In the face of Empress Dowager Li, she played a divisive hand. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Not to mention Zhang Siwei, even Shen Shixing, Yu Youding also knows it.

Who doesn't know that you, Empress Dowager Li and the Son of Heaven, are both a virtue, facing forward when employing people, and facing backward when you don't use people.

When Zhang Juzheng was in power, Empress Dowager Li entrusted the entire state affairs to each other, and the two of them were so good that everyone in the streets and alleys thought they had a leg.

Otherwise, where did the couplet of 'black-hearted prime minister lying on the dragon bed' come from.

But as soon as Zhang Juzheng died, his kindness was like paper in a blink of an eye.

Zhang Juzheng has been in the country for ten years, and he has done his best to die for the country's social welfare, and your Zhu family is rewarded with copying the family and taking away the favor? To repay him for his auxiliary work?

It is normal for the Son of Heaven to be pro-government, provoke the officials, and have some resentment against Zhang Juzheng.

But Empress Dowager Li, you can't understand? At the beginning, it was you who chased the high arch, helped Zhang Ju to be the first assistant, and entrusted him with state affairs, but now he is being raided, and you have not persuaded him at all. Today, Zhang Juzheng's family ended up like this, and the responsibility of the Son of Heaven and the Queen Mother should be half of each.

Of course, Empress Dowager Li also knows this, but she believes that reason cannot compare to power. The position of the first assistant is in front, the people are extremely ministers, the civil leader, and the example of hundreds of officials, she does not believe in Shen Shi Xing.

Empress Dowager Li looked at Shen Shixing expectantly.

But seeing Shen Shixing, he kowtowed three times, and then said: "When Taiyue Gong was in power, he had great contributions to the country's social affairs, and those who had great merits had a good moral position." How can the ministers and other subtle talents compare with the Taiyue Gong, and dare not peep into the position of the first assistant. Therefore, the minister implored the Queen Mother to restore the name of the Duke of Taiyue from the request of the hundred officials, so that the hundred officials would look up to the Queen Mother and His Majesty's holy virtue. ”

Empress Dowager Li did everything she could, but she didn't expect that Zhang Siwei's father was seriously ill, and he was about to return to his hometown to guard the system. In the past two years, Shen Shixing will succeed him as the first assistant, and he will directly complete the four-dimensional system.

In order to consolidate Zhang Siwei's power in the court, Zhang Siwei and Shen Shixing had already reached some kind of power exchange.

After Shen Shixing finished speaking, Empress Dowager Li only felt dizzy for a while, and Gonggong Gao and others couldn't help but step forward to help. Empress Dowager Li opened her eyes and looked at Zhang Siwei who was kneeling, and Shen Shixing couldn't help but regret it: "If Zhang Juzheng is still in the court today, how can there be a hundred officials knocking on it?" You are incompetent. ”

Zhang Siwei and Shen Shixing were silent.

When Zhang Juzheng was away, he remembered his benefits. If you knew this was the case, why bother in the first place?

Zhang Siwei said: "What the Queen Mother said is extremely true, when Zhang Taiyue was in power, he advocated that the officials of the six ministries should rectify the various places and press them, the six departments should be corrected in the matter, and the cabinet should rectify the science and road, and they should be ruled from top to bottom. In order to change the shortcomings of Zhang Taiyue's good governance, the minister attributed the matter to the six ministries, and attributed the words to the Taiwan admonition, all for the Ming Dynasty to be eternal, but there are ministers who are presumptuous today. ”

Zhang Siwei said this, and a bad breath grew in his heart.

Son of Heaven, don't you want to restrain the power of the cabinet? Okay, it turned out that when Zhang Juzheng was in power, the cabinet of the Imperial Branch, the Department of Science and Road corrected six departments, and the six departments were corrected and pressed, from the central to the local level, from top to bottom.

Now that the Son of Heaven has withdrawn the power lent to the cabinet, the result is that all the officials dare to impeach the cabinet, and Zhang Siwei is almost forced to resign.

Son of Heaven, the Queen Mother made Zhang Juzheng so miserable again, and a few scholars in the cabinet could not help but die of sorrow, and everyone was in danger.

Now Lin Yanchao is a public neglect in the world, which makes everyone unfair, and the officials are extremely dissatisfied with the Queen Mother and King Lu, and there is no cabinet in the middle, how can the Queen Mother step down?

Zhang Siwei is 'general'!

Zhang Siwei continued to kowtow and said: "What the Queen Mother said about the incompetence of the ministers is true, everything is the fault of the ministers, please ask the Queen Mother, Your Majesty will surrender!" ”

The Son of Heaven blamed himself: "I know that Mr. Zhang has really done his best, and I shouldn't have liquidated Mr. Taiyue, so that it is out of control, all of this is my fault." ”

Zhang Siwei, Shen Shixing, and Yu Youding said: "Your Majesty, so self-reproachful, the death of the ministers is not enough to atone for their sins." ”

The Son of Heaven wept and said: "Mr. Taiyue asked for his life for the people, but he was wronged in vain, and the Yellow River was decided to harm the people, and I could not appease him." I am truly worthy of being the Son of Heaven and are supported by all the people. Today, I can only issue an edict to my own sin, to examine myself to the subjects of the world, and to review my mistakes. Mr. Zhang's work for me to draw up the purpose! ”

Zhang Siwei, Shen Shixing, Yu Youding kowtowed again and again: "Your Majesty's sage, like a white bib, is not flawless." Don't do that! ”

The Son of Heaven looked up to the sky and was speechless.

At this time, behind the bead curtain, Empress Dowager Li sneered there: "You civil servants, what is for the people, what is for the public is false, it is all false, only the struggle for power and profit is true." Praise the righteousness of the monarch and the ministers all day long, the words of Confucius and Mencius, but there are flies and dogs, no one is more hypocritical and shameless than you civil servants throughout the ages! ”

The Queen Mother was furious, and the three auxiliary ministers did not dare to contradict.

Empress Dowager Li cried behind the bead curtain and said: "The mourning family understands, what is the world for the public, what is Kuang to support the monarch, to put it bluntly, you Wenchen like you unite to deal with the mourning family, a woman and a Taoist family." ”

"You say that I am Empress Lu, if I really want to be Empress Lu, do these ministers dare to be presumptuous? You are the ones who bully the mourning family. ”

After speaking, Empress Dowager Li said to the Son of Heaven: "Your Majesty, the mourning family asks you, in addition to King Lu, what about the harem in the future?" You have been in power for a year, have the mourning family interfered with you? Have you ever asked about the government? ”

The Son of Heaven wept and said, "The Queen Mother has indeed never said a word, all this is my opinion. ”

"Then how dare they say that the mourning family is Empress Lu? Say that the mourning family is the chicken Si Chen? Empress Dowager Li cried, "Emperor, do you have to open your eyes and see clearly, these ministers are like Lin Yanchao and others? They are all deliberately evil in the name of the Queen Mother and King Lu to show merit to you, and their hearts can be punished! ”

Under the Queen Mother's words, she hesitated to say the Son of Heaven again.

But at this time, Zhang Siwei, how could Shen Shixing let this happen.

"Chen Qiyu Empress Dowager," Zhang Siwei's voice was an octave higher at this time, "When the first emperor was here, the treasury income was only two million taels a year, and the wedding of King Lu was six million taels, which was enough to reach Taicang for three years. The blood and sweat of hundreds of millions of small people in the world for three years were only used to support King Lu, and the people could not complain. ”

"The minister remembered that in order to be frugal during the reign of the first emperor, he didn't even kill a donkey, and King Lu was extravagant. If the first emperor learned, how could he be comforted under the nine springs? The mother of the Queen Mother can be hung all over the world, but only this matter, the minister has to admonish directly! ”

Shen Shixing said: "The Queen Mother's mother is the world, and she is blessed with all people, but King Lu is the son of the Queen Mother, but aren't the thousands of people in the world also the son of the Queen Mother?" Please have mercy on the Queen Mother! ”

When the Son of Heaven heard this, he also showed a unbearable expression and said: "Queen Mother, the Yellow River is flooded, millions of people have no food and clothing, Su Song has also suffered from floods, and the military salaries of the Nine Sides have been in arrears for many years. At this time, if I continue to marry King Lu and operate it wantonly, I am afraid that I will lose the hearts of the people in the world. ”

"I remember that my mother used to tell me that you were also from a poor background, and you knew the suffering of the common people, so I wanted to be a good emperor and have mercy on the people of the world. You also taught me to read, saying, 'The people are sufficient, but the ruler is not enough?' The people are insufficient, who is the king? "But King Lu's matter, I also think it's too much. ”