Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 759: The Great Escape of the Lianghuai Transfer Envoy and Nanjing’s Old Minister Continues the Reform

Qianxue spread her hands with an innocent look on her face: "Ask me how I know this."

Zhu Qiyu smiled and said: "I'm just kidding, send the horses to Gansu. The elite border troops in Gansu need horses. Choose 10,000 good horses from them and distribute them to King Su's three guards. Don't let people say that we are mean and close to the vassal."

Then send someone to deliver some gifts and invite Princess Yongchang to stay in Beijing for a few days.

In addition, I have to send two supervisory troops to Gansu. Who should I send? "

Qianxue smiled and said: "My husband only has so many confidant eunuchs, so it's obviously Fu'an's turn. In addition, I recommend Yin Zuo Bureau's Palm Seal Yu Jing, I don't know if it's suitable."

Zhu Qiyu laughed when he heard this: "I still remember this Yu Jing. He was forcibly sent to the palace by his father when he was a child. After the Jing developed, his father came to cling to him again.

He ordered the young eunuch to beat his father through the curtain. While beating him, he scolded him: "How can you tolerate a castrated son?"

After the beating, he went to the court to call his father, hugged and cried.

He's a very interesting person, so let him go. I don't have high requirements for the supervisory army. I supervise the generals honestly, do not cause trouble, and do not disturb the people. This is a good supervisory army. "

Zhu Qiyu also understood that he had too many people in the inner court. All the real power and positions in the twenty-four supervisory bureaus were held by his confidants.

Others should also be given some opportunities to come forward, otherwise it will not be conducive to stability and unity.

Thinking of this, Zhu Qiyu asked again: "How is Yan Li doing recently?"

Qianxue asked tentatively: "Yan Li wants to return to Beijing at the end of this year to report on his work, husband, do you think so?"

Zhu Qiyu sighed after hearing this: "Hey, forget it, let him stay in Nanjing for a few more years. Assist Cao Guogong to complete the reconstruction of the Nanjing camp, and then we can talk about the rest."

Yan Li's questions were very cryptic, and Zhu Qiyu's answers were also cryptic.

This is like the patient's family asking the doctor, and the doctor replied: If the situation is stable in spring, then it will definitely be cured.

Translated into vernacular, it means that the patient cannot survive this winter.

In the same way, Yan Li asked if he could return to Beijing to report his work at the end of the year and translate it into vernacular, and whether he should send the man from Beishou to see the wise and powerful Emperor Xuanmiao at the end of this year.

Zhu Qiyu asked Yan Li to stay in Nanjing for two more years, which meant that he did not want to take action for the time being.

After the dispute over the throne was gone, Zhu Qiyu was still willing to take care of some family ties.

Qianxue smiled again and said: "Let me tell you something interesting. Su Xie, your transfer envoy to the Huaihe River, was found guilty of corruption and illegal activities by the Salt Patrol Censor.

He first fled back to the capital, and then fled back to his hometown. The Metropolitan Procuratorate asked the Jinyiwei Official School to enforce the law and the Censor to investigate. "

Zhu Qiyu was also happy when he heard it. The salt censor of the Lianghuai River was not the official position of Lin Daiyu's father.

There are always people who despise the fact that the official position of the Lianghuai Salt Patrolling Censor is low. Look at it, the transfer envoy from Lianghuaidu, a third-rank official, was chased by the Lianghuai Salt Patrolling Censor and ran around like a lost dog.

As for the rich salt merchants in Lianghuai and Huaihe, they should not be more powerful than Du Zhuanshi. In front of the Salt Patrol Censor, don't they all have to be like little sheep?

Qianxue asked: "Why is Your Majesty laughing?"

"I laughed at the capital transfer envoy, who immediately rushed to the capital. From here, I understood why officials like to go to Beijing for pilgrimage.

Mainly, taking advantage of the opportunity to go to Beijing can smoothen the relationship.

For example, Su Xie, the capital's transfer envoy, if my guess is correct, he first came to the capital to find his master, fellow concubine, and fellow countryman to see if there was any room for change. After clearing the relationship, run back to your place of origin. "

"Even if he runs to his place of origin, he will definitely be caught, so why bother?"

Zhu Qiyu patted Qianxue's little head: "I have to go back to transfer the family property and settle the funeral arrangements, little idiot."

"Oh, that's it. It's my concubine who is ignorant." Zhu Qiyu added: "I asked Zhou Chen to go to Nanjing just to reform the salt policy and land tax.

The reason why this transporter ran away was probably because Zhou Chen was acting vigorously in the south, which made him unable to hold on any longer.

During the Xuande Dynasty, Zhou Chen served as the right minister of the Ministry of Works, inspecting the various prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River and the governor of taxation. During this period, he took charge of the salt class and reformed the salt law.

He has a lot of experience and is familiar with the twists and turns of the salt class. As soon as I sent him to the south, those officials couldn't stand it anymore. "

"My husband is focusing on the salt class again?"

"That is, based on the income from salt classes in the Song Dynasty, our Ming Dynasty now has almost 10 million people. The annual salt tax must be at least 30 million taels."

"So many?"

Zhu Qiyu smiled and said: "I calculated it based on the salt tax of the Song Dynasty and the population ratio of the Ming Dynasty, but the currency of the Song Dynasty seems to be Jiaozi. The purchasing power of that thing may be different from our silver coins and copper coins."

Hearing this, Qianxue was happy: "We can make a lot of money by selling porcelain to Japan this year. It's a pity that Shandong doesn't produce tea."

Zhu Qiyu added: “Shandong produces tea, and tea can be grown on Laoshan Mountain, but the yield is too little.

If you don’t tell me, I haven’t thought of it yet. Let Laoshan pay tribute to you in the future.

Forget about paying tribute, let’s buy a few tea gardens and produce our own tea to drink at home. "

Qianxue replied: "This has to be handled by your four eldest concubines who are stationed in Shandong. Let me tell them. I can't command them."

Zhu Qiyu turned to look at Ningxiang, but Ningxiang just smiled and waved her hands.

Now Zhu Qiyu thought about it, so he ordered: "Cut another pound of donkey meat for me. I will eat donkey meat for lunch. Eat more meat and take a good supplement, otherwise my concubines will have objections to me."

……

After a good day's rest at home, Zhu Qiyu came to Qingyun Pavilion to handle government affairs early the next morning.

Zhu Qiyu sat on the soft couch on the third floor, and Zhu Wenfang sat next to him. He Yi, Qiao Feng, Pei Dang and Huang Qi were sitting at the bottom.

The main purpose is to take Zhu Wenfang to review the memorials and handle government affairs, so that the next emperor can take charge of his own affairs as soon as possible.

He Yi was the first to ask a question: "Your Majesty, many officials have been asking recently about how to avoid naming the prince or prince."

Zhu Qiyu was stunned when he heard this. He had never paid attention to this issue on weekdays, because the lineage of Prince Yiwen had withered away, so the entire royal family, except Zhu Wengui, the king of Soochow, and his sons were named Zhu Wenmou. .

First of all, it is impossible for his sons to have the same name as the royal family.

Secondly, according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, single words are not avoided.

Unlike the Qing Dynasty, Yinxiang had to be replaced by Yunxiang.

In the Ming Dynasty, for example, Zhu Qiyu, as long as the subjects did not use the word "Qiyu" together, there was no need to avoid taboos. There is absolutely no problem when using the characters ‘Qi’ and ‘钰’ alone.

The names of the princes of the Ming Dynasty are so difficult to pronounce, just to avoid common words.

Thinking of this, Zhu Qiyu felt a little embarrassed, so he violated the taboo himself. Names such as Wenfang and Wenying were easy to appear in writing by people all over the world. It is probably inevitable for someone to name their child Wenfang.

(End of this chapter)