Incident and the Battle for the Defense of the Beijing Division, and the entire country is in ruins. Fortunately, the founding of the Ming Dynasty was not short, and the previous emperors' martial arts shocked the world, and the defense of the capital once again proved to the world the strength of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, although it is difficult at present, it is also improving bit by bit, and the Jingshi is gradually restoring the prosperity and tranquility of the past.

The Empress Dowager and the Empress Taishang appeared in the imperial garden together, and there were a large number of noblewomen around, naturally not in the mood to visit the garden and enjoy the scenery, but for the marriage of Zhu Qiyu, the emperor who was newly ordered to inherit the unification.

It is quite annoying to the empress dowager, the orthodox emperor was captured, and the eldest son of the emperor, the crown prince Zhu Jianshen, should inherit the unification. However, the ministers strongly persuaded Empress Dowager Sun to change the appointment of Zhu Qiyu, the king of the prison state, to inherit the throne on the grounds that the lord was suspicious at the time of crisis.

In such an upright and eventful autumn, when the Beijing division was in danger, the Empress Dowager Sun also had to have a lot of scruples, and finally had no choice but to agree to the request of the ministers in front of her, and renamed Zhu Qiyu as the new emperor.

Zhu Qiyuzhi, the king of servants, is two years younger than the orthodox emperor Zhu Qizhen, but he has never been married, let alone has no heirs, which is not unacceptable for the fantasy Empress Dowager Sun.

However, after the new emperor succeeded to the throne, many ministers of the court and the central government once again made statements to the empress dowager, and there were many complaints about this. The emperor of a country has never been married, and even the concubines have not become any physique.

So, there is a prelude to the draft in this imperial garden.

The fact that the prince of a country has never married a concubine at the age of 22 and has no heirs has indeed surprised many people, and in the eyes of the ancients, it is simply unfilial. In the past, even if it was, it was not a big deal for the prince of the old Zhu family to appear if he did not want to marry a wife and have children, and there were too many princes in the whole world to count, not one less.

But now it can't be done, even if some ministers of the court and the central government are still looking forward to the return of the orthodox emperor, the emperor's eldest son Zhu Jianshen is still in the deep palace, but he doesn't want to make the world laugh at this matter.

The queen of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty was not selected from the civil and military merits, but the world's draft, and those with dignified conduct can be.

This kind of selection of concubines for the emperor, especially the queen of the mother of a country in the future, this kind of thing is naturally not the turn of the minister or the emperor to decide, and everything naturally falls to the queen mother and the queen Qian of Zhu Qizhen, who has now been respected as the emperor, is in charge of Zhang Luo.

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Qianqing Palace, the place where the Ming Emperor dealt with political affairs, Zhu Qiyu, who was dressed in a yellow dragon robe, did not look handsome, but fortunately, he was beautiful and his body was quite strong, and he looked like a person in the military at first glance. It is also very heroic and extraordinary, quite the style of a generation of overlords.

However, at this time, the long-term correction of the recitals and the lack of rest made him look a little tired and emaciated, but he still could not hide his heroic spirit.

"Hey! The emperor is really not a human job! ”

Faced with the piles of twists and turns, which have never decreased, and are even being carried in by the attendants in a steady stream, Zhu Qiyu couldn't help but complain;

I think that as a top student, I have also faced such a day and night query of materials, when I read at night, when I was crazy, I even borrowed a few carts of books in the library of the college, but it was not like now!

Every day, the correction is nearly eight hours, during which there are also meetings with ministers to deal with emergencies, and the time for rest and sleep adds up to less than two hours.

And he's been doing this workload for almost five days.

No wonder people say that the emperor is the most dangerous and difficult profession in the world. Not to mention the rest, this kind of workload alone is tired and tires people to death.

"No, it must be changed, otherwise I will die of illness after eight years, and I will die of exhaustion."

Throwing the Zhu pen in his hand, Zhu Qiyu, who was sore all over, roared in his heart;

However, he also knows that now is not the time for him to make a fuss, even if he has secretly prepared a lot of backhands and reserved some talents since a long time ago, the foundation is still a little thin. If you want to change these things that have become conventional, you can't change them overnight.

Thinking of those court officials, all of them are pedantic people, holding on to old customs and not letting go, and if one of them doesn't work, they will come to the death to admonish, and they have made him unable to get off the stage several times, and many established policies have to be shelved, and it makes people hate it when they think about it.

"Hey, when is it a head!"

After lamenting, Zhu Qiyu had to pick up the Zhu pen again and began to fight in the midst of the mountain-like suffering.

Three months ago.

No one would have thought that the result of the 200,000 most elite army of the Ming Dynasty would be an unprecedented defeat.

The civil fort failed miserably. Not only did the 200,000 most elite army of the Ming Dynasty lose everything, but the accompanying Manchu civil and military ministers did not survive one out of ten, and even the current emperor, Zhu Qizhen, the orthodox emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was also imprisoned and ended up being captured.

After the Tumu Fort was shocked, Wang Zhen, the great eunuch in the palace who was originally in power, never returned. The reason why the emperor defeated Wang Zhen in this imperial expedition was the culprit, coupled with Wang Zhen's strong style before, there were many enemies in the court. Now the country is still harming the country, the turmoil is everywhere, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civil and military officials have died because of him, and the matter has reached the point where it can no longer be endured.

Since the disappearance of the defeat of Tumubao, the great court meeting in the Fengtian Palace has never stopped, almost every day is crowded, the minister of civil and military affairs is full of anxiety and worry about how to face the current dilemma, if one is not careful, the Ming Dynasty, which was founded for only a hundred years, may even be overturned.

Today's court meeting is naturally presided over by Zhu Qiyu, he is the supervisor of the country, and it is natural to preside over the court meeting, originally Empress Dowager Sun also wanted Linchao to participate in politics, but was vetoed by Yu Qian Wang Zhi and others because it did not conform to the ancestral system.

Looking at the gloomy and worried looks of many ministers in the court, and even some sad and angry looks, Zhu Qiyu sighed secretly, to be honest, he had known about the changes in Tumubao for a long time, and even he knew the whole process clearly. But he couldn't say anything, he couldn't do anything, he could only watch it happen, and the feeling in his heart was equally uncomfortable.

Historically, the Ming Dynasty gradually weakened from strength to prosperity after the change of Tumubao. But there was nothing he could do about it, and he couldn't tell everyone what was about to happen without the prophet having even happened.

Don't you say that others believe it or not, and even if you do, then how did you come to this news and how do you explain it, you can't say that I saw it in the history books in the 21st century, right?

Just when Zhu Qiyu was a little stunned, he saw a person striding out of the hall and said loudly: "The minister has a playbook!" ”

Zhu Qiyu looked at the minister who was playing and said: "What is there to play in Chen Yushi, today's court meeting will mainly discuss post-war matters and how to face the current predicament, and other things need to be put aside first."

The name of this person is Chen Yi, the right capital of the Imperial Palace, he is an honest official, and he hates Wang Zhen very much, Zhu Qiyu knows him, this is an official who at least he admires. A few days ago, he didn't talk too much at the court meeting, but today he was the first to stand up, Zhu Qiyu was curious about what he was doing this time!

Chen Yi really hated Wang Zhen very much, he not only hated Wang Zhen, but also the Ming Emperor Zhu Qizhen, who had become a prisoner of Wara, and even the Xuande Emperor Zhu Zhanji, who had been dead for a long time, also hated him.

There is no other reason, the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty participated in politics because Emperor Xuande Zhu Zhanji was not diligent enough, and held a training class in the harem to train the eunuchs to read and write, so that the eunuchs could help him correct the chapters, so that the eunuchs could take power and become a force that could compete with the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty.

And Zhu Qizhen trusted Wang Zhen for no reason at all, and made the entire court miserable, and the people were miserable, which was the culprit who led to this fiasco.

The defeat of the Ming army made Chen Yi heartbroken, and after a few days of brewing, he made up his mind to eradicate Wang Zhen's party in one fell swoop.

Facing Zhu Qiyu's questioning, I saw him say sharply: "What the minister played is related to this, Wang Zhen brought disaster to the country and the people, did many evils, and caused the emperor to fall into the enemy camp, my Ming Dynasty's 200,000 elite army was lost, and countless grains were lost. The ministers please play, punish the nine clans, and all the Wang Zhen henchmen above the court will punish the three clans! ”

The tone was so severe, the punishment was so shocking, it scared the Manchu Dynasty to ban all civil and military affairs, Chen Yi's performance not only frightened the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military ministers, but even Zhu Qiyu was taken aback, this is the most severe and cruel punishment of the Nine Clans.

"Chen Yushi's performance is self-agreeable, but is this punishment too severe?"

Although Zhu Qiyu has been in this world for more than 20 years, he has never seen such a cruel punishment. What's more, this will has to be sent from his hands, and he can't help but feel a little unbearable in his heart, after all, Wang Zhen made a mistake, and it would be a very severe punishment to raid the family and exterminate the clan, and the Jiu clan would implicate a large number of innocent people.

However, after listening to Zhu Qiyu's words, Chen Yi was stunned, in his opinion, Zhu Qiyu did not want to punish Wang Zhen's family and his henchmen, so he clearly wanted to cover up.

Thinking of what Wang Zhen had done, and thinking of his innocent colleagues and people, Chen Yi, who has always attached great importance to the prestige of the court, couldn't help but cry bitterly.

Good guy, this time, it's a big fuss.

Originally, many ministers in the court were suppressed by Wang Zhen, dismissed officials, suppressed and suppressed, and dismissed from office, as long as they were enemies of Wang Zhen, they were almost cleaned up. Now that Wang Zhen is dead, and he is burdened with such a heinous crime, it is naturally a good time for revenge, in the face of Chen Yi's invitation, Zhu Qiyu even wanted to be lenient and made the ministers dissatisfied, at this time Chen Yi cried bitterly in court, not only is it not rude, but it is a manifestation of loyalty and patriotism.

As a result, Chen Yi's cry aroused the anger of the ministers, and their long-suppressed grievances completely exploded, and they began to disregard etiquette and compete to impeach Wang Zhen against Zhu Qiyu.

All of a sudden, there was chaos in the court, with the sound of playing, scolding, and crying one after another, and the degree of chaos was really comparable to that of the bazaar.

Zhu Qiyu on the dragon chair looked at the scene in front of him dumbfounded, to be honest, he was really a little scared, such a chaotic scene was once seen on TV when he saw a small local meeting that he didn't know, and today it happened under his nose, or because of his words.

"What did I do?" Zhu Qiyu was a little inexplicable.

The ministers below shouted loudly like cannons, mixed with crying and scolding, and it was impossible to hear what they were saying. Pity us, Zhu Qiyu, who knows astronomy and geography at the top, knows 500 years before and 1,000 years later, and can't understand why the originally good court will suddenly make such a fuss.

Suddenly, the hustle and bustle in the court calmed down, and the ministers below all looked at him with an extremely terrifying look: "Wang Zhen brought disaster to the country and the people, brutalized the loyal and good, and caused a catastrophe. ”

This is causing public outrage!

Zhu Qiyu understood, because his previous response seemed to be a little biased towards Wang Zhen's henchmen, which caused the dissatisfaction of the ministers.

In the face of the unanimous decision of the ministers, Zhu Qiyu knew that if the response was not good, I was afraid that the consequences would be even more serious.

Looking at the silent Yu Qian, Zhu Qiyu knew that he had to give an explanation, if the squeezing hatred was not vented, the more hoarding and outbreaking, the more serious the consequences.

Jin Ying, the eunuch next to him, also kept wiping his sweat, he had never seen this kind of formation, and a group of gentle ministers were like being beaten with chicken blood at this time, which was really terrifying.

He secretly glanced at Zhu Qiyu, whose face was a little pale, and thought in his heart: "How will this person deal with the first big problem before he ascends the throne?" ”

This is not one or two ministers, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military are furious together, the power is extremely terrifying, even the emperor, if they can't satisfy them, they who have already been carried away by anger at this time I'm afraid they will do something out of the ordinary!