DAY 018 The Battle of the Crown Prince of Daming
Bai Minghe may not know what's special about the prince's dispute.
His second uncle Bai Chongyuan knew all this very well.
The current crown prince is Zhu Jianshen, who is the son of the Supreme Emperor, the nephew of the current emperor. Because of the Tumu Fort Incident, the current emperor's brother was captured. Although he was sent back a year later, it is impossible for the emperor to abdicate immediately, so he put his brother under house arrest and regarded him as the Supreme Emperor.
This immortality is unrealistic, so who will inherit the inheritance you left behind?
The Ming Dynasty, the whole world. This is not the few taels of silver in the family. Zhu Qiyu has been thinking about how to change the prince since the day he ascended the throne. But the prince’s name cannot be casual. This was recorded in the Taimiao, so he needs the support of his ministers.
Change the position of this prince from his nephew to his own son.
Bai Minghe gave him an idea.
First, we should start with the ministers who may agree, and after getting the reply, we should slowly use these ministers who have agreed to influence others. Until 70% of the ministers support him, we should formally solicit the opinions of the ministers in the court. This way, we will pass the court at one time, and there will be countless benefits.
Yes, there are countless benefits.
Zhu Qiyu also knew that sometimes a certain proposal was fought over and over in the court, but it didn't have a good result for a long time.
The court was over and spread to the people.
I don’t know the courage of these scholars, but when talking about current affairs, I don’t have any verbal virtue at all.
Bai Minghe's tricks are good. He first got the results and then formally took them out to discuss them. No one opposed them and passed the test directly in the court, saving a lot of trouble.
Although, this process may take several months or even half a year.
But compared to his own proposal, the ministers reacted and then competed for another half a year or even a year, but it might not be successful. Compared with these two, Bai Minghe's method was so clever that Zhu Qiyu was almost astonished.
I picked up a small box held by Eunuch Cai, which was made of cardboard, and it looked very ordinary.
But this match seemed to be very useful, and it could light a fire with a slight stroke. Zhu Qiyu was a poor child when she was a child. His mother became a palace maid as a sinner. Such a status would not be able to become a concubine. She lived outside the palace until her father Xuanzong was about to die.
So, compared to his brother, his childhood was quite pitiful.
Looking at the flames on the matches, Zhu Qiyu seemed to think of her childhood experience of playing with fire in the kitchen, and a warm smile appeared on her face inadvertently.
"Long live, this thing is magical. But it seems bad to use such a box as a royal reward." Eunuch Cai whispered beside him. Zhu Qiyu nodded slightly. Eunuch Cai's advice made sense. Then he pointed to the box of matches.
Seeing Long Sui nodding, Mr. Cai asked publicly: "Mr. Bai, Long Sui wants to know what the production materials of this box are! Why are Qin general Wu Anjun drawn on this box?"
Eunuch Cai was the fourth-rank young supervisor. But Bai Chongyuan was a civil servant, so he could only ask him on behalf of the emperor that he had no right to ask any questions from foreign ministers.
"Long live back. This thing is a penny and a box, which is used to improve people's livelihood. My Bai family in Guanzhong was the descendant of Bai Qi from the Qin Wu'an Qun. My nephew Minghe has admired this ancestor since he was a child and vowed to serve the country and the king, even if he was crushed to pieces and thought that the glory of my Bai family in Guanzhong." After that, Bai Chongyuan knelt on the ground again and kowtowed heavily.
"Very good, please reward!" Zhu Qiyu was very satisfied with this reply.
Any emperor likes loyal ministers. His ancestor Ming Cheng (that is, Emperor Yongle) once gave the statue of Yue Fei in Dongchang, which means telling Dongchang a word, loyal!
Zhu Qiyu picked up the pen and wrote a few pieces, and handed them to Eunuch Cai after printing.
After reading these items quickly, Eunuch Cai took out one of them and came to Bai Chongyuan: "Bai Chongyuan, the head of the Ministry of Rites, received the imperial edict!"
Bai Chongyuan knelt again and shouted at the mountain!
The content for Bai Chongyuan is that you go back and rest first. Since such a match is a royal reward, you should naturally have some qualities. If you are too rough, you will act according to your plan after the gift is ready. You must not make any statements about this matter, and you will be able to do it slowly. If the matter is done well, you will naturally have a kind reward after it is done.
After saying that, he handed the thing over to Bai Chongyuan, and arranged for someone to secretly send Bai Chongyuan to the palace and directly send it back to his mansion.
The other two, one is a formal edict and the other is something similar to a private letter.
The formal edict was given to Jin Jie, which was also a gift from the emperor. Jin Jie arranged for thirty outstanding craftsmen to be specially made in Xiaquan Village, and the ones they wanted were for the royal family. He was specifically responsible for this matter. The other eighteen imperial guards were also transferred to Xiaquan Village, nominally guarding the match factory to prevent anyone from stealing technology.
In fact, this allowed the Eighteen Imperial Guards to stay away from the capital and keep Bai Chongyuan secretly into the palace secretly.
The matches are purchased by the people and the army, and they are priced in person. Two boxes of three in total. When they are sold to the nobles in the capital, they range from five in total to one box of five in total to one hundred in total according to the gorgeousness of the matches themselves.
Jin Jie was so excited. Even if he was not greedy for money, he would not have the advantage of going down to the Quan Village. He was just a small amount of money in the palace. He could get at least ten taels or twenty taels of silver in a month.
The next morning, Jin Jie pulled out of the capital with a lot of high-quality wood prepared from the palace treasury overnight, and brought thirty craftsmen, eighteen imperial guards, and two eunuchs who were doing odd jobs for him.
It is said that there are thirty craftsmen, but in fact there are thirty craftsmen.
In the Ming Dynasty, as a craftsman, he would be a craftsman forever. Unless something miraculous happens, his descendants will be craftsmen.
From the capital to Xiaquan Village, those who go out of Beijing can take the official road. When you set out in the early morning, the pure carriage team can walk up to 150 miles a day. Xiaquan Village is more than 130 miles away from the capital. Thank you for your hard work, you can arrive in one day. Two imperial guards were sent to ride horses first and arrange for Xiaquan Village to make some preparations.
Jin Jie is planning to do a big fight to win the joy of Grandpa Huang.
At this time, in addition to Jin Jie's introduction to the capital, two other people also received orders to leave the capital.
One is Du Shuangyu, a hereditary family of the Jinyiwei, who was only seventeen years old. It is rare to be hundreds of households at such an age in the Ming Dynasty, but four males in his Du Shuangyu family died in the Ming Dynasty. When he was hereditary, many thousand households in the Jinyiwei were protected, and the two colleagues also believed that the family of meritorious deeds would be praised.
Therefore, the commander specially approved the position of a hundred households, and after aged 20 or above, he had a record of military merit, and was directly promoted to a thousand households.
It can be said that Du Panyu is hereditary and has military achievements in his family. It can be said that he is definitely a high-performance stock among the Jinyiwei!
The other one is bigger than Du Shuangyu, and they are also good friends. The son of the commander of the Jinyiwei, Wu Bin, a hundred households.
These two people are both literary and military. Du Shuangyu likes to study more than practice martial arts. Unfortunately, as a hereditary military household, it is meaningless to be a hundred households and then go to the imperial examinations after he is a 100-year-old.
On the contrary, Wu Bin was surrounded by several gentlemen since he was a child, just to let him take the exam for a juren or something.
Unfortunately, he is a martial arts fanatic who loves martial arts as much as his life.
The two young Jinyiwei households, both civil and military, have two tasks to leave the capital. One is to secretly protect the Baiming He and the other is to secretly monitor the Baiming He. If you have any special actions, you will immediately repay it.
This is the sage edict, and the Jinyiwei naturally attaches great importance to it. At the same time, this is the easiest job to make contributions, so it was given to Du Shuangyu and Wu Bin.
The two of them rode their horses and arrived at Zhuozhou City just after noon. According to modern times, it was around 2 pm.
After eating outside the city, resting for a while, and when the two were about to enter the city at about four o'clock in the afternoon, Wu Bin was about to reveal his identity to enter the city, but was stopped by Du Shuangyu.
“Why?”
"Look at the carriage of the Yang family. Although the carriage behind him is the same as that of an ordinary carriage, I know the carriage of the Jiang family." After Du Shuangyu said this, Wu Bin also became interested: "Look at who else is from."
"There are probably many people coming to the capital. I guess some people are coming to the white crane."
Wu Bin didn't understand: "Justice is just a juren."
"A juren has solved the knot of more than 20 years, and asked the people of Bali 32 villages in Laishui County to leave his name in the ancestral hall. The magistrate of Laishui County didn't even dare to go to Xiaquan Village, just because he was afraid of losing his face. To put it lighter, this is extremely clever and to put it heavy, this is the livelihood of a thousand households."
After hearing what Du Shuangyu said, Wu Bin just kept nodding.
Du Shuangyu said again: "According to our Ming Dynasty law, if he is a white dynasty, he can enjoy a tax exemption of 300 acres, and his mother will also have a standard plaque for his children. Moreover, he is a juren, who is a juren, and he will be a higher level for the official, and the land tax that is not exempted from the official is doubled. You say, is such a person not famous?"
"Can fame be used as a silver flower or as a food?" Wu Bin was dissatisfied with one hundred.
"For us, it's useless. But for these literati, this thing is life. Look, this Zhuozhou Poetry Conference, those who are convinced and dissatisfied have come. There will always be someone who wants to embarrass Bai Minghe."
"Okay, have fun!" Wu Bin smiled happily.
At Du Shuangyu's suggestion, the two changed their clothes and put away their swords. When they entered the city, they only showed off a waist sign. Then they put their flying fish suits and swords on the government office, and went to the place of the poetry meeting in the city in casual clothes.
As a result, when we arrived at the entrance of the poetry meeting, there were two candidates blocking the door.
Chapter completed!