In the autumn of the fourth year of Taichu, the Cisheng Empress Dowager Jin Yuji began a hunger strike. She went on a hunger strike for two consecutive days without eating any water or rice.
The news was disseminated by the Eastern Queen Mother Yang Qing'er and spread throughout Shenyang. The government and the public were in an uproar. Several cabinet ministers were silent and did not dare to speak out.
Shen Erguan, the minister of household affairs, risked his life to remonstrate. In his memorial, he begged the court to be more lenient and spare the rear party, and not to punish the Empress Dowager Cisheng. The uncle Cheng Guo Gong was corrupt and perverted the law in Junzhou. The thief was committed by one person and had nothing to do with the Queen Mother. Shen Shilang specifically emphasized that at that time, Du Du rebelled, North Korea betrayed its alliance, Nan Ming marched north, and the five countries conquered Qi. Fortunately, the Empress Dowager Cisheng, Prime Minister Kang and other people turned the tide and allowed Da Qi to fall. There is a place for establishment in Liaodong... I sincerely ask the Supreme Emperor to consider his long-term friendship with the Queen Mother and stop pursuing it. Just eradicate the culprit and become the Duke of the country.
Dozens of people signed the memorial at the end, all of whom were middle- and lower-level officials from the six ministries. Most of them were from the Queen Mother's party, and some were from Kang Yingqian's old ministries. Even several mid-level generals from the Wucheng Bingma Division and the Beijing Camp also signed.
The Hou Party put up this posture, which meant that they wanted to force Emperor Wu Ding into the palace. Such coercion and inducement took the initiative to abandon a Duke Cheng, so as to protect the interests of more people, make the Supreme Emperor submit, and stop taking action against other forces of the Hou Party. This is the end of the fish and the net.
The memorial was presented to Dongfang Zhu overnight by Eunuch Cao, the eunuch in charge of rituals. After Eunuch Dong read it in a hurry, he turned pale with fright and remained silent for a long time.
Dongfang Zhu thought over and over again and decided to send the memorial to the Supreme Emperor for inspection.
"Ancestor, what is written in the memorial?"
"You have no eggs, you really don't know?"
Cao Bianhuan said with an innocent face: "Old ancestor Mingjian, I took my son from Shilang Shen's hand and ran towards your old man's house without even taking a breath. Look, the paint on the seal is still good. .”
Dongfang Zhu glared at the young eunuch, pointed at his nose and said: "As long as you know, be smart when doing things in the palace. The fight between the officials and the Supreme Emperor, and the fight against the sky are also the affairs of the court. Those of us who have no eggs in the palace should not get involved. .”
Cao Bianhuan quickly nodded in agreement.
"A few desperate people want to use the Queen Mother's hunger strike to force Long Live Lord to give in to them."
"Ah?" Cao Bianhuan opened his mouth wide with a shocked expression.
"These sons of bitches don't go to school early in the morning and don't go to school in the evening. But when they arrive at this moment, General Pei and the others are still in Huguang, and Deng Changxiong is not in Shenyang. This is going to kill the Queen Mother."
Dongfang Zhu said with a cold face: "Even if you still have some sharp eyesight, these unfamiliar people are now afraid of being burned on their heads. On the surface, they are saving the Queen Mother, but in fact they want to put aside the relationship with the Jin family so that the purge can't be done. To myself.”
Cao Bianhun nodded in admiration and once again praised his ancestor for being wise and wise, and for seeing things further.
After a while, he asked in confusion: "It's just that they made the fire so big, aren't they afraid that it will really burn themselves?"
Dongfang Zhu said disapprovingly: "These people are sure that the emperor is young and Deng Changxiong and Jin Yinghe are close to the rear party, so they are so unscrupulous, thinking that the emperor has nothing to do with them."
Cao Bianhun stared at the large stack of memorials in his hand, thoughtfully.
"so what should I do now?"
"What should we do?" Dongfang Zhu chuckled, "It's a pity that they made the wrong calculation. Jin Yinghe, Qin Jianxun, and Deng Changxiong were all promoted by the Supreme Emperor. Military supplies in various places are tightly held in Xie Yang's hands. How does Xie Yang treat the court and the Supreme Emperor? , we don’t need to say more."
In the early years of Wu Ding, after Xie Yang was "re-educated" by the Capricorn Guards, he was loyal to Da Qi, basically equivalent to a walking corpse who only loyal to the Supreme Emperor.
"Deng Changxiong has no rebellious intentions, and others will not rebel. The Supreme Emperor still has control over these armies, so this time, these back-partners may make a mistake."
Cao Bian thought about it for a while, then said anxiously: "Ancestor, if this is the case, if the memorial is not delivered yet, and the Supreme Emperor sees it, Long Yan may be furious and kill many people!"
Dongfang Zhu said angrily: "Why not? The Supreme Emperor has his own decision."
The day after the memorial was submitted, Shilang Shen was charged with "discussing the government's affairs unreasonably and slandering the emperor" and was sentenced to twenty years in court. He was also given a Ninggu pagoda and was never used again.
This punishment is not too severe. As long as the twenty court battles are not fought desperately, no one will die. As for the exile of Ninggu Pagoda, Ninggu Pagoda is no longer what it used to be. After several years of construction, it has a dense population and complete facilities. Transportation is also extremely convenient.
Therefore, it is not so much a punishment as a signal, a signal that awakens the forces behind the party.
Liu Zhaosun now dislikes killing people less and less, not because he has become kind-hearted and believes in God, but because the empire has entered a period of stable development, and stability is the first priority. Not killing people unless necessary is the basic quality of every qualified politician.
However, the officials of the Houdang faction obviously did not appreciate it. They were not frightened by Emperor Wu Ding's court battle. Instead, they thought it was a sign of the Emperor's cowardice.
Liu Zhaosun's patience caused the Houdang faction to have wrong ideas. Some people thought that the Supreme Emperor was unwell and was no longer able to handle state affairs, while the thirteen-year-old little emperor Liu Kan could completely abandon his father and mother and start a new career. Take charge.
So a new wave of suggestions started again. In just two days, the Supreme Emperor received hundreds of memorials. Everyone seemed to have put the matter of the Empress Dowager Cisheng's hunger strike in the back of their minds, and they all made suggestions to threaten the Supreme Emperor in the name of the little emperor. , asking Emperor Wuding to take into account the flesh and blood ties between the emperor and the queen mother, and quoted a seven-step poem written by Cao Zhi of the Wei and Jin Dynasties.
Boil the beans to make soup, and drain the black beans to make juice.
The beetles are burning under the cauldron, and the beans are weeping in the cauldron.
They are born from the same root, why rush each other?
I advise the Supreme Emperor not to fight against each other again and not to launch any major purges because of the fault of Duke Cheng.
What's more, they requested that the thirteen-year-old Taichu little emperor immediately succeed to the throne and persuaded the Taichu emperor to give up his power...
When things have developed to this point, no one cares about whether the Empress Dowager Cisheng has eaten or whether she has starved to death. Instead, they focus on the affairs of Emperor Taichu Liu Kan and are eager to seize power from the Supreme Emperor.
Most of the people who wrote the memorial were middle- and lower-level officials. They had never actually seen Emperor Wuding, and they did not know the true physical condition of the Supreme Emperor. They only imagined the outline of Wuding in the books of sages and the few words of the veterans in Kaiyuan. The whole picture of Emperor Ding:
Maybe the old emperor is already old, maybe the old emperor's old illness has relapsed, maybe the old emperor is not going to die soon...
It was precisely because of this understanding that they made up their mind to give it a try and turn their idle work into a pillar. If they succeeded, they would have the merit of Conglong. In the future, they would be promoted to an official position under Emperor Taichu.
Unfortunately, these people are wrong.
Emperor Wu Ding is still full of energy, with not even a single white hair on his head. There are only two hours left every day, and he can control the number of women at night, and his physical strength is always at its peak.
After receiving the memorials from these people, the Supreme Emperor was furious. All the officials in Shangshu were punished, and those who were punished were punished and those who were exiled were exiled.
"For more than ten years, the dogs can't change their habit of eating shit. They will come up and make trouble at the slightest smell, and they won't kill them all!"
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In the autumn of the fourth year of Taichu, when Pei Dahu was trapped in Junzhou and unable to escape, Li Dingguo had already led an expedition team of 120 people on an expedition to Yinzhou.
Before leaving, Emperor Wu Ding climbed onto the Guangjimen Gate Tower in Shenyang as usual. Facing Li Dingguo and others on the square, he delivered an impassioned impromptu speech, reaffirming that Yinzhou was an inseparable part of Da Qi and Da Qi. Having indisputable sovereignty over Yinzhou, the Supreme Emperor encouraged Li Dingguo to go to Yinzhou because the mountains are high and the road is far away, so he must not forget his original intention.
After seeing off Li Dingguo, Liu Zhaosun returned to the Shenyang Palace to continue reviewing the memorials. After lunch, Emperor Wu Ding suddenly remembered that there had been no news about Pei Dahu and others for a long time, so he asked Dongfang Zhu if there was a Tang newspaper sent by the Imperial Guard Huguang.
"Your Majesty, no."
In the past two years, the labor force in Huguang has been heavy, and there have been wars and city construction. It is not surprising that Chen Sheng and Wu Guang would appear, but Emperor Wu Ding did not expect that his uncle would take the lead in the rebellion.
"Your Majesty..." Dongfang Zhu raised his head cautiously, but hesitated to speak.
"What's the matter?" The Supreme Emperor rubbed his temples and felt a headache.
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