As the date for Zhu Qizhen, the strange emperor, to return to Beijing approaches, giving birth has become Zhu Qiyu's most urgent task.
The number of children is related to the throne, inheritance and stability.
The strategy Zhu Qiyu chose was to stabilize the situation and then slowly fight against the Emperor's faction.
As long as he has his eldest son and multiple princes, his family's cronies will be able to settle down. Then he used the methods of grinding hard and cutting flesh with blunt knives to slowly win over people's hearts, and finally completely changed the direct lineage and transferred the imperial lineage.
Although Xuanzong's brainless method of killing the whole family was the most effective, Zhu Qiyu had no intention of learning from it.
In theory, there should be a qualitative difference between killing the emperor's family and killing the prince's family.
It's easy to kill the Supreme Emperor's family, but how to deal with the aftermath? How big of a backlash will it cause? How much hidden danger is left? It's hard to tell.
Zhu Qiyu decided to endure more hardships and suffer more, and leave a clean and powerful empire to his descendants.
As for the empress dowager, the emperor, the empress, and the prince, they can all die of old age. This way the ruling and opposition parties have nothing to say.
However, it is difficult to say how long these people are destined to live.
After giving some instructions to the eunuchs who controlled the inner court, Zhu Qiyu went home and slept.
No words for several days.
On the first day of September, Shuntian Mansion will release the results on a trial basis.
In this examination, the weight of the eight-legged essay was greatly reduced, and Wang Yue, who ranked first in strategy and theory, was appointed by the emperor to be Jieyuan.
More than a thousand people took part in the Shuntian Prefecture Examination, but in the end only 121 people passed.
These one hundred and twenty-one people have obtained the title of Juren and are initially qualified to be officials.
Some were happy and some were sad, but what surprised everyone was that the emperor even announced the answer sheet for the first place.
This time another stone stirred up a thousand waves.
First of all, Wang Yue himself was completely on board the pirate ship.
Just because of the political stance expressed by Wang Yue in his policy answer sheet, he was firmly branded as an imperialist party and could not be washed away even if he wanted to.
If the Emperor's faction regains power in the future, Wang Yue will never be able to be re-employed in his lifetime.
For Wang Yue, other candidates had to admire him and had to accept his defeat. This kind of courage to make a desperate move and risk your whole life's future is something that no one else can match.
All others think about is that if they fail the test this time, they will have to take the test again next time.
Wang Yue, on the other hand, could see his true results in one exam, or he could reach high school in one fell swoop and become famous in the future, becoming the prime minister and assistant minister. Or they will be devastated and go home to farm.
In the end, Wang Yue won the bet.
No one could have imagined that today's emperor not only wanted to deny the orthodox dynasty of the Supreme Emperor, but also intended to conduct a thorough liquidation of the late emperor's Xuande dynasty.
But if this is the case, where does the current legal principle of succession come from?
Most of the people still couldn't figure it out. The emperor clearly ruled the world on behalf of the Supreme Emperor. If he denied the Supreme Emperor, could his own legitimacy be justified?
As for denying the late emperor, it challenges people's cognition even more.
Throughout the dynasties, it has been rare for an emperor to deny his father.
Even Li Shimin publicly killed his brother to seize his legitimate son, but he did not do anything to Li Yuan.
There are very few people who can understand today's world. But Wang Yue is one of them.
Wang Yue guessed Zhu Qiyu's thoughts: Zhu Qiyu wanted to base his legitimacy on civil and martial arts, rather than purely on blood.
As for why Xuanzong must be denied, it is only because what Xuanzong did was too disgusting and exceeded the limit of Zhu Qiyu's tolerance.
But there was only a little bit of tolerance left, and Zhu Qiyu didn't want to do anything to completely deny Xuanzong.
Regarding this kind of thing, Wang Yue is optimistic about its success.
The Ming Dynasty now needs to fight in the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest. Once the war is fought, the opportunity to make achievements will come.
Since Wang Ji conferred the title of Uncle Jing Yuan, there have been many civil servants who want to imitate him, especially young civil servants. Quite a few of them are eager to try.
The current situation is that important ministers such as Chen Xun, Wang Wen, and He Wenyuan are not very interested in pursuing titles. Talented and young civil servants like Xu Youzhen, and young talents like Wang Yue, had great interest in pursuing titles.
Bai Gui and Xiang Zhong, who are now counselors in military affairs, are also strong contenders for the earl.
Moreover, there is an example of buying horse bones for thousands of dollars. The current emperor, under great pressure, gave the legendary eunuch Liu Yongcheng the title of earl.
Eunuchs could be granted the title of earl. Wang Yue concluded from this that the upper limit of the title of a civil servant was definitely not just earl. As the war progresses, it is entirely possible for civil servants to be granted the title of marquis.
Wang Yue's judgment was absolutely correct. Zhu Qiyu had already made up his mind that as long as Wang Ji was willing to come to his camp, he would make Wang Ji a marquis.
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As the capital gradually returned to calm, the 100,000 imperial troops stationed in Gansu were already hard at work and sharpening their swords.
The yamen of Shaanxi Xingdusi was turned into Wang Ji's temporary central army.
Wang Ji was stationed in Ganzhou, mobilizing his army in an orderly manner, ready to attack at any time, going deep into the grasslands, defeating Ye Xian's remaining troops in one fell swoop, and welcoming the Emperor's return to the capital.
As for after welcoming back the Supreme Emperor, should we support the restoration of the Supreme Emperor and command one hundred thousand elite Ming troops in the name of the Supreme Emperor to fight back to Beijing?
The answer is no, Wang Ji would not be so crazy.
The current situation is like this. You can sympathize with the Emperor, or you can secretly express your disapproval of the Emperor in your heart, but openly supporting the Emperor's restoration is fundamentally unpopular.
Even the 100,000 elite Ming troops who had followed Wang Ji for many years would not be able to accept this logic.
The army openly supported the restoration of the Supreme Emperor. This has probably never happened before in all dynasties.
What's more important is that Wang Ji is not the only one stationed in Ganzhou now.
Li Xuan, Duke of Cao State, was appointed by the emperor as the Protector of the Western Regions. He was the general military officer who guarded Gansu Province and was also in charge of the Shaanxi Xingdu Division.
Li Xuanke was not an easy man either. In addition to mobilizing 30,000 elite troops from various guards in Gansu and gathering in Ganzhou, he also had 20,000 elite Ganliang frontier troops that the emperor had transferred back from the Ningyang Marquis army.
Therefore, Ganzhou now has a total of 150,000 troops assembled: Wang Ji's 100,000 battle-hardened Beijing camp troops, and Li Xuan's 50,000 elite Ganliang frontier troops.
Among the nine important towns that gradually formed in the Ming Dynasty, the frontier troops in Gansu Town were the most courageous. Ganzhou, Suzhou, and Liangzhou have always produced elite soldiers.
Therefore, Li Xuan's 50,000 elite border troops were enough to control the situation.
Although Wang Ji had no intention of opposing the emperor at all, Zhu Qiyu still prepared for the worst.
As for why an army of 50,000 was enough to suppress an army of 100,000, it must be attributed to the role of righteousness.
Wang Ji's 100,000-strong army consisted of old men at the top and young men at the bottom. The soldiers did not want to openly oppose the emperor for no apparent reason.
If Wang Ji directly raised a banner and asked everyone to support the restoration of the Supreme Emperor, if 10,000 people out of 100,000 were willing to support Wang Ji, it would be considered that Wang Ji's popularity was really good.
When Li Xuan's 50,000 troops suppress the 10,000 rebels, it will not be as simple as the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.
(End of chapter)
