My Ming Dynasty, I have the final say

Chapter 1 The Emperor of the Whole Moon
In the 48th year of Wanli calendar, August 29th, the You hour.

As the door of Qianqing Palace closed with a bang, there were only two people in Dongnuan Pavilion at this time.

"You said that Fang Congzhe took that man named Li Kezhuo out of the palace?"

Zhu Youxiao didn't know what he was writing, so he asked with a twitching corner of his mouth.

"Go back to Your Highness, I saw this with my own eyes."

After hearing Zhu Youxiao's question, Wei Jinzhong quickly lowered his head.

"is it?"

Turning his head again and putting down the brush in his hand, Zhu Youxiao picked up the ink pad from the table and pressed his fingerprints on the written cloth.

"Jin Zhong, how many years have you been with me?"

"Back to Your Highness, it's been 14 years."

In the past few days, because Emperor Taichang was not in good health, the atmosphere in the palace had obviously changed a lot. Wei Jinzhong, as the celebrity next to the grandson, naturally felt it.

After hearing Zhu Youxiao's question, Wei Jinzhong said quickly.

"I want you to do something."

"Your Highness, please give me instructions."

After folding the cloth in his hand, Zhu Youxiao looked at Wei Jinzhong expressionlessly.

"Take off your shoes."

"what?"

Hearing this, Wei Jinzhong was stunned and looked at Zhu Youxiao blankly.

"I asked you to take off your shoes."

"Yes."

After hearing clearly, Wei Jinzhong quickly took off his shoes.

Zhu Youxiao threw the strip of cloth in his hand into Wei Jinzhong's shoes and watched him put it on before he continued to speak.

"You take my token, leave the palace from Xihua Gate, go to my uncle's house, tell me that I miss your uncle, and give him a vase."

Zhu Youxiao said, picked up a vase from the table and placed it in Wei Jinzhong's hand.

Hearing this, Wei Jinzhong quickly took the vase.

"Slaves take orders."

"With the letter in your shoe, after midnight, go to the British Duke Zhang Weixian's house immediately and hand the letter to the British Duke in person."

"This..."

After hearing Zhu Youxiao's words, Wei Jinzhong was stunned and asked.

"Your Highness, what's going on?"

"You don't have to know."

After patting Wei Jinzhong on the shoulder, Zhu Youxiao said in a deep voice.

"When the matter is done, I will be rewarded heavily." "I thank Your Highness for your great kindness."

"Go."

After watching Wei Jinzhong walk out of Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youxiao stood at the door of Dongnuang Pavilion for almost half an hour. After hearing the bell from the bell tower, Zhu Youxiao returned to Dongnuan Pavilion.

Today is a day remembered by history. It is the time when one of the three major cases in the late Ming Dynasty, the Hongwan Case, occurred.

Zhu Jianqiang, the Wanli Emperor, dug several large pits before his death, one of which was specially dug for Taichang.

Before his death, Wanli left a posthumous edict naming Concubine Zheng as queen or queen mother.

At that time, the dispute over the country's foundation was caused by Concubine Zheng and Prince Fu for more than ten years. Taichang would definitely not agree to this matter, but Taichang could not blatantly oppose his father's edict, so this matter was just It was handed into the hands of hundreds of officials and ordered to "investigate cases."

The answer from the Ministry of Rites was also in line with Taichang's wishes: the incident was anecdotal and there was no evidence for the case.

Then Fang Congzhe, the chief minister of the cabinet, came up with a bad idea to hide the imperial edict, and everyone just treated it as if it didn't exist.

As soon as she heard the news, Concubine Zheng quit her job. She had a posthumous edict, and if you don't give me the title of queen, it would be impossible. So she just stayed in Qianqing Palace and refused to leave. When the ministers saw that this was not good, they wrote a letter and scolded her. Among them, Zhou Jiamo, the Minister of Civil Affairs, scolded him the most.

In the end, after several days of stalemate, the two sides reluctantly reached a compromise. Concubine Zheng moved to Cining Palace. Although she was not granted the title of queen, she enjoyed the treatment of the queen mother.

Prince Zhu Changluo moved from Ciqing Palace to Qianqing Palace with Li Xuanshi and grandson Zhu Youxiao.

Ten days after Zhu Changluo officially ascended the throne, perhaps in order to make up for the little unpleasantness she had with Emperor Taichang, Concubine Zheng gave Taichang a big gift, eight beautiful young ladies.

Taichang also struggled for 30 years. Once he gained power, he became more aggressive and lived up to his expectations. At the age of 38, he succeeded in making many people in a row overnight.

Then, people are useless, in a physical sense.

After falling ill, Emperor Taichang didn't seek medical treatment from the imperial physician. However, the imperial physician saw him several times and the opinions were surprisingly unanimous, and there was nothing wrong with him.

Let Emperor Taichang take good care of him, and the most important thing is abstinence.

Where can this go for Emperor Taichang, who is in a period of irrational consumption?

As a result, Emperor Taichang, who was in a hurry and sought medical treatment, found another non-mainstream doctor - Cui Wensheng.

As for Cui Wensheng, as the eunuch in charge of the royal pharmacy, he donated a tonic medicine to Emperor Taichang. The main medicine was rhubarb.

This stuff is a favorite of grassland residents. Its main functions are to attack stagnation, clear dampness and heat, purge fire, cool blood, remove blood stasis, and detoxify.

To put it simply, it is the treatment of constipation.

After taking the medicine, Emperor Taichang had diarrhea thirty or forty times in the next day and night, and his body collapsed completely.

On August 28, Emperor Taichang, who was already in poor health, ordered all the court officials to enter the palace to see Tianqi, which seemed to be a kind of entrustment. At the same time, he ordered Cui Wensheng to be expelled from the palace.

On August 29, Li Kezhuo offered red pills.After Emperor Taichang took the first pill, he felt very comfortable all over, and his ministers noticed that their scalps were numb.That evening, Emperor Taichang took a second pill.

The next day at the fifth watch, he died.

"The master of the Ming Dynasty is strong within, so he will not lose it outside. There is no one who can lose something close but not perish far away."

A gust of wind blew in from the window of Dongnuan Pavilion, which helped Zhu Youxiao close the book he was reading, and the words "Han Feizi" leaked out.

"got windy."

Turning to look out the window, the setting sun is just like the Ming Dynasty at this time, slowly entering its twilight years.

(End of this chapter)