Queen Qian was originally confident in sending away these beautiful concubines, but now she was poured cold water on her head by Zhu Qizhen, and she suddenly woke up.
After a woman gets married, she must regard her husband as her heaven, not to mention that her husband is the emperor.
Zhu Qizhen now insisted on keeping these sixteen concubines, and Queen Qian could not change this decision.
And according to etiquette, concubines can indeed be given away.
When Zhu Qizhen saw Queen Qian frowning and not speaking, he continued to give instructions: "You should pay more attention to Jianshen on weekdays, although I don't like him, and I don't want to make him the prince.
But now the deal is done, and you and I must accept this reality.
Even if you give birth to a son in the future, the court will not be able to change your son to a prince.
If Jianshen dies young, or makes mistakes and is deposed, the person who will succeed him as crown prince will only be his younger brother's son. You must understand this. "
Hearing this, Queen Qian's tears almost fell from her eyes. This is really humiliating. I am obviously my legitimate wife and the main wife, but even if I give birth to a legitimate son, I still have to give way to my concubine's son.
This is not what the "Huang Ming Ancestor Instructions" says. Why did things develop to the situation they are today?
Queen Qian glanced at Zhu Qizhen secretly, complaining secretly: the Queen Mother was also born as a concubine, and her husband was also born as a concubine. Now, they all regard themselves as direct lineage sects.
If Zhu Jianshen becomes emperor in the future, he will soon be able to claim to be orthodox.
But it's obvious that she is the legitimate wife. I can finally empathize with Queen Hu's pain back then. After Queen Hu's death, there is also the current emperor's adoptive name to continue her incense. If I die without any children, I may not be as good as Queen Hu.
Zhu Qizhen knew that Queen Qian must be reluctant, but he did not notice the changes in Queen Qian's inner thoughts.
What's more, they didn't notice that now it has become a situation where both Queen Qian and Queen Zhou are begging Zhu Qiyu.
The Zhou family's status as queen did not come from the Empress Dowager Sun, nor did it come from Zhu Qizhen. According to etiquette and law, even if her biological son becomes the prince, the status of the queen still belongs only to Queen Qian, the emperor's legitimate wife and the crown prince's legitimate mother.
It was Zhu Qiyu who took advantage of the chaos when the Tumubao Incident first occurred, and when everyone was busy resisting Oala and no one was too entangled in these details, he took the opportunity to promote the Zhou family as queen in the name of mother and son.
Empress Dowager Sun, Zhu Qizhen, and even most civil and military officials were unwilling to recognize Empress Zhou from the bottom of their hearts. It was only because of the prince that I couldn't bear to say anything.
After all, the position of the prince Zhu Jianshen was already very embarrassing. If he tried to attack his biological mother's status, was he afraid that the emperor would not change the prince's position?
So now the Zhou family can only choose to continue to move closer to the emperor in order to have a satisfactory ending in the future.
The Qian family needed to rely on the emperor because Zhu Qiyu was engaged in a dispute between the direct descendants. Contrary to what most people believed, Zhu Qiyu also firmly supported etiquette and the system of direct descendants.
After lunch, Zhu Qizhen summoned Jin Ying, Xing'an, Chen Xiang, and Cao Jixiang, and took a few people to go around the Nangong inside and outside and redecorate the layout.
Zhu Qizhen discovered that if the facts were as his brother said, he could summon his cronies and arrange them as he pleased in Nangong. So I felt at ease and started to have fun with my concubines in Nangong.
Early on the next morning, Zhu Qizhen got up early and took Queen Qian, accompanied by Xing'an, Jin Ying and others, out of the South Palace, entered Donghua Gate, passed through the Wenhua Hall and the Cabinet area, and went to the Yinghua Hall to pay his respects to the Empress Dowager Sun. .
The trip went smoothly, and Zhu Qizhen finally confirmed that he could indeed move freely in the imperial city. My brother is really generous.
In fact, Zhu Qizhen didn't quite understand his brother's strategy.
The strategy chosen by Zhu Qiyu was to ban the Queen Mother Sun and leave Zhu Qizhen free to facilitate future actions.
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But it was almost noon when Zhu Qiyu dressed up leisurely and came to Qingyun Pavilion to listen to politics.
Since he just rushed home yesterday evening and had to deal with the two beloved concubines several times along the way, Zhu Qiyu had nothing to say and just leaned on the soft couch and listened to the ministers' speeches.
The first court meeting after the Emperor was respectfully returned to Beijing and formally abdicated, the people came very neatly.
Zhu Qiyu wanted to laugh when he looked at the ministers. There were four ministers of the Ministry of War in front of him, which was really strange.
However, what Zhu Qiyu did not expect was that the first thing that happened at the beginning was that Yu Qian, the Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, knelt down to plead guilty, submitted his resignation, and asked to return to his hometown after becoming an official.
Before Zhu Qiyu could react, Wang Wen, Jiang Yuan and others looked at each other deeply and were quite surprised: No wonder the emperor refused to give the "good job" of reprimanding to his cronies. Everyone thought it was a 'bad job', but as Yu Qian was talking on the stage, the Wala mission directly rioted in the audience.
Not to mention the death and injury of two thousand Jinyi guards, four ministers alone died: Hu Hui, Chen Yi, Li Xian, and Li Shi. This responsibility is not small.
Zhu Qiyu was still responsible. He ordered Chen Xun and Wang Wen to help Yu Qian stand up, and then explained to everyone with a sad face: "The riot of the Wala Mission was unexpected by everyone. Such a disaster is not expected. Anyone is willing to see it. This cannot be blamed on Aiqing or Jin Yiwei.
If it's not wrong, it's because I didn't think carefully. I originally planned to order Boyan Timur to lead an envoy to Beijing to formally resume tribute, thereby establishing the grassland pattern of the three kings Boyan Timur, Tuotuo Buhua, and Ala.
Who would have thought that these Wala people are so barbaric that they would dare to use weapons in front of the Emperor of Heaven.
Poor Mr. Hu, he ended up like this. It's all my fault. Let the cabinet draft an edict. I'm going to issue another self-incriminating edict. "
When everyone heard this, they all knelt down immediately. Chen Xun advised on behalf of everyone: "Everything your Majesty did was for the sake of reviving the Ming Dynasty. There is nothing wrong with that.
If your Majesty issues an imperial edict against yourself again, how will all civil and military officials be safe, and how will the people of the world be safe? Please do not say this again. "
Everyone also agreed and remonstrated in unison.
All the emperor's cronies could no longer accept the emperor issuing edicts to sin against themselves.
The emperor has already issued two edicts to punish himself before, and now he is coming again, so where is the emperor's majesty?
Governing the country is not just a matter of playing house, so how can it be possible to issue an edict to offend yourself just as you say.
Zhu Qiyu didn't really want to issue an edict to punish himself, he just wanted to find a way forward for everyone.
Now that the steps were in place, Zhu Qiyu no longer persisted, and ordered that Hu Hui and others be granted additional titles, and the matter was over.
Next, the monarch and his ministers took advantage of the situation to discuss the distribution of powers and responsibilities of the Ministry of War.
There are currently four ministers in the Ministry of War: Wang Ji and Luo Tong, ministers of the Ministry of War, and Yu Qian and Xu Qi, ministers of the Ministry of War in Nanjing.
Among them, Luo Tong was a close confidant of the Emperor; Wang Ji was a close confidant of the Emperor Gongrang, but he had shown his favor to the Emperor many times and basically re-aligned with the emperor.
Yu Qian and Xu Qi were veterans of Xuanzong.
Except for Xu Qi, the remaining three of these four people have great problems with each other.
To be honest, Zhu Qiyu didn't want to forcefully assign powers and responsibilities to the four people to avoid making the situation too unbearable.
So how should the matter be resolved?
(End of chapter)
