Just after the third day of the first month, Wen Tianxiang organized military and political officials stationed in Ezhou to interrogate the Weisheng military nest case, this time Zhao Yu did not participate, and it was strictly forbidden for the affairs bureau and the military personnel to intervene in the case, and the imperial office only sorted out and reported the results of the trial every day, so that he could understand the progress of the case, but he did not express any opinions, one so as not to interfere with the trial, after all, he is the emperor, his look, and even a gesture will make his subordinates ponder for a long time, so as to make wrong judgments; The second is also to avoid suspicion, talking about manipulating the case and expelling dissidents.

These days, when Zhao Yu is exploring the way to govern the country, he is also thinking about where he will go and what role he will play as the situation changes. Speaking from the heart, he sometimes really thinks that being an emperor may be the hardest profession, and they are also the most unfortunate people. But if you really want to make him inappropriate, he is really reluctant, and some of the high-sounding things are concerned about the people, and the old land has not been restored; And the words in my heart that can't be said are greedy for power, and I can't bear it!

But Zhao Yu also figured out that the emperor is the freest person in the world, because his power has no restrictions; The emperor is also the most unfree person in the world, also because his power has no boundaries. It was precisely because of the great power that the Chinese emperors were the root cause of their misfortune, and they also knew very well that everything he did came from his own power. In order to maintain his supremacy, the emperor must hold on to his power and not let go of the slightest.

And the focus of interests is necessarily the focus of power. How many elites in the world are coveting, weighing, spying on, and plotting day and night. In order to make the people of the world his slaves, the emperor himself first became a slave of power. He must love his power as much as he cares for his eyes, and he must not let up for a second. The fear of being deprived of power made the emperors nervous for many years, and even went so far as to show a certain psychopathy, even suspecting that everyone could be their imaginary enemy.

Back then, Zhao Yu read Zhu Yuanzhang's "Emperor's Ancestral Teachings" written to his heirs, in addition to family laws and advice, he also taught his children and grandchildren the way of "saving life". He said:

When the emperor is in peace, he should always be vigilant, and he should not relax day and night, so that he will not be spied on and the kingdom will not be lost; Every day as if you were on the battlefield, pay attention to the words and actions of the people around you during the day, and closely inspect at night to ensure the safety of the palace; Even confidants who see each other day and night must be vigilant, and the so-called preparedness is also unexpected. If there is a confidential matter to discuss with the cronies, and it is necessary to retreat from others, then the guards should not be allowed to retreat too far. At most, ten zhang, not far! Weapons, armor, not far from the left and right, but also to choose a few good horses, placed at the palace gate and various city gates, saddle sheath, in case of accidents.

At that time, Zhao Hao thought it was still very funny, who would think about you all the time. But when he has power, his mentality immediately changed, and his original intention to do anything can be said to be related to saving his life, but this is also related to the premise of ensuring that power is in hand, so he always maintains a vigilant mentality, in order to ensure that his will is absolutely unimpeded, his monopoly on power, and repeatedly crush any threats and challenges to the imperial power. But at the same time, I had to turn myself into a cow and a horse, and I had to carry a heavy workload.

And it is really "everything in the world is decided on the top", even those emperors with great talents have to become workaholics. Qin Shi Huang stipulated that he had to read 120 catties of bamboo slips every day before he could rest. Zhu Yuanzhang once read 1,660 pieces of recitals and handled 3,391 pieces of state affairs in eight days, with an average of more than 200 pieces of recitals and more than 400 pieces of state affairs every day; During the reign of Emperor Yongzheng, who was tired and died in front of the case, he boasted of "being diligent in the world", not patrolling, not hunting, and managing political affairs all year round. During his thirteen-year reign, he wrote more than 10 million words of Zhu Pi.

Emperor Kangxi, who has always wanted to live for another 500 years, has his own explanation for the short life of the emperors of the past dynasties, and he confided in his edict that since ancient times, emperors have lived for many years, and scholars have always ridiculed them. How did they know that the troubles faced by the emperor in government affairs were overwhelming. If you are a minister, you can be an official if you want to be an official, and if you don't want to do it, you won't do it, go home and hug your grandson, and live a good life. The emperors are not so happy, the heavy responsibility cannot be entrusted to others, and when they become emperors, there is no way out, and they dare not think of comfort anymore!

In addition to fatigue, the emperor's life also has a prominent feature - rigidity, and Zhao Hao is also deeply troubled by this. The enormity of secular power had exhausted him, but the requirements of traditional culture for the emperor did not stop there. China is a society governed by etiquette, since the emperor is a natural saint and a teacher of all people, then every move should be more aware of the way of heaven, abide by etiquette, and have rules and laws, so as to achieve a good situation of "one person is right and the world is right". Therefore, successive generations have established a complete set of imperial codes based on etiquette, so that every minute of the emperor's life is regulated......

If he is just tired, Zhao Yu can still bear it, but the life of following the rules makes him unbearable, his rebellion in Qiongzhou has been controversial, at that time he was 'still young', and there was the queen mother's curtain, so he could rely on selling cute and stupid past. But now you have to settle in Lin'an, and it is not easy to escape and be lazy. However, he felt that as long as he thought about it, he would have a way, which reminded him of when he was a junior executive in his previous life, and there was a repairman who was responsible for repairing equipment, and every day in addition to the routine inspection of the supervisor's equipment in the morning, he hid on the side, played with his mobile phone, and slept lazily. Others, on the other hand, are busy and have little to spare.

Seeing that he was very lazy, of course Zhao Yu couldn't politely call him over and think about it, but his words made him immediately dispel his thoughts, and even if he found out that he was 'lazy' in the future, he never paid attention to it again. It goes like this: the maintenance worker's job is to keep the equipment running, and if I am busy, the equipment is broken, and production is forced to stop. And if I am idle, it means that the equipment is working normally, and of course the production is normal. Do you want the maintenance workers to be busy or idle?

Zhao Yu immediately became dumb when he heard this, thinking that this is indeed the case, and his boss often says that what is the highest level of enterprise management, that is, whether the leader is not there, the enterprise can operate normally. If the boss is busy in the dark to maintain, it can only mean that there is a problem in the enterprise management system, unclear responsibilities and powers, or too much interference by the leadership. Now I think that there are similarities between managing the state and maintenance workers, and being an emperor is like a maintenance worker who cannot interfere too much and arbitrarily in the operation of the state apparatus, but must do something and not do something, so that the state apparatus can operate spontaneously and benignly under the established rules.

At that moment, Zhao Yu felt that he had to be a maintenance worker, inspecting the operation of the equipment, removing the parts that had problems, and repairing the equipment that could not be normal. Of course, before this, it is necessary to compile a good program, formulate a good process, and after continuous adjustment and running-in, so as to find out the best plan, arrange a reasonable process, so that each part of the equipment can operate normally, and produce qualified products.

At this time, Zhao Yu was observing the operation of the state apparatus to see which part of it was prone to problems and how to improve it. From the official documents, he found that the interrogation work was also carried out in an orderly manner without his own participation, which showed that Wen Tianxiang, the 'manager', was very competent and effective. That is to say, after the boss issues the production task, he can be idle, and if he hires a few more such employees, why bother to go to court every day!

However, Zhao Yu also knows that not all the hard-working and selfless ministers in the world like Wen Tianxiang are selfless. There are also those hypocritical guys who rely on figuring out their intentions and flattering the lord to behave 'better', so as to usurp power and become powerful ministers to elevate the emperor. So he knows that it is impossible to live a comfortable life completely, but he still hopes that the days he has crossed can be easier, and it is best to have both fish and bear's paws, and he is afraid of a dream of yellow sorghum......

After more than ten days of interrogation, Qin Linfeng's crime was basically clarified, and Wen Tianxiang and everyone were being reviewed and sentenced. In Qiongzhou, Liu Huang personally led a team to Fujian and Guangzhou, and yesterday there was also news that the value of property copied from his home alone was as much as 400,000 yuan, and other crimes are being investigated and verified. Zhao Hao ordered Liu Huang to be temporarily stationed in Zhangzhou, rectify the rule of Fujian and Guangzhou, detain all the criminals involved in the case, and report to the imperial court for a decision after the interrogation.

However, in this way, the Shangyuan Festival also soaked in the soup, and everyone was busy with their feet not touching the ground, so he naturally did not dare to do it in a big way, so he went to Jiangling to comfort the army in the name of having fun with the people, inspected the construction site of Jiangling City, and relied on the battlefield of Wu Shu that year, met with Wu Longqi, Zhang Ba, Huang Zhijie, and several division commanders, and praised the meritorious people of each army, and then spent the festival together.

The next day, Zhao Yu inspected the various armies to learn about the situation of the officers and men at the grassroots level. Speaking of which, these divisions are not their own descendants, but changed from the forbidden army in front of the palace of the Xingchao Dynasty, and the composition of them is also extremely complex, including the children of the Jiang family, Zhang Shijie's Huai army, and the incorporated rebel army. After the reorganization, the senior officers of Zhang Shijie's family were basically dismissed, and he took the opportunity of the reorganization and training to install many of his own people as grass-roots officers, and promoted a number of officers from the volunteer army.

After that, Zhao Yu took advantage of the opportunity to train the new army to make 'exchanges' with the officers, and hired a number of local officers, thus weakening the influence of the Jiang clan, completely completing the reorganization, and becoming the backbone of the Xing Dynasty armed forces. And in this northern expedition, they fought all the way from Qiongzhou to Jiangling, and then they will assume the main force of defense in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and the west, completing the current strategic layout.

In the next few days, Zhao Hao, accompanied by Jiang Cheng and other generals, sailed along the river by boat, surveyed the terrain of Jingzhou, re-selected important places to set up military fortresses, built forts, and established beacons, so as to further improve the defense system on the south bank of the Yangtze River. He also demanded that everyone must complete the recruitment of new recruits as soon as possible, and seize the time to complete training and become an army as soon as possible. And everyone should also take Qin Linfeng as a warning, remember not to violate the national law and military discipline, otherwise the military law is ruthless, and no one can save him.

On the eighteenth day of the first month, Wen Tianxiang sent someone to report, and Lu Xiang sent an envoy to ask His Majesty to return to Beijing as soon as possible. In addition, the case of Minguang has been concluded, and except for the more than 10 senior military officers who need to return to Beijing for retrial, the crimes of the remaining 100 or so people have been clarified, and all of them have pleaded guilty, and they can be executed after His Majesty's imperial approval.

On the 20th, Zhao Yu returned to Ezhou to approve the implementation after review, and clearly issued a decree to appoint Xie Fangde as Jiangxi's pacification envoy and Han Zhen as the commander-in-chief of Jiangxi's soldiers and horses. The Sixth Division was moved to Ezhou, with Pan Nian as the commander and Xie Fu as the governor; Dong Yi was appointed as the commander of the Jinghu Naval Division, responsible for the water defense of the section from Jiangling to Jiangzhou, and the main force was stationed in Ezhou.

Jiang Cheng was appointed as the envoy of Huguang to be in charge of military and political affairs, and Jingzhou was the place of governance; The 7th Division was stationed in Jiangling, with Wu Longqi as the pacification envoy; The Eighth Division was stationed on Yuanjiang Road, with division commander Zhang Ba as the pacification envoy; The Ninth Division was stationed on Nanning Road, with division commander Huang Zhijie as the pacification envoy; Most of the 10th Division was moved to Qinzhou Road, with division commander Zhang Da as the pacification envoy. The order appointed Jiang Ke as the envoy of the Qiongzhou system to take charge of the military and government. After the expansion of each division is completed, it will be adjusted, and the local officials will be appointed or confirmed separately after the imperial court has surveyed and confirmed.

Zhao Yu still hoped that Mrs. Xu would sit in Jiangxi, but her intention had been decided, so she rewarded her with 50 hectares of land to allow her to return to her hometown Jinjiang and her son to attack Jian'anhou. Song Lian, the former commander of the Huaien Army, was ordered to reorganize the captured Northern Army, and after the reorganization, he went to Jiangsu and Zhejiang for further training. On 22 July, more than 50 officials below the command level who were sentenced to death in the Weisheng military case were escorted to Wuchang Gate for public execution, and the rest of those who did not commit crimes to death were sent to a hard labor camp to serve their sentences.

Everything is over, Zhao Yu doesn't want to delay any longer, he is ready to leave the next day, but he can't get his way. Choosing the auspicious day of the zodiac to set off and avoiding the days that are not suitable for travel is a custom that has been passed down through the dynasties, and the Song Dynasty was also like this. In addition to specific days, there are also monthly festivals, that is, the first and fifteenth days of the new year, because these two days should be at home to worship ancestors and worship gods, leaving home is disrespectful to the ancestors and gods, so it is also unlucky. There are still some cumbersome calculations for choosing an auspicious day for travel, and he doesn't believe it, but he also has to take care of everyone's emotions, so he can only re-choose to drive back to Beijing in two days.

But this is not the end, the next thing is to advance the "ancestral road", that is, to sacrifice to the god of the road, in order to ensure peace. The god of the road is also called the god of travel, divided into two series on land and on the water, the god of walking on land has Zitong Jun, Wutong God, Zigu God, and the god of water has Tianfei and so on. These gods are all newly "sealed" in the Song Dynasty, Zhao Yu used to go out mostly to march and fight, and generally did not care about these, but because they often took boats, if they went far away, the sailors would also hold some simple ceremonies to worship the water gods......

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