Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 152 The New King Xu Yuqian Conferred the Crown Prince Hou Xiang on the Throne

Zhu Qizhen, the supreme emperor, is really a brother who sells his brothers and doesn't feel bad. With a mouth, he is worth ten thousand taels of gold and a thousand pieces of brocade.

However, Zhu Qiyu intends to accept Yu Qian's suggestion of being a Marquis and hereditary succession.After all, Yu Qian has been the governor of Shanxi for 19 years, and he has indeed made outstanding contributions and worked hard.Especially in Shanxi's frontier defense military, he has made quite a lot of achievements. The Great Wall defense line in Shanxi is so impregnable that it is not too much to seal him as a marquis.

But the matter of conferring civil servants as marquises needs to be discussed by the court. It would be too much for the emperor to make a decision with one word. After all, he has to take care of the feelings of other ministers.

So Zhu Qiyu ordered: "Xian'er tidy up these things, and I will circulate them to the ministers at the court meeting. Mu Yu resealed the top-secret military report just now, and then gave it to the princess, and asked her to take the military report to the secret room." , no one can touch.

Wait for me to get up after you finish all this. I have been idle for a few days, and it is almost over.I watched the sky last night, and I predicted that the ministers would trouble me again today. "

Mu Yu sneered when he heard this.

Zhu Qiyu questioned dissatisfiedly: "You girl, how dare you laugh at the master, tell me what's so funny about you."

Mu Yu replied with a smile: "My family is laughing at my husband's superfluousness. I don't need to watch the sky at night. I don't look at anything. I just think about it. I know that ministers are going to find trouble for my husband. This is called Stay still and think about moving, making a lot of trouble out of nothing.”

"Hmph, you dare to make fun of the master. You really lack education. Get the bed sheets ready. I'll let you think about it later in the evening."

"Okay, slave, thank you master."

The other three women heard the words, and they all came together to demand the same treatment.

Zhu Qiyu talked for a while, and finally reluctantly agreed to the rain and dew, and was released just now.

If there are tigers behind, there will be wolves in front.

After Zhu Qiyu finally entered the West Flower Hall, sat down on the soft couch, and announced his summons, a group of ministers rushed in behind him, crowding the West Flower Hall.

Soon, the facts proved that Zhu Qiyu's fear of wolves and tigers was justified, and Chen Xun handed over a memorial in person.

Zhu Qiyu had never been in the habit of reading notes, but just took them and put them on the coffee table, and let Chen Xun explain by himself.

Chen Xun replied: "Your Majesty, this is King Xiang's memorial. King Xiang had not received the news of His Majesty's ascension to the throne when he wrote the letter, so he proposed in the memorial that a prince should be supported to succeed the throne, and His Majesty supervised the country to lead the throne." Government, leading the ministers to fight against Oirats and defend the capital."

Zhu Qiyu snorted coldly in his heart, what does it mean that King Xiang didn't receive the news of my enthronement before he wrote the letter? How long has it been? I think he did it on purpose.

Seeing that the emperor was silent, Chen Xun asked softly, "Your Majesty, how do you think you should reply to King Xiang?"

In fact, before Chen Xun came, he had already drawn up several suggestions in his mind for the emperor's inquiries.After all, one of the main responsibilities of the cabinet is to give advice when the emperor consults on military and political affairs.

But Zhu Qiyu didn't ask anything, and issued an edict: "Let's draw up an order for the cabinet. The suggestion of King Xiang has been adopted by the widow. However, some amendments need to be made: after defeating Wala, the widow will abdicate and let the prince ascend the throne. There is no problem with this." .

But the widow has neither talent nor virtue, and is really incapable of supervising the country.Previously, he served as the supervisor of the country only because there were no other vassal princes in Beijing.

King Xiang has supervised the country many times. He is mature and prudent, and his reputation has spread far and wide. It is logical that King Xiang should supervise the country.

Therefore, King Xiang was ordered to go to Beijing immediately after receiving the decree to hand over the affairs of supervising the country.Even the crown prince's enthronement ceremony should be presided over by King Xiang.

At that time, the widow was also relieved, and immediately returned to the state of Qi to become a vassal; you will also be relieved, and you no longer need to work with my ridiculous prince, so let King Xiang lead you to assist the new king. "

When all the ministers heard the words, they quickly knelt down to dissuade them.Even if the ministers don't want Zhu Qiyu to be the emperor anymore, the rules on the scene still have to be talked about, and they can't just stand there and listen to the emperor's abdication edict.

Besides, the ministers actually didn't really want the prince Zhu Jianshen to take over the position so much, Zhu Qiyu secretly laughed in his heart, knowing it well: the most powerful evidence is that when Jingtai changed the prince in history, no minister stood up to oppose it.

Yes, it is so strange, clean, not a single minister who objected.

This seems to be the political ecology that has been inherited in one continuous line for decades from the Xuande Dynasty to the Tianshun Dynasty.

Xuanzong abolished Empress Hu, favored concubines and killed wives, and no minister came out to object.

Jingtai changed the prince and transferred the imperial line, but no minister came out to object.

Yingzong seized his family and imprisoned his brother, and the coup was restored, and no minister came out to oppose it.

If Zhengde and Jiajing were changed to become emperors in this era, they would probably wake up laughing from their dreams.

In March of the 14th year of Zhengde, the ministers prevented Zhu Houzhao from making a southern tour. As a result, a total of 140 six ministers were executed by the court, and 11 of them were directly executed.

Jiajing even went too far. During the grand meeting, 130 four officials were sentenced to death with the cane at the same time, and 16 of them were killed on the spot.

Compared with the ministers at that time, the current civil and military officials are simply a bunch of good babies.

Thinking about it, Zhu Qiyu began to be grateful to God, what a blessing to be in this prosperous age!

From this point of view, Sanyang's control of the government for so many years still has a positive effect.

So Zhu Qiyu felt better, and kindly asked the ministers who were kneeling on the ground to stand up.

But before the ministers stood still, Zhu Qiyu ordered: "Old Chen Ge has drawn up my edict just now, order a minister to go to Prince Xiang's mansion to deliver the edict.

Just let Yang Shan, the censor of the right deputy capital, let him pass the decree, which is more solemn, and at the same time, he can give King Xiang a good talk about the situation in the capital.

The widow invites King Xiang to go to Beijing to supervise the country, it is entirely out of sincerity, please don't worry about King Xiang, and leave immediately when the decree arrives. "

Zhu Qiyu didn't feel bad for Yang Shan, the supreme emperor's iron rod, when he used it.Before Xiang Wenyao took the position of the left servant of the Ministry of Rites, Yang Shan was flatly transferred to the right deputy capital censor.Now that my butt is still hot, I was dispatched to Changsha again.

The ministers were not willing to obey the edict, and they all spoke out to dissuade them.After all, a new emperor has just been established, and the new emperor has not even recognized the fullness of the ministers, so he has to change again, and the ministers can't stand the toss.

Besides, although the new monarch is acting absurdly, he really wants to increase the salaries of the ministers to three times the current level.Considering the problem of new officials ignoring old accounts, and another emperor, who should we ask for a salary increase?

So it is absolutely impossible to change the emperor now.Even Hu Wei didn't dare to stand up and obey the imperial edict.

Zhu Qiyu still said very firmly: "The edict just now must be issued. You just write the edict. As for how King Xiang understands the edict after receiving it, that is his own business."

Oh I got it.The Xinjun's hint was so obvious that the ministers had just come to the bottom of their hearts.

As for how the new monarch will fight the vassals, the ministers don't care that much.

The vassal king is generally the opposite of the ministers. Even if a few die, the ministers will not feel distressed.

Seeing that the matter of King Xiang was over, Zhu Qiyu took out Yuqian's work report and the comments of the Supreme Emperor, and circulated them to the ministers present.

(End of this chapter)