Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 494 Winning over the Duke of the State
Qianxue asked curiously: "Tong's son-in-law? Is our son so pitiful?"

Zhu Qiyu smiled and said: "Don't be ours, when the time comes, this son will be someone else's. Marry a wife and forget your mother, haven't you heard this famous saying?"

Qianxue continued to ask: "That's not right, can civil servants allow our son to marry the daughter of the Duke? Didn't the last three emperors all marry the daughters of Xiaomen Xiaohu's family?
Can the civil servants agree to make a daughter of a duke of the country to be the future queen? "

Holding Mu Cong back and forth, Zhu Qiyu smiled and said, "When I ascended the throne, I was guarding against this day. Otherwise, why would I have to promote myself from the King of Qi to the King of Qi when I was about to become the emperor.

I have already thought about it, even if I become the emperor, I still have to keep my status as a prince. Doing many things will bring unexpected convenience.

That's why I insisted on upgrading myself to King Qi, so as not to use the inferior and disrespectful title of King Yi all day long, and make myself sick from time to time. "

"Then what does it have to do with serving as King of Qi and our son marrying the Duke's daughter?"

"Our eldest son, Zhu Wenfang, will be the next King of Qi, and Xu Xian will be the next Duke of An. There are countless precedents in the Ming Dynasty for a prince marrying the daughter of a Duke, so why should civil servants object?
The prince married the daughter of the Duke of the country, and the civil servants objected, and there were some reasons.

But the problem is that I said that our eldest son is the prince, but the civil servants don't admit it.

Then there is nothing I can do to help you. You yourself don’t recognize him as the crown prince, but only recognize him as the prince’s son, so why don’t you allow him to marry the daughter of the Duke? "

Qianxue frowned and pondered: "That's right, you've got the ministers involved. If the ministers don't recognize Zhu Wenfang as the crown prince, then we should do what we should do. The advantage is that the civil servants have no position to manage the family affairs of our Prince Qi's mansion." .

Even if the civil servant insisted that the engagement of Prince Qi's son requires the participation of the imperial court, according to the imperial court system, the marriage of the emperor's clan and vassals should be made by our mother and concubine Xuanyi, who is in charge of the empress dowager's seal. , which goes back around again.

Poor civil servants, how can you stand on such an emperor who walks a hundred steps and digs fifty holes? It's really hard life. "

Zhu Qiyu smiled and said: "It's not that easy, they will also dig holes for me. The biggest problem now is that there are not enough civil servants loyal to me.

The fight with Wenchen is not as simple as you think, forget it, it's so annoying, let's take a nap first. "

Qianxue took Mu Cong from Zhu Qiyu's hands: "Husband, please take Mao'er and Ningxiang to Qingliang Hall to sleep. Xi'er and I are here to pull the grindstone for your husband."

Zhu Qiyu made a big bow and left with the two concubines.

But in the afternoon, the gate of Daming was still crowded with people.

Just as the onlookers were whispering and arguing endlessly, a group of officers and soldiers escorted a group of eunuchs to the square in front of Daming Gate.

Between Beijing's newly built outer city and the inner city, there are three city gates: Chongwenmen, Xuanwumen, and Zhengyangmen.

People from the outer city enter the inner city through Zhengyang Gate, and after passing Zhengyang Gate, walk about a hundred steps to the north, which is Daming Gate.

However, ordinary people cannot enter the Daming Gate. Behind the Daming Gate are the six ministries, the Governor's Mansion and other government offices.The people can only go their separate ways along the street outside Daming Gate.

It is precisely because the main street called Qipan Street outside Daming Gate is the main road connecting the inner and outer cities, so there is an endless stream of pedestrians and it is very lively.

At this time, Yang Xun, who pleaded for Yuan Bin's life, was still kneeling outside Daming Gate.This wave is not flat, and another wave rises again.

A group of eunuchs were escorted over, and the executioner killed them directly. After a while, there were only two eunuchs left.

All the attention of the people has been attracted.

Killing people outside the Daming Gate is too rare.And it's understandable to kill a group, but two are left behind. Why?
At this time, the prison officials announced loudly: "These two former eunuchs Jin Ying and Xing'an, because they instigated Emperor Gongrang to rebel and intended to harm the current emperor, they were tried by the three courts and sentenced to treason. The punishment of being late.

The execution process will last for three days. Those who need to buy their meat can prepare coins. The latest rules only accept the newly minted silver and copper coins from the Jingtai Dynasty. "

When the people heard this, they didn't show the enthusiasm they had when they watched Ling Chi before, but were stunned.

The crime of these two great eunuchs was to instigate Emperor Gongrang to rebel, but said that Emperor Gongrang rebelled?It's still a bit unacceptable.

Besides, the common people didn't want to buy the meat of two old eunuchs that much.

But no matter what the people thought, the execution began immediately.

Yang Xun knelt there in embarrassment, unable to get up or down, in a dilemma: get up and go home, come back tomorrow?Ling Chi will continue tomorrow, and no one pays attention to kneeling.

Come back the day after tomorrow?It was the last day of Ling Chi the day after tomorrow, and no one paid attention when he came to kneel.

One bout of energy, another bout of exhaustion, three bouts of exhaustion.

Once I get up and go home to rest for two days, I will be exhausted, and it will be difficult to get together again.

Gritting his teeth, Yang Xun chose to bite the bullet and knelt there alone.

Until the evening, Mrs. Li came to deliver the meal: "Husband, let's eat some first. I made your favorite braised pork and fish soup."

Yang Xun replied angrily: "What kind of braised pork, look at the pieces that were cut off by the two eunuchs in front, now mentioning braised pork makes me a little sick.

Besides, I'm here to petition, so what's the proper way to eat and drink on my knees.Hurry up and take it back, if the Holy Majesty doesn't personally meet me for a day, I won't get up for a day, let alone eat. "

After a while, the officials of the Six Departments and other offices came out of Daming Gate one after another.

In this situation, Baiguan is also very helpless.A little painter knelt there and insisted on meeting the Holy Majesty; two eunuchs who used to be famous were there to accept the punishment of Ling Chi.

The only thing in common is that they are all related to the follow-up processing of Emperor Gong Rang's mutiny and rebellion.

No one knows how far the emperor has to deal with it before he is willing to give up.

Most civil servants were not deeply involved in the mutiny, or even did not participate at all, so the sense of crisis was not great.Military generals and nobles are different.

Represented by the old nobles such as Zhenyuan Hou Gu Xingzu and Xiping Hou Songjie who survived the mutiny by chance, it can be said that they are extremely entangled.

Now the biggest problem that Jiu Xungui is facing is that he cannot reach a reconciliation with the emperor.

After the mutiny, for a month, the emperor never expressed any intention of reconciling with the old nobles.

As for the military generals, all the former Beijing Shangzhiwei were driven to Nanjing to sit on the bench, not to mention reconciliation, the emperor's meaning is very clear: I want to lay off you, if you have the ability, you should rebel.

It was a bit embarrassing for the emperor to be like this. The soldiers of Shangzhiwei went to Nanjing, but the family members had not completely moved there, which made it difficult to make things happen.

Moreover, the [-] soldiers of the Beijing camp that Shi Heng led the mutiny before had all been killed, and all his family members were exiled to the Nuer Gandusi, which is not a good place.

The emperor became ruthless, so fierce that no one dared to resist.

Gu Xingzu and Song Jie, the two marquises, regretted the most. When the emperor first came to power, he personally visited the door to win him over, but neither of them cherished it.

Hey, look at Xu Yongning, who was only ten years old at the time, but had a unique vision. He flattered and pretended to be pitiful. The emperor who coaxed him showed great care, and the three princesses who coaxed him were full of sympathy. At the age of Xijue, he has already secured the position of Duke Ding.

What's even more exasperating is that Li Xuan, who went straight to the top, has jumped from a young man with no official position to Cao Guogong who is in charge of a military town.

Gu Xingzu and Song Jie looked at each other in dismay, looked at each other, and looked at each other, everyone was a thorn in the emperor's side and a thorn in his flesh.

In desperation, Gu Xingzu took Song Jie to pick up Tianlou to drink away his worries.

……

On the third day of August, the garrison office in Nanjing.

Due to the delay in reaching a consensus on disarmament, Xu Qi couldn't do anything serious, so he could only continue to argue with Yuan Cheng.

Xu Qi didn't have a clue about when the quarrel would be the height.

There was no other way but to continue arguing with our heads covered.

But when the noise got closer to noon, a young eunuch came in outside and whispered in Yuan Cheng's ear.

Yuan Cheng nodded his head again and again, his brows beaming with joy.

After the little eunuch went down, Xu Qi hurriedly asked: "Duke Yuan, is there any order from the Holy Spirit?"

Yuan Cheng smiled and said, "The Holy Majesty has sent two civil servants and two nobles to guard Nanjing together with you and me. When they came, the Holy Majesty must have made detailed arrangements, so we don't have to argue now."

Xu Qi frowned when he heard this: No wonder Yuan Cheng was so happy. The emperor sent two civil servants and two nobles, but he didn't send eunuchs. This showed his trust and reliance on Yuan Cheng.

It's unlucky for myself, and I don't know who the two civil servants who came are, and who are the two nobles.

If it is the direct line of the emperor's direct line, then wait to suffer.

(End of this chapter)