12-46 The Mule Emperor
"Rubbish! It's all rubbish! Eater! With a roar, several little eunuchs retreated from the Qianqing Palace in fear, and several old ministers at the door shook their heads helplessly, but in just twenty days, the world was in chaos, why is this! No one knows.
Sent to Jiangnan to search for the eldest princess, the Qin Misi people and horses, the whole army was annihilated, the governor of Shanghai Province, Ma Shiying hung up the seal and fled, giving up a huge city to the traitors, the imperial court urgently dispatched 50,000 troops to attack Shanghai, but was stopped outside the city for five days, and then sent to block the sea route of the Zhejiang sailors, was sunk by submarines of unknown origin, several ships were frightened, and fled back to the port of Ningbo.
The bad news is not only these, the war in the west has broken out again, the Western Xia Emperor Galdan poured 500,000 troops from all over the country to attack the Ming Dynasty, and within seven days, several cities have been hit to Jiayuguan, and the defenders of Gansu are all Liu Ziguang's subordinates, who have been making a lot of trouble recently, in order to prevent them from defecting, Yuan Chonghuan has ordered a ban on a single shot and a bullet to go to the front line, for fear that they will have weapons to deal with the imperial court, and these traitors died in the hands of the Western Xia people.
The south is also not very stable, and the king of Ning, who rebelled the year before last, actually came back again, and appeared in Yunnan with a vote of men and horses, shouting that he was the Ming Zhengshuo, and now he is recruiting troops and horses, preparing to go north.
Of course, what annoyed Zhu Youxiao the most was that Liu Ziguang actually retreated, and ran to Goryeo to make a fuss, showing his existence, and the rumors spread out were self-defeating, which was equivalent to giving Liu Ziguang's old subordinates a reassurance, completely disrupting the emperor's arrangement, and he had the intention to send a sailor to Goryeo to kill this thief alive, but he took stock of these forces in his hands, and there was no Beiyang sailor who had the ability to go to sea at all, that was Liu Ziguang's descendant, and the Taiwanese sailor was not obedient, Zhejiang sailor, The Yangtze River Naval Division does not have a large ship, and can only be used on inland rivers and coastlines, which makes Zhu Youxiao very upset, where are the achievements of the Ming Dynasty in reforming and opening up for so many years, enriching the country and strengthening the army? It's not all as strong as Liu Ziguang himself! Now that I think back to what this guy did, it's really damning!
Ma Shiying, the governor of Shanghai, who knelt in the Qianqing Palace, didn't even see the emperor's face, but was dragged down by Jinyiwei, and several old ministers jointly guaranteed Ma Shiying's twists and turns, and the emperor was now angry, and no one wanted to see it.
When Ma Shiying, whose face was like ashes, was dragged down, he suddenly saw the young Wei Gonggong coming over, and when he passed by, Wei Zhongxian gave Ma Shiying a meaningful smile, Ma Shiying's frightened heart calmed down a little, and said I hope that Wei Gonggong is a particular person, for the sake of the old man's filial piety to his one million taels of silver, he will save me wholeheartedly.
Although the emperor said that no one would be seen, but Wei Gonggong was an exception, and soon after Wei Zhongxian walked into the Qianqing Palace, he heard Zhu Youxiao's hearty laughter from inside: "Okay! Well done errand! I have a big reward! The little eunuchs looked at each other, or Grandpa Wei was very capable, and he extinguished the emperor's thunder and anger in a while.
In fact, Wei Zhongxian didn't say anything, just brought a good news to inspect Shandong, and sent Sun Qi to live up to the trust, and rushed to Qingdao alone without spending a single soldier.
Zhu Youxiao was in a good mood, and Wei Zhongxian took the opportunity to say that the situation in Shanghai was dangerous, if it was easy to meet with swords, it would completely destroy this important tax town of the Ming Dynasty, Ma Shiying loved the people like a son, it was for this consideration that he abandoned the city, and a civil official asked him to lead the troops to fight with the traitors, it was a little difficult, it was better to open the net, pardon Governor Ma, and let him go to study politics or something, so as to show the benevolence of our emperor. As for Shanghai, it only needs to send one Confucian general, and it will not take long to recover.
Zhu Youxiao nodded yes and said, "According to Xiao Weizi's opinion, who is better to send?" ”
Wei Zhongxian said: "Yuan Chengzhi, the son of Yuan Chonghuan, the secretary of the military department and the prime minister of Longxi, can take on this position. ”
Zhu Youxiao patted his head: "Look at how I forgot Yuan Aiqing with this memory, he is a member of my general, he is not under his father, and he is even stronger than someone, I don't know how many times." As he spoke, he obviously remembered Liu Ziguang, and Zhu Youxiao's face darkened again, and he said hatefully: "Without Zhang Butcher, I won't necessarily eat hairy pigs!" ”
Wei Zhongxian said: "Your Majesty, Shengming and Young Marshal Yuan will definitely win the battle, there is no need to worry about this way, Your Majesty just issued an order to urge Shi Lang to send troops to blockade Shanghai as soon as possible, and then delay the fighter plane, and he will not be spared." ”
Zhu Youxiao yawned: "Xiao Weizi has a very good set of things, you can handle this matter, I am tired of going to the back garden to play, and if there will be a good thing, I will come to report it, if there is a bad thing, you can watch it yourself." ”
A hint of joy flashed on Wei Zhongxian's face, and he hurriedly knelt down and said, "Obey the holy decree." ”
Zhu Youxiao was just about to move, and just walked to the gate of the palace, when a palace maid shouted: "Your Majesty, the queen hasn't eaten for three days!" ”
The exclusive text version of this work may not be reproduced without consent, and excerpts for more of the latest and fastest chapters please visit! Wei Zhongxian shouted angrily: "Which palace slave dares to come and talk nonsense and drag it down and kill it!" Several eunuchs were about to pounce on them to arrest people, but Zhu Youxiao, who was sitting on the chariot, stopped everyone and said to the palace maid: "You come here to talk." ”
The palace maid was quite bold, she was originally a maid of the Guogong Mansion who followed the queen into the palace, and now the master was beaten into the cold palace, and she did not eat or drink, and she was in a hurry, so she risked her death to come to persuade her, and saw that the emperor was willing to listen to her, and quickly knelt down and poured out the pain of the queen.
Zhu Youxiao listened for a while, the muscles on his face gradually relaxed, and his eyes seemed to be moist, as if he remembered that when he met the queen in Xuanwu Lake many years ago, Wei Zhongxian saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart, and hurriedly said: "Long live, the progress of Wei Guogong over there in Beijing is very unfavorable, I'm afraid that he is complicit with the thief......"
Zhu Youxiao woke up suddenly, slapped the handrail of the chariot and said angrily: "Slut, you also have today!" Who told you to turn your heart to outsiders, who told you that you can't give birth to a prince! You brought it all on yourself! Walk! ”
The hard-working palace maid still wanted to catch up and beg to be dragged aside by a few guards with big shoulders and round waists, and she died with a mess.
It is not unreasonable for Zhu Youxiao to be angry, as Zhongxing Mingjun, his harem is not full, there are only seven or eight concubines, but five or six years have passed, none of these concubines are pregnant, and there are no heirs, it is the most uncomfortable thing for an emperor, Zhu Youxiao has also let the imperial doctor see it, how do you know, but he saw a big secret, it turns out that Zhu Youxiao has no fertility at all!
This is no less than a thunderbolt smashed on Zhu Youxiao's head on a sunny day, carefully looking for the root cause, it turned out that he was poisoned by the Empress Dowager Li when he was a child, on the surface, a normal man can also have sex, but he can't raise offspring, it's the same as a mule.
Zhu Youxiao killed the secret of the imperial doctor, only he and Wei Zhongxian knew the secret, and since then the emperor's temperament has changed greatly, and he is often angry and suspicious of this and that, and alienated the queen, stayed away from the concubines, and was busy with state affairs and scientific research all day long, on the surface, he became a generation of Ming Jun, but in fact, he has a perverted personality in his bones.
However, there are still a group of unsightly ministers and clansmen, who have to say that the country must not have a prince, and the children of the general clan should choose a talented person to come out and succeed Zhu Youxiao as his son, and the minister of the Wei Zhongxian group immediately counterattacked, saying that the emperor did not need to establish a prince in the Spring and Autumn Period, but the other party shot back, saying that Emperor Wuzong was also in the spring and autumn period back then, and he was not a son until he died, and finally had to succeed one, and now the country is turbulent, and it is better to have a prince than nothing.
The ministers and the clan said it right, Zhu Youxiao said, but they were so angry that they jumped to their feet, or Huang Zongxi had a way to secretly suggest Zhu Youxiao to play yin, now the children of the clan all over the world are gathered in the capital, the capital is full of flowers, the sound of dogs and horses, these clan children from all over the country are all happy to indulge in it, and arrange for the Qinmi Division personnel to find their handles, and it is too easy to charge them with a crime of misconduct, and if they can't find a crime, they will send someone to assassinate them, anyway, they can't let them elect the prince. Recently, the border of Yunnan has troubled King Ning and raised troops again, which is a good opportunity to design a few traps to put a charge of fornicating with King Ning's intention to rebel, so you can't deal with it as much as you want.
Zhu Youxiao has lived in the cold palace since he was a child, and there are only two close relatives - his mother and sister were also driven out of the palace and exiled to the people, because of his status as a little prince, how many people wanted to kill him in every possible way, Empress Dowager Li saved his life, but just wanted to use him as a puppet, and even poisoned and destroyed some of his organs, becoming a useless mule.
So Zhu Youxiao has no feelings for the people of the Zhu family at all, and only thinks about his biological mother and sister in his heart, but when his mother and sister are picked up, he shows that these two of his closest relatives have also changed, they only have Liu Ziguang in their hearts, and in the end, even their own queen helped Liu Ziguang cover his family, all of which made Zhu Youxiao's emotional world collapse, and the human side of his heart gradually disappeared, leaving only the ruthlessness of the king.