No matter how Sun and Zhu Qizhen persuaded him, Zhu Qiyu was unmoved.

Zhu Qiyu vaguely remembered that he seemed to have heard someone say that the power of the Son of Heaven only existed ten steps away, within a thousand miles.

Thousands of miles away, the emperor is far away, and he can't care so carefully.

Within ten steps, the emperor is also a mortal, and he only has one life.

So don't look at Zhu Qiyu's momentum now, but once he lives in the Forbidden City, among the thousands of palace maids and eunuchs, as long as one is Zhu Qizhen's diehard, find a gap for Zhu Qiyu to come to Zhu Qiyu, and everything will be over.

This 'come and go' may be drugged, or it may be strangled by the neck, or it may be stretched out to push the emperor while he is walking by the water.

Open guns are easy to dodge, but hidden arrows are difficult to defend.

Who knows what whimsical ideas the opponent will come up with, in short, once there are more people around, it is inevitable and unguardable.

Since she couldn't get a result, Empress Dowager Sun looked at several clan relatives sitting at the same table, hoping that they could stand up and persuade the emperor to change his mind.

The clan relatives present, the highest rank were the eldest princess of Yongjia, the king of Min, and Zhao Hui, the commander of the horses. The most noble was Zhu Wengui, the king of Soochow County.

The eldest princess of Yongjia and the Sun family have long formed a mortal enmity, so they are naturally on Zhu Qiyu's side.

King Min and the eldest princess of Yongjia are compatriots, so naturally they also advance and retreat together.

The king of Dongwu was released from imprisonment by Zhu Qiyu, restored his freedom, and gave preferential treatment to Prince Bi, so his position is also very clear.

The Sun clan didn't expect these three people to say anything good, but pinned their hopes on Zhao Hui, the commander of the horses.

Taizong, Renzong, Xuanzong, orthodoxy these four generations are very good to Zhao Huike, when Zhao Hui and Princess Baoqing got married, Renzong, who was still the prince, personally went to send his aunt to marry, and its attention was extremely rare in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

But as soon as Zhao Hui spoke, the Sun family was greatly disappointed, and only listened to Zhao Hui's persuasion: "Since Your Majesty has made up your mind, the Empress Dowager and Emperor Gongrang don't need to persuade anymore."

His Majesty is comfortable living in the western suburbs, which is also beneficial to both the family and the country.

You see, His Majesty has only been on the throne for two years, and twelve mothers have already become pregnant, and they have successfully given birth to their eldest son.

It can be seen that the western suburbs of Yuquan Mountain have a suitable climate and water and soil to support people.

Besides, His Majesty has not been negligent in government affairs, and now the war between the four parties has gradually subsided, the state affairs are in good order, and the Ming Dynasty has a thriving trend.

So your majesty can live wherever he likes, so why force it. ”

After that, Zhao Hui immediately added: "It is the matter of Your Majesty's appointment of a concubine, and it is also a matter of Your Majesty's private family, which can also be decided by Your Majesty himself." ”

Hearing this, Sun's, Qian's, and Zhu Qizhen's faces all changed.

Zhu Qizhen was especially surprised, he didn't think that he had only been hunting in the north for two years, and the pattern of the court had changed so much. Most of the clan relatives, nobles, and civil and military ministers present stood on the emperor's side.

Let's listen to what Zhao Hui said: The emperor can leave the imperial city and live in the western suburbs. The emperor does not appoint an empress, and he can choose his concubines freely. Co-authoring the emperor is completely unrestrained, right?

Sun and Zhu Qizhen were just about to think carefully about how they should fight back next. Unexpectedly, Queen Qian suddenly answered and asked Zhao Huiji:

"Uncle Great-Grand's words are wrong, His Majesty was only the regent in the past, and it is reasonable not to set up a queen. Now that His Majesty has officially accepted the Zen concession, will he not make the queen a ruler?

Have you ever seen a dynasty or generation where there was only an emperor but no empress? ”

When Zhao Hui heard this, he immediately retorted: "If according to what Empress Taishang said, since His Majesty has accepted the Zen concession, he should completely act in accordance with the precedent of the emperors of previous dynasties?"

If you act according to the rules, the emperors of all dynasties have appointed their sons as the crown princes, and the crown princes will inherit the throne.

I have never heard of an emperor who passed the throne to his nephew when he had a son.

According to the words of the Empress Taishang, His Majesty canonized the queen and gave birth to a concubine with the queen. Should his sister-in-law be made the crown prince or inherit the throne? Please also ask Empress Taishang to make it clear. ”

Empress Dowager Sun and Zhu Qizhen heard the conversation between the two, and each gasped.

Neither of them expected Qian to suddenly make such a statement, and they didn't expect Zhao Hui to seize the loophole and fight back mercilessly. Even if ordinary people know about the loopholes, they will choose to turn a blind eye and not dare to embarrass the Sun family too much.

Empress Dowager Sun and Zhu Qizhen didn't want to be too entangled in the matter of the post-establishment of the queen, and really forced Zhu Qiyu to set up the queen, which will inevitably involve the issue of whether the emperor and the queen's sister-in-law have the right to inherit the throne.

Isn't this rushing to force Zhu Qiyu to change to the crown prince.

So on this issue, Empress Dowager Sun, Zhu Qizhen, and Zhu Qiyu have the same attitude, and they don't want a queen to really appear.

Zhao Hui's attitude can still be understood by everyone, this is to submit his name to the emperor, and from then on, he can only stand on the emperor's side.

And Queen Qian's attitude is a little intriguing, and I don't know if she really lacks political acumen, said the wrong thing on impulse, or deliberately put the current crown prince on the fire to roast.

Anyway, it is unlikely that Queen Qian will have a son again, and Queen Zhou is Queen Qian's sworn enemy, so Queen Qian's blindness and lame legs may not have come about.

It is not ruled out that Queen Qian is deliberately going to trap Queen Zhou and the crown prince Zhu Jianshen.

At this point, the atmosphere of the banquet became more and more tense, except for the table where the two emperors were, everyone else was silent, and no one wanted to follow it.

Not only did the civil and military officials not speak, but Zhu Qiyu himself also stopped talking.

Anyway, for Zhu Qiyu, he will never be crowned queen.

With two years of running-in with his favorite concubines, a balanced and harmonious mode of getting along has been established.

Zhu Qiyu summed up three principles.

First, we need to be as fair as possible.

Human nature is like this, and it always suffers from unevenness rather than few.

Zhu Qiyu equalized the status, status, treatment, and share of the fifteen favorite concubines.

Even the most difficult to solve the problem of the queen's position and the canonization of the crown prince, Zhu Qiyu gave a clear solution:

When he was alive, he did not set up a queen, and the fifteen favorite concubines were equal in position and sat on an equal footing.

The prince should treat the fifteen concubines equally, kowtow every New Year's holiday, and dedicate himself to the future.

Zhu Qiyu has already booked the status of a little kowtow insect for his eldest son without authorization, and he will have to kowtow to anyone he sees when the time comes.

As for after he died, he went to the seaside of Shandong with his favorite concubines to find a place with pleasant scenery to be buried together.

If your son has to install a queen's tablet in the temple, you will respect the daughter of the Guo family of the Marquis of Wuding as the queen of Jingtai.

In a word, everything should be evenly divided as much as possible, and no one should fight for the fifteen favorite concubines, and no one should fight.

In the words of Lao Tzu, it is not desired, so that people's hearts are not confused.

In addition, the fifteen favorite concubines have grown up together since childhood, like sisters, and there is no fuse that causes conflict.

Zhu Qiyu's second principle is to stop completely and never find a new woman.

When he first became the emperor, Zhu Qiyu really thought about the three palaces, six courtyards, and three thousand beauties.

But as time went by, Zhu Qiyu gradually understood that if he wanted his backyard to be peaceful, live a comfortable life, and ensure his personal safety, he still didn't want to accept new women.

(End of chapter)