Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Mountain Rain is Coming

The deep palace, the jumping candle flame, here is the Chongde Hall where the tomb of Emperor Taichang is parked. The black night made this palace a little less solemn and a little more hideous, like the huge mouth of a fierce beast that chooses people and devours them.

With the sound of footsteps, a figure slowly walked into the main hall and came to the main hall.

In front of the coffin is a huge brazier, and a young man sits on the edge of the brazier and puts the paper money in his hand into the brazier one by one. As the paper money was put in, the flames in the brazier kept beating, reflecting on the young man's expressionless face.

"Your Highness, the song has been sent over there during the day." The visitor saluted the young man and whispered respectfully. For the young man in front of him, Wang An once thought that he knew very well, but at this time he didn't dare to say so, this person's mind was really not something he could guess.

Putting the last piece of paper money in his hand into the brazier, the young man slowly stood up, but did not answer Wang An's words, but ordered: "Hold the lamp." ”

When the lights in the main hall were lit again, the entire hall was suddenly brightly lit, and the hall seemed to have returned to the yang world from the yin world, so that the eunuchs and palace maids standing here all breathed a sigh of relief.

Slowly coming to the back of the desk, the crown prince Zhu Youxiao sat down lightly and picked up a notebook on the table in front of him. This is Zuo Guangdou's rubbing, nodded at Wang An, and handed him the fold.

"Read." As he took over the recital, the prince said softly.

For classical Chinese, the crown prince Zhu Youxiao can still understand it, but this kind of traditional Chinese is not very clear. During this time, Zhu Youxiao was used to letting people read the fold, and Wang An didn't feel strange, so he took the fold and read it.

With Wang An's voice, Zhu Youxiao gradually fell into deep thought, this piece of writing is really a hooligan, this number one general of the Donglin Party is really not Gaide. This strength, this writing, this rhetoric, it is really a must!

This recital is very straightforward, it can be said that there is no evasion in the slightest, from the first sentence, it is a secret mystery, step by step.

The first sentence of this book first said that the Qianqing Palace in the inner court is like the Imperial Palace in the outer court, which seems to be nothing, but in fact, it laid the groundwork for the second sentence. There is only one thing that Zuo Guangdou wants to explain here, that is, the status of the Qianqing Palace is the same as that of the Imperial Palace, which is the place where the state handles government affairs.

With such a beginning, then the next sentence comes, and the second sentence is: "Only the Son of Heaven can live in the sky, but the queen can live with the heavens." Other concubines entered the palace by the second time, and were not allowed to live forever, not only to avoid suspicion, but also to be respectful and humble. ”

Here Zuo Guangdou wants to say, since the status of the Qianqing Palace is so important, who can live there? The first is naturally the Emperor of the Son of Heaven, the emperor controls the world, and naturally can live in the Qianqing Palace. So who else can live? The second person is the empress, because the empress is the emperor's wife, she is a wife, so she is qualified to live here. The next sentence is Zuo Guangdou's most important foreshadowing, and it is also what he wants to say, that is, other concubines are not qualified to live, not only to avoid suspicion, but also because of the difference between respect and inferiority.

With these foreshadowings, then the latter words are finally going to get to the point, because Zuo Guangdou wrote: "The selection of the servant is neither a mother-in-law nor a biological mother, as if he lives in the main palace, and His Royal Highness is a retreat to Ciqing, not to keep a few feasts, to make a big gift, what is the name?" The emperor has no virtue of taking off the hairpin and precept in advance, and he has no grace to raise him in His Royal Highness, how can this person be entrusted with the holy bow? ”

In this paragraph, Zuo Guangdou said not politely at all, he directly asked Li Xuanshi, you are neither the prince's biological mother nor the queen, so what qualifications do you have to live in the Qianqing Palace? You live here with a bad name and wrong words, but you still die here and don't leave, so how can a woman like you who doesn't know how to respect and humility raise the prince for you? This is simply a naked slap in the face, which is very polite.

The civil officials of the Ming Dynasty did not take much into account many times, and even if they were written to the emperor, they were usually very unkind. Many people are famous by scolding the emperor, what faint, incompetent, such words often appear in the twists and turns. It is impossible for such a passage to stimulate Li Xuanshi, this woman who has experienced countless ups and downs, it is impossible to be defeated so easily, what really kills is the last paragraph of the song.

The last paragraph of the commotion reads: "And His Royal Highness is sixteen years old, supplemented by loyalty and old age, and supplemented by Gong Gu Qing Er, why worry about the lack of people, and still have to be fed and swaddled?" The situation is just beginning, and it is appropriate not to see it, so why entrust it to a woman. A woman's hand? If you don't make a decision today, you will do it in the name of support. The disaster of the Wu clan will be seen again now, and there will be those who cannot bear to speak in the future. ”

What does this passage mean? It probably means: "The prince is sixteen years old, he is already an adult, there are just and strict ministers outside, and there are eunuchs who are safe and stable inside." "I have to insert a sentence here, in the Ming Dynasty, the civil officials were a separate system, and they looked down on the generals, and even more on Jinyiwei and Dongchang. Because of the emperor's restrictions on military generals, these military attaches have long been no opponents of civil officials, and Ming Chengzu has set up a new opponent for civil officials, that is, Dongchang Jinyiwei, which may be another way of checks and balances. Why did Zuo Guangdou say this here? This may be to unite all the forces that can be combined, temporarily unite, and bring down Li Xuanzhi before talking about anything else.

"So since the prince is sixteen years old, and he is assisted by so many virtuous people, what else do you want to do? Does the prince still need to be like a child, and he needs you to coax him? Actually, these are appetizers, and the real highlight is actually the last sentence.

There is only one thing Zuo Guangdou wants to say here, that is, the prince has reached the age of the beginning of love, how can he be entrusted to a woman to raise at this time? Looking at the meaning of the writing, Zuo Guangdou is afraid that Li Xuanzhi will be Wu Zetian's dictatorship, but in fact, there is a deeper meaning in it.

Since the prince has already started to fall in love, there will always be a woman you like, what are you doing here? Do you want to be Wu Zetian? As we all know, Wu Zetian is Li Shimin's concubine, and Li Zhi is Li Shimin's son, Wu Zetian first married Li Shimin, and then married Li Zhi. Here Zuo Guangdou is saying, do you want to live here, is it to seduce the prince? Seducing such a titular son?

You must know that the Ming Dynasty was not as good as the Han and Tang Dynasties, and the atmosphere of the Han and Tang Dynasties was still very open, and it was not impossible for widows to remarry. The princess is also a matter of passing jiān, which also happens from time to time. But in the Ming Dynasty, you just waited to be immersed in the pig cage!

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