As a minister who has been in power for many years, Wang Zhi secretly calculated the account for the new monarch in his heart:

On the road to the new monarch's seizure of power, there are mainly seven major forces that need to be dealt with: civil ministers, military generals, nobles, vassal kings, harems, eunuchs, plus the hearts of the army and the people.

Since the new monarch did not have his own team before succeeding to the throne, as of today, the new monarch is very pitiful, and all he can grasp is:

Half of the harem, a very small number of civil officials, and basically negligible nobles, eunuchs, and military generals.

As for the vassal kings, they all refused to obey the new king. There is basically no military and civilian morale.

In other words, the new emperor is somewhat stronger than a puppet, but he is also limited in strength, and he is a real weak master.

But after today, it will be different, and the emperor will be completely in power when he receives the allegiance of the cabinet and the military department. Next, the emperor's power will snowball, expand rapidly, and finally become unstoppable.

If you can defend Beijing in the next battle and fight a beautiful battle, at that time, the emperor's military heart and people's will be in hand, and the emperor will have no chance at all.

Zhu Qiyu was not in a hurry, just watched Hu Hu, Wang Zhi, Shang Shi, and Peng Shi think slowly.

Hu Hu and Wang Zhi looked blankly at the open space on both sides of the road, if the emperor really built a Jingguan here and built an altar, then the loss and humiliation of the emperor was in stark contrast to the new monarch's turning the tide and supporting the building.

The final outcome can only be that the prestige of the Emperor Taishang is lost, and the new emperor reigns over the world.

The two looked at the two of them again, Chen Xun, Wang Wen, and Yu Qian were still kneeling on the ground, waiting for the others to swear allegiance and shout long live.

Now it is the one who is standing, and I hope that the one who kneels will get up quickly; The one who kneels, wants the others to kneel together.

Zhu Qiyu saw that the four people standing looked at each other, and refused to speak first, in order to alleviate the embarrassing atmosphere, he found a topic, and asked Shang Lu and Peng Shi: "Now that Guangdong is in chaos again, I want to send an important minister to Guangdong to suppress the rebellion, who do you want to send?" ”

Shang Shi and Peng Shi glanced at each other when they heard this, the two of them had no position to insist on, and the weakness of the new monarch was only relative to the other people in power, but it was still unattainable for the two new Hanlin scholars. No, in a word, the two of them are going to be sent to Guangdong, so who can want to go.

Therefore, Shang Shi and Peng Shi knelt on the ground and swore allegiance to the new monarch.

In this way, Hu Hu and Wang Zhidi are in an even more awkward situation, and there are only two people left, so it is time to express their position.

Wang Zhixian stood up and asked, "Dare to ask Your Majesty, how are you going to treat the Emperor Taishang in the future?" ”

Zhu Qiyu replied very bluntly: "Please Emperor Taishang is here, facing the spiritual position of the dead soldiers in Tumubao, issue an edict against himself, and give up the throne." ”

When the king heard this, he sighed deeply, and sure enough, he would come whatever he was afraid of. The most important thing is that with the support of Chen Xun, Wang Wen, and Yu Qian, he can't stop the emperor from doing this at all.

Hey, since he can't resist, Wang Zhi feels that helping the Emperor Taishang to fight for a minimum preferential treatment can be regarded as loyal.

So Wang Zhi asked the final question: "How does Your Majesty plan to place the Emperor?" ”

Zhu Qiyu still replied without thinking: "After the Emperor Taishang returned to Beijing, he naturally lived in the palace to recuperate, and gathered with the Queen Mother, the Queen Taishang, and the princess.

In addition to no longer managing the government, everything else, what happened before the Emperor Taishang left Beijing, and what happened after returning to Beijing, Aiqing and others do not need to worry. ”

When all the ministers present heard this, they were quite surprised, and Hu Hu hurriedly asked, "Is Your Majesty's words true?" ”

"You don't have any jokes, but I told you in advance that after the Emperor Taishang's throne, between me and the Emperor, there will only be brothers, regardless of monarchs and ministers.

I don't have any interest in the palace, and in the future, the Emperor will live in the palace, be free, do whatever he wants, and I will not interfere in the life of the Emperor.

That's the way it is, I don't lie to you, if you have any ideas, I'll tell you in advance, if you can accept it, you can accept it, and if you can't accept it, you can say it directly. ”

Hearing this, Wang Zhi glanced at Hu Hu, and knelt down.

Hu Hu insisted on the last, and when he saw that the general trend had gone, he also knelt down in the spirit of staying in the green mountains and not being afraid of running out of firewood.

Chen Xun saw that everyone was kneeling, so he led everyone to kowtow and shout: "The ministers are willing to do their best to assist Your Majesty in achieving prosperity." ”

"Okay, well, in the future, state affairs will all depend on your Aiqing. As long as I reign for one day, I will always be with all of you, be a model of mutual acquaintance between monarchs and ministers, and leave a name in history together. ”

State affairs all depend on your Aiqing? The ministers believed this, because the new monarch really didn't even read a notebook, and handed it over to the ministers. So much so that the ministers used the traditional skills of the emperor to overwhelm the emperor, and they couldn't use it at all.

And the emperor absolutely refused to go to live in the Forbidden City, which was obviously bent on longevity.

Now that the ministers are all on the thief ship, they can't get down anyway, so they don't have to worry about it anymore, and the atmosphere on the scene has improved.

Zhu Qiyu took the ministers to Shi Heng's camp to inspect it. Shi Heng took the main force of the five military camps and stationed one mile outside Xizhimen.

This is the main force to resist Warat, there are 50,000 troops, and trenches have been dug outside the camp, and layers of horses have been set up. Hundreds of artillery pieces were placed in the camp, ready to meet the onslaught of the Warat cavalry.

Shi Heng accompanied everyone and inspected the camp. The confidence of several ministers has increased greatly, although except for Yu Qian, everyone else does not know much about military affairs. But even the layman can see that relying on advanced firearms and strong barracks, this 50,000-strong army can withstand ten days and a half months, and it is not a problem at all.

Therefore, it only needs to clear the wilderness, so that the Warat army can't grab enough food and grass around the capital, and they will naturally retreat first.

The ministers did not have as many thoughts and aspirations as the new monarch, and it was enough to ask for the capital to be kept.

Junchen happily walked out of Shiheng's camp, and Zhu Qiyu instructed Chen Xun and others: "I think of something, you can release Xincheng Bo Zhao Rong." Let him bring some soldiers and horses to defend Changyi Gate. ”

The ministers didn't say anything, just let it go.

Chen Xun asked again: "Won't Your Majesty go back to the city with your ministers?" ”

Zhu Qiyu waved his hand: "I have to go to Tucheng to inspect and inspect again, and dig a trench with Fan Guang." After all, just let the military and the people contribute, but I, who is the emperor, stay at home and enjoy the happiness, which is a bit unreasonable. I have been encouraging and boosting the morale of the army and the people. ”

"Then the ministers and others should also accompany Your Majesty."

Zhu Qiyu waved his hand again: "No need, it's enough for you to have this heart." This kind of thing, we young people can just do it, and it is not decent to let you old ministers who are full of poetry and books dig trenches. Okay, I'm going to give you a holiday today, so let's go home and rest. ”