"The great uncle has become a country, and the minister is willing to second."

As Hu Hu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, stood up to express his position, Yu Shiyue, the secretary of the Criminal Department, Shi Pu, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Yang Hongze, Wang Yining, the ministers of the cabinet, the imperial envoys, the general political envoys, and the Dali Siqing followed one after another, and for a time there was a scene of all the members of the Cabinet Department opposing the court discussion.

Looking at this incredible scene, Shi Heng's whole person stood in place as if he had lost his soul, he couldn't understand why the situation was going this way!

Not to mention Shi Heng's confusion, even Cao Jixiang, who was standing on the imperial platform, did not expect that even the plan of a civil official group to suppress Shen Yichen would be so defeated.

However, Cao Jixiang's heart quickly changed from shock to a kind of determination, since Shi Heng was useless, then he had to implement another plan in the future.

Realizing that the general trend had gone, Cao Jixiang turned around and pretended to be Ming Liang Emperor Zhu Jianqing and said: "Long live the Lord, the Cabinet and the Nine Secretaries are all against the court discussion, and it seems that there are doubts about Shen Yuanfu's impeachment. Today is the day of great joy of the Zhengdan Dynasty, and the imperial court cannot wronged any of the important ministers of the auxiliary state, or this matter will be put on hold for the time being? ”

"Well, Cao Banban."

Emperor Zhu Jianqing of the Ming Liang Dynasty was too old to understand the political struggle in the court, and he only knew to follow the advice of Cao Banban, who was most trusted.

"The slave obeys."

For Emperor Zhu Jianqing of the Ming Liang Dynasty, this performance can be called "obeying words", which made Cao Jixiang feel very satisfied, and by the way, he dispelled Shi Heng's frustration at being placed by the civil official group.

After getting up, Cao Jixiang once again faced the hundred officials inside and outside the Fengtian Palace, and shouted in a sharp voice: "Your Majesty's decree that the impeachment of Shen Yuanfu will be carried out to the end, and then the big banquet will be carried out normally!" ”

"Your Majesty is wise."

The mighty civil and military officials shouted in unison, for the vast majority of officials, the court battle is like this, it comes and goes quickly, there is no need to fight to the death.

The singing and dancing of the previous dynasty continued, and the speed of the harem wife "Chaohe Ceremony" was relatively faster.

There was no link to push the cup and change the lamp, and after the simple pilgrimage and banquet were over, the women saluted the Empress Dowager Sun and the Empress Dowager Hang. Chen Qingtong sat in the seat without any movement, and it was not until the crowd dispersed that a palace maid leaned over and announced: "Shen Yu, the Queen Mother wants you to go to Kunning Palace to summon you." ”

"The courtiers obey the order, please lead the way."

Chen Qingtong nodded politely and got up, then followed behind the palace maid and paced to Kunning Palace.

At this time, the Empress Dowager Hang in Kunning Palace was sitting precariously, looking at Chen Qingtong walking step by step outside the house, and bowed to herself. In fact, the Empress Dowager Hang's character is not a strong person, in history, after the early death of the emperor's son Zhu Jianji, she couldn't bear the blow and soon died of illness.

It's just that the situation is different now, Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu succeeded his youngest son Zhu Jianqing, for the Empress Dowager Hang, whether he is his own son or not, as the middle palace of the mother's world, he has to shoulder the responsibility of stabilizing the situation.

And even if there is an inexplicable fear of Shen Yichen in her heart, Empress Dowager Hang can't show it in front of Chen Qingtong, and the serious expression of sitting upright is the best inner cover-up.

"The courtiers visit the Queen Mother."

Chen Qingtong bowed, looked at the corner of his eye, and made sure that there was no figure of the Empress Dowager Sun, and the meeting place was also transferred from Cining Palace to Kunning Palace.

It seems that after several failed seizures of power, the Empress Dowager has completely recognized the situation and is no longer obsessed with listening to the government to check and balance the ministers of the DPRK and China. Even this private summons was handed over to the Empress Dowager Hang herself.

"Shen Xuan, this palace is not good at the twists and turns of the court, I believe that your request to see this time is not as simple as making tea, if you have any words, just say it."

Empress Dowager Hang really does not have any experience in "officialdom", and even the time to canonize the queen mother of the world is only a few months. She couldn't play through the hypocrisy and grievances of officialdom, so she simply asked Chen Qingtong straight to the point for the purpose of seeking.

"The queen mother ordered, and the courtiers obeyed the order."

"The courtier's request to see the Queen Mother this time is actually for the sake of her husband."

Even if Chen Qingtong didn't say it, Empress Dowager Hang knew that the other party must have come for Shen Yichen, so she nodded and asked, "Then what happened to Shen Yuanfu?" ”

"Back to the Queen Mother, the husband hopes to be able to serve as His Majesty's teacher, and when he is a little older, he will lecture on the scriptures and extend, complete the legacy of the first emperor, and devote himself to teaching His Majesty the way of the king."

Emperor?

Hearing Chen Qingtong's request, Empress Dowager Hang was stunned, and she didn't know what to do for a while.

Now the emperor is over three years old, barely enough to be able to learn, but the emperor's teacher is not comparable to the teacher in the countryside. With the title of this emperor, it is equivalent to having the dignity of a teacher, and even the emperor can treat him with courtesy.

The problem is that now Shen Yichen has leaned towards the government and the opposition, and he once did the act of killing the king and punishing the king, and Cao Jixiang, the master of ceremonies, almost made it clear that this person has the possibility of becoming a thief of the country.

If you don't cut power, it's just that, and let him become the emperor, will the Ming Dynasty still belong to the emperor in the future?

"Shen Yu, the matter of choosing the emperor and the teacher is not trivial, the palace has not seriously considered it, it is better to wait for the ministers of the court to discuss before making a decision."

Empress Dowager Hang does not have a superb political IQ, she only knows that now Shen Yichen is powerful, and even herself, the Empress Dowager, is jealous, and she must not continue to delegate power and let her become bigger.

But Empress Dowager Hang couldn't imagine that even if she didn't have the title of emperor, wouldn't Shen Yichen be able to continue to grow bigger?

On the contrary, the title of emperor is not only an authorization, but also a moral shackle. The emperor has to respect his teacher, and Shen Yichen, as the commander of the division, has to protect the interests of the royal family as much as possible, and maintain the power of Zhu Jianqing, the emperor of Mingliang.

The Empress Dowager Hang may have forgotten an extremely important thing, that is, she is qualified to inherit the throne, but not only Emperor Zhu Jianqing of Mingliang, but also Zhu Jianshen, the king of Yi who is higher in line!

On the other hand, there are not only "powerful ministers" Shen Yichen in the court, but also Shi Heng, who wants to support foreign vassals, and the civil official group who is biased towards Zhu Jianshen, the king of Yi.

The status of the emperor is a political compromise that benefits both sides, and if it is replaced by a clear refusal of the dialogue between the previous dynasties, it is almost equivalent to tearing the face and failing to negotiate, and forcibly pushing Shen Yichen to the opposite side of the emperor.

To be honest, even Chen Qingtong didn't expect that Empress Dowager Hang would refuse so neatly.

You must know that in the first year of Jingtai, Chen Qingtong entered the palace to participate in the "Morning Ceremony", even if the Empress Dowager Sun at that time had made herself sad and had a huge gap with her husband, she still took the initiative to throw an olive branch and wanted her husband to serve as the prince of Zhu Jianshen, the king of Yi.

In the follow-up period of Emperor Bintian, Queen Wang at that time led Queen Qian, abandoned all dignity and knelt down to beg her husband again.

Politics is an art of compromise, Chen Qingtong mentioned that letting Shen Yichen serve as the emperor's teacher was actually to provide Emperor Mingliang with the support and assistance of the previous dynasty, but the other party did not realize the benefits at all.

is also the queen of the deep palace mother, is the gap so big?

"Queen Mother, the courtiers know that the outside world has a lot of rumors about her husband, I just hope you don't listen to the villain's slander, the first emperor's vision will not be wrong."

is also a woman, and Shen Yichen tried not to bring the affairs of the court home as much as possible, but Chen Qingtong still knew her husband's situation and the current situation of the court's "three parts of the world".

Compared with Cao Jixiang's unique advantage of being an internal official, Chen Qingtong had no choice but to move out Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu. Remind the Empress Dowager Hang not to forget that it was her husband Shen Yichen who single-handedly pushed Emperor Mingliang to the throne, if he really wants to be a thief, why should he be willing to go far?

The prince who served as Zhu Jianshen, the king of Yi, was able to change his name to control the government and the opposition!

In addition, only by becoming the emperor's teacher, the husband can justifiably contact the emperor more in the future, counteracting Cao Jixiang's influence on the young emperor Zhu Jianqing. Chen Qingtong must persuade Empress Dowager Hang that she doesn't want to be forced by Shen Yichen's situation in the future to do something that is forced to do something.

Sure enough, when Chen Qingtong mentioned the name of the first emperor, Empress Dowager Hang showed a hesitant look on her face.

She knew very well that during the serious illness of Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu, it was Shen Yichen who single-handedly handled the succession canonization. It can even be said that if it were not for Shen Yichen's support, it would not be possible for Emperor Zhu Jianqing of Mingliang to sit on the throne today.

But the problem is that Empress Dowager Hang is in the harem, and she can understand Shen Yichen's channels, only the eunuchs and palace maids around her. Cao Jixiang is intentionally manipulating, and he can completely make Shen Yichen into a heinous image.

Even if the Empress Dowager Hang knew that Shen Yichen had the merit of supporting it, for the sake of the emperor's country and society, and the ancestral foundation of the Ming Dynasty, she had to rely on Cao Jixiang to check and balance. This is that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty has always relied on eunuchs, and the logic of the civil and official groups in the previous dynasty is the same, and there is only one choice.

"Shen Xuan, this palace ......"

Just when Empress Dowager Hang was about to refuse again, a rickety figure appeared in Kunning Palace.

"Sister Qian, why are you here?"

Empress Dowager Hang shouted unexpectedly, the person who came was none other than Zhu Qizhen's Yuan match of Ming Yingzong, the Holy Empress Dowager Qian.

Today's Qian is completely blind in one eye, and she has been kneeling for a long time to pray for Zhu Qizhen during the Nangong period, which has caused her to have serious problems with her knees, and she walks like a lame.

During the reign of Empress Wang of Jingtai Dynasty, she took great care of the Holy Empress, and the two were commensurate with each other, and even lived together in Kunning Palace for a time. With the abolition of the Yichu incident, the queen of the Muyi world became the Hang family, and Queen Wang and the holy queen moved to a side hall next to Kunning Palace.

Later, Emperor Zhu Jianqing of the Ming Dynasty ascended the throne, and Queen Wang led her two daughters to return to the original palace of King Yu, and only Queen Qian was left in the palace.

Originally, before Zhu Jianshen was abolished, Queen Qian had the identity of a mother-in-law, and she still had some hope for her future life. With Zhu Jianshen being deposed from the crown prince to the king of Yi and moving out of the palace to live in the palace of King Yi, Queen Qian, the mother who is not related by blood, is far inferior to her biological mother, Concubine Zhou.

Family affection can't be forced, and Queen Qian has no last spiritual sustenance, so she lives alone in the palace. Fortunately, in addition to having no political IQ, the Empress Dowager Hang is essentially a good woman, and she can empathize with Queen Qian's childlessness, and she takes care of her every day.

It's just that Queen Qian knows that she has a special identity, and she never takes the initiative to step into the gate of Kunning Palace without being summoned on weekdays, but she didn't expect to appear here today.

"The Empress Dowager informed Shen that the order was here, so I came over to take a look."

Compared with the abolition of Empress Wang, Empress Qian actually always has the title of the Holy Empress Dowager, and her status is theoretically higher than that of the Empress Dowager Hang.

But theory is only theory after all, in fact, Empress Dowager Hang is the one in charge of the Six Palaces, and Empress Qian can't even compare to an ordinary concubine of the first emperor.

"Does the queen mother have something to explain?"

Empress Dowager Hang's face was full of doubts, and the Empress Dowager herself did not come forward to let Empress Qian come to Kunning Palace to do what she wanted to do.

Facing Empress Dowager Hang's inquiry, Empress Qian shook her head with a smile, and then said, "I want to ask the Empress Dowager to appoint Shen Yuanfu as the emperor's teacher." ”

At the Zhengdan Dynasty meeting of the Jingtai Dynasty that year, Empress Dowager Sun asked Chen Qingtong to bring a message, expecting Shen Yichen to serve as the prince's teacher, and Empress Qian sat aside. In a sense, this decision was actually made by the Empress Dowager Sun and Empress Qian.

Chen Qingtong asked to see the Empress Dowager Hang this time, but the Empress Dowager Sun did not show up, but she always sent people to pay attention to the conversation between the two. She had already promised Shen Yichen not to interfere in government affairs again, so she could only ask Empress Qian to come forward instead of herself to change Empress Dowager Hang's decision.

Although the Empress Dowager Sun's political methods were not profound during the period when the curtain was in power, she had been in charge of the harem for many years, and she was far clearer about the situation in the court than the Empress Dowager Hang. Shen Yichen took the initiative to serve as the emperor's teacher, which was actually a good thing that was extremely beneficial to Emperor Zhu Jianqing of Mingliang, and the consequences of refusing it might be unimaginable!

What?

Hearing that Empress Qian took the initiative to involve government affairs, Empress Dowager Hang's face was full of surprise.

You must know that after so many years, Queen Qian has not asked anything about external affairs except for concentrating on worshipping the Buddha. Now he took the initiative to request, and it was told by the Queen Mother, there must be a hidden story behind it.

No matter how stupid the Empress Dowager Hang is, she can understand that this is a reminder from the Empress Dowager Sun to herself, and Shen Yichen must be the emperor!

"Why does Sister Qian need to use such words as a request, the emperor has indeed reached the time to understand the etiquette of poetry and books. The Manchu Dynasty's civil and military knowledge, no one can compare with Shen Yuanfu's three yuan and the first, six yuan leaders. ”

"Since Shen Yuanfu has this heart, then the palace will accept it on behalf of the emperor and officially appoint a teacher to worship on a certain day."

"The courtiers thanked the Queen Mother!"

Chen Qingtong took advantage of the situation and thanked the Empress Dowager Hang, and at the same time breathed a heavy sigh of relief in his heart.

I didn't expect that the prince had no success back then, but now he has become the emperor's teacher by mistake, which really makes people feel that the world is impermanent.

In the harem, Chen Qingtong helped Shen Yichen build a bridge, and the "Great Banquet Ceremony" of the previous dynasty also came to an end.

Shi Heng, the prince of Zhongguo, did not immediately take a step, he stood in the corridor outside the Fengtian Hall with an iron face, waiting for Hu Hu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, to come out, he had to figure out what was going on, and seek justice!