"What? Li Ruolian, what did you say?"

Emperor Chongzhen had already stood up from his throne and looked blankly at Li Ruolian who was kneeling below.

"Your Majesty, the Thousand-Year-Old Master said this morning that he had no son at the age of sixteen, and he wanted to take the lead in defending the country. He was worried that if anything happened, he would be sorry for his ancestors and would shake the country's foundation. So he brought two hundred soldiers and horses.

He took over the mansion where Ping Xibo's family temporarily lived, and robbed Xibo Ping's sister Wu Sanmei to return to the palace to give birth to a son for herself...Now the raw rice has been cooked!"

Is there such a thing?

Chongzhen was almost petrified and could not move even while standing there.

Zhu Cixiang actually made such a damaging move and directly "robbed" Wu Sanmei and cooked the raw rice into cooked rice.

And he also found an upright reason!

I want Wu Sanmei to give birth to a son to carry on the family line...

Why are you so anxious about this matter? You, the prince, have three younger brothers! Even if you are killed by Li Zicheng’s army, your younger brothers can still take over as the prince. The Ming Dynasty will never be without a prince!

"Your Majesty, although the prince's behavior was inappropriate, he still thought for the sake of the Ming Dynasty. The great festival will not be lost. The prince is already sixteen years old this year. When your majesty was sixteen, he already had many concubines, but the prince was still alone. Indeed.

It’s inappropriate!”

The person who defended Zhu Cixiang's act of robbing Wu Sanmei was Li Banghua, the censor of Zuodu. The old man had a white beard as white as silver and floated on his chest. He looked like a veteran of four dynasties and a respected official.

A group of civil and military officials outside the Huangji Gate also nodded, and seemed to agree that Zhu Cihong had robbed Wu Sanmei for the sake of the Ming Dynasty... There are three ways to be unfilial, and having no heirs is the worst! Can everyone disagree?

"But, he's robbing people!" Chongzhen was so angry!

I'm not angry because my son stole a woman, but I'm angry because my son blatantly deceived me!

This is bullying!

Wu Xiang was already proposing girls, so why did he need to snatch his daughter? When he saw the prince throwing himself into his arms, it was too late, so why did he need to snatch her?

This is a collusion to put on a show, to make the rice cooked, forcing Emperor Chongzhen to admit the status quo. Isn't this bullying the emperor? This is bullying the emperor!

Li Banghua pointed out with a serious face: "Your Majesty, the prince robs people to carry on the family line for his ancestors! Is it more important to rob people, or to carry on the family line for Emperor Taizu Gao?"

Of course, it is important to carry on the family line... On this point, the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty would have different opinions!

The previous impeachment of Wu Xiang for offering his daughter to be charming no longer exists. Now the prince has snatched Wu Xiang’s daughter in order to carry on the family line for the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty. This is an act of filial piety!

Who dares to impeach the prince because he is eager to pass on the family line? Do you want the Ming Dynasty to be extinct? And at this time, what is the benefit of impeaching the prince? The prince has money and soldiers, which is the hope of the Ming Dynasty. If everyone wants to continue to be an official of the Ming Dynasty, then

You have to follow the prince!

Li Banghua added: "This is comparable to the story of Emperor Shenzong's filial piety and the empress dowager's favor! Now that the prince is lucky to the Wu family, there will be a certain chance that the Wu family will give birth to an heir! If an heir is born, even though he is not a legitimate child, he will still be the prince's eldest son.

Your Majesty’s eldest grandson… this way the Ming Dynasty will have a heir!”

Empress Dowager Xiaojing is the biological mother of Emperor Guangzong and the biological grandmother of Emperor Chongzhen. She was a maid in the palace of Empress Dowager Li, the mother of Emperor Wanli. Emperor Wanli accidentally bumped into her, so she secretly married her. After tens of thousands of dollars, she still didn't admit it until Xiaojing

The Empress Dowager was pregnant before Empress Dowager Li found out the truth. The child in Empress Dowager Xiaojing's belly was Emperor Chongzhen's biological father, Emperor Guangzong Zhu Changluo.

When Li Banghua mentioned Guangzong, Emperor Chongzhen's face turned blue with anger.

In addition to his humble background, Guangzong was also a party to the dispute over the foundation of the Wanli Dynasty... Li Banghua mentioned Guangzong to remind Emperor Chongzhen not to think about deposing the prince. The whole dynasty was full of upright gentlemen, and they were all upholding the foundation of the Ming Dynasty.

Yes, if you want to change the prince, there is no way!

Not only could the prince not be replaced because of robbing someone to carry on the family line, but if Wu Sanmei gave birth to a son for the prince, as long as there was no legitimate son, he would be the future heir to the throne.

If the prince died in the battle to defend the Ming Dynasty and left no legitimate son, then the son Wu Sanmei bore to the prince would be the grandson of the emperor!

This is called Li Chang! It is stipulated in the Emperor Mingzu system!

"Wei Zaode, what do you think?" Chongzhen gritted his teeth and asked Wei Zaode, a scholar from the First Academy of Sciences.

How dare Wei Zaode have any opinions? He just said vaguely: "Although there is something wrong with this matter, for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, it is better, it is better..."

"Why don't you accept her as your concubine?" Chongzhen asked sharply.

When Wei Zaode heard Chongzhen's unkind tone, he had to change his words and said: "It would be better to use her as the female historian of the East Palace and order her to serve His Highness the Crown Prince..."

A female history officer is a female official. Her status is a little higher than that of a palace maid, but she is not a high-ranking female official.

"Can only be used as a palace maid!" Emperor Chongzhen seemed to be angry.

Li Banghua shook his head: "Why bother? Both the Wu family's father and brother are important ministers of the country, and his brother Wu Sangui is the reinforcement that the capital hopes for... Why bother to humiliate the Wu family with palace people?"

"I can only be a palace maid!" Chongzhen said firmly.

"Wang Cheng'en!" Then he called the eunuch Wang Cheng'en who had fallen out of favor, "Go and tell the prince that Wu cannot be a concubine and can only serve as a palace servant."

"Old slave accepts the decree." Of course Wang Chengen understood what Emperor Chongzhen meant.

This is to use Wu Sanmei's name as a bargaining chip to continue the game. However, Chongzhen has already lost the game by allowing Wu Sanmei to serve Zhu Cixiang. Not only did the drama of impeaching Wu Xiang go wrong, but he also allowed Zhu Cixiang and Wu Xiang to complete the de facto

marriage.

As for titles and so on... When Wu Sangui's army arrives, can Chongzhen really refuse to give them to them? Not to mention the side concubines, even the main concubines have to give them!

Otherwise, the troops outside Beijing belong to Wu Sangui, and the troops inside the city belong to Zhu Cixiang. If they join forces, Chongzhen will be the supreme emperor...

And even if Chongzhen refused to recognize Wu Sanmei as his daughter-in-law, it would not prevent Zhu Cihong from pampering Wu Sanmei to heaven. Zhu Cihong's life depended on him, and Wu Sanmei was a palace maid who served Zhu Cihong, so it was only natural that he would sleep with her. Zhu Cihong would dote on her when the time came.

Wu Sanmei, what can Chongzhen do?

So in this game, Emperor Chongzhen was slapped in the face by his son!

It really hurts!

What's even more hateful is that Emperor Chongzhen found that he had no way to deal with this unfilial son!

Emperor Chongzhen was an emperor who was obsessed with saving face and suffering. If he could be as shameless as Zhu Cixiang and could use all kinds of deception and deception, would he still be here today? So he couldn't and didn't dare to hold a Hongmen Banquet.

Zhu Cihong did it. Now the defense of Beijing relies on Zhu Cihong, and the life-saving straw Wu Sangui is Zhu Cihong's second uncle. If he does it, who will defend Beijing? Who will save it? If the country falls in the end, it will be recorded in the history books

Why don't you call Chongzhen a bastard and a third-level coward? Does he still have the nerve to say that he is not the king of subjugation?

And Zhu Cixiang is so cunning, he may not necessarily fall into the Hongmen Banquet's scheme... He doesn't live in Duanben Palace now, but has moved to Jiale Hall next to Taiye Pond. Jiale Hall is next to the inner school grounds.

The inner school field is now the headquarters of the Kenan Camp, with nearly 3,000 soldiers and generals of the Kenan Camp stationed there.

Chongzhen's Jing army would definitely not be able to defeat them. The desperadoes in Kenan camp were paid one tael of silver a day. How much money did the eunuchs of the Jing army get? Even if they could defeat them, they would not be willing to sacrifice their lives! Therefore, it was unreasonable to send out the Jing army to arrest Zhu Cixiang.

possible.

All Chongzhen could do now was to ask Wang Chengen to discuss with Zhu Cihong how much money he wanted.

Wang Chengen's current status is also a bit special. Zhu Cixiang was able to "make it", and he took the greatest credit. At the same time, he was loyal to Emperor Chongzhen. So he is now a bridge between Chongzhen and Zhu Cixiang.

…

When Wang Chengen rushed to Jiale Hall, Zhu Cihong and Wu Sanmei were not there. They were having dinner with the officers and soldiers of the Nanyang Army in the inner school yard.

Today is a good day for Zhu Cixiang to snatch his wife. Of course, the soldiers must also be happy. So after coming out of Wu Xiang's house, Zhu Cixiang was not busy cooking the uncooked rice...Wu Sanmei's white and big one

Rice is still raw! Because after Zhu Cihong snatched her away, he was busy winning over the soldiers.

First, we prepared a delicious meal, which was white flour steamed buns with meat and a bowl of rice wine. Then we distributed "red envelopes" to everyone, which were not much, just one tael of silver per person. Zhu Cihong and Wu Sanmei personally distributed them to everyone...and the palace maids as well.

, a female official is nothing more than Emperor Chongzhen and his son being angry. To Zhu Cihong and the soldiers of Kenan camp, Wu Sanmei is now the princess! She doesn't even have the word "side".

Now that Zhu Cixiang wants to win over the Wu family, what kind of "side" should he add? The benefits should be given, right? Besides, Zhu Cixiang really likes Wu Sanmei, the "big girl". She is fair and tender, and she is also a tiger in the general family.
Chapter completed!