Chongzhen revived the Ming Dynasty

"Your Majesty is asking us to farm!"

Walking out of the palace, seeing Zheng Zhihu and others still thinking about the emperor's intentions, Zheng Cai said to everyone.

When Zheng Zhihu heard this, he immediately slapped his thigh and said suddenly:
"I said something is wrong."

"It turns out that the emperor asked us to farm."

"Will the reclaimed land really belong to us in the future?"

I still can’t believe what I promised to the emperor.

After all, they were all pirates before, and the emperor's permission to recruit them was already a great grace.

Who would have expected that the emperor would not only grant them titles, but also grant them lands.

Thinking about what happened to Song Jiang and others in "Water Margin", Zheng Zhihu and others really couldn't believe it.

Zheng Cai had already surrendered to the emperor. Even if he had doubts in his heart, it was impossible to say them out at this time. He cleared his doubts and said:
"I heard that there is a severe famine in Shaanxi."

"Your Majesty wants to buy grain from Nanyang and transfer the grain from the south to Shaanxi."

"Nowadays, the grain in the capital is said to come from Jiangnan, but in fact, more of it comes from Huguang."

"If the capital does not need it, it can be transported directly from Huguang to Shaanxi."

"When we were leaving, Your Majesty told us to go to Yunyang to recruit refugees and guide them to go to sea."

Zhu Youjian has always been concerned about the Yunyang refugees.

This problem has been around for a long time in the Ming Dynasty, and it stands to reason that it has been stabilized.

But now that Shaanxi has been hit by natural disasters one after another and Henan may also be affected by disasters, Zhu Youjian is worried that the refugees in Yunyang will merge with the refugees in Shaanxi and Henan, causing the grain-producing area of ​​Huguang to be destroyed.

Therefore, he was arranging people to develop Dongning and Nanyang, and allowed Zheng Zhilong and others to go to Yunyang to recruit refugees. Try to take away the refugees in Yunyang as much as possible to solve this hidden danger——

Yunyang and Xiangyang are adjacent to each other, and the Han River connects to the Yangtze River. Zheng Zhilong and others sent a boat to go upstream.

In the future, when they develop the fiefdom and lack the population, they will naturally think of this incident and recruit refugees from Yunyang.

This is a long-term plan. Zheng Zhihu and others did not think of it for a while, but Zheng Cai did. Combined with the situation in Shaanxi, I could vaguely guess the emperor's intention.

Therefore, he believed that the emperor really wanted to enfeoff, in order to obtain food from Nanyang and provide relief to the victims of the disaster in Shaanxi.

He even had an idea in mind, that is, transporting food while heading to Yunyang. When the emperor finds out, he will definitely praise himself.

Zheng Zhihu was reminded by him and immediately thought of this matter. Thinking about the emperor's emphasis on grain trade, he even specially established the Ming Shipping Group. He immediately felt that Zheng Cai's guess was correct. The emperor should have had this intention:
"It seems that the situation in Shaanxi is very bad. No wonder His Majesty wants to recruit us."

There is war in the Northeast and Southwest, and there may also be chaos in the Northwest. These pirates on the southeast coast were therefore appeased by the emperor.

It can be said that they arrived at a good time for recruitment. If it were another time, they wouldn't have this opportunity.

Therefore, Zheng Zhihu and others were very grateful for their luck. Not only was he recruited by the emperor, he was even reused to transport grain from Nanyang. And because there was insufficient food in Nanyang, the emperor enfeoffed their land for farming.

Such good things can hardly be found even with a lantern. None of them had thought about whether the Ming Dynasty would be unstable due to the chaos in various places.

Many people's impression of the Ming Dynasty is still that of the Wanli period, when the world was at peace, people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and "workers and merchants were happy and comfortable." He believed that the emperor only needed to bring order to the chaos and eradicate the eunuchs, and the situation would soon get better.

It can be said that the people of Ming Dynasty still have great confidence in the court. Even if some people notice signs of troubled times, they don't think Ming Dynasty will be over soon.

Many people hope that the emperor will bring order to the chaos and restore peace to the world.

After Zhu Youjian overthrew the eunuchs, he decided to remake rituals and music, which catered to the expectations of these people and gave them confidence.

In the capital, the most discussed topic now is the remake of ritual music. Literate people are reading newspapers and imagining a world of great harmony.

This is what Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Cai and others saw when they came to the capital this time. They all thought it was a time of peace and prosperity, and they had no idea that Shaanxi and other places were collapsing.

However, they were not the only ones who didn’t expect it. Even the officials in Shaanxi mostly do not think the civil unrest in Shaanxi is very dangerous. These officials were used to lying to their superiors, and many of them even disapproved of Sun Chuanting's private visit incognito before taking office.

They were very angry that Sun Chuanting opened the lid on Shaanxi and told the court about the civil unrest. If the emperor hadn't attached great importance to Sun Chuanting and sent Yuan Keli's son Yuan Shu to help him, Sun Chuanting's situation in Shaanxi would have been even more difficult than it is now.

Fortunately, after several months of acting as governor of Shaanxi, Sun Chuanting's ability gradually showed, and his position as governor has gradually become stable.

In addition, the emperor first sent Zu Dashou and then Yang Wenyue, two high-ranking officials, Wu Yiwen, to help Sun Chuanting. One is in charge of military affairs, and the other is in charge of official appointments.

Sun Chuanting's previous proposal to appoint the winners of the martial arts competition as county captains and patrol inspectors quickly began to advance with Yang Wenyue's cooperation.

It can be said that the situation in Shaanxi is improving little by little. The large number of bandits were also severely punished after the appointment of Yang Zhaoji, the admiral of bandit suppression in the three provinces, and Yang He, the military guard envoy.

The newly appointed county lieutenants and patrol inspectors actively conveyed information to make the suppression of bandits go more smoothly.

Officials from all over Shaanxi gradually realized that this superior, who was promoted by the emperor and acted as governor, was not only very popular, but also very capable. Some officials began to move closer to Sun Chuanting, and other officials, under the supervision of Jin Yiwei, did not dare to disobey Sun Chuanting's orders.

Even the vassal king of Shaanxi gave Sun Chuanting a lot of face. Donated a lot of money and food to support the martial arts conference organized by Sun Chuanting.

Sun Chuanting also reciprocated and gave them the Cuju event of the martial arts conference.

He even asked the emperor to allow the Shaanxi clan to gather in Xi'an.

Matters involving the clan have always been relatively sensitive. However, with the development of the Ming Dynasty, the power of the vassal kings has long been severely restricted, and it is even difficult to get out of the city.

Zhu Youjian was not worried about their rebellion, so after seeing Sun Chuanting's absence, he instructed the vassal king and the prince to allow one person to go to Xi'an to attend the meeting.

They even asked the vassal kings from various places to send representatives to Beijing for pilgrimage and participate in the general meeting held in the Zongren Mansion.

He planned to clarify his attitude towards the clan at the meeting, completely loosen the constraints of the lower-level clans, and allow the higher-level clans to have money and strength to maintain the stability of the Ming Dynasty.

In return, he would give enterprising clansmen fiefdoms and send them to Southeast Asia. Let these so-called vassal kings truly establish vassal states. This meeting has not been held yet. But the envoys sent to various vassals have already set off from the capital. Many vassal kings who received the order also responded positively, going to the capital in person or sending their descendants to go on their behalf.

For example, Prince Fu and Prince Lu felt the emperor's "goodwill" years ago and had already set off to the capital in person.

However, the Tang Dynasty in Nanyang, Henan Province, caused a major case because of this incident.

There were clues to this case a long time ago. The current Tang Dynasty King Zhu Shuoji was deceived by his beloved concubine and wanted the son born by his concubine to succeed him. He did not like his son Zhu Qiji and his grandson Zhu Yujian no matter how he looked at it. He had already put them The father and son were imprisoned privately for more than ten years.

So when Zhu Youjian's order reached the Tang Dynasty, and he or his son needed to go to Beijing for pilgrimage, Zhu Shuoji immediately panicked——

If he comes to Beijing, the Prince of Tang's palace will be in charge; if he doesn't come to Beijing, Prince Zhu Qi will have to be sent there.

The prince's imprisonment must be resolved no matter what.

Then at this time, his concubine-loving son did something stupid. He sent people to poison the crown prince Zhu Qiqi to death, hoping that the Tang king would replace him as the crown prince.

The King of Tang had this idea, but since the vassal kings had their own system of succession, it was obviously impossible for the court to agree to this matter. According to the provisions of the "Da Ming Huidian", if there is a descendant, a descendant must be established.

Therefore, the Hanlin Academy, which was responsible for sending letters to the Henan vassal king, reviewed Wen Anzhi and warned Zhu Shuoji not to violate the court system. Even after realizing something was fishy, ​​with the cooperation of local officials in Henan, he took the grandson Zhu Yujian out of the Tang palace and went to the capital as a representative of the Tang vassal.

Now Tang Wang Zhu Shuoyu and his concubine-loving son are in a state of panic. They were afraid that if Zhu Yujian complained in front of the emperor, they would be charged.

Wen Anzhi and local officials in Henan learned something about the situation after taking Zhu Yujian away. Although he didn't believe Zhu Yujian's words at all, he was wary of Tang Fan.

On the one hand, he sent people to monitor the Tang Dynasty's palace to prevent Tang Wang from rebelling. On the one hand, he sent the accompanying Jin Yiwei to pass the news to the capital and asked the emperor to make a decision.

When Zhu Youjian learned about this, he was so angry at Zhu Shuoji that he was so angry that he wanted to kill him immediately:
Tiger poison does not eat its children, so Zhu Shuoji imprisoned his descendants for more than ten years. It even caused his son to kill each other. He was really incompetent.

What made him even more speechless was that Chu Fan also made trouble, and it was more troublesome than Tang Fan.

This matter started when he sent someone to warn the King of Chu last year. At that time, in order to raise money, Zhu Youjian sent the Imperial Academy editor Jiang Dejing south to question Chu King Zhu Huaxuan about donating one thousand taels of money to Wei Zhongxian's shrine. He wanted to punish the King of Chu and squeeze out some money.

Jiang Dejing set out at the end of November last year and arrived in Wuchang in January this year. After warning the King of Chu, he successfully received the fine.

The matter was about to end here, but no one expected that Zhu Huaxuan's life experience would be mentioned by some Chu vassal clan members again——

These people saw that the new emperor's attitude towards Zhu Huaxuan was not very good, so they reopened the case of the fake King of Chu. He questioned whether Zhu Huaxuan and his brother Zhu Huabi, King of Xuanhua, were the sons of King Chu Gong, and requested the court to investigate the case again.

The case of the fake King of Chu is very complicated. How could Jiang Dejing be willing to get involved? After giving them a stern warning, they had to return to Beijing with their money.

However, he apparently forgot that in the thirty-third year of Wanli, Zhu Yun and others from the Chu vassal clan robbed the 20,000 taels of silver that Chu King Zhu Huaxuan presented to Emperor Wanli.

Now that he was going back to Beijing with the money, the Chu clan clan thought of this matter. He thought that the current emperor, like Emperor Wanli, was extorting money from the Chu vassal.

Therefore, some members of the Chu vassal clan mustered up the courage to stop Jiang Dejing. Although they did not have the courage to rob any more money, they refused to let Jiang Dejing leave.

Jiang Dejing turned to local officials for help but could not escape. With no other choice, he could only go to court to plead guilty and ask the emperor to make a decision.

In this way, in March, Zhu Youjian received news of the troubles of Tang Fan and Chu Fan one after another.

Both of these things were extremely disgraceful and brought shame to the clan.

Especially when the rituals and music were being remade, major crimes occurred one after another in the clan, which made Zhu Youjian very troubled. He hated the kings of Tang and Chu so much that he wished he could imprison them directly in Fengyang.

But things obviously couldn't be done this way. After thinking about it, Zhu Youjian ordered:

"Bring all the people involved in the case of Tang Fan and Chu Fan to the capital."

"I will ask the Sanfa Division, Zongzheng Temple, and Jinyiwei to conduct a thorough investigation and give the Grandmaster an explanation."

"The affairs of the Tang vassal and Chu vassal are temporarily managed by the nearby princes and royal officials."

I plan to investigate these two cases carefully and handle them strictly so that the clan can take a warning.

The ministers in the court had no objection to this. They also felt that the cases of Tang Fan and Chu Fan were really strange. If it is not handled properly, there may be more trouble in the future.

Therefore, the emperor's order was quickly issued. Those involved in the case of Tang Fan and Chu Fan will be brought to the capital.

Zhu Youjian appointed Kong Zhenyun, the right minister of the Ministry of Punishment, to be responsible for these two cases.

Although Kong Zhenyun serves in the Ministry of Justice, he is actually still responsible for negotiating with the grassland these days.

Because of Zhu Youjian's generosity in paying tribute and preventing Lin Danhan from migrating westward and avoiding a war on the grassland. His reputation on the grassland is unparalleled. Many Mongolian tribes believed in him as emperor.

Especially after word spread that Ming was conferring titles on the grasslands, many tribes were approaching Ming to obtain titles.

After Lin Dan Khan presented the girls from his side, these tribes were inspired and selected beautiful girls to present to the Ming Emperor.

Even the King of Shunyi, who had already been granted the title, was very active in this——

They also wanted to be like King Shunli and become relatives with the emperor.

Kong Zhenyun has been busy with this matter these days. If the emperor hadn't attracted everyone's attention by recreating ritual music, he would probably have been criticized for doing such a thing.

Now that Emperor Tianqi has been buried, the queen is also making preparations for the emperor's concubine. Kong Zhenyun finally freed up his energy from this incident.

In order to reward his merits, Zhu Youjian appointed him to be responsible for the cases of Tang Fan and Chu Fan. In order to have a reason to award annual merit in the future.

Even in order to let Kong Zhenyun perform more meritorious services and to avoid people's criticism of him, Zhu Youjian gave Kong Zhenyun the responsibility for the very difficult case of the Xinjianbo attack case. Let him discuss with Liu Zongzhou and others who studied etiquette and music to solve this case.

With this qualification, Kong Zhenyun can be arranged to join the Etiquette Research Center in the future to participate in the reproduction of rituals and music.

After being so busy, the time soon came to March 20th. Zhu Youjian saw that Queen Zhou was busy getting concubines for him these days, and she was about to celebrate her birthday on March 28th, so he decided to organize Queen Zhou's Qianqiu Festival well, show his importance to the queen, and bring Tang Dynasty to the Queen. The influence of the Fan case and the Chu Fan case were dispersed. (End of chapter)