The sky was gloomy, the light rain was dripping, the heart of the Ming Empire, the atmosphere in the Qianqing Palace in the imperial city of Beijing was gloomy to the extreme.

On the seventh day of the fifth month of the eighteenth year of Hongzhi, Emperor Hongzhi, who was suffering from illness, was as pale as paper, and his thin face was slightly tilted to look at the princes and ministers who knelt all over the palace.

On the side of the dragon couch, Empress Zhang wept and sobbed, she knew that as an emperor, she had always treated her consistently, and she was the only queen in her life, and the Son of Heaven had come to the end of her life, and maybe today was the period of great luck.

"Thick ......"

"Father." The crown prince Zhu Houzhao, who was kneeling in the front, heard his father's faint call, and hurriedly walked a few steps to the edge of the couch, grabbing the hand that was already full of skin and bones.

Emperor Hongzhi sighed and said in a vain voice: "My father is no longer good, and the world of the Ming Dynasty will be handed over to you, but you are stubborn by nature, and you should appoint virtuous ministers after succeeding to the throne...... In the future, we must listen to the advice of several old ministers and use people as a mirror to see the gains and losses. ”

Zhu Houzhao immediately cried when he heard this: "Father, the child is young, how can he take on this heavy responsibility, Father only needs to recuperate with peace of mind, and it won't take a while to be healthy."

Emperor Hongzhi smiled bitterly, and his eldest son Zhu Houzhao was born to jump out, like women, and dislike literature and martial arts......

In short, Zhu Houzhao is not a qualified prince, and he will definitely not be a qualified emperor in the future......

But Emperor Hongzhi didn't have a choice, this is not to say that he only has one son, Zhu Houzhao, he has two sons, the eldest son Zhu Houzhao, and the second son Yongwang Zhu Houwei, but Zhu Houwei is more unreliable than his brother......

Zhu Houwei likes craftsmanship, and since he was seven years old, he has been tinkering with a workshop outside the palace, recruiting dozens of blacksmiths and coppersmiths, and creating some messy and rare objects every day......

"Xixian, Binzhi, Yu Qiao."

Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian, the three cabinet ministers, hurriedly responded: "The ministers are here."

The three of them all had a crying voice, the emperor used to call them all Qing family, but now he calls the three people, obviously because he is terminally ill and wants to explain the future.

Emperor Hongzhi said: "You are all ministers of the Ming Dynasty, after the funeral, the new emperor will succeed to the throne, and you should do your best to assist you."

"Your Majesty respectfully obeys Your Majesty's command." Liu Jian's three ministers also knew that the emperor's big move was imminent, and they immediately fell to the ground and cried.

After a few moments, Emperor Hongji slowly closed his eyes with endless nostalgia for this world and worries about the future of the empire......

The ninth emperor of the Ming Empire, Hongzhi Emperor Zhu Youzhu funeral! The temple name is filial piety, and the name is "Jiantianming, Daocheng, Chunzhong, Zhengshengwen, Shenwu, Zhiren, Dade, and Emperor Jing".

Emperor Hongzhi was generous and benevolent, thrifty, not close to the public, diligent in political affairs, attached importance to justice, opened up his voice, expelled traitors, diligent in political affairs, and made great efforts, known as 'Hongzhi Zhongxing' in history.

Emperor Xiaozong was in great success, and the crown prince Zhu Houzhao was the emperor, and the yuan was changed to 'Zhengde'.

In October, Emperor Zhengde and his younger brother Yongwang Zhu Houwei supported the coffin for 100 miles and buried filial piety in Tailing.

A new era begins!

In the main hall of the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Hou, who was sitting crookedly on the dragon chair, looked at the ministers chattering like flies in the hall with resentment and helplessness.

When Emperor Xiaozong was in power, although he, as the crown prince, would also be overwhelmed by the ministers who taught him how to govern the country, but at that time he could hide, and if he couldn't hide, he could pretend to be sick......

But not now, he is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the master of this world, his words and deeds are a little out of line, and the idle ministers who have nothing to do will play and cry, as if he Zhu Houzhao As long as he does not listen to the advice, the Ming Empire will fall apart in the next moment, and the true feelings are revealed, which is even more sincere than the dead father.

You can't leave the palace, in case you meet a bad person, Your Majesty, you have no queen, what will the empire do? Report!

You can't ride a horse, in case you fall, Your Majesty, you have no queen, what will the empire do? Report!

You can't eat something that hasn't been tested, and if it's poisonous, you don't have a queen, what will the empire do? Report!

You can't row, you can't laugh, you can't ......

In short, Zhu Houzhao felt that he was a prisoner trapped in the Forbidden City, a mascot who wore a dragon robe and sat on the main hall!

Why a mascot? Because Your Majesty is young and inexperienced in governing the country, then the ministers will work a little harder and check for you......

Zhu Houzhao, who is in the rebellious period, can't bear it, as a rebellious teenager, naturally the more he doesn't let him do it, the more he has to do it, so Zhu Houzhao, who is the mascot, has been thinking about how to escape from the palace at this time, and let him fly from now on!

In addition, there is another thing that makes Zhu Houzhao's head big.

"Your Majesty, you have ascended the throne, according to the system, King Yong should leave Beijing to become a vassal, and the Ministry of Rites has already agreed on this matter......"

According to the Ming system, the prince needs to leave Beijing to go to the fief after the age of eighteen, of course, there are exceptions, such as the son of the Wanli Emperor in the later generations, Fuwang Zhu Changxun, because of his mother Zheng Guifei's favor, has been living in the capital until the age of almost 30 before becoming a vassal, which also led to the vigorous national capital dispute in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

Yongwang Zhu Houwei is only thirteen years old this year, and it stands to reason that it will not be too late to become a vassal in a few years, but after all, his brother is already the emperor, and letting him stay in the capital may give ambitions to those who are speculative, thus causing instability in the court.

The cabinet headed by Liu Jian was deeply entrusted by Emperor Xiaozong, and naturally did not want to see the slightest change in the throne of the Ming Dynasty, so after Emperor Xiaozong returned to the funeral, he repeatedly asked for King Yong to become a vassal.

"Accurate!" Zhu Houzhao, who was fed up, finally spit out a quasi-word.

Liu Jian and other important ministers were directly shocked......

In fact, the cabinet never thought that it would be able to let King Yong leave Beijing so quickly, you must know that Emperor Xiaozong is the first person in the world, but as an emperor, there is only one woman, Empress Zhang, which is simply a precedent in history.

And Empress Zhang gave birth to two sons and a daughter for Xiaozong, the eldest son Zhu Houzhao is now Emperor Zhengde, and the second son Zhu Houwei had a serious illness when he was one year old, and he almost failed to save him.

However, the two brothers Zhu Houzhao and Zhu Houwei have diametrically opposite natures, they are not righteous as brothers, their joy and anger are all written on their faces, and their younger brother Zhu Houwei is extremely dull, and he seems to be not a teenager at a young age.

In addition, Zhu Houzhao likes to walk eagles, but Zhu Houwei likes to ...... Iron ......

In short, none of the two brothers looked like the head of the man.

Liu Jian and other ministers reminded Zhu Houzhao, which means that you have ascended the throne, and it is not appropriate for King Yong to continue to stay in the capital, but they also know that there is Empress Dowager Zhang there, and it is almost impossible to let Zhu Houwei leave Beijing within five years, who would have thought that the emperor would agree......

What several old ministers didn't know was that this was actually what the Queen Mother meant, or acquiesced.

In order to prevent relatives from interfering in politics, the tradition of the royal family after the middle of the Ming Dynasty is to choose the crown princess from a small family for the prince, and when the prince ascends the throne, the princess from a poor family will not have an impact on the imperial power because of the power of the mother.