Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 429, the emperor is angry

In the imperial palace in the capital, Emperor Hongzhi was chatting and laughing with several court officials.

After defeating the Tartars, even the little prince was beheaded. At least in the next ten years or so, there will be no border troubles in the north of Ming Dynasty. Now, when winter comes, he can sleep peacefully. Good night's sleep.

The problem of Southwest chieftains has also been quickly settled under the policy of reforming the land and returning to the local people. Although there are still a few chieftains who are still stubborn, they have not become a climate. Most of the areas have also changed after the land reform. settle down.

Coupled with the butterfly effect caused by Liu Jin's appearance, Daming's economy is also developing rapidly, and all aspects are thriving.

As an emperor, his life is naturally much better, and he doesn't have many troubles, so he also has time to chat with these ministers.

"Your Majesty, this new Qianqing Palace should be usable. It is so magnificent that I can't help but want to enter it."

At this time, everyone was talking about the Qianqing Palace. The Qianqing Palace was burned down due to a fire last winter. Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao took the initiative to undertake the construction. After nearly a year of construction, it cost millions of taels of silver, and finally It's almost finished, and it's about to be delivered.

The new Qianqing Palace is very majestic, with a reinforced concrete structure, a lot of glass and ceramic tiles, and many designs from later generations, so whether it is outside or inside, it looks very grand and luxurious.

Now it has also become the focus of discussion in the entire capital, and has become a landmark building in the capital. Especially at night, when the Qianqing Palace, which is tens of meters high, is lit up, it is resplendent and radiant, and can be seen in the entire capital. very beautiful.

"If Aiqing wants to see it, we'll go and see it together later. To be honest, I can't wait to move in."

Hiroshi said with a smile.

At this moment, a little yellow door came to the door in a hurry, and handed over a memorial to Xiao Jing. Xiao Jing asked about the situation of the memorial in detail, and he didn't dare to delay, and immediately delivered it in a hurry Hiroji here.

"Your Majesty, there is an urgent memo from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince eight hundred miles away."

Xiao Jing presented it respectfully and said at the same time.

"Oh?"

"The crown prince's memorial?"

"Eight hundred taels for an expedited delivery?"

When Emperor Hongzhi heard it, he immediately became interested. He picked up the memorial and looked at it carefully. As for the ministers beside him, they became curious one by one.

Of course, they knew that Zhu Houzhao went to reward the three armies. This time, they won a big victory and spent tens of millions of taels of silver. Zhu Houzhao followed this matter, and he also severely brushed his sense of existence. Gained some prestige.

Emperor Hongzhi supported this matter with both hands. He is only one son, and sooner or later this position will be passed on to Zhu Houzhao.

Moreover, in the past few years, Emperor Hongzhi obviously felt that his body was not as good as before, and he deliberately cultivated Zhu Houzhao's ability to handle state affairs a long time ago.

This time he showed his face in the army and established his prestige. Of course, he absolutely supported it. This will be very helpful for Zhu Houzhao to control the army after he ascends the throne.

Zhu Houzhao went to reward the three armies, and everyone didn't feel that there was anything wrong, and they all felt that nothing would happen. They just won a big victory. What can happen at this happy time?
Therefore, everyone is curious about what exactly is written in Zhu Houzhao's urgent memorial sent by eight hundred miles.

Everyone looked at Emperor Hongzhi, and saw him looking at the memorial, the smile on his face quickly disappeared, and then his face became gloomy.

"Oops~"

Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, Ma Wensheng, and Zhou Jing cried out inwardly when they saw it.

Something must have happened, otherwise Emperor Hongzhi would never have changed his face so quickly.

"Hmph~ It's lawless!"

After reading the memorial, Emperor Hongzhi threw the memorial angrily away, and he was very angry.

In the memorandum, Zhu Houzhao described to Emperor Hongzhi in detail the situation of his investigation on the frontier army, from weapons and equipment, to military supplies, to military pay, as well as opening horse markets, opening slave markets, and even robbing past merchants. , killing the good and taking the meritorious deeds, etc., all kinds of problems were all brought to Emperor Hongzhi at once.

"Your Majesty, what happened?"

Liu Jian and the others looked at each other and said bravely.

"See for yourself~"

"You all have a look."

Emperor Hongzhi said with a cold face.

Liu Jian built the memorial and read it carefully. The more he read it, the more startled he became. There are too many problems listed above. Turmoil, I don't know how many heads will fall to the ground.

After Liu Jian finished reading, he also slumped down on his chair, and then handed the memorial to Li Dongyang weakly, and Li Dongyang quickly took it over and looked at it quickly.

"This…"

Li Dongyang was also dumbfounded after reading it, and at the same time he immediately understood why Emperor Hongzhi was so furious.

Xie Qian, Ma Wensheng, Zhou Jing, and Zhang Mao also carefully read the memorial one by one. Zhou Jing and Ma Wensheng fell to their knees immediately after finishing it.

"The minister... the minister is guilty!"

Zhou Jing and Ma Wensheng kowtowed heavily and said.

The two of them have inescapable responsibilities for this matter. One is the Minister of the Ministry of Accounting and the other is the Minister of the Ministry of War.

"Guilty, of course you are guilty."

"If the crown prince hadn't gone to inspect the frontier army this time, I wouldn't have known that Ming's army was riddled with holes. No wonder we could only watch helplessly when the Tartars went south."

"Look at the armor and weapons issued by the household department. The armor is cotton armor with only a thin layer. The weapons are iron sheets, which are used for performances."

"And the rice that these soldiers eat is all moldy old rotten rice, and they can't even eat enough."

"The soldiers of the frontier army have not received a single military salary for more than a year. Some people died young because their children were sick and looked down on the doctor because they had no money."

Emperor Hongzhi was completely angry, like an extremely angry lion, he kept saying the things written in the memorandum, and the voice became louder and louder, and the more he said, the more excited he was, so that his words were constantly echoing in the whole palace. People suddenly became trembling.

Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, and Zhang Mao couldn't sit still anymore, and they all knelt down on the ground, with cold sweat on their foreheads, feeling the anger of Emperor Hongzhi.

The old man was really angry.

He used to trust these civil servants too much, and felt that they were very reassuring in their work, and he alienated the military commander Xungui Group, so he was completely smeared about the situation of this army.

His only feeling was that Ming's army was vulnerable to a single battle. Every year the Tartars went south, and every year they shrank their heads.

Every time the tartars went south, he, the emperor, couldn't sleep and was worried, but the ministers below all said that they couldn't beat them, and they would go back when the tartars had robbed enough.

No one ever told me that he wanted to have a good fight with the Tartars, and no one talked about why he couldn't fight.

In fact, can it really beat it?
Not necessarily, this time it won the battle, all the tartars were wiped out, and even the little prince did not escape back to the grassland.

With tens of millions of people in Ming Dynasty, how could it be impossible to defeat the grassland people who only had less than one million people?

It turns out that the root of all this lies in this. The Ming Dynasty's army has long been full of problems and has no combat effectiveness. These civil servants have completely ruined it.

What Emperor Hongzhi was angry with was not only that such a thing happened in the army, but also that he felt that his trust had been fed to the dog, and he trusted these civil servants. Is this how they came to be loyal to the emperor?

"Cough cough~"

Because he was too angry and excited, Emperor Hongzhi couldn't breathe for a while, and his whole body coughed violently.

"Your Majesty, calm down, calm down, the dragon body is important~"

Xiao Jing, Liu Jian and the others quickly said, Xiao Jing stepped forward to support Emperor Hongzhi, and patted Emperor Hongzhi on the back lightly.

"Whoo~"

After a while, Emperor Hongzhi changed and looked at the minister who was kneeling in front of him.

His eyes became cold, time and time again, his trust was fed to the dog, which made the good-natured Emperor Hongzhi completely move to kill.

At this moment, he understood the reason why his ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang started killing. Sometimes, killing may not solve the problem, but it can solve the people who create the problem.

The following courtiers, if you don't establish some prestige, they will think you are easy to fool, and they will not be afraid of you. On the contrary, they will think of ways to restrict you and control you.

His eyes were locked on Zhou Jing, this Zhou Jing, Zhou Paopi, he has nothing else, but knows how to empty his internal money, the treasury is empty, the way he thinks of is to get money from the internal money, But it never occurred to me to levy business tax or the like.

In the past, when he wanted to do something, Zhou Jing had no money to get over him. At this moment, Emperor Hongzhi felt that Zhou Jing was not afraid of himself at all, and used money to limit himself.

Emperor Hongzhi had a gloomy face, thinking quickly in his mind, and soon he made a decision.

"Come here, put Shangshu Zhou Jing of the Ministry of Households and Ma Wensheng, Shangshu of the Ministry of War into the prison~"

Not being merciful, Emperor Hongzhi directly took Zhou Jing and Ma Wensheng down. He was really angry. He had never been so angry about the theft of the official warehouse last time, and he had never touched these six ministers.

But this time, he not only moved Zhou Jing and Ma Wensheng, but also killed them.

　Well, it's time to regain the military power, so things need to get bigger~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)