Chengguo Gong Zhu Chunchen's invitation made the civil and military officials have some discussions, but the voice is not loud.

Jiang Fengyuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, coughed and said: "Your Majesty, the ministers think it is impossible, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is still young, and it is not suitable to contact the homeless." ”

Xie Sheng, the secretary of the ministry, also went out to second, thinking that it was impossible. Jiang Fengyuan and Xie Sheng are Zhu Cihong's teachers, and they are also from the East Palace, so they naturally have to think about Zhu Cihong.

Chongzhen stood up, frowned, paced slowly, and said secretly in his heart, "This world is my Zhu family after all, but I can't watch the people suffer at the feet of the Son of Heaven." ”

Wen Tiren, the head of the cabinet, who had not spoken, coughed heavily, as if he had not come up in one breath and was about to hang up.

Wen Tiren relieved himself, and then he held the wat board and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the East Palace, as the prince of the country, is good to go out of the palace to see the people's suffering, and he can be a benevolent monarch like His Majesty in the future." ”

Wen Tiren is worthy of being a veteran of officialdom, and this little fart made Emperor Chongzhen feel comfortable for a while.

Jiang Fengyuan continued to go out of class and said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can be safe and sound in the imperial city when he leaves the palace, but if it is in the outer city, where there are many people and tens of thousands of displaced people, it will frighten His Royal Highness's daughter. ”

Jiang Fengyuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, has a good writing and talent, but he has no great political ability and rarely has disputes with others, and now he can oppose Wen Tiren, the first assistant of the cabinet, in person, which surprised many people and made Zhu Cihong very moved.

Wen Tiren glanced at Jiang Fengyuan and said, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is now in charge of the Five Thousand Brave Guard Battalion, and his safety is safe. ”

Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, immediately jumped out to second, and then several ministers came out to second.

Xie Sheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, saw that Wen Tiren was already angry, so he didn't dare to speak out to support Jiang Fengyuan, although Xie Sheng was serious, he was cautious and conformed to the situation. Since he became an official in Beijing, he has been cautious in his words and deeds for 27 years.

It was not until the year before last that Emperor Chongzhen reorganized the dynasty and appointed loyal ministers, and Xie Sheng was appointed as the secretary of the ministry for his serious and outstanding achievements.

Zhu Cihong squinted his eyes and stared at Wen Tiren, wondering in his heart what this old man and Cheng Guogong were doing, and actually let him out of the palace to take care of the people.

Emperor Chongzhen stopped pacing, and finally made up his mind, and ordered Zhu Cihong to leave the palace to care for the people in the near future. After hearing the result, Wen Tiren, Cheng Guogong and the others all smiled meaningfully.

Then another hour passed, after the completion of the early dynasty, the imperial history and Honglu Temple successively went out to play the official disgrace during the early dynasty.

Some officials who made minor mistakes were recorded and deducted points, and some officials who made small mistakes were fined wages at least by recording the case record, and at worst being beaten on the spot.

At this point, the process of the early dynasty is basically over, and the officials of Honglu Temple "sing" and finish, and the eunuchs whip and drive.

After Emperor Chongzhen's holy car left the Huangji Gate and returned to the Qianqing Palace, the hundred officials also retreated one after another, and each returned to work in the Yamen.

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Back in Zhongcui Palace, Zhu Cihong lay down on the bed tiredly, no wonder Emperor Lao Tzu specially added a seat for him, his small body, if he stood for a few hours, it is estimated that he can be tired.

Thinking of this, Zhu Cihong felt that this cheap old man was even more intimate.

Zhu Cihong didn't understand, why Wen Tiren and Zhu Chunchen insisted on letting him out of the palace to appease the displaced people, while Jiang Fengyuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Xie Sheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, wanted to oppose it, what was the reason?

Zhu Cihong knew that Jiang Fengyuan and Xie Sheng must be for his good, because both of them were crowned crown princes, and it was Chongzhen who personally ordered him to directly fill the position of the official of the East Palace with state officials.

Zhu Cihong wanted to ask the two of them, but he couldn't, because the Ming Dynasty had an ancestral system, and the prince and prince could not have personal relations with foreign ministers. If Jiang Fengyuan and Xie Sheng couldn't think about it, they hurriedly came to the East Palace to ask for a meeting, and within a day, they would be impeached by the imperial history.

Zhu Cihong wants to summon the two, and the process is also very troublesome, so he can only wait for the next time he lectures in Wenhua Hall to ask, but in the next two days, he will be ordered to go out of the palace to care for the people, and I am afraid that he will not see him for a while.

It was no problem for Zhu Cihong to summon Luo Yangxing, because Jinyiwei and Dongchang belonged to the royal family slaves, not foreign ministers.

"! These two veterans are so insidious! ”

After a long time, Zhu Cihong scolded, he finally understood that Zhu Chunchen was cut off because of the huge interests of the war with the war, and he held a grudge against him, once he failed to appease the people, his reputation as a prince among the people would plummet.

At this time in the Ming Dynasty, reputation was the most important, and many people regarded reputation as more important than life.

Zhu Cihong didn't expect that Cheng Guogong and Wen Tiren were actually in the same way, one was in charge of government and the other was in charge of soldiers, so they were not afraid of arousing the suspicion of Emperor Chongzhen?

Wen Tiren, this old thing is not simple, he was born as a scholar, he is sleek, deep in the city, and scheming, especially good at peeking into the political wind. At the beginning, he took advantage of Denglai's change of Sun Yuanhua to bring down his old boss Zhou Yanru, and climbed to the position of the first assistant of the cabinet.

It's a pity that this person can only play conspiracy, incorruptible and shameless, and during the Shoufu period, whether it is for Liaodong to resist Jiannu going south, or to deal with the rogues in the Central Plains, he has not tried to make a plan.

Most of the people he recommended to the imperial court were mediocre, just to fill the position, eradicating dissidents in the court, showing his extreme personal authority, and stirring up the already ruined political situation in the late Ming Dynasty more and more out of control.

Zhu Cihong was lying on the bed, looking at the green ceilings carved with artistic lines, thinking about how to toss this cabinet chief assistant Wen Tiren and the matter of going out of the palace to care for the people.

After resting for an hour, Zhu Ci went out of the palace to the Catholic Church, and connected Tang Ruowang and Sun Heding, and arranged them into the military battle bureau, and first held the military battle bureau in his hand.

According to the plan, Zhu Cihong set up another research institute in the Gunpowder Department under the War Bureau, and Tang Ruowang was in charge of the research institute and concurrently served as the head of the Gunpowder Department. Zhu Cihong also appointed Admiral Sun Heding to supervise the armory, and also made him the second-in-command of the research institute.

As for the position of the eunuch with the palm seal, Zhu Cihong originally wanted to revoke it, but as the 24th Yamen, he didn't seem to have this power, so he could only let the personal eunuch Wu Zhong come to the name, and Wu Zhong usually stayed by Zhu Cihong's side.

In the final analysis, at present, the research and development of firearms and the production of firearms in the Military War Bureau are actually in charge of the two people, Tang Ruowang and Sun Heding.

Zhu Cihong was afraid that the two of them would not be able to suppress the previous management, secretary, director, supervisor and other small leaders of the Military War Bureau, so he personally appeared to speak, and reformed the Military War Bureau and formulated a new manufacturing system.

For example, the implementation of the responsibility system, craftsmen to make firearms, must be printed with their own name, one of the firecrackers exploded, deduct a month's salary, a month of more than three firecrackers exploded, directly executed.

If the firearm produced within a month is not blown up, the salary will be increased by 10%, and the salary will be increased every month. Zhu also tripled the base salary of craftsmen to facilitate the recruitment of more craftsmen.

The salary of the craftsmen of the War Bureau has always been very low, and it is difficult to make a living, so it has led to a serious loss of craftsmen, and Zhu Cihong's reward and punishment system has greatly improved the production enthusiasm of the craftsmen of the War Bureau, and as long as they are serious, they will increase their salaries.

In the past, so many defective goods were manufactured, not because of their poor technology, but because of corruption, cutting corners, and the wrong manufacturing ratio required, which led to the explosion of so many firearms.

Zhu Cihong also made regulations for the management of the gunpowder depot of the Anmin Factory under the Military War Bureau, first of all, requiring that no open flame be allowed within 100 meters of the powder magazine. In addition, he could not touch gunpowder with iron tools and other tools, and used wooden tools in the powder magazine, because he didn't want the gunpowder he had worked so hard to produce to be blown up.

Zhu Cihong also dispatched 100 soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion to patrol the gunpowder depot of the Anmin Factory day and night, but anyone who violated the management regulations was punished with 30 military sticks and beaten to death.

After making some detailed arrangements, Zhu Cihong returned to the palace and prepared to leave the palace to care for the people.