Chapter 422: A Thousand Cuts
Mrs. Miao was angered by men, stayed in her hometown for decades, and her heart was sad, not to mention that Zhang Huren was terminally ill when she arrived at Miao Mansion, and she didn't even know her son, and it was impossible to ask anything, and the next day Mrs. Miao let go, and Zhang Huren had to return in disgrace.
Miao Yongjun has made remarkable achievements in Liangzhong Province in the past few years, and has also colluded with Concubine Miao De inside and outside to do what illegal things, and the ministers of the court and the central government are bold and bold for his affection, and finally the emperor asked Shen Mingyun: "This Miao Yongjun is unforgivable?" ”
"The emperor punishes or not, the key is to see if he has done something that endangers the court, and the ministers think that Lord Miao is not only innocent, but also has a small merit and is deceived by a woman, so the crime and himself are quite sympathetic, and then Liangzhong Province is still inseparable from the emperor for the time being.
Emperor Yongchang thought for a while: "It's okay to draft a decree." ”
The holy decree went down to listen to Miao Yongjun, who wept bitterly at that time, kowtowed to the direction of the capital again and again, cursed and swore that he would definitely live up to the emperor's grace, and Emperor Yongchang listened to the report of the official of the Ministry of Rites and Rites, and his heart was slightly balanced.
Miao Yongjun really did his best in the next year, Liangzhong Provincial Government Affairs once became the benchmark of Jurong Province, although Emperor Yongchang issued an order to commend, but his heart was still relatively comfortable, who knew that Miao Yongjun was so desperate when he was old, and his body was tired all of a sudden, and soon died suddenly in the hall of the Yamen, Emperor Yongchang completely forgave Miao Yongjun and decreed that he was honored as a prince of the country, but the title could not be inherited, Miao Yongjun's eldest son was already serving in the Hanlin Academy, and the second son was engulfed into the household department and became a seven minor officials. Emperor Yongchang released his third son, regardless of the reward given to the concubine, he was angry, Mrs. Miao, and no one in the Miao family dared to complain.
After these are the immediate affairs, how Emperor Yongchang dealt with Dong Jincai.
Since the founding of Jurong Jianguo, he has been sentenced to slashing and punishment, and the punishment is too bloody, but Dong Jincai is extremely evil, not only communicating with foreign countries, willing to be a traitor, but also plotting to kill the prince, causing turmoil in the country, and the imperial history books all have such a sentence: "Even if you cut it with a thousand knives, it is difficult to resist the crime." ”
Dali Siqing*** finally made up his mind to sentence Dong Jincai to be a thousand knives, Emperor Yongchang nodded and agreed, and the news spread, Dong Jincai hanged himself in prison, but was saved by the jailer: "If Lord Dong dies so easily, the family will have to accompany him to the Hades Palace." ”
Dong Jincai was unarmed, and every day he ate, the jailer took people into it, and he did evil all his life, but he didn't expect that he would die so miserably, looking back on the past, if the ambition was a little smaller, then a little more peaceful, maybe the ending would be completely different.
When Mrs. Dong arrived, she also regretted that she had been sentenced to death, and she babbled over and over again: "It's good to be a man." ”
The Dong family's branches, both men and women, were all executed, and the men of the side branches were exiled to the northeast, and Sun Chao's men were slaves to help Jurong Chao dig drainage ditches, and the women were all sold into slavery.
Winter goes to spring, and another year of peach blossoms, Emperor Yongchang is in poor health, and the court affairs rely more on the prince to deal with the new people and new atmosphere, the courtiers are old and gradually receded, and there are more and more new faces.
The prince has listened to Concubine Mei's words since he was a child, knows that Qian Jun is loyal, and some important things are delegated, and most of the affairs at hand are handed over to his son, and he has more and more free days.
On this day, the suburb of Renjun Wangfu Peach Blossom Villa ushered in a group of flower-viewing guests, but the prince and wife of Nanhai had already begun to show the beautiful posture of a girl, a pair of twin daughters and the princess and the second lady - the power of money and military training was deprived, but the position of the general was retained, and Shen'er was naturally named a lady.
Seeing the happy smiling faces of his daughter and daughter-in-law, he couldn't help but be full of joy, Qian Jun looked at it on the side, hesitated for a while, and asked his wife quietly: "I used to plan for Dong Jincai to slowly struggle, but in the end, I didn't get my wish, don't blame my husband?" ”
Jin glanced at her husband strangely, and then laughed: "Then I'm afraid that I won't be able to pull it down for a while, and the pressure is too great, who wants their enemies to swagger in the world every day?" I wish I could deal with it as soon as possible, and it would be quieter in front of me. ”
"Oh! Oh, I see! Qian Jun couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, and now he was relieved.
A year later, the war broke out in the western frontier, which hung over the head of Emperor Yongchang, and the steel knife was finally cut down, although he had prepared in his heart, but the body was not able to resist the wind, and immediately suffered a stroke, and all the affairs of the court were pressed on the prince.
When the emperor of Jurong Dynasty was young, most of them were shrewd and capable, although the crown prince ascended the throne, he held the absolute right to speak, and the first thing he did was to promote the prince of Nanhai to the prime minister of the cabinet.
Jurong is simply such a position, the crown prince Zhenzhen: The emperor is in poor health, too young, and the affairs of the court and the central government need an old man to hold the heavy clan and the close relatives to help cook, and only the prince of Nanhai can take on this position.
However, several ministers in the cabinet did not approve of it, and in the end, the crown prince agreed to wait for the emperor to go to his post. Everyone knows that the emperor will not have a stroke, and the prince will wait for the prince to ascend the throne.
The crown prince was indeed younger than the cabinet, so he stopped quarreling and turned back to discuss the military affairs of Western Xinjiang.
Qian Zhang has volunteered three times in a row to retreat from the enemy, this kid also understands that he can only be a general, and he can't be a marshal, so he wants to pull Jin Jin, but the cabinet minister is resolutely against joking, Qian Junshi, the prime minister's son will bring hundreds of thousands of troops, and the family will sit on the throne.
Qian Jun only disdained to sit in that seat, if he wanted to, how could a few old and weak Confucians be able to stop him?
I had to admire the prince's courage, and also appointed Qian Zhaohui, the second son of Prince Ren's mansion, as the handsome, and Qian Zhang as the vanguard, and the courtiers opposed it one after another, and at first insisted on going his own way, but the next day he changed his mind and gave a compromise plan: the princess's father, the Marquis of Weiyuan (the son of the Marquis of Weiyuan) was sent to be the supervisor.
Qian Jun knew that Emperor Yongchang intervened, but as a result, the old emperor was always wary of himself, which made him angry and sad, when he was young and vigorous in Western Xinjiang, and devoted himself to the country, Emperor Yongchang saw his terrible strength, and Emperor Yongchang probably had been wary of it since then, and he had not been able to let go until he died.
Sure enough, Emperor Yongchang suffered a stroke and was paralyzed, and after careful recuperation by the imperial doctor, he slowly improved, and he could walk a few steps with crutches, and he could also speak a little, and beat the edge of the bed with his hand angrily: "The prince heard that he wants to set up a cabinet prime minister? ”
"Father."
"Nonsense! Do you know the serious consequences of this? ”
"Knowing that the Prince of Nanhai is extremely capable, if he wants to get involved in the imperial throne, he will set off a huge wave."
"Then why ......?" After all, the patient's tongue and lips were not well coordinated, and Emperor Yongchang couldn't go down for a while, and his saliva flowed out, and the eunuchs around him hurriedly helped wipe it clean.
"Father and Emperor think that Prince Nanhai will not dislike being the emperor."
"There's no one who doesn't like it!"
"The emperor, Prince Nanhai's personality is decided, and Lord Shen Mingxi taught the most gentleman to seize the palace, and the dead are indispensable and unbearable! The usurpation is not right, and the name is not good, and it is not a gentleman's behavior! When the emperor faces the princes, nobles, ministers, and military generals every day, which of these people is not loyal and filial piety in his mouth, and counts his private accounts in his heart? With the wisdom and wisdom of the Prince of the South China Sea, he knew that these were all false, and he had to be false and wronged with those people, just because the water was clear, there were no fish, that kind of pain was simply a kind of torture, so he disdained it. ”
Emperor Yongchang also experienced that feeling when he was young, and at this moment, when he heard his son come out, he also agreed with it in his heart, but when the emperor was high up and dominated everything, that feeling was too charming, and he didn't want to believe it, and Qian Jun would disdain it.
The crown prince seemed to understand what his father was thinking, and continued to argue: "If the prince of the South China Sea wanted to be the emperor, he would have done it a long time ago, and it would not be his turn to be angry back then. After all, if you fake your death, you can't defend against it at all, and if you don't have such an advantage, it will be difficult to make it clear to a prime minister, and all the cabinet ministers are opposed to making peace, and rebellion under such conditions is not like this, unless a fool is like this. ”
After Emperor Yongchang suffered a stroke, his brain was not as good as before, or it was not very easy to use before, and now it is even worse. The crown prince has too much information, and Emperor Yongchang has to think slowly to understand it little by little in order to know how to refute his son.
The prince was very patient, and beat his legs for the emperor, for a while, the Anle Palace was very quiet, and the sound of birdsong outside came in clearly - the eunuchs in the palace were responsible for chasing birds, and the sound came in from outside the palace, which was faintly very pleasant.
The emperor let out a long breath and warned his son: "Don't be careless! ”
The crown prince knelt down and saluted the emperor: "Obey the instructions of my father!" ”
"Don't have any prime ministers yet."
"Who doesn't want to come out of the way? The two will hold each other back. "It's a contradiction." "My father, Shen Mingyun, is old, and he has already submitted his resignation, and his son is still retaining, but the matter is already a foregone conclusion, once Qian Junzhen becomes the prime minister, he must avoid Wang Yingcheng, but he is a power fan, and he will definitely help his son prevent the prince of the South China Sea from seizing the throne."
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