Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 96

As the Minister of the Ministry of Officials who has been in power for many years, Wang Zhi secretly settled the account for the new king:
On the way for the new monarch to seize power, there are seven main forces that need to be dealt with: civil servants, generals, nobles, vassals, harem, eunuchs, and the hearts of the army and the people.

Since the new king did not have his own team before he succeeded to the throne, so until today, the new king is very poor, and the only things he can grasp are:
Half of the harem, a small part of civil servants, and almost negligible nobles, eunuchs, and generals.

As for the vassal kings, they all refused to accept the new king.There is basically no morale among the military and the people.

In other words, the new emperor is somewhat stronger than the puppet, but he is also limited in strength, and he is a real weak master.

But today is different. The emperor has gained the allegiance of the cabinet and the Ministry of War, and he has completely become powerful.Then the emperor's power will expand rapidly like a snowball, and finally become unstoppable.

If we can fight a beautiful battle in the next Beijing defense battle, then the emperor will have no chance at all with the hearts of the army and the people in his hands.

Zhu Qiyu was not in a hurry, so he watched Hu Wei, Wang Zhi, Shang Ren, and Peng Shi think slowly.

Hu Wei and Wang Zhi stared blankly at the open space on both sides of the road. If the emperor really built a Beijing temple here and built an altar, then the loss of the Supreme Emperor will humiliate the country, and the new king will turn the tide and help the country. The leaning of the building is in stark contrast.

The final outcome can only be that the prestige of the Supreme Emperor will be discredited, and the new emperor will rule the world, and his power will add to the world.

The two looked in front of them again. Chen Xun, Wang Wen, and Yu Qian were still kneeling on the ground, waiting for the others to swear allegiance and shout long live.

Those who are standing now hope that those who are kneeling will get up quickly; those who are kneeling want others to kneel together.

Seeing the four people standing there looking at each other, Zhu Qiyu refused to speak first. In order to ease the awkward atmosphere, Zhu Qiyu found a topic and asked Shang Ren and Peng Shi: "Now Guangdong is in chaos again. I want to send an important minister. , go to Guangdong to suppress the rebellion, who would you say is suitable to send?"

Shang Ren and Peng Shiwen exchanged glances. The two of them had nothing to insist on, and the new monarch's weakness was only relative to other power holders. For the two new Hanlin scholars who joined the cabinet, it was still unattainable. of.No, one sentence will send the two of them to Guangdong, so who would want to go.

So Shang Ren and Peng Shi knelt on the ground at the same time and swore allegiance to the new king.

As a result, the situation of Hu Wei and Wang Zhi became even more embarrassing, and there were only two people left, and it was time to make a statement.

Wang Zhi stood up first and asked, "May I ask Your Majesty, how do you plan to treat the Supreme Emperor in the future?"

Zhu Qiyu replied very bluntly: "The Supreme Emperor is here, facing the spiritual positions of the dead soldiers in the Tumu Fort, to sin against himself and abdicate the throne."

Hearing the words, Wang Zhi sighed deeply, it really was so, he would come here for whatever he was afraid of.The most important thing is that with the support of Chen Xun, Wang Wen, and Yu Qian, he couldn't stop the emperor from doing this at all.

Hey, since he couldn't resist, Wang Zhi felt that helping the Supreme Emperor to get a minimum preferential treatment would be considered as his loyalty.

So Wang Zhi asked the final question: "How does Your Majesty plan to arrange the Supreme Emperor?"

Zhu Qiyu still replied without hesitation: "After the Supreme Emperor returns to Beijing, he will naturally live in the palace to take care of himself, and spend time with the Empress Dowager, the Supreme Empress, and the prince and princess.

Except for not being in charge of politics anymore, everything else, what happened to the Supreme Emperor before he left Beijing, and what happened after he returned to Beijing, Ai Qing and others don't need to worry. "

All the ministers present were quite surprised when they heard the words, Hu Wei hurriedly asked: "Your Majesty's words are true?"

"You are not joking, but I told you in advance that after the Supreme Emperor takes the throne, between me and the Supreme Emperor, we will only talk about brothers, regardless of monarchs and ministers.

I don't have any interest in the imperial palace either. From now on, the Supreme Emperor will live in the palace, free to do whatever he wants, and I will not interfere in the life of the Supreme Emperor.

The thing is such a thing, I will not lie to you, if you have any ideas, I will tell you in advance, if you can accept it, accept it, if you can’t accept it, you can just say it. "

Wang Zhi heard the words, took a look at Hu Wei, and then knelt down.

Hu Wei persisted until the last one, seeing that the general situation was over, he also knelt down in the spirit of keeping the green hills and not being afraid of running out of firewood.

Seeing that everyone was kneeling down, Chen Xun led the crowd to kowtow together and shouted: "I will do my best to help Your Majesty achieve prosperity."

"Okay, okay, from now on, the affairs of the state will all depend on your dear ministers. As long as I am in power, I will always be with you dear ministers, and I will be a model for the monarch and his ministers to know each other, and we will leave a name in history together."

State affairs all depend on your dear ministers?All the ministers believed this, because the new king really didn't even read a single memorial, and handed everything over to the ministers.As a result, the ministers used the traditional skills of the emperor to exhaust the emperor, and they couldn't display them at all.

Moreover, the emperor absolutely refused to live in the Forbidden City, which was obviously for the sake of longevity.

Now that the ministers are all on board the pirate ship, they won't be able to get off anyway, so they don't have to worry about it anymore, and the atmosphere on the scene has improved instead.

Zhu Qiyu took the ministers to inspect Shi Heng's camp again.Shi Heng took the main force of the Fifth Army Battalion and stationed one mile outside Xizhimen.

This is the main force to resist Oala. There are a full [-] troops. Outside the camp, trenches have been dug and layers of horses have been set up.There are hundreds of artillery pieces placed in the camp, ready to meet the impact of the Oirat cavalry at any time.

Shi Heng accompanied the crowd and inspected the camp.The confidence of several ministers increased greatly, although except for Yu Qian, the others did not know much about military affairs.But even a layman can see that relying on advanced firearms and strong fortifications, it is not a problem at all for the [-] troops to resist for ten days and a half months.

Therefore, it is only necessary to fortify the walls and clear the fields, so that the Oirat army cannot grab enough food and grass around the capital, and they will naturally retreat first.

The ministers don't have as many thoughts and ambitions as the new king, they only need to keep the capital.

The monarchs and ministers left the Shiheng Camp happily, and Zhu Qiyu told Chen Xun and others: "I remembered something, you should release Xin Chengbo Zhao Rong. Let him bring some soldiers and horses to defend the Zhangyi Gate."

The ministers didn't say anything, just let it go.

Chen Xun asked again: "Won't Your Majesty go back to the city with the ministers?"

Zhu Qiyu waved his hand: "I have to go to Tucheng again to inspect and inspect, and dig trenches with Fan Guang. After all, only the soldiers and civilians are allowed to contribute, and I, the emperor, stay at home to enjoy the blessings. It's a bit unreasonable. I'll go anyway Boost the morale of soldiers and civilians."

"The minister and others should go with His Majesty."

Zhu Qiyu waved his hand again: "No need, it's enough if you have the heart. We young people can do this kind of thing. It's not decent to let you veterans who have read poetry and books dig trenches. That's fine, I will give you a holiday today, so go home and rest directly."

(End of this chapter)