A group of princes and ministers were called out of their homes by the eunuchs. When they rushed to the palace, it was already past the time for the palace doors to be locked. According to the rules, the palace doors must be locked on time and cannot be opened except for urgent military matters! But Zhu Di ordered people to leave the door open for them. Moreover, they still left the door open after entering the palace, which shows how furious and excited the emperor was at this moment!
It gets dark early in winter, and it was already dark by this time. The eunuchs held lanterns and led the princes to Qianqing Palace. No one spoke or even made eye contact, but everyone knew very well why the emperor put the emperor at this moment. They called into the palace!
Entering the Qianqing Palace, the princes saw Zhu Di with his back to the door, his hands behind his hands and his head raised, looking at the picture of a tiger descending from the mountain on the wall. The princes saluted and paid homage to the emperor, but Zhu Di turned a deaf ear and neither looked back nor let them go. stand up.
The princes and ministers had no choice but to kneel there and wait for the emperor's attack... Fortunately, they had practiced kneeling skills for many years, so they were used to it.
The monarch and his ministers sat next to each other in silence like this. I don't know how long it took, maybe a meal, before Prince Zhu Gaochi staggered in with the support of two eunuchs. His legs and feet were not good, so it was normal for him to come late, but he came so late. This is really abnormal...
"My son, Zhu Gaochi, pays homage to my father." Zhu Gaochi signaled the two eunuchs to leave, lifted up the corners of his robes, and knelt in front of the emperor. "I wonder what the holy teachings of my father are for summoning my sons overnight?!"
"Don't take it seriously..." Zhu Di finally said his first sentence tonight, which was full of gunpowder: "My prince has strong wings now, and I would like to ask you, what advice do you have?!"
"If the father said this, I should plead guilty and commit suicide." Zhu Gaochi's mouth trembled, and his voice quickly returned to calmness and said: "But I really don't know, how can I offend the father?!"
"Don't keep talking about asking for punishment and committing suicide all day long?!" Zhu Di still didn't look back, and said coldly: "Even if I really want to kill you? Can you accept death obediently?!" Just as Zhu Gaochi was about to speak, Zhu Di sarcastically said: "Even if you want to die obediently, your loyal ministers will never agree!"
"Is it the king's land in the whole world, and is it the king's ministers who are on the shore of the land? There is only one kind of ministers in the world, and they are your majesty's ministers! A minister will only be loyal to your majesty, never to his children!" After the emperor finished speaking, Zhu Gaochi said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty's words are those that harm the country and bring chaos to the country. I have the courage to ask my father to take back these words!"
"Yes, Your Majesty! If you are not secretive, you will lose your ministers!" Tao, please take it back!"
"I'm not even allowed to say anything!" Zhu Di burst into laughter like a nervous convulsion: "You said it's not collusion! Haha! Hahaha!"
"Your Majesty..." The prince and the princes and ministers had no choice but to kowtow again and apologize.
"Okay," Zhu Di raised his head and exhaled a long breath, and said slowly: "I will take back those words according to the order of the prince." After speaking, he looked at the official writing the daily notes in the corner of the palace and said: "Just now. Don’t record what you say.”
When the Ming Dynasty arrived, historians no longer had the straight-laced writing style of the Tang Dynasty. Basically, starting from the Tang Dynasty, they followed the emperor's orders. In this dynasty, history books and historical writings have completely become a substitute for the emperor's mistakes. A tool to suppress political opponents. The historians were so frightened just now that they dared not write a single word. Now when they heard the emperor's decree, they naturally felt as if they had been granted amnesty and nodded like garlic.
"Your Majesty is wise..." The ministers were also relieved. They thought that the storm should have passed. Unexpectedly, Zhu Di finally turned his head, and his blood-red eyes scanned the princes full of hatred. Everyone he scanned was
Everyone's heart trembled, and they bowed their heads and did not dare to look at the emperor...except the prince.
Zhu Di's eyes were also fixed on the prince, staring at him coldly. The prince showed no fear and looked at the emperor calmly. Although the prince's eyes were soft, they were as firm as a rock. Zhu Di's way of slaying demons and demons was shocking.
Under the sharp gazes of the group of youngsters, there was nothing messy or incompetent...
This disparate gaze made Zhu Di extremely angry and anxious. He stretched out his arm and pointed his finger at the prince, less than an inch away from the tip of the prince's nose. His voice was cold and emotionless: "You instigated them, not to show off their congratulations."
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"My ministers did not instruct anyone," the prince said, neither humble nor arrogant, "and no one instigated them!"
"Then why are they so tidy and not on the congratulatory list?" Zhu Di said through gritted teeth, "Do you want to say that I am out of my way?!"
"Your Majesty," the prince said, "this is the will of the people..."
‘Pah!’ Before he could finish his words, the prince was slapped hard on the face. The sound was so shocking that everyone in the hall shivered violently.
Zhu Di raised his hand, slapped the prince on the face again, and said angrily: "It's revealed! You are that person! You are that dog!" Then he kicked the prince to the ground...
In less than three months, the prince was beaten twice by the emperor. This was not only shocking in this dynasty, but also unique in twenty-one histories.
The princes and ministers hurriedly separated the father and son from the Tian family and allowed the emperor to beat the prince. It was a shame for the country and a stain on everyone present...
Those historians closed their eyes in pain, regretting that they could not record this rare and exciting scene in the world...
The ministers fought hard to hold back the furious emperor. Zhu Di said angrily: "If you don't come up with a remedy before dawn, I will depose you as the prince!" After saying that, the emperor was left stunned.
My lord, I rolled my sleeves and left.
Xia Yuanji and others looked at Zhu Gaochi and saw that both sides of his cheeks were red and swollen. They hurriedly asked the eunuch to get crushed ice and wrapped it in a handkerchief for the prince to reduce the swelling. The prince held a ball of crushed ice in his hand and pressed it on both sides of his cheeks. It looked very strange.
It's weird. However, except for King Zhao, no one is in the mood to make fun of the prince. Even King Zhao can only chuckle secretly in his heart...
'If you don't come up with a remedy before dawn, I will depose you as the crown prince!'
Although no one took the emperor's angry words seriously before he left, no one dared to ignore them. If there were not enough congratulatory messages before dawn, the angry emperor would probably cancel the palace moving ceremony, and would be embarrassed in front of the Tibetan vassals.
To lose face, the emperor placed all the blame on the prince, so it was not impossible to depose the prince...
"Everyone, what should I do?!" Jian Yi looked at everyone worriedly. He is the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, the head of the hundred officials who are courteous to all officials. Although the cabinet academicians are now extremely powerful and are jokingly called prime ministers, they have not yet been able to reconcile with each other.
Six ministers were compared to each other, so Jian Yi naturally became the initiator of the topic.
"What else can I do?" Zhao Wang Zhu Gaosui got up from the ground. Although the ground of Qianqing Palace was spotless, he patted his legs carefully and said indifferently: "Let the officials write a congratulatory form."
"Your Majesty, if they were willing to write, would they be where they are today?!" Jian Yi said with a bitter smile: "To be honest, we heads of departments have been persuading each other sincerely these days, and we have used all kinds of coercion and inducement, but...
Those guys just can't get enough of it."
King Zhao sneered lightly and said to himself that of course they couldn't get enough oil and salt, otherwise wouldn't all my hard work for so long have been in vain?
In fact, King Zhao's method was exactly the same as that used in Nanjing, which caused the famous Qingliu to declare: "Whoever dares to appear on the congratulatory list is ostracizing himself from his colleagues!" The more people say the same thing, the more people will believe it.
, the power of these words has doubled, and it has become more and more difficult to offend with public anger. Hundreds of officials know that the law does not punish the public, and the threat from the top is actually not very powerful, but if anyone dares to go to the table, they will be spit on by their colleagues.
It can be sprayed to death!
"The Emperor has pointed out the way," His Highness Taisun, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said coldly: "As long as you tell those officials what the Emperor said today, they will naturally obey..."
"That's natural..." Jian Yi nodded, but then shook his head and said, "But this... is also extremely inappropriate!"
Of course it is extremely inappropriate! This is tantamount to making the conflict between the emperor and the prince public, and it is tantamount to confirming the prince's crime of deceiving the public to resist. How should His Highness the prince deal with himself?
"I don't have to worry about so much anymore. Let's go through this hurdle first!" Zhu Gaosui was already satisfied with his ambition. In this dispute about moving the capital, others thought that Taisun had gained an advantage. But anyone with a discerning eye could see that Taisun was favored by the emperor.
On the front line of the fight with the prince and his son, even if he won a little power, he lost his reputation ten thousand times more precious! This battle to move the capital turned the emperor against the prince and his son! It turned the prince against his grandson and his son! The real truth
The winner is him, King Zhao Zhu Gaosui!
"This..." The ministers frowned and did not dare to respond to His Highness King Zhao.
"That's right." His Royal Highness the Crown Prince finally spoke. Under everyone's gaze, he put down two handkerchiefs wrapped with broken ice and said calmly: "The most important thing right now is how to make tomorrow's ceremony go smoothly and make me a great emperor.
It will not lose dignity in front of the vassal country, and it will not leave regrets in the history books." After a pause, he said: "As for everything else, it is secondary..."
"Your Highness!" Jian Yi, Xia Yuanji and the three academicians had tears in their eyes, and they knelt down. They were all experienced officials and had an insight into people's hearts. How could they not know everyone's calculations?! They knew that His Highness the Crown Prince did not have to
This should not be the case! It was for the sake of Ming Dynasty, for China, and for the livelihood of the people that he came to this point of sharp confrontation with his father... But, in the end, it was of no avail...
It was already mid-morning, and time was extremely tight. Everyone hurriedly split up and summoned familiar officials to tell them about His Highness the Crown Prince's current crisis, hoping to impress their hard-hearted hearts and get the damn congratulatory form!
On the way out of the palace, Jin Youzi suddenly looked strange and whispered to Yang Shiqi beside him: "Brother Shiqi, tell me, the emperor released His Royal Highness from the ban and asked him to be responsible for the grand ceremony. Is this a trap for the prince?