Chapter 29: Water Drops, Copper Dragon, Day Leaks (7)
Zhu Cixuan and Li Banghua spent dinner together and gave it to him, which made the old minister work harder and arranged tomorrow's text battle overnight. Thinking about the fact that the father's energy would be exhausted in this kind of dispute, the national affairs that really needed the emperor to take responsibility for making decisions could only be postponed, Zhu Cixuan felt more helpless and glad.
Fortunately, he is just the prince. If he unfortunately becomes the emperor, he will be like being trapped in quicksand and surrounded by various mediocre people. How can he use any effort?
Zhu Cilang ordered Tian Cunshan to guard the door, take out the handbook locked in a copper box, personally dig ink, and write down lines of fly-headed small calligraphy, recording what he saw, heard, thoughts and thoughts today. Everyone's reactions and their arrangements and intentions were recorded in detail. This is not to be responsible for history, but a habit of decades.
Since I just learned to write in my previous life, Zhu Cixuan has the habit of writing a diary. Every time I write these words, it is like talking to my best friend and having a psychological massage. When the pressure is particularly high, it is a good outlet for venting.
Of course, these diaries will inevitably become the materials for future generations to remember and verify, and may even discredit his tall and complete image. However, Zhu Cilang could not give up on his life and break up with this "friend" for the sake of his false reputation.
When Zhu Cilang was writing his diary, the lights in the palace were like torches.
This was very rare in the frugal Chongzhen period, and it was rare that only during the Chinese New Year and Festival would there be such "luxury".
Now the emperor and the empress sit side by side, without saying a word. Sitting opposite is Empress Yian Zhang, staring at the irresponsible parents with bright eyes. She is the few people in the world who can scold the emperor and empress. Just a moment ago, she had just used this horrifying power.
"There is no move!" Queen Zhang raised her eyebrows slanted.
Chongzhen secretly looked up at the imperial sister-in-law and hurriedly hung down again. He suddenly remembered that he was saying this when the Palace Bi interrogated Wu Chang with torture because of Zhou Yanru's case.
However, Empress Zhang’s meaning is: to recruit Prince Zhu Cilang to return to the palace.
Empress Zhou also lowered her head, but her mood was very different from her husband. She felt secretly happy. Long before Empress Zhang came, she had already cried and asked the emperor to summon the prince back. However, the emperor's words were in a constitution, so how could he change the orders every day? He turned around and blocked the queen's words at that time.
However, even the queen is the mother of the country, she is the birth mother of the prince. As a woman, she is qualified to repent. At that time, because of Zhu Cilang's soft temper, she promised her son to leave the palace. Now she has been worried all day long and feels regretful, which is also a normal human nature.
The three most vocal people in the palace gathered in Kunning Palace. Chongzhen naturally found that he had become the focus of the struggle, so he had to keep silent.
"If Cining Palace is still there, I don't know what to think of!" Queen Zhang said angrily.
The Cining Palace that Empress Zhang refers to is the last widow of Emperor Shenzong - Concubine Xuan Yi, Concubine Kang Zhao, and Concubine Liu.
This concubine was five years older than Shenzong, and she was already seventy-one when Chongzhen ascended the supreme. After the election of Emperor Tianqi, she was the director of the Empress Dowager, and later she chose Empress Zhou with Empress Zhang.
Concubine Liu was very good to all the kings, so Tianqi and Chongzhen regarded her as her grandmother. From the first year of Tianqi to the death of Chongzhen in the fifteenth year, she was always the treasure of the Forbidden City. She held such a great power but only had a voice in the enthronement of the queen. She could hardly feel her existence at other times, so how could she not be admired?
Chongzhen remembered the kind and optimistic grandmother, and suddenly his nose felt sore. He took a breath: "The current situation is like this. I discussed with Gong Yonggu and Liu Wenbing a few days ago to see if I could summon the sons of honorary officials and train new troops. If the prince was recalled for no reason, how could the ministers convinced?"
Just as Zhang Yan was about to speak, Chongzhen had already stood up and turned to the door, but he was dismissed and said, "Although the prince was a little reckless after leaving the palace, he was good at being brave enough to do things, and he also set an example."
"If the prince is in trouble, what's the foundation of the country?" Queen Zhang stood up and shouted sternly.
"If there is something unexpected happening to Cilang..." Chongzhen's voice suddenly raised his head and said with a grief, "Please Ding Wang Cijiang as the crown prince, and give Cilang the word "Range and righteous" as the posthumous title."
Bang!
As soon as this said, Empress Zhang was so angry that she picked up the teacup on the table and threw it at the emperor.
The blue and white porcelain cups were splashing, and the tea wet the hem of the dragon robe.
Empress Zhou woke up and burst into tears immediately after hearing the sound.
Chongzhen was also upset about his words just now, but since he had given up all his harsh words, he was even more overwhelmed and could not stop them. He had to quickly rush out of Kunning Palace and leave as if he was running away.
This family meeting in Ouchi seemed intense, but five hours later, Emperor Chongzhen discovered that the real intense part was in the outer court.
The Hanlin Academy, the officials of the Eastern Palace, and the Six-College Gate all wrote letters, discussing the illegal and unjust manner of the prince's departure from the palace from various angles. The Ming Dynasty officialdom used the slang officials as the clear stream, and the officials of affairs as the people as the turbid stream. Those who could enter the clear stream were all great people with the top 30 test scores in the country, and their combat effectiveness in writing articles and writing writing battles was amazing.
These people thought they had occupied the moral commanding heights, but the incident happened suddenly, and they were quite proud of winning.
Li Banghua ran around overnight and personally said that the censors of the Censorate had also prepared for the battle overnight.
The memorial that praises the prince's departure from the palace is of great significance and is a model for the world, also flew towards the imperial case like snowflakes.
There were two major organizations of censors in the Ming Dynasty. One was the censor under the command of the Censorate, the Thirteen Supervisors, and the Censors and the Censors who served as governors and inspectors from all over the country. The other was the six departments of the six ministries. Those who could refute the emperor's imperial edicts were these.
The censor is called a Taoist official, and the ministers are called a sect official, so the officials are also collectively called a sect Taoist official. Because the censor is a Tai and the six departments are walls, it is also called "Taiyuan".
Taiyuan is the way of speaking in the Ming Dynasty, with emperors and officials below.
In the early Ming Dynasty, the six-level ministers and Hanlin Academy, and the officials of Shangbao said that they always stood on the left and right sides of the imperial throne" and were close attendants with a transcendent political status. After Yongle, the seventh-rank censors were also arranged before the fifth-rank doctor. Another statement said: "Only the assistant ministers in the world can discuss affairs, but only the censors can speak. Although the censors are humble, they are like assistant ministers." The small seventh-rank official can be compared with the cabinet, which shows the country's attention.
If the court is compared to the battlefield, the Censorate and the Sixth Corridor are undoubtedly two elite troops with extremely strong combat power.
Generally speaking, if the prime minister is strong, Taigao will inevitably be one and obey the cabinet. Many major cases are also caused by the instructor of the cabinet and the censors open fire. However, the cabinet is weak now, Taigao fights on its own, and the entire court looks messy.
However, the six subjects are nominally independent, but the usual assessments are subject to the Censorate. Therefore, many subjects find that they suddenly stand opposite to their superiors, and they are silenced, and even change the direction of the wind. This naturally aroused the indignation of their previous allies and wrote to the clerk again.
Things quickly returned to normal: the focus of the controversy changed from whether the prince could leave the palace to a dispute between gentlemen and villains, and the investigation of the remnants of the eunuch party.
Various black materials were released one after another, once again refreshing the lower limit of unconformity, causing the emperor to lose favorable feelings for the officials he once trusted.
Liu Ruoyu was wearing a fireman's clothing, wearing an ebony brand, pretending to pick vegetables outside the Shangshen Supervisor.
Someone kept coming to say hello, and at the same time threw down small boxes, handkerchiefs, and bamboo tubes... These are common methods for internal supervisors to convey messages. After receiving these messages, Liu Ruoyu inspected them one by one, checked them one by one, summarized them, and handed them to Song Hongye who was waiting outside the palace.
Chapter completed!