I'm really not the carpenter emperor

I'm Really Not the Carpenter Emperor" Author: Rising Stone

brief introduction:

In the 48th year of Wanli, Emperor Taichang fell ill.

The parties of Chu, Qi, and Zhejiang were completely defeated in the battle, and the Donglin party members took advantage of the situation to rise up, and the crowd was full of power.

At the same time, Jianzhou Jurchen swept across Liaodong, and the hinterland of the Central Plains was full of empty houses and bandits, and people were panicked.

The eldest son of the emperor, Zhu Youxiao, was in charge of Fengtianmen, who was the emperor, and shouted: I am really not a carpenter emperor!

Volume One

Chapter 1 Crossing

In the Palace of Qianqing, the Forbidden City of the Ming Empire, the atmosphere was eerily silent.

"The country is in a difficult situation. The eldest son of the emperor has not yet been established as the crown prince. I may have different opinions when I wait for the big move. I hope you can...cough cough cough..."

As he said that, Emperor Zhu Changluo of Taichang suddenly began coughing up blood violently.

Seeing that the emperor's body was abnormal, the imperial physician who had been waiting in front of the door rushed forward a few steps to feel his pulse, but kept shaking his head and sighing.

After a while, Zhu Changluo, who knew that the end was approaching, took a deep breath, and said non-stop for a moment: "I hope you can help the eldest son of the emperor to succeed to the throne with all your heart. My son is from the school, and he will be Yao and Shun."

Hearing this, the four people sitting around the dragon couch looked at each other first, then stood up and knelt down in panic, saying in unison:

"I will use this body to protect His Royal Highness the eldest son of the emperor to successfully succeed to the throne!"

Until then, Zhu Youxiao, the eldest son of the emperor, who was lying on the side crying choked up, stood up in a daze, but there was a little incomprehension in his eyes.

I was clearly walking on the street not long ago, so I have crossed over?

In an instant, countless memories flooded into Zhu Youxiao's mind, and the severe pain made him open his mouth and shout.

Emperor Zhu Changluo of Taichang succeeded to the throne for a month, and he was walking as usual not long ago. No one thought that his health would deteriorate so quickly.

The eldest son of the emperor, Zhu Youxiao, was only 16 years old, and he had no foundation in the court. "Xi Li" chose a servant to collude with the eunuch Cui Wensheng, and he was afraid that there would be a bloody storm in the court.

In this case, Zhu Youxiao's abnormal emotional changes were considered to be excessive grief by the four trustees present.

"Emperor's eldest son is virtuous and filial, and Ming is blessed!"

"My son, come closer." Zhu Changluo stretched out his bony hand and beckoned to Zhu Youxiao.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao, who was sure that there were no cameras or directors around, realized that he had really traveled to the end of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, and quickly climbed to the side of the dragon couch.

"Father..."

Although he has no father-son relationship with Taichang, Zhu Youxiao is still grateful to this cheap father for trying his best to arrange the succession for him before his death.

Zhu Changluo straightened up as much as possible, whispered a few words to Zhu Youxiao, and then mysteriously stuffed a golden scroll into the latter's hand.

This scroll, which does not know what was written on it, lifted the spirits of the four Tuogu ministers.

After handing over the scroll to Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Changluo coughed a few times, breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "My son, can you remember what you said for your father?"

Hearing the word "father", Zhu Youxiao nodded his head heavily, and said loudly: "Father and emperor, I will remember it in my heart, and I dare not forget it for a moment!"

As soon as the father and son sang together, it made the four Tuogu ministers even more suspicious, and each of them became more active.

Just when Tuo Gu's important officials were thinking wildly, Zhu Changluo on the dragon bed suddenly coughed twice, lay there thinking for a while, and said weakly:

"You and the eldest son of the emperor go down and call Li Xuan to see me for the last time."

Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao and the four Tuogu important officials withdrew from the hall one after another, and Xi Lixuan, who had been waiting for a long time, heard the order and walked in triumphantly.

About half an hour later, Cui Wensheng, the eunuch of the royal pharmacy, walked out of the Qianqing Palace. First, he took a strange look at Zhu Youxiao and the four important officials who had been waiting outside for a long time, and then shouted loudly:

"Your Majesty, it's time to control the dragon!!"

This loud cry marked the end of the Taichang Dynasty and also represented the rising of a brand new dynasty.

At five o'clock on September 48, 26th year of Wanli, the death knell of the Forbidden City of the Ming Empire rang, Taichang Emperor Zhu Changluo passed away, and the government and the public mourned!

The two emperors Wanli and Taichang passed away one month after another. Immediately, a battle between dragons and tigers ensued inside and outside the court and in the harem.

At this moment, the eyes of almost all forces are focused on Zhu Youxiao, the eldest son of the emperor.

……

As soon as Taichang died, Xi Lixuan imprisoned Zhu Youxiao in the inner study of Qianqing Palace on the pretext of the late emperor's death.

The eunuch Cui Wensheng did it even more. Except for food and drink, he was not allowed to go in and out.

In the previous life, Zhu Youxiao was a designer who wrote novels part-time at Qidian.com. His greatest interest was the history of the late Ming Dynasty. He never thought that he would accidentally travel across time on his way to get off work late at night.

If familiarity with the history of the Ming Dynasty does not count as a gold finger, there should be nothing wrong with saying that it is a copper finger, right?

On the night of transmigrating, cheap father Zhu Changluo died because of the Hongwan case. This body was only 16 years old, ten years younger than later generations!

As Emperor Taichang's favorite servant, "Xi Li" was naturally unwilling to hand over power to a little boy.

Then it happened that Zhu Youxiao was imprisoned in the study in the Qianqing Palace, which was the case of moving to the palace that followed the Hongwan case.

In order to be the second Wu Zetian, Li Xuanshi also took great pains.

In Zhu Youxiao's view, this guy's operation is going further and further on the road to death!

Although he is imprisoned now, Zhu Youxiao is not in a hurry at all, he should eat and drink, who will let him know the history.

A woman became Wu Zetian in Ming Dynasty?

Just kidding, those civil servants were able to hammer Li Xuan's waiter to death in the court hall with a hammer. It's really like the four important officials who have been left alone are eating nothing!

According to the development of history, even without doing it themselves, the four important ministers would join forces to pull Li Xuanshi off the horse and help him to the top.

At that time, we have to teach Cui Wensheng, that reckless dog eunuch, a lesson!

But if I remember correctly, Cui Wensheng should be just a shield. Besides this guy, there seems to be another more insidious collusion with Xi Lixuan.

As for who it is, Zhu Youxiao knows it well.

On the contrary, the four important ministers who entrusted Gu to him joined hands to help him to the top, not necessarily because they all had some good intentions. In the early years of Tianqi, it was "all positive and prosperous"!

At this moment, the party struggle that has lasted for decades is about to come out with a winner.

The problem now is that if you don't want to be manipulated by civil officials after you take office, you need to cultivate your own power.

To put it bluntly, it is to let the biting dog out, you do the exhausting work, and I will do the fisherman's profit!

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao's eyes changed, and the eunuch Wang An, who was standing beside him, had a panoramic view of this scene.

In his impression, this prince seems to have become a little different since the death of the first emperor.

Is the emperor's mentality an innate ability of the royal family?

Zhu Youxiao, who knew the end of his little brother Chongzhen baby, knew that if he became an emperor without his own power, he would be no different from a polished commander, and his death would be ugly.

It is not enough just to raise a vicious dog, one must hold absolute power in his hands to ensure that the vicious dog will not bite people behind his back because of excessive trust.

At this time, it has not yet reached the first year of Tianqi, but Jiannu in Liaodong has already developed. If you remember well, next year will be the time for Nurhachi to capture Shenyang.

Years of internal famines and peasant rebellions will slowly appear in the Year of Apocalypse. If you don't want to "die in the water" with the troubled one in history, the emperor has to change his way.

First of all, Old Comrade Wei is definitely the best candidate for that vicious dog. Regardless of whether he is 100% loyal or not, this guy is a must against the Donglin Party, so he must use it.

However, in history, Old Wei was able to get to this point with his own ability, and it was impossible for him to have no tricks and tricks, so it is also necessary to prevent him from doing bad things behind his back.

In addition to letting Lao Wei mess up the seemingly "clear" government, he should also start to seize military power as soon as possible after he succeeds to the throne.

You know, how Zhu Youxiao finished playing in history, because he wanted to seize military power, and then "accidentally" fell into the water, and died young like Taichang.

The old military power has actually been controlled by civilian officials since the change of the civil fortress. Want to take military power from the Ministry of War?

People have a hundred ways to make you "accidentally" die!

In Zhu Youxiao's view, the issue of military power can only be dealt with quietly by himself.

First get out the imperial guards to ensure your own safety, and then start from the foreign military towns, grasp the hearts of the generals who command the troops, and have their loyalty to rebuild the Ming Dynasty as you like.

Qi Shaobao once said that in a town of ten houses there must be loyalty and trustworthiness.

It has been nearly 300 years since the Ming Dynasty, and there have been many famous generals from generation to generation. This is the year of the apocalypse. I still don't believe it. I can't find a few generals who are loyal to the royal family!

Just thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao frowned, and suddenly heard a noise coming from outside the door, as if a group of old men were arguing with the guarding eunuchs, so he looked through the crack of the door.

"Your servant, please see the eldest son of the emperor!"

"What are you doing?" Cui Wensheng held a wooden stick in his hand and led a few eunuchs to block the door, commanding him:

"Our family has been ordered by the Queen Mother. If you want to see the eldest son of the emperor, you should go to the Queen Mother and his elders, otherwise you will not be allowed to enter!"

Hearing the word "Queen Mother", the old men all blew their beards and stared angrily, sneered again and again, and then spoke enthusiastically, all of them looked loyal and selfless.

"As early as the Wanli period, His Royal Highness the eldest son of the emperor was canonized as the eldest grandson of the emperor by the late emperor. The country cannot live without a king!"

"Miss Xi Li imprisoned the eldest son of the emperor and proclaimed herself the empress dowager. Her wolfish ambitions are already clearly revealed. As ministers of the Ming Dynasty, we should give up our wealth and lives to protect His Royal Highness the eldest son to succeed to the throne!"

Zhu Youxiao, who saw these inside, was very excited, but he was still a little hard to adapt to him who had just traveled through time.

But no matter what, a good show has to be sung.

As soon as the voice fell, the door of the room opened with a "squeak", only to see that the eldest son of the emperor, Zhu Youxiao, walked out.

Two drops of tears suddenly fell on Zhu Youxiao's cheeks, wiped them with his sleeves and said:

"Father died, and the school was overly worried. It threatened to make the female generation miss important state affairs. The British Duke Zhang Weixian and the cabinet chief assistant Fang Congzhe quickly came to see me in the inner study and decided on everything about the enthronement ceremony."

Everyone was shocked, and even Cui Wensheng didn't expect Zhu Youxiao, who had been staying in the room obediently, would come out.

He stayed where he was, neither beating nor scolding, for a moment he didn't know what to do.

The two sides were silent for a long time, and the officials who came to the door were deeply moved by Zhu Youxiao's filial piety, and they knelt down on the ground one after another. Fang Congzhe cried out in tears:

"The ministers and others embrace the eldest son of the emperor to succeed to the throne, and open up the well-being of the people of the country and the country!"

Chapter 2 Moving Palace

While Fang Congzhe, the chief minister of the cabinet, was waiting for the British prince Zhang Weixian with his low eyebrows, Zhu Youxiao, who was sitting on a chair, thought a lot.

From Liaodong, to the Central Plains, to the farther west...

By accident, I arrived in 1620. The Ming Empire was in a precarious age. In addition to the nostalgia and reluctance for the parents of future generations, there was a greater vision that spurred Zhu Youxiao to move forward step by step.

In Liaodong, the Jurchens who once survived under the wings of the Great Ming Empire saw that the old empire was gradually declining, so they fought back and ignited the flames of war in an attempt to overthrow the power!

In the Central Plains, due to the arrival of the Little Ice Age and continuous famines, a wave of peasant uprisings sweeping the Central Plains is secretly brewing and may erupt at any time!

Internal and external troubles!

"Your Highness, take a break. You have been sitting there in a daze for almost half an hour..." Suddenly, the eunuch Wang An's words interrupted Zhu Youxiao's train of thought that he had already run to the sea.

As soon as the voice fell, there was a loud shout from outside the door.

"Bold, who gave you the courage to stop me?"

"In the forbidden area of ​​the imperial palace, how dare a mere eunuch be so rampant!"

Just when Fang Congzhe was racking his brains to think about how to protect the Chu Party under the attack of the Donglin Party by supporting the prince's ascension to the throne, there was the sound of a sword being unsheathed outside the house.

Immediately afterwards, the gatekeeper eunuch screamed, and then there was the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.

Not long after, the three people in the inner study heard the other eunuchs guarding the gate kneeling and begging for mercy. A black shadow of a man stopped in front of the door, and then there was a voice of determination.

"My minister, Zhang Weixian, British Duke, according to the last emperor's decree, welcomes His Royal Highness, the eldest son of the emperor, to take the throne!"

A moment later, Zhu Youxiao opened the door of the inner study, and saw a general in armor half kneeling outside the door, surrounded by soldiers from the Beijing camp.

The soldiers of the Beijing camp had firmly controlled the eunuchs sent by Xi Lixuan. When they saw Zhu Youxiao wearing golden clothes, they all knelt on the ground and shouted in unison:

"See Your Royal Highness, the eldest son!"

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand to signal his excuse, turned his head to look, and really saw the leading eunuch who ordered him before, lying on the steps with his head in a different place, with blood flowing all over the floor.

It's just that Cui Wensheng slipped away quietly, which is very annoying.

Such a bloody smell made Zhu Youxiao feel a little dazed, and when he went down the stairs, he intentionally staggered the bloodstains.

"Your Highness, please get on the sedan chair!" Zhang Weixian stood up, led Zhu Youxiao to the front of the sedan chair, and shouted loudly: "I will carry the sedan chair for Your Highness, let's see who dares to stop you without understanding!"