When Zhang Sheng heard this, his eyebrows and beard were so angry that he blew up. These monks and Taoists were lawless and dared to play a chore in front of the emperor's spirit and bewitch the prince!

There is no need to say much about what happened next. As the Minister of Rites, Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, and a second-rank official, how could Zhang Sheng allow such a young man to cause trouble in front of him? He immediately ordered the warriors in front of the hall to arrest all the monks and Taoists who participated in it and drag them away on the spot. The eunuchs on duty in the hall did not report the information, and were imprisoned and were imprisoned and waited for punishment. The remaining monks and Taoists were so scared that they all lowered their heads, and they all dared not have any other thoughts on the wooden fish, and those who chanted the scriptures.

Later, Zhu Houzhao grabbed Gu Dayong and asked the follow-up, and found out that the arrested Taoist monks were taken over by the East Factory and were imprisoned in the imperial prison. They were tortured and asked about their purpose of approaching the prince. In the end, they couldn't ask anything. Under the instruction of the cabinet, they were all executed in prison.

Zhu Houzhao didn't expect that a report would kill these people. Although these monks and Taoists were not guilty of being close to themselves, they would not be punished to death, and at most they would be fined for a few years in prison.

However, Zhu Houzhao had not ascended the throne as emperor, but was just a helpless and weak prince. His father had just died and had no support. In the court, people were slight in their words and could not stop the cabinet's resolution at all.

Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and Xie Qian, who are now in charge of the cabinet, are all powerful leaders with strict law enforcement and three famous wise ministers of the Ming Dynasty.

The three of them served as officials in the same dynasty, and even Emperor Hongzhi had to tolerate three points. How could Zhu Houzhao dare to be arrogant in front of them?

During the Ming Dynasty, especially in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the cabinet was dominant and overwhelmed the imperial power, and it was already the de facto Prime Minister's Office. As the chief minister of the cabinet, Xie Qian's status as the head of the empire was comparable to that of the imperial head. Things inside and outside the court were almost decided in one sentence. Liu Jian and Li Dongyang's two deputy were also in power and should not be underestimated.

Of course, the emperor could distrust the cabinet, and even use the imperial power to easily remove the cabinet's grand clerks, and it would be fine if he pulled them out and beheaded. But the consequences of this were extremely serious. First of all, the gentry and civil servant group were the ruling class of the Ming Dynasty, and the officials of the six ministries of the cabinet were the leaders elected by the civil servant group.

Strictly speaking, the cabinet is a buffering body sandwiched between the emperor and the civil servant group. The emperor manages the cabinet, and the cabinet manages the civil servant group.

In the Ming Dynasty, from yamen runners to county magistrates, to generals and governors, they were all minions arranged by the six departments of the cabinet in the local area. Once the cabinet was lost and mediated, the emperor became a commander-in-law, and the entire country would fall into chaos.

The Chongzhen period is the most obvious example. Emperor Chongzhen did not trust the cabinet. During his reign, he replaced more than fifty cabinet ministers, and the chief minister had changed as many as nineteen, and there were many high-ranking officials who were killed by him. He killed people at every turn. Emperor Chongzhen's behavior directly made the cabinet lose its ability to govern, the structure of the entire bureaucratic system was destroyed, the political system collapsed, and the gentry group also lost the organization that led them, becoming a mess.

In the end, Chongzhen made everyone betrayal and could only play alone in Beijing. When Li Zicheng attacked, he didn't even have a minister to protect his lord south, so he could only choose to hang a three-foot white silk on his own crooked tree.

Zhu Houzhao traveled and resurrected to be the emperor, not to learn from Chongzhen as a murderer, so if he wanted to rule safely, he had to abide by the rules of the game and fight wits and courage with the cabinet, and continue to operate the country.

Guan Wei is hard to explain, it is a kind of oppressive aura.

Zhu Houzhao is just a young man in the city. The biggest official he has ever seen is the community director. The imperial capital-level giant has only seen it on TV. It is conceivable that when the weak Zhu Houzhao first saw these three cabinet bosses, his calves were trembling, and his fake prince was almost exposed.

Fortunately, Zhu Houzhao was kneeling in the mourning hall wearing mourning clothes. The three big guys also died suddenly because of the good boss who had been serving for many years. They were in a bad mood, so they didn't pay attention to the wrongness of the prince who was kneeling. Zhu Houzhao was almost unable to see through his identity.

After such a thing happened, Zhu Houzhao never dared to have any other thoughts, but just kept mourning and cried. After Liu Jin and Gu Dayong were warned by the eunuchs in the Silijian, they did not dare to act evil again. Everything quietly returned to normal.

The funeral of Emperor Xiaozong of Ming Dynasty was held for twelve days!

It was not until the thirty-mile-long funeral procession carried the coffin and sent the Emperor Daxing out of the city that the funeral was truly over.

Because Emperor Xiaozong was frugal during his lifetime and died suddenly, the imperial tomb had not been selected for construction. The coffin left the city just to complete the ceremony. After walking around outside the city, he immediately transferred it back to the ice warehouse in the basement of Taimiao for storage. After the site selection and construction of the imperial tomb was completed, he would be moved into the underground palace.

The country cannot be without a king for a day. On the day of his funeral, Zhu Houzhao was confused and supported on the dragon throne surrounded by his ministers. Then, under the three bows and nine bows of everyone, he became a legitimate emperor.

At this point, Zhu Houzhao truly embarked on his career as the leader of a country.

In the past, he only had to support one home and take care of his parents and brother.

Now he must support a country and take good care of the food problems of the 60 million ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty. This not only requires great courage and perseverance, but also unparalleled wisdom and decisiveness.

After ascending the throne, Zhu Houzhao recovered from the complicated funeral. In addition, the ginseng stewed old hen soup cooked in the imperial kitchen every day, and his energy gradually recovered.

After becoming emperor, I will naturally be the only one in heaven and earth!

Going to work? It doesn't exist!

After being scared by the three giants of the cabinet last time, Zhu Houzhao realized that he was not mentally prepared to face the important officials of the court. If the monarch and ministers reported the right report, he would be stuttering and sweating all over, and someone would definitely see the clue.

His ex was born as a crown prince and a nobleman. He had never suffered grievances and suffered in his life. His eyes were on the head. There was no one he was afraid of in this world, and he could not show his timidity in front of anyone.

This psychological gap can't be learned in a short period of time, so Zhu Houzhao, on the grounds of weak constitution, headache, fever, and overwhelmed, announced that the court would be suspended for one month and rest and recuperate. During this period, the matter inside and outside the court would be handled by the cabinet and the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the imperial hospital.

With this month's buffer, Zhu Houzhao can make full preparations, and when he comes out again, he will not be so helpless.

Not having to go to court does not mean you have nothing to do!

Zhu Houzhao began to read a lot of documents and information in the palace, and at the same time invited several respected old eunuchs in the palace. They asked the organizational structure and personnel of the court inside and outside the palace, even the humanities and scenery outside the capital, and tried hard to absorb the knowledge about this era.

Time flies June of the 18th year of Hongzhi.

In the past month, the East Asian empire successfully completed the handover of supreme power. Zhengde, who had lost his father, cried miserably at first, but soon escaped from his grief and participated in the state funeral matters seriously. He was very obedient from beginning to end, and without any trouble, the court was relieved.

Although after ascending the throne, the little emperor's dragon body was worried and needed to cultivate for one month, everyone was a little worried.

But as long as there is no trouble, the empire will be peaceful and peaceful, and everyone will have a good life.

...

In the Forbidden City, in the warm cabinet in the southwest corner of the Ganqing Palace, dozens of candles made of beeswax in the palace lanterns were burning quietly. The huge palace was bright and transparent. Even if you couldn't see your fingers outside, there was no dim color in the hall.

The capital city in June is very hot, and even in the middle of the night, it will not be much cooler. All the doors and windows of the Ganqing Palace are opened so that the wind through the hall will not blow away and the main hall will not be stuffy.

In the middle of the room, a one-meter-wide porcelain basin was piled with ice cubes for cooling. In the melting ice water around the basin, two large watermelons were soaked in circles slowly, and the melon peel was particularly green under the light.

A three-meter-long and wide carved Arhat bed was covered with a cool mat. There were two short tables in the middle of the bed, one with various fruits and pastries on one, and one with four treasures of the study. A rosy-faced boy wearing a silk short suit and shorts was lying on the Arhat bed, with a large cylindrical cotton pillow pillow under his arms, and was reading a memorial in the most comfortable way.

Two eunuchs were standing on the side of the Arhat's bed wearing bright red uniforms, holding palm-leaf fans and fanning the boy for a while.

This young man is naturally Zhu Houzhao, and later generations called Emperor Zhengde of Emperor Wuzong of Ming Dynasty!

The temple name "Wu" is quite positive for an emperor. Emperor Wu of Han, Emperor Wu of Guangwu Liu Xiu, Emperor Wu of Wei Cao Cao were all outstanding people. To this day, people can tell a few of their civil and military achievements. Of course, there are also unworthy flops like Emperor Wu of Later Zhao Shi Hu. All people remember is the only thing he asked the palace maids to wear open-crotch pants.

"Pan Liu, tell me, how should I write the case on this memorial?" Zhu Houzhao pinched an ice grape and stuffed it into his mouth. He threw the memorial into Liu Jin's arms, who was fanning behind him.

After this month of adaptation, Zhu Houzhao has fully realized the benefits of being an emperor and has gradually entered the role, with an emperor's atmosphere in every move.

Liu Jin took the memorial without panic, inserted the palm fan into the collar of the back of his neck, then flipped through it, and then frowned after a while:

"The Juren from Wucheng County, Huzhou Prefecture beat him up. The memorial said that the beating was very serious. Not only did he say that his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, but even his ribs were broken. It was really not easy to do it! But the reason was that his father slept with his daughter-in-law. The worse thing was that the daughter-in-law had been pregnant in her womb. Everyone didn't know whether to call him Li Juren's father after the child was born? Or call him elder brother! What's worse was that Li Juren's mother was so angry that she was so angry that she had now heard the truth. Now the scandal of this family has spread throughout Huzhou Prefecture. Such housework is too difficult, involving ethics and filial piety. The magistrate of Wucheng County and the prefect of Huzhou didn't know how to decide the case, so they could only jointly submit a memorial to ask for instructions."
Chapter completed!