In the end of a quarrel, someone has to take the blame.
Chen Yi, Yang Shan, Li Shi, and Li Xian, who were often sent as envoys to the Wala camp, finally became the inevitable choice. They were elected by the ministers and forced to go to Cining Palace.
Before Queen Mother Sun had dinner, Chen Yi and others made an urgent notification and arrived in front of Queen Mother Sun smoothly.
Queen Mother Sun was a little surprised at first, what would such a bunch of little shrimps do to come to her. Then a bad premonition arose in his heart, so he quickly asked: "My dear friends, is there something wrong with the Supreme Emperor?"
Chen Yi, the highest-ranking censor of Youdu among the four, had no choice but to stand up and recount the incident to the Empress Dowager Sun.
After hearing this, Empress Dowager Sun was so angry that she almost smashed things. Together with the harem, there was a lot of excitement and complaints. She finally collected 600,000 taels of silver, but it was all gone in the blink of an eye.
Forget about the money alone, the key is that it will be deep winter in a blink of an eye. If the Supreme Emperor cannot be welcomed back, he will have to suffer in the freezing cold outside the Great Wall.
More importantly, at the rate at which the new emperor is taking power, if the Supreme Emperor stays outside for a year or two, all his close ministers will have to be replaced when he comes back.
Empress Dowager Sun glanced at the eunuch Jin Ying next to her, and sighed deeply: She didn't even have to wait a year or two. Now the confidants of the Supreme Emperor and the late Emperor have been dealt with very hard. Wang Zhi and Yu Qian were all sent away from the capital, and Shang Ren and Peng Shi, who he had secretly promoted, were also sent away.
The people promoted by the Supreme Emperor himself were all fighting outside. Now, the people who can see him are Chen Yi, Yang Shan, Li Shi, and Li Xian, who had basically no sense of existence before the war.
But what puzzled Empress Dowager Sun the most was why the new emperor had no interest in the Forbidden City at all. It had been more than two months since he took the throne, and he had only done some inconspicuous errands for five personal eunuchs. After that, he never interfered in any palace affairs.
This is really weird. The mighty Ming Emperor doesn't even have a ceremonial supervisor or eunuch Bingbi under his command. The new emperor doesn't seem to care at all and just spends the whole day playing with women at home leisurely.
Empress Dowager Sun wanted to ask Chen Yi and others in front of her, but then she thought about it. These people were sent to Wala all day long to eat. They didn't want the emperor to see them at first sight. She couldn't ask them anything, not much at all. It's a waste of words.
At this time, Chen Yi saw that the Empress Dowager Sun had not spoken for a long time, so he had to urge: "Please tell me whether you want to agree to Ye Xian's request or not."
In fact, from the perspective of Queen Mother Sun's original intention, she just wanted a woman, so she could just give it to him. But Empress Dowager Sun also knew that these words were politically incorrect.
Because of her experience in assisting politics, Queen Mother Sun was considered a relatively experienced political fighter. When Zhu Qizhen was completely passive, she still chose to be patient and give in and wait for the opportunity.
So the four ministers heard that the Queen Mother tried her best to suppress her disappointment and replied quietly: "You tell the emperor, just say it is my intention, and you should refuse it first.
As for whether to fight or make peace first, let it be. I have only one request, that is, when the two armies are fighting, our army must try our best to avoid harming the Supreme Emperor. "
"The Queen Mother is wise."
The four ministers were relieved when they heard this. They flattered him and left in a hurry.
Before dinner, Zhu Qiyu had already received the news, and as expected, Queen Mother Sun took the blame again.
Zhu Qiyu understood the Empress Dowager Sun's strategy in his heart, and wanted to accumulate strength and wait for the opportunity. If he was negligent, he would give himself a fatal blow and turn the world around in an instant.
This idea is quite good, but unfortunately the ideal is very fulfilling, but the reality is very cruel.
Although the peace talks have made an exception, the fundraising auction on the last night of Jietianlou will still continue.
Zhu Qiyu hosted all his cronies in the mansion. After the last night of mobilization, the war will restart tomorrow.
Tonight's banquet is mainly to review and inspect his cronies. Today, the emperor's cronies have evolved from the three or two big cats and kittens before he ascended the throne to a small but well-equipped military and political group.
Among them are many nobles: Xu Yongning, Duke of Dingguo, Li Xuan, Duke of Cao, Xu Heng, Marquis of Xing'an, and Wang Tong, Marquis of Chengshan. There are princes and princes, but they haven't been able to win over the earl.
Among the military generals, besides the personal guards, there was Fan Guang; among the personal guards, there were Xu Tong, Gu Zhong, and Liu Chang.
Among the civil servants, there are important ministers of fourth rank and above: Chen Xun, Wang Wen, Jiang Yuan, and Xu Jue. Young talents below the fourth rank: Huang Pu, He Yi, Lian Gang.
There are still some who are not here: Luo Tong, the left minister of the Ministry of War, He Wenyuan, the new cabinet minister, Xu Zheng and Huang Jian, the new Zhongshusheren; and the seven second- and third-rank high-ranking generals of Daning Dusi. Most of these are now Not in the capital.
As for the Royal Horse Supervisor, Hao Yi, he did not come on purpose. Zhu Qiyu did not want to have too close contact with Yuma Jian and expose his layout in Yuma Jian in advance.
Zhu Qiyu thought this way: If the Empress Dowager Sun is patient, I will be patient too; when the Empress Dowager Sun and the Supreme Emperor's group rise up, I will give them a big surprise with the Four Guards of the Imperial Horse Guards.
In Zhu Qiyu's heart, his three personal guards ranked first, and then the four guards of the Yumajian commanded by Hao Yi and the Xiaoqi battalion commanded by Xu Heng tied for second.
As for the last one, it is naturally Jin Yiwei. These people receive the most generous salaries, but they don't work. You say they are loyal to the Supreme Emperor, but it seems that they have done nothing for the Supreme Emperor; you say they are loyal to the new emperor, but you can't see any intention or behavior to be loyal to the new emperor if you look left and right.
In this way, the banquet went very smoothly until the evening. Zhu Qiyu came up and gave a shot of chicken blood to the fifteen cronies who came to the banquet.
As an emperor, Zhu Qiyu didn't have any fancy tricks. He only used this trick every time: appoint an official and make a wish.
Zhu Qiyu never talked about nonsense like serving the country and saving all people. I just want to tell you directly what I need you to do for me, and when it is done, I will give you some official titles and titles.
He said it clearly, and his cronies heard it clearly, fair business, no deception.
So the more I drank the wine, the happier I became. Civil servants lived in poverty for ten years, and military generals fought bloody battles, just to sell goods to the emperor's family.
Both sides got what they wanted, and the banquet was finally over in a lively manner. It was truly a feast for the host and guest tonight. Zhu Qiyu was afraid that something would go wrong on the road, so he sent out a large number of personal guards, and sent all his confidants to the door of his house. He watched everyone enter the house before the personal guards came back.
This was the only time in three months that Zhu Qiyu drank too much.
When Zhu Qiyu returned to the room drunkenly, he saw that Lin Xiangyu had also come back, leaning on the bedside with relief and looking through the books, so Zhu Qiyu asked with a smile:
"Princess, how much did our scrap metal cost in total?"
(End of chapter)
