My father is Jiajing

Chapter 346 Emperor Jiajing is emo

Following Zhu Zaigui's orders, Lu Bing, Hai Rui, Gao Gong and others also took action.

As the person appointed to be in charge of this matter, Zhu Zaigui stayed in his own palace and did not take any action.

Because Zhu Zaigui was also reflecting on the strangeness of this matter.

Why did it catch fire?
Although fires in imperial palaces were common during the Ming and Qing dynasties, such frequent fires cannot be completely attributed to lightning strikes and accidental fires, which seem normal but have their own reasons.

You know, from ancient times to the present, except for accidents and wars, there are still many ancient buildings handed down from generation to generation that can stand for thousands of years without any damage.

Is it just that these ancient buildings have better luck than the Forbidden City?

Obviously this reason is untenable.

Because ancient Chinese buildings are almost all made of brick and wood, and some are even pure wood structures.

Can these buildings really always be lucky?

Obviously, it cannot be explained by just the word lucky.

It is more about safety awareness and prevention awareness.

But compared to those ancient buildings growing "wild" in various places, is there any place with a higher level of security awareness than the heavily guarded Imperial Palace?
From this we can see that all the palace fires and accidents in ancient times were except for those palaces of previous dynasties that were extremely unlucky and caught fire by lightning or were damaged by war.

Most palaces experienced such serious fire incidents during relatively peaceful times.

There must be some secrets that cannot be told.

Could it be that someone stole too many things from the palace and needed to settle the accounts?
Of course, this speculation was not groundless by Zhu Zaigui, but was based on facts.

In the history before Zhu Zaigui traveled through time, Zhu Zaigui knew a historical record about a fire in the Forbidden City.

After the abdication of the Qing emperor, according to the royal preferential treatment regulations at the time, the abdicated Emperor Xuantong could continue to live in the Forbidden City.

As Emperor Xuantong grew older, he lost the opportunity to rule the world like his ancestors.

But the wealth he possesses is not something that ordinary so-called rich people can achieve.

But when such a huge wealth belongs only to him, an "emperor" who is not worthy of the title, it will definitely attract the covetousness of others.

The first people who would covet his property would be the eunuchs and palace maids who served in the Forbidden City on a daily basis.

When these people were serving an abdicated ruler like Xuantong on a daily basis, naturally they had little reverence for him.

Therefore, the wealth that belonged to Xuantong personally naturally became the target of these people.

Therefore, for a period of time, these young eunuchs and old palace maids often stole calligraphy and paintings, gold and silver and other items from the palace and took them out to exchange for money.

Over time, the hole gets bigger and bigger.

At this time, Emperor Xuantong, who had gradually grown up, naturally began to value his wealth.

Therefore, in order to protect his wealth from being stolen by these palace servants, the impatient Emperor Xuantong had to count how much of his family heirlooms were left.

It turned out that this inventory was not a big deal, but he ended up counting the treasure palace that he wanted to count.

From this we can see that sometimes things like palace fires are more often caused by greed.

But what kind of wealth does the Wanshou Palace where the Jiajing Emperor lived have that could attract people so much? After all, the current Jiajing Emperor is not the Xuantong Emperor who abdicated hundreds of years later. The power and life and death he can control can greatly intimidate the slaves and servants in the palace.

Therefore, the question Zhu Zaigui is now thinking about is why the palaces of the Ming and Qing dynasties were so prone to fire.

Could it be that someone stole the elixir of Emperor Jiajing's life and was afraid that Emperor Jiajing would find out?
So they took advantage of the fact that Emperor Jiajing was away and set the Wanshou Palace on fire?

But this reason seems difficult to hold true.

After all, Emperor Jiajing's elixir is not something that ordinary people with little fortune and short life can afford.

There are many celebrities and emperors in history who took drugs to cultivate immortality, but there is specific record of only one person who took drugs to cultivate immortality and lived to the age of sixty, and that was Emperor Jiajing.

Therefore, Zhu Zaigui would never believe that someone was coveting Emperor Jiajing's elixir.

But what about the Wanshou Palace?

There was no rain or thunder in the past two days, and Emperor Jiajing was not in the Xiyuan Palace, so naturally no one else could enter and leave the Wanshou Palace normally.

So where did this fire come from?
Zhu Zaigui also pondered over this problem but had no clue.

After all, Zhu Zaigui didn't have anyone he deliberately wanted to frame, so when Zhu Zaigui asked someone to investigate the Xiyuan fire, he naturally couldn't make a presumption of guilt in advance and hint to Lu Bing to investigate someone.

You have to know the result of doing so. If any accident happened, even if Zhu Zaigui was the only son of Emperor Jiajing, he might not be able to handle it.

After all, history is as strong as iron!

Even if Li Er, Zhu Si and others wanted to whitewash the process of their usurpation of the throne, they could not erase what they had done. History would still truthfully record that they did not obtain the throne through legitimate channels.

Therefore, all wise and powerful rulers would be treated in this way. If Zhu Zaigui, a prince who was not even a crown prince, dared to assume a result and let others make a presumption of guilt, he would be exposed.

Even if Zhu Zaigui became the emperor in the future, he would not be able to win back the hearts of the people.

People all over the world will only remember that this emperor was a sinister person who would do anything to achieve his goals.

Obviously, this result was not what Zhu Zaigui wanted to see.

Therefore, at this time Zhu Zaigui could only make use of his advantage of being able to lie flat and arrange the specific matters to be investigated by Lu Bing and others. After they found the results, Zhu Zaigui would hand them over to Emperor Jiajing as the person in charge.

As for whether there was any conspiracy involved, that was Emperor Jiajing's business.

So, sometimes, as a person, you cannot be too proactive. You should lie down and let your leader make the decisions. This is the long-term way.

Zhu Zaigui stayed peacefully in his own mansion for two days, and Emperor Jiajing finally returned from the Changping Imperial Mausoleum.

The emperor's mighty procession stretched for dozens of miles, and one could not see the end from beginning to end, demonstrating the emperor's supremacy everywhere.

But even with such a supreme position, there are sometimes many helpless moments.

Emperor Jiajing was sitting in a spacious dragon sedan that was as big as a luxury RV. He was feeling depressed as he read the investigation memorial on the fire in Xiyuan jointly submitted by Zhu Zaigui and Lu Bing.

Wanshou Palace is a place that Emperor Jiajing developed feelings for.

Otherwise, Emperor Jiajing would have made himself a Buddhist name "Emperor Wanshou". This shows how emo Emperor Jiajing felt when the palace was burned.
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