It was recorded in the records that not only were King Xiang and Queen Mother Sun forced to death, but the corpses were also whipped repeatedly, leaving a stink for thousands of years.
The key is that the emperor really has to leave.
Honorable officials can watch the excitement, but civil servants cannot!
They talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality, but the emperor is criticized as a dog when he makes a mistake. Now the emperor has to abandon the law and live in seclusion. He has to jump into a trap even though he knows it is a trap.
"Your Majesty, Peng Shi, is here to report!"
Zhu Qiyu was surprised. Peng Shi was from Gaogu, so he should be from Zhu Qizhen? Betrayal? Or are you still playing the trick of anti-pretending?
"I said, I'm tired and don't want to take care of it anymore." Zhu Qiyu looked sleepy.
"Your Majesty is the king and father of the people of the world. You must not bend the law for your own selfish interests. Please rebuke King Xiang and ask the Queen Mother to return to the harem. You must not interfere in the government affairs. Only in this way can you comply with the rules of the sun and the moon and the laws of heaven and earth!"
Before Peng Shi could finish his words, countless civil servants started shouting.
Wang Wen was secretly annoyed, being overtaken by Peng Shi, and immediately followed up: "I ask your majesty to implement the law and be the first in the world. Although the Tian family has its own true feelings, we, the Ming Dynasty, govern the country by law, and we must put the law first. , if you make a mistake, you will be punished, please bear with me and punish me!"
"Your Majesty, please punish me!"
the civil servants shouted.
I was really a Japanese dog at heart, and I wanted to reap the benefits, but I was trapped by the emperor and used civil servants to kill King Xiang.
I have to admit that the emperor is really good at taking advantage of loopholes!
King Xiang definitely died because he talked too much, instead of putting on airs and pretending to be an elder. As a result, the emperor caught him in his pigtails, and he was probably dumbfounded. Looking at Gao Gu and Gu Xingzu, it is not difficult to find that the emperor was very good at taking advantage of loopholes, grabbing pigtails, finding an excuse to shout and kill, and then using his own strength to fight, he was very good at playing.
"Penalty?"
Zhu Qiyu shook his head: "My legitimate mother is kind enough to kill my brother for me, how can I be thrown into the cold palace?"
Queen Mother Sun's expression changed. Is this what Peng Shi meant? It was obviously to let the Ai family return to Renshou Palace, not to be thrown into the cold palace! The emperor is misinterpreting the meaning of important ministers again!
"You are so cruel, you want to force me to be charged with unfilial piety!"
"As the king and father of the world, how can I be unfilial? That is not in line with what the Wolf King said. If I take the lead in being unfilial and breaking the ancestral etiquette, I am a cruel king and should not be an emperor!"
"The Wolf King is the fifth son of Renzong. He has resigned from the throne three times and is extremely famous!"
"He was also filial to the imperial grandmother. The imperial grandmother talked about him day and night before her death, but he missed the funeral period because of taking a concubine. During the funeral of the imperial grandmother, he sang every night, had children, and spread leaves and branches for the royal family. He was the most filial!"
"He has overseen the country several times and has political experience. Jingxiang was in chaos, but Changsha was as stable as Mount Tai. This is all the credit of the Wolf King!"
"He is also wise and wise. I receive thousands of lawsuits a year alone. Things like robbing women and occupying fields are nothing. I can't bear to read them. In fact, the Wolf King often fails to report , leaving the fiefdom without permission and patrolling all directions, this is the treatment only an emperor can have."
"How can such a virtuous king who is so filial, famous, and generous in his administration not be the emperor?"
Zhu Qiyu saluted the Queen Mother Sun: "I invite the Queen Mother!"
"I was a tyrannical monarch, and I had the behavior of Sui Yang and Weizong (Gao Yang). I relieved the siege of Beijing, helped the country in danger, suppressed the war at Jingbian Pass, and quelled the rebellion of Suimen. My crimes are too numerous to list."
"I request the Queen Mother to depose herself as a commoner and invite the filial, wise and generous Wolf King to ascend the throne and proclaim herself emperor!"
"The Wolf King no longer needs to imitate Zhu Gaoxu. Rebellion will bring disaster to all the people in the world, and it is easy to end up being roasted to death. The Tian family has its own family ties, and I am willing to abdicate in favor of others to avoid harming the harmony!"
"What do the ministers think?"
Zhu Qiyu looked at the ministers with burning eyes.
As soon as these words came out, King Xiang was on the verge of collapse.
The emperor wants his life!
Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, how can any emperor ask himself to depose the emperor? To whom? The Queen Mother? What qualifications does she have to depose and establish an emperor? Rely on relatives? joke! This is the Ming Dynasty! Not the Han Dynasty!
The emperor was counting his merits in a list, but when the words came out of his mouth, were they still merits? It's all a crime! A single piece is enough for him to drink a pot!
What’s even more frightening is that the emperor never left Zhu Gaoxu. The person that Emperors Renzong and Xuanzong hated the most was Zhu Gaoxu. What would happen to Zhu Gaoxu? Crock Chicken, as the son of Emperor Renzong, if he really imitates Zhu Gaoxu, wouldn’t he forget his ancestors?
"Your Majesty, please take back your order!"
Wang Wen took the lead, and the civil servants kowtowed.
Supervisory censor Zhang Gang looked stern and said loudly: "Your Majesty is the son of Jiutian and the king and father of the world. You must not ask for dethronement! Our Ming Dynasty is the first year of China. Since ancient times, there has been no reason for kings to dethrone the virtuous and make them faint!"
"I once inspected Changsha. The people in Changsha were miserable and the people in Huguang were worse off than dead. I came to the table several times, but was suppressed by the cabinet. Because King Xiang's reputation was far and wide, no one dared to offend him, so he made the local people suffer. Suffer!”
As he said that, he took out the memorial from his sleeve pocket and held it with both hands: "I would like to ask your Majesty to read it. These are the dozens of crimes committed by King Xiang. Each one can be checked. If there is any mistake, please behead me! Any one of them, For an ordinary person, being executed by Ling Chi would not be an exaggeration!"
"Your Majesty, please take a closer look!"
King Xiang's eyes widened, this, was this arranged?
Plop!
He knelt on the ground in a daze, it was over, it was all over!
The reason why he came to Beijing in a hurry was because he was coerced by the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager took advantage of the bad things he did on the fiefdom and forced him to come to Beijing to support Zhu Qizhen. But when he entered the palace, he learned that Zhu Qizhen had been defeated, and the Empress Dowager forced him to depose and establish the emperor.
The timid King Xiang really didn't want to agree. The Empress Dowager asked him, what would you do if your bastard assassinated your legitimate son in order to inherit the throne?
Since ancient times, the lineage between direct concubine and concubine has been clear. Zhu Qiyu entered the direct lineage as a concubine, but the legitimate son was still alive and messed up the etiquette. The powerful families such as vassals and nobles naturally opposed Zhu Qiyu. This is why the nobles strongly supported Zhu Qizhen. As long as They will not stop until Zhu Qizhen is dead.
Moreover, the Empress Dowager told him that Zhu Qiyu was alone and had no military power and no one wanted him. All his ministers and nobles supported Zhu Qizhen, and civilian officials would not interfere in the struggle for imperial power. When he saw Zhu Qiyu cut open Gao Gu, offended the civil officials, and wanted to kill Guo Sheng, he knew that Zhu Qiyu was dead.
Who would have thought that Zhu Qiyu would retreat instead of advance and force the civil servants to stand up for him. It is estimated that the civil servants were also worried about Japan, but he, the vassal king, must be the first to die!
It's over, it's all over!
King Xiang murmured to himself.
He forgot his identity. It was a taboo for a vassal king to interfere with the imperial power. Even though Zhu Qiyu has nothing, he has great righteousness, reputation, and imperial power! He is a living emperor, not a dying emperor! As long as he is still alive and healthy, even if he has no real power, he, the vassal king, cannot dethrone him! Even, no one can depose him!
The young eunuch presented Zhang Gang's memorial. Zhu Qiyu glanced at it and his expression changed.
Snapped!
He threw the memorial directly in King Xiang's face!
"have a look!"
"This is the good thing that I, the Mingxian King, have done!"
"I'm ashamed to say it!"
"When I saw this, I was ashamed!"
"Come, read it out and let all the civil and military officials hear what good deeds you, the wise king, have done!"
King Xiang was hit in the face by the memorial, but he did not dare to move.
"Pick it up! Read it!" Zhu Qiyu was furious.
"I, I can explain..." King Xiang was trembling. He knew very well what he had done, and if it was brought to the court and told, it would not be an exaggeration to be beheaded.
"read!"
King Xiang trembled and looked at the Empress Dowager as if asking for help. Empress Sun lowered her eyebrows and lowered her eyes, suddenly not seeing her. He was filled with hatred that he had been tricked by the Empress Dowager.
He picked up the memorial tremblingly, and after one glance, he was horrified. There was a ghost in the palace!
"You have the nerve to do it, are you still afraid to say it? Nian!"
"In the sixth year of Zhengtong, my concubine Shen built a small Forbidden City at home. Prince Xiang often played in the city..."
"In the ninth year of Zhengtong, Zhu Qiyong, the eldest son of Prince Xiang, coveted the beauty of Zhao's daughter-in-law, but Luo refused to comply. Zhu Qiyong tortured and killed the whole family of Zhao. Later, he gave Luo's daughter to his father and gave birth to his son Zhu Qizheng."
"In the twelfth year of Zhengtong, the censor Liu An impeached King Xiang for occupying fields. The semi-fertile farmland in Huguang was under the name of Prince Xiang's Mansion. King Xiang said that Huguang is the Huguang of Prince Xiang's Mansion, not the Huguang of the imperial court... Liu An wrote the memorial and went to Beijing to report it. , but died in the hands of robbers on the road, and the memorial disappeared..."
"In the 14th year of Zhengtong, the imperial censor Wang Guang visited Huguang and received a bribe of 240,000 taels of silver from King Xiang..."
"In the third year of Jingtai, King Xiang visited Jiangsu and Zhejiang without an imperial edict. He interacted with merchants and obtained countless silver coins. Afterwards, he bribed the eunuch Xing'an. He also visited several places in Shandong and Henan. Every time he passed by, local officials would receive him with great pomp and ceremony. , like the emperor going on a tour..."
King Xiang could no longer read. He was sweating like rain, shaking like chaff, and almost dropped the memorial to the ground several times.
There's a mole!
Every move he made was recorded!
He thought that after the death of Emperor Xuanzong, Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne at the age of nine, and the emperor's supervision of the vassals would be relaxed, and he would no longer be as pervasive as when Xuanzong was there. Moreover, Prince Xiang's Mansion was cleaned over and over again by him, so he thought he was absolutely safe, but little did he know that it was not the emperor who was monitoring the vassal king, but the civil servants!
"Hahaha!"
"This is the wise king you preach about!"
"You people tell me every day that I should be a virtuous king and that I should be a virtuous king. Do you want me to be such a king?"
Zhu Qiyu first criticized the civil servants and then scolded King Xiang:
"I finally understand why the refugees in Huguang continue to be suppressed, and why there are more and more private salt dealers! Why illegal merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are banned repeatedly! It turns out that the problem is all your head! My wise king of the Ming Dynasty, it turns out that I have always been We are digging for the roots of the Ming Dynasty!"
"I have always thought that you are generous, have resigned from the throne three times, and have a reputation as a virtuous person. I treat you with respect and respect!"
"You put on airs in front of me and pretended to be an elder, but I tolerated it! You scolded me for being an immoral tyrant, but I didn't say anything! You are a wise king and my uncle, and I tolerated it!"
"You want to learn from Yu Wenhu, and you have the intention of abolishing the throne. I think I am not as wise as you, so why not abdicate in favor of the wise and let you be the emperor!"
"The results of it?"
"You're going to repay me with these bad things?"
"It's too many words to repay my respect for you!"
"Using these shameful crimes to depose the emperor?"
"It's so ridiculous! The Tian family's face has been completely ruined by scum like you!"
"Wolf King, tell me! When you did something, did you ever think about Emperor Renzong's spirit in heaven! Are you worthy of the late emperor's trust in you? Are you worthy of my generosity to you?"
"You are worse than a pig or a dog! You deserve the surname Zhu!"
The furious Zhu Qiyu kicked King Xiang in the chest and knocked him to the ground: "Come here!"
"Drag this bastard down!"
"Cut it open!"
"I will take his black heart and sacrifice it to the Ancestral Temple to see if Emperor Renzong will climb out of the coffin and kill this beast!"
