In fact, the so-called dispute over the foundation of the country, from the root, can only be said to be deliberately created by Emperor Wanli. The purpose is actually not to be the crown prince, but to use this to divide the ministers.

The Ming Empire has been established for more than two hundred years. Over such a long time, the core components of its power have also changed a lot.

At the beginning, the model worker Zhu Yuanzhang was the chairman, general manager and secretary. While taking charge of the power of the empire alone, he was also exhausted.

Later, his son Zhu Di could not withstand the hard work. He was forced to open a cabinet and dump the secretary's job.

But once people get power, they naturally want to seize greater power. Gradually, the power of the cabinet becomes increasingly greater and become the de facto general manager and secretary. They almost wipe out the chairman.

There was no way, Zhu Di's grandson Zhu Zhanji had to use another force: eunuchs.

He asked the eunuchs to study, to participate in politics, and to let the eunuchs separate the secretary from the general managers of the cabinet.

For more than a hundred years from then on, the general manager was out of tune, so he asked the secretary to deal with them. The secretary was too much, so he let the general manager get a secretary. In short, the chairman could enjoy life relatively easily without losing power. The core of power in the Ming Dynasty basically maintained a balance.

The one who broke this balance was Zhu Hou, the Emperor Shizong of Ming Dynasty. Xiao R book, who had let go of Qiang Wei Fushi's residence.

The chairman's IQ is too high and he is really too powerful to play with power. So he was both obedient to the general manager and secretary.

But he was so happy that he left a big problem for his descendants: because the chairman had overdoed the general manager and secretary, the general managers and secretary actually started to unite in order to live a better life!

The most typical example is from the sixth year of Longqing to the tenth year of Wanli. The cabinet chief Zhang Juzheng and the chief supervisor of the Sili Feng Bao jointly defeated Emperor Wanli.

Therefore, after Zhang Juzheng's death, Emperor Wanli, who was finally able to stand in the front, was always thinking about a question: how to completely break up the alliance between civil officials and eunuchs? It is best to let civil officials make trouble on their own and not unite to fight with the emperor. Only civil officials and eunuchs, civil officials and civil officials are in a desperate battle. Only emperors can get along well with them.

To achieve this goal, we must learn from his grandfather, Emperor Jiajing: using arguments about etiquette and law to split civil officials and eunuchs.

This is the essence of the dispute over the foundation of the country.

Unfortunately, the civil officials and eunuchs who were beaten up by Emperor Jiajing were no longer fooled.

The civil officials had a very unified opinion: as long as we stand firmly at the height of etiquette and law, we will be invincible! Even the emperor can at most demote our officials, but there is no more way to deal with us.

Therefore, over the past fifteen years, at most, some ministers secretly advised the emperor: "Your Majesty, this matter is not urgent, we have to take it slowly." It was the limit when he said this. Like Zhang Cong, who had just ascended the throne, he had a clear position and completely and publicly stood on the side of the emperor regardless of all social opinions, saying that you should establish whoever you want. There is no weighty minister!

As for the eunuchs, they are the emperor's slaves, and of course they cannot force the emperor. But the eunuchs have also learned to be smart: I cannot force the enemy, but I can softly fight. Your emperor wants us to deal with the ministers who jumped the most, and we will deal with it. But you want us to kill those ministers, sorry, the old slave failed...

Emperor Wanli waited for fifteen years, but he didn't wait for the emergence of civil officials and eunuchs who were willing to do everything they wanted to be promoted.

You can't blame him, or do you have to blame his grandfather Zhu Hou?

May I ask, in the great ritual dispute that year, for you, Zhu Hou, Xin, and Liu, I was angry with you, and I was silly willing to be brave for your emperor?

After fifteen years, Emperor Wanli was actually almost desperate and could not hold on.

Now, white cranes surround the beams and the blue dragons appear in the world. They have become the last straw that crushed Emperor Wanli.

This dispute over the foundation of the country can no longer hold on. The plan to split the ministers can no longer be fought. I really don’t know what kind of life will my future emperor live.

Well, let’s take a look at this grandson who responded so violently when he was born. Speaking of which, this is my first emperor grandson.

On the afternoon of October 18, Wanli's convoy arrived at the residence of the eldest son Zhu Changluo.

Zhu Changluo's mood is extremely complicated for this father who has been extremely cold to him for a long time.

However, the etiquette that the ruler, minister, father and son should have is absolutely indispensable.

The entire gate of the eldest son's mansion was opened, and Zhu Changluo knelt at the door himself: "My son is paying homage to the father."

"Get up, well, speaking, I haven't seen the emperor for more than three years, right?"

"Father, it's three years, seven months and three days. My son longs for meeting the beauty of heaven, like the seedlings of drought longing for rain and dew."

"Oh, thank you for your hard work over the years." He stretched out a hand and gently helped him. Wanli whispered: "What I want to tell you is that the delay in appointing a prince is definitely not simply for your third brother who prefers your father. But for the sake of the ever-generation foundation of my Zhu family."

"How dare my son have any complaints about the father in this matter? The country has established a crown prince, but it will be decided by the father's words!"

You! Why are you, your silly son, saying so loudly? Alas! With your scheming, if you inherit my position in the future, can you suppress these increasingly slutty ministers?

"Where is my grandson?"

"Report to my father, my child is in the inner room. Because he can't stand the wind, he has not come out to pick him up. I would like to ask my father to forgive me."

Is I such an unreasonable person? Hey, it seems that this child has been scared by me over the years. However, if you cannot split the ministers, even if you become the emperor in the future, you will suffer a lot! Therefore, it is necessary to sacrifice you for the sake of the Zhu family's world.

The depressed Wanli had no mood to speak and walked inside. Zhu Changluo and others also quickly followed.

Guo, who had just given birth, must not be able to come out to meet the saint now. So in the midwife's arms, Wanli saw the eldest grandson of the emperor who was born with a strange phenomenon in the world. Wang Dong, who was in this baby body, also saw Wanli.

Amid the crowd of people paying homage to the emperor, Wang Dong certainly understood that the person who was holding him now was the Nine Five Lords of the Ming Empire.

This old man? Hey, no, it seems that Wanli is only 37 years old now? Why do you feel so old?
Chapter completed!