Chapter 143 What else can you do besides make me spit all over?
Chapter 145: Depose the crown prince? Establish King Qi?
(Yesterday I had a fever of 40 degrees and I fainted. I took antipyretics and today it’s 38 degrees and I’m still writing like crazy.)
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Jiming Temple
The monk in black opened his triangular eyes like a sickly tiger, and saw the emperor wearing a dragon robe leaning in front of the railing by the lake, his eyes wandering, taking in the beautiful scenery of green mountains and green water on the other side, and breathing like a puff of cloud.
"What are you looking at?" Yao Guangxiao asked.
He and Zhu Di were emperors and ministers, and close friends. Based on his understanding of the emperor, Zhu Di's behavior must be brewing something unknown.
Zhu Di looked at the scenery on the other side and said in a deep voice: "I was thinking about deposing the crown prince and establishing King Qi. What do you think?"
When Yao Guangxiao heard this, everyone was dumbfounded.
He knew that His Majesty the Emperor must be thinking of something big, but he didn't expect that it would explode as soon as he opened his mouth!
Abandoning the crown prince and establishing King Qi, are you crazy?!
"Your Majesty, are you joking?" Yao Guangxiao thought that the old emperor's mind was stuck.
Zhu Di shook his head: "I'm not joking."
What the hell is this Nine-Five Style?
"etc!!"
In this situation, Empress Dowager Li was undoubtedly hinting to Emperor Wanli: Huo Guang is very capable, but he is also too capable. If the emperor disobeys, he has the ability to change the emperor.
Yao Guangxiao: "?"
Yao Guangxiao was silent for a while: "Are you trying to make me laugh?"
[On June 20, the 10th year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng, the Grand Master and Crown Prince, Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and Grand Scholar of Zhongji Palace, died of illness. The emperor resigned from the court in order to honor him, and presented him to Shangzhu Kingdom, with the posthumous title Wenzhong. 】
[Zhang Juzheng’s ability is beyond everyone’s imagination. In the first year after you ascended the throne, before the reign name was changed, Zhang Juzheng had already defeated all the political opponents in the court and eliminated the position of Gao Gong’s first minister in the cabinet.
, He is truly a god.]
[One time you were reading "The Analects of Confucius" and when you read "色博如也", you pronounced "博" as "back" because of your quick mouth. What can happen if a teenage child pronounces a wrong word while reading?
What a big deal, but Zhang Juzheng, who was standing aside, suddenly yelled: "This character should be pronounced 'bo'!"]
Whether in the Yongle dynasty or the Hongwu dynasty, Zhu Di and Zhu Yuanzhang treated the ministers like dogs. The prime minister Hu Weiyong at that time was so arrogant that he had power over the government and the public. In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang killed all the nine tribes with ease.
, and pulled 30,000 people to support him.
Well, calling the emperor requires two more slaps!
What is this Zhu Qizhen? The emperor personally conscripted troops to defeat and humiliate the country?
Are you, Zhu Di, kidding you for cursing your children and grandchildren like this?
[When you saw Empress Dowager Li, you didn't make any excuses. You just knelt down and admitted your mistake and cried loudly. You thought that this matter should be over by now. You, the majestic emperor, beat a eunuch. How could you do it as if it was a violation of heaven's laws?
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"Since ancient times, the prince has been established, the eldest son is established, and the virtuous son is established." Yao Guangxiao said, "The prince may not be very to your liking, or maybe he really can't compare to King Qi. But the prince is mellow, and he is the eldest son, and he is deeply loved by all the officials.
If you support it, how can you abolish it?"
Yao Guangxiao's head was buzzing now, "What did you say?!"
Zhu Di really wants to travel back in time and give his children and grandchildren two big competition pockets!
As we all know, Zhu Di suffers from "indirect cerebral convulsion syndrome". Based on Yao Guangxiao's observations over the years, the emperor's convulsions are within a certain range. Sometimes Zhu Di may do some puzzling things, but in the end
It will not shake the foundation of the country too much.
WTF?
[The seeds of revenge are deeply buried in your heart. You look at Zhang Juzheng. This Mr. Zhang is no longer your previous mentor, but your enemy. 】
[It wasn’t until the tenth day of the first lunar month of the first year of Longqing that your father, Emperor Longqing, named you Zhu Yijun, when the court officials asked for the establishment of a crown prince. Emperor Longqing said: “I will give you a name, Jun, so that the Holy King can control the world.
Just like the turning of a tool."]
Whether Zhu Gaojie or Zhu Gaochi becomes the prince, it will have no influence on Yao Guangxiao, and he will not favor anyone.
"To tell the truth, it's like a great dream in the Spring and Autumn Period, I saw the Ming Dynasty a hundred years later."
Emperor Wanli certainly had no interest in the Huo brothers, Guang Zong Yaozu, but he was interested. To be precise, what scared him was the most cruel thing Huo Guang had ever done: deposing the emperor.
Zhu Di had never said these words to anyone else.
[The Crown Prince is the future Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. In order to govern the country and the people in the future, he must receive education from an early age, understand the experiences and lessons of past emperors in governing the country, be familiar with the laws and allusions of the court, and master the ability to control the subjects. Although you are young, you know how to control your subjects.
This is why the emperor appointed a group of ministers as instructors to tutor him in his studies. You study very hard.】
Although the prime minister in black was a great master of Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism, he chanted sutras and chanted Buddha's name all day long, and worshiped the saints of the Three Pure Ones when he had nothing to do, but Yao Guangxiao was actually an atheist.
[At this time, you did not realize that a gap had arisen between you and Zhang Juzheng, and that the supreme emperor was actually being humiliated in this way.]
Yao Guangxiao said seriously: "That's very good. Even if you really want to change the position of King Qi, you should do it slowly. This matter cannot be solved in a short while."
The prince Zhu Gaochi and the emperor's grandson Zhu Zhanji were tied together and became the emperor in the early ten years?
Yao Guangxiao saw that the emperor had made a decision in his heart and stopped talking.
But this time it was different. Yao Guangxiao could feel that the emperor was serious this time!
He really wants to abolish the crown prince and replace him with King Qi!
Yao Guangxiao asked with confusion: "What crime did the prince commit that caused Your Majesty to have the idea of deposing the prince?"
[You are a little confused now. You don’t know, and you think that the emperor has done some heinous things, burning, killing, looting, and committing crimes. After all, you are also an emperor. Didn’t you just get drunk and beat an eunuch? You almost lost your throne and your life.
.]
As for seeing everything in the future, that's too much nonsense. What's even more nonsense is that these words came from the emperor's mouth.
[After the emperor summoned Zhang Juzheng, Emperor Longqing once again summoned you, who was only ten years old.]
Zhu Di was a little helpless: "I didn't say that I would directly depose the prince, why are you so anxious?"
Zhu Di was sitting alone by the lake fishing. In fact, he had been able to simulate it for a long time, but Zhu Di couldn't bear to watch it anymore. He knew that the Ming Dynasty had reached the edge of collapse. The treasury was in deficit, the frontier troops were depleted, and the North Korean and Chinese parties were fighting.
The war was raging, the people were dying of hunger, and the emperor became a mascot. How can such a country survive?
In the past, the prime minister had the power of decision-making, deliberation and administration.
[You were so frightened that you trembled. Not only did you not dare to talk back, you also hurriedly corrected it to show that you would not read it wrong again in the future. 】
[On the occasion of the emperor's deathbed, he said to you weakly: "Zhu Yijun, from now on when the emperor is gone, you have to listen to Mr. Zhang. Do whatever he tells you to do. I entrust the Ming Dynasty to you.
Already.”]
[You were born in Prince Yu’s Mansion on August 17, the 42nd year of Jiajing. Your father is Prince Yu Zhu Zaijing.]
[One night in the eighth year of Wanli, you were drunk and wandering around the palace. You met an eunuch by chance. By some strange combination of circumstances, you beat the eunuch. However, when you sobered up, you realized that you were in serious trouble—
—Empress Dowager Li wants to see you.]
[Shortly after the death of Zhang Juzheng, you ordered his house to be ransacked, and his palace rank was reduced. You took away the seals and imperial edicts given to him during his lifetime, and showed his guilt to the world. Zhang Juzheng also narrowly escaped having his coffin opened and his body whipped, and his family members either starved to death or were exiled.
, the eldest son committed suicide, and this son was sent to the army. Under the pressure of public opinion, you stopped further persecution. Some of the officials employed by Zhang Juzheng during his lifetime were reduced from their posts, and some abandoned the market.]
[Emperor Longqing said to himself, saying that these civil servants are so cruel and ungrateful that they have lost their power and humiliated the country. They are all rebellious officials and traitors who should be killed. They should be killed!]
He does not believe that there are any strange powers or gods in the world. If there is a god in the world, it can only be him.
Zhu Di murmured to himself, "In the first year of Hongxi, the new emperor Zhu Gaochi died, and his temple name was Renzong; in the tenth year of Xuande, Ming Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji died, and in the thirty-sixth year, he passed the throne to his eldest son Zhu Qizhen; in the fourteenth year of Zhengtong, Emperor Zhengtong
The imperial commander of Zhu Qizhen personally conquered Oara, but was defeated and captured, losing power and humiliating the country..."
The emperor had mentioned before that he would depose the crown prince to establish King Qi, but Yao Guangxiao didn't take it to heart because Zhu Di seemed to have just mentioned it casually and didn't seem to be serious.
[Your grandfather, Emperor Shizong, Jiajing, believed in Taoism and "If you say anything about Chu Er, you will die if you mention it." Therefore, no one dared to report your birth to Emperor Jiajing, let alone give you a name.]
The reason why he wanted to establish King Qi was not because of the 95-style musket. The prince, the crown prince, is the foundation of the country. If Zhu Di wanted to change the throne to the prince, he had to consider it from multiple aspects.
What a coincidence, Emperor Wanli also had a Huo Guang by his side - Zhang Juzheng.
[It is not enough to admit your mistakes, you have to write an edict of guilt. To put it bluntly, it is to write a self-criticism. You have to make this self-criticism public and show everyone in the world that I know I was wrong and I will never dare to do it again. Fortunately, writing a self-criticism is
You don’t have to write the matter yourself, Mr. Zhang will do it for you. Mr. Zhang is very good at writing self-criticisms. He can finish the writing in just a few words, and then go directly to the Supervisor of Ceremonies to stamp it and announce it.]
Yao Guangxiao said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, are you sure you want to depose the crown prince and establish King Qi just because of a vague dream?"
Although Zhu Di has discovered through simulating that the cabinet established by himself has become the source of poisoning the Ming Dynasty, a mere fifth-rank cabinet minister has actually become the prime minister at the head of hundreds of officials!
But Zhu Di felt that this was not his fault. Zhu Yuanzhang could be called a model worker among emperors. After deposing the prime minister, he could do everything by himself. However, Zhu Di couldn't bear it after being the emperor for half a year. This is something a human can accomplish.
Workload?!
In Zhu Di's case, the cabinet was as cowardly as a dog. And the reason why the cabinet could develop to be so powerful in later generations was not only due to the cabinet system itself, but wasn't it also due to the emperor?
But at this time, no matter how much he said, it would be of no use. Zhu Di could only suppress his anger and continue the simulation.
Huo Zhongru, a small county official in the Han Dynasty, gave birth to two immortal sons. Among these two immortal sons, the elder brother was named Huo Qubing and the younger brother was named Huo Guang. One was a general who sealed the wolf as Xu, and the other was a powerful official who monopolized the government.
In order to restrict civil servants, Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the Zhongshu Sheng and the Prime Minister, and divided the power of the Zhongshu Sheng into the six ministries. The emperor was directly in charge of the government affairs of the six ministries and departments, which was actually equivalent to concurrently serving as the prime minister.
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Zhu Di didn't know how he would meet Emperor Taizu Gao after his death. Could it be that Zhu Di wanted to tell Zhu Yuanzhang: "Dad, your son, I have a lot to do. I'll kick your precious grandson off the throne. I'm awesome."
No? What's even more awesome is yet to come. Your son and my descendants are all talented people, such as the Cricket Emperor...such as the Emperor of the Clan...such as the mighty General...such as the Taoist Emperor..."
[Until the 22nd day of May in the sixth year of Longqing, Emperor Longqing was critically ill, so he summoned the cabinet bachelors Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng, Gao Yi and others in turn.]
Can this prince be abolished at his will?
Nowadays, the crown prince Zhu Pangpang is deeply supported by the civil servants, and his party members are spread all over the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty. If you want to depose the crown prince, how many people's interests will be shaken, and if you are not careful, the country's capital will be wasted!
Zhu Di touched the tip of his nose: "You may not believe it, but I can see the future of the Ming Dynasty."
It was rare for Zhu Di to see the prime minister in black looking so stunned like today, and he couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Zhu Di stretched out his hand from the lake in front of him, as if touching the long river of time, and said softly: "I saw that when the Ming Dynasty was about to sink, it was the old King Qi who stood up, helped the building to collapse, and tried his best to save it.
Heaven falls to save all the people from the fire and water, King Qin protects and seals the wolf as a slave!"
Under the control of the emperor, the cabinet and the six ministries perform their respective duties. The country's highest administrative orders are issued from the imperial city and distributed to every corner of the country through 1,936 post stations across the country and a total length of 143,700 kilometers of post roads.
[According to the last words left by your father, you and this Mr. Zhang cooperated tacitly, jointly managed the court, and killed indiscriminately. Mr. Zhang was responsible for the killing, and you were responsible for the killing. The two of them were close, and under the emperor's unlimited support, Zhang Juzheng
He has been in the limelight for a long time and has become the sword-wielder of the empire.】
Zhu Di shook his head: "I know it well."
Sometimes he really hoped that all of this was just a nightmare, but Zhu Di knew in his heart that all of this was real.
Zhu Di thought for a moment and said slowly: "King Qi has the Ninety-Five Styles, does the Prince have it?"
[Choose to simulate Zhu Yijun’s emperor’s life.]
[Empress Dowager Li took out a book, opened an article and handed it to you. You were suddenly struck by thunder because this article was called "The Biography of Huo Guang".]
[After you realized that you were almost alive, you showed a strong desire to survive, kowtowed and admitted your mistake without hesitation, and said that you would not do it again in this life, let alone beat the eunuch. You would have to avoid eunuchs when you see them in the future.
Way to go!]
Although he was an extremely powerful emperor, he had to rely on outsiders for all his hopes. Zhu Di felt that his three views had been impacted.
[On March 11, the second year of Longqing, because you became the eldest among the children of Emperor Longqing, you were canonized as Crown Prince and took the throne in the East Palace.]
After Zhu Di established the cabinet, he firmly held the decision-making power originally possessed by the prime minister in his own hands. The legislative power was assigned to the cabinet, and the administrative power was assigned to the six ministries. The local government was divided into three departments, in charge of justice, military, and administration, and were directly responsible to the six ministries.
[After Mr. Zhang’s death, your mental state improved immediately, and you began a four-year period of diligence, working day and night to govern the country.]
[In a few years...you will be completely ruined and lying flat.]
[When you are an emperor, there is no way to be comfortable in showing off. Let’s show off and show off!]