Chapter 994: Could it be the King's Land Under the Heavens?
The candlelight in the Qianqing Palace was swaying, and the fragrance of two cups of clear tea was lingering. Emperor Chongzhen looked at Chang Yu with a tired look on his face and smiled broadly: "Did you sleep well?"
Chang Yu kowtowed: "Your Majesty, please take good care of your health. If this continues, you will not be able to bear it even if you are an iron man." He had already seen that Emperor Chongzhen could endure it better than him!
"I don't know how sleepy I am, but I can't sleep. Do you think they can make me sleep? Li Banghua and Wu Xuan almost burned me with their anger at night..." Emperor Chongzhen said and suddenly laughed again: "As you expected, I can't hold back my anger! Tsk tsk, as the old saying goes, if you don't do anything bad, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door. Why are you and the others so anxious to assign you to the eunuchs and Liu Jin, Wei Zhongxian and the like? Hey, Liu Jin is me I don’t know, but Wei Zhongxian, when I came to the throne, I was young and energetic and acted too staunchly. If I had kept him by my side, Ming Dynasty might not have been as seriously ill as it is now. He said and looked at Chang Yu. Fortunately, I have you! Otherwise... …Why!"
Historically, the first thing Chongzhen did after he ascended the throne was to kill Wei Zhongxian, but many years later he finally realized that the thorn in the side of their civil servants was actually the emperor's caring little cotton-padded jacket! He just regretted it too late, and the only thing he could do was to make peace for Wei Zhongxian He turned against him, so saying this to Chang Yu was not a slap in the face.
"Your Majesty, the cabinet seems to be coming for you, but in fact it is for you." Chang Yu had thought clearly before coming. He would never participate in internal strife. If he wanted to fight, let his fans go to the front line to fight with these people, or It is absolutely impossible to push Emperor Chongzhen forward to fight against the sword and hide behind to watch him arm-wrestle with the cabinet.
Emperor Chongzhen was startled for a moment after hearing this, and then nodded with a wry smile: "It's just a dispute between imperial power and prime minister power."
After becoming the emperor, the power of the cabinet became more and more powerful. Not only did he control the government affairs, but he even had to take care of the emperor's private affairs. In the following years, the emperors fought with him for power, with success and failure. However, after he ascended the throne, he did a big stupid thing and killed Wei Zhongxian. , without the civil servant group to restrain and suppress the cabinet from becoming bigger, the emperor almost became a decoration!
Otherwise, it would not be the case that an emperor would be forced to issue an edict if nothing happened!
When something happened, the cabinet would blame each other and fail to come up with plans or even implement them. Emperor Chongzhen sometimes made the decision himself. If it failed, they would blame him for messing around and issuing the edict, which must be issued!
Ever since, in all the dynasties, they have seen an emperor issue six edicts of sin in ten years!
Anyway, whether natural disasters or man-made disasters are your emperor's fault, so Emperor Chongzhen has been very aggrieved for more than ten years. If he has a slight misfortune, he has to tell the world, I was wrong, it is all my fault... I feel in my heart The house is on fire, but there is no one on hand who can be used. Now that Chang Yu who can hit the perineum suddenly cannot be found, he will naturally have to arm-wrestle the cabinet.
"Your Majesty, the whole world is not the king's land. The Ming Dynasty belongs to your Zhu family. All the ministers and soldiers in the court help you to guard and manage the world. It's okay, but you can't let them be the masters of the country." Chang Yu's indifferent words immediately made Emperor Chongzhen unable to sit still, and he shouted: "No! I'm afraid they have forgotten their surnames in this world."
"This world's surname is Zhu. If they don't remember it, please remind them!" Chang Yu was expressionless, but Emperor Chongzhen across from him became excited: "That's right, I should remind them!"
Look, just these two words, Chang Yu easily made Emperor Chongzhen willing to resist the sword and charge into the battle. Of course, this is because he now has trump cards and confidence. Now there is money in the treasury, and Chang Yu is such a powerful person. Assistant, he dares to challenge the cabinet!
Of course, Chang Yu did not ask Emperor Chongzhen and the cabinet bosses to fight each other when they came up, but asked him to straighten his waist first and be tougher. He did not want to see an emperor who was obedient to his ministers and always said that I was wrong and I was wrong.
The rest will be figured out slowly.
Of course, it is most important to promote some die-hard fans to some key positions.
Emperor Chongzhen didn’t know who his die-hard fans were. None of his ministers dared to say that he was disloyal. Anyone would say that they were loyal to the point of death, but how many would die for him?
There are indeed quite a few. In history, there are not many ministers who died for the country after Emperor Chongzhen committed suicide, but there are also many. Chang Yu knows this list. Let’s not talk about the talents of these people, but there is absolutely no objection to their loyalty!
Therefore, these ministers who died for the country at that time became candidates who were deliberately promoted by Chang Yu. For example, Wang Jiayan was originally just the right minister of the Ministry of War, but he directly mentioned the real power position of the Governor of the Beijing Camp! You must know that this position has always been occupied by nobles.
He also brought Wang Guoxing, Li Ruogui, and Gao Wencai from Jinyiwei to the East Factory to obey his orders.
And now the arm wrestling with the cabinet could not be decided in a day. He had to plan ahead and promote candidates to important positions again. In the past, he would only exert his efforts in secret, but now he made suggestions directly in front of Emperor Chongzhen.
The chief assistant, Li Banghua, was originally the chief censor of Zuodu in the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Later, the young eunuch secretly defeated the chief minister of the cabinet. In fact, Li Banghua knew it to some extent, so he was not very hostile to the young eunuch. However, after he took the position of chief assistant, he left
The imperial censorship has always been vacant.
Shi Bangyao!
He is now the left deputy censor of the capital, and Chang Yu now proposes to straighten him up.
Emperor Chongzhen was a little surprised. Shi Bangyao had always hated the internal officials, and he and Wei Zhongxian had been having an endless quarrel back then: "Are you sure?"
Chang Yu smiled slightly: "It doesn't matter how hostile he is to Dongchang, as long as he is loyal to the emperor. What I want is that he serves the emperor, not Dongchang."
"Then he is very loyal?" Chongzhen raised his eyebrows.
Chang Yu nodded and said firmly: "The kind of loyalty that is willing to die for the emperor!"
"How did you know?" Emperor Chongzhen was surprised.
"I have the ability to know people." Chang Yu smiled slightly, and Emperor Chongzhen said "Oh" and stopped asking. He had long discovered that there were many magical things about the little eunuch in front of him. He was an extraordinary person. He became more and more
The more he believed in the words of the fairy old man who entrusted the dream to the prince, the more he trusted Chang Yu. He even suspected that Chang Yu was the fairy old man sent to save Daming.
Chang Yu then wrote down a few more lists, and Emperor Chongzhen looked at them and pondered for a while: "Are these people reliable?"
"It can help the emperor achieve great things." Chang Yu smiled faintly, and Emperor Chongzhen looked a little excited again: "In your words, what is my great cause?"
"Reviving the Ming Dynasty"
Emperor Chongzhen was stunned, and then laughed loudly. After laughing for a long time, he slowly subsided and turned to look at Chang Yu: "Let's eat first before talking."
"Eat the food one bite at a time." Chang Yu exclaimed. Emperor Chongzhen nodded slightly and raised the list in his hand: "Tomorrow I will go and remind them who owns the Ming Dynasty and who has the final say!"
"Your Majesty, you should go to bed early today to regain your strength. You should also prepare more handkerchiefs. I guess there will be a lot of spitting stars tomorrow," Chang Yu joked.
Emperor Chongzhen laughed and said, "You have been awake for most of the night and you are very energetic at night. Now you have thought about where to go to admire the moon."
Chang Yu smiled bitterly and shook his head: "How can I be so elegant? Tomorrow the emperor will go have a quarrel. Tonight I will go to warm up the emperor."
Emperor Chongzhen was startled: "Who are you going to find?"
"Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Li Yuzhi!" Chang Yu smiled bitterly, but Emperor Chongzhen laughed: "Then you should prepare more handkerchiefs, he can spray it in your face!"
Obviously Emperor Chongzhen also knew that Li Yuzhi had a close relationship with Dongchang.