"Dear ministers, I have something to say."
"Silence! His Majesty has something to say."
"Silence!"
"Silence!"
“……”
The eunuchs immediately shouted this sentence several times.
The entire Taihe Palace fell silent.
Chong Zhen slowly glanced at everyone and said in a deep voice,""I see that the Crown Prince is wise and divine, similar to Taizu and Chengzu.”
Eh?
Was His Majesty praising the Crown Prince?
What a high evaluation!
He actually said that the Crown Prince was very similar to Emperor Hongwu and Emperor Yongle.
However, from the Crown Prince's performance just now, not only did he look like him, but he even surpassed him!
But why did His Majesty suddenly say this?
Everyone looked at Chong Zhen suspiciously.
Looking at the officials below, Chong Zhen slowly said,""Ever since I ascended the throne, Great Ming has suffered many disasters. Now that the raiders had broken through Juyong Pass, they would arrive at the capital in a few days. This disaster could not be solved without great wisdom and courage.
I've made up my mind. He would immediately abdicate and let the Crown Prince inherit the mandate of heaven!”
What was that?
His Majesty wanted to abdicate?
The Crown Prince was going to ascend the throne?
Wasn't this a little too hasty?
Everyone was stunned!
Through the events just now, everyone knew that the Crown Prince's rise to power and control of the court was inevitable.
However, everyone believed that the Crown Prince would have to wait until the bandits were defeated and the Eastern Krupp was pacified.
I didn't expect His Majesty to be so anxious!
"Your Majesty! No way! Now that His Majesty is in his prime, Great Ming will have a bright future under His Majesty's governance. If His Majesty abdicated now, it would probably incite a civil revolt!”
Wei Zaode was the first to react. He knelt on the ground and begged Chongzhen to take back the abdication edict.
"Your Majesty, now that the raiders are approaching the capital, if the Great Ming Empire suddenly changes hands, I'm afraid the morale of the army will be unstable!”Chen Yan also knelt down and said.
"Yes, Your Majesty! The current situation was complicated. If the Crown Prince ascended the throne at this time, there would probably be people who did not know the truth who would mistakenly think that the Crown Prince was forcing the abdication!”
"This humble subject implores Your Majesty to retract your order!”
"This old minister implores Your Majesty to retract your order!”
"We implore Your Majesty to retract your order!”
“……”
All the ministers knelt on the ground, begging Chongzhen to retract his order.
Looking at the officials kneeling in front of him, Chong Zhen smiled.
How many of these ministers were sincere?
How many of them were fake?
Or how many of them are afraid of the Crown Prince's thunderous methods and are trying to keep me?
However, what they said was not completely unreasonable.
If the Crown Prince ascended the throne like this, it would indeed be easy for people with ulterior motives to take advantage of him.
I still have to clarify.
"There's no need for everyone to listen to me.”Chong Zhen said.
"As the saying goes, the people are the most important, the country is second, and the monarch is the least important. After I inherited the throne, the strength of the Great Ming Dynasty has been deteriorating! The people were displaced and the country was unstable. This is disloyalty!"
"Ever since I ascended the throne, the Eastern Krupp has grown from weak to strong, and raiders have grown from nothing. In the eighth year of Chongzhen, the thieves who offered sacrifices burned the imperial mausoleum in Zhongdu. As the descendants of Taizu, this is unfilial!”
"I am mean to my subordinates. I do not reward meritorious deeds, but I punish those who have done wrong. It caused the monarch and his subjects to be separated and the officers and soldiers to be dissatisfied. This is heartless!"
"In the 15th year of Chongzhen, the soldiers were defeated in the Battle of Songjin. I sent Chen Xinjia, the minister of the Ministry of War, to negotiate with the East Krupp. After this matter was leaked, I shirked the responsibility to Minister Chen. This is unjust!”
"Commander-in-chief Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng are experienced in planning for the country and are the pillars of the country! But I am headstrong and arbitrary. As a result, the two Commanders-in-Chief were killed by the raiders and the Eastern Krupp. This is unwise!"
"The raiders are powerful, and the government troops are retreating in the north. I should have ordered the Crown Prince to go to Jinling to supervise the country, and I should have stayed in the capital. However, I was afraid of rumors and did not take action. This is not brave!"
"I am a disloyal, unfilial, heartless, unjust, wise, and brave person. How can I have the face to rule the world again?”
Chongzhen's voice resounded throughout the court.
"Your Majesty, it can't be like this!"
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Everything was our fault. It has nothing to do with His Majesty!"
"Your Majesty, you're too kind!"
"Your Majesty…"
“……”
Since ancient times, the monarch has been worried about the minister's humiliation, and the minister has died for the monarch's humiliation.
Seeing Chongzhen evaluate him like this.
Many old ministers knelt on the ground and wailed!
Chongzhen's words just now were equivalent to giving himself an edict of sin.
However, the typical self-reproaching imperial edict was based on the facts.
However, Chongzhen's words were simply a complete denial of his ability and personality!
Once these words were said, not only would the history books give Chongzhen a final verdict based on this image, but his words in the future would also have no effect.
Chongzhen's actions were equivalent to cutting himself off from the court.
It seemed that His Majesty truly wanted to abdicate the throne to the Crown Prince.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have said such ruthless words to cut off his own path of retreat!
Zhu Ciao looked at Chong Zhen with a complicated expression.
Although from the perspective of future generations, Chongzhen had made many mistakes after he ascended the throne, the starting point of everything was for the Ming Dynasty and the Han people.
He had never enjoyed the joy of being an emperor for a day.
Although Chongzhen had many faults, even Donglu and raiders couldn't deny his two bright spots.
That was staunch and honest!
He would rather hang himself in Mei Mountain and live or die with the capital than escape.
This was staunch!
He hung himself and issued a posthumous edict to confess his mistakes and let the raiders cut him into pieces to apologize to the people of the world.
This was honesty!
And today, he admitted his sins and resolutely abdicated, which was also a manifestation of his staunch and frank attitude.
Chongzhen, it was still the Chongzhen that was revered as the Emperor of Nanming!
"We will follow the emperor's will!"
"We will follow the emperor's will!"
"We will follow the emperor's will!"
“……”
Seeing that Chongzhen had made up his mind, the ministers knelt on the ground and agreed to Chongzhen's request.
Chongzhen directly wrote a letter of abdication, and the ceremony supervisor handed it to the cabinet for filing.
Legally speaking, Chongzhen was now the Retired Emperor.
The current owner of the Great Ming Dynasty was Zhu Ciyan!
"My son, come forward!" Chong Zhen waved at Zhu Ci and handed him the imperial seal that symbolized imperial power.
"Today is the last time I will call you my son. From now on, you will be the true dragon of the Ming Dynasty, the ruler of the beautiful mountains and rivers, and the guardian of all the people of the Han family.
I hope that Your Majesty can turn the tide, repel the raiders, eliminate the Eastern Krupp, and revive our Darming Dynasty!”
Chongzhen also changed his words immediately. He no longer called himself " Zhen " but " I ". He even gave up the dragon throne and sat beside Zhu Ciyao to show his importance.
"Back when Emperor Taizong defeated the Turks, High Emperor Li Yuan danced to liven things up at the banquet. I hope that when you defeat the bandits, I can do the same!”Chong Zhen said expectantly.
In Chongzhen's heart, Zhu Ciyao was already comparable to Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.
He had already given the hope of the entire Great Ming Dynasty to Zhu Ci Xin.
"Your son will not fail your orders!" Zhu Ci took the Imperial Jade Seal solemnly…
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(? ?) Make up for yesterday's third update! The author had already seen the readers 'choices. The so-called "burning of the Central Capital's imperial mausoleum" referred to Zhang Xianzhong running to Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown and burning the mausoleums of his parents and brothers.
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