Chapter 493: Heaven is angry and people are resentful
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Late one night in the fourth month of the 19th year of Yongle, the city of Beijing suddenly became stormy, mixed with bursts of thunder. Zhu Di, who was just preparing to move the capital, heard the news, and immediately felt ominous in his heart, because such an unprecedented fire will definitely cause turmoil in the government, especially for his intention to move the capital just now, such a "warning from heaven" is very strict, I am afraid that it will cause panic among many people, and those courtiers who oppose the relocation of the capital must seize the opportunity of this anger and resentment.
Zhu Di guessed correctly, for such a major event of "heavenly anger and resentment", among the civil and military officials of the imperial court, it will definitely not be so calm, and the first to attack is Xiao Yi, the director of the Ministry of Rites. He once served as the director of the Ministry of Literature, and later Zhu Di saw that he was capable, and was promoted to the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, which was still a favor to him, who knew that this time he was the first to take the lead, the six-grade official believed: The three major halls suffered lightning strikes because of the relocation of the capital. Moving the national capital from Nanjing to Beijing not only made everything inconvenient, but even the imperial veins of the Ming Dynasty were left in the south of the Yangtze River. This is a big disrespectful thing, with the Ministry of Rites taking the lead, other yamen have also followed suit, for a while Zhu Di's dragon case was in front of the Shangshu criticism Yongle Qian is the ancestral training of abandoning Hongwu, which made Zhu Di, who was bent on moving the capital, extremely angry, he thought that Xiao Yi linked the relocation of the capital with the lightning strike of the three major halls, which was completely deliberate slander.
Therefore, he made a decision almost immediately: ordered Jinyi Wei to arrest Xiao Yi into the Beizhen Fusi Prison, and without any interrogation, he was sentenced to death for "slandering the king", it is said that such a thunderous method should be enough to shock those officials, but there are really a few hard bones among the officials of the Ming Dynasty, in Zhu Di's thunderous means, this matter has not been suppressed, Xiao Yi's views are still many people among the officials continue to play and fold, most of these officials are science and technology officials. The branch refers to six branches, and the road refers to thirteen. The six divisions were established corresponding to the six departments of officials, households, rituals, soldiers, criminals, and workers, and were the supervision departments of the six inspection departments. The establishment of the six departments is forty people, and the person in charge of each department is called all to the matter, and the seven products are in the middle. The rest are called to give things, and they are eight products. The thirteen provinces correspond to the provinces of the country, and there were only thirteen provinces in the country at that time. The thirteen imperial histories are all under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Procuratorate, and the official rank of the imperial history is similar to that in the matter.
The two yamen are similar to today's Ministry of Supervision and the Audit Office, but the level is much lower, but the power is very great, plus these people are selected from among the young officials, they can be regarded as new to the official career, and they will not be contaminated with too many official vices, and they dare to impeach the lawless magnates as officials, so they were relied on by Zhu Di.
But Zhu Di really didn't expect that those officials who seemed to oppose on weekdays didn't react much after they killed Xiao Yi, the head of the Ministry of Rites, but these officials thought that the emperor "went to Jinling lightly and hurt the country's body".
At the beginning, Zhu Di said that he knew that these officials did not enter the oil and salt, and after talking for a long time, he only recognized that "going to Jinling lightly will hurt the national body." ”
Zhu Di is not a very patient person, seeing that he is the king of a country, he has been talking for a long time, and the other party is not bowing his head, and he is very annoyed, and he wants to kill a few Liliwei, but these are officials, and they can't be killed like Xiao Yi. On a whim, he came up with a way to get these officials and ministers to kneel outside the noon gate to argue. Whether it is good or not to move the capital will allow both sides to express their opinions.
I am afraid that only Zhu Di can come up with such a method, at that time it was the time of "rain during the Qingming Festival", on the square outside the noon gate, the officials and ministers knelt on both sides, and they were all drenched like chickens in soup, but no one felt embarrassed or insulted. They argued so badly that there was no result for a day. Zhu Di asked them to come back the next day at noon gate to kneel down and debate. The rain was still falling unhurriedly, and Zhu Di watched unhurriedly from the city tower. The officials knelt down in the rain and argued unrelentingly. This scene looks a little funny, but it is very effective, those officials argued, but found that the emperor didn't care at all, more and more people joined every day, and in the end it was those ministers of the ministries, so tossed, all the ministers of the ministries and the officials of the science and technology saw clearly the emperor's determination to move the capital, even if the sky was angry and the people were resentful, the emperor would not change his mind.
After this commotion, no one objected, and since then the Jinluan Palace of the Ming Dynasty has been sitting in Beijing, and this sitting has been almost ten years, and nothing major has happened in the past ten years.
For this incident back then, Zhu Gaochi still remembers it vividly, and sometimes he can't help but be a little scared when he thinks of it, especially the fire that fell from the sky, turning the three major halls of Fengtian, Huacani, and Jinshen into ashes, which made him a little afraid from the bottom of his heart, and he also disliked these three palaces very much from the bottom of his bones.
The imperial study is located in the northeast of the Forbidden City Ningshou Palace Garden at the north end, facing south to north by the red wall, east and west a total of nine, is an integral part of the Ningshou Palace complex, its middle front eaves under the hanging of the imperial study three block letters, the room layout is Zhu Gaochi according to his own preferences let people arrange, the indoor space is full of Chen Shuge, Kang case, Kang several, incense table, embroidery pier, program and other weekday office utensils, these appliances are not big, that is thought to be attributed to the emperor's imperial study, the indoor space is not large, but is narrow and tortuous, Therefore, the arrangement of things is mostly fine and small, on the wall, in addition to the silk, paper stickers, but also hung with the royal pen words, landscapes, flowers and birds, etc., hanging screens, one by one embellishment, it looks very elegant.
Zhu Gaochi sat down on the dragon chair in the study with the support of the eunuch, and the eunuch Haitao carefully opened the fold, there are not many things on today's fold, except for a few small things, there are no big big things, but there are two major things that need to be dealt with by the emperor personally.
The first thing is that the new emperor has been on the throne for the second year, and according to the rules, the year at the beginning of each era name is called the first year. After the new emperor ascended the throne, he generally had to change the name of the year, called "change the yuan", that is, after changing the yuan, the name of the new emperor can be officially announced to the world.
The second thing, which seems to be a bit troublesome, is the problem of Mongolia, the old enemy of the Ming Dynasty.
This problem is not a big deal, Mongolia since the retreat to Mobei, by Emperor Taizu several northern expeditions, especially the battle of Lan Yu in the fishing sea, basically destroyed the strength of the Northern Yuan, this battle Lan Yu won Wu Wang Duoer, acting Wang Darima and Pingzhang below the official family of 3,000 people, more than 77,000 men and women, as well as treasure seals, symbols, gold and silver seals and other items, horses, camels, cattle, sheep more than 150,000 heads, and burned its armor and accumulated countless numbers. Basically destroyed the strength of the remnant Yuan, but after all, it was not eliminated, after which Zhu Yuanzhang died, Emperor Jianwen ascended the throne, began to cut the domain, Yan King Zhu Di to the court has a rebel minister, Fengtian Jing, fought a four-year civil war, and in these four years, the former Mongolia has also grown rapidly, the original gold family and Emperor Jianwen were usurped by the ghost Li Chi who did not belong to the gold family in four years, and the country is called Tatar, this person is also a powerful character, abolished the Yuan Dynasty name, and to the Ming Dynasty, established a tributary relationship. From then on, the northern border entered a period of peace, but unfortunately the relationship was not very long, and only six years later, the Tatar Taipo Arutai killed Guilichi and embraced the Yuan dynasty clan Benyasuri as khan.
But at this time, Mongolia has been divided into three parts, namely the Mongolian headquarters (that is, Tatar), Warat, Uliangha Sanwei, the three forces are each involved, each has its own fears, so it has not been enough to threaten the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty is also secretly divided and supported one of the parties, although the Mongolian power has grown, but it is not enough to threaten the Ming Dynasty fundamentally.
It wasn't until the new leader of the Tatars, Benyasri, and the Taishi Arutai rebuilt the Tatars, so that this golden family, which was not very powerful among the three forces, quickly became stronger, and fought for many years, fighting Uliangha in the east and Warat in the west, although it did not have much effect, and it was a momentary momentum.
This momentum immediately attracted Zhu Di's attention, Zhu Di is eloquent and strategic, since he will not make the former enemy stronger, when the Tatar moved, Zhu Di quickly responded, he preceded Yongle in the seventh year of the warat leader Mahamu as the king of Shunning, and provided grain and grass, iron, gunpowder assistance, to help them fight, Warat took advantage of the situation to defeat the attack of Benjamli and Arutai, the Tatar power was weakened a lot, and then, Zhu Di ordered all the soldiers north of the Yangtze River who could be mobilized, immediately all to the north of the assembly, For a while, countless people and horses north of the Yangtze River began to march to the assembly place, to January of the eighth year of Yongle, the army gathered 500,000 troops, under the personal leadership of Zhu Di, began to personally conquer Mongolia, and destroyed all the forces of Tatar in one fell swoop, Arutai asked for help everywhere but no one helped, in desperation, he formally paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty in the winter of the eighth year of Yongle, and submitted to the Ming Dynasty, since then the border of the Ming Dynasty has been quiet.
But there was one less opponent, the strength of Mongolia grew again, this time it was Warat, under the rule of the leader Mahamu, Warat grew rapidly, Warat began to continue to encroach on the territory of Western Mongolia, within a few years, Warat's strength became very strong for a while, Mahamu also moved to unify Mongolia, the idea of restoring the Fù Empire, he set up Taliba (the golden family Alibugo line) as Khan, and also invaded Horin.
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