Chapter 282: Chaos inside and outside the palace ()
Dare to be so disrespectful to the emperor and roll your eyes without concealment in front of the powerful Wanli Emperor, this is very 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, then sat next to him and stared at Gao Pragmatic without moving his eyes at all.
He even stared at Gao Pingshi so hard that 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 lightly, 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 quickly walked to the door, knocked on the door, and shouted: "Chen Ju, make a pot of tea for Nanning Hou. I want to explore spring."
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Gao Pragmatic sat there and could only smile bitterly: The treatment is good. There are four types of tribute tea from the Ming Dynasty, namely Tanchun, First Spring, Second Spring, and Purple Bamboo Shoots. However, these four types are not divided into good and bad grades.
There is a difference between the picking time and the tea tree picking itself.
However, the amount of "Tanchun" 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, and when he was given the tea
It's not a lot, but in my impression, it's not that often when I get Tanchun.
At this time, Zhu Yijun turned back again. 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, I had to come up with a way that would not implicate Concubine Zheng herself but could uncover the mastermind behind the scenes, so that I 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 standpoint. 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 herself judge the current situation she is in? This may depend on her experience in Zhu Yijun's world over the years.
In the fifth year of Wanli, the 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 married because of her beauty.
Outstanding, she was registered as a Shu concubine, ranking second among the nine concubines.
Although Zheng was ranked second among the nine concubines at first, she quickly became favored by Zhu Yijun. In the eleventh year of Wanli, Zheng became pregnant, and Zhu Yijun immediately promoted her to the title of Virtuous Concubine and praised her in the book: "Roujia"
Jade quality, 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 controversy.
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 first, after Zheng was named a virtuous concubine, she gave birth to the emperor's second daughter, Princess Yunhe, to Zhu Yijun. The daughter died at the age of six. In the second year after Princess Yunhe was born, Zheng became pregnant again, and Zhu Yijun immediately ordered her to be killed.
She was granted the title of Noble Concubine by the Jin Dynasty. 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, the death of Zhu Changxu 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 turns out that when Concubine Zheng was pregnant, Zhu Yijun deliberately played with her regardless of her pregnancy. This led to Concubine Zheng being injured and the little prince died at birth.
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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 a prince again, he would make him a prince.
For the crown prince.
This promise 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 make her the crown prince. At the same time, despite the opposition of the officials, he named Concubine Zheng the imperial concubine.
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Why did the ministers object? At that time, Jiang Yinglin, who was involved in the matter, said at the time: "How can it be said that it is not appropriate for the imperial concubine to be favored by her pregnancy? But the name is too high, so it is appropriate to consider it, and she will not be forced in the middle palace. Although the imperial concubine is favored,
Xian, the third son born to the emperor is also the second son in the palace, and the concubine Gong gave birth to the Yuan heir, and the master is worthy of inheriting the throne. This is his birth, should Gu be ordered to come down?"
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 even promoted.
It was unreasonable to grant the title of Concubine Zheng to the Jin Dynasty, so many ministers, including Jiang Yinglin, strongly opposed it.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But there is no way, Zhu Yijun just likes Concubine Zheng, so despite the objections of the ministers, he named her the imperial concubine. He did this not just with the ministers
Dou Qi was actually preparing for the appointment of Zhu Changxun as the crown prince. But the canonization of 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 Gao Pragmatic's support, and then used the important
On the pretext of waiting for the queen to give birth to a legitimate son, she continued to delay the process.
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 the emperor's sixth daughter, Princess Lingqiu.
She died before her first birthday. 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 did not mention it first. Princess Shouning, as the only surviving daughter of Concubine Zheng, was also affected by
His father Zhu Yijun’s love was doubled.
Returning to Zhu Changxun, it can be said that Zhu Yijun took great pains to appoint Zhu Changxun as the crown prince. For example, he continued to publicly praise Concubine Zheng, and said in the imperial concubine's book: "I have a plan to govern, and I ask for clothes every time I don't understand; Er Su solemnly
When I'm in public, I always work at night."
It is clear that Queen Mingwang is so virtuous and respected by the whole 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". So, under Zhu Yijun
In his words, Concubine Zheng became the only woman who had the same feelings as him.
When all the officials, especially those from 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 also said that she intended to appoint Zhu Changxun as the crown prince, which Concubine Zheng had never agreed to.
I don't believe Zhu Yijun's statement at all, so the national dispute will continue to be staged.
In the 24th year of Wanli, a fire broke out in the Queen's Kunning Palace, and the fire spread to Qianqing Palace. In desperation, both the emperor and the empress had to move to Qixiang Palace. Although the empress and empress lived together, Zhu Yijun often let Zheng
The imperial concubine was waiting at her side. As a result, rumors spread that Zhu Yijun treated the queen harshly and intended to replace her with imperial 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, so there is nothing wrong with it.
The act of abusing the queen... is actually 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 become emperor, and the queen rebuilt Qianqing Palace and Kunning Palace. Shortly after the completion of the construction, the queen 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 means that Zhu Changxun has cut off the road to being established as the prince. However, as Gao Pangshi has been secretly guarding against before, any interested person or conspirator may regain the position of crown prince by assassinating the emperor's legitimate son.
Opportunity.
Zhu Changluo is one of them, and Zhu Changxun is of course the other. The only difference is that behind Zhu Changluo stands the Xin School, while behind Zhu Changxun stands 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 before, but ignored another key: the queen herself!
From the standpoint of Concubine Zheng, without the emperor's legitimate son, she would have the opportunity to rely on her divine favor to promote her son to compete with Zhu Changluo. However, once the emperor's legitimate son is born, this road will be cut off.
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 very simple, if you 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.
There are so many palace fight scenes, it can be said that it is basically impossible.
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 affection for the queen.
The bad feeling is simply because I can't get the feeling of "husband and wife on earth" from the queen, and I always respect the queen more than I love 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, and said in his heart that this matter was getting more and more complicated. The safety of the emperor's legitimate son had been threatened before, and he had guessed that the Xin School and Zhu Changluo, whom they supported, must have done something in this matter.
Then I discovered that not only Zhu Changluo and the Xin School, but also Concubine Zheng Huang was also watching with eager eyes.
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 big surprise. Besides, by that time, 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 favored by Princess Zheng, will it be difficult to sit on the throne of the queen?
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Oh, the foreign court will object? Of course, of course, the foreign court is likely to object. But, so what? The canonization of the harem is none of your foreign court's business, this is the emperor
It's obviously enforceable.
In this way, as long as she becomes the queen, Zhu Changxun's identity will no longer be a concubine, but a legitimate son. Once Zhu Changxun becomes a legitimate son, he will be more than ten years older than the legitimate son of the emperor who was born to Queen Wang before, that is, he will be a legitimate brother.
, he should naturally become the prince.
Thinking of this, Gao Pragmatic was already sweating behind his back, but there was one last question 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 medicinal diet?
Who was the person who gave her the medicinal diet formula? Did he know that this formula was taboo with wine? If he knew, did he tell Concubine Zheng about this taboo? If he didn't tell Concubine Zheng, he obviously wanted to take advantage of her, but like this
What is the intention behind doing this?
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 thread had its own purpose, but it had to be intertwined with the other threads.
Cooperate with each other 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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