Empress Dowager Sun was already speechless by Zhu Qiyu's hypocrisy: Jin Ying had just told herself in detail about Zhu Qiyu's decisive appearance in killing Fengtianmen. As a result, as soon as he entered the Cining Palace, Zhu Qiyu started crying again, and changed into such an impassioned face that he wanted to die heroically.
Originally, Zhu Qiyu's face would definitely make Empress Dowager Sun disgusted, but this time was an exception. Empress Dowager Sun was moved by what Zhu Qiyu said.
The core reason is that what Zhu Qiyu said is true.
Ma Shun was a close confidant of Zhu Qizhen, and he was a second-grade military attaché. The civil servants beat him to death at will without going through any legal procedures. Zhu Qiyu said that this was ignoring the emperor and despising the queen mother. Is there any problem?
The Jinyiwei are the emperor's personal soldiers, and their main duty is to protect the royal family. As a result, you casually beat the chief officer of Jinyiwei to death. Zhu Qiyu said that this was trampling on the dignity of the royal family. Is there any problem?
It depends on the owner when it comes to beating a dog, let alone killing a dog.
Seeing that the Queen Mother Sun was silent, Zhu Qiyu took the file from Yu Shiyue, raised his hands high, and reported to the Queen Mother: "The ten rebellious officials who trampled on the dignity of the royal family have been punished on the spot. This is after a joint review by the three departments. , their confessions.
The incident happened suddenly, and if there was any hesitation, the chaos might get out of control, so I exercised my power of supervising the country given by the Queen Mother and executed them directly.
Before he could report it to the Queen Mother, he asked the Queen Mother to punish him. "
Zhu Qiyu focused all his efforts on trampling on the dignity of the royal family and stabbed Empress Dowager Sun in the lungs.
Sure enough, when Queen Mother Sun heard this, she waved her hands angrily: "Kill, kill, those who trample on the dignity of the royal family are all rebellious and disobedient. They are already disloyal to the royal family, why are they still allowed to live in this world. "
Empress Dowager Sun stood up personally, helped Zhu Qiyu up, and ordered someone to move a chair for Zhu Qiyu to sit on. Then she continued: "King Xi, you did the right thing. Now that your brother is trapped in the enemy camp, I am She is an old woman who has lived in the palace for a long time, and the eldest prince is a child who is only two years old and cannot speak well.
The capital city is in danger, and the situation is precarious. The ministers naturally develop a contempt for us, thinking that we orphans and widowed mothers are weak and can be bullied, and we can only be manipulated by others.
King Tan, you are now the only adult male in the royal family in the capital. You have to shoulder the heavy responsibility of safeguarding the dignity of the royal family. In the future, if there are such rebellious ministers and traitors, there is no need for the three divisions to interrogate them. They can just kill them all. I promise you to kill them first and then report them. "
Zhu Qiyu stood up and responded, and then said: "At the court meeting, I have ordered the minister to be promoted to Minister of the Ministry of War, and to mobilize all the soldiers and horses from all over the world to Beijing to serve the king. I beg the queen mother and the prince to move to Nanjing as soon as possible, so that I no longer have to worry about the queen mother and the prince. If you are safe, you can devote yourself wholeheartedly to the war against Oara."
Hearing this, the Queen Mother nodded and remained silent. After a while, he asked: "Now that the national crisis is looming, I, an old woman, have been speechless for a long time. Let the old men in Chen Ge tell me what they think."
Chen Xun replied: "I think what King Yin said is reasonable. It is enough for him to supervise the country in the capital. The empress dowager and the prince are here, which only increases the danger. If the empress dowager and the prince make any mistakes again, then my Ming Dynasty will be completely ruined." .”
The Queen Mother asked other ministers, and the answers they gave were surprisingly consistent. Even Yu Qian did not insist on letting the Queen Mother and the prince stay in Beijing.
It's just that the important ministers have the same attitude, but their positions are not consistent.
Wang Zhi and Hu Xi were close associates of the emperor, and they truly believed that the capital was in danger, so they hoped that the queen mother and the prince would go to Nanjing. As for Beijing, it would be left to King Xi. Anyway, the current position of supervising the country is not a good job.
Chen Xun wanted to take advantage of King Tan.
Yu Qian, on the other hand, wanted to make the political structure of the capital simpler. To defend the capital, one king is enough. More queen mothers and princes will only lead to more affairs and more trouble. In addition, the Queen Mother can save food and reduce the pressure on the capital by taking a large number of people.
Another question that all ministers can think of is: Ye Xian will definitely use the emperor to blackmail the court. And if the Queen Mother stays in Beijing and is eager to protect her son, she may do some irrational things.
When Empress Dowager Sun saw that all the ministers present agreed that she should go to Nanjing, she no longer insisted. So he asked again: "King Tan, what should the emperor do?"
Zhu Qiyu hurriedly stood up and played: "I think that we can send Chen Yi as the chief envoy and Yang Shan as the deputy envoy. We will immediately go to the Wala Camp to visit the emperor's brother and negotiate with Ye Xian.
If a negotiation can make Ye withdraw his troops first and welcome the emperor's brother back, that would be great. Even if the negotiation fails, at least he can still give the emperor some food and clothing first.
Now that the weather is getting colder, the emperor's brother is trapped in the enemy camp alone with no one to take care of him. I thought that we should send some eunuchs and maids to serve the emperor. "
"Good, just follow the words of King Tan."
This time, Empress Dowager Sun directly approved King Tan's proposal without asking the ministers for their opinions.
Upon seeing this, the ministers did not raise any objections. After all, with the current structure of the court, if Empress Dowager Sun and King Xi agree to something, no matter how much others oppose it, it will be in vain.
Empress Dowager Sun expressed her condolences to King Tan and the important ministers, and then let everyone leave.
Watching everyone leave the hall, Jin Ying hurriedly advised the Queen Mother Sun: "The Queen Mother, are you going to let King Tan leave like this?"
Empress Dowager Sun replied angrily: "What else? Ambush three hundred swordsmen and axemen, and chop King Xi into a pulp with just one order? After that, who will supervise the country? Are you going to supervise the country?"
"But King Yi ransacked Wang Zhen's mansion yesterday."
Empress Dowager Sun waved her hands impatiently: "Come on, let's do it. Shouldn't Wang Zhen's house be confiscated? King Xi didn't kill anyone in the Wang family, which is enough to give him face. If the ministers wanted to follow the wishes of the ministers, Wang Zhen would have been executed long ago. .”
Jin Ying refused to give up: "But Wang Zhen, the general of King Tan, received all his property in his own name. He neither handed it over to the national treasury nor paid it into internal funds."
When Queen Mother Sun heard this, her words were full of anger: "Jin Ying, you are also following the example of those ministers, preparing to humiliate the Ai family and the eldest prince, and then trample on the dignity of the royal family, right?"
Jin Ying was so frightened that he hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, not even daring to shout.
"Then why are you holding on to King Xi every day? Now there is only one adult male in the royal family in the capital. All the young and old are pointing at him to shoulder important responsibilities, supervise the country's governance, protect the capital, and welcome back the emperor. .
Now I can't kill him, and I can't beat him. Why do you keep telling me what those useless things are for?
If he likes to ask for Wang Zhen's property, let him ask for it. Even if it involves 11,000 yuan, he has to wait until the emperor comes back.
If you are still loyal to the royal family, you must make welcoming the emperor back your top priority from now on, and put all other matters later. "
Jin Ying was reprimanded and had to plead guilty again and again.
Empress Dowager Sun then ordered: "What are you still doing here? Go and call Empress Qian."
