The status quo is like this, the people who sent charcoal to the emperor in the snow, followed the emperor to eat big fish and meat until they vomited, such as Xu Heng, the Duke of Anguo, who bet on Dabao.

For those who are icing on the cake, whether they can drink the soup or not is a question. Now if you want to join the emperor's camp, you have to line up crying and shouting allegiance.

As for the people who participated in the rebellion, whether they lived or not, it was all up to the emperor's thoughts.

King Lu asked Tang Jie again: "After seeing the emperor, what should we say?" ”

Tang Jie said with a smile: "In the past half a month since I entered Beijing, my nephew has been inquiring about all kinds of news and carefully figuring out the emperor's style of acting.

According to what my nephew saw, I am afraid that it was not the emperor himself who received us this time, but the two princesses of Xiaoqi.

Because we have no credit to the emperor, the emperor may not be rare to deal with us.

If the uncle is willing to listen to his nephew and grandson, and when he sees Princess Qi, don't put the prince's score, kneel when you should kneel, and kowtow when you should kowtow. ”

Hearing this, Lu Shizi stopped doing it on the spot: "What are these words, those princesses are from low backgrounds, why should we kneel down to them."

Take 10,000 steps back, even if they are princesses, but their father is a prince, when have you ever heard of a prince kneeling and kowtowing to the princesses of other families? ”

Tang Jie retorted: "Uncle, that's not what I said. Although she is nominally a princess, she is actually doing the queen's errand.

And people who are more powerful than Queen Qian and Queen Zhou don't know where to go, and they are very doted on by the emperor.

Our lives are now in the hands of others. Anyway, seven princes have already died in this mutiny, and if one more dies or one less dies, the emperor won't care at all. ”

Lu Shizi stopped talking, and after staying in Beijing for so many days, everyone inquired about the situation of the court. These absurd arrangements made by the emperor on women are simply known to everyone. You can ask someone on the street of the capital, and they can tell you a lot of words:

When he was an emperor, he did not make a queen, nor did he live in the palace. But in the western suburbs of the ravine, the palace was built, and the princess was in charge. None of the princesses are vying to be queens, but each one has so much power that the two queens of Ling Qian and Zhou are beyond their reach.

The emperor easily agreed to accept the concubine after the Ministry of Rites, but in a mutiny, the three hundred beautiful girls died cleanly, and they also paid the two nannies of the emperor. Mrs. Fusheng and Mrs. Zuo Sheng, both of whom were Mrs. Yipin, died like this.

Thinking of this, Lu Shizi sighed: "It's a pity that those three hundred beautiful girls, if there is no mutiny, then the Ming Dynasty will be able to have a serious queen." ”

Tang Jie shook his head embarrassedly: "Uncle, my nephew still wants to refute you." ”

"Okay, just say, I want to listen, what's wrong."

Tang Jie said with a smile: "Without the mutiny, these show girls would not have survived, and it would be impossible to choose the queen." From the very beginning, the emperor did not want to elect an empress at all.

From the moment the Ministry of Rites officials proposed the draft girl, it was destined that both the Ministry of Rites officials and the show girl would die.

The officials of the Ministry of Rites felt that the emperor was weak and could be bullied, so they all died. The show girls felt that the emperor's favorite concubine was weak and bullied, so they all died. ”

Lu Shizi asked curiously: "But it was the Ministry of Rites that placed the show girl in the ceremonial room, it was a small group of rebels who killed the show girl, and the emperor's old Qi palace was set on fire by the rebels, and Mrs. Rongshan beside Concubine Wu also died in the chaos." ”

Tang Jie sighed: "That's why I said that today's emperor's heart is unfathomable." Everything is like an antelope hanging its horns, and there is no trace of it. But everything went according to the emperor's wishes. ”

Lu Shizi nodded: "Then the emperor is too ruthless, and the emperor's favorite concubines are too jealous." ”

Tang Jie smiled: "Okay, what woman would be willing to share her man with others." Besides, these favorite concubines can be regarded as following the emperor to share the hardships, why do those show girls occupy the magpie's nest.

Moreover, the emperor had decreed to dissuade those women from participating in the draft, and the princess had also invited the show girls to the palace in the western suburbs.

If those show girls had listened to the persuasion and accepted the invitation of the princess, wouldn't they have been able to avoid this mutiny.

The chance to survive was given, and the show girls had to compete to be queens, and wanted to trample the emperor's favorite concubines under their feet, so they really deserved to die. ”

When Lu Shizi heard this, he sighed and had nothing more to say.

King Lu saw that the matter had been explained thoroughly, so he made a final decision, and finally made a decision: "That's it, listen to Jie'er, when you arrive at the palace tomorrow, you should kneel down, and kowtow when you should kowtow."

The heroes don't lose money in front of them, they coaxed the emperor and princess as soon as possible, let's leave the land of right and wrong as soon as possible, and whoever comes again in the future will be the grandson. ”

……

However, it was said that in the cabinet, Chen Xun, Wang Wen, Shen Yi, Wei Ji, Zhou Chen, Luo Tong, and He Wenyuan gathered together for a small meeting.

Now the cabinet is much quieter, Yu Shiyue is gone, Shi Pu is gone, Shang Shi is gone, and Peng Shi is gone.

Among the rest of the people, there are also a few happy and a few sad.

For example, Shen Yi, the iron rooster-like household secretary, was so happy that his mouth was almost crooked.

There were too many nobles, civil officials, and military generals involved, and this was copied from the family, and a cart of property was pulled into the warehouse area of the West Garden of the Imperial City.

The stolen penalty treasury has already been piled up, and it can only be stuffed into the warehouses of carriers, Guangying, Guanghui, and Guangji.

When these warehouses were almost full, Shen Yi had no choice but to temporarily requisition the silver warehouse.

When the emperor first ascended the throne, he ordered the household department to build a huge silver warehouse next to the Lu rice warehouse for the distribution of money to officials.

At that time, Shen Yi, who was still the right attendant of the household department, kept muttering in his heart: This new gentleman is afraid that he is not suffering from some serious illness, how can he think that one is one out, and the repair of such a large silver warehouse is used to raise rats?

I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, Shen Yi never dreamed that there would be today, and Daming's Hubu Shangshu would count the money until he was dizzy.

In addition to Shen Yi, the happiest person is Wang Wen. Chen Xunzhishi is already a certainty, so next, the cabinet will be led by Wang Wen.

As the first important minister to be loyal to the emperor, the position of the first assistant of the cabinet is the greatest reward for Wang Wenxue's charcoal.

Other people know this result and have no opinion, who makes people have good vision and courage, this is what Wang Wen deserves.

Chen Xun had a bitter face, this time he didn't know how to get confused, although he didn't rebel, but his attitude was ambiguous in many things, and even made it a lot easier for Emperor Gongrang.

Chen Xun knew that this time it was the emperor who deliberately spared his life, and it was all for the sake of his own support at the beginning of his ascension to the throne. Otherwise, with the emperor's means, he would have cooled down.

The emperor remembered the old feelings, and he had to know how to advance and retreat.

Chen Xun also figured it out, he is over seventy years old, so he should go home early.

So Chen Xun pulled the cabinet to start the handover.

The handover was almost over, and seeing that Chen Xun's situation was so bleak, Wang Wen couldn't bear it, so he persuaded him: "Why don't you write a letter to accuse the emperor and the empress dowager of Gongrang, and persuade the saint to depose the emperor and degrade him to a prince, and abolish the position of the empress dowager and degrade him to a concubine." ”

When Chen Xun heard this, he looked at Wang Wen in surprise. It's too bold to say this, right?

Wang Wen explained: "The Holy Lord is the only monarch of the Ming Dynasty, and even if the coup d'état initiated by Emperor Gongrang is also a rebellion.

As a courtier, the most important thing is to be loyal to the king, how can you turn a blind eye to the conspiracy? ”

After thinking about it for a while, Chen Xun understood. Even if they don't have themselves, others will write to ask for the deposition of the emperor and the empress dowager. The reason why Wang Wen persuaded himself to go to the book was because he wanted to give himself a favor. At that time, for the sake of this recital, the emperor will definitely let himself be safe, and the dignity that should be given will still be given.

For the sake of his descendants, Chen Xun still accepted Wang Wen's kindness, and immediately burst into tears, thanking Wang Wen and other ministers again and again.

……

It was early the next morning, the fourth day of the seventh month.

Zhu Qiyu was woken up from the bed early.

Zhu Qiyu pleaded with a bitter face: "My good ladies, you should work harder." I don't have anything to do today, so let me lie down in Gentle Country for a while. ”

Qianxue asked curiously, "Why doesn't the husband have anything to do?" ”

Zhu Qiyu spread his hands: "I'm still sick, I can't be so sick that I can't see people before the mutiny, and I immediately appeared in front of the courtiers after the mutiny, that's too unseemly."

And then none of the four of you want to have children, so I'm just going to have to lie down. ”

"Didn't you summon King Lu and Tang Jie today?"

"Hey, I just called them here, just to instruct them to convict the Sun family at the meeting of their relatives. They are not loyal to me, and I am too lazy to deal with them, so you can send them away.

As for Tang Jie's title, the Xinguo Mansion is the imperial family designated by Taizu, so this is our family matter, and you can do it yourself. ”

Qianxue replied helplessly: "Okay, then the husband will lie down for a while, and after getting up for a while, you will take Feng'er and Ningxiang to tidy up our vineyard." Then we went fishing, and after catching the fish, we cooked, and Hongu wanted to eat grilled fish today. ”

Zhu Qiyu arched his hand: "Weichen respects the will of Niangniang. ”

Qianxue smiled, got up and was about to pull Su Xi out.

Zhu Qiyu suddenly stopped the person: "Wait, there is one more thing, I will tell you a list, you can remember it." ”

When the second daughter heard this, she was busy preparing pen and ink.

I only heard Zhu Qiyu read: "The following are the eunuchs of the inner court of Nanjing: Pei Dang, the eunuch of the Zhidian Prison, and the young eunuch Fu'an, the left young eunuch of Shangyi;

Liu Xiang, the right supervisor of Shangshan Prison, and Chen Lin, the right supervisor of Du Zhi Prison;

Feng Yu Jin Xing, ministers Ruan Zhu, Chen Jing, Huang Qi.

Just these eight people were transferred from Nanjing. ”

"Husband, what are you going to do?"

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "The dissidents in the inner court of Beijing have been eradicated, and I want to reorganize the 24th Supervision Bureau of the inner court, as well as the East Factory and the Inner Factory."

As an emperor, it's not okay to rely too much on eunuchs, but it's not right to rely on eunuchs at all.

In the capital, eunuchs must be used to supervise hundreds of officials and collect intelligence; In the local area, it is necessary to use vassal kings, nobles, military generals, and civil servants to check and balance each other.

That's why I deliberately let some of the vassal kings go.

We can't follow the example of Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to go to extremes, and in the end, the vassal king is indeed no longer a threat at all, but he leaves a completely unbalanced stall for his children and grandchildren, and the military generals of Wenchen will do whatever they want, one by one, like big crabs, they all walk sideways.

We can't do that, we can't let our children and grandchildren scold us for lacking morality. ”

Qianxue nodded, and continued to ask, "What about Wang Cheng, Shu Liang, Zhang Yong, and Wang Qin?" ”

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "Don't worry, they are also ministers from the dragon, and a good position will definitely be indispensable to them." Let Shu Liang come back from Shanxi first.

Wang Cheng, Zhang Yong, and Wang Qin are left to copy Sanyang's house, so there is no need to urge them, let them copy it slowly. Be sure to copy Sanyang's family property cleanly, and don't leave any thoughts. ”

(End of chapter)