Beichen Hall of Taiji Palace in Beijing, the fifth generation of emperors who succeeded to the throne for a few years, Emperor Zhengxi is reviewing the folds.

After using a red pen to approve the word "read" in the fold he was reading at the moment, he put it into another batch of folds that he had already read in the bookcase, and picked up a new one and read it.

After reading several copies in succession, there was no good news, Emperor Zhengxi couldn't help but sigh irritably, put down the pen in his hand, and pinched his eyebrows with his right hand.

When I was a prince that day, I only felt that it was good to be an emperor, with great power in my hands, and everything in the world was in my hands; After settling down to finally get the throne, he found that although it was very beautiful, if he wanted to be a Ming monarch, this position was really not good.

In such a big country, there are a lot of things, either this drought or that flood, and finally there is a place where the wind and rain are smooth and the harvest is good, and it is necessary to prevent the grain from hurting the peasants, or the river bursts the embankment, which is washed away...... It's all a thing anyway.

In the whole world, it seems that except for Gyeonggi, which is calm and calm, there is nothing to do, and there is no peaceful time in other places, which makes people feel inexhaustible. Since he became the emperor, he was originally only in his early thirties, and he was in the prime of life, and he felt as if he had aged several years all of a sudden.

But he still has an emperor on his head. When a new emperor ascends the throne, the previous emperor who is usually his father dies, and he can only be the emperor as a son, but when he comes here, his father is still alive and well, but he abdicated and became the "emperor".

What's worse is that the original emperor abdicated because of a stroke. At that time, the emperor suffered a serious stroke, so he followed the example of the ancient holy emperor Yao Shun and gave up the throne to his sixth son.

After the abdication of the emperor, he went to the Tangshan Palace to recuperate, under the careful diagnosis and treatment of the imperial doctor, and strictly controlled the diet. If you don't say it, you don't know, you can't see that he has had a stroke.

For the new emperor, the emperor's health is getting better, which is not good news.

As the saying goes, "there are no two days in the sky, and there are no two lords for the people", it stands to reason that now the emperor is on the throne, and the new lord of the world should be Emperor Zhengxi, but the emperor has been the emperor for so many years, and the power is very heavy, and the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, most of them are his courtiers, and the emperor is not willing to live a good life after his health improves, regardless of the days of the government, therefore, on the surface, the emperor of Daqin is Emperor Zhengxi, but whether it is the previous dynasty or the harem, we all know that it is still the emperor who is in charge of the court now.

It is precisely because Emperor Zhengxi is in name only, that the brothers who were competing for the throne in the court were not at ease, and they have been eyeing the dragon chair under his buttocks.

In their opinion, what if he is now emperor? As long as the emperor said a word, he could still pull him down from the dragon chair, so Emperor Zhengxi, who was already having a hard time because there were few courtiers in the court, became more and more difficult because of the constraints of several brothers.

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Just when Emperor Zhengxi recalled the distress after becoming emperor, the chief eunuch Chen Anyu reported: "Your Majesty, the king of Fujun is here. ”

The title of King Fujun is "King Yifujun", which is followed by the "Prince Yizhong" who was posthumously crowned by the emperor and abolished the crown prince. He didn't deal with the abolished prince, and when he couldn't change his title, he was only willing to let people call him "King Fujun", if anyone called him "King Yifujun", he could remember a lifetime of hatred.

With the "announcement" of Emperor Zhengxi, the seventeen or eighteen-year-old King Fujun walked in from outside, and after paying homage, he sat down on the chair below the emperor.

Emperor Zhengxi and King Fujun have different mothers, but because of King Fujun's biological mother, Shunmei was born in a foreign Fanbang, after entering the palace, she has been living in the side hall of the palace room of Duan Tai Concubine, and the son born was raised by Duan Tai Concubine; Therefore, King Fujun has been following Emperor Zhengxi since he was a child, as a "little tail".

Because of his mother's identity, King Fujun naturally lost the qualification to compete for the throne, plus he was born late and was raised by Concubine Duan, so Emperor Zhengxi did not hesitate to not only fight with him, but also expressed friendship to him and supported his nineteenth brother to express his brotherly feelings, therefore, over time, the relationship between the two was even better than the sibling relationship between the first mother.

Although Emperor Zhengxi treats King Fujun very well, but King Fujun is not brainless, after he, the sixth brother, ascended the throne, he is very, very aware of current affairs, and on the surface, it seems that there is not much change in getting along with Emperor Zhengxi, he is still joking, and he is still playing tricks, but if you carefully examine his words and deeds, you will find that he has not exceeded his identity as a courtier.

Seeing that the King of Fujun was sitting on the surface below, but in fact, a pair of eyes had been spinning since he entered the Beichen Palace, and he didn't know what the hell was going on in his heart, Emperor Zhengxi asked with a headache: "I heard that the Ministry of Industry Shangshu went to visit you a few days ago, but you beat it out, and this matter is in a uproar, because of what?" ”

King Fujun said disapprerovingly: "It's not a big deal. That old guy, who is in charge of water conservancy and civil engineering, can't fiddle with some things, and asks me to calculate something, but I annoy him, don't answer him, and he doesn't know how to be interested, and has been pestering me. In a fit of rage, I asked my men to beat him out with a broom. ”

Because he knew that he had no relationship with the throne and didn't want to arouse the jealousy of several brothers, after King Fujun entered the school, after recognizing all the characters, he almost threw away his hand in Sinology and plunged into "miscellaneous studies". He had a good relationship with the Westerners in the capital, could speak several foreign languages, and had a high attainment in arithmetic.

Knowing the reason, Emperor Zhengxi was very displeased and reprimanded: "People are a book anyway, a member of the second grade, and they personally came to meet you as a county king with a title and no position, how can you sweep his face like this?" Do you know how many people have impeached you because of this? If I hadn't pressed it all down, you wouldn't have been able to eat and walk around! You're not too young, why can't you let people save snacks! ”

King Fujun pursed his lips and said, "I don't want to either, it's just that who made that guy blind." came to ask me for help, but I still disliked my knowledge, and co-authored in addition to poetry and songs, and those things are knowledge, and the math I learned is not knowledge? If not, then the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of War, if you have the ability, don't use this knowledge.

While begging me, he still despises me, that master is not waiting, which is cool, let him stay! As for impeachment? Those ministers are full of food, and if they want to participate, they can participate, anyway, I don't plan to enter the court, and I am ready to hold the title of the king of the county and wait for death, so no matter how I impeach and participate, I don't care. ”

"Whose 'master' are you?" Emperor Zhengxi reprimanded dissatisfiedly: "Seeing that he is twenty years old, why do you still have a child's hairy temper?" When I was your age, I had three children under my knees, and you were not young, and it was time for you to start a family. Yesterday I met your mother and aunt, and they told me about your marriage......"

"Stop, stop!" King Fujun interrupted him: "I don't want to start a family yet. With my life, marrying a wife is not harmful, forget it, I'd better wait. ”

Although the age of 20 for men in ancient times was the age of the weak crown, which means that they can marry a wife at this age, in fact, the vast majority of men, before the age of 20, have not only completed their lifelong events, but also become fathers. Especially the royal heirs, they don't worry about getting married at all, but King Fujun hasn't married a wife at this age.

There's a reason for that. King Fujun once said that there were three marriages, two of which were given by the emperor and one was chosen by today, but before they could wait for the door, the future princess of the county passed away. Therefore, not only the world thinks that he is a "wife", but even the royal family thinks so, so the last word of his original title was specially changed to the word "Fu", hoping to suppress his evil spirit.

Before Emperor Zhengxi could speak, he preemptively said, "Sixth brother, don't persuade me at length. I don't believe in fate, I don't want to marry a wife, it's not that I don't want to hurt other girls, but I want to have a few more years of freedom, and it's also for the sake of you, brother Huang. I have been named the king of the county, and it stands to reason that I should go out of the palace to build a mansion, but if you don't mention this stubble, I can't bear my father, mother, and brother, so I'm not in a hurry to leave the palace.

Once I get married, I will leave the palace no matter what. But Brother Huang, have you prepared my Anjia silver and the county king's mansion? Behind me, the younger brothers, who were not a few years younger than me, were also old enough to marry wives and start families, but they were young and orderly, and I, the elder brother, did not have a family, so they could not cross me.

If I get married, their marriage should also be handled, and then I will leave the palace, where are you going to get out of this family silver and the residence of the knight, brother? But I know that the warehouses where the household stores money are about to run out of rats. On that day, it was precisely for this reason that the enthronement ceremony of the imperial brother was deleted and deleted, and in the end, it was not as beautiful as when the abolished prince was made the prince. I'm too embarrassed to mention that shabby.

Marrying the princess is a major event in my life, and I must do it beautifully, but as the current appearance of the household department, I'm afraid it will take a few years to do it, so I'll wait a few years before marrying a wife. ”

Emperor Zhengxi has always claimed that he was so frugal in his enthronement ceremony because the emperor was still there, and it was not easy to be extravagant and wasteful, but in fact, even if he wanted to do it, he couldn't do it, because the household department had no money; Neku was in the hands of the emperor and was not handed over, so he could only "do what he could".

The final result is that he has been on the throne for another year, and some low-level officials in the local area only knew that the emperor had been changed when they read the palace newspaper, which shows how low his sense of existence is in this enthronement ceremony.

A once-in-a-lifetime event is so shabby, isn't Emperor Zhengxi aggrieved? But no matter how aggrieved he was, he had no power or money in his hands, and he could only endure it before he moved the mountain above him.