Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 464
Being reminded by Chen Xiang, Zhu Qizhen suddenly understood: I walked out of the Yinghua Palace today, and I am afraid that it will be very difficult to see my mother in the future.

So Zhu Qizhen asked Hao Yi: "How will the emperor deal with the queen mother?"

Hao Yi replied: "The emperor has already issued a clear edict that all relatives involved in this mutiny will be condemned by the relatives' meeting, the emperor will not act on his own.

The slaves and servants will definitely take good care of the Queen Mother and will never let the Queen Mother make any mistakes. "

"What about the person who assassinated the Queen Mother?"

Hao Yi shook his head: "Your Majesty, it was too chaotic at the time, and it was really difficult to investigate. The servants will launch the East Factory later and do their best to detect it."

Zhu Qizhen snorted coldly in his heart, it's not that he can't find out, it's because you don't want to.The Jin Yiwei outside may have seen the murderer, but you didn't even ask, and they were all executed on the spot. After that, it's a fart.

Zhu Qizhen returned to Sun's side who was still in a coma, stared at it for a long time, then turned around and followed Chen Xiang, Hao Yi, Ruan Xi, and Xing'an out of Yinghua Hall.

Once outside the hall, Tiance Wei rushed up and took Xing'an down.

Zhu Qizhen sighed and didn't go to Xing'an again.Walking into the courtyard, Jin Yiwei was all over the ground, all collapsed in a pool of blood.

Although he saw many killing scenes yesterday, Zhu Qizhen still felt chills in his heart.

After sending Zhu Qizhen to Nangong, Hao Yi and Ruan Xi resigned and went to their own business.

Hao Yi was responsible for examining every palace member one by one. Anyone who was involved with Zhu Qizhen, Sun, Qian, Zhou, Wan, Xing'an, Ruan Lang, etc. would either be executed, expelled from the palace, or sent to the palace. Anletang Pension.

There are also a large number of relatively innocent palace people who are temporarily locked up in Xiyuan, waiting for the emperor to bestow them on a group of feudal lords.

The great eunuchs handed down from the Yongle Renxuan Dynasty, Wang Zhen, Fan Hong, Jin Ying, Xing'an, Liu Yongcheng, Wang Jin, Ruan An, Cao Jixiang, a large number of once famous and popular figures, turned out to be Wang Jin's family Had the last laugh quietly.

The principle established by Zhu Qiyu is that if it is not necessary, it will not be kept.

Reduce the number of people in the palace to the limit, and then absorb some newcomers to fill the vacancies.

In this way, the expenditure in the palace can be greatly reduced.

Zhu Qiyu doesn't want to raise a large group of palace servants who don't even know how to serve him.

But when Zhu Qizhen returned to the Chonghua Palace, he saw that the palace was full of plains, but there were not many people.

Zhu Qizhen rushed back to the Chonghua Palace and ordered Chen Xiang to summon all the concubines.Seeing that his beloved Ling'er and Xiu'er were safe and sound, Zhu Qizhen was somewhat relieved.

Not long after, Empress Qian, Empress Zhou, and Concubine Wan Chen also came to pay their respects in tears.

Seeing Empress Zhou, Zhu Qi felt angry from his heart.I have some women who said they hanged to death?

Now it's all right, Zhu Jianshen is the only son left.As for the concubine, it was almost solved by the Zhou family.

Judging from this posture, the Zhou family will dominate the Nangong family in the future.

Before Zhu Qizhen had time to make trouble, Mrs. Zhou reported crying, "Your Majesty, Mrs. Fusheng and Mrs. Zuosheng are gone."

"Ah? What does it mean that it's gone?"

Mrs. Zhou replied: "Yesterday, after a small group of rebels set fire to the Zhongfu Grassland and the Old Qi Palace, they killed them everywhere. The ceremonial room was also burned. The two wives and three hundred beautiful girls were all killed."

Zhu Qizhen's body softened and he fell on the chair.

In such a short day, I have lost too much.

Before launching the mutiny, Zhu Qizhen was too optimistic. He didn't expect to organize a mutiny a thousand times more difficult than he imagined.

After the mutiny was launched, everyone had their own interests and demands, and everyone had their own thoughts.As a result, many people will do strange things.

For example, those members of the Cao family rushed and killed their own people indiscriminately;

For example, a small group of rebels went to the ceremonial room to hack and kill the show girls without knowing what to say;
For example, the Zhou family engaged in extreme palace fights in the face of foreign enemies like a convulsion;
For example, two young eunuchs would be so bold as to wait for an opportunity to assassinate the Queen Mother in the chaotic crowd.

Zhu Qizhen couldn't understand these behaviors. In Zhu Qizhen's view, these people were simply unreasonable.

But these absurd things actually happened.

After being disturbed like this, Zhu Qizhen didn't bother to get angry with Zhou Shi anymore: "Where is the prince, is the prince okay?"

Upon hearing this, Empress Qian interjected: "Your Majesty, the concubines were hanged to death by Mrs. Zhou, the crown prince was frightened after witnessing the tragedy, and now he has a high fever.

Ruan Xi has already sent people to invite famous folk doctors from outside the palace for diagnosis and treatment, please don't worry too much, Your Majesty. "

"Okay, why did the prince witness the tragic situation of the concubine being hanged to death? Concubine Zhou, are you crazy? Do you want to do this kind of thing in front of the prince?"

Mrs. Zhou was still very aggrieved: "The situation was critical at that time, and my concubine did not dare to let the prince leave for a moment. Otherwise, if the prince makes any mistakes, it will be too late for His Majesty to regret."

Zhu Qizhen glared at Zhou Shi coldly, was so excited that he couldn't breathe, his eyes darkened and he passed out.

After a day and a night of tossing, Zhu Qizhen, who was under tremendous pressure, finally couldn't bear it anymore.

The palace was bleak, but inside the capital and outside the imperial city, it was extremely lively.

East, West, South, North, and Central, the five-city soldiers and horses are responsible for following the household department, the criminal department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Dali Temple to copy the nobles, relatives, and civil servants.

Tiance Guards and Yingzhou Guards were in charge of copying eunuchs, Jinyi Guards, and monks' homes.

The entire capital was in a mess, and the first to settle down were the ten kings' mansion and the princes' mansion.

In today's Daming, besides King Qi, there are 21 other princes.

King Chu, King Liao, King Ning, King Yi, and King Zheng died in the chaos.

Dai Wang and Jing Wang were seriously injured, stayed up all night, and passed away in the early morning.

Others, King Xiang, King Jin, and King Han were seriously injured, but at least they survived.In addition, the six kings of Qin, Lu, Tang, Zhao, Huai, and Qing were placed under house arrest in the Kings' Pavilion.

The three kings Zhou, Su, and Shen who did not participate in the rebellion were placed in the ten kings' mansion.The king of Shu and the king of Min lived in a separate mansion of the king of Min.

As for the county king, dozens of them died.For example, King Xiang's two sons all died in the rebellion.

The dead vassal king has no worries.The living people are waiting tremblingly for the emperor's thunderous wrath.

Mutiny is not so easy. Once it fails, the emperor will usher in endless revenge, at least according to historical experience.

No vassal king believed that the absurd Emperor Jingtai would show mercy and repay grievances with virtue.

The only good news is: so far, the emperor has not done anything drastic.The vassal kings have food for food, wine for wine, and famous doctors to treat injuries.In addition to asking women not to give them, the emperor was not stingy in other aspects.

In Huichanghou's mansion, Sun Zhong brought his concubine and concubine's granddaughter, who had been sent home by Zhu Qiyu's order.

Sun Zhong was distraught, his five sons all disappeared in this mutiny, and his grandson Sun Lian also disappeared.

His great-grandson, Sun Ming, is still alive for the time being, but considering the heinous crimes committed by his family, Sun Ming may not be able to escape this catastrophe.

There may be room for other crimes to be manipulated, but treason is a big treason.

The emperor was willing to leave a male to the Sun family, and that was possessed by the Great Merciful and Great Compassionate Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva.

After a short period of sadness, Sun Zhong began to write a suicide note.

In the suicide note, Sun Zhong confessed to all the crimes:
Empress Dowager Sun colluded with San Yang to conspire to abolish the Empress Dowager.

Empress Dowager Sun instigated Jin Ying to poison the prince and blame the emperor.

The imperial concubine Guo Ai and Xuanzong have a private meeting to have a son.

Empress Dowager Sun secretly took Guo Aizi as her own son and recognized her.

The Empress Dowager Sun drugged the concubines of Xuanmiao until they were unable to give birth to offspring.

Empress Dowager Sun ordered the imperial physician to kill Queen Hu and Princess Shunde with poison.

Empress Dowager Sun colluded with King Yi to abolish his concubine Wang, intending to prescribe drugs to cut off the emperor's heirs.

The Empress Dowager Sun colluded with the Sun brothers to launch this mutiny.

Sun Zhong confessed to the seven major crimes for his precious daughter. After handing over the suicide note to his grandson, Sun Zhong called for wine and food, drove away everyone, and drank the last fine wine in his life alone.

In the afternoon, Sun Zhong's suicide note was sent to the imperial court.

Zhu Qiyu was dumbfounded when he saw this suicide note, and couldn't help sighing: "Sun Zhong is really decisive, this is a complete sale of his own daughter."

Lin Xiangyu asked: "Sun Zhong is going to ruin the Sun family's reputation and exchange the Sun family's son for a living. Will the husband leave an heir for his Sun family?"

Zhu Qiyu shook his head and sighed: "Of course I have to stay. It is only natural to take people's money and eliminate disasters with others. I have principles and self-respect.

Although I really want to kill the Sun family completely, but after taking advantage of Sun Zhong, I have to do things for them. I can't break my principles of life.

Sun Jizong's three concubines, one concubine's daughter, and his grandson, Sun Ming, would be enough for Sun Zhong to exchange for a confession letter. "

Lin Xiangyu nodded in praise and said, "I like my husband's clear price and the principle of dealing with things without deceit. Why don't the people in the government and the opposition and the people of the world cherish such a good man as my husband? They have to think about their courteous emperor."

Zhu Qiyu smiled and said: "It's very simple, good people are bullied."

Lin Xiangyu immediately smiled when she heard the words: "My family is the kindest in the world."

"It's broad daylight, dear concubine, don't do this."

It feels good to be attached to a peerless beauty, so Zhu Qiyu had no choice but to sacrifice his life to accompany his concubine Ai, and went crazy again during the day.

Ningxiang, Qianxue, and Suxi came in again with a large pile of playbooks.

Spread the playbook on the bed.

Zhu Qiyu picked up the top note and flipped through it.

After reading several letters, Zhu Qiyu couldn't help praising: "My good fellow, are these all memorials for apology?"

Qianxue nodded affirmatively: "Chen Xun, elder Chen, other senior scholars in the cabinet, the ministers of the six ministers, the surviving feudal lords, nobles, and the censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate all wrote letters to plead guilty.

However, none of the generals pleaded guilty, because Liu Ju, Mao Zhong and others from the Fifth Army Battalion and the Three Thousand Battalion all died in the mutiny.The rest of the generals in the capital are all my husband's relatives, so there is no need to plead guilty. "

Zhu Qiyu asked curiously: "Didn't even one person write a letter to scold me?"

Qianxue teased angrily: "Why are you still scolding, everyone is stunned by your husband's murderous aura. At this time, if you write a letter to scold you, if you can't be charged with the crime of co-rebellion, the whole family will directly raise it." Go to the execution ground."

Zhu Qiyu explained helplessly: "I am not a tyrant, I am sincerely for the good of Daming and the common people.

I'm also very kind to the officials. I raised the salaries of the officials as soon as I took the throne. They never counted.

I cancel the banknotes and give them silver and grain. Do they know how much pressure I have been under?

It’s okay if everyone is not grateful, you said that you all besieged the emperor with open fire and sticks, and if I don’t kill people, is it still called the emperor? "

"Then what about these notebooks?"

Zhu Qiyu replied: "I accept their pleading, those who are already dead will die in vain, and those who are not dead will not be pursued any further."

"The vassal king's apology is also answered in this way?"

"Oh, you don't need to reply to the vassal kings, just leave them alone, I have to fight them for a long psychological battle.

Also, tell He Yi that you can start to draw up an imperial edict for me.Then tell Lian Gang to write out the entire mutiny process, transcribe it into a book, and prepare to preach it throughout the capital.

I want to tell the people what happened.Right and wrong, let the people of the world judge. "

After Zhu Qiyu finished speaking, he supported Lin Xiangyu's slender waist, ready to concentrate on galloping.Unexpectedly, Qianxue continued to ask: "Husband, Empress Qian, Empress Zhou, and Concubine Wan Chen have also written apologies, how should I reply?"

"Let them treat Nangong as a crime, and how to deal with it will be decided by the meeting of relatives. Eldest brother respectfully let the emperor's woman, I will not deal with it arbitrarily."

Speechless for a day.

It was noon the next day, the third day of July.

Zhu Qizhen gathered with the queen and concubines in the Chonghua Palace, and finally waited for the emperor's reply.

Looking at Zhu's criticism on the memorial, Zhu Qizhen, the queen, and the concubines were all very surprised: it turned out to be a meeting of relatives to convict him.The nobles who are eligible to participate in the meeting of relatives are all on the side of the emperor, but most of the princes, county kings, and sons-in-law are on their side.Is the emperor going to let everyone live?
(End of this chapter)