Regarding the emperor's idea of building an Anle Hall, the eleven great eunuchs of the inner court present definitely raised their hands and feet in favor.

Most of the eunuchs have no children or daughters, and after they are old and decrepit, they are helpless, and the evening scene is very bleak.

Although there is an Anle Hall in the imperial city, it is too small and not free, so it can only be locked up in the imperial city for a lifetime.

The royal family takes the so-called leaked secrets too seriously, the eunuchs live in Anle Hall when they are old, and the palace maids go to the Huanyi Bureau when they are old. It's okay to go to Anle Hall, but if you go to the Huanyi Bureau, you have to wash your clothes until you die.

What's the use of these so-called broken secrets, now that Zhu Qiyu is sitting in the palace of King Qi, he can understand clearly what the Empress Dowager Sun said and did.

The palace is a big sieve that leaks everywhere, and these stupid emperors of the Ming Dynasty will go to the Forbidden City.

It's better now at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, but at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Jiajing and Tianqi gave birth to a son and died a son, and another son died again.

There is also the famous Emperor Wuzong Zhengde, who can't give birth to a son, so if he doesn't reflect, he dares to run to the leopard room, that place is not as good as the Forbidden City.

With these tragic lessons of his predecessors and descendants, Zhu Qiyu summed up a set of his own life-saving principles, the most important of which is to never let any eunuchs and palace maids get close, especially never let them come into contact with their own food.

Based on this principle, Zhu Qiyu had already made up his mind to severely suppress the number of eunuchs and palace maids in the imperial city to less than three thousand.

The necessary supervision bureaus, such as the celebrant supervisor, the imperial horse supervisor, the imperial eunuch, and the internal official supervisor, were retained, and the number of supervisors was greatly reduced.

The eunuchs and palace maids with less than 3,000 people are slightly controllable. Fifteen thousand palace maids and eunuchs have many mouths and different thoughts, and they can't monitor if they want to.

If any emperor dares to guarantee that he himself can run the imperial city of more than 10,000 people impermeable, then I can only say that there are many cows that are not good at plowing the land, but they are flying into the sky.

When everyone saw the emperor's wandering things, it was not easy to urge. After a while, Zhu Qiyu came back to his senses and instructed everyone: "You all go to the east duty room and wait, and I will talk to you one by one."

Ruan An stayed first, and the others went to the east room first. ”

When everyone heard this, they hurriedly retreated.

Zhu Qiyu spent half an hour talking with Ruan An about the renovation of the South Palace and the construction of Anle Hall. Ruan An is the most experienced architect in the inner court, and Zhu Qiyu is very relieved to hand over these two projects to him.

After that, Wang Cheng and Shu Liang talked in detail about the issue of inserting eyeliner into the palaces of the kings. At the end, Zhu Qiyu emphasized:

"The most important thing is to take advantage of this opportunity to reward the kings with eunuchs, and put some eyes and ears in King Xiang's mansion to closely monitor King Xiang's every move.

Among these princes, King Xiang is the most dissatisfied with me. It's best if he can be quiet, if he has any other thoughts, or intends to help the emperor restore, then don't blame me for being unkind. ”

Wang Cheng and Shu Liang hurriedly replied: "Don't worry, the emperor, the slave and maid will do it." ”

Zhu Qiyu changed his pleasant expression and said to the two: "Wang Cheng will temporarily be in charge of the celebrant and the seal." After Jin Ying and Xing'an came back, they still nominally let Jin Ying take charge of the ceremonial supervision and seal and Xing'an Governor Dongchang.

But when the two of them come back, they won't stay for a year or two before they die.

When the time comes, you will have almost experienced it, and you will be able to officially ascend to the position. At this stage, you should learn more and watch more, accumulate more contacts, and recruit more cronies.

Don't be impatient, don't be arrogant, you still have a long way to go. I took you as my confidants, so I spoke out to remind you. I hope you don't let me down. ”

The two hurriedly kowtowed to show their loyalty, and Zhu Qiyu waved his hand: "Go and call Lu Zhong in." ”

As soon as Lu Zhong came in, he poured beans into a bamboo bucket, and told Zhu Qiyu about the matter in Cining Palace last night.

There is Gao Ping in Cining Palace to do Lu Zhong's eyeliner. In the past few days, Gao Ping has secretly contacted several eunuchs who are familiar with each other on weekdays, saying that they have fallen to the emperor together.

Therefore, this summons, Lu Zhong has more abundant and detailed information, and he is more confident in front of the emperor, and he talks endlessly for half an hour.

In the end, Lu Zhong concluded: "Your Majesty, on the first day of the Jingtai Dynasty, the Queen Mother planned this arson case in Fengtian Temple, just to characterize it as a natural disaster, and then then preach to the people of the world that His Majesty was immoral, which caused the anger of the heavens and the resentment of the people.

When the three major halls caught fire for the first time, even Taizong had a hard time arguing, and was chased by the courtiers to play a difficult question. Now His Majesty's foundation is no better than that of Taizong back then, you must guard against this matter.

There are also the kings of Dongwu County, the Great Khan of Warat, and the Great Khan of Tatar in Beijing, and your Majesty must not be cautious about their safety. ”

Zhu Qiyu nodded very seriously, and then asked: "If things are dry today, and there are fireworks and firecrackers in the inner court, do you think that Cining Palace will accidentally catch fire like Fengtian Palace?" ”

When Lu Zhong heard this, in the winter, he sweated all of a sudden. What does the emperor mean to let himself go to Cining Palace?

In the face of this choice, life and death of wealth are just a thought.

If you make the right choice and do things well, that is, you will be prosperous and rich, and you will enjoy it inexhaustibly.

If you make the wrong choice and mess things up, you can get on the road early.

However, the reason why Lu Zhong defected to the emperor early was that he wanted to gamble with his life and fight for wealth. So after a short period of consternation, Lu Zhong made a choice:

"On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival, the people of the Inner Court Palace will set off fireworks.

At that time, the general will be willing to die for His Majesty, and take his cronies to rescue the Queen Mother and ensure that the Queen Mother is safe. ”

When Zhu Qiyu heard this, he smiled bitterly in his heart: This guy is too hard, in order to get ahead, even the Queen Mother dares to kill him.

It's no wonder that this guy in history dared to raise the golden knife case, it was really soft and afraid of hard, hard and horizontal, and horizontal and afraid of death. It is just right to use Lu Zhong, who is not fatal, to deal with the Sun family.

Zhu Qiyu now feels more and more that he is completely opposite to the historical Jingtai employment style. Jing Tai took Yu Qian, who was offered as a father, and was sent away by himself.

Lu Zhong, Xu Youzhen and others, whom Jingtai hated, were more and more reused by themselves.

Lu Zhong gritted his teeth to show his loyalty, but he couldn't get a response from the emperor, so he couldn't help but glance at it boldly, only to see that the emperor was distracted, with a wry smile on his face, and he didn't know what he was thinking. Could I be wrong? Didn't the emperor want to burn the Queen Mother?

Lu Zhong played a drum up and down in his heart, and waited for a long time, just when the cold sweat was about to soak his clothes, he heard Zhu Qiyu reply:

"It's normal for there to be a fire in Cining Palace, but you must not hurt the Queen Mother, otherwise the government and the opposition will discuss it, and I won't be able to bear it for the time being, and then I can only take your head and explain it to the people of the world."

When Lu Zhong heard this, he couldn't help but start wiping his sweat with his sleeves.

Zhu Qiyu smiled: "You don't have to be so nervous, I have never harmed my cronies, I just let you understand the benefits and losses."

I will not go around the bush with you, lest you be wrong, and you will kill me, and your own life.

It should be like this: on the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the palace people accidentally set off firecrackers and fireworks, so that many palaces such as Cining Palace, Renshou Palace, and Yangxin Palace caught fire.

In the end, the fire spread and could not be extinguished, and Cining Palace, Xian'an Palace, Renshou Palace, and Yangxin Palace were burned to the ground.

Jin Yiwei commanded Lu Zhong, the servant, and Gao Ping, who was on duty in the Cining Palace, to risk their lives to rescue the Holy Empress Dowager from danger.

Lu Zhongsheng Jinyi Wei commanded Tongzhi, and Gao Ping was promoted to the head of Yinghua Palace.

In addition to Gao Ping's meritorious eunuchs who fought fires, the rest of the eunuchs and palace maids in Cining Palace were all killed.

Afterwards, rumors spread in Beijing, saying that the Empress Dowager killed his wife with a concubine in the front, and lost her education to the Emperor Taishang, which led to the change of Tumubao and the Northern Hunt of the Emperor Taishang. The Holy Empress Dowager was finally condemned to heaven because of this, so that disasters fell from the sky, and most of the harem was burned. ”

(End of chapter)