After six or seven days of recuperation, Zhu Cizhao finally began to recover, working and resting like a normal baby, and no longer woke up from his sleep and cried for no reason. Being able to sleep and willing to eat, Zhu Cizhao's expression suddenly improved a lot. Except for being more sticky to Chongzhen and Lin Xiang'er, there is nothing wrong with the others, which can't help but make Zhu Youzhen breathe a sigh of relief.

After he instructed Lin Xiang'er to take Zhu Cizhao, who was asleep, away, he turned his gaze to Wang Dehua, who was kneeling on the ground, and said, "Neither of you can look down on a woman, do you know that the supervision is really good enough?" You go back and prepare by yourself, hand over the affairs of the governor to Xu Xingsheng, and accompany Zhou Huang's family to Jeju Island next month, stay on Jeju Island for three or five years, and if you mess up the errand again, you will retire on Jeju Island in the future. ”

After watching Wang De withdraw from the study room in a gloomy manner, Zhu Youzhen frowned and said to Wang Chengen: "I know that there are few prisoners and things are complicated, just managing the personnel of the Internal Affairs Office and the budget review of various departments is already overwhelmed, and it is inevitable that they will not be able to take care of it if they are in charge of the security work in the palace."

Lü Qi's Social Investigation Bureau is mainly responsible for monitoring the people's sentiments and public opinion in various places, Jinyiwei's main work is to monitor the movements of troops and officials, the Military Intelligence Bureau of the General Staff is mainly concerned with the military intelligence and topographic mapping of neighboring countries, and Lian Shanxiang's Imperial Front Army is mainly responsible for my travel escort and the ordinary law and order work in the imperial city.

From this point of view, it is indeed necessary to set up a special department to be responsible for the security of the palace, the cabinet, and the six ministries and nine secretaries. In the future, the governor will only manage the personnel and budget verification in the palace, Wang Banban, who do you think is better to be in charge of the work of this department? ”

Wang Chengen quickly filtered the candidates in his mind, and proposed the names of 4 or 5 stewards and eunuchs to Chongzhen, Zhu Youzhen thought for a while and said: "Let Fang Zhenghua be responsible for preparing for this, well, it's called the Security Bureau." The candidates are drawn from the Metropolitan Governor's Office, the Social Investigation Bureau, and the Jinyi Guard, and the funds are the responsibility of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He reports directly to you on his work, are there any problems? ”

Wang Chengen naturally replied that there was no question, but he immediately asked the emperor: "The British Duke suggested that it be traced down from Dongningbo, is it correct?" ”

Zhu Youzhen thought for a long time, but still shook his head and said: "Let the British Duke continue to do what I told him to do, more than the truth of the case, I want to see which side these noble relatives of the Xun family in the capital want to stand on?"

Besides, just look at the fate of that grandmother, those who put their hands into the palace are probably ready for a long time. I can't find anything out for a while, so let's wait for the calm and let Fang Zhenghua investigate slowly. ”

In February of the fourth year of Chongzhen, the capital, which had not yet recovered from the lazy peace of the first month, suddenly became lively because of the four rides. More than 20 nobles and nobles, before they understood what was happening, were politely invited out of the house by Ti Qi.

After inquiring around, the family members of these honorable relatives learned that they had all been taken to a place, the Beizhen Fusi Prison of Jinyiwei. learned that his lord was related to the reverse case, which immediately made the families of these relatives panic, and began to look for their own relationships, wanting to know the inside story of the reverse case, and helping their lord get rid of the crime.

The relatives of various families are connected by in-laws, and when they encounter such things in the past, they can always find a place to intercede. Not to mention that there are so many relatives involved this time, so everyone had the idea of huddling together to keep warm at the beginning, thinking of going to the palace together to shout grievances, and let Chongzhen let his master come back.

However, before the operation began, these relatives were warned by the personnel sent by the British government not to make trouble, forcing these relatives to give up the idea of going to the palace to complain. It was at this time that everyone knew that the British public was presiding over the trial of this reverse case.

Since Chongzhen's accession to the throne, the Xunqi of the capital has increasingly divided into two groups. A nobleman who accepted the emperor's advice and turned his land into new industries and overseas trade. Or the nobles who witnessed the prosperity of the cotton trade and forced their farmers to switch to cotton in order to obtain greater profits. There is also a group of nobles who cling to tradition and refuse to make any changes, but are bent on keeping their own lives in peace.

The income levels of the first two categories of nobles and the last category of nobles began to widen the distance. The latter two types of nobles value land far more than the first category. As a result, the nobles' views on the policies of the imperial court became increasingly divided.

The first group of nobles fully supported the new policies of the imperial court, including land reform and the policy of unified purchase of grain and cotton. The third group of nobles was opposed to any change in the traditional New Deal, especially the policy of land reform. The second group of nobles wavered, supporting the New Deal that benefited them, but disgusted by the policy of restricting their own land annexation and the policy of purchasing grain and cotton. The list handed over by Zhu Youzhen to the British public is mainly from the second and third categories of noble families.

However, however different the views of these nobles may be on the New Deal, they still seem to be a unit, still looking at the British Principality. However, this time, the actions of the British government suddenly drew a rift between these nobles, completely dividing the two small groups that were not very good at dealing with each other.

Jin Yiwei's wanton arrest of Xun Qi soon fermented in the capital. Some officials were extremely wary of the resurgence of Jinyiwei, even if these Jinyiwei did not arrest Wenchen but Xungui's family this time, and they began to write to the emperor one after another, requesting that the content of the cases involving these nobles be made public, and opposing Jinyiwei's separate trial of such a big case.

However, the cabinet ministers first came forward to refute the letters of these officials, and ordered that the officials of the six ministries should be forbidden to discuss the cases handled by the British government, and those who violated the order would be directly degraded abroad. Compared with the frontier in the past, today's exile abroad is more daunting. After all, Jiubian is still within China, and overseas is considered a barbarian hometown at this time.

Since the implementation of the new policy, the court officials have undergone several purges, and at this time, the officials in the capital have become more practical, and there are not many people who dare to jump out and go against the court like Chongzhen in the first year. Not to mention, there seems to be a lot of inside information about this reverse case, and the people involved in the case have remained silent, and no one has revealed the inside story.

There is no way to know the inside story of the case, and the objects involved in the case are basically the Xun family, and the officials who originally wanted to speak out finally chose to give up under the pressure of the cabinet. The capital, which was lively because of this case, gradually calmed down again, and in the face of such a quiet situation, the British Duke was a little relaxed and a little lost.

The mood is relaxed because, without the pressure of external public opinion, these relatives will soon succumb one by one, and this matter will go smoothly. What made him feel lost was because the person behind the scene chose to retreat, so he couldn't continue the chance to try the case, and forced the mastermind behind the scene out.

On the third day of the third month of March, Shangsi Festival is the birthday of the Yellow Emperor. According to custom, the people of the capital will go out of the city to the waterside on this day. In ancient times, it was originally used to have people go to the water's edge to worship and bathe with fragrant herbs to expel bad luck. But in the Ming Dynasty, this day became a festival for families to go out of the city to play. Of course, there are also some sick people who run to the river and wash them with long flowing water to pray for healing.

After nearly three years of remediation of the Haihe River Basin, the rivers near Gyeonggi have almost recovered the rippling situation of the early days of the country, and the sediment accumulated in the rivers has either been piled up on both banks as dikes or has been transported to the fields to accumulate fertilizer, so the number of people in Beijing who go out of the city to celebrate March 3 this year is much higher than in previous years.

In order to sweep away the bad luck in the palace, Zhu Youzhen also took the concubines of the harem to the rice garden in Haidian for a vacation. Although Mi Wanzhong is a painter as famous as Dong Qichang, the cost of polishing the pen alone is enough for him to live a good life. But this person likes to manage gardens and collect strange stones, both of which are extremely expensive projects.

It is because when Mi Wanzhong passed away, the Mi family still had a large amount of foreign debts that had not been repaid. Although the scenery of Haidian's rice garden is good, it is not as livable as the two gardens in the capital. Therefore, the descendants of the Mi family have always wanted to pay off the rice garden, and when Chongzhen fell in love with the rice garden, Wang Chengen quickly took over the rice garden from the Mi family and renovated it.

After a few months, the rice garden in spring is even more elegant and full of flowers. Even Zhou Yufeng, who has been worried about it these days, couldn't help but relax when he saw the scenery of the rice garden.

Zhu Youzhen and the harem concubines stayed here for three days, and they didn't want to return to Beijing anymore. It was not until the messenger from the capital came that the Taiwan Strait Patrol Mansion and several towns in the South China Sea sent a large fleet of ships with envoys from Siam, Cambodia, and Bo Ni and several local kings to the capital to pay tribute, and he had to return to the capital with everyone.

The tributes of overseas vassal states are not unusual, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites generally know that these envoys of the vassal states who come to pay tribute are basically coming to the Ming Dynasty to trade, and maybe some of the envoys are still pretended to be some unscrupulous Ming merchants. Therefore, in this era, the Ministry of Rites still restricted the tribute of these overseas vassal states quite strictly, preventing some Ming merchants from colluding with foreign countries to take advantage of the tributary trade of the imperial court.

However, this time, the tributary envoys brought by the fleet of the Taiwan Strait Patrol Office are different from the past. Not only are the tributary gifts extremely rare, but the people who serve as envoys are also people of great status. For example, several envoys from Cambodia are simply several princes vying for the throne, and the envoys of Siam and Bo Ni are also members of the royal family with high status.

Seeing such a qualified mission, the officials of the Ministry of Rites naturally did not dare to send it away as they had done in the past, and they also rejected the qualifications proposed by the Prime Minister's Yamen to receive this mission. Therefore, he hurriedly sent someone to ask Chongzhen to return to Beijing to deal with the affairs of receiving the mission.

The reason why the officials of the Ministry of Rites are so enthusiastic is also because they smell the competition for the power of the Prime Minister's Yamen to receive foreign vassals in the Ministry of Rites. Although the officials of the Ministry of Rites did not want to receive the affairs of foreign feudal lords in the past, although they were able to get some benefits, there were quite a few mistakes in the reception of these people from the feudal kingdom who spoke the language of birds. No one likes to add some black history to their careers, so naturally no one wants to receive these envoys of the feudal kingdoms.

However, when the Prime Minister's Yamen was established, if he wanted to compete with the Ministry of Rites for power in this area, it would be a different matter. The officials of the Ministry of Rites are also a turnip, and if the duty of receiving foreign vassals is taken away by the Prime Minister's Yamen, then the officials who receive the envoys of the vassal countries will naturally be abolished.

In order to keep the official establishment in this area, the officials of the Ministry of Rites naturally went toe-to-toe with the Prime Minister's Yamen. What's more, the wealth brought by these serious envoys of the feudal kingdom this time is really rich, and they can't help but make people blush.