Chapter 213 Undecided
The imperial court sent to local supervisors and the emperor to issue edicts to the ministers, drafting and general biography:
Generally speaking, the emperor issued an edict directly by a Hanlin scholar, while the edict of the Zhongshu Menxia Provincial Department was written by the Zhongshu Sheren or the Zhizhi imperial edict, and then conveyed through the Tongzouyuan under the jurisdiction of the Zhongshu Menxia Provincial Department. Some of the more special edicts, such as rewarding merits and titles, were usually announced by the eunuchs and eunuchs to the destination.
In theory, this secret edict should have been designated by the Provincial Department of Escort to take the edict to Mount Chu and handed it to Xu Huai, the Marquis of Jingsheng.
However, in this situation, everyone knows that this secret edict is a hot mountain yu.
No, it is simply an active volcano that will erupt at any time and burn itself to the point of not even leaving any bones.
Your Majesty is critically ill and life is hard to tell. The prince is old and has learned to speak. King Zhao Guan of Huai has long decided to be the crown prince. Logically speaking, King Zhao Guan of Huai should supervise the national affairs.
Now this secret edict has become the biggest variable.
If this secret edict was handed over to others, it might not be so powerful, and the court may not have to follow the secret edict.
In the years since the founding of the Great Yue Dynasty, the emperor's handed over the ethical system or was inappropriate. I don't know how much it was rejected by the Secretariat and the Censorate, and this secret edict was not bad.
However, the difficulty lies in the fact that this secret edict was given to the Marquis of Jingsheng, Xu Huai.
The King of Jingsheng Xu Huai had tens of thousands of elite Chushan soldiers in his hand. Even if he had never been defeated in the face of Chihu Iron Cavalry, it was the biggest reliance behind this secret edict. At that time, who would dare to easily refute this secret edict, and not be afraid of the tragic consequences of falling behind and destroying the clan?
More importantly, what exactly is written in this secret edict? No one except Princess Yingyun had time to take a look.
If something unexpected happened in the middle of the secret edict and it was not passed to the Marquis of Jingsheng, Marquis of Jingsheng would definitely not be able to give up.
The final momentum may not be so great, but the blame for the wrong edict is definitely not something that anyone can bear.
When King Huai entered the palace and learned that the secret edict existed, who could guarantee that there would be no trouble when the secret edict was passed to Chushan?
Qiao Jien first proposed a secret edict to be handed over to the Chushan camp’s official Zheng Tu for the custody of the Chushan camp, and Zheng Tu quickly rode back to Chushan and handed it to Xu Huai. Zhu Han, Hu Kai and others also agreed with this proposal, and they were also worried that the secret edict would be stolen and replaced by the pillars when the secret edict fell into the hands of others.
Even though Zhou He, Gao Chunnian, Gu Fan and others wanted King Huai to supervise the national affairs, they did not argue about the matter of circulating the imperial edict. After all, Emperor Jianji was still lying on the bed with his eyes open?
This is actually a big variable that they cannot control. If they are not careful, they will be doomed.
At the end, Zhou He simply gave Hu Kai the escort of commanding troops and horses to arrange.
Hu Kaize suggested that the secret edict be sealed, and that the provincial eunuchs and the ministers of the Central Secretariat each sent one person to jointly supervise with Zheng Tu, and the Imperial Camp commander to inspect a team of cavalry escorts until it was sent to the Marquis of Jingsheng Xu Huai without any mistakes.
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The treatment did not improve, and it was impossible for all ministers to stay in Funing Palace. Due to the existence of the variable secret edict, no one was willing to step forward to advocate the Huai King's supervision of the country.
Ministers from the Huai Prince's Mansion still need to avoid suspicion and dare not make blind proposals at this critical moment, otherwise they will be caught and caught.
Finally, after a long discussion, the ministers decided to strictly enfeoff Guan Jian and Jie's critical illness. Zhou He, Hu Kai, and King Zhao Guan of Huai led the ministers to decide on the national affairs. After the treatment was given for a while, they would discuss other matters.
"What's the matter with the secret edict? I'm sure that no one in the palace saw a few words, and Qiao Jien didn't see anything?"
When he returned to the Huai Palace, Zhao Guan stared at a middle-aged eunuch with a sinister expression and asked.
"Before noon yesterday, Your Majesty woke up, but she was weak and vomited blood. At that time, everyone was busy surrounding the imperial physician and sent an edict to the Prime Minister Zhou and the Prime Minister Hu to the palace. At that time, only Princess Yingyun should have been serving His Majesty. Even Concubine Zheng was sent away. The secret edict was finally put into her sleeves by Princess Yingyun. Except for Princess Yingyun, she did not see anything written in the secret edict. But after hearing the young official who served in Funing Palace, the secret edict was written in the end, and His Majesty was unable to hold the pen and fell down..."
"Mr. Wang, what do you think the secret edict may be written?" Zhao Guan frowned and looked at the deputy envoy of Privy Councilor Wang Boyan and asked.
"Apart from Princess Yingyun, no one else saw a secret edict. He only knew that there was such a secret edict - in fact, what was written in the secret edict is no longer important!" Wang Boyan said.
King Zhao Guan's face became more and more gloomy.
Secret edicts can be forged, and Emperor Jianji's handwriting can also be imitated.
The ministers only knew that this secret edict existed, but they didn't know what was written in it. If Xu Huai finally took out a forgery, the content was completely different from the secret edict written by Emperor Jianji, even Princess Yingyun would not be able to identify it as fake.
More importantly, in addition to King Zhao Guan of Huai, Concubine Zheng gave birth to a new prince. Behind the prince is Zheng Huaizhong, Zheng Cong and his son, who are 80,000 elite troops from Huainan East Road (Huaidong Daying). If Xu Huai held a secret edict and joined forces with the Zheng family to support the young emperor, would the Huainan Prince's Mansion really have the strength to compete with him?
At that time, the sergeant ministers of the court may stand on his side, but what choices would Gao Junyang, Gu Jiqian, and the three generals of the Imperial Army Zhang Xin, Liu Yan and Deng Gui make?
"When you have to stop breaking, you will suffer the chaos," said the middle-aged general sitting beside him. "Your Highness makes a decision at this time, and there is still a chance to intercept the secret edict!"
In addition to the Xuanwei Army under the Imperial Camp Command, the Jianye Navy and the Mansion Army under the Jianye Prefecture, King Zhao Guan of Huai, as the crown prince, also commanded the guards of three thousand soldiers. He was the direct elite leader directly controlled by the Huai Palace in Jianye.
In other words, it is not unsure that King Zhao Guan of Huai was determined to intercept the secret edict.
"Things are not that simple..." Zhao Guan shook his head and said.
He is no longer the impulsive teenager who ordered murder and vent his anger after being offended by Hu Ji in Nuanxianglou.
When Chihu invaded the south, he first went to Weizhou to supervise the battle. When Bianliang went south, he led his army to go south in a hurry, and the journey was bumpy and bumpy, and he suffered all the hardships, which also prompted him to grow up.
Otherwise, how could generals and ministers such as Wang Boyan, Yang Maoyan, Ge Boyi, Han Shiliang be willing to be controlled by him, and gather together with the Huai Palace as the core?
As Wang Boyan said, the essence of the whole thing was not what was written in the secret edict, but Chushan and Huaidong joined forces to suppress the Huai Prince's Mansion with the secret edict.
The ministers above the third rank in the court are already aware of the existence of the secret edict, and Yingyun also knows the content of the secret edict.
The secret edict was robbed. Can they convince the Gao family, Gu family, Zhang Xin, Liu Yan and Deng Gui to stand together with the Huai Prince's Mansion and join forces to fight against Chushan and Huaidong?
Zhao Guan cannot ignore Gao Junyang, Liu Yan and Zheng Huaizhong went out of the Western Army together, nor can he ignore Gu Jiqian's close relationship with Chushan. Zhang Xin and Deng Gui were promoted from the end of the day by Emperor Jianji, and it is more likely that he would only blindly follow Emperor Jianji's will.
Another point he had to consider is whether his half-brother was so critically ill that he could not speak or hold a pen at all?!
King Zhao Guan of Huai was suspicious of this. He even suspected that the so-called secret edict was the trap set by this half-brother.
Obviously, if Emperor Jianji really felt that after his death, he should be the crown prince who succeeded the throne, there was no need to leave any secret edicts for Chushan.
The secret decree must be to prevent him from ascending the throne.
However, the sergeant ministers of the court were all on his side, and King Huai Zhao Guan was very clear about this.
In addition to his title of the Crown Prince, the more important thing is the current situation. Who would have hoped that the young and ignorant emperor would ascend the throne with the support of his relatives?
His brother wanted to break this obstacle and left the throne to his sons. The best way was to induce them to act easily in advance, confirm their evidence of their crimes, and then naturally depose him, the crown prince.
Although there were three thousand elite soldiers in the Huai Palace in Jianye City, Zhao Guan did not dare to expect to compete with his brother - he knew how high his brother's prestige among the generals and ministers over the years was that he could not compare with.
"Your Highness, you can't hesitate anymore. If the secret edict is in the hands of the Chushan Fox, we will be passive!" Although there is a great risk of issuing the secret edict, everyone in the hall still feels that the secret edict is in the hands of Xu Huai, the Marquis of Jingsheng.
Could it be that when Xu Huai held a secret edict to support the young emperor, would they raise an army to resist the edict?
"Maybe someone can send someone to Chu Mountain to meet the Marquis of Jingsheng!" Wang Boyan said after pondering for a while.
Zhao Guan's eyes lit up and knocked his head: "Mr. Wang said so much, I deserve to be my adviser! Yes, the Zheng family can give it to Chu Shan, and I can give it to him, and it may not be impossible for Chu Shan to forget the secret edict!"
"What are you waiting for? Who will you take to Mount Chu?" someone asked impatiently.
"If Chushan can convince him, there is no need to rush for a moment, and Chushan may be waiting for a price,"
Zhao Guan thought through this section, felt relaxed all over, stood with his hands behind his back,
Chapter completed!