Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 88 Xiao Lingxi Lobbying Yu Qian The New Emperor Asks Huang Pu

If he wanted to run but couldn't, Yu Qian entered the east side room hesitantly.Fortunately, I have eaten here twice, and now I am familiar with the road.

The room was quiet, no one spoke or moved.When I looked inside, I saw Xiao Lingxi sitting on the soft couch with a smile on her face, holding a book in her hand, reading it engrossed.

Yu Qian had no choice but to come closer, bowing his hands with a bitter face: "I have seen Concubine Xiao."

Xiao Lingxi raised her head in surprise when she heard the words, and quickly clarified: "Shangshu Yu, don't bark, I don't like the emperor, and I'm not the emperor's woman."

This time Lun Dao Yu Qian was surprised that there were still people who said that they didn't like the emperor in broad daylight.For ordinary people, this sentence is enough to move their heads.

Xiao Lingxi didn't care, just gave up his seat with a smile: "It's cold down here, Yu Shangshu came to sit on the couch. Today's Hongmen banquet is not so delicious, Yu Shangshu should drink a glass of wine to warm up first.

The concubine is writing with the prince, and she won't be here for a while, so she asked me to chat with Shangshu for a while. "

Yu Qian asked curiously: "Is the princess meeting me?"

Xiao Lingxi smiled and said: "That's right, but if Shang Shu doesn't want to talk to the princess, you can also choose freely: the emperor, Princess Xuanyi, and Princess Qi, there are only three people in the palace who are qualified to talk to you, you can Choose one, and I'll call it for you.

But let me advise you, choose Princess Qi.Because these three people, no matter who came, what they said was exactly the same.At least Princess Qi is good-looking, eye-catching, and pays attention to her image, she won't be a shrew.

If the emperor or concubine comes over instead, and the banquet will be ruined, don't blame me for not reminding me in advance. "

Hearing this, Yu Qian quickly cupped his hands: "Then let's talk to the princess. How about today's affairs, please ask Miss Lingxi to raise something."

Xiao Lingxi shook her head with a wry smile and said: "The main topic of today's banquet is that Princess Qi represents the entire palace, including the emperor and the concubine, and bows down to the officials represented by Yu Shangshu, begging for life for dozens of people in the palace of Qi. .”

Yu Qian was shocked when he heard the words: "Isn't this accusing us of disobedience? Why is the emperor treating us like this?"

Xiao Lingxi complained: "Okay, Yu Shangshu, although you are all well-educated and well-educated, the Emperor must not be able to compare with you. But if you think that the Emperor is a fool because of this, it would be too much.

As far as your little abacus, let alone the emperor, even a lowly little girl like me can see it.When the Tumubao Change just happened, you made a plan to push the then King Yi to the throne and let him take the blame.

But what if the battle is won and the Supreme Emperor is brought back?You just wait another ten or eight years, when the prince grows up, and then let the princess or side concubine of Prince Yi's mansion send the emperor away with a bowl of medicine, and let the prince ascend the throne.In this way, the throne will return to the lineage of the Supreme Emperor.

But you imagined this world so beautifully, how could the new emperor obediently wait for you to feed him medicine.

This is the topic of today's Hongmen Banquet. If you refuse to promise to guarantee the emperor's safety, the emperor will have to fight for it himself. "

Yu Qian broke into a cold sweat when he heard it. He has experienced in the officialdom for almost 30 years, and this is the first time he heard with his own ears that someone brought the poisoning of the emperor to the table.

Xiao Lingxi continued: "Yu Shangshu understands, why His Majesty insisted on getting rid of Prince Yan's Mansion completely, I used to think that he was absurd and out of his mind.

I'm fine in the mansion, I just think about it when I'm free, and then I figured it out, the mansion of Prince Tan is full of cronies placed by the Empress Dowager and the Supreme Emperor, and even Princess Tan was chosen by the Empress Dowager herself.

It's no wonder that the emperor was so frightened. If the nobles in the harem and the important ministers of the foreign court combined, and then gave an order to the princesses in the Mansion, the emperor would be sent away with a bowl of medicine, which would be easier than eating and drinking. "

Yu Qian's back was almost drenched in cold sweat. Obviously, although the words came from Xiao Lingxi's mouth, each sentence actually represented the emperor's heartfelt words.

It turned out that the emperor's suspicion of the ministers had already reached the point where he couldn't help but want to kill.Fortunately, the nobles and vassals are unwilling to be loyal to the new emperor now, so the emperor can be as forbearing as he is now.

Seeing that Yu Qian was still silent, Xiao Lingxi changed his tone and began to make amends: "Although I, like you ministers, don't like the emperor, I really admire the emperor's construction of his harem.

He completely kicked out all the original women, and then replaced a group of orphans with no mothers and no homes. From the root, he eliminated the possibility of others placing them in advance, and also eliminated the possibility of others trying to win over the concubine's family after the fact. .

Immediately afterwards, the emperor invented the harem slavery system, and divided these orphans, sending away the noble, aloof, glamorous, and stubborn.

We have a total of ten sisters. In the end, it was about [-]% or [-]%. Those like me who couldn’t lower their stature or lower their self-esteem accounted for [-]% of them, and they were all sent away.The remaining three were willing to let go of all self-esteem and willingly become slaves to the emperor, so they were named princesses.

What makes the emperor so powerful, and what I admire the most, is that the small group of women he left behind are all extremely slavish and deeply attached to the emperor.They have reached a master-slave contract of life and death with the emperor, you can't buy them off. "

Hearing the words, Yu Qian quickly cupped his hands and replied: "Neither the humble minister nor the other ministers have the intention of interfering in the harem, and absolutely have no intention of killing the king. Please learn from the girl."

Xiao Lingxi smiled and said: "Okay, okay, I believe you are all loyal to the emperor, but what is the use of you letting me know, I will be sent out soon. However, I can have three sentences for Yu Shangshu .”

"If you dare to ask the girl to give me advice, I will remember it in my heart and never dare to forget my gratitude."

"The first sentence, the emperor has a very good advantage, that is, he always deals with people and things, always clearly marked the price, innocent and innocent, Zhou Yu Huang Gai, willing to fight and suffer. Take our sisters as an example, to be his woman , what needs to be paid and what can be obtained, he has explained clearly and plainly.

Stay if you can accept it, leave if you can't accept it.It stands to reason that the ten of us were originally slaves, and the emperor holds our bond in his hand, and can do whatever he wants to us.But he still gave us seven people who wanted to go free, and each of them gave gold, silver and jewels that could not be spent in a lifetime.

The three remaining sisters were said to be slaves, but in fact they were all named princesses. They were so beautiful that they wished they could eat gold, silver and swallow emeralds every day, and they were almost pampered to the sky.

It is the same to infer this principle to your ministers. As long as you are loyal to the emperor, the emperor is both trustworthy and affectionate, and he will treat you well.The emperor can tolerate Uncle Jing Yuan, the most trusted confidant of the Supreme Emperor, so how can he not tolerate you.The emperor is like this, and you still insist on feeding the emperor medicine, then the two sides can only fight each other. "

The dialogue in the east side room is extremely heavy, but the west side room is completely opposite.Zhu Qiyu sat on the soft couch and invited He Yi and Huang Pu to sit on the left and right.

When Huang Pu met the emperor for the first time, he was quite cautious.Zhu Qiyu took the initiative to start the topic: "Chengji, Xingyi recommended you to me, saying that you are upright and honest, and you are quite capable of governing the world.

It is said that the master is worried about the humiliation of his ministers, and the death of his ministers. I am so worried that I can't sleep because of the Shanxi incident. Tell me about this mess, what should I do? "

Huang Pu replied: "Your Majesty is asking about Shanxi's current military affairs, or about Shanxi's future governance?"

"Tell me first, how to govern Shanxi after the war is over. As far as I know, a large number of guards in Shanxi have fled. To be conservative, if half of the soldiers escaped from each guard, it is considered as a small number of escapees." that's it.

There is also the Great Wall defense line outside, which is useless.The Oirat army was able to enter Shanxi without anyone noticing and set up an ambush. It succeeded several times in a row and wiped out hundreds of thousands of my army.In the future, how to build the Great Wall defense line can be as impregnable as gold.

There are also a bunch of civil and military officials in Shanxi, who eat inside and outside, resell arms and subsidize food and grass to Mongolia.In the case of Oala's invasion, the soldiers are self-respecting, and they don't work hard.

There are a lot of questions, too many to talk about.Tell me how to do this? "

Huang Pu replied: "I have an idea. In fact, Shanxi can be split into three, and Xuanfu and Huailai can be divided into Beizhili, so as to strengthen the imperial court's control over these two strategically important places.

Set up a new capital outside the Great Wall, and reset Kaipingwei and Dongshengwei.Turn the outer part of the Great Wall in Shanxi into a military-administered area like Liaodong.

For the rest of Shanxi, take Datong as the center and serve as a logistics base to support Kaipingwei and Dongshengwei.

Then, between Xuanfu and Huailai, another section of the Great Wall was built to form three lines of defense: the Outer Great Wall, the Xuanhuai Great Wall, and the Inner Great Wall, so as to avoid the recurrence of tragedies like civil forts. "

(End of this chapter)