Qianxue smiled and said: "My husband's guess can only be said to be somewhat related."
"A bit related?"
"Well, the civil and military officials did not say that they wanted to depose the emperor, but they requested that all the beloved concubines around the emperor be sent to the Clothing Bureau."
"ah?"
When Zhu Qiyu heard this, he couldn't believe his ears. There were people in this world who really disliked longevity. And with so many people showing up all of a sudden, are they really sure that the law will not punish the public?
Picking up the top memorial and flipping through it, Zhu Qiyu's brows almost knitted together.
This memorial happened to be written by Zou Gan, the Minister of Rites, and it was even more serious than the last time.
Last time, they only required a draft and the establishment of a queen. This time, they also had to draft a draft, establish a queen, and confer a concubine. They also had to be virtuous, virtuous, and abide by etiquette.
That's not all. The current concubines will be demoted to palace maids and sent to the Clothing Bureau to do hard work for the crime of seducing the Lord and damaging the dragon's body.
Zhu Qiyu threw the memorial to the ground and snorted coldly.
Immediately afterwards, Zhu Qiyu saw a magical scene that he would never forget: the three women Qianxue, Suxi, and Ningxiang burst into tears at the same time. After a while, it turned into soft sobs again.
Women are all flesh and blood made of water, Zhu Qiyu finally saw this today.
The three little women were full of grievances and tried their best to suppress their tears. Their sobbing expressions made Zhu Qiyu even more distressed.
Lin Xiangyu hugged Qianxue into her arms and comforted her, while Zhu Qiyu sat down, pulled Ningxiang and Suxi to sit on his lap, and then cursed bitterly:
"These bastards, just wait for me to give them a huge surprise. When the time comes, they will have no place to cry. I dare to make my beloved concubine sad, and it will be in vain if I don't treat them submissively." For the emperor."
Lin Xiangyu asked curiously: "What a big surprise, my husband can't kill them, right?"
Zhu Qiyu shook his head and gave a four-word reply:
"Kill and kill!"
"You still have to punish someone for killing someone? How?"
Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "You just wait and see, in ten months at most, I will depose Sun's queen mother. If they dare to depose my beloved concubine, I will depose their queen mother."
Then they will find that my beloved concubine is still fine, but their queen mother has disappeared.
Just say surprise or not, accident or surprise, right? "
Hearing a puff, before Lin Xiangyu said anything, Ningxiang had already burst into laughter.
Zhu Qiyu asked curiously: "Why are you laughing, my beloved concubine? Are you laughing at me for being too whimsical?"
Ningxiang sobbed and smiled sweetly: "No, my husband deposed the Queen Mother and vented our anger. The slave family is very happy."
After saying that, Ningxiang kissed Zhu Qiyu heavily on the lips.
"Silly girl, deposing the Queen Mother is a huge matter. Just say this, do you believe that I can do it?"
Ningxiang replied with a serious face: "My husband never lies, and he has never lied to us. So, whatever my husband says, the slave family will believe it."
These words made Zhu Qiyu feel extremely comfortable. He couldn't help but nod his head and said to his beloved concubines: "Call your concubines and meet the generals of Yingzhou Guard and Tiance Guard together. Then open our treasury and give it to the two guards. An additional year of military pay will be given."
After saying that, Zhu Qiyu added: "You have to do a complete show. You have to act like I can't see what's going on, and it's up to you to appease the pro-army soldiers.
However, don't explicitly say that I am seriously ill.
We can't lie to others to the point of death. Anyway, we only said to the outside world that I was sick and needed to rest for a month.
The civil and military officials themselves misunderstood and over-associated, so I can't blame them.
If a group of ministers look forward to the emperor's death every day, they will be completely hopeless. "
When the four beloved concubines heard this, they were dumbfounded. A year's military salary for two personal guards cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. The person who staged this scene was really willing to spend money.
However, the four beloved concubines all regard their husbands as their heaven. Whatever Zhu Qiyu orders, the four of them will resolutely implement it.
A night of silence.
Early the next morning, all the memorials were returned to the cabinet intact.
In the afternoon, the concubine took Lin Xiangyu, Qianxue, and Suxi to meet Fengtian Dusi and the generals in charge of Yingzhou Guard and Tiance Guard.
The futures of Zhao Xuan, Gu Cong, Liu Chang and others are all tied to Zhu Qiyu. If Zhu Qiyu falls, the best outcome for these people is to return to Baoding, change Fengtian Dusi back to Daning Dusi, and continue to sit on the bench.
If Emperor Gongrang is more cautious after his restoration, it will be a question of whether everyone's heads can be saved.
So Zhao Xuan and others accepted the order from the concubine, thanked the emperor for the reward, and returned to their camps.
According to the arrangement of the concubine, the Tiance Guards in the city were loose on the outside and tight on the inside. On the surface, everything was business as usual.
The Yingzhou Guards in the western suburbs placed the entire Prince Qi Mansion under full martial law. No one is allowed to come within three miles of Prince Qi's mansion.
Surrounding Prince Qi's Mansion are the fertile fields in western Beijing that have been transferred to the name of the Prince's Mansion. For the tenants who rented these fertile fields, the prince government exempted them from rent for three years, which was very popular among the people. Therefore, martial law is not difficult. As long as a stranger approaches, the tenants will rush to report and receive rewards.
Coupled with the patrolling of Yingzhou Guards, it was completely isolated from the prying eyes of the government and the public.
Before dark, the news spread throughout the government and the public.
For Emperor Gongrang, Empress Dowager Sun, and many civil and military officials, it was as difficult as going to heaven to know the true situation of the emperor.
First of all, you can't get close to Prince Qi's Mansion secretly.
Secondly, if there is official business, the only people who can swagger in are the servants who deliver the memorials; there are also the emperor's close officials such as He Yi and Lian Gang.
Finally, and the most troublesome thing, the Lingyu Palace where the emperor and his beloved concubines lived was even more tightly guarded.
Zhu Qiyu went to extreme extremes. In the past, there were two little maids who could enter to send emergency reports, but now the little maids are not allowed in.
If there is really an emergency, please ring the bell outside the palace gate as a signal. The beloved concubines heard the bell and went to the palace gate to deal with it.
It was like Zhu Qiyu built a big prison for himself and locked himself in it.
As the concubine said before, you ministers, if you have the ability, mobilize the army and attack Prince Qi's palace, and then the emperor will let you do whatever you want.
As for how many troops need to be used, it's up to you. Prince Qi's Mansion is guarded by 30,000 elite state guards. If you mobilize 10,000 or 20,000 people, I'm afraid it won't be enough.
The ministers were completely speechless by the emperor's family's arrogance. According to the Ming Dynasty's system, it was simply impossible to mobilize more than 30,000 troops from the capital to attack the emperor's residence without the emperor's approval.
At dinner time, Queen Mother Sun came to Nangong in person to visit Zhu Qizhen and the second prince.
The second prince was seriously ill and could only breathe a sigh of relief.
Preliminary results have been obtained regarding the poisoning of the second and third princes. All kinds of evidence point to Jin Ying's conspiracy to poison the prince and thereby frame the emperor.
With all the personal and material evidence, even Zhu Qizhen had no choice but to believe it.
Therefore, there was a lot of bad blood between Zhu Qizhen and the Sun family: in order to preserve the Sun family, her mother actually used the method of killing the emperor's heirs to put pressure on the emperor.
Putting the interests of her mother's family above her husband's family made Zhu Qizhen's outlook on life somewhat subverted.
Didn’t the three obediences and four virtues mentioned by the sage mean that one should obey one’s father at home, obey one’s husband when married, and obey one’s son after one’s death?
In the past few days, when Zhu Qizhen was walking in the garden, he faintly heard rumors spreading among the palace people, saying that he was not the Queen Mother's biological son, but the son of the palace people. Then after he was born, he was jointly arranged by the imperial grandmother, mother and father, and was raised as the mother and son.
If he had heard this kind of rumor before, Zhu Qizhen would have just laughed it off, leaving the palace people with water in their heads.
But now, if he is really not the Queen Mother's biological child, then the matter of the second and third princes will be explained. Anyway, the two princes are not the Queen Mother's grandchildren, so what's the point of sacrificing them to preserve the Sun family.
As for the palace maid giving birth to a child, is it feasible for the queen mother to take it away?
Although it sounds ridiculous, Zhu Qizhen really dare not completely deny its possibility. Because there is a very intuitive case in front of me. His younger brother Zhu Qiyu and his mother Wu Taifei were the guilty daughters of the Han Dynasty palace, and were later banished to the palace to do hard labor.
Then, Concubine Wu was favored by the late emperor by chance and gave birth to Zhu Qiyu.
For a long period of time, Wu Taifei and Zhu Qiyu had no name or status, and they were kept secretly outside the palace.
Therefore, it is possible that an unknown palace maid secretly gave birth to the late emperor's son. It's possible that it was kept secret after giving birth.
In Zhu Qizhen's opinion: "My younger brother was secretly born by a palace maid, so it is also possible that he was secretly born by a palace maid." Therefore, it is entirely possible that the Queen Mother secretly takes the son of a palace man as her own son, and it is definitely not a fantasy.
The mother was just a royal concubine when she gave birth to a child, and she was absolutely incapable of concealing the truth on her own.
However, the late emperor doted on his mother alone and was most likely willing to help.
The Queen Mother was promoted by the Empress Dowager, and the Empress Dowager was probably willing to help.
If the three of them work together, it will not be a problem to hide the truth.
If this is the case, everyone who knew about it at that time may have been dealt with, including the palace maid who gave birth. '
(End of chapter)
