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Volume 1: The Past and the Present Chapter 752: Happy reunion over a pot of wine (finale)

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    The square was quiet, and all the ministers' eyes were focused on Zhu Houzhao and Zhu Houcong. They were both emperors who were worshiped by thousands of people, and they were also direct cousins.

    Zhu Houzhao looked at him quietly, with a calm look in his eyes that was a bit intimidating. Zhu Houcong knelt in front of him with his head bowed, his expression frightened but fearful, and his body could not help but tremble slightly.

    After a long time, Zhu Houzhao spoke leisurely.

    "Zhu Houcong, the second legitimate son of Emperor Xing's uncle, inherited the royal title because his eldest son died young. He was canonized as Prince Xing in the summer of the 14th year of Zhengde. In the autumn of the 14th year, he was welcomed into the capital by the courtiers of the capital, and became the emperor. He ascended the throne less than two months ago, and the courtiers  Because of the dispute over etiquette, they went on a killing spree. One hundred and thirteen courtiers of fourth rank or above were killed with sticks in front of the Chengtian Gate, just because they did not want to honor the late Emperor Hongzhi as their father, and wanted to make King Xingxian the late emperor"

    Zhu Houcong suddenly showed an expression of extreme grievance and indignation, and knelt on the ground with his head bowed, his fists tightly clenched, as if he had infinite grievances.

    Zhu Houzhao looked at him coldly and said, "Did I make a mistake?"

    Zhu Houcong gritted his teeth, and inadvertently caught sight of Qin Kan's cold eyes as his eyes moved. Thinking of his current situation, Zhu Houcong sighed in despair and cried: "Your Majesty is right, my brother killed the courtiers indiscriminately for his own selfish desires, which is a heinous crime."  also."

    Hearing Zhu Houcong¡¯s admission with his own ears, the crowd of ministers suddenly let out a loud roar, with angry looks on their faces, and countless angry eyes focused on Zhu Houcong for an instant.

    Zhu Houzhao snorted coldly: "Ministers are the most important weapon of the country. I have been emperor for fourteen years, and there are many people who disagree with the political views of the courtiers, but I have never issued an order to kill a minister. We have been in the Ming Dynasty for more than a hundred years.  From Hongwu and Yongle to Chenghua and Hongzhi, I have never killed more than a hundred ministers in one day. Zhu Houcong, I never thought that I would set a precedent in your hands. What do you think of my Ming Dynasty's most important treasure?"

    Many ministers burst into tears when they heard this, and the square was filled with weeping.

    Zhu Houcong's life hangs in the hands of others.  He simply accepted his fate and memorized the murder without saying a word. He fell to the ground and cried loudly: "Your Majesty, my brother's crime is very serious. I ask your Majesty to punish me. I will never say anything."

    Zhu Houzhao looked at him with pity and sighed: "Zhu Houzhao. You are only twelve years old. After all, you are too young. It took me more than ten years to understand some truths. It took me more than ten years to fully understand them. But you are only twelve years old. Once you have power,  I'm in control. I don't care about the consequences of my words and deeds, and only pursue short-term quickness. If the Ming Dynasty is a huge country with hundreds of millions of people in it, can I rest assured if you are in charge of it?"

    As soon as these words came out, the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were shocked.

    The three cabinet ministers¡¯ hearts sank, and they looked at each other in confusion.  The meaning of Zhu Houzhao's words was not quite right. The Liaodong frontier army captured the capital last night, killed a mountain of corpses and a sea of ??blood, and finally regained the throne. The meaning of his words now is that he still wants Zhu Houcong to continue to be the emperor. This  ¡­¡­How can it be!

    "Your Majesty! What does your Majesty mean" Yang Tinghe asked, suppressing the horror in his heart.

    Zhu Houzhao smiled and said, "I don't mean anything. Now all the ministers will follow me into the palace. They went to Cining Palace to pay their respects to the Empress Dowager. After a fierce battle all night, I surprised the Empress Dowager Luanjia. It is my fault."

    The ministers hurriedly said yes, arranged their clothes, lined up and walked towards the inner palace.

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    In the Qianqing Palace.

    The war has subsided, and the eunuchs and eunuchs broke the porcelain when they ran away in fear.  The broken tables and chairs and the swept away calligraphy and paintings were restored to their original state one by one. Zhu Houzhao sat in the thermal pavilion and slowly looked around at all the familiar furnishings.  There were a few tears in the circles of his eyes, and his expression was full of a touch of sadness.

    Qin Kan knelt in front of Zhu Houzhao without saying a word. The atmosphere in the palace was extremely oppressive. The monarch and his subjects had known each other for more than ten years, and the relationship between them had never been so cold as at this moment.

    Zhu Houzhao looked at Qin Kan with complicated eyes, including resentment and intolerance, but more of a strange and indifferent look.

    The monarch and his ministers have known each other for more than ten years. From the ignorant Prince of the East Palace who did not know the world, to the current Emperor Zhengde who has become calm after experiencing the hardships of the world, from the scholar who was a scholar in the Jinyi Guard Qianhu, to now he holds power no less than that of the emperor.  But the powerful minister who can change everything with one hand

    Over the years, in fact, everyone has changed, and it has become very slow. People who get along day and night have never noticed each other. When they gradually drifted apart, when they looked back, they realized that everyone was no longer walking side by side, but in completely opposite directions.

    When you are far away, you suddenly realize that the other person is no longer the same as before, and you can no longer find the familiarity between your face and eyes. Even if you want to put down your dignity and principles and walk past, after all, you are too far away, and it is so far away to catch up.  and.

    A thing called a "crack" quietly emerged between the two of them. The crack grew bigger and bigger and could not be filled.

    The most heartbreaking feeling is that we are so far away from each other at this moment, helplessly and sadly watching this crack separate each other, but I can't save it no matter what.Can¡¯t.

    It turns out that this is the price of growth, just like Nirvana in the fire, it can only transform in the pain of the heart and bones, and become what you once hated and despised.

    Zhu Houzhao stared blankly at Qin Kan¡¯s familiar yet unfamiliar face, and suddenly shed tears.

    "Qin Kan, I have known you for more than ten years, and I never knew you had such ambitions. Do you really want to be the emperor? If I had not appeared outside Chengtian Gate today, the country that the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty had passed down to me would have been lost.  Do you really want to earn it?"

    Qin Kan's eyes were red, and he shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, I have said many times that I do not want to be the emperor. In the Ming Dynasty, the military and political powers are separated. From the Ministry of War in the capital and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies to thousands of guard posts all over the world, from  The 300,000 elite troops guarding the capital have reached the hearts of the vassal kings surnamed Zhu everywhere. If I proclaim myself emperor, how many people in the world will respond and follow? The surname Zhu has won the hearts of the people in the world. I am a foreign surname.  Isn¡¯t this the way for the emperor to take death?¡±

    Zhu Houzhao gradually became angry and yelled: "If you don't want to usurp the throne and become emperor, why did you order the Liaodong border army to capture the capital, and why did you kill the capital city and make it a river of blood? What do you want?"

    Qin Kan looked directly at him without fear and said word by word: "I just want to preserve the world of ZTE, preserve the peace that my border town of Ming Dynasty has finally gained these years, and preserve the tens of millions of people who have lost their land after the sea ban.  We have found a job and kept the entire country at the forefront of the world after spending a generation's efforts. It has suffered so much that it must not take another half step back!"

    "So you launched a rebellion by the border troops, so you remained calm and allowed more than 60 loyal ministers to be killed in front of you, so you broke into the palace and captured the emperor alive, treating my Zhu family's imperial power as nothing. Even the life and death of the emperor were at stake.  Everything is in your hands? Qin Kan! How is your behavior different from treason and usurping the throne? I treat you like a brother, but you repay me with soldiers, armor, swords and arrows. I have been blind for more than ten years and let those around me  The world can forgive me for hiding such a wolfish and ambitious person, but how can our ancestors forgive me? I, I will fight with you!"

    The more Zhu Houzhao talked, the angrier he became.  Finally, he stood up and rushed towards Qin Kan with a fierce look. The fist he had clenched for a long time fiercely swung at Qin Kan's face.

    Qin Kan suddenly received a punch. He narrowed his eyes in pain. A cold light shot out of his eyes, but he fought back without mercy.  A punch hit the bridge of Zhu Houzhao's nose hard. Zhu Houzhao said "Oops" and covered his nose. A bright red nose flowed through the gaps between his fingers.

    Qin Kan also covered his bruised face, pointed at him and said angrily: "Zhu Houzhao, to be honest, I have tolerated you for more than ten years! You have been a coward since the day you ascended the throne. You alienate the famous officials in the world and favor the eight officials in the inner palace.  Tiger, just to keep his ears clean, he allowed Liu Jian to move to an official position. From then on, all the power of foreign and internal affairs was entrusted to Liu Jin. In those years, the whole country was uneasy, and rebels and bandits in various places frequently rebelled. Liu Jin pretended to be the emperor, greedily encircled the land, and killed people.  There are hundreds of ministers in the court. But you are playing and having fun in the palace, and you have no idea how the people in the world live in darkness"

    "After Liu Jin was executed, I thought you would change your ways and work hard, but you didn't know that you continued to play and have fun without any repentance. There were tens of millions of memorials from officials throughout the court advising you to be diligent in your work. You ignored them all.  No, so the White Lotus Sect rebelled against you, the refugees in the North rebelled against you, and King Anhua rebelled against you. King Ning also rebelled against you. Fortunately, in these years I secretly asked the Governor of Liaodong, Ye Jinquan, to purge the border troops and take the initiative to seek war.  In order to train troops, new firearms were shipped to Liaodong one after another regardless of the cost. It took great efforts to reverse the offensive and defensive momentum of the Ming court and the Tatars"

    Qin Kan's eyes were red, and he pointed at Zhu Houzhao sadly and said: "You, the emperor, have done it easy. You have left all the government affairs to the ceremonial supervisor. A few disabled eunuchs lightly circled Zhu Zhu on the memorial and determined the rise and fall of the country. Do you know that we are waiting for you?"  How much effort and effort the courtiers have to expend to keep the whole world running, not only to make it work, but also to make it move forward, how difficult it is for every step forward, how many people have to fight with wits and courage, and use all their cunning to implement a national policy.  , more than ten years later, I finally saw a little glimmer of light, and I was about to step into a prosperous country, a prosperous people, a prosperous army, and a strong army. Who knew that you, a short-lived ghost, was drowning, and a new emperor came up who targeted and restricted me at every turn to prevent me from having too much power.  , and even want to abolish all strategies related to me to strengthen the country, and push Ming Dynasty back into dire straits"

    Qin Kan stared at him angrily and said seriously: "I've had enough of all this! That's why I want to take power! I don't take power for selfish reasons, I just don't want people to perish and the government to stop, and I don't want to see the people being poor and selling their sons and daughters, and the famine years.  Even if they exchange their sons for food, they don¡¯t want to see the military system rotten, the generals greedy for money, and the sergeants greedy for life. Every winter, our Ming border towns will be ravaged and plundered by the iron hooves of the Tatars, and the border troops are as weak as sheep, allowing them to drive straight in.  In an uninhabited land, Zhu Houzhao, look at what you have done over the years, ask yourself if you are ashamed of your ancestors, and then come and accuse me of stealing the country and usurping the throne!"

    Zhu Houzhao was stunned by his long words. He did not expect the intersection in front of him.His lifelong friend had accumulated so much resentment against him, and he did not expect that he had failed so much as the emperor for all these years. After being stunned for a moment, Zhu Houzhao's face turned red, his expression was extremely embarrassed, and he gritted his teeth in anger.  Said: "Fart! It's just a fart! How can I be as useless as you say? It's basically an excuse for you to seek to usurp the throne. I'll give you a good beating first, and then I'll talk to you about the truth!"

    After saying that, he punched Qin Kan in the face again. Qin Kan didn't dodge. After receiving this punch, half of his face was swollen. He gasped and sneered: "I won't reason with you either.  Let¡¯s talk about it after we¡¯ve beaten you! You¡¯ve been spoiled since you were a child and have never been beaten, so you¡¯re so stupid and confused.¡±

    The two men looked at each other ferociously, and suddenly roared in unison, like two hungry wolves fighting for food, fiercely pounced on each other, fists and kicks were exchanged in the Qianqing Palace, and screams continued.

    The eunuchs and frontier soldiers on duty outside the palace gate heard something was going on inside and immediately looked over, only to see that the most powerful and distinguished pair of monarchs and ministers in the world were fighting like children, and their moves were extremely cunning.  Gouging your eyes and spitting is like picking your nose with a peach. The image is simply unsightly. The dragon robes and python robes worn by the two had been torn into strips during the scuffle. Their faces were bruised and black. They had obviously received a lot of beatings.  .

    The fight between His Majesty the Emperor and the Duke of the current dynasty is a spectacle that has never been seen in the ages.

    When the soldiers and eunuchs outside the palace saw this scene, they all gasped in fright.  The eunuchs were so anxious that they were milling around outside the palace. They wanted to go in and start a fight but didn't dare. The two people inside were either the most noble emperor or the powerful ministers. If any one of them spoke a word lightly, he, a little eunuch, would die.  Not even ashes were left, and besides, there was a group of Liaodong border troops looking like wolves and tigers outside the palace, staring at him fiercely.

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    I don¡¯t know how long the fight lasted.  Zhu Houzhao and Qin Kan finally stopped. They lay side by side on the scarlet soft carpet of Qianqing Palace, breathing heavily with their eyes closed. Their faces and bodies were covered in scars, and the slightest movement would cause the wounds on their bodies to hurt.  Breathe cool air.  The sorrow and sorrow are endless.

    Zhu Houzhao had no strength left in his body, but somehow a smile appeared on his face. The smile he showed just after the fight looked particularly weird.

    ¡°Hiss¡ªQin Kan, you bastard, you¡¯re in your thirties and you¡¯re still so mean. Do you really want to beat me to the point of death?¡±

    Qin Kan¡¯s fair face was swollen like a pig¡¯s head, and his eye sockets were also darkened.  As soon as the corner of his mouth curled up, the wound was affected. He breathed in with anger and pain, and his eyes and eyebrows were twisted into a ball in pain.

    "Hiss¡ªYour Majesty showed no mercy. He just punched me in the neck and almost killed me."

    The two of them turned their heads with difficulty and looked at each other. After seeing the other's swollen appearance, they were stunned for a moment.  Suddenly he laughed, and the laughter became louder and louder, mixed with the sound of inhalation after the wound was touched.

    Zhu Houzhao couldn't help laughing. While gasping for air, he lay on his side on the carpet and arched his waist. He was out of breath and said: "From the time I saw you outside Chengtian Gate today to the time I summoned you in Qianqing Palace, I have always felt that you are like this."  This face is annoying. It's unfamiliar, as if I've never seen it before. You were right in front of me at that time, but you seemed to be as far away as the world. Now after beating me, I find that your face is not unfamiliar at all, it's still familiar to me back then.  His appearance is even more handsome, haha"

    Qin Kan also smiled and said: "The more I look at you in the past few years, the more I dislike you. You are still the same as before, but I always feel bored. After today's beating, I feel friendly. It turns out that you are very suitable for this pig-headed look. I hope you can  Keep it up from now on"

    The two laughed again, heartily and happily.

    After half a stick of incense, the laughter of the two gradually died down, but the same sadness and pain emerged in their hearts.

    We have quarreled, scolded, beaten and laughed, but what happens next?  There is no escaping what you have to face.

    The two were still lying side by side on the carpet, and Zhu Houzhao's expression gradually became serious: "Qin Kan, I have always known that you have ambitions for the world. Tell me, what do you hope to see the Ming Dynasty become?"

    Qin Kan said without hesitation: "The country is prosperous, the people are prosperous, business is prosperous, and the army is strong. There are no worries internally or externally. The people have no worries about food and clothing. The ministers in the court should be more pragmatic and capable, and less hypocritical people who talk about benevolence, justice and morality."  , so, my wish is enough."

    Zhu Houzhao sighed: "How can this day happen? Qin Kan, your wish is too far away"

    "There must be someone who stands up and does it personally. If you do it for one day, one month, or one year, the change may be insignificant, but if you do it for ten years, fifty years, or one hundred years, the world will eventually be different, just like the Foolish Old Man moved the mountains, and the Foolish Old Man moved the mountains.  Even if it doesn¡¯t move, there will still be sons, grandsons, and descendants, generations after generations, who will continue to work on it, and one day the big eyesore will be removed.¡±

    Zhu Houzhao smiled and said:??You are accustomed to be smart and resourceful, but it is not your temperament to move mountains. How could you do such a stupid thing?  "

    Qin Kan smiled bitterly and said: "If you want to change the chaos of the Thousand-Year Dynasty, how can you talk about cleverness and shortcuts? It is a heavy and arduous task. The so-called cleverness and shortcuts will only end up harming the country and mislead the king. I don't care about my wealth and life.  , but dare not make fun of thousands of living beings in the world. The subjects and the people cannot stand such a joke."

    Turning his head to look at Zhu Houzhao, Qin Kan said deeply: "Your Majesty left the palace and lived in a farm in the suburbs for several months. Have you seen what kind of life I, a farmer in the Ming Dynasty, lived? The farms on the outskirts of the capital are quite wealthy. How could you know that  How do the people live in a barren land thousands of miles away from the capital? Maybe they work all day long, and all they want is an extra piece of fat in their rice. What I want to do in this life is to make everyone's bowls  There is so much meat in the house, so that they can squat outside the threshold peacefully for three meals a day, picking up the rice and meat in the bowl. There are no evil officials to bully the family to collect exorbitant taxes, and there are no Tatar cavalry to loot and kill. I just want to let  They finished eating quietly, and then went barefoot to the fields and countryside with satisfied smiles. They continued their daily work"

    Sighing, Qin Kan said: "The so-called 'prosperity of the country, prosperity of the people, prosperity of business, and strong military' seems to be a lofty and lofty ambition, but in fact it is just a piece of fat in the people's bowl. One day I will be Ming Dynasty  With this piece of fat in the bowls of all the people, I think my ambition in this life has been fulfilled."

    Zhu Houzhao listened quietly, and after a long time he sighed: "Qin Kan, you are right, think about the past ten years since I came to the throne. I have never been happy with government affairs, but the Ming Dynasty under my rule has inexplicably surpassed Chenghua Hongzhi.  There are already signs of a prosperous Chinese age. I used to be complacent and felt that I was a wise monarch throughout the ages. However, these past few months, when I have been living in the farm and counting my merits and demerits, I have discovered that this prosperous age has nothing to do with me. It is all because of you and the cabinet members.  The ministers have governed the country and implemented every policy to strengthen the country. All of them came from your hands. But I, just because of my unreserved trust in you as a friend, just nodded and agreed. After fourteen years of ignorance, I actually succeeded in governing the country.  We have come to this glorious age. Qin Kan, I have to admit that these are all your fault."

    Qin Kan smiled and said: "Last night I did such a big thing that shocked the world, what will your majesty do with me?"

    Zhu Houzhao was silent for a while, then asked: "What do you think I should do?"

    Qin Kan said calmly: "You regain the throne, and then kill me and Ye Jinquan. In order to quell the chaos in the capital last night, and calm the hearts and minds of the court, officials, soldiers and people in the capital"

    Zhu Houzhao stared at him strangely: "Are you willing to be killed by me?"

    Qin Kan said without hesitation: "Of course I am not willing to give in, so after I leave the palace, I plan to pack up my belongings and take my family with me to escape. I believe your majesty will find out soon. Not only am I good at running a country, I am also good at escaping  "

    Zhu Houzhao stared at him in shock for a long time, and finally rolled his eyes and said, "Okay, the imperial convict Qin Kan is on the run, and his family members are missing. What should I do with this mess?"

    "The puppet emperor Zhu Houcong was imprisoned, the Supervisor of Ceremonies was abolished, the power of approving red papers was taken back, and the number of cabinet members was expanded to 20. All state affairs were voted on by voting seats, and cabinet candidates were based on the annual performance evaluation scores of officials by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Metropolitan Procuratorate.  The master, Jin Yiwei is responsible for secretly collecting every detail of the cabinet candidate's official administration. From official reputation to merit, everything is included in the selection criteria. One overt and one covert complement each other and are indispensable. Increase the supervision of local governments by the Metropolitan Procuratorate  The government's supervision was strengthened, and the East Factory was abolished, and the Jinyiwei's powers such as arrest, interrogation, and torture were taken back. The Jinyiwei only had the power of investigation and gathering intelligence. It was independent of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple, and the Three Law Departments of the Ministry of Criminal Justice.  Set up a bureau to oversee the responsibilities of various local officials. Any corruption, bullying and other illegal activities will be reported to the cabinet and the Metropolitan Procuratorate"

    As he was talking, Qin Kan suddenly stopped talking, looking a little hesitant. He wanted to say that maybe the world did not need an emperor, or the emperor was just a decoration. For example, in the constitutional monarchy five hundred years later, the Ming Dynasty's cabinet now has a  The three powers of the court, the command, the commission, and the bureau are separated, and each government office performs its duties. The prototype of a constitutional monarchy has already been formed. With slight modifications, it will become a mature and stable political system.

    Without the interference of the emperor and the ceremonial supervisor, we can fully expand the power of the three parties to supervise and balance each other. Then, under this balanced system, we can implement the strategy of strengthening the country, encourage agriculture, commerce, and military inventions, and use huge profits as bait.  Encourage merchants to sail, hire domestic refugees to build ships and go to sea, develop overseas colonies, plunder overseas products, hire more refugees after selling them, buy more firearms, and use them to conquer more overseas lands There is a huge benign relationship between the exchanges.  Cycle, thereby achieving the purpose of enriching the people. When the people are prosperous, learning will flourish, and learning will understand the principles, and understanding the principles will lead to people's thinking. Perhaps in his lifetime, Qin Kan will be able to see something called "democracy" quietly sprouting and growing in the hearts of the world.  ¡­

    However, in this life where the only friend of the emperor isIn front of him, Qin Kan couldn't bear to say these words buried in his heart.

    As Qin Kan spoke, Zhu Houzhao kept nodding, and finally smiled again: "Look, we are just like before. You come up with ideas, and I just nod."

    Qin Kan also smiled: "Yes, we will implement it when we reach a consensus. If anyone in the court does not agree, we will come up with a bad idea to trick him. Some people will be tricked to death by us, and some will be tricked to shame.  Officials were exiled, and some were tricked to the point of becoming mute and unable to speak due to eating coptis"

    Zhu Houzhao laughed so much that tears flowed down his face, and his voice gradually trembled: "It's been more than ten years, what's happened to us?"

    Qin Kan also shed tears. He lay on the carpet and looked at the auspicious clouds and auspicious beasts painted in gold paint on the top of the palace. He choked up and said, "Maybe we are growing up, we are getting older, and wewe are walking. We are separated.  .¡±

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    On October 28, the fourteenth year of Zhengde, it was the third day after the Liaodong frontier army captured the capital.

    The courtiers waited patiently for two days, and finally the imperial edict written by Zhu Houzhao came out from the palace. The content of the edict was quite shocking, leaving the courtiers stunned.

    First, Ning Guogong Qin Kan and Liaodong Governor Ye Jinquan were ordered to launch the Liaodong border army to capture the capital and regain the Zhengde throne.  Because of his merits in serving the dragon, Qin Kan, the Duke of Ning State in Jin Dynasty, became the king of Liaoyang County and was granted the title of Liaoyang Prefecture in eastern Liaodong. The former king of Liao, Zhu Chongjie, was granted the title of King of Ganxi and the title of the title was changed to Nanchang, Jiangxi Province.  Ye Jinquan, the governor of Liaodong, joined Zuozhuguo and Prince Shaobao, and the garrison of the outer city of the capital and the palace were guarded by the Liaodong border army.  The remaining nearly 100,000 soldiers of the original 12th Regiment were purged and sent to Liaodong. They were disrupted and exchanged with the original Liaodong frontier army. Song Jie, the Liaoyang Guard General, was promoted to the chief military officer of the Liaodong Dusi, with the power to supervise the military affairs in Liaodong.

    Secondly, Zhu Houzhao formally issued an edict to abdicate, and issued an edict to pass on the throne, resurrecting the king Zhu Houzhao, who was a man of virtue and wisdom.  It is appropriate to inherit Dabao, worship the ancestors in the Ancestral Temple of Zhu Houcong, and honor the late Emperor Hongzhi as his father. After that, he can ascend to the throne of emperor, and the reign name is "Jiajing".

    Third, because Zhu Houcong was young and did not handle everything properly, Qin Kan, the king of Liaoyang County, was appointed to supervise the country and assist the government and the cabinet.  The state affairs and government affairs of the six divisions can be decided by the Liaoyang County King. The chief minister of rites will accept the approval of the red power, and the power will belong to the Liaoyang County King.

    Fourth, the nobles of the three vassal kings, including King Dai, King Min, and King Xiang, were reduced to common people.  Wearing brocade robes and guard locks, he locked up the capital and sternly warned the kings that they should not act rashly when the imperial power in the capital was changing.  It is also not allowed to use the fief's weapons without authorization, and those who violate it will be punished as treason.

    Fifth, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty must be inherited by the Zhu family. Anyone with a foreign surname who dares to claim emperor will be punished by the whole world.

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    After Zhu Houzhao left these five imperial edicts that stunned everyone in the world, he left the palace and disappeared. Even if the courtiers objected, they had no opponents, so they had to pinch their noses and regard them as the late emperor's edicts, and reluctantly agreed with these five edicts.  .

    Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houcong finally ascended the throne legally and legally this time. However, his enthusiasm for becoming emperor had completely cooled down. He summoned his ministers to ask for the Zen throne, and asked the ministers in the court to select another wise man from among the Zhu clan kings.  The emperor and courtiers did not reach the court meeting, but they were strongly vetoed by Qin Kan, the king of Liaoyang County. Zhu Houcong submitted with tears, so he fully inherited Zhu Houzhao's virtues. From then on, he only played in the harem, pampering his concubines and beautiful maids, walking dogs, fighting cocks and cooking eagles.  He was omnipotent, even though he had grown up a few years later, the courtiers asked Zhu Houcong to take charge of the government in every possible way, but Zhu Houcong still refused to agree. All matters inside and outside the country were entrusted to Qin Kan, the king of Liaoyang.  Asked about political affairs, with this shocking record, he defeated Zhu Houzhao openly and undisputedly and ranked first in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

    After Qin Kan was ordered to supervise the country and assist in the administration, he looked for an opportunity to remove Liang Chu and Jiang Mian, the bachelors of the cabinet, in the second year, abolished the imperial horse supervisor, Tengxiang four guards and the east and west factories, and established the Shangyu forest six guards, led by the Liaodong frontier army.  In charge of the imperial palace, Zhang Yong, the former chief of etiquette, Dai Yi, the director of the East Factory, and the once-favorite Bahugu Dayong, Wei Bin, Luo Xiang, etc. were given gold and silver and allowed to retire, and Yang Yiqing and Yan Song were replaced as cabinet universities.  Scholars, from then on, Qin Kan, Yang Tinghe, Yang Yiqing, and Yan Song worked together to support the Ming Dynasty. Their power was so great that they were above all the ministers of the past dynasties, almost as much as the emperor.

    With power and obstacles removed, Qin Kan finally let go and began to display his ambitions.

    Since Zhang Yong, the once-powerful Superintendent of Ceremonies, retired, Qin Kan has not appointed a new candidate for the throne. The eunuchs in the inner palace have been trying to fawn over each other to no avail. They finally got a glimpse of God's will and gave up completely. In September of the fifth year of Jiajing, the emperor was at his peak.  The 100-year-old Supervisor of Ceremonies in the Ming Dynasty was officially abolished after the court officials discussed it. In the same year, each local government established a new Yushitai Yamen, which was independent of the three departments of the local government and was responsible for supervising and restricting the three departments. The Yushitai was only responsible for the cabinet.  In charge, the Supervisory Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Adjuster of Jinyiwei will serve as supervisors for each other.

    In the summer of the first year of Jiajing, Qin Kan, the king of Liaoyang County, overcame all opinions and increased the number of bachelors in the cabinet to five. In the third year, it was increased to eight.It laid the foundation for the future constitutional monarchy.

    In the third year of Jiajing's reign, the first treasure ship with 5,000 tons of materials was put into the sea for its maiden voyage in Donggang, Tianjin. Zhang Shengchun, a wealthy businessman from Zhejiang, bought the ship with ten thousand gold. The king of Liaoyang County, Qin Kandai, issued an order to commend him and gave him 500 latest-style Buddhist statues.  Zhang Shengchun burst into tears with gratitude for the Langji artillery and bird guns, Bentianlei, Water Dragon King and other firearms. In the same year, he organized and hired a caravan of 10,000 people to go to sea and open up a new channel. In August of the fourth year of Jiajing.  Zhang Shengchun's caravan discovered the Cape of Good Hope in Africa. Thousands of people in the caravan landed and had a dispute with the local indigenous people. Zhang Shengchun fired the first shot at the indigenous people, which marked the beginning of the Ming Dynasty's colonial war.

    In the autumn of the seventh year of Jiajing, a rumor quietly circulated in the capital, saying that the Liaoyang County Prince had killed Li Gaohou, the chief military officer of Liaodong.  In order to prevent his own ancestral tomb from being used by the enemy in the same way, he sent his close confidant Ding Shun to secretly move the Qin family's ancestral tomb to another place. At that time, Ding Shun asked the Feng Shui master Kanyu to calculate the auspicious timing, but he mistakenly listed the ancestors of the Qin family.  Buried in a place where wind gathers and Qi is stored, its power rises from heaven to earth, and its position is Binggen.  Xunxin and Dui Ding are recommended to each other, which is the most precious geomantic treasure land. To put it simply, Ding Shun chose a dragon vein for the ancestors of the Qin family, and the prince of Liaoyang County must have a nine-five destiny in his life. It is very precious.  Word.

    The rumor spread for more than ten days.  The courtiers in the capital were panic-stricken. The king of Liaoyang County was furious and ordered an investigation. A certain local ruffian in the capital who had rumors was killed with a stick at the entrance of the vegetable market in the west city of the capital. The rumors were put to rest.

    In the winter of the seventh year of Jiajing, heavy snow fell continuously in the north. Countless cattle and sheep were frozen to death by the Mongolian Tatar tribe, so they had to raise their troops to invade the border towns of the Ming Dynasty and plunder them.  The king of Liaoyang County inspected the nine borders on behalf of the emperor, and dispatched soldiers from Xuanfu, Datong, Liaodong and other border towns. They combined a total of 120,000 troops to defeat the Tatar tribe that invaded the borders. After the spring thawed.  The king of Liaoyang County took advantage of the victory and led an army to the north to conquer the grassland. The leader of the Golden Family, Boyan Mengke, was already old and had to gather a hundred thousand Mongolian troops from more than 20 tribes to fight the Ming army in Guihua.  In Yunchuan, the Ming army used 100,000 civilians to transport grain, grass, ordnance and more than 500 new Franconian artillery pieces, supplemented by the Shenji Battalion carrying 10,000 new trigger-type bird cannons. Outside Guihua City, the Shenji Battalion was lined up.  Formation, five hundred artillery pieces fired a salvo, inflicting heavy losses on the Tatar tribe at the beginning of the decisive battle, and finally showed the power of Ming Dynasty firearms.

    In this battle, a total of nearly 70,000 enemies were wiped out and 20,000 were injured. More than 20 Tatar tribesmen, large and small, were all young and strong. Boyan Mengke, one of the rebels, was hit in the abdomen by artillery. His body was blown to pieces and he died on the spot.  The century-old Golden Family was completely wiped out in the dust of history. After this war, all the Tatar tribes moved westward. The Ming army took the opportunity to annex the pastures and grasslands where the Tatar tribe was originally located. The national border extended straight to the Rakshasa Kingdom, causing great harm to the people.  Mongolia in the Northern Yuan Dynasty, which lasted for more than a hundred years during the Ming Dynasty, finally collapsed and never recovered.

    In the summer of the eighth year of Jiajing reign, the prince of Liaoyang County held a banquet in the palace one day. The guests at the banquet were all friends and colleagues of the prince. During the banquet, his close confidant Ding Shun got drunk. When he was drunk, he took out a bright yellow dragon robe from nowhere and forced himself to wear it.  The king of Liaoyang knelt down and shouted long live the banquet, and everyone at the banquet was shocked. The king of Liaoyang was furious, punished Ding Shun twenty with a stick, dismissed him, and exiled him to Nanning Prefecture, Guangxi. He was recalled two years later and was promoted to the commander of the Jinyi Guards.  In the twelfth year of Jiajing's reign, Ding Shun was given the title of Marquis of Fuyuan, which was hereditary. From then on, the Ding family became rich and prosperous for a hundred years. The rest, such as Li Er, Chang Feng, Mou Bin and other close associates, were all given titles a few years later.

    With this incident, no matter what the intention was behind Ding Shun's first demotion and then promotion, people around Qin Kan never dared to mention proclaiming himself emperor again.

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    Fifteen years later, Xinghua Village in Fenyang, Shanxi Province.

    A restaurant named "Feng Lin Pavilion" is located on the roadside of the main road inside and outside Xinghua Village. The three-story restaurant looms among the red and green spring scenery on the roadside, making countless poets and poets who come and go looking for poetry fascinated and confused.  Especially during the Qingming Festival, the restaurant's business is even more prosperous due to the famous saying "it rains heavily during the Qingming Festival".

    The reputation of the restaurant has become louder, and the owner of the restaurant has gradually become famous in the local area. Legend has it that the owner of the restaurant is a middle-aged man in his forties, whose surname is Zhu Mingshou. His family settled in Xinghua Village fifteen years ago. He is a kind-hearted and philanthropic person.  All day long, he had a friendly and prosperous smile on his face, and he didn't get angry at anyone who pointed at his nose and yelled. However, some careful people later discovered that since the restaurant opened, the drunkard who pointed at his nose and scolded the shopkeeper disappeared inexplicably after leaving the restaurant.  , within a day or two, the head of the missing person was hung high on the tower of the local government, and he was called "the Qiangliang bandit wanted by the court for a long time." Some of the family members of the victim were unconvinced and beat drums to cry out for injustice, but the government did not know  Being manipulated by that person, the case was dismissed mercilessly and ignored without asking any questions.

    As time went by, the drinkers who came and went finally realized the power of the manager of Fenglinge Restaurant. He was a man with great hands and eyes. So gradually, the drinkers who came here to drink became more and more polite, smiling at the man who kept smiling all day long.  Shopkeeper Zhu was even more full of awe. No matter how drunk anyone was in the restaurant, they still maintained the last trace of sanity, no matter how drunk they were, they went crazy.  No matter whether you curse or fight, something must eventually come out.As for the gate of the building, this unwritten rule is like the unique and intoxicating apricot wine in Fenglin Pavilion. It has been passed down for many years and no one has violated it again. It is stronger than the Ming Dynasty law.  .

    However, the rules set by the world are meant to be broken.

    Every year during the Qingming Festival.  There is always one person, or a family, who doesn't care about this rule at all, and curses endlessly as soon as they enter the door. Shopkeeper Zhu, who has always been kind, suddenly changed his face when he saw this person, and the two stood at the door pointing at each other and scolding each other.  After a long pause, he laughed again.  They patted each other on the shoulders and entered the private room of the restaurant. They got very drunk, cried and made a fuss. After being drunk for three days, the family set off to say goodbye again. This happened every year, and they never missed their appointment.

    There are still two days until Qingming Festival this year.  The family is here again.

    In the early morning, three carriages with blue tops and black hoods came slowly from a distance. The coachman shouted, and the carriages stopped at the entrance of Fenglin Pavilion. Two rows of guards on both sides of the carriages spread out at the door, staring at the traffic with wary expressions.  The drinkers entering and leaving the restaurant were so frightening that people retreated in fear.

    Soon a man and six women came out of the three carriages. The man looked middle-aged.  He has fair hair and black beard, and his handsome appearance exudes a certain aura of self-reliance. Although the six women are dressed as women, they are all as beautiful as freshly minted girls. Two of them are exactly the same.  , obviously twins.

    The man got off the car and strode into the restaurant.  After looking up and looking around, he started shouting loudly.

    "Is anyone out of breath? A distinguished guest is coming, and there's not even a waiter to greet you. Shopkeeper, do you still want to do business? Believe it or not, I'll have someone smash up your shabby shop!"

    Smashing a store is a big deal.  How could Shopkeeper Zhu, with his background and background, not witness with his own eyes the evildoer seeking death?  So he quickly appeared from behind the exquisite landscape screen. This man was in his forties, wearing an ordinary gray short shirt of coarse cloth, a gray square-headed scarf on his head, and a two-inch long black beard fluttering in the wind under his chin. He looked like a  Although he has the appearance of a deputy immortal, his eyes are moving intelligently and vigorously, which shows that this person has an out-of-touch temperament and is extremely dishonest.

    When Shopkeeper Zhu recognized the person and saw the many beautiful women behind him, his face suddenly became serious and he said angrily: "It's you again! It's you again! Every year, you come all the way to drink from me. Come on."  Come on, you¡¯ve brought so many wives with you, do you want to make me poor while I¡¯m alive?¡±

    The man murmured to himself: "With such a bad attitude, the house is packed with guests every day. Are all the drinkers in Xinghua Village blind?"

    Another graceful figure flashed out from behind the screen. After seeing the man, she was stunned for a moment, and then she felt blessed. She saw her husband and him looking at each other, showing no signs of weakness to each other, like two fighting cocks. The woman pursed her lips and smiled softly.

    But Shopkeeper Zhu hurriedly shouted: "Madam, look, this ungrateful beast who has married four wives and two maids is here again!"

    The woman ignored him, turned around and saw the six women. She couldn't help but stepped forward to hold their hands in surprise, and said with a smile: "Sister, you are finally here. I have been waiting for you for a long time."

    The leader of the six girls curled her lips towards the two of them and said, "It's the same thing again. It's the same thing every year. I'm not tired of it"

    "Sister, Mo Li, they don't care. In fact, my husband-in-law started asking the guys to clean the wing the day before yesterday. He also saved ten jars of old wine, just waiting for the prince to come and drink"

    It turns out that the man who came to Xinghua Village with his family was Qin Kan, the prince of Liaoyang County, and the shopkeeper of Fenglinge Restaurant was naturally Zhengde, who disappeared, reappeared, and finally disappeared again. He had a great time playing flash mobs.  Emperor Zhu Houzhao, as for the proprietress of the restaurant, is Zhu Houzhao's favorite woman Liu Liangnv, and the six girls brought by Qin Kan are sisters Du Yan, Tang Zihe, Jin Liu, Tana and Lian Yue Lianxing.

    "It takes a long list of names to count people. Aren't you tired of bringing them all the way from the capital to Shanxi?" Zhu Houzhao, who is already dressed as a civilian, obviously likes his current status.

    Qin Kan smiled and said: "I am already middle-aged. When people live to this age in this life, they should at least understand one truth"

    Zhu Houzhao opened his eyes curiously: "What's the point?"

    Qin Kan smiled bitterly and said: "If you have one wife and only listen to two hundred nagging words every day, if you have six wives, you have to listen to one thousand two hundred nagging words every day, and at least a thousand of them are doubting whether I am outside."  If you have an affair with other vixens, if you want to avoid the torture of a thousand nagging words, you can only take them with you and let them personally drive away all the vixens who dare to come within one foot of me"

    Zhu Houzhao looked at him in shock: "Is it effective?"

    Qin Kan nodded: "Very effective."

    "So you finally got your ears quiet along the way, and your wife no longer nags you like a vixen?"

    "Yes" Qin Kan nodded, and then said with infinite desolation: "But although I don't nag the fox?? and other topics, but they started nagging again why the women they met along the way were ugly, earthy, and fat, probably nagging more than two thousand sentences every day"

    Zhu Houzhao was stunned for a long time, then suddenly looked up to the sky and burst into laughter: "Wahahahaha"

    Qin Kan rubbed his nose and murmured: "He is already the father of the child, why has his smile not improved over the years?"

    Zhu Houzhao held his belly and laughed for a long time and finally stopped, his expression became serious and he said: "How is the capital this year?"

    Qin Kan knew what he wanted to ask and said with a smile: "Everything is going well. Last winter, the cabinet took the initiative to initiate a court meeting and increased the number of bachelors from the original eight to ten. After the Tatars were annihilated, the court built ten cities on the Tatar grasslands and pastures.  , connected with the ten Seoul cities under Duoyan's subordinates, five new capital command divisions were established, and a total of 23 guard posts were stationed. The troubles in the north of the Ming Dynasty were completely calmed down, and the nine border towns began to be dismantled and moved northward to the Siberian snowfields.  "

    Zhu Houzhao sighed in despair, then took out two small jars of wine from the house and placed them on the table. He said with a smile: "How can we not celebrate our achievements in opening up a new territory without good wine?"

    As he spoke, Zhu Houzhao picked up the jar of wine. When he was about to drink, he suddenly paused, stared at Qin Kan and said, "Last year when I was drinking, you used the first jar of wine to toast the birth of your sixth son. The year before last, you had just learned how to toast the fifth son."  He bit the guard dog while walking. This is a misfortune for the family. In the future, a devil will be born out of nowhere. What do you pay tribute to this year?"

    Qin Kan picked up the wine jar, looked deeply at Zhu Houzhao, and suddenly smiled: "This year, let's respect our fate."

    "fate?"

    "Thirty years ago, a kid who was dressed in expensive gambling clothes but was ridiculously bad gambled with me for an entire afternoon on Landlords. He lost so much that he became so angry that he threw away his cards, revealed his identity, and ordered me not to win again. His gambling was bad.  A guy who has reached such a state, I can still sit and drink with him thirty years later. Do you think I am awesome? Do you think I should respect this damn fate?"

    Zhu Houzhao's face turned red with anger, he stared at Qin Kan for a long time, and then laughed loudly: "Yes, we should really respect this damn fate. I hope our fate will never end. Wait until the next thirty years, and we will respect each other again."  This damn fate."

    The two looked at each other and laughed, and took a sip of wine together. Qin Kan put down the wine jar and said mysteriously: "If we can live another thirty years and still be able to drink, I will definitely make you do something for the rest of my life.  The things I have done are crazy and I don¡¯t regret"

    Zhu Houzhao suddenly showed an expression of infinite longing, and blurted out without thinking: "Let's go to the brothel together and play with ten girls at night, and we will die because of flowers and willows."

    "Well, forgive me for not wanting to accompany you. I just want to compete with you to see who can pee farther"

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    "The Hypocrite of the Ming Dynasty" is complete.

    Thank you all for your two years of companionship. I bow deeply and thank you.

    I will send you my final remarks later.
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