Chapter Thirty-Nine: Lift Me Up
Chongzhen opened his eyes and found himself lying on the bed, in the stove in the hall, there was a burst of warmth, making it warm like spring in this icy and snowy room, guarding 2 palace maids by the bed, after seeing Chongzhen wake up, one came to take care of Chongzhen, and the other immediately ran out to call someone. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Soon, a group of imperial doctors, under the leadership of Wang Chengen, gathered around his bedside, watching this group of people busy around him, Chongzhen opened his mouth and asked, "What is wrong with me?" ”
"The emperor can rest assured, he just occasionally felt a cold, and now he is fine," an old lady doctor explained to Chongzhen while helping Chongzhen take his pulse.
"Wind Cold" Chongzhen breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, it turned out to be a cold, I said how I didn't have any strength at all, but I used to take some cold medicine, and now I want to drink Chinese medicine, I don't know if it will be very bitter.
"Your Majesty, do you feel better" Wang Chengen finally breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the imperial doctor say that Chongzhen was fine, so he stepped forward and gently helped Chongzhen cover the quilt.
"Companion, I'm much better, but I'm still a little tired, you don't have to stay here, go down and have a good rest" Although Chongzhen doesn't hate Wang Chengen for taking care of himself, he is a big man, and there are a group of beautiful maids standing next to him, but it always feels strange to let an old eunuch come to help him cover the quilt.
"Your Majesty, the old slave is not tired, as long as the emperor is well, the old slave will rest assured" This time Chongzhen fell ill, but Wang Chengen was frightened, if Chongzhen had any problems under his own care, then the sky of the Ming Dynasty would collapse.
"Don't worry, I won't fall down so easily, you're not too young, let the imperial doctor help you see when you're fine, if something goes wrong with you, this huge empire, without you to help me look at it, let me be alone, and don't give those little ones a chance." The current empire or Chongzhen is still inseparable from Wang Chengen, without Wang Chengen, Chongzhen really doesn't know, who else can make himself so relieved to hand over the control of key departments such as the Jinyi Wei Espionage Division of the Second Factory of the Ming Dynasty to him.
"The emperor can rest assured, the old slave is provincial, the old slave will go down to rest" Your Majesty, you can rest assured, with the old slave here, no one will bully the emperor.
After sending Wang Chengen to rest, not long after, the little palace maid who helped Chongzhen massage last time carefully carried a bowl of traditional Chinese medicine to Chongzhen's room, so cold day, Chongzhen didn't want to get up, raised his head lazily, and asked the little palace maid to put a backrest behind him.
"Your Majesty, it's time to take medicine" After helping Chongzhen put on the pillow, the little palace maid picked up a spoon and gently scooped up a spoonful of brown potion and handed it to Chongzhen's mouth.
Chongzhen opened his mouth and took a sip, and found that it was not as bitter as he imagined, but a little sweet, so he no longer resisted, and drank it all spoonful, and he didn't know what the imperial doctor added to the medicine.
"Come on, help me up" It was afternoon now, although he was sleepy, Chongzhen didn't plan to nest in bed. Hearing Chongzhen's order, a group of palace maids rushed over to help Chongzhen get dressed, wash his face, even if he has experienced this kind of thing many times, Chongzhen still enjoys the feeling of being served.
As soon as he got up, he didn't want to eat something greasy, so he took some pastries and tea, and laid out a blanket by the fire, and Chongzhen sat on the blanket like this, eating pastries while watching the folds.
Suddenly Chongzhen, the action stopped, what's going on, he didn't seem to be a diligent person in his previous life, how recently, as soon as he was free, he unconsciously picked up the fold and dealt with it, I don't know if it was his own change, or the physical influence of the hand, Chongzhen found that he was getting closer and closer to the Chongzhen in the original history, and began to become unsmiling, began to become diligent in political affairs, and what he did became more and more like the Chongzhen in history.
But this change doesn't seem to be a bad thing, as long as it's your own consciousness that makes the decision, then why can't you become Chongzhen, you replace Chongzhen's body, you have to take over Chongzhen's cause and effect, even if you end up like the original Chongzhen, the country finally broke and died, and you have no regrets after all this, after all, such a wonderful life is not something that can be experienced in such a stable environment in the future.
Just think so much is the use, these changes are not something you can control, not to mention these changes, I don't hate them, the only thing I can do now is to be diligent in political affairs, trying to pull back the Ming Dynasty, the giant ship that sailed to the abyss, even if it can't be pulled back, at least it must be done, like the Southern Song Dynasty, no matter how in their lifetime, they can't let the Han people's rivers and mountains die in their own hands.
And now the biggest stumbling block he faces is the Donglin Party in the court, the biggest failure he did when he first came to this world is to hand over most of the political affairs to the cabinet to deal with, at that time he was fledgling, the court was almost covered by the Donglin Party, this group of shameless old things, using their weakness of not being familiar with political affairs when they first ascended the throne, almost abolished the salt tax, commercial tax, mining tax, leaving only an agricultural tax, they have no money now, if they want to add salt, business, mining tax, that group of Donglin Party will definitely resist desperately.
Salt tax, commercial tax, mining tax these touched the interests of the group represented by the Donglin Party, and only the increase in agricultural tax Donglin Party will not object, but Chongzhen understands that this agricultural tax can never be increased by himself, he has increased a percent, and the underground officials do not know how much more to collect into their own pockets, such as today's disasters, if they are increasing agricultural taxes, it will undoubtedly make the situation worse, and it will only make the scale of the peasant uprising more and more strong.
If you want to increase the financial revenue of the empire, you can only use your brains on salt tax, commercial tax, and mining tax, but this money is in the hands of merchants and clans, how can it be so easy to get.
In the face of the Jiangnan clan represented by the Donglin Party, the longer they delay, the more powerless they will be, and it seems that they will take advantage of this period of stability to implement some thunderous measures.