At dawn, Jin Ying came to the noon gate and passed the empress dowager's decree to the civil and military officials who were preparing for the early dynasty.

"In accordance with the holy decree of the Empress Dowager, the eldest son of the emperor is now the crown prince, and the yamen will sort out the matters of cooperation, and choose a day to have a ceremony."

The Empress Dowager ordered all government offices to prepare ceremonies for the crown prince's canonization, and the officials reacted coldly.

The great country has fallen to the brink of ruin, and everyone is full of resentment in their hearts!

Thinking about the emperor's eldest son Zhu Jianshen, who was not yet two years old, and his father who was a prisoner of the Warat people, the hearts of the hundred officials suddenly cooled a lot: the father was taken captive, and the young son was imprisoned in the country, this is an extremely funny imperial power structure!

After receiving the order, King Yu entered the side hall without saying a word, and Pang Zhe immediately greeted him.

"Your Highness just do what you have to do, defending the capital and defeating the captives is the top priority, as for the overall situation of the court, all the officials are full of anger in their chests, you might as well let them vent their grievances, and everything will be decided at that time."

Manipulating public opinion to profit from it is one of the necessary political skills for politicians. At this moment, King Yu's mind was not on this, but on another variable.

"Allowing the young eldest son of the emperor to succeed to the throne or to supervise the country as the crown prince will not be accepted by the civil and military officials. However, the queen mother has another choice, that is, let King Xiang succeed to the throne, and then pass on to the crown prince in the future. ”

"It can't be!" Pang Zhe was resolute in his eyes, "King Xiang has a deep collusion with those powerful people who have plagued the country, if King Xiang is allowed to ascend to the throne, everything will be the same, and it will be difficult for the Ming Dynasty to have a prosperous day." Putting aside personal grievances, from the perspective of the continuation of life and death in Sheji, King Yue will never let King Xiang succeed to the throne! ”

"King Yue?" King Yu pondered for a moment, "King Yue has far-reaching concerns, and now if he wants to defend the Beijing Division, he must transfer the surrounding garrisons into Beijing and use the treasury silver in charge of Concubine Qin, which is all thanks to the power of King Yue's original person." The king of Yue is more qualified to win the throne than this king! ”

"It's a pity that King Yue is neither the emperor's uncle nor the emperor's brother, and no matter how he ranks the succession, he can't take his turn." Pang Zhe shook his head again and again, "What's more, King Yue is too deeply influenced by the Empress Dowager, and he doesn't have the intention of dominating the world, if it weren't for that, he might follow him in the next year." ”

The king pondered for a long time and nodded reluctantly.

In the following days, King Yu let go of his hands and feet, and took advantage of the convenience of the prison to use new people one after another. Yu Qian was successively promoted to the secretary of the military department, Yu Shiyue was promoted to the right capital of the Imperial Palace, Chen Xun was the secretary of the household department, Gao Gu was the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and even reactivated the degraded Shi Heng as the right governor of the rear army and went to Beijing to obey orders.

And the public opinion in the court also continued to ferment, and finally one day, when the king came to the early court at the left gate of the noon gate, the anger in the chest of the hundred officials erupted like magma.

A group of young and strong officials were furious, and their emotions were completely out of control, and they caught Ma Shun, a henchman who was responsible for maintaining order on the scene and Wang Zhen, and his teeth were biting and tearing his hands, and his fists and feet were added. Everyone still didn't understand their hatred, one by one grinned, the Confucian warrior instantly turned into a fierce beast, and the king of Yu immediately panicked when he saw this.

Poor Mao Gui and Wang Qing were usually flattering Wang Zhen, and they were promoted as they wished, but they were betrayed by Jin Ying, who was eager to "maintain stability". Jin Ying shouted, "Mao Gui and Wang Qing are Wang Zhen's party members", so everyone pulled out Mao Gui and Wang Qing from the crack in the door, and the two were beaten to death on the spot.

Everyone still didn't understand their hatred, and someone ran to arrest Wang Zhen's nephew Wang Shan, at this time, the young and strong scholars finally regained their senses, and met to follow the path of the law, and after a trial, Wang Shan was tied to the city and executed.

In response to the disappearance of order in the court, the king listened to Yu Qian's advice and issued an edict to exempt everyone from the crime of beating people to death.

"The country's many difficulties are all caused by the treacherous dictatorship, and now I have put it to death punishment with what I said, and I have lost my home, so as to thank the anger of heaven and people, and comfort the soul of the society. Erwen and Wuqun's ministers must do their duty to assist the country and help the times of difficulty. ”

Since then, the area around the left gate of the noon gate has become a place of fear, because a terrible precedent has been set here: it is possible to exonerate people from beating people here!

This turmoil seems to be investigating the root cause of the eunuchs' rebellion, but if you think about it deeply, its significance is far from so simple. The captured orthodox emperor was also roasted on the fire: what is it if you favor the traitor, if you are not a faint king!

And that's not all. The young and strong men did not just hate Wang Zhen's dictatorship, but after a short time, they aimed their guns at the honorable relatives and important ministers of the court.

The courtiers handed over the chapter to impeach the princes, marquis, concubines, captains, uncles and other honorable relatives who accompanied the northern expedition for their unscheming, bravery, injustice and disloyalty, "the corpse is not enough to soothe the anger of the saint in the sky, and eating its flesh is not enough to comfort the hearts of the four seas", and requested that a group of honors and relatives be sentenced to the canonical punishment and have no family property.

The courtiers further called for the investigation of the crimes of the princes, such as the British prince Zhang Fu and other auxiliary ministers, as well as Wang Zuo and other officials who accompanied the chauffeur Shangshu, the squire, the imperial envoy, and the scholars, saying that these people "have no merit in helping others, have not survived the trial, and cannot escape the crime of disobedience, and should be strictly investigated and policed." ”

After all the good things the king said, he finally persuaded the courtiers to avoid expanding the attack. But after some liquidation, Hu Hui, Wang Zhi and other surviving old Jiuqing completely lost their right to speak, and the halo of the Son of Heaven on the orthodox emperor was also peeled off layer by layer.

The situation has evolved to this point, and everyone in the former dynasty and the harem knows that no matter whether today's son is alive or dead, whether he is hunting in the north or returning to China, the era of the orthodox emperor is gone, and that era has almost become synonymous with "mediocrity and decay"!

The deeply helpless Empress Qian "covered all the wealth of the six palaces" and sent someone to give it to Yexian, hoping that the orthodox emperor could return to the country first, and this effort was naturally in vain. He also tasted the sweetness first, and adhered to the principle of collecting money and not letting go of people, and hijacked the orthodox emperor to Datong and demanded 24,000 taels of silver in the city.

The orthodox emperor still had illusions, and told Liu Andao, the town guard Datong Guangningbo, who went out of the city to greet him: "I also want to marry my sister to me first, send me back to Beijing, and still be in the throne." Er reported to the queen mother, although I am in captivity, my health is fine, if I send more envoys to bring more goods to give rewards, I can return early, if I am late, I am afraid to go deep into the captivity. ”

When the news was transmitted back to the capital, there was an uproar. These changes made the hundred officials realize the urgency of establishing a new monarch as soon as possible, otherwise, if it is delayed, they only need to hold the orthodox emperor hostage, and they can include all the treasures of the Ming Dynasty, and they can also knock on the gates of many castles along the border at any time, which is not shallow!

The king of Yu sent an order to the generals along the border: "You have to report to the captive Kou to surround one person, saying that it is the supreme, and you and others are out of the court, and reward the public with the silver two, this Gai Kou designed to deceive Er and so on, you are ignorant and have no plan to come here, what is the court to defend with Er!" China only knows that the society is the most important, but in the future, there will be such things that do not distinguish between truth and falsehood, and you must not listen to it and mislead the country! ”

The matter has come to this, it is imperative to support the new monarch, and when Sheji is facing the continuation of life and death, it is impossible to let the young Zhu Jianshen succeed to the throne!

So, the queen mother retreated and urged King Xiang to take responsibility, so that a good show between uncles and nephews secretly competing for the throne quietly began.