If it's just three or five eunuchs who want to rebel, with the drastic means of Empress Dowager Sun who has been in charge of the harem for so many years, it will not be a problem to suppress it.

But the problem now is that all his cronies are in a panic, for fear that the emperor will start a purge if he disagrees.

If a leader can't keep his subordinates, the people's hearts will inevitably disperse.

Jin Ying is the head of Cining Palace, the first real eunuch in the inner court, and the biggest confidant of Empress Dowager Sun.

Xing'an is a close confidant of the emperor, the governor of Dongchang, and the number two person in the inner court, but he did not keep it. When supervising the army, he suffered a great defeat, and was deprived of the power of the admiral Dongchang by the emperor, and was also sent to the south to fight.

and all the palace people in the Qianqing Palace, who were not saved, were collectively killed by the emperor.

You can't even protect your cronies, so how can everyone trust you. Therefore, in the past few days, the prestige of Empress Dowager Sun in the palace has been greatly reduced, and the eunuchs and palace maids who have a good way have begun to flatter Wang Cheng, Shu Liang, Zhang Yong, and Wang Qin.

Zhu Qiyu's original personal little eunuchs have been transformed into godfathers of a large group of people at a young age.

It's embarrassing to think about, but fortunately, Zhu Qiyu doesn't care, so Wang Cheng and others toss around. Anyway, what Zhu Qiyu really relied on was the secret hand arranged in the inner court.

If you blindly make me play in the light and the enemy in the dark, then you can't prevent the emperor's faction in any case.

The best way is that we also have light and dark, virtual and real complement each other, and light and dark are combined; The plank road of the plank road, the degree of Chen Cang.

For example, Wang Zhen's original cronies and eunuchs Mao Gui and Wang Changsui, Ma Shun was beaten to death by angry ministers during the Fengtianmen court, and the two were almost sent away by the ministers together, but it was Zhu Qiyu, who was still in prison at the time, who pulled the two back from the ghost gate.

Later, these two people were renamed Zhang An and Zhang Xing by Zhu Qiyu, and placed in the Salary Division to burn firewood. At that time, Zhang Yong had just taken charge of the Salary Division, and these two people changed their faces and recognized Zhang Yong's name, becoming Zhang Yong's earliest godson.

The teenage godfather led his godson in his twenties to run around, and Zhu Qiyu was also speechless. But the eunuchs of the inner court are accustomed to it: tending to the flames and attaching to the trend, worshipping high and stepping on low, this is the normal state of the inner court.

As long as you are in power, young age is not a problem at all.

After the Emperor Taishang returned to Beijing, Zhang An and Zhang Xinghui, as Wang Zhen's former confidants, actively 'leaked' information about the emperor's family for the Emperor Taishang and the Empress Dowager, and finally instigated the mutiny of the Emperor's faction.

This is the script that Zhu Qiyu arranged for the emperor faction early.

Zhu Qiyu didn't speak in Cining Palace, just leaned on the back of the chair and thought about his thoughts. The concubine has been chatting with the king of Dongwu County. Queen Zhou and Hang listened to the two of them talking while laughing and having fun.

Empress Dowager Sun sat there awkwardly, having nothing to say to the emperor, and nothing to talk about with the king of Dongwu County.

Queen Qian is still lying in bed and can't get up, and now she is talking to Empress Dowager Sun, and it is Concubine Wan Chen and Princess Wang Wang.

Wang was extremely dissatisfied with what the emperor had done recently. Needless to say, the matter of Empress Hu's reinstatement is needless to say, Wang is the person of Empress Dowager Sun, and he must be angry.

That's it, the matter of the Marquis of Wuding's recognizing women is even more excessive. The dignified emperor actually went to kowtow to the Marquis of Wuding in person, which was a naked show of affection, showing the doting of Princess Qi to the world, without concealing it at all.

Wang felt greatly insulted, he was a wife of Yuan, and the emperor was only a prince when he got married, but he was not willing to kowtow to his father. Compared with these two, the gap is too big.

Therefore, in order to stand up for the Empress Dowager Sun, and to relieve his anger, Wang asked Zhu Qiyu: "Your Majesty, I have been in the palace almost every day recently, but why haven't I met Princess Qi once?" Could it be that Princess Qi hasn't been in the palace recently? ”

'Me'?

Zhu Qiyu's brows almost wrinkled when he heard this, what does this 'me' mean? Except for the Queen Mother and the Concubine, there is really no one who dares to call themselves 'me' in front of the emperor.

Sure enough, this Wang clan is very consistent with what is described in history, and he does not take Jingtai as the emperor. Even if the throne has been decided, Wang still regards Jingtai as the prince of the prison country, which is also the reason why she opposes the change of the prince.

Although Zhu Qiyu supports equality between men and women in his heart, he likes beautiful women to be humble and docile in front of him. Zhu Qiyu didn't expect the Wang family to be a slave and a prostitute like Lin Xiangyu, but you can call yourself a concubine.

Now Wang's 'euphemistic and subtle' accusation that Lin Xiangyu never entered the palace to greet the queen mother, just when Zhu Qiyu held his forehead with his hand and thought about how to refute it, the concubine couldn't hold it back for a long time, and scolded back viciously:

"My daughter-in-law is too young, her body has not yet grown, and there are people trying to harm her outside, so I don't let her go out.

She's just acting on my orders, and if you want to break the rules, just come to me, an old immortal.

The Emperor already has a son-in-law, but my son doesn't have one. So don't bother my daughter-in-law, she has to take good care of her body so that she can give birth to my son-in-law as soon as possible.

As for the matter of asking for peace, Princess Yun, you are responsible for asking your mother-in-law to say goodbye, and Princess Qi is responsible for asking her mother-in-law to say goodbye, and the two of you have their own division of labor, so that which mother-in-law's house is not deserted, isn't it just right? ”

The concubine's words expressed many meanings, which made Wang's blood surge and her face flushed.

The Wang family couldn't openly reply to the concubine, and the Wang family was also a little unreasonable in this matter, she only said that Princess Qi didn't enter the palace to ask the queen mother for peace, but she didn't go to the concubine herself to ask for peace.

The concubine seized this point to ridicule Wang: You only think that the queen mother is the mother-in-law, and you can't see me, the emperor's biological mother, and you are embarrassed to talk to me about the rules.

In addition, the concubine only took Princess Qi as his wife, and only wanted Princess Qi to give birth to a grandson for herself, and unabashedly regarded the Wang family as an outsider, and had no intention of expecting the Wang family to have a child, which really made the Wang family angry enough.

Among the people present, the only one who can reply to the concubine is the queen mother. It's just that Empress Dowager Sun was just about to speak, and Zhu Qiyu spoke first, but she changed the topic:

"Queen Mother, the weather in the northwest is getting colder and colder, and all the daily necessities sent to the eldest brother before were thrown in Datong by the rebel thief.

I always wanted to send things over, but unfortunately I fought too hard first, resulting in only 30,000 remnants of the defeated army, fleeing everywhere like a lost dog.

It's too difficult to find the camp and send envoys there.

Moreover, according to the information received by the Ministry of War, Yexian had already fled to a distance of 3,000 miles from Datong, so even if he could find Yexian's camp and send an envoy to bring daily necessities, he would have to walk for more than a month on the way.

The more I think about it, the more worried I become, my eldest brother is alone and has no one to take care of him. There is a eunuch named Xining next to him, but he is still a Jurchen, and he hates our Daming. Ay! ”

After that, Zhu Qiyu sighed heavily.

At the mention of Zhu Qizhen, Empress Dowager Sun's attention was really attracted, and she hurriedly asked with concern: "How is that good?" Since the emperor has been beaten to the point that only 30,000 remnants of the army have been defeated, and they are running everywhere, can the imperial court send envoys to propose a strike and peace talks, and order the emperor to be returned first? ”

"Strike peace talks?"

Zhu Qiyu was extremely surprised, and asked curiously: "How can there be any reason for the victorious side to take the initiative to ask for peace talks?" Speaking of the Tumubao Incident, 500,000 soldiers of our Ming army were killed in battle, and countless ministers and nobles were killed and wounded.

Taking the initiative to negotiate peace, is it worthy of these innocent soldiers who died?

As a younger brother, I hope more than anyone else that my eldest brother will come back safely. But as the son of the great tomorrow, I must first cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and be ashamed of the snow country, and ask the Queen Mother for forgiveness. ”

When Empress Dowager Sun heard this, she was also quite surprised and asked, "Then watch the Emperor Taishang die?" ”

(End of chapter)