Great Ming: Prince Xin Refuses the Throne Three Times, While the Eunuch Chief Rules the Palace

The Tianqi Emperor died, leaving an edict that passed the throne to Prince Xin, Zhu Youjian. Wei Zhongxian led the officials in kneeling and pleading with him to enter the palace. Zhu Youjian refused three times, forcing the murderous aura of the "Nine-Thousand-Year-Old" to retreat back into his gut. On the night of his coronation, he used a century egg to set a chain of traps that forced Wei Zhongxian to cut off his own support. The next day, he tossed a sword across the hall. "I'll borrow your head for a while." The words made the powerful eunuch tremble from head to toe. Who was the prey, and who was the hunter? How did a seventeen-year-old emperor, munching on dry flatbread beside his dragon bed, force the director of the Eastern Depot to kneel in surrender on the golden steps, one move at a time? But behind that admission of defeat, had he truly yielded, or was he keeping another card up his sleeve? See how the young Chongzhen Emperor turned the clouds and rain with a flick of his hand, beginning with a bite of food and a cup of tea as he reclaimed every inch of power belonging to the Son of Heaven of the Great Ming. Political maneuvering, clashes of steel, no transmigration and no golden finger, only the nerve-racking art of an emperor's mind.

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