On the fourth day of October, Emperor Zhu Youjian was reading the memorial in Qianqing Palace.
Although his eyes stopped on the memorial, Zhu Youjian was always thinking about other things.
Ever since Zhu Youjian took down three important ministers in the court a few days ago, the Donglin Party bosses have been in a frenzy. Dongchang's fans reported that Donglin Party members have been visiting each other these days, and they have been in various We were gathering at a place to discuss, but we didn’t know what we were planning.
Liu Zongzhou, a great scholar in the world and the backbone of Donglin, was taken down by Zhu Youjian in cold blood. This time, Zhu Youjian really hurt the foundation of the Donglin Party.
In the original history, civil servants described Zhu Youjian as a murderous emperor who was eager for quick success. However, even so, during his seventeen years in power, Zhu Youjian only killed one minister, four ministers, seven governors and Eleven governors killed these high-ranking officials. Civil servants have already described Zhu Youjian as a cold-faced and bloody emperor.
In fact, every time Zhu Youjian killed someone, it was when these civil servants made big mistakes and had to bear responsibility. It can be said that Zhu Youjian never challenged the collective will of civil servants.
However, after Li Zhi came to this world, Zhu Youjian had already started killing in just two years because of the conflict between Li Zhi and the civil servants. In the case of hiding silver in Taipu Temple, Zhu Youjian killed one assistant minister and two Shangshu, one of the "Nine Qings", Taipusiqing, ministers below Shangshu, there are countless among them. Now, because of Guan Ning's army, another assistant was killed, one was the censor of Zuodu, and the other was Shangshu.
In just two years, Zhu Youjian killed more top-level civil servants than the "willful" Zhu Youjian in history had killed in total in seventeen years. If you include the governors Li Zhi killed privately, the number is even more astonishing .
And every time, Zhu Youjian stood directly on Li Zhi's side, killed people according to Li Zhi's memorial, and challenged the bottom line of civil servants.
In order to appease Li Zhi, Zhu Youjian has stood on the opposite side of the Donglin Party.
How will civil servants fight back?
Zhu Youjian was thinking there when he saw a eunuch from Yikun Palace running to the gate of Qianqing Palace in a panic.
Zhu Youjian's heart suddenly thumped, and he secretly thought that something was wrong, something must have happened in Yikun Palace.
Sure enough, the eunuch ran to Zhu Youjian with tears streaming down his face. He knelt on the ground with a bang and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty, Concubine Yuan Guifei suddenly fell ill and fell unconscious!"
When Zhu Youjian heard this, he closed his eyes helplessly.
After a long time, Zhu Youjian opened his eyes and strode towards Yikun Palace without saying a word. Wang Chengen and other eunuchs followed the emperor and walked majestically on the road to the inner palace.
Concubine Yuan Guifei is the owner of Yikun Palace and the concubine of Zhu Youjian. She was originally a concubine when Zhu Youjian was King Xin. Because of her Shuzhuang character, she has always been gentle, courteous and thrifty, so she was loved by Zhu Youjian, and she also got along with Queen Zhou. It was very good. In recent years, Yuan gave birth to a daughter for Zhu Youjian, and she was also deeply liked by Zhu Youjian.
Unexpectedly, Concubine Yuan Guifei would become a victim of this struggle at this time.
I don't know if it can still be saved.
Zhu Youjian was anxious and walked all the way to Yikun Palace. He finally reached Yikun Palace. Several imperial doctors gathered in the palace, and they all stood in front of the hospital bed with sad faces. Wang Dehua, the eunuch of Dongchang, was also there.
Seeing Zhu Youjian coming in, everyone knelt on the ground and saluted.
Zhu Youjian walked to the bed and saw that Concubine Yuan was dying. Her face was white and her lips were blue. She had a high fever and was in a coma.
Concubine Yuan's daughter, Princess De'an, who was only five years old, cried like a tearful person. She looked at her mother on the hospital bed longingly, grabbing a corner of the quilt on the hospital bed and refusing to let go.
Zhu Youjian touched Princess De'an's head and was silent for a long time.
After a long time, he asked the imperial doctor in a cold voice: "Can he still be saved?"
The leading physician said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, this is the heat poison that enters the blood and blocks the veins, causing blood stasis and spots; the heat hurts the body fluids, causing thirst and desire to drink; it affects the lungs, causing phlegm to accumulate; it affects the heart, causing rapid and rapid pulse; upper disturbance
God, make the spirit unconscious!"
The imperial doctor was nervous and said a lot of incomprehensible words as soon as he spoke, which made Zhu Youjian even more unhappy.
"I ask you, can Concubine Yuan be saved alive?"
The imperial doctor knelt down on the ground with a bang and said in a panic: "Your Majesty! Save... I can't save him!"
Zhu Youjian trembled when he heard this, and his face suddenly turned white.
"Has it been poisoned?"
Several imperial doctors looked at each other for a while, then said on their knees: "I don't dare to jump to conclusions..."
Zhu Youjian's face was full of sadness and he shouted angrily: "Check! Check the food that Concubine Yuan Gui has touched in the past few days!"
Zhu Youjian was not lewd throughout his life and had only a handful of concubines in the harem. Zhu Youjian had always had feelings for Concubine Yuan Guifei.
As soon as he confronted the civil servants, Concubine Yuan Guifei fell ill for no apparent reason. Obviously, this was no coincidence. Although the imperial doctor did not dare to draw a conclusion, Zhu Youjian understood that this was a stern warning from the civil servants.
In the Forbidden City at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were treacherous and undercurrents, and many unexplainable and unexplained facts happened. The more famous one is the case of siege in the forty-third year of Wanli. When the Wanli Emperor was preparing to face the opposition of the civil servants,
When the second son became the prince, a gangster broke into the East Palace and stabbed the prince with a wooden stick.
Moreover, in the first year of Taichang, Li Kezhuo presented red pills to Ming Guangzong, Zhu Youjian's father. Guangzong died a few days after taking them.
When Wei Zhongxian was still in power, Zhu Youjian entered the palace and ascended the throne, but he did not even dare to eat the food in the palace. He even hid wheat cakes brought by Prince Xin's palace in his arms to satisfy his hunger.
When Zhu Youjian first entered the palace, he even found the eunuch holding strange incense burning in the compound wall of his palace.
In short, the weirdness and unpredictability in this deep palace is beyond the imagination of outsiders.
Zhu Youjian stood at Concubine Yuan's bedside for half an hour. Seeing that she still couldn't wake up, he left with Wang Chengen.
As soon as he left Yikun Palace, Wang Chengen looked around and saw that there was no one around, then he suddenly knelt down on the road and prostrated and said: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you can't go on like this. They are warning your Majesty not to kill Liu Zongzhou!"
"Your Majesty, please keep the green hills here. You are not afraid of running out of firewood. You cannot be so hostile to the civil servants! Your Majesty, think twice! Let Liu Zongzhou go!"
Zhu Youjian looked at the majestic palace in the distance and sighed.
After thinking for a long time, Zhu Youjian said: "Wang Chengen, what do you think would happen to the world if I suddenly fell ill and died like the emperor's brother?"
Wang Chengen prostrated on the ground: "I dare not say..."
"you say!"
Wang Chengen said in a trembling voice: "If the Holy One suddenly falls ill, the capital camp will definitely be in chaos. The new army will have no leader and will definitely have no fighting power. The prince is young and hastily ascended the throne and cannot handle state affairs. The Donglin Party will definitely take control of the government."
Zhu Youjian asked: "How about the Tianjin Association?"
Wang Chengen lay on the ground, thought for a while and said: "People will be panicked by then. With the character of the Duke of Jin, he will definitely lead his troops to attack the capital and massacre the civil servants."
Zhu Youjian laughed a few times when he heard this.
After laughing a few times, Zhu Youjian became sad again, with a look of helplessness and waste on his face.
"Wang Cheng'en, you can think of the Donglin Party. I don't believe that those Confucian scholars dare to attack me!"
