After the monarch and ministers had lunch, Zhu Gaoxu invited the ministers to sit around several cases in the northwest corner, and asked the palace maid Xiaohe to make tea. That's not all it takes.

Sure enough, Hu Hu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, quickly mentioned the Tatars, "Dali Temple sentenced 'Hatu' to death, and the Tatar envoys were still willing to be vassals and be entitled. ”

Hu Hu pondered for a moment, and then said directly: "If you really guess correctly, the son of Benyali Khan is in Hamiwei, do we still have to agree to the Tatars to borrow the way?" ”

Qi Tai and Gao Xianning were silent, they seemed to be thinking about something. "Hmm......" Zhu Gaoxu only made a meaningless sound.

If the Ming court did not want to return the son of the Mongol Great Khan, then there was no need to agree to let the Tatar remnants borrow the way. All it was necessary to send someone to Hamiwei and bring back all the Tatars. To this day, King Hamiwei is still willing to obey the decrees of the Ming Dynasty.

Qi Tai opened his mouth and said: "The minister thinks that the descendants of Kublai Khan will continue the Mongolian throne, which may be a good thing for the Ming Dynasty. ”

Zhu Gaoxu turned his head and said, "Go on." ”

Qi Tai said: "The most unfavorable situation for the Ming Dynasty in the northern grasslands is the annexation of the tribes by a warlike leader; At that time, they will gather their strength and go all out to invade and harass the south. If it weren't for Arutai's single-minded support of the Yuan dynasty as khan, the tribes would have merged with each other in the chaos until a Genghis Khan-like figure emerged. And relying only on the Yuan Dynasty clan, it is difficult for the heroes to dominate the grassland. ”

Zhu Gaoxu quickly responded: "There is some truth, at least the words of the family. ”

Just like that Tatar Hatu, when he first arrived in Beijing, he wanted to do whatever he wanted to do evil; As long as the grassland tribes have the opportunity, most people are afraid that they want to invade the south, which is almost an inevitable choice. In the north, where materials are relatively scarce and people's livelihoods are difficult, and next to it is a huge and rich agricultural land, how can the tribes stop the idea of plundering?

I am afraid that this situation will not change until the cavalry completely loses its advantage. Or maybe they themselves have worries about their own survival, and they can't gather forces to attack. Qi Tai meant the latter, not to let the Mongol tribes screw together so that they could contain each other.

Zhu Gaoxu said: "Thinking about the leaders in the north, they should first concentrate their forces and sweep away their worries; And then we have to wait for the right time. Waiting for the decline of the Ming Dynasty, or the relaxation of military preparedness for a long time, is the best time to make a move. ”

While everyone was discussing, the palace maid began to patrol the tea. Gao Xianning drank oolong tea from Fujian, and his previous retching symptoms seemed to have eased.

Gao Xianning put down the teacup and said, "What Qi Butang said is rough, but the minister is a little puzzled about some small things. Since the remnants of the Tatars were able to escape from the hands of the Vaspurs (the Western Mongol tribes) and run to Hamiwei; It seems likely that the Varspurs did not know at first that Benjari Khan had a son among them. Later, the Watters suddenly went to threaten Hamiwei to be loyal to the king, and they should have known the secret. How did the Watters know? ”

He glanced left and right, and said, "Maybe the Watters will always find out the news." But how could the Tatars in the east, thousands of miles apart, get the news in time; How did the Tatar chieftain Arutai learn that Benyali Khan had a son and was in Hamiwei? ”

Qi Tai and Hu Hu both nodded slightly, probably

I feel that what Gao Xianning said is a bit strange.

However, everyone was sitting in the Jingshi Imperial Palace thousands of miles away, and it was impossible for them to know such a specific thing. Zhu Gaoxu thought for a while, and then said: "Send someone to Ningxia Mansion and ask He Fu to send an envoy to ask King Zhongshun and report everything that Hamiwei knows in detail." ”

Qi Tai, the secretary of the Ministry of War, arched his hand and said: "The minister will receive the decree, that is, issue the official document of the Ministry of War." ”

Zhu Gaoxu looked at Hu Hu again: "Hu Butang can promise the Tatar envoy to allow the Tatar remnants who are in Hamiwei to return to China through the channel." ”

Hu Hui bowed and said: "The minister obeys the order." ”

The tea was almost drunk, and Zhu Gaoxu got up. Several people then stood up and thanked them for their resignation.

Zhu Gaoxu has been preparing for a long time to go north to patrol the hunt, and now the itinerary has been confirmed, and the brigade will leave Beijing in late June. There are two guards guarding the army, about 10,000 foot cavalry, and there are more than 10,000 people in the entourage.

The civil officials include Gao Xianning, Hou Hai, etc., and the accompanying generals Qiu Fu, Wei Da, Wang Bin, as well as Chen Dazhui and Wang Yu, who led the troops. Of course, in addition to these civil and military officials, there are also many scribes. The Ming Dynasty has fully entered the civil system, and everything runs up and down, relying on a large number of official documents, and it is impossible to do things effectively without officials.

There are two imperial concubines who accompanied them out of Beijing, the imperial concubine Mu Zhen and the virtuous concubine Yao Ji, as well as the concubines in their respective palaces, Duan Xue Hye and Shen Baoyan. Zhu Gaoxu agreed with Miaojin's meaning, and let her stay in Jingshi this time.

Because the crown prince Zhu Zhanyan is still young, he cannot supervise the country. During the emperor's departure from Beijing, the official document of the chapter was changed to the blue criticism, which was still operated in the method designed by Wu Dechu.

The decision-making bodies are the Cabinet and the Treasure Department, and their offices are all in the Wuying Palace, and the rules are a bit complicated. There are three main ways to deal with various government affairs and performances.

Most of the pieces received by the Secretary for General Affairs are normal scripts, and there is no controversy under normal circumstances, and they are decided by the plan with the largest number of supporters in the Cabinet; Then send it to the treasure for reconsideration, and if there is no objection, the approval of the chapter will take effect.

The second case, if the matter is very controversial. After the cabinet deliberated and reluctantly decided, the chapter was sent to the treasure office, and one of the six people in the treasure office objected; The person who objected wrote down the reason, then shelved it, and sent it to the emperor's palace in the north, where Zhu Gaoxu personally decided.

In addition, there are some matters that are opposed by someone in the treasure office and cannot be dealt with immediately; But the matter is urgent and cannot be delayed. Those people on duty in Wuyingdian encountered such a thing, and they were discussed by the Treasure Office, as long as there were three people who determined that the matter was indeed an emergency recital; Then the decision of the concert will be immediately approved with the conclusion of the cabinet.

All summaries of government affairs will be recorded in the file and regularly sent to the palace for Zhu Gaoxu to see.

After the expansion of the cabinet ministers, there were eleven people, as well as six people from the treasure office, and seventeen people belonged to different yamen, and even one noble military general and one eunuch; There were also officials from both the old and the new. Therefore, everything is mutually restrictive and involved, and the results of decision-making are generally not too absurd.

Compared with the prime minister's administration, pinning all major matters on one person's morality, ability, and the consciousness of not forming a party and dictatorship, Zhu Gaoxu felt that the set of rules he had arranged was better. Perhaps over time, new problems will arise; So far, however, the Cabinet and the Treasure Office have been operating quite well.

During the Hongwu period, there was a prime minister, Li Shanchang. When Emperor Taizu found that there was a problem with the prime minister, he wanted to correct the distribution of power, so he had to purge the party members of the prime minister's party on a large scale, involving a wide range of deceased people, and even abolished the prime minister system from the rules.

And Zhu Gaoxu speculated that if there was a problem with one of them, he would just need to replace one person from the position of the official of the yamen. Stability is better than the prime minister's system.

Before the escort team was about to set off, Zhu Gaoxu asked Liukefang to copy a copy of the newspaper and convey it to the local government offices north of the river. It was ordered that the political envoys and officials of the prefectures and counties in various localities should not drive the people out of the city to meet them without authorization, and they could only submit them to the table. It is forbidden to collect the people and transport supplies to the army. Wherever the army went, they set up their own tents or sent people to requisition houses. The grain and straw required by the guards and horses shall be transferred from the official documents issued by the palace to the public treasury of various places; Other expenses are purchased by officials and cash sent by the palace......

In late June, Zhu Gaoxu led the crowd to worship the mausoleum of Emperor Taizu Taizong in Beijing, and then crossed the river with a large group of people. After crossing the river, they will first go to Fengyang, the central capital, to pay homage to the ancestral tombs of the earlier ancestors of the Zhu family.

The weather is clear, the morning sun has just risen, and the weather is a little muggy. The civil and military officials were sent all the way to the ferry port of Shangyuanmen and bid farewell by the river. Zhu Gaoxu first drove out of the city on four horses, and only got off the bus when he got on the boat to accept the farewell salute of the officials on the case.

After the ferry broke down, Zhu Gaoxu boarded the stern of the big ship. As the warship slowly drifted off the shore, he was on the river and watched the scenery of Jingshi on the shore.

I saw that inside and outside the continuous city wall, the magnificent city towers, as well as countless pavilions and pavilions gathered in Beijing, and there were tall floating temples towering in it. On the surface of the river and the river, the sails are like clouds, and the boats are cruising. Even outside the castle, there are more and more people living in the attached city, and there are many manor annexes that look beautiful. Looking at the Beijing division from afar, it is really prosperous.

However, when Zhu Gaoxu's boat gradually moved away from Jingshi, he was in a very good mood at this time, as if he had arrived in a broader world, refreshed. Looking back, he has always been a person who likes to walk around, and in the years after the Northern Expedition, he has never left Beijing. How he endured it for so long, he himself couldn't tell.

After a while, Mu Zhen also came over. Zhu Gaoxu turned his head to look, and saw that she was wearing a robe, combing her hair in a bun, and she was dressed as a woman disguised as a man, vaguely as if she had quietly slipped out of Muwang's mansion when she was in Yunnan. However, her beautiful and thin handsome appearance many years ago has now become more feminine and charming, only her eyes still have a beautiful smile, which makes people look like a spring breeze.

Mu Zhen hugged her fists and bowed: "The concubine has seen the saint. ”

Zhu Gaoxu stretched out his hand to help her up gently, then pointed to the scenery in the south, and said casually: "In this city, people outside must want to enter it, but people inside want to come out from time to time." ”

"What the Holy One said is very true." Mu Zhen answered, then walked to the railing, and watched the scenery of Jingshi in the morning sun with Zhu Gaoxu.

The ferry slowly sailed to the north bank of the river, and Zhu Gaoxu's journey to the north this year began.

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(Sorry everyone, the recent update has been unstable.) In the later stage, the plot is not well arranged, and it is a bit of a cardin. I'll try to wrap it up nicely, probably next month, and then I'm ready to start a new book. ）

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