Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 56

As soon as Zhu Qiyu finished speaking, the ministers immediately took orders, and no one raised any objections.

His Royal Highness King Qi's unsightly expression made all the ministers feel guilty.

Anyone can see that King Qi is on the verge of breaking out.

However, the ministers are obviously unreasonable: now the entire southern province, except for Nanzhili, is almost completely reversed.

Deng Maoqi and Ye Zongliu's uprising in the southeast involved Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi.

The southwestern Miao chaos involved Guizhou, Huguang, and Sichuan.

Moreover, it is still the early stage of the Miao Rebellion, and the Miao Rebellion will spread to Guangxi, Guangdong, Jiangxi and other places later.

Now Zhu Qiyu only needs to ask the ministers: Is this how you assist the emperor and govern the world?The ministers will be speechless and unable to refute.

After all, the south is so chaotic now that it is impossible to see, and the imperial court in the north was beaten into a drowning dog by Wala.A group of loyal ministers and good ministers, assisting the emperor, and governing the world like this, no matter how brazen they are, they are embarrassed to say that they are competent.

Fortunately, Zhu Qiyu didn't continue to entangle, and asked again: "Did the Queen Mother read the edict in the morning?"

Seeing that Zhu Qiyu changed the subject, all the ministers breathed a sigh of relief, and Chen Xun quickly replied: "I have seen it, the Queen Mother has already prepared it. Tomorrow, the Queen Mother and the Queen will prepare the clothes for His Majesty, and the mission can start again. "

This was expected. Zhu Qiyu wanted to send clothes to the eldest brother, and to accept a concubine for the eldest brother. He also wanted to reprimand Yexian and order him to treat the emperor well. What could Queen Mother Sun object to?

As for asking for the traitorous eunuch Xining, the Queen Mother just doesn't bother to take care of such crap.

After Chen Xun finished speaking, he handed over the drafted Queen Mother Yizhi, and showed it to Zhu Qiyu.

Zhu Qiyu only took a few glances, then smiled: "Who drafted this decree?"

Shang Ren, who had just joined the cabinet, stood up and replied: "His Royal Highness, it was drafted by my humble minister."

"A talented person? Li Xianzhen, did you come up with this name?"

Shang Ren replied: "Yes, I think that since the Empress Dowager made a decree to confer Yexian's sister as a talented person of your Majesty, then she should be given a Chinese name and a Chinese surname.

As His Majesty's concubine, she must not be given the surname Zhu.It would be better to give the surname Li according to the practice of giving surnames to foreigners in the Tang Dynasty.

As for the name, I also took the initiative to dedicate my younger sister to His Majesty the Ming Emperor, so I took the word "present"; since Yexian's younger sister is already the concubine of His Majesty the Ming Emperor, she should be loyal, obedient and obedient, Therefore, Weichen took the word "zhen".

In this way, Yexian's sister was named Li Xianzhen, named Zhencairen.If there is something wrong, please correct me, Your Highness. "

"Okay, that's good. Shang Aiqing is worthy of being a great talent in Sanyuan Jidi. The edict drafted is well-founded and convincing. You hand over the edict to the envoys and let them go as soon as possible."

Zhu Qiyu is very satisfied, and now he has kicked the ball to Yexian, let's see how he will respond.

Speaking of Sanyuan Jidi, Zhu Qiyu took a closer look at Shang Ren, who was the first in the provincial examination, the first in the general examination, and the first in the imperial examination. , It's really magnificent and majestic.

Seeing this situation, Zhu Qiyu decided to do a small job again, and asked Chen Xun: "Master Ge, although I want to take the throne temporarily, shouldn't I also amnesty the world to boost the morale of the army and the people?"

"What Your Highness said is true, the new emperor ascends the throne, amnesty is a must, there is no dispute."

Seeing that Chen Xun was so sure, Zhu Qiyu sighed and said with a serious face: "Then restore Huang Guan's reputation and posthumously posthumously 'Wenzhen'. After all, it has been more than 40 years, and we should have any grudges or grievances." Solved."

When the ministers heard the words, they all looked at each other in blank dismay. Everyone could understand Zhu Qiyu's mention of Huang Guan. After all, when they saw Shang Ren, the second person in the Ming Dynasty's imperial examination, they thought of Huang Guan, the No. logic.

But last time Zhu Qiyu released the descendants of Jianwen's former minister Tie Xuan, and this time he wanted to restore the reputation of Jianwen's former minister Huang Guan, which made the ministers smell something unusual.

And Zhu Qiyu didn't want to cover it up deliberately, anyway, he must release Emperor Jianwen's lineage in the end.This is also to pave the way for future orthodoxy disputes, when the time comes, give them a way to kill one thousand enemies and hurt eight hundred: anyway, I, Zhu Qiyu, is Zhu Di's great-grandson, and your Zhu Qizhen is also Zhu Di's great-grandson.

What is orthodox or not, the entire Zhu Di lineage is rebellious against the superior, the elder brother not to mention the second younger brother, anyway, everyone is a traitor, no one should laugh at anyone.

The ministers were put in a difficult position. To say that they were all sympathetic to Huang Guan, the No. 1 Imperial Examination of the Ming Dynasty, not only won the three yuan in the Lianzhong, but also the county examination, the government examination, the courtyard examination, the township examination, the general examination, and the palace examination. They are all number one, shocking the world, unprecedented and unprecedented, and were called by people at the time as "there are three yuan in the world, but there are no six poems in the world".

Moreover, after Jianwen was defeated, Huang Guan threw himself into the river, and his wife and two daughters threw themselves into the river. This is a real loyal minister.

Now Zhu Qiyu took advantage of the opportunity of amnesty to pardon loyal ministers, which made sense in principle.

From the bottom of their hearts, the ministers are absolutely in favor of restoring Huang Guan's reputation, but it is a bit too sensitive when it comes to Jianwen.

However, Wang Zhi, who has an upright personality, as the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, has always been more concerned about this matter. Last time, he was the first to stand up and support the release of Tie Xuan's descendants. This time, Wang Zhi was the first to stand up again. Come out and ask Zhu Qiyu:
"May I ask Your Highness, how should Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng be treated?"

Zhu Qiyu heard the words, without hesitation, he replied very firmly: "Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng divorced the family relationship of the Tian family, disrupted the government, harmed the country, and harmed the Holy Lord. This treacherous minister will never be forgiven."

After getting Zhu Qiyu's clear statement in public, Wang Zhi was relieved and expressed his willingness to obey the imperial edict.

Wang Zhi, the highly prestigious Minister of the Ministry of Officials, obeyed the imperial edict, and the others stopped raising their arguments, and expressed their obedience to the imperial edict.

Zhu Qiyu also accepts as soon as it is good, and just lays down the foreshadowing first, and will not talk about Jianwen's old affairs in a short time.

Seeing that everything was going well, Zhu Qiyu said again: "The cabinet will draw up an order, and Xu Yongning will succeed him as Duke Ding."

Unexpectedly, Chen Xun didn't even ask, and immediately took orders.

Zhu Qiyu was stunned for a while and then figured it out. Anyway, Xu Yongning would definitely become the prince, that is, the difference between two years earlier and two years later. The ministers should not offend the new king who is about to succeed for such a thing.

In this case, Zhu Qiyu chased after the victory again, and said with a smile to Chen Xun: "I have seen the list of Jinshi for the last three sessions, Bai Gui, Xiang Zhong, and He Yi, just these three people, let them serve as Zhongshusheren, and usually help I handle paperwork."

Chen Xun accepted the order without even thinking about it. There is really no need to raise an argument for such a trivial matter.

Zhu Qiyu saw that all his edicts had been successfully passed for the first time, so he decided to accept them as soon as they were ready. While getting up and preparing to go home, Zhu Qiyu ordered:

"Tomorrow, no matter what, I will have a day off. If there is nothing particularly important, don't bother me. If there is something really important, and you come to my house to discuss matters, I will not come over."

The ministers agreed, and Zhu Qiyu will formally ascend the throne the day after tomorrow, so the ministers gave extra face today, as long as the order is not particularly difficult to accept, the ministers will obey all orders.

Hu Wei added: "His Royal Highness, according to the procedures drawn up by the Ministry of Rites, the official enthronement ceremony will be held early in the morning the day after tomorrow. His Highness will first report to the Taimiao, pay homage to the altar of society, and then receive congratulations from all officials at Fengtianmen. After Ning Gong pays homage to the Empress Dowager, he can move into Qianqing Palace."

Zhu Qiyu nodded: "Keep everything simple and save as much as you can. Other procedures are in accordance with the rules, but I can't live in the Qing Palace."

Hearing this, Hu Wei didn't insist anymore. After all, these things really raised the bar, and they couldn't finish arguing for a month.

At that time, they will have already reached the capital first, and the emperor is still arguing with the ministers about where to live, so it will be a joke.Therefore, the ministers have reached a consensus in private, and after the Oirats are defeated, they will slowly discuss with the emperor such issues as whether they can live in the palace and whether they can establish a queen.

So Hu Mei asked again: "Your Highness, according to the etiquette, it is still necessary to worship the mausoleums of the four former emperors."

Zhu Qiyu replied: "Order British Duke to sacrifice to Changling, Cheng Guogong to sacrifice to Xianling, Dingguo to sacrifice to Jingling. Then order Wei Guogong to sacrifice to Xiaoling in Nanjing."

After speaking, Zhu Qiyu went home smoothly.Tomorrow is a day of idleness, and the day after tomorrow after enthronement, the distribution of power can finally be officially started.

(End of this chapter)