Hearing Empress Dowager Li's words, Wang Xijue was stunned for a moment. Then he realized what she meant and hurriedly said, "Empress Dowager, if you want to guard a place forever, it's best to be a duke. But Xiao Ruxun is not yet 24 years old. It's fine if it's a hereditary title, but Xiao Ruxun is still not mature enough to be conferred a duke due to his military merits. If it's really conferred, I'm afraid the public won't be convinced!"
"This won't work, and that won't work. If you can't think of a suitable way to keep Xiao Ruxun there, are you going to summon Xiao Ruxun back to the capital and put him by the Emperor's side? Cabinet Elder Wang, do you still remember what happened that day? Don't tell me you want that thing to become true? "
Wang Xijue looked at Empress Dowager Li's unkind face and swallowed.
"Empress Dowager is right. Hsiao Jixin can't return to the capital, but with his age and military merits, it's not the right time to confer a duke. I think it's better to set up Burma Town, which is nominally under the jurisdiction of the Yunnan Inspector-General. We can change Xiao Ruxun's title to Marquis Zhennan to guard Burma. What do you think?"
Wang Xijue tried to ask Empress Dowager Li. Empress Dowager Li thought for a while and felt that there was nothing that needed to be changed. But after thinking for a while, she still exhorted, "When you issue the edict, pay attention to the wording. Pay attention to policies like tax exemption for Myanmar. After all, this matter was done wrongly by our imperial court. Xiao Ruxun is still loyal to the Great Ming Dynasty and is also sensible. We cannot go too far and hurt the heart of the meritorious minister."
"I understand. Burma Town is nominally under the jurisdiction of the Yunnan Inspector-General, but there are no Han people or prefectures here. It's poor and doesn't even have an official. Who can the Yunnan Inspector-General control? It can only be said to be a supervisor in name, but in fact, it's only in charge of taxes. This place should be given to Xiao Ruxun himself. His authority is greater than that of the Mu family in Yunnan. It can be considered as appeasing the feelings of the meritorious official. I think Hsiao Jixin will understand the imperial court's intention. "
Empress Dowager Li nodded and waved her hand. She asked the maid beside her to bring a tray to Wang Xijue.
Wang Xijue took the tray and looked inside. He saw a blank imperial edict with a jade seal.
"I'll leave this matter to you. You can also contact Hsiao Jixin about the rewards and the subsequent arrangements for the refugees to settle in Hsiao Jixin. When you're done with this matter, I'll allow you to submit your resignation letter so that you can return to your hometown in glory and spend your remaining years in peace."
Wang Xijue's body trembled. He prostrated himself on the ground and shouted, "Subject Wang Xijue kowtows to thank the Empress Dowager for her kindness!"
Empress Dowager Li sighed and waved her hand.
"Go, go!"
Wang Xijue bowed again and slowly left the palace.
Looking at Wang Xijue's back, Empress Dowager Li's eyes flickered.
"How is the emperor?"
She asked the eunuch beside her.
"Empress Dowager, His Majesty still locks the palace doors. Other than his trusted servants, no one is allowed to enter or leave. This old servant went three to five times and was blocked every time. I heard that even the Imperial Concubines were not allowed to enter or leave. I haven't seen His Majesty for a long time."
Empress Dowager Li frowned.
"He's making trouble! How old is he! And he's the emperor! How can he be so petty? Ridiculous! Someone, bring the jade seal and set out! Follow me to visit the emperor! "
Empress Dowager Li ordered and set out to the emperor's bedchamber.
Zhu Yijun had indeed suffered quite a bit. The last coup attempt had almost sent the 30-year-old Emperor into the abyss. However, an Emperor was still an Emperor. Zhu Yijun's body was healthy, and he was only 30 years old. It was the time when he was the most energetic. It was absolutely impossible for a 30-year-old Emperor to enter the state of an old Emperor. At this time, the Emperor might be depressed, or he might hide his strength and bide his time, but it was impossible for him to lose all hope.
Zhu Yijun was concealing his strength and biding his time, studying diligently, cultivating his spirit and spirit. He secretly found the Jiajing Emperor to review some memorials from the ministers to read, especially the story of how the eighteen year old Jiajing Emperor defeated the senior statesman Yang Tinghe step by step in the Great Ceremonial Conference and regained his power. Zhu Yijun began to be very interested and very concerned.
After handing over the jade seal, Zhu Yijun didn't sleep well for a long time. When he finally woke up and realized that a man couldn't be powerless for a day, he didn't know how to get back the jade seal that belonged to him. He could only trust that his mother wouldn't remove him from the throne. He hoped that his mother would return the jade seal to him and return the throne to him so that he could carry out the next stage of his plan.
The more he read, the more surprised he became. These days, Zhu Yijun constantly read the memorials of his grandfather Jiajing and Yang Tinghe's battle of wits and courage. He extracted some clues from the memorials and pieced them together. Finally, he roughly restored how Jiajing's grandfather used the body of a teenager to bring down an old fox who had three dynasties. The battle of wits and courage was wonderful and could be called peerless.
It could only be said that reality was always more wonderful than romance. Luo Guanzhong wrote the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and made the world think that it was the peak period of power in China since ancient times. In fact, China had always been at the peak period of power. It was just that the division of the country was more clear, but the unification of the country was less clear.
But Jiajing's grandfather used a teenager to bring down an old fox who was sixty or seventy years old. Wasn't this not enough to prove the power of power?
At the same time, he also sincerely admired his Grandfather Jiajing. He was a lucky person from a small clan who entered a large clan. He was a vassal king who had no foundation in the court. He was a little guy whose ancestors were emitting smoke from their graves. He was chosen by Yang Tinghe to become the Emperor of the Great Ming Dynasty. In fact, Yang Tinghe just wanted to find a young puppet who had no foundation, so that he could continue to hold power and make the lives of the civil officials better.
But he didn't know that he chose an emperor with high IQ and high EQ, Zhu Houcong, who could be ranked in the top three in the list of emperors in China's history.
The fact that Zhu Houcong was an emperor with high IQ and high EQ was becoming more and more known in modern times. But at the time, it was a fact that the literati did their best to cover up.
They had to cover it up. A group of Chinese elites were toyed with by a young boy. Was that not embarrassing enough?
Yang Tinghe, an old official of three dynasties, was brought down. The civil officials, who had once held power over the world, were dealt a heavy blow. Emperor Jiajing successfully raised the power of the civil officials, the power of the eunuchs, and the power of the Imperial Bodyguard. He constantly checked and suppressed the pure power of the civil officials, making himself the most aloof person, and firmly grasping the highest power of the empire.
This situation did not change until Yan Song died.
Zhu Houcong's success was extremely rare in the history of the Daming Dynasty, and even in the history of China. It was also what Zhu Yijun admired. He felt that he was very similar to Jiajing's grandfather. He wanted to learn Jiajing's methods, learn Jiajing's power, and hope to become the second Jiajing.
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