Chapter 52: Intensifying

Zhu Houhuang lowered his head and didn't speak, but he was a little hesitant in his heart.

"Mother is right, all emperors are first and foremost political creatures, and it has never been reliable to talk about feelings with political creatures." Zhu Houhuang thought silently in his heart: "Political biology has always been about interests, even if it is righteousness and affection, but the most basic weighing of the pros and cons is still understood, otherwise Liu Jin would not have died." ”

Zhu Houhuang didn't think of Liu Jin.

has been by Zhengde's side for a while, in fact, Zhu Houhuang has slowly understood Zhengde, Zhengde does not have much hatred for Liu Jin, but is a little sorry, otherwise the great hero who brought down Liu Jin at the beginning, Zhang Yong, who was among the Eight Tigers, and Gu Dayong would not let Zhengde release out of the capital. Leaving Zhengde's side, for the eunuchs, no matter what kind of promotion, it is not as good as being by the emperor's side.

In the end, he replaced the Eight Tigers as a close minister of Zhengde, but Jiang Bin, Xu Tai, Qian Ning and others.

It doesn't matter whether Liu Jin wants to rebel or not, the important people all over the world say that Liu Jin deserves to die. Not even the emperor could save the situation.

And now it's time to get there. Zhu Houhuang was frightened, and his back was wet with sweat.

"I've watched too much of the damn whip drama, I've been brainwashed, the Ming Dynasty is not the Qing Dynasty." Zhu Houhuang remembered what he had done before.

Yes, the Ming Dynasty is not the Qing Dynasty, because the Qing Dynasty is the emperor alone, and the rest are the emperor's slaves, so if you want to take the heir, you have to honestly find a way to please the emperor, but the Ming Dynasty is not.

In the Ming Dynasty, the monarchy seemed to be supreme, but the foundation had long been hollowed out. Why Yang Shen saw that Zhu Houhuang didn't like science, and he gave up the idea of making Zhu Houhuang the crown prince, it was very simple, it was because science was the ideology of the entire Ming Dynasty, even if there were people who opposed him, from the court to the locality, I don't know how many people didn't like it, Wang Yangming, who was in the Ming Dynasty, was in this era. must maintain his existence. Maintaining a basic concept that everyone agrees on is the only way to maintain the unity of the Ming Dynasty.

The supreme thing in the Ming Dynasty is the great righteousness, and this great righteousness is often in the hands of civil officials.

Zhu Houhuang's desire to inherit the crown prince without currying favor with the emperor and offending civil officials is simply wishful thinking. Even the emperor is not happy. This is the emperor of the Han people, not the old woman of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, "Whoever makes me unhappy for a day, I will make him unhappy for the rest of his life." ”

Among them, Zhu Houhuang only deeply understands this point now.

"Mother, I see. I'll think about it. Zhu Houhuang lowered his head and didn't look at Wu's face.

Wu Shi took a deep breath, knowing that everything that should be said was said, and it was useless to say anything more.

"Then think about it." Wu left the ancestral hall. Looking at the sunlight outside, I thought secretly. "Isn't it time to go to the Queen Mother?"

A bunch of folds were piled up in front of Zhengde, who was holding a brush with cinnabar standing, his face was extremely gloomy, and his hands couldn't stop trembling. There's no such ease as usual. Zhengde is a person who has practiced martial arts all year round, and his hands have always been very stable. But he was so angry that he slammed the cinnabar pen on the ground and shouted, "How can this be justified." ”

Qiu Ju fell to his knees, not daring to look up at Zhengde.

Zhengde's chest fluctuated, like a bellows, and with a wave of his hand, he smashed all the folds on the ground, countless folds smashed on the ground, and a fold was spread out, and a line of words was clearly written on it, "Please Liyong Wang's son to settle the country." ”

These dozens of letters are written by people with different identities and different tones. But the content is the same, they are all recitals supporting the prince of King Yong.

Zhengde suddenly slumped in his chair and said, "I only know Song Renzong's mourning today. ”

Song Renzong had no children, and in his later years, he often hugged and cried with Empress Cao. is worried that after his death, his only daughter and Empress Cao will not end well. Sure enough, after his death, Song Yingzong, who inherited the throne, completely denied the account, setting off a dispute over Pu Yi. is to bully Queen Cao to be widowed and childless. And when Song Renzong was alive, he wanted to have a son. However, the upright men and gentlemen of the Manchu Dynasty forced Song Renzong to adopt the prince. Among them, there are all kinds of unbearable conditions, Zhengde is familiar with history books, how can he not know.

And now he is only about 30 years old, and he is still old. They were impatient.

At this moment, no matter how much Zhengde admired Zhu Houhuang, he couldn't help but feel a trace of irritability in his heart, and for a moment he thought: "Send Zhu Houhuang out." ”

Suddenly, a little eunuch came in and said, "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother is here." ”

"What," Zhengde was shocked, and when he saw that this place was in a mess, he immediately got up, kicked Qiu Ju, and said, "Dead man? Hurry up and clean up. ”

Qiu Ju was kicked away by Zhengde, Qiu Ju rolled on the spot, immediately stood up, and said, "Yes, yes." He quickly folded the floor and put it away. It's just that I'm too flustered, and I reveal a letter.

"The Queen Mother has arrived." A small eunuch shouted.

Zhengde hurriedly greeted him and said loudly: "I've seen the queen mother." ”

Empress Dowager Zhang didn't pay attention to Zhengde, entered the door and sat on the chair of Zhengde, and suddenly found that there was a letter at her feet, the maid next to the Empress Dowager Zhang was very excited, and immediately came up to pick it up and handed it to the Empress Dowager Zhang, the Empress Dowager Zhang opened it and glanced at it, threw it on the table and said: "Emperor, how are you messing around, the mourning family doesn't care about you, but you must leave a son and a half daughter." For so many years, you have been fooling around with those women who are not careful, there are three unfilial pieties, and there are no queens, are you worthy of your dead father in doing this? ”

Zhengde hurriedly knelt on the ground. said: "The child is not filial. ”

The eunuchs and palace maids in the room all looked at their noses and noses, and they wanted people to treat them as a piece of wood, and the royal gossip was not good-looking.

Empress Dowager Zhang snorted coldly and said, "You all go out." ”

"Yes." All the eunuchs and palace maids walked out backwards. There were only two people left in the house, the Queen Mother and Zhengde, and the Empress Dowager Zhang said: "Emperor, that kid from the Yongwang family, he is fifteen this year, according to the rules of the ancestors, it is time to seal the domain, I don't know where you are going to seal him?" ”

Zhengde didn't think about it, and said: "The child hasn't paid attention yet, and I want to discuss it with Brother Huang." ”

"Brother Huang, you are quite affectionate. The mourning family wants to make it clear to you, you hurry up and clean up all the warblers and swallows in the leopard room for me, and honestly go back to the palace and live a good life with Xue'er. Hurry up and have a child, save the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, and the whole world is thinking about this thing. There is also the kid from King Yong's family, who honestly sent out to the capital, went to wherever he fell in love, and gave him a rich place, that is. You don't have to wait for the mourners to make a move. ”

Zhengde was shocked and said, "Mother? ”

Zhengde knew that his mother was not a fuel-efficient lamp. Although Zhengde's father loves the queen, but that man is not a little lustful, and this Empress Dowager Zhang can make Emperor Hongzhi's harem three thousand favors alone, this scheming skill, can it be bad, and the two brothers of the Empress Dowager Zhang, have always been rampant, when Emperor Hongzhi was there, he couldn't stand it, but every time he got angry, he was saved by the Empress Dowager Zhang, how could Zhengde not know his mother's means.

It was precisely knowing that Zhengde was shocked. If Empress Dowager Zhang took action in person, Zhu Houhuang would undoubtedly die violently.

If Zhu Houhuang is a civil official, the Empress Dowager Zhang has no choice, the Empress Dowager Zhang is the mother of a country, and she can just have the right to speak on the affairs of the clan, and even this right to speak is better than Zhengde.

Empress Dowager Zhang said: "Since you don't want to mourn the family, do it yourself." She sighed and said, "Actually, you left the child of the Yongwang family in Jingshi, and the mourning family can tolerate him, but others can tolerate him?" The mourning family has long been out of foreign affairs. Don't you want to know, who told the mourners about these things? ”

Zhengde said: "Who? ”

"It's the Wu family, Queen Yong, she came to beg the mourning family to put the child of the Yongwang family back into the fiefdom, don't you care about the face of the mourning family, and don't care about the mother's love for the son?"

Zhengde slowly closed his eyes, this matter has reached now, there is no way to undo it, but he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and said: "I know what the queen mother meant." ”