Chapter 5 The Second Queen Mother

How to convince the Queen Mother?

If you want to persuade someone, the most important thing is to be moved by emotion and understand by reason.

For a woman, the most important thing is the former.

To be honest, Zhu Qizhen didn't have much affection for the Queen Mother.

It's not that Zhu Qizhen is unfilial, but that the relationship between the Queen Mother and Empress Sun is awkward, and Zhu Qizhen went to Cining Palace. Moreover, the family relationship between the royal family is weak. It's not that the royal family is naturally like this, but the situation dictates it.

Both the Queen Mother and Zhu Qizhen were surrounded by a group of people waiting on them. The palaces of both sides were far away, and it would take several miles to walk there.

Except for greetings, Zhu Qizhen rarely saw the Queen Mother.

And feelings are something that has always been cultivated.

Even if they are biological mother and son, they have never lived together and have no relationship.

But Zhu Qizhen knew that the Queen Mother must have feelings for one person, that is Emperor Xuanzong. This was his entry point. Zhu Qizhen fell to the ground and said with a cry in his voice: "My grandson, I just want to survive.

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The Queen Mother said angrily: "Who dares to kill you?"

Zhu Qizhen said: "Why don't you dare? Emperor Taizong entered Nanjing, what will happen to Prince Yiwen's lineage? The common people of Wu are still inside the palace wall. Please consider the queen mother's sake and grant her grandson's death here."

Don't let your grandson be humiliated too much."

The Queen Mother finally turned around and said, "Why is this so?"

Zhu Qizhen said: "If you are born as a prince, if you are not an emperor, you will naturally end up like this. How can your grandson be an exception? But after your grandson's death, please ask the queen mother to take care of your second brother and seal the vassal in a remote and smoky place as soon as possible.

Maybe you can save your life just in case."

The Queen Mother is old.

There were not many wrinkles on the Queen Mother's face, but most of her hair was gray. However, she was dressed very delicately and her whole body was meticulous. However, her face was expressionless, but her eyes were full of bloodshot eyes.

I don’t know whether it was because I was sad about the death of Emperor Xuanzong, or I was moved by Zhu Qizhen’s words before me.

Zhu Qizhen did not raise his head, and continued to bury his head on the ground, saying: "Even if the Queen Mother does not miss her grandson, she must still miss her father. She cannot let him cut off his incense."

The Queen Mother said: "Stop talking, you are the prince of Ming Dynasty, no one can touch you. Get up."

Zhu Qizhen raised his head, and he didn't know when his face was filled with tears. If it was before, there was a trace of deliberateness, but after that, he expressed the fear in his heart.

The Queen Mother looked at Zhu Qizhen's face. Between his eyebrows, he could still see the appearance of his son, Emperor Xuanzong, and said, "Don't worry, I'm determined not to do this."

If Zhu Qizhen's performance deceived the Queen Mother, he underestimated the Queen Mother.

The Empress Dowager Zhang had already married Emperor Renzong before her death. She had seen many storms and storms. She was a civil servant and a military general, as domineering as Ji Gang and as feminine as Yao Guangxiao. As for the generals, they were like Zhang Fu.

No one has seen her.

Zhu Qizhen's little trick, if he could hide it from her.

But she was so moved because what Zhu Qizhen said was true.

The only truth in the world is the most hurtful.

Zhu Qizhen thought that the Queen Mother was not close to him, so he wanted to change his throne, but he underestimated the Queen Mother.

Although Queen Sun judged a gentleman with a villain's heart, she protected Zhu Qizhen tightly and did not let the Queen Mother get involved. She almost moved like a cat with fried hair.

It's just that his son Xuanzong held this foxy son in high regard, so it would be too much to have a conflict with his son over such a trivial matter.

But it doesn't mean that the Queen Mother doesn't like his grandson. After all, he is her eldest son and eldest grandson. How could she not like him? It's just that when she has time, she thinks about not only royal affairs, but also the overall situation of the world.

Was the Ming Emperor easy to do?

Zhu Yuanzhang dismissed the prime minister and returned power to the six ministries. It can be said that the power of the world was concentrated in the emperor. Zhu Yuanzhang was a workaholic. He would get up at almost five o'clock and sleep at night to deal with government affairs. He never had holidays.

Not to mention Jianwen, Emperor Yongle personally took charge of the military affairs and assigned the general affairs to the prince. The Queen Mother had also seen Emperor Renzong handle government affairs in this way, even with the cabinet bachelors sharing the government affairs.

However, since the scholars were not prime ministers, there were still a large number of matters for the emperor to decide. In the Ming Dynasty system established by Zhu Yuanzhang, what was needed was an adult emperor who could perform his duties normally.

There is never a place for a young master.

Now a young master has emerged.

This means that before Zhu Qizhen comes of age, the power system of the Ming Dynasty will not be able to operate normally.

This is the major event that the Queen Mother is thinking about, and it is definitely not caused by a small gap between Zhu Qizhen and the Queen Mother.

It is because the Ming Dynasty system decided that it needs an adult monarch, that is, Changjun.

Otherwise, changes must be made within the existing system.

Emperor Xuanzong had already realized this.

Emperor Xuanzong delegated everything to the Queen Mother, and even gave the Queen Mother the power to rule the dynasty.

At this time, almost no one could restrict the Queen Mother.

If Empress Dowager Zhang wanted to attend court like many empress dowagers of previous generations, there would be no obstacle to her.

But Queen Mother Zhang could not and would not do this.

One is her body.

Getting old is getting old.

If she had been ten years younger, it would not have been possible to do this, but Zhu Qizhen was only nine years old now, and it would take at least ten years before he would mature mentally and be able to independently assume the responsibilities of the emperor.

But does the Queen Mother have ten years?

If, in the meantime, there is an eventuality that the emperor is still unable to take charge, then who will succeed her? Is it Empress Sun?

It has to be said that Empress Dowager Zhang did not look down upon Empress Sun.

There is a reason for this. Empress Dowager Zhang's father was a commander, and her brother was a hero of Jingnan. She had gone through many ups and downs, and she had long been shaped by Empress Dowager Zhang, who participated in political affairs many times during the Xuande period.

Empress Dowager Zhang is confident that she can do well in governing the world.

But Empress Sun, in the eyes of Empress Dowager Zhang, was just an ignorant woman. Emperor Xuanzong's dethronement was a stain on Emperor Xuanzong's life, which could not be washed away even if it took a thousand years.

Behind this, it was all Sun's fault.

Such a woman who does not know the general situation and does not know what the world is like, if power is given to her, she will not know what cholera will be like in the world.

Secondly, in the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizu was very strict about interference in the harem. The harem was not allowed to interfere in politics, and the principle of consecutive selection of concubines can be seen.

The emperors of the Ming Dynasty always married into the families of ordinary people.

Queen Mother Zhang is a special case.

She didn't want to destroy the ancestral law, and she also saw clearly that it might not be a good thing for her mother's family if she really took the throne.

So she had to think of another way.

Is it possible to use the prince as regent?

The King of Yue was in poor health and had been lingering on his bed. In her opinion, the one who passed away first among her three sons would be the King of Yue, but she did not expect Emperor Xuanzong to go ahead.

The King of Yue cannot use it. The only one who can use it is King Xiang.

The Queen Mother is aware of King Xiang's talents.

He is a virtuous king of the clan known throughout the world, both virtuous and close.

Just like this, the Empress Dowager unknowingly took over the golden book of King Xiang.

From the beginning, the Queen Mother had no intention of abolishing the establishment. It was just that some things aroused suspicion.

But the Queen Mother was also hesitant.

Because she knew that it was easy to let King Xiang regent, but it was not easy to let King Xiang return power. It was hard to say that the uncle and nephew were going to fight each other.

The palms and backs of her hands were full of flesh, how could she bear it?

Historically, Empress Dowager Zhang hid the golden book of King Xiang in the palace and kept it secret. Seven days later, she ascended the throne to Zhengzheng and gave Wang Zhen the power to wear the red eunuch as the eunuch and eunuch.

That was Empress Dowager Zhang. This decision started the history of the eunuchs and eunuchs serving as internal ministers starting from the middle to late Ming Dynasty.

During the period of the young emperor, Empress Dowager Zhang made the most appropriate arrangements and had to reuse eunuchs because it was easiest to take back power from eunuchs.

And precisely because it was so easy, later emperors of the Ming Dynasty all introduced eunuchs into the government, and it became a common practice.

These changes were not something that Queen Mother Zhang could have imagined at the time.

However, what Zhu Qizhen did in this matter ultimately affected Queen Mother Zhang's decision.

Zhu Qizhen's little tricks and performance in front of the Queen Mother Zhang were certainly not concealed from the Queen Mother Zhang, but they also made the Queen Mother Zhang admire her with admiration.

Empress Dowager Zhang secretly thought: "Could this be the child prodigy of my family?"
Chapter completed!