Chapter Seventy-Seven: Wu Zong Died

This group of Francos is really treacherous and cunning, and they are polite when they entertain you, as if you are his own father who has not returned for many years, and when they negotiated, they pretended to be their grandson, and they didn't recognize anything, although the negotiations failed, but they didn't get anything, and provided information about the pirates, Andrade graciously invited He Bother and his party to spend the night in the castle, the negotiations did not go well, why Bother agreed to see if there was any room for conversion.

There were no hard breads, salty bacon and desserts for dinner, Andrade chattered a string of Portuguese, and the interpreter next to him translated with a hypocritical face: "Distinguished guests, I am very sorry that I did not treat you well at lunch, I know that you are not used to eating the food of our country, so I specially invited the local chef who is the best at cooking to prepare dinner, let's start ordering!" ”

I can finally have a good meal, why bother looking at the long menu, I have a feeling that I don't know what to eat, this group of Franz people ordered two or three dishes by one person, is this a custom? Ordering food for everyone? Andrade warmly invited why bother, and in the end, why bother to see that they ordered all meat dishes, not a vegetarian dish, so they ordered a plate of fried vegetables.

After the dishes came up, why bother to be dumbfounded in an instant, what kind of operation is this, eat their own dishes, why bother looking at the plate of fried vegetables in front of him, staring at the fried octopus and fish-flavored shredded pork in front of Su Xiaolou without tears, saliva is about to flow out, and he has not eaten enough at noon.

Andrade forked out the clam meat with a fork and stuffed it into his mouth to taste the delicious food, thinking to himself: Daming's food is so delicious, this Lord Qincha actually likes to eat grass, it's so strange!

Su Xiaolou didn't think that tonight's meal was delicious, the chef here was far worse than that in Nanjing, and when he saw why he was alone and gnawed on a plate of green vegetables, Su Xiaolou instantly felt that tonight's meal was a lot better.

At this time, in the city of Beijing, the bells of the temples rang continuously, the money paper was sprinkled all over the sky, the nobles in the palace and the officials outside the palace wore filial piety, and sent off the Emperor Daxing - Chengtian Dadao Yingsu Ruizhe Zhaode Xiangong Hongwen Si Xiaoyi Emperor.

Eight hundred miles from the capital is being spread to all parts of the country to spread the news of the death of the Daxing Emperor, Wu Zong did not even survive this year on the hiccup, the day after Wu Zong's death, the cabinet ministers of the DPRK and China jointly signed a letter, listing the crimes of the favored minister Jiang Bin, with the deputy envoy of the Franco and the fire of Sanya, Empress Dowager Zhang complied with the opinions of the ministers, ordered the arrest of Jiang Bin, and soon after, with Pillaizi and Jiang Bin colluding with each other, he was executed, Pillaizi did not see Wuzong and became the first envoy of the Ming Dynasty to be killed.

On the second day, the team headed by the scholar Liang Chu, the Duke of Dingguo, Xu Guangzuo, the Marquis of Shouning, Cui Yuan, the commander of the horses, Mao Cheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and the eunuch Gu Dayong, had set off for Luzhou, Huguang'an, to welcome the young King Xing to come to Beijing to take the throne.

The capital changed overnight, the new forces liquidated the old forces, everyone in the court was in danger, tens of thousands of defenders in Tongzhou were transferred back to the capital for defense, and the West Fourth Pailou Caishikou (the place where the Ming Dynasty was beheaded) became the most lively place, but the common people did not care who was sitting on the throne, only concerned about whether the person sitting on the throne could make himself full and wear warm clothes.

Su Xiaolou, who was far away in Tuen Mun, didn't know that Wu Zong had burped, and the world was about to change masters, they got into the carriage of the Francophile, and were about to visit the warship of the Franco, and the villagers along the road saw the strange carriage decorated by the Francophile and the same as welcoming the relatives, and picked up their children and ran home, as if they had seen something terrible, probably because they had been oppressed and enslaved by the Francophile for a long time, and life was very hard.

The warships of the Fran machine are docked in Tuen Mun port, from below it looks like a behemoth lying on the sea, the two sides of the ship are loaded with heavy artillery fire, and it is easy to sink the ship that tries to get close to it, even why bother this kind of angry youth has to admit that the shipbuilding technology of the Fran machine is indeed much more advanced than that of the Ming Dynasty, and the weapons and equipment are no longer on the same level, many of the Ming Dynasty's guns are still bamboo barrels, which are blown up after a few times, and the loading ammunition is cumbersome, and the firearms of the Fran machine people can already be fired continuously, The firing range is also much farther than that of the Ming Dynasty, and the warships in Guangzhou Port are not half the size of the warships of the Fur Franc Machine, if they are in a head-to-head confrontation, the warships of the Ming Dynasty have not yet been sunk before they get close, and there is no hope of winning at all.

Why bother also realized that he was too impulsive and reckless, the Francosis should not be underestimated, if they want to get rid of them, they still have to think in the long run, at least they can't go head-to-head, and the Francosis showed them why bother to see their own fire, and it also has the meaning of reminding the Ming envoys that they are not easy to mess with.

Francois was both soft and hard, and sent his deputy envoy Pillayzi to the north to bribe officials, curry favor with Wu Zong, and cause chaos to the dynasty, and a large number of men and horses occupied Tuen Mun according to the ship's strong artillery and demonstrated the minister, so why bother to return to Guangzhou with a fire.

In the capital, Zhu Houyu accompanied the delegation to the Liangxiang on the outskirts of Beijing under the escort of Helian Zhi and other personal guards, and the ceremonial officials came to greet Zhu Houxi, using the etiquette of the crown prince.

The young Zhu Houxi was not afraid of the power of the important ministers of the court and the queen mother in the palace, and rebuked sharply: "The edict takes me as the throne, not the prince." Immediately decided to stop in Liangxiang and not advance, the old ministers of Wuzong led by Yang Tinghe and Mao Cheng heard about this and urgently went to Liangxiang to persuade Zhu Houxi to follow the advice of the ceremonial officials, enter the Wenhua Hall from Dong'anmen, and choose a day to ascend the throne.

The two sides were in a stalemate in the suburbs of Beijing, the country could not be without a monarch for a day, and finally the Empress Dowager Zhang came forward to act as a peacemaker, and let Zhu Houxi enter from the Daming Gate, and then succeeded to the throne in the Fengtian Palace, and planned to be "Jiajing" after the year.

Although Zhu Houxi started the first battle before the succession to the throne, but after the succession to the throne of the Xingxian King and the Xingxian princess on the title of the conflict broke out again, the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Mao Cheng, Taichang Temple Qing Fan Zhen united with the 60 civil and military ministers in the court, and suggested that Sejong respect filial piety as the "imperial examination", renamed his father Xingxian Wang as "the emperor's uncle", and his mother Xingxian the princess as "the emperor's uncle Xingxian princess", forced Sejong to question Mao Cheng and other ministers in the court: "Parents can be easier?"

The courtiers repeatedly pressed each other, and the stubborn Sejong resolutely refused to back down, which made the situation in the court very complicated.

The prince of the Ming Dynasty succeeded to the throne as the emperor, only Sejong alone, the lonely Sejong urgently needed to cultivate his own forces to fight against the queen mother's party and the old forces in the court that tried to control the imperial power, the most important thing was to ensure his own safety, the young Sejong was resolute and began to reshuffle the Jinyiwei.

Sejong first transferred many of the guards who had been employed in the Xingxian Palace, including Helian Song, the father of his personal guard Helian Zhi, who was appointed as the deputy Qianhu of Jinyiwei, and with the fall of Wuzong's favored ministers Qian Ning and Jiang Bin, a large part of the Jinyi Guard was dismissed from their official positions.

After Sejong succeeded to the throne, some people in the court once again proposed to recover Tuen Mun and expel the Francois people, and Sejong thought of Su Xiaolou, who had been recommended by his father to go to Guangzhou, so he gave a holy decree to why Bother who was negotiating with the Francois people in Guangzhou.