"Xiangbei, Your Majesty has finally taken this step."

After receiving the message from Chen Xun, the chief minister of the cabinet, Shang Ren came to Shen Yichen's classroom immediately, with shock written all over his face.

Frankly speaking, as a traditional scholar-bureaucrat, Shang Ren preferred the crown prince Zhu Jianshen for the crown prince. After all, the lineage of the Supreme Emperor Ming Yingzong was the direct line of the late emperor. No matter how hard Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu tried, he could not change the fact that he was a concubine and came to power by a side branch.

The inheritance system of the eldest son has established the inheritance laws of China for thousands of years. Once this etiquette breaks down, it will fall into a situation of endless internal strife. It involves not only the royal family, but also the entire scholar-bureaucrat class and the concubine society.

Inflated with incomparable ambition.

He is also a son, so why can his legitimate son have everything? The family inheritance should be filled by capable people!

Therefore, the etiquette, laws and traditions maintained by the civil servant group are also safeguarding the interests of their own aristocratic families in a sense, and etiquette and music cannot be destroyed!

But after Shen Yichen heard the news, his first reaction was not to care about Yi Chu, but more to be happy that the worst case scenario had not happened, and that Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu was still alive and well, and would not be in a position to support a new king.

You must know that although Shen Yichen is currently close to the status of an extremely powerful minister, he is still far away from the power of the government and the public. If a change occurs in a short period of time, he can rely on the advantages and means of commanding troops to seize the opportunity to support the new people.

Jun's opportunity. However, he is not sure that he can suppress the opponents inside and outside the court.

Once there is someone who is holding the banner of "Qingjun side", then the whole world may gather in response, and the Ming Dynasty will fall into a state of civil war and disintegration. In the end, even if the suppression is successful and the victory is won, all that will be gained is the devastation of the land of China.

It just corresponds to the old saying, when things prosper, the people suffer; when they fall, the people suffer.

Historically, Yu Qian did not want to lose his life, so he chose to sacrifice himself and let Ming Yingzong's Nangong coup happen. Shen Yichen was not that great, but he was also unwilling to suffer unnecessary casualties without being fully prepared.

Not to mention that the strength he currently controls is not yet to the point where he is sure of victory.

Shen Yichen needs Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu to live well. Only in this way can he maintain the balance between monarch and ministers and use imperial power to achieve his own goals.

"Let's go to the Wenhua Palace first to see what's going on. Yi Chu is the general trend and no one can change His Majesty's will."

Shen Yichen looked calm. As long as Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu is still alive, no matter how much civil and military officials are making trouble now, they will eventually die down and accept a series of changes such as the abolition and easy storage.

"Well, let's go then."

Shang Ren nodded, and Shen Yichen's indifference also soothed his shocked heart. Only a man who is not shocked by honor or disgrace is a man, and he is still quite lacking in this regard.

In the Wenhua Hall, except for the emperor sitting on the dragon throne, the Jiuqing of the Cabinet of the Civil Service Group and the honorary generals of the military attache group have gathered here to make a fuss. More than half of the voices are against Zhu Qiyu's dethronement and his follow-up to Yi.

Chu, of course, the other half, under the general trend, can only remain silent even if they are imperialists.

Looking at the noisy court, Chen Xun, the chief minister of the cabinet, stood in the center and coughed twice to remind everyone.

Seeing Chen Xun's appearance, the noisy hall quickly became quiet. The ministers and ministers all turned their attention to him, wanting to hear the cabinet's attitude towards this matter.

"All of you colleagues are the pillars of our family and the country. How can we be in such a noisy manner? After all, it is a matter of the royal family. I have already reported this to Your Majesty, and I believe I will give you a reasonable explanation."

The fact that Chen Xun convened a joint cabinet meeting does not mean that he opposes the abolition of the Queen, but more to give the important officials of the imperial court a space for discussion, stabilize the dissatisfaction of the central government, and reduce the upcoming resistance from Yi Chu.

However, the response after the abolition was so enthusiastic that it was somewhat beyond Chen Xun's expectation. Even if the civil servants were making trouble, military generals were also involved, causing the Wenhua Hall to be "overcrowded" like a court meeting.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Chen Xun finished speaking, a high-pitched voice came from outside the door. A green-robed petty official said solemnly: "As the saying goes, a Taoist king has no jokes. What kind of explanation can your Majesty give for the following edict?"

"Besides, the court has been suspended for more than half a month, and now such a big event has happened. Where are His Majesty's people?"

Everyone in the hall followed the sound and looked out. After seeing each other's appearance clearly, the expressions on the faces of these important ministers were extremely exciting. It was okay for General Xunqi to come and interfere with the joint meeting of the cabinet and ministry. After all, their power and position were there. As a result,

Now Ke Dao Qingliu has also rushed over. This group of professional trolls cannot be easily dismissed.

"This is a cabinet meeting, why were you not summoned to come?"

After He Pingyan saw the other party's identity clearly, he immediately scolded him.

You must know that senior officials and ministers are a group of old-timers, and it is easy to reach political compromises on specific matters. On the contrary, Kedaoyanguan, a group of young people, will not be able to advance if they cannot meet their standards.

Now that the identities are different, the camps are naturally different. Even though He Pingyan used Qingliu's power to attack Shen Yichen, he is still unwilling to associate with him now.

Faced with He Pingyan's rebuke, the official said without fear: "We have the emperor's mandate to rectify official corruption in hundreds of departments at home and abroad. Now we are scolding the court and deceiving the emperor. Shouldn't we stand up and clear the source?"

"Who do you think is a traitor?"

He Pingyan asked angrily, "It's okay if this kid doesn't listen to the advice, and he started to accuse Sang and Huai."

"Whoever supports the abolition of Yi Chu is a traitor in the DPRK!"

As soon as Qingliu outside the door said this, the expressions of many important ministers in the palace changed slightly. You must know that after three years of layout by Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu, there are actually not a few who support Yi Chu. Isn't this a group joke and scolding everyone?

Just when the important ministers in the palace were thinking about whether they should continue the debate with Yan Guan, a group of "professional trolls", a cold voice came from the direction of the dragon chair behind him: "It is my decree to abolish the queen, is it also the case?

Is there a traitor in the court?"

After hearing the news, Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu stood on the imperial platform with a livid face. No eunuchs praised him before he came out. The civil and military ministers present were stunned for a moment, and then they all knelt down and knelt down to worship.

"I bow to your majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

"Get flat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

The ministers in the palace slowly stood up, but Shen Yichen raised his head at this time and carefully looked at Zhu Qiyu's face on the throne.

Compared with the day when he returned to the court after winning the victory, Zhu Qiyu's face showed a sickly paleness. At this moment, his expression was more flushed. Shen Yichen was not a famous doctor, and he didn't know how to see, hear, and ask. He didn't know whether it was caused by anger or anger.

For some other reason, I feel a little uneasy anyway.

"I have made it very clear in the edict about the abolition of the queen. Wang Shihuai is so stubborn and has violated the imperial decree several times. Does it mean that you are also planning to disobey the emperor's order?"

An angry roar caused silence in the Wenhua Hall. Even the Qingliu group standing outside the hall shut up when they saw this scene. You must know that Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu has always been gentle and generous, and he has never appeared in court in the three years since he took the throne.

He showed his filial piety to his ministers, even if many of them said heart-wrenching remarks, he almost always chose to let it go gently.

The "honest emperor" in the eyes of the ministers suddenly became angry, which indeed had an inexplicable deterrent effect.

There was actually a reason why Zhu Qiyu was so angry. On that day, Queen Wang objected to Yi Chu's objection, and he was so angry that he spat out blood and passed out. When he woke up, he immediately called Xing'an, Wang Cheng and other internal officials to strictly block the news.

External communication is allowed.

Originally, this was only related to the emperor's own condition. I am afraid that Zhu Qiyu himself did not realize that he would really die young.

As a result, not long after he woke up, Wang Cheng, who was ordered to investigate the emperor's eldest son's infection with cold, came back to report that the palace maid and eunuch who accompanied Zhu Jianji at that time had briefly let the emperor's eldest son out of sight, and he did not know what happened during this period.

After hearing this news, coupled with the severe illness of the emperor's eldest son Zhu Jianji, he was in a semi-comatose state for several days due to a cold and was still bedridden to this day. Zhu Qiyu realized that this incident was not accidental, and there were some forces in the court.

Hearing the request, Yi Chu could no longer hold back and began to attack his own prince.

In order to cut off the conspiracy of some forces in the court, Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu made up his mind to abolish the queen at all costs to ensure that his son could ascend to the position of crown prince.

As long as Yi Chu is completed, it means the transfer of the imperial line. No matter whether the emperor's eldest son Zhu Jianji is the one who ascends the throne in the future, it is impossible under normal circumstances to return to the Ming Yingzong line. He will only be the descendants of Zhu Qiyu.

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Of course, God is not as good as man. No one can imagine at this moment that Zhu Qiyu, the young Emperor of Jingtai, really only had a son like Zhu Jianji.

After the courtiers were silent for a long time, a young official stood up outside the palace and asked loudly: "Your Majesty, since the queen has been deposed, can the officials in the court know what the contents of the several violations of the edict are.

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“Only by making it public can the world be convinced!”

Shen Yichen doesn't know this person, but judging from his official uniform, there is a high probability that he is in the sixth subject.

When asking this question, there is no doubt that he was trying to get to the core of the problem by asking Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu to personally tell him that the reason why the queen was deposed was because he opposed Yi Chu.

After all, the matter of abolishing the queen involves the differences between men and women in the harem, so it is difficult for the courtiers to use the issue to their advantage. Only by bringing Yi Chuhe out is the stage for the civil servants to maintain the etiquette, law and order and exert their own "justice"!

"Do I need to tell you everything about the secrets of the palace? Or are you questioning His Majesty's verbal decision-making?"

Wang Yining, the left minister of the Ministry of Rites, immediately stood up and scolded him. He was promoted by Emperor Jingtai, and the eunuch Wang Chengyin was brought into the cabinet. Of course, he showed his loyalty to the emperor at the critical moment.

"How can the queen, who is the mother of the world, be swept away by the secrets of the palace? Does Mr. Wangge not even know this?"

He still spoke righteously in his remarks outside the door, without any fear of Wang Yining's powerful position. The reason was that if he parachuted into the cabinet under abnormal circumstances, he would have been looked down upon by all the officials, but he still relied on the eunuchs to quote him, which made him even more despised by Qingliu.

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Fortunately, Wang Cheng is far less powerful than Wang Zhen and has no ability to form cliques and friends. Otherwise, Wang Yining would have to wear the hat of an eunuch.

"That's right, the royal family has no self-interest. This move after the abolition is no small matter. Please make it clear to your majesty!"

"The emperor and the empress share the ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral hall, and it is not enough to convince the world just by harboring resentments and violating religious orders."

"The queen has a benevolent heart and cares for the common people. She has collected the remains of soldiers and common people and is widely loved. Your Majesty, please think twice about deposing the queen!"

All the civil and military officials in the entire dynasty knew why the queen was abolished, but no one could reveal the true nature. They could only put pressure on Zhu Qiyu by making insinuations and change his idea of ​​​​deposing the queen and even Yi Chu.

Just when the crowd of civil servants in the Department of Science and Technology was intensifying, an old man standing in the front row on the left turned around, looked outside the palace door and shouted: "You are so unbridled, how can you show your filial piety to the court?"

The person who shouted these words was none other than Hu Ming, the Minister of Rites, a veteran of six dynasties and the elder behind the civil service group.

The Ministry of Rites is in charge of the ritual system of the Five Rites, and Hu Ming has the absolute "right to interpret scriptures" on matters of etiquette and law after the abolition. More importantly, among the Kedao Yanguan group, except for a few stupid young people, most of them still follow the

The rules of the official game.

Hu Hui stood up and spoke, which means that the senior officials of the civil service group did not intend to put pressure on Emperor Jingtai on the matter of abolishing the queen. It was time to stop when the deal was done.

"If you do anything that violates the rules again, I will definitely not be lenient!"

Not only Hu Hui stood up to speak, but also Wang Zhi, the Heavenly Official of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, stood up to express his position. The appearance of these two people seemed to have the effect of calming the sea. The group of young officials who were filled with indignation just now stopped talking in an instant.

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However, this scene flashed a cold light in the eyes of Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu. Wang Zhi and Hu Hui stood up and spoke out, but they were more effective than themselves. Who is the supreme leader of the Ming Dynasty?

But at this moment, Zhu Qiyu was not in the mood to deal with this. He was able to appear in front of the courtiers today mainly because of the effect of taking the elixir. In a short period of time, he felt physically and mentally exhausted. His feet were a little weak and he could not maintain his majestic image.
To be continued...