Tu Shanyong considered it and said: "Your Majesty must be forbearing. Small impatience will ruin the big plan. Find opportunities to bring the eunuchs, maids, cooks, and guards who are hiding in the residence step by step. Little by little, they will be brought into the palace. As long as these people can be brought into the palace, Everything has been changed, and His Majesty’s safety should be safe for the time being.”
He thought about it for a moment and then said: "Your Majesty, in the name of sleeping in, brought those heroines who were hiding in the palace into the palace, which was a bit too hasty."
"I am not a lustful person. I thought at that time, I am a young man, this is human nature, and Duke Wei should not be able to object. Without one of my own in the Qianqing Palace, I can't sleep!" Chongzhen blushed a little, He explained awkwardly.
"It doesn't matter if His Majesty really invites them in just to serve you. That's not what I meant. The key is that this matter gives Duke Wei an interface. If Duke Wei sends some beauties to His Majesty, how will His Majesty handle it? There are previous matters. Now, it won’t be easy to deal with later.”
Chongzhen was a little panicked at that time. How dare he let the people sent by Duke Wei live in Qianqing Palace? This would make him even more unable to sleep.
"Then I'll refuse. I definitely can't have people from Duke Wei around me."
Tu Shan thought about it for a while and said, "No, if Your Majesty refuses, no matter what the reason is, Duke Wei will think too much about the matter ahead, and the relationship with Duke Wei will be difficult in the future."
"What should we do?" Chongzhen was a little anxious. If Jiu Qiansui caught this and planted someone next to him, he would not die in a hurry.
"Has your Majesty read the Three Kingdoms?" Tu Shanyong said.
Fortunately, Yang Fan was not present, otherwise he would have complained about the heirloom of the Tu Shan family in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Both of them would talk about the Three Kingdoms.
"I read the book Three Kingdoms when I was a child."
"After Guan Yu surrendered to Cao Cao, Cao Cao gave Guan Yu four beauties. Your Majesty still remembers how Guan Yu dealt with them."
Chongzhen thought for a while and said: "Guan Yu originally wanted to refuse at that time, but in a land of tigers and wolves, even if he does not consider his personal safety, he must also consider the safety of his two sisters-in-law. Therefore, he must deal with the relationship with Cao Cao. If he does not accept it, he will It will create a rift with Cao Cao, and future relations will be difficult to handle."
"Yes, Your Majesty is truly knowledgeable and memorized. That's it."
"I remember that Guan Yu accepted four beauties at that time and sent them directly to the back house to serve his two sisters-in-law. They occupied the house and closed the courtyard for them."
Tushan Yong nodded and nodded. Your Majesty ascended the throne as a young man, but he is very smart. Good to remember.
"I also lamented at the time that Guan Yu was really good at doing things. This not only gave Cao Cao face, so that Cao Cao could not say anything, but also made the civil and military officials in the court admire his noble character and not be fooled by beauty."
"He did not accept Cao Cao's beauties, which reassured Liu Bei that although he was in Cao Cao's camp, he had no personal dealings with Cao Cao. By sending four beauties to his sister-in-law, he could avoid being monitored by Cao Cao, and these four beauties would be in vain. By giving it away, I really lost my wife and lost my army. As for my sister-in-law, I am even more grateful that he was considerate. It is also convenient to have a maid at her side. It is really killing five birds with one stone."
Tu Shanyong nodded repeatedly. Although your Majesty is young, he will definitely be a wise master in the future.
"I know what to do. If Wei Yi also plays this trick, I will accept it, and then in the name of giving them beautiful clothes, let the female secret guards strip them naked, wash them clean, put on new clothes, and send them to Kun I will wait for Queen Ning Gong." Chongzhen said with a sneer, "This Wei eunuch hopes that I will ignore the government affairs like the emperor brother so that I can hand over the power to him. If he doesn't do tricks on these beauties, he is not Wei eunuch. "
"Your Majesty's Holy Ming is truly a blessing to my Ming Dynasty." Tu Shanyong said excitedly.
"Actually, what I'm most worried about is Wei Gegu jumping over the wall. He is a rough man, and he didn't study seriously. He was a naughty boy when he was young, and he played in a brave and ruthless way. When the emperor's brother was dying, he also had a plan A coup and self-reliance. Now that he has other ideas, there is no bottom line and he can do anything."
In August of this year (AD 1627), when Emperor Tianqi was on his deathbed, the authoritarian Wei Zhongxian was very panicked. He knew that all his power belonged to the emperor, and it was only when the emperor delegated power to him that he was able to dominate the court. He immediately summoned his cronies to discuss countermeasures, and they held a small meeting in private.
At the meeting, Wei Zhongxian first proposed that he wanted to be the regent, that is, he wanted to be the regent. He wanted to take charge of the government affairs of the court in the name of regent. At that time, three cabinets in the cabinet were always his. He felt that regency had some feasibility.
Previously, he had asked his cronies to build him a shrine to observe his influence in order to judge the extent of his power. The result made him very satisfied. Donglin officials were also forced to build a shrine for him due to the situation. There were many shrines all over the country.
As a result, the great scholar Shi Laifeng said: "Living as a regent is not a test, and you can't imitate him." This means that there has been no precedent for this method of regent for a long time. It cannot be done out of thin air and has no historical basis.
Shi Laifeng knew very well that no matter how powerful Nine Thousand Years Old was, it could not be compared to the eunuchs in the late Tang Dynasty. Those eunuchs directly controlled the imperial army.
Nine thousand years old has never touched military power.
there has never been.
Because Tianqi would not give him military power.
The eunuchs in the late Tang Dynasty could change emperors and massacre ministers at will because the imperial army in Chang'an City was in their hands.
Political power comes from the barrel of a gun, which is an irrefutable truth at all times.
At that time, the external conditions faced by the eunuchs in the Tang Dynasty were much better than those in the late Ming Dynasty.
The emperor has no popular support.
The emperor borrowed troops from the Hu people to annihilate An Lushan and Shi Siming, and the conditions he promised to the Shatuo and Turks were that the people of the Tang Dynasty could kill at will, plunder property at will, and rape and plunder women at will.
Just take the land back to me.
At that time, after the Shatuo people captured Luoyang, the eastern capital, Luoyang almost turned into hell. None of the people were killed and plundered, but all were reduced to abject poverty, and the noble families could only wear paper clothes when going out. The common people have almost nothing to hide their shame.
People everywhere hated the Li Tang royal family to the core.
The Anshi Rebellion was originally caused by the royal family's arrogance, extravagance, and ignorance. The common people were the victims. They were massacred and plundered by the rebels. They cried day and night, hoping that the government troops would come to rescue them.
The last thing waiting for them was that the emperor sold them to the barbarians as bargaining chips.
In order to quell the rebellion, the emperor even gave up his basic humanity. The people paid taxes, but the emperor refused to protect the people after collecting the taxes. The people no longer regarded them as royal family, and their life and death had nothing to do with the people of the Tang Dynasty.
And there are many vassal towns in other places. The country is fragmented, the people are scattered, and the emperor is also unpopular. There will be no such thing as Dong Zhuo occupied the capital at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, leading to voluntary crusade in various places. That's why we can let the eunuchs do what they want.
In order to make money these years, Wei Zhongxian has tormented the civil servants day and night to curse his eighteenth generation ancestors. How could he possibly cooperate with him in setting up a regency?
Wei Zhongxian saw that regency would not work. He also said that there was no need to carry out a coup, but that he could not directly become the emperor.
This sentence almost scared his cronies to death. They dared to change the dynasty without military power.
Isn't this seeking death?
Cui Chengxiu, the Secretary of the Ministry of War, hurriedly advised: "I'm afraid there are rebels abroad."
How can we control Ming Dynasty when there are so many princes in other places?
Unlike the emperors of the Tang Dynasty, who raised their brothers like pigs and kept them under guard, and lived in the ten princes' palaces in Chang'an, the eunuchs immediately took control.
In order to get money for Tianqi and raise Liao wages, the eunuchs cut off the flesh of the gentry, offending all the gentry across the country to death. If they really did this, the whole world would not be able to swarm them.
I am afraid that the eunuchs will not be able to survive for long before they die without a burial place.
Wei Zhongxian discussed with these cronies again and again, but to no avail, and he was trapped in the city of sorrow.
On August 22, Emperor Tianqi died of illness. Before his death, Tianqi decided to let King Xin Zhu Youjian ascend the throne.
Wei Zhongxian couldn't make a decision, and in a hurry, he didn't know what to do.
Queen Zhang Yan seized the opportunity and sent people out of the palace overnight to inform King Xin to enter the palace and inherit the throne.
