Great fusion of heaven and earth

Chapter 627 Who Wants the Imperial Decree

When he was thinking this way, his Luanjia had already arrived at Dajiaochang.

He supported Wang Chengen's hand, stood on the inspection platform, and looked at the chaotic soldiers below.

"Wang Banban, where are those soldiers and horses who are wearing helmets and armor? They are so elite."

As soon as Zhu Youjian stood on the stage, he saw those servants, which guard's soldiers and horses he thought they were, and asked enthusiastically.

Wang Chengen also didn't know where those soldiers came from, but he instinctively felt that none of them seemed to be soldiers of the imperial court, so he didn't dare to speak.

"Your Majesty, the prince has never been out of the palace, so he doesn't know about these people, but I am in charge of the Imperial Horse Supervisor and the Four Guards of Tengxiang, and I know the soldiers. I can be sure that these people are not soldiers and horses of my Daming. They are all the servants of the generals, that is, the private army of the generals, but the money for raising the private army is all my Daming!"

Fang Zhenghua looked at those private soldiers wearing helmets and armor, his eyes were burning. As Daming's royal housekeeper, he knew that it was not easy to raise soldiers. The money he and Cao Huachun got did not go to the emperor, but all of them The Tengxiang Four Guards have been raised, and the current Tengxiang Four Guards have been renamed Yongweiying.

In this chaotic world at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Yongwei Battalion with only a few thousand people became the most powerful army in the world. Whether it was the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty or the old battalion of Chuangwang, it was not as good as this Yongwei Battalion.

If this army hadn't been transferred to hunt down Zhang Xianzhong in the 16th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng would never have dared to attack the capital, because his people were all afraid of being beaten by the Yongwei Battalion.

But in any case, the Yongweiying, a unit adapted from the Tengxiang Four Guards managed by eunuchs, was the only unit in the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty that no one surrendered. It is to fight forward and never retreat.

But this brave guard battalion didn't have such good equipment and war horses, which made Fang Zhenghua's hands a little itchy, he wanted to kill someone!

"Isn't it my Ming's army? But it's supported by my Daming's military salary?"

Zhu Youjian looked at Fang Zhenghua and asked, Fang Zhenghua nodded every time he asked, which made Zhu Youjian's heart burn like fire.

"Why, why is this happening?"

He wants to know what's going on, although he is not like Lu Aigong who is good at women's hands, knows no sorrow, no worry, no labor, no fear, no danger, but he is a standard virtuous king who is good at the hands of literati , um, the standard virtuous gentleman of literati.

He knew the sufferings of the people, that's why he was played by those literati.

Isn’t it funny, Chongzhen was a good emperor who was diligent in governing and caring for the people, this is a fact, but unfortunately the more diligent he was in governing and caring for the people, the more sympathetic he was to the power of the people, the sooner Daming would be finished, this is really the biggest joke in the world.

But now this characteristic of being diligent and caring for the people appeared again, and he began to feel that the reward of ten taels of silver per person for those military households was a bit small. If he wanted to add more money, he would ask for a hundred taels per person, plus a piece of cloth per person.

These words are generous, but the money he brought is not enough.

Just when he was about to change his words, someone had already announced his words. Each person was rewarded with a hundred taels of silver and a bolt of cloth. What kind of reward is this? All the military households knelt down and shouted The slogan "Long live Chongzhen" resounded through the sky, shaking the whole city of Beijing.Those civil and military officials only felt their scalps go numb when they heard this voice.

The morale of the army was actually taken by Chongzhen. This is not a trivial matter for civil and military officials, especially for civil officials. You must know that they planned the civil fort change in order to cut off the emperor's military power. Emperor Zhengde, who wanted to control the military power, was killed. For a hundred years like this, the emperor's military power was gone at all, and they would only stay when the four guards of Tengxiang were abolished.

But I didn't expect that now the emperor would let those dilapidated military households shout long live, which scared them.

Later, many civil servants and martial arts bosses who knew the inside story of military power wanted to break in to prevent the emperor from taking military power. In the end, Cao Huachun took Dongchang and half of the Yongwei Battalion and killed their whole family.

When killing people, they also hand-wrote a letter of collaborating with the enemy and treason, and wrote it in front of those big bosses, and then in front of them, wrote a letter of imperial decree of copying the family and exterminating the family, and stamped it on the cover The great seal of the Supervisor of Rituals.

"Cao Yugou, you dare to forge the imperial decree. This is a serious crime of beheading. I want to meet the emperor and let the emperor decide for me!"

More than one civil servant and martial arts boss said this to Cao Huachun.

"Our family is the central decree of the inner court, not the imperial decree of the world! Besides, the task of the supervisor of ceremonies is to draft an edict for the emperor. Take a look. This is the seal of the supervisor of ceremonies. This is the emperor's seal. Yuxi, this is the small seal of the cabinet, whichever you want me to stamp, our family will stamp it for you, absolutely exact!"

Then General Cao Huachun spit on the ground. He really didn't want to see these people. If the emperor hadn't treated them with courtesy, he would have killed them all a long time ago. They are all hypocrites. Cao Huachun, the governor of the factory, knew it all.

"Go, send all the gold and silver to the emperor. The emperor is kind-hearted and doesn't want people to suffer. This time, seeing the military households will definitely ruin the money. The emperor doesn't have enough money. Send these to me! "

Cao Huachun, who raided more than a dozen senior officials' mansions and got several million taels of silver, said to the people around him while wiping his hands and sword with a silk handkerchief.

Then hundreds of large boxes were loaded into the car and headed for the Dajiao field.

Before, I was still scolding the dogs for killing the loyal people in the capital, and I stopped scolding them. Everyone knows that even if you are an official for a lifetime, you may not get so much money, but Cao Huachun killed those civil servants. It was only in the first year of Chongzhen that he came to power, and it took only three years until his death to make so much money. What the hell is a gentleman? Wei Zhongxian was not so greedy back then, right?

Besides, everyone also knows that although Wei Zhongxian is greedy for money, when he was there, the Houjin did not enter the customs. Now when the people are in full bloom, the Houjin has entered the customs. Everyone doesn’t say it but I still have a reputation in my heart, everyone knows that these people are not as talented as Wei Zhongxian.

It's just that before everyone thought that although these people were a little incompetent, they were at least not greedy, but now it seems that it's not that they are not greedy, but that they are greedy.

Ordinary people are easy to deceive, as long as you have the right to speak, then you will be what you say, the literati in all dynasties have done this, but there is a requirement for doing so, that is, to stand upright, to be as clean as water and as clean as water. Mirror, that is to say, if you want to have the right to speak, you have to be an upright official.

For an honest official like Hai Rui, only then can you have the right to speak, and once you become a corrupt official, everything will be reversed.

(End of this chapter)