In the fourth year of Chongzhen, that is, in 1631 in the Western calendar, this year was relatively smooth compared with the first three years of Chongzhen's accession to the throne. Although there was a spring drought in the Yansui area of Shaanxi Province at the beginning of spring; In February, a group of peasant rebels from Changlaikeng, Fujian Province, came out of the mountains and attacked Ruijin County. However, the rest of the region was calm, especially the summer harvest in Henan, which also yielded a small bumper harvest, which relieved a lot of pressure on the transportation of grain from the south to the north.

The drought in the Yansui area has not had a great impact. First, disaster relief organizations in various parts of Shaanxi have not been dismantled; Second, the gentry council is taking over local law and order in an all-round way, and even if some of the victims want to rise up and make trouble, it will be difficult to set off any waves. Most importantly, the various projects being carried out in Shaanxi and the resettlement projects in the Hetao, Ningxia, and Huangshui River valleys have also displaced many victims.

As for the peasant rebel army in Fujian, the county order of Ruijin County happened to be vacant, and the local instructor Wang Kuichun did not flee when he saw the peasant army attacking the city, but summoned citizens to defend the city. In the end, the reinforcements sent by Yang Hao, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, repelled the peasant army. Wang Kuichun was therefore promoted by Yang Hao to become the county magistrate of Ruijin County.

After entering June, it rained heavily in Xuzhou, Shandong Province for several days, and finally broke out into heavy water. However, the previously completed second phase of the diversion and rectification project exported a part of the water, so that the flood did not cause a big disaster, and the local strength of Shandong alone is enough to provide relief.

The Chengqian Palace incident in the palace finally ended quietly after entering June. Unlike the fanfare of the British public to deal with the nobles involved, the relevant personnel in the palace are silent. The 17 relevant contacts jointly investigated by the Metropolitan Governor and the Security Bureau were all killed one by one. Dozens of other people were sent out of the palace and transferred to Tianshou Mountain or Fengyang Shouling.

The manpower of the Shangshan Supervisor was extensively adjusted and divided into two. One is in charge of the food in the palace, and the number of people is only more than 100 people, which is called the imperial kitchen. The other was responsible for court banquets and sacrifices, and was renamed the State Guesthouse. As the Shang Shan Jian with the most old people in the palace, after this purge, he can no longer form a group. The eunuchs from King Xin's mansion and the eunuchs from the bottom of the old palace finally completely grasped the right to speak in the palace, and the power left by Wang An and Wei Zhongxian in the palace in the past declined.

After listening to the treatment of these palace personnel, Zhu Youzhen finally breathed a sigh of relief. Shang Shan Supervisor, who controls the diet of everyone in the palace, will actually have someone who colludes with people outside the palace, which makes him a little uncomfortable. After eliminating these personnel, he was relieved.

However, this summer is a difficult summer day for the Jingjiang Palace, which is far away under the Duxiu Peak in Guilin. Zhu Luhu, the king of Jingjiang, wrote to Chongzhen under the prodding of his eldest son, Zhu Hengjia, accusing him of being mean to the clan and dealing with the Han and Qin domains too harshly.

Zhu Luhu's letter was naturally not for grandstanding, but because he really couldn't bear the increasingly strict control of the clan since Chongzhen ascended the throne, so he hoped to use the cases of the Han and Qin domains to incite the dissatisfaction of the clans in various places and make Chongzhen regress.

As early as the Wanli period, Wang Shixing recorded in the "Guangzhi Interpretation": "There are 2,000 people in the Jing clan, and 50,000 taels of rice are eaten every year, so the storage of the domain is not enough, and there are many people who cannot survive on their own." "After decades have passed, the Jing clan at this time has exceeded 3,000 people, and 50,000 taels of rice a year is even more insufficient.

Therefore, illegal things such as the Jingjiang royal palace occupying people's land or barricade the river to collect taxes are also endless. After Chongzhen rectified the clan and let the vassal kings and county kings take out their own property and invest it in the clan foundation, and provide annuities for the underage clan, the elderly and sick clans and the clan women, and did not allow the children of the clan to break the law and discipline, but to support themselves, the policy was promulgated, which naturally attracted the opposition of the vassal kings, the county kings and those restless clan members.

Although Zhu Hengjia is a concubine, he has always been favored by Zhu Luhu, so he is used to being domineering in Guilin City. In his opinion, leading people to forcibly occupy people's land, occupy rivers to collect fishing taxes, and recruit criminals and local scoundrels as thugs, this kind of thing is nothing in his opinion. After Chongzhen ascended the throne, these things he loved to do the most in the past actually became illegal and undisciplined, which made Zhu Hengjia extremely dissatisfied.

After Chongzhen issued the sect's self-discipline provisions, he once said to his cronies left and right: "His surname is Zhu, and my surname is Zhu." It's just that he was lucky, and the first emperor went in time to let him pick up the throne, otherwise he would just be a local vassal king, and it was his turn to point fingers at me.

And my ancestor was unwilling to seal on the day of the separation, and Queen Ma came forward to comfort her ancestor to go out of Beijing, and gave it to the East Palace Honor Guard. If this is discussed, although my Jingjiang Wangfu is not a descendant of Taizu, it is not comparable to a side branch without a name. He is so mean to the clan, isn't he afraid of the ancestors' blame..."

Zhu Hengjia was arrogant and arrogant, thinking that it was a righteous move for the Jingjiang palace to cry out for the Han and Qin domains, and the clans in the world would naturally stand on the side of the Jingjiang palace. Soon after ascending the throne, Chongzhen, who was young and young, would inevitably make certain concessions under the accusations of various clans.

Zhu Hengjia felt that Chongzhen's behavior in dealing with the clan was like abolishing the emperor Jianwen and cutting the domain, which would definitely cause the anger of the clans. And although he is not the Emperor Chengzu of Fengtianjing, the Jingjiang Palace, which is backed by the wolf soldiers of Guangxi, is not something that Chongzhen can easily touch.

However, what Zhu Hengjia was waiting for was not the support of the clans from all over the country, but the rebuke of the four vassal kings in the capital. Several articles published in the Daming Times not only refuted King Jingjiang's letter, but also linked the letter with Taizu's punishment of King Jingjiang's ancestors, accusing King Jingjiang of having ill intentions and attempting to overturn the case for his ancestors.

Overturned the case for the ancestors and opposed Emperor Taizu Gao, this kind of unwarranted big hat was buttoned down, which made the entire Jingjiang palace suddenly panic and uneasy. The previous dissatisfaction and resentment against the imperial decree issued by the emperor suddenly disappeared. Now the Jingjiang palace just wants to clear up, and this letter has nothing to do with overturning the case for the ancestors.

With the fate of the Han and Qin domains ahead, the Jingjiang Mansion naturally understands very well that if Chongzhen catches the handle, their fate will obviously not be much better than that of the Han and Qin domains. Compared to the lack of the current feudal domain, being deprived of the feudal kingdom as a whole obviously made them feel more afraid.

Zhu Luhu, the king of Jingjiang, who had not done anything for a long time, found Zhu Hengjia for the first time, and scolded him for an hour, looking full of energy, and he couldn't see at all that Zhu Luhu had entered the last years of the wind and candles.

After scolding Zhu Hengjia, it only made the angry Zhu Luhu let out a breath of evil in his chest, and it could not solve the problem of Jingjiang Palace's being criticized by the four vassal kings. Zhu Luhu had to ask someone to write a letter of defense to explain to himself that his book was not to overturn the case for his ancestors, but he couldn't bear to worry about the fate of the Han and Qin domains, which may have been false, so he impulsively went to the book.

However, as soon as this defense was issued, the latest Daming Times published articles on the three feudal clans in Shandong and some clans in Henan, which also stood on the position of the imperial court and criticized the Jingjiang Palace. thought that King Jingjiang's letter was a distortion of the facts, and when the imperial court dealt with the criminal clan in accordance with the law, he jumped out to accuse the emperor, which was an attempt to connect the vassal kings in various places to plot misdeeds.

At this time, Zhu Luhu finally understood that the emperor had set his sights on the Jingjiang Palace. Not only was his letter not recognized by the local clan, but it became the emperor's crime against him. Now the local clans are obviously forced to take a stand, whether to support the emperor or the Jingjiang Palace.

Jingjiang Palace, which is not a descendant of Taizu, although it has a special status, but now is not the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China after all, and there is no longer the protection of Empress Ma and Emperor Taizu at the head of Jingjiang Palace. And the emperor linked this letter with the opposition to Emperor Taizu, so that the little kinship between the Jingjiang palace and the imperial family was punctured.

Zhu Luhu and Zhu Hengjia's father and son were all shocked and frightened, it turned out that they were not wrong when they wrote that Chongzhen was mean to the clan. Chongzhen was even more vicious than Jianwen at the beginning, and he was unwilling to maintain even the apparent kinship relationship, and he forced the Jingjiang Mansion into a desperate situation with one move.

Although Zhu Luhu and Zhu Hengjia accused Chongzhen of being mean, they didn't really think so in their hearts. When they found out Chongzhen's true face of being mean and ruthless, they were immediately scared again. Although the Jingjiang Royal Mansion has the responsibility and power to guard the two provinces and control the wolf soldiers, this was how many years ago.

After the martyrdom of Chengzu, the military power in the hands of the vassal kings in various places had long been withdrawn to the imperial court. Because of the large population of Jingjiang Palace, there is no less interference in the local affairs in Liangguang on weekdays. Zhu Luhu didn't think that the officials and troops in Guilin would fight against the orders of the imperial court for him. Although the Guangxi wolf soldiers are brave, they have always been known for their lack of military discipline. Once they left their hometowns, they plundered women's belongings and killed good people. Therefore, after Jiajing, the government rarely sent wolf soldiers out of the country.

If the gentry and people of Guangdong heard that the Jingjiang palace was looking for wolf soldiers to go out of the mountain, it is estimated that no one would support him. And the wolf soldiers are mostly from the left and right rivers, it is one of the main roads from Guangxi to Yunnan, since the imperial court began to develop Yunnan's copper mountain, the Tusi in the left and right rivers area has been vigorously pacified, and the Tusi here have also begun to get close to the imperial court, and they are no longer hostile to the Han officials before that.

The most important thing is that Zhu Luhu is already old, where can he still have the courage to fight against the emperor. As a last resort, Zhu Luhu wrote a letter of guilt again, honestly admitting that he was deaf for a while, so he listened to and believed a few treacherous instigators to write to Yunyun. Zhu Luhu also arrested several fox friends and dog parties around Zhu Hengjia and sent them to the capital, hoping to eliminate Chongzhen's anger against the Jingjiang Palace.

When I received Zhu Luhu's second letter of guilt, it was already July in the capital. Zhu Youzhen did not let go of the Jingjiang palace on Zhu Luhu's plea, and he asked Wang Chengen to continue to publish the letters of the fourth batch of clans in the Daming Times.

When the whole clan shouted at everyone in Jingjiang Palace, it was time for him to clean up Jingjiang Palace. With the example of Jingjiang Palace, I think the clans in various places should respect the clan decrees issued by him.

After putting down Zhu Luhu's plea, Zhu Youzhen instructed Lu Qi: "Let the prince of Fu and the grandson of King Tang come in." This time, King Fu and Chen Qiyu did a good job, and the case of the murder of Tang Wang Shizi was very clear, and Chen Qiyu's reward was considered by the cabinet.

Go and bring a piece of jade, and I will reward him. In addition, it is proposed that there will be a number of walks under the Zongren Mansion to mainly manage the violations of law and discipline in the clan, so that Zhu Yousong, the son of King Fu, will be appointed to the Zongren Mansion to walk..."