Chapter 116 The Queen Mother is reluctant to Yue Yue
After Wanli ascended to the extreme, Empress Dowager Li lived in the Ganqing Palace to facilitate the emperor's daily life, supervise him to study hard, and improve every day.
She believed that the reason why Emperor Longqing was so lewd and negligent that he ended up being a miserable person and a ghost was because he only went to play when he was a child and went out to study at the age of sixteen, so his playfulness was so heavy!
Empress Dowager Li was born in a humble family, fearing that her son would become the second best bee. Others said that she could not teach the emperor well, so she was very strict in discipline. She would conduct a trial from time to time, and I wonder how many secretly kept villain books, figures and various novel toys were found.
Whenever the emperor had such behavior that was unfavorable to his studies, Empress Dowager Li asked him to kneel down for a long time.
On the day of court, Empress Dowager Li would clean up at the fifth anniversary and greeted, "The Emperor should get up." Then she ordered the sleepy little emperor to sit down, take water to wash his face, and then lead him out of the car and go to the imperial gate to court.
She also ordered Feng Baoyan to discipline the eunuchs around the emperor. Whoever dared to take the emperor without learning well and sent him directly to the Neidong Factory to fight to the death. Under the over-hidden hostage and control of the empress dowager and Feng Bao, the empress dowager, who had no blind spots, Emperor Wanli was naturally submissive and did not dare to make any decisions on his own.
Therefore, the one who really had the final say in the current legal principles of the Ming Dynasty was not the emperor but the Empress Dowager Li. However, Empress Dowager Li was very self-aware and was full of awe of national affairs. She never dared to make her own decisions, so she entrusted her with the most admired, admired and relied on the most.
Not surprisingly, when Feng Bao general Zhang Juzheng lost his father and immediately reported the bad news that Ding You was about to report, the Empress Dowager suddenly became panicked in the temple.
"What, Ding You? That will take more than three years to go?" Li Caifeng, who was chanting Buddha's name, dropped the rosary in his hand and immediately expressed that he could not accept it. "No, no, absolutely not! Who will tell me about Buddha after he left?"
"Three years is an imaginary number, to be precise, twenty-seven months." Feng Bao hurriedly picked up Li Caifeng's giant clam beads. It was made by Mr. Zhang, one by one, and a string of them were given to the Empress Dowager. Empress Dowager Li kept treating her as his life and hurriedly took them over and wiped them carefully.
"Twenty-seven months is too long!" Empress Dowager Li could not imagine that she had never seen Mr. Zhang for such a long time.
Her fingertips streaked across the smooth beads, like a long beard that crossed Zhang Xianggong's waterfall, and it was even more difficult to part with it. She didn't want him to leave for a moment. She asked Wanli, "What do you mean by your elder brother?"
"Of course, this is done according to the teacher's wishes." Wanli looked at the queen's face and said timidly: "Don't the queen always listen to the teacher?"
He was a little clever. With Wanli's intelligence, how could he not know that his mother didn't want Mr. Zhang to worry. But he really longed for a day without Mr. Zhang's control and he would not have to go to class or court.
"You are confused!" But the queen of mother came to her, and she scolded her: "Can Mr. Zhang openly say that she can stay in this kind of thing? We both must keep him wholeheartedly!"
"But the queen..." Wanli whispered: "It was stipulated by Saint Confucius that his parents were mourning for three years. How can we not allow the gentleman to be worried? That way, the gentleman will be sad."
"But he was worried about us even more sad!" Empress Dowager Li choked with tears in her eyes. Without Mr. Zhang, who would comfort her inner loneliness? Who would shelter the emperor from the wind and rain? Who could fill the gap left by this great man? Who would let the emperor and himself rely on?
Thinking of this, she became more and more determined and must leave Zhang Xianggong's determination. She wiped the corners of her eyes with a veil and calmed down and asked, "After the sir, there will be hundreds of memorials on the subject matter inside and outside every day. Can you personally review it? There are also emergencies such as floods and earthquakes, border riots and civil unrest, can you deal with it?"
"No..." Wanli shook his head discouraged by it.
"Do you know whether so many officials are appointed, removed, promoted or demoted, are they virtuous or not?"
"No." Wanli shook his head again.
"Sir, for the country's reforms, have you been confident that you will continue to reform?"
"No..." Wanli's eyes were completely gone. It turned out that he just thought that once Mr. Zhang left, he would not have to study anymore. But he forgot that Mr. Zhang was still carrying a heavy burden for him.
"But isn't there still Mr. Lu?" But his temperament is as good as his grandfather. He shows signs of stubbornness at a young age, and even his mother's queen is difficult to convince him. "If it really doesn't work, let the ministers promote a few grand sects into the cabinet. Wouldn't the three cobblers still be able to defeat Zhuge Liang?"
"You are talking nonsense! There are thousands of people in the family, and the person in charge is one! There are so many people who talk, nothing can be done!" Empress Dowager Li finally slapped the table and said angrily: "The only one who can help you do this family well is Mr. Zhang! In the Ming Dynasty, there is no other handsome man who is as loyal as him, and who treats our parents as relatives!"
"My son knows that he is wrong, but I understand. Now that the teacher cannot leave, he must be a sir!" Wanli was so scared that he knelt on the ground, thinking that his mother was talking about the 'magic man'.
"Just understand." Empress Dowager Li snorted and said with a slightly clear expression: "Your Majesty, there is a saying that 'Don't forget to dig wells when you eat water'. If Mr. Zhang hadn't worked hard to manage the country of his ancestors, could we both live such a comfortable life? You were still young when your father was in power, and you might not remember it. He would not even give up his favorite donkey intestines. Why? Because the treasury has no money and the treasury has no money!"
"What the queen said is that now Taicang rice can be spent for ten years, and it is all the credit of the teacher." Wanli nodded convincedly. His desire to escape from Zhang Juzheng's control was not in conflict with his admiration for Zhang Juzheng. Just like a naughty child who always loves and fears the strict class teacher.
"You can't take everything for granted just because the peace and the court is stable now. Mr. Zhang will have to go there for more than three years, and someone will definitely be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who is a traitor like Gao Gong. You are still young, can you beat others? Then the country will make mistakes, so how can you explain to my ancestors and ancestors of the Ming Dynasty?"
"What the mother said is that the son minister is wrong. You can't let the sir do this. We have to be the leader to keep him." After all, Wanli was still a mother's baby, and she was finally convinced by Empress Li.
"It's good that you know. Then I'll issue an order to comfort Mr. Liu." Empress Dowager Li urged.
"My son knows." Wanli nodded, walked to the imperial case, took the red pen presented by the little eunuch, but it was difficult to make a sentence: "But isn't this contrary to the ancestors' law?"
"This..." Empress Dowager Li was stunned. In her opinion, her son became emperor by his ancestors, and the law of his ancestors was naturally greater than that of heaven.
"Empress Dowager, don't worry, the Grand Secretary Ding You has recovered, and it's not without any rules." At this time, Feng Bao smiled and interrupted:
"In June of the sixth year of Yongle, Yang Rong was worried and returned in October; in the first month of the first year of Xuande, Grand Secretary Jin Youzi was worried and returned immediately; in August of the fourth year of the fourth year of Yang Pu, Yang Pu, was worried and returned immediately. In May of the fourth year of Jingtai, Wang Wen was worried and returned in September. In March of the second year of Chenghua, Li Xian was worried and returned in May. These are all the achievements of ancestors."
Feng Bao obviously came prepared, and after taking a few knowledge, he continued: "Among these five great masters who seized love, Li Xian and Li Wenda are also the chief assistant. In the second year of Chenghua, Emperor Xianzong Chun was already twenty-one years old. The state has a eldest lord, and he still needs the chief assistant to recover his love, let alone the emperor is still young now?"
"It makes sense!" The Empress Dowager agreed with great emphasis and looked at Feng Bao with praise and said, "Eunuch Feng is indeed a well-educated person. I wish you were not a eunuch."
"Empress is absurd." Feng Bao smiled embarrassedly, thinking that I am not a eunuch and can't be the chief supervisor.
"What else is there to worry about the emperor?" Empress Dowager Li glanced at the emperor again.
"No more." Wanli quickly shook his head and quickly wrote on Huang Ling. Zhang Juzheng had been teaching him carefully for six years, so it was no problem to write an edict.
Then Feng Bao reminded him that as usual, the official Ding You would resign from the Ministry of Personnel, but don’t be sure of this and that it would be unfavorable to make mistakes everywhere.
Wanli wrote another edict to the Ministry of Personnel:
'I was entrusted by the Emperor's College to help me fight for the young and stabilize the country. I rely deeply on it. How can I leave me in one day? My father's system should be kept, and the king and father are particularly important. If you pass the seven or seven years, you will not follow the court. Your subordinate will go and write, and there is no need to give a remark."
As for the gifts from the two palaces and the emperor, and all the mourning and honor of Zhang's father, they are naturally carried out according to the highest standards, and there is no need to repeat them.
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It was already dark at this time, and the edict sent to the Ministry of Personnel could only wait for tomorrow. However, the Empress Dowager ordered the palace gate to open and ask Feng Bao to leave the palace in person to send an order to comfort Mr. Zhang and bring his own care.
When Feng Bao arrived at Dashamahu Hu, he saw that the whole alley was covered with silver, forming a world of wreaths and elegy couplets. There were too many officials coming to pay homage to the sacrifice, and the front yard of the Prime Minister's Mansion could no longer be placed, so he could only place it on the street...
What's even more outrageous is that it was already midnight now, and the alley was still filled with "filial sons and grandsons" with green clothes.
Although everyone was looking forward to Mr. Zhang getting out quickly, they also knew that he would come back again. So they didn't dare to neglect anyone.
In mid-September, the city of Beijing had already fallen. The officials were wrapped in blankets, as cold as their grandsons. The sound of sneezing and coughing was endless, but they all insisted on guarding the old Fengjun.
Seeing Eunuch Feng arrive with the imperial edict, the frozen quails quickly stood up and saluted.
"Okay." Feng Bao rubbed the corners of his eyes with relief and said, "Everyone has a deep relationship with Yuan Fu... You can continue, our family is going to go in and pass the order."
"Please, father-in-law." The frozen quails hurriedly gave each other respectfully, and their hearts were envious. The respect the emperor and the two palaces for Mr. Zhang was truly unprecedented.
Fortunately, in the next three years, everyone finally doesn’t have to live in his shadow and can see the light of day again. So, after being frozen, we are still in a bright mood...
Until they heard the eunuch Feng read out to Mr. Zhang, everyone became nervous immediately.
Chapter completed!