Back to the end of the Ming Dynasty when the emperor

Chapter 770

For more than ten days in a row, Zhu Yousong did not go to court.Accompanied by the Golden Empress and several concubines, a feast of royal wine, a full feast of Man and Han, listening to songs and watching dances, playing the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, playing the flute every night, Zhu Yousong really enjoyed the life of an emperor for half a month.

The current Ming Dynasty is far from the Ming Dynasty when Zhu Yousong first crossed over four years ago.

The situation of internal and external troubles, riddled with holes, precarious and precarious has long since ceased to exist.The factional struggles that wrecked the country, warlords separatist rule, refugees everywhere, thieves swarmed, and Tartars rampant, all these have become history.

In the current Ming Dynasty, the Tartars were expelled, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Zheng Zhilong and other giant crocodiles and bandits all sincerely surrendered to the court. Such a big banditry was uprooted, and even the red-haired sons who had occupied Taiwan for many years were wiped out.

The domestic small banditry has been deterred, and the cabinet has implemented Zhu Yousong's tax cuts and tax cuts in recent years, helping the weak and disaster relief, developing agriculture and business, taxing the rich, and hundreds of officials taking the lead in paying taxes, etc., small bandits They were disbanded one after another, and some took the initiative to surrender to the local government and plead guilty, and became obedient citizens.Some self-destructed on the top of the mountain and disappeared without a trace.

The Ming Dynasty saw a rare stable situation, the government was smooth and the people were harmonious, the people lived and worked in peace, and the economy was on the fast track to recovery.

The national treasury, which had been in deficit for many years, finally had a bottom, and the internal funds became richer year by year.

As for the ambitious Qing Dynasty outside the pass and the Mongol Tartars, the prairie eagles who were not willing to lag behind, they still stared at Ming Dynasty.

But now they are no longer serious problems for Zhu Yousong, but just scabies.

Zhu Yousong can finally live with peace of mind for a while.

However, these comfortable days of the emperor did not dampen Zhu Yousong's will to forge ahead. If we say that from time travel to the present, these five years are his plan to restore the country, to survive and to fight for the restoration of Ming Dynasty.

Then, it's time to advance his plan to strengthen the country.

Predating the weak and the strong will always be the law of survival in this world. Human beings are a type of creature living in nature, so of course they must apply the law of survival in the natural world.

The law of survival in nature was established long before Darwin discovered it, survival of the fittest and survival of the fittest.As small as an animal or plant, as large as a country, as long as they are in this natural world, there is no exception.

A weak country without diplomacy will be beaten if it falls behind.Before time travel, Zhu Yousong had already accepted this idea.Therefore, Zhu Yousong must carry out his great plan to strengthen the country. He must not be content with the status quo, stagnate, be arrogant, and close the country. He will only harm others, himself, and future generations.

He strives for survival, dominates the world, dare not speak of too far-reaching goals, on this earth, any place where the sun can shine must be his territory, and all animals that walk on two legs and can talk must bow their heads and bow their heads. Pay tribute every year.

For such a goal, he has to implement the plan to strengthen the country.

A strong country must have a strong army, of course he had to start with training new troops.

In fact, Zhu Yousong has long been determined to reorganize the army. Even if he does not implement the plan to strengthen the country, this innovation is imperative.

Because Zhu Yousong has a lot of troops, but most of them are adapted from the old troops of the Ming Dynasty.Needless to say, the original Jingying soldiers and Jinyiwei, the warlords of the four towns, and Zuo Liangyu's army, that is, the local army of each province, plus the various bandits incorporated, Li Zicheng's, Zhang Xianzhong's, including Zheng Jiajun, are really diverse. Son, good and bad.

Zhu Yousong's first military training was due to time constraints. It was Liu Zhaoji who trained him a new imperial army. The scale was small and the number was limited. There were only a few thousand people. Hundred holes, beyond recognition, are far from being able to meet the needs of the current war.

Now that there is time and national strength, the Ming Dynasty has millions of troops, and it is necessary to carry out reforms, train new troops, eliminate those mobs, comprehensively improve the combat effectiveness of the troops, and change the uneven situation of the troops.

Therefore, Zhu Yousong has been thinking about these issues in the past half month, apart from eating, drinking and having fun with the concubine Mei, and he has matured now.

Today is his first big court after his triumphant return to Beijing, also known as early court.

Before dawn, all civil and military officials were waiting outside the Wuchao gate.

Until the imperial drum rang three times, Zhu Yousong sat high in the Golden Palace of Eight Treasures, the gate of the palace was wide open, and hundreds of officials came in one after another.

Arranged in order of rank, after standing up, kneel down on the ground, kowtow to the top, and shout long live.

Such a formation was often seen by Zhu Yousong during the imperial conquests.But only now, that is, only when he sits on the Eight Treasures Golden Hall in the capital and accepts the worship of all the officials, is the most formal and can make him feel like he is in the world.

"Everyone who loves you is free from courtesy." Zhu Yousong accepted the worship of all the officials, his face was full of spring breeze, and he was in a very happy mood.

"Thank you, long live." All the officials agreed in unison, stood up, still lined up neatly, and waited for the hadith.

The great eunuch Lu Jiude shouted in his special voice: "If there is a book to play early, if there is no book, the curtain will retreat—"

This is the office mode of the ancient emperors. Civil and military officials have to freshen up every four shifts. Then the civil officials sit in sedan chairs, and the generals ride horses. They rush to the gate of Wuchao and wait all the time.

Lao Gao waited until the sun rose, the emperor was sitting there, and the eunuch shouted like this, if no one answered, the eunuch could directly announce his retreat from the court, and then all the civil and military officials could go back.

But today is different.As soon as Lu Jiude finished speaking, someone shouted, "I have a book to play."

Gao Hongtu, the chief assistant of the cabinet, went out to give a salute, reported the situation of the cabinet in the past few years, and then presented the notebook to Zhu Yousong.

A eunuch submitted it, and Zhu Yousong put it on the Longshu case, and then six high-ranking officials played the report. Zhu Yousong interrupted them with a wave of his hand and asked them to present all the notes.

He has not been in the court for the past few years, and there must be some memorials in the Sixth Department of the Cabinet.

Zhu Yousong didn't want to be Chongzhen, he had to do everything by himself.Employing people and doubting people.No one believed it.Yuan Chonghuan, Sun Chengzong, Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, Hong Chengchou, these all-powerful figures can be said to be the pillars of the Ming Dynasty, but Emperor Chongzhen did not trust anyone, so these people except Hong Chengchou who turned to the Tartars and became a traitor, none of them are good end up.

Otherwise, would Li Zicheng's army be able to attack Beijing?Even if Wu Sangui surrendered to the Tartars and opened the gates of Shanhaiguan, so what?With a mere 10 and eight banners, the Ming Dynasty at that time had more than a million troops. If Emperor Chongzhen could control it well, Huang Taiji and Dorgon and Duoduo would have been submerged in the vast ocean of the Ming army.

However, Emperor Chongzhen was suspicious of others while using them, and even sent people to monitor them. In the prison, Sun Chuanting was exhausted to death.Although Lu Xiangsheng died at the hands of the Tartars, in fact, he was killed by his own people.After Hong Chengchou, whom Emperor Chongzhen trusted the most, was captured by the Tartars, Emperor Chongzhen personally worshiped the heroic spirit for him in Beijing and mourned for him. When Hong Chengchou knelt down in front of Huang Taiji and bowed his head to profess his minister, he became the biggest laughing stock in history.

These humerus ministers died and fled, the internal party struggle intensified, and the civil and military officials were separated from each other, like a mess of scattered sand.

Only then did Li Zicheng's peasant army and the Tartars outside the pass have an opportunity.From this point of view, Emperor Chongzhen, who was self-willed and suspicious by nature, forced himself to hang himself.

History is a mirror, not to mention that this mirror has not gone away. Of course, Zhu Yousong can't follow his old path. He doesn't need to ask more about the routine of civil and military officials.Just hand it over to the cabinet and the supervisor of ceremonies. He completely delegates power and makes the best use of his talents. When necessary, he will report to him as the emperor.

Therefore, Zhu Yousong finished processing the documents that had been accumulated for several years by the six cabinet ministries in a few words today.After all the officials have finished playing, it's up to him, the emperor, to implement his plan to strengthen the country.

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