Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 778: The entanglement between the government and the opposition further discusses the draft, and the chieftain from the southwest insists on rebelling

After one main contradiction is resolved, another main contradiction will gradually arise.

Now that the struggle for imperial control is over, new conflicts are brewing.

There are already some clues to be found from time to time, and the Mongols are about to launch a desperate fight, so Zhu Qiyu and Zhu Wenfang have been very depressed recently.

Zhu Qiyu was a little better, he was just lying at home and couldn't come out. The emperor is already absurd, and if he continues to play tricks, the ministers are helpless.

But the prince, before ascending the throne, still has to maintain his image to some extent.

Xu Qing still had two good words to say for the daughters of powerful families: "In fact, most of the daughters of these wealthy families are talented and beautiful, and there are many beautiful women who are proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting."

Zhu Wenfang nodded: "Then when I am fifteen, let's start the draft. According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, after the selection of the emperor and the prince, they always choose one to accompany the two.

For example, after the election of the emperor, 5,000 young ladies were selected and eliminated one after another. In the end, only 50 women were left, which was the cream of the crop.

These fifty people will be included in the harem, and the best three among them will enter the final round, and the queen mother will choose one to be the queen and two to be the concubine.

I already have a crown princess. When the draft is held in the future, I can choose two more secondary concubines and forty-seven concubines.

Give more places to the daughters of powerful people, and when the time comes, you, the empress of the palace, will lead them to play slowly. "

Hearing this, Xu Qing was simply stunned: in one draft, there were forty-nine more women to share their husbands with her, and most of them were daughters of powerful people. Wouldn't it mean that they were enemies on all sides, and this princess was still How to be that.

Zhu Wenfang added: "According to the rules, the prince must live with the princess on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month. The rest of the time can be done as he wishes.

To be a king, it is necessary to have both rain and dew. Even if I pamper you again, it is a lot to spend five days with you every month.

Of course, if you can accept the five concubines sharing the same bed and sleeping together like mothers, then we can spend more time together. "

Xu Qing shook her head in fear: "I don't want to sleep with other women. Can five women and one man sleep in the same bed every day, really live in harmony?

If I sleep in the same bed with four concubines chosen from powerful women, they must not take the opportunity to kill me. At least they must prevent me from getting pregnant, and then their children will have a chance to become emperors.

It's a wonderful thought. I'm just young, but I'm not short-sighted.

If my brother really chooses so many concubines, let alone share the same bed with them, I will definitely isolate them and not let them get even half a step closer to my bedroom.

I will kill anyone who enters my chamber. "

Zhu Wenfang smiled and said: "These words sound a bit familiar. Oh, I remembered. Yesterday, Shi Niang told Wang Lin at the entrance of Lingyu Palace. Which personal guard would dare to let the daughter of a powerful man come within ten steps of the palace gate? , immediately bowed his head to the public.

It's also funny. Those royal family members actually led their daughters through the entrance of Lingyu Palace. The bolder ones even blocked the door and looked around.

Qing'er, you have to learn from Shi Niang. Although Shi Niang is usually gentle and gentle, even if she faces the most ordinary personal guards, she has a kind face, but if there is a woman who dares to take advantage of her father, Shi Niang will really kill people. of. "

Xu Qing asked curiously: "Can you really kill someone?"

Zhu Wenfang nodded confidently: "Yesterday at Changle Palace, I went to pay my respects to the Queen Mother, and Shi Niang happened to be there. Those imperial ministers made sarcastic remarks about Shi Niang.

Shi Niang ignored them and never said a word in reply.

As the saying goes, the prime minister can hold a boat in his belly. With Shiniang's pride, she naturally didn't bother to complain to her father.

However, our Chief Ruan of Changle Palace must tell his father the whole story. It won't take long before a large number of powerful people will die. " "Really? Would my father kill a large number of powerful people just because his woman had been wronged? "

Zhu Wenfang smiled and said: "You don't know, dad has this kind of character. If someone directly scolds dad, most of the time dad will tolerate it and won't take it too seriously. But if someone scolds his woman , he will die, and dad will definitely take revenge fiercely.

His theory is that I can play with and humiliate my own woman however I want, but if others want to bully her, then I should send them to see the Great Emperor Yingming Shenwuxuanmiao as soon as possible.

The Great Emperor Yingming Shenwuxuanmiao believes that whoever dares to oppose me, even a prince, can just kill him, his wife, concubines, and children, in a simple and clear way.

On this issue, my father sometimes agreed with the wise emperor Shenwuxuanmiao.

In the past few years, my father and the courtiers have lived in harmony, and many people have forgotten to respect him.

Why don't you go sell more recently? After dad kills the powerful people, let's take advantage of the situation and push some people to the top. "

Zhu Wenfang has made the abacus count like crazy, and he has many people ready to be promoted. His father-in-law's family, Duke Anguo's Mansion, and his mother's family, Wudinghou Mansion, are all top nobles with deep roots in the military.

There are also Dukes of Wei, Ding, Cao, Qian and Xin, all of whom are clearly loyal to the emperor and the prince.

Sure enough, as Zhu Wenfang said, a few days later, Zhu Qiyu convened a small court meeting to listen to politics in Qingyun Hall.

Luo Tong gave the bad news as soon as he came up: "Your Majesty, the chieftains in Yunnan and Guizhou have all rejected the imperial court's invitation."

Zhu Qiyu was a little curious as to why. I have continuously reduced taxes and corvees in Yunnan and Guizhou, and completely abolished the labor of logging, which was the most disturbing and harmful thing to the people. The people of Yunnan and Guizhou should be grateful.

After much deliberation, the only possibility is that local officials felt that the Ming Dynasty was strong and relied on them, so they started to change their land and return to their hometown.

The most important means of reforming the native land is to force the chieftains to rebel by various provocations.

For example, the chieftain Yang family who had been in Bozhou for more than 700 years, the last chieftain Yang Yinglong rebelled during the Wanli period.

One of the three major campaigns of Wanli was to pacify Yang Yinglong, the chieftain of Bozhou.

This is a real case. Zhu Qiyu cursed in his heart: It's really ugly for the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty to eat photos. If I were Yang Yinglong, I would rebel too.

What is a pity for Yang Yinglong is that he rebelled too early. If the Yang family survives for another twenty years, they can wait for the Battle of Sarhu.

Another possibility is that the generals in Yunnan and Guizhou want to do something. For example, Mu Lin, the commander-in-chief of Yunnan, may not be willing to hand over power to Mu Cong, the Duke of Guizhou, so he wants to mess up Yunnan and Guizhou to increase his power and status.

The army in the southwest is deeply entangled and cannot be moved lightly when the war in the north is about to begin. Then change the governor of the southwest first.

But Zhu Qiyu went through his second- and third-grade ministers all over again and found that he had no one to replace or send.

The important ministers left by Zhu Zhanji and Zhu Qizhen died and retreated. The Jinshi of the Jingtai Dynasty could not serve as governors for the time being.

Forcibly promote them, they will definitely not be able to suppress them with their prestige and qualifications.

Zhu Qiyu sighed, I have cleared out the direct lineage of Zhu Zhanji and Zhu Qizhen, and destroyed several vassal states. Why are there still so many difficulties?

(End of this chapter)