Wang An touched Wei Zi's face and immediately walked outside Nuan Pavilion to announce the order.
At this time, Yang Lian and other civil servants from the Ming Dynasty who broke into the Qianqing Palace were standing outside the palace.
Most of the Ming Dynasty civil servants standing outside the Qianqing Palace were officials from the Donglin Party.
Because Zhu Youxiao's father, Zhu Changluo, was able to retain the throne and successfully became emperor, the Donglin Party took the greatest credit.
Naturally, Zhu Changluo reciprocated the favor, and after taking the throne, he promoted Donglin Party officials on a large scale.
But what Donglin Party officials did not expect was that Zhu Changluo died just one month after becoming emperor.
Therefore, in order to protect their own political interests, Donglin Party officials had to work hard to control the new emperor Zhu Youxiao who was about to ascend the throne, so that the merit of supporting him would fall into their own hands.
Wang An had always had conflicts with Li Xuanshi, but he had close contacts with Wang Wenyan of the Donglin Party in the foreign dynasty.
Therefore, Wang An, with the support of Donglin Party officials, intended to take Zhu Youxiao out of the palace and then accept the support of civilian officials.
At this moment, the civil servants standing outside the Qianqing Palace were waiting for Wang An to appear with Zhu Youxiao.
But what surprised the civil officials was that Wang An did not appear with Zhu Youxiao after he came out, but appeared alone.
The leader of the military department, Yang Lian, who was on the right side of the incident, was very excited when he saw this, and immediately asked: "Eunuch, what is going on?! Where is His Royal Highness, the eldest son of the emperor?!"
Wang An glanced at Yang Lian, ignored Yang Lian, and said solemnly: "Emperor Daxing left an oral message before his death. Fang Congzhe, the prospective chief minister of the cabinet, came in to see His Royal Highness the eldest son of the emperor! Please, Yuan Fu."
Fang Congzhe, who had been silent all this time, was quite shocked when he heard this, but he soon understood and immediately replied: "Old minister, please lead the way!"
Yang Lian and other civil servants stood there in surprise.
When did Emperor Daxing leave such an oral message?
Not long after, Fang Congzhe came to Zhu Youxiao under the leadership of Wang An.
Fang Congzhe immediately greeted Zhu Youxiao.
Zhu Youxiao said: "No courtesy! My father has left an edict, asking me to inherit the throne, but I won't have time to summon the elder to draft the edict. I also ask the elder to draft the edict here and announce it later." Ministers."
With that said, Zhu Youxiao looked at Wang An: "Take the treasure seal!"
Fang Congzhe naturally did not dare to disobey or question, so he quickly replied: "Yes!"
And Wang An also honestly took the treasure seal.
For a while, Fang Congzhe drafted the edict and handed it to Zhu Youxiao.
Zhu Youxiao took a look, and after confirming that it was correct, he asked Wang An to seal it, and then said to Fang Congzhe and Wang An: "Follow me to see the ministers outside."
So, Fang Congzhe and Wang An accompanied Zhu Youxiao outside the palace.
"brothers!"
At this time, Li Xuanshi hurriedly followed and shouted that she wanted Zhu Youxiao to make herself the Queen Mother.
Zhu Youxiao naturally knew what she was thinking, so he looked back at Li Xuanshi and said, "I will stay in Nuan Pavilion honestly. If you want to be the Queen Mother, you must look like a Queen Mother!"
After hearing what Zhu Youxiao said, Li Xuan had no choice but to shut up obediently and retreat: "Okay!"
Here, as soon as Zhu Youxiao arrived outside the palace, Yang Lian immediately hurried forward and took Zhu Youxiao's hand, and then walked out.
Zhu Youxiao almost fell to the ground after being pulled like this.
"Edict of the Emperor Daxing!"
Wang An hurriedly shouted at this time.
Yang Lian had to stop, but his hand still held Zhu Youxiao tightly.
Zhu Youxiao took advantage of this and slapped Yang Lian in the face, shouting sternly: "How brave! Who gave you the courage to drag me! Is the Jinyiwei officer in Ouchi a dead person? He hijacked me like this." Turn a blind eye?! Where is my Ming Dynasty?!"
The stunned Jinyiwei officers and officers hurriedly surrounded him with knives. Although they didn't know why the eldest son of the emperor suddenly became angry, they naturally did not dare to neglect when they heard Zhu Youxiao reprimanding them.
Yang Lian then dropped his hand and subconsciously wanted to cover his hot face, but he also reacted at this time and couldn't help but cupped his hand and said, "I'm sorry for you, Yang Lian!"
"snort!"
Zhu Youxiao rolled his eyes at Yang Lian, and then looked at Wang An.
At this time, Wang An was in a trance because he saw Zhu Youxiao slapping Yang Lian. As soon as he noticed Zhu Youxiao looking at him, he was so frightened that he turned around and read the edict in a trembling voice.
The content of the posthumous edict is naturally very simple. It is nothing more than praising Zhu Youxiao and asking Zhu Youxiao to inherit the throne of emperor.
None of the ministers present had recovered from the shocking scene of Zhu Youxiao slapping Yang Lian.
Therefore, when Wang An finished reading the edict, not a single minister reacted.
Instead, it was Zhu Youxiao himself who choked up first: "My son, I will accept the imperial edict!"
Then, Zhu Youxiao went directly to Zhu Changluo's Zi Palace and cried.
In this era, filial piety is very important.
Naturally, Zhu Youxiao could not show his joy at inheriting the throne of emperor, but wanted to show his filial piety.
Fang Congzhe recalled the scene that had just happened, and was shocked in his heart. He found that from the time when the eldest son of the emperor first reported to him on the grounds of the oral instructions of Emperor Daxing, the entire initiative of the transfer of imperial power in Ming Dynasty was controlled by the eldest son of the emperor himself.
Unknowingly, the succession of the emperor's eldest son changed from the ministers inviting the ministers to come out of the inner palace to support him instead of the Daxing Emperor passing on the throne.
Fang Congzhe was surprised to find that the eldest son of the emperor who lived deep in the harem was quite capable.
In order not to be resented by the emperor's eldest son, who seemed to have a troubled mind, Fang Congzhe came over and knelt down to Zhu Youxiao: "Old minister, I pay my respects to your majesty. Please express your condolences!"
Seeing this, Yang Lian and other civil servants also followed him, knelt down and saluted Zhu Youxiao: "I pay homage to your majesty, please express your condolences!"
Zhu Youxiao stopped crying, looked back at the ministers, suddenly became serious, and said: "The cabinet will draft the decree, and the Ministry of Rites will decide on the date of his enthronement!"
"I obey your orders!"
Fang Congzhe, the chief assistant of the cabinet, and Liu Yishen, a bachelor, both replied.
Then, Zhu Youxiao glanced at Yang Lian.
Among the ministers present, Zhu Youxiao was the most familiar with Yang Lian, because Yang Lian was a famous remonstrator in history who died because of his involvement in the impeachment of Wei Zhongxian.
And as far as Zhu Youxiao knew, Yang Lian was considered the most powerful official from the forty-eighth year of Wanli to the second year of Tianqi. Even though he was just a military officer, he had a gangster relationship with the eunuch Wang An, the eunuch Wang An. Qian, and was able to control the power of the court.
It was not until Wei Zhongxian appeared that Yang Lian fell into power.
Yang Lian is an official of the Donglin Party. Nowadays, the Donglin Party has spread all over the government and the public. The Second Assistant to the Cabinet and the Secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs are all Donglin Party members. Even the Chief of Ceremonies is also a Donglin Party member.
This is a terrible thing for Zhu Youxiao.
In fact, what the Donglin Party did after taking sole power was to eliminate dissidents and treat those who were either self or the enemy.
This also caused other officials who did not agree with the Donglin Party to join together to form the Eunuch Party, which intensified the party struggle in the Ming Dynasty.
Then Xiong Tingbi and Yang Lian in front of Zhu Youxiao both became victims of this kind of party struggle.
The intensification of this kind of party struggle will also cause the further decline of the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty, which indirectly promotes the expansion of the slave establishment.
Zhu Youxiao knew that the decline of dynasties at the end of history was closely related to the intensification of internal party strife. For example, the old and new party strife in the Northern Song Dynasty led to the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao, who was about to become the Ming Emperor, decided to eliminate internal conflicts as much as possible and curb the intensification of party strife.
"Yang Lian is disrespectful to me, send Yang Lian to prison!"
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao directly issued an order.
