Chongzhen: I am the king of prosperous times

chapter 187
As large as a country or as small as a family, if you want to be the master, you must clarify a core logic, promote more obedient people, continue to suppress the opposition, and unify the ideological level, so that the internal order can be stable. When there is a problem, we can deal with it calmly, instead of passively bearing it.

The current problems of the Ming Dynasty are that the ideological level of the top leaders is not unified, there are too few groups to maintain the emperor's dignity, and a variety of ideas are flooding the court, shouting slogans that the country is the most important, and doing things that are different from the party, which in turn leads to corruption in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty. The gentry colluded to exploit the people and aggravated class conflicts.

"My lord, headed by Cheng Guogong, all the relatives serving in the Governor's Mansion of Jingwei have arrived at the Qianqing Palace." Wang Dehua walked into the East Nuan Pavilion with his head slightly lowered, and bowed to Emperor Chongzhen.

"Well, let them all come in."

The Emperor Chongzhen, who was busy at the desk, kept holding the vermilion pen in his hand, and said, the matter of awarding rewards has been decided now, Emperor Chongzhen has figured out the basic order of the court, and other things have to be slowly planned.

Calling Zhu Chunchen and the others to come over was one of the plans, and what Emperor Chongzhen wrote at this time was some ideas about restoring the post.

The Ming Dynasty’s finances have always been out of balance, and there are many places that need money, but the treasury can’t afford the money. In order to reduce financial expenditures, Emperor Chongzhen was fooled into abolishing the post station. Although this did reduce some expenses, it was also brought great side effects.

For example, a large number of post station soldiers are unemployed, which has a great impact on local stability. At present, many of the rebel forces in Shanxi and other places are post station soldiers who have lost their way of life.

Secondly, the post station is one of the important channels for the imperial court to maintain the centralization of power, as a place for people passing official documents and military confidentiality, and for officials to come and go, board and lodging, and change horses.

Just to reduce some financial expenditures, the inn was abolished in a hurry, which not only lost a way to control the local area, but also caused confusion in the transmission of information from top to bottom. This is a stupid move that does more harm than good.

Now Emperor Chongzhen is going to rectify this mess. Although there is no way to avoid the thunder that broke out from the abolition of the post station before, if this situation is not reversed as soon as possible, the subsequent harm will only be greater.

"I'm waiting to meet your Majesty!"

Headed by Zhu Chunchen, the servants of the Jingwei, walked into the East Nuan Pavilion and bowed to the busy Emperor Chongzhen, but they were wondering why the emperor summoned them.

"It's all free."

Emperor Chongzhen wanted to let Zhu Chunchen and the others air in the air, but he didn't raise his head. He just said something and continued to write his ideas on the restructuring of the post office.

Standing with hands down, Zhu Chunchen and his party stood quietly at the same spot. Seeing that the emperor was so busy, they couldn't help muttering in their hearts. What is the emperor planning to do?
The grand court meeting held in the Huangji Palace, the clear reward intention of Emperor Chongzhen, and the matter of defeating the ministers of the court, Zhu Chunchen and his relatives all had a lot of ideas.

The former Emperor Chongzhen relied heavily on the civil servants of the foreign courts, and he would listen to the memorials submitted by them, as long as they felt feasible, as long as they were considered feasible.

However, following the occurrence of Jianlu's invasion of Daming earlier, Zhu Chunchen and his relatives gradually discovered that the emperor no longer had such an attitude towards the civil officials in the court, but instead showed an arbitrary side.

Recalling the various decisions made during the emperor's personal conquest, Zhu Chunchen, Tang Guozuo and other accompanying relatives, all of them were mixed.

"Cheng Guogong, has the capital governor's mansion been established for a while?" After letting Zhu Chunchen and the others hang out for a long time, Emperor Chongzhen put down the ink brush in his hand, looked up at Zhu Chunchen and said, "I want to know, can the capital governor's mansion be established?" Are you in charge of guarding the Imperial City and Miyagi City?"

What am I doing wrong again?

When Emperor Chongzhen asked him this question, Zhu Chunchen's heart tightened, and he subconsciously wanted to explain, but he didn't know what to say. There is nothing wrong with the Governor's Mansion of Jingwei.

"What? Didn't you understand what I said?"

Seeing Zhu Chunchen like this, Emperor Chongzhen continued: "After returning to the court from the class teacher, I was busy with important military affairs, and I didn't bother with the affairs of the capital governor's office.

But how did you become the governor of the left?

Up to now, I haven’t handed me a memorial to explain the situation of the Capital Governor’s Mansion, or even the direct guards in charge of the imperial city and palace guards. I don’t know the specific situation.

In addition, the Jingwei Dudu Mansion does not send anyone to take turns around me every day. I want to ask you, did I set up the Jingwei Dudu Mansion just for its decoration? "

"minister……"

Faced with Emperor Chongzhen's questioning, Zhu Chunchen was very flustered. He really didn't think of these things. The previous attitude of Emperor Chongzhen made Zhu Chunchen feel that the emperor didn't trust them. Want to be transparent.

But how did Zhu Chunchen know that in order to check and balance the court and restrict the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen wanted to use the group of honored relatives who had lost power.

With the civil fortress turned into a dividing line, the previously powerful clans of the Ming Dynasty gradually faded away in the court, so that the political ecology that should have been a civil and military check and balance was gradually broken by the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty.

Even the formerly powerful Commander-in-Chief of the Five Armies was replaced step by step by the Ministry of War controlled by civilian officials, and became a superficial decoration.

From the perspective of Da Mingzi, this is not good. This has changed from a situation where the tail is too big to lose to another situation where the tail is too big to lose.

Although before this, among the great emperors of all dynasties, there were some who wanted to change this situation, but the result in exchange was not very good.

"Okay, don't think about how to prevaricate me here."

Emperor Chongzhen frowned and reprimanded: "I summoned you servants and relatives today just to ask you if you want to share my worries, and if you want to share my worries.

If you still want to be the same as before, just treat it as a transparent display and get out of the Jingwei Governor's Mansion as soon as possible, so as not to dismiss you one by one. "

This……

Faced with Emperor Chongzhen's reprimand, Zhu Chunchen and Tang Guozuo, who were serving as relatives, counted as one, and they all understood the emperor's digression.

The emperor wants to reuse them?
People like Zhu Chunchen and Tang Guozuo couldn't believe it. Although they said they were working in the Beijing camp earlier, they knew what the actual situation was, and it was just a display.

The censor, the official censor in the court, and the group of civil officials in the court are all staring at them. If they dare to do anything out of line, the impeachment memorial will definitely fly, and the internal officials condemned by the inner court, that is also true. responsible for monitoring them.

(End of this chapter)