Zhong Jinwei and Lu Xiangsheng looked over when they heard the sound. Sure enough, it was Gu Baichuan who appeared at the door and walked in.
"Has the emperor canonized Prince Zhaoxian?" Zhong Jinwei asked immediately.
At the same time, Lu Xiangsheng's voice also sounded: "Is Prince Zhaoxian here?"
As soon as they finished speaking, Zhong Jinwei and Lu Xiangsheng looked at each other and couldn't help but smile.
Gu Baichuan had already walked in, clasped his fists and saluted Zhong Jinwei: "Master Marquis, Prince Zhaoxian has been canonized as the King of Korea by the emperor."
Having said this, he took out a letter from his arms and said: "This is a letter from Your Majesty to the Marquis. It is written by the Marquis himself. The Marquis is responsible for all matters related to North Korea. He will receive the order with the King of North Korea later.
, someone will talk about this."
When Zhong Jinwei heard that Emperor Chongzhen had written to him privately, he didn't know what to say, so he quickly took it from Gu Baichuan.
When Gu Baichuan saw Zhong Jinwei taking away the letter, he put down his hands, and then complained: "Master Marquis, that Crown Prince Zhaoxian is unreasonable and has created a problem for the Emperor."
When Zhong Jinwei heard this, he stopped opening the letter in his hand and asked curiously: "What's wrong?"
The guards of Lu Xiangsheng and Zhong Jinwei also looked at Gu Baichuan curiously, wondering what the devil Prince Zhaoxian was up to.
Gu Baichuan said a little angrily: "Seeing that the Korean subjects recognized their shame and admitted their mistakes, the emperor agreed to canonize Prince Zhaoxian as the king of Korea. Unexpectedly, he made another request, asking the emperor not to make the abdication edict of the former Korean king public to the world.
Ask Daming to help him keep it secret."
"Why?" Li Dingguo couldn't help but blurt out and asked.
At the same time, Sun Kewang's voice also sounded: "Why?"
Lu Xiangsheng didn't ask, he just stared at Gu Baichuan with piercing eyes, as if Gu Baichuan was the prince Zhaoxian.
Zhong Jinwei's face also darkened. Wouldn't this request from Crown Prince Zhaoxian make people in the world think that I, the Ming Emperor, had gone back on my word, made one king after another, and didn't understand etiquette!
"What does Prince Zhaoxian say?" Zhong Jinwei looked at Gu Baichuan and asked.
"The Prince Zhaoxian cried to the emperor, saying that if the imperial edict was announced, Jianlu would definitely know about it. When Jianlu became angry and embarrassed, his father would be in danger," Gu Baichuan replied.
After hearing this, Zhong Jinwei's face showed no change of joy, anger, sorrow, or joy. He still asked with a stern face: "Then what did the emperor do?"
Gu Baichuan was in the palace that day, so he saw the whole process. He was deeply impressed and replied to Zhong Jinwei: "The emperor was stunned for a moment, and then he agreed, and praised him for his filial piety. However, other ministers reprimanded the emperor before he agreed.
Prince Zhaoxian persecuted his father in the name of filial piety, with evil intentions."
Zhong Jinwei was very unhappy after hearing this. Of course it was good for Prince Zhaoxian to have such filial piety, but why did he go to the capital to join Emperor Chongzhen's army without explaining it to him in advance?
Zhong Jinwei didn't think about it. He also wrote a memorial to deceive North Korea. He and Prince Zhaoxian can be said to be evenly matched, and neither of them is a fuel-efficient lamp.
At this time, Lu Xiangsheng spoke, but his point of view was different from others. He said to Zhong Jinwei: "The emperor is really a British master. I think this cannot be considered a bad thing. When we defeat Jianlu, no matter whether the former Korean king rescues him or not
, can publish the edict of succession. In this way, those who complain that I, the Ming Emperor, do not understand etiquette, will shut up, and will even praise me, the Ming Emperor, for having a kind heart and broad mind."
Zhong Jinwei thought about it after hearing it. As long as he had the abdication edict in hand, there would be no problem. If no one else told him, he could let the newspapers publicize it widely.
Thinking of this, Zhong Jinwei's anger subsided and he continued to open the letter in his hand to read the content.
When others heard Lu Xiangsheng's explanation, they all admired Emperor Chongzhen's choice. They stopped worrying about Prince Zhaoxian's forced palace and began to pay attention to the letter in Zhong Jinwei's hand. They didn't know why the emperor was alone before the Marquis received the imperial edict.
Wrote a letter to Marquis Zhongxing to read.
Zhong Jinwei quickly read the letter and was quite speechless.
It turned out that his previous memorial to Emperor Chongzhen was to suggest that Emperor Chongzhen should take this opportunity to negotiate terms with North Korea. He should not waste manpower and material resources to fight for North Korea! You can't do business at a loss!
Emperor Chongzhen was thin-skinned and felt that Zhong Jinwei's suggestion was too embarrassing to speak out. However, Wen Tiren, the chief minister of the cabinet, and others felt that the Ming Dynasty was a country of etiquette, and Korea had always been a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and the war to aid Korea and fight against the Japanese during the Wanli period was never over.
It is not what a great Chinese country should do to negotiate conditions for North Korea's money and food when they are suffering.
The final result of the discussion between Emperor Chongzhen and Wen Tiren was to leave this matter to Zhong Jinwei, an advocate, and required that it be done with dignity. In other words, it must not only maintain the style of the heavenly dynasty, but also bring benefits.
After reading it, Zhong Jinwei raised his head and found that everyone was looking at him. He couldn't help but sigh: "I'm really asking for trouble!"
After finishing speaking, he handed the letter to Lu Xiangsheng to prevent those tiger eyes from staring at him.
Governor Denglai is still qualified to know about matters involving North Korea. After all, Zhong Jinwei will not stay in Denglai for a long time, and it will be Governor Denglai who will directly manage North Korea in the future.
Lu Xiangsheng read it quickly and handed the letter back to Zhong Jinwei. At the same time, he looked at the Marquis of Zhongxing with some sympathy, secretly thinking that the Marquis had trapped himself this time.
He was curious whether Marquis Zhongxing could do such a demanding thing.
I saw Zhong Jinwei casually handing the letter to Li Dingguo beside him, asking him to keep it, then stretched out his hand to rub his temples, and then asked Gu Baichuan: "Has my letter from home been delivered? How is Archie?"
Archie was pregnant, which made Zhong Jinwei particularly worried.
When Gu Baichuan heard this, he quickly took out another letter from his arms and said, "Master Hou, this is your reply."
When Zhong Jinwei heard this, he quickly took it over to look at it. The others were embarrassed to stare at Zhong Jinwei this time, so they spread out and waited for Zhong Jinwei to finish reading.
Zhong Jinwei looked at the letter and smiled involuntarily on his face.
Archi said in the letter that everything was fine and reassured Zhong Jinwei that the vomiting during pregnancy had gone away, but now he has become greedy. Now he likes to eat things he usually didn't like. Many people in the capital have taken loans from two banks.
She started a small business and had many foods she had never seen before. She ate nothing the same every day. Everything was fine. She just asked Zhong Jinwei to pay attention to his own safety and take care of himself.
Zhong Jinwei read the letter twice in a row, with Archi's pregnant figure appearing in front of his eyes, smiling sweetly and nagging these things to himself.
As he was thinking about it, Zhong Jinwei suddenly grabbed the letter, slapped his thigh, and said loudly: "There is a way!"
Lu Xiangsheng heard the sound and looked at Marquis Zhongxing, wondering if it was the Marquise who told Marquis Zhongxing what to do in the letter?