He sat alone on the throne in the main hall of Qianqing Palace, overwhelmed by endless loneliness.
There were birds and incense burners in the palace. The emperor closed his eyes and allowed himself to be swallowed up by the darkness. Just before he was about to be completely swallowed up, he struggled.
When he opened his eyes, the emperor's eyes were clear and rational again.
He still has a lot of things to do.
Diseases plagued the emperor. His body was broken, with blockages here and leaks there, filial piety disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and even wind disease, which was similar to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. See.
The imperial doctor said that the emperor was too overworked and had to take care of everything since he raised the army. He even personally led the troops in the Northern Expedition. He worked day and night without getting a good rest. He had filial piety disease himself, and later he suffered from diabetes. Now the complications of these diseases have led to wind. disease.
Zhu Yihai made his own diagnosis. He estimated that the disease was caused by insufficient blood supply to the brain caused by high blood pressure or even hyperlipidemia and high blood sugar, or even complications of diabetes.
There is no good medicine for lowering the three highs, and it cannot cure filial piety diseases and diabetes. Nowadays, the complications are serious, and they can only be treated but not cured. They can only get worse day by day.
The results of the exercises such as horseback riding and archery that he has insisted on over the years are not obvious. Now, even when he has a severe attack, he can only rely on an ancient prescription, which is Diyaga, a tribute from Byzantium that Tang Gaozong and Li Zhi once took. This is a tribute from Eastern Rome to Tang Gaozong. This medicine is synthesized from many herbs. It is said to be a famous all-purpose antidote for the Romans in the West. It contains poppy ingredients and can relieve pain and calm the nerves.
Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, also suffered from wind disease. In his later years, it was much more serious than Zhu Yihai's now. The imperial doctors were helpless to deal with the emperor's current illness, so they could only read historical materials to find this prescription.
This prescription has a temporary effect, and it is indeed a good painkiller. After drinking it, you can relax for a while, but the side effects are also obvious, and you will become more and more dependent on it, and you will even have hallucinations after taking it.
Zhu Yihai knew very well what this thing was, but when the wind broke out, he couldn't leave it.
When I got up, I felt light all over, my head ached no more, my eyesight even got better, and my brain was clearer than ever.
He has always behaved very calmly in front of outsiders. He doesn't want to show his bad side. When he suffers from pain, he will lock himself up.
But now it happens so often that he even thought he would die.
In the era without insulin, the emperor's diabetes made his legs weak, scabs were all over his legs, and his eyes became moldy.
The Ming Emperor, who was regarded as extremely sage by outsiders, was suffering a lot.
Sometimes he would also wonder, since God allowed him to come, why didn't he give him more time?
Historically, Zhu Yihai could live to be in his forties, but his situation is worse now? Or is it that even if he can live to be in his forties, it will only be in such pain?
Could it be that in history, King Lu dragged such a sick and disabled body through the turbulent late Ming Dynasty, traveled to various places, went into exile at sea, persisted in resisting the Qing Dynasty, and finally died of depression on Kinmen Island?
Putting aside his crutches, Zhu Yihai walked around the hall several times.
Return to the throne.
He rang the bell.
The waiter pushed open the door and entered.
"Let the prince come over."
The emperor looked at the mirror on one side. He was very energetic in the mirror. The bright yellow dragon robe added to the emperor's majesty. His hair was neatly combed, but some of it was thin. His hair had fallen out seriously, and it had even been dyed a lot.
Hoarfrost.
The emperor with gray hair is getting old after all.
If you look closely at your face, you can see some swelling.
If God could give him another thirty years, the prince's footsteps interrupted the emperor's thoughts.
"Without ceremony, come forward."
The prince saw the tray on his father's royal eucalyptus, and there was a medicine pot there. He knew his father's condition very well, and he also knew the effects of the Western medicine he was using now, and he was very worried.
"Don't worry, he won't be dead for a while," Zhu Yihai called his son to sit down next to him and poured him a cup of tea. "I saw Wu Weiye's memorial, as well as Huang Zongyan's and Lu Liuliang's. You can ignore them all.
Already?"
The prince stood up and said respectfully: "Yes."
"What did you think about it?"
"I have sent people to secretly investigate the matter of Wu Weiye's impeachment of Ma Shiying. I plan to make an approval and deal with it after the investigation is clear."
"Hutu!" Zhu Yihai shook his head.
He looked at the young prince, a little helpless, he was still too young, "Do you know what will happen if you stay in the middle but not make a move? As a result, Huang Zongyan and Lu Liuliang immediately followed suit to impeach Ma Shiying, and even Ruan Dacheng, Liu Kongzhao,
Even Yang Wencong was impeached. Can’t you see what this is going to do?
In their bullets, they have directly shouted the slogan of eliminating traitorous parties.
This is going to start another party struggle, can’t you see it?”
Wu Weiye was a native of Taicang, his ancestral home was Kunshan. He was a famous figure in the contemporary literary world and was known as the Three Great Masters of Jiangzuo. He and Qian Qianyi were both very famous literati in Jiangnan. One of the two of the Three Great Masters of Jiangzuo was Qian Qianyi.
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Although Wu Weiye is younger, only in his forties at this time, his poems are self-contained, and later generations call them Meicun Style. He is the founder of the Loudong Poetry School, and is best at seven-character songs.
To turn one's head into a beauty in anger is Wu Weiye's poem.
He was a scholar at the age of nineteen, passed the imperial examination at the age of twenty-one, passed the imperial examination at the age of twenty-two, and was still a Huiyuan. Then he came second in the palace examination. Some people said that there was suspicion of fraud. After all, Wu Weiye was a disciple of Zhang Pu, the leader of Fushe.
He later became one of the important leaders of the restoration of society.
However, after Chongzhen personally inspected Wu Weiye's original manuscript, he praised it for being upright, liberal, and cunning, which calmed the material debate. This made Wu Weiye famous, and he deeply felt the kindness of Chongzhen. After that, his official career went smoothly.
He was first awarded the title of Hanlin Editor, followed the Huguang Rural Examination, and in the tenth year of Chongzhen's reign, he served as a lecturer in the East Palace. Later he moved to Nanjing to be the Imperial College Secretary.
However, his official career has been rising step by step, and he has served as an important official of the Qing Dynasty.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! His career path is actually very similar to that of today's chief minister Wen Anzhi.
But later, when he saw the fierce party struggle, he resigned and returned home. During the Hongguang period, he was called to serve as Shao Zhan. After entering the court, he found that Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng were in power, and the fight with the Donglin Party became more intense. He only stayed for two months and impeached Ma Ruanbu many times.
As a result, he resigned angrily.
After Zhu Yihai raised his army, Wu Weiye, who was in his hometown in Taicang, later joined the army to fight against the Qing Dynasty with his fellow villagers Gu Yanwu and others, and served in Susong. Later, he was summoned to the imperial court and taught as a lecturer at the Hanlin Academy. Now he is the Imperial College's sacrificial wine minister.
This is the principal of the country's highest capital. He was originally a fourth-rank official, but Zhu Yihaite was promoted to a third-rank official, becoming a noble minister with a purple robe and jade belt.
Although Wu Weiye once resigned and returned to his hometown, he presided over the activities of the Southeastern Literary Society as a famous member of the Fushe Society, and his reputation was even greater. Although the emperor now prohibits association, this famous leader of the Fushe Society, as a minister of the Imperial Academy, is now in Shilin
The reputation is still very high.
After the guilty party was over, he took the lead in impeaching Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng, which aroused Zhu Yihai's vigilance.
In the past few years, Zhu Yihai has actually been very vigilant and vigilant about Donglin and Fushe. He even took the opportunity to carry out several big scandals and convicted some famous figures in Donglin and Fushe for crimes such as forming a clique and treason.
, to kill chickens to scare monkeys.
The criminal party campaign that just ended previously only targeted those who surrendered and surrendered as traitors to the country. Among these people, there were also those who were restored to society in Donglin. However, in the late Ming Dynasty, there were forces from all sides. It was not aimed at a certain force, but against
The liquidation of those capitulators.
In fact, Zhu Yihai has always trusted and relied on the Yuanxun Faction the most, of which the Jiangsu and Zhejiang factions were the core. However, the emperor not only used the Yuanxun Faction, but also used a large number of Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng and other traitors who were once listed as anti-corruption parties.
Later, a large number of surrender factions were used, and even those bandits and bandits were united for their own use.
Now that the capitulation faction has been purged, the Yuan Cong faction is no longer the only one.
Ruan Dacheng, Ma Shiying, Yang Wencong, Liu Kongzhao, Zheng Zhilong and the emperor's five adopted sons are actually not from Jiangsu and Zhejiang families.
The emperor deliberately maintained balance in the court.
The emperor likes to use traitors, rebels, and corrupt ministers. He is liquidating the surrender faction at this time. It is not that he cannot tolerate these people's rebellion and surrender. It is just that the situation requires it. If he wants to retreat, then he will clean up a group of them and give them to his son to take over.
Leaving a simpler situation behind, we must also rectify the source.
But it doesn't mean that he will have to do something like when Chongzhen came to the throne.
Ruan Dacheng is now a bachelor of Dongge University, and Ma Shiying is the Minister of Household Affairs. Both women are still in Zhu Yihai's palace. For example, Ruan Dacheng's daughter is still a noble concubine, and his niece is a virtuous concubine. He gave birth to five sons and six daughters to Zhu Yihai, and he was very favored.
Wu Weiye's identity was quite special. He was the leader of the Fushe Society and could be considered a member of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Founders. He had a very good relationship with Gu Yanwu of Kunshan and Huang Zongxi of Yuyao. He also had a good relationship with Chen Zilong and Hou Fangyu, who were previously condemned and exiled by the emperor.
Among the founding fathers of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang factions, there are actually quite a few people who have returned to Donglin Restoration Society, especially in the area around Susong and Taihu Lake in Wudi. This is the base camp of Donglin Restoration Society. Although fewer people are still holding high the banner of Donglin Restoration Society in recent years,
These people with a common background are still vaguely a group.
Compared with the Eastern Zhejiang faction, which has more trust from the emperor, it is also a major force among the founders.
In fact, Zhu Yihai also intended to divide his founding faction, dividing them civilly and military, and even separated Wu and Yue, and separated Donglin Fushe and non-Donglin Fushe, creating a more complicated situation, and did not make the founding faction monolithic.
Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng and others were reused to balance the situation. After all, if all the founding members in the court were from the founding faction, the situation might be as unbalanced as when Chongzhen was defeated and the eunuchs used Donglin alone. When the prince succeeds to the throne, these founding factions may not be able to
They will always be loyal to the prince, but if things go wrong, they will be ignored.
Now Wu Weiye takes the lead in attacking Ma Shiying, and then Huang Zongyan and Lu Liuliang follow up. All three of them have a socialist background, and they also have a common feature, that is, they are still working part-time in the East Palace.
"You are about to take over the throne. You can't just look at the surface of the problem, you have to look at the deeper level. Is it that simple for Wu Weiye to impeach Ma Shiying? No, this is not personal, they want to start a new party struggle.
, I want to drive the so-called traitors out of the court. I know that you are closer to them, but don’t forget that you are the prince now and will be the emperor soon. The court must maintain balance."
"Wu Weiye only thinks about the way Donglin was restored to society in the past. He is still unwilling to change it. He even wants to use his influence to stir up party strife. This is unforgivable. We must kill the chicken to scare the monkey. There are also Huang Zongyan and
Lu Liuliang is also a great hero, but he is also like this and must be severely punished. Otherwise, how can we stop it once it starts?"
Zhu Yihai was very angry.
Some people are always thinking about party strife.
He picked up a piece of paper and gave it to the prince, which he had just written.
"Ma Luan is appointed as the commander and advisor of the Jinyi Guards."
Ma Luan is Ma Shiying's eldest son and Zhu Yihai's advantageous uncle. During the Hongguang Dynasty, this man was a member of the Jinyiwei family, and was given the command of Jinyiwei. He once escorted Hongguang when he fled Wuhu, and successfully sent him to Huang Degong's camp.
He is a very brave guy. Just like his father, even though the Battle of Wuhu was defeated, the injured Ma Luan was not surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. After he was seriously injured and captured, he still looked for opportunities on the battlefield to overthrow the escorting Qing troops, and then jumped.
He escaped into the Yangtze River and finally went to eastern Zhejiang to find his father. He had already gathered a group of troops and gathered many Ming troops from Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan. He formed a team, attacked the Qing army all the way, and surrendered to the Ming army.
As well as the bandits and bandits along the way, they fought all the way from Wuhu to eastern Zhejiang, which was very impressive.
However, at this time, he was assigned to be stationed in a defensive battalion in another province and returned to Jinyiwei as the commander of the third rank. This was the second most important position in Jinyiwei after the commander Ma Jixiang. Jinyiwei only had two commanders.
Over there, Wu Weiye and others impeached Ma Shiying and others, and here the emperor promoted Ma Luan to the important position of commander and commander of the Jinyiwei, which was an obvious attitude.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Wu Weiye, Huang Zongyan, and Lu Liuliang reduced their nationality to the people and were exiled to Kang, Wei, and Zang respectively."
The prince was shocked.
"Will Your Majesty forgive them once and give them a lighter sentence?"
"To kill chickens to scare monkeys, you have to kill a few chickens. Previously, Wu Weiye's in-law Chen Zhilin was included in the criminal record. I have made a special purpose not to implicate Wu Weiye. If he turns around and comes to me, how can I spare him lightly?
?I only exiled him, but did not cut off his head or ransack his home. Exiling his wife and children would be considered a great mercy."
"Your Majesty, they are all the heroes of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and their hard work has made great achievements..."
"It is precisely because they are heroes that I have to guard against this. This hole cannot be opened. You have to remember that Ruan Dacheng, Ma Shiying and other traitorous officials who are traitors to the party and rebels in Wu Weiye's mouth. Although they have some corruption and other problems, they are only small details.
There was a loss, and that was a thing of the past. There have been no such problems since this dynasty. In the most difficult times, they never surrendered to the bandits. They did not suffer a loss. These people have withstood the test, and in the past few years, I have
By reusing them, they have also shown enough drive and talent, which is much better than some old Donglin who can only talk about righteousness. These people must be used, and they must be protected."
"Ma Shiying's second son Ma Xi is now the deputy admiral in the Forbidden Army. He has a daughter who is quite good. You can take her into the East Palace as your concubine. I have decreed that Ma Xi be transferred to the local area to be the admiral. Ruan Dacheng has no children, but he has a grandniece.
Very good, you are also included in the East Palace."
"You don't have to worry about the reaction of the Lu family, the Huang family, etc. This is just a small blow to them, and it is also a blow to all the founding sects. Don't think that I have purged the guilty ministers, and they have forgotten about it.
After you ascend the throne, just try to appease them a little bit."
Zhu Yihai also told the prince that the gang members he had previously convicted only killed dozens of people, and most of them only had their status reduced, exiled or even demoted. These people have been defeated by him now, but they are
Still there, they are also an important reserve force that Zhu Yihai intentionally left for the prince.
The prince can use these people at any time to fill appropriate positions, and even to balance the forces in the DPRK.
The same goes for Wu Weiye and others. He beat them hard, cut off their status and sent them into exile. The prince can recall them later, so that they will not only receive a lesson, but also feel grateful to the prince.
While he was in good spirits, Zhu Yihai patiently taught his son his knowledge of the imperial arts.
