Chapter 510: Conscience is a good thing

Emperor Chongzhen has long wanted to make trouble for the ministers in the court, or he has long wanted to really reform some of the current situation in the Ming Dynasty.

Although he said that he had been coming nonsense before, Emperor Chongzhen was always careful not to touch some red lines.

It's no problem to force the courtiers to be anxious, it's a big deal to replace them with a batch, but the military, as well as the people, is far from that simple.

Far from being a simple solution to the problem of timely and never increased wages.

And there are a lot of red lines like this.

For example, the opening of the sea, such as the selection and promotion of officials, such as some bad things in the army, such as land.

Although Emperor Chongzhen was messing around before, most of the time he was still playing within certain rules, and he also had the record of the Northern Expedition to Chahar and the retreat of Jiannu under the capital, and the table that was lifted was only some rotten noodles that could not be seen at all, and it was lifted and lifted.

So although many courtiers were helpless, they could endure it.

If we play any kind of policy such as equalizing land as soon as we come up, it is estimated that there will be no other results except for hanging on a coal mountain more than ten years in advance or drowning into the water.

And Emperor Chongzhen's Hu Lai didn't really come back completely.

As an emperor, one of the most important skills is to hide your true thoughts and not let your courtiers guess what you are thinking.

Even if they guessed, they had to deliberately let them guess.

But now don't worry about that.

Now even if they know that Emperor Chongzhen is blocking the big guys, the ministers in the court still have to pinch their noses and admit it.

It's like August Lunar New Year, there are big stars flowing westward, and the color is red, what will happen if you change the emperor?

didn't say it, spray him, in short, it is Ya's lack of morality and politics so that it is a warning from heaven.

But what about Emperor Chongzhen?

Qin Tianjian was about to think out his head before he came to a conclusion - Zheng Zhilong will calm Java, and God will congratulate him.

The phrase that the heart of heaven is unpredictable is difficult to establish when applied to other emperors, but it is very appropriate to use it on Emperor Chongzhen.

For example, there is such a thing as corruption, and there is one official in the entire court, and the buttocks are not clean, but except for the first assistant Huang Liji, few big guys are pulled out to raid their homes and beheaded.

Another example is the military order, basically no one who dares to resist the order will not be good, but Liu Xingzuo and Zheng Zhilong, the two bastards, are nothing serious.

To sum it up in two words, it is willful.

When encountering this kind of willful and unreasonable emperor who has a lot of cruel words, the big guy doesn't seem to have a good way except to suffer honestly.

It's like this time it's clear that the disgusting people are not so much combing those ownerless wastelands as it is really about combing the whereabouts of the land.

After all, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, many people have used various means to get other people's land into their own names.

Those who did not have land either rented or became vagrants.

And whether it is a tenant or a homeless, the probability of extinction is much higher than that of small homesteaders who have land in their own homes.

In other words, Emperor Chongzhen's will is not so much to sort out the wasteland, but to force the big guys to spit out part of the land that has been eaten in their mouths.

It's not okay if you don't vomit.

If it was changed to before, the big guy could come up with a bunch of reasons for all kinds of nonsense, but now that the emperor killed Jiannu, coupled with the people's support accumulated before, no one can really cure him.

Unless it is a big guy like Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Laosi, or the Emperor of the Apocalypse, who was originally very disappointed, crawls out of the coffin board, it is possible to suppress Emperor Chongzhen.

The problem is that even if they do climb out of the coffin, they are far more likely to be pushed back than they are to walk into the Forbidden City, and their coffins are likely to be changed from wood to cement.

Emperor Chongzhen's will revealed in it is far more than just asking the big guys to spit out some land.

The hidden meaning is to ask the big guys to lower the rent.

After all, there are basically no people in Liaodong now, and the vacated land definitely needs to be cultivated.

Fuck it is that Liaodong is also different from Xinming Island and Java.

Although Xinming Island and Java are also completely owned by the Ming Dynasty, and the implementation of the Ming Law is also the same as the Ming Dynasty, which is the same as the Ming Dynasty, but after all, it is an overseas land.

Before the Xuande year, when the Nuergan Dusi had not been abandoned, the people of the Ming Dynasty had opened up the wasteland to the Nuergandusi.

What's more, it is countless times closer to Daming than Nuergandusi, and the land of Liaodong.

Just like the edict said, the landless people were recruited to go to Liaodong to cultivate the wasteland, and even the tools and cattle were prepared by the government, which was simply a salary from the bottom of the kettle.

The land rent will not be reduced, and those mud legs who have no land will run to Liaodong, and what Yongye Tiankou will get their hands on, and each one will get a hundred and ten acres of land, which is not much better than the tenant rent of four or five percent?

But these mud-legged men are happy, and no one can be happy with the old men who hold a lot of land in their hands.

Originally, it could collect fifty or sixty percent of the land rent, because Xinming Island and Java have been reduced to forty percent, plus such a large territory in Liaodong, and there is a larger Nuergandusi, this land rent must not be reduced to thirty percent or even two percent?

Emperor Chongzhen once again emphasized the ancestral system - officials are not allowed to do business, and they are not allowed to do business for three generations.

After a big court meeting, there are happy and unhappy, and in general there are more happy.

After all, Jiannu, who has always been contemptuously called by Emperor Chongzhen for scabies, was solid and disgusting before Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, and the Ming Dynasty went up and down for several years.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't pay attention to the complicated feelings of these courtiers who were entangled and excited, after all, the real celebration ceremony could not be held until Zhang Weixian and them returned.

And after the reward ceremony is completed, I have to take the heads of Ah Huang and a few Jiannu bosses to the ancestors or something, so that they can also have fun.

Emperor Chongzhen ran to the Martyrs' Shrine, and he wanted to take a look at the soldiers who had died for the Ming Dynasty over the years, such as Wang Xuanlian.

At the beginning, it was the smiling and honest guy who captured Fan Wencheng in Liaodong with his subordinates, but he buried his bones in Liaodong and couldn't even find his head.

Although the reward afterwards must not be said to be low, and even a little higher than the normal standard, Emperor Chongzhen still remembers that honest man in his heart.

Especially the guy who was beaten by his wife countless times and always ran to the door of Qingfeng Pavilion, which made Emperor Chongzhen feel very funny.

It is not the first time that Emperor Chongzhen has come to the Martyrs' Shrine, but every year he takes a day out of his day to visit in addition to the formal worship.

In order not to let himself forget these loyal martyrs who guarded the Ming Dynasty and the people.

More than nine years and nearly ten years, so that there are countless more tablets in the Martyrs' Shrine, and the lush pines and cypresses silently accompany these heroic souls, with the wind blowing from time to time to make a swaying sound, as if those heroic spirits are drizzling quietly.

Looking up at the pines and cypresses in the courtyard, Emperor Chongzhen smiled and scolded the bastard.

These guys are always like this, not at all as disciplined as the military rabbits of later generations, and these guys have done all kinds of bullshit.

In particular, this kind of braggadocio behavior is definitely the favorite thing these guys do after the war.

It's just that I can't imagine that these bastards are like birds when they are alive, and they are still like birds after they die, and they don't grow at all!

It wasn't until he turned around after entering the hall that he found that there was already someone in front of Wang Xuanlone's spiritual seat.

A man, a young woman in white, a child.

The man doesn't know him, but he can know that he is also in the army by looking at the standing posture, and combined with Wang Xuanlian's identity, it is estimated that he is also in Jinyiwei.

As for the young woman in white, it is Wang Xuanlin's wife Wang Zhao, the woman who can beat Wang Xuanlin violently at every turn - Emperor Chongzhen really can't understand why a man with five big and three thick faces is often beaten by a petite and delicate woman.

The child is Wang Xuanlian's son, a little guy who is just ten years old, who looks like a tiger, but his identity is already Jinyi Wei Qianhu, the second-generation Hou Ye.

The child cocked his feet, reached out to wipe the tears on Wang Zhao's face, and said in a low voice: "Mother, don't cry, Daddy must not want to see you cry." ”

Emperor Chongzhen coughed, came to Wang Xuanxi's spiritual seat, and motioned to Wang Chengen to put some melon and fruit sacrifices that had been prepared.

The brocade guard who wore ordinary clothes was Liu Laosi, and when he saw Wang Chengen and others following behind Emperor Chongzhen, he knew the identity of Emperor Chongzhen in his heart, but when he saw Emperor Chongzhen dressed as an ordinary person, he had to bow down and say: "The villain has seen the prince." ”

Wang Zhao had also seen Emperor Chongzhen, and he was about to kneel down and salute in a panic, but was stopped by Emperor Chongzhen: "Zhu came today to see a loyal and good person like Brother Wang, sister-in-law and this brother should not be polite!" ”

Liu Laosi didn't dare to reveal the identity of Emperor Chongzhen, so he had to stand aside helplessly, and the tears on Wang Zhao's face poured out again: "The slave family is rude, which makes the prince laugh." ”

Emperor Chongzhen shook his head, touched the child's head, and said: "Where is there any rudeness or disrespect, what Zhu can do is just come and see, it is not as good as Brother Wang sacrificing his life for the country like this." ”

After Wang Zhao bowed slightly, Emperor Chongzhen squatted down and asked the kid with a smile, "What's your name?" ”

The child looked at Emperor Chongzhen, then looked up at Wang Zhao, and then said, "My name is Wang Qiuyu." My mother said that I can't forget the hatred of those nonsense! ”

Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said with a smile: "Have you ever gone to school?" ”

Wang Qiuyu said: "I have already entered the school and opened the Meng, and I am studying the "Analects of Learning" with Mr. ”

After finishing speaking, Wang Qiuyu said as if showing off: "My mother still forced me to practice martial arts, but I'm tired!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen was stunned for a moment, and then laughed and said, "Okay! It's right to practice martial arts, I'm a Ming man, I can't do it if I don't know martial arts!

Study hard in the future, like your father, and protect Daming and the people of Daming, okay? ”

Wang Qiuyu nodded and said, "Okay!" I must study hard, practice martial arts well, be loyal to Your Majesty, and serve the Ming Dynasty! ”

After smiling and touching Wang Qiuyu's head, Emperor Chongzhen straightened up and said to Wang Zhao: "Hurry up Ming'er and let this child go to study with Zhu's righteous son Zhu Chenggong?" ”

When Wang Zhao heard this, he couldn't stop being excited, but he felt extremely worried, and said in a trembling voice: "How can this be done?"

The son-in-law of Zhu Gongzi's family must be a dragon and a phoenix, and the enmity of this child is always causing trouble, just afraid of annoying the nobles? ”

Emperor Chongzhen chuckled and said, "What nobles are not nobles?" Zhu is going to be the master of his sister-in-law today, okay if he agreed? ”

Wang Zhao had the heart to kneel down and salute, but he was afraid that the identity of Emperor Chongzhen would be exposed after kneeling, so he had to answer nervously: "Everything is according to the orders of the prince!" ”

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he turned his head and instructed Wang Chengen: "Have you written it down?" This child is easy to cultivate, and he should be treated, and he is on par with the successful child. ”

After a few simple words, Emperor Chongzhen left the Martyrs' Shrine, but when he walked into the courtyard, he suddenly paused and scolded in a low voice: "Dog, you said that you would come back, but you broke your trust in me, you are simply a bully!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen, who returned to the palace, was not in a very good mood.

From his ascension to the throne in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, to the ninth year of Chongzhen, in the past ten years, I don't know how many people have died because of their orders, and I don't know how many soldiers who have followed him have not returned.

Or rather, it was just a handful of ashes that came back.

These people were thirty-four men, and there were also eighteen or nineteen-year-old children, and because of their own will, they embarked on the journey without hesitation, and sprinkled their blood in the sky.

And how much have you done for them?

Give their families a pension, give them preferential treatment, send them to the Martyrs' Shrine, and then what?

In fact, there is nothing to follow, after all, people can't come back.

After sitting for a long time, Emperor Chongzhen forced these messy thoughts in his heart.

After all, he is now the emperor, and a will will will determine the life and death of tens of millions of people, so he has to be cautious, and he has to put away this kind of emotion that later generations called emotional.

For example, Zheng Zhilong, this thing killed in Java, and captured so many Javanese people to come back as slaves, isn't it all because of his own will?

And what is the Majapahit doing over there? Inexplicably, he was targeted by the two guys Li Qizi and Zheng Zhilong, and then the excuse he made was so bad.

But doesn't Emperor Chongzhen still have to pinch his nose and recognize it?

Although this matter was decided by Li Qizi's little lady who took the initiative and first targeted Majapahit and planned to arrest people for silver, but in the end, it was not the Ministry of Railways that benefited? Isn't it still Daming? Isn't it still the people of the Ming Dynasty?

Therefore, it is a good thing to say that an emperor has a conscience, but emperors who speak of conscience are stupid.