The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 106 Jiangnan Problems (Subscribe)

The next day, Zhu Cihong slept until the sun was high before waking up.

Thinking of the madness of last night, especially those long legs, is also endless aftertaste, and then finds that there is nothing around her, only Hong Ling stands guard in front of the bed.

"Hong Ling, where is the imperial concubine?"

"Your Majesty, you are awake..."

Hong Ling hurriedly turned around, bent down to help him up, and then explained: "Your Majesty woke up early in the morning and went to court, and ordered the general not to wake up His Majesty, and let His Majesty sleep for a while."

"What time is it?" Zhu Cihong rubbed his eyes, only then did he remember that today seems to be a monthly court meeting.

"Return to Your Majesty, just after Si time, do you want to sleep a little longer, or get up?" Hong Ling asked for instructions.

"Don't sleep, there will be big things in the morning."

Zhu Cilang waved his hand.

It was just past Si time, that is, just past nine o'clock in the morning, and it was only an hour before the ten o'clock court meeting.

If it was all changed to ten o'clock, and he, the emperor, was still late, it would really be unreasonable, not to mention that there was only such a routine court meeting every month.

"It's Your Majesty, come in!" Hong Ling called out as she spoke, and then helped Zhu Cihong to sit on the side of the couch, couldn't help taking a sneak peek, and couldn't help but whispered: "Your Majesty was so powerful last night." fierce!"

"Hehe, that's natural." Thinking of the arrogance of the red lady last night at the beginning, she was killed by herself in the end, throwing away her helmet and abandoning her armor. Said: "Why, do you want to sleep in bed too?"

"I don't dare, I still want to serve His Majesty for another two years." Hong Ling hurriedly waved her hand.

Although she also wanted to push down the little emperor like Sister Hong did, but remembering what happened to Sister Hong last night, she shivered, not to mention she was not qualified to do such a thing.

"Well! I appreciate your temperament, don't worry, I will never break my promise."

Zhu Cihong nodded, very satisfied.

The most important thing in being a human being is to be honest, to do what you say, and to keep your identity in mind at all times.

Last night, if the red lady hadn't played tricks on him first, he would never have forced her.

Immediately, a group of maids came to the bedroom with a lot of utensils and clothes, and began to serve the emperor to wash and dress.

Under Hong Ling's strict surveillance, all the maids watched carefully, not daring to think anything wrong.

Back in the palace, the time is just right.

The civil and military officials drank tea for more than an hour inside the Huangji Gate. They were obviously used to coming to court before dawn, and they couldn't change it for a while.

Inside the Royal Palace.

After the officials visited, Zhu Cihong subconsciously glanced at the red lady, who looked the same as usual.

"Four generals, how is the matter of the farm going?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, the former army has a total of 220 million mu of fertile land, and it will take half a month at most to complete the cultivation."

"Returning to Your Majesty, the rear army has a total of more than 230 million acres of fertile land, and it will be completed in half a month."

Wu Sangui came out first to answer, and Zhou Yuji also hurried out after speaking, followed by Ying Gong and Huang Degong.

"Returning to Your Majesty, the left army has a total of more than two million mu of fertile land, and in ten days, all of them will be cultivated."

"Return to Your Majesty, the right army's 250 million mu of land can be plowed in January at the latest, and can be completed by September [-]th."

After Huang Degong finished speaking, he was more or less ashamed.

"Well, they are all good. The right army is the farthest away and has the most land. It is reasonable to be slower. As long as all the farming is completed in mid-September, there will be no delay."

Zhu Cihong nodded. This time, almost [-]% of the land in Yongping Mansion and Shuntian Mansion was enclosed, and even Baoding Mansion and Hejian Mansion were encircled.

There is no way, the vicinity of the capital is all the land of nobles, and Zhu Cihong turned a blind eye to the three of them deliberately avoiding them. Now that there is a lot of land, there is no need to move those nobles now.

After all, they defended the city with themselves, but the gentry and landlords everywhere surrendered thieves and did not punish them.

"I must hurry up when I get back!"

The four of them answered in unison, in fact, everyone was very skeptical about planting wheat this winter and whether it would be able to grow crops, but they didn't dare to ask.

Zhu Cihong didn't bother to explain to them, and he didn't force it to be promoted. In the drought situation in the north, it is definitely better to grow winter wheat than spring wheat.

As for now being the Little Ice Age, he didn't know whether the wheat seedlings would be frozen to death in winter.

But at most, some seeds will be wasted, and the busy work will be wasted. At worst, the spring wheat will be replanted in the next spring.

"Your Majesty, I have a book to play!" As soon as the four of them retreated, the chief assistant Wei Zaode rushed out to pay respects, fearing that if he was too late, there would be no chance.

"allow!"

Zhu Cihong was a little annoyed that he disturbed his train of thought. After all, the Great Court Conference was only a place to announce things, not a place to discuss politics, and something had to be played in private.

"Qizou Your Majesty, please show Your Majesty how to deal with the officials who defected to thieves from all over the place."

After Wei Zaode finished speaking, all the civil servants pricked up their ears nervously. Apparently, the officials from all over the place were a little uneasy seeing that Zhu Cihong had not been punished for so long.

"This matter will be discussed later. I will make my own decision. Each locality can perform its duties. For the officials who died in the line of duty, the cabinet should draw up a posthumous list as soon as possible, especially Sun Chuanting and Sun Aiqing."

Zhu Cihong waved his hand, very dissatisfied that these guys don't care about the pensions of those civilian officials who died in the country, but worry about those civil officials who are afraid of death.

As for how to deal with it?Needless to say?

Civil officials who surrendered to the intruders were counted as one, and naturally they were all given to commit suicide, and then replaced with a new batch of officials.

Otherwise, how can we be worthy of those civil servants who choose to die for their country?
And the civil servants who had surrendered to build slaves, especially those in Yongping Mansion, had to confiscate their homes and distribute them to their families.

This is to encourage literati integrity, recast the backbone of China, and deter people who are greedy for life and afraid of death.

Of course, the localities are still unstable now, and there is a shortage of alternate civil servants, so he plans to wait until next year's autumn harvest, after Enke, to order them all to die and let them live for another year. He is already kind enough.

"Chen must hurry up!"

Wei Zaode hurriedly replied, not daring to repeat, in fact, he also vaguely guessed His Majesty's plan in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it even if he was beaten to death.

Then Zhu Cihong announced the surrender of the thieves, and then announced four appointments.

He appointed Gao Jie as the general officer in Henan, Ni Yuanlu as the tour envoy in Henan, Liu Liangzuo as the general officer in Shanxi, and Li Banghua as the tour envoy in Shanxi.

Regarding these four appointments, everyone was not surprised. What was surprising was that His Majesty was able to hold back and let the intruder continue to live on.

In the eyes of everyone, His Majesty only needs to let the imperial concubine and empress carry the soldiers, why not easily bring the head of the intruder?

"My dear friends, it has been half a year since I ascended the throne, officials from various southern provinces have shown congratulations, and last year's autumn tax has not yet been escorted to Beijing.

It is reported that officials, gentry and students from all over the south still want to establish a new monarch and split the Ming Dynasty. How do you think this matter should be handled? "

After Zhu Cihong finished speaking, he glanced at the civil servants and generals on the left and right.

Faced with the emperor's inquiry, everyone remained silent, obviously having concerns in their hearts.

Naturally, what everyone was worried about was not that the Jiangnan gang would come to the capital, because they didn't have that ability, but that they were worried about the revenge of the Jiangnan gentry and literati in the future.

After all, as a place of wealth, Jiangnan has always occupied the most important position in the court, and the influence of Jiangnan scholars is also spread all over the country.

"Your Majesty Qi Zuo, all the people in the south of the Yangtze River are really traitors and traitors. Everyone will be punished if they get it. The ministers and concubines invite you to lead an army to conquer!"

After waiting for a long time and seeing that no one spoke, the red lady had no choice but to stand up and pray.

"Your Majesty, what Your Majesty said is very true, and I also invite you to lead an army to conquer!"

Zhou Yuji also stood up.

Seeing that the two took the lead, the other three generals had no choice but to bite the bullet and stand up to fight no matter how worried they were.

The other generals were not qualified to ask for a fight, but they also joined in one after another.

"it is good!"

Zhu Cihong had a satisfied expression on his face, but he was extremely disappointed in his heart. The reason why he asked the red lady not to stand up first was to see the reaction of the generals.

"Qizou Your Majesty, regarding the matter in the south of the Yangtze River, Chen Yan, the former chief assistant, had ulterior motives and spread rumors, which made the whole south of the Yangtze River misunderstand your Majesty and the court.

The minister believed that there was no need to send a large army to the south to conquer this matter, but only a sufficient number of imperial envoys were ordered to go south to clarify the rumors, and the matter could be resolved easily.

The minister is willing to leave Beijing and go south in person. If the hearts of the people in the south of the Yangtze River cannot be restored, the minister is willing to commit suicide and apologize! "

When Wei Zaode saw that the little emperor was really going to send troops to conquer, he also secretly scolded him for being crazy, so he quickly stood up and said.

In his opinion, there is no need to send a large army to Jiangnan's affairs. Today, with hundreds of thousands of troops in hand, he has just defeated the intruders and repelled Jiannu. Unless those people in Jiangnan are crazy, they will continue Engage in division and support a new king.

At this time, most of them are riding a tiger. Firstly, they are worried that His Majesty will settle accounts after autumn, and secondly, they are concerned about face.

At this time, as long as imperial envoys are sent to clarify the rumors, let the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River have a step down, and then announce that they will not be held accountable, all places will definitely rush to express their congratulations to the new emperor on his ascension to the throne.

"Your Majesty, what Elder Wei Ge said is for the sake of the country. Please think twice before your majesty. I would also like to request an order to go south to clarify the rumors for your majesty!"

"Qizou Your Majesty..."

What Wei Zaode could figure out, other civil servants could also figure it out, and they stood up one after another, wanting to snatch this job.

Obviously all understand that this is definitely a huge beauty.

Not only can he make great achievements and make a good impression on His Majesty, but he can also gain great prestige and befriend the gentry, literati and officials in the south of the Yangtze River.

Seeing that His Majesty did not speak, more than a dozen high-ranking officials of the first and second ranks revealed their secrets to each other and started arguing.

Even Ni Yuanlu and Li Banghua, who had just been appointed as tour envoys, joined in.

Unqualified civil servants waved their flags and shouted.

All of a sudden, there was a lot of ugliness and chaos, and they almost didn't do it directly. It can be seen that for the sake of reputation, these civil servants will go all out.

"Crack! Do you think this hall is a vegetable market?"

Zhu Cihong let out a loud shout.

This scared all the civil servants to return to their seats quietly.

"Qi Zou Your Majesty, at this time the northern provinces urgently need to restore their vitality, and it is really not easy to mobilize the people. I believe that most officials and scholars in the south still have their hearts towards the court and His Majesty, but they are only deceived by rumors and a few people with ulterior motives.

If you rashly send a large army to the south for conquest at this time, it is possible that the rumors will be true, and those officials and scholars who are originally interested in the court and His Majesty will be separated from their virtues. I hope Your Majesty will think twice! "

Duke Ding stood up not to be outdone, obviously wanting to seize this opportunity.

Zhou Yuji thought for a while and stood up and said: "Your Majesty, I also think that the rumors should be clarified first. If your Majesty sends an imperial envoy to the south to clarify the rumors, and some people use this to make trouble, then they are really rebellious ministers and thieves. They must be unpopular. Everyone Get it and punish it, and then send a strong army to conquer it, it will get twice the result with half the effort."

After Zhou Yuji finished speaking, the British Duke also stood up and echoed.

Finally, except Hong Niangzi, Liu Fangliang and Li Dakai.

Almost all the generals stood up and advised that the rumors should be clarified first.

Apparently, they joined Hong Niangzi in asking for a fight just now, in order to express their absolute obedience to His Majesty.

But now persuasion is speaking from a rational point of view.

Because in their view, there is really no need to send a large army to conquer Jiangnan.

"It's getting late, it's time for lunch, let's discuss this later!"

Seeing everyone saying that, Zhu Cihong also calmed down, and decided to think carefully about how to deal with those people in Jiangnan after returning home.

(End of this chapter)