Chapter 154: Great Qi
Two days. You can do a lot in two days.
Lord Zhu Qiming and Lord Zhu were hesitating, but when he saw that the crown prince Tang Shao had already waved his hand, a group of Praetorian Guards immediately surrounded him, staring at this group of Great Qi courtiers with fierce eyes.
These people who are officials in the court, who have been pampered for so many years, and most of them are civil officials, how can they fight these young and vigorous Praetorian Guards.
Now is not the time to tear your face.
In two days, they were able to do a lot of things.
Zhu Qiming saluted Tang Shao and said, "Then I will wait for two more days according to the words of His Royal Highness the Prince." Two days later, please don't break your promise. ”
Tang Shao smiled: "That's nature. ”
Only then did Zhu Qiming lead a group of officials with different clothes and eyes to leave.
Away from the entrance of Emperor Wude's bedroom, when he was about to enter Chongwen Pavilion, an official with a white beard and also wearing a vermilion official uniform walked a few steps to Zhu Qiming's side.
"Elder Zhu Ge, do you really have to wait for two more days? Your Majesty, will he really be fine? ”
Zhu Qiming pinched his neatly combed beard, and slowed down under his feet.
How many of the officials who followed him to the emperor's dormitory today were genuinely thinking about the emperor, he was not sure in his heart. The current emperor has only been on the throne for a few years, and there are few people in the court who have been supported by him.
Most of these officials behind him followed the first emperor. Under the rule of the first emperor, all industries were prosperous, and these courtiers were naturally conscientious and conscientious. As for Emperor Wude, although he was taken by the first emperor to participate in political affairs since he became the crown prince, these courtiers had already seen it. Emperor Wude was cowardly and overly careful, it was not easy to be able to defend the country that Emperor Wude had fought for, and it was impossible to take these courtiers to make some great achievements. Although everyone was still full of enthusiasm at the beginning, after a long time, Emperor Wude didn't seem to know how to reward and punish merit at all, and they worked hard for so long, and they didn't even get a little reward. Even if there was a reward, Emperor Wude actually rewarded all the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty according to their ranks. It made everyone cry and laugh.
Zhu Qiming, as the head of the elders, has reminded Emperor Wude more than once. But what did Emperor Wude actually say. Everyone works for the court, and they all work hard. If this reward is not rewarded, won't it hurt people's hearts and make people feel at ease to do things?
Zhu Qiming couldn't cry or laugh, so he talked about the cases of clear rewards and punishments of the emperors of the past dynasties several times, but he didn't know that people couldn't listen to it at all.
Not only that, according to the laws of the Great Qi, the general recital is first discussed by the cabinet elders, and the opinions are seconded to the recital before being presented to the emperor. There are those trivial or unreasonable things, and the old door of the pavilion is generally directly knocked down. The emperor didn't have any ideas in the first place, and generally followed the advice of the elders.
However, there were people in the court who tended to be inflammatory, and when they saw that the emperor was weak, they quietly went to the inner court, either handing some excerpts of merit and praise to make the emperor happy, waiting for an opportunity to mix up a familiar name, or they were excerpts to invite merit and reward, and even worse, they talked about the gods and Buddhas, saying that they wanted the emperor to build more merits, build temples, and so on. And the emperor actually agreed!
The elders of the pavilion were very shocked when they learned of this, and after several verbal battles, they finally persuaded the emperor to deal with a few people who tended to be inflammatory, and violated the rules. But within a few months, the emperor's old mistakes were committed again. If this is the case several times, the elders are annoyed.
Was Emperor Wude a good emperor?
Of course not! Zhu Qiming and the other pavilion veterans were bright in their hearts.
However, will the crown prince Tang Shao definitely be a good emperor?
When Emperor Wude was still a crown prince, because he was often called by the first emperor to give lectures, these descendants lost discipline. As the eldest son, Tang Shao was raised by the crown princess and the current queen, who was pampered by thousands of pets, and was less than four years old, he was a disrespectful and arrogant naughty boy. What's even more troublesome is that the crown prince Tang Shao has no military talent at all, but he is warlike. The matter of negotiating peace with the Sealand Hu people, if it weren't for the troubles made by the prince's party, would have been done a long time ago, and would it have waited until this time?
Fierce, arrogant, paranoid, biased. These are definitely not a good quality as an emperor.
When the crown prince was established, many of them were in a difficult situation. Of course, they are not optimistic about Tang Shao, but because he is the eldest son, and his mother's maiden family is powerful.
Queen Du's mother's family, who followed Taizu to fight the world, was awarded the title of Marquis of Yongding after success. And the descendants of the Du family are also very competitive, not only have their descendants from generation to generation have made great achievements, but even in this generation, Du Xiao, who became famous by relying on the imperial examination, and finally sat on the position of the secretary of the ministry, and successfully became one of the elders. And Du Xiao is Queen Du's own brother. Moreover, the Du family has produced several generals, all of whom hold military power. With such a family, naturally few people in the DPRK and China dare to offend.
Just in case, when Emperor Wude ascended the throne, Empress Du, just in case, took advantage of the fact that several of her brothers who held military power were there, coerced and enticed, and many people gradually compromised. Besides, no matter what, Tang Shao is the eldest son, as long as his identity is there and he doesn't do anything too out of line, they have no reason to refuse at all.
In this way, only two months after Emperor Wude ascended the throne, Tang Shao sat firmly on the throne of the crown prince.
Although Emperor Wude has done some ridiculous things, he is still willing to listen to them in some things, and he has not done anything too embarrassing. But if Tang Shao became the emperor, their life would be difficult. So, of course, they didn't want anything to happen to Emperor Wude.
However, although this Emperor Wude is a little ridiculous, he usually attaches great importance to the maintenance of his body.
Some people speculate that it is estimated that Emperor Wude was afraid that he would die before the first emperor before he ascended the throne, so he paid great attention to maintenance.
In the past few years, Emperor Wude has basically not had two illnesses. At most, he suffered from some wind and cold, and occasionally coughed twice, so he urgently summoned the hospital for treatment.
Now, suddenly become ill like this?
It has to be suspicious.
This is the reason why their group of courtiers are gathered in the emperor's bedroom. However, he can't be sure what the people in this are thinking.
This matter must be handled with great caution. However, this matter should not be too public. Especially now, there is a mixture of fish and dragons. If you want to succeed, you must find those old ministers and loyal ministers who have friends with you.
"Since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said to wait for two more days, what can we do? Let's just come back to see Your Majesty in two days. Master Zhu said.
Wonderful!