The thirtieth year of Shenwu is the thirtieth year of Zhu Hong's three imperial poles in the world, and it is also Zhu Hong's thirty and sixty birthday.

Zhu Hongsan was born in the forty-eighth year of Wanli, that is, in 1620, and now it is 1680, exactly sixty years.

Sixty belongs to the year of the sixtieth year, and the emperors of the Ming Dynasty did not live long, only a few lived past the age of sixty, so Zhu Hongsan was ready to celebrate on his birthday on the third day of the first lunar month.

Early in the morning on the third day of the first lunar month, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty gathered in Fengtian Hall to celebrate the birthday of the ruler of the empire.

Zhu Hongsan's interest was very high, and he went to the ceremony to accept the worship of the ministers accompanied by the little eunuch, but Zhu Hongsan sat on the dragon chair and saw the dense heads below, and suddenly felt very sad in his heart.

Zhu Hongsan is already sixty years old, plus more than thirty years in his previous life, he has lived for almost a hundred years in total. As he got older and his memory deteriorated in recent years, the memories of the two lives began to overlap, so that Zhu Hongsan sometimes didn't know that he was in that era.

Today, seeing the ministers and princes congratulating him, Zhu Hongsan returned to the time when he was the emperor in Guangzhou.

At that time, there were many military generals under his command, and the combat effectiveness of the new army was strong. But now? Zhu Hongsan is already dying, and he has to get up two or three times at night to go to the toilet.

It is undeniable that Zhu Hongsan is old, he looked at the ministers below and sighed and said, "Get up!" ”

Under the leadership of Zhang Jiayu, the chief minister of military aircraft, the ministers stood up after bowing three times and bowing nine times, and after Tong Yangjia, Zhu Hongsan abolished the cabinet prime minister system, straightened the military aircraft department, and replaced the cabinet system. Zhang Jiayu did not belong to the Huguang Group and the Donglin Party, and because he was an old man around Zhu Hongsan, he became the Minister of Military Aircraft, and has been in office for eight years now.

Zhang Jiayu has gone through previous purges at this time, and his political experience is extremely profound, and after hearing Zhu Hongsan's tone, he knows why the emperor sighed. It's simple, I'm old, and I feel like I don't have a successor.

In fact, Zhu Hongsan was also worried about this matter, after the deposed prince Zhu Hai, Zhu Hongsan began to cultivate other princes, but the other princes who disappointed Zhu Hongsan were not this material. The third prince, Zhu Huai, is obese and narrow-minded, and he is not a benevolent monarch. The fourth Zhu Yuan, like his grandfather, is bitter and mean, does not know how to be a king, and is not a good successor. As for the other princes, they are all about the same, either they are not good at ability or have all kinds of shortcomings in their personalities, so the position of crown prince is still vacant.

In the past ten years, although Zhu Hongsan has ruthlessly cleaned up the scholars and civil officials, and the 30,000 or 40,000 officials across the country have been unlucky, either exiled or lost their heads, but it is precisely because Zhu Hongsan suppressed the civilian forces and minimized the political cost that the emperor's will can be perfectly implemented.

Now that the cabinet system has been abolished, the cabinet has been replaced by the military aircraft department that can only kneel to Jun'en, so the whole country must follow Zhu Hongsan's will, and the party struggle that has plagued the Ming Dynasty since the Wanli period has been completely resolved. Because the whole country has no restraining power, the whole country is showing a scene of prosperity.

According to the data obtained from the second settlement of Tianmu in the 26th year of Shenwu, the population of the whole country from Liaodong to Yunnan and Guizhou has recovered to 100 million people before the war at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time, because of the emergence of the baby boom after the war, the whole country presents a tidal and vigorous atmosphere.

The military god ** team has defeated the Dzungar department, the empire's territory has expanded to the green ridge in the northwest, and it has bordered the Kazakh Baitouhui in the west. The infiltration of the Russians into the Heilongjiang River valley had been completely solved in the north, and a treaty was signed with the Russians, and Russia officially recognized the suzerainty of the Ming Dynasty over the Mongol tribes in Siberia.

In the south, the Emperor had defeated the combined forces of the Dutch and the British, and the Manraga Strait became a major communication route for the Ming Dynasty to control foreign ships into the South Seas. In the southwest, the imperial army has annexed the Indochina Peninsula, Bingfeng has entered India, and several small countries in the south of India have also broken away from the British and Dutch colonies and joined the Greater China civilization circle.

Economically, because of the vigorous development of commerce, in the 29th year of Shenwu, the national fiscal revenue has reached 70 million silver dollars, although in absolute terms it is not as much as the Northern Song Dynasty 160 million yuan, but according to the degree of depreciation of silver, it has surpassed the Northern Song Dynasty and become the richest dynasty in Chinese history.

The speed of the country's development is based on absolute authority, and without the checks and balances of the civilian collective, Zhu Hongsan can govern the country according to his own wishes. However, as a modern person, Zhu Hongsan knows that authoritative rule is very useful during the recovery period, but it is very detrimental to the long-term peace and stability of the country. Because authoritative rule is easy to bureaucratize officials, anyway, if your emperor is in charge of everything, then you can control it, and we officials can be monks for a day and hit the clock for a day.

Therefore, if you want the empire to develop like this forever, you must return to the virtual monarch reality system in the Longqing and Wanli periods. Although this system has all kinds of drawbacks, such as fierce party strife, internal strife and consumption of national strength, etc., the benefits are also obvious, that is, it will not make too many changes in national politics, even if there are outliers like Liu Jin and Wei Zhongxian, but because the civil power is extremely large, it will automatically be repaired to the right line.

Because of this, Zhu Hongsan knows that he has entered old age, and at the same time, because his health is not very good, he probably won't live for a few years, so he will be very anxious about choosing a qualified successor in the past few years.

Zhu Hongsan sat on the dragon chair and listened to the chief military minister Zhang Jiayu reading Chaohe's official document with an expressionless face, he looked at these ministers, there was no familiar face, and most of the civil and military ministers who followed him to fight the world died in the hands of Zhu Hongsan. At that time, Zhu Hongsan didn't feel wrong when he executed them in order to maintain the rule, but seeing this scene today made Zhu Hongsan miss the previous scene very much, it turned out that I was already old!

Listening to Zhang Jiayu's formula-like congratulatory watch, Zhu Hongsan waved his hand and said: "Okay, Zhang Aiqing, don't read it, I'm very happy that you can celebrate my birthday, and each person will be rewarded with a year's salary, so there's nothing to do to retire!" ”

Zhu Hongsan's officials are not low, and Zhang Jiayu is a first-class official with 15,000 or 6,000 silver dollars a year, so the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty are very happy and kowtow to thank the emperor for his grace.

Zhu Hongsan nodded and got up and returned to the palace, now the women in the harem are basically almost dead, Ma Xiaofang died in Guangzhou, Ma Ruyan was given to death by Zhu Hongsan, the concubine Qian Yuting died of illness last year, and the eldest princess Zhu Ping was defeated. 瓴∷ lai curtain gown zinc ぶ fashionable chrysalis dizzy? 逵窬┰裎涠?? Wild ostrich? Collapse? Strain? Then? Letter? Temple hinge called?? The Emperor sent the Emperor to retreat from the Emperor. Heartfelt? Cockroaches? Turbulence?? Ship trance ┬ egg n man blowing the grave?? Wave the letter? Forgiveness?/p>

The current lord of the harem is the concubine Xu, who was newly elected to the palace in the twenty-second year of Shenwu, because she looked like Ma Xiaofang, she was favored by Zhu Hongsan and promoted to become a concubine. However, Xu Guifei knew that this emperor was very easy to kill, and the previous imperial concubine died at the hands of the emperor, so Xu Guifei trembled every time she saw Zhu Hongsan, for fear that something wrong with what she did would anger this murderous demon king.

Zhu Hongsan was very annoyed when he saw Xu Guifei's appearance, this woman looked like Ma Xiaofang but did not have Ma Xiaofang's liveliness at all, and she was like a dead fish when she went to bed, and Zhu Hongsan began to get tired of her after losing the freshness of Xu Guifei.

Seeing Xu Guifei like this, Zhu Hongsan frowned and said, "Okay, you don't need to serve, you can go down!" Hearing the emperor say this, Xu Guifei was like an amnesty, and quickly got up and retired.

After Xu Guifei left, a little eunuch came in to inform Zhang Jiayu that he was coming, Zhu Hongsan is now authoritative, and probably the only one who dares to say some common things in front of him is Zhang Jiayu. It just so happened that Zhu Hongsan was not in a good mood today and needed someone to explain, so he hurriedly let him in after hearing Zhang Jiayu's visit.

Zhang Jiayu had already seen Emperor Zhu Hongsan in the main hall just now, Zhang Jiayu was an old fritter in the officialdom, and he immediately knew why the emperor was in a bad mood, so he met the emperor after the Scattered Dynasty, in order to issue the successor.

Zhang Jiayu is the teacher of the prince Zhu Hai, so Zhang Jiayu has always supported Zhu Hai on the issue of succession. However, Zhu Hai made such a big mistake back then, and it was not ordinarily difficult to persuade the emperor to reinstate Zhu Hai as the crown prince, but Zhang Jiayu knew that the emperor would not live forever, and the emperor would also die.

Zhu Hongsan watched Zhang Jiayu come in and salute and asked, "Zhang Aiqing, what is the matter with you coming to see me?" ”

"Your Majesty, when the court meeting just now, the minister saw that His Majesty seemed to be unhappy, can you talk to the minister, and let the minister explain a thing or two for Your Majesty!"

Zhang Jiayu and Zhu Hongsan are about the same age, and when Zhang Jiayu was in Guangdong, he was also half a friend with Zhu Hongsan, so today Zhang Jiayu dared to ask like this, if he was replaced by other ministers, and saw Zhu Hongsan peeing his pants in fright, where he dared to explain a thing or two for the emperor?

Zhu Hongsan sighed when he heard Zhang Jiayu say this: "Hey, just now I saw that the Manchu Dynasty was full of young ministers, and you are the only one left in my old people, you are old, and I am also old!" ”

Zhang Jiayu bowed down and said: "Your Majesty raised troops from the end of Wei, drove out the Tartars and restored the Ming Dynasty, such feats are already comparable to Tang Taizong, Song Taizu, and Emperor Gaozu of our dynasty!" ”

What kind of person is Zhu Hongsan, as soon as he heard Zhang Jiayu say this, he knew what he wanted to say. In his later years, several sons of Tang Taizong competed for the throne, and finally caused the crown prince and Li Tai, the king of Wei, to be deposed, and Li Zhi, who was a Chinese man, became the emperor. Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin is also like this, and the sound of the candle shadow axe in his later years is also unclear. As for Zhu Yuanzhang, it was similar, as soon as his son died, he started a battle of martyrdom, and in a few years, he knocked down the legitimate successor selected by Zhu Yuanzhang to the ground and became the emperor himself.

These emperors were all martial artists when they were alive, but their successors were not selected after their deaths, which caused turmoil in the government. So today, Zhang Jiayu came to see Zhu Hongsan not to explain to His Majesty, but to directly propose that the emperor should choose a successor.

When the crown prince Zhu Haigang was deposed, some ministers also proposed to establish a prince for the sake of the country, but Zhu Hongsan was still young and strong at that time, and he never thought of choosing a successor so early, plus the other princes were still young at that time, so Zhu Hongsan was ready to wait and see.

But this wait is more than ten years, Zhu Hongsan is sixty years old this year, who knows how many days you can live. If the emperor you suddenly hang up, then what will happen to the country? What about the government? Is there another rebellion of the Eight Kings?

Zhu Hongsan is not a mediocre emperor, he knows that Zhang Jiayu is also thinking about the country, but now Zhu Hongsan has not decided on this successor, there is no way Zhu Hongsan asked: "Yuanzi, who do you think is suitable for this prince?" ”

Zhang Jiayu was overjoyed when he heard the emperor call his words, and knew that there was a play today. But Zhang Jiayu couldn't directly propose to let Zhu Hai be the prince again, the traces were too obvious.

"Your Majesty, the crown prince is the foundation of a country, how dare the minister speculate? Please make your own decision! ”

In fact, Zhu Hongsan also has a candidate in his heart, that is, Zhu Shengduo, the eldest grandson of the emperor, but Zhu Shengduo's uncles are all there, and they are all in the prime of life. Zhu Di was playing Zhu Yun back then? Brake paralysis Tsubaki suitable for Ou 6 wood re-election /p>

Zhu Hongsan groaned and said, "Yuanzi, the eldest grandson Zhu Shengduo bows deeply, what do you think of him?" ”

Zhang Jiayu heard that there was a door: "Your Majesty, after all, the eldest grandson of the emperor is a generation behind, if he is made the grandson of the emperor, what about the other princes?" What should I do about the Code of Ethics? And now that the crown prince is still there, it is impossible to bypass his father and directly canonize the emperor's grandson! ”

Zhu Hongsan thinks the same way, but what should I do?

"What do you think about Motoko? Don't worry, today in this room are you and my monarch, you can just say what the situation is! ”

With the emperor's instructions, Zhang Jiayu began to make a tirade: "Your Majesty has been in power for 30 years, his martial arts are extremely prosperous, and the people have also been recuperated. ”

Zhang Jiayu has followed Zhu Hongsan for the longest time, and he knows what the emperor likes to hear, and of course he likes to listen to sycophants the most. In fact, Zhang Jiayu has been the great steward of the empire for eight years, and I don't know what the people are like now. Because the war has not stopped in the past 30 years since the founding of the country, the empire's finances have been almost dragged down by the military, and the annual fiscal revenue is 70 million silver dollars, but half of the annual expenditure on border wars will be half, and the country will repeat the mistakes of Emperor Yang of Sui if it continues like this.

There are 200,000 soldiers fighting on the frontier of the empire all year round, and India is okay, after all, India also has a population of 40 or 50 million, and the Ganges Plain is still a grain-producing area, so India's war is still worth breaking even. But Zhang Jiayu didn't know why the emperor wanted to use troops in the northwest. Out of Yumen Pass is a desert, where the population is sparse and the people are fierce, and because there is no infrastructure at all, the supplies of the emperor's ** team are all transported from the inland of the Central Plains, and the country really can't support it.

If Ma Mingyuan and other powerful ministers were still alive, they would definitely not agree with the emperor to do this, but the emperor killed all the opponents and used his strong will to persist in the northwest war for so many years. However, Zhang Jiayu, as the chief steward, knows that it will not work until the war in the northwest ends, and now the country is prosperous on the surface, but eighty percent of the financial resources of the people have been drained, and the country will be in chaos if it continues like this.

The country has become like this, and Zhang Jiayu, as the chief housekeeper, is naturally anxious. But Zhang Jiayu is smarter than Ma Mingyuan in this regard, he will not directly raise objections in front of the emperor, but euphemistically wake up the emperor from the side, that is, the emperor will not be unforgiving if he does not listen to Zhang Jiayu, anyway, the country is the emperor yours, you can do what you say, this is also one of the reasons why Zhang Jiayu has been able to avoid previous purges since the fifteenth year of Shenwu.

Zhang Jiayu first said a piece of nonsense to praise the emperor, and then said that this successor should choose someone who will continue the emperor's concept of governing the country. Zhang Jiayu knew that the emperor would never be ignorant of the situation of the people, and this emperor had a brocade guard in his hand, and he must grasp all kinds of trends among the people, so Zhang Jiayu gambled that the emperor also had the intention of repenting.

Zhang Jiayu really made the right bet, Zhu Hongsan came from the later generations, and he was not a high-level person in this life, he knew too much about the people's suffering, but the Northwest Frontier was too important for the future, and you must know that half of China's self-produced oil in the future came from Xinjiang, and the Northwest and Siberia must be won for the sake of future generations.

However, according to the productivity of the Ming Dynasty, it was really impossible to supply the war of the army in the northwest, so Zhu Hongsan faced the same problem as Yongzheng a few years ago, that is, the northwest became a chicken rib, and it could not be fought and could not be moved, and it could not be withdrawn. However, in the twenty-eighth year of Shenwu, there was good news, and Russia, which was also on an expedition of thousands of miles, could not hold on, and finally gave up Siberia in peace talks with the Ming Dynasty, and without the support of Russia, the Mongols in the northwest who could not eat should also surrender.

Therefore, the policy after Zhu Hongsan's death should not be expansion, but to keep it, and choosing a king to keep it is what it should do at present.

Zhu Hongsan is very optimistic about Zhu Shengduo, after all, Zhu Shengduo is old, and he has been to Liaodong with Zhu Hongsan, so he is quite familiar with the military, and Zhu Shengduo's performance in recent years is very much in line with Zhu Hongsan's wishes, so Zhu Shengduo is currently the best candidate for his successor.

But the other sons of Zhu Shengduo must not be convinced, Zhu Hongsan doesn't want the whole country to be in chaos after his death, this is Zhu Hongsan's biggest headache at present.

Zhu Hongsan thought for a while and said, "I care about Zhu Shengduo, what do you think Yuanzi should do?" ”

Zhang Jiayu waited for the emperor's words, Zhang Jiayu said carefully: "Your Majesty, the crown prince is the best choice in terms of both the king and the government, and the eldest grandson of the emperor is the eldest son of the prince, so he will be the eldest son!" If His Majesty reinstates Zhu Hai as the crown prince, won't Zhu Shengduo become the legal successor of the empire? I hope Your Majesty thinks twice! ”

Zhang Jiayu said this with great caution, although he is the emperor's confidant, but in recent years, the emperor has probably committed Alzheimer's disease and has a capricious temper. But today, after Zhang Jiayu finished speaking, the emperor was not angry, but touched his beard and pondered.

Zhu Hongsan invested too much effort in Zhu Hai, and it was Zhu Hongsan who took him by his side to teach him how to govern the country, and Zhu Hai did not live up to Zhu Hongsan's high expectations, and he was also a good hand at governing the country. At the same time, Zhu Hai has also been trained politically, and wanting to control Zhu Hongsan with the help of Zhu Jiang, the king of Qin, is a typical example, but Zhu Hai's methods are not as old as Zhu Hongsan.

Thinking of his son's calculation of himself, Zhu Hongsan was angry: "Yuanzi, but the facts that the rebel did back then can't make me forget!" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister also has a son, the minister's son will punish him for making mistakes, teach him the truth of life, if he does not repent, the minister will use the family law! Prince Er did something wrong back then, but for more than ten years, Prince Er kowtowed to the north every day in Fengyang, and insisted on fifteen years without a single day of interruption. The minister thought that the closest relationship in the world was the relationship between father and son, and now that the son has known that he is wrong, why can't he forgive him if he is a father? ”

Zhang Jiayu's words were very in place, and they had deeply moved Zhu Hongsan. Oh, yes! Zhu Hai is his own son, and his son makes a mistake and becomes a father's discipline, so how can he not see each other for the rest of his life?

Zhu Hongsan pondered and asked: "But the prince made a big mistake back then, if the prince is reinstated, I am afraid of criticism from the imperial court!" ”

Zhang Jiayu was overjoyed when he heard the emperor say this, and it seemed that his efforts today had borne fruit.

"Your Majesty, the crown prince was young and didn't understand the world, and he was instigated by Ma Mingyuan to do something wrong, and after these fifteen years of reflection, he must have known that he was wrong!"

Zhang Jiayu is right, Ma Mingyuan is the prince's teacher and father-in-law, and any basin can be deducted on his head, anyway, Ma Mingyuan is dead, and he can deduct it as much as he wants.

Zhu Hongsan pondered for a moment and said, "I'm tired today, Yuanzi go back!" ”

Zhang Jiayu heard the emperor say this and knew that the emperor had agreed, and the next step was to see how he operated.

Zhang Jiayu immediately prepared after returning home, and on the first day of work on the sixteenth day of the first month, he took a part to excuse the prince, the content is very simple, that is, Zhu Customs has known that he was wrong for fifteen years, and he was hot-headed back then, and he listened to the traitor Ma Mingyuan's pleading, please forgive the prince.

Zhang Jiayu is the prince's teacher, and it is nothing to defend the prince, but this twist and turn is too scary, when all the officials in the court thought that Zhang Jiayu was going to be unlucky, then he knew that the next day the holy decree came from the palace, and the emperor also agreed, and ordered the prince Zhu Hai to be moved out of Fengyang Imperial Prison and returned to Beijing for residential surveillance.

As soon as the emperor's decree came out, everyone knew what was going on, and the emperor was preparing to reinstate the crown prince, so soon some Qingliu imperial historians in the court who held stinky feet began to write to exonerate Zhu Hai, saying that Zhu Hai was a good son who was deceived by Ma Mingyuan, and now asked the emperor to reinstate the prince. The justice that these ministers said one by one was awe-inspiring, as if the emperor would hang himself collectively if he did not appoint Zhu Hai as the crown prince.

Zhu Hai left Fengyang, where he had been imprisoned for 15 years, and returned to Beijing on the 10th day of the fifth month, and went to the palace to meet his father Zhu Hongsan as soon as possible.

On the first day of June in the thirtieth year of Shenwu, Zhu Hongsan crowned the prince Zhu Hai* as the king of Qi, and then on the second day of the sixth month, Zhu Hai was reinstated as the crown prince.

At this time, Zhu Hongsan was already sixty years old, and the years of conquest when he was young had greatly consumed his body, and he did not have the energy to govern such a large country, so on the first day of the first month of the 31st year of Shenwu, Zhu Hongsan issued an edict saying that in the future, the country's affairs would be completely deprived of the prince, which was a sign that Zhu Hongsan began to delegate power.

On the fifth day of the sixth month of the 32nd year of Shenwu, Zhu Hongsan finally ushered in his limit, in the Qianqing Palace of the Forbidden City in Beijing, all of Zhu Hongsan's sons knelt on the ground, and even Zhu Jiang, the deposed Qin king who was locked up in Fengyang, was also released. Zhu Hongsan looked at his sons and said contentedly: "I have lived for a hundred years in the two lives, and I am content!" The crown prince has done very well in the past few years, I am very relieved, you can be a good emperor in the future! ”

Zhu Hai is now forty-five years old, seeing that he is finally about to achieve a positive result, thinking of the hardships he has endured for more than 40 years, and seeing that his father is about to die, he can't help but cry loudly: "Father, you will be fine!" ”

Zhu Hongsan took Zhu Hai's hand and said with a smile: "Silly boy, how can people not die?" After I die, you must be kind to your brothers, and be a good emperor, and I and your mother will be content in heaven! ”

Hearing Zhu Hongsan mention his mother Ma Xiaofang, Zhu Hai couldn't control his feelings even more, and knelt on the ground and cried.

Zhu Hongsan was already in a daze, looked at Fang Liang and said, "Xiaofang, you are here, are you here to pick me up?" Good! I'll take you to a car, to a plane, to eat KFC! ”

Zhu Hongsan's voice slowly became lower, and finally became silent, and a generation of heroic Shenwu Emperors finally ended his legendary life.

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