Many outstanding politicians in the Ming Dynasty, or the old foxes of officialdom, have shown surprising pedantry on the issue of national unification.

For example, the controversy over the Great Rites in the Jiajing era.

Emperor Jiajing and the civil officials led by Yang Tinghe discussed who was his father in the patriarchal sense, what title he should enjoy, whether he could enter the Taimiao, and the regulations of temple worship and music and dance...... A seventeen-year struggle began. In the end, Emperor Jiajing won the war in the court with perseverance and ruthlessness, and was also named a "tyrant" for this.

During the Wanli period, Emperor Wanli favored Zheng Guifei, and at the instigation of Zheng Guifei, he wanted to set up Zhu Changxun, the son of Concubine Zheng, instead of the eldest son Zhu Changluo, which led to a 29-year dispute over the country's capital. It wasn't until the attack case occurred that King Fu became a vassal that the curtain came to an end. He was not as ruthless as his grandfather, so he was defeated by the Donglin Party. Guoben is finally the crown prince Zhu Changluo, that is, Zhu Cihong's grandfather.

Whether it is fighting for the father or for the son, in the final analysis, it is fighting for "national unity."

Zhu Cihong did not understand this stubbornness of the emperor and Wenchen at first. When he was really able to think about the problem from the way of thinking of the Ming Dynasty people, the Ming Dynasty emperors, and the Ming Dynasty scholars, he understood the deep meaning.

Come to think of it, the civil officials did not have a good relationship with Emperor Zhengde at the beginning, and Jiajing was still a good young emperor in their eyes when he first ascended the throne, at least not as nonsense as Emperor Zhengde.

King Xingxian himself has never offended Wenchen, he is the fourth son of Xianzong, and he has become an ancient, even if he is given the title of emperor? What if the pomp and circumstance are a little more pompous? What if the number of people dancing is larger?

But no!

Because under these appearances, there is the load-bearing wall of the Ming Empire and even Chinese society.

This load-bearing wall is: Tsunatsune.

On the basis of the Confucian program, the country, the nation, and the culture can be built layer by layer. If this foundation is undermined, the values of society as a whole will collapse. Order will be disrupted. Once the order is broken, the rules of the game they grasp will also be rewritten, and there is a great possibility that they will lose the power to make rules.

Once the emperor intentionally or unconsciously attacks this cornerstone, this order, and this rule, the civil bureaucracy can only fight to the death, unless they are willing to sit back and wait for death.

When Dong Zhongshu presented "Virtuous and Virtuous Countermeasures" to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it was the Confucian scholars who put forward a very tempting one. At the same time, it is also full of contracts to bind the emperor. Emperors from the Han Dynasty onwards, either virtuous or faint, had to play political games in this paper contract.

After understanding this, Zhu Cihong will be able to know what kind of confrontation he will face after he grasps the imperial power in the future. He must maneuver under this liliang, on the one hand, to complete his career plan, and on the other hand, under the premise of social stability, to introduce the opposite liliang into the cage.

Now the status of the crown prince has given him enough security, like a tiger crossing the street. Everyone shouted and beat but no one dared to fight. The next step is to give birth to a prince and make him the emperor's grandson, to further consolidate his position and cut off the possibility of all vassal kings inheriting the temple.

This calls for a big wedding.

In addition to the three clear decrees that everyone knows, there are also Yi decrees sent by Empress Zhou and Empress Yi'an Zhang. These wills, both explicit and implicit, point to this problem. Zhu Cihong naturally can't, and there is no need to be unhappy with the whole family and the whole country on this issue.

In the end, his age is there.

According to the habits of the Ming Dynasty, the New Year was turned over. The crown prince is seventeen years old. Even if it is a child of an ordinary large family, it is time to be married at this age. If there is no force majeure such as bereavement and imperial examination. It must be a marriage and a child. Even Wu Weiye's successive examinations were passed in succession, and they all became relatives at the age of twenty-two. Hou Fangyu also married his wife Chang early.

Among the young people in the East Palace system, only Liao Xing and Chen De are both eighteen or nineteen years old and have not yet married, but that is because the family sees them as having a bright future, and in order to ensure that the wife is the right person, they are not in a hurry to find someone to hire.

After the meeting was held for the prefects of the second class, Zhu Cihong did not delay any longer. First, the horse galloped to Nanyang to comfort the soldiers of the guerrilla battalion, and then turned around and returned to Jinan by land.

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On December 29, the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the Jinan Palace was lit up with lights, and the New Year was prepared with joy. This kind of festive atmosphere is very rare after the eleventh year of Chongzhen, and it is all thanks to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's use of soldiers like gods. In one fell swoop, the land of Zhongzhou was recovered.

"It's just that I'm busy fighting outside during the Winter Solstice Festival, and I won't come back when it looks like it's going to be the Spring Festival and New Year's Day." Empress Zhou and Empress Yi'an Zhang sat opposite each other, playing with a string of jade beads in their hands, full of sorrow.

Empress Zhang comforted: "Brother Chun is running around for the society, from his heart, how can he not want to come back?" Alas, now the country has this phenomenon of prosperity, and it is all thanks to Brother Chun. ”

Empress Zhou felt a little relieved in her heart, and said with a little pride: "Brother Chun's literature is not good, but his ability to conquer the world has really won the blood of Chengzu." ”

"It is a good skill to be able to conquer and govern the country, and my Zhu family does not dare to produce emperors like Zhao Songqin and Hui." Empress Zhang thought of her husband and couldn't help but lament: "To have Brother Chun, it is all the ancestors' spiritual protection in the sky. ”

Queen Zhou was quite careful, and when she heard Empress Zhang's sorrow, she said secretly: If Yi'an Niangniang has a queen, it will not be her husband's turn to sit in this world, and her son may be a son. But it is also a coincidence, if there is still a change, the son must also send troops from Shandong, and he still wants to conquer the world.

Empress Zhang was speechless for a while, and after Zhou Hou, she was thinking wildly in her heart, and the inner hall suddenly fell silent.

"! Wedding! Aunt Liu looked in a hurry, broke the short-term silence of the inner hall, stepped forward to the two queens, and said happily: "Master Chitose has entered the city!" ”

"Amitabha, I've finally caught up!" Empress Zhou couldn't help but stand up, stepped down from the table, and said, "Can the dormitory be cleaned up?" Brother Chun likes to eat mutton-stuffed flat food, have you done it? ”

"Back to Niangniang, it's all ready." Aunt Liu smiled happily and said, "The slave and maid have been running away several times, and the storage is properly arranged." ”

Empress Zhang also stood up and said, "This kid is still filial." But when it comes to preparation, it's only right to let him choose a concubine early. ”

Zhou Hou smiled: "I'm afraid that he will run away after the New Year, so I will leave people in the palace now." Zhou Hou paused and said, "It's embarrassing to not let that child have a reunion with his family." ”

"It's nothing, why don't we celebrate the New Year with our family after we enter the palace?" Zhang Hou also said quite lonely: "The water spilled by the girl who married out has been like this since ancient times. What's more, Brother Chun is sensible, everything is decided by us, and the girl will only feel lucky. ”

Queen Zhou remembered the days when she was waiting for King Xin's selection in King Xin's mansion, which was really the biggest torture in her life. Especially at that time, King Xin hadn't looked at his thin and weak self, and his eyes swept around Concubine Tian, which was really anxious and lost. If I hadn't been mentally prepared to be given coins and return to my hometown, I'm afraid I would have to cry on the spot.

Zhu Cihong vetoed this way of selecting concubines for princes and princes early on, but insisted that Empress Zhou and Empress Zhang choose them for him. The reason is very simple, the crown princess cannot be from a wealthy family, and she will not have the slightest impact on politics and economy, so it will not have the slightest impact on Zhu Cihong's career work.

A person who has no impact on his career and work is an indifferent person in Zhu Cihong's view. For a person who doesn't care, it's certainly not worth wasting time choosing.

Anyway, who is not with whom you don't live for the rest of your life? If you can talk about it, you can have more contact, and if you can't talk about it, you can contact less, the palace is so big, you just need to pay the public grain once a month.

"This time the girl is more pleasing to the eye than the previous Ning family." Empress Zhang said again: "The Ning clan turned out to be a thief, and such a woman with no integrity fortunately did not marry her." ”

"This kind of thing is all providence." Empress Zhou didn't realize that the Ning family had too much sin, there were many powerful people who didn't leave the city of Beijing at that time, didn't her father also refuse to leave?

"It's just that now the money is empty, and I'm afraid it won't be decent if I really want to get married." Zhou Hou sighed again.

"There's still a thousand taels of powder silver here, so let's use it first." Empress Zhang said. (To be continued......)

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