Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 665: The Confrontation between the King and His Ministers Tests the Yichu Tyrant, How Long Will His Fame Be Righted?
Now that the emperor asked, Shen Yi naturally felt bitter: "Your Majesty, the Zhengtong Dynasty has been conquering Luchuan for ten years, and the wages have changed for half the world. The people's livelihood in the south is in decline, and the north has suffered from civil engineering changes, and has been fighting against Oara for many years.

After the Holy Emperor ascended the throne, he took turns exempting all provinces from taxes, taxes and corvees for the first three years, and then exempted all provinces from all arrears.

After that, he regained Annan, conquered Burma, Siam and other countries, pacified Korea, and then attacked Japan.

The imperial court simply did not have the energy to accumulate food reserves.

In recent years, famines have occurred one after another, and the people have no surplus food.

The household department is also a clever woman, but it’s hard to make a meal without rice. "

Zhu Qiyu nodded: "I know that it is not easy for the household department, and we will not launch new wars in recent years. In another five or six years, the food from Annan, Korea, Burma, and Siam will be used by the court. By then we will It’s much easier and faster.”

After everyone heard this, they felt a little relieved, and the successive years of war had finally come to an end.From the time when Zhengtong was in charge until the seventh year of Jingtai, the court has been at war all the time, and there has never been a day in peace.

After Shen Yi complained, it was the turn of the Ministry of Rites. Wang Yining, the minister, reported: "Your Majesty, the King of Qin has passed away. The Crown Prince of Qin, because his family is large and he has no funeral expenses, begs for a year's salary in advance."

Zhu Qiyu replied: "Isn't there too much money in the household department to be used up? The King of Qin is the head of the vassal, so he should be given preferential treatment and be given ten thousand taels of silver for funeral expenses."

Wang Yining asked again: "May I ask, Your Majesty, which vassal king should succeed Zongzheng?"

Zhu Qiyu shook his head: "Let's talk about it later. Zongfan has been at peace recently. Da Zongzheng is enough."

What surprised Zhu Qiyu was that Wang Yining did not retreat and continued to play: "Your Majesty, Yan Shenggong Kong Yanjin cannot be humble to his clan members, and the 54th generation Sun Kexun of the ancestors is the patriarch, and the 57th generation Sun Jian is the county magistrate. The theory of association.

Therefore, Kexu, the uncle of the Yanjin clan, and others made a series of instructions to Chen Yanjin.

Yanjin also reported that Kexu and others relied on their respect and wanted to surrender themselves, so they all patrolled the Shandong censor and other officials to overthrow him.

The censor commented that his sentiments were mixed, and Kexu and other disciples were not convinced by the clan, so it was better to choose him instead.

Yan Jin's memorial is also in vain, please punish me more. "

Zhu Qiyu snorted coldly: "The Emperor of Han keeps messing with official affairs, let them go."

The ministers heard clearly that the emperor's disdain for the Kong family was so clear that he was too lazy to hide it.

But there was no way, everyone could only pretend not to hear clearly, because even if everyone came together and had a group of scholars fight against the emperor, they would not win in the end.

No matter how much you talk about the Great Way of Confucius and Mencius, the emperor will always respond with only four words: "Shixiu surrenders to the outside world."

We can only muddle through and find another way.

After the Ministry of Rites finished their work, He Wenyuan, Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, stood up again: "Your Majesty, Li Lian, the former political envoy from the left in Guangdong, was promoted to the envoy from the right in Jiangxi for his achievements in capturing bandits.

More than [-] letters from the army and civilians of Xinhui County, Guangdong Province begged Li Lian to stay in Guangdong. "

Zhu Qiyu nodded, if you want to stay, just stay.

He Wenyuan asked again: "Zheng Tai, the left minister of the Nanjing Criminal Department, has been in office for a long time, but fortunately he has done nothing wrong. He begged for a transfer to repay his reputation."

Zhu Qiyu frowned. It was rare to hold a small court meeting every half a year. The ministers' memorials should have profound meanings.

What do they want to express when they talk about it today?

After thinking for a while, Zhu Qiyu replied: "Then I will be appointed as the Minister of the Ministry of Rites of Nanjing."

The Ministry of Rites always likes to produce people who are against the emperor. Zhu Qiyu does not believe in evil and gives Zheng Tai a chance to try.I have given you the opportunity, and I have also given you the face. If you can contribute to Yichu, then you can continue to be promoted and reused.If you just want to be promoted and don't want to be loyal, then just sit on the bench in the Ministry of Rites until you die.

He Wenyuan continued to ask: "Supervisor Zhang Ming will select officials to serve. He sincerely asked for favors to get rid of the corresponding officials in Nanjing and made him Zhang Chunzi, the minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, as counselor. The father and son will have a blind date day and night, and they will get compensation together."

Zhu Qiyu nodded: "Okay, does the Ministry of Personnel want him to be appointed to any official position?"

He Wenyuan replied: "The Ministry of Personnel plans to be the head of the Guangdong Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs in Nanjing. Please ask the Holy See."

"allow."

Zhu Qiyu felt that he had learned a little bit about it. Today's events were all centered around Shandong, Nanjing, and Guangdong, and they were all things that could be said to be big or small.

The two sides talked for a long time, and finally came to the matter of birthday celebrations. Everyone asked the emperor to persuade the queen mother to withdraw the imperial edict. During the New Year and festivals, officials and concubines would congratulate her according to court etiquette.

Zhu Qiyu refused to give in, and smiled faintly at everyone: "Since the Tumubao Incident, when I was forced to ascend the throne, I and my mother have never received congratulations.

This has been going on for seven or eight years, why do you have to disobey this insignificant edict today? "

Zhu Qiyu was very dissatisfied with this matter. When I really celebrated my birthday, I said that I would not congratulate you, but you didn't even try to persuade me, and you just accepted the order.When my mother was celebrating her birthday, you were eager to say "no congratulations" and accepted it immediately.

Then as you wish, I am exempted from the congratulations forever. From now on, you will stop asking, and we will not answer. We don’t have to be hypocritical at all. Wouldn’t everyone be happy? But with such a good thing in front of you, why don’t you Agree?
The ministers are not stupid. Once they really accept the order, it will be a serious violation of etiquette and law.The ministers actually agreed never to send congratulations to the Queen Mother or the Emperor. This is really an unprecedented thing. From now on, everyone can use this as an excuse to attack the important ministers.

Zhu Qiyu's actual purpose was not to be angry with the ministers, but to find out the attitude of the government and the public towards changing the crown prince.

The courtiers also understood that as long as the government and the opposition disagreed with Yi Chu, it meant they would still treat him as a tyrant.

If you treat today's emperor like a tyrant, naturally all etiquette will be messed up.

The emperor's attitude is easy to understand. You don't recognize my eldest son as the prince, so naturally you still regard me as a tyrant.You regard me as a tyrant, so naturally my mother and I are too lazy to accept your unwilling congratulations.

The important ministers present knew the emperor's temper all too well. Now the emperor was extremely dissatisfied. Over time, if the emperor's demands were not met, the emperor would naturally force Yi Chu and go on a killing spree.

To dispense with the congratulations is to express one's position in advance. When the time comes, the situation in the DPRK will be in great turmoil.

Everyone secretly looked at Zhu Wenfang who was sitting next to the emperor. Recently, the emperor often appeared with his son on various occasions, which was also an obvious signal.

The key is that no one else can stop him. Anyway, as long as you dare to ask, the emperor is unwell and has to let the prince serve around him.

You ministers are in charge of heaven and earth, can you still manage the filial piety of other people's sons?
The contradiction lies here. Anyone who is not a fool knows that Zhu Wenfang will be the next emperor sooner or later.

The problem is that the government and the opposition do not recognize Zhu Wenfang as the prince now, so naturally they have nothing to do with him.

Major matters such as the next emperor's appointment as a master and the appointment of a wife were all decided by the emperor. The ruling and opposition parties did not even have the opportunity to express their opinions, let alone participate in the decision-making.

Moreover, the emperor was very reasonable: Anyway, if you don't recognize Zhu Wenfang as the prince, then he is just the prince of Qi.It's none of your business that I become a disciple of Prince Qi and marry him.

Therefore, if the name is not correct and the words are not correct, the emperor is not happy, so he drags the ministers into trouble, and everyone is unhappy together.

After disgusting the ministers, Zhu Qiyu began to tell them about the land reform in Jeju Island.If the reform is successful, the next step is to extend it to Liaodong.

Liaodong is a vast and sparsely populated area, with ownerless wasteland everywhere.Even if it is used to grow sorghum, it would be better than leaving it uncultivated as it is now.

(End of this chapter)