Chapter 63: The Great Plan Quietly Unfolded
"This is a secret report sent by Jinyiwei in an urgent manner for 800 miles, and you have read it, what should you do now? I'm in a mess, so please come up with a charter right away! Yang Su covered his face with his hands and sat on the chair with a sad expression.
"King Fu is the emperor's own uncle, his status is respected, according to common sense, he should not do such a big rebellious thing, not to mention that this is just a secret report of Jinyiwei, for the sake of safety, the minister thinks that it is more appropriate to make a decision when multiple parties verify it!" Wen Tiren has always been good at making mud, and his words are very beautiful, but they are fake and empty!
"The minister also thinks that it is appropriate to check and then decide, Luoyang to the capital is more than 1,000 miles, even if it is 800 miles to expedite it will take two days to arrive, the minister asks the emperor to send the minister to Luoyang with the Son of Heaven Fu Festival, and allow him to do easy things!" Wang Yingxiong, the new university scholar, echoed.
"It's not appropriate, now that the evidence of King Fu's rebellion is conclusive, you still want to send a messenger with great fanfare, don't you deliberately want him to learn the news and start troops immediately! Now that I am worried about internal and external troubles, if there is another vassal king who raises troops, and the court is unable to suppress it, then it will not be a country! Wen Zhenmeng stood up angrily and retorted.
"Your Majesty, you can send a messenger to secretly verify first, even if King Fu has a change, but the guards are only a thousand people, as long as the local officials are prepared, they must be able to suppress it with their backhand!" Wen Tiren said thoughtfully.
"Your Majesty, King Fu has been deeply rooted in Luoyang for more than 20 years, and it is easy to be exposed when Qin sent to investigate, which may cause King Fu to be alert, and the minister thinks that since Jinyiwei found out about this matter first, he should let Jinyiwei cooperate with Henan Governor Li Henian to secretly investigate this matter!" Wen Zhenmeng said loudly.
Yang Su secretly scolded this Wen Zhenmeng in his heart for daring to deliberately disgust people, and wanted the civil official to interfere with Jinyiwei, it was simply wishful thinking!
And not angry glanced at the cabinet of the public, King Fu is the son of Emperor Wanli and Zheng Guifei, deeply favored by Wanli, Wanli is ready to make him the prince, which triggered a fifteen-year-long dispute over the country, and finally after the three major cases of the Ming Dynasty, King Fu finally left Beijing to become a vassal, and the position of the prince is stable.
Whether this Fu Wang is reasonable, or according to his mediocre and tyrannical character, there are good reasons for people to believe that he intends to rebel, at least Yang Su saw Jinyiwei's secret report, and he completely believed it!
And this group of ministers has already been extremely popular ministers, and it is not a credit for them to directly arrest King Fu and send him to prison, after all, King Fu's rebellion has not succeeded, and the credit is also Jinyiwei's, and once Jinyiwei's secret report is inaccurate, King Fu has no intention of rebelling, then they will be held responsible.
Which of these ministers is not a human spirit who stands out by stepping on thousands of corpses, and they are all pretending to be confused!
They would rather Yang Su investigate with great fanfare and force King Fu to rebel, rather than directly order King Fu to be arrested!
As for how much impact it will have, what does it matter to them, they just need to hold on to their official position!
They proposed to send ministers to quell the rebellion, this is the opportunity for the Ming Dynasty to reap the benefits, the Ming Dynasty stipulated that the military merit shall not be knighted, this counterinsurgency can get credit, and you can copy the palace, of course they have to fight!
"The matter is urgent, then according to what Lord Wen said, the cabinet intends to order the governor of Henan to go to the Fuwang Mansion to control the guards first, and then search the Fuwang Mansion to find out the truth of this matter! If this matter is not true, I will personally issue an edict to declare the world! If this is true, I must capture King Fu alive, and don't let me have the infamy of killing my uncle! Tell King Fu that I still regard him as an uncle, and only depose him as a concubine, and the throne of King Fu will be succeeded by Zhu Yousong! Yang Su sighed mournfully.
"The emperor is benevolent and loving, and he has always been generous to King Fu, and I believe that King Fu will definitely get lost!"
"Yes, with the emperor's fist, King Fu will inevitably be moved! Please don't worry, Your Majesty! ”
The cabinet ministers were relieved, and exchanged glances with each other, with the emperor taking the lead, they were naturally indispensable, and Wen Tiren came forward to receive the order.
When Wen Tiren finished drafting the decree, Yang Su immediately stamped it and asked the chamberlain to take this decree to make a book.
"I have one more thing to ask you to convey to the Ministry of Industry!" Yang Su continued.
"I recently inspected the Huangzhuang and found that the corruption of the eunuchs in charge of the village was extremely serious, resulting in a large loss of villagers, and most of the land in the Huangzhuang was deserted and uncultivated. This matter was handed over to the Cabinet for the Ministry of Industry to implement. ”
"The craftsman has been changed to Zhuang Min!" The cabinet ministers only muttered in their hearts, guessing the emperor's true intentions.
In the early Ming Dynasty, when the officials ruled the Qingming Dynasty and the execution of the imperial court was strong, it was a great thing for the benefit of the country and the people. However, in the middle of the period, the disadvantages were gradually revealed, and the hereditary system cut off the channels for artisans to move upward.
Corrupt officials can wantonly exploit these low-status artisan households, who not only have to work for the court without compensation, but also endure the cruel exploitation of the officials.
Therefore, it led to the flight of tens of thousands of craftsmen, and later the imperial court took measures to catch the fugitives and fill the army.
Although this group of artisan households is not valued by the big masters, these hundreds of thousands of artisan households are also their source of power and money, and the emperor wants to directly dig up such a large piece of meat, and the cabinet minister will not be this accomplice!
Someone immediately objected: "Your Majesty, the artisan households are distributed in two capitals and the provincial political departments, hundreds of thousands of artisan households, a total of two or three million people, involving a lot of departments, spending a lot of time and money, and suddenly forcibly relocating the people is more likely to make the people resentful, the emperor's move is afraid that it is inappropriate, and the minister thinks that the emperor can collect the displaced people for the emperor's village!" ”
"The money is out, and the people are escorted by me along the road, you only need to give an order to the household department!" Yang Su emphasized again.
Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister because he wanted to control the power of officials, and he established the cabinet because he needed helpers to help deal with state affairs!
However, now the cabinet commanders and civil officials have the strength to confront the emperor, and even many times the emperor has to give in!
For example, if the eunuch only needs Yang Su to say a word, but in the face of the Ministry of Industry, Yang Su must persuade His Excellency to make an order, otherwise the Ministry of Industry will definitely not listen to his orders and hand over his craftsmen!
"Your Majesty, the homeland is difficult to leave, and forcibly relocating the people will definitely make the heavens angry and resentful, the emperor must not do such a ridiculous act, and the cabinet will never agree to such a will!" Wen Zhenmeng criticized Yang Su.
Although the rest of the cabinet ministers did not understand why the emperor had to move the craftsman family to the imperial village, they never did anything that harmed the interests of the officials, and they all opposed Yang Su's proposal!
"That's good, if you don't move, you won't move, I have been working on state affairs since I ascended the throne, and now it has been eight years, recently I always feel unwell, it's time to build the imperial mausoleum, I ordered the cabinet to immediately issue an order to the Ministry of Industry to summon all craftsmen from all over the country to enter Beijing to build the imperial mausoleum for me, draft a decree!" Yang Su's voice changed, and he seemed to take a step back, and only proposed to let the craftsman enter Beijing.
The cabinet ministers have already refused once by the emperor, and the emperor has given in, so it is not easy to refuse this time, not to mention that the emperor should let the emperor build the imperial mausoleum, and no one can stop it!
"Your Majesty, it is necessary to build the imperial mausoleum, but there is no need to gather all the craftsmen! Moreover, what is the use of such summons as goldsmiths and silversmiths? Wen Tiren stood up and asked.
"Why not, all the craftsmen I need, I got a drawing the day before yesterday, the master of the palace identified is the drawing of the first emperor to build the first emperor's mausoleum, if it is built according to this drawing, after the completion of the imperial mausoleum, the city wall will be 120 miles long, the palace in the city should be repaired like today's palace, the center of the city should build a star-picking tower through the blue fall, down to the Yellow Spring, the moat should lead the Yellow Spring water, and my tomb should be built next to the Yellow Spring River! I'm going to take everything with me! Yang Su opened his eyes and said nonsense.