[However, you know, this is not what you should think about as a prince.] 】

[No matter how powerful the Qi Wangfu is, there is no threat to the imperial court, what does it have to do with you Xingwangfu? ] 】

[Even if the Qi Wangfu rebelled and became the emperor and changed the dynasty, the King of Qi is also surnamed Zhu, as long as you Xingwangfu does not participate in it, you will not be implicated in any way, and you will still be comfortable as your own prince. 】

[On June 17, the 14th year of Zhengde, your father Zhu Youzhen, at the age of 44, was given the title of "dedication", called Xingxian Wang, and was buried in Songlin Mountain in the northeast of Zhongxiang City under the rules of the prince. At the age of twelve, you inherited as the king of Xing, and took over the palace under the auxiliary left of Yuan Zonggao, the elder historian. 】

[You think that life will continue like this forever. 】

[Until the day of March 14 of the 16th year of Zhengde, Emperor Zhu Houzhao of Zhengde died. Since Emperor Zhengde had no heirs, when he was dying, Yang Tinghe, the first assistant, anticipated the problem of the successor in the future, and he invoked the principle of "brother to brother and brother" in the "Emperor Ming Zu Xun", and issued an edict in the name of the emperor five days before the death of Emperor Zhengde. 】

[Everything was too sudden, and before you could react to anything, you became the emperor of the Ming Dynasty and ascended the throne in Fengtian Palace, with the year name "Jiajing". 】

Zhu Di clenched his fists, all this seemed sudden, but in fact he had been prepared.

Emperor Zhengde died, it was not an accident!

Zhu Di sighed with emotion: Poor Emperor Jiajing, before he ascended the throne, was already doomed to be manipulated by Wenchen. Zhu Houzhao didn't win Wenchen, Jiajing, an emperor who supported the enthronement, could he control the court?

What worries Zhu Di even more is that Jiajing's sense of the Qi Mansion does not seem to be very good, after such an emperor ascends the throne, will he still let the Qi Mansion sit firmly in the southwest?

[In the first year of your ascension to the throne, you and the ministers started a fierce confrontation. 】

[You ordered the ministers to discuss the title of the king of the biological father, and the ministers headed by Yang Tinghe and Mao Cheng about who to take as the emperor, that is, the father in the patriarchal sense. 】

[This struggle lasted for three years, do you think that you can't be the emperor yourself, and your father can be called your father, right? ] 】

[Jinshi Zhang Xuan said, I ask you to succeed the unification and not the heir, ask to respect your biological father, set up a temple to dedicate the king to the Beijing Division, and you order the courtiers to assemble. Yang Tinghe and others fought hard to resist dredging. And you ignored the opposition of the courtiers, and in October, you posthumously honored your biological father Xingxian Wang as Xingxian Emperor, your grandmother Xianzong Guifei Shao Shi as the Queen Mother, and your mother Concubine Cixiao Xian Empress Xingxian as the Empress Xingxian. 】

[At the end of this three-year struggle, you suppressed the momentum of the ministers, dismissed Yang Tinghe and others, and let Zhang Xuan, who was loyal to him, sit in the position of the first assistant of the cabinet. 】

[This is the first time in decades that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty has truly achieved monopoly. 】

[What Wuzong Zhu Houzhao didn't do in his life was solved by you in just a few years. 】

Zhu Di was a little surprised, he had to admit that he underestimated Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi.

These words may seem simple, but they are difficult to implement.

Zhu Di can imagine how tough Jiajing's methods should be and how smart his brain should be in order to monopolize power in the chaotic situation, suppress Wenchen, and control all power.

As for the issue of the title of the king of Xingxian, on the contrary, it became a cover, Jiajing's real purpose was to compete with the ministers for power, and in this battle of power and scheming, he won.

From this incident, Zhu Di smelled an unusual atmosphere.

He can feel that Jiajing is a person with a strong desire to control power, will such a person pretend not to see the Qi Wangfu and continue to be his emperor in peace?

Before ascending the throne, Jiajing thought that he couldn't see the Qi Wangfu, because no matter how the Qi Wangfu was, it had nothing to do with him as a vassal king, and he had no reason to pay attention to the Qi Wangfu.

Jiajing, who had just ascended the throne, couldn't see the Qi Wangfu because he didn't have power in his hands, and even if he had an idea, there was no possibility of realizing it.

But now Jiajing, who has the sole power, has a reason and the strength to eradicate such a big problem as King Qi's mansion!

[After succeeding to the throne, you were diligent in government affairs, rectified the dynasty, and implemented new policies. The power of the ceremonial supervisor was reduced, the eunuchs were abolished, the supervision system was strictly enforced, and the functions and powers of the factory guard and the legal department were strictly divided. Attaching importance to the appointment of Zhang Xuan, Xia Yan and other virtuous ministers, you have learned the lesson of the previous dynasty's eunuchs who were in power and disorderly government, and strictly controlled the eunuchs, and the emperor's power has been revived and strengthened, making the government a new one. 】

[You also pay more attention to the selection of officials based on character and talent. You have repeatedly issued decrees asking the ministers of the two capitals, the Ministry of Science and the Dao, and the officials outside the country to inquire about the talents, and you said: "If there is a person with excellent talent and who is worthy of important responsibilities, he should be recommended by the public regardless of his qualifications, and if there is a vacancy in the ministry, he should also use it as appropriate, and he should not avoid suspicion." 】

[The originally decaying court has once again been revitalized, and your power is unprecedentedly strong, becoming the most powerful emperor after Yongle. 】

[If you die suddenly, or if you continue your state, future generations should be posthumously pursuing you as the first emperor of the ages. 】

[You have done everything that the emperor should do, and the uneasiness in your heart is getting more and more inflated, and you have set your eyes on the Qi Palace! 】

[You have to take back the power of the Qi Palace, so that you will feel at ease! ] 】

Zhu Di was tired, and the situation he didn't want to see the most still happened.

Is the Qi Wangfu a threat to the Ming Dynasty?

Yes, of course!

The 100,000 Southwest Army, an army completely different from the Ming Army, has elite equipment under the construction of the previous Qi kings, and the honor established by the first Qi Wu King gives them a peak morale.

More importantly, they were loyal to King Qi, not to the Ming Dynasty.

Once the Qi Wangfu rebels, the Ming Dynasty will suffer an unprecedented catastrophe, even better than the Mobei invasion!

Qi Wangfu is also the heir of the Zhu family, they have an army that sweeps the world, and they have a reasonable excuse for rebellion, and the people in the streets and alleys of the Ming Dynasty regard Qi Wangfu as a model for protecting the country and security, and are deeply favored by the people.

But the reason why the Qi Wangfu is so powerful is because the emperors of all dynasties have acquiesced!

From Hong Xi, to Xuande and Jingtai, these three emperors are all acquiescing to the expansion of the Qi Palace, if it were not for their connivance, the Qi Palace, would not have developed to such a tricky extent as it is now.

Could it be that these three emperors, Their Majestys, were fools and left such a scourge for future generations?

Not.

It is because they know that as long as the Qi Wangfu is in the southwest, there will be no trouble in the south of the Ming Dynasty, and the imperial court only needs to focus on the defense of the north, and there is no trouble of dividing troops to fight, which can bring unimaginable convenience to the imperial court for economic development, which is the killer weapon they left for the emperors of later generations, and can bring a ray of light to the Ming Dynasty when it is most dangerous.

And the reality, just as these three emperors expected, the Qi Wangfu did not live up to their trust.

Not every emperor will be as enlightened as that Hongxi, Xuande, and Jingtai, but they all chose to acquiesce.

This is because they don't have the strength to change all that.

Daming needs to be stable.

And Jiajing was an accident.

[The reason why the emperors of the past dynasties were unable to attack the Qi Wangfu was mainly because it was difficult for the Ming Dynasty to divide the troops to fight, and while fighting with the Qi Wangfu, they were at war with Mobei. Once the Ming Dynasty threw the main army into the south, Mobei invaded on a large scale, and it was very likely to review the changes in Tumubao that year. 】

[But you don't have this trouble, because Wuzong's great victory in Yingzhou solved the trouble of the Ming Dynasty in the north, and you can use troops against the south unscrupulously without worrying about the war in the north. 】

[You convened the cabinet and told the ministers very bluntly: "I want to use troops against the southwest and take back the power of King Qi, you can watch and do it." 】

[However, what you didn't expect was that these cabinet ministers who were brought up by themselves all united, rejected your proposal, and all denied the use of troops in the southwest. 】

[They feel that the ancestors of the past dynasties have maintained friendly relations with the Qi Palace, and the Qi Palaces have never intended to rebel, and have always been stationed in the southwest to escort the Ming Dynasty. Once the army is used against the Qi Palace, the people will be wasted and the money will be lost, and if the army is dispatched, it will be indifferent

Even if you send troops to the southwest, isn't this your own family fighting your own family, this move violates the ancestral system. 】

[Yes, you heard it right, it violates the ancestral system! 】

[Could it be that the imperial court pretended not to see the Qi Wangfu and had become an ancestral system, what is the reason! ] 】

[At least, that's what the ministers think.] The ancestors of all dynasties have done this, and your Jiajing Emperor Hu Lai, isn't it against the ancestral system? 】

Zhu Di: "......"

This ancestral system seems to be a precedent for him?

Ahem, does it matter?

Unimportant!

Zhu Di really wanted to swim in the long river of time to a hundred years later, grabbed Jiajing's collar and yelled: "Listen to my ancestors, child, the water is too deep here, you can't grasp it!"

Isn't it a joke for people to spread the word that their own family uses soldiers against their own family!

King Qi's mansion lives well in the southwest, not only has no ambition, but also protects the south for the imperial court, stabilizes the situation, and is beneficial to the country.

However, Zhu Di knew very well that Jiajing's brain was not pumping, on the contrary, he was very sober.

An emperor like Jiajing, who is very suspicious and obsessed with power, cannot let anyone who threatens him appear in his own territory.

And the Qi Wangfu seriously made Jiajing feel uneasy.

[You are furious, for the first time since you ascended the throne, you feel that power is out of your control. 】

[You laughed and said to everyone: "I don't know when, this southwest was renamed "Qi State", and the minister of this Qi State also mixed into my Ming cabinet! The cabinet officials are all speaking for King Qi!" 】

[Regardless of everyone's opposition, you insist on using troops against King Qi, and all those who oppose it will be beheaded! ] 】

[Helplessly, the civil and military officials could only approve and agree to the proposal to crusade against the southwest. 】