Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 675: Taishan Earthquake, Yellow River Floods, Internal Fund Disaster Relief, Gaining Public Support
Geng Yu asked again: "Father, is Yi Chu really appropriate? The Xuan Temple was rumored to be located in King Yi. After the civil war, the ministers supported King Yi's eldest son as the crown prince.

It seems that the Yiwang line is the orthodox one. Now that we support changing the crown prince, isn’t it disloyal? "

Hearing this, Geng Jiuchou was so angry that he almost hit his son with a tea cup: "The king of Soochow County is the legitimate son of Jianwen. He was personally named by the Holy Emperor and raised in the capital.

You should go to the palace immediately, kneel three times and kowtow nine times, and swear allegiance to King Soochow. I will respect you as a true loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty.

Otherwise, please help me quickly. In the words of the Holy One, no one in this world knows who the other is. You are pretending to be a big-tailed wolf. Tell me what kind of loyal minister you are. "

Geng Yu was asked again. Jianwen's legitimate son Zhu Wengui was a dynasty in the hands of the emperor. Whoever violated the legitimacy would be ordered by the emperor to be loyal to the king of Soochow.If you refuse to be loyal, then you are a fake loyal minister pretending to be a big-tailed wolf; if you are willing to be loyal, then stop bragging that you are a loyal minister of Zhu Zhanji and Zhu Qizhen.

Countless people with lofty ideals in both the government and the public have racked their brains, but they cannot come up with a solution.

In political struggle, one must also learn from the teacher.

Only by being upright can you be strong.

The entire Taizong family, from the emperor to the ministers, are all rebellious officials and traitors who cannot be cleansed.

Therefore, Zhu Qiyu lowered his face and exposed his own shortcomings. From a moral point of view, he wanted to die together, making it impossible for both the government and the opposition to parry.

In addition, Sun Shi, the violent concubine of Xuan Temple, secretly took the son of the palace man as her own son. Regardless of whether the government and the public believed it or not, it was legally confirmed and it was written in the history books.

Unless the Jingtai lineage can be completely overthrown, the case will not be overturned.

If the case cannot be overturned, Zhu Qizhen's legitimacy on the throne will be fundamentally shaken.

There are still old people and young people left behind, so the effect is not obvious.But in 100 years, this will completely become an ironclad case.

He Wenyuan's son, He Qiaoxin, and Wang Wen's son, Wang Lun, were both Jinshi in Jingtai.Therefore, Wang Wen and He Wenyuan, like Geng Jiuchou, planned early to pave the way for their son and send him to Zhan Shifu.

At least at the cabinet level, all the academicians are thinking about is how to deal with the changes in the power structure after Yi Chu, and no one wants to obstruct Yi Chu.

There are still many people in civil and military officials, at the middle and lower levels, who can't figure it out.But those who really had the courage to stand up and challenge the emperor have become extinct.

They were all second-ranked Jinshi, and they were all well-educated Confucians. Most of the officials were not stupid. They had already seen that many of the civil and military officials who had opposed the emperor had died in mysterious circumstances.

And now in the court, all the important ministers who were loyal to Xuan Temple and orthodox have been purged.The emperor's tough methods and resolute attitude were extraordinary.

The next two months were uneventful.The emperor still ignored the court, and when it came to military and political affairs, it was apparently handled by the cabinet.

On the eighth day of August, in the scorching heat of midsummer, cicadas are singing and birds are singing.

Zhu Qiyu took his concubines to live in Qingliang Hall. In Yuquan Mountain, there are lush green trees and springs and streams, which is very cool and refreshing.

Zhu Qiyu got up early, sat on the couch with a quilt, and while reading the memorial, he sighed: "Although these civil servants in the Ming Dynasty are particularly capable of surviving, they really may not be able to survive me.

There is no severe cold in winter or scorching heat in summer. I don’t use charcoal in winter and ice in summer.Breathing the freshest air and drinking the sweetest spring water every day, I don't believe I won't live to be 99. "

Unfortunately, as soon as he finished boasting, Zhu Qiyu saw a memorial from Chen Jian, the inspector general of Shandong: The earthquake in Mount Tai was like the wrath of the gods, destroying thousands of people's houses and injuring hundreds of people.

In addition, floods in Jinan, Dongchang, and Yanzhou prefectures in Shandong have continued, damaging tens of thousands of hectares of farmland, displacing people, and showing signs of unrest.

Zhu Qiyu put his hand on his forehead: "Now that it's over, Mount Tai is shaking, and everyone in the government and the public must be thinking about the emperor's lack of morality.

Shandong suffered a disaster and the people were in dire straits, so I was even more to blame.If I hadn't continued my conquests, there wouldn't have been a shortage of storage, and the court wouldn't have been able to provide enough food for disaster relief. "

Qianxue handed over another memorial: "Husband, look at it, Henan is not in good shape either, the lower reaches of the Yellow River have been hit by disasters. It seems that Henan is more serious than Shandong."

Zhu Qiyu spread his hands and said: "There is no way to fix it. The capital has also been hit by disasters, and Shanxi has also been hit by disasters. Fortunately, I have left the main force of the pro-army forces in the capital, otherwise there would have been civil unrest in the capital or Shanxi.

I don’t know about other places, but the whole province of Shanxi has long hated me. "

Qianxue smiled and comforted: "My husband is too worried. The gentry and people of Shanxi should not dare to go so far." Zhu Qiyu shook his head: "If I die suddenly, you must remember that among the gentry and people of the Ming Dynasty, Shanxi is the most unlucky. rely.

Look at what Shanxi did from the Xuande Dynasty to the Zhengtong Dynasty.

First of all, from the local chief officials to the powerful gentry, they colluded with each other, and they borrowed all the treasury and warehouses in Datong, Xuanfu and other places.

Then, with the support of Sanyang, the central government, local officials cooperated with the gentry to carry out smuggling trade, which created a serious problem in Wala Yexian.

In addition, they invaded and occupied the land of the guard station and squeezed and exploited the soldiers, which led to the collapse of the guard station system and the mass exodus of the soldiers.

By the 14th year of Zhengtong, the Shanxi Guards had little combat effectiveness, and the remaining ones, under the leadership of some crafty men, played a double role with the Wala people to deceive the court.

Zhu Qizhen first transferred [-] to [-] troops from the capital to Datong, but in the battle at Yanghekou, they were all trapped and killed by internal and external collusion.

With no other choice, Zhu Qizhen launched his own expedition. "

Zhu Qiyu took a sip of tea, and then continued: "It is said that Zhu Qizhen should not conquer it himself, and it is better to stay in the capital. The problem is, send a general to go. Facts have proved that the general cannot win and will only destroy the entire army.

The emperor is guarding the capital, so he shouldn't go on an expedition himself. Soon the entire province of Shanxi will be gone, and Wala will be free to burn, kill, and loot as he pleases.

After plundering Shanxi, and then plundering Gyeonggi, we still can't stop them, and we will still fight to the gates of Beijing first.

With the benefit of hindsight, we feel that it would have been a mistake to conduct the expedition in person.In fact, at the time, it was a last resort. "

Lin Xiangyu asked: "Why did your husband change his gender today and start fighting for Zhu Qizhen?"

Zhu Qiyu sneered and said: "I am not fighting for Zhu Qizhen, I am saying that those people in Shanxi are really fucking bastards.

All the bad things they did, I really wanted to kill them all in one go.

Anyway, you have to keep in mind that Shanxi and I have a deep hatred. I hate them and they hate me, so we must not let down our guard against them.

And in another 200 years, they will still collude with foreigners and engage in smuggling. "

Zhu Qiyu can only speak to this extent. As for the eight major locust merchants in Shanxi in later generations, no one else can understand them now.

Qianxue smiled and said: "Husband, don't think about these unhappy things for now. Our family has accumulated so much food in the past few years that the granary can barely hold it.

We use our own food to provide relief to the people in Zhili and Shandong, and it is enough to survive this year.

As for next year, just let Xu Youzhen transport food back from the south.

The Nanjing Ministry of Household Affairs only needs to be responsible for raising food to provide relief to Henan.Shanxi ordered Li Bing to recover the accumulated debts of the powerful gentry and use them for disaster relief. "

Zhu Qiyu nodded: "That makes sense. How much food do we have?"

Qianxue smiled and said: "Two million stones can be easily taken out."

Zhu Qiyu asked curiously: "Where do you get so many?"

"Don't you look at how much land our family has? Almost all the land to the west of the capital is ours.

Xuanmiao loved the Sun family very much and gave Sun Zhong four thousand hectares of land in one go.These lands were later confiscated and all were in our hands.

Guangsun's family copied five to six thousand hectares one after another.There are even more lands for eunuchs, large and small.

Our family is the largest landlord in Beijing, and should also be the largest landlord in Ming Dynasty. "

(End of this chapter)