Chronicle of Emperor Jing

Wei Yan was able to make do with his eyes closed these days, but Emperor Jing was on the verge of breaking out.

Because Wei Yan worked too hard during the day, when he was on the couch, he fell asleep faster and faster. Jingdi often faced the person sleeping like a pig next to the pillow, and he was not happy if he didn't do it. He really had to work hard to do it. I was reluctant to wake him up, and every time I did things hastily, I was almost suffocated into internal injuries.

Even after several times when Wei Yan was more comfortable than him, he didn't want to see Wei Yan frowning in his sleep because of his troubles, so he could only solve it by himself.

God knows that Emperor Jing didn't do anything by himself after the first dawn of human affairs. Now that the delicious food is in front of him, he actually resisted not to move, but to bother his right hand. fault.

Even if he feels sorry for Wei Yan who has worked hard all day and doesn't want to continue to torment him on the couch, he just invites someone to come in to serve him. If he is impatient to touch someone's body, he can order someone to serve him. Why is he wronging himself so much now? ?

Emperor Jing really couldn't figure out what kind of disease he had, but this problem became worse every day, five or six out of ten times the problem would occur, forcing Emperor Jing to find a way to solve this problem.

The resentment brought about by unrelieved desires is very serious, and this truth became clear to him when he began to endure it for a long time, and finally put Wei Yan under him.

The first method he thought of was to reduce the number of favors.

Originally, Emperor Jing had to favor Wei Yan several times every night, but now he only favored him once every two or three days. Even so, Wei Yan still couldn't persevere to the end every time.

Obviously, the crux was neither him nor Wei Yan, but someone else.

Afterwards, Emperor Jing hinted to Shen Mo many times, asking him to let Wei Yan go, and asked Shen Mo to look at his face and not to torture Wei Yan so cruelly.However, Shen Mo pretended to be stupid when he heard what he said, and was still muttering there, did Wei Yan be too delicate by the emperor, and he was so tired just by asking him to sort out the paperwork? Doesn't he get tired right away?

Once he really pushed him into a hurry, Shen Mo said directly: "If Your Majesty is really distressed, call him back and put him by your side, and teach him slowly."

Such a simple sentence made Emperor Jing shut his mouth obediently.

It's not that he can't teach Wei Yan himself, but if he really wants Wei Yan to take over Shen Mo's position safely in the future, the best way is to put him under Shen Mo's hands to practice well, and let Shen Mo torment In five or six years, Wei Yan will know what he should know, he will be familiar with what he should be familiar with, and he will master what he should know.

And Shen Mo asked Wei Yan to get in touch with these documents first, theoretically there is no problem.If Wei Weiyan wants to lead these people well, the more familiar they are, the better.

Besides, the selection of personnel for the Guards Battalion has always been the most important job of the Guards Battalion. After all, they are responsible for the safety of Emperor Jingdi, so they cannot be overly cautious.

The truth lies here, Emperor Jing either does not understand, or because he understands too clearly, the depression in his heart will become more and more serious.

If he really thinks about Wei Yan, things have to be done according to this idea, but if he really does this, he will not get well, and it is obviously difficult to have both.

In this way, Shen Mo put on an appearance of not eating oil, salt, soft and hard, unwilling to share your worries at all.Wei Yan is very willing to share his worries, but he still has more than enough heart, but not enough strength.

Besides, looking at Wei Yan's thinned cheeks, Emperor Jing swallowed all the words he wanted to reprimand him, so he could only order the small kitchen to turn around every day, make some nourishing and nutritious things, and coax him to use them.

At the moment when Emperor Jing was so depressed, the Ministry of Internal Affairs would come to add fuel to the fire.

On the sixth day of April in the second year of Tianxi's reign, the House of Internal Affairs made a statement, imploring Emperor Jing to allow the House of Internal Affairs to select a wide range of beauties from all over the world to fill Emperor Jing's harem.

This memorial itself has nothing to make Emperor Jing angry.

The practice of the kings of the Jing Dynasty is to have a big election every three years, and a small election every year, to collect beautiful women from all over the world, and fill the harem with candidates for succession.

When Emperor Jing got married last year, in order to show his favor to the Xie family, he did not hold a general election at the same time. He just selected a few women with decent family backgrounds and conferred their grades together. Concubines, concubines with good grades in Emperor Jing's harem, compared to his ancestors, are really pitifully few. Thinking about his ancestors, which one is not three thousand concubines, they are still recruiting continuously, so this memorial at this time is just a The responsibility of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is something that has to be done. When Emperor Jing first saw this memorial, he didn't pay much attention to it.

Of course, for Emperor Jing at this time, even if he comforted the pitiful concubines one by one, he had neither the time nor the energy. After gaining his favor, he would go in to visit her once a day, except for the queen who was there because of her status and was someone he had to deal with, he didn't even bother to deal with the others, even Even seeing them is a nuisance.

Under such circumstances, of course he is not interested in selecting beauties widely, and it would be uncomfortable to expand the harem to find himself, so this memorial was dismissed by him with gentle words.

If you get here, the Ministry of Internal Affairs feels that you have fulfilled your duty, so let it go, and this is probably the end of the matter. After all, Emperor Jing's thoughts are not on them now, but what happened next will make this matter take a sudden turn. , In the end, it ended with countless heads falling to the ground. This was something that everyone never thought of at the time.

After this memorial was rejected, the Ministry of Internal Affairs submitted one after another, with each wording more intense than the last, and in the end it was almost bluntly saying that if Emperor Jing refused to choose, he would be ashamed of his ancestors and the people of Li, and he would be fatuous. Tao is no longer the king of sages.

Although Emperor Jing never aspired to be a wise emperor, he didn't feel that there was anything stupid about his decision on this matter.It is the right of every king to choose beauties from all over the world, but this power is often criticized by people of insight. In the history books, there are not a few kings who caused anger and resentment and made people miserable because of forced election of women.

It is foolish for him to voluntarily give up this power now. This truth is really very interesting. It is so interesting that a smile appeared on Emperor Jing's face. It was the kind of smile that Wei Yan would feel scalp numb every time he saw it.

As a result, Emperor Jing became very interested in the reason why the Ministry of Internal Affairs was so relentless in this matter, and also became very interested in how many people were interfering in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and this matter.

If other yamen in the imperial court had said so much about this matter, perhaps it would not have aroused such great interest in Emperor Jing, so that he was finally furious.Courtiers have the standpoint of courtiers, the standpoint of serving the country or the people, and perhaps their own selfish standpoint. They do not always act from the standpoint of the king. They can be angry or reprimanded for the first two, but as a king, even if they understand They do not conform to the position of the king, and they should be tolerant. As for the last one, as a king, you must understand that it is human nature, and you can use it and deal with it, depending on whether it is in line with the position of the king.

But for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Emperor Jing didn't have the stomach to tolerate it.The Ministry of Internal Affairs is responsible for handling royal affairs. In essence, the officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are the retainers of Emperor Jing. The position of Emperor Jing is their position, and it must be their position. They insist on their own position, or they insist on what they represent. From the standpoint of interests, this kind of thing is not in the interests of the royal family, and it is definitely a taboo for Emperor Jing.

Therefore, after being stimulated by these memorials, Emperor Jing's first reaction was to order a severe reprimand, and began to order people to thoroughly investigate the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Originally, this was just royal affairs, but the emperor's harem has always been an extension of court battles. Although the Jing Dynasty has strictly prohibited the harem from intervening in politics since the founding of the country, even the most wise king, many of his court affairs are in line with the harem. There are inextricably linked, this is an undeniable fact.

Since the honor and favor in the harem are always closely related to the honor and favor in the court, and since human nature is selfish, it is not surprising that some courtiers are involved in it, either explicitly or implicitly.

On the eighth day of the fourth month of the second year of Tianxi, there was a speech official at the court meeting, Yushi, who said that Emperor Jing's disallowing the selection was a violation of ancestral practice, and he begged Emperor Jing to reflect on himself.

Emperor Jing was not angry when he heard the words, and made an order that if the ministers disagreed with this, they could make a statement.With this decree, a few days later, snowflake-like folds were presented to the inner court one after another.Looking at these excerpts, in this matter, as Emperor Jing wished, the courtiers were divided into three, some opposed and some supported, and some wisely remained silent.

Regarding keeping silent, this is a very interesting phenomenon in Jing Lie's reign. During the many battles in Jing Lie's reign, many of Emperor Jing Lie's confidantes were masters of keeping silent. The higher the position, the easier it is to change the king Liu Zesheng, Shen Mo, Chen Tianyao, and Xiao Yue were the same in the early days, and Wei Yan and the Wei family in the later period were all the same.

Of course, there are two explanations for the silence here. One is that they have opinions, but they will not express their strong opposition on the spot. Maybe they will communicate with Emperor Jing Lie in private, but at least they will not hold objections on the surface. The second is that they have no opinion, and Emperor Jinglie's opinion is their opinion.

No matter which one it is, it is obviously in line with Emperor Jinglie's wishes. This is probably because Emperor Jinglie is famous for his iron and blood in the history of Jing, but his confidantes can die well, and it is an important issue for Fuze's descendants. reason.

Moreover, silence is also a kind of power in many cases. For example, Qi Yuanheng, his silence made the entire scholarly society keep silent for more than 30 years about certain emperors' family affairs and royal secrets. The bloody history of the Xuanyi Dynasty can be rewritten.

Of course, these are just idle assumptions of later historians.

Let's not talk about the future in advance, just say that at that time, after reading these excerpts, Emperor Jing's only reaction was to sneer.All the ministers in these books are loyal ministers who serve the country and the people. He will wait and see how much water there is in it.

Of course, all these scriptures were kept unpublished. After a few days, the situation became more and more serious. Some courtiers began to imply that there were villains around the king who were slandering, so that the king was so determined to go his own way and refused to accept the advice of his courtiers?At this time, Emperor Jing knew which courtiers were involved and who was instigating this matter behind the scenes.

Emperor Jing had predicted that this matter would develop in this direction from the very beginning.He didn't want Wei Yan to be involved too much, and he hoped that Shen Mo could find a reason to transfer Wei Yan out of the capital for a period of time, and let him come back after the situation calmed down, but what Shen Mo said, But he dismissed the idea.

That day he asked Shen Mo to transfer someone out of Beijing, Shen Mo asked him:

"Your Majesty is not allowed to choose because of him?"

"Of course not." Emperor Jing quickly denied this.

He is not allowed to choose, of course, on the surface, it is because he feels pity for the affection of the subjects of the world, and he cannot bear the tragedy of the separation of flesh and blood caused by the selection, and the family members cannot be reunited. Secretly, it is because his harem already has enough He couldn't deal with this woman at all. Obviously, no matter what the reason was, it had nothing to do with Wei Yan.