167 Insidious, Spicy, Insane
The second king of Baishui revolted, and led hundreds of disaster victims to kill the magistrate Zhang Douyao, then opened a warehouse to help the people, and fought in various places in Weibei, attacked cities and villages, killed evil officials, and fought against the rich and helped the poor. As a result, hungry people in the land of the Three Qins responded one after another, and the rebel army emerged like mushrooms after a rain.
At this time, what was the reaction of the Ming Dynasty?
The Ming Dynasty's reaction was very strange, and it can be said that it was not responding!
The Ming Dynasty court should take it seriously, what are the hundreds of people Wang Er?
You should know that less than a hundred miles north of Baishui is Yansui Town, one of the nine major towns on the Ming Dynasty. There are at least tens of thousands of border troops there.
As long as you send a few thousand people, you can reach Baishui in two or three days. At that time, even if Wang Er gathered tens of thousands of hungry people, he would not be able to do it.
The problem was that the Ming Dynasty court had no response, and the border troops in Yansui Town did not receive any orders.
What is Apocalypse doing?
What is the nine thousand-year-old Eunuch Wei doing?
It is unknown what Tianqi was doing, because at this time, people only knew that there was nine thousand years old, but they didn’t know that there was an emperor. Wei Zhongxian had the final say in the whole court, and Tianqi disappeared.
As for why Eunuch Wei ignored the peasant uprising in the northwest, it was mainly because he had no time.
Because he is working on something very important.
He has been planning for this matter for a long time.
Many strange things in the Ming Dynasty that are incomprehensible are related to the matter he planned.
For example, Wei Zhongxian’s employment of people is incomprehensible.
Who do he value?
The Prince Taibao, the left censor of the Censorate, and the Minister of War Cui Chengxiu;
The crown prince's tutor, the right censor of the Censorate, and the Minister of Works Wu Chunfu;
The Crown Prince's Grand Tutor, Zhou Yingqiu, Minister of Personnel;
Xu Dahua, Minister of the Ministry of Revenue;
Xue Zhen, Minister of Justice, etc., are all famous corrupt officials in the court!
Moreover, these people are not ordinary greedy. They are all greedy and are so greedy that they are dismissed from office and investigated. They can only wave their tails and beg for mercy at him to continue to stay in the officialdom.
It would be fine if these people were just greedy. But these people were still famously shameless people.
Why did he reuse these people?
Is he unavailable?
Of course not. There are more capable people who defect to him. For example, Yao Zongwen, Liu Guojin, Wei Yingjia, Xu Jinglian, Jia Jichun, Yang Weiyuan and others who defect to him are all veterans in the officialdom. Although they are greedy, they still have abilities. Why don’t he value it?
Also, Xiong Tingbi was not Qingliu, Donglin, but Chu Party, and he could be said to be in the same group as him. Yuan Chonghuan also tried his best to please him and built a temple for him. He still refused these meritorious ministers.
If he could use even one or two capable officials, the Ming Dynasty might not have fallen so quickly.
To give the simplest example, his godson, the prince's Taibao, the left censor of the Censorate, and the Minister of War Cui Chengxiu, was in a high position and was in charge of the world's troops. What did he do?
Jiannu in Liaodong was rampant, chieftains in the southwest rebelled, and peasants in the northwest revolt. This guy didn't care about it, and he knew that he would frame Qingliu and Donglin!
If he had reused Xiong Tingbi, the chief stern leader of the Chu Party, and promoted him to the Minister of War, at least, Shenyang, Liaoyang, Guangning and others would not have been lost. With Xiong Tingbi's ability, it would be no problem to eliminate Jiannu and slowly retake Fushun and Tieling, and to drive Jiannu back to his hometown.
Wei Zhongxian’s method of using people is really puzzling. Don’t he know that these shameless people who are not virtuous, incompetent and shameless will do nothing more than to fail?
Also, Wei Zhongxian's crazy act of robbing military merits is incomprehensible.
In order to seize military merits in the southeast, he fought bloody battles and drove away the Fujian Governor Nan Juyi, who was the overlord of the sea, to investigate and investigate.
In order to seize military merits in the southwest, he ignored the morale of the military, which made the Guizhou army and the Yunnan army unwilling to follow the orders, and directly killed Guizhou Governor Wang Sanshan and five provinces Governor Cai Fuyi.
In order to seize the military merits of Liaodong, he made Yuan Chonghuan and Sun Yuanhua, the meritorious ministers of Ningyuan and Ningjin, so angry that they all resigned and returned home, and quit.
What is he doing this for?
Is it just to get all his nephews and nephews to be promoted to the title and be ranked as Duke and Marquis?
Is it just for family affection?
In his eyes, family affection is nothing. If he wants to talk about family affection, he will not sell his wife and daughter to pay back his gambling debts!
Another strange thing is that there is no queen in the apocalypse.
Why doesn't Apocalypse have no son?
Could he be born infertile?
Of course not. Agent originally had a son, and more than one, but unfortunately, they all died.
Crown Prince Zhu Ciran and Queen Zhang Yan's son, unfortunately, were given an abortion medicine by Wei Zhongxian and died in the womb.
Mourning the crown prince Zhu Ciying, Wei Zhongxian died inexplicably after he took power.
Xiancai's Crown Prince Zhu Cijiu died suddenly in June of the sixth year of Tianqi!
There is also Concubine Yu Zhang, who was pregnant with a dragon seed, but was humiliated and killed by Wei Zhongxian!
It is obvious that Apocalypse is not without queens, but his sons have all died.
So why did Wei Zhongxian do this?
After Qingliu and Donglin were eliminated, the court was under control, the sinister and vicious Wei Zhongxian finally began his final madness.
The seventh year of the Apocalypse, the spring festival.
This important ceremony should have been presided over by the emperor himself, and the crown prince would have presided over it unless the emperor was bedridden.
Problem, the one who presided over the spring festival was Wei Liangqing, the Grand Tutor Ning Guogong!
You know, the Spring Festival is a sacrifice to the Taimiao. Is it appropriate for him, the nephew of an eunuch, to replace Emperor Zhu Youxiao to worship the ancestors of the old Zhu family?
Obviously, it's not suitable.
At this time, everyone in the court and the country knew that Wei Zhongxian was going to usurp the throne.
What if you know the question?
The Ming Dynasty was controlled by his filial son and virtuous grandson, who dared to talk too much?
Wei Zhongxian wanted to use this move to test whether there are still people who are desperate to be in charge of this nostalgic business.
As a result, no!
It would be easy to deal with if there was no one. Kill the emperor and he would be able to take office.
In August of the seventh year of Tianqi, Emperor Zhu Youxiao accompanied his nanny Keshi and his dad Wei Zhongxian and others to play on a boat in Xiyuan.
They first drank on a large boat in the shallow water north of the bridge. Then Zhu Youxiao, Wang Tiqian, Wei Zhongxian and two confidant eunuchs went to the deep water to ripple the boat. As a result, the boat capsized and all the people fell into the water.
Of course, it was unreasonable to drown an emperor alive, so Tianqi was rescued, and he was just a little scared and cold.
As for why he was frightened by this, it was probably because he did carpenter work every day, which was equivalent to exercising every day. He was in good health and was always not sick, which made Wei Zhongxian impatient.
Logically speaking, Xiaoxiao Fenghan is not a serious illness. Moreover, Tianqi is only twenty-three years old and is in his prime. He is in great health and can survive even without taking medicine.
The problem is that because of this small cold, he vomited and had diarrhea. "Multiple treatments were ineffective", and his health was getting worse!
How similar is this to the Red Pill case at the beginning. Just two Red Pills are missing. Tianqi will be like his father Taichang and return to heaven!
Soon, the Minister of War Huo Weihua presented the immortal medicine "Lingyin Lu". Tianqi ate it and felt good, so he drank it every day.
Then, there was no more. This "Lingyin Lu" was just mixed with some water from the red pill. Although the effect was a little worse, Tianqi was still the same as his father. He was in his prime. He occasionally felt cold and vomited and had diarrhea. After taking the elixir, he quickly returned to the west!
At this time, all the strange things that happened to Tianqi during his lifetime were understandable.
Why did Wei Zhongxian value the use of corrupt officials who are unvirtuous, incompetent and shameless to control the court?
Because these people are obedient, no one dares to say anything even if he plans to usurp the throne.
He wants to use "thorny heads" like Xiong Tingbi and Yuan Chonghuan, can he watch him plot to usurp the throne without saying a word?
Why did Wei Zhongxian crazily rob military merits and add all his nephews and nephews to the title of Duke and Marquis?
To build momentum!
The old Wei family is full of capable people, and all the loyal and martyrs of the family were all granted titles of Duke and Marquis for their military merits. Only the nine thousand-year-old Duke and Marquis of Wei can save the Ming Dynasty, and only the brave and good warlike Duke and Marquis of Wei family can defeat Jiannu!
He might want to play the scene where Zhao Kuangyin put on the imperial robe, so that his filial sons and grandsons, all the civil and military officials of the court, would force him to wrap the imperial robe.
As for why the apocalypse has no descendants.
Chapter completed!