Daming Jingtai: I am the eternal benevolent king

Chapter 452 The darkest moment: What I have to say about Zhu Qizhen ()
"Fourth, I even think I might survive, haha."

Zhu Qiyu frightened Zhu Jianji.

"Dad, my son wishes you could live for another two years." Zhu Jianjian knew very well that the old emperor was relying solely on medicine to survive, and he was completely exhausted.

"I'm tired and don't want to endure it anymore."

Zhu Qiyu smiled and said: "You have always wanted to know the story of the Zhengtong Emperor and me. Today, while my mind is still clear, I will tell you."

The story of these brothers can definitely be described as popular.

"I first met him when I was eight years old and he was nine."

"When I entered the palace from the outer residence, Empress Dowager Wu told me to call me brother first to win his favor."

"Because at that time, he was the crown prince. He was the only son of the late emperor. I was a son who could not be seen in the light. I had not been officially recognized at that time."

"The main reason why I can be recognized is that the late emperor's descendants are few and far between. Apart from him, it is me. Coupled with the late emperor's will, I can successfully enter the palace."

"Under my deliberate flattery, he was good to me."

"No matter from which perspective, he is my good brother."

"Because I don't pose any threat to his throne. Being respectful as brothers and friends is a good way for him to gain political capital."

"Before I was twenty-two years old, I lived under his wings. He treated me really well. He was the one who granted him the title of King of Xi. All the wealth and honor were given by him. He couldn't bear to leave me in the capital. "

"He went out to fight, leaving me to oversee the country."

"In terms of emotion and reason, I have to admit that he is my good brother."

"From a rational point of view, he is also a good emperor. After he took charge, he was not like Emperor Xuanzong who neglected political affairs, but was diligent and conscientious. This is what he wants to reform the military."

"Actually, the idea of ​​restructuring the military was proposed by Emperor Xuanzong in the ninth year of Xuande. As a result, Emperor Xuanzong died suddenly in the first month of the tenth year of Xuande."

"The Zhengtong Emperor received a strict imperial education, and he was an ambitious man. After taking office, he would reform the army, go to sea again, and propose various measures such as changing water transportation to sea transportation."

"In terms of both emotion and reason, he should be an outstanding and promising emperor."

Zhu Jianyan was stunned. From his father's mouth, he actually gave such a positive comment to the Zhengtong Emperor!

Isn’t this too ridiculous?

"But!"

Zhu Qiyu slowly sat up: "He is my good brother. The Zhengtong Dynasty is also politically clear and has very advanced reform concepts. He is indeed a good emperor!"

"But he shouldn't surrender!"

"He can be defeated in the Tumubao Incident, but he should die!"

"I, the Zhu family, have no bones!"

"From Taizu and Taizong to Emperor Renzong, they have all killed people!"

"Don't look at Emperor Renzong as a fat man. His temple name is Renzong, but he is actually a tough guy. He has never lowered his head in his life!"

"The King of Han and the King of Zhao are both strong men with blood and blood!"

"Emperor Xuanzong is an instant emperor. He has killed powerful enemies in formation and can be said to be unyielding!"

"Emperor Taizu has so many sons, but does he have one weakling?"

"Even Emperor Jianwen had the courage to burn himself to death!"

"My Zhu family has no bones!"

"He can be defeated, but he cannot surrender!"

"If you fail, you can try again!"

"Surrender, my Ming's back will be broken!"

"I will never tolerate him!"

"He is guilty! He is guilty!"

Zhu Qiyu roared: "If I were captured during the Tumu Fort incident, I would definitely die standing up and never live on my knees!"

"There is no one in the royal family of Ming Dynasty who kneels down!"

"What about him? He didn't just kneel down!"

"He even asked the border gate to be opened!"

"Indulge Wala and enter the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty to plunder! The number of tragic victims is no less than one hundred thousand, and the number of those robbed is no less than one million!"

"The backbone of the Ming Dynasty that I, the fourth generation emperor of the Ming Dynasty, shaped was destroyed in his hands!"

"The sufficient warehouse system of our Ming Dynasty completely collapsed, the border defense collapsed, the civil life collapsed, the military collapsed, and the Ming Dynasty turned from prosperity to decline. It will be ruined in his hands!"

"People can be regenerated when they are gone, and money can be made again when they are gone, but when the spirit is gone and the inheritance is gone, how can we continue it?"

"How can I not hate you?"

"Not to mention family affection, even if he is my biological son, I will never be able to forgive him!"

"Why should he surrender when he can lose?"

"It's enough to surrender. Why do we need to issue an imperial edict to force the border gates to open their border defenses and let the Wala army march straight in!"

"Why!"

Zhu Qiyu shouted hoarsely: "Seventy years have passed! I still can't let go! I still hate him!"

"He is the emperor! He is the master of this empire!"

"Why would he let his people suffer undue losses?"

"Why let Ming Dynasty collapse!"

"Why?"

"His surname is Zhu. Among the four emperors Taizu, Taizong, Renzong and Xuanzong, which one is the weakling?"

"Why is he kneeling down?"

"Seventy years have passed and I am about to die, but I still hate him! I will never stop hating him!"

"Even if I go to the underworld, I will kill him again!"

Zhu Jianjian rarely saw his father lose control of his emotions.

He couldn't understand how the Ming Dynasty had declined due to the Tumuba Incident and the Battle of Beijing. It could be said that the north was devastated and starving people were everywhere. Every household had no clothes to wear and no food to eat.

These are all caused by Zhu Qizhen's order to open the border defense!
Without his imperial edict, even if Wala had millions of soldiers, he would not be able to break through the Ming Dynasty's border defenses!
"All right!"

"Even if he kneels down, he is afraid of death, he wants to live, and he is reluctant to die!"

"it is good!"

"I can understand him."

"As long as he doesn't open the Ming Dynasty's border defense, I won't hate him so much."

"He can write a letter to the court, and I will spend money to redeem him. I am willing to give him any amount of money! Even if he comes back and asks for the throne, I will give it to him!"

"I don't have to even want it!"

"But why did he open the Ming Dynasty's border defense!"

"Fourth, you don't know how the entire northern Ming Dynasty declined after the Battle of Beijing in the first year of Jingtai."

"The Hongwu Dynasty, what the north was like, is what the Jingtai Dynasty was like."

"Without his imperial edict to open the city gates at the border, where would the defense of Beijing have come about?"

"How could the North decline like this! It's all his fault!"

"Why did the Jingtai Dynasty have to rely entirely on water transportation? It's because the north is completely rotten. It's so rotten."

"You can't imagine that kind of rottenness. Even in Gyeonggi Province, you can walk for dozens of miles without seeing a few people. It's all wasteland and overgrown with weeds."

Zhu Qiyu let out a breath: "He dares to let it go and break into Beijing first. There is nothing he can't do!"

"My brother died after the Tumubao Incident!"

"At least in my heart, he is dead!"

"The court officials put the blame on a eunuch!"

"But I didn't expect that without his instructions, how could Wang Zhen dare to do those things!"

"I admire those civil servants. They found many excuses for the Tumu Incident, which I find ridiculous."

"What bullshit reasons are all excuses!"

"No excuse can clear him up!"

"I hate him!"

"Even if I ascend to the throne of God because of his Tumu Fortress changes, I still hate him!"

"Even after seventy years, my hatred for him has not diminished for a moment!"

"I hate him for making the extremely prosperous Ming Dynasty become riddled with holes!"

"I hate him for destroying the city defense built by Ming Dynasty Border Gate for more than 70 years!"

"I hate him for allowing the Ming Dynasty to move from external expansion to forced strategic contraction; I hate him for causing the defeat of Oara to cause the vassal states to regard me as a laughing stock!"

"Do you know how many vassal states our Ming Dynasty had in the Yongle Dynasty? More than a hundred! They are spread throughout Asia! It can be said that all of Asia is the land of our Ming Dynasty!"

"But after the Tumubao incident, not to mention the whole of Asia, not even Guizhou!"

"North Korea and Annan have seen all the Ming Dynasty's jokes!"

"Although the vassal states have not separated from the Ming Dynasty, they are not too interested in me."

"Wu Shun doesn't even allow me to send people to the plateau! He looks down on the Ming Dynasty."

"From the fourteenth year of Zhengtai to the fourth year of Jingtai, how many rebellions occurred in Yunnan a year!"

"I can't suppress it anymore!"

"Three expeditions to Luchuan have made all the vassals in Yunnan see the weakness of the Ming Dynasty. After the defeat of Tumubao, everyone in the world has seen that the Ming Dynasty is a paper tiger!"

"The Ming Dynasty is over!"

"Two capitals and thirteen provinces, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi have all left the embrace of the Ming Dynasty. Even Liaodong is unstable. There are refugees everywhere in Huguang and Shandong. The Ming Dynasty can only support a few provinces!"

“The whole north is rotten.”

"Only Jiangnan is left to maintain the entire Ming Dynasty's finances."

"Why did Emperor Yongle move the capital to Beijing? It was to ensure that the emperor guarded the country, to maintain military strength that would never decline, and to continue to expand externally."

"Emperor Yongle was a man of great talent and strategy. He wanted to establish a huge empire on land and sea and restore the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties."

"But it was destroyed in the hands of his unfilial grandson!"

"Once Tumubao is defeated, the Ming Dynasty will have nothing."

"What a waste of development, eating is a problem!"

"It's not because he failed in a war, but because he called on the Ming Dynasty border guards!"

"The entire border defense system was destroyed, countless elite soldiers were massacred, and the entire north of the Ming Dynasty became a horse race for the Hu tribe."

"Totally rotten."

"Riddled with holes!"

"The key is that people's confidence is gone!"

"Don't dare to fight!"

"All generals will be frightened upon hearing this!"

"No one dares to fight."

"When I see a barbarian riding a horse, I tremble with fear, because I can't beat him."

"The Tumubao Incident broke the backbone of Ming Dynasty."

"To be precise, he was the one who brought down the Ming Dynasty!"

Zhu Qiyu coughed violently, calmed down, and said slowly: "If I hadn't said it before, the defense of Beijing would be an unwinnable war!"

"In that war, the entire city of Beijing was a battlefield."

"We can't win."

"Those who can fight and those who dare to fight are all dead!"

"The rest are cowards who dare not fight, they are all useless."

"It's not that Ming Ming is weak, but that all the powerful ones are dead!"

Zhu Qiyu closed his eyes, tears rolling on his eyelids: "The Ming Dynasty will never be able to open up to the outside world. The national policy set by the Yongle Dynasty can no longer be achieved. The foundation left by the Hongwu and Yongle Dynasties is gone."

"Let alone pioneering, even I have to beg for food from Jiangnan."

"Without water transportation, the Ming Dynasty would have starved to death. Not to mention raising border soldiers, even I would have to be raised in the south of the Yangtze River."

"So the power of the Jiangnan gentry expanded rapidly."

"The Ming Dynasty euphemistically calls it two capitals and thirteen provinces, but in fact there are only two capitals and five provinces left. These few provinces still don't listen to me."

"I hate him!"

"I can never forgive him!"

"Because of him, more than half a million soldiers and civilians died."

"Because of him, millions of people were robbed, and so many women were humiliated, too many to count!"

"In the entire capital, every house is in mourning. In the whole north, there is no house without a dead person."

"The North has completely become a rotten land."

"Because of him, Ming Dynasty went from being the hegemon of the world to being the object of ridicule in the world. Even the small country of Zuoer made fun of Ming Dynasty."

"Because of him, the Ming Dynasty's border defense system collapsed. We can't even guard it, let alone go out to attack the Hu people? It can't be done!"

"Because of him, I have to kneel down and beg for food from the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River. The whole north has to rely on me to beg for food to survive!"

"The Ming court has also become a joke!"

"Lao Zhu's family has become a laughing stock because of this!"

"Da Ming's spine is broken and he can't straighten up."

Zhu Qiyu let out a breath: "I hate him. When he returns to Beijing, I want to open an ancestral temple and kill him with my own hands!"

"But everyone in the world won't let you!"

"And I was blinded by power at that time, and I didn't dare to persist. I still regarded him as the Supreme Emperor. Is he worthy?"

"He doesn't deserve it!"

Zhu Qiyu calmed down and lay slumped on the bed: "There is nothing I can do."

"My governance at that time was terrible."

"Either kill him or raise him up."

"But I didn't even do it."

"I am a human being, and I have feelings as a human being. He was sorry for Daming, but he was still kind to me, and he was a good brother." "To be honest, in my heart, I feel more or less ashamed of him, but I got the throne. , absolutely refused to spit it out.”

"When he first lived in Nangong, I felt very guilty. It was like a child who took away another child's favorite toy for the first time. I would feel panic, hesitation, fear, and guilt. That's how I felt. "

"But if you rob it two or three times, you'll get used to it."

"In other words, if someone tells me that he will steal your beloved toy, I won't feel guilty."

"Yes, not long after he came back, some court officials advised me to return the throne to him. My guilt disappeared and I became vicious."

"I will never return the throne to him, absolutely not!"

"But there are so many people making such remonstrances, I'm starting to get scared."

"My first thought was to monitor him. Will he contact outsiders and instigate the courtiers to restore him? My idea is very childish."

"That's what I thought and what I did. I started not to allow him to leave Nangong even half a step and sent people to monitor him."

"Not long after he was under surveillance, everyone in the palace and court said that I treated him harshly."

"I don't know how to deal with political events at all. I'm like a rebellious child. The more they say I treat him harshly, the more I have to do this, even though I have never thought this way in my heart."

"At this time, Queen Qian, my Queen Hang, Queen Wang, and Queen Mother Sun all came to persuade me, hoping that I would be nicer to him."

"I promised them."

"I am a docile donkey. They all understand me. As long as I say something nice, I will listen."

"You didn't expect that I had this kind of character when I was young."

"However, people who become emperors are always suspicious. When I first heard about it, I tossed and turned many nights and couldn't sleep."

"I just came up with a poisonous plan, find an opportunity to put a shit basin on the head of the Orthodox Emperor, and let me monitor him legitimately."

"I didn't think about killing him, because I knew that with my limited abilities, I couldn't kill him."

"As long as I can strictly monitor him, I will be content."

"The gold knife case happened."

"This golden knife case is actually just a small matter. I thought I had found a good opportunity to deal with the Zhengtong Emperor, so I took the opportunity to attack. However, I didn't expect that when things were going well, Lu Zhong suddenly recanted his confession, making all my hard work go to waste."

"It also makes me and him completely strangers."

"If I had been a little more vigilant or more decisive at that time, I wouldn't have been able to seize the door."

"At that time, I was very indecisive."

"Moreover, he is both responsible and established. He wants a good reputation, but he is not willing to give up the throne. He is not thorough in his work. He always imagines that political struggle is like treating guests to dinner. It is extremely simple."

"Ms. Hang often reminds me of her, but I never thought at that time that she was a spy buried beside me in the palace."

"Even if someone told me at that time, I wouldn't believe it, because I gave birth to a son with her and asked her son to succeed the crown prince. How could he be a spy?"

"People are like this, they only believe what they want to see, rather than the truth."

"During the Yi Chu turmoil, Mrs. Wang kept admonishing me to stop Yi Chu, but I didn't listen and threw her into the cold palace. Mrs. Wang is also a spy."

"Ms. Wang tried to persuade me at that time. I didn't understand it at the time. It was Empress Dowager Sun who deliberately let me off the hook. She told me not to be easy to save and to be honest and be a puppet."

"To be honest, Queen Mother Sun had already given in."

"The throne can be temporarily given to me, but it cannot be easily transferred. Zhu Jianshen must be the prince. Moreover, this is also the unanimous opinion of the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty."

"Wang's words have been made very clear, I am the only one who doesn't understand."

"I'm so stupid."

"Wang is also a spy arranged by Empress Dowager Sun in my palace."

"One wife and one concubine are all spies!"

"I've lived with them for so long, but I just can't tell. Do you think I'm stupid?"

"Indeed, my understanding of politics is careless and my political skills are immature. I did not understand the profound meaning at all, did not respond in time, and was still immersed in the dream of inheriting the throne in my lineage."

"On the contrary, the Wang family was relegated to the cold palace, which made the Wang family feel disheartened towards me."

"That's why Wang turned evil and wanted to take revenge on me!"

"Hang was also immersed in joy at the time and did not obey the arrangements of the Queen Mother Sun. The Queen Mother Sun was also forbearing enough and did not expose Hang's identity."

"The Golden Knife Case was a wrong political incident launched by me at the wrong time."

"But through the Golden Sword Case, I did not notice the results in time. Instead, I thought that the Zhengtong Emperor had no restoration ambitions, so I would make my son the prince and let the great unification be passed down to my side."

"This leads to the inevitable failure of the Yichu crisis."

"Moreover, during the Yi Chu turmoil, I made an even more wrong decision, which made everyone realize that I will not be the emperor."

"I actually bribed officials to agree to Yi Chu."

"Hahaha, isn't it ridiculous? Fourth child, I also made such a fatal mistake at that time!"

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "I was really stupid at that time. I made fatal mistakes in both incidents, so it was not without reason that I was taken away."

"From the perspective of hindsight, I shouldn't blame Mrs. Wang. Wang had already reminded me at that time, but I pretended not to hear it. Instead, I threw her into the cold palace, which also contributed to her darkening."

"Hang's blackening happened after Zhu Jianji died. I ignored her and she hated me!"

"The blackening of one wife and one concubine is directly related to me."

"During the Yi Chu incident, I bribed the court officials and made Chen Xun discover my immaturity. From then on, a huge net began to surround me."

"Two political mistakes made both Empress Dowager Sun and the Zhengtong Emperor see my incompetence."

"I am completely relieved."

"That's when the plan to seize the door began."

"I don't know any of this."

"Zhu Jianji's death is a warning to me."

"I didn't play political games according to the rules, so Zhu Jianji died."

"I was frightened."

"Zhu Jianjin died quietly under my nose."

"Then, I might die quietly like him."

"I'm scared."

"Furthermore, the fact that I have no heir appears between the government and the public. It is the voice of God's curse, and I believe it."

"Fourth child, it's ridiculous to see someone who has just ascended the throne be so naive."

"But it's true."

"Because I am just a vassal king, a tool that was temporarily pushed out."

"I have never received royal education, so I don't understand anything."

"The education of the Ming Dynasty vassal was a pig-raising education, which amplified personal preferences and emotions and allowed the vassal to shift from politics to personal happiness."

"This is the kind of education I received."

"Don't talk about being an emperor, just talk about being a king. I can't do it, because the palace has a strict system to help me be a king. The vassal king is only responsible for eating, drinking and having fun, so it is said to be raising pigs. style education.”

"From the Yongle Dynasty to the Zhengtong Dynasty, all the vassal kings received a pig-raising education."

"Every one of them is a manure-making machine and can't do anything else."

"Look at those vassal kings who were enfeoffed. When they got to their fiefdoms, they only cared about enjoying themselves. The country was managed in a mess. This is the result of the years I spent cultivating them."

"I was the vassal king trained under such a background."

"You definitely don't understand anything."

"Moreover, the vassal king has been instilled with the idea of ​​obedience since he was a child. Even my mother and concubine have taught me this way since I was a child. I must listen to my brother and the court."

"Being obedient is the first lesson a feudal prince must learn."

"And in the palace, the second lesson I learned was to be timid!"

"I am very timid."

"This is the second lesson that the lord must learn, cowardice!"

"You don't know that when I was in my palace, there were often eunuchs who would scare me. Those old eunuchs would dress up in grimaces and deliberately scare me!"

"He will suddenly push me down when I am having fun!"

"They will even throw me into the water! Deliberately delaying the time to save me!"

Zhu Qiyu's eyes flashed with fear: "I don't know if all the vassal kings have to receive this kind of education, or because the late emperor is gone and the palace is deliberately trying to scare me to prevent me from coveting the throne!"

"I am very timid!"

“I’ve been scared out of my wits since I was a kid.”

"Lao Zhu's family does not have hereditary mental illness, but was scared out of it!"

"My sons have none."

"Because I never sent anyone to scare you."

"I enjoy great wealth in the world, but I also enjoy great terror in the world."

"Growing up, I have been afraid of walking alone, afraid of walking at night, afraid of playing alone... afraid."

"This is me."

"After two political turmoils, I immediately learned to behave."

"I only dare to vent my anger on my own woman. Because of Zhu Jianji's death, my neglect and anger completely turned the Hang family into a black man!"

"They are the palace's secret spies buried in the prince's palace. After turning into a black man, there will be no more secrets in me!"

"The emperor's new clothes are all about me."

"I thought I was dressed beautifully, but actually I was naked."

"Everyone in the world can see it clearly."

"After the Yi Chu incident, I became suspicious."

"I was originally timid, but external factors kept stimulating me, and I became even more timid."

"Those who are timid can become extremely sensitive."

"Timidity, cowardice, and sensitivity are all reflected in me."

"But I was provoked by others and became more and more wary of the Orthodox Emperor and Yu Qian."

"As a result, Yu Qian also hates me."

"The most ridiculous thing is that the people I choose to guard against the Orthodox Emperor are exactly the people of the Orthodox Emperor. Don't you think it's ridiculous?"

"Wang Zhi, a man who has transformed from a civil servant into a nobleman."

"I actually trusted him to keep an eye on Nangong."

"You said my political thinking is so childish. It was a test of the nobles by the civil servants. After the Tumubao Incident, the power of the nobles was extremely weak. Wang Zhi entered the nobles. It was the civil servants who wedged a nail in. This way I don’t understand simple political principles.”

"I actually used him to look at the Orthodox Emperor."

"Fourth, don't you understand?"

"Wang Zhi was promoted by Zhu Qizhen. The Tumu Fort incident had something to do with him. I was the one who protected him. I thought he was one of my own. Do you dare to use such a person now?"

"Wang Zhi is a civil servant and a native of Zhu Qizhen."

"I actually used him to look at Zhu Qizhen. Am I stupid?"

"So, the change of seizing the door is inevitable."

"Why hasn't Yu Qian come to save me for so long?"

"Because I'm not worth saving."

"From a rational point of view, what I, the emperor, do is not as good as the orthodox emperor."

"Really, because I won't be the emperor."

"How can a vassal prince who was raised like a pig become an emperor? I can't even read memorials!"

"So, I don't blame him."

"I did something bad. It's understandable that he didn't save me."

"But when I do well, if he doesn't help me, he will die!"

Zhu Qiyu laughed: "I have squandered for many years and have been on the way to have a son, but I have never had a son."

"It's really ridiculous that I actually had a son with a trickster!"

"Can you imagine?"

"The beauty offered to me by the people turned out to be a trickster. Hahaha, this is the provocation of the civil servants to me, but I didn't feel anything was wrong at all!"

"I also appointed a high-ranking official to her family."

"I've been so good to her, but she still won't stand by me!"

Zhu Jianyan was stunned. It turned out that his father lived in Jingtai eight years ago and his life was not as good as that of a pig or a dog.

So how did his father change?

"The incident finally reached the eighth year of Jingtai."

"At the beginning of the eighth year of Jingtai, I fell ill."

"The change of seizing the door is coming!"

"My illness came about very strangely. I went to burn incense at the temple in Gyeonggi, and Shi Heng came to protect me. But when I came back, I became seriously ill."

"I'm so sick."

"I knew at that time that I was going to die soon."

"But in my heart at that time, I was imagining that I could have my disease cured by Taiyuan Hospital. Isn't it ridiculous? Taiyuan Hospital is completely in the hands of the Queen Mother."

"Later, I slaughtered the Taiyuan Hospital. How many spies did you find? How many white men? The truth about the Taiyuan Hospital is really shocking."

"My disease is getting worse with treatment."

"I was not alert at that time, and I naively thought that my illness would be cured soon."

"hehe!"

"Guess how I discovered something was wrong?"

"That was before seizing the door. I found that the palace servants serving in Qianqing Palace were sneaky."

"I just realized something was wrong."

"I asked the eunuch Wang Cheng to cook me a bowl of porridge and let him watch the porridge in person. After drinking it, I actually felt stronger."

"Isn't it weird?"

"There is something wrong with the medicine I was given. The more I take, the faster I will die!"

"But the steps to seize the door are getting closer and closer."

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