Zhu Qiyu had to play a trick before ascending the throne, he had to be crowned the king of Qi first, and then he was willing to ascend the throne, which was the most indignant place for King Xiang:

I only got an ordinary Xiangwang Wang Wang for a sister-in-law, you are a concubine born and raised by a cheap maid in the outer room, and your background is so humble that you don't even deserve to be a nurse, how embarrassed to be the king of Qi. It's really hard to find such a thick-skinned person in this world.

Empress Dowager Sun didn't care much about this: "The king of Qi is the king of Qi, Zhu Qiyu is also a small family in this regard, and if he has to be the king of Qi, it is just to make it sound better."

In the end, he was born as a concubine, and his vision is a little narrower. And he has never lived in the palace since he was born, he is used to being wild outside, and he has no feelings for this Forbidden City.

Since he became the emperor, he refused to move into the palace, which was the most problematic. ”

King Xiang understood the meaning of Empress Dowager Sun's words, if Zhu Qiyu did not enter the palace, it would be difficult to do anything, and there would be nowhere to go under sterilization.

And King Xiang has also heard that Zhu Qiyu also changed the princess and kicked out the old people in the palace of the king. At this time, the people that Empress Dowager Sun and Queen Qian worked so hard to place around Zhu Qiyu were all invalidated.

Even the original princess Wang, who was blocked there by the emperor, absolutely refused to let her become the queen.

King Xiang asked curiously, "Is it really impossible to let Princess Yu ascend to the throne?" We can use etiquette to forcibly elevate Wang to the position of queen, don't the ministers even have a single one who stands up to defend the etiquette law? ”

Empress Dowager Sun smiled bitterly: "Yes, Wang Ao, the secretary of the ministry, just because he said that Wang should be appointed as the queen, wasn't he just kicked by the emperor to the military affairs of the governor of Liangguang."

Don't make any more useless attempts, you don't know the current emperor, he is not someone to be manipulated.

Speaking with a conscience, even if the emperor is good, he hates Wang so much, and he doesn't do anything. If you continue to force him, you will really him off, isn't it just a matter of waving your hand to kill Wang.

King Xiang should hurry up and think of an idea for me and find some feasible solutions. ”

When King Xiang heard this, he immediately asked: "The ministers don't know the current situation in Beijing, now that Warat has been repulsed and the crisis in the capital is lifted, please ask the emperor to abdicate and change the crown prince to emperor, will the ministers support it?" ”

Empress Dowager Sun glared at King Xiang, this guy was either deliberately pretending to be stupid, or taking the opportunity to express his loyalty. As for what emperor abdicated and the crown prince ascended the throne, not to mention that it was impossible for the minister to agree, even if Empress Dowager Sun herself heard it, she felt funny.

When Daming was in danger, let Zhu Qiyu come out to take the blame. Now, under the wise leadership of Zhu Qiyu, it is easy to hit Warat hard, relieve the crisis, and immediately kick people away, which is out of the category of general lack of morality.

Empress Dowager Sun replied helplessly: "Now the army in the capital is all in the hands of the emperor. It's me who I'm sorry for Qi Zhen for not teaching him well.

He first sent the elite of 100,000 Jing troops loyal to him to the south to quell the rebellion, and then took the rest of the army to Tumubao.

In the end, things developed like this, and the nobles who were loyal to the Emperor Taishang either died in Tumubao, or they led troops like Jingyuanbo, Ningyanghou, and Anyuanhou.

The emperor refused to issue an edict ordering Marquis An Yuan and others to return to Beijing, and then the situation was completely stuck, and it became an unsolvable dead end.

asked the emperor to issue an order to recall, but the emperor refused; If Marquis An Yuan and the others dared to return to Beijing without authorization, it would be a rebellion, and the emperor could immediately justifiably let them disappear from this world cleanly. ”

Empress Dowager Sun and King Xiang discussed for a long time, but they couldn't come up with a reason. In addition to sending someone to assassinate the emperor, I thought of all the other ways I could think of:

Under sterilization pills, it won't work! The emperor only eats what his favorite concubine makes with his own hands, and he doesn't even look at anything else.

Buying people who serve the emperor personally will not work! Fifteen orphan girls who served the emperor closely, bribing their families? They have no family. Buying them themselves? Each of them was treated at least twice as well as the queen, and the 108,000 silver was not taken seriously at all.

The mutiny forced the emperor to step down, it didn't work! The capital is now all the emperor's army.

Using public opinion to force the emperor to give the crown prince a throne will not work! Now that the emperor's prestige is rising, he wants to use the emperor as a monkey, and he will come and go as soon as he is summoned, and the civil and military officials will not agree, and the people of the world will not agree.

Picking up the emperor back and fighting against the emperor will not work! Now Yexian's attitude has changed, he wants to use the Emperor Taishang as a life-saving artifact, and he will not consider returning the Emperor Taishang in a short period of time.

In short, the two people who can think of it have thought about it, and neither of them will work.

In the end, the two discussed and reached a consensus that they would retreat and wait for the opportunity. This is consistent with the plan proposed by Zhu Qizhen when the two dragons met under the city of Beijing.

Another auxiliary means is to infiltrate secretly, marry nobles, win over civil ministers and military generals, and wait for the emperor to be negligent and expose flaws, and give the emperor a fatal blow.

The two discussed for nearly an hour, and King Xiang couldn't stay any longer.

That is, because Empress Dowager Sun has been in charge of the harem for many years, and she has accumulated a lot of power, she was able to suppress the palace people, and made an exception and talked secretly with King Xiang alone for an hour.

However, at this time, the chief eunuch of Cining Palace has been replaced by the emperor from Jin Ying to Ruan An. Although Ruan An is a very senior old eunuch and has always been relatively neutral, Empress Dowager Sun did not dare to be sure whether he had defected to the emperor.

After sending off King Xiang, Empress Dowager Sun immediately ordered someone to summon her father, Sun Zhong, Marquis of Huichang, and Jiang Yi, the eldest son of Jiang Gui, Marquis of Dingxi, into the palace.

At the same time, in the West Flower Hall, Zhu Qiyu was leisurely leaning on the soft couch, and the two favorite concubines surrounded the front and back, one pinching his shoulders and the other beating his legs, which was so comfortable.

Originally, Zhu Qiyu was not relaxed like this, but came to the West Flower Hall early to wait for the ministers. It's a pity that no one came to the left and no one to the right, so it was really boring, so I called the two favorite concubines over to serve.

Now only He Yi, Xu Zheng, and Huang Jian are left in the middle of the hall, and the three of them are knowledgeable and interested, and they all sit far away with their backs, and they don't come to disturb the emperor's elegance.

After sending Bai Gui, Xiang Zhong, Ye Sheng, and Yao Xian away, Zhu Qiyu felt much more comfortable. Now the remaining six Zhongshu people are all their own cronies, and they don't have as many scruples as they used to be.

In the future, the introduction of the Chinese scholars, if they do not accept the name, they will definitely not accept it.

Now it is time to transition from the big customer bullying to the stage of the store big bully.

As for where have all the ministers gone?

The cabinet, the Hanlin Academy, the Metropolitan Inspection Academy, and the six departments and six departments have already exploded, how can anyone take care of the emperor.

Early in the morning, Yue Zheng not only handed the blood letter requesting the restoration of Empress Hu to the cabinet, but also said goodbye to his colleagues one by one in the Hanlin Academy, basically treating today as the last day of his life.

As soon as there was such a fuss, the news spread in the large area of government offices in the south of the imperial city.

From the abolition of Hu in the third year of Xuande to the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, a full twenty years have passed.

For twenty years, all the ministers turned a deaf ear to Confucian etiquette.

Twenty years later, someone finally stepped forward and opened the prelude to the Jingtai ceremony.

Soon Yue Zheng was called to the cabinet, and Chen Xun persuaded eagerly: "Yue Jifang, you were last year's Tanhua, and you are not yet thirty years old. The future is promising, so why bother?

Hurry up and withdraw the blood book, and we'll take things down for you. Although the emperor will definitely know, we will explain it to you when the time comes, and we will say that you were young and vigorous for a while, and you went astray, and now you have changed your way.

Your Majesty is merciful, even Xu Youzhen can forgive, and he will not be too serious with you. ”

Yue Zheng shook his head firmly: "The kindness of the pavilion elders, Ji Fang understands it. But I have made up my mind, before I left home, I also ate the severed head meal, and drank the send-off wine, I now withdraw the blood book, and how will I behave in the future. ”

When Chen Xun heard this, he turned his head to look at Wang Wen. Wang Wen turned his head to look at Zhou Chen, Zhou Chen looked at Jiang Yuan, and Jiang Yuan went to look at He Wenyuan.

He Wenyuan looked left and right, and found that in the end, people's eyes all moved to him.

He Wenyuan had no choice but to raise his hand and let everyone say: "Everyone sit, let's sit, Ji Fang also sits, the weather is so cold, let's drink a cup of hot tea first, warm up and then talk." ”

Jiang Yuan smiled bitterly: "What are you still sitting, you're going to lose your head, what's the use of just drinking tea?" ”

He Wenyuan smiled: "Hey, it's already like this anyway, don't panic." Sit down and drink the tea first, and then let's stay in the cabinet for an hour, and when the matter is finished and everyone knows, then take Ji Fang to meet the saint.

It is useless for us to speculate here, and the Holy One will have his own judgment when the time comes.

Anyway, it won't be as serious as losing his head, at most it will be an exile, and it is possible that Ji Fang will be promoted instead. ”

Everyone couldn't think of a better way, so they had to listen to He Wenyuan, and spent an hour in the cabinet, hanging the emperor like this, until the emperor was impatient and went to call the favorite concubine to relieve the boredom, and everyone came out of the cabinet.

According to He Wenyuan's proposal, everyone did not go to the nearest Donghuawen, but went out of the noon gate and went around to the area where the six departments, the five military governors' mansions, Jinyiwei, Hanlin Yuan and other official offices gathered outside the Chang'an Gate.

The civil and military officials stopped to watch, and anyone with a little brain could see that this stone would definitely stir up a thousand waves, and the government and the opposition could have a lively and prosperous New Year.

(End of chapter)