Daming: Apocalypse of Longevity

Chapter 16: Activation List (please follow up)

Zhu Tianqi's history books during this period are not in vain. Although he is not a historian, he may only be able to see some superficial things on the surface of the text and cannot see anything deeper. But after all, as a time traveler, he You still have your own judgment.

This is his plan for the arrangement of "regulating the army and calming the people".

First of all, the Ming Dynasty has been running to this day, and there are many problems in the court system. The officialdom is dark and corrupt, and the army is the same. Not only is the combat effectiveness not as good as before, but the soldiers are squeezed by the officers and cannot even receive their pay. The court is in arrears with military pay of nearly a thousand yuan. It is no wonder that mutinies occurred frequently in various places.

Therefore, the reorganization of the army means to reorganize and dismantle the troops in various places. First, we must eliminate the problem of empty pay and distribute the owed military pay in batches. Secondly, we must strengthen training and increase the combat effectiveness of the army!

As for the safety of the people, the top priority is to deal with the drought that will hit the Northwest next year. It is necessary to prepare enough money and food for disaster relief, and to prevent corrupt officials from oppressing the people!
In this way, mutiny and rebellion should be avoided!

However, these two major things are easy to say, but they are probably very difficult to accomplish. After all, the government has been suffering from malpractice for a long time. It is extremely difficult to ensure that military pay and disaster relief money and food can be distributed to the soldiers and the people in full!

Therefore, it is still necessary to use reliable talents, and for some things, preparations must be started in advance.

"Come here!" Zhu Tianqi shouted outside the palace gate.

A young eunuch heard the sound and walked into the palace, knelt down and saluted: "Your Majesty, what are your orders?"

Zhu Tianqi looked up and saw an unfamiliar face, and asked, "Are you new? What's your name?"

The young eunuch hurriedly replied: "Replying to the emperor, my name is Wang Yuanbao. It was the queen who asked me to come and serve the emperor!"

"Wang Yuanbao, this name sounds comfortable!" Zhu Tianqi couldn't help but smile. Hearing that it was sent by Queen Zhang Yan, he naturally trusted the little eunuch a little more, "Raise your head!"

The little eunuch slowly raised his head with some fear. He still looked like a boy of fifteen or sixteen years old.

Zhu Tianqi nodded, and then said: "Okay, since the queen sent you here, then you can serve me by my side from now on. Can I make you the eunuch of the palm seal?"

After hearing this, the young eunuch Wang Yuanbao dared not respond. He immediately kowtowed in fear and said: "Your Majesty, I don't dare. I don't even know the words. How dare you covet the position of eunuch with the palm seal!"

Zhu Tianqi originally wanted to tease him, but now his eyes lit up after hearing his words, "You said you couldn't read?"

Wang Yuanbao nodded slowly, still frightened and couldn't help but tremble a little.

Zhu Tianqi immediately made the decision: "Great, it's just you, you alone can serve as both the palm eunuch and the pen eunuch!"

"Ah?! This..." Wang Yuanbao was so frightened that he didn't even know what to say! "You have no joke, I'm not joking for you, why don't you accept the order and thank me!" Zhu Tianqi said in a non-negotiable tone.

Although Wang Yuanbao still didn't understand the situation, but after all, the emperor's order was hard to disobey, he didn't dare to resist the order, so he could only kowtow to thank him!
For a young eunuch like Wang Yuanbao who has no foundation, the palm eunuch and the pen eunuch will naturally not be his turn in 1 years, but Zhu Tianqi still wants to find a person with no foundation and background to be the director. He still can't trust the heads of ritual supervisors, those who have been in the palace for a long time and have deep roots!
Moreover, Wang Yuanbao is illiterate and young, which is still conducive to his control. If there is no problem with this boy's character in the next period of time, he can also be considered to train him as his confidant!

"Okay, don't lie on the ground, I still have errands for you to handle!"

Wang Yuanbao stood up quickly after hearing this, "Your Majesty, please give me your orders!"

Zhu Tianqi then handed a list to Wang Yuanbao, "You have taken this list, and you go down to deliver the order, saying that I will re-activate them, and re-use them, so that they can enter the palace within ten days." See me!"

"This slave obeys the order!" Wang Yuanbao hurriedly took the list, saluted and quickly retreated. Fortunately, he did not continue to say such silly words as "This slave is illiterate and does not know what is written on this list." It seemed that he still He has some brains, but he can't read, but there is always someone under him who can read!
There are four names written on the list, namely Xu Guangqi, Sun Yuanhua, Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan. These four are all famous officials in the world who were carefully selected by Zhu Tianqi in the history books. In addition to their outstanding abilities, Another thing they have in common is that they are all marginalized by the eunuchs and are idle at home!

Needless to say, Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan were brought back to deal with Hou Jin. No matter how the history books and later generations commented on the merits and demerits of Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan, there is one undeniable fact that the people of Hou Jin They hate Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan. As for why they hate them, it's naturally because they can't beat them!
As for Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua, they are a pair of masters and apprentices, and they are both lovers of Western learning. They are very knowledgeable about Western learning, that is, modern science, especially the latter. Their attainments in Western gunnery can be said to be the best in the world. Such How can we leave talented people idle at home?

Compared with Europe at the same time, the technological level of the Ming Dynasty today is still at the same level. Although it is slightly behind, as long as it starts to catch up now, it is not too late. China has a lot of talents and will definitely be able to overwhelm him!
The next thing to do is to fight with the ministers in the court. The Eunuch Party is the bad guy, so does the Donglin Party have to be the good guys?Are people without party affiliation necessarily good people?Not necessarily!

Now that the Eunuch Party has fallen, the Donglin Party has become active again. On the one hand, they have gone to Shu to demand redress for the Donglin Party members who died unjustly. On the other hand, they have gone to Shu to demand that they abolish as soon as possible the various bad policies implemented by the Eunuch Party. Among them The most important one is about taxes.

Rehabilitation is easy to say, and Zhu Tianqi immediately decided to restore the reputation of all the Donglin Party members who died unjustly, and posthumously grant them official positions and posthumous titles!

But Zhu Tianqi had to think carefully about taxes.

Who are the Donglin Party members today?It has long been no longer the "clean flow" in the court during the era of Gu Xiancheng and Gao Panlong. Although the word "clear flow" has to be put into question, at least the Donglin Party at that time was relatively upright, and was willing to consider the country and the people when acting as officials. of.

But now this group of people have long forgotten their original intentions and have completely become the "spokesmen" of the Jiangnan gentry and wealthy merchants and landlords. Even most members of the Donglin Party are landlords themselves or are engaged in industry and commerce. Naturally, they are no longer He will continue to work wholeheartedly for the benefit of the court and the people, and will only prioritize his own interests and how to enhance the power of the Donglin Party.

As representatives of the gentry class in Jiangnan, the Donglin Party members naturally want to safeguard the interests of the gentry class. So what are gentry?Rich, powerful, and famous, to put it bluntly, they are a group of wealthy businessmen and landlords.

Of course, landlords are also divided into good and bad. Perhaps the Donglin Party members are more upright and more kind to their tenants and long-term workers. They do not exploit or squeeze excessively, but they are always on the side of the exploiters!

The education they received and their outlook also made them believe that their "reasonable exploitation" of the people was justified, so they openly acted as vested interests and used various methods to make money from the people.

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