To dare to be so disrespectful to the emperor and to roll your eyes without concealment in front of the powerful Wanli Emperor is to be extremely pragmatic.
As expected, Zhu Yijun turned a blind eye to his disrespect for the king, and instead said with a hint of pleading: "Don't be silent! I just want to know, will this implicate Concubine Zheng? You have to give me a The answer must be affirmative, otherwise even if this matter becomes as fussy as the fight over national capital, I will never let go and let people investigate."
Gao Jingshi then raised his forehead and said, "I have to think about it."
"Then think quickly." Zhu Yijun immediately followed, and then sat next to him and stared at Gao Pragmatic without moving his eyes at all.
He even stared at Gao Pingshi until he got a little hairy. He frowned and said, "Your Majesty, I am a civil servant and will not jump out of the window to escape. There is no need to stare like this."
"Ah ha?" Zhu Yijun smiled awkwardly, coughed slightly, stood up and looked away, but suddenly said: "Oh, you just had an audience, no one served you tea, right? I'll call Chen Ju..."
"Your Majesty, you don't have to be like..." Before Gao Pingshi could say the word "this", Zhu Yijun had already walked quickly to the door, knocked on it, and shouted: "Chen Ju, make a pot of tea for Nanning Marquis to explore spring. "
Gao Pragmatic sat there and could only smile bitterly: The treatment is good. There are four types of tribute tea in the Ming Dynasty, namely Tanchun, Xianchun, Second Spring and Zisun. However, these four products are not divided into good and bad grades, but there are differences in the picking time and the tea tree itself.
However, the amount of Tanchun tea is often very small, and it generally does not last long, so there are very few people who can drink Tanchun tribute tea. Gao pragmatic has been a high-ranking official for many years. He has been given tea leaves many times, but in his impression, he has been given tea leaves not often.
At this time, Zhu Yijun turned back. He originally wanted to sit in front of Gao Yingshi, but he was afraid of disturbing Gao Yingshi's thinking, so he hesitated and walked to another chair to sit down.
Gao Pingshi saw it and was certain of one thing: Zhu Yijun would indeed not compromise on the matter of Concubine Zheng, and he would definitely protect Concubine Zheng to the end.
In other words, he had to come up with a way that would not implicate Concubine Zheng herself but could find out the mastermind behind the scenes, so that he could get through Zhu Yijun's ideological work.
But here is a question: Zhu Yijun believes that Concubine Zheng cannot harm him. Is his judgment trustworthy?
Gao pragmatic knew that it was not enough to look at this matter from his own point of view. He had to put himself in the shoes of Concubine Zheng in order to get a glimpse of her current thoughts.
So, how does Concubine Zheng judge her current situation? This may depend on looking at her experiences in Zhu Yijun's world over the years.
In the fifth year of Wanli, fifteen-year-old Zhu Yijun got married. In the ninth year of Wanli, he only had one son and one daughter, so Zhu Yijun decided to choose the ninth concubine. It was also in this year that the fifteen-year-old Zheng was registered as a concubine because of her outstanding beauty, ranking second among the nine concubines.
Although Zheng was initially ranked second among the nine concubines, she quickly became favored by Zhu Yijun. In the eleventh year of Wanli's reign, Mrs. Zheng became pregnant. Zhu Yijun immediately promoted her to the title of Virtuous Concubine. He also praised her in the book: "Roujiajade, graceful orchid."
From this time on, the Zheng family began a glorious palace career. After that, she gave birth to children for Zhu Yijun one after another, and her status gradually improved. She has been favored in the harem to this day - in the original history, it should be said that it was thirty-eight years.
Since she was the most favored, and the queen had never had a legitimate son before, her son Zhu Changxun, as the emperor's actual second son (actually the third son, but the second son died young), was favored far more than the emperor's eldest son Zhu Changluo, which caused national conflicts. dispute - in other words, even Zhu Changxun almost had a chance to become the prince.
And if we look at what happened later in the original history, she almost became the queen, but unfortunately, both of these things failed in the end.
At the beginning, after Zheng was named a virtuous concubine, she gave birth to the emperor's second daughter, Princess Yunhe, to Zhu Yijun. The daughter died when she was six years old. In the second year after Princess Yunhe was born, Zheng became pregnant again, and Zhu Yijun immediately ordered her to be promoted to a noble concubine. Later, Zheng gave birth to the emperor's second son, Zhu Changxu, but the little prince died on the day he was born.
Generally speaking, the death of a concubine's heir, especially the death of a son, often affects the concubine herself. However, Zhu Changxu's death did not affect Concubine Zheng's favor. Zhu Yijun even posthumously named the deceased Zhu Changxu the title of "Concubine Zheng" because of Concubine Zheng. King Biai.
Why is this? Because the fault is not hers, but Zhu Yijun's. It turned out that when Concubine Zheng was pregnant, Zhu Yijun deliberately teased her despite her pregnancy. This led to Concubine Zheng being injured and the little prince died after birth.
For this reason, Concubine Zheng blamed Zhu Yijun for a period of time, but Zhu Yijun didn't know whether it was because of a misunderstanding or because he simply loved her too much. Anyway, she was not angry and even promised her that if she gave birth to another prince, she would make him a prince. As the crown prince.
This commitment is a bit troublesome. In the fourteenth year of Wanli, Concubine Zheng gave birth to the third son of the emperor, Zhu Changxun. Zhu Yijun indeed attached great importance to her and intended to establish him as the crown prince. At the same time, despite the opposition of his ministers, he appointed Concubine Zheng as the imperial concubine.
Why did the ministers object? At that time, Jiang Yinglin, who was involved in the matter, said: "Is it inappropriate for a noble concubine to be favored by giving birth to a child? But the name is too high, so it is appropriate to worry about her being in the middle palace. Although the noble concubine is virtuous, the child she gave birth to is the emperor's first. The third son is still the second in the palace, and the concubine Gong gave birth to the Yuan heir, and the Lord is worthy of inheriting the throne. This is the birthplace of his son. Shouldn't you order him to take the lower position instead?"
To put it simply, Zhu Yijun's legitimate wife, Queen Wang, was virtuous, so there was no need to be canonized as an imperial concubine, because doing so would threaten the queen's status; secondly, Zhu Changxun was not the eldest son, and the eldest son Zhu Changluo's biological mother, Concubine Wang Gong, was not promoted to the imperial concubine at that time. It was unreasonable to grant the title of Concubine Zheng to the Jin Dynasty, so many ministers, including Jiang Yinglin, strongly opposed it.
But there was no way, Zhu Yijun just liked Concubine Zheng, so despite the objections of the officials, he named her the Imperial Concubine. By doing this, he was not just fighting against the ministers, but actually preparing to appoint Zhu Changxun as the prince. However, the matter of canonizing the crown prince was of great importance, and even if Zhu Yijun insisted, he could not succeed easily. Therefore, Gao Pragmatic intervened at the right time to persuade the emperor not to be impatient.
As a result, Zhu Yijun and the ministers refused to let go, so Zhu Yijun used "Yuan Ziying was weak" as an excuse to delay the appointment of the crown prince. Later, Zhu Changluo gradually grew up, and Zhu Yijun had no choice but to win over Gao Pragmatic's support, and then continued to delay time on the grounds that he had to wait for the queen to give birth to his legitimate son.
In the fifteenth year of Wanli, Concubine Zheng gave birth to Zhu Yijun's fourth son, Zhu Changzhi. This son died in infancy in the second year and was posthumously named King Yuanhuai. In the sixteenth year of Wanli, Concubine Zheng gave birth to Princess Lingqiu, the emperor's sixth daughter. She also died before she was one year old. In the 20th year of Wanli, Concubine Zheng gave birth to Princess Shouning, the seventh daughter of the emperor.
This was the last birth of Concubine Zheng. She gave birth to three sons and three daughters for Zhu Yijun in her life. Among them, only Zhu Changxun and Princess Shouning grew up healthy. Zhu Changxun aside, Princess Shouning, as the only surviving daughter of Concubine Zheng, was doubly doted on by her father Zhu Yijun.
Returning to Zhu Changxun, it can be said that Zhu Yijun took great pains to appoint Zhu Changxun as the prince. For example, he constantly publicly praised the imperial concubine Zheng, saying in the imperial concubine's book: "I want to govern, and I always ask for clothes before I know it; when I am in public, I often work at night."
It is clear that Queen Mingwang is so virtuous and respected by everyone in the court, but as mentioned many times in this book, the problem with the Queen is that she is too virtuous, which makes her and Zhu Yijun lose the appearance of a "human couple". Therefore, in Zhu Yijun's words, Concubine Zheng became the only woman who had the same feelings as him.
When the ministers, especially the ministers of the Xinxue School, were fighting for the emperor's eldest son's biological mother, Concubine Wang Gong, Zhu Yijun only mentioned how virtuous Concubine Zheng was, and said that she intended to appoint Zhu Changxun as the crown prince, which Concubine Zheng had never agreed to. The ministers did not believe Zhu Yijun's statement at all, so the national dispute continued to be staged.
In the twenty-fourth year of Wanli, a fire broke out in the Queen's Kunning Palace, and the fire spread to the Qianqing Palace. In desperation, both the emperor and the empress had to move to Qixiang Palace. Although the emperor and the empress lived together, Zhu Yijun often asked Concubine Zheng to serve him. As a result, rumors spread that Zhu Yijun treated the queen harshly and intended to replace her with Concubine Zheng.
However, regarding this matter, Gao Pragmatic knew that the rumors were indeed untrue, because the queen was also pregnant during this period and later gave birth to a princess. From this point of view, Zhu Yijun just still needs Concubine Zheng by his side, and he does not have any behavior to abuse the queen... In fact, it is impossible. Zhu Yijun just respects the queen more than he loves her.
Another thing that happened as a result of the fire was that Gao Pragmatic dispatched Jinghua Infrastructure to rebuild the Qianqing Palace and Kunning Palace for the emperor and empress. Shortly after the construction was completed, the empress became pregnant again - this time with the woman who had just held the full moon ceremony today. The emperor's legitimate son.
All in all, the birth of the emperor's legitimate son meant that Zhu Changxun had cut off his path to being established as prince. However, as Gao Pangshi had been secretly guarding against before, any interested person or conspirator might regain the opportunity to compete for the crown prince's position by assassinating the emperor's legitimate son.
Zhu Changluo is one of them, and Zhu Changxun is of course the other. The only difference is that the person standing behind Zhu Changluo is the Xin School, while the person standing behind Zhu Changxun is Concubine Zheng.
Thinking of this, Gao Pingshi was shocked. He suddenly realized that he seemed to have focused too much on the emperor's legitimate son, but ignored another key: the queen herself!
From the standpoint of Concubine Zheng, if the emperor's legitimate son does not exist, she will have the opportunity to rely on her divine favor to push her son to compete with Zhu Changluo. However, once the emperor's legitimate son is born, this road will be broken.
In this case, if there is any chance to save the situation, killing the emperor's legitimate son is certainly one of the options, but in fact it is not the best - the reason is simple, kill one this year, what if the queen gives birth to another next year? Is there still a chance to kill him?
Therefore, for Concubine Zheng, killing the emperor's legitimate son is not the best choice. The best choice is actually very simple - let her replace the queen!
Of course, it is not easy to replace the queen, or to put it simply, it is as difficult as climbing to the sky. Not only was the harem system of the Ming Dynasty very strict, but the political inertia and influence of the outer court were also very huge. It can be said that it was basically impossible for the concubines to have as many palace fights as in the female videos of later generations.
However, the so-called "replacing the queen" does not necessarily require the emperor to depose the queen - this seems unlikely. As mentioned just now, although Zhu Yijun loved Concubine Zheng the most, he did not have any dislike for the queen. It was just because he could not get the feeling of a "husband and wife in the world" with the queen, so he always respected the queen more than he loved her.
Respect is also an obvious positive emotion, so it is impossible for the emperor to agree to depose the queen. So at this time, for Concubine Zheng, is there any way to replace the queen?
There is only one way: the queen dies.
Gao pragmatic took a breath, thinking that this matter was getting more and more complicated. The safety of the emperor's legitimate son had been threatened before, so he guessed that the Xin School and Zhu Changluo, whom they supported, must have taken action in this matter. Then he discovered that not only Zhu Changluo and the Xin School, but also Concubine Zheng was also watching covetously.
Looking at it now, compared to Zhu Changluo, Concubine Zheng's goal may be one step further, and she may have set her sights directly on the queen.
If the queen dies, the emperor's legitimate son will lose her care. If something unexpected happens in the future... it wouldn't be a surprise. What's more, when that time comes, it won't matter if nothing happens to the emperor's legitimate son.
Why?
Once the Queen is gone, with the degree of favor she is given as Imperial Concubine Zheng, will it be difficult to sit on the Queen's throne?
Oh, will the outer court object? Of course, of course, the outer court is likely to object. But so what? The canonization of the harem is none of your outer court's business. This is something that the emperor can obviously enforce.
In this way, as long as she becomes the queen, Zhu Changxun's status will no longer be a concubine, but a legitimate son. Once Zhu Changxun becomes the legitimate son, he will be more than ten years older than the legitimate son born to Queen Wang, so he will be the legitimate brother, and he should naturally become the prince.
Thinking of this, Gao Pragmatic was already sweating behind his back, but there was one last question that he still didn't understand: If the best way for Concubine Zheng to kill the Queen at this time, then today the emperor had a conflict between herbal medicine and wine, or maybe In addition, how can we explain the sudden change in heat and cold that eventually leads to coughing up blood?
Is there any problem with medicated diet?
If there is no problem, why is the emperor so worried about Yikun Palace being investigated? If there is a problem, does Concubine Zheng know about the problems that may be caused by herbal medicine?
Who gave her the medicinal formula? Did you know that this formula is incompatible with wine? If he knew, did this person tell Concubine Zheng about this taboo? If Concubine Zheng was not informed, it was obvious that he wanted to take advantage of her, but what was the purpose of doing so?
Gao Qingshi frowned, suddenly feeling that this matter was by no means a straight line, not even two straight lines, but several threads intertwined together. Each line has its own purpose, but it has to cooperate with other lines and use each other at the same time...
You have to find a way to peel off the cocoon, but if you want to peel off the cocoon, you must first find the intersection of several lines. Where is this intersection?
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