Chapter 347: The Forbidden City Turns

The fire in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, except for the original mansion of the magnificent political envoy Liu Shunhua, the surrounding households were not affected, and afterwards, the panicked Zhejiang Jinyi Wei Qianhu and the officials of Hangzhou Mansion entered the fire to search and found dozens of bodies of men and women.

It was already burned black, unrecognizable, and it was impossible to see what it used to be. Now, if this kind of thing is further investigated, many people will have corresponding troubles every year, such as the Hangzhou Mansion that neglected their duties and the Jinyi Guards who monitored nearby.

Therefore, the document reported said that the weather was dry and dry, and the fire could not be extinguished, so it was said that the whole family of Liu Shunhua, the political envoy of Zhejiang who was sick at home, was burned to death by the fire, and the political envoy was burned to death in the house, the matter sounds not small, but Liu Shunhua has been out of everyone's sight for a long time.

The center of the imperial court did not show much concern for a person who had lost power and was sick at home, and this person had no background and no family envoy. The above is just an understatement to talk about the deep pain, and there is no sound, Liu Shunhua's father-in-law's family, for this daughter has long expressed a giving up attitude, the daughter of the big family is often a tool for grace and marriage, but there is no publicity.

If there is no history of Jiang Feng's crossing, the current Emperor Jiajing should have swept away all the forces opposing him inside and outside the court, and his cronies and subordinates firmly controlled all the key departments and centers of the imperial court, and Jiajing was already slowly obsessed with Taoism.

He began to alchemy and seek immortals, and Taoist priest Shao Yuanjie began to slowly gain power in the court, all of which should have happened in history, but the current Emperor Jiajing is already more obsessed with Taoism than at that time, and claims to have obtained the law of immortals all day long, and no longer pays attention to the government.

In the Yongning Palace of the Forbidden City, it is now generally called the fairy clouds, auspicious and auspicious, but the imperial history and the clear stream are sad to say: black smoke miasma, because this has become a place to seek immortal alchemy, the sculpture is exquisite, at first glance, it is from the imperial Sanqing statue placed there, a Taoist priest holding the dust there and dancing non-stop, surrounded by many small Taoist priests who follow the ritual.

Emperor Jiajing knelt there in a rather luxurious robe, reciting scriptures respectfully, it seemed that the whole person was immersed in it, Emperor Jiajing was only about thirty years old at this time, and the pampered life made him still look quite young, and the eunuchs and palace maids standing there around did not notice, and the emperor kneeling there opened his eyes slightly, looking at the eunuchs and palace maids on the side.

He clearly remembered that three months ago in the palace once wanted to know the situation of the reclamation manor outside the Guan, since it was opened by the officials and people of the Ming Dynasty, it was not impossible to collect some taxes, but the next day there were some officials in the court who jumped out to suggest that the Ming Dynasty did not need to compete with the people, about the taxation of the Jiangnan handicraft workshop, the controversy in the court was not a matter of arguing for a year or two, and Jiajing did not care, but after the information of Dongchang and Jinyiwei came up, it was said that the manor outside the Guanxi was barren. It's all cultivated by farmers who are struggling to survive.

The emperor also has some hidden power of his own, although it is not big, although the time and speed of transmission are relatively slow, but it is a complete emperor, Jiajing learned about some of the riches outside the pass, and who is controlling these manors, Jiajing, who got the accurate news, suddenly remembered the exhortation to compete with the people some time ago, as well as the information of Dongchang and Jinyiwei, and suddenly felt creepy.

Thinking of the worst-case scenario, Emperor Jiajing suddenly realized that he had become a real loner, and everyone was standing on the other side, obviously those admonishing officials already knew the will before they left the palace, so they knocked on the side there.

And the intelligence of Dongchang and Jinyiwei is even more nonsense, Zhu Yuanzhang created Jinyiwei because of the poor use of civil and military officials, and later Zhu Di created Dongchang because Jinyiwei was not very obedient, both of which were controlled in the hands of the emperor's most trusted people.

However, both Jinyiwei and Dongchang began to conceal and ask for reports, and Emperor Jiajing felt that the feeling of walking on thin ice when he arrived in the capital at the beginning of the year now reappeared. Forbearance, he did not have a seizure, but he was particularly keen on Taoism, although some officials beat their chests and stood, and said earnest advice, but Jiajing did not pay attention to these words, just did these things on his own, and the bigwigs in the court also discovered that Emperor Jiajing, who was cold by nature, actually missed the old people who used to be in Hubei Xingxian Palace, and began to reminisce.

Liu Shunhua's wives were obviously a little unrecovered, and they all expressed great discomfort to suddenly come to a strange country from Hangzhou, which is known as a paradise on earth, and of course, their feelings were ignored.

After two months of idleness, Liu Shunhua finally began to manage the Jiang family's guards, and now the population of the Han army is close to 330,000, and it has been organized into 66 people's guards, and now Yizhou (Taiwan) has recruited nearly 20,000 people in addition to the Xia family.

Because of the barren land, the mountain people in Fujian have always had the tradition of leaving their hometown to beg for a living outside, such as most of the pirates, as well as the Chinese in Nanyang, most of whom may not be willing to go to the sea to fight for their lives, and it is not a good place for Nanyang to be full of strangers. When it comes to safe and stable farming in Taiwan, it is naturally a good choice.

The more than 25,000 people in Taiwan are known as the Nanyang Five Civil Guards, which do not have civilian officials and practice military management.

330,000 is already the size of the largest government on the mainland, and there are only ten people in each civil guard, including civil officials, regimental training envoys, income and expenditure documents, and agricultural officials.

The remuneration of these people is provided by the military supplies of the Jiang family's army, and it takes less than a thousand people to manage so many people, Liu Shunhua is really surprised, although it is said that there are very few people who eat imperial grain in the various state capitals of the Ming Dynasty, but the number of non-staff personnel is several times and dozens of times that of the official ones. This has always been known as one of the harsh policies, especially harassing places.

Liu Shunhua has studied in the local area for many years, a few years as a Beijing official, and a few years as a local official, and he has learned the so-called knowledge of being an official, and he understands these things very clearly, and he is full of the establishment of a system for managing civil affairs in accordance with the system of the political envoy and the yamen of the year.

I thought that I was born in Hanlin Bachelor's degree, not to mention that he was also an outstanding talent, and it was easy to govern Shandong and Zhejiang Province, with a population of nearly 10 million, and I was afraid that these small 300,000 people would not succeed, but at this time, it was a little difficult to do it.

Although he is Jiang Feng's father-in-law, Liu Shunhua knows his status in this foreign land, and he also clearly knows what kind of person his son-in-law is like.

After coming to Incheon, although a large-scale banquet was held to welcome Liu Shunhua's arrival, this was the first time to have a private banquet, and Liu Fangrui was also very attentive, leading Su Guanyue and Su Guanxue, and by the way, Xia Cuiyu, who was busy for a whole day.

After Jiang Feng said it, the female relatives of the Jiang family also removed a lot of knots for Xia Cuiyu, and at the suggestion of her sister, the girl Su Guanxue took the initiative to contact Xia Cuiyu.

In the evening, after Jiang Feng and Liu Shunhua Weng Weng's son-in-law were seated, Liu Fangrui knew that the two men must have something important to discuss, so they just ate some casually, chatted a few words, and then withdrew with a group of female dependents.

Sipping the rice wine in the cup, Jiang Feng was not in a hurry to speak, Jiang Jiajun's civil affairs have always been unable to rely on these civil officials of the civil guard, because the civil officials of the civil guard are all elected from the same township and clan, and when they were in Shandong, they were already inextricably linked, and the civil officials were often the patriarch and the like in the past.

Therefore, there is a certain degree of independence, that is, after coming to North Korea, they do not collect land endowments, and they are supported by many parties, which is what stabilizes the people's hearts, otherwise the more than 10,000 Jiang Jiajun are just dissatisfied with the suppression of the people's defense, I am afraid they will not be able to be busy, and now the lives of each family have begun to recover slowly after more than a year of recovery and settlement.

With money in hand and a full stomach, there are such disputes between various civil guards, such as land enclosure and water sources. It is often argued, and the lawsuit has come to Zhao Xiucai and Jiang Feng, which is really anxious, if it wasn't for the initial establishment of the regimental training system, the decision was to rotate the mainstay, otherwise these civil guards rely on the force of regimental training, and fight each other is possible.

Jiang Feng's subordinates have a lot of martial artists, including regular soldiers from the official military system like Zhang Liang, as well as Tieding officers trained by Jiang Feng himself, such as Luo Yi, as well as the Yang family brothers and the green forest strongmen of Weishan Island, these officers are brave and not reckless, and they are all outstanding characters.

However, in terms of literati, Liu Twelve is good at strategy, Zhao Xiucai is a military quartermaster halfway away, and many things need to be assisted by Su Guanyue to go smoothly, and Wang Qinian and his people don't want to mention anything related to civil affairs, so at the suggestion of Liu Twelve, Liu Shunhua was taken over from Hangzhou Mansion, but Liu Twelve said that he was worried, that is, whether Liu Shunhua could accept such a gap, after all, Liu was also from a bachelor of Hanlin to a provincial political envoy, a member of the country, can he turn around in his heart.

"Son-in-law, there are some things to ask ......"

Jiang Feng was thinking about it, and Liu Shunhua on the other side asked a question quite politely, and Jiang Feng smiled slightly.

It seems that the heart has turned a corner.