In the Beichen Hall of Taiji Palace in Beijing, the fifth generation of Emperor Zhengxi, who succeeded to the throne for a few years, 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 a row, there was no good news, Emperor Zhengxi couldn't help but sigh irritably, put down the pen in his hand, pinched his eyebrows with his right hand, and sighed secretly in his heart: When he was a prince that day, he only felt that it was good to be an emperor, he was in power, and everything in the world seemed to be in his hands; But after trying his best to finally fight for the throne and sit up, although the scenery is beautiful, if you want to be a Ming monarch, this position is 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 the calm and calm of Gyeonggi, there is nothing to do, and there is no peaceful time in other places, which makes people have the heart to inexhaustibly, so 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.

It's just that he still has an emperor on his head, yes, when the emperor ascends the throne, the previous emperor who is usually his father died, and he can only be the emperor as a son, but when he comes here, the father who was originally the emperor 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 had a serious stroke, and for the emperor, he was afraid of death, but he was even more afraid of the unbearable image of being paralyzed due to the stroke and his mouth and eyes were crooked, so he imitated the ancient saint Emperor Yao Shun and gave up the throne to his sixth son.

But 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, and now he is the same as a normal person except for his left hand, which is a little weak. If you don't say it, you don't know, you can't see that he once had the symptoms of a stroke.

The emperor's health has improved, but it is actually not good news for the new emperor. As the saying goes, "there are no two days in the sky, and there are no two lords in 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 Manchu Dynasty is civil and military, most of them are his courtiers, and the emperor is not willing to abdicate after the body, and he lives a good life, regardless 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 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 was thinking about his depression after becoming emperor, the eunuch Chen An, the leader of his side, reported to him: "Your Majesty, King Fujun is here. ”

The king of Fujun was titled "King of Yifu County", which was followed by the "Prince Yizhong" who was posthumously crowned by the emperor and the abolished prince, but the king of Fujun and the abolished prince did not deal with each other, and in the case that it could not be changed, only people called him "King Fujun", if he didn't know, he called him "King Yifujun", and 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 a chair leaning down from the emperor.

Although Emperor Zhengxi and King Fujun are not the same mother, but because King Fujun's mother was born in a different race, after being sent to the palace, she was named Shun Beauty, and she was not very favored, and lived in the side hall of Emperor Zhengxi's aunt Concubine Jing's palace.

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 Jing Concubine, so Emperor Zhengxi did not hesitate to express brotherly feelings to this not only will not fight with him, but also express his brotherhood to him and support his nineteenth brother, therefore, over time, the relationship between the two is even good for the sibling relationship of the same mother.

Although Emperor Zhengxi treats King Fujun very well, but King Fujun is not brainless, after his sixth brother ascended the throne, he is very familiar with current affairs, and on the surface it seems that getting along with Emperor Zhengxi has not changed much, he should still joke, he should still play 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. Isn't that old guy in charge of water conservancy, civil engineering, and engineering, and some things can't be handled, so he asks me to calculate something, but I don't think he is annoying, so I don't answer him, but he doesn't know how to be interested, and he keeps chattering in my ear, and in a fit of anger, I let my subordinates 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 lose his eyes." Originally, he came to ask me for help, but he still disliked my learning. In addition to the poems and songs, and the scriptures, those things are knowledge, and the arithmetic 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, and the master is still not serving, so let him stay where he goes! 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 Qiande reprimanded dissatisfiedly, thought for a while, and said: "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, isn't marrying a wife 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 marriage at all. But there is a reason why King Fujun has not married a wife at this age.

He had said before that there were three marriages, two of which were given by the emperor and one was chosen by today, but before he 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 the emperor could speak, he preemptively said, "Don't persuade me at length." I don't want to marry a wife, it's not that I don't want to hurt other girls, but I want to be free for a few more years, and it's also for the sake of you, brother Huang. I have been named the king of the county, it stands to reason that I should actually go out of the palace to build a mansion, but if you don't mention this stubble, I am reluctant to let my father, mother and brother go, so I am not in a hurry to leave the palace.

But once I get married, I'm going to leave the palace anyway. But Brother Huang, have you prepared my Anjia silver and the county king's mansion? Behind me, the younger brothers next to me were not a few years younger than me, and they were all 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.

Once I get married, their marriage should also be handled, and then I will leave the palace, where are you going to get out of the palace with this money and the residence of the knight? 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 crown prince.

I'm too embarrassed to mention that shabby. Although I'm not a good person, 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'd better wait a few years before marrying a wife. ”

Although Emperor Zhengxi has always said that he is so frugal in his enthronement ceremony because the emperor is still there, it is not easy to be extravagant and wasteful, but in fact, even if he wants to do a big job, there is no such possibility, because the household department has no money, and the inner treasury is in the hands of the emperor and has not been handed over, so he can only "do what he can".

The final result is that he has been on the throne for another year, and some of the low-level officials below only learned that the emperor had been changed when they read the arrival report, 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 could only endure it before he moved the mountain above him.