Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 465
Just when Zhu Qizhen and his concubines were in doubt, Chen Xiang came in and reported: "Your Majesty, the eunuch Ruan Xi is asking to see you."

When Zhu Qizhen heard the words, he was called in urgently.

After Ruan Xi saluted, Zhu Qizhen asked eagerly, "How will the emperor deal with me?"

Ruan Xi didn't answer these words, but just said perfunctorily: "The sage has an order, the matter involves the emperor's relatives, and everything is decided by the relatives' meeting."

"Then what are you doing here?"

Ruan Xi replied: "The sage has an order. The people of Nangong Palace participated in the rebellion. All of them will be imprisoned and wait to be punished. Before the sage bought more than a thousand slaves from North Korea, now he has selected 50 court ladies and 50 eunuchs to serve His Majesty. and ladies and gentlemen.

In addition, Xia Shi and other eunuchs forcibly hanged and killed the imperial concubine, and the Holy Majesty ordered the slaves to ask His Majesty, how should they be punished? "

Zhu Qizhen waved his hand helplessly: "Let's die with the stick."

Ruan Xi also reported: "The sage has ordered that the crown prince will move to the Ciqing Palace from now on, and the Chonghua Palace will be temporarily closed, and the palace people are not allowed to enter or leave. Your Majesty and all the ladies need anything, just ask the palace people for it.

The sage has ordered Ruan Lang and Ma Liang to return to Beijing.Ruan Lang was dismissed from the post of Li Supervisor and Bingbi, and took up the post of full-time director of Chonghua Palace.Ma Liang was demoted to Jinyiwei Qianhu, who guards the Chonghua Palace full-time. "

Zhu Qizhen sighed and said nothing more.This is house arrest, and it is expected.The younger brother let Ruan Lang and Ma Liang survive and let them stay in Nangong, it was really merciful.

But Empress Zhou asked eagerly: "Can't the prince be kept by my side? He is still young, and now he is frightened and ill."

Ruan Xi replied: "The crown prince wants to go out to study, how can he be imprisoned in the Chonghua Palace. Even if the emperor agrees, the civil and military officials will not agree."

"How about letting the prince stay for another night and move to the palace tomorrow?"

Ruan Xi nodded: "This servant respects the Queen's order, so this servant will leave first."

Ruan Xi and Chen Xiang withdrew, commanded the Jing army to enter, detained all the palace people in Chonghua Palace, and then fifty eunuchs and fifty court ladies entered Chonghua Palace.

And Lu Zhong led Jinyiwei to block the water around Chonghua Palace.

Chonghua Palace is fifty feet wide from east to west, and eighty feet wide from north to south. It is about the same size as Yuquan Lake in front of Zhu Qiyu Hehuan Hall, and it ends in a casual stroll.

In addition to several main halls in the Chonghua Palace, there are also wing rooms where servants live, and a small garden.

From now on, Zhu Qizhen and his ten women will suffer in this narrow world.

Ruan Xi left Nangong, went to Ten Kings Mansion and Zhuwang Pavilion to convey the emperor's will to the vassals, and then went back to search the house.

In the Kings' Pavilion, Zhu Zhaohui, King of Lu, sat in his room with a bitter face, clutching a piece of paper.

King Lu's six sons and Tang Jie sat beside him.

Sitting blankly for a while, King Lu sighed to his sons with annoyed expression: "It's all because my father is confused. I didn't want to rebel. I was fooled into going to the Forbidden City because of the uproar."

Zhu Taidi, the eldest son of Anqiu, persuaded: "Father, you don't have to blame yourself too much. Originally, the imperial court summoned us here to be given a banquet by the emperor at Fengtianmen on the first day of July.

We went to Fengtianmen as agreed on the morning of the first day of July. What's wrong with that?

Besides, we didn't hand over the guards to Shi Heng, so why should we say we rebelled. "

King Lu nodded: "That's what I said, but tomorrow the emperor will call our family and Tang Jie to see him, so I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse."

After King Lu finished speaking, he patted the paper in his hand on the table: "Look, Hou Sun Zhong of Huichang committed suicide by leaving a suicide note, which listed seven major crimes against the empress dowager.

Now the emperor has copied several copies of Sun Zhong's suicide note, and let us pass it on.

A few days later, the royal relatives appointed by Taizu will hold a meeting to decide how to deal with these matters. "

Zhu Taidi replied: "It's nothing. From my son's point of view, the emperor is quite weak. He even ordered the three grandsons of Huichanghou to send the coffin of Changhou back to his hometown for burial.

I thought none of the Sun family would survive. "

King Lu asked Tang Jie, "Jie'er, what do you think?"

Tang Jie replied: "My nephew thinks that my uncle's words are wrong. Huichanghou has identified the crime of the empress dowager adopting the son of the concubine, and then Ding Xiangbo Guo Deng agrees with Huichanghou's statement, and admits that his sister, concubine Guo Ai, is true. If he gave birth to the prince privately and was adopted by the empress dowager, then the crime is completely substantiated.

Ding Xiangbo's only son, Guo Song, is a Jinyiwei Qianhu who is in charge of Suwei Nangong, and is also suspected of rebellion.For the sake of his beloved son's life, Ding Xiangbo might have to confess his guilt.

And the emperor left the lives of the three grandsons of Hou Huichang, and even the life of the great-grandson of Hou Huichang can be discussed.After the empress dowager's crimes were "conclusively proven", as long as someone hinted a little, it is very possible that the empress dowager would take the initiative to admit all the crimes in order to save the lives of the four children and grandchildren of the Sun family.

In this way, the emperor's benefits are too great: the empress dowager must be abolished, which greatly shakes the legitimacy of the emperor's throne.And the status of the crown prince was fundamentally shaken.

Moreover, there is another point in Huichanghou's suicide note. He publicly admitted that the current son is the son of Empress Hu.

This is a good deal. Compared with the price paid for letting go of the four descendants of the Sun family, the emperor's profit is hundreds to thousands of times.

Besides, the four descendants of the Sun family are not free just now. Fengyang's center is so big that the emperor will not leave it empty. "

At this time, Zhu Taikan, the second son of the King of Lu, retorted: "It is true to say so, but most of the vassal kings rebelled, but the emperor dared not kill us. We still eat and drink. Serving. How can you say that the emperor is not weak and deceitful?"

Tang Jie was directly amused by Zhu Taikan's words: "Uncle, are you overthinking it? Look at the dignitaries and civil servants who were present at that time, did not all of them die?
As for most of the vassal kings surviving, it was just that the emperor let it go on purpose.

If you don’t believe me, count from the beginning, did the most famous vassals never go to the Forbidden City, did the worst vassals all die in the rebellion?Was it the feudal lord whose reputation wasn't too bad who survived the chaos? "

Zhu Taikan asked curiously: "You mean that the emperor is killing people in a planned way? Then why didn't he kill all the vassal kings who entered the Forbidden City? Why did he kill all the civil servants and nobles?"

Tang Jie said with a smile: "Uncle, think about it, those civil servants and nobles died as soon as they died, and they had no influence on the emperor at all.

But at the local level, the emperor needs vassals, civil servants, gentry, and powerful to restrain each other and maintain balance.

If all the vassal kings were killed now, it would be a pleasure, but without the restrictions of the vassal kings in the local area, the civil servants, the gentry, and the powerful will collude with each other, and the tail will soon be too big.

And the emperor now has only two sons, both of whom are still babies, so there is no hope at all.

So the emperor was not weak, but had no choice but to leave some vassal princes with decent character and continue to guard the place for Daming. "

King Anqiu echoed, "That's true, think about the scene in the square in front of Fengtian Temple, where you were killed to the end.

Brothers Cao Jixiang and Cao Qin had almost killed Xungui's servant and the vassal's guards, and Tiance's guards rushed in just in time.

At that time, the eunuch Hao Yi, who was in charge of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, was not far away from me. I saw him respectfully help up King Huai who had fallen to the ground, and politely ordered his personal soldiers to protect him and leave.

Then Hao Yi turned his head, and with a light wave of his hand, Tiance's guards immediately charged up, cutting the throats and heads of the rest of King Huai's guards.

In the end, there were more than 1 people on the scene, all of whom were replaced by Tian Cewei, and all of them were killed. Except for the vassal king, no one was left alive.

But brothers Cao Jixiang and Cao Qin should have been captured alive, then tried by the judicial department and executed by Ling Chi.But what is very strange is that Brother Cao Qin asked Hao Yi to let his concubine's room live. Hao Yi nodded and said: "Don't worry, go on the road."

Then Hao Yi actually ordered Tian Ce's guards to give Cao Jixiang and Cao Qin brothers a good time. "

Tang Jie nodded in praise and said: "Uncle is right, people like Cao Jixiang definitely did it on purpose. Seeing that the situation was over, they started to do dirty work for the emperor instead and kill the vassals.

Only in this way can it be reasonably explained why the Cao family suddenly went crazy and rushed to kill the guards and honored servants of the vassal king.

Moreover, Cao Jixiang, the old fox, picked and killed the vassals, so it was such a coincidence that the vassals with bad reputations almost died, but the vassals with good reputations did not suffer much loss. "

When everyone heard the words, they suddenly realized.

King Lu told everyone: "It is enough for our own family to understand this matter, you can't spread it to outsiders, and you can't even tell your princess when you go back, or you will rot in your stomach.

It's still Jie'er who is smart. After all, it's because of his family background, and he has a thorough understanding of these twists and turns in the court. "

Tang Jie gave a wry smile, this compliment to the Tang family was well deserved.Few of the founding heroes of the Ming Dynasty managed to survive the Taizu, and Tang He, the father of the family, was one of the very few who had the last laugh.

The descendants of the Tang family dare not say anything else. The ability to wait and see the direction of the wind and protect oneself wisely is really a family tradition.

It's just that after the Tumu Fort change happened, the Tang family was still too conservative. It was clear that the new king had sent someone to invite the Tang family to join King Jingqin, but the Tang family chose to wait and see after repeated weighing.

Who would have thought that the war would end so quickly, and who would have thought that the new king not only repelled Oara, but even killed Ye Xian immediately after.

Tang Jie missed this opportunity and broke his thigh in regret.Li Xuan, who was about the same age, easily took back the title of Duke of Cao Guo because he brought hundreds of family members to King Jingqin actively and did not make any special contributions.

Tang Jie regretted it. If he had entered Jingqin King early, he would have become the Duke of Xinguo now if he just swiped a knife on the battlefield a few times.

Turning the world around, the downfall is also the first;After seeing the two great handwritings of the emperor, Tang Jie was completely convinced.

One victory may be due to luck, but two consecutive victories like autumn wind sweeping leaves cannot be explained by luck alone.

But the problem is, Tang Jie wants to serve the emperor now, it's a bit late.Because now people who think like Tang Jie have already started queuing up.

Now that you want to serve allegiance, the emperor has to ask first: Which onion are you?
(End of this chapter)