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Chapter 446 Emperor Hongguang sits in Beijing (2)

It is now late August, Zhu Yousong set the enthronement ceremony on the first day of October, and gave Gao Hongtu and Wang Duo more than a month of preparation time. More than 30 days seems to be a long time, but the celebration of a king moving the capital, So many things to do, so much work to do.

In particular, Zhu Yousong's move from Nanjing to Beijing was not an ordinary move. This is a king who later traveled through three bodies.

So this relocation is a big move.In the past 30 days, Zhu Yousong has not been idle. During the day, he spends time with the Golden Empress, Chaner, Ma Jinhua, He Xuanjiao, Xing Wanfang, singing and dancing, watching Xiao Liushi's piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, literature and martial arts, and having sex with a few beauties at night.

In addition to these life in the palace, Zhu Yousong of course has to deal with the government affairs. Although he has not yet ascended the throne, there is nothing to do.

The enthronement a month later is just a formality, and governance is the most important thing. Of course, when you move to Beijing, you have to have new ideas and new measures, not just like other emperors. It is as simple as accepting the worship of hundreds of officials on the chair.

The first is Nanjing, the old capital.The Nanjing set is the reform of Chongzhen's old system that should be reformed, but Zhu Yousong still made Nanjing the accompanying capital.

Because he knows that although he has worked hard for more than a year to recover Daming and restore the territory of the Ming Dynasty in the Chongzhen era, but only drove the Tartars out of the Central Plains, the situation of internal and external troubles has not been completely eliminated, and there are two more A country within a country.

That is the Dashun regime and the Daxi regime. Regardless of whether it is recognized in history, these two regimes really exist, and their forces have occupied several provinces. There are thousands of generals, which is a great threat to the weak foundation of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yousong thought about exterminating them all at once, but after years of wars, people's livelihoods withered, and the common people lived in dire straits. Among other things, food and wages were a big problem.

If the national treasury is not enough, natural and man-made disasters will continue everywhere, and it will be unable to support the huge expenditure of the war.

For more than a year, Zhu Yousong fought against the warlords and the Tartars, mainly by confiscating the big tigers in the court and the army, as well as the spoils from the victories. In addition, he took out money from internal funds Part of it, this is the only way to barely keep the war going until now.

If the fight continues, the supply of military rations will be the problem.It is necessary to raise food and payment, although the summer food has come down.But apart from feeding the imperial court and bureaucrats at all levels, there is not enough disaster relief. Increasing taxes, food and salaries from the common people is undoubtedly a way of self-destruction.

The common people are suffering unspeakably now, and in many places there is even a phenomenon of hungry people eating each other. Adding to their burden will undoubtedly force the people to rebel against the government. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have not settled yet.

It is necessary to reduce barriers and taxes to the common people in order to gain their support, but also to increase income. This is a contradiction. To solve this contradiction, we must recuperate and vigorously develop production. Undoubtedly, it is a risky move, and it must be well planned.

In addition, Jiangnan is not stable, not to mention others, Zheng Zhilong, who was born as a pirate, is not a fuel-efficient lamp.

What Zhu Yousong has to do now is to take a breather, to recuperate on the one hand, and to strengthen military training on the other hand. When the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong, and the soldiers have enough food, it is easy to wipe out these rogues, and he has to expand the territory.

In the future, when he visits the south of the Yangtze River or the imperial conquest, Nanjing can be used as a temporary capital.

Therefore, Zhu Yousong continued the practice of Emperor Chongzhen, which can be regarded as maintaining the characteristics of the late Ming Dynasty. A group of people was retained in Nanjing, including eunuchs and Jinyiwei, but the staffing was reduced by [-]%, leaving only [-]%.

Jiang Riguang, Liu Zongzhou, and Huang Daozhou, who were already old, were allowed to run the accompanying capital in Nanjing from the town, leaving a [-] army in the military. Yan Yingyuan and other Jiangyin three princes were responsible for the defense of Nanjing. The Jingying soldiers in Beijing.

Then Zhu Yousong issued a decree to abolish the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and set up the Palace Marshal of the Beijing Camp, responsible for guarding the capital. The Yulin Army in the city also has a staff of 15. There is one commander, one commander, and one commander. The Yulin Army is directly responsible to Zhu Yousong, and neither the Ministry of War nor the cabinet has the right to transfer.

There are still six ministries, but the political power and military power are separated. From then on, the chief assistant of the cabinet can no longer be the Minister of the Ministry of War, and the local civil servants are no longer allowed to hold military titles.

Since the establishment of the country by Emperor Hongwu Zhu Yuanzhang, the bane of civil officials suppressing generals in the Ming Dynasty has been planted.

Zhu Yuanzhang thought he was clever, and drove away Meng Yuan in the north, and wiped out the Southern Han king Chen Youliang and Suzhou king Zhang Shicheng in the south, and wiped out all the armed separatist forces in various places.

These generals are all flying birds, and their good bows are hidden.If you can help him inquire now, it is possible to overthrow his world in the future. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang designed to wipe out almost all the Huaixi 24 generals who fought the world with him.

But he was still worried about the military generals, so he let the civil officials suppress the military generals. From then on, all the powerful ministers in the court were civilian officials, and some even held military titles. , They have no military power, and they can't move a single soldier.

This is the unique Weisuo system of the Ming Dynasty. When wars broke out, the emperor appointed military officers to transfer troops from the Weisuo with imperial decree arrows, and returned these troops to the Weisuo where they returned after the battle.

In this way, the strength of the generals was greatly weakened, and there was no threat to his central government.But there are advantages and disadvantages. The biggest disadvantage is that civil officials suppress military generals, and it is easy to win military generals, so they become arrogant and domineering, form cliques for private interests, and even fight against the imperial court. This is the later party struggle.

Party struggle was one of the reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

Another big disadvantage is that under the guard system, military discipline is abolished and training is neglected.This led to a serious decline in the quality of soldiers, so that in the late Ming Dynasty, it was hard to return.Daming's regular army can't beat the mountain bandits, let alone the Tartars outside the pass.Every time a battle starts, you can only rely on cannons or fortifications to defend passively. There is no chance of winning in a field battle.

Zhu Yousong, as a time traveler, of course knew the disadvantages of the Ming Dynasty. To change these, he must radically eradicate them from the system, so he carried out drastic reforms on these.

The result of Zhu Yousong's doing this is that civil officials and military generals are on an equal footing, preparing for the next step of training soldiers and martial arts.

After many days of preparation, a great empire with arbitrary imperial power is about to emerge.

(End of this chapter)