Chapter 8: How do you want to teach me how to be an emperor?
Zhu Di didn't wait for the court meeting to end, so he took the lead in walking out of the Fengtian Palace, and scolded him fiercely before leaving.
He was happy, but Sun Ruowei was trembling with anger.
But is there a way?
There is really nothing to do, this is still starting from Zhu Dijing after the martyrdom.
Zhu Di is a learned father, born in rebellion, naturally afraid that other vassal kings will do the same, and after succeeding to the throne, he also began to reduce the power of the domain, and the means are much gentler than Zhu Yunwen, and he is boiling frogs one by one.
Zhu Di weakened the military power of the vassal kings in various places, but improved their treatment, so the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty were later raised as pigs.
Now the imperial family of the Ming Dynasty is such a rule, although the status is respected before becoming the emperor, but there is no right to speak in the court at all, and the strong queen mother will naturally be pinched, but if you become the emperor, even if you are really a pig, it is a pig who can do whatever you want.
The most typical example is not long ago, it is Zhu Qizhen!
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the newly enthroned Emperor Jingtai did not pay attention to the Queen Mother who sat at the back and listened to the government.
In this way, those honest and submissive appearances in the past are all pretending.
It should be noted that Sun Ruowei is not an idle person, she naturally has her own little calculations, otherwise she would not be sitting in this position now.
As for the current DPRK and China, there are still a considerable number of officials from the Queen Mother's party.
Two emperors, one was detained in the enemy camp, whether he could come back or not, and he didn't dare to think about re-enthronement, and the other had just ascended the throne, and it seemed that the throne was the most unstable among the six emperors of the Ming Dynasty, and no one would easily stand in line.
Compared with Zhu Qizhen and Zhu Qiyu, the two difficult brothers, Sun Ruowei, the queen mother, is an evergreen, and whoever falls of the two emperors will not fall the queen mother.
At least for now, most officials are thinking this way.
So there is no need for Empress Dowager Sun to hint at anything, as soon as Zhu Di left on the front foot, someone on the back foot stood up and spoke solemnly.
Of course, the purpose of their eagerness to confess is not really to do anything to Zhu Di, the new emperor, but mainly to express an attitude and a position.
The first person to stand up was Xu Bin, the Zhengqing of Taichang Temple.
Now Xu Bin's face was full of indignation, but Sun Ruowei obviously saw him shrinking in the corner just now, and he didn't feel so excited at all.
But Sun Ruowei didn't break it, officialdom is like this, one person has a few masks, and someone can speak for them means that they still need their queen mother.
I only heard Xu Bin say: "The Empress Dowager, the minister thinks that Your Majesty's words are inappropriate, and there is no etiquette at all, so you should be punished for kneeling in the ancestral temple to know the number of etiquette!" ”
There is no precedent for punishing the emperor to kneel, but theoretically speaking, the queen mother who listens to the government does have this right.
She has the right to speak, and the emperor naturally has the right not to listen, it depends on whose arm is hard.
Even Yu Qian thought that this move was too radical and easy to provoke the contradiction between the emperor and the queen mother at this special time, so he decided to stand up and be this peacemaker.
Yu Qian's original intention was not to stand on the emperor's side, but Sun Ruowei, who was angry, heard that in his ears, he thought so.
Yu Qian said: "Queen Mother, there is no precedent for the Queen Mother to punish the Son of Heaven for kneeling, not to mention that Your Majesty is also concerned about the Ming Dynasty, so this is the reason why you offended the Queen Mother, so let's deal with it lightly!" ”
Sun Ruowei looked at Yu Qian coldly, although she was unwilling, she also knew in her heart that the emperor had just ascended the throne, and Warat was still besieging the city, and making a big deal at this time would indeed hinder the overall situation.
Of course, the so-called overall situation she thinks about is not to defend the Jingshi in Yu Qian's heart, but to rescue the orthodox emperor Zhu Qizhen.
"What does Yu Shangshu mean?"
Yu Qian said respectfully: "Your Majesty offended the Queen Mother, I think it was caused by the fact that I did not know the royal etiquette as a prince, and the punishment of kneeling was too unworthy of the prestige of the Son of Heaven. ”
There is some basis for such a statement.
Zhu Qiyu received a typical Confucian pig education since he was a child, and he was taught to respect teachers and distinguish etiquette and righteousness since he was a child, so he did things only and had a weak personality, and he was used to obeying orders and acting like an emperor, and he didn't know how to be an emperor to rule the world.
Only then did he go the wrong way for a while, and openly insulted the current queen mother in the court.
Although I don't know why Zhu Qiyu's temperament suddenly changed drastically, from this point of view, it is indeed necessary to teach him how to be the emperor again, and it is also the best way to protect Sun Ruowei, the empress dowager.
Sun Ruo was slightly satisfied, and said, "The official department is still the secretary Wang Zhi, are you willing to teach the emperor the scriptures every three days?" ”
Wang Zhi is an old minister of the four dynasties, serving Yongle, Hongxi, Xuande, and the orthodox four dynasties, if the current Jingtai Dynasty is also counted, it is an old minister of the five dynasties.
His prestige among the courtiers was second only to Qian, and in a sense, even much higher than Qian.
At the beginning, after the Tumubao Incident reached Jingshi, the leader elected by the ministers was not Yu Qian, but Wang Zhi.
It's just that Wang Zhi is humble and knows that his military is inferior to Yu Qian, so he took the initiative to abdicate and make way for Xian, and elected Yu Qian to preside over the defense of Beijing.
Sun Ruowei singled out Wang Zhi, mainly because he wanted to win over Wang to his side, and the worst case could also divide the relationship between Zhu Qiyu and Wang Zhi.
In the Ming Dynasty, the East Palace system was abolished and did not exist, and it almost became the only opportunity for Confucian ministers to approach the emperor, influence his behavior, and cultivate his virtue, so he naturally received special attention.
It is a great honor to be able to tell the Son of Heaven Day, and there is no reason to refuse.
Wang Zhi stood up and said, "The minister respectfully obeys the commandment. ”
Sun Ruo bowed his head slightly and said: "The official of the Ministry of Officials, Shangshu Wang, directly filled the court to try to read the papers, served the scriptures and feasts, lectured every three days, taught the scriptures, and was the way of the Son of Heaven." ”
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After all, Sun Ruowei still made Daming pay a heavy price for her stupidity.
After Wang Fu and Zhao Rong, the two petty officials who were temporarily promoted to the fourth rank, went out of the city, they didn't even see the face of Baozong, and they were driven back by the angry pioneers, claiming that there was no one of 1.8 million, and they didn't want to take Baozong back.
Isn't that obvious?
However, Sun Ruowei still believed it, and actually gathered all the money that could be used at hand, and sold everything that the inner court could sell, millions of oceans, and sent it out of the city like this.
In the end, what the result was obvious, and the first approach was the same as Zhu Di's idea, the money was all received, but the hair of the Baozong was not seen, and he continued to hold this trump card lion and opened his mouth.
First of all, he said that Wang Fu and Zhao Rong did not know him, and if he wanted to take Baozong back, he had to send someone he knew to come out to renegotiate, and it was limited to Qian, Wang Zhi and Shi Heng.
Needless to say, Yu Qian and Wang Zhi are the heads of the two Wenchen, and as for Shi Heng, he is now the chief military officer of Beijing, and the nominal commander-in-chief of the entire Beijing division defending the city.
To send them out is to send sheep into the mouth of a tiger.
How can anyone send his own commander-in-chief and general staff to the enemy camp for negotiation before a war?
Everyone thought that this farce to welcome back the Baozong was almost over, but Sun Ruowei seemed to be a ghost, and he really convened the court meeting to send one of the three of them out.
Just kidding, would you like to send you out?
Of course not!
Yu Qian, Wang Zhi and Shi Heng stood on the united front this time, ignoring Sun Ruowei's meaning, and jointly gave a reply first, which means that if you have the ability, you will come in, and we will definitely not go out anyway.
Don't be in a hurry first, and slowly throw out the trump card.
Early the next morning, Liu Ju, the guard of Xizhi Gate, hurriedly came to the Qianqing Palace to report to Zhu Di, saying that the Baozong had come to call the door again.
When Zhu Di heard this, he was immediately furious.