Daming Yuanfu

Dare to be so disrespectful in front of the king, and roll your eyes openly in front of the mighty Wanli emperor, this is high pragmatism.

As expected, Zhu Yijun turned a blind eye to such a disgrace before the king, and instead said with a pleading tone: "Don't talk! I just want to know, will this implicate Concubine Zheng? You have to give me some advice." An affirmative answer is all that is needed, otherwise, even if this matter becomes the same as the original struggle for the country, I will never let people investigate."

Afterwards, Gao Yushi raised his forehead and said, "I have to think about it."

"Then think about it quickly." Zhu Yijun immediately followed, and then sat by the side and stared at Gao Yushi without moving his eyes.

He even stared at Gao Yushi a little nervously, and said with a frown, "Your Majesty, I'm a civil servant, and I won't jump out of the window to escape. There's no need to stare like that."

"Aha?" Zhu Yijun smiled awkwardly, coughed lightly, stood up and looked away, but suddenly said: "Oh, you were just here for an audience, no one will serve you tea, right? I'll call Chen Ju..."

"Your Majesty, you don't need to be like this..." Before Gao Wushi could say the word "this", Zhu Yijun had already walked to the door and knocked, shouting: "Chen Ju, make a pot of tea for Nanning Hou, and want to explore the spring. "

Sitting there, Gao Yushi could only smile wryly: The treatment is good.There are four grades of tribute tea in the Ming Dynasty, namely Tanchun, Xianchun, Cichun and Zisun.However, these four grades are not divided into good and bad grades, but the picking time and the picking tea tree itself are different.

However, the amount of "Tanchun" is often very small, and generally does not last long, so there are very few people who can drink Tanchun tribute tea.Gao Yushi has been a high-ranking official for many years, and there are not many times when he is awarded tea, but in his impression, there are not many times when he is awarded Tanchun.

At this moment Zhu Yijun turned back again. He originally wanted to sit in front of Gao Yushi, but he was afraid of disturbing Gao Yushi's thinking, so he hesitated for a while, then walked to another chair and sat down.

Seeing it from Gao Yushi's eyes, he was sure of one thing: Zhu Yijun would not compromise on the matter of Concubine Zheng, and he would definitely protect Concubine Zheng to the end.

In other words, I had to come up with a way that didn't implicate Concubine Zheng herself, but could find out the mastermind behind the scenes, so that I could do Zhu Yijun's ideological work.

But here is a problem: Zhu Yijun believes that it is impossible for Zheng Huanggui to harm him. Is his judgment credible?

Gao Wushi knew that it was not enough to just look at this matter from his own standpoint, he had to put himself in the standpoint of Concubine Zheng to think about it, so as to be able to spy on her current thoughts.

So, how does Concubine Zheng Huanggui judge her current situation?This may depend on looking at her experiences in the past few years in Zhu Yijun's world.

In the fifth year of Wanli, 15-year-old Zhu Yijun got married.In the ninth year of Wanli, he had only one son and one daughter under his knees, so Zhu Yijun decided to choose the nine concubines.It was also in this year that the 15-year-old Zheng was registered as a Shu concubine because of her outstanding appearance, ranking second among the nine concubines.

Although Zheng was ranked second among the nine concubines at the beginning, she was quickly favored by Zhu Yijun.In the 11th year of Wanli, Zheng's pregnancy, Zhu Yijun immediately promoted her to be a concubine, and praised her in the book: "Soft and beautiful, graceful and beautiful."...

From then on, the Zheng family started a glorious court career, and then successively gave birth to Zhu Yijun's children, and her status gradually improved, and she has dominated the harem until now—in the original history, it should be said to be 38 years.

Since she was the most favored, and the queen had never had a son before, her son Zhu Changxun, as the emperor's de facto second son (actually the third son, but the second son died young), was favored far more than the emperor's eldest son Zhu Changluo, so that it caused national criticism. In other words, even Zhu Changxun almost had a chance to be the prince.

And if you look at what happened later in the original history, she almost became a queen, but unfortunately, both of these things failed in the end.

At the beginning, after the Zheng family was named a concubine, she gave birth to Zhu Yijun's second daughter, Princess Yunhe, who died at the age of six.In the second year of Princess Yunhe's birth, the Zheng family became pregnant again, and Zhu Yijun immediately ordered her to be promoted as a noble concubine.Later, the Zheng family gave birth to the second son of the emperor, Zhu Changxu, but the little prince died on the day of his birth.

Generally speaking, the premature death of a concubine's heir, especially the death of a son, will often implicate the concubine herself. However, Zhu Changxu's premature death did not affect the degree of favor of Zheng Guifei. King Bin Ai.

Why?Because it's not her fault, but Zhu Yijun's.It turned out that when Concubine Zheng was pregnant, Zhu Yijun deliberately teased Concubine Zheng regardless of her pregnancy, which caused Concubine Zheng to hurt her body, and the little prince died when she was born.

For this reason, Concubine Zheng blamed Zhu Yijun for a period of time, but Zhu Yijun didn't know whether it was because he was wronged or simply loved her too much. He was not angry anyway, and even promised him that if she gave birth to a prince, he would be set up For the prince.

This promise is a bit troublesome.In the 14th year of Wanli, Concubine Zheng gave birth to Zhu Changxun, the third son of the emperor. Zhu Yijun really attached great importance to him and intended to make him the crown prince.At the same time, despite the objections of his ministers, he made Concubine Zheng the imperial concubine.

Why do the ministers object?At that time, during the incident, Jiang Yinglin said at the time: "Isn't it inappropriate for a noble concubine to be blessed by conceiving? But the name is too high, and it should be considered. Is it forced to be in the middle palace? Although the noble concubine is virtuous, the birth of the emperor is the first. The third son is still in the middle palace, so Concubine Gong gave birth to the Yuan heir, and the lord and successor are the descendants of him, so Gu Dang ordered to live in the lower palace?"

To put it simply, Zhu Yijun’s first wife, the Empress Wang, is virtuous, so there is no need to confer the title of imperial concubine, because doing so would threaten the status of the empress; However, it is inconsistent with the reason to confer the imperial concubine Zheng in the Jin Dynasty, so many officials, including Jiang Yinglin, strongly opposed it.

But there is no way, Zhu Yijun just likes Concubine Zheng, so regardless of the objections of the officials, he named her the imperial concubine.In doing this, he was not just fighting against the officials, but was actually preparing for the appointment of Zhu Changxun as the prince.But the canonization of the crown prince was a matter of great importance, even if Zhu Yijun persisted, he could not succeed easily, so Gao Wushi stepped in at the right time to persuade the emperor not to be impatient.

As a result, both Zhu Yijun and the ministers refused to let go, so Zhu Yijun used "Yuanzi's infantile weakness" as an excuse to delay the registration of the crown prince.Later, when Zhu Changluo grew up, Zhu Yijun had no choice but to win the support of Gao Pragmatic, and then continued to delay the time on the grounds that he had to wait for the queen to give birth to a son. …

In the 15th year of Wanli, Concubine Zheng Huanggui gave birth to Zhu Yijun's fourth son, Zhu Changzhi. This son died in the second year and was named King Yuanhuai.In the 16th year of Wanli, Imperial Concubine Zheng gave birth to the sixth daughter, Princess Lingqiu, who also died before her first birthday.In the 20th year of Wanli, the noble concubine Zheng Huang gave birth to the seventh daughter of the emperor, Princess Shouning.

This was the last time that Imperial Concubine Zheng gave birth. She gave birth to three sons and three daughters for Zhu Yijun in her life. Among them, only Zhu Changxun and Princess Shouning grew up healthy.Putting Zhu Changxun aside, Princess Shouning, as the only surviving daughter of Imperial Concubine Zheng, is also doubly loved by her father Zhu Yijun.

Back to Zhu Changxun, it can be said that Zhu Yijun really took great pains to register Zhu Changxun as the prince.For example, he continued to publicly praise the noble concubine Zheng, and said in the imperial concubine's booklet: "I am trying to rule, and I ask for clothes every time I don't understand; Er Susu is in the public, and I always work hard at the night."

Mingming Wang and Empress are so virtuous that everyone in the court respects them, but as mentioned many times in this book, the problem with the Empress is that she is too virtuous, which makes her and Zhu Yijun lose their "husband and wife" appearance.Therefore, in Zhu Yijun's words, Imperial Concubine Zheng became the only woman who connected with him.

When the ministers—especially those from the Mind School were fighting for the eldest son's biological mother, Concubine Wang Gong, Zhu Yijun only mentioned how virtuous Concubine Zheng was, and said that he intended to make Zhu Changxun the crown prince, which Concubine Zheng had never agreed to.The ministers didn't believe Zhu Yijun's statement at all, so the dispute between the country and the country would continue to be staged.

In the 24th year of Wanli, a fire broke out in the Queen's Kunning Palace, and the fire spread to Qianqing Palace. In desperation, both the emperor and the queen had to move to live in Qixiang Palace.Although the emperor and empress live together, Zhu Yijun often has concubine Zheng Huang to serve him.As a result, rumors arose from the outside world, saying that Zhu Yijun treated the queen harshly and intended to replace her with the noble concubine Zheng Huang.

However, regarding this matter, Gao Wushi knew that the rumors were indeed untrue, because the queen was also pregnant during this period, and later gave birth to a princess.From this point of view, Zhu Yijun still cannot do without the concubine Zheng Huanggui by his side, and it is unlikely that he would abuse the queen... In fact, it is impossible, Zhu Yijun just respects the queen more than love.

Another thing caused by this fire is that Gao Wushi dispatched Jinghua Infrastructure to rebuild the Qianqing Palace and Kunning Palace for the emperor and empress, and shortly after the completion of the repair, the empress became pregnant again - this time she was pregnant with the full moon ceremony just held today The emperor's son.

All in all, the birth of the emperor's son means that Zhu Changxun cut off the way to be established as the prince.However, just as Gao Yushi had been secretly guarding against before, all those who are interested or conspirators may regain the opportunity to compete for the crown prince by assassinating the emperor's son-in-law.

Zhu Changluo is one of them, and Zhu Changxun is of course the other.The only difference is that standing behind Zhu Changluo is the School of Mind, while standing behind Zhu Changxun is Zheng Huangguifei.

Thinking of this, Gao Wushi was startled. He suddenly realized that he seemed to have focused too much on the emperor's son before, while ignoring another key point: the queen herself!

From the standpoint of Imperial Concubine Zheng, if there is no emperor's son, she will have the opportunity to push her son to compete with Zhu Changluo by virtue of her holy favor, but once the emperor's son is born, then this way will be cut off. …

Under such circumstances, if there is any chance to save the situation, killing the emperor's son is certainly one of the choices, but it is not the best - the reason is very simple, kill one this year, what if the queen gives birth to another one next year?Is there still a chance to kill it?

So for Concubine Zheng Huang, killing the emperor's son is not the best choice, the best choice is actually very simple - let her replace the queen!

Replacing the Queen is certainly not easy, or rather difficult.The harem system of the Ming Dynasty was not only very strict, but also the political inertia and influence of the outer court were also very large. It can be said that it is basically impossible for concubines to create so many palace fighting scenes in female novels of later generations.

However, the so-called "replacing the empress" does not necessarily mean deposing the empress - which seems unlikely.As I said just now, although Zhu Yijun loves Concubine Zheng the most, he doesn't have any dislike for the queen, it's just because he doesn't feel like a "husband and wife" from the queen, and he always respects the queen more than love.

Respect is also an obvious positive emotion, so it is impossible for the emperor to agree to abolish the empress.So at this time, for Concubine Zheng Huanggui, what else can she do to replace the queen?

There is only one solution: the queen dies.

Gao Wushi gasped, thinking that this matter is getting more and more complicated.Before the safety of the emperor's son was threatened, I guessed that the Xin school and Zhu Changluo they supported must have taken action in this matter, and then found that not only Zhu Changluo and the Xin school, but also the imperial concubine Zheng was also watching.

But looking at it now, compared to Zhu Changluo, Concubine Zheng's goal may be one step further, she may have set her sights directly on the queen.

If the empress dies, the emperor's son will also lose his care, and if something unexpected happens in the future... that wouldn't be a surprise.What's more, at that time, it doesn't matter if there is no accident for the imperial concubine.

why?
Once the queen is gone, is it difficult for her to sit on the throne of the queen with the degree of concubine Zheng Huang being favored?

Oh, the foreign court will object?Of course, of course, the foreign court is likely to object.But so what?The canonization of the harem is none of your business, which the emperor can obviously enforce.

In this way, as long as she becomes a queen, Zhu Changxun's identity will no longer be a concubine, but a legitimate son.Once Zhu Changxun becomes the son of the emperor, he will be more than ten years older than the son of the emperor who was born to the queen before, so he will be the brother of the emperor, so he should naturally become the prince.

Thinking of this, Gao Wushi was already sweating behind his back, but there was still one last question that he didn't understand: If the best way for Concubine Zheng Huanggui at this time should be to kill the queen, then today the emperor's conflict with medicinal food and wine, or Plus the fact that the sudden change of cold and heat eventually led to coughing up blood, how to explain it?

Is there any problem with the medicated diet?

If there is no problem, why is the emperor so worried about the investigation of Yikun Palace?If there is a problem, does Imperial Concubine Zheng know the possible problems caused by medicinal diet?

Who is the person who gave her the formula of medicinal food? Do you know that this formula is not compatible with wine?If he knew, did this person tell Concubine Zheng Huanggui about this taboo?If he didn't tell Concubine Zheng Huanggui, it was obvious that he wanted to use her, but what kind of intention was there in doing so?
Gao Yushi frowned, and suddenly felt that this matter was not a straight line, or even two straight lines, but several lines intertwined together.Each line has its own purpose, but it has to cooperate with other lines and use each other at the same time...

You have to find a way to get rid of the cocoon, but if you want to get rid of the cocoon, you have to find the intersection of several lines first. Where is this intersection?
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