On December 12, the ministers asked Shenzong Zhaofei Liu to be responsible for selecting a concubine for the emperor, but Zhu Youxiao, a concubine of Zhao, had seen her and knew that she was a person who did not like to play with power and had a peaceful temperament, and it was most suitable for such a person to preside over the selection of concubines.

Fang Congzhe is going to return to the old again, I don't know how many times Zhu Youxiao has been on the throne. In the past, Zhu Youxiao was comforted every time, but now he may really not be able to resist the attacks below. Specifically, there are three main aspects that attack him, one is to introduce and reward Li Kezhuo. Second, it was not prevented, which led to the death of the emperor. The third is collusion with the Zheng family. Zhu Youxiao didn't want Fang Congzhe to go, if he left, the entire court would really become a hall of words from Donglin people, even if he was a shield, he couldn't let him go. So he decreed: What the first assistant did, I remember it vividly, and the introduction of Li Kezhuo is the duty of the first assistant, and the reward is the intention of the emperor, and the rest of the unprevented and collusion with the Zheng family are all unwarranted. Officials should not be heard, and there must be solid evidence. Fang Congzhe was named the Taishi and entered the Middle Pole Hall as a scholar.

At this moment, the entire court was suddenly silent. The last time everyone quarreled, Xiong Tingbi was bombarded down, so that the imperial history and the people in the matter were in high spirits, for so long Sun Shenxing, Hui Shiyang and others of the Donglin faction continued to attack Fang Congzhe's improper behavior in the Red Pill case, so that Fang Congzhe himself accepted his fate, and was fully mentally prepared, and reached an agreement with the Donglin Party in private, for the Red Pill case, the final conclusion was that all the ministers were guilty, so as to give Fang Congzhe a step and let him ask to step down.

Now not only the people of the Donglin Sect were stunned, but even Fang Congzhe was stunned. But he is a principled person, and he has already agreed with the Donglin Party, of course, he can't fail to abide by the agreement, so he resolutely refuses to accept the emperor's appointment and wants to resign and return to old age.

Zhu Youxiao didn't know why this old man had to resign, but at least he could see that he really wanted to resign, and he didn't want to and couldn't let him resign. So I had no choice but to say: "Since I ascended the throne, what Fang Qing has done is deeply heartfelt, I don't know what kind of immorality I have, I have made the scholars so disgusted, and the ministers are so disgusted, I will want to go to my humerus?" ”

These words were too heavy, and all the ministers knelt on the ground and shouted in unison: "Your Majesty is born a saint, and it is a dereliction of duty for the ministers. Several people who attacked Fang Congzhe were very energetic and kowtowed again and again, and said: "The ministers are guilty of capital crimes, please punish Your Majesty." ”

This is not a court push, and the court push can also be refuted in the matter. Now Fang Congzhe himself resigned, the emperor did not want him to resign, and the ministers had no choice. What's more, when the emperor said such a thing, it meant that the ministers had the intention of coercion, and this crime was too heavy for everyone to bear.

At this time, only Fang Congzhe came out to play a round: "Your Majesty, the minister is old, and he is deeply afraid that he will mislead the state affairs, so he wants to sue the old man, but he failed to perceive the holy will, and his sin lies in the minister." This is also the intention of your colleagues, so there is a word of impeachment, and there is no intention to target the saint, please Your Majesty retract this statement, otherwise the ministers will not be at ease. ”

With this method, he finally achieved victory, so that Zhu Youxiao found a way to deal with the minister. Don't you like to talk about big truths, I'll talk to you about bigger truths, and see whose truth is greater. This discovery made him excited, reasonable, who wouldn't, the emperor's truth is always the biggest, let's see.

Zhu Youxiao also got off the donkey down the slope and no longer pursued this matter. Everyone was very satisfied with this result, Zhu Youxiao kept Fang Congzhe, Fang Congzhe was forced to resign to still be his first assistant, and the ministers escaped the charge of coercing the emperor. Of course, whether the people of the Donglin Party are happy or not, then I don't know. However, when they came out of the hall, the faces of Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou were really not good-looking.

On December 24, the university scholar Fang Congzhe and others were in an emergency in Liaoyang and begged for money. Zhu Youxiao ordered: I remember that the Liao army is short of salary, and the brigadier general's wedding ceremony will temporarily borrow one million dollars of silver. Li Ruhua, the secretary of the household department, played because of the excessive salary, so that there was not much silver taels in the outer treasury, so he had to ask for help from the inner treasury. This made Zhu Youxiao even more anxious about the problem of the minting machine, and asked Xu Guangqi to ask the missionary, and the missionary said that it would take more than a year to make a one-way trip from Daming to the West, so the problem of the minting machine could only wait.

On the twenty-second day of the first month of the first year of the Apocalypse, Qin Tianjian chose this auspicious day as the emperor to perform the crown ceremony. Originally, a man could only perform the crown salute at the age of twenty, but of course the emperor was an exception, and it could not be said that the emperor was not an adult, although the emperor was indeed not an adult according to his age, but of course he should be an adult when he became an emperor. This logic made Zhu Youxiao feel funny, remembering what Khrushchev, the general secretary of the former Soviet Union, said: "I didn't understand art when I was an ordinary worker, I didn't understand art when I was the secretary of the district party committee, and I didn't understand it when I was the secretary of the municipal party committee. "It's really the same thing.

The emperor's marriage selection is in full swing, and there are eight checkpoints for the marriage. The national primary election is the first level, and a total of 5,000 beauties were selected, and these 5,000 beauties will be selected again in the capital. According to Jinyiwei, Zhang Yan returned to her hometown to participate in the marriage election, and now she has passed the primary election and is listed as the first in Xiangfu County, Kaifeng Prefecture.

On the third day of the second lunar month, 5,000 beauties entered the capital and began the second checkpoint, that is, the primary election in the palace. The Hakka family asked the emperor if he wanted to go and see it, and Zhu Youxiao asked strangely: "Can I also go and see it?" ”

Ke Shi smiled: "Of course my brother can't go to see it as the emperor, the concubine means to see it secretly." ”

Concubine Liu Zhao is in charge of the selection of concubines, of course she will not personally choose them now, so in fact, it is Zhao Xuanzhi who is responsible for the selection, Li Xuanzhi and Keshi, yes, this Li Xuanzhi is Xi Li, Zhu Youxiao wants her to come step by step, after this concubine selection, he will give her a credit for choosing a concubine and seal her a concubine first.

She and the Hakka family were very close, both of them knew that the emperor liked the little lady named Zhang Yan, of course she would not be selected, Zhu Youxiao suppressed the desire to see the beauties in the garden, and rejected the Hakka proposal. In fact, he thought that there were too many people for 5,000, so he should choose a relatively small number of them first, because the quality is high, and it will look cool.

The palace primary election chose a large field, and the eunuchs lined up every hundred beauties, sorted by age, and after inspecting them one by one, they eliminated those girls who were either slightly taller, or slightly shorter, or slightly fatter, or slightly thinner. The primary election was completed in less than a day, and a total of 1,200 people were eliminated.

On the fourth day of the second lunar month, the third level of the re-election, the eunuchs used very strict standards to carefully inspect each person's facial features, hair, and skin, and as long as there was one non-compliance, they were eliminated. Then it is to let everyone report their background, name, age, etc., in order to inspect the timbre and demeanor, and eliminate those with rough voices, slurred speech, and unelegant manners. And so another two thousand were sifted out.

On the seventh day of the second month, the fourth level is selected, and the eunuchs use rulers to carefully measure the hands and feet of the girls, and then let them walk dozens of steps to see the gait and charm. So those who had bigger feet, thicker wrists, and bad manners were eliminated again. In the end, a thousand beauties were left to summon into the palace to continue to participate in the selection.

On the tenth day of the first month of February, the fifth pass stayed in the palace, and arranged for the old palace ladies in the palace to lead the beauties to the secret room for physical examination. Those with birthmarks, peculiar smells and even some organs that are not good-looking have been eliminated, and through physical examinations, it was determined that 300 of them became the palace maids selected to stay in the palace.