Chapter 34: The Imperial Grandmother
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Cao Huachun took the song in the soldier's hand and handed it to Zhu Changyuan, Zhu Changyuan opened it and looked at it seriously, and then he knew the general course of the matter.
It turned out that he was still the ghost.
Some time ago, he divided the kings, made Duoduo the king of Mongolia, and ordered him to lead an army to attack Mongolia.
Unfortunately, the internal discord of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the unwillingness of Hauge's soldiers to be distributed to him, caused all the 10,000 soldiers under Duoduo to be old, weak, sick and disabled.
But even so, Duoduo also achieved impressive results that others could hardly achieve: five victories in five battles, and countless captives of Mongol princes. However, after all, the disparity in strength is too great.
When the Mongols organized a real attack, he couldn't do it, and he was beaten back to his hometown in Liaodong by three battles and three victories.
Not only that, Duoduo was also killed in battle, and more than 10,000 people in his department were wiped out, and the Mongols took the opportunity to be aggressive, and the troops pointed directly at Liaodong, wanting to take the land of Siping and even Liaobei as their own.
Therefore, Zhu Changyuan received this letter.
"Dolgon is going to attack Fuso Kyushu, who of you knows how it is going now?" Zhu Changyuan put the song on the table and seemed to ask an irrelevant question.
The courtiers below, you look at me, I look at you, usually no one cares about this question, but now the emperor suddenly asked, and he really couldn't answer.
Kong He took a step forward and said: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister urged Dolgon to go to Kyushu as soon as possible a few days ago, but he kept shirking and was always unwilling to go on the grounds of shipbuilding!" ”
"Hmm!" Zhu Changyuan nodded and said, "The cabinet has prepared a holy decree to Dolgon, ordering him to postpone his eastward crossing to Fusang, and to turn west to avenge his brother's hatred." ”
"I plan to make an agreement with them, and in a month's time, I, Daming and Dolgon, will encircle Mongolia from the southeast and southeast directions. Banish it from the steppe! ”
Zhu Changyuan gave the order directly, not caring about the cabinet's thoughts at all.
Xue Guoguan's face was slightly embarrassed, and he took a step forward and knelt on the ground. said: "Your Majesty must not, now the country is decided." When the army is not used, the grassland is not as vast as other countries, its territory is vast, the population is sparse, and it often lives by water and grass. If you win a battle, it's okay, but if you can't win a battle or can't find an enemy after sending troops, it's extremely unfavorable to my Ming Dynasty. ”
The corners of Zhu Changyuan's mouth curled and said, "Lord Xue is too worried." This kind of thing doesn't happen. ”
"Your Majesty!" Xue Guoguan still has to speak.
Zhu Changyuan directly reprimanded: "Ridiculous, half-understood!" ”
"I just said that I would fight with Dolgon, I never said that I would send troops to attack, I have my own way, and you must dissuade you!" waved his hand to let Xue Guo watch it.
Kong He looked at Xue Guoguan with a look of resentment, his fingers clenched into fists, and said secretly: What the general says is what it is, you dare to oppose it, don't you know that soldiers take obedience to orders as their duty?
After thinking about it, it seems that Xue Guoguan is not a soldier.
That won't work either! Kong and firmly think. Zhu Changyuan did everything right.
After retiring from the court, Zhu Changyuan secretly met with a person in the territory of the cabinet of the side hall: Zhou Kui!
Zhou Kui is the old father-in-law of Emperor Chongzhen. It can also be said to be the former national abbot, the father of Empress Zhou.
This product is also a wonder, when Chongzhen used Xue Guoguan's idea to ask for help from hundreds of officials, his father-in-law was on the list.
Chongzhen meant to ask him for 100,000 taels of silver, and he would return it after the state tax came up in the future, but this goods were extremely stingy, saying that he had no silver and could only help pay 100 taels.
Later, Chongzhen had no choice, and he wanted to give him a marquis. asked people to beg him again, and barely pulled out 10,000 taels from his mouth.
But it's 10,000 taels of silver. This thing shamelessly ran to the harem to complain to his daughter, and at the same time hoped to follow his daughter's path. Take back the ten thousand taels of silver.
What a figure Queen Zhou is, she understands righteousness. How could it be possible to let your father do such a thing?
Therefore, she persuaded hard, analyzed the current form, and took out five thousand taels from the queen's private treasury to give it to Zhou Kui, and told him: "You take the five thousand taels of silver first, and then donate it to the yamen in your name!" ”
After Zhou Kui got the silver, he happily agreed, but when he returned home, he immediately changed his hexagram, and his daughter's instructions were forgotten, so he deducted 3,000 taels of silver from the 5,000 taels in his hand, and only handed over 2,000 taels to the state.
The strange of the wonderful, the miser is not an exaggeration.
If he was just greedy and stingy when he was paid by the silver, but now what he does is a bit undisciplined or even shameless.
This kind of shamelessness made Zhu Changyuan want to kill him.
Zhou Kui, as a relative of Emperor Chongzhen, was a dignified ruler of the country, and the emperor Shen entrusted him with three children before he died, so that he could live incognito from now on.
Fortunately, his daughter had just died less than two months ago, and he couldn't wait to send his grandson to the new court to invite merit, and he wanted to continue to be his ruler.
After the crown prince is sent to the new court, he knows what will happen with his ass!
But the prince's maternal grandfather actually did it.
Zhu Changyuan entered the cabinet with a gloomy face, and when he saw Zhou Kui, who was already sitting in his seat, he couldn't help but feel disgusted and wanted to twitch in his heart.
Chongzhen, Chongzhen, now I finally know why you died in the country, look at you or something, what kind of things are these courtiers, now, Lao Wei can't help but sympathize with you.
What your old man said is really right, the ministers misunderstood me, and the ministers misunderstood.
"Your Majesty!" After Zhou Kui saw Zhu Changyuan, he got up as fast as he could, opened the chrysanthemum on his face as if he saw his father, kowtowed to Zhu Changyuan, and paid homage.
Zhu Changyuan snorted softly, raised his feet and stepped over beside him, sat on the chair, first gently shook the teacup and drank tea for a long time, and then asked, "Mr. Zhou asked to see me, I don't know what's the matter?" ”
Zhou Kui knelt on the ground, turned his head at Zhu Changyuan in a strange posture, and looked like a turtle.
"Your Majesty, the prince of the first dynasty hid in the minister's house, and the minister thought about it, and felt that he had to hand over the new monarch, so as not to do disloyal and unfilial things, and leave a stench for ten thousand years!" Zhou Kui doesn't have much culture, and he speaks in a set of ways.
Zhu Changyuan sneered, took a sip of tea, and said slowly: "The prince is at your house, okay, I have been looking for him for a long time." But Lord Zhou, you have given me a problem, you give it to me, how should I deal with it? ”
"If I kill the prince, I will inevitably be stigmatized, and you also know that the prince is nearly ten years old and has never participated in military affairs, so naturally there is no moral stain on him, and I will not be able to kill him. But if you don't kill it, it's a threat to keep it sooner or later, and if he grows up one day, he'll stab me twice. ”
"How can this be?"
Zhou Kui is also a ruthless person, after listening to Zhu Changyuan's words, he felt that it was very reasonable, but he was not decisive enough to win the emperor's favor.
"So, the minister understands!" Zhou Kui had a promise from Zhu Changyuan.
"You understand?" Zhu Changyuan was stunned, Nima Laozi didn't say anything, what do you understand?
"Retire!" Zhou Kui bowed, then bowed his head and stepped back.
Zhu Changyuan was stunned and stunned, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, so he asked Cao Huachun to go out and chase Zhou Kuila back, and asked, "Why are you going, when will I let you go." ”
Zhou Kui was stunned: "Didn't Your Majesty let the minister deal with it, the minister thought, in order to avoid His Majesty's stigma, the minister would rather deal with it himself, so as to prevent future troubles!" ”
"Brute!" The teacup in Zhu Changyuan's hand, together with the lid of the teacup, was thrown into Zhou Kui's face, oh, and the tea leaves and hot tea.
"Splash nothing..." Zhou Kui wanted to vomit, but unfortunately he didn't dare.
"Wolf heart and dog lungs!"
Zhu Changyuan walked in and kicked him up, kicked him two feet away, and scolded: "Isn't the prince your own grandson?" Isn't it your own daughter's own son? How can such a person without humanity stand on top of the temple! ”
"Call me out!" As soon as Zhu Changyuan waved his sleeves, a personal soldier came over and invited Zhou Kui out.
"Go, find someone to take the prince out of this house."
Cao Huachun followed out.
In fact, the prince did not leave Beijing at all, and was taken back to the palace by Cao Huachun after half an hour.
Seeing that the palace was like yesterday, but everyone had changed their faces, and they could no longer see their father and mother, the prince cried loudly. Cao Huachun comforted: "Prince, oh no, look at my mouth!" As he spoke, he twitched into his mouth.
"Childe, although your father is gone, the imperial aunt is still there, don't you miss her, don't you cry, hurry up and follow the old minister to have a look."
"Woo!" Zhu Cihong stopped crying and followed Cao Huachun all the way to the palace and walked to Kunning Palace.
After meeting Zhang Yan, the two naturally cried for a while, and Zhu Cihong's mood gradually improved a lot. He usually spends very little time with Chongzhen, and he is not very familiar with his biological mother, Queen Zhou, but he is inseparable from this imperial aunt every day like a mother and son, and now Zhang Yan is still there, for him, the changes in his life are not as huge as he imagined, but it is acceptable.
Zhu Changyuan entered the palace with a smile from the outside, saw Zhu Cihong, and said with a smile: "Little boy, let's meet again!" ”
When Zhu Cihong saw Zhu Changyuan, his eyes lit up, and he shouted: "Great official!" But just after shouting, his eyes suddenly dimmed again, and he looked at Zhu Changyuan and said, "My brother said that you are the emperor now, isn't it?" ”
Zhu Changyuan squatted down and said to Zhu Cihong: "Yes, I am the emperor now." ”
"Are you going to kill me?" Zhu Cihong asked.
Zhu Changyuan smiled, looked at Zhu Cihong, thought for a while, and said, "You think, will I kill you?" ”
Zhu Cihong shook his head and said, "No!" Then he said with some doubts: "But those old uncles and uncles said that you would kill me." ”
"Oh, that's not for sure, it depends on whether your imperial aunt treats me well in the future!" Zhu Changyuan shook his head and said, "No, from today onwards, you can't call her the imperial aunt anymore, it should be the imperial grandmother!" (To be continued.) )