Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 200 The Son of Heaven carefully deploys the emperor's personal guards to take over the palace ban
Zhu Qiyu came to Xihua Hall and summoned Chen Xun, Wang Wen, Zhou Chen, Yu Shiyue, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, Zhao Xin, the right servant of the Ministry of Officials, and Jiang Yuan, the right servant of the Ministry of War.

This is the chief official of the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of War of the cabinet ministers in Beijing, and is also the representative of the civil officials in Beijing.

The Jingtai Dynasty was the beginning of the popularity of two Shangshu.

At this time, two Ministers of the Ministry of Officials, two Ministers of the Ministry of War, two Ministers of the Ministry of Rites, one Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and one Minister of the Ministry of Industry, a total of eight ministers were outside Beijing.

Among these eight ministers, some were newly appointed by Zhu Qiyu and had not yet arrived in Beijing; The warlord suppressed the rebellion.

So the current six ministries, the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War, are in charge of the affairs of the Ministry.There is also the Ministry of Industry, a Shangshu Shi Pu is in the south to counter the rebellion, and a Shangshu Zhou Chen is in charge of affairs in Beijing.

Zhu Qiyu looked at the six important ministers in front of him, and felt much more at ease: Zhou Chen and Zhao Xin have no clear political inclinations, and they don't like to cause trouble. They belong to the kind who work hard.

Chen Xun, Wang Wen, Jiang Yuan, and Yu Shiyue belonged to their own Xinjun faction, and they were the civil servants who were most punished after the Seizing the Door. Their loyalty has already withstood the test of history.

Zhu Qiyu took a sip of tea leisurely, then smiled at everyone: "Tomorrow is the crown prince's birthday, all civil servants and generals of the fifth rank and above in Beijing will suspend military and political affairs for one day, and all will come to Fengtian Hall to congratulate the crown prince tomorrow morning. All the nobles and royal relatives also came.

After congratulating the prince, it is the official report.We want to conduct admonishment talks with officials above the fifth rank. Wang Aiqing and I are in charge of the Sixth Department, the Inspectorate, and the Imperial Academy.Chen Aiqing and Zhou Aiqing were in charge of other officials.

In the evening, there will be a big banquet in Fengtian Hall, and I will personally host it to celebrate the prince's birthday. "

The six important ministers present looked at each other when they heard this. The emperor had never been to the Forbidden City to attend court since he ascended the throne.Did the sun come out from the west today, and even took the initiative to hold such a grand meeting.

Among Guang Wenchen, there are about 120 people who are eligible to participate in this court meeting.Adding honors, military generals, and imperial relatives, there must be at least 200 people.

Moreover, once the court meeting was held, it was held from morning to night, which was extremely rare in the entire history of Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Qiyu saw that everyone was in a daze, so he continued to add: "How to summon the ministers and how to deal with the specific procedures, your cabinet, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Officials should discuss it. The Ministry of War will be responsible for the martial law of the whole city tomorrow."

The crowd didn't say anything, and expressed their understanding one after another.Anyway, what the emperor did was aboveboard, and he held a birthday party for the prince, what could the officials object to.

Jiang Yuan, the right servant of the Ministry of War, didn't care the most. It was just a day of martial law, which was a trivial matter.As for the defense of the imperial city, it is not under the control of the Ministry of War. That is something that the Sili Supervisor, Dongchang, and Jinyiwei have to worry about.Even if there is a problem in the imperial city, it cannot be blamed on the Ministry of War.

After sending out the notice, Zhu Qiyu chatted a little bit about military and political affairs, and then let everyone go back to prepare.

The next step is to summon Zhao Juan and Liu Chang to talk about tomorrow's defense of the imperial city.

The ministers thought that this matter was under the supervision of Sili Supervisor, Dongchang, and Jinyiwei, but Zhu Qiyu hadn't gone crazy yet, how could he put his life in the hands of Jin Ying, Xing'an, and Sun Jizong.

Especially Dongchang and Jinyiwei, in the matter of defending the emperor, they were as unreliable as possible.

From the point of view of defending the emperor, the most reliable guard for Daming is the Xiaoling Guard; the least reliable is the Jin Yi Guard.

It took Jiajing 40 years to solve this proof question clearly.

As soon as Jiajing came to the throne, he cleaned up the inner court.The Jinyiwei and the Inner Court Supervisory Bureaus cleaned up a total of 10,000+ people.Then during the more than 40 years in power, he has been cultivating Jin Yiwei's cronies.

But it's useless, whether it should be on fire or on fire, whether it should be strangled by the maid or strangled.The guards in Jinyi just mixed food and drink, beat them to death and refused to work, no matter what Jiajing did, they couldn't move them.

In addition, there are Dongchang and Jinyiwei of Zhengde and Tianqi, which are even worse.Even the most basic protection of the emperor from falling into the water cannot be done.

It is the most unprofessional ethics to take money and do nothing.So Zhu Qiyu never wanted to rely heavily on Dongchang and Jinyiwei for a moment.

In order to avoid accidents tomorrow, Zhu Qiyu decided to completely kick Dongchang and Jinyiwei aside, and let his personal guards temporarily take over the defense of Fengtian Hall and its surrounding areas.

Although there may not be people who make trouble, but be careful when sailing for thousands of years.Among the personal guards, Zhao Jue was in charge of defending the emperor, and it was a little easier; while Liu Chang had to arrange the escort and prepare to participate in tomorrow's attack camp, so he was very busy.

The original [-] personal guards of the palace had to protect the palace and temporarily manage the imperial city, so it was obviously not enough.The army outside the city wanted to fight Oala, but they could not be transferred into the city, which cut off their chances of making meritorious deeds.

So Zhu Qiyu relied on the Daning Capital Division, and transferred 3000 people from the Daning Capital Division to Beijing early.The [-] new guards and the [-] old guards of the palace were reorganized into a standard guard, named Yingzhou Zhongwei by Zhu Qiyu, and became an official full-time inner guard.

After arranging the security matters, Zhu Qiyu didn't go back to his room to sleep, but continued to summon Xu Xuan.In addition to Xu Zheng, Huang Jian, Ye Sheng, Yao Xian, the four members of Zhongshushe, Zhu Qiyu leaned on the couch, and talked about history and current affairs with these five people.

This is not a formal sutra banquet, Zhu Qiyu has not been dazzled by the victory, and knows that being an emperor requires continuous learning.At the same time, it is also to exaggerate a calm and peaceful atmosphere, so that outsiders cannot easily see that the decisive battle is about to begin.

However, the emperor does not need to carry books to study hard, he only needs to listen to the explanations of the ministers.

The few people Zhu Qiyu recruited are of very high level.Especially Xu Xuan, interspersed with history, corroborated with the current facts, explained the profound things in a simple way, and spoke eloquently.

Zhu Qiyu listened with great interest, and from time to time, he would discuss a few words with everyone humbly.The sutra feast didn't stop until it was almost time for dinner.

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile to Xu Yu: "Listening to Xu Aiqing's words, it is really better than studying for ten years. If I had been taught by a talented person like Xu Aiqing in the early years, my knowledge would definitely be much better than now."

No matter how arrogant Xu Yu is, he would not take this seriously, and quickly declined: "Your Majesty is too modest. You are wise and powerful, and your wisdom is gifted by heaven. How can you be comparable to ordinary people like ministers."

Zhu Qiyu smiled and said, "Has Xu Aiqing met that colleague?"

"Your Majesty, I have seen it. That colleague did the calculations for me and suggested that I change my name to Xu Youzhen. He said that if I walk in the court with this name, I will not only be able to be the chief assistant, but even be named uncle in the future. "

"Yeah, this colleague really has some skills. With Xu Aiqing's talents, as long as I work hard with me, it's easy to seal him up. That's fine, just Xu Youzhen. Aiqing will officially change her name in the future."

(End of this chapter)