Chongzhen: I am the king of prosperous times

Chapter 224 The game of surging

It is not easy to be the emperor of Ming Dynasty. You must always be vigilant to avoid being calculated by others. Like the relatives of the emperor, relatives, civil servants, and even the eunuchs of the inner court, they all seem to submit to the feet of the emperor. But who can use it? , who can't use it, there are too many doorways.

People's hearts are separated from each other, who can guarantee that they look loyal on the surface, open their mouths for Daming, and shut their mouths for Daming, is it really for Daming?
Emphasizing those who can be used, dividing and attacking those who cannot be used, this is the way of Emperor Chongzhen's employment, and it is also the emperor's art of checking and balancing the court.

"My lord, Li Biaoshang's resignation has caused quite a stir in the court." Han Zanzhou bowed slightly, and followed Emperor Chongzhen's dragon chariot, and reported: "According to the report from the Wenhua Palace, Han Yuan assists them, In the past two days, the mood has not been very high, and the influence of this incident and the Yuan case are not small."

"Well, I see."

Emperor Chongzhen closed his eyes and meditated, and he responded without saying anything else. As the stalls spread out, all the loyal eunuchs in the inner court were entrusted with important tasks by Emperor Chongzhen.

Wanting not to be constrained by the civil servants of the outer dynasty, or blinded by them, Emperor Chongzhen gradually discovered through practice that it was a very good choice to use the eunuchs of the inner court in the right place.

I don't know what Fang Zhenghua's Xichang, Zhou Yuji, Chen Jisheng and others are planning now. If they can win the Eight Great Shanxi Merchants, if they succeed, they won't have to worry about money and food in a short time.

Daming, who had a bad command, wanted to reverse this unfavorable situation. In fact, as long as he could pay close attention to the point of money and food, and increase the scale of the strong army under actual control, the rest would be easy to handle.

For this reason, the strategy of alternating two legs and parallelism conceived by Emperor Chongzhen is particularly important.

One leg is in the inner court and the other leg is in the outer court.

Using the money and food obtained from the previous house raids to comprehensively build a state-owned economy, the internal funds have increased year by year, and I have a lot of money in my hands, so many things are not restricted by the foreign court.

Reuse the hard-working faction headed by Bi Ziyan and ask them to stick to their ideas and improve the tax collection situation of the state. At the same time, they will come up with some ideas for tax changes to gradually reverse the financial pressure of the imbalance of revenue and expenditure.

An internal treasury, a national treasury, if everything can develop towards a good situation, then the things in front of Daming are nothing.

"Your Majesty, there are six departments from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Household Affairs. Some official letters have been forwarded. The cabinet is undecided. I sorted it out and asked Your Majesty to read it."

It wasn't long after Emperor Chongzhen came to Wenhua Palace, and before his butt was hot, Han Yu took a memorial and reported the situation to himself.

"Bring it to me to see."

Emperor Chongzhen saw the worried look on Han Yu's eyebrows, and told him intuitively that the matter was not that simple, and according to the virtues of some ministers in the court, there must be nothing good to hold back.

After just one glance, Emperor Chongzhen called him a good guy.

They want money and food.

What's more interesting is that these official documents sorted out by Han Yu were all accumulated before, some of which were in arrears with part of the food and payment from the Nine Sides, some were requested for follow-up disaster relief in Shanshan and Shanxi, and some were needed to counteract the rebellion of bandits.

The key is that these forwarded official letters were transferred to the cabinet without the Minister of the Ministry of Household Bi Ziyan, the Minister of the Ministry of War Wang Qia, and the Minister of the Ministry of War Li Banghua.

But when I really think about it, these are the officials of the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of War who are in charge of this matter, and the Sixth Division, using reasonable and legal means, are "dedicated to their duties" for the country.

Intuition told Emperor Chongzhen that many of the courtiers who had calmed down before must have met in private to express their inner dissatisfaction.

Thinking about it, it is true that Jin Yiwei's supervision of Yuan's case has caused panic among many ministers in the court. Li Biao, the second assistant to the cabinet, has already "voluntarily" resigned from the cabinet and left the cabinet.

Facing such a complicated and confusing situation, and the right to interrogate Yuan Chonghuan cannot be snatched away, then he can only play games with the government in the court.

"Han Yu, oh Han Yu, it's not very good for you to be grilled by both sides. '

At this moment, Emperor Chongzhen understood in his heart, what was the reason for Han Yu's expression just now.

"These matters, Han Qing went to Bi Qing and the others to discuss, isn't it all right?" Emperor Chongzhen put down the memorial in his hand, looked at Han Yu and said, "Wait for your cabinet to draft an opinion and submit it to me. What should I do specifically? It’s settled, just follow the rules.”

Speaking of the Ming Dynasty’s existing imperial court operation mechanism, many of them are quite good. For example, the cabinet, which previously played the role of the emperor’s secretary, only has the right to make suggestions and has no other powers. It has gradually evolved into assisting the emperor in governing the world and helping the emperor share his worries. important role.

It’s just that no matter how good the mechanism is, it’s also completed with the cooperation of people. The bad thing about Daming at this stage is that it is affected by party struggles, and the atmosphere in the officialdom is getting worse day by day.

Even if he is a son of heaven, if he dares to do things that go against the general will, he also dares to do things that are contrary to the yin and yang.

I think that Emperor Wanli dispatched eunuchs to guard the eunuchs and wanted to alleviate the embarrassment of silver shortage by collecting mining taxes. , In the end, there was an embarrassing situation of anticlimax.

"Your Majesty... the treasury may not be able to provide so much money and food."

Han Yu hesitated again and again, and said bravely: "A lot of money and food have been spent on the many government affairs that were originally planned, and there is not much money left in the treasury.

If the money is embezzled, if the country encounters an emergency again, and the money cannot be used to save the emergency, I am afraid that there will be problems..."

"Han Qing, you don't need to talk about this."

Emperor Chongzhen waved his hand and said: "Let's do it according to my intention first. If there are any specific problems or difficulties, after discussing with Bi Qing and the others, they will report to me together."

Since you want to demonstrate to me, then follow their ideas, take out these official letters together, and forward them to the cabinet, isn't it just a show that you want to reach out to the internal funds.

Emperor Chongzhen wanted to see which officials were involved in this matter, and also wanted to see if Han Yu, Bi Ziyan, Wang Qia, and Li Banghua could withstand the great pressure.

After all, according to Emperor Chongzhen's plan, when Yuan Chonghuan's case came to an end, whether it was the Cabinet or the Military Aircraft Department, including the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Sixth Ministry, a group of officials would all be replaced.

In the future, unless it is a power struggle caused by the foreign government, a group of disobedient officials will be dismissed, and the rest will have to ask them to work hard, concentrate on improving the internal money economy, and solve some deep-seated problems by the way. It is impossible for Emperor Chongzhen to waste all his precious energy on dealing with numerous memorials.

(End of this chapter)