Zhu Jianshen's loud cries echoed throughout the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
The nobles all bowed their heads and did not dare to make a sound. The little emperor's father was lost by them. Some soft-hearted civil servants could not help but secretly wipe their tears. Although they won, the price they paid was indeed too high.
Except for Zhu Jianshen's miserable cry, there was no sound in the entire hall.
"Grandma Huang, Grandma Huang, when will father come back?"
Empress Dowager Sun ignored the etiquette and sat directly on the dragon chair. She hugged Zhu Jianshen into her arms and comforted him: "Your father is fine. He will be back in a few years. Don't be afraid, Your Majesty."
"This makes me feel even more uncomfortable. Grandma Huang, although my father was kidnapped, he is the true Dragon Emperor. The Mongolian Tatars will not dare to harm him. However, those who save my father and protect the country must not dare to harm him." Soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, do they also have children as old as me, and mothers like Grandma Huang to care about them? If they die, what will the mother do if their children die? Will they be hungry or bullied? ah."
Zhu Jianshen cried harder and harder, and Empress Dowager Sun also had tears in her eyes.
"No, no, Your Majesty, whoever dares to bully our heroes of the Ming Dynasty will go hungry." After saying these words, Empress Dowager Sun couldn't help but wipe the corners of her eyes.
"Grandma Huang, we must be worthy of these soldiers who died for us. I would rather be hungry than the children who have lost their father." Zhu Jianshen said while wiping his tears.
Zhu Jianshen's words really made Empress Dowager Sun think of her own son, and also of the thousands of mothers who had lost their sons.
After working hard to raise a child and dying for the country, how should they spend their old age?
What people fear most is empathy.
The civil servants below saw their little emperor crying so miserably, and from the side, they asked the officials above the third rank in front to think about their living conditions after losing the mainstay of their family.
When the civil servants in the front row saw this scene, they all knelt down and cried even harder.
The Empress Dowager was moved by His Majesty. If you don’t shed a few tears, why don’t you, you are the only one who has a hard heart and is different from others.
When the military attachés and civil servants in the back row who didn't know what was going on saw the front row, they all knelt down and burst into tears.
Regardless, we will kneel and cry.
In an instant, everyone in the Hall of Supreme Harmony fell to their knees, and the eunuchs and maids did not dare to stand. They also lightly wiped the corners of their eyes.
But Yu Qian, Zhang Fu and others were stunned by Zhu Jianshen's words.
At such a young age, his thoughts are so clear and he can think of so many things.
Gao Juyi, Min Yuan, and several censors who were confronting Yu Qian felt that they had nowhere to put their old faces, as if they were forcing the emperor to shed tears in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
"Your Majesty, I won't starve them, and I won't starve you either." Empress Dowager Sun lovingly wiped the tears and snot from Zhu Jianshen's face with a handkerchief.
Then he patted Zhu Jianshen on the back and said, "Your Majesty, don't cry. This is your first time in court, so you must sit still."
Zhu Jian took a deep breath and nodded.
Empress Dowager Sun felt relieved when she saw Zhu Jianshen who had stopped crying, and then returned to her seat.
Looking at the officials below who were crying, he said: "Everyone, please get up."
The Empress Dowager spoke, and all the ministers stood up one after another. There were tears on the faces of the civil servants. Some officials who were hard-hearted and did not like to cry, pinched their own flesh to squeeze out some tears.
The generals and nobles were used to seeing life and death, so they really couldn't cry. They just looked livid and didn't dare to show frivolous expressions. biquge.biz
"Your Majesty is merciful. You have all heard what he just said. For the sake of His Majesty's merciful heart, we must overcome even the most serious difficulties. He ordered the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Personnel. The three ministries should immediately come up with detailed regulations within one day. , no more prevarication, I and the Emperor will see your charter and plan in the evening, otherwise I will give way."
Yu Qian held high righteousness, and Min Yuan immediately came out to receive the order.
Then all the officials knelt down and saluted: "The Emperor is wise, the Queen Mother is wise."
After all the fuss, things still had to be done, which made Gao Juyi and Min Yuan regretful.
But Zhu Jianshen, who was sitting on the dragon chair, was confused. He had been so involved in crying just now that he hadn't reacted yet.
Zhu Jianshen is a child, and it is not too much for a child to be sentimental.
I didn't help Yu Qian, I just told the truth.
The second paragraph of the memorial is about Zhu Qizhen.
Because Zhu Jianshen listened very carefully about his father's affairs.
The officials began to argue and make suggestions on how to welcome the Emperor back to satisfy the Emperor's yearning for his father and the Queen Mother's yearning for her son.
The civil servants spoke impassionedly, but as Zhu Jianshen listened, they were just words for show and had no real effect.
"The army went north to drive out the Mongolian Tatars and force them to hand over the emperor."
This is just a joke. Just after the war, the court has not yet breathed a sigh of relief. If the war starts again, it will be fought at the doorstep.
"Send envoys with gold, silver and jewels to exchange for the Supreme Emperor."
If you give pensions to soldiers who died in battle and cry poverty, you can replace an expired emperor and you will have money. Besides, if you take the initiative to go there, it will only make the Mongols sit back and raise the price.
But in the end, Gao Juyi said something that made Zhu Jianshen feel threatened.
He set his sights on the Mongols.
There are currently 20,000 Mongolian soldiers captured by the Ming Dynasty. If these prisoners are exchanged for the Supreme Emperor, the Mongols will definitely not refuse.
This suggestion made Zhu Jianshen take a breath of air. If he really did this, his father might not be able to come back in two or three months.
As a young emperor who has not yet decided on a reign name, after his father comes back, he does not need to trouble the Ministry of Rites to come up with a reign name, and he can just start being orthodox in fifteen years.
But Gao Juyi's words were unanimously opposed by Yu Qian and the nobles.
The weaker the Mongols, the more beneficial it is to the Ming Dynasty. They can welcome the Emperor back through other means, but handing over the prisoners will not work.
After listening to the words of the nobles and Yu Qian, Zhu Jianshen breathed a sigh of relief.
Then there was another quarrel.
It was also during this quarrel that old matters were brought up again.
A royal censor impeached the British Duke Zhang Fu for resisting the imperial edict in Datong, which resulted in the Supreme Emperor's military defeat and humiliation in northern Xinjiang. Now Zhang Fu spoke out against the exchange of prisoners for the emperor, just to preserve his own selfishness.
After hearing this, Zhu Shou and other nobles became furious. If they were not in front of the imperial court, they would have beaten the imperial censor long ago for fear of scaring the little emperor.
After Zhang Fu listened, his expression was normal.
He knelt down and shouted: "Please, the Queen Mother, please punish the old minister for his crime."
After Zhang Fu knelt down, Zhu Shou, the Duke of Chengguo, also knelt down quickly, and the nobles who followed the emperor's military commander also knelt down and shouted to apologize.
Empress Dowager Sun looked at Zhang Fu with both intolerance and resentment.
Zhu Jian took a deep look at his grandma, then looked at Zhang Fu, and sighed silently in his heart. If Zhang Fu hadn't retained the Ming Dynasty's military power, I'm afraid this Beijing defense battle wouldn't have achieved such great results. In other words, it is really easy to attack and defend Ming Dynasty and Mongolia...
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