The twenty-first round of the Prime Minister's Mansion Turmoil Twenty-one
Originally, the little emperor still believed that he was very close to Feng Bao's big companion, but an incident soon after made the little emperor lose trust in Feng Bao's big companion.
After all, the little emperor was young and playful, and a little eunuch gave the little emperor a gnather in order to please the little emperor.
The little emperor hid the gnats well and didn't dare to let his mother, Empress Dowager Li, see them. Once Feng Bao was ordered to deliver something to the little emperor, and he happened to see the little emperor playing with gnats in the study, so Feng Bao persuaded the little emperor not to lose his mind with playthings.
The little emperor begged Feng Bao not to tell the Empress Dowager Li about the grasshopper, and Feng Bao agreed to the little emperor's request.
Unexpectedly, the next day, Empress Dowager Li personally came to the little emperor's study, not only checked the thorough homework, but also found out the grasshopper and stepped on it directly.
The little emperor felt that the eunuchs and palace maids around him would not betray him, and the only possibility was that Feng Bao betrayed him, and the little emperor couldn't believe Feng Bao from then on.
In fact, Feng Bao really didn't tell Empress Dowager Li, and even the little emperor's teacher Zhang Juzheng didn't tell him.
Empress Dowager Li knew from Feng Baoshe who became a personal eunuch, Empress Dowager Li would not tell the little emperor the truth openly, Feng Bao had to suffer such a dumb loss.
The master-apprentice relationship between the little emperor and Zhang Juzheng deteriorated because the little emperor grew up and didn't like Zhang Juzheng to restrain him.
When he was a child, Zhang Juzheng even accompanied the little emperor to play empty bamboo in order to let the little emperor accept him as soon as possible.
The little emperor has always lacked fatherly love, so he once regarded Zhang Juzheng as his father, and Zhang Juzheng was also regarded as his most important disciple.
It's a pity that the little emperor is young and an emperor after all, and it is impossible to let Zhang Juzheng grow up like a folk child.
As the little emperor grew into adulthood, his temper and character doomed her to not be an obedient child. Zhang Juzheng was also a relatively strict teacher, who was not only rigorous but also rigid in terms of knowledge and knowledge, and did not allow the little emperor's whimsical ideas.
At every turn, he wanted to ask the whip rewarded by the first emperor to teach the little emperor a lesson, in fact, Zhang Juzheng had never beaten the little emperor once, but after being scared for a long time, there was a kind of mental pressure on the little emperor.
The little emperor felt that he was very useless, and there was always his mother Empress Dowager Li in the back palace to scare himself in the Taimiao, and in the previous dynasty, there was a teacher Zhang Juzheng who used a whip to scare himself.
Obedient on the surface, he increasingly longs for freedom from their constraints. The first head-on clash between the little emperor and Zhang Juzheng was for the aftermath of the election.
When the little emperor was sixteen years old, Empress Dowager Chen first proposed that the child was older, and she should choose a queen for the child earlier.
After the deliberation of the Empress Dowager Hai Rui's cabinet supervisor of the two palaces, it was decided to elect the little emperor nationwide.
There are three conditions, the first is innocent, the second is that the girl is upright and not defective, and the third is knowledgeable and coarse.
For the sake of the stability of the country, Zhang Juzheng added another article, which must be a descendant of the Han family, and no foreign blood is allowed.
After the civil election, the primary election, the re-election, and the final election, more than 100 show girls entered the palace, and secretly observed while training to prepare for the final election.
Empress Dowager Chen meant to choose a beautiful one, she knew that the little emperor was a person who loved beauty, and a beautiful queen made the little emperor happy.
Empress Dowager Li means to choose an older one who can take care of and love her son. Feng Bao means to choose an empress who can speak well and be happy with the emperor.
Zhang Juzheng had a lot of opinions, and began to meddle in royal family affairs. Zhang Juzheng put forward three points, the first is that this girl must be a civilian child, so that she can know the suffering of the people.
Second, this girl must be good-looking, because she will be the mother of the Ming Dynasty and Wanli Dynasty, and she can't be too charming, not dignified, and not too stingy.
Third, this girl can't be too educated, and she can't be too good at talking, otherwise she will often stir up trouble in her ears.
Zhang Juzheng's suggestion is equivalent to overturning all the suggestions of the other three people, Empress Dowager Chen will be too charming if she wants to be beautiful, Empress Dowager Li wants to be too stingy and not dignified, and Feng Bao said that Zhang Juzheng, who can speak well, does not agree.
The little emperor was angry, he said that Zhang Juzheng chose not the queen but the bodhisattva in the temple, and he didn't want a dull wife.
Zhang Juzheng immediately criticized and taught the little emperor as a teacher, and this time it was rare that Empress Dowager Li and Feng Bao did not help Zhang Juzheng teach the little emperor together.
For the first time, the little emperor really hated Zhang Juzheng, Zhang Juzheng should not be so careless about choosing a queen for himself, after all, this queen is his wife and a person who wants to live with the emperor for the rest of his life.
Therefore, the little emperor who was elected by Zhang Juzheng did not like it, and it was not until soon after Zhang Juzheng's death that the little emperor mobilized Empress Dowager Li to depose the queen.
In fact, the tragedy of the queen was caused by Zhang Juzheng, if it weren't for Zhang Juzheng's repeated insistence that the little emperor and the queen mother of the two palaces would not choose her as the queen, she would not have to live this miserable life.
The standard in Zhang Juzheng's mind is not the standard of the little emperor, and even the folk parents can't persuade their sons to like a woman that their sons don't like, not to mention that the little emperor is the emperor, and he is destined not to be a man with only one woman.
The little emperor can ignore this woman he doesn't like, and can go to other women to continue to spend his days drinking.
But what about women? The queen, who was originally the most noble woman, became the loneliest and most innocent woman, unable to have a group of children, unable to sing with a husband, unable to teach a husband and children, only empty four walls all day long, and the palace that could never leave.
Qin Tai had already guessed that Zhang Juzheng's life would not be too easy, but he didn't know that Zhang Juzheng had lived so hard these years.
Huang Jin told Qin Tai that Zhang Juzheng had eaten too much over the years, and he seemed to be aging quickly, and Qin Tai must not recognize Zhang Juzheng.
Speaking of having more things to eat and less to eat, Qin Tai couldn't help but think of Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu during the Three Kingdoms period, Zhang Juzheng and Zhuge Liang had many similarities.
is also the actual person in charge of a country, the same monarch is young and needs to be personally educated and assisted, the same is the same internal and external difficulties, the country is unstable, the same is full of crises and the people are uneasy, the same is the civil and military factions are full of internal strife, the same everything needs to be worried about himself, and there is no successor, no one is willing to sincerely assist him in his office.
Qin Tai was worried that his friend Zhang Juzheng would eventually be dragged to death by exhaustion, and he was even more worried that Zhang Juzheng would not get a reputation after his death.
After arriving in the capital, Qin Tai felt even more that Zhang Juzheng was already sitting on the crater, and no matter what Zhang Juzheng did, he would be criticized and blamed.
Ding is worried, everyone will say that Zhang Juzheng has left a big stall of state affairs, regardless of wanting to be a hands-off shopkeeper. If you don't worry about Zhang Juzheng, you will be said to be an unfilial son who is greedy for power and unwilling to let go.
Continuing the reform will offend more nobles and gentry, and make Zhang Juzheng have a bad reputation among the people. If he gives up reform, his supporters will be disappointed and sad, and even think that Zhang Juzheng is a wall-to-wall grass with no beginning and no end.
Zhang Juzheng followed the words of the little emperor and the queen mother of the two palaces, and he would be said to be a traitor by the civil and military officials.
If the imperial power is too restricted, he will be a powerful minister in the eyes of the royal family and the ministers. Zhang Juzheng wants to do some practical things, not only is no one willing to help him, but there will also be people behind his back.
Even if Zhang Juzheng doesn't do anything and stays at home, some people will say that he is a corpse and a vegetarian and does not do anything.
If you want to do something, you can't do it, and if you don't do it, you'll be scolded, this kind of cabinet chief assistant is actually really boring. There are three things that can be determined now, first, Zou Yunbiao's complaint is Zou Yunbiao's personal behavior.
No one was involved and didn't know in advance, and there was no so-called mastermind. Second, Zou Yunbiao was carried to Zhang Juzheng's house to make trouble, which was a conspiracy that Zou Yunbiao did not know.
The purpose is to take advantage of the incident that Zou Yunbiao was beaten by the little emperor because of Zhang Juzheng's affairs, and target Zhang Juzheng and even the little emperor and the queen mother of the two palaces.
The mastermind behind these people may be the original cabinet chief assistant Gao Gong Deen, or more likely the person who now wants to replace Zhang Juzheng as the new cabinet chief assistant.
Third, at least one cabinet elder Lu Tiaoyang has been involved in this matter, and more and more important court figures have been implicated.
Qin Tai is most worried about three things, first, the whereabouts of Zou Yunbiao. Zou Yunbiao must have been secretly controlled by the troublesome officials.
But these people don't care about Zou Yunbiao's life or death, and even if Zou Yunbiao dies of serious injuries, they can even use Zou Yunbiao's death to make a fuss.
In their opinion, a dead Zou Yunbiao is more useful than a half-dead Zou Yuanbiao. As a good friend, Qin Tai didn't want Zou Yunbiao to have any more accidents, and as the person in charge of the investigation, Qin Tai didn't want this important witness to have an accident.
Second, although these officials who have been out of control have been called back by their superiors for the time being, will they make trouble again?
Will the people behind it organize them again to launch a larger march? Will these people do something more motivating or extreme?
If there is more trouble, what will the court and the royal family do? Will you send troops to suppress them or will you negotiate with them?
Is it to sacrifice a Zhang Juzheng to compromise with these people? Or is it to protect the honorary status of Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the cabinet?
Third, is there any connection between the murder of Zhang Juzheng's family and these people? Is it a separate case or is there a connection?
What was the purpose of the other party letting Zhang Juzheng's backyard catch fire at this time? Is it to make Zhang Juzheng sad?
Or is it to make Zhang Juzheng's family discordant? Or is it to make Zhang Juzheng have no heart to work? If you want to make a big deal out of it, why didn't the murderer kill Mrs. Zhang, wouldn't it be even more chaotic?
The murderer can easily sneak into Yu Niang's room and poison Yu Niang without anyone knowing, of course, he can also deal with Zhang Juzheng or Mrs. Zhang like this, why didn't the murderer directly attack Zhang Juzheng or Mrs. Zhang?