Zhu Ji's "suicide in fear of crime" did not cause much turmoil in the imperial court, because even if someone noticed the abnormality, they would not investigate the truth for a person who collaborated with the enemy and treasoned.

At the same time, considering that Zhu Ji has died, plus Yang Jun, the son of Yang Hong, Marquis of Changping, also has the stain of abandoning the city and fleeing, resulting in the defeat of Tumubao. In order not to let himself be so double standard for the punishment of new and old relatives, Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu did not continue to investigate the responsibility of the Chengguo Mansion.

However, the eldest son Zhu Yi's goal of attacking the lord has become distant again.

On the other hand, after half a month, sometimes in a coma, sometimes sober, Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, finally survived this ghost gate by virtue of his perennial martial arts skills. It's just that the whole person has lost the appearance of the dragon spirit and tiger in the past, which is no different from the ordinary drooping and decrepit.

The twilight of the hero, the double blow of injuries and family affairs, he can no longer support the signboard of the Chengguo Mansion.

Regarding Zhu Ji's "suicide", Shen Yichen did not talk to Zhu Yong afterwards, let alone comfort him.

He knew that a veteran didn't need those words to reassure, and he wasn't vulnerable enough to accept it. Time will erase a lot of things, at most, when Zhu Yong is old, recalling his ups and downs in his life, that memory of Lin and Zhu Ji may emerge.

Today's Shen Yichen has unconsciously understood a lot of Zhu Yong's actions and state of mind, when you stand in that position, you have to bear the burden and responsibility given by the high position, and you are not qualified to rectify the sentimentality of "crying and crying".

On the twenty-seventh day of the first month of the first year of Jingtai, Zhu Qizhen, the emperor of Ming Yingzong, who had returned from the northern hunt for half a year, finally appeared outside the Jingshi Anding Gate.

Along the way, Zhu Qizhen did not enjoy any honors of the emperor, neither the people greeted him along the road, nor the officials to worship him. It wasn't until he came to Andingmen that Hou Liupu of Anyuan led the soldiers and horses of the Jingshi Shenji Battalion to pick up the car, which gave him a bit of imperial prestige.

It's just that there will be such a driving scene, it's not that Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu is soft-hearted and wants to honor his imperial brother, but that after Empress Dowager Sun received the news of Zhu Qizhen's assassination outside the Guan, she resolutely controlled the government again!

After all, for Empress Dowager Sun, she can compromise and return the imperial throne to Zhu Qiyu, but her son Zhu Qizhen belongs to the untouchable reverse scale. After the assassination of Guanwai, the most suspicious target of the meaningless point is the current emperor, and he is the only one who profits.

Since Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu violated his promise to let Emperor Taishang return to Beijing safely, Empress Dowager Sun must show her deterrent power to the throne, otherwise with the cruelty of the struggle for imperial power, Zhu Qizhen will not live long after returning to Beijing.

Liupu, the Marquis of Anyuan, who was transferred back to Beijing from the position of general of Guangxi Zhengman, was the core of Empress Dowager Sun in the court, and her niece was Liupu's eldest daughter-in-law, and the two sides formed an in-law relationship as early as the eleventh year of orthodoxy.

However, simply transferring Anyuan Marquis Liupu back to Beijing is not enough to save the life of Emperor Taishang, after all, the soldiers and horses controlled by Liupu are basically far away in Guangxi, and it is useless for Jingshi to rely on the name of a marquis.

So Empress Dowager Sun and Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu once again showed what politics is an art of compromise, and used the bargaining chips of Marquis An Yuan's control of the Jingshi Shenji Camp in exchange for agreeing to seal Zhu Qiyu's biological mother Concubine Wu Xian as the queen mother, and since then the Ming Dynasty has opened the history of the two palaces for the first time!

Empress Dowager Sun was a jealous person, and she relied on palace fighting methods to force Ming Xuanzong Yuan to match Empress Hu's abdication, so she knew how much she cared about and attached importance to the throne.

Now, for the safety of the emperor's son Zhu Qizhen, let the Ming Dynasty give birth to the queen mother of the two palaces, and only by taking out this bargaining chip can Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu be forced to exchange the military power of the Jingtai Division.

Of course, Zhu Qiyu was not stupid enough to self-destruct the Great Wall, and under the reform of Yu Qian, the soldiers and horses of the Beijing division implemented a dual-track parallel system.

That is to say, the 10th Battalion Regiment temporarily formed during the Beijing Division Guard War was not abolished but restructured and fixed after the war, but nominally, the soldiers of the 10th Battalion Regiment still belonged to the three major battalions of the Beijing Division.

The three major battalions of the Jingtai Dynasty, the upstart Wu Qing Hou Shi Heng controlled the five army camps, the Changping Hou Yang Hong controlled the three thousand battalions, and finally the Shenji Battalion with the smallest number of people controlled by Anyuan Hou Liupu, and they were all controlled by Yu Qian, the secretary of the military department.

In this way, even if he knew that Empress Dowager Sun asked Liupu to take charge of the troops in order to escort Emperor Zhu Qizhen, Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu still did not worry that the other party would set off a storm.

After all, he didn't plan to kill his brother immediately, so there was a scene of civil strife in which the fish died and the net was broken. Reaching an exchange compromise with the Empress Dowager Sun, on the one hand, can give her biological mother the honorific title, and on the other hand, it can temporarily appease the forces of the imperial brother's lineage and avoid the empress dowager's panic and dangerous moves.

In the future, when the situation is completely controlled, find an excuse to transfer Anyuan Hou Liupu back to Guangxi.

Governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh, I have to say that Zhu Qiyu has more and more of an emperor's calmness and means, and many times it is more reasonable to retreat as advance.

From the perspective of the layout of the strategy, Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu did not take any wrong steps, but the destiny of heaven did not lie with him in history, and he looked at the wrong person. He trusted Wuqing Hou Shiheng, and Yang Hong's nephew Yang Neng, who later took over Liupu to control the Shenji Battalion, did not remain loyal at the time of the Nangong coup.

"Chen'an Yuanhou Liupu, meet the emperor!"

After seeing Zhu Qizhen's royal appearance, under the leadership of Anyuan Marquis Liupu, the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion knelt down and bowed.

Faced with such a scene of everyone bowing down, Zhu Qizhen had an indescribable complex emotion in his heart, as if this familiar scene was something he had experienced in his previous life. After all, in the Tile Thorn camp, no matter how respectful the Taishi was to Boyan Timur first, it was impossible to really treat the captives as kings.

Not to mention the respectful courtesy of courtiers like now!

"Marquis Anyuan, you have a heart......"

Zhu Qizhen jumped directly from the carriage and personally helped up the Marquis of Anyuan, Liupu, who was kneeling on the ground, and even had a hint of choking in his tone.

Feeling the changes and grievances of the Emperor, Liu Pu also replied with mixed feelings: "The ministers were ordered by His Majesty and the Queen Mother to welcome the Emperor back to the palace, and the suffering of the Northern Hunt is a thing of the past." ”

"Is the queen mother still healthy?"

Zhu Qizhen's keen gap to Liupu had something to say, and he took the opportunity to greet the Empress Dowager Sun.

"The Queen Mother's holy body is healthy, and she is always looking forward to the emperor's return to Beijing in the palace, let's enter the palace as soon as possible."

"Okay."

Zhu Qizhen nodded, and when he learned that the queen mother was fine, he let go of his hanging heart, and at this moment, in front of everyone's eyes, he couldn't ask Liupu too much.

After returning to the carriage and continuing to walk towards the Forbidden City, Zhu Qizhen quietly lifted the curtain of the carriage after entering the city gate, wanting to see if there was a scene of the people kneeling to welcome him, and feel the desire of the people of Beijing.

It's just that this look, except for the soldiers guarding on both sides of the official road, there is no figure of any people in Beijing. If you look carefully into the distance, you can find that there are people in twos and threes, looking at Zhu Qizhen's imperial drive with an indifferent expression.

There is the factor that Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu ordered in advance not to allow the people of Beijing to welcome him, as well as in the hearts of the simple people and soldiers, there is an indescribable hatred for this former Ming Emperor!

It was he who favored the eunuchs, listened to the rumors, and led the 250,000 troops to the expedition in a hurry, and less than 100,000 people could return alive in the end. Counting the bloody battles of the defense of the Beijing Division, for a long time, the Beijing Division was full of vegetarian and widows in half of the city!

Their children, husbands, and fathers have been killed because of the emperor's mistakes, and they have not even been able to recover their bones for half a year.

If there is anyone in this world who is most unworthy of returning to Beijing alive, it is Zhu Qizhen of Ming Yingzong!

In the Dong'an Gate of Bauhinia City, Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu stood in the heavy snow, and behind him were the civil and military officials of the imperial court, waiting for Zhu Qizhen's imperial driver to enter the palace.

Zhu Qiyu has imagined countless times the scene of Zhu Qizhen returning from Saibei to see each other, but when this day really comes, many memories of the brothers getting along with each other flashed in his mind like a slideshow.

After this day, there may no longer be the family affection between the two, and only the one who is called a lonely widow remains.

Shen Yichen, who was standing in the civil service team behind Zhu Qiyu, looked at the long official road outside the palace gate, and his mood was also a little complicated. In addition to the feelings of "love and hatred" for Emperor Zhu Qizhen, he also has too many "conspiracy and rebellion" actions behind his back, which are not tolerated by the etiquette of this world.

Although Zhu Qizhen is no longer the emperor, he still has the title of the monarch's father, if the abandonment in the tile spur camp, the assassination outside the gate and other incidents are exposed, it will be a great trouble for Shen Yichen, and even cause death.

However, Shen Yichen is only a person and not a god after all, he has already used all the means within his ability, even the act of killing the king.

It is up to people to make things happen, and what the next situation will look like can only be taken one step at a time.

Just when Shen Yichen was stunned, a large number of people and horses appeared in the distance of the official road, and the imperial car of Emperor Zhu Qizhen finally appeared in everyone's sight.

Looking at the carriage from far and near, Shen Yichen keenly found that Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu subconsciously clenched his fists, showing the nervousness in his heart. Although he has now become the son of the Great Tomorrow, his status as the king of the Emperor for more than 20 years makes him still at a psychological disadvantage when facing Zhu Qizhen, the emperor's brother.

Not to mention Zhu Qiyu, many old ministers in the court greeted him, with a nervous and excited look on their faces, this is the Ming Emperor who has been loyal to him for more than ten years!

The royal carriage finally stopped in front of Dong'an Gate, and as the curtain opened, Zhu Qizhen's face appeared in everyone's field of vision. Compared with the period of the imperial expedition, with a kind of youthful vitality, the current Emperor Taishang has a thick beard on his face, and his complexion is much darker, and he has a faint atmosphere of grassland people.

Soon Jin Ying, the eunuch who held the seal of the celebrant eunuch, stepped forward and helped Zhu Qizhen get down from the carriage, this veteran eunuch who had gone through five dynasties, looked at the emperor who returned from Mobei, and his eyes were instantly filled with tears.

Who would have thought that the high-spirited son of heaven would become like this now?

"Meet the Emperor!"

When Zhu Qizhen stepped out of the carriage, the civil and military officials standing in Dong'an Gate knelt down one after another, and bowed five times and bowed three times to the Emperor Taishang.

At the same time, Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu and Emperor Zhu Qizhen bowed to each other!

This set of etiquette procedures for greetings was finally decided by the Cabinet Etiquette Department after intense discussions after the Zhengdan Meeting.

Because according to the rules of etiquette, the new monarch accepted the emperor's Zen position, and the legal system was inherited from Zhu Qizhen of Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, and he wanted to perform courtier etiquette like civil and military officials.

But the problem is that Zhu Qizhen, the emperor, is not a father-son relationship after all, and Zhu Qiyu almost explicitly hinted that he would not perform courtiers in front of hundreds of officials, this kind of behavior will undoubtedly reduce his imperial prestige, and even further threaten the stability of the throne.

On the other hand, asking the Emperor to salute the new monarch is even more of a violation of the etiquette law, and it is impossible for the two of them to just stand in front of each other. So after discussion, a set of compromise plans was chosen, that is, Zhu Qiyu and Zhu Qizhen worshipped each other, regardless of their superiority and inferiority.

After the civil and military officials saluted and the two emperors bowed, Zhu Qiyu first stepped forward to greet him, hugged Zhu Qizhen and said emotionally: "The imperial brother is finally back, I have been waiting for this moment for a long time, and the queen mother and the imperial sister-in-law have also been looking forward to it for a long time, just come back." ”

After finishing speaking, Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu stayed with tears in his eyes, and couldn't help crying.

There is an element of acting in front of civil and military officials, but it is more about the true feelings in the heart. After all, standing in front of him is his brother who grew up with him, even if he has not left Beijing to become a vassal even when he is an adult, and after the experience of being captured and taken away, he can return to Beijing alive, in a sense, it is a big disaster.

Zhu Qizhen has the nostalgia for the imperial power in his heart, and the resentment against Zhu Qiyu's harsh treatment, but in the face of the brother who cried bitterly, he can't be hard-hearted, all kinds of complex emotions hit his heart, and tears can't stop flowing: "Ancestors and ancestors bless, I can still come back to see the emperor's brother, see the queen mother, this life is enough!" ”

The two brothers hugged each other and cried bitterly, so that many of the old ministers present couldn't help but cry, after all, in the public and private, in the country and at home, the two emperors can remember the brotherhood, and the smooth transfer of power in the Ming Dynasty is always a great joy.

After confiding in each other for a long time, the eunuch of Shang Bao's palm seal held a jade plate, on which was placed a seal wrapped in yellow cloth, which was the famous jade seal of the country!

"I am only the post of supervising the country, temporarily taking the position of the unification, since the imperial brother has returned from Mobei, he will be restored immediately and will reign in the world!"

As early as the moment when Guan Datong Town was called, Zhu Qizhen gave Zhu Qiyu a Zen edict, which determined the justice of Emperor Jingtai's registration from the legal system.

However, if you want to completely comply with procedural justice, it is not enough to rely on a Zen edict, you have to make three resignations and three concessions in front of the civil and military officials, and then hand over the jade seal of the country to Zhu Qiyu, the Jingtai Emperor, and finally jointly sacrifice to the temple and notify the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, so as to complete the entire Zen concession process.

According to the rules, in the face of the resignation of Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu, Emperor Zhu Qizhen should not hesitate to let him go back, so as to complete the official transfer of the entire imperial power.

But at this moment, Zhu Qizhen looked at the "Jinbao" placed in front of him, stood in place without any movement, and did not say those Zen words, which instantly plunged the scene into a strange atmosphere.

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