Chapter 276 Emperor Jiajing wakes up
Jiang Qingzhi intuitively felt that the prince had good qualifications.
In terms of intelligence, the crown prince is no worse than King Jing, and is more graceful and has more vision.
The prince was able to maintain the respectability of the Eastern Palace and his own dignity despite the deliberate alienation from Emperor Jiajing. His cunning and ability should not be underestimated.
Although Jiang Qingzhi knew that Prince Yu would be the final winner, he felt that it would be good if the prince's fate could be changed by him, a butterfly.
No one knew better than he did that Emperor Jiajing still had a long life ahead of him.
During those long years, Jiang Qingzhi was confident that he could bring the prince over.
Rescued from the cage set up for him by the Confucian sect.
So he is very optimistic.
"Qingzhi, Qingzhi..." Zhu Xizhong was saying something.
Jiang Qingzhi felt his head buzzing.
A great despair and frustration made him tremble all over.
This damn fate is still moving forward along its historical trajectory!
Jiang Qingzhi felt that all his efforts were a joke.
He looked up blankly.
"Qingzhi, His Majesty is not right." Zhu Xizhong's voice was a little hurried, "His Majesty has been silent since yesterday... He has been sitting there."
Jiang Qingzhi let out an "oh" and got on the horse with his body stiff.
"Qingzhi, are you tired from the journey?" Zhu Xizhong said, "But we can't rest now..."
"What's going on in the court?" Jiang Qingzhi asked.
"The Yan Party has done its utmost this time. Yan Song has attacked more than ten officials. Yan Shifan has been behind the scenes planning and taking down one fourth-rank official and two fifth-rank officials... Zhao Wenhua has suppressed many memorials."
The Yan Party has gone all out this time.
"Where are the Royal Guards?"
"Jinyiwei...look."
There were many big men dressed as guards in front, but Jiang Qingzhi saw Zhu Hao.
"Lu Bing was worried that someone in the palace was waiting for an opportunity to attack, so he asked His Majesty to send the Royal Guards to the West Garden for alert." Zhu Xizhong said, "Brother, I stayed up all night last night. Someone screamed in the middle of the night, saying that His Majesty was seriously ill..."
Jiang Qingzhi arrived outside the prince's bedroom.
Emperor Jiajing sat beside the bed, staring numbly into the void.
"His Majesty!"
Jiang Qingzhi did not have much affection for the prince, but he could understand how much of a blow the prince's death had been to the sentimental Emperor Jiajing.
Emperor Jiajing remained motionless.
"Your Majesty has been like this since yesterday."
Zhu Xizhong whispered.
Jiang Qingzhi walked in slowly.
Huang Jin was accompanying him, and when he saw him come in, he gave a wry smile.
Jiang Qingzhi pointed outside.
Huang Jin was stunned and pointed at himself.
Jiang Qingzhi nodded.
Huang Jin hesitated for a moment, Zhu Xizhong stared at him and said silently: "Come out!"
Huang Jin looked at Emperor Jiajing and walked out slowly.
Jiang Qingzhi walked to the side of Emperor Jiajing and whispered, "Although I don't have any children, I have a wife. I have also imagined what it would be like if I had children.
I would carry him on my back to go hiking, hold his hand to fly a kite, watch him take his first steps, watch him read with his head shaking…watch him blush when he sees a girl, watch him talk back to me and his mother…”
Jiang Qingzhi had imagined these scenes many times.
"According to the Buddhist view, the so-called family affection is nothing more than the result of the gathering of cause and effect. When the cause comes, they gather together, and when the cause ends, they disperse. But the reason why we are human beings is because we have affection."
Jiang Qingzhi once longed for that kind of life where one could see through everything, but in the end he found that he couldn't do it.
Huang Jin whispered outside the palace: "We have advised His Majesty for a whole day and night, but His Majesty is indifferent. Chang Wei Bo is... Duke Chengguo. The current situation is unclear, so let Chang Wei Bo help Chief Assistant Yan and others stabilize the situation first!"
Zhu Xizhong hesitated for a moment, then thought of his brother's temper and said, "Wait a little longer."
Concubine Lu Jing sent someone over, "I heard that Lord Changwei is here. Her Majesty said that if Your Majesty is still confused, it would be better to let Lord Changwei lead the army to suppress the capital."
Huang Jin nodded, "That's what I meant, but..."
Zhu Xizhong said: "Chang Wei Bo is persuading Your Majesty to let the Queen wait a little longer."
Upon hearing the news, Concubine Lu smiled bitterly, "I tried to persuade him for a long time last night, but His Majesty was as hard as a rock and didn't move at all. Long Wei Bo... never mind, let him try."
Chen Yan entered the palace, "My Lady, we caught a sneaky maid. She said she was delivering food, but a knife was found."
"Torture!" Concubine Lu said coldly: "In an emergency, don't worry about who belongs to whom. Even if they are people around your majesty, if they are suspected, arrest them first."
"Yes!"
Concubine Lu Jing took a sip of tea, rubbed her forehead, and sighed, "Your Majesty! It's time for you to wake up."
After the coup, Emperor Jiajing fell into a semi-comatose state for a long time, and it was Empress Fang who presided over the affairs of the palace. She took down many people with great force and killed many people.
Concubine Lu Jingfei was also decisive, but she did not use any ruthless force.
There is no other reason, just not enough status.
She was just a favorite concubine, not a queen, and did not have the power to kill.
Therefore, she was the one who most hoped that Emperor Jiajing would wake up at this moment.
……
"...More than 20 soldiers were killed by wolves. Some people said that Altan Khan had shown his murderous intentions and might attack again, so they suggested returning to the capital. But I was unwilling to accept this..."
Jiang Qingzhi tried to comfort him, but Emperor Jiajing remained motionless.
His heart moved and he thought of the evaluation of Emperor Jiajing by later generations.
Dao Ye is vindictive and has a strong sense of revenge, which probably ranks among the top three among emperors in history.
In that case, let's change the angle...
"If I don't take revenge on someone who set up a trap to kill my soldiers, I would be unworthy of my position." Jiang Qingzhi said as he looked at Emperor Jiajing, but gradually, he fell into the same emotion as before. "When I was in Suzhou, I liked to set off firecrackers and I once thought about the formula of gunpowder. I dug a hole under the hanging mountain and placed the gunpowder...
On that day, Altan led his subjects into the Jue Valley and attracted the wolves. Just when they were feeling proud, Sun Chonglou lit the gunpowder on it..."
Jiang Qingzhi said: "The entire mountain collapsed, burying the fifty-odd archers and the wolf pack. I think those soldiers can rest in peace now.
Your Majesty, I do not know why the prince passed away, but my intuition tells me that this is not right. "
There are many records about Zhu Zaigang's death in history, but the most common one is: after the ceremony of coming of age, the prince suddenly fell ill, the imperial doctors were helpless, and the prince died suddenly.
Even if a young man who was in good health died suddenly, there must be a reason, right?
Don’t talk about myocardial infarction or cerebral infarction. He was just a fourteen-year-old boy.
Still the age in Chinese lunar calendar!
There has never been any symptom of cardiovascular disease.
"There's a ghost in here!"
Jiang Qingzhi said coldly: "Your Majesty, at this moment..."
"It's them!"
The voice of Emperor Jiajing came slowly.
Jiang Qingzhi was overjoyed, "Your Majesty!"
There was a little more spirit in those wooden eyes, his lips moved, and his cracked lips curled up, looking particularly desolate.
"Before she passed away, my mother told me that she wanted to be buried with my father in Anlu. So I prepared to go on a tour to the south to check out the tombs. Before I leave..."
Emperor Jiajing licked his dry lips.
Jiang Qingzhi turned around: "Water!"
Huang Jin, who was dozing off outside the hall, was startled and overjoyed to see that Emperor Jiajing was awake.
After drinking two glasses of water, Emperor Jiajing looked more energetic.
"Before leaving, I asked the Crown Prince to be the regent. I think this will also increase his prestige."
"I am worried about repeating the mistakes of the previous emperor, so I stay away from water routes. But along the way..."
The Jiajing Emperor's voice was desolate. "There were fires here and there along the way. If it weren't for Lu Bing and his men, I would have been burned to death several times along the way..."
Jiang Qingzhi thought of historical records.
In the 18th year of Jiajing's reign, the emperor went on a southern tour and stayed in the temporary palace. A fire suddenly broke out in the middle of the night, and all officials were at a loss as to where Emperor Jiajing was. Only Lu Bing broke open the door and rescued Emperor Jiajing from the sea of fire.
——All officials were at a loss as to where Emperor Jiajing was!
is it possible?
Jiang Qingzhi seemed to see all the officials watching the palace being engulfed by flames with cold eyes, and even laughing.
But this was not the only fire that occurred during the Southern Tour.
If it fails once, there’s always a second time.
"The last emperor died in water, and those people insist on making me die in fire. Only when water and fire complement each other can we achieve the great way, right?"
Emperor Jiajing's voice was calm, but Jiang Qingzhi could feel the deep hatred.
"If I perish in the sea of fire, and the four-year-old prince ascends the throne, what will be the outcome?"
Emperor Jiajing stared at Jiang Qingzhi with bloodshot eyes and asked angrily, "What will be the outcome?"
"Puppet." Jiang Qingzhi said.
"That bitch!" Emperor Jiajing gritted his teeth and said, "There are also those invisible opponents who are waiting for this good news. It's a pity that I have the protection of the gods and I let them down."
"After the southern tour, I stayed at home and seldom went out, thinking of not giving those people a chance. But I didn't expect that I was almost strangled to death by several palace servants while I was sleeping. Several palace servants, hahahaha!"
Emperor Jiajing laughed loudly, and his laughter was shrill.
He panted, his eyes colder, "Without the cooperation of that bitch's people, how could those people succeed?"
Emperor Jiajing then retired to the Western Garden.
"I have retired to the Western Garden, and all these years have been peaceful. I thought that this would be the case from now on, and that those people would wait for my death before counterattacking again... But I didn't expect that!"
Emperor Jiajing said: "They used the ancestral rules to force me to let the prince go out to study. I easily resolved them one by one. Just when I was secretly proud of myself, those people..."
Emperor Jiajing looked at Jiang Qingzhi with a sad expression.
This aloof and arrogant emperor finally revealed his weak side as a mortal.
He grabbed the quilt and squeezed it into a ball. The knuckles on the back of his thin hands turned white from the excessive force.
He roared almost like a howl, "They killed my son!"
Huang Jin and others outside the hall stood with their hands down.
Just when Emperor Jiajing was feeling quite pleased with himself for having resolved his opponent's offensive, he forgot how cruelly his opponent had treated him.
Those fires didn’t burn you to death!
Those stupid palace maids didn’t strangle you to death!
But what about your son?
Jiang Qingzhi seemed to see many faces laughing wildly with smugness...
Confucianism!
Confucianism!
rule!
Everything finally comes down to one word!
利！
"Celebrate it."
"His Majesty!"
The hoarse-voiced emperor looked at his cousin.
"Find them for me, for your nephew."
Emperor Jiajing blinked rapidly, but the long-accumulated grief made him collapse at this moment.
"For me, for that child... destroy those beasts!"
Tears flowed down his thin face...
(End of this chapter)
