After the banquet was over, there was still a lingering sound. When the ministers saw that the emperor was talented and intelligent, and his thoughts and questions were close to the truth, they all touched their foreheads and expressed congratulations, saying that the emperor had won this man.

Those who were thoughtful could not help but carefully ponder the opinions expressed by the emperor's words, secretly looking for a cheap opportunity to suit his liking.

Zhang Juzheng, the chief minister of the cabinet, returned to the cabinet signing room and thought for a long time but couldn't figure it out. To say that the emperor was being instructed by someone else, it didn't look like it, because the emperor's later interjection should not have been guided by anyone, but he said a few words, but he was thinking carefully. It seemed that

This book is understandable.

In this palace, everything the emperor says and does is under the eyes of his imperial master and his great companion Feng Bao. When will the emperor become more advanced in sacred knowledge?

As a scholar-bureaucrat, it is a good thing that the emperor has learned things early, and Zhang Juzheng can only feel happy; but as a powerful minister who wants to plan big plans, it is stressful for the emperor to know things early. If the emperor has his own ideas, his governance will inevitably add to the pressure.

possible resistance.

Zhang Juzheng struggled for a while, and then thought of the recent 'Minister Wang Case', and had a headache. So he called people close to him, gave instructions, and told him to make an appointment with Feng Bao to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion for a secret talk at night.

Zhu Yijun here is still in the excitement of participating in a major political event. However, he has many years of experience as a civil servant and has a relatively deep background in the city, so he is not overjoyed.

Returning to the harem, she served Empress Dowager Li as usual. Someone had already reported the emperor's performance at the feast. Empress Dowager Li was overjoyed when she heard about it. She rewarded the emperor's attendants and encouraged the emperor.

Seeing that she looked very happy, Zhu Yijun took the opportunity to say: "Your Majesty, the emperor has made great progress in his studies recently. He figured it out all by himself, but no one discussed the reason. Mr. Zhang, Mr. Shen, Mr. Lu and others taught him very strictly.

, there are many official duties, and the emperor dare not bother him with too much homework.——"

Seeing that there was no change in Empress Dowager Li's face, she asked boldly: "Can you choose some young men with both morals and academics who are slightly older than the emperor's son from a home of distinguished officials and important ministers to study with me? After hard work, the emperor's son

It can also be beneficial.”

After hearing this, Empress Dowager Li changed her expression and said: "The emperor wants to study, and the Ai family should not stop him, but now you are the emperor, you have Hanlin scholars, Mr. Zhang is a good politician, and Feng Bao is in the palace. These people are not enough."

Are you communicating and learning? Get some young people to be your classmates. How will the emperor use them in the future? Don't you understand the principle of 'near is not inferior'? Please don't allow it!"

After hearing what Empress Dowager Li said, Zhu Yijun, apart from being slightly disappointed, had a more intuitive understanding of the "political iron triangle" of the Wanli period.

At this time, the highest power of the empire was not in the hands of the emperor, but through the mutual trust of the iron triangle of the Queen Mother, Feng Bao, and Zhang Juzheng. Among them, the Queen Mother Li was the grantor of the highest power and was at the top of the triangle, but

Because they had no ability to govern, Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao were fully authorized. Zhang Juzheng, as the chief assistant of the cabinet, handled foreign affairs, and Feng Bao, as the chief ceremonial officer, handled all affairs of the inner court. At the same time, he served as the emperor's secretary.

The identity endorses Zhang Juzheng’s political affairs.

This famous triangular relationship in history is unbreakable. From the fact that Empress Dowager Li just named these two people, it can be seen that she trusts them. It was not until Zhang Juzheng passed away and the emperor came to power that the iron triangle fell apart, and the consequences of the fall apart were not only

Empress Dowager Li lived deep in the harem and no longer interfered in state affairs. However, the other two ended up dead. Zhang Juzheng was almost whipped to death, while Feng Bao was expelled from the palace and died miserably - which directly led to the complete failure of Zhang Juzheng's reforms.

Zhu Yijun often studied the history of the Ming Dynasty in later generations and deeply felt sorry for Zhang Juzheng. He believed that Zhang Juzheng was a rare virtuous minister in a thousand years. This man almost single-handedly pulled the Ming Dynasty back from the edge of the cliff, but because of his boycott of imperial power, he

This led to the failure of the reform.

Later generations of historians said that "the Ming Dynasty actually died in Wanli". In fact, it means that Wanli counterattacked after Zhang Juzheng's death. He poured water on his children and abolished all Zhang Juzheng's reform achievements. This made the Ming government completely weak and powerless, and was easily defeated by the Manchus.

Seized the country.

At this moment, Zhu Yijun is the fourth person standing outside the iron triangle of power. According to normal history, he will inevitably have a power struggle with this iron triangle - it is not really a struggle, but just patiently waiting for it to naturally break.

During this period, I accumulated a lot of resentment - if I were to be myself, I might be able to avoid the tragedy of death and death, but life is short. Obviously I already have the soul of an adult, but I still have to wait ten years for Zhang Juzheng to die of illness?!

Seeing that Empress Dowager Li did not agree to accompany the emperor, Zhu Yijun pretended to be unhappy. Empress Dowager Li felt a little disgusted, but patiently comforted her and said: "Don't be upset, the emperor. The emperor's affair with the emperor is not feasible. He has time to stay. We two wives

Let's go to Xiyuan to play." Zhu Yijun was afraid that she would be too worried, so he pretended to be happy.

The mother and son had talked, and the palace maid Peng and others arrived with the emperor's brother Lu Wang Zhu Yixi, the emperor's sister Shouyang Princess Zhu Yao'e, Yongning Princess Zhu Yaoying, and Ruian Princess Zhu Yaoyuan. Zhu Yixi is the second son of Empress Dowager Li, and he is now five years old.

When he was two years old, he was granted the title of King of Lu.

These children and Zhu Yijun were all born to the same mother. Zhu Yaoyuan was considered a posthumous daughter. She was still in her infancy and was held by her wet nurse.

Because she could only be a wealthy prince for the rest of her life, Empress Dowager Li did not impose strict demands on Prince Lu, but rather pampered her. Prince Lu had an eldest brother and two sisters who were not old enough to study yet, although he was taught etiquette by the palace maid.

, but no one seriously controls him, so his nature has not been lost, he is lively and active, and he is completely different from his brother.

After the ceremony, the monkey started playing tricks on Empress Dowager Li. Empress Dowager Li also smiled, touched her back with her hands, and asked him how his breakfast and lunch were. Zhu Yili answered a few words and suddenly asked: "Mother,

My sister is still drinking milk, how can my sisters and I not have milk to eat?"

Queen Mother Li was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "You have grown up, how can you get human milk? If you want to drink milk, let Shangshan Supervisor bring in some milk later, and you can eat it when it is hot."

King Lu refused to listen and clamored to eat human milk like his sister. Zhu Yijun laughed secretly at the sidelines and thought that King Lu was worthy of being the number one "King of Dislikes" in the world. He was full of tricks at such a young age.

Nai smiled and said, "Don't be upset, brother. This human milk is only suitable for young children. When you grow up, eating human milk will make you neither tall nor strong. Do you want to grow taller and stronger? Do you want to gain strength?"

"

Every child wants to grow up faster. Hearing that eating human milk will not make you grow taller, Zhu Yijun asked Zhu Yijun what he should eat to grow taller and stronger. Zhu Yijun pondered for a moment and said: "The queen just said that cow's milk is the strongest among livestock.

"Eating milk will give you strength and strengthen your body - I will drink it with my brother from now on, okay?"

Then he looked at Queen Mother Li and asked, "Queen Mother, do you think this is possible?"

Empress Dowager Li did not fail to listen to the matter of a bowl of milk, and immediately ordered to give the emperor and Prince Lu a pound of milk every day. The two princesses agreed after hearing this, and Empress Dowager Li also agreed.

Zhu Yijun didn't know whether people in the Ming Dynasty regarded milk as a regular meal and even asked for it when meeting the princesses. Only then did he know that there was indeed no milk in the palace.

While he was talking, he looked at Princess Yongning carefully and saw that she was not tall in stature, but she was indeed a beauty between her eyebrows and eyes, and he couldn't help but secretly hate Feng Bao.

From later generations, he learned that when Yongning became the lord, Feng Bao accepted bribes and actually betrothed Yongning to a frail tuberculosis man. The prince-in-law vomited blood and fell into a coma at the wedding. Yongning became a widow two months after the wedding and became depressed within a few years.

And in the end, he died without any care, which can be said to be the ultimate tragedy. - Feng Baozhi's domineeringness is evident.

Now that he already knows about this, Zhu Yijun will naturally prevent this tragedy from happening again.

From this, he secretly thought about the iron triangle trio - Empress Dowager Li had filial piety and could not disobey her wishes. Moreover, Empress Dowager Li was a woman in the palace, worshiped Buddha with integrity, and did not have the same ambitions as Wu Zetian. The reason for delegating power to Zhang Juzheng was just because she was the most economical.

It’s just the heart;

Zhang Juzheng, a great reformer, was about to be put to great use, but his domineering power had to be restrained - only Feng Bao was the weakest, relying only on the favor of Empress Dowager Li, so knocking him out by himself would have little impact on national affairs.

Once Feng Bao left, Zhang Juzheng could only rely on his "precocious wisdom" to carry out reform plans. He could slowly instill the governance concepts of later generations into Zhang Juzheng, so that this old empire could do its best and be full of vitality.

After thinking carefully for a while, he felt more and more that the plan was feasible. Zhu Yijun calmed down, spent some time in the Queen Mother's bedroom, and then retired to the palace.

Empress Dowager Li said: "The emperor is tired of the feast today, so he should go to bed early." She looked like she wanted to say something, but after thinking about it she didn't say anything. She just gave orders to an old eunuch named Yin Xiang who was beside the emperor, and to serve him.

If the emperor's concubine Xu, the eunuch Zhang Cheng and others want to attend the emperor's bedtime on time.

Fearing that Zhang Cheng was young and unstable, Queen Mother Li gave Eunuch Yin a few harsh words before letting him go back.

Eunuch Yin, palace maid Xu, and eunuch Zhang Cheng waited on Zhu Yijun and walked back to the palace. Before they arrived, they saw eunuch Feng Bao, eunuch in charge of etiquette, Zhang Hong, eunuch Bingbi, and Zhang Jing waiting outside the palace gate.

The emperor arrived and was busy paying homage. Zhu Yijun adjusted his mood and said with a smile: "Is your companion here?"

Feng Bao always had an amiable smile on his fat, round face, and a bunch of words of praise came out of his mouth, praising the emperor's performance at the sutra banquet. Zhu Yijun listened to a few words without commenting.

Feng Bao was the first to enter the palace. When Feng Bao saw this, confusion appeared on his face. He lightly dusted his python robe and entered the palace with Zhang Hong and Zhang Jing.

When he entered the palace, he saw a pile of inscriptions approved by the Director of Ceremonies on the table. Zhu Yijun was stunned and said: "Aren't these all the ones you have approved? What are you using them for?" Feng Bao smiled and said:

"Replying to the emperor, I saw that the emperor spoke well at the Sutra Banquet and that the sacred knowledge was getting more and more advanced day by day. I wanted to let the emperor get familiar with government affairs first. Therefore, Queen Mother Bingming, starting from today, approved the red in Qianqing Palace - also to let the emperor get familiar with it as soon as possible.

Thoughts on national affairs."

Zhu Yijun's heart moved and he said with a smile: "I just came from the Queen Mother's palace, and the Queen Mother did not say this."

Feng Bao was also stunned. Today he saw the emperor speak in a coherent manner at the sutra banquet, and his few words revealed relatively mature thoughts. He was not only happy but also fearful of losing power. Last year, he had just teamed up with Zhang Juzheng to release the former chief minister Gao Gong.

On the contrary, in the capacity of Gu Ming, he was in charge of the Priest of Ceremony, and in less than half a year, he was already intoxicated with the peak power.

Seeing that the emperor is so smart today, he cannot help but fall into the same tangle as Zhang Juzheng. Although he has received a complete education in his inner study since childhood, he does not have the palace of Zhang Juzheng, nor the ethics of a scholar-bureaucrat. He only cares about his own power. That’s all.

After thinking about it for a long time after the dispersion of the dynasty, Feng Bao came up with the idea of ​​"giving first if you want to take it first", which was to let the little emperor see how the government affairs were done - based on his understanding of the emperor, when the emperor knew After realizing that reviewing memorials is such an arduous task, he may not be able to persist for a long time. In the end, the power of red approval will still return to his hands.

Once the rule is established, the emperor will be able to fully delegate power to him when he becomes an adult, so that he can sit back and relax. Therefore, he proposed to the Queen Mother of Ming Dynasty in high spirits, and wanted to approve it in the Qianqing Palace. Although the Queen Mother realized that it was a little early, maternal love was still a bit blind, and in her heart I couldn't help but look forward to it, so I agreed.

Feng Bao didn't know that this "Red Criticism Psychological Shadow Plan" was in Zhu Yijun's plan, nor did he expect that the Queen Mother did not give instructions to the emperor. Seeing that he was stunned, Zhu Yijun said to the little eunuch Zhang Cheng next to him: "Go and ask the Queen Mother. Today, the Queen Mother Is there such an arrangement? I'll tell you when I ask." Zhang Cheng responded.
Chapter completed!