Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 246 Jingtai casts money to replace the banknote minister and discusses to welcome back the emperor
Although the ministers did not object to the emperor living in the gardens in the western suburbs, Yuquan Mountain was thirty miles away from the Forbidden City. Chen Xun asked the questions in their hearts for everyone:

"May I ask Your Majesty, how will you handle government affairs in the future? How will the court meeting be conducted?"

Zhu Qiyu smiled and said: "You can deal with the government affairs, I am not a person who likes to hold on to power, and I don't want to read the memorial every day.

In the future, a full-time post biography will be added in the document room, and the normal playbooks will be sent to me at noon every day, and the urgent playbooks will be delivered urgently by the postmen.

As for the court meeting, there is a particularly important matter, you come to Yuquan Mountain to see me.If there is no urgent matter, and there is no summon from me, you can just stick to your own duties.Don't worry, I won't bother you. "

When everyone heard the words, they all nodded in agreement.Now that Wala has been hit hard, the north has temporarily stopped, and there is no urgent matter for a while, so there is no need to pursue timeliness too much.

The most important thing is that the current ministers don't know that there are emperors like Jiajing and Wanli who have not been in court for decades.

According to the experience of Hongwu, Jianwen, Yongle, Hongxi, Xuande, and Zhengtong, the ministers subconsciously believed that all the emperors of Ming Dynasty loved the Forbidden City very much.

Today, the emperor was going to live in Yuquan Mountain for a long time, and the ministers understood it as an act of humility, showing to the world that he had no choice but to assume the throne and was not attached to power.

When the throne is stabilized, the emperor will come back in a hurry, and under the unanimous request of the ministers, he will "reluctantly" enter the main Qing Palace.

Anyway, the ministers understood it this way.

Of course, the ministers have another interpretation: this son Xiaofu, the Emperor Jingtai in front of him loves to play as much as Emperor Xuanzong.

Among the four emperors Renzong, Xuanzong, Zhengtong, and Jingtai, except for Zhengtong, the other three are very lustful.

In terms of life, the orthodox emperor Zhu Qizhen is the most frugal and peaceful one.

Most of the ministers present have experienced the Xuande Dynasty. The emperor not only loved to fight crickets, but also loved to go out of the palace for a walk, sleeping with girls, playing with famous prostitutes, and staying outside the palace. Xuanzong did nothing less.

So the ministers felt that the current Emperor Jingtai also wanted to go out to play with his favorite concubines, and he would come back when he got tired of playing.

Seeing that the ministers were so talkative, Zhu Qiyu was afraid that these people would repent, so he quickly changed the topic.

The first difficulty in Jingtai's reform was to scrap banknotes, cast copper coins, and rebuild the currency credit of the Ming court.

Take a few scraps of paper and exchange them for real gold and silver in the hands of the common people. You can no longer do this kind of immoral thing in the future.

Zhu Qiyu gave a brief signal to Zhou Chen, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, and Zhou Chen took out a handful of copper coins from his pocket and passed it on to everyone present.

Chen Xun and others took a look, only to see that the copper color is purple, and the production is exquisite and unified.

The four characters on the front are: Jingtai Tongbao.

The eight characters on the back are: people-oriented, rejuvenating the Ming Dynasty.

Qian Wen is elegant, with dignified strokes, and the overall texture of copper coins is excellent visible to the naked eye, even surpassing the best-known 'Yongle Tongbao'.

The ministers secretly commented in their hearts: the money is good money, but the emperor is always a little ridiculous.There is no problem with the words Jingtai Tongbao on the front.But on the back, the inner circle is "people-oriented", and the word "Zhongxing Daming" is added on the back circle.

It's not that this is not possible, it's just that the copper coins cast by the previous Ming emperors were all barebacked and uneducated.It is a bit novel to add eight characters on the back in one breath.

Without waiting for everyone to ask questions, Zhu Qiyu took the initiative to explain: "The eight characters on the back, one purpose is to spread my governance philosophy to the world. The real rest and recuperation of the people all over the world.

Another purpose is to prevent treacherous people from cutting off the corners of copper coins, collecting them together and recasting them.

You go back and discuss it first, and then the Ministry of Industry will distribute the sample money to civil and military officials.

Within five years, the Daming Banknotes will be abolished, and gold, silver and copper coins will be circulated together as the official currency.Jingtai Tongbao will eventually completely replace Daming Banknotes. "

Chen Xun asked curiously: "Dare to ask Your Majesty, which government offices will cast the copper coins?"

Zhu Qiyu replied: "Only the Baoyuan Bureau of the Ministry of Industry is allowed to cast in Beijing, and the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Metropolitan Procuratorate supervise the production, and then send it to the world for circulation.

The Nanjing Ministry of Industry and the provincial and local governments have no right to cast.Private foundry, beheading the whole family. "

The ministers looked at each other when they heard the words. Changing the official currency is a huge project, and it is not easy to draw conclusions.It's better to go down to the court and let the courtiers talk about it slowly.

Seeing nothing to say, Zhu Qiyu was about to get up and go back to the room.

At this time, Chen Xun took out another memorial and reported to Zhu Qiyu: "Your Majesty, Zhou Xuan of the Imperial Academy has published a memorial, requesting to pre-set the place where the emperor will return in the future."

When Zhu Qiyu heard this, he didn't understand for a moment: "What is the place where the emperor returns?"

Chen Xun replied: "What Zhou Xuan said in his book means that the palace will be set up in advance, so that the emperor can live in it when he returns from hunting in the north."

"Didn't I already say that when Eldest Brother comes back, he will still live in Qianqing Palace, and all important affairs of the country will be dealt with by Elder Brother. Why does Zhou Xuan still play?"

Zhu Qiyu took Zhou Xuan's memorabilia and read it in person. Zhou Xuan first cited Tang Xuanzong and Tang Suzong's father and son as examples, and then wrote:
In the future, the Hulu will be defeated, and the emperor will return.It is also advisable to predict the place where the emperor will return in the future. It is not only the original intention of the sage not to lose respect, but the kindness of the whole brother is enough to explain the doubts that have been caused by the first.

Zhu Qiyu looked left and right, thought for a long time, and finally understood the meaning: Zhou Xuan's suggestion was that after the Supreme Emperor came back, he would no longer visit the court and no longer hear about state affairs.Get him a separate forbidden palace and let him sit idle.

Isn't this an advanced version of imprisoning Nangong?

I have to sigh, the thinking of these ministers is too advanced, now the Supreme Emperor doesn't know where he has been chased, so he is thinking about what will happen after welcoming him back.

Zhu Qiyu was a little confused about who this deal was aimed at.

Seeing that the emperor did not reply for a long time, Chen Xun urged him softly.

Zhu Qiyu came back to his senses, and handed the memorial back: "After the Supreme Emperor came back, he will live in the Qianqing Palace, I have made up my mind, and let the ministers stop arguing.

Also, the bitter cold beyond the Great Wall, leaving the Supreme Emperor alone is not a problem.Send another mission to send the daily necessities to the Supreme Emperor. "

Chen Xun asked: "Your Majesty, who should be sent as an envoy?"

"Send Li Xian and Li Shi to go, let the Queen Mother and Empress prepare some items tomorrow, both of them are loyal ministers of the Supreme Emperor, and now that the emperor is suffering, I don't think they are in the mood to celebrate the New Year at home.

So let them pack up and go the day after tomorrow.First go to Datong, take the items left by the emperor and concubines, and then pass through Yanghe and go out to Wala. "

Everyone took the order and retired together.

At this time in Wala, the wind and snow are blowing, and the bitter cold is abnormal.

He also took the remnant soldiers and defeated generals first, and has been hiding in Tibet, living in no fixed place.

And now the coalition forces of Tuotuobuhua and Ara Zhiyuan have the complete initiative.The army of the two camped in a leeward place, surrounded by mountains and rivers, where it was warm and comfortable.

When the main force of the Ming army returned to the division before, they left a huge amount of supplies for the two.Cotton clothes, felt tents, grain, and fodder are all abundant.Enough for an army of [-] to survive the cold winter safely.

The two of them only need to send out scouts to search for the army first.

But it was completely different in the first place, and they could only flee around with the remnants of the defeated soldiers who were insufficiently supplied and lacked clothing and food.If he stayed in a fixed camp and was discovered by Tuotuobuhua and Ara Zhiyuan, then the cavalry faced cavalry, and once they were bitten, the consequences would be disastrous.

First of all, Tuotuobuhua and Arazhiyuan are already in the same situation, and they are irreconcilable.These two people are not as kind as the emperor, who can wipe them out, but deliberately let them go first.

As for Zhu Qizhen, he has never experienced such hardship in his life.In the past, I used to offer game or something from time to time, but don't even think about it now.

First of all, his attitude towards Zhu Qizhen has already changed, and the original respect and courtesy are gone.If it wasn't for the scruples about Daming's prosperity, he would even have the heart to beat and scold the Supreme Emperor.

(End of this chapter)