Zhu Cihong followed her gaze, was startled, and said: "Sister Huang, ......" and didn't know how to say it.

Zhu Yujiao turned her head, didn't seem to see anything, sorted out her thoughts and said: "What I've been worried about is today's situation, but I didn't expect your situation to be worse than I imagined." Brother - Sister Rong called you that last time, after the enthronement ceremony, my sister can't be so unruly - I know, Pingnanhou is very domineering, aggressive, and even very ambitious, which makes you feel like a fish in your throat, but he has always been like this, when his father was so strong, it wasn't that he was besieged by his soldiers in the imperial city, but he was helpless? ”

Zhu Cihong said unwillingly: "The country is my Zhu family, why let a courtier be above the emperor?" What my father failed to accomplish, you might as well let me do it, I don't believe that the Zhu family's hundreds of years of foundation will be ruined by a Cao Agui-style person! ”

Zhu Yujiao stared at him and asked calmly, "I understand your feelings." But my father has been thinking about it for so many years, what the Ming Dynasty has been tossed into, and in the end, it was not a rogue who was born as a postman who broke through the capital, and the Ming Dynasty was almost destroyed for hundreds of years. You ask yourself, with your age, experience, and ability, can you control the current situation? Can you deal with the rest of the Northwest and the Tartars from the North? ”

Zhu Cihong sneered: "The imperial sister is inevitably worried. Although I am young, I have the name of righteousness, as long as I try to get rid of the traitors, promote loyal ministers, and treat the people to the Ying Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty is just around the corner. ”

Zhu Yujiao shook her head: "I used to think the same way, but my father's approach proved that this was just wishful thinking." When my father got rid of the eunuchs, I also had a dream of Zhongxing Daming, but in the end it was empty, how similar is your current appearance to my father? To put it mildly, when Wei Zhongxian controlled the government, the treasury was still full, there was no scourge in the northwest, and the Tartars in Liaodong could not go south, and after the fall of the eunuch party and the 'Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty', the Ming Dynasty began to go downhill, and it was not as good as ...... day by day."

"Imperial Sister is cautious!" Zhu Cihong said angrily, "You are from the Zhu family, and you can't turn your elbows out." Not to mention whether the situation is as you said when the eunuch party controls the government, even so, should the emperor be a turtle with a shrunken head and let the traitor become a traitor, whether this Jiangshan is surnamed Zhu, or Wei, or even Xia? ”

In the face of her younger brother's accusation, Zhu Yujiao was not angry, she looked outside the palace gate, and said leisurely: "I am naturally a member of the Zhu family, and I hope that the Zhu family's country will be as stable as a rock for thousands of generations." But in the past few years of wandering outside the palace, I have realized a truth: no matter who sits on the dragon chair, the people only hope that the situation will be stable and they can live and work in peace and contentment. From this point of view, no matter who temporarily holds the actual power, as long as it can make the Ming rich and strong, is it so important to gain or lose in terms of reputation? If things get out of control, the people don't care if you are surnamed Zhu or not, they only support people who can make them live a good life. Li Zicheng was able to go north easily and enter the capital all the way, not because of the sentence 'Juntian free grain'! ”

"According to you, as long as the courtiers are capable, we should give up the throne?" Zhu Cihong sneered.

"That's not what I meant." Zhu Yujiao retracted her gaze and looked at Zhu Cihong, "Although Wei Zhongxian is in power, he can't deny his ability, at least a hundred times better than those Wenchen who can only fight for power. The so-called Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty is nothing more than a whitewash of a group of ministers to regain the power of the court from the hands of the eunuchs, and they want the emperor to hide in the palace, ignore everything, and leave everything to them. But after all these years, they will only fight for power and profit, and the situation is getting more and more erosive, what can these people change? ”

Zhu Cihong was speechless for a while. He felt that this sister's three views were very problematic, but what she said seemed to be the truth, and there was no way to refute it.

Zhu Yujiao continued: "Having said so much, I just want to persuade you: endure the calm for a while, take a step back and open the sky. Don't follow the example of your father, be in a hurry to control everything, and leave the mess to someone who has the ability to clean it up. Although you are a little aggrieved at the moment, the dragon chair is still sitting on you after all, and Daming Jiangshan is still surnamed Zhu. When the Marquis of Pingnan stabilized the situation, exterminated the Liukou, and pacified Liaodong, it was not too late to slowly figure it out. ”

"I'm afraid that when the time comes, he will be very difficult to control, and this country will not be surnamed Zhu." Zhu Cihong snorted.

Zhu Yujiao stared at his eyes and asked sharply: "If he wants to seek power and usurp the throne, kill you now and sit directly on the dragon chair, just like Li Zicheng wanted to do before, what can you do to resist?" ”

"This ......" Zhu Cihong hesitated for a moment and said, "The matter is man-made, and the name of righteousness is in my hands, so I can't sit still." ”

Zhu Yujiao sighed: "Words can only go to this step, it is useless to say more, how to choose depends on yourself." Think about it, I'll quit first. ”

After Zhu Yujiao left, Zhu Cihong looked at the direction she left, stayed for a long time, and then said without looking back: "Everyone is gone, you can come out." ”

Two people walked out from behind the screen, one literate and one martial, and it was Yang Sichang and Wu Sangui.

Wu Sangui asked worriedly: "The princess seems to have seen the minister, will she leak the secret to Xia Nan, so that our plan will be wasted?" ”

Zhu Cihong shook his head and said, "No." ”

Yang Sichang explained: "Please rest assured that although the princess is close to Xia Nan, she is a royal person after all, and she will never help outsiders harm her younger brother." If you want to leak the secret, you will expose it in front of Xia Nan, instead of persuading Your Majesty with bitter words. ”

Wu Sangui put his mind at ease, knelt down and arched his hand, "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, the minister will definitely handle things properly according to Your Majesty's arrangement." Although it is quite risky to deal with that summer south, but for the sake of Your Majesty, for the sake of the Ming Dynasty and the society, the minister will not give up! ”

Zhu Cihong was moved, and personally reached out to help the other party up: "The wind knows the strength of the grass, and the troubled times see the loyal ministers." In this extraordinary period, you can see who is traitorous and who is loyal, and everything depends on Wu Aiqing. ”

Yang Sichang said: "Your Majesty, there is no doubt about Ping Xibo's loyalty, and the matter is half the success. However, we can't go in and out of Ciqing Palace frequently, so as not to let Xia Nan notice any clues, and take advantage of the time to work now, and then scrutinize the details of the plan before and after to ensure that nothing goes wrong. ”

"Exactly. Let's have a good discussion with the three of us, and we must not make any mistakes. "Dealing with such a powerful minister, Zhu Cihong does not dare to slack off as the son of heaven, once he misses, the matter is revealed, Xia Nan is afraid that he can do anything.

The three of them hit it off and discussed in a low voice.