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Chapter 269 Your Majesty, it’s time to build the imperial mausoleum!

The war is over and peace returns to the world.

The Ming Dynasty needed time to digest its new territory, consolidate its defense lines, and regenerate its strength for the Northern Expedition.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty was also severely weakened by successive defeats. Longkodo, the governor of the six provinces, was finally dismissed, and Yue Zhongqi began to rise to prominence.

I just don’t know if it’s too late.

During the Qianqing court meeting, Yongzheng officially appointed Prince Yi Yunxiang as the chief peace negotiator, fully responsible for peace negotiations with the northwest Junggar.

Nian Gengyao and the 20 Manchu troops guarding the northwest border... to be precise, 21 troops are coming back.

There were originally 24, and [-] of them had been taken away by Yang Gongping in Huai River.

Zhang Wenhuan, who was stationed in Xuzhou Prefecture, received Yongzheng's imperial edict and began to shrink the defense line.

Xuzhou Prefecture is the core, and Xiaoxian and Dangshan are the barriers.

The water transportation of the Grand Canal was completely abandoned. The Qing army crossed the river with iron cables in the Pizhou River section, and filled the river with huge ships with sand and gravel to block water transportation.

Jueluo Manbao, the former deputy commander of the army going south who had done almost nothing but logistics, was promoted.It is better to simply pull out the first level of reinforcements and dispatch [-] Zhili troops to suppress the rebels in the four provinces of Shanhe.

Just when Yongzheng's three armies encircled Jiangnan, the rebellion in the four provinces of Shanhe revived.

The reason is nothing more than four words: extortion and extortion!

Yongzheng had no choice. Although there was money and food support from the two lakes, the distance was too far, and it was impossible for the money and food from the two lakes to fully support the consumption in the north.

Then the people can only suffer a little more.

In this rebellion, not only the peasant army but also many local powerful people joined.

In their opinion, the world seems to have reached a time of dynasty change. They don't know whether Ming Dynasty can continue to dominate. Anyway, they have to take advantage of this opportunity to make profits from it.

With the participation of local powerful men, the rebels' combat power has not only increased significantly, but they have even learned to take advantage of the situation.

For a time, the Ming Dynasty's generals, generals, governors, etc. in Henan and Shandong had numerous official positions.

Just kidding, in terms of name alone, the Ming Dynasty has almost recovered most of Henan and Shandong. Even Zhili has the shadow of the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, Liu Ruhan, who had fled Shanxi, actually took advantage of this time to jump out and act like a monster.

Taiyuan Mansion has fallen.

It is not surprising that the Qing army in Taiyuan was completely wiped out, leaving only the lonely city of Taiyuan.

Even if Taiyuan has a high city and thick walls, it can't stop the people from being distracted!
When Liu Ruhan captured Taiyuan, the foundation was established.As long as you don't mess around, there will be no problem with that roly-poly.

There is not much time left for Yongzheng.

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It's already October in a blink of an eye.

Nanjing.

The palace, the imperial study.

Zhu Yijiong is reviewing the detailed report on the disaster relief matters in Tongzhou, Jiaxing and other places delivered by Chen Ji, the Minister of Household Affairs.

In the second year of Jianwu, there was a severe famine in Tongzhou and Jiaxing.

Even though the Ming Dynasty had made prevention and preparations early, this was the case in ancient times. The people at the bottom and even some small landowners and farmers had extremely low resistance to natural disasters.

If there is a serious disaster, the family will be destroyed and people will become refugees.

If one thing is not handled well, it will lead to rebellion by killing officials.

The Ministry of Revenue responded quickly and immediately dispatched imperial envoys to the disaster area.In addition to assisting and urging local governments to quickly provide relief to the victims, maritime merchants who bought grain from Siam were also ordered to sell the Siamese rice they had hoarded at low prices.

Extraordinary times, extraordinary means.

And even though the price is low, it is only relative to the price of domestic rice. These merchants are actually making a profit.

The Ming Dynasty did not engage in the work-for-relief scheme. This was unrealistic in ancient times, especially in years of famine.The disaster relief process of the Ministry of Household Affairs is very routine. It first provides food to the victims, then gathers the displaced people, and arranges all the people into households on the spot.

Then the victims were arranged to gradually resume farming, and all the victims who had been rescued by the government were required to plant high-yielding crops such as sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes.

The government would lend them seeds, farm tools, and cattle without interest, as long as they planted high-yielding crops for a full year.

This is taking advantage of the opportunity of disaster relief to forcefully promote sweet potatoes and corn.

As long as people persist in planting for a year, they will surely realize the benefits of high-yielding crops.In addition, unlike the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty not only encouraged people to grow sweet potatoes, but also refused to pay taxes and grains with sweet potatoes.

Like the old Zhu family in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, they not only issued treasure banknotes on a large scale, but even used a large amount of treasure banknotes to deduct the clan's salary, but they did not use treasure banknotes as taxes at all.

Just being a hooligan.

"Tobe did a good job this time."

Zhu Yijiong nodded slightly and wrote Zhu Zhu: "The Ministry of Household Affairs is successful in doing things, and you should encourage it."

After reading the Ministry of Household Affairs, Zhu Yijiong picked up the memorial of Li Bexun, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, and read through it.

"I respectfully request you to rebuild the Forbidden City!"

Zhu Yijiong frowned at the beginning of the article. He read it patiently, and then his expression softened slightly.

Robertson was not trying to attract the emperor's attention by grandstanding.

Earlier, court officials proposed to rebuild the Forbidden City in Nanjing, but Zhu Yijiong rejected it on the grounds that it would be too expensive and extravagant.

But in fact, the Ming Dynasty courtiers headed by the six internal ministries never gave up this idea. It's not that they really cared about whether the emperor lived well... It should be said that they did care.

Because the emperor lived in the palace, in addition to the superficial luxury enjoyment, it also had huge political significance.

Previously, the Ming Dynasty had been in a state of war for a long time. Not only could it not spare the money and food to build the palace, but it also lacked the energy and leisure to care about these chores. Almost all financial resources were used to serve the military.

But now, there are great victories in the north and south battlefields, and even South Gansu unexpectedly captured half of eastern Hunan, opening up the bridgehead for the Ming army to march into Hunan.

The Qing Dynasty was defeated and suffered heavy losses, and the situation in the world gradually became clear.

As the minister of the Ministry of Industry, Li Bexun brought up the old matter again and asked for an order to rebuild the palace. It was naturally reasonable.

If nothing else, just from the perspective of people's hearts, the palace represents the emperor's face and the majesty of the court.

Strictly speaking, this rebuilt Governor's Palace of Liangjiang cannot be regarded as a royal palace at all. It is indeed big enough and can meet the needs of the Ming Dynasty emperors and ministers for their court work, but it can only be regarded as a temporary palace at best.

Not to mention what people in the world would think if they knew it, if there were foreign vassals paying tribute to the Ming Dynasty in the future, and they heard that the imperial palace of the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty was actually a palace converted from the local governor's palace, then this would be too cheap.

The official statement is that it will affect Ming's international influence.

Even if you don’t practice it now, you still have to make a rule first.

Even if it's not that luxurious, at least it has some decent work.

Moreover, in addition to requesting an order to renovate the Forbidden City, the Ministry of Industry also vaguely mentioned: Your Majesty, it’s time to select a site for the imperial mausoleum.

Who should choose the imperial mausoleum, naturally it is the emperor himself.

Well, Emperor Zhu's family is still alive, and there are not even a few in the harem. The eldest son and only son are less than a year old, and they are about to start building an imperial mausoleum for him.

This is normal.

Ancient emperors basically began to build their own imperial mausoleums when they ascended to power, and the construction of the imperial mausoleums did not stop until their death.

The Song Dynasty was the only one who actually built imperial mausoleums after his death, and the reason was Zhao Kuangyin.

As for why, it goes without saying, you should all understand.

Zhu Yijiong read it, thought carefully for a moment, and then wrote and commented: "For the renovation of the Forbidden City, we can first make a charter on this, and remember not to be too extravagant. As for the location of the imperial mausoleum, I have my own opinion, and we will discuss it later."

　Some of the emperor's criticisms were also very straightforward. For example, Yongzheng criticized Tian Wenjing: I am such a man.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)