Saving the Ming Dynasty: I can exchange bodies with Chongzhen

Chapter 42: The Duke is not a state, the minister is not pure

After eating and drinking, Zhu Changgan asked Wang Chengen to send someone to send Sun Chengzong and Li Banghua back home.

"No need to see me off, old minister." Although Sun Chengzong's face was red from drinking, he shook off the eunuch who came to help him and strode away.

Zhu Changgan couldn't help but nod his head. Sun Chengzong was really in good health, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to lead his entire family to defend Gaoyang City against the Later Jin at the age of 77.

But he still said to Wang Chengen: "Send a few people to follow behind and escort the teacher back to the mansion."

"Meng An, why don't you leave?"

Li Banghua bowed and said, "Your Majesty has asked me to take charge of the Beijing Camp, but now the Beijing Camp is still in the hands of Duke Cheng, Zhu Chunchen. This..."

"Oh, you're talking about this. Since I've asked you to take charge of the Beijing Camp, I'll naturally do what I say. You just need to wait for a few days. I'll deal with Zhu Chunchen, and the Beijing Camp will naturally fall into your hands."

"Ah?" Li Banghua was stunned for a moment, then suddenly understood.

Your Majesty, are you going to take action against Zhu Chunchen?

"Let's go back. It's getting dark and I need to rest." Zhu Changgan glanced at the sky and realized that it was time to exchange bodies again.

"I resign!"

……

After an incense stick of time, when Chongzhen opened his eyes again, he found himself back in the Qianqing Palace.

He looked at the dinner that the palace maids were preparing with burning eyes, and murmured, "Sun Chengzong was actually invited back by him?"

During this period, Chongzhen summoned this teacher several times, but did not let him return to the court. However, he was summoned back by Zhu Changgan at once?

"The people who till the land have their own fields, the people who weave have their own looms, the people who live have their own houses, and the old and the young have someone to rely on." What Chongzhen was repeating were the words that Zhu Changgan and Sun Chengzong had said.

"Very Jane... two at once!"

Sun Chengzong was the person Chongzhen always wanted to recall to the court but was unable to do so, while Li Banghua was the person Chongzhen always wanted to use but was unable to make up his mind.

During Li Banghua's rectification of the Beijing camp, he reduced the number of people who had occupied or falsely occupied military service by more than 5,000 people. The military and political affairs of the Beijing camp improved a lot, but it affected the interests of many people, so there were many court officials who attacked and slandered him.

Inspectors and censors submitted impeachment petitions one after another, and Chongzhen had no choice but to dismiss Li Banghua from his post.

Now that Li Banghua has been summoned to the capital, how can those nobles and civil officials in charge of the Beijing camp let it go?

Zhu Chunchen was particularly brave and Chongzhen valued this fact and therefore put him in charge of the Beijing camp.

"Your Majesty, the Queen and Queen Yi'an are back." Wang Cheng'en knelt down and said in a low voice, observing the changes in the emperor from the corner of his eye from time to time.

Because he knew that the time for the emperor to fall ill seemed to have come.

"Oh~" Chongzhen suddenly came to his senses, "What did the Queen and the others do?"

"The Emperor asked the Queen to distribute clothes to the refugees..."

Wang Chengen repeated what the emperor had said in the afternoon, and Chongzhen then remembered that he seemed to have heard a few words about comforting the people.

"Using copper as a mirror, one can adjust one's attire; using the past as a mirror, one can understand the rise and fall of things; using people as a mirror, one can understand gains and losses."

Chongzhen stood up, looked at the lights in the palace, and fell into deep thought again.

……

In the Chengguo Mansion,
A man who is not tall, less than 1.6 meters in modern society, with a narrow head and face and dark skin. He is Zhu Chunchen, Duke of Chengguo of the Ming Dynasty.

"Oh, it's not very warm!" He sat in the middle wearing a leather jacket, surrounded by a circle of sturdy maids.

He followed the example of Yang Guozhong and used a "flesh screen" to resist the cold wind.

I heard that it has become very popular recently, especially in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, where the weather is very cold and damp. In the winter, the prices of maids with good figures always go up. This is because of this.

"My Lord, I heard that Cao Huachun went to our Beijing Camp to ask for horses?"

"That's right. We don't have any horses in our Beijing Army right now. Where can we get them horses?" "My Lord, what should we do with this batch of imperial horses that we just got from the Imperial Stables?"

"My Lord..."

Below, a group of nobles were looking at him, each with an unnatural look on their face.

"Hey, why are you all so panicking? I'm the commander of the Beijing Camp, not you. If anything goes wrong, I'll be responsible." Zhu Chunchen looked at everyone unhappily, "Did I tell you to take less money every month?"

No one said anything, but everyone was thinking in their hearts: We did take it, but didn’t you take the lion’s share?
"Duke, Li Banghua is back. Do you think His Majesty will..." Xiangcheng Earl Li Shouqi said with a bad look on his face.

Zhu Chunchen waved his hand to interrupt him and said, "I know what you want to say. It is impossible for Li Banghua to take charge of the Beijing Camp again."

"In the beginning, he was disgraced and offended so many court officials. Now, all of them hold important positions. How can he come back whenever he wants?"

"My Lords, as nobles of the Ming Dynasty, as long as we do not rebel, the emperor cannot do anything to us. As for those civil servants, we have given them benefits."

"As long as no one in the court impeaches us, and we have the Shenji Battalion, the Five Army Battalion, and the Three Thousand Battalion, more than a hundred thousand people, who can touch us?"

"Everyone, go back!"

Li Shouqi, the Earl of Xiangcheng, said, "My Lord, I heard that His Majesty gave 50 taels of silver to the Yongwei Battalion. We have a large number of people in the Beijing Battalion, and the food and wages owed by the court last year have not yet arrived. Can you go and ask about it? Otherwise, it will be difficult for the soldiers below to report to their duties!"

"What do you mean it's difficult to explain to the soldiers? Just say you are short of money recently." Zhu Chunchen snorted and breathed out through his nose.

"Are you sure that His Majesty really gave 50 taels to the Yongwei Battalion?"

"It's absolutely true. The Brave Guard Battalion is in an uproar."

Zhu Chunchen pushed aside a plump maid and said, "Your Majesty, this is not right. How can you favor one over the other? We in the Beijing Camp are also soldiers of the Ming Dynasty!"

"No, we have to go to the palace."

……

Prince Xiang's Mansion,
"Hong Tao, is your dress damaged? Look, how come the front of your clothes is stretched to pieces like this?"

"Prince, I'm not going to pay attention to you!" Hong Tao lowered her head and saw that the lining was swollen into small round holes, through which the white satin-like skin was vaguely visible.

"Ah~" She suddenly picked up the foot washing water, which was as red as a ripe persimmon, and ran out as if escaping.

Seeing her blushing face and slight panting, as bright as the rising sun and as dazzling as lotus flowers in the green water, Zhu Changgan couldn't help but smile and closed the door.

Concentrating, blue characters appeared in front of him again.

"Name: Zhu Changgan"

"Main quest: Save the Ming Dynasty Completion: 33/10000"

"The Ming Dynasty's national fortune value: -9888, (the people are living in dire straits, the national fortune is negative, and natural and man-made disasters continue.)"

"The Ming Dynasty has lasted for 27 days"

「Modern lifespan bonus: 27 days」

「Funding reward: 739726.03 yuan」

Sure enough, sending Empress Yi'an and Empress Zhou out to comfort the people was effective.

The national fortune value suddenly increased by one hundred.

"It seems that we can do this more often." Zhu Changgan lay on the bed, and then
“A duke is not a duke, and a pure minister is not pure.

If I were to add one more sentence, it would be: He deserves to die!"

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