If other emperors were in power, the ministers would light a fire to the Gongyuan and burn dozens of students by surprise, which would definitely be a small trick.

But using this trick to deal with Zhu Qiyu is really a bit insufficient.

Zhu Qiyu was not smarter than other emperors.

But unlike other Ming emperors, Zhu Qiyu has extremely serious paranoia of victimization. All I thought about all day was what the ministers would do to themselves.

Arson, falling into the water, and drugged are the three magic weapons to deal with the emperor, and they are also the key prevention objects of Zhu Qiyu.

As early as March, Zhu Qiyu ordered Zhao Xuan and Wang Tong to set up three disaster preparedness offices in Yingzhou Wei and Tiance Wei to be responsible for emergency disaster response.

One of the most important is to train two specialized firefighting armies.

The three 1,000 households of Yingzhouwei are stationed in the western suburbs.

Tian Cewei's three disaster preparedness thousand households were stationed on the north side of the Wuding Marquis Mansion and Fengtian Dusi Yamen in Dongcheng. It is less than two miles away from the Gongyuan, and once the Gongyuan catches fire, it can be arrived in a quarter of an hour.

And since August 15, two of them have been moved to the armor factory south of Gongyuan. As long as the students in the Gongyuan shouted loudly, it took less than a cup of tea to extinguish the fire.

In addition, the east side of Gongyuan is close to the Paozi River, as long as there are enough people and water is taken in time, no matter how big the fire can be easily extinguished.

The monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty are like this, guarding against each other, calculating each other, and there is no trust at all.

Although Zhu Qiyu plays with women at home every day, he has never relaxed his layout in the capital. Yingzhou Wei has all been dispatched out of the city and is responsible for defending the western suburbs.

In the capital, it is completely in charge of the Tiance Guard after the integration and reorganization of the four guards of the Imperial Horse Guard.

Now guarding the original palace and protecting the concubine is the original 5,000 heavenly guards.

The reason why Zhu Qiyu was relieved was because Tian Cewei was the guard of the Han King back then. After the death of King Han, Tian Cewei was bitterly suppressed for twenty years.

Now half of the Han family's family is dead. The old people in the Han Palace, who can be named, are only Concubine Xuanyi.

Therefore, Zhu Qiyu believes that Tian Cewei will protect the concubine with his heart.

Previously, Zhu Qiyu sent 30,000 Jinyi guards to Nanjing.

After that, he made full use of the detective function of the Jinyi Guard and sent 20 thousand households to garrison various places in Shanxi; In addition, Gansu, Hetao, and Liaodong each sent ten thousand households. After this set was mobilized, another 50,000 brocade guards were sent out of the capital.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, this was good, and the emperor was very authoritative. Especially for the guards, you have to go wherever you go, even if you are a Jinyi guard, you can't bargain with the emperor.

Of course, Zhu Qiyu is still very humane, and if he is unwilling to go to the frontier to reconnoiter intelligence for the emperor, he can give up his identity as a Jinyi guard and transfer to Nanjing's ordinary Shangzhi guard.

After some operation, there are less than 30,000 brocade guards left in Beijing, including six military craftsmen and thousands of households.

These six military craftsmen were relocated to the southwest corner of the outer city. Zhu Qiyu concentrated the ordnance manufacturing yamen of the inner court and the imperial court here to facilitate further integration.

In this way, the composition of the army in the city is simpler and clearer.

This is still Zhu Qiyu's kindness. When he was besieging the Beijing Division first, Zhu Qiyu requisitioned 5,000 families from the nobles to form a new army. In the end, Zhu Qiyu did not choose to consume this new army on the battlefield.

Therefore, in the capital, the noble family is still a military force that cannot be underestimated.

But no matter what, inside and outside the imperial city, it has been firmly controlled by Zhu Qiyu. Even if he welcomes back the emperor now, Zhu Qiyu is confident that he can control the situation.

After the court meeting, the ministers returned to the capital, and immediately went to the Yinghua Hall to meet the queen mother, regardless of their fatigue.

After the fire in Cining Palace, it has only been eight months now, but Empress Dowager Sun seems to be three years old.

After hearing the news that Zhu Qiyu's favorite concubines were pregnant one after another, Empress Dowager Sun's heart was cold.

What are you afraid of, what are you afraid of.

The only way Empress Dowager Sun can think of to turn defeat into victory is to start with Zhu Qiyu's fertility and let Zhu Qiyu cut off his children and grandchildren, so as to cast a mouse on the emperor and dare not make another death.

This is the case with Jingtai in history, his only son Zhu Jianji was killed by the emperor's faction, but Jingtai didn't dare to kill the emperor's faction.

Because if Zhu Qizhen is extinct again, then the throne will be cheap.

Regarding the concept of the traditional succession of the ancients, Zhu Qiyu could only shake his head and sigh.

Anyway, now that the Emperor faction has no way to stop Zhu Qiyu, in the future, there will be continuous good news from other favorite concubines.

Fifteen favorite concubines, two each, a total of thirty princes and princesses. This large group is enough to collapse the mentality of the Emperor faction.

When Empress Dowager Sun learned the news of Princess Qi's pregnancy, she pretended to be concerned. As the first close minister of the emperor's side, He Yi told the Empress Dowager Sun in detail about the emperor's arrangements.

After hearing this, Empress Dowager Sun's heart was completely cold: Concubine Wu and Mrs. Wuding personally lived in the western suburbs to take care of Princess Qi, and every bowl of medicine and every bite of food had to be tasted by the two of them.

connected to the birth of a stable wife, all settled early, one is the nurse of the Marquis of Wuding, and the other is the nurse of Mrs. Wudinghou. Want to do it while delivering a baby? The emperor blocked the road early.

The most important thing is that there are too few people around the emperor. The more people there are, the more chaotic they are, and the easier it is to get their hands dirty. The fewer people there are, the clearer they are, and the slightest abnormality will be detected.

Moreover, Zhang Yuanju, one of Empress Dowager Sun's cronies, who diagnosed Princess Qi's happy pulse, died inexplicably that day. The other imperial doctors are not stupid, what does the emperor mean, isn't it clear, no one is willing to act easily now.

After all, Zhang Yuan's sentence was only the death of one person, and it did not affect the family. If the other imperial doctors give shame again, then the next thing should be the Yi three clans.

Empress Dowager Sun is also completely crazy, why has things developed to this point, saying that when the emperor lives in the Forbidden City, all kinds of people can be manipulated?

Without waiting for Empress Dowager Sun to come back to her senses, Chen Xun reported another content of the morning court meeting, Xu Youzhen wrote a letter to suggest that the Emperor Taishang issue an edict against himself, and took the initiative to demote himself from Emperor Taishang to Emperor Gongrang.

At this time, Empress Dowager Sun couldn't bear it at all, and got up directly in a rage, and shouted to Chen Xun: "Tell me yourself, is this the words of a minister?"

Good Emperor Taishang, why should he be reduced to Emperor Gongrang?

According to what you mean, does the emperor still have to kowtow to the current emperor? ”

Chen Xun replied without humility or arrogance: "Don't be angry, the queen mother's edict is nothing, and the son has already issued two edicts today."

The Emperor Taishang has the responsibility of mourning his teacher, and the next edict is also reasonable.

As for the demotion from Emperor Taishang to Emperor Gongrang, it is just to express Emperor Taishang's guilt towards the subjects of the world.

In terms of etiquette, it is still the current saint who respects the emperor. ”

(End of chapter)