Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 2013 Inside and Outside the Palace (卌[-]) Doubts Abound
Gao Wushi and Shen Yiguan met each other's eyes, and they both saw a deep suspicion in each other's eyes.At this moment, Gao Yushi couldn't help doubting himself a little, and thought to himself: Could it be that Shen didn't do it all the time?Does Shen Yiguan still suspect that I did this?But... why?

It is always possible for Shen Yi to assassinate the emperor, which Gao Yushi had predicted before, and he thinks that there is generally no error in this inference.Even if the judgment is really biased, it can only be due to the time node, not whether the plan needs to exist.

Of course, Gao Wushi also had to admit that if Shen Yiguan had really deliberately arranged a conspiracy against the emperor at such a time today, then the plan itself was indeed a bit insane, not quite what Shen Yiguan should have.

why?Because if the emperor really died today for some reason, although it would definitely be a huge political blow to his high-level pragmatism, to be honest...not fatal.

The reason is simple: the imperial concubine is still fine!

Think about it, if the emperor died today, even if the emperor's son-in-law had not been registered as the crown prince, his status was clearly the undisputed "first in line heir", even if it was only the full moon today, according to Ming rules and tradition , he will definitely be the new king in his infancy.

It is true that the orphans and widows of the Tian family would be very dangerous in other dynasties, but it is not the case in Daming, so what about the orphans and widows?As long as there is no trouble in the cabinet, orphans and widows will not affect the normal operation of the court at all.

So, will there be trouble in the cabinet?To put it bluntly, as long as Gao Yushi doesn't want the cabinet to cause trouble, the trouble will not happen!
Why?At such a critical moment, only he is highly pragmatic and can ensure that the imperial guards will not dare to disobey orders!
Throughout the history of Chinese dynasties, whether it is a coup or other abnormal transfer of power at the top, what is the most critical thing for success?It is necessary to control the center of the imperial court as quickly as possible.

How can we control the center of the imperial court as quickly as possible?Of course, it is the first to control the military power of the capital!

Once there is a completely unexpected change like the sudden death of the emperor, and the ministers of the court have disputes over who should succeed the princes, in theory, of course, the queen mothers of the two palaces should make the decision.

However, the empress dowager of the Ming Dynasty is not the empress dowager of the Han Dynasty. The empress dowager of the Han Dynasty has legal and traditional support to make such a decision, but the empress dowager of the Ming Dynasty does not have such legal and traditional support at all.

Therefore, in fact, the empress dowagers of the two palaces did not have the right to take the initiative to issue a decree to indicate who should succeed, but had to wait for the cabinet to draw up a proposal, and then the empress dowager could choose to support or veto it. No cabinet proposals, especially collective proposals, have been vetoed.

So it is very clear to say that, in fact, if this situation really happens, the decision of who will succeed the new monarch ultimately rests with the cabinet.This is also easy to understand. For example, the reason why Emperor Sejong Jiajing had the opportunity to inherit the Datong as a vassal king was also selected by the cabinet.

Although Jiajing was indeed the one who most met the succession requirements in terms of bloodlines at the time, what should I say about this matter... If the cabinet did not recommend him, but recommended another vassal king to the queen mother, wouldn't it be possible?

The answer is that it can be done.Because the recommendation of the cabinet does not only represent the personal views of the cabinet ministers, it actually represents the attitude of the entire civil servant group. When this attitude is endorsed by the Queen Mother, it means that "the imperial power and the ministers have reached an agreement." No one can object.

Unless the military power objects.

Will Ming's military power object?This may have been possible before the Civil Fort Change, but after the Civil Fort Change, everyone knows that it is impossible.

However, today is different from the past. If the Imperial Guard really wants to object, then it really can.Because the Imperial Guard is the strongest near the capital now, it is fully capable of comprehensively and thoroughly controlling the situation in the capital, physically ensuring that no one dares to oppose it, and no one can oppose it.

Some people may ask: The imperial guards are only 6 people, and there are enough troops around the capital to "King Qin"!

You see, there are 18 soldiers in Liaodong, 18 in Jizhou, 13 in Changping, 12 in Xuanfu, 90 in Datong, [-] in Shanxi, [-] in Baoding, and [-] in Tianjin. Thirty thousand, just on the west, north, and east sides of the capital, there are nearly [-] troops. No matter how well-trained and well-equipped the imperial guards are, they will definitely not be able to withstand such a siege!

That's right, the distribution of troops is indeed like this, but there are two problems: first, if you say Qin Wang is Qin Wang, who ordered you to Qin Wang?How dare you disobey the rule that border troops are not allowed to enter Beijing?Think about how Qi Jiguang asked for instructions early and reported his position late when he entered Beijing?

What a joke, whoever ordered the troops to stand up and see!Believe it or not, this matter does not even require the order of the emperor or the queen mother, as long as an official document from the cabinet is issued, all the generals under your command will behead your dog's head first?

Second, these towns on the Nine Frontiers are indeed powerful, but...do you want to know who the general soldiers of these towns belong to?
Or if you think that the general soldiers don't have the guts to launch troops casually, then you might as well study further and look at the current governors of Jiliao, Xuanda, Liaodong, Datong, Shanxi, Xuanfu, Shuntian, Who is the governor of Baoding, the governor of Tianjin, etc. now, and think about which faction they basically come from?

The Practical School has been running Nine Borders Military Affairs for 30 years, and Gao Wushi personally led them to fight several battles that ended in complete victory.It can be said that if there is a real change in the capital, unless Gao Yushi explicitly orders them to enter the capital, no one will be able to mobilize them to do such a forbidden event-whoever becomes the emperor is none of their business?

Don't they understand the system of Ming Dynasty?They are just knives, not the people who wield them. If we can avoid such unlucky errands, we should try our best to avoid them.For them, they only need to wait for the dust to settle in the capital and the new king to succeed to the throne, and then they will go to the table to congratulate.Why put your head on your trouser belt and get involved in something that doesn't get you any good?Could it be that Enxiang Gao is pragmatic and intends to become emperor himself...

These truths are actually obvious, Gao Yushi knows it, and Shen Yiguan certainly knows it too.So killing the emperor now is definitely not a good thing for Shen Yiguan, it can even be said to be a big bad thing.

Just imagine, the emperor died suddenly, and Gao Yushi had enough prestige to order the imperial guards to stabilize the situation in the capital. Then once he helped the emperor's son ascend the throne, it is obviously impossible for the infant emperor to manage the government, and he can only rely on the queen mother to supervise the country regent.

Here is another point to note: Everyone knows that Empress Dowager Li has always been vigilant against high pragmatism, but once the emperor's son succeeds, Empress Dowager Li is no longer the empress dowager, but the empress dowager, and the current empress dowager will become the empress dowager .

In the past, Empress Dowager Zhang could decide Zhu Qizhen's succession to the throne. Some people might think that Empress Dowager Zhang was more able to decide the government affairs when the young emperor was unable to govern than the Empress Dowager.

In fact, there is a huge misunderstanding here: Xuanzong's Empress Hu did not become the empress dowager at that time, because she was asked by Xuanzong to resign from the position of queen because of childlessness and sickness in the third year of Xuande, and she retired to Chang'an Palace. , bestowed the title Master Jingci.

At that time, Queen Sun, who was newly established as the queen, became the empress dowager after Yingzong succeeded to the throne (she was also Yingzong's biological mother), and she also had great influence.As for the fact that she never fought for power with the Empress Dowager Zhang, it was essentially because the Ming Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety, and the Empress Dowager Zhang was good to her daughters-in-law, so it is more likely that she did not want to do this, but Not impossible.

But what if something similar happened today?That would probably be very different.

The current king and empress have been deeply supported by Gao Yushi for many years. If the emperor's son ascended the throne and was actually supported by Gao Yushi, it is conceivable that the queen mother who became the empress dowager at that time would definitely say: "Listen to Mr. Gao for all political affairs. ruling."

So it can be seen that if the Xin School assassinates the emperor now, it would be purely political suicide!
It is also because of this that Gao Yushi's previous judgment was that the Xin School should first assassinate the emperor's son, and then force him to Gao, Ding You, before finally assassinating the emperor.Even if something unexpected happens, only the order of the first two things can be reversed, that is, to force Gao Yushi Ding You first, then to assassinate the emperor's son, and finally to assassinate the emperor.

In a word, the emperor must not be assassinated first, otherwise the emperor's son will inevitably succeed to the throne, and all major events will come to naught.

Now Gao Wushi wanted to understand why Shen Yiguan looked at himself sullenly and suspiciously, but he himself wondered: If Shen Yiguan hadn't done this, then the current situation was really just an accident?But... isn't this too much of a coincidence?
And the real big problem is that, looking at Shen's consistent performance now, one knows that if the emperor really "collapsed the mountain" at this time, wouldn't he be the biggest beneficiary of this matter with his high pragmatism?
What does beneficiary mean?In a conspiracy, benefiting means that there is a motive for committing the crime!

That is to say, now that the emperor suddenly coughed up blood and fainted, if it can be found out afterwards that it was indeed an accident, then it would be fine, but if he procrastinates and does not understand, then he is inexplicably pragmatic and becomes the biggest suspect!
I'm so fucked up!

Gao Yushi really wanted to scold her for a while.Lao Tzu originally calculated well, and Shen Yiguan's little thought was already in Lao Tzu's calculation.Not all the people in Dongping Water Village were beheaded on the spot. If there were a few survivors captured there, they had been secretly brought back to Longwen Yayuan for interrogation. Opportunities come in handy.

In addition, both inside and outside the palace are now being dealt with. Although I always feel that there is still a certain force that has not surfaced, I also have some guesses, and I have also arranged people to observe closely... In short, the overall situation of the capital is in my hands Under control!
But at such a time, the emperor unexpectedly had such a big accident out of nowhere, and it seemed to me that I was the most suspicious. This... what the hell is going on!
Why should I kill the emperor?Who doesn't know that my biggest supporter is the emperor?Who doesn't know that the most important minister of the emperor is me, who is highly pragmatic?
Why did I hurt him!If he is good, I can be good too. If he is the undisputed master of Zhongxing in the future, then I must also be a famous minister of Zhongxing. I am full to kill him?
But now an accident happened!If the emperor is fine in the end, and the cause of coughing up blood and fainting can be found out after waking up, then everything is fine.Otherwise, it's really yellow mud falling off the crotch, it's either shit or shit.

Gao Wushi felt depressed for a moment, and sighed with his hands on his forehead. He looked worried, and his eyes were full of worry.

At this time, Wang Jiaping seemed to be trying to understand something, and was looking at Gao Wushi carefully.But when he saw Gao Yushi's decadent and sad look, he felt that it was not a fake, so he couldn't help frowning deeply.Others saw it, but they didn't know what Wang Yuanfu was thinking at the moment.

In such a strange situation, the assistant ministers had already been led by Liu Ping to the outside of the Xinuan Pavilion of Qianqing Palace.At this moment, the Xinuang Pavilion undoubtedly looked like it was facing an enemy, with three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, and the heavily armed Jing soldiers were all nervous... I don't know why they were nervous.

Although the assistant ministers have a special status, they are still ministers of the outer court in the final analysis, and they can only stop temporarily when they come outside the Xinuang Pavilion.Liu Ping was an internal minister, so after a few words with the gentlemen, he entered the cabinet to visit the situation, so he could report earlier.

But not long after Liu Ping went in, it wasn't him who came out, but Chen Ju.

Chen Ju's complexion is very bad at the moment, he can't say whether it is worry or seriousness, in short, just looking at it makes people feel nervous. Come on.

Fortunately, this worst-case scenario did not happen, but it was shocking enough.Chen Ju came to stand in front of the assistant ministers, his face was ashen and authentic: "Misters, thanks to the blessings of the second ancestor, the emperor has woken up..."

All the assistant ministers let out a sigh of relief at the same time, but unexpectedly Chen Ju continued: "However, the emperor did not agree to summon the ministers after he heard that the cabinet ministers had an audience. The imperial physicians suggested that the emperor should rest and recover before summoning you See you sir."

Although somewhat surprised and even worried, the cabinet ministers expressed their support one after another, and Wang Jiaping glanced at Gao Wushi and Shen Yiguan, and finally couldn't help asking: "Chen Zhangyin, why did your Majesty cough up blood and faint? Can the imperial doctors have an explanation?"

"I'm afraid the situation is a little complicated." Chen Ju frowned deeply, and said with a little hesitation: "The emperor may have wind evil entering his body today due to the sudden change of cold and heat, but the imperial physicians believe that this is not the main cause of coughing up blood and fainting, at most it can only be said to be an inducement. "

"Then what is the main reason?" Wang Jiaping asked solemnly: "But the altar of imperial wine was tampered with?"

"But it's not." Chen Ju said with a wry smile: "The imperial physicians checked the rest of the jar of wine, but found nothing unusual. But... the emperor's vomit seems to contain drug residues that conflict with the wine. "
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