Around the battle for the throne, all forces do not hesitate to use open guns and hidden arrows, but these dark palace political battles will be firmly locked in the deep palace hall and will not be passed on to the world. What can be written in the history books and tell the world all over the world is naturally those positive news that seem to be "high".

Jiuqing finally reached a consensus on who would succeed the great unification, and they led the civil and military officials to resign and invite the Empress Dowager:

"The holy drive to the north, the crown prince is young, the country is in danger, and the people's hearts are surging. Gu Yun: 'The country has a long monarch, and the blessing of the society', please make a big plan to establish the sect society. ”

The Empress Dowager replied: "The secretary and others will play the country's great plan, and they will agree to the request, and their order will be the emperor's throne, and the Ministry of Rites will have etiquette, and they will hear it on a certain day." ”

Hundreds of officials were ordered by the queen mother to go to the king of Yu to persuade him, and the king of Yu wanted to resign again and again as usual, until Yu Qian and others invited him, and the king nodded his head.

On the sixth day of September in the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, King Yu officially ascended the throne as Emperor Jingtai, and was scheduled to change the name of the country to "Jingtai" next year.

Due to the critical situation, everything in the ceremony of ascending to the pole was simplified, and officials from all over the country were exempted from going to Beijing to congratulate him. Emperor Jingtai issued an edict to the people and granted amnesty to the world.

"I take the imperial examination Xuanzong Zhang Emperor Zhongzi Feng Fan Jingshi, than because of the capture of the border, the eldest brother emperor is afraid of disaster Lianzong Society, had to personally enlist, bow down to lead a hundred officials to guard, unfortunately the car drove by mistake into the court, my Virgin Queen Mother comforted the subjects, has set up the eldest son of the emperor to see Shen as the crown prince, ordered to bow to assist, on behalf of the general state government. The emperor, the prince and the military ministers in the court, the military and the people, the elders, the four Yi envoys, the reinstatement of the heavenly position for a long time, the artifact has no owner, the people are panicked, Mo Zhi's bottom is determined, please make a plan early on the resignation, the queen mother to the prince young chong, can not take care of all opportunities, move the life of the king to the world······"

"Bowing" was the emperor's modest self-title. Emperor Jingtai naturally will not only care about modesty, he wants to find enough legitimacy reasons for his ascension, in addition to the persuasion of hundreds of officials, the queen mother moved these reasons, and the later text also mentioned that he was ordered by the orthodox emperor, which belongs to the "lie" that has to be said, otherwise, if the orthodox emperor is not "instructed", Emperor Jingtai will directly ascend to the pole, where will the orthodox emperor be placed?

The officials of the DPRK and the Central Committee often said that "the society is the most important", and the phrase "the monarch is light" was hidden, which was really forced to do it. Mencius's sentence "the people are precious, the society is secondary, and the monarch is light" has the background of the times, and the word "jun" refers to the princes of the states, not to the son of heaven. In the minds of Confucius and Mencius, Zhou Tianzi at that time was a god-like existence, and it can be seen from the book "Spring and Autumn" that Confucius tried his best to maintain the sacred image of Zhou Tianzi. Although Mencius dared to directly rebuke Xia Wei and Shang, he was secretive about Zhou Tianzi.

The Ming Dynasty is a "great unification" of the centralized state, which is different from the era of the feudal system, the Son of Heaven is the monarch, the monarch is the Son of Heaven, at this time to mention the "monarch is light", really can not find an undoubted basis from the classics.

As a result, the monarchs and ministers of the court had to make up a reason, saying that Emperor Jingtai's accession to the throne was authorized by the orthodox emperor, and this lie will surely stand the test of time, and also lay a hidden danger for future political disputes.

Of course, Emperor Jingtai didn't have time to think so much, he wanted to first show his own concept of governance, so the edict promulgated was obviously different from the previous emperors, the length was extremely long, but there were few beautiful official words, on the contrary, it was very humane. The general meaning of the latter text is that the civil and military officials should love the soldiers, be good at caring for the people, and be virtuous and capable, and not indiscriminate. All kinds of craftsmen, yin and yang, doctors, and cooks over the age of 60 in Beijing who are unable to serve will be exempted; Those who are over 70 years old and have no male attendants in the country shall be supported by the government at all levels; Those over 80 years old will be given two horses of silk, two catties of brocade, a bucket of wine, and ten catties of meat, and local officials must regularly come to the door to offer condolences.

This edict shows that Emperor Jingtai learned from the pain and was determined to put the concept of "the people only the state" into action, rather than just staying in words as in the past.

However, Emperor Jingtai's power base is very fragile, only by holding Beijing, he can sit on the throne, if he can make the Ming Dynasty prosperous, then will be cultural and martial arts, and leave a name in history. On the contrary, if the capital is not protected and he is forced to cross south, he may end up in embarrassment.

In the final analysis, Emperor Jingtai was ordered to be in danger, and what he took over was a mess that was so rotten that it couldn't be rotten anymore, and he would never dare to take over without the ambition to live and die with Sheji. In this sense, the repeated resignations at the beginning revealed his inner anxiety, and it was not all for show.

At this time, the righteous indignation and passion of the DPRK and China from the defeat of the Tumubao gradually dissipated, and all kinds of noises came one after another. Many old ministers pressured Emperor Jingtai to make peace with the Warat people, and some people spoke sharply, forcing him to try to welcome back the emperor's holy car.

He has also been resisted by some people in employing people. The first assistant of the cabinet, Cao Nai, donated his life, Ma Yu had already died of illness, Chen Xun recommended Shang Shi and Peng Shi to join the cabinet to enrich the cabinet bureaucracy, but Peng Shi, who was the new champion of orthodoxy for 12 years and had accepted the courtesy of the orthodox emperor, openly resisted the decree and was unwilling to enter the cabinet.

And the north is in chaos, there is bloody wind and rain everywhere, the border army can only hide in the castle to close the city to protect themselves, countless border people are suffering from the ravages of the Wara iron horse, Emperor Jingtai is worried about this. In Shanxi alone, a large number of border people fled to the mountains for refuge, but the Tartar thieves searched the mountains everywhere, killing hundreds of thousands of border people and robbing hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep, mules and horses.

In the face of the cruel reality, Emperor Jingtai had to make a historic choice, for this reason, he sent Yu Qian and Zhu Qiming to give the final decision on which is more important and which is more urgent than external trouble.

In Zhu Qiming's view, with Yu Qian present, he only needs to be an audience.

Sure enough, Yu Qian lived up to expectations and made a clear judgment on the current situation: "Your Majesty, now that the treasury is empty, it is difficult to balance the internal strife and resist foreign aggression. is also a wolf's ambition, and his desire is difficult to fill, and Daming must not have illusions about him. At the beginning, the imperial court set a strategy of suppressing and appeasing at the same time, focusing on appeasement, but there was no way to do it, and blindly used force, resulting in more and more civil strife. ”

"That's what I mean!" Emperor Jingtai stood up excitedly, "Spread the edict: 'The heart of heaven in my body is good, and everyone is treated equally. However, the recalcitrant people in Fujian, Zhejiang, Huguang, Guangdong, Guizhou and other places rebelled, plundered the countryside, and robbed endlessly. At the beginning of my accession to the throne, I have tasted amnesty for the world, and I am still thinking of plotting against the great rebellion and pardoning those who do not forgive, and there is no reason to rehabilitate myself, and the officers and soldiers have been killed for many years, and it is not the intention of my body to be born, so I hereby grant grace, and since the edict arrives, all those who have always forgiven the unforgiving, regardless of the head and subordinate, will be pardoned and removed, and ordered to resume business······"

Originally, the crime of treason was not included in the "amnesty" when the new monarch ascended to the throne, but Emperor Jingtai was benevolent, made an exception and showed mercy, regardless of the leader, as long as the traitors were willing to accept appeasement, they would not be blamed in the past.

The impact of this decree on the current situation is of great significance, and it clearly shows the concept of Jingtai Emperor's governance, that is, "to be gentle internally, and strong externally"!

Within two months, the civil strife in Zhejiang and Fujian was gradually declining, and the expeditionary Beijing army was able to escape and return to Beijing, and the Ming Dynasty was able to concentrate on dealing with the ambitious wolf of Wara, who could not be fed.

Of course, that's an afterthought. At this time, Zhu Qiming was relieved, and after retiring, he wanted to go to Dong'an Gate to meet those Xun Qi disciples as promised.