Chapter Seventy-One: A Complicated Imperial Situation, Civil Officials and Nobles

It's the day, and the will is out.

Zhu Yunxi was named the king of Heng, Zhu Yunxi was the king of Wu, and Zhu Yunxi was the king of the south.

When the news came out, the Manchu Dynasty was shaken.

Zhu Biao's three sons were crowned kings together, which is a very clear signal.

It shows that His Majesty has decided that the future prince must be selected from among the three.

Otherwise, only as the late crown prince, his son can only have one person to be crowned king.

Moreover, this canonization is different from other princes.

Zhu Yunxi, Zhu Yunxi, and Zhu Yunxi did not have a clear fief, and Zhu Yunxi was only seven years old, and he had not yet reached the age of ten years old to be crowned king.

This has never happened before.

On the same day, under the holy decree, Yin Gukuan of Ying Tianfu was derelict in his duties, and he was immediately dismissed, and Zhu Yunxi, the king of the South, temporarily took over Ying Tianfu.

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Huangfu.

Huang Zicheng's residence.

"Mr. Huang taught me!" Zhu Yunwen's face was anxious, and he bowed deeply to Huang Zicheng.

Now that Xiaoru has left Ying Tianfu, all he can ask for is Huang Zicheng.

At this time, Huang Zicheng was Taichang Siqing.

In the court, it is also known as a high authority.

What's more, Huang Zicheng is the representative of the Jiangnan Shi clan, and standing behind him is the entire Jiangnan Shi clan's wealthy family.

Today's holy decree, Zhu Yunwen was already anxious, and hurriedly came to ask Huang Zicheng for advice.

"Don't worry about the emperor's eldest grandson for the time being."

Huang Zicheng asked him to sit down, touched his beard, muttered for a while, and said, "Your Majesty did not directly appoint King Nan as the grandson, so there is still room for things to turn around." ”

The left attendant of the military department next to him, Lang Qitai, nodded and said, "That's right." ”

"Passing past the son and directly appointing the grandson as the prince is an unprecedented thing in ancient times."

"If you abolish the growth and the young, it will be difficult to convince the government and the opposition."

"Although His Majesty intends to appoint him as the prince, he also has to worry about the consequences of doing so."

Zhu Yunwen looked depressed and said, "I thought that the second and fourth uncles were the biggest competitors. ”

"But I never thought that the second uncle died, and the fourth uncle was not mentioned, and in the end, it was my own brother who was going to be made the prince."

He paused lightly and said, "The fourth brother and I are the same mother. Yu privately, he inherited the throne, and I, who was my brother, should have been happy. ”

"But the fourth brother is only seven years old, although he is smart, how can he control those noble generals."

"Besides, the fourth brother didn't know where to hear the gossip of others, and he was bound to increase the business tax...... This matter ......"

He sighed softly, and his words were quite deep in love and responsibility.

He is worthy of the genius of the acting department.

Even if there are only his henchmen Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai in front of him, and there are no outsiders, he still does not forget to perform the warm family affection that blood is thicker than water.

"The position of the Son of Heaven is given by God, can it still be conceded?"

Huang Zicheng reprimanded: "The emperor's eldest grandson has a heart of benevolence and righteousness, and values feelings, which is a good thing. However, the battle for the throne is related to the society of the country, and the benevolence of women must not be saved. ”

Zhu Yunwen didn't mean to give in, but just showed his benevolence and righteousness, and immediately bowed his hand and said: "Mr. Huang is very right. ”

"In the current situation, what the emperor's eldest grandson has to do is to sit firmly in Diaoyutai."

Huang Zicheng said: "If Your Majesty directly appoints him as the grandson, then the government and the opposition will rise up and oppose it." ”

But at present, he has repeatedly performed miraculous feats, and recently he has made meritorious contributions to the country. ”

"The handling of the Quanzhou Pushi case was handled appropriately. There is also a poem that shocks the world, His Majesty rewarded him for his meritorious service, and named him king, which is a proper righteousness. The ministers of the world, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, could not say anything against it. ”

Huang Zicheng is not good at governing the country and fighting wars, but he is quite good at analyzing the political struggles in the court.

In the Hongwu Dynasty, the political pattern of the Ming Dynasty, the most important thing is nothing more than two forces.

One is the civilian clique, and the other is the Xungui clique.

On the surface, it seems that the power of the Xungui clique is stronger, and the civilian clique can only clamp its tail and be a man.

But in fact, the officials of the imperial court have to be scholars after all.

After more than 20 years of imperial examinations, the power of civil officials has spread all over the imperial court and various local government offices.

Moisturizing things silently.

The civil official group is slowly infiltrating all corners of the Zhu Ming court, and this kind of influence is the most terrifying.

When Zhu Biao was still alive, what he represented was the Xungui Group.

As the crown prince, Zhu Biao has been in charge of the country for more than ten years, and he is the greatest noble.

But Zhu Yunwen is different, Zhu Yunwen's mother Lu is the daughter of the civil official Lu Ben.

Zhu Yunwen is naturally also valued by civil officials.

After Zhu Xiongying's death, with the help of the civil official group, Zhu Yunwen had already regarded himself as the emperor's eldest grandson.

If Zhu Biao does not die and inherits the throne in the future, Zhu Yunwen will still be made the crown prince.

In this way, the investment of the civilian clique in him will naturally be rewarded.

As soon as Zhu Biao died, this process could be greatly accelerated.

But they didn't expect that Zhu Yunxi would be born out of thin air and break all this.

Speaking of which, Zhu Yunxi's mother is also the daughter of the Lu family, and her identity is no different from Zhu Yunxi's.

But there are a few points, one is that Zhu Yunxi is not the eldest son, which makes it a little unacceptable to the Confucian scholars who pursue the principle of establishing a descendant rather than a child.

This, of course, is the least important.

After all, in the eyes of these people, interests are the most important, and righteousness is just a signboard, which can be discarded at any time when necessary.

The second point is more important, that is, Zhu Yunwen has long been surrounded by a group of people from the civil and official group, who have educated him and cultivated him to become "his own person".

And Zhu Yunxi, because he is young, has not been cultivated like this.

Naturally, they were relatively much more repulsive to Zhu Yunxi.

This kind of "portal" dispute is by no means something that Zhu Yunxi can change by writing a few poems and showing his talent.

Otherwise, there would not have been so many talented literati in history who had been suppressed within the civil bureaucracy.

Not to mention, Zhu Yunxi also proposed the national policy of increasing commercial taxes, which is absolutely unacceptable to them.

"Right now, Your Majesty will crown all three of your brothers as kings."

"What His Royal Highness the eldest grandson wants to do is to take advantage of the situation, let the king of Wu and the king of the south fight, and His Royal Highness the eldest grandson will sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight."

Huang Zicheng analyzed: "The world is difficult, how can it be so easy. ”

"Now Your Majesty has put King Nan in charge of Yingtianfu, which is to roast him on the fire."

"Ying Tianfu is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and the king of the south previously proposed to increase the commercial tax, and now that he is in charge of Ying Tianfu, he should be the first to push it forward."

"In the court, it's simple to sit and talk, but it's not so easy to really do things."

"Do more wrong, do less wrong."

As long as you read the sage's articles and keep in mind the words "filial piety, benevolence and righteousness," there will be nothing wrong with you. ”

"But if he wants to govern Ying Tianfu, then he can't help but do nothing."

"Once you do something, you are not afraid that he will not make mistakes."

"Now that Your Majesty has crowned the three kings, the people behind King Wu will not sit idly by, and will definitely deal with him."

"We just have to go with the flow."

"When the time comes, it will be difficult for Your Majesty to appoint him as the prince again."

After an analysis of the pros and cons, Zhu Yunwen's eyes suddenly lit up, and he worshiped deeply.

"Listening to Mr. Huang's words today, I was enlightened, and my mouth was suddenly opened. I'll just read with my husband and see how he tosses. ”

Huang Zicheng nodded slightly: "His Royal Highness the eldest grandson, but sit high, and I will do the rest." ”