As the fire grew, the entire capital was in an uproar.

Almost all the people, even those who were already asleep, were called up and went out to watch this once-in-a-century wonder.

Older people know that the three major halls were burned down once during the time of Taizong. But within half a month, there were two fires in the Forbidden City, which was really a new thing that I had never seen before.

The news of the Forbidden City's re-fire was soon sent out by the clerical office.

In the second half of the night, the news spread to Yuquan Mountain.

Those little girls had already received Zhu Qiyu's instructions when the Fengtian Temple was on fire before, and there was no need to rush to report the fire again.

So it wasn't until the morning of the sixteenth day of the first lunar month that Xiao Yahuan could report the news.

Zhu Qiyu only replied that he knew, and he didn't read the newspaper, so he continued to get back into the quilt, holding a small fragrant jade, wandering in the gentle land, so chic and comfortable.

Lin Xiangyu raised her jade arm lightly, took the report, waved away the little ring, and then read the report carefully.

Before Lin Xiangyu could ask, Zhu Qiyu replied vaguely: "Don't panic, Feng'er didn't have to panic, it was the fire I made people light it." ”

When Lin Xiangyu heard this, she asked curiously: "Husband, you ordered Cining Palace, and the slave family can still understand." But why did the Qianqing Palace let you light it? Queen Qian was already blind in one eye and lame in one leg, if there are three long and two short, can we still say clearly? ”

When Zhu Qiyu heard this, he hurriedly poked his head out, and also took the report and read it carefully, and then replied with an inexplicable face:

"I didn't let people order the Qing Palace, I don't know who is smart.

But feel free, we're forty miles away from the Forbidden City, and we don't know what's going on there, so let them go. ”

So Zhu Qiyu continued to burrow back into the quilt until three poles in the morning, then got up to freshen up, dressed neatly, and came to the West Pavilion to deal with government affairs.

As soon as Zhu Qiyu sat down, He Yi handed over the edict of guilt.

After reading it carefully, Zhu Qiyu nodded with satisfaction, and ordered He Yi to immediately send a formal edict to the cabinet and issue it to the world.

The sixteenth day of the first lunar month was the day when the imperial court officially resumed its work, but when the ministers returned to their respective yamen, they looked north, but what they saw was a Forbidden City with billowing smoke.

There were two fires in a row in half a month, and even the ministers who had experienced the 'thunder and fire from the sky' in the Taizong Dynasty were embarrassed to say that this fire was a 'natural disaster'.

Chen Xun, Wang Wen and others gathered in the cabinet to discuss whether to go to the Queen Mother to say goodbye.

It stands to reason that the queen mother and queen were so frightened, the ministers should go to condole and ask for a crime by the way.

But now that the emperor has torn his face with the Queen Mother, and when he goes to see the Queen Mother again, he is suspected of standing in line, which is easy to give the emperor a bad impression.

The ministers hesitated until noon, and the emperor's edict reached the cabinet.

Now everyone scratched their heads even more: they received the news of the fire in the Forbidden City last night, and as soon as they arrived at the cabinet this morning, they saw a pile of recitals asking the emperor to issue an edict.

It's okay now, things haven't been sorted out yet, the emperor's edict has been prepared, and this efficiency is too terrifying.

Before, everyone was worried that the emperor's retreat to Xishan would affect the efficiency of handling court affairs. Now it seems that everyone is completely overthinking.

Chen Xun looked at Wang Wen with the edict of guilt. Wang Wen said with a smile: "Since it is the emperor's will, what else do you say, let's transcribe it as it is, and then transfer it to the celebrant supervisor." ”

When Chen Xun heard this, he hurriedly replied: "Qianzhi, your calligraphy is far better than ours, you should write this edict." ”

Wang Wen smiled and nodded, just write, anyway, he has come to this point, he can only be born as an emperor, and die as the emperor's ghost. Don't think about leaving a back road, it's impossible to reverse the water, just break the jar and break it, don't think about anything, just follow the emperor to the black.

After going through the cabinet and the celebrant supervisor, this edict was officially released in the afternoon.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and this guilty edict shocked the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty. Although today is the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, considering the previous New Year's holiday, today is actually the second day of Jingtai Dynasty's governance.

So on the second day after the Jingtai Dynasty just began, the emperor issued an edict of guilt. Is there a precedent for this? Is it the fastest record of the emperors of all dynasties to issue edicts?

What surprised the courtiers the most was that the emperor was very tough, and declared very clearly in the edict that he would not live in the palace, build the imperial mausoleum, or establish the queen from now on. And he no longer calls himself a widow, but only a widow.

Moreover, Zhu Qiyu made it clear for the first time that he was forced to take the throne as the king of Qi, and when he returned to the emperor, he immediately retired as the king of Qi and returned to Shandong to take up the throne.

The civil and military officials immediately welcomed the restoration of the emperor and ascended to the throne again.

Although this is the unanimous wish of the middle- and lower-level civil ministers and military generals, no one dares to applaud the guilty edict, and no one dares to openly approve of the emperor's abdication and let the emperor be restored.

What are you kidding, the throne is not a ball, it can be kicked over and over. The emperor is not a plaything in the hands of civil and military officials, you say abdicate when you abdicate, you say restoration is restoration, this is the imperial court, have you ever been here?

Therefore, from Jingtai's ascension to the throne until the change of seizing the door, no minister proposed to return Jingtai to orthodoxy.

Zhu Qizhen lost his teacher and humiliated the country, and he was already a sinner of the Ming Dynasty. No matter how brazen the minister was, he didn't dare to mention the restoration of Zhu Qizhen. No matter what they think in their hearts, the only way for everyone to express their opinions openly is to let the crown prince Zhu Jianshen be the next emperor.

Everyone gathered together, discussing and discussing, and in the evening, two more emperor's edicts came.

The first is Liao Zhuang, Shaoqing of Dali Temple, Ni Jing and Zuo Ding of the Imperial History, and Lin Cong in the military department, who disobeyed the emperor's order and openly resisted the decree. Under the circumstance that the emperor repeatedly emphasized the need to be concise and pragmatic, the book was written with thousands of words, which were more vain than vain, and could not be meaningful. The four went home and were suspended from their jobs.

The second is to order the civil and military officials to go to Cining Palace to worship the Holy Empress Dowager, and then go to the Qianqing Palace to worship the Empress Yisheng Taishang.

Hearing these two holy decrees, the hundred officials also looked at each other. The emperor also broke the jar and broke it, and directly suspended several leading ministers who wrote to the emperor asking him to issue an edict.

In addition, everyone is asked to go to Cining Palace and Qianqing Palace to worship, you must know that these two palaces are still burning.

The poor three harem masters, among them, Empress Dowager Sun and Empress Qian, were in the Yinghua Hall in the northwest corner, and they were in shock. And Empress Zhou was in the Qin'an Hall in the Imperial Garden, patiently comforting the crown prince.

When Chen Xun finished gathering hundreds of civil and military officials, lined up outside Fengtianmen, and prepared to go to Qianqingmen, the latest news came from the harem:

Cining Palace, Qianqing Palace, Xian'an Palace, Renshou Palace, Yangxin Palace, Yongshou Palace, and Yikun Palace were all destroyed.

Yexian's sister Jingcairen, the daughter of Boyan Timur, was previously the concubine of the Emperor Taishang, and had been living in Yongshou Palace.

In this fire, neither Jingcai nor Zhencai escaped and unfortunately died.

When Queen Qian saw her tragic situation, she was overly frightened, and she was in distress last night, which hurt her heart, and now she has fainted several times and is bedridden.

Empress Dowager Sun caught a cold last night and was also bedridden.

(End of chapter)