Paper Maker: This is the end of the Ming Dynasty in Liaozhai

Chapter 180 The Chongzhen Dilemma!Enthronement Ceremony!

Beijing.

In the Qianqing Palace, the clanging and smashing sound resounded throughout the palace.

Listening to this sound, all the court ladies and eunuchs have become accustomed to it. Now they can hear this sound basically every two or three days. Nowadays, most of the items in the Qianqing Palace have been replaced with gold and silver products, which is still not too much. The kind that is more delicately decorated, no matter how much Zhu Youjian drops it, it will not break, at most it will be recast.

"Rebel! Rebel!"

"A rebel dares to proclaim himself emperor!"

"I want to kill his nine clans!"

Zhu Youjian's roar resounded throughout the Qianqing Palace, Han Yu and the others were all silent, and one of them was Yuan Chonghuan.

Looking at Zhu Youjian with a ferocious expression, everyone was helpless. In fact, it is not uncommon for rebels to claim the title of emperor. Almost all rebel rebels either claim the title of king or emperor.

But this time is different, the place Su Hao occupies is too dangerous, occupying most of Shandong, almost cutting off the connection between the north and the south. What's more, Su Hao was originally a courtier of Ming Dynasty, but now that Su Hao has become a climate, it means he is in front of other people. I set an example in my heart.

Now the majesty of the imperial court is still there, but if Su Hao can't be wiped out as soon as possible, then it's hard to say how many people will rebel in the future, and it must be wiped out, the nine tribes of the Yi, and the grass and roots can be done. It is not even possible to recruit security, because Su Hao has already Proclaimed himself emperor.

At this time, Zhu Youjian also calmed down, looked at Han Yu and the others, and said in a deep voice: "My dear friends, what should we do now?"

What should I do?
Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, everyone was helpless. The troops in Nanzhili haven't been gathered yet, and it will take at least three or four months to reach Shandong to fight the rebellion. Without troops, what can they do with Su Hao? manage?
It is impossible to mobilize all the strong men in the entire Ming Dynasty to besiege and kill them. Besides, it is not realistic. Those who can be called a strong man are not high-ranking and powerful. Let them take the risk of sneaking into Jinan Mansion to do their best, let alone they can't do it , even if he opened his mouth, he might die at home tomorrow.

"How long do you think it will take to suppress the rebellion?"

Seeing that no one responded, Zhu Youjian didn't continue to ask. He was also aware of the situation in Nanzhili. In a short period of time, they had no choice but to ask Su Hao about countering the rebellion.

Hearing this question, everyone's eyes were focused on Yuan Chonghuan. Among all the people here, the only one who had led the army was Yuan Chonghuan.

"Your Majesty, Yichen estimates that it will take at least four or five years to put down the rebellion. If there is an accident, it may become a long-term tug-of-war."

After sorting out his thoughts, Yuan Chonghuan bowed and said.

"How could it take so long!"

Hearing this, Zhu Youjian couldn't help exclaiming: "That's not what the cabinet said before!"

The faces of Han Yu and Qian Longxi were equally ugly. They had said before that as long as they recruited more soldiers, the rebellion would be quelled soon. Now Yuan Chonghuan's words undoubtedly slapped them hard in the face. .

And Yuan Chonghuan also saw the faces of Han Yu and the others, but he did not change his words, but went on to say: "Your Majesty, I have carefully understood the rebel army, Su Hao must not be underestimated, as far as I know, After occupying Jinan Mansion and other places, this person lavishly levies light taxes to win over the hearts of the people, and recruits large numbers of soldiers. According to reports from the spies, the rebel army now has nearly 20 soldiers.”

"In addition, the city walls of Dongchang Mansion, Jinan Mansion and other prefectures are extremely high, and the loss of attacking the city is huge. It is as difficult as climbing the sky to capture these big cities in a short period of time."

After finishing speaking, Yuan Chonghuan kept silent. In fact, he also wanted to say that it is easy to suppress the rebellion, but saying so is completely deceiving. Once Zhu Youjian takes his words seriously and asks him to suppress the rebellion, he will be in trouble. .

"Then mobilize the Beijing camp to suppress the rebellion."

After thinking for a while, Zhu Youjian gritted his teeth and said, "Dongchang Mansion must not continue to be occupied. The canal must be opened as soon as possible!"

Now the grain from Nanzhili has begun to be transported to Beijing through the Yellow River, but the grain consumed by the frontier army and the capital is a huge amount every day, and it is difficult to supply it by land alone. More importantly, land A large number of people need to be recruited to transport it. If it takes a few years, it is estimated that Henan will turn against it first. After all, these people are recruited from the people on both sides of the Yellow River.

Since it is difficult for the soldiers and horses in Nanzhili to quell the rebellion as soon as possible, we should send more troops. As long as there are enough troops, the rebellion can always be quelled.

"Your Majesty, it is absolutely impossible!"

Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, Yuan Chonghuan hurriedly stepped forward and said, his face was full of anxiety.

"Why?"

Zhu Youjian's face showed displeasure, and he couldn't take back the canal. The food problem in the capital alone could drag down the entire Ming Dynasty.

Yuan Chonghuan hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, according to reports from the spies on the grassland, the Jurchens have now defeated the army of Lin Dan Khan of the Chahar Department and occupied Harashen. They can cross the side wall at any time and harass the capital. If they are transferred from the capital camp, at that time The capital is in danger!"

Hearing Yuan Chonghuan's words, Zhu Youjian also fell silent. Compared to Su Hao, the Jurchens are stronger. If it is true as Yuan Chonghuan said, the Jurchens really took the opportunity to invade the capital, then Daming might repeat Jingkang's example Shameful mistakes.

"Go down."

After a moment of silence, Zhu Youjian waved his hands.

At this time, Yuan Chonghuan opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but finally closed his mouth. During the time when he resigned from office and returned to seclusion, he had been thinking about how to completely defeat the Jurchen, and he had come up with many strategies .

It's a pity that the plan can't keep up with the changes. No one thought that a vicious dog under Wei Zhongxian had the guts to rebel, and it became a climate. Now Beizhili can't even guarantee the most basic food. If you want to defeat the Jurchen, There is no way to talk about it.

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Jinan Fucheng.

Today is Su Hao's enthronement ceremony. The whole city of Jinan is decorated with lights and festoons, and the main road has been cleaned and tidy.

The original Dewang Mansion has already taken on a new look. Since Su Hao has chosen to become the emperor in Jinan Mansion, he must have an imperial palace. The original Jinyiwei Yamen is naturally not qualified to be an imperial palace. The only one in the entire Jinan prefecture city that is qualified to be an imperial palace is Dewang Mansion. up.

As the mansion of the Daming vassal, there is no doubt in terms of scale and luxury. After all, the vassals of the Ming Dynasty were all raised as pigs. Although they had no power, they had never been short of money. I live a hard life, basically as long as it is within the rules, I can fix whatever is luxurious, so after rectifying the De Palace, the De Palace officially became Su Hao's palace.

The largest hall in Yuande Prince's Mansion was transformed into the main hall, Hanyuan Hall. In the hall, Su Hao dressed in a dragon robe, surrounded by his own soldiers, walked out of the hall calmly. All the officials outside the hall Immediately after, there were hundreds of guards of honor.

Outside the city, a tall altar stands, and an official in official uniform is looking up at the bottom of the steps. Below the altar is a huge army formed by tens of thousands of soldiers.

At this time, a sound of drums and music came from the gate of the city, and a huge guard of honor slowly walked out of the gate. In the middle of the team was Su Hao's imperial chariot, followed by all the officials, and the guards were around. The chariot stopped, and tens of thousands of soldiers shouted long live.

After getting off the imperial chariot and boarding the altar, Su Hao saluted according to the etiquette, and then began to read out the enthronement edict.

For this enthronement ceremony, he didn't design too ostentatious and complicated. He just offered sacrifices to heaven, earth, sun, moon, Sheji, and Taimiao, and finally accepted the worship of hundreds of officials. Although it was a bit crude, compared to other rebels , is quite formal.

When the imperial edict was read out, the mountain call of long live sounded again!

After offering sacrifices to the Temple of Heaven, the honor guard team headed towards the Temple of Earth again. In order to build these five altars, tens of thousands of people were expropriated as corvees, spending more than [-] taels of silver, and it took nearly three months.

Although the cost was indeed quite a lot, Su Hao felt it was worth it, because as the enthronement ceremony approached, he could feel that the soldiers under him became more and more confident, and their morale was also getting higher and higher, as if they had found their backbone. In general, even Liao Qing and the others are the same.

There is a complete difference between righteousness and no righteousness. Without righteousness, even if they were invincible in Qingzhou and Laizhou before, everyone unconsciously felt that they were inferior to the enemy. The opponent was orthodox and he was a traitor. This kind of psychology will not cause problems when you have an absolute advantage, but once you face an evenly matched opponent, this kind of psychology is likely to become the cause of failure.

After offering sacrifices to the four altars of heaven, earth, sun, and moon, the guard of honor returned to the palace again. The Sheji Altar was built in the city, just opposite the Taimiao, one left and one right, representing the status of the Sheji Altar.

After offering sacrifices to the Sheji Altar, they came to the Taimiao. After offering sacrifices to the Taimiao, Su Hao and Baiguan returned to the Hanyuan Hall.

After accepting the pilgrimage of all officials, Su Hao officially began to appoint officials to all officials. In terms of civil officials: Zhou Xian was the Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment, Hou Yuangao was the Secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Liang Xue was the Secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Hu Shangheng was the Secretary of the Ministry of Households, Tang Shaobo was the Secretary of the Ministry of Officials, Du Fengshu is the Minister of Science and Technology.

As for the administrative system, he didn't make much changes. The only thing he changed was to withdraw the Ministry of War and add the Department of Science. In fact, the six-ministration system has been developed for hundreds of years and is already quite mature. In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang withdrew the prime minister. , as well as the cabinet system and the five-army governor's office, it can be said that they have achieved the ultimate in controlling officials.

It is a pity that Zhu Yuanzhang still missed one point, that is, the Ministry of War. He did not abolish the Ministry of War and gave civil officials the opportunity to get involved in military power.

Perhaps Zhu Yuanzhang did not expect that there would be such a gifted and peerless figure as Bao Zong among his descendants at the beginning. After all, everyone believed that the son of a dragon begets a dragon, a phoenix begets a phoenix, and a mouse can make holes. Starting from a broken bowl and sitting in the position of king's land, no matter how useless his descendants are, it should be no problem to stabilize the country.

Because of the power of civil servants and generals, he has been dismantled into a mess, the prime minister is gone, the civil servants are without leaders, and the military power of the five armies is divided into five parts, plus the 26 military guards directly under the emperor, and The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies is still in the capital and does not directly garrison the place. It can be said that it has completely broken the foundation for the military generals to separate the place.

It's a pity that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't expect that his grandson's grandson would directly stew a spoonful of the real power and nobles of the Manchu Dynasty, and at the same time lose most of the military power of the 26 pro-military guards, allowing the civil officials to suppress the military generals and imperial power in one fell swoop.

And he withdrew the Ministry of War, which is tantamount to completely cutting off the possibility of civilian officials getting involved in military power. Later generations have proved that the separation of powers between the military and the government is the most suitable.

After withdrawing the Ministry of War, he added the Ministry of Science, which was split from the Ministry of Rites, and was mainly responsible for the imperial examinations. Now Confucianism was kicked out by him, and the imperial examinations of various schools of thought required too much knowledge. It was difficult to bear alone, so he split the imperial examinations, and he also increased the power to manage the academies under the Ministry of Rites. All academies must be registered with the Ministry of Rites for approval.

And these two are also Shura field he set up for civil officials. After all, if you want to expand the influence of the school, you must have an academy. The Ministry of Rites naturally cannot let go, and the Ministry of Science decides how many people from a school can enter the officialdom, which is naturally even more impossible. Let it go, if you want to dominate the court, you should first get out of the two Shura fields of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Science.

Of course, if you hit a stick, you will naturally give a candy. He still retains the cabinet system. Now the only person in the cabinet is Zhou Xian, who is in charge of all the government affairs of the prime minister.

And as the thugs of the party struggle, the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Sixth Division gave the matter, and he also imposed restrictions. The Sixth Division can only impeach the officials within the department, instead of biting around like a mad dog. The Metropolitan Procuratorate He has not changed his responsibilities, it is still just rumors.

Although he could also restrict the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he did not do so. For thousands of years, rumors and rumors have always existed, which shows that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, and the power of the censor is not small, but it is not big. Great, whether impeachment is useful or not depends on the emperor's intentions. For the emperor, the censor is a thug. Of course, this must be under the condition that the court is not out of control, like the current situation of Daming, Zhu Youjian Unable to control the court at all, Yushi can only be reduced to a thug in the party struggle.

As for the generals, he still adopted the structure of the five-army governor's mansion, but he separated the power of distributing food and salaries to soldiers, and set up a special food and payment department under his direct control. He controlled the official positions and food and salaries. Take control.

Now Tang Xiangjin and the others are either the right and left governors of the first rank, or the same governors of the first rank. Next, he plans to set up a military aircraft office that is equivalent to the cabinet. Of course, like the cabinet, it is a part-time job with a low position and high power. , but now the territory is not big enough, there are not enough soldiers and horses, and the military aircraft department is not so eager.

In addition, he also set up a black ice platform to compete with Jinyiwei. The first chief official was Liao Qing. The existence of Jinyiwei is a strong guarantee for the imperial power. His majesty does not require eunuchs to come forward to fight for power for him.

(End of this chapter)