Chapter 65 His Majesty returns to court! Please forgive me, Your Majesty!
Zhang Yan didn't expect such a thing to happen, so she couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty's flesh and blood are still here, why do you want to establish a trustworthy king?! Go and ask them, what is the reason for this! Just say that it is my palace, or wait for Your Majesty Come back, or let my son supervise the country first, let the chief assistant assist the government!"
Now is not the time when Apocalypse died in history. In history, when Apocalypse died, when Apocalypse had no children and had a personal order for Zhu Youjian to ascend the throne, Zhang Yan supported Zhu Youjian's ascension.
But now, Zhang Yan has her own son, so naturally she will not let her son lose the throne.
Besides, she is not ignorant of how the emperors of all dynasties usually treated their elder brothers and sons after inheriting the throne from their elder brothers.
Therefore, Zhang Yan did not agree.
Wei Zhongxian naturally did not support King Xin, because once King Xin ascended the throne, the civil servants would probably force King Xin to issue an order to kill him.
When the eldest son of the emperor ascends the throne, he will continue to control the inner court because of his young age, as long as he pleases the queen.
"yes!"
Therefore, Wei Zhongxian agreed to come to the gate of Xiyuan, and announced the queen's meaning to these civil servants: "My mother told me, your majesty's flesh and blood are still here, why should you establish a trustworthy king? What is the reason for this? Either wait for your majesty to come back, or Let the eldest son of the emperor supervise the country first, and let the chief assistant assist the government."
Chen Yan, Zhou Yanru and other civil officials did not expect that Queen Zhang Yan would not cooperate.
They are naturally unwilling to let the eldest son of the emperor take the throne.
One is because they know that the eldest son of the emperor is young. If the eldest son of the emperor ascends the throne, the harem will easily interfere with politics, and the queen is a female family member, who can only be in the harem and is easy to be controlled by eunuchs, so there will still be **** dictatorship;
The second is that Xishan has long been stated in the Ming Dynasty as the property of the descendant Zhang family. Even in the industrial department and ordnance department of Xishan, the Zhang family has a certain share in the name of providing land. However, Xishan now has rich coal mines and the most advanced Naturally, these civil servants do not want Xishan, a place with rich wealth, to continue to be held by the descendants, and they do not want the eldest son of the emperor to ascend the throne. The interests of the civil servants are divided among the civil servants.
"It seems that we can only remonstrate!"
Chen Yan therefore said to Zhou Yanru.
Zhou Yanru nodded: "I'm going to see Zhou Yuji!"
Chen Yandao: "I'm going to see Man Gui! As long as you convince these two people, you can directly **** King Xin to the Wenhua Palace to become the throne, and then force the Zhonggong to admit it!"
Man Gui led the Shenshu camp to guard the Xiyuan Palace.
Zhou Yuji led the forward battalion to guard the city defense of the capital.
As soon as Chen Yan saw Man Gui, he took out a large ticket and said, "As long as the general agrees to support King Xin's ascension to the throne, the three hundred thousand taels of silver ticket will belong to the general. And promise the Earl General!"
The conditions given by Chen Yan are not unreasonable, not to mention the economic benefits, and the official titles promised are not small. You must know that the titles of Ming Dynasty are only Duke, Marquis, and Bo, and it is still very difficult to be named Earl.
Man Gui thought that this is the Zhu family's country after all, and it should be up to the most important empress of the Zhu family to decide who should ascend the throne, not to mention that he has been able to reach his current position because of the support and support of his uncle Zhang Gui. , and said: "This is not what our military officials should say. It is too humiliating for you to do this. I only listen to the emperor. If the emperor is not here, then I can only listen to the empress. Please go back."
Chen Yan was so embarrassed, he didn't expect Man Gui to be so loyal, so he had to leave.
Zhou Yanru here also made a promise to Zhou Yuji: "The general and I are of the same clan. Now that the fate of the country is in crisis, whether we can stabilize our Ming society depends entirely on the general."
Zhou Yuji also thought that only the empress is the most suitable to say this to him now, and he is only today because of Zhang Gui's support. This is a disgrace to me. If His Majesty is not here, I can only obey the Queen's order, otherwise I will be suspected of disloyalty, please come back."
Zhou Yanru didn't expect that Zhou Yuji would not be moved by fame and fortune, so he had to leave Zhou Yuji's place angrily.
Zhou Yuji and Man Gui are generals whose loyalty has been tested by history after all.
One has been betrayed by the imperial court and is still loyal, and the other has blocked Li Zicheng for seven days and seven nights for the Ming court and even paid the lives of his whole family.
Otherwise, Zhang Gui would not choose these two to control the most important military power in the capital.
Of course, Tianqi asked Zhang Gui to supervise the Beijing camp in fact to prepare for something that would endanger his prince's accession to the throne one day.
"These two stupid and loyal people only listen to the queen's orders!"
After Chen Yan and Zhou Yuji exchanged information about trying to persuade Man Gui and Zhou Yuji but failed, Chen Yan couldn't help but curse.
Zhou Yanru said: "Now it seems that we can only talk to the empress first."
Chen Yan nodded, and then shouted: "The country should have a long king! What's more, at this time when the strong soldiers are overwhelming the country, I ask the empress to think twice, think about the safety of the country, and establish the king of Xin as the supervisor of the country!"
"The queen, please consider the safety of the country and choose Li Xinwang!"
"The queen, please consider the safety of the country and choose Li Xinwang!"
"The queen, please consider the safety of the country and choose Li Xinwang!"
…
The civil servants who were petitioning outside Xiyuan all shouted loudly.
"Eunuch! You must be passing on the words of the empress, we have to see the words of the empress with our own eyes!"
Chen Yan directly denied the authority of Wei Zhongxian's edict, intending to force the queen out, bypassing the inner court eunuchs, and directly forcing the queen.
"That's right, who doesn't know that the empress is a person who knows the general situation, how could there be such an oral order?! It must be you, a eunuch, who is falsely passing on the oral order!"
Zhou Yanru also understood what Chen Yan meant, and scolded Wei Zhongxian in the same way.
"Eunuch, you have the ability to come out and proclaim!"
Some civil servants directly asked Wei Zhongxian to come out to proclaim, and wanted to kill Wei Zhongxian. After all, as foreign ministers, they still dare not trespass the palace, because Man Gui did not join them, and controlled the defense of the palace. Say kill them and kill them.
Wei Zhongxian could also tell that Xiyuan's imperial guards hadn't turned to these civil servants, so they didn't stand up, but hid behind the imperial guards, and even stood directly behind Man Gui after seeing Man Gui appearing with the imperial guards himself. Behind him, he reminded: "The general should be clear about his responsibilities, as long as he trespasses in the palace, no matter who he is, he will be killed!"
"The humble job knows, father-in-law is at ease!"
Man Gui replied.
"That's good!"
Wei Zhongxian smiled.
"Eunuch, come out if you have the ability!"
"Eunuch, come out!"
There are still civil servants shouting provocatively.
But Wei Zhongxian just didn't go out.
Chen Yan and others saw that Wei Zhongxian was hiding behind Man Gui and other guards and could not come out, so he could only continue to shout: "We want to see the empress! Does the empress really want to disregard my Daming Society?!"
"Please ask the empress to set up a curtain to see the foreign ministers!"
"Please ask the empress to set up a curtain to see the foreign ministers!"
"Please ask the empress to set up a curtain to see the foreign ministers!"
…
The civil servants began to shout.
Seeing this, Wei Zhongxian had no choice but to come to Zhang Yan again and told Zhang Yan about the situation.
Zhang Yan burst into tears after hearing this: "They are bullying this palace as a woman, bullying the eldest son of the emperor who is still a child! Bullying His Majesty is not here!"
Then Zhang Yan put away her tears again, and said: "Since they don't believe you, then let me go there and prepare the phoenix chariot!"
"Follow the order!"
Not long after, Zhang Yan came to the gate of Xiyuan in a phoenix chariot, placed the bead curtain on the chariot and the palace gate of Xiyuan, and looked at the civil servants who were petitioning outside.
The civil servants also fell silent when they heard the queen coming.
Zhang Yan put down the bead curtain at this time and said: "My palace said, either wait for His Majesty to come back, or let the eldest son of the emperor supervise the country first, and the first assistant to assist the government! The emperor has a son, there is no reason to establish a vassal king!"
"Does your empress want to be regent in the harem?!"
Chen Yan asked directly after hearing this.
"Taizu's ancestors taught that the harem must not be involved in politics. In the matter of setting up a new monarch, the empress can only obey loyal ministers, how can she be arbitrary and violate the ancestral system! Is the empress really going to risk the disgrace of the world?!"
Zhou Yanru also chided and asked.
Zhang Yan was stunned for a moment and became short of breath.
…
After Zhou Yuji rejected Zhou Yanru, he did not follow up to participate in this matter. He is more concerned about whether Jiannu will attack the capital.
Because his duty is to guard the capital.
So, Zhou Yuji took all the quilts to the city wall, and prepared to guard the city day and night.
But when he took the quilt to the city wall of the capital, he saw the emperor's big banner, and then saw a guard on a horse holding a gold medal to report: "Your Majesty is returning to the court! Open the door to welcome you!"
Zhou Yuji was worried that the Son of Heaven had fallen into the hands of Jiannu, and that Jiannu had purposely slapped a banner to force the guards to trick the city gate into opening, so he did not agree until he saw Tianqi and Zhang Gui get out of the car together with his own eyes. , I hurriedly asked someone to open the city gate, and immediately worshiped Tian Qi: "The minister Zhou Yuji was ordered to guard the city, and did not dare to go out of the suburbs to meet him. Please forgive me, Your Majesty!"
(end of this chapter)