Chapter 75 3. The emperor wants to resign

As we know, the great ceremony dispute in Zhu Houcong's era completely tore apart the court and divided the courtiers into two.Generally speaking, the ministers are divided into two camps with clear boundaries: the pro-father faction and the non-father faction.The Daddy faction is a political camp that supports the emperor calling his own father Daddy, while the non-father faction is a camp that believes that the emperor cannot call his own father Daddy.Generally speaking, the non-father faction has an absolute advantage in the imperial court. Basically everyone is a non-father faction. Everyone thinks that the emperor should not call his own father a "kisser". Therefore, although this political faction is an outlier among the courtiers, it is also slowly growing and growing.

Then again, the Qinda faction is to let the emperor call his own father as his own father. There is nothing wrong with such a faction, right?On the contrary, the political views of the non-father faction make people extremely confused. He is obviously the emperor's own father, but you must not let him be called his own father. What is the reason? In fact, the non-father faction has no reason at all, although their superficial reason is to maintain Zhu Houzhao's imperial power and legal system.But not letting Zhu Houcong call his own father Dae, such a spoof method has obviously violated the principles and essence of Confucianism, and it is purely unreasonable.

However, the number of non-father factions is too large, perhaps because this game is super fun. Among the courtiers, almost 100% are non-father factions, clearly playing Zhu Houcong. If Zhu Houcong's head was a little more stupid, or if he was a little smarter, things would be easier.If you are too stupid, the courtiers' schemes will succeed. Since Zhu Houcong found that he couldn't play with everyone, he accepted his fate.On the contrary, if he is smarter, then he can easily silence the courtiers and win the game with wisdom.But the terrible thing is that Zhu Houcong's IQ can't be low or high.Low and not low enough to accept fate, high and not high enough to be able to defeat others, stuck at a juncture where you can't get up or down, this is difficult.

And so the conflict began. First, Zhu Houcong's mother was rushing to the capital excitedly, preparing to get over the old lady's addiction, when she was halfway there, she heard an unbelievable news.If she wants to go to Beijing by herself, she must first declare that she will give up her position as a mother and become Zhu Houcong's aunt. Hearing the news, the woman came up angrily.There have been so many emperors throughout the ages, which son became the emperor, and didn't he first put his mother on the incense table as an offering?Why did the rules change when it was my turn?You have to have an explanation for changing the rules?But there is no explanation, isn't this obviously bullying?

The old lady got angry and refused to go to Beijing.Leave this difficult problem to your son-you can figure it out. Zhu Houcong is very clear, if he makes it clear that he does not recognize his mother, then he, the emperor, is at the end of the day.If the common people hear about this, why don't they kill his backbone?Oh, just to be the emperor, I don't even want my own mother.And in the future, he will never think about raising his head in front of the officials again. The officials won this game, and they must beat the dog in the water. God knows what kind of traps those guys have prepared for him... In desperation, he Go to Queen Mother Zhang—that is, Queen Zhang who has bullied Zhu Youtang all her life, and the sister of Zhang Heling, director of the Daming Demolition Office.

In Mrs. Zhang's place, there are also mixed feelings, which are indescribably bitter.She gave birth to two sons in her whole life, the eldest Zhu Houzhao became emperor, and the second died before she was three years old.And Zhu Houzhao, the son who lacks great virtue, played like crazy all his life, and failed to give birth to a child until his death, which eventually led to the severance of the emperor's bloodline, so he could only pick one from other people's family to make up the number. So this old lady, she fully supports the opinions of the courtiers in her heart, and believes that Zhu Houcong's biological mother must not be regarded as a mother, but herself is Zhu Houcong's mother. As long as she can subdue Zhu Houcong, she will be able to rely on her old age.Therefore, this old lady is the real behind-the-scenes instigator of the courtiers, and the non-father faction is acting on her orders.

But now Zhu Houcong came, and when he entered the door, he said, "Aunt Zhang, I have something to tell you. I am going back to my hometown in Hubei. Aunt Zhang, please take care of things in the palace..." The old lady Zhang blinked her eyes: "What do you mean? You are the emperor, you should sit on the dragon chair... What are you doing back to your hometown in Hubei?" Zhu Houcong replied: "The emperor, I have already submitted my resignation to the board of directors. If you don't say goodbye, don't let me recognize my own mother, then how can I mess around in the future..."

Resign?Just right!Mrs. Zhang beamed with joy, and then became sad again.Damn, if you say you resign, you resign?Now everyone in the world knows that you have become the emperor, and suddenly you resign. You resign, and then arrest someone to become the emperor?But during this time, if someone takes the opportunity to make trouble and rebel, what should we do? no!Mrs. Zhang flatly refused: "The board of directors will not accept your resignation. You should think about it carefully..." Zhu Houcong: "There's nothing to consider. Whether you accept my resignation or let my mother come to Beijing, you can decide."