Chapter 108 Establish the crown prince, make the earl, and execute the dowager concubine!

   "On the side of the Qing emperor?"

  Tianqi couldn't help being surprised when he heard this.

  Zhang Gui thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, they are in a hurry to jump the wall, and they are worried that the imperial court will use this to investigate the gunpowder smuggling case and find them."

  Tian Qi was surprised, but also understood, nodded and sneered: "I don't know who will clean who! If they dare to clear the king's side, I will dare to conquer myself!"

   "Your Majesty really wants to conquer?"

   Zhang Gui asked.

Tianqi nodded: "Now my Ming Dynasty is rotten from the inside out, not only the civil servants, but even the founding nobles have begun to collude with the enemy and betray the country, not to mention the self-respecting frontier generals in Liaodong. Is there any other way to gain prestige? Can it be done by relying on a few loyal ministers, relying on your relatives?"

   Zhang Guidao: "But soldiers are murder weapons! Your Majesty must think carefully."

   "I've already thought about it."

"Decree to the Ministry of Rites! Establish the eldest son of the emperor as the crown prince, and choose a day to hold a grand ceremony! The crown prince will be appointed, and the uncle Zhang Gui will be promoted to protect the eldest son of the emperor. Seal Suizhou Uncle."

   Apocalypse suddenly decreed.

Immediately, Tian Qi said to Zhang Gui: "Now Xia Yunyi is carrying out the pilot project of the New Deal in Suizhou, and now I have named you Boss of Suizhou, so that in the future, once the pilot project of the New Deal in Suizhou is implemented well, I will assist the crown prince to continue to implement it." political reform."

   "Your Majesty, the minister is a relative."

   Zhang Gui said solemnly.

Tianqi smiled bitterly: "If I fail to put down the rebels like the Wu Temple, then the crown prince will need you as a foreign relative to check and balance the honorable officials. Who told me to offend them! They will not want my son to take the throne unless , you forced them to let my son take the throne."

   As he spoke, Tian Qi asked, "Do you understand?"

  Zhang Guidao: "I understand! I thank Your Majesty Long En, but I hope that Your Majesty will come back alive! At this point in the Ming Dynasty, what is more needed is a wise and decisive emperor, not a young master."

   "I will try my best."

   Apocalypse replied.

  After receiving the decree, the Ministry of Rites really began to prepare for the grand ceremony for the eldest son of the emperor to be named the crown prince.

   This is good news for many ministers who really care about the safety of the Ming Dynasty.

  They have always regarded the crown prince as the foundation of the country, thinking that if the crown prince is established, the country will be safe, and the world will be safe.

   You must know that in the late Wanli period, there was a lot of trouble because of the crown prince for the eldest son of the emperor, and there were decades of disputes in the court.

   It’s just that the uncle of the current crown prince is Zhang Gui who regards scholar-bureaucrats as national thieves.

   Therefore, there are still many ministers who are not willing to talk about this matter.

   But they can't object to it explicitly, after all, it's not allowed to talk about it.

  The eldest son of the emperor is now six years old, but he can also participate in the receiving hall.

After the apocalypse ordered the Ministry of Rites to start preparing for the grand ceremony of conferring the eldest son of the emperor as the prince, he followed Zhang Gui's proposal, worshiped the Taimiao, and told his ancestors of the Zhu family that Concubine Liu wanted to break the foundation of the country and interfere with the government. crime.

   Immediately, Tianqi decreed that Concubine Liu should hang herself.

  He did not choose to compromise because of the threat of Wang Zhichen, the governor of Jiliao, and Chen Hongfan, the commander-in-chief, threatening to send an army of 100,000 to the Qing Dynasty if Concubine Liu was killed.

  Because Tianqi is very clear that Daming is on the verge of subjugation, and there is no point in compromising. It is nothing more than that one of him and his son or grandson is the king of subjugation.

   Concubine Liu glanced at Tian Qi before throwing the ball, and said, "Your Majesty, if Uncle Zhang Guo hadn't planned this time, you wouldn't have won."

Tian Qi smiled: "So what if I lose? Do you think I haven't thought about these consequences? The reason why I still do this is because I would rather let them scold and slander me than when I was the emperor. Let them have a better life! I am not a royal grandfather, I will not hide in the deep palace, and I can only sulk if I am scolded by one or two officials, and I am not a father, I have to do it myself when I am scolded. Those who would rather die than make me feel better have a better life, I am such a man!"

Concubine Liu smiled helplessly: "Sure enough, some people are afraid of a few threats, and some people are not afraid of putting a knife on their necks. What else can I say? I only hate that when I chose a concubine for you back then, I shouldn't be afraid of you." He, Empress Zhang, was selected among the top 50 people, so there will be no Zhang Guojiu in my Ming Dynasty. You must be extinct now."

   "Old man, hurry up and get on the road."

  Zhu Youxiao said something with a bad face.

   "The old man obeys the order!"

  Boom!

   Not long after, the stool fell to the ground and Concubine Liu hanged herself.

   Shortly after Liu Taifei hanged herself, the grand ceremony for establishing the crown prince began.

  The eldest son of the emperor officially became the crown prince of Ming Dynasty.

   During this period of time, the Ministry of War and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies were already preparing for the Apocalypse Conquest.

  The day before Tianqi's personal expedition, Zhang Gui was sent to Xiyuan to see him.

  Tianqi asked Zhang Gui and said, "You are the admiral of the capital, how do you plan to guard the capital after I leave?"

   "Your Majesty, please let me only guard the palace city and one gate of the inner and outer cities!"

   Zhang Gui replied.

  Tianqi asked Zhang Gui after hearing this: "Why?"

   "I want to go fishing!"

   Zhang Gui replied.

"What's the meaning?"

   Apocalypse asked.

  Zhang Guidao: "I believe that His Majesty will win! But some people don't believe it, or they don't want to believe it."

   As he spoke, Zhang Gui told Tian Qi his thoughts in detail.

   Tian Qi smiled slightly after hearing this, and then said: "This is also good, it will help you gather trusted soldiers and horses, and if there is any accident, it will be easier to take the crown prince out of the capital."

The next day, Tian Qi took his military academy enlisted corps and the newly formed Guards Guard Battalion and the Second Battalion, with a total of more than 20,000 horse infantry troops, out of the capital and headed for Ji state.

In order to better manage the newly created soldiers and horses belonging to the emperor himself, Zhang Gui called these troops composed of officers and students from the Armed Forces School the Guards, and all of them were in the order of the first battalion and the second battalion. It's just that the battalion with the highest proportion of veterans and the highest loyalty is not called the first battalion, but it is called the imperial guard battalion in order to show honor.

On the morning of Tianqi's departure from the capital, Zhang Gui received a decree asking him to control the defense of the palace city and one gate inside and outside the city. Other soldiers and horses.

In addition to Mangui's Shenshu camp, which has now been ordered to continue defending the inner court, and is only subject to Zhang Gui's restraint, there is also Sun Yingyuan's department in the Xishan camp that can be directly controlled. inner and outer city.

  This time, Sun Yingyuan also received the decree, only subject to Zhang Gui's restraint, and was responsible for the decree of each gate inside and outside the city.

  Sun Yingyuan didn't know the purpose of Tianqi's arrangement, but only thought it was because of the expansion of the Beijing camp now, so that more troops could be concentrated in every part of the city gate for defense.

  When Tianqi led his own guards and military equipment school enlisted corps to Jizhou, Wang Zhichen also learned that Tianqi was going to personally conquer him.

  When Wang Zhichen found out about this, he called Chen Hongfan over: "Tell me honestly, how many soldiers and horses we have."

  Chen Hongfan replied: "There is always 80,000."

   "That's good, 80,000 versus 20,000, the advantage is mine!"

   Wang Zhichen nodded, and said: "The tyrant has personally led troops to attack us, and he refused to give in. This hall has decided to immediately lead troops to clear the king's side."

"yes!"

  A few days later, Wang Zhichen, the governor of Jiliao, and Chen Hongfan, the general of Jizhou, led their soldiers and horses out.

Snapped!

   Just as soon as he left the city, Wang Zhichen slapped Chen Hongfan, pointed to the sparse soldiers and horses in front of him, and asked Chen Hongfan:

   "There are 80,000 soldiers here?!"

   "Are you bullying me that you don't know how to count?!"

   "Tell me the truth, how much money did you eat?!"

  (end of this chapter)