"Let Li Da and them go back to Beijing?"

As soon as he heard Shen Yichen say this, Zhao Hongjie's first reaction was unexpected, and then he became dignified.

After all, he has been promoted step by step from the secret intelligence agency to the position of commander, and his political sense and acumen cannot be much worse. It is absolutely impossible for Shen Yichen to make such a decision for no reason, it must be the celebration banquet in the palace today, which has triggered a certain sense of crisis.

"Transferring a large number of border generals such as Li Da back to Beijing, even if the rotation is used as a reason, it is still easy to attract attention, is it necessary to do so?

Zhao Hongjie didn't know why Shen Yichen had such a sense of crisis, at least in his opinion, the court was stable, the border pass was victorious, and everything was developing in a good direction.

Placing the entry into Beijing in all dynasties is an extremely sensitive matter, especially Shen Yichen himself is a man of the hour, countless pairs of eyes are staring at him, and the slightest carelessness will cause trouble.

"Hongjie, how much do you know about the strangeness of His Majesty's body?"

Shen Yichen didn't explain much, but instead asked another topic.

"I only know that Your Majesty has taken the pill and indulged excessively, and his physical condition is not as good as before, and I don't know how far it will go."

"You are the commander of the Son of Heaven's army, don't you know this?"

Shen Yichen subconsciously frowned, theoretically, the commander of the Jinyi Guard should be closely bound to the emperor, and even become the most trusted courtier. Zhao Hongjie sat in this position, but he didn't even know the specific situation of the emperor's body, if it wasn't for brotherhood, he could really use the word "incompetent" to describe it.

Facing Shen Yichen's questioning, Zhao Hongjie said with a aggrieved face: "I have only been a commander for more than a year, how can I know everything." In addition, His Majesty trusts the most is still the team of the Hidden Mansion of the King of Justice, at least for the time being in his heart, I am still an outsider. ”

"To the north, then again, Your Majesty has a shallow foundation, and only important eunuchs can be in power, giving people the feeling of following the old path of the first emperor, I am afraid it is not the blessing of the family and the country."

Zhao Hongjie's worry, Shen Yichen did not answer, in a sense, he could understand the motives of Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu.

Think about it, Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne at a young age, and in order to seize power with the civilian group for more than ten years, the emperor had to reuse Wang Zhen and a group of eunuchs to take power, so that he could be arbitrary in military affairs, and did not have to listen to the dictates of the courtiers.

Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu is a concubine, and the vassal king's side branch ascends the throne as the emperor, which is purely a leak, and there is nothing to want. In the Ming Dynasty, even the auxiliary ministers of the Prince's East Palace actually became an empty shelf, and in addition to the long history, only eunuchs and other eunuchs could be used.

Power is from the bottom up, and no one implements the decrees, so it's useless for you to be the emperor. This is why Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu will support the upstarts, and will find an old minister like He Wenyuan to return to the dynasty.

Because only these careerists and undesirable people will be bound to the interests of the new emperor and support and cooperate with the implementation of government decrees.

From the perspective of God in later generations, this emperor is stupid and stupid, and he doesn't even understand the most basic principles of taking history as a mirror.

In fact, there was an emperor in the Ming Dynasty who learned from it, he was also a vassal king who ascended the throne as the emperor and had no foundation of his own, let the woman go back to the harem, kill all the eunuchs of the troubled country, and prepare to do a great career ambitiously, this emperor is the famous Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen.

As a result, after some operation, he found that the situation seemed to be completely different from what he imagined, and the civil and military officials of the court were still perfunctory, and the government decree changed when it came out of the Forbidden City.

So during his reign, he changed 19 cabinet chiefs and assistants, 50 cabinet ministers, and killed seven military department secretaries, but it was still useless, and the final outcome was that Coal Mountain found a tree with a crooked neck and hanged himself.

In many cases, it is not that the emperor does not know the consequences, and the reason why they still do it is either that they have no choice but to reuse eunuchs to take power, or they are confident that they can control everything and are not afraid of messing things up and overturning.

Those who are really stupid and unaware are the minority.

"To the north?"

Seeing that Shen Yichen didn't reply for a long time after he finished speaking, Zhao Hongjie called softly.

Shen Yichen, who came back to his senses, continued to speak: "It's nothing, the Han general of the Jinyi Guard in the palace, if there is a reliable henchman to deploy, you let them pay more attention to the situation of Your Majesty and the prince Zhu Jianshen." ”

"Xiangbei, are you so worried about Your Majesty's body, do you think there will be a big change in the palace?"

Hearing this, Zhao Hongjie finally realized what Shen Yichen's sense of crisis was, and the expression on his face became more and more serious.

"I don't know, I can only say that prevention is better than prevention."

Shen Yichen was also thinking very chaotic at the moment, things happened too suddenly, and there were too many changes to deal with at one time. Now that there is no God's perspective to see the direction of history clearly, he is just an ordinary person after all, not an omniscient god.

"In that case, transfer Li Da and them to Beijing, and don't use the authority of your military department. After returning home, I asked my grandfather for help, and in the name of changing the defense of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, let my grandfather negotiate with Yu Shaobao, and you should try not to participate in the whole process. ”

After the Tumubao Incident, the Ministry of War had in fact usurped the power of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, but after all, the time was still short, and many treaties had not yet formed a law.

"Okay, I got it."

Shen Yichen nodded, and then squeezed out a smile on his face, trying to ease the slightly tense atmosphere.

Maybe I'm too cautious, and maybe nothing happens in the end.

"Then you can go back to the house first, and next time you have time, you have to have a good drink."

"It's a deal."

After saying this, Shen Yichen waved his hand and got into the carriage back to the house, and at the same time, in the imperial study in the palace, Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu sat alone in the room, his eyes closed and he didn't know what he was thinking.

But soon there was the sound of footsteps in the house, and the master of ceremonies, Yin Xing'an, walked in with a tray in his hand, and said softly: "Long live the lord, it's time to take the pill." ”

Hearing Xing'an's voice, Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu opened his eyes and looked at the few dark red pills in the tray, but the corner of his eyes seemed to inadvertently catch a glimpse of the handkerchief placed in the drawer, and the color of the blood stains on it after drying up was so similar to the pill.

"Xing'an, do you say that this elixir is useless, my body seems to be getting worse day by day."

"Your Majesty, this elixir is refined by the alchemists collecting the elixir of heaven and earth, and it has the effect of prolonging life, so it must be useful."

"As for the slight health condition, it may be that His Majesty has been working too hard recently, and his mind is a little tired. Now that the north is stable, the good news in the south is frequent, and the old Shen Pavilion has returned to the court, His Majesty can relax and cultivate for a while. ”

Xing'an said as he put the pill in his hand on the imperial eucalyptus, and then walked behind Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu and helped him gently hammer his shoulder.

In a simple conversation, you can see the difference between Cheng Jing and Xing'an, one is like a strategist who will help Zhu Qiyu solve problems, and the other is more to please and comfort.

In fact, seriously speaking, Xing'an is not the old man of Zhu Qiyu's palace back then, he entered the ceremonial supervisor as early as the first year of orthodoxy, and was favored by Zhu Qizhen of Ming Yingzong for more than ten years.

The reason is that after the change in history, Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen wantonly liquidated the old ministers of the Jingtai Dynasty, such as Wang Cheng, Shu Liang, Zhang Yong and other eunuchs were all killed.

So much so that after his death, Zhu Qizhen also carried out a tower funeral for him in accordance with Xing'an's last wishes, arranged for the nobles to attend the funeral, and also found someone to write an epitaph of great praise.

After the restoration, Zhu Qizhen is not a generous person, and it is not an exaggeration to say that his psychology is pathologically distorted, but he just let go of Xing'an, who took refuge in Zhu Qiyu and was still the first among the internal officials, logically unreasonable.

Of course, what the truth is, as time passes, will always be a mystery.

However, now Zhu Qiyu will trust Xing'an, and after the Tumubao Change, he strongly supported Yu Qian to oppose the southward move, which can be regarded as laying the foundation for the subsequent new emperor to ascend the throne. In addition, in the Empress Dowager Sun, she hesitated whether to order Zhu Zhandong, the king of Xiang, to enter Beijing, or let Zhu Qiyu, the king of Yu, inherit the critical period of the unification.

Xing'an used the word "mother-in-law" as a metaphor for the Empress Dowager Sun, which made her finally make up her mind.

This is similar to the Wu Zetian period of the Tang Dynasty, whether to let the descendants of the Li family succeed to the throne, or let the Wu family's sons and nephews continue the Great Zhou regime. Di Renjie's simple sentence "Liwu, I have not often heard that the emperor's soul for his aunt is located in the Taimiao", and the answer was naturally about to come out.

King Xiang ascended the throne as the emperor, Sun can only be an imperial sister-in-law, King Yu ascended the throne as the emperor, and Sun is the queen mother of the main palace, and it is self-evident which is higher and lower in status and power.

It can be said that Xing'an's metaphor has cast the "original shares" for him in Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu, but the key point for reuse is still on Yichu.

According to the etiquette law, Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen is the king, and Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu is the minister, even if the other party initiates a change to seize the door, it is still impossible to declare the world to define it as a rebellion, and death can only be carried out secretly, and on the surface, it is a violent death and death.

In the past three years, Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu has promoted upstart ministers in the imperial court step by step, and even skipped the restrictions brought by the court push, and did not hesitate to make a riotous operation of eunuchs to help introduce the cabinet, creating the famous "confluence of the eunuch cabinet" in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

It was also on this beginning that later generations relied on this beginning to emerge the more famous "Cabinet Cooperation" system.

But even so, the power of the conservative civilian clique in the DPRK and China still hinders the implementation of the easy-to-save plan. Whenever Zhu Qiyu knocked on Yi Chu's idea in the court discussion, Yu Qian, Wang Zhi, Hu Hu and other important ministers of the six ministries and nine secretaries were silent and passive confrontation.

Even the cabinet chief assistant Chen Xun and other henchmen who showed favor and wooed were pretending to be deaf and dumb at critical moments, and did not dare to break the inheritance of etiquette and law at the risk of the world's condemnation.

This is why, in history, Emperor Jingtai was a Yi Chu, who planned for five years, and made a joke of bribing the ministers of the court to succeed, many things are not as simple as imagining a prince, and it will seriously shake the country!

However, Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu is also in the camp step by step, relying on the eunuchs to invoke the cabinet ministers, the current cabinet Wang Yining, Xiao Rong is the absolute confidant, the loyal prince Shi Heng is in charge, the six ministers of the Ministry of Shangshu He Wenyuan, the Ministry of Officials Lang Jiang Yuan, and the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Shi Pu have taken the position.

In particular, the officials control the promotion and personnel power of the imperial court, as long as a steady stream of officials loyal to them are arranged, Zhu Qiyu will eventually control the court in time.

The effect of the change in the power of officials is evident in the recent court meetings, and there is no need for Zhu Qiyu to make various gestures by himself, and the upstart ministers began to take the initiative to mention the matter of Yichu in order to show their loyalty.

In particular, He Wenyuan's sentence "The father has the son of the world", as well as the words of the evaluation of the prince Zhu Jianji's "eldest son in Lunxian", simply spoke to the heart of Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu.

I have to say that the literati are still powerful, and the eunuchs can't compare to the scriptures and classics, and the words "preface is in Lun first" helped Zhu Jianji recover the biggest disadvantage of the legal system.

When both brothers are concubines and promoted to concubines, they should be established as heirs according to the legal inheritance, Zhu Jianji is one year older than Zhu Jianshen, and he is the eldest grandson of Ming Xuanzong, so he can be used as the basis for Yi Chu's legal system!

With the support of the legal system, someone has to sing white-faced and red-faced in the court, so as to better handle the opposing civil official group, and Xing'an is the key figure who sings white-faced.

In the last two court meetings, in the face of the passive resistance of the civil official group, Xing'an did not hesitate to roar at the court, angrily reprimanding the ministers: "This matter is a last resort, and those who refuse do not need to be named, why hesitate?" ”

If it weren't for the fact that Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu realized that his body could not support it, and his mentality and actions were a little too hasty, in fact, he would not have made Cao Jixiang, Shi Heng and others bigger for the sake of Yi Chu, and finally the tail would not have been able to become a problem.

"I don't have time to cultivate, and the matter of easy storage is undecided, and there will be hidden dangers after all."

"This time Shen Yichen returned to Beijing, I plan to use him to attract the attention of the princes and princes of the clan, so that these princes will not have the time to unite against Yi Chu, so that they only need to deal with the six departments and nine kings of the imperial court, and the dust should be settled."

After saying this, Zhu Qiyu took a deep breath, no one dared to hit the southern wall of the clan prince and vassal king before Shen Yichen returned to the dynasty, and only this son had the courage and courage to take the clan to open the knife.

cut off the possibility of him supporting the emperor's brother and sister-in-law, as well as the possibility of welcoming the foreign domain, even if he has three longs and two shortcomings in the future, Shen Yichen can also become the minister of Tuogu, and the emperor's son Zhu Jianji is stable and peaceful!

It can be said that Zhu Qiyu's various checks and balances on Shen Yichen are not to deprive him of his power, but on the contrary, to give him more power, so as not to become a powerful minister and raise tigers. Who is a flatterer, who is really for the country and the people, how can the emperor not know it at all?

But the paradox is that the more capable the courtiers, the greater the threat to the imperial power. How to make good use of this kind of capable minister to govern the world and prevent him from becoming a hero in troubled times is the standard that a qualified emperor needs to meet.

Zhu Qiyu is also carefully controlling the line many times.