After groaning for a long time, Zhu Qiyu, whose face turned blue and red, finally let go of his clenched fist and leaned back on the back of the chair with some dejection. Now, his throne is not yet stable, and he dares to kill his relatives like Song Taizong in order to cut off future troubles.

Zhu Qiyu naturally knew about the founding of the former Song Dynasty that Wang Cheng said, that is, the dirty things that happened between Song Taizu and Song Taizong about the succession of the emperor.

Zhu Qiyu knew what Wang Cheng meant, and hoped that he could be as ruthless as Zhao Kuangyi, but Wang Cheng was just a eunuch after all, how did he know the twists and turns here. The reason why Zhao Kuangyi was able to succeed in seizing the throne was not just a trick.

According to records, on the night of October 19 in the ninth year of Kaibao, Zhao Kuangyin was seriously ill, and Empress Song sent her confidant Wang Jien to summon her fourth son Zhao Defang into the palace in order to arrange the funeral. Zhao Kuangyi, the second brother of Song Taizu, had already watched the throne and bought Wang Jien as a confidant. When he learned that Taizu was seriously ill, he and his confidant Cheng Dexuan waited all night in the Jin Palace.

After Wang Jien received the edict, he did not summon Zhao Defang, the second son of Taizu, but directly went to inform Zhao Guangyi. Guangyi immediately entered the palace, and after entering the palace, he entered Taizu's bedroom without waiting for a notification. When Wang Jien returned to the palace, Queen Song asked, "Defang is here?" Wang Jien said: "The king of Jin is the best." "Queen Song was taken aback when she saw that Zhao Guangyi had arrived! Knowing that something had changed, and it was irreparable, he had to call Zhao Kuangyi, one of the emperor's titles, the "official family", and begged: "The lives of my mother and son are entrusted to the official family." ”

Zhao Kuangyi replied: "Jointly protect the wealth, don't worry!" "In history, after Zhao Guangyi entered the palace of Song Taizu, but when he saw the king of Jin under the shadow of the candle, he left the table, and the sound of "pillar axe poking the ground", Zhao Kuangyin then died. On the morning of the 21st, Zhao Kuangyi ascended the throne in front of the coffin and changed the Yuan Taiping to rejuvenate the country. Because there was no third person present in this incident, there has always been a legend that Zhao Kuangyi killed his brother and ascended the throne, but it could not be confirmed and became a mystery for the ages.

However, please don't forget that the reason why Zhao Kuangyi was able to succeed in seizing the throne was because he had been with Taizu for a long time, and he had a lot of prestige among the ministers of civil and military affairs, and he also cultivated a lot of henchmen, so that he could succeed in seizing the throne.

Taizong had already made arrangements in full swing before he succeeded to the throne. Taizong served as the governor of Kaifeng for fifteen years, and it was at the time of Taoguang's obscurity that he organized a decisive political force during this period. According to statistics, there were as many as 60 members of the shogunate of King Guangjin. At the same time, Zhao Guangyi also intended to make friends with many civilian and military generals. Even Taizu's old subordinates, such as Chu Zhaofu and Lu Duoxun and other important officials in the court who held real power, Taizong was interested in accommodating them. Both of them had a close relationship with Taizong, and both were promoted after Taizong succeeded to the throne.

-------------------- but even so, after he ascended the throne, he still made up countless messy reasons to hide his inner fear. even made a "Golden Kui Alliance" of Empress Dowager Du's deathbed to tell the legal surname of Zhao Kuangyi to get the throne.

Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin's four sons: Changteng Wang Dexiu, Yanyi Wang Dezhao, Shu Wang Delin, Qin Kanghui Wang Defang. Deok Xiu and Delin both died young. In other words, for Zhao Kuangyi, who had just ascended the throne as emperor, the biggest potential opponents for Emperor Guangyi were the elder Dezhao and the young Defang.

Speaking of his brother, the only competitor is his younger brother - Zhao Tingmei, the king of Qin. According to "The Alliance of Jinkui", brother and brother, then you Zhao Kuangyi has braids, is it time for Zhao Tingmei to be the son of heaven?

Zhao Kuangyi personally directed a scene of the Great Song Dynasty version of He Taianxious, and forced his younger brother Zhao Tingmei, nephews Zhao Dezhao, and Zhao Defang to a dead end one by one. Zhao Tingmei was demoted to Fangzhou and died of depression at the age of thirty-eight; Zhao Dezhao was forced to commit suicide at the age of 30; Zhao Defang, like his father Zhao Kuangyin, died of a violent illness for no apparent reason, at the age of twenty-three. Instead of living to seventy or eighty years old like in the book of commentaries, he still had to die in front of the emperor.

And compared with Zhao Kuangyi, he is really too much worse, first of all, his brother Zhu Qizhen has been in power for fifteen years, although he has done a lot of bad things, but after all, he has been in charge of the Ming Dynasty for fifteen years, and his prestige is very high.

After being captured in the hands of the tile spur, he can learn from the pain, and the character of the person broke out again and again, the city of Xuanfu is not afraid of danger, and the city of Beijing is confined to the death of millions of soldiers and civilians, and then confined to the grassland, but it can make the tile spur civil and military are respectful, and then later, it is to gain the heart of the beauty, with the help of the beauty, to get rid of the country, all kinds of almost legendary deeds are heard by the world, but let his prestige not be slightly reduced, but more grand.

And what about yourself? Not to mention the rest, his throne was passed down by Zhu Qizhen's edict, not supported by the ministers and ascended to the throne, second, he is an idle prince all the year round, and he has no ambition to compete for the throne, where would he think that he would be the son of heaven ten years in advance and arrange it in advance?

Third, Zhu Qizhen did not die, returned to the Ming Dynasty, and supervised the civil and military affairs of the border town of Xuanfu as the emperor of the ether, which was quite promising, just such a trivial matter as slaughtering a few eunuchs was rendered known to the world, and even made the ministers praise him.

The emperor can only be like an angry little daughter-in-law, who wants to show his strength, with the elbows of the ministers inside, and the tiger of the emperor outside, such pressure is really not ordinarily great.

Now, Wang Cheng's words really moved Zhu Qiyu's heart, but it was not that he didn't want to do it, but that he didn't dare to do it.

Zhu Qizhen is still alive, among the ministers, there are very few of his henchmen, there is no force in the court that can be controlled by him, in the palace ban, the Empress Dowager Sun is still cold-eyed, and Zhu Qizhen's uncles are honest on the surface and do nothing bad, making it difficult for them to find fault and degrade their positions. But they have been in charge of the Jinyi Guard for a long time, although the strength is not large, but it is still not to be underestimated, after all, what the Jinyi Guard does, no one in the Ming Dynasty cannot not know.

This made Zhu Qiyu have a strong sense of distress, after all, the crown prince Zhu Jianshen is his brother, that is, the son of Zhu Qizhen, who is still alive, that is to say, after a hundred years, it is not his own son Zhu Jianji, the son of the great tomorrow, who ascended the throne as the emperor, but his nephew. made Zhu Qiyu can't help but feel sad and indignant, he is simply a sandwich biscuit-level big tomorrow.

Can -------------------- himself willingly hand over the throne to his nephew Zhu Jianshen? Zhu Qiyu touched his conscience and got a positive answer: impossible. When you become an emperor and have enough understanding of imperial power, you will be completely immersed in it, intoxicated by it, how can you be willing to give it to others? Even if he wants to hand it over, he only wants to hand it over to his son Zhu Jianji.

But the problem is that if you don't pay Zhu Qiyu, it doesn't mean that others don't want it, not to mention that Zhu Qizhen is still there, and if Zhu Jianshen is older, maybe when the time comes, I am afraid that history will also be repeated, and the matter of the nephew forcing the palace will happen in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Qiyu has also read history books, so he naturally knows that as early as in the Anshi Rebellion, the crown prince Li Hengyao worshiped Tang Xuanzong as the emperor and established himself as the emperor. And especially in the past five generations, the matter of children and nephews forcing the palace is even more endless.

Wang Cheng just looked at Zhu Qiyu, who had been silent and his face was uncertain, and although Hang Guifei hugged Zhu Jianji and seemed to be caressing her son, the corner of her eyes never left Zhu Qiyu's cheeks, and the tension and anticipation in her heart made her heartbeat twice as fast as usual.

Zhu Qiyu raised her head, and Concubine Hang, who was holding Zhu Jianji, who was already asleep, seemed to shrink timidly, and her hand holding the child was also a little tighter, feeling the strangeness of the beauties around her. Looking at the son who was sleeping sweetly in the arms of the concubine, Zhu Qiyu's heartstrings were touched.

This is his son, why should his throne be returned to his brother after a hundred years? In any case, even if there are great difficulties and hardships on the road ahead, you must think about your children and grandchildren, let them continue on their own path, and let the Ming Dynasty become a part of their bloodline.

Zhu Qiyu, who had finally made up his mind in his heart, showed a gentle smile towards Concubine Hang. patted Concubine Hang's slender hand, and said gently and firmly: "Jianji is my emperor, don't worry, I want to give him an explanation after all." ”

Hearing the words that came out of Zhu Qiyu's mouth, Hang Guifei's heart, which was originally hanging in her throat, couldn't help but relax, fell back into place, and softly pressed her cheek against Zhu Qiyu's slightly thin chest, with a hint of joy in her voice, and a little choked. "The concubine knows, but she is afraid of Your Majesty'......"

"Concubine Ai doesn't have to be like this, the father's business is inherited by the son, which is the ancestral system of my Ming Emperor's inheritance. After all, I am the son of heaven of the Ming Dynasty, the lord of the Ming Dynasty, my son, will definitely become the crown prince. At this moment, Zhu Qiyu's heart was extremely firm.

Wang Cheng's head was lowered lower. "Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live." Although the voice was hoarse and high-pitched, it revealed an indescribable excitement and ecstasy.

More than an hour later, a palace maid walked out of the palace of the Hang Guifei, and was ordered by the Hang Guifei to present a meal in the imperial dining room, but halfway through, she met a little eunuch who was sticking cicadas with a sticky rod, the palace maid greeted him with a smile, and after asking a few words, she continued to walk towards the imperial dining room, no one noticed, the little eunuch moved his steps carefully, and then quietly picked up a small wax pill that the palace maid inadvertently dropped on the ground and stuffed it into his boots. And then continued to do his thing as if nothing happened.

That night, the Empress Dowager Sun, who was already about to go to bed, sat on the chair with a pale face, and what she held in her hand was a small note with graceful and scribbled handwriting taken out of the crushed wax pill.

The lights in the main hall of Renshou Palace were not gradually extinguished until the sky was polished, and the next morning, a beautiful, dignified and generous palace maid of Renshou Palace was summoned to the Empress Dowager Sun.

(To be continued)