Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 115 The New Monarch Establishes Zhili Governor He Yixian Adoption Strategy

As Yu Qian thought about it, he thought of Emperor Xuanzong who was kind to him.It is said that like father, like son, but now it is completely reversed.

Emperor Xuanzong hated fighting from the bottom of his heart, and he had no interest in opening up territories.

But Xuanzong's eldest son, the orthodox emperor Zhu Qizhen, was the complete opposite. Since he took office, he has been fighting against all opinions and has continued to use troops against the southwest.After a series of victories, the orthodox emperor swelled to the point of forgetting himself, and in the end the first battle sent all the troops staying in the capital.

It was so easy to replace Xuanzong's second son, but he turned out to be another war-loving one.It's also evil, a pair of brothers, both are completely opposite to their own father.

Yu Qian was lowering his head and thinking, but Zhu Qiyu seemed to be able to see through Yu Qian's thoughts, and suddenly smiled and said: "Yu Shangshu, I know that you were promoted by the late emperor on purpose, and I also know that the ministers of your Xuande dynasty started from Sanyang. Counting to the end, there is no one who likes to fight, which is really evil.

However, I respect your thoughts. After the current battle is over, Northern Zhili needs to recuperate, and Southern Zhili has also suffered a lot in order to support Beijing.

So I decided to choose two important ministers to serve as Governor of North Zhili and Governor of South Zhili for a five-year term to appease the people and restore people's livelihood for me.Yu Shangshu is a minister capable of governing the country, so please trouble me to be the governor of Nanzhili and manage Nanzhili for me. "

When everyone heard the words, they all raised their heads in amazement: "Governor of Zhili, this is a newly established official position, and he is a real official of the frontier, with heavy responsibilities and great powers."It is decent enough for Yu Qian to be the governor of Nanzhili.

However, once the governor of Zhili has been in office for five years, Yu Qianke will stay away from the center again during this period.

Thinking of this, the ministers all nodded in agreement.

Yu Qian has a deeper grasp of the emperor's mind than other ministers.As soon as the emperor said this, Yu Qian knew that the emperor wanted Luo Tong, who belonged to the hardline main combat faction, to be in charge of the military department.

Yu Qian's guess was correct, Zhu Qiyu thought this way: after the war, Xu Heng, Marquis of Xing'an, served as the governor of Beizhili, while Luo Tong, who was tough in the battle, was promoted to the left servant of the Ministry of War, in charge of the affairs of the Ministry.Then launch a full-scale attack on Oirat, and completely eliminate Yexian within three years.

The reason for this arrangement is that Zhu Qiyu knows the history, and Yu Qian, like Xuanzong, is an extremely firm pacifist.After the Beijing Defense War, Yu Qian spent five years as Minister of War, and never showed any desire to avenge the fallen soldiers of Tumubao.

In the end, he had to make a big death himself first, which caused a big internal strife in Meng Yuan, and then his subordinate Ala Zhiyuan chopped off his head.

Just when everyone was in a daze, Zhu Qiyu took out the second memorial and said to the cabinet: "I looked through the memorials before the emperor's expedition, and I saw that Li Cong, the supervisory censor of Sichuan, said in the memorial that the people's livelihood in Sichuan is withered, and the north and south The Ministry of Industry in the two capitals continued to send purchase materials, making the people miserable.

Li Cong hoped that the court would suspend these comprador apportionments in Sichuan and send ministers to governor Sichuan.

How did the Supreme Emperor approve it at that time? "

Chen Xunwen replied: "The original words of the Taishang Emperor's reply are: the people are poor, and the re-appointment of officials and governors is not necessarily not disturbing others, it is what it is.

In other words, the Supreme Emperor rejected both of Li Cong's suggestions. "

Zhu Qiyu couldn't help nodding when he heard the words, Chen Xun is over 60 and still remembers everything so clearly.

During the last chat, after He Yi reminded, Zhu Qiyu noticed that Chen Xun was actually the second person in the Ming Dynasty who had won the Sanyuan, and was even stronger than Shang Ren.

It's just that Chen Xun was too unlucky. He was already designated as No.1 in the examination, but because he and the chief examiner were both from Taihe, Jiangxi Province, in order to avoid suspicion, he was forced to be relegated to No.2.

If there were no such bad luck, Chen Xun would have achieved Lianzhong Sanyuan at the age of 30, becoming the second person in the Ming Dynasty imperial examination, second only to Huang Guan who achieved Lianzhong Sanyuan at the age of 27.

Thinking of this, Zhu Qiyu stared at Chen Xun and smiled, thinking: There is Zhang Juzheng behind him, who is even more unlucky than you in the imperial examination.When you meet the examiner who is from the same country, he just ran into an idiot.

Chen Xun didn't know what the emperor was laughing at, so he could only ask, "Your Majesty, is there any problem with Li Cong's memorabilia?"

"Oh, there is a problem. Please reply again and agree to Li Cong's request. Didn't the late emperor always say that he wanted to recuperate, so let's listen to the late emperor and stop treating the people harshly.

The apportionment to Sichuan will be suspended for three years.And I also know that in the past, you always went to Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, and Huguang to cut down big trees in the deep mountains and old forests in order to build palaces and imperial mausoleums, and then transport them thousands of miles to the two capitals.It is a waste of time and money, and makes the people miserable.

From now on, all wood mining apportionment will be stopped by me. "

When Hu Wei heard the words, he jumped out immediately: "Your Majesty, your imperial mausoleum must always be repaired, right?"

Zhu Qiyu waved his hand: "What kind of imperial mausoleum will be built, and what will be arranged after I die, you don't need to worry about it from the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Industry, and you don't need to be in charge of the court. I will make my own decisions when the time comes.

That's the way it is after a person dies. In order to build a ruined imperial mausoleum, four or five million taels of silver was spent, and the families of the common people were ruined. Why bother. "

Without waiting for everyone to reply, Zhu Qiyu told Wang Wen: "You all have a censor named Han Yong in the Procuratorate, right? He was a Jinshi in the seventh year of Zhengtong. Let him be promoted to the censor of Youqian Capital and go to governor of Sichuan."

"Yes, Wei Chen obeys."

Wang Wen took the order without even thinking about it.

The ministers were not surprised either. Last time the emperor asked for the list of Jinshi of the last three sessions, went through them one by one, and only selected the young talents among them for reuse, so it was normal for the emperor to promote Han Yong.

Han Yong was even worse than He Yi, he was awarded Jinshi at the age of 20, it was normal for the emperor to pay attention to him.

After talking about this, Zhu Qiyu motioned for everyone to disperse.

But Xing'an stood up and replied: "Your Majesty, Dongchang found out that recently in the capital, many Mongolian dignitaries attached to them have been moving around, secretly contacting Wala to inquire about information for the enemy. Dare I ask Your Majesty, how should we deal with it?"

Zhu Qiyu was stumped by this question, it would definitely not be appropriate to kill him directly, and put him in prison?I'm afraid there won't be enough room for so many people in the prison.So I had to look at Yu Qian: "Yu Aiqing, what do you think, how should these people be dealt with?"

Yu Qian replied: "Once conclusive evidence of collaborating with the enemy is found, the officials and the family will be dismissed. The high-ranking officials and troops who have colluded with the enemy will be detained in a centralized manner. After the Yexian army arrives, they will be sent directly to the Yexian camp and let Yexian deal with them first."

Zhu Qiyu nodded. It was a good idea. They liked Wala so much, so let them serve as Yexian's soldiers, and then cut off their heads when fighting, and use them to build the capital.

Yu Qian added: "We can also find a group of high-ranking officials who are loyal to Ming Dynasty, pretend to surrender to the enemy, and send them to the Yexian camp together with the high-ranking officials who are really collaborating with the enemy to be our internal support."

Zhu Qiyu nodded again, which was also a good way, and then told Xing'an: "Just do what Yu Shangshu said, and if you have any questions about this, you can go to Yu Shangshu to discuss it, and you don't have to go back to me."

After speaking, Zhu Qiyu added: "You must be careful, you must not wrong people, if those high-ranking officials are not collaborating with the enemy, let them stay at home honestly.

And there is absolutely no prohibition against killing. If you kill people indiscriminately, will the Mongols dare to surrender with confidence in the future?For high-ranking officials who are really too much, they are directly arrested by Shuntian Mansion and locked up, and they will be dealt with slowly after the war. "

Xing'an took the order, and everyone retreated.Zhu Qiyu took He Yi back to Jiangyunxuan, and while eating, he talked about his plan to force his relatives and eunuchs to rebel together, and then take advantage of the trend to overthrow Queen Sun and restore Empress Hu.

After hearing the emperor's plan, He Yi replied hesitantly: "Actually, I have a very bold idea. I don't know if I should say it or not?"

"Let's talk about it, we are the monarch and his ministers here, what can't be said."

He Yi heard the words, and replied softly: "If Queen Hu is restored, then Queen Mother Sun's status as the successor queen will be denied, and her status at that time will be changed from Queen Sun to Concubine Sun.

Then His Majesty will adopt himself under the name of Empress Hu. Wouldn't that mean that His Majesty will become the son of the first son, and the Supreme Emperor will become the son of the bastard.

The current prince has become the son of the bastard. It makes perfect sense from the legal point of view to abolish the prince and make the son of His Majesty. "

(End of this chapter)