Rebirth of Zhu Di's son

Chapter 245: The title can also be used as bait
After dark.

Zhu Gaoxu went to the longevity palace as usual to greet Zhu Di and Xu.

However, this time he did not stay for a while and leave as usual. Instead, he stepped back and chatted with Zhu Di and Xu for half an hour.

As for what the three people talked about, the historian on duty naturally didn't know, and just mentioned it with "I pay homage to the emperor."

Kang Ping, Li Xing and other eunuchs and maids who accompanied him but were dismissed are also unknown.

After Zhu Gaoxu left the Longevity Palace, Kang Ping and Li Xing, who were guarding outside the palace gate, immediately greeted him and saluted him, saying in unison: "Your Majesty."

Zhu Gaoxu deliberately expressed joy and said: "My father finally agreed to the title!"

This sentence can be regarded as a response to Li Xing and Kang Ping.

Li Xing was overjoyed when he heard this. After bowing to Zhu Gaoxu again, he turned around and walked into the Longevity Palace.

Kang Ping followed Zhu Gaoxu and asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, will you immediately order the cabinet to draft a decree to give you the title of the emperor?"

Zhu Gaoxu nodded and said: "You personally go to Wenyuan Pavilion and the duty room of the Sixth Section, pass on my oral instructions, and order the officials on duty and the cabinet advisers to draft an edict for the title of my father, the Supreme Emperor. The sooner the better."

"The slaves obey the order."

Kang Ping quickly bowed and accepted the order.

"If I remember correctly, the cabinet scholar on duty for the past ten days is Yang Shiqi. He is also in his sixties. He is allowed to receive orders without kneeling."

Zhu Gaoxu specifically added: "As for the courtiers on duty in the Sixth Section Duty Room, all those over fifty years old are exempted from kneeling to listen to orders."

"According to the order."

Kang Ping saluted again.

After watching Kang Ping leave, Zhu Gaoxu thought that he had to find an opportunity to avoid the complicated kneeling ceremony. It would be better to only keep the kneeling ceremony for solemn occasions such as offering sacrifices to heaven and earth and the great dynasty meetings, and other times to listen to orders, receive orders, and perform affairs. The kneeling ceremony was changed to a hand-over ceremony or a bowing ceremony.

On the other side, Kang Ping left the Changshou Gate, crossed the West Corner Gate, and started walking towards the Meridian Gate of the Jinshui Bridge.

Under normal circumstances, courtiers need to rush from their respective residences to the Meridian Gate before dawn to wait for court.

Only ministers who are on duty every month or every ten days can stay in the side rooms of the court room and wait for the eunuchs to convey the emperor's will at any time.

On both sides of the imperial road between Duanmen and Meridian Gate, there are a total of [-] left and right court rooms, called Liuke Yuanshe, also known as Liuke Corridor, which are the six departments of officials, households, rituals, soldiers, punishments and workers. The location of the office.

To the south of the left and right gates of the corridor, there are the right gate of the temple and the left gate of the society, which lead directly to the Taimiao Temple and the Sheji Altar respectively.

The court room to the north of Langque is where princes, civil and military officials gather and wait for the court.

Wenyuan Pavilion is located inside the Meridian Gate, so it is called the Cabinet. The cabinet advisers on duty live in the small courtyard behind Wenyuan Pavilion.

After Kang Ping received the order, he first went to Wenyuan Pavilion and saw Yang Shiqi on duty.

"Young Master Kang is polite."

Seeing Kang Ping coming in a hurry, Yang Shiqi hurriedly went up to greet him and bowed his hands slightly in salute.

After Zhu Gaoxu succeeded to the throne, Kang Ping was promoted to the position of Chief Supervisor of Rites and Young Supervisor, so Yang Shiqi called Kang Ping "Young Supervisor" to show his respect.

"Scholar Yang, Your Majesty has a message."

Kang Ping maintained his posture and sang loudly.

When Yang Shiqi was preparing to kneel down to listen to the decree, Kang Ping hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, since Mr. Yang is nearly sixty years old, he is exempted from kneeling to listen to the decree."

"Thank you, Your Majesty Ron."

Yang Shiqi faced north and bowed.

When Yang Shiqi finished thanking him, Kang Ping said loudly: "His Majesty ordered the officials on duty and the cabinet advisers to draft an edict for the title of the emperor, the sooner the better!"

"The minister leads the order!"

Yang Shiqi bowed ninety degrees and accepted the order.

"Let's go, Bachelor Yang, come with our (za) family to check on the Sixth Department. After our family finishes reading His Majesty's oral edict, you can draft the edict, right?"

Kang Ping restored his usual friendly face and spoke politely to Yang Shiqi.Although Yang Shiqi hated eunuchs from the bottom of his heart, the existence of eunuchs such as Zheng He, Wang Jinghong, and Qingyao who made great contributions to the court but did not harm the officials and people of the Ming Dynasty greatly changed his view of eunuchs.

Kang Ping was Zhu Gaoxu's companion. Now that Zhu Gaoxu is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Kang Ping still does not bully others and is still very polite to others.

Yang Shiqi had to make a gesture of invitation and responded: "Young prisoner please."

Although this move seemed a bit flattering, Yang Shiqi still did it subconsciously.

Kang Ping saw that Yang Shiqi was very good at getting things done, so he deliberately said one more sentence.

"Your Majesty has advised the Emperor many times about the title, but the Emperor has never agreed. Somehow, the Emperor agreed just now. Scholar Yang, this is a great event!"

When Yang Shiqi heard this, his heart moved, but his face remained calm as he said, "What the young prisoner said is absolutely true. This is a great event that the whole world celebrates."

A quarter of an hour later, Kang Ping and Yang Shiqi arrived to check in with the six court officials.

After Kang Ping read Zhu Gaoxu's oral instructions, he went back to resume his duties.

But Yang Shiqi and other court officials tacitly saw a lot of things from this oral instruction.

Zhu Di was previously unwilling to accept the title of Supreme Emperor, and left all political affairs, large and small, to the new emperor Zhu Gaoxu.

This gave too many people a different taste.

Especially the eunuchs in the palace, Zheng He, Wang Jinghong, Wang Yan, Hou Xian, Yin Qing, Changsheng and others who were close to Zhu Gaoxu did not have any different intentions. It was precisely those Huang who had had friction or unpleasantness with Zhu Gaoxu, or even had holidays. Yan, Ma Qi, Hai Shou and others all have a sense of fear of impending disaster.

Huang Yan was originally a eunuch in charge of rituals. He was close to King Zhao Zhu Gaosui and accepted bribes on a large scale. Later, when King Zhao went overseas, he became honest.

Hai Shou was originally a young eunuch of the Royal Horse Prison, but he was a fireman donated by North Korea during the Hongwu period. Since he was from North Korea, Zhu Di sent him as an envoy to North Korea many times.

From the seventh year of Yongle to the fifteenth year of Yongle, Huang Yan and Hai Shou made many missions to North Korea to select young girls, and at the same time demanded large amounts of bribes.

Hai Shou, like Huang Yan, was greedy by nature. He took everything given by foreigners without any hesitation.

In the 17th year of Yongle's reign, Zhu Gaoxu received a secret report from Zheng He and Wang Jinghong, saying that Huang Yan and Haishou had accepted bribes from envoys from foreign countries and immediately provided conveniences to the foreign ministers.

With Zhu Gaoxu's temperament, he would not sit idly by and tell Zhu Di about the matter quickly.

After Zhu Di learned the truth, he severely reprimanded Huang Yan and Hai Shou, fined them both for three years, and demoted Huang Yan to the position of Chief Supervisor of Lis and Supervisor of the Royal Horse, and demoted Hai Shou to the position of Supervisor of Royal Horses. The matter was over. .

Ma Qi was first a chamberlain in Prince Yan's palace. He served Zhu Di at about the same time as Ma He (Zheng He). He was one of Zhu Di's trusted eunuchs.

After the Ming Dynasty pacified Annan, the Cochin Capital Division was established. A few years later, Zhu Di established the Cochin Chief Envoy Division, with Huang Fu, the left minister of the Ministry of Punishment, as the Cochin Chief Secretary.

Zhu Di sent Ma Qi to Jiaozhi to serve as military supervisor, and at the same time ordered him to purchase local specialties, mainly gold, silver, pearls, and spices.

After Ma Qi took office, he was corrupt and cruel, committing all kinds of evil, forcing many people in Jiaozhi to revolt.

Huang Fu did not succumb to Ma Qi's parents' behavior of pampering and abusing the people because Ma Qi was a close eunuch of Zhu Di. Instead, he resolutely resisted and fought against it.

The struggle between Huang Fu and Ma Qi played a great role in reducing the burden on the people of Jiaozhi and easing the unstable situation in Jiaozhi that was exacerbated by Ma Qi's raids as soon as possible.

Ma Qi's move to harm the people was unable to succeed due to Huang Fu's resistance. He couldn't help but hate Huang Fu deeply, and even wrote a secret letter to Zhu Di, falsely accusing Huang Fu of raising a bandit and having evil intentions.

Fortunately, Zhu Gaoxu had already sent his sincere uncle Liu Jing to serve as the censor in Jiaozhi, and secretly found out the truth about the civil unrest in Jiaozhi. This prevented Ma Qi from succeeding in framing Huang Fu.

In this way, under Zhu Gaoxu's manipulation, Ma Qi was transferred back to the Ming Dynasty by Zhu Di in the [-]th year of Yongle, and a few years later he became the shrine supervisor.

The Superintendent of the Shrine Palace is in charge of cleaning, incense lamps and other matters in various temples in Taigao. It is an idle yamen among the twelve supervisors of the Inner Palace and does not hold real power.

Although the power held by Ma Qi, Huang Yan and Hai Shou was not great, they were all old men in the palace and had served Zhu Di for more than ten years before being left out.

The number of eunuchs they promoted and the number of eunuchs who received their benefits ranged from one hundred to eighty.

If Zhu Di ceased to be the Supreme Emperor and completely handed over the power of the emperor to the new emperor Zhu Gaoxu, then the three of them would not be able to turn around in this life.

But now Zhu Di wants to be the emperor!

This means that they have another chance!

(End of this chapter)