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Quietly in the square, the eyes of the ministers were all focused on Zhu Houzhao and Zhu Houxi, both of whom were emperors who were worshiped by thousands of people and cousins of their relatives. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhu Houzhao looked at him quietly, his eyes were calm with a bit of intimidating power, Zhu Houxi knelt in front of him, his expression was terrified but fearful, and his body trembled slightly uncontrollably.

After a long time, Zhu Houzhao spoke slowly.

"Zhu Houxi, the second son of Xinghuang's uncle, because the eldest son died early, so he inherited the prince, Zhengde was canonized as King Xing in the summer of the 14th year, and was welcomed into the Beijing division by the courtiers of the Beijing Division in the autumn of the 14th year, that is, the emperor's throne, and the courtiers were killed for less than two months, and the courtiers were killed because of the dispute over the etiquette, and the staff in front of the Chengtian Gate killed one hundred and thirteen courtiers above the fourth grade, just because he did not want to pursue the first emperor of Hongzhi as his father, and he wanted to seal the king of Xingxian as the first emperor......"

Zhu Houxi suddenly showed an extremely aggrieved and indignant expression, knelt on the ground with his head down, but his fists were clenched tightly, as if he had infinite grievances.

Zhu Houzhao looked at him coldly and said, "Did I say something wrong?" ”

Zhu Houxi gritted his teeth, his eyes wandered and he inadvertently saw Qin Kan's cold eyes, and then thought of his current situation, Zhu Houxi sighed in despair and cried: "Your Majesty is not wrong, the courtier's brother killed the courtiers indiscriminately because of his own selfish desires, which is really a great crime. ”

Hearing Zhu Houxi's admission with his own ears, the minister's crowd suddenly let out a heavy angry snort, everyone was angry, and countless resentful eyes instantly focused on Zhu Houxi.

Zhu Houzhao snorted coldly: "Ministers, the important weapon of the country, I have been the emperor for 14 years, and there are many people who do not agree with the courtiers, but I have never issued an order to kill a minister, I have been a country for more than 100 years, from Hongwu Yongle to Chenghua Hongzhi, and I have never killed more than 100 ministers in one day, Zhu Houxi." I didn't expect to set a precedent in your hands, what do you think of me as a treasure of the Ming Dynasty? ”

When many ministers heard this, they immediately burst into tears, and the square was full of mourning.

Zhu Houxi's life hung in the hands of others, so he simply accepted his fate. carried out this bloody case without saying a word. He cried loudly: "Your Majesty, my brother is guilty of a great crime. I ask Your Majesty to punish him, and my brother has nothing to say. ”

Zhu Houzhao looked at him with pity and sighed: "Zhu Houxi, you are only twelve years old. After all, you are too young, I have comprehended some truths for more than ten years, and I have only understood them when I am close to the age, and you are only twelve years old, once you have the power in your hands, your words and deeds are reckless, and you are only quick for a while. Daming is a great country, if these thousands of miles of rivers and mountains and billions of Li people are handed over to you to be in charge, can I rest assured? ”

As soon as these words came out, the Manchu Minister of Civil and Military Affairs was shocked.

The hearts of the three university scholars in the cabinet sank. Looked at each other in disbelief, the meaning of Zhu Houzhao's words was not quite right, last night the Liaodong border army captured the Beijing Division, killed the corpses and blood, and finally regained the throne, and now the meaning of these words clearly wants Zhu Houxi to continue to be the emperor, this ...... How can it be!

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty ...... meaning," Yang Tinghe asked with a suppressed shock.

Zhu Houzhao smiled: "I don't mean anything, now Zhuqing follows me into the palace, goes to Cining Palace to ask the Queen Mother for peace, and fights fiercely all night, which shocks the Queen Mother, and I am guilty." ”

The ministers hurriedly said yes, sorted out their clothes, lined up and walked towards the inner palace.

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Inside the Qianqing Palace.

The war has subsided, the eunuchs and eunuchs were frightened and fled, the broken porcelain, the broken tables and chairs, and the calligraphy and paintings that were swept away were all restored to their original state, Zhu Houzhao sat in the warm pavilion, slowly looking around at all the familiar furnishings, his eyes were filled with tears, and his expression was full of faint sadness.

Qin Kan knelt in front of Zhu Houzhao without saying a word, the atmosphere in the hall was depressed to the extreme, the monarch and the minister had known each other for more than ten years, and the two had never been so cold as at this moment.

Zhu Hou looked at Qin Kan, his eyes were very complicated, there was resentment and unbearable, but more of them were strange and cold.

The monarch and the minister have been friends for more than ten years, from the prince of the East Palace who was ignorant of the world, to the Zhengde Emperor who has become calm after tasting the heat and cold of the world, from the brocade guard Qianhu who was a talented person back then, to the powerful minister who is not inferior to the emperor's authority and can turn the clouds and rain with one hand......

Over the years, in fact, everyone has changed, it has become very slow, people who get along day and night have never noticed each other, and when they are gradually moving away, they only find that when they look back, they find that the direction they are walking is no longer side by side, but in the opposite direction.

Far away, I suddenly found that the other party was no longer what it was back then, and I couldn't find the familiarity of the year between my eyebrows, even if I wanted to put down my body and principles and walk over again, I was too far away after all, and it was so out of reach if I wanted to catch up.

A thing called "rift" quietly arose between the two, and the crack became bigger and bigger, and it could not be filled.

The most heart-wrenching feeling is that at this moment, I am close to the end of the world, helplessly and sadly watching this rift separate each other, but I can't get it back.

It turns out that this is the price of growth, just like Nirvana in the fire, you can only transform in the pain of tormenting your heart and bones, and become the person you once hated and despised.

Zhu Houzhao stared at Qin Kan's familiar and unfamiliar face in a daze, and suddenly burst into tears.

"Qin Kan, I have known you for more than ten years, and I never knew that you had such ambitions, you ...... Do you really want to be an emperor? If I don't appear outside the Chengtian Gate today, do you really want to include the rivers and mountains handed down to me by the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty? ”

Qin Kan's eyes were red, and he shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, the minister has said many times, the minister doesn't want to be the emperor, I have the separation of military and political powers, from the military department of the Beijing division and the governor's office of the five armies to the thousands of guards all over the world, from the 300,000 elite troops of the Gongwei Beijing Division, to the hearts of the vassal kings surnamed Zhu in various places, if the minister is called the emperor, how many people in the world can respond, and how many people will follow?" The surname Zhu has won the hearts of the people all over the world, and the minister is a foreign surname, isn't it the way to die to be called the emperor? ”

Zhu Houzhao's expression gradually became annoyed, and he shouted: "If you don't want to usurp the throne and become emperor, why did you order the Liaodong border army to capture the Jingshi, and why did you kill the Jingshi City with a river of blood?" What exactly do you want? ”

Qin Kan looked at him without fear, and said word by word: "The minister just wants to keep the world of Zhongxing, the peace that my border town of the Ming Dynasty has been hard to get over the years, the job that tens of millions of landless people have found with great difficulty after the opening of the sea ban, and the entire society has finally stood in the forefront of the world after spending a generation of hard work, it has suffered a lot, and it must not take half a step back!" ”

"So you launched a rebellion against the border army, so you didn't change your face and let more than 60 loyal ministers die in front of you. So you broke through the palace, captured the emperor alive, and regarded my Zhu family's imperial power as nothing, and even the emperor's life and death were in your hands? Qin Kan! How is your deeds different from a rebellion against usurpation? I treat you like a brother. but thou hast reciprocated with armor and swords and arrows. I have been blind for more than ten years, and I have let such wolf ambitions lurk around me. Even if the world can forgive me, how can my ancestors forgive me? I, I'm fighting with you! ”

The more Zhu Houzhao spoke, the more angry he became, and finally he simply stood up. Fiercely rushed towards Qin Kan, and the fist in his hand that had been clenched for a long time swung viciously towards Qin Kan's face.

Qin Kan was suddenly punched, narrowing his eyes in pain, a cold light shot out of his eyes, and he fought back mercilessly, and hit the bridge of Zhu Houzhao's nose with a punch, Zhu Houzhao let out an "oops". He covered his nose, and the red nose blush trickled down through the cracks between his fingers.

Qin Kan also covered his bruised face, pointed at him and said angrily: "Zhu Houzhao, tell the truth." I've put up with you for more than ten years! Since the day you ascended the throne, you have been a faint king, you have alienated the famous ministers of the world, favored the eight tigers of the inner palace, just for the sake of the purity of the ears and allowed Liu Jian Xie to move to the office, from the external affairs and internal affairs of all the power entrusted to Liu Jin, in those years, the whole country was uneasy, the people and bandits in various places frequently rebelled, Liu Jin pretended to be the name of the Son of Heaven greedy for ink enclosure, slaughtered hundreds of ministers in the court, and you were playing and having fun in the deep palace, and you didn't know what kind of dark life the subjects of the world lived......"

"After Liu Jin was executed, I thought that you would change your past wrongs and make great efforts, who knew that you were frolicking and having fun, and you did not repent at all, and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty advised you to be diligent and industrious, and all of them were shelved by you and ignored them, so the White Lotus Sect rebelled against you, the northland refugees rebelled against you, the king of Anhua rebelled against you, and the king of Ning also rebelled against you. It took all his strength to reverse the offensive and defensive momentum of the Ming court and the Tartars......"

Qin Kan's eyes were red, and he pointed at Zhu Houzhao sadly and said: "You emperor did it easily, all the government and state affairs were thrown to the celebrant supervisor, and a few crippled eunuchs fluttered lightly in the upper circle of Zhu Zhu to determine the rise and fall of the country, you can know how much effort and effort it takes for our courtiers to maintain the operation of the whole world, not only to let it run, but also to let it move forward, how difficult it is to go further, how many people to fight wits and courage with each national policy, exhaust the strategy, more than ten years later, it is not easy to see a little light, Seeing that you are about to step into the prosperity of the country, the prosperity of the people, and the strength of the army, who knows that you, a short-lived ghost, are drowning, and a new emperor is targeting and restricting everywhere in order to prevent my authority from being too heavy, and even wants to abolish all the policies related to me to strengthen the country, and push the Ming Dynasty back into dire straits......"

Qin Kan stared at him angrily and said heavily, "I've had enough of all this!" So I'm going to be in power! I am not in power for selfish desires, but I don't want people to die in government, I don't want to see the people poor and sell their sons and daughters, the famine years and even change their children and eat, and I don't want to see the military system erosive, the generals are greedy for money, and the sergeants are greedy for life, every winter my Daming border town will be ravaged and looted by the iron hooves of the Tartars, and the border army is as weak as a sheep, let it drive straight into the realm of almost no one, Zhu Houzhao, you see for yourself what you have done over the years, ask yourself if you are ashamed of your ancestors and ancestors, and then come to scold me for stealing the country and usurping the throne! ”

Zhu Houzhao was stunned by a long speech, he didn't expect that the friend in front of him, who had been friends all his life, would have so many resentments against him, and he didn't expect that he would be such a failure when he had been the emperor for all these years, after being stunned for a while, Zhu Houzhao's face turned red, his expression was extremely embarrassed, and he gritted his teeth and said angrily: "Fart!" It's a fart! How can I be as useless as you say, it's just an excuse for you to seek to usurp the throne, I will beat you up first, and then reason with you! ”

After speaking, another punch hit Qin Kan's face, Qin Kan didn't dodge, he really took this punch, half of his face was swollen high, and he sneered: "I won't reason with you, I'll talk about it after the beating!" It's because you've been spoiled since you were a kid and you've never been beaten, that's why you're so stupid. ”

The two looked at each other viciously, and suddenly roared in unison, like two hungry wolves competing for food, rushing towards each other fiercely.

The eunuchs and border soldiers on duty outside the palace gate heard that the movement inside was wrong, and immediately probed to investigate, but saw that the most powerful and noble pair of monarchs and ministers in the world were scuffling like children, and the moves were extraordinary, either gouging out their eyes and spitting or stealing peaches and picking their nostrils, the image was simply unbearable, and the dragon robe and python robe worn by the two had already been torn into strips during the scuffle, and their faces were bruised and black. Obviously, they have taken a lot of beatings.

His Majesty the Emperor and the Grandfather of the Dynasty fought, this ...... But it's a wonder that has never been seen in eternity.

When the soldiers and eunuchs outside the palace saw this scene, they were so frightened that they gasped, and the eunuchs were so anxious that they circled outside the hall. I wanted to go in and pull the rack but didn't dare. The two in it are either extremely noble emperors or powerful ministers, and any one of them opens his mouth lightly. He, a little chamberlain, will die so that there is no ash left, and besides, there is a group of wolf-like Liaodong border troops outside the hall staring at him viciously.

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I don't know how long the fight lasted, Zhu Houzhao and Qin Kan finally stopped. The two of them lay side by side on the scarlet and soft carpet of the Qianqing Palace, panting with their eyes closed, their faces and bodies scarred, and the slightly larger movements affected the wounds on their bodies, gasping in pain, and wailing in pain.

Zhu Houzhao had lost any strength in his body, but somehow a smile appeared on his face. The smile on his face after the fight looked very strange.

"Hiss-Qin Kan, you bastard, you're still so black in your thirties, do you really want to beat me to death?"

Qin Kan's white face was swollen like a pig's head. The eye sockets were also darkened, and the corners of the mouth were hooked and the wound was touched, and the pain was so painful that the eyes and eyebrows were twisted together.

"Hiss-Your Majesty didn't show mercy, just now he punched me in the neck and almost killed me."

The two turned their heads with difficulty, looked at each other in pairs, and after seeing each other's swollen appearance, the two were stunned for a moment, and suddenly laughed, the laughter became louder and louder, mixed with the sound of inhalation after pulling the wound.

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help laughing, while gasping for air, he lay on his side on the carpet and arched his waist, breathless and said: "Today, I started to see you outside the Chengtian Gate, and summoned you in the Qianqing Palace, I have always felt that your face is very annoying, very strange, as if I have never seen it, at that time you were close in front of my eyes, but it seemed to be as far away as the end of the world, and now after the beating, I found that your face is not strange at all, it is still the familiar appearance of the year, and it is even more handsome, haha......"

Qin Kan also smiled: "The more I look at you in the past few years, the more unpleasant it becomes, obviously it is still the same as before, but I always feel tired of it, and I suddenly feel kind after I beat you today, it turns out that you are very suitable for this pig's head, I hope you will continue to maintain it in the future......"

The two of them laughed again, laughing heartily, so unpleasantly.

After half a pillar of incense, the laughter of the two gradually became quieter, but the same sadness and sorrow floated in their hearts.

I've quarreled and scolded, I've laughed and laughed, but what about after that? After all, there is no escaping what should be faced.

The two were still lying side by side on the carpet, and Zhu Houzhao's expression gradually became serious: "Qin Kan, I know that you have the ambition of the world, you tell me, what do you want to see Daming become?" ”

Qin Kan said without thinking: "The country is prosperous, the people are rich, the business is prosperous, the army is strong, there is no worry about the inside, there is no trouble outside, the people have no worries about food and clothing, there are more pragmatic and capable people in the court, and there are fewer hypocritical people who are like a river of benevolence and morality, so that the minister's wish is enough." ”

Zhu Houzhao sighed: "How can there be this day? Qin Kan, your wish is too far away......"

"There must always be someone who stands up and does it, doing it for a day, a month, a year, maybe the change is insignificant, but if you do it for ten years, fifty years, a hundred years, the world will eventually be different, just like the fool moves the mountain, the fool can't do it, and there are sons, grandchildren, children and grandchildren will continue to do it from generation to generation, and one day the obstructive mountain will be removed."

Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "You are used to acting smartly, you are clever and changeable, it is not your character to move mountains foolishly, how could you do such a stupid thing?" ”

Qin Kan smiled bitterly: "If you want to change the chaos of the thousand-year-old dynasty, how clever is it, how can there be a shortcut?" This is a heavy and arduous matter, the so-called smart and shortcut, the final result will only be a disaster for the country and the king, I can not care about my life, but I dare not make fun of thousands of living beings in the world, the subjects and the people can not afford such jokes. ”

Turning his head to look at Zhu Houzhao, Qin Kan said deeply: "Your Majesty left the palace and lived in a suburban farm for several months, have you seen what kind of life my Ming farmer is living?" The farms on the outskirts of Beijing are still rich, but how do you know what kind of life the people live in the barren land thousands of miles away from Beijing? What I want to do in this life is to let everyone have an extra piece of meat in their bowls, so that they can squat peacefully and quietly outside the threshold for three meals a day, and pick up the rice and meat in the bowls, and there are no evil officials who deceive the door and collect harsh taxes. There are no Tartar horsemen to loot and slaughter, I just want them to eat quietly, and then go barefoot into the fields and countryside with a satisfied smile and continue their daily toil......"

sighed. Qin Kan said: "The so-called 'national prosperity. The people are rich, and the business is prosperous. 'The army is strong', it seems to be a lofty and noble ambition, but in fact, it is just a piece of fat in the bowl of the people, and one day all the people of my Ming Dynasty will have this piece of fat in the bowl. I don't think I have any regrets about my ambition in this life. ”

Zhu Houzhao listened quietly, and sighed for a long time: "Qin Kan, you are right, think about the fact that in the more than ten years since I ascended the throne, I have never liked the affairs of the dynasty and the state, but the Ming Dynasty under my rule has inexplicably surpassed Chenghua Hongzhi. I used to be complacent, and I felt that I was a wise monarch throughout the ages, but in the past few months I have lived in the farm and counted my merits. But I found that this prosperous era has nothing to do with me, all of them are governed by you and the cabinet ministers, and the implementation of the policies of strengthening the country is all from your hands, and I, just because of my unreserved trust in your friend, just nodded and promised, I have been confused for 14 years, and I have really ruled this glorious and prosperous era, Qin Kan, I have to admit that these are all your credits. ”

Qin Kan smiled and said, "I have done this big thing that shocked the world last night, how will Your Majesty deal with me?" ”

Zhu Houzhao was silent for a long time, and asked rhetorically: "What do you think I should do?" ”

Qin Kan said lightly: "You reascend the throne, and then kill me and Ye Jinquan to quell the rebellion in Beijing last night and calm the hearts of the courtiers and soldiers and people in Beijing......"

Zhu Houzhao stared at him a little strangely: "Are you willing to be killed by me?" ”

Qin Kan said without hesitation: "Of course I am not reconciled, so I plan to pack up and take my family to escape immediately after leaving the palace, I believe Your Majesty will soon find out that I am not only strong in governing the country, but also in the ability to escape......

Zhu Houzhao stared at him in amazement for a long time, and finally rolled his eyes and said, "Okay, Qin Kan is on the run, and his family is missing, what should I do with this mess?" ”

"Trap the puppet emperor Zhu Houxi, abolish the celebrant supervisor, withdraw the right to approve red, expand the cabinet members to 20 people, all state affairs are voted on by the voting seats, and the cabinet candidates are based on the annual performance evaluation of officials by the Ministry of Officials and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Jinyiwei is responsible for secretly collecting every detail of the cabinet election as an official, from the official reputation to the merits, everything is included in the selection criteria, one bright and one dark complement each other, and one is indispensable. Intensify the supervision of the local government by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and abolish the East Factory, and take back the power of Jinyiwei to arrest, interrogate, torture, etc., Jinyiwei only has the right to detect and collect information, it ** in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple and the Criminal Department of the three law divisions, and set up another department in Jinyiwei, full-time supervision of the responsibilities of the local government, all greed, deception and many other illegal things, are reported to the cabinet and the Metropolitan Procuratorate......"

As he spoke, Qin Kan suddenly stopped, his expression was a little hesitant, he wanted to say, perhaps, the world does not need the emperor, or the emperor is just a decoration, such as the constitutional monarchy five hundred years later, now the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the separation of powers of the command and the envoys, and the various officials have their own duties, there is already a prototype of a constitutional monarchy, and a little modification is a mature and stable political system.

Without the interference of the emperor and the celebrant supervisor, the power of the three parties was fully expanded, so that they could supervise and check each other, and then implement the policy of strengthening the country under this balanced system, encourage agriculture, commerce and military invention, encourage merchants to sail with huge profits as bait, hire domestic refugees to build ships and go to sea, open up overseas colonies, plunder overseas property, hire more refugees after selling, buy more firearms, and use them to conquer more overseas land...... A huge virtuous circle is formed between the exchanges, so as to achieve the goal of enriching the people, the people are rich and prosperous, and the learning is reasonable, and the reason is reasonable, and the reason is thought-provoking, perhaps in his lifetime, Qin Kan can see a thing called "democracy" quietly sprouting and growing in the hearts of the world......

However, in front of the only emperor friend in his life, Qin Kan couldn't bear to say the words buried in his heart after all.

Qin Kan said, Zhu Houzhao kept nodding, and finally suddenly smiled again: "Look, we are the same as before, you have an idea, I just nod." ”

Qin Kan also smiled: "Yes, if we have a consensus, we will implement it, whoever in the DPRK and China does not agree to us will think of a bad idea to pit him again, some people were killed by us, some people were disgraced and exiled, and some were fooled and eaten, and some were silent......"

Zhu Houzhao laughed, laughing so much that tears flowed, and his voice gradually trembled a little: "It's been more than ten years, what's wrong with us?" ”

Qin Kan also shed tears, lying on the carpet and looking at the auspicious cloud beast depicted in the golden lacquer on the top of the hall, and choked up: "Maybe." We're growing, we're getting old, we're ...... Walking and walking, walking away. ”

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October 28, 14th year of Zhengde. The third day after the Liaodong Frontier Army captured the Beijing Division.

The courtiers waited patiently for two days. The holy decree written by Zhu Houzhao finally came out of the palace, but the content of the holy decree was quite shocking. The courtiers were dumbfounded.

First, Qin Kan, the Duke of Ningguo, and Ye Jinquan, the governor of Liaodong, were ordered to launch the Liaodong Border Army to capture the Jingshi and regain the Zhengde throne. Then Qin Kan, the prince of Ningguo of Jin, was the king of Liaoyang County, and the fief was Liaoyang Mansion in Liaodong, and the original Liao King Zhu Chongwei was renamed the king of Jiangxi, and the fief was changed to Nanchang, Jiangxi. Ye Jinquan, the governor of Liaodong, added Zuo Zhuguo and the prince Shaobao, and the guards of the outer city and the palace of the Beijing division were guarded by the Liaodong border army, and the remnants of the original 12th regiment battalion of nearly 100,000 soldiers went to Liaodong after the rectification, and the original Liaodong border army was disrupted and reversed. Song Jie, the general of Liaoyang Guard, was promoted to the chief military officer of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division, and had the right to supervise the military affairs of Liaodong.

Second, Zhu Houzhao officially issued an edict to abdicate and issued an edict to pass on the throne. Xingwang Zhu Houyu sex Dun Dehui, should inherit the great treasure, Zhu Houxi Taimiao worship ancestors, posthumously respect the first emperor Hongzhi as his father, that is, the emperor's throne, the year name "Jiajing".

Third, in view of Zhu Houxi's young age and the lack of proper handling of all matters, Qin Kan, the king of Liaoyang County, was appointed as the assistant governor of the state, and the cabinet and the six departments of the state affairs and government could be decided by the king of Liaoyang County.

Fourth, the king of the cutting dynasty, the king of Min, the king of Xiang and other three vassal kings, abolished as commoners, wearing brocade clothes and guards to take the trap to ban the Beijing division, and solemnly warn the kings that when the imperial power of the Beijing division is alternated, the kings shall not act recklessly, let alone use the fiefdom sword soldiers, and the violators will be punished for rebellion.

Fifth, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty must be inherited by the Zhu family, and those who dare to be called emperors with foreign surnames will be punished by the world.

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After Zhu Houzhao left these five holy decrees that stunned the people of the world, he left the palace and disappeared from then on.

Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houyu finally ascended the throne reasonably and legally this time, but his enthusiasm for being the emperor has completely cooled, convened the ministers to ask for the Zen position, and asked the courtiers to choose another virtuous person from the Zhu vassal king to be the emperor, the courtiers did not reach the court, but was strongly vetoed by Qin Kan, the king of Liaoyang County, Zhu Houyu tearfully submitted, so he fully inherited Zhu Houzhao's virtues, and since then he has only had fun in the harem, pampering the concubines and beautiful maids, walking dogs, fighting cocks and boiling eagles can do anything, even if he has already reached adulthood after a few years, the courtiers asked Zhu Houyu to govern in every possible way, Zhu Houxi still did not agree, all the big and small internal and external affairs in the country were entrusted to Qin Kan, the king of Liaoyang County, who ascended the throne and called the emperor for more than 40 years, did not go to the court and did not ask about political affairs, and defeated Zhu Houzhao with a shocking record, and undisputed the top of the list of faint monarchs in the Ming Dynasty.

After Qin Kan was ordered to supervise the state and assist the government, the second year he sought the opportunity to remove the cabinet university scholar Liang Chu, Jiang Mian, abolished the imperial horse supervisor, Tengxiang four guards and the east and west two factories, and set up six guards in the east of the Yulin, by the Liaodong border army in charge of the palace ban, the original ceremonial supervisor Zhang Yong, the Dongchang factory supervisor Dai Yi and the eight tiger valley that had been very favored for a while, Wei Bin, Luo Xiang and other gold and silver were given permission to tell the old, Yang Yiqing, Yan Song made up for the cabinet scholars, since then Qin Kan, Yang Tinghe, Yang Yiqing, Yan Song four people work together to support the Ming Dynasty government, the weight of authority, the position of the past generations of people and ministers, Several alongside the emperor.

With power and the removal of obstacles, Qin Kan finally let go of his hands and feet and began to show his ambitions.

Once the power of the ceremonial supervisor since Zhang Yong told the old, Qin Kan has not been appointed as a new palm seal candidate, the eunuchs of the inner palace are still fruitless, and finally got a glimpse of the will of heaven, completely dead, Jiajing five years in September, the grand Ming Dynasty of the centennial master of ceremonies was formally abolished after the courtiers' court discussion, in the same year, the local government newly set up the Yushitai Yamen, ** in addition to the three divisions of the local government, the responsibility of supervising and restricting the three divisions, the Yushitai is only responsible for the cabinet, and the Imperial Court supervises the imperial history and the Jinyi Wei transfer personnel to fill the position, and supervise each other.

In the summer of the first year of Jiajing, Qin Kanli, the king of Liaoyang County, overrode public opinion and increased the number of cabinet scholars to five, and in the third year, it was increased to eight, laying the groundwork for the future constitutional monarchy.

In the third year of Jiajing, the first 5,000-material treasure ship in Tianjin Donggang went to sea for its maiden voyage, Zhejiang tycoon Zhang Shengchun bought the ship with 10,000 gold, and the emperor of Liaoyang County, Qin Kan, issued an order to commend him, and gave 500 firearms such as the latest Franc machine artillery and bird guns, thunder, and water dragon kings. Zhang Shengchun was grateful, and in the same year, he organized a caravan of 10,000 people to go to sea to open up a new channel, and in August of the fourth year of Jiajing, Zhang Shengchun's caravan discovered the Cape of Good Hope in Africa. The caravan landed with 10,000 people. In an argument with the local natives, Zhang Shengchun fired the first shot at the natives. The colonial war of the Ming Dynasty began.

In the autumn of the seventh year of Jiajing, a rumor quietly circulated in Jingshi, saying that after the king of Liaoyang County killed Li Gao, the chief military officer of Liaodong, he was also concocted by the enemy in order to prevent his ancestral tomb from being concocted by the enemy. Then he sent his confidant Ding Shun to secretly move the ancestral tomb of the Qin family to another place, when Ding Shun invited the master of feng shui to calculate the auspicious time, but by mistake buried the ancestors of the Qin family in a place where the wind and qi were hidden. It is the extremely noble and supreme feng shui treasure, to put it simply, Ding Shun ghost sent the god to choose a dragon vein for the ancestors of the Qin family, and the king of Liaoyang County should have a ninety-five life grid in his life. It's expensive.

The rumor spread for more than ten days, the courtiers of Jingshi were panicked, and the king of Liaoyang County was furious, and ordered to investigate, and killed a certain ruffian in Beijing who spread rumors at the entrance of the vegetable market in Xicheng, Beijing, and the rumor was extinguished.

In the winter of the seventh year of Jiajing, heavy snow fell in the north, the Mongolian Tatar Department froze to death countless cattle and sheep, so he had to raise troops to commit the Ming border town again to loot, Liaoyang County Wang Dai Tianzi inspected the nine sides, transferred Xuanfu, Datong, Liaodong and other border town soldiers, a total of 120,000 troops, the Tatar Department of the border was defeated, after the spring thaw, the king of Liaoyang County defeated Yu Wei, personally led the army to the north to conquer the grassland, the leader of the golden family Boyan Mengke was already dying and old, had to gather more than 20 tribes 100,000 Mongolian army and the Ming army decisive battle in Guihua, Yunchuan, In this battle, the Ming army used 100,000 people to transport grain, grass and ordnance and more than 500 new Franco machine artillery, supplemented by the Shenji battalion with 10,000 new trigger-type bird guns, naturalized outside the city, the Shenji battalion lined up, 500 artillery salvos, and the Tatar department was severely damaged at the beginning of the decisive battle, and finally showed the power of the Great Ming firearms.

This battle annihilated nearly 70,000 enemies, 20,000 wounded, more than 20 tribes of Tatar size and strong young and strong to pay for the service, the chaos in the army Boyan Meng can be hit in the abdomen by artillery, the body was blown apart, killed on the spot, the glorious hundreds of years of the golden family completely annihilated in the dust of history, after this battle, the Tatar Department all moved westward, the Ming army took the opportunity to annex the pasture grassland where the original Tatar Department was located, the national border has been extended, directly bordering the Rakshasa country, the scourge of the Ming Dynasty for more than 100 years of the Northern Yuan Mongolia finally collapsed, since then it has been sluggish.

In the summer of the eighth year of Jiajing, the king of Liaoyang County set up a banquet in the palace of the king, the people who went to the banquet were all friends and colleagues of the county king, during the banquet his confidant Ding Shun was drunk, and when he was drunk, he did not know where to take out a Ming Huang dragon robe, and he was forced to drape himself on the body of the king of Liaoyang County, kneeling and shouting long live, and the banquet was not shocked, the king of Liaoyang County was furious, and the rod scolded Ding Shun twenty, and dismissed his post, exiled to Nanning Mansion in Guangxi, recalled two years later, and was promoted to the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Jiajing 12 years, and then gave Ding Shun to Fu Yuanhou, hereditary replacement, Ding's family has been rich and noble for a hundred years, and the rest are like Li Er, Chang Feng, Mu Bin and other cronies were all knighted a few years later.

With this example, no matter what the meaning behind Ding Shun's first demotion and then promotion, the people around Qin Kan did not dare to mention the matter of being the emperor again.

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Fifteen years later, Shanxi famous Fenyang Xinghua Village.

A restaurant called "Fenglin Pavilion" is located on the side of the main road inside and outside Xinghua Village, the three-storey restaurant looms in the red and green spring on the roadside, so that countless people who come and go to seek poetry and play are yearning, one after another, especially in the Qingming season, get the famous sentence "rain in the Qingming Festival", the business of the restaurant is even more prosperous.

The reputation is loud, the shopkeeper of the restaurant is gradually famous in the local area, the legend of the shopkeeper of the restaurant is a middle-aged man in his forties, surnamed Zhu Mingshou, fifteen years ago the family settled in Xinghua Village, kind, benevolent, all day long with a kind smile, anyone who pointed to the nose and scolded is not angry, but later a careful person found that since the opening of the restaurant, pointing to the nose and scolding the shopkeeper of the drinker out of the restaurant disappeared inexplicably, after a day or two, the head of the missing person was actually hung high on the city tower of the local government, It is said that "the court has been wanted for a long time by the strong Liang bandits", and the family members of the bitter lord were unconvinced, beating drums and shouting grievances, who knew that the official government did not know who was manipulating, and the case was mercilessly dismissed and ignored without asking.

Over time, the guests finally noticed the power of the shopkeeper of this Fenglin Pavilion Restaurant, which can be described as a person with hands and eyes, so gradually, the drinkers who came here to drink became more and more regular, and they were full of awe for the shopkeeper Zhu who laughed all day long. No matter how drunk anyone is in the restaurant, they all maintain the last shred of sanity, whether they are crazy about drinking, scolding and fighting. After all, you have to go out of the door of the restaurant. This unwritten rule is like the unique and intoxicating apricot blossom wine in the Fenglin Pavilion, and it has been passed down for many years. No one has ever violated it again, and it is stronger than the Great Ming Law.

However, the rules of the world are meant to be broken.

Every year during the Qingming season, there is always one person. Or the family did not care about this rule at all, as soon as they entered the door, they scolded endlessly, and the always kind Zhu shopkeeper suddenly changed his face when he saw this person, and the two stood at the door and pointed at each other's noses and scolded, and after scolding for a long time, they laughed again, patted each other's shoulders and entered the private room of the restaurant, and got drunk. After crying and fussing endlessly, and after being drunk for three days, the family set off again to say goodbye, and this is the case every year. Never missed an appointment.

This year, there are still two days before the Qingming Festival, and the family is here again.

In the early morning, three blue-roofed black canopy carriages came leisurely from a distance, the coachman shouted, the carriage stopped at the door of Fenglin Pavilion, and the two rows of guards on both sides of the carriage scattered in the shape of geese at the door, staring at the guests who came and went in and out of the restaurant with a wary expression, and frightened people to retreat in fear.

A man and six women soon walked out of the three carriages, the man was middle-aged, white and black-bearded, and his handsome appearance revealed a bit of non-angry and self-righteous momentum, and although the six women were dressed as women, they were all born with flowers and moon appearances, like young and beautiful girls who had just come out of the pavilion, and two of them were born exactly the same, obviously twins.

After getting out of the car, the man strode into the restaurant, looked up and looked around, and shouted loudly.

"Is there any gasping for breath? Distinguished guests come to the door, and there is not even a guy to greet the door, do you still want to do business? Believe it or not, I told someone to smash your shop! ”

Smashing the store is a big deal, how can the shopkeeper Zhu, who has a background and a backstage, not witness the death of the demon with his own eyes? So soon flashed out from behind the delicate landscape screen, this person was in his forties, wearing an ordinary coarse gray shirt, wearing a gray square-headed scarf, and a two-inch-long black beard under the chin fluttering in the wind.

After the shopkeeper Zhu recognized the person, and saw many beautiful women behind this person, his face suddenly turned pale, and he said angrily: "It's you again!" It's you again! Every year, I come all the way to rub my wine and drink, come here, and bring so many wives, do you want to eat me alive? ”

The man muttered to himself: "With such a bad attitude, there are a lot of guests every day, aren't the drinkers in Xinghua Village blind?" ”

Behind the screen, a graceful figure flashed, and after seeing the man, he was stunned for a moment, and then Ying Ying was blessed, seeing that his father-in-law and him looked at each other, showing no weakness to each other like two fighting cocks, the woman pursed her lips and smiled softly.

Shopkeeper Zhu hurriedly said loudly: "Lady, look, this well-dressed beast who has married four wives and two maids is here again!" ”

The woman ignored him, turned her head and saw the six women, and couldn't help but step forward in surprise and hold their hands, and said with a smile: "Sister, you are finally here, I have been waiting for you for a long time." ”

The woman at the head of the six women pouted at the two and said, "It's this one again, it's this one every year, and I don't get tired of panicking......

"Sister Mo Li them, in fact, my father-in-law began to let the guys clean the side room the day before yesterday, and also saved ten jars of old wine, just waiting for the prince to drink......"

It turned out that the man who came to Xinghua Village with his family was Qin Kan, the king of Liaoyang County, and the shopkeeper of Fenglin Pavilion Restaurant naturally appeared after disappearing, and finally disappeared again, playing flash mob and having fun with Emperor Zhu Houzhao, as for the proprietress of the restaurant, the proprietress of the restaurant is Zhu Houzhao's favorite woman Liu Liangnu, and the six daughters brought by Qin Kan are Du Yan, Tang Zihe, Jin Liu, Tana and Lianyue Lianxing sisters.

"Several names have to count the elders, aren't you tired of bringing them all the way from Beijing to Shanxi?" Zhu Houzhao, who is already dressed as a civilian, obviously likes his current identity very much.

Qin Kan smiled and said: "I am already middle-aged, and if a person lives to this age in this life, he should at least understand one truth......

Zhu Houzhao's eyes widened curiously: "What is the truth?" ”

Qin Kan smiled bitterly: "If you say that marrying a wife only listens to two hundred nagging words a day, marrying six wives has to listen to 1,200 nagging words a day, and at least a thousand of them are to wonder if I am having an affair with other fox spirits outside, if you want to avoid the torture of this thousand nagging, you can only take them with you and let them personally drive away all the vixens who dare to approach me within a radius of one zhang......"

Zhu Houzhao looked at him in astonishment: "Is it effective?" ”

Qin Kan nodded: "Very effective." ”

"So along the way, you finally changed your ears to the roots, and your lady no longer nagged vixens or anything?"

"Yes......" Qin Kan nodded, and then said infinitely gloomy: "But although they don't talk about topics like fox spirits, they start to nag about why the women they met along the way are ugly, dirty and fat, and they probably nag more than two thousand sentences a day......

Zhu Houzhao was stunned for a long time, and suddenly looked up to the sky and burst into laughter: "Wahahahaha......"

Qin Kan rubbed his nose and muttered, "It's already a child's father, why hasn't his laughter grown for so many years?" ”

Zhu Houzhao held his stomach and laughed for a long time, and finally stopped, and his expression gradually became serious: "How is Jingshi this year?" ”

Qin Kan knew what he wanted to ask, and said with a smile: "Everything is fine, last winter the cabinet took the initiative to initiate a court meeting, from the original eight scholars to ten people, after the destruction of the Tatars, the imperial court built ten cities in the Tatar steppe pastures, connected with the ten Hancheng under the Duoyan Department, and set up five new commanders, a total of twenty-three guards stationed, the trouble in the north of the Ming Dynasty was completely pacified, and the nine border towns began to be cut and moved north to the Siberian snowfield. ”

Zhu Houzhao sighed in dismay, then took out two small jars of wine from the room and put them on the table, and said with a smile: "How can you not congratulate you without good wine?" ”

Saying that, Zhu Houzhao picked up the wine jar, and when he was about to drink, he suddenly paused, stared at Qin Kan and said: "Last year's drinking, your first altar of wine was born to your sixth son, and the year before last, you respected the fifth son who had just learned to walk and bit the earth dog guarding the door, this is the misfortune of the family, there will be a demon king of the mixed world in the future, what do you respect this year?" ”

Qin Kan picked up the wine jar, looked at Zhu Houzhao deeply, and suddenly smiled: "This year, let's respect fate." ”

"Fate?"

"Thirty years ago, a kid who was dressed in luxurious gambling but ridiculously rotten and gambled with me for an afternoon to fight the landlord, and lost so much that he threw off his card and showed his identity and ordered me not to win again, the gambling is so rotten that I can still sit with him and drink after 30 years, do you say I'm not good? Do you think you should pay tribute to this damn fate? ”

Zhu Houzhao's face turned red with anger, stared at Qin Kan for a long time, and then laughed loudly: "Yes, we should really respect this damn fate, I hope our fate is endless, and when we wait for the next thirty years, we will respect this damn fate again." ”

The two looked at each other and laughed, and took a sip of wine together, Qin Kan put down the wine jar and said mysteriously: "If we can live for another thirty years, and we can still drink, I must pull you to do something that I have never done in my life, crazy and not to let myself regret it......"

Zhu Houzhao suddenly showed a look of infinite yearning, and blurted out without thinking: "Let's go to the kiln together and die of flowers and willows." ”

"This, I don't want to accompany you, I just want to compete with you to see who pees farther......"

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The end of "The Hypocrite of the Ming Dynasty" in its entirety.

Thank you all for two years of companionship, the old thief bowed deeply and thanked you.

I'll send you a testimonial later.