Chapter 2841: Meeting of King and Minister

Hehe, you guys check it out slowly, I don't believe you can tell the truth from the fake, and returned to the palace, Shen Long, who was stealthily peeping from the side, sneered in his heart, the box containing the secret edict and the paper used were all made by himself. It was copied from the mirror of the dream, and as for the handwriting on it was directly changed by magic, how can ordinary people see the difference?

Sure enough, after the old eunuch in the palace who was best at authenticating paper characters came, he carefully read the eight secret edicts, but he couldn't tell which ones came first. These secret edicts seemed to be produced by the same batch, except for the difference in names, the other Is the place exactly the same! How can this be true or false?

As soon as the result came out, everyone in the palace became dumb again, how could this happen? Even if your personality is fickle and you have changed the secret edict many times, you should destroy the obsolete ones. Why do you still stay here? Even if they are still there, there should be a sequence, as can be seen from the dust on the box and the degree of yellowing of the paper, why are these all the same?

Someone thought of another way. After Yongzheng wrote the secret edict, he asked the Minister of Prime Minister Affairs Wang to seal the box containing the secret edict behind the upright plaque. Did he find out the Minister of Prime Minister Affairs Wang who had witnessed Qianlong's sealing of the secret edict? What is the result?

In the Qianlong Dynasty, Prince Zhuang Yunlu and Prince Guo Yunli held this position. Later, this position was abolished by Qianlong. Now Yunli is dead. Hong Xi was implicated because of her secretive dealings, and has never been reused. After arriving today, she didn't say much.

The Empress Dowager Niu Gulu called him out to question, but Yunlu just shook his head, saying that he had only held this position for a short time, and Qianlong didn't have many children at that time, at least he hadn't experienced these things himself.

Then I found the eunuch who put the box at the beginning. Those eunuchs recalled carefully, and they only remembered that in the first year of Qianlong, Qianlong once put a box behind the upright plaque, but in the third year of Qianlong, after the death of the second son Yonglian It was taken out; there was no such thing after that.

Everyone still remembers the fact that Qianlong gifted him as the crown prince after Yonglian's death. It's not surprising that Yonglian's name was on the secret edict, but why didn't it appear later? Perhaps His Majesty feels that he is in good health, so he is not in a hurry to establish a reserve right now? But what are these eight secret edicts?

Unable to tell the truth from the fake, the Niu Gulu family and many princes and ministers are all stupid. Who should be the emperor? Many princes and ministers also had different ideas. Some insisted on the orthodoxy and believed that the son of Empress Nala should be allowed to ascend the throne forever, and some felt that the current world is in chaos and it is better to have a long emperor. Can take care of things, can't you? There are also those who have various reasons to support other candidates, and they can't argue for a while.

"Empress Dowager, the veteran thinks that since the secret edicts can't be distinguished now, and I don't know which one is the last emperor's last edict, then the ancestral system should be restored, and the final candidate will be selected by the meeting of the king and ministers!" Prince Zhuang Yunlu has been a good-for-nothing at home for many years, and he has long been holding back his anger. Seeing the opportunity to influence the government again, he jumped out immediately.

A meeting of kings and ministers? Yeah, why didn't I think of this! What does it matter who is emperor? The important thing is to expand our power! Several princes and ministers who were qualified to attend the meeting of kings and ministers who discussed politics immediately came to their senses.

The so-called eight kings' governance refers to the policy that Nurhachi ordered the Eight Banners Lord Baylor to discuss state affairs together. It is similar to the Mongols' Briertai Conference. It is a very small number of royal relatives and nobles who jointly agree on some military affairs, including the election of the throne ( Khan position); after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, Huang Taiji improved this policy again, and the king of the clan nobles, the Eight Banners Gushan Ezhen, and the ministers of politics jointly discussed the form of affairs,

That is to say, the "meeting of kings and ministers discussing politics".

After Kangxi eliminated San Francisco, conquered Taiwan and reunified the country, the system of conferences of kings and ministers, which symbolizes the political power of the aristocracy, would inevitably conflict with imperial power; In fact, the power and status of the meeting of kings and ministers was reduced. During the Shunzhi and Kangxi periods, the government affairs were handled by the cabinet. During the Yongzheng period, the Military Aircraft Department was established as an institution to support the emperor's decision-making, so that power was increasingly concentrated in the emperor.

Although the meeting of kings and ministers to discuss politics still exists, the politics discussed are limited to specific matters such as military affairs, emperor's tours, flag affairs, minority affairs and major criminal cases, and have nothing to do with military and state affairs; that is to say, these people have basically become It seems that the power of the Qing Dynasty was concentrated in the hands of the emperor through the efforts of Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong.

It is worth mentioning that these ministers are not willing to act as mascots. From time to time, he also found some opportunities to try to restore the glory of the Eight Kings' Discussion; when Qianlong had just succeeded to the throne, Yinreng's son Hongxi tried to contact the Eight Great Leaders to use the Eight Kings' Discussion to usurp the throne. After the incident was exposed, he was arrested and imprisoned .

But those princes and nobles who are qualified to attend the meeting of kings and ministers have never forgotten this matter. Now that Prince Zhuang Yunlu brought it up, what are Prince Li, Prince Zheng, Prince Su, Prince Yu, Prince Keqin, Prince Shun? Chengjun Wang and other princes all jumped out, saying that it is the ancestral system for the eight kings to discuss and decide the court affairs together. Since there is no way to choose a suitable candidate now, let them choose!

If Niu Gulu was such a powerful figure as Yehenala, it goes without saying that these ministers would never be given a chance to jump out. If they dared to jump out, they would be beheaded! But Niu Gulu had been enjoying the blessings in the harem before, where did he experience these things? There was no strong support from outside, and these princes and ministers clamored to restore the ancestral system of eight kings discussing politics, and she couldn't stand it anymore.

Nala didn't want to agree, but what effect could her brother Nali object? He only became a false duke because of Nala's honor, he has no real power in his hands, he is far from these senior princes, and no one supports him when he comes out to speak. Those who thought that Yongzheng could ascend the throne and get close to him Seeing this, people immediately changed course.

"Empress Dowager, the country cannot be without a king for a day, please make a decision early, if it takes a long time, I'm afraid there will be trouble!" Prince Zhuang Yunlu pressed on every step of the way.

"Since that's the case, let's do as you say!" Niu Gulu couldn't stand it anymore, if this dragged on, someone might lead soldiers into the palace.

So many years later, the meeting of kings and ministers discussing politics reappeared, and those princes and nobles who were eligible to attend got together and began to discuss the candidate for the emperor.

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