Daming Jingtai: I am the eternal benevolent king

Chapter 405: The prince bullies me because I am old and weak? Your Majesty, please appoint a crown prince instead!
Trash talking is part of the game.

But on the Ming Dynasty sports field, trash talk cannot contain a single curse word, otherwise it will be deciphered by lip reading experts and your career will be in trouble.

The prince believes that athletes are members of Ming Dynasty society and must bear social responsibilities and not bring negative guidance to the public.

The athletes are cautious on the court and almost invisible off the court.

There have been players who trash-talked on the court before and were reported by fans who knew lip reading, causing their careers to be scrapped.

At that time, the player's annual salary was 12 yuan, and the average salary in Ming Dynasty was only 1.7 yuan. The players' monthly income was over yuan, which was definitely a high-income group.

But his career was ruined because of reporting.

After the prince came to power, his control over the world became more and more powerful.

The open and prosperous Ming Dynasty came to an end at some point. Some people appealed to the old emperor to stop the prince, but the old emperor could no longer hear his voice.

Developing sports is a national policy of the Ming Dynasty.

The average person buys at least four newspapers, 12 magazines, and 0.8 books every day.

But in terms of volume, he is also the first in the entire industry.

Therefore, most folk parents hope that their children will become writers.

And such a large industry that supports hundreds of thousands of people is walking on thin ice because of the huge attention.

By the 160th year of Jingtai's reign, Ming Dynasty had sold billion newspapers every day.

In Daming, professional writing is also a very good path.

Daily sales of magazines are 71 billion.

According to statistics, there are approximately 1174 million professional writers among the private sector, 970 million of whom have published articles in newspapers, and as many as 390 million of whom have independently published books.

According to statistics from the Rich List of Writers in the 50th year of Jingtai, the annual income of the top writers can reach yuan.

The market demand is huge and top talents are scarce, so it’s natural to lose money.

It can be said that the cultural industry in Ming Dynasty was extremely prosperous.

Countless best-selling authors have been mass-produced.

In the end, it evolved into the fact that the literary industry changes very quickly. A best-selling author will be popular for about ten months. If there is no sequel within ten months, readers' attention will be stolen by other writers' works.

Batch creates a lot of writers.

Newspapers and journals recognize stories rather than people. Only good stories will be paid for. There are many stories of a wonderful novel saving a newspaper.

The cultural industry is so developed that it is closely related to national literacy. The literacy rate of the Ming Dynasty has reached 85% in the 82th year of Jingtai. The primary school graduation rate has reached 75%, the junior high school graduation rate has reached %, and the high school graduation rate has reached %. %.

Practicing basketball requires investment, such as training time, training fees, and companionship costs. These costs are not affordable by ordinary families.

But there is no need to become a writer. You just need to buy some books and you can complete it by yourself. If not, you can sign up for some classes. The cost will definitely be lower than practicing sports.

And this supports the practitioners of newspapers and periodicals, such as reporters, editors, calligraphy and painting designers, typesetting, printing workers, etc.

Of course, this is just one year’s income.

It proves that this industry can provide at least three to five million people with adequate food and clothing, but about five million people can only make profits from it, and their income is within the subsistence allowance range, which cannot satisfy their hunger.

In other countries, the fairy tale market can only be said to be average, but in the Ming Dynasty, there are about 9 million children under the age of ten. Such a huge market has already led to the prosperity of the fairy tale industry.

The daily sales volume of books is 31 billion.

Writer is a profession with relatively high social status.

In the fifteen years since the explosion of print media, more than 120 million writers have been created with an annual income of more than yuan.

This has resulted in the number of children who want to be writers, or parents who want their children to be writers, to exceed one billion!

There are currently more than 10 million professional writers, and this number is soaring every year.

According to statistics, as of the 960th year of Jingtai, there were approximately 1.5 million people working in print media, and the per capita income could reach yuan per year, which was slightly lower than the income of urban workers, but the income was still good.

The population of the Ming Dynasty was close to 4 billion, and the cultural and entertainment activities of 4 billion people created a glorious era of paper media.

In the 63rd year of Jingtai's reign, the prince proposed that public figures must assume social responsibility.

He has created countless popular novels, chicken soups, and fairy tales.

Also, there is the advantage in numbers.

Because Ming's books are strictly graded, Ming is serious about protecting children.

In addition to the sports industry being gradually dominated by black people, the cultural industry is the specialty of yellow people.

This public figure includes public figures, experts, writers in the print media, as well as sports representatives, including reporters, entertainment stars, etc. Everyone who has appeal in society must assume a sense of social responsibility.

This also means that the era of barbaric growth is over.

This is a huge sum of money in any city in Ming Dynasty.

Such huge exposure has created a large number of cultural talents, such as traditional poetry and songs, and now popular novels, vernacular literature, martial arts novels, detective literature, chicken soup literature, fairy tales, current affairs news, etc.

Many people do it not only to get remuneration, but also to gain face when going out. There are also many people who write for fun or part-time.

The past fifteen years can be said to be the most glorious era for print media.

The center has no detailed regulations on what exactly it will bear.

In the Ming Dynasty, 30 million words were created every day, which accumulated over time, amounted to a huge volume.

This has resulted in low readership. Major publishing houses, journals, and newspapers also pursue good works. It is difficult to find good works that are exciting and beautiful.

Once a book becomes a best-seller, a writer will market it like crazy and then withdraw it after making a profit. This has caused constant problems in the literary industry.

There are novels that have a good beginning, a bad middle, and no ending. In order to attract attention, novel writers do everything possible.

Even with the increasingly strict control of the media, there are still many side projects, not to mention plagiarism. Even if the literary atmosphere in Ming Dynasty is very good, there are 10,000 plagiarism cases every day.

Plagiarism occurs endlessly, making it difficult for original authors to defend their rights and for lawyers to obtain evidence, and in the end nothing happens.

This has resulted in all kinds of plagiarism, which has gradually reduced readers’ purchasing power for newspapers because they feel that the money is not worth it.

In the 25rd year of Jingtai's reign, the central government conducted statistics and found that there were as many as 11 billion people trying to write or having ideas for writing, and as many as billion people who had tried writing.

Basically, everyone has a dream of writing.

Writing volume, folk art volume more.

After all, there is a distance between novels and readers, and they are far less intuitive than opera, cross talk, sketches, and stage plays. Just watch them in the theater, and the practitioners have close contact with the audience.

According to statistics, there are as many as 700 million people practicing folk arts.

Among them, drama practitioners have the largest number, up to 400 million, followed by cross talk, sleight of hand, magic, sketches and stage plays.

Stage plays are the least interesting. Why?
Because stage actors are similar to theater actors, those theater practitioners will often come to the stage to make guest appearances, making it difficult for stage actors to survive.

After all, compared with an amateur and a wrist, the audience prefers to watch the wrist, not the plot, let alone the amateur.

As a result, stage plays are getting worse and worse, and the audience is scolding them, but stage plays still go their own way because they make more money.

The audience cursed, but they bought tickets and the company made a profit.

When the amateur appeared on the stage, the audience who bought tickets praised him. However, in a large venue with hundreds of people, only a few people came in to buy tickets.

The latter lost money and made a profit.

In the former, the audience cursed and bought tickets at the same time. Of course, the company boss chose the former.

This resulted in the stage play being terrible.

Good actors are being squeezed out to do cross-talk sketches, which makes cross-talk sketches and allegro storytelling extremely difficult.

When Jingtai was sixty years old, the center couldn't stand it anymore.

Controlled stage plays.

I almost finished the stage play.

The audience yelled at the center for being careless, the stage actors scolded the center for not knowing and pretending to understand, and the theater actors simply stopped making guest appearances in stage plays.

The prince was so angry that he almost made the stage play disappear completely.

Fortunately, this matter reached the ears of the old emperor, and regulations were lifted, allowing stage drama practitioners to pay attention to scripts and re-create novels. Only with good scripts can there be good stage dramas. Stage drama directors must bear their responsibilities and cannot let employers, If an actor blindly changes the script, he must respect the director and screenwriter and respect their professionalism.

The stage play was preserved by the old emperor.

But it was too late to recover.

Because many practitioners are worried that when the prince empresses the throne, the stage play will be the first to be retaliated against. Life will be better in the future, so it is better to take the opportunity to change careers.

The old emperor's experience in stage plays was not absorbed by the stage play, but was absorbed by the drama stage.

The theater stage transformed popular novels into plays.

The integration of drama and stage plays further squeezes the living space of stage plays.

In the 63rd year of Jingtai, the old emperor spent one billion to invest in the entertainment industry and support the cultural and folk arts industry for all-round development.

However, the imperial court quietly began to implement in-depth controls on entertainment content.

The old emperor did not know that instead of promoting the prosperity of entertainment, his billions would bring about unpredictable controls.

At the beginning of Jingtai's 65th year, the extremely prosperous cultural and sports industry inexplicably entered a cold winter.

The old emperor in the deep palace did not know that the third leg of his idea was broken silently. Real estate and the stock market alone could not support the Ming Dynasty.

It needs four legs to walk, and the old emperor is working hard to create four legs.

The Ming Dynasty has tens of thousands of miles of fertile land. Such a huge territory must be divided.

Even though Lao Su was divided, he only had a few thousand miles of fertile land? A large area of ​​frozen soil in the north, with only seven or eight million of its essence, is still divided.

The Ming Dynasty is all fertile land in the temperate zone, with an elite territory of more than 15 million people.

Do you think that since we are all Mingren, there will be no division?
Are those who have destroyed a dynasty in every dynasty an outsider?
Is Cao Pi a foreigner? Or is Zhu Wen a foreigner? Or is Taizu a foreigner?
People have ambitions, who doesn't want to be the emperor?

Why did the old emperor want to be extremely open?
Doesn't he know how to control it? Doesn't he know if the throne is stable?
But can it?
If it were just a small country, you could manage it however you wanted. In such an extremely huge Ming Dynasty, if the old emperor could do this, there would still be so many dissatisfied people!

No matter how wise the emperor is, he cannot satisfy everyone.

There will definitely be careerists, there will definitely be rebellions, there will be everything.

Why not these years?
Because of the pace of development, people temporarily abandon their ambitions and focus on making money and development, so there are very few rebellions.

However, development will eventually fall into a rut, will eventually stagnate, and the old emperor will eventually die!

Can the prince be a qualified emperor who controls a huge territory?
It can't be done!

He actually wants to impose controls to protect people's mouths more than Sichuan.

Besides, isn’t it good that the Ming Dynasty was so prosperous, open, and developed so freely? Otherwise, how can all ethnic groups be integrated into the Han nationality? Become a unified Ming Dynasty?
If you don't let the world speak, how can you know what the people need?
If the emperor says one thing, why not eat minced meat?

Is the emperor stupid?

No, it’s the tragedy of the system.

If the emperor is away from the people for too long, something will happen.

The center doesn't know anything. If you don't correct your mistakes, or if you correct them and make them again, something will happen.

This position is not something you can respond to just by sitting down.

There are people down there!
They are all people with ulterior motives.

When the emperor is sitting in his position, if all he sees are smiling faces, then the world will be over! The country is not far away from being destroyed!
Only through public criticism can we know where the problem lies and solve it.

Only by opening up the public can we know where the Ming Dynasty will go in the future and allow truly capable people to rise to the top of the court.

Why did Emperor Taizu kill so many people but still retain the Metropolitan Procuratorate?
Why is Emperor Jingtai so hegemonic, but he continues to improve the status of the Metropolitan Procuratorate!

Because the emperor wants to listen to the voice below!

The emperor may not govern the world, he may use capable ministers to govern the world, but he must listen to the voice below!

Where did the capable ministers come from? They were killed from below, they came from among the people.

It’s not someone who picked it out from God’s perspective.

Let's just say that Wang Shouren, who was in his twenties, was at most a secretary to the old emperor. If he was asked to be the governor of a province, would he be able to do it?

Talents are honed and must be picked out from thousands of outstanding people. Only then are real talents.

Li Dongyang was discovered by the old emperor since he was a child, but he still succeeded based on his true talent and learning. Instead of helping him, the old emperor would make things more difficult for him. In the end, Li Dongyang gave him a perfect answer sheet.

Therefore, the old emperor is very relieved that Li Dongyang is in power now.

Not absolutely assured.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate, Supervision Department, Military Discipline Department, and Factory Guards are all the eyes of the old emperor.

It is true that the old emperor had never been to the private sector.

But every year, he would send countless close officials, guards, and eunuchs to conduct unannounced visits among the people. He would also send people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Supervision Department, Military Discipline Department, and Factory Guards to make random unannounced visits, as well as a second visit.

In the 50th year of Jingtai's reign, the old emperor changed the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Supervision Department, the Censorship and the Supervision History, and set up an office in each county with a two-year term and two-year random rotation.

In other words, the emperor put his eyes on the place.

The two-year rotation is to worry about the censorship and supervisory history being corroded by the local government.

Like the guards sent from the palace, no one knows when they will be sent or where they will be sent. Even the old emperor does not know. He may send people to the Western Regions to investigate on a whim, or to make an unannounced visit to Cochin.

The people chosen are also random.

Those who serve in the palace will receive secret missions without knowing who they are. They go out of the city at starry night and are not allowed to contact anyone in the middle.

Those who can serve in the palace are all powerful and aristocratic sons.

They are less likely to be corrupted by money from the local government. Instead, they will be shackled by intricate family relationships.

Therefore, the old emperor would send people from Xichang to keep an eye on them.

In recent years, the West Factory has become increasingly unusable, so the old emperor sent people from the shadows to follow him quietly.

They would even bury nails next to them and supervise them at all times.

In order to prove that the news is true, he will send people to verify it, and then conduct detailed screening and verification based on the reports submitted by the local government.

The old emperor tried his best to use his power just to see the real situation in the place.

He can ignore it, but he cannot be deceived!

How sad it is for an emperor to say why not eat minced meat.

It’s not that he is stupid, it’s that there is something wrong with the system! This is the result of lying to others!

The prince now doesn't let the people speak out.

In the past two years, there will still be people who resist and want the court to open up more channels of speech.

But after a few years of resistance, when they find that the resistance is ineffective, the people of the world will be disappointed and resentful of the court.

This kind of seeds of hatred will lead to the division of this huge country.

Three feet of ice cannot be frozen in one day.

Indeed, there is no problem in ten or twenty years. The Ming Dynasty has a strong foundation, but what about thirty or fifty years? People's hearts are cold and they can no longer keep warm.

What's more, such a huge territory is all fertile land, and it will be divided after a long time!

Therefore, the old emperor not only had to send people to listen to the voices below, but also let the people below speak!

Again, he can ignore it, but he has to know it!

The emperor must know everything in this world. Only then can he be a qualified emperor.

But the prince couldn't listen.

Even if he could forcefully restore Jingtai to the situation he had sixty years ago, so what? He is eighty-seven years old, how many more years can he live?
After the prince ascended the throne, he just walked back.

Zhu Qiyu sat in the Hall of Cultivation of the Heart, and his thousands of words turned into a sigh. If the Empress of Tang had not given birth in advance and the order of the princes was determined, how could there have been a thousand-year disaster for future generations.

To wipe the prince's butt.

He followed the example of the Jin State and made government affairs public.

On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month in the sixty-fifth year of Jingtai, the imperial court issued an annual report, disclosing the Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue and the imperial court's budget for the year.

This annual report is a new newspaper founded last year.

In the future, it will serve as the central annual report for government affairs disclosure.

A total of 100 million copies of the first edition were printed. As soon as it was released, it was sold out within ten minutes. Even the newspaper bureau was confused. Can this thing still make money?
In the newspaper, it was written: In the 22.7th year of Jingtai's reign, the total fiscal revenue was billion yuan, and all specific revenue details were listed.

The total expenditure is 24.9 billion yuan, with detailed expenditure details.

The bulk of expenditure is construction expenditure, followed by military expenditure.

Every income and expenditure is very detailed, and the figures are accurate to the last digit.

People all over the country saw this novel, and after reading it, they all marveled that my country is so rich.

Normal newspapers only have two large sheets.

There are twenty-nine financial reports, which is a thick book.

In addition to the detailed income and expenditure of Jingtai for 64 years, there are also the income and expenditure of state-owned enterprises, bank income and expenditure, key national investment projects, etc.

Next comes the New Year’s outlook.

The Center estimates that in Jingtai's 24th year, fiscal revenue will exceed 27 billion, and estimated expenditures will be as high as billion.

Estimated expenditure items and monetary figures are also listed in detail.

There are also major investment projects, mostly agricultural product support and infrastructure construction.

Next, there is the financial revenue and expenditure of all provinces, counties and all regions in the country. They are very detailed and people can do the calculations at will.

This is a very sincere financial newspaper.

It provides the public with a deep understanding of national finances and a sense of participation in national government affairs.

Local people also know how much the local government earns in a year and how much it spends.

This sense of participation is real.

Starting from the 65th year of Jingtai, every year on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, financial reports will be disclosed to ensure the transparency of government affairs. This is a national policy.

All printing plants in the imperial court worked overtime to print financial reports.

Jingtai's 170-year financial report set a newspaper sales record, with a total sales volume of billion copies. Even the people of the feudal state were buying it, but too many were sold. Just this newspaper has supported many local printing plants that are on the verge of bankruptcy.

The old emperor wanted to make government affairs public to save the prince from his stupidity.

In fact, we hope that people can participate in politics and express their own opinions for the central government's reference.

He also wants to make government affairs more public.

In fact, there are no secrets at all levels in the imperial court. We should try our best to be open and transparent, so that the upper and lower channels are smooth. The voices from the bottom can be heard from the top, and the bottom can also see what the top is doing. This is a good thing.

But he was firmly opposed by the prince.

He believes that governance is a matter of family and country. How can those ordinary people understand it?

Involve them? Do you understand? Can you provide insights?
They have to work hard in their own industry, but they don’t understand their own industry and talk nonsense about important matters of the country. Do they have the qualifications?
These words made the old emperor very angry: "Why did Emperor Taizu win the world? He relied on the support of thousands of people!"

"Then Emperor Taizu didn't repay these people? Aren't they the current powerful class in the Ming Dynasty? They have made great contributions to my Zhu family, and my Zhu family has done their best to be benevolent and righteous!"

Zhu Jianqi said loudly: "People's hearts, people's hearts, people's hearts are the most useless!"

"You didn't believe in the people's will before, so why are you suddenly willing to give political power to the lower classes? What qualifications do they have to obtain power?"

In fact, the prince was right.

This is the world!
Besides, all those who have made contributions to the Zhu family have received their own rewards. These people are the people, and their opinions are the people's hearts.

"Prince, I am not quarreling with you."

Zhu Qiyu's voice weakened significantly: "Only when the top and bottom are smooth and listen to public opinion can the court go far and do well."

"The world is different now."

"When Emperor Taizu was the emperor, he could only divide the meritorious officials and the world would be stable."

"Now, there are electric lights, trains, newspapers, and there will be other things in the future. These things will change the political form."

"If you don't take the lead, you will be overthrown sooner or later."

"Public support is the most important thing in the future. It can ensure that the entire country will not be divided, and it can ensure your throne."

Zhu Jianqi wanted to refute, but Zhu Qiyu waved his hand and whispered:
"I let the people speak out because I want to hear what the people at the bottom think and whether their lives are good or not. I often send people down to see how the people's lives are different from what is reported in the newspapers!"

"The Ming Dynasty was not built for the powerful."

"The Ming Dynasty is not the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and it is not the world of aristocratic families. In the past, the surname was Zhu, but now it is the surname of Tianxiaren. The 3.8 billion people in the Ming Dynasty share the world!"

"You only look at the powerful, but not at the common people."

"Do you want to be deceived and just be the Emperor Hui of Jin who doesn't eat minced meat?"

Zhu Qiyu's voice was not loud.

He is old. When people get old, they will naturally be afraid of young people. Even if he is the emperor who controls the world, he has become weak at this moment.

"Your Majesty, I know what I know, so I won't ask you to teach me." Zhu Jianqi's tone became obviously cold and hard.

It is completely different from the previous fear of the old emperor.

Over the past year or so, he clearly felt that the old emperor was aging rapidly, his speech was not as strong as before, his endurance was much stronger than before, and his voice was also getting softer.

It shows that he is really old, so old that he can no longer speak, and he is so old that everyone can bully him.

The most important thing is that he is transferring power to the prince. Although the old emperor has not abdicated, he is actually no different from the emperor.

It is better to bully an old man than to bully a poor young man.

Zhu Jianqi became bolder and spoke louder, because the terrifying shadow hanging over his head was shrinking rapidly.

No.

The entire Ming Dynasty was already in his hands.

Even if he returns the power to the old emperor now, the old emperor can't take it anymore.

This Ming Dynasty belongs to him alone now!
"The Ming Dynasty is dead in your hands. I can't see it anyway, so go ahead." Zhu Qiyu turned away, not wanting to look at him again.

People change.

In the past, the prince was cautious, but his wings were not strong enough.

Now that his wings are hardened, how can he take him seriously?
All power in the government and the public belongs to the prince. He is just an old immortal who has lived in the palace for a long time. He is just an old thing that makes people look bored and is hated by everyone in the world.

The prince can change, but who in this world can't change?
Why don't you compare your feelings to yourselves?
It's not that you can't listen to what I say, but you don't want to hear it. You even go against me specifically to prove that what you do is right, but I can no longer control you...

The old emperor is helpless today because he has given away all his sons except for the prince, and even given away two capable grandsons. Except for the prince, the other grandsons are also useless.

This is the hollowing out of politics.

Wang Shu, Yang Xin and other veterans were all in Japan again.

There are fewer and fewer people the old emperor can count on.

There are no secrets in the palace.

The quarrel in the Yangxin Hall quickly spread to the court.

Since last year, the old emperor has been visibly aging, walking has become difficult, and his eyes have become difficult to use. It is obvious that he has reached the end of his life.

Only now did Zhu Qiyu realize how helpless an old man was.

He kept sending out capable people around him, and the world became stable, but there was no useful person around him.

Even though he is in charge of the world's power, he now finds himself lonely in charge.

Even a small heart-nurturing palace may not be his decision.

It's old and useless.

"Help me go out and see the sunshine."

For the first time, Zhu Qiyu no longer called me.

He is no longer the master of the world, no longer the emperor of the world, at most he is left with a useless name.

Is that still me?
"Your Majesty, it's cold outside today..."

Zhu Qiyu waved his hand: "I've had enough work, and I'm tired. Look at this day, it's getting less and less."

The palace servants serving the old emperor couldn't help crying.

The old emperor was very tolerant to the people in the palace. He gave pension money to the eunuchs, and helped them find business opportunities if they had children. The palace maidens pampered them like granddaughters, and they were all domineering outside.

In fact, the old emperor was so tolerant to everyone in the world.

Many people in both the government and the public scolded him, but he did not do anything because of the abuse. He would use it when he should, and adopt it when he should.

The life of such an eternal emperor, who opened up thousands of miles of land and created a prosperous Jingtai era, must come to an end.

"Why are you crying? This will happen sooner or later." Zhu Qiyu was open-minded.

The eunuch helped the old emperor out of the Yangxin Hall.

The sun was a little dazzling and the weather was a little cold. The eunuch covered him with a blanket and slowly closed his eyes.

He hadn't looked in the mirror for a long time, and he didn't know what he looked like as an adult.

He doesn't want to see himself old.

He missed the high-spirited era even more, but he could never go back.

After a moment of silence, officials entered the Yangxin Hall one after another. Wang Hao took the lead and knelt under the steps of the Yangxin Hall.

Zhu Qiyu closed his eyes, as if unaware.

More and more courtiers came kneeling.

Soon the entire courtyard of Yangxin Hall could no longer kneel down.

Zhu Qiyu slowly opened his eyes and sneered: "Why are you so idle? Come to see me, a lonely old man?"

"Your Majesty, Liu Jian (Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, Wang Hao, etc.), has come to see you. Long live my emperor!"

The courtiers congratulated him in unison.

"I can't live long, maybe I will reach the end of my life tomorrow." Zhu Qiyu looked at it openly, his voice was low and full of sadness.

"Your Majesty, please never say such unlucky words!" Ma Wensheng's voice was old.

"Ma Wensheng, I don't think I can survive you. I'll help you stand in front of you when you get there. When you come over, you'll still serve me." Zhu Qiyu said with a smile.

Ma Wensheng's tears fell to the ground and he knocked his head hard on the ground.

"Your Majesty, please call yourself me!"

Liu Daxia crawled out with a resolute face and said loudly.

Zhu Qiyu didn't speak.

"Your Majesty, please call yourself me!" Yu Zijun said loudly.

Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian kowtowed heavily: "Your Majesty, please call yourself me!"

Nearly a thousand people followed and chanted.

"What are you doing? Forced to have a baby?"

Zhu Qiyu wanted to stand up, but he needed support from the eunuch: "How can a lonely old man call me me? I can't even see your appearance clearly with my eyes."

"It's just a title, it doesn't matter."

"Emperor Taizu was an emperor on horseback, and his collapse also depended on his horse."

"Although I am not an emperor on a horse, and I have never ridden a horse very much in my life, I have also made great achievements in opening up new territories. When I die, let me die on a horse."

"Your Majesty, please don't say such unlucky words!" Wang Hao kowtowed vigorously.

"Wang Hao, stop knocking. If you knock again, you will die in front of me. The Lord of Hell will not accept you first." Zhu Qiyu said.

"I would rather die in front of you than see the Ming Dynasty perish!"

Wang Hao said sternly: "We, the Ming Dynasty, rule the world with filial piety and law. I have never heard of an unfilial son ascending the throne to succeed the emperor! From ancient times to the present, I have never heard of a precedent of an unfilial son governing a country well! He was also a Jie and Zhou thug who ascended the throne. How can the Ming Dynasty be great? "

"I would like to use my heart and blood to ask Your Majesty to establish a crown prince instead!"

boom!
The courtiers kneeling outside the Yangxin Hall were in an uproar.

And Liu Jian and others stared wide-eyed. Even though they were not angry for the emperor, they wouldn't change the prince, right? How could the country withstand such a shock?
The most important thing is that Wang Hao said this, which means that he will be buried with the old emperor.

As long as the prince is not replaced and successfully ascends the throne, he will be the one to die.

He died holding the whole family in his arms.

"Old minister, please ask your Majesty to appoint a crown prince instead!" Yang Yiqing's voice came from behind.

Another one to die!

"Old minister, please ask your Majesty to appoint a crown prince instead!" Liu Daxia said urgently.

Ma Wensheng and Yu Zijun echoed: "Your Majesty, please change the throne to a crown prince!"

If Ma Wensheng and Yu Zijun were the old emperor's best friends, then Liu Daxia was not. Liu Daxia was a man who worked hard for power. How could he support the reform of the crown prince? He no longer wanted an official career?

There is also Yang Yiqing. Yang Yiqing is a crazy guy. He changed the national politics of the Jin Kingdom without authorization and even made his son the prime minister of the Jin Kingdom. It seems to be authoritarian, but it is actually an experiment.

This guy is exploring a new path for Ming Dynasty.

The most terrifying one is Wang Nao.

After Liu Jian became the first assistant, Wang Hao only concentrated on being the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel and took power very lightly. Moreover, he was a great master of Neo-Confucianism, so he had things to do even if he was not an official.

The problem is that he was the first to say that he would be the crown prince and wanted to devote himself to it.

"Your Majesty, please appoint a crown prince instead!"

Zhang Fuhua, who was in the back row, said sternly: "I am willing to be a disloyal minister and escort the prince to Zhongdu! Then I committed suicide to apologize! Please do it, Your Majesty!"

Here comes another madman.

Liu Jian twisted his lips. In fact, he had a good relationship with the prince. After the old emperor passed away, he could continue to be the chief assistant.

However, the atmosphere today is too weird.

"I ask your Majesty to appoint a crown prince instead!"

Another voice sounded, it was Yang Tinghe, the prince's uncle.

Liu Jian couldn't pretend to be dead at this time and kowtowed heavily: "I ask your Majesty to appoint a crown prince instead!"

Li Dongyang and Xie Qian then responded.

All the important ministers in the court responded, and then thousands of officials shouted loudly: "I ask your Majesty to appoint a crown prince instead!"

The sound soared into the sky.

Just at this time, the prince came in a hurry from Qianqing Palace. He had just received the news and came when he heard a shocking sound.

Sitting on the royal chariot, his body went limp at this moment and he fell limply on the sedan chair.

He had previously thought that his influence spread throughout the court and that the entire world was under his control.

But he didn't expect that just because of a few quarrels with the old emperor, things would turn out like this.

The most frightening thing is that the old emperor's real influence lies in the military.

The old emperor seemed to have no power, but in fact he held the power of the whole world.

Zhu Jianqi knew that he was finished.

He climbed out of the sedan like crazy, rushed towards me, and knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty, please forgive me!"

Zhu Qiyu's vision was a little blurry. He waved to the prince to come closer, and then pointed at him: "He is the emperor."

One sentence scared Zhu Jianqi to death.

"I'm just a lonely old man. It's not worth it for you to abandon your powerful and wealthy family for me."

Zhu Qiyu squinted his eyes: "It's all gone."

"In the face of heaven, what does power and wealth mean?"

Yang Tinghe said sternly: "What does the family mean in front of the country?"

“If the country is gone, what’s the use of a family?”

"I am willing to die first, please change your mind!"

"Your Majesty, please accept it!"

Zhang Fuhua crawled out from the back row: "I am willing to be a sycophant for eternity and kill evil sons for His Majesty. Then I will go home and kill all the nine tribes, and then die again. I will die without regrets!"

Zhu Jianqi's eyes widened, this Zhang Fuhua was a madman.

He often drank while working in the official residence and often scolded his subordinates. When Zhu Jianqi spoke to him, he sometimes listened and sometimes did not listen. He even did not listen to what the old emperor said.

He also proudly told people outside that he was equivalent to the adopted son of the old emperor, and that it was perfectly normal for a son to be quarrelsome with his father.

He is such a scoundrel, but he is really good at it when he encounters trouble.

Just by saying this, all the descendants of Zhang Fuhua will die.

But he didn't just say it, he actually did it.

The key is that Liu Jian, who had always been friends with Zhu Jianqi, kowtowed and said: "The prince is unkind, how can your majesty be unjust? Please change the prince to a prince, welcome a vassal king from the vassal country, and return to the country to take over the throne! Please ask the deposed king to escort the Zhongdu, Imprisoned until death.”

Zhu Jianqi's eyes widened. Is this what Liu Jian said?

Xie Qian spoke again: "The emperor is unfilial, how can he teach the world? Your Majesty is famous for your filial piety. When the late emperor was seriously ill, he served him in front of the collapse without taking off his clothes. He served his legitimate mother as if he were his own mother and was filial in every possible way. And your majesty also loved all his sons and divided them among them. The foreign vassals handed over the authority to the prince, moved the palace to Yangxin Palace, and gave the prince Qianqing Palace to live in. "

"Even a jackal should be influenced by family, but the prince showed his true face as soon as he gained power. He was unfilial to his father. How can he be the emperor of the Ming Dynasty? How can he set an example for the world?"

"Please, Your Majesty, cut off the family ties, consider the world, consider the family and the country, and establish a prince instead!"

Is this what he said to Xie Qian, who is in trouble?
Zhu Jianqi wanted to defend.

However, Liu Daxia spoke again: "A scholar dies for a confidant. Your Majesty treats his ministers as a national scholar, and I repay him as a national scholar. If the prince ascends the throne one day, I am willing to bear the seal and return home and no longer serve the court. If there is no place for the ministers in the Ming Dynasty, I wish to live in seclusion in the vassal state, and my descendants will never serve in the Ming Dynasty."

Finished!

This is really serious.

"My family has been wearing hairpin crowns for generations. If an animal comes to the court, I will never serve in the court of an animal." Yang Yiqing said even more harshly.

"The reason why I serve the Ming Dynasty is because of Your Majesty's reputation for justice and virtuousness, and because of Your Majesty's great kindness in picking up the humblest ministers."

Qin Hong said loudly: "One day when the prince ascends the throne, the country will perish. I am willing to commit suicide on the day when the prince ascends the throne to be loyal to Your Majesty. I will close my eyes during the prosperous Ming Dynasty and do not want to see the day when the country will be destroyed and the family will be destroyed."

Xia Xun crawled out from the back row: "I don't dare to threaten Your Majesty. I already have leg problems. Serving in the court is to repay His Majesty's kindness. I don't want to leave Your Majesty. After a hundred years, I will pack my bags and go to the feudal lord." If you live in seclusion in your country, you will never be as good as the Ming Dynasty!"

Liao Zhuang came out and said: "The veteran has requested to become an official several times, but the central government has not approved it. It is your Majesty who wants to retain the veteran. Please allow the veteran to return home."

Zhu Jianqi's eyes widened, Liao Zhuang and the old emperor were not of the same school.

How could he be like this?
I just argued with him for a few words. Am I wrong? Is the crown prince's position no longer guaranteed?

Why?

Even if you have filial piety, you won't lose your position as prince, right?
These are all civil servants.

Where is Xungui?
But at this moment, there was a burst of scolding from outside the courtyard. The leader was Xing Guogong Yu Yunzhong. As soon as he entered the Yangxin Palace courtyard, he knelt on the ground, crawled over, and cried: "Wei ministers came too late to escort me, and your majesty has been wronged." !”

More than twenty princes roared loudly.

These three generations of officials have never been on any battlefield, but they are very powerful at the moment.

Behind him were more than two hundred marquis in the capital.

There were probably thousands of earls kneeling a few hundred meters away, and the entire front court was probably full of people kneeling.

The power of the Ming Dynasty's nobles was too huge.

Zhu Jianqi's eyes widened.

He knew very well that the nobles were on the side of the old emperor, but the civil servants were the first to oppose him, which he never expected.

Now, all the top dignitaries of the Ming Dynasty are gathered in the courtyard of Yangxin Hall.

Just waiting for a word from the old emperor.

Is this still my Ming Dynasty?

(End of this chapter)