People live in the Ming Dynasty, evil spirits are soaring into the sky

Chapter 40 Summoned by the Queen Mother? She wants to see me, let her come by herself! !
royal palace.

late at night!

Emperor Wanli was looking at the latest memorial under Chen Han's control.

Chen Han discovered that using puppetry to control Emperor Wanli didn't require any energy from him, so of course he wanted to create an image of a diligent emperor for everyone.

It's just a pity that the ten-year-old Emperor Wanli, under the control of Chen Han, was handling the affairs of the country with great care, while Chen Han was handling the affairs of the country with great care in the gentle village.

Just then the sound of footsteps came.

"Your Majesty's Cining Palace summons!" Cao Zhengchun said from the side.

"What's the matter?" Emperor Wanli asked.

"I don't know, but according to the reply from the person we placed near Cining Palace, someone outside the palace sent news to the Queen Mother about the burning to death of Deputy Zuodu Censor Gao Mengde." Cao Zhengchun replied.

Emperor Wanli said without raising his head: "Since the Queen Mother wants to interfere with the affairs of the court, let her come over in person and tell her that I don't have to waste so much time to be a prosperous and wise king!"

Cao Zhengchun looked at the ten-year-old Emperor sitting behind the dragon desk and deeply admired such an emperor.

Cining Palace.

"It's outrageous, it's really outrageous. Is this my son? Does he have to be forced to kneel down and beg for his mother?" Queen Mother Li was very angry.

Before Emperor Wanli ascended the throne, Emperor Wanli had always been a well-behaved and sensible child.

He is extremely filial to himself.

But ever since Emperor Wanli had Chen Han by his side, he seemed to have become a different person.

Queen Mother Li gritted her teeth.

"It's all this Chen Han. Sooner or later, I will cut Chen Han into pieces!"

As soon as she said this, a personal eunuch immediately stood beside her and said, "Your Majesty, you must never say such a thing."

"How come there are still people in Cining Palace who dare to do harm to me?" Empress Dowager Li was very unconvinced.

The personal eunuch whispered: "Queen Mother, since Chen Han took control of Jinyiwei, even Cao Zhengchun, the chief eunuch of Si Li, became his lackey. They replaced the hands of Cining Palace for the palace maids and eunuchs. Don't you know? Is there a profound meaning in it?”

After all, Queen Mother Li was a woman from an ordinary family.

Her husband, Emperor Longqing, had always lived under the claws of Emperor Jiajing. He had always been in a repressive environment and had no experience in palace fighting at all.

So I don't know the danger at all.

"So what? Feng Bao is gone, and Cao Zhengchun who comes up is still a slave?" Queen Mother Li was very disdainful.

"Empress, this Cao Zhengchun is not ordinary. He got together quietly with Zhang Juzheng, the chief minister of the cabinet, and mixed up with Chen Han. Together, they have their power inside and outside the country. We have to Be on guard!" The personal eunuch was heartbroken.

When her father-in-law said this, Queen Mother Li finally understood that it was a bit dangerous: "Then what do you think we should do now?"

"Empress, since His Majesty wants us to go to Qianqing Palace, let's go there." said the father-in-law.

Empress Dowager Li had no choice but to sigh and go out bitterly to fight for her son.

The reason why she was so anxious was actually because of the news from her father Wu Qingbo Li Wei outside the palace.

It is said that once Chen Han carries out reforms, their family will be the first to bear the brunt.

Li Wei wanted the Queen Mother to stop this reform.

When Queen Mother Li heard that the reform was going to be carried out on her natal family, she immediately became angry.

What the hell, the world belongs to our family and now we want to kill our own family, this is not okay.

So he planned to call his son over to teach him a lesson, and then took the opportunity to sue Chen Han.

Especially when she heard that Gao Mengde, the deputy Zuodu censor, was forced to die, she had even more reason to bring Chen Han down.

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Qianqing Palace. Chen Han was sitting on the dragon chair, but he was very clear in his heart.

The reason why Queen Mother Li kept looking for her late at night was simply because the reform would affect their family's interests.

So these people are anxious.

This is where the resistance to reform lies.

The reason why it was difficult to carry out reforms in the middle and late Ming Dynasty was that the whole country, whether officials or big landowners, faced huge resistance.

They took advantage of the two hundred years of peace to control a large amount of land, which was their property.

Now the reforms will involve touching the land of these people from the very beginning. How can they agree?

So there will definitely be a crazy counterattack.

And even for the emperor's family, it was a major obstacle to reform.

Just like Queen Mother Li's house.

Wu Qingbo and Li Wei were originally businessmen.

With a powerful backer like the Queen Mother, he has made a lot of money over the years. In terms of land alone, he has brought tens of thousands of acres of land to his family.

At the local level, she relied on her daughter as the queen mother to bully men and women, buy and sell by force, and was even more of a bully than a bully.

His two sons were both made governors, and one of them received the title of chicken and dog and ascended to heaven.

Precisely because he has such power, he is even more lawless locally.

And because he was originally from Shanxi, he was taxed and exacted in his hometown. Since he was the grandfather of the current emperor, no one dared to refute his reputation.

Even Wang Chonggu, the governor of Xuanda, had a close friendship with him.

To be honest, this Li Wei was just an ordinary businessman in Shanxi before his daughter married Emperor Longqing.

Compared with the family background of Wang Chonggu, the governor of Xuanda, it is not even comparable to sesame seeds.

But since Emperor Longqing ascended the throne, Li Wei immediately became a wealthy man in Shanxi.

Shanxi merchants competed to curry favor with him, and even Wang Chonggu, the governor of Xuanda, befriended him.

The small businessman made a leap of faith. He became a popular figure in the court.

Now he heard that Chen Han was going to carry out reforms. The first step of the reforms was to measure the world's land. How could he agree?

So he planned to follow his daughter's route, either to block the reform through his daughter, or to ask his daughter to plead with his grandson not to measure his family's land.

Although Queen Mother Li was quite famous in history, she was still a little woman.

Because she believed in Buddhism, she spent huge amounts of money building temples in many places in the capital.

Especially in the first month after Emperor Wanli ascended the throne, in order to repay the blessing of the Bodhisattva, she overhauled the Guanyin Bodhisattva Temple outside Yongding Gate.

This matter was opposed by Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng at the time, but she ignored it.

It can be seen that this Queen Mother Li is not wise at all when it comes to money.

So now that she heard that her father sent someone to send a letter to her, saying that if Chen Han reformed, it would offend everyone in the world, and it would also be detrimental to her family. Of course she couldn't agree.

Chen Han waited for him to come to him to reason.

Not long after, a eunuch outside shouted, "The Queen Mother is here!!"

Chen Han had no choice but to control Emperor Wanli to walk down from behind the Long Book Case.

Arrive at the door of the study and wait for Queen Mother Li...

(End of this chapter)