Zhu Yijun's eyes widened.
"Mother!!! Why are you doing this?! "
"To prevent Daming's world from being destroyed by you! So that I, this old woman with one foot in the grave, will not be buried with you for the Great Ming Dynasty! To prevent our ancestors' graves from being dug up by those ambitious people! "
Empress Dowager Li walked to Zhu Yijun and stared at Zhu Yijun with anger.
"Emperor, do you think you can win by controlling the officials? Do you think you can win by relying on tens of thousands of troops? Do you know who your enemy is? Do you know what kind of situation you are facing? Do you know what price Taizu had to pay to keep his word? Do you think Daming can bear that price? "
Empress Dowager Li's questions stunned Zhu Yijun.
"Master Zhang's teachings have been thrown to the back of your mind. Master Zhang's teachings have been completely forgotten by you! Master Zhang can do it without using weapons. Why do you need to use weapons? Weapons are the last resort! If you treat your subjects as enemies, what will your subjects treat you as? If you want to raise a butcher's knife against your subjects, do you think they will obediently wash their necks and wait for you to kill them? Do you think these heroes who stood out from millions of people are stupid pigs?! "
Empress Dowager Li pointed at Zhu Yijun's nose and scolded, "You are just the result of two choices. Who do you think you are? The late Emperor only had two sons. You are the eldest. The late Emperor passed away early. In fact, I have no other choice! So you are no threat! But those officials, which one of them didn't kill their way out of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people?
Every one of them is an elite of Daming! They are the best group of people in Daming. What do you think you can control them? How much have you learned about the heart of an emperor? How much have you learned about the power of an emperor?! Your world was not fought for, your world was left to you by your father and your mother, me! You are a ready-made person! To put it bluntly, you are just reincarnated! It went into my stomach! That is why you are the emperor. Otherwise, you are nothing! "
Empress Dowager Li panted and her face was red. She pointed at Zhu Yijun and scolded him. Zhu Yijun was stunned. His face was pale and he couldn't say a word.
Empress Dowager Li held the blood-stained letter and sneered, "Why do you think I got this letter? Ai jia will tell you, Wang Xijue used two thousand taels of silver to bribe your chamberlains and let them send a letter to ai jia. Ai jia then sent people to bribe other chamberlains and found out from where the chamberlain surnamed Liu would leave the palace to deliver the letter to whom. Ai jia then sent people to lie in ambush there. As soon as he appeared, ai jia's people used water and fire rods to beat him to death.
Zhu Yijun, you can't even control your own eunuchs. You can't even control the people around you. You can't even fight against an old woman like me. Who gave you the courage? Who gave you the courage to fight against all the elites of the Great Ming Dynasty?! Do you want the Zhu Family to have no descendants and cease to exist?! At this moment, as long as I still have a son, as long as your son is 15 years old, I will not hesitate to cripple you, who can't see the current situation clearly. You should thank God for not giving you any threats. No one can threaten your throne, not even I can do it! "
Empress Dowager Li then took a few steps forward, lowered her head and stared coldly at Zhang Jing and Luo Shangzhi.
Zhang Jing, Luo Shangzhi, go back and mobilize your trusted subordinates to kill all the eunuchs and foreigners who know about this matter. Leave no one alive. Even if they know the slightest clue or hear the slightest rumor, capture and kill them all. If I hear even the slightest news about what happened today, I will immediately take your life. Do you understand? "
Zhang Jing and Luo Shangzhi broke out in a cold sweat. They were horrified to find that this old lady was far more ferocious than the emperor they revered.
"I will obey the Empress Dowager's order!"
As soon as the voice fell, Zhu Yijun collapsed to the ground.
Empress Dowager Li looked back at the dumbfounded Zhu Yijun. Her heart was filled with all kinds of emotions, including sadness, anger, hatred, disgust, worry, fear, and unwillingness. Even she did not know why so many emotions appeared in one person's heart at the same time. "None of the officials know about this matter.
"None of the officials know about this yet. I have already given Wang Xijue a gag order. If he wants to keep his entire family alive, this matter will be taken to the coffin along with him. Not long after, he will submit his resignation. From then on, he will be under my surveillance for the rest of his life. If I die, it will be your turn to continue the surveillance. If you and I, mother and son, can't outlive Wang Xijue, then before we die, we must take Wang Xijue with us. This is the condition that I agree to let Wang Xijue continue to live."
Empress Dowager Li looked at the dumbfounded and silent Zhu Yijun on the ground. She closed her eyes and sighed deeply.
"Emperor, you are thirty. The ancients say that one should stand at thirty. Everything that happened in the past, I thought that you were young and ignorant, but after this, you have no other reason. Don't blame me, I don't want to die in the flames of war, and I don't want to watch you be killed by rebels and traitors. Three days of ice is not a day of cold. A coup can take your life, but it can't take the lives of those you want to get rid of.
Just like just now, if I wanted to take your life, could you have avoided it? Since ancient times, have few emperors been poisoned to death by rebels and traitors? Emperor, aijia has done everything that aijia could do. Aijia has also done everything that I could not. If you hate aijia, then go ahead and hate me. However, no matter how much you hate aijia, aijia will never allow you to bury the fate of the Great Ming Dynasty in your own hands. Aijia will never allow you to become the ruler of a subjugated nation. "
After saying this, Empress Dowager Li let out a deep sigh of relief. She turned around and slowly walked out of the palace.
After walking out for a long time, Zhu Yijun could still hear Empress Dowager Li murmuring, "It's rare to be muddle-headed." He didn't understand what it meant before, but today, at this moment, no one could understand it better than him.
He finally recognized the difference between him and Grandpa Jiajing. He even thought that his father might have seen the situation of the world. It was just that his father knew him better and believed that he didn't have that kind of ability, so he was "rare to be muddle-headed."
He wasn't as open-minded as his father. He wasn't able to face everything calmly like his father. So he had to fight. He had to fight. He wanted to be the true ruler of the world.
However, the saddest thing in the world was that people finally recognized themselves.
Zhu Yijun was only a mortal with the title of an emperor.
From now on, no one would know that Zhu Yijun had once come into such close contact with death and despair, and no one would know that a Wanli palace coup that was destined to be extremely bloody had been put to an end just like that.
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