My Ming Dynasty, I have the final say

Chapter 6: How to be an emperor

As the Wei Dynasty was executed with a cane, Wei Jinzhong, the admiral of Dongchang, apparently wanted to clean up Wei Dynasty's party members, but actually he wanted to clean up Wang An's disciples and disciples. A bloody storm suddenly broke out in the palace.

At this time, the Qianqing Palace was surrounded by a group of royal guards. In the square outside, eunuchs were being escorted from time to time. After being beaten with sticks, they settled their accounts and went to serve Taichang and Wanli.

Zhu Youxiao, who was sitting in the Nuan Pavilion and looking at the copies of imperial edicts issued by Taichang within this month, had a livid face.

The edicts that caught his eye the most all cost money.

In just over a month, 400 million taels of internal funds were released.

On the day Wanli died, the inner transport warehouse issued 100 million taels of internal money to reward the Liaodong sergeants.

Soon after, 100 million taels of internal money were issued to reward the soldiers of Jiubian.

This is 200 million taels of silver.

What?What are the remaining 200 million for?
House repairer.

In the 25th year of Wanli (1597), the Forbidden City was struck by lightning. The front three palaces (Huangji Hall, Zhongji Hall), the back three palaces (Qianqing Palace, Jiaotai Palace, Kunning Palace), the front three gates (Huangji Gate, Huiji Gate and Guiji Gate) were burned down, and the location of the court was changed to Wenhua Hall.

In the 33rd year of Wanli (1605), the reconstruction of the Housan Palace was completed.

As for the first three palaces, Emperor Wanli has always refused to repair them. If I don't have a good time, you can't have a good time either.

Memorials written by officials requesting the reconstruction of the three halls and three gates were either ignored or refused to be reported.

It was not until the 28th year of Wanli that officials changed their thinking. Rebuilding the three main halls was a major project and could not be carried out in a hurry, but the three gates could always be rebuilt first.

But even so, Emperor Wanli still ignored it, and it was not until the 36th year of Wanli that he issued an order to rebuild the Huiji and Guiji gates.The reconstruction of Huangjimen was delayed until the 47th year of Wanli.

But in fact, the key work of the court at that time was the Battle of Sarhu. Don't ask for money for things like repairing the gate.

It was not until the 48th year of Wanli that after Wanli went to see Zhu Yuanzhang to receive the reward, Taichang allocated 200 million taels of internal funds and began to rebuild the Huangji Gate and the three main halls.

Historically, on June 23th, the second year of Tianqi, it took nearly two years to complete the reconstruction of Huangjimen, but the reconstruction of the three main halls stalled.It was not until February 5905rd of the fifth year of Apocalypse that the reconstruction started again. It was completed on the second day of August of the seventh year of Apocalypse, consuming [-] million taels of silver.

Looking at the memorial on the reconstruction plan from the Ministry of Industry in his hand, Zhu Youxiao felt a little headache.

Keep building, it's too expensive.

Don't build it. This work was rebuilt by his father Taichang, so he couldn't order it to be stopped.

Thinking in his mind, Tianqi took a pen and wrote it down on the memo.

Since the 200 million taels of project funds have been approved, they will never come back.

But it doesn't matter, just think of it as taking 200 million silver to make a nest.

He still didn't believe it. With a huge sum of 200 million, these people could hold back their hands.

Haha, this will no longer be fishing, but directly fried fish.

Looking at the next memorial, Zhu Youxiao felt his scalp numb.Before Emperor Wanli's death, he left a last edict: "Advice, abandonment and mining taxes will be corrected by the ministers, and they can be used at their own discretion."

Most of these officials who had their status reduced or demoted were Donglin.

Originally, after decades of Wanli's failure, the Ming Dynasty machine could not be said to be running very smoothly at this time. It could only be said to be stumbling. Many officials in the yamen were either dim-sighted, talking on paper, or simply had no one at all.

The number of officials in the imperial court made Wang Anshi, who had been worrying about the problem of redundant officials all his life, call it impossible.

Faced with the problem of lack of officials, Taichang understood Wanli's discretion very well.

From the 21st day of July, when Emperor Wanli passed away, to the first day of September, when Emperor Taichang passed away, for forty days, Taichang promoted and promoted officials who had been demoted by Shenzong for various reasons almost every day. 18 people were employed in one day, and Emperor Chongzhen praised the experts' diligence after seeing them.

ps: There are 41 records of rise and rise recorded in "Records of the Mingguang Sect" alone, many of which involve multiple people at one time. This does not include records of promotions.

Then, Emperor Taichang was very thoughtful and added at least 19 to the six subjects at once, that is, Yanguan.

These people include but are not limited to:
The military department is for Xue Fengxiang, the military department is on the right, the military department is on the right for Zeng Ruzhao, the military department is on the left for Yang Lian, the household department is on the right for Wang Jizeng, the engineering department is on the right for Hui Shiyang, the engineering department is on the left for Cai Sichong, and the household department is for all Li Qizhen in the matter, Wang Jihui in the household department, Zhang Guoxiang in the household department on the right, Bao Qianzhen in the etiquette department, Yang Daoyin in the etiquette department, Zhou Xiling in the etiquette department on the right, Li Ruogui in the etiquette department on the left , the official department is all assigned to Fan Jishi, the official department is assigned to Zhou Chaorui, the right department is assigned to Ju Weifan, and the criminal department is left to Wei Yingjia.

If you observe carefully, you will find that many of these people are recorded in Donglin Dianjiang.

In the late Shenzong period, there was only one assistant minister in the cabinet, first Ye Xianggao and then Fang Congzhe.

After Taichang succeeded to the throne, he found that there were too few ministers in the cabinet and needed to be supplemented.

For this reason, the master agreed to Fang Congzhe's request and added Shi Jikai and Shen Huai to hold the title of Minister of Rites and Bachelor of Dongge.

At the same time, he personally appointed four people, He Zongyan, Zhu Guozuo, Liu Yizhen and Han Xu, to be awarded the title of Minister of the Ministry of Etiquette and to be the Bachelor of Dongge University.

The most important thing is to summon the former chief minister of the cabinet Ye Xianggao to return to the court.

Although when Taichang died, only Fang Congzhe, Liu Yishui, and Han Xu were in office, but the nominal number of ministers in the cabinet at this time reached eight.

Ling Ling Zongzong, who has been on the throne for 29 days, originally had a balanced court, but his cheap father made him lean towards Dong Lin.

Tapping his fingers on the table, Zhu Youxiao thought slightly in his heart.

In fact, he was not worried about the issue of party strife in the court.

Where did this party come from? They were all ministers of the Ming Emperor, which would lead to party disputes. The reason was simply that the emperor had no independent opinion.

The officialdom of the Ming Dynasty was unique in history, and it had extremely high or extremely low requirements for the emperor.

The emperor can have great talents and broad strategies, such as Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di, Zhu Jianshen (Chenghua), and Zhu Houzhao (Zhengde). During the reign of these few, they were ministers of the cabinet and ministers of the six departments. Which one was not a paper minister or a clay minister?

At the same time, the emperor can also say that as long as he can stamp, it will be enough. For example, when Long Qing and Wanli were young, they acted as rubber seals, found a capable chief assistant, and left the harem to play with women. Be strong.

In layman's terms, as long as the emperor is strong, or the chief assistant is strong and trusted by the emperor, the party disputes will soon subside. You must not blindly carry out micro-management because you think you can do it.

　Ask for collection, ask for collection, ask for collection, and say important things three times.

　　
　
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