[On the night of October 21, the 21st year of Jiajing, you were sleeping in the palace of your favorite concubine, Concubine Cao Duan. Suddenly you felt a noisy sound around you. When you opened your eyes, Minmi Huhu found that ten
Several palace ladies gathered around. These palace ladies have a clear division of labor. They come up to strangle you and kill him!]
[You struggled desperately, and they tied another knot. But this knot accidentally became a dead knot, and the knot became tighter and tighter, but it couldn't strangle you. The other maids became anxious, pulled out their hairpins, and moved toward
You were stabbed randomly. You were held down by multiple maids, unable to move. Seeing that the emperor was strangled to death, some people were scared. So a maid named Zhang Jinlian ran out and went straight to Queen Fang's residence to surrender. The queen heard
It was said that a group of palace maids murdered the emperor. He was shocked and quickly led people to Duan Fei's palace to rescue him.】
[You survived the catastrophe. In anger, the Ministry of Punishment, together with Jin Yiwei general Yang Jinying and other sixteen palace ladies, as well as Duan Fei Cao and Ning concubine Wang, were kidnapped to the city Cao and executed in a hurry. The property of the palace ladies involved was confiscated, and the silk flower ropes were also used.
and Huang Ling rag to seal the official treasury.]
[After this incident, you gradually calmed down and analyzed who wanted to kill you.]
[Several palace maids, even with their 800 courages, dare not assassinate the king and kill him. They can only do so meticulously. If they were not lucky, they would definitely die here. There must be someone behind this! 】
【You are thinking of someone, King Qi!】
[No, doing this will do no good to King Qi. If King Qi really wanted to kill you, he could have raised an army to rebel after the failure of his expedition to the southwest! 】
【Who is that?】
[As smart as you are, you already have the answer in your heart. In the hearts of others, you are already more hateful than Wu Zong! Wu Zong is disobedient at best, but you control everyone!]
【There are too many people who want you to die!】
Zhu Di's heart was numb.
An emperor of a generation was almost strangled to death on his bed by a group of palace maids. How ridiculous!
Thanks to good luck, I was able to survive by chance. Otherwise, Jiajing would have become an eternal joke.
Just as Jiajing thought, there were too many people who wanted him dead.
Just like Wuzong back then, although today's Jiajing ignores government affairs and brings disaster to the country and people, his ultimate Machiavellian methods have always allowed him to stand at the pinnacle of imperial power and manipulate everyone at his fingertips.
Since Jiajing can't be defeated by playing tricks, then just use force to make him disappear from the world!
This is not the first time those people have done this kind of thing. Wuzong Zhu Houzhao is the best example.
[After an assassination attempt by a palace maid that nearly killed you, you rarely go to court.]
[You don’t trust anyone. Except for your personal eunuchs, guards, and a handful of cabinet bachelors, you hardly see anyone, whether it’s your son or minister.]
[You would rather stay with your cat. Apart from that, you just want to cultivate immortality and seek Taoism. 】
(Regarding this paragraph, there is an interesting history, which I have written in the author’s words, regardless of the number of words.)
[Because you worship Taoism, fasting, and pursue immortality, Yan Song, the cabinet minister, will not hesitate to spend a lot of manpower, financial and material resources in order to win your favor. Among them, just construction, fasting palaces and secret halls are flourishing from time to time, and there are 20 or 30 workshops and craftsmen.
Tens of thousands of people, as the military called them, had an annual fee of two to three hundred. When the funds were insufficient, the subjects were asked to offer help; the help continued, and the government continued to accept it, wasting the people and money, and regarded Wuzong as wrong. The annual income of Taicang in the Ming Dynasty was only two million taels.
, and the annual cost for the construction of the Zhai Palace, Secret Hall, etc. is as high as two to three million.]
[It is said that Yan Song’s dictatorship is good at power, but you don’t care, because Yan Song and his old son Yan Shifan are just your chess pieces after all. If you can let the chess pieces escape your control, then you will not be called Emperor Jiajing.]
[You have used Machiavellian tactics in a way that is beyond the reach of future generations. In the final analysis, Yan Song is just a chess piece. When you realize that this chess piece is gradually out of your control, you are ready to attack the Yan family and his son. 】
[In the forty-one year of Jiajing, you ordered the arrest of Yan Shifan without hesitation, ordered Yan Song to retire, and Xu Jie replaced Yan Song as the chief assistant. In March of the forty-fourth year of Jiajing, Yan Shifan was killed.]
[In February of the forty-fifth year of Jiajing, a sixth-rank official named Hai Rui asked a friend to submit a memorial to you - "Public Security Notes"]
[You take a casual look and you will be furious. This is the sharpest and most pungent memorial you have ever seen. Every sentence and every word pierces your heart! In this 4,000-word memorial,
, Hai Rui counts your mistakes in politics and your mistakes as a king!]
[What makes you most angry is that Hai Rui unabashedly accused you in his memorial of being stupid in the crusade against the Southwest. Hai Rui said: "The campaign against the Southwest should not have happened in the first place. It was only the power of the emperor."
The desire was too much, so I just sent troops to the important minister King Qi. The root cause of all this is not Zhang Con, who was pushed out as a scapegoat, but the emperor is stupid!"]
[No one dares to mention the disastrous defeat of the "Cruelty against the Southwest" in front of you. This is an unforgettable shame for you. A generation of emperors actually bowed to the vassal king! 】
[As for Hai Rui, a sixth-rank petty official, he dared to break through all the fig leaves and point his finger at you so bluntly and scold you!]
[No one has ever dared to say such a thing to you. It is obvious that you were furious. Before you could finish reading this "Public Security Manual", you slammed the letter to the ground and roared: "Jiu Jinyiwei! Seize the sea!"
Rui, don’t let him get away!”]
[But when you learned that Hai Rui had bought a coffin for you before the memorial was presented, you opened the memorial again. After a long time, you couldn't help but sigh: "This man is probably Bi Gan, but I am not King Zhou.
.”]
[For the first time, you did not punish Hai Rui. You just kept the memorial from being published. But after a few months, you became more and more angry and sent Hai Rui to prison. After the prison sentence was delivered, he still stayed in the palace.
release.】
[You really wanted to kill Hai Rui, but in the end you suppressed your anger.]
[You know, what Hai Rui said is true. He said the most realistic words. You clearly realize that you are no longer the accomplished Emperor Jiajing when you first came to the throne. Now you are just cultivating immortality and seeking Taoism.
Taoist emperor, today's Ming Dynasty, the people have long been in dire straits, side affairs are neglected, and everyone is scolding himself for being stupid.】
【Jiajing Jiajing, every house is clean!】
Direct ministers like Hai Rui were not uncommon in all dynasties.
But it was also the first time that Zhu Di had seen a direct minister as capable as Hai Rui.
This is really not afraid of death!
[In December of the forty-fifth year of Jiajing, you fell ill and were dying, lying on the dragon bed, recalling your life.]
[At the age of sixteen, you can play with the court ministers as puppets, and you have a lot of talents under your command. Civil servants Xia Yan, Xu Jie, Hu Xianzong, and military generals Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, and Tan Lun are all powerful generals. They are not powerful.
】
[However, the Ming Dynasty has now become such a miserable situation. The people are impoverished, every house is clean, corruption is rampant in the court, and corruption is rampant. The national treasury cannot make ends meet and is in deficit every year. The Ming Dynasty is already teetering in the wind and rain, and is gradually heading for collapse.
.]
[The only big defeat in your life was against King Qi. Although you lost miserably, what really made you change was your laziness and selfishness.]
[You are the emperor just to enjoy happiness. You have no obligations, only power, just for enjoyment. You are very capable and can make everyone fool around, letting the courtiers fight around, while you sit back and enjoy peace. So what if the people don't have a living?
What are you doing?]
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[No matter how weak the Ming Dynasty is, even if the country is destroyed, as long as it happens after me, it has nothing to do with me. 】
[You are not the emperor, you have not fulfilled the obligations of the emperor, you are a Taoist priest.]
[The Taoist name you prefer others to call you: Taishang Daluo Tianxian Ziji Immortal Saint Zhizhao Lingtong Three Yuan Zhengying Yuxu General Palm Five Thunder Great Zhenren Xuandu Realm Longevity Emperor! 】
[Although your Taoist name is very long and majestic, and you have taken countless "golden elixirs" throughout your life, you still died.]
[On December 14, the forty-fifth year of the Jiajing reign, you passed away in the Qianqing Palace at the age of sixty.]
Zhu Di almost lost his temper when he saw this.
How the hell is this a death? This is a rise to immortality!
Are you serious about such a long road number?
In fact, Jiajing not only has a Taoist name such as "Tai Shang Da Luo Celestial Immortal... Wanshou Emperor", but his other Taoist title is "Nine Heavens Hongjiao Puji Creature Palm Yin Yang Gong Guo Dao Si Ren Zi Ji Immortal Weng Yi Yang Zhen Yuan"
Xu Xuan should be enlightened, subdue demons, be loyal and filial to the emperor."
It can be seen from this that Emperor Jiajing is indeed a man of culture. Who in the right mind can come up with such a long name?
It's a pity that such a smart emperor didn't use his IQ in the right place.
He has an extremely smart mind, and has taken machinations to a new level. As long as he squeezes out some time from cultivating immortality and pursuing Taoism and puts it into governing the country, the Ming Dynasty can live for decades longer. But for such a smart man,
But he didn't do anything about personnel matters.
"Fucking bastard prince! None of his descendants are good, they are all bastards!" Zhu Di gritted his teeth angrily, "You really deserve to die!"
Yao Guangxiao saw that the emperor was so angry and his brain was running out of ideas.
The emperor had convulsions again?
…
No one knows whether the emperor had convulsions or not, but the King of Han did have some convulsions.
"Is there anything the prince has done?" Prince Han asked, holding the jade bottle in his hand.
Ji Gang was labeled as intending to rebel and was imprisoned. At the same time, the East Palace and Prince Qi's Palace were all involved. More than 40 ministers were imprisoned at the same time. King Qi's right-hand men Lu Chaoyang and Yang Rong, as well as the two most important ministers of the East Palace, Lu, the Minister of Rites, were imprisoned.
Neither the earthquake nor the Minister of Revenue, Xia Yuanji, were spared. For a time, the capital was in chaos, and there were even rumors that the capital was going to change.
The capital was in chaos, which was exactly what the King of Han wanted to see.
The previous capital was too quiet, so quiet that it was scary.
The King of Han knew that his power was now much weaker than before. If the capital was allowed to continue to be so quiet, he would be increasingly helpless. Only by disrupting this stagnant water could he have a chance to get something out of the fire.