Chapter 138: The Speaker Blocks the Road
Ling Jun followed Emperor Longqing back to the imperial capital, and as soon as he entered the palace gate, he encountered a group of officials and ministers blocking the way, and the nagging things were nothing more than what they expected on the road, about the disposal of Yi Ling.
Jun has no jokes, no matter how bold the officials and ministers are, they don't dare to let Emperor Longqing take back the edict that has been issued, but when it comes to banishing Yilu to the bitter cold land in the northwest and letting him suffer from distribution, these officials and ministers don't intend to let Emperor Longqing be so happy.
"Although he is the former servant of His Royal Highness the Great Prince, but after the death of the Great Prince, he has been filial piety to His Majesty, and helped His Majesty to stabilize the great cause of benefit, the minister thinks that although his merit is small, the hard work is a lot, so I implore Your Majesty to degrade his return to his hometown as a common man, and do not punish him to the northwest for miscellaneous servants, so as to show His Majesty's benevolence."
The person who knelt in front of the imperial chariot and pleaded with Emperor Longqing was Shang Shucheng of the military department who had a relationship with Yiqing's mother's family, and the well-known faction that supported Yizhen, Emperor Longqing didn't need to think about it to know that the group of people who came to the gate of this palace today and stopped him from the imperial chariot must have been recruited by him!
"Your Majesty is benevolent, you should not treat people who were beneficial to the stability of society in the past, if you punish them to the northwest, you will definitely provoke the suspicion of the world, I hope Your Majesty will think twice!"
"Your Majesty think twice!"
"Your Majesty think twice!"
"Your Majesty......"
Under the leadership of Cheng Xiangqian, the twenty or thirty officials and ministers, in front of the imperial chariot, hulala knelt together, and the purple and crimson official robes were bright and dazzling to Emperor Longqing.
"Jun'er, what do you think I should do about this?"
Emperor Longqing wrinkled his eyebrows slightly, he was already tired, and he suddenly felt disgusted by the arrival of this group of officials and ministers, thinking that back then, when he had just ascended the throne, he wanted to take Concubine Du Kang back to live in the palace, and be filial to her old man, but also these guys, the maggots in the toilet blocked his way and refused to let him go out...... At that time, it was Ling Jun's appearance that helped him out of the siege, this time......
"The body of the common people, to enjoy the support of the prince, still do not know the tears and gratitude, together with others, to rob the late Empress Dowager Xiaoke's birthday gifts, brutally kill and escort hundreds of congratulatory soldiers, cruel and despicable, shameless, if it is not for its merit to the community, the punishment of stripping the car split, now the father and the emperor only depose the bitter cold land as a punishment, it is already benevolent and righteous, the people of the world will only think that the father is too benevolent, not mean."
Emperor Longqing is already old, especially, in the face of such a group of ministers, Ling Jun felt a slight sour in his heart, and instinctively remembered the scene when General Jiang sent him to Yuwangfu at that time.
At that time, he was seven years old, and Emperor Longqing, who was still King Yu, was just thirty-five, just in the prime of life...... He lifted himself above his head with a happy face, threw it up slightly, and caught it steadily, he said, "Lingjun, my son, I have seen you from afar for so many years, from now on, I can finally listen to you call me Daddy, not Prince Yu!" ”
"That's very good."
For Yi Li, Emperor Longqing was really sad, cold, and desperate, and did not directly give an order to let people take his head, just because he didn't want to "tiger poison eater" to stain his reputation in his life, not reluctantly, so at this time, listening to Ling Jun give him such an idea, he suddenly felt very much in line with him, "You go and tell them about this, I'm tired, I want to rest, and I don't like to look at their faces that are darker than the soles of their shoes." ”
Ling Jun took the order and left, and soon left the ministers speechless, and scattered in frustration and helplessness.
Ling Jun knew that this matter would not end so easily, those who were "persuaded" by him and left, especially the Ling Jun faction led by Cheng Xiangqian, the reason why they did this, to put it mildly, was just to retreat as advance, and did not want to offend Emperor Longqing all at once, and it would be difficult to speak in the future.
These old guys are very smart, to be precise, they persecuted Emperor Longqing last time, preventing him from overthrowing Emperor Jiajing's edict, saying that Concubine Du Kang did not die at all, it was entirely because of the protection of the people that Emperor Jiajing treated him poorly, and he saved up experience in dealing with Emperor Longqing.
Emperor Longqing is a person who values face very seriously, and it is easy to be soft-hearted, at this time, he is angry, of course, his attitude is resolute, but after some time, he is angry, and these ministers come to persuade him again...... Most likely, the result will be completely different from what it is now!
If you don't die if you fight a snake, there will be trouble, not to mention, it is still a "centipede" that is closely related to two of the three major military camps in Ling's mother's family?
The main general of the Jiangnan battalion has fallen to the Ling faction because of his in-laws, and the Northeast battalion is the descendant of Ling Ling's mother's family, and the Li family who has guarded the Northeast for several generations!
In Ling's hands, there is the support of the two battalions in the Northeast and Jiangnan, but in his hands, there is only the hole card of Jiang Rubai, the old general "Yizi", and now, Jiang Rusong was given the princess Penglai by Emperor Longqing...... Although, looking at the present, Jiang Rusong is still devoted to Emperor Longqing and refuses to go along with Ling Yan, but it is difficult to guarantee the future, too!
God knows if he, such a childish person, will be fascinated by Princess Penglai's rhetoric after getting married, and become one of Ling Ling's henchmen!
No matter how Jiang Rubai kisses him, he is also a gentleman, no matter how he is not close to Jiang Rusong, it is also his younger brother who grew up with him, how to choose, obvious...... Even now, there is a matter of collusion between Ling Yan and the main general of the Jiangnan battalion with the intention of murdering the old general Jiang and his wife, even now, there is such a thing as Liu Qingxin treating the second elder......
General Jiang is already in the twilight of his life, Jiang Rusong is in the prime of life, if one day, General Jiang and the old lady will die...... Who dares to guarantee that Jiang Rusong and Jiang Rubai at that time would not turn against him?
In this world, the most unpredictable thing is the human heart.
Ling Jun thought like this, and took a deep breath again, this time, Ling Ling had completely torn his face with him, if he couldn't "beat Ling to death" at once, in the future, the day Ling Ling struggled to get up again would be the day of his Zhu Lingjun's death!
The two big camps in the northeast and Jiangnan are forming horns with Yanjing.
There are 30,000 city guards in Yanjing, 20,000 in the Shenji battalion, a total of 60,000 people, the old, weak, sick and disabled are all embellished, there are less than 60,000 people, the Jiangnan camp has 200,000 people, and the northeast camp is nearly 300,000 people.
"Jun'er, my father is also at the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, and many things are a little powerless...... You're not too young, you should always help your father share some of it......"
Gently patted Ling Jun's shoulder, Emperor Longqing leaned back on the cushion of the imperial chariot tiredly, age, it was really unforgiving, he originally thought that he could still be the same as when he was young, riding a horse for three thousand miles, and going to the lockdown in one day, now it seems that ...... I really don't want to accept the old man, I can't, "The ancestors are right, when people are old, they should do something that an old man should do, tease his grandchildren, and enjoy his family or something......"
"Father Hugh wants to depreciate himself, he is in his forties, and he is still in the prime of life!"
Ling Jun knew that Emperor Longqing was really old, but he couldn't just follow his words.
Since that year, after the death of the Empress Dowager Xiaoke, the ministers blocked the door and prevented Emperor Longqing from mourning and keeping filial piety for the Empress Dowager Xiaoke, Emperor Longqing became old all of a sudden, and overnight, half of his black hair was white, and even walking was not as tough as before.
Emperor Longqing was a filial son, but he was forced by a group of ministers to be filial to his biological mother, such a blow was really tantamount to a catastrophe for him.
Lingjun knew all this, but at that time, he couldn't do anything.
"I've always thought about cultivating Ling Yan into a successor who is beneficial to the Ming Dynasty, after all, when I was still a prince, I was sent to a bitter cold place by your imperial grandfather, and his mother's beautiful family has never disliked me, and has always accompanied me to suffer there."
When he was in distress, she married him as the princess in spite of the family's opposition, and when he was frustrated, she accompanied him to a difficult place and lived a difficult life with him...... But just when his situation was getting better, his status was about to rise, and he was about to return to the imperial capital, a serious illness took her life!
She has been with him for more than ten years, but she has not been able to enjoy a day of happiness with him, which is something that Emperor Longqing has always felt full of guilt, and it is precisely because of this that he will spoil and indulge Zhu Lingjun and Princess Penglai more than his other children!
"The people who accompany my father and the emperor to endure hardships are not only Princess Yu."
Hearing Emperor Longqing say this, Ling Jun was instinctively unhappy, although his mother Li was humble, she first accompanied the Empress Dowager Xiaoke to live in the cold palace, and then accompanied him to the fiefdom of Emperor Longqing.
No matter how hard Princess Yu endured, she was the master after all, at best, that is, she ate worse than in the imperial capital, but his mother Li wanted to do needlework again to exchange food for the dilapidated palace that could not even get a full range of Yulu to make ends meet, and she was reluctant to eat it herself, so she saved up rations and gave them to Emperor Longqing, the husband......
Later, because he gave birth to his son who was not good, he had to go to the nunnery to "become a monk", and there was no way to save food, so he worked hard, and on the fifteenth day of the first month of each month, he came down the mountain with a thick dozen needlework on his back, and sold it to the tailor shop for money, and then, in the name of "turning into a fate", he sent the silver he got to King Yu's mansion and handed it over to Emperor Longqing, who was still King Yu, to spend it!
If you really say that you are suffering, who can be more bitter than his mother Li! R1152( )