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Chapter 126

Speaking of the incident in Yangzhou, Shi Kefa came forward to mediate Gao Jie according to the order, which won the opportunity for Zhu Yousong to cut down the vassal by force. It was decided, but he was still the Minister of the Ministry of War, and the post of Minister of the Ministry of War was still held concurrently by Gao Hongtu, the chief assistant of the cabinet.

Shi Kefa felt that the emperor was really a wise king who rewarded every meritorious deed and punished every misbehavior, so he bowed his knees and bowed down, thanking him for his kindness.

Then Zhu Yousong focused on promoting several local military officials. The first one was Liu Zhaoji, a soldier in Yangzhou, who was promoted to the commander of the imperial battalion. This time, he deeply felt the weakness of the imperial battalion. The absence of the Firearms Battalion is like a joke. Most of the time, they still rely on the escort of the Jinyiwei. Of course, the Jinyiwei is responsible for the safety of the emperor in the capital, but when the Yujia left the capital, he had to rely on the imperial camp.

Therefore, after returning to Beijing, he expanded and edited the imperial camp, transferred away from the weak, and added a new firearms camp, equipped with light and heavy firearms such as guns.Then a decree was issued to select strong soldiers from the Jingying soldiers and Huang Degong's department to fill the imperial camp. The expanded imperial camp will reach a scale of 5000 people. Now the imperial camp lacks a general officer.

Zhu Yousong announced in court that Liu Zhaoji would take up this position. This time, Gao Jie sent troops to Yangzhou. Of course, Liu Zhaoji made the greatest contribution. In vain, protecting tens of thousands of people in Yangzhou from the warlord's plunder, and cooperating well with Zhu Yousong's Yizhen ambush, this credit should go down in history.

Zhu Yousong also checked Liu Zhaoji's experience and found that he was also a famous historical general. His ancestral home was in Liaodong.In the process of resisting the popular uprising, he was promoted to the deputy commander-in-chief and commander-in-chief of Liaodong.He used to be a subordinate of Hong Chengchou, governor of Jiliao, and was responsible for training soldiers from the Ningyuan battalions.When the Qing Tartars invaded Jinzhou, Liu Zhaoji was ordered to resist the Qing Dynasty. Historically, after the establishment of the Hongguang regime, Liu Zhaoji served as the governor of the left army, Shi Kefa supervised Yangzhou, Liu followed the army, the Qing army defeated Yangzhou, and Liu Zhaoji died in battle.

It can be seen that this is a loyal general who is capable of running the army, and it is appropriate to hand over the imperial camp to this person for training and management.

Then Zhu Yousong made an exception and promoted the three classic historians of Jiangyin. He only appointed Yan Yingyuan as the admiral of the Beijing camp, Chen Mingyu as the governor of the Beijing camp, and Feng Houdun as the master of the Beijing camp.

As soon as this remark came out, all the officials were in an uproar, because these three people were different from Liu Zhaoji. Liu Zhaoji was born in the general family, with experience and achievements, and was promoted by Zhu Yousong to the commander of the imperial battalion. , which is equivalent to the section-level or sub-section-level of the modern public security bureau. When he was promoted to an important position in the Beijing camp, he recognized that Zhu Yousong had done something out of line.

Immediately Gao Hongtu, Chief Assistant of the Cabinet, Lu Daqi, Secretary of the Household Department, Jiang Riguang, the Taishi, Huang Daozhou, the Taishi Taishi, Liu Zongzhou, the Taifu of the Prince, Zuo Maodi, the imperial envoy of the left capital, Huang Duanbo, the imperial envoy of the right capital, Qu Shixu, the right servant of the household department, and the left servant of the Rites Wu Weiye and others all stood up to oppose it.The nature of these ministers to be worthy of the country, to be upright, not to bow to evil forces, to say no to injustice, to dare to offend Yan Zhizhi, etc. was revealed at this time.

Of course, the one who opposed the most fiercely was Qian Qianyi, Minister of the Ministry of Rites. Guoben, I hope His Majesty will take it back into order, and so on.

Zhu Yousong can still tolerate the above few, because when he borrowed the collective resignation of the cabinet ministers, it was equivalent to reshuffle the six high-ranking officials. , and then to the six high-ranking officials, regardless of their character and qualifications, most of them are highly evaluated by later generations, whether they are masters of Confucianism or historians, or poets, virtuous ministers, or honest officials, etc. Therefore, Zhu Yousong allowed them to touch the dragon to a certain extent Lin, because Zhu Yousong knew that these people were at least loyal to Daming.

The only exception is Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Donglin Forest. In terms of profound knowledge, Qian Gong is undoubtedly a well-educated man and a great poet. Will be willing to marry an old man who is nearly sixty years old.At that time, Qian Qianyi was at home with no job and no power. Liu Rushi was interested in Qian Gong's talent and learning. Later, Qian Qianyi became an official of the Ministry of Rites.

Zhu Yousong is also a person who loves talents, and he also respects this leader of the literary world, but what he respects is only his talent and learning, and he sneers at his character. If Qianyi asked to resign from Shangshu, Zhu Yousong would undoubtedly accept it, but this Mr. Qian did not have such courage. He was different from Wu Weiye and others. Qian Qianyi cared too much about fame. He even valued his own life more than his own life, so that he later became a shameless second minister. It was precisely because of these things that Zhu Yousong looked down on him a little bit.Of course Qian Qianyi didn't know the root cause, he still wanted to improve, and complained when he couldn't realize his wish, but he didn't know that Zhu Yousong didn't demote him, he was already good.

Now he also wants to rebel against the dragon scales, Zhu Yousong is of course unhappy in his heart, secretly thinking that he doesn't even give me face, so why should I save face for you as the majestic king of a country?I can't even promote a few people beyond the rules, and even use the law and the country to suppress me. Do I have to let me tell the feat of Jiangyin Sangong a few months later?It's hard for me to open my mouth, even if I say it, I won't believe it. These ministers, bureaucrats, officials and envoys are sometimes quite annoying, and most of them have something to do with the Donglin Party. Could it be that the old problem is happening again?That being the case, I might as well take the opportunity of admonishing Qian Qianyi to shoot you a few words.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yousong reprimanded Qian Qianyi in front of the court, "Mu Zhai's words are wrong, according to what you say, people can't be appointed only if they are not famous, they can't bear the burden without seniority, and they can't be an official without relatives and nepotism? Jiangyin Sangong, although the officials are small and insignificant, but I have inspected them, all of them have beautiful minds and good plans, and more importantly, the Sangongs are loyal to my Ming Dynasty. Remarkably, it is because of them that the people of Jiangyin can live and work in peace and contentment. Why not use such people with both ability and virtue? I employ people on the basis of talent, and virtue ranks first, followed by talent. In my opinion, those people who deceive the world and steal their reputation and are self-important, even if they have talents in the world and the latitude and longitude, are nothing but trash in my opinion, because these people may become shameful traitors, traitors, Traitors, traitors, such as Gao Jie, Li Chengdong, Gao Jinku, Wu Sangui and others, are all like this!"

Zhu Yousong's insinuations made Qian Qianyi, who regarded himself as the most talented person in the south of the Yangtze River, blush and had nothing to say.But he is working hard in his heart, and he is a foolish king and arbitrarily arbitrary, and he will soon be attractive to you!
(End of this chapter)