Ming Dynasty: At the beginning, the house was ransacked and the ancestral temple was burned down.

Chapter 185: Huddle up in Xiyuan! Wanli also cultivates immortality! ?
Emperor Wanli's 'safe house' was destroyed by a fire and burned into ruins.

It was only at this time that Zhu Yijun realized that perhaps he had never had a so-called safe house.

Although the Forbidden City is the 'home' of their old Zhu family, it is not 'just' their old Zhu family's.

The Qianqing Palace was burned down, and Emperor Wanli did not have no place to live. After all, there were so many palaces in the palace, and at worst he could live in the palaces of his concubines.

However, Zhu Yijun did not choose to live in the concubine palace, but moved to Xiyuan like his grandfather Emperor Sejong.

As soon as this news came out, everyone panicked!
In particular, the ministers of the previous dynasty were speculating and discussing: "Does His Majesty the Emperor also want to cultivate immortality?"

Facts have proved that Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun did not want to become an immortal. Nestling in Xiyuan, he seemed to understand why his grandfather moved to such a remote place.

Zhu Yijun seemed to understand why his grandfather's cousin, the notoriously absurd Emperor Wuzong, moved to the 'Leopard House'.

Perhaps everything is reincarnated. After Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houcong ascended the throne, he ordered the destruction of the Leopard House where his cousin Zhu Houcong had lived for half his life. After Zhu Houcong's son Zhu Zaijing ascended the throne, he also ordered the destruction of the Taoist temple that his father Zhu Houcong had built for most of his life.

"Chen Ju, tell me, has Emperor Shizong ever regretted that he ordered the destruction of Emperor Wuzong's leopard room when he first came to the throne?"

“The emperor has blocked his ears and eyes, renounced his heart and soul, and committed suicide. Who will the emperor share with to govern the world?

The suspicious and sensitive emperor was extremely insecure. No matter how much Zhu Yijun believed in his true love, Zheng Mengjing, he still became suspicious of his true love, Zheng Mengjing, after all these 'accidents'.

As for the rest, let the previous government argue and cause trouble!

I think this little palace maid was the one who deliberately set the fire, but...but she seemed to have known that the matter would be exposed a long time ago. When Jin Yiwei found her, she had already committed suicide..."

Chen Ju gritted his teeth and nodded, full of self-blame: "Your Majesty, it's all my fault that this servant is useless..."

There is no other way. After living in Qianqing Palace for more than 20 years, if I suddenly change my place to live, I will always find it difficult to sleep in the bed.

Chen Ju was embarrassed. He didn't expect that His Majesty the Emperor would see through the first time he pretended to be deaf. He hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, this servant is guilty, but I have a low status and I really don't dare to comment on my ancestors!"

Therefore, it was not surprising after Zhu Yijun received the memorial that the ministers once again forced him to issue an imperial edict.

"Ah? What did you say, Your Majesty?"

This time, not only the ministers could not see the emperor, but even the concubines could not see the emperor.

Emperor Wanli had already guessed this series of processes, and he simply didn't care. He only issued the order that "Qianqing Palace and Kunning Palace must be repaired as soon as possible."

However, Zhu Yijun, who had always been cautious, finished reading it with a blank expression, and even read it out word by word.

There is no serious crime in speaking to the official, but the emperor is furious and unpredictable. He is guilty of dereliction of duty, which is a great loss of people's hearts and contrary to the will of God!
The emperor does not worship heaven and earth, does not worship ancestors, does not cherish talents, does not value wealth, does not issue edicts to sin against himself, and blames others for his duties as king!
Now the sky has struck such an extraordinary disaster. It is because of the anger of God and the resentment of the people, and because of the dereliction of duty by the emperor!
I invite your majesty to issue an edict to all people in the world to sin against me! "

However, it turns out that there are always surprises in everything, and avoiding them cannot solve the problem.

Although His Majesty the Emperor now has a place to live, the Queen has temporarily moved to live in the Queen Mother's Palace.

But every time I check it out, it turns out that it has something to do with his weaknesses...

"Oh, forget it..." Zhu Yijun sighed: "Have someone keep Xiyuan under guard. Don't let any sparks blow in again."

It seemed that he had already expected such a disaster.

"Go back to your Majesty..." Chen Ju replied nervously:
"According to the investigation, on the night of the fire, there was a sneaky little palace maid wandering between the Qianqing and Kunning palaces.

"Oh." Zhu Yijun didn't seem surprised by this result, and even asked with a strange smile: "Then the little palace maid should still be an orphan, right?"

Although this impeachment memorial is not as infuriating as the "Public Security Essay" that Hai Rui carried into the coffin to remonstrate, it is still extremely irritating.

But the Qianqing Palace and Kunning Palace, which had been burned to ruins, still had to be repaired after all, and we couldn't let them continue to be in such a bad state.

Chen Ju didn't know how to answer. After all, this was His Majesty's family matter, and it was not something he, an eunuch, dared to discuss out loud.

"Chen Ju, please help me grind the ink." Zhu Yijun looked slightly sluggish, as if accepting his fate, and said:
"If you blame yourself, just blame yourself... They want me to admit my mistake... Just admit it..."

……

But His Majesty the Emperor asked them by name. After Chen Ju hesitated for a moment, he decided to pretend that he was deaf. After all, this was not the first time that he had been deaf.

"My slave, I obey, and besides..." Chen Ju started to speak but then stopped, obviously hesitating whether to say anything.

"Xiyuan is remote, let her stay well in the harem."

Zhu Yijun glanced at Chen Ju and said calmly: "It turns out that you are really deaf."

"Check?" Zhu Yijun shook his head helplessly and said: "Everyone is already dead, what else can be found? Check over and over again, there is no chance that the imperial concubine will be implicated again."

"Then Your Majesty, do you want to continue investigating this matter?" Chen Ju asked.

Zhu Yijun finally understood that in order to deal with him as the emperor, those old guys would attack the weak spot he cared about most every time.

However, building a palace requires a lot of money, and North Korea is still going to war. Although the treasury is not tight, according to the court's practice, the Ministry of Revenue will definitely complain that there is no money.

Zhu Yijun knew that the real purpose of the fire was that his ministers were reminding him that it was time for the emperor to take charge.

"What else is there?" Zhu Yijun's eyes were full of exhaustion. He had not slept for a day and a night since the Qianqing Palace was burned down.

Zhu Yijun asked this question inexplicably. Even he himself didn't know why he asked such a ridiculous question.

After all, now that the crown prince has been appointed and the crown prince has been chosen, if the 'disobedient' Emperor continues to be so 'disobedient', the consequences can be imagined.

Before Chen Ju could finish his words, he was ruthlessly interrupted by His Majesty the Emperor and gave a refusal.

Zhu Yijun did not blame Chen Ju, but only smiled bitterly and said: "They are really good at arranging people."

Emperor Wanli Zhu Yijun stayed in Xiyuan for more than half a month.

"Your Majesty, your concubine said she wants to come to Xiyuan to live with you. Look..."

Zhu Yijun was numb and was about to give up struggling.

He even had a premonition that if he didn't issue a sinful edict, he, the emperor, might be dead...

If it's wrong, then it's wrong. Anyway, it's not the first time he's wrong.

Chen Ju was shocked when he saw that His Majesty the Emperor, who always had a good face, compromised without saying a word! He was even a little worried about His Majesty the Emperor's mental state! Chen Ju knew that His Majesty the Emperor did not want to issue an edict to offend himself, so after some thought, he suggested:

"Your Majesty, why don't you let Zhang Chonghui think of something? He has a lot of clever ideas. What if he really has a way? Didn't he help you last time..."

"Forget it." Zhu Yijun weakly interrupted Chen Ju's suggestion and said: "Let's grind the ink."

Zhu Yijun didn't know if Zhang Chonghui had any solution. What he was afraid of was not that Zhang Chonghui had no solution. On the contrary, what he was most afraid of was that Zhang Chonghui had a solution.

Why? Probably because of his poor self-esteem.

Zhu Yijun no longer wants to consume everything Zhang Juzheng left him. This will only make him feel more and more mediocre and incompetent.

"Write...write..."

Even though he was forced to do so, Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun finally issued a criminal edict to his people that made him extremely ashamed.

He wrote it himself using the calligraphy he was most proud of.

……

cabinet.

His Majesty the Emperor's edict on sin was quickly sent to the cabinet. After seeing the edict on sin, the current chief minister of the cabinet, Shen Yiguan, was the first to breathe a sigh of relief.

"Great! Great!"

Shen Yiguan sighed repeatedly in his heart. After all, if the emperor is still so stubborn that he refuses to issue an edict to punish himself, he, the chief minister of the cabinet, will really be unable to hold on!
It was not until he sat in the high position of the chief minister of the cabinet that Shen Yiguan truly realized how terrifying the 'oppression' of the officials was!
Especially nowadays, most of the censors and ministers in various circles are members of the Donglin Party!
These "not afraid of death" people are like endless lice. If you kill one, a bunch of them will pop up again. It's absolutely disgusting!
What makes Shen Yiguang feel shattered the most is that this group of Donglin Party members can even bring out "past events" like his love of visiting brothels to impeach him, and even scold him for his moral misconduct, but they are still here. The memorial scolded him for abandoning his first wife!
After being scolded like this, Shen's always lying if he said he was not angry, but his luck was still good. After all, His Majesty the Emperor seemed not to even read the memorials, so those memorials to impeach him had also disappeared.

However, for Shen Yiguan, this is not enough!

If Shen Li doesn't leave for a day, he won't be at ease!

As long as the Donglin Party is not eliminated, he will feel uncomfortable!

……

In the twenty-third year of Wanli, the first half of this year was extremely unsettling, at least for Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun.

The demon book reappeared again, the queen and princess were kidnapped, and the Japanese pirates caused trouble in the capital.

Lightning struck Jingde Gate again, and the second palaces of Emperor Qianqing and Kunning were destroyed by fire.

In the twenty-third year of Wanli, the second half of this year seemed to be calm, and this was also true for Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun.

After the Qianqing Palace was burned down, Emperor Wanli was very 'obedient' and issued a self-incriminating edict to his people.

However, after issuing the edict of sin, His Majesty the Emperor seemed to have been stimulated by something. Like an old hen hatching an egg, he refused to leave the new 'safe house' of Xiyuan.

This stay lasted for half a year.

It’s not that Emperor Wanli didn’t want to come out, it was mainly because of the renovation of the Qianqing and Kunning Palaces. Since the fire on April 24, various incidents had delayed it until October of that year. Only then did the actual implementation begin.

His Majesty the Emperor did not urge the Ministry of Industry much. It seemed that he was willing to live in Xiyuan forever.

This time, Emperor Wanli's degree of "escaping from the world" was really exaggerated to a staggering degree, because it was already even more exaggerated than that of his grandfather, Emperor Sejong.

You know, Emperor Sejong Zhu Houcong actually asked his cabinet ministers to move to Xiyuan and become his 'neighbors' so that they could handle political affairs together.

However, Emperor Wanli Zhu Yijun not only refused to see his ministers, but he also refused to see his concubines.

Zhu Yijun just hid in Xiyuan's "comfort zone" and refused to come out, no matter what kind of fight his ministers had in the previous dynasty, or what kind of chaos the dynasty had become.

As if escaping, Zhu Yijun began to think that as long as he didn't read those memorials, the rights and wrongs, and the mutual criticisms of those old guys, he could continue to be 'comfortable'.

Yes, a big reason why Zhu Yijun is so 'comfortable' is actually that he really doesn't read memorials very much anymore. Unless the Chief of Ceremonies presented a report on important military and state affairs, he would basically not read it.

Even the temporary duty room in Xiyuan is already filled with countless resignations and applications for filling vacancies in official positions.

However, Zhu Yijun did not go to see it, and the eunuch in charge of the ceremony did not dare to tell the emperor. After all, the emperor had given the order and ignored all these things.

Time passed like this day by day, and Zhu Yijun would occasionally ask Zhang Chonghui if he went to the East Palace, but the answer he got was always - he said that his illness was not cured yet.

In response, Zhu Yijun just smiled, as if he didn't care that he was being fooled by Zhang Chonghui again.

The second half of the twenty-third year of Wanli seemed peaceful.

However, this was only for the Wanli Emperor who was 'autistic'.

In October of this year, a mutiny occurred in Jizhou during the Ming Dynasty.

The protagonists of this mutiny were the Zhejiang soldiers.

Emperor Wanli knew about this, but he didn't take it seriously.

After all, mutinies are not a rare thing, and the scale of this mutiny cannot be ranked high in the Wanli period alone.

……

The twenty-three years of Wanli passed by in such a blur.

In the twenty-fourth year of Wanli, here comes.

Emperor Wanli, who had been hiding in Xiyuan for more than half a year, didn't know whether he was going crazy from holding it in for too long or going crazy from poverty. In the spring of this year, Zhu Yijun suddenly issued a holy order.

An edict about 'increasing' the mining of gold and silver mines in order to make more money for his own private treasury.

This time, the Thirteen Chief Envoys of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the Northern and Southern Zhili capitals, were all sent eunuchs and Jinyiwei by Emperor Wanli to supervise the mining.

With this holy order, all the ministers and officials who were still in the "immersive" internal fighting exploded!
The ministers rushed to the court one after another to advise the emperor to think twice!
However, this time Emperor Wanli did not listen to these objections at all!
Zhu Yijun seemed like a rebellious child. After a short period of compromise, his reverse scale was triggered again!

In addition, Zhu Yijun finally gave Zhang Chonghui, who had been pretending to be ill for more than half a year, an ultimatum -

——Go to the East Palace quickly!

(End of this chapter)