It is no exaggeration to say that this is the brightest spring in ten years. After the end of the eunuch's rule, the Ming Dynasty's officialdom improved slightly. The loyal ministers and generals headed by Qian Qianyi and Yuan Chonghuan took power, and Liu Ziguang
With such a victorious general, the Ming Dynasty and ZTE are just around the corner
, the spy activities in the two factories and one bathroom are also much gentler than before. State affairs can be discussed in teahouses and restaurants. Officials don’t have to worry about being picked up by gossips in the middle of the night. Even the prices of tobacco and other luxury goods shipped from Shanghai have dropped.
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Before the Spring Festival, the imperial court executed a group of people, mainly the former Chief Eunuch Nine Thousand Years Old Huang Jinrong, supplemented by middle-level eunuchs such as Cui Chengxiu, and mixed with Hong who had bullied the emperor's mother and daughter.
A group of people from Ze County waited. Some of these people were imprisoned and some were beheaded. Caishikou killed them all in a row for more than ten days. From then on, the remaining evil of the eunuchs was wiped out.
The punishments imposed by the Hou Party were relatively mild. Most of the people were exiled and their property was confiscated. The empress dowager in the cold palace was still alive. It was not that Zhu You was reluctant to kill her, but she was just afraid that the royal majesty would be damaged. Anyway, Li
The Queen Mother added a small amount of poison to her daily meals. She would die within a year, and no one would be able to fault the Emperor by then.
After the death of Empress Dowager Li, the position of Empress Dowager naturally fell to the emperor's biological mother, Princess Nangong. After entering the palace, Princess Nangong was promoted to the title of Crown Princess first, and she was only one step away from the Empress Dowager.
Concubine Nangong was kind-hearted and uncontested, and her temper was completely different from that of Empress Dowager Li. In addition, the empress was only a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, so the concubines who had been suppressed by Empress Dowager Li began to be unwilling to be lonely.
stand up.
Princess Song is the most typical one. Her natal family itself is not very powerful, but she has a cousin who is very important. She is the wife of Qian Qianyi, the head of the cabinet. With this relationship, even the current Chief of Ceremonies, Eunuch Wei,
Everyone has to look up to her. Concubine Song is very good at management. Since the fall of Empress Dowager Li, she has started to run her own network, curry favor with Concubine Nangong, show her favor to Duke Wei, strengthen contact with her cousins outside the palace, and have a bunch of subordinates.
The eunuchs and maids were ordered around by her, snooping around for gossip and so on. It stands to reason that this long-dormant concubine can do these things. As for the old beauty in the palace, in addition to these things to interest them, she also
What can there be?
Song Taifei soon found the most challenging task, which was to be a matchmaker for the eldest princess of the current dynasty. The eldest princess was the emperor's biological sister. She had suffered a lot since she was a child and lived among the people and suffered so many grievances. The emperor was so kind to this sister.
She is extremely caring. The configuration of the guards, eunuchs and maids are all beyond the standard. They are higher than the queen, and they give her whatever she wants. She can do whatever she wants. Some time ago, the eldest princess went to Jiangnan for a month. She stayed there for a month.
This has been impossible for any princess in the past, and according to Dongchang's internal information, the last time the two senior officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate were dismissed seemed to have something to do with the eldest princess. Anyway, whoever messed with the eldest princess will definitely not get good results.
, whoever climbs the line of the eldest princess will achieve great success.
It is the bounden duty of women to get married and to maintain matchmaking. If it is a political marriage, it would be more interesting to take this matter. Concubine Song, who had already had this idea, hit it off with Mrs. Qian who came to the palace to inquire about the news. The two sisters hit it off.
After much discussion, the eldest princess's husband was chosen. It was none other than Hou Fangyu, the most talented man in the south of the Yangtze River today. Hou Fangyu's relationship with the Qian family was extraordinary, and his own resources were also very rich.
With such a dazzling title as the new champion, and with the support of the Donglin Party, it is inevitable that he will become a general or a prime minister in the future. It is natural that Song Taifei will have a big contribution in helping him contact this marriage, whether it is the emperor or the empress dowager.
Concubine Song, as well as all the people outside, should be grateful to her for her kindness.
As for the scandal between the eldest princess and the minister in charge of the bodyguard, Song Taifei, who has a lot of eyes and ears, naturally knows about it, but she is not optimistic about this relationship. Liu Ziguang is a married man, let alone mention it. Even if he is not married, he is from a low background.
Such hard shortcomings as culture, even though the emperor has given him a Jinshi background and the title of Grand Bachelor of Wuyingdian, it still can't change the fact that he was born a slave. Moreover, Song Taifei has experienced so many ups and downs, and she is even more beautiful than the forest.
It must be destroyed. Liu Ziguang is so prosperous in his twenties and will definitely not end well in the future. Not to mention that he has already aroused the suspicion of Eunuch Wei and the Donglin Party. If this trend continues, he will also arouse the suspicion of the emperor.
As expected.
Although Liu Ziguang has great power, Song Taifei is not very afraid of him, because Liu Ziguang is only responsible for the security work outside the palace and cannot take care of various matters inside the palace. As an old man who makes a living in the deep palace, Song Taifei knows that she should rely on
It was Wei Zhongxian, the chief eunuch in charge of rituals. She handled this very well. Wei Zhongxian, the concubine who was good at wining over, also valued her. After all, having another ally was not a disadvantage.
Supporting Hou Fangyu to become the consort is a major project of the Donglin Party, in order to enable the younger generation of the Donglin system to quickly gather strength and compete with the equally young Liu Ziguang. After all, the old Donglins are already quite old.
Therefore, this project must succeed and cannot fail.
While the Donglin Party members were busy arranging the affairs of the Prince Consort, Liu Ziguang was not idle either. He was the minister in charge of the bodyguards and was not given for free. He also had many eyes and ears in the palace. At what time and where was Mrs. Qian?
After meeting with Concubine Song, what they said was recorded in detail in Liu Ziguang's public case. Liu Ziguang knew exactly what these people had in mind, but he didn't have a good way to deal with this matter. Could he?
He ran to the emperor and said: Your sister and I are in love, please let the eldest princess marry me as a concubine. Isn't that asking for death? The only feasible way at present is to attack Hou Fangyu and let the emperor's family know what this new top scholar is not.
Good bird.
It is not difficult to stop this marriage. What is difficult is how to get the eldest princess to marry him. This is a big project. Liu Ziguang is not a fool. Of course he will not give up such excellent political resources, not to mention that there is a real relationship between him and the eldest princess.
Love, on that peach-filled dusk last spring, Liu Ziguang made a promise to Zhu Cheng for the first time, and when he was about to go to the Taiwan Strait, he made a promise to the princess again. If he still broke his promise like the first time, Liu Ziguang himself would
I feel shameless to see people.
There is no doubt about the eldest princess's affection for her, but the opinions of the princess and the emperor are also very important. It would be fine if Zhu Cheng was a girl from an ordinary family, but she is a member of the royal family, the most noble unmarried woman in the world. No matter how powerful Liu Ziguang is,
Da Ye is only a minister of the Zhu family, and he is a married minister, so this matter is extremely difficult to handle. Liu Ziguang has not come up with a decent solution until now, and a resourceful person like Peng Jinrong cannot come up with a good countermeasure.
, the only feasible option was for Liu Ziguang to divorce himself with a divorce letter, and then marry the eldest princess as a second-married man. This method was rejected by Liu Ziguang. He had not yet done that, and he could not do it because he did not hurt.
Zhu Cheng hurt Peng Jinrong and divorced just a few months after getting married. How could she have the face to see anyone in the future?
Liu Ziguang's worries were the same as those of Nangong Crown Princess. She knew her daughter better than her mother. How could the Crown Princess not know her daughter's thoughts? She originally planned to betroth her daughter to Liu Ziguang, but she missed the opportunity by going back and forth, and Liu Ziguang actually got married.
Well, speaking of it, Princess Nangong complained a little bit about Liu Ziguang, complaining that he made her daughter distracted all day long, and did not think about food or food. So when Princess Song came to offer a treasure with a few poems by Hou Fangyu, the new champion, the Princess came up
After all, what mother doesn’t want her daughter to marry a good man? Although Liu Ziguang is good, he has no chance. Among the other candidates, Hou Fangyu is indeed the most suitable person. He is the son of the Minister of Rites. He has a strict family background and is well-educated.
, he is another top scholar in a new subject. He has excellent literary talent and talents. He is not too old. He looks like a prince in his early twenties. He is simply a prince-in-law tailor-made for the princess. The princess is very satisfied and decides to pass on the decree to let the young prince enter the palace once.
Look at each other and see what the person looks like and what his temperament and speech are like. If you are satisfied, you might as well tell the emperor to confirm the marriage, so as to stop your daughter's random thoughts.
An overt and covert fight began around the eldest princess's marriage. Liu Ziguang first asked 50% of the army to arrest Princess Song's nephew and find some charges for him. After all, these officials' children's butts were not clean. Of course, this was just
A small intimidation to express his protest against Concubine Song. Of course, Qian Qianyi found a way to fish this person out quickly, but Liu Ziguang's anger had been successfully conveyed.
Qian Qianyi was unmoved. On the contrary, Liu Ziguang's actions gave him more confidence, "This is a sign of fierceness and softness." Qian Qianyi said to Hou Xun, and Hou Xun also agreed. The water in the capital is deep, not only
Liu Ziguang's family is the only one with more than 100,000 troops and Jin Yiwei.
, Dongchang, and other ministries of the imperial court, Liu Ziguang's tentacles did not extend that long. The matter involves the royal family, who is afraid of Liu Ziguang? Does the candidate for the consort summoned by the Queen Mother still have the guts not to be allowed to enter the palace?