After Zhu Youxiao bought some medicines, he suddenly felt that he should also buy some books from the Ming Dynasty. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Since he became the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and he was also the emperor of the last years of the Ming Dynasty, even if it was for his own life and his corrupt life in the future, he had to have a deeper understanding of this dynasty.

At least I have to know why the Ming Dynasty fell after seventeen years, and I haven't had time to save it, how to save it, and whether there is a solution.

Zhu Youxiao chose the "book" option, and after entering the word "Ming Dynasty", in addition to the "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" that he had read, he decisively bought a large number of books such as "The Civil Official Selection System of the Ming Dynasty", "History of the Late Ming Dynasty", "History of the Southern Ming Dynasty", "Peasant Uprising in the Late Ming Dynasty", and Yan Moumou's "Sixty Years of the Death of the Ming Dynasty and the Rise of the Qing Dynasty" was also included by him.

Soon, the bookshelf next to his bed was full of these modern and contemporary Ming history books that had been turned into thread-bound books.

After reading for an afternoon, Zhu Youxiao also had a deeper understanding of the Ming Dynasty, except for the brainless blackness of some people and the books that deliberately boasted about the minority regime, Zhu Youxiao found that the carpenter emperor did not seem to be so unbearable.

At least during the emperor's reign, there were no major peasant uprisings, and the war outside the border did not deteriorate.

But at the same time, this period was also a period when the Donglin Party was completely suppressed, an era of eunuch dictatorship and eunuch party dominance.

Zhu Youxiao gradually discovered that perhaps this so-called darkest period in the history of the late Ming Dynasty was only for the Donglin Party.

For the common people, whether the eunuchs are in charge or the civil officials are in charge, it has nothing to do with them, but it is just the difference between bringing and not bringing handles.

Whoever can give them a peaceful world, they can honestly farm, but don't let him not live.

Zhu Youxiao recalled the life of the carpenter emperor who leaned over, and found that he did not send the people to pay taxes, and Liaoxiang had stopped in the forty-eighth year of Wanli.

"It seems that the carpenter who was most ridiculed by later generations is not a dumb king, everything is just an unwarranted smear of the Donglin Party literati who defected to the Qing Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty died in the ears of these selfish scholars, and the poor Emperor Chongzhen did not realize this problem until he died."

Just when Zhu Youxiao sighed, Wei Zhongxian walked in:

"Your Majesty, Zheng Sanjun, the secretary of Taichang Temple, and Liu Mingren, the head of his in-law military department, have been raided, and a total of 40,000 taels of gold, 137,000 taels of silver, and countless antique calligraphy and paintings, the total estimate is about 100,000 taels, and the Xinwang Mansion has also been surrounded, and the Tai Hospital has also been controlled, but the Xu Yuan of the Tai Hospital has committed suicide by poisoning."

"A three-grade Taichang Siqing can confiscate more than 500,000 property, and my officials in the Ming Dynasty are also rich enough (although the salary is not high), no wonder the emperor of the Qing Dynasty likes to raid his house so much, and the Ming Dynasty is so difficult to finance now, is it because I am too kind to them."

Zhu Youxiao said and asked: "This Zheng Sanjun's family industry is not only in the capital, right?" ”

The current Ming Dynasty has not yet reached the time when the army in the late Chongzhen period did not listen to the orders of the imperial court, so that when the governor of Hongguang was also like separating the princes, so the representatives of the imperial power such as Jinyiwei and Dongchang could still suppress the civil and military officials.

Moreover, after seven years of hard work by Zhu Youxiao and Wei Zhongxian, compared with the middle and late Wanli period, the emperor's dictatorial power has been improved.

Therefore, whose house Zhu Youxiao wants to raid and whose head he kills, the following can basically be implemented very well.

Wei Zhongxian knew what the emperor meant, and hurriedly responded: "Your Majesty, the ministers have been reported from Jinyiwei, this Zheng Sanjun family has been in business for three generations, and now it is a famous and wealthy person in Huizhou, and it is only in his generation that the imperial examination began, and his family has definitely a lot of wealth." ”

"Immediately confiscated, all the property of the Zheng family was escorted into Beijing, all the land and property were transferred to Huangzhuang, and the relatives of the three clans of the Zheng family were also arrested and sent to Huangzhuang as tenant farmers!"

After Zhu Youxiao pondered for a while, he issued such a strict order, he wanted to show those ministers who were plotting against Zhu Youxiao what the end would be!

Wei Zhongxian couldn't help but shudder in his heart, he knew that this Zheng Sanjun must have touched the scale of His Majesty the Emperor, the so-called Son of Heaven was angry, and millions of corpses were ambushed, Zheng Sanjun dared to murder the emperor, not to mention that it was a raid, even if it was to exterminate the clan.

"Yes!"

"For King Xin, send a decree to the cabinet and draw up a decree, so that King Xin must be a vassal within ten days, and he is not allowed to stay in the capital!"

Zhu Youxiao didn't kill Zhu Youzhen in the end, he was very sympathetic to his imperial brother, and he had to consider that if he really lost in the hands of this group of ministers one day, and he had no heirs, he was afraid that the Ming Dynasty would have to enter the Chongzhen era.

In that case, it will only allow history to return to the normal track.

"The hospital convicted suicide, it seems that the power of the people behind this scene cannot be underestimated, it is important to find out, from today onwards, the vigilance in the palace must be strengthened, especially in terms of drinking water, food, etc., the palace maids and eunuchs must also be strictly managed!"

Zhu Youxiao sighed as he spoke, as a representative of the emerging merchant class, the Donglin Party's eagerness to participate in politics is an inevitable trend of social development in the late Ming Dynasty, it is better to block than to be sparse, it is true that many of their political ideas are contrary to the interests of the country, but in order to maintain the basic stability of the country, and in the current situation of internal and external troubles, they may have to compromise, otherwise the relationship between the monarch and the minister has been in a tense state, and they are only afraid that no matter how much they take precautions, they will not be able to ensure that these civil officials will be murdered again.

"Spread my will, and go to court tomorrow! In addition, he ordered the cabinet to draw up another decree to restore Sun Chengzong's position as a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion and a scholar of the military department, and to crown the crown prince and prince, and order him to come to Beijing immediately to see him! ”

Sun Chengzong is a moderate figure of the Donglin Party, and at the same time, he has also served as his own banquet lecturer, which can be regarded as his own teacher, plus he is still honest and honest as an official, and his ability is also relatively strong, so it is reasonable for him to restore his official position, and it can be regarded as a good message to appease the moderate faction of the Donglin Party.

But Zhu Youxiao's series of orders made Wei Zhongxian, who has always regarded the Donglin Party as a mortal enemy, unable to understand, and even a little worried, Sun Chengzong is a member of the Donglin Party, and the emperor suddenly reinstated Sun Chengzong's official position and added an official to the knighthood, could it be that the emperor intends to compromise with the Donglin Party, maybe it is just because of the teacher-student relationship, and the emperor is still unwilling to let his teacher live in the township?

The emperor's heart is unpredictable, but Wei Zhongxian, as the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi, is a cabinet scholar in the outer court, and he can be regarded as the leading figure of the eunuch party, since he is with Zhu Youxiao, he has to ask, at least he has to give Sun Chengzong of the Donglin Party some eye medicine.

So, he boldly risked angering Long Yan, stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty misses the old love, and he is really a great benevolent and filial son, but Sun Zhisheng (Sun Chengzong's character Zhizhi) He has no loyalty to the king, in his eyes, only they are the party of Donglin, so for the recall of Sun Zhiyan, please think twice." ”

"I have made up my mind, needless to say, Mr. Sun is not Yang Lian!"

Zhu Youxiao knew that the disaster of the late Ming Dynasty was very serious, and he was also very clear that Wei Zhongxian and other eunuchs deliberately wanted to squeeze out the Donglin Party, but he could not completely abandon the Donglin Party because he needed an important eunuch party that was in line with his own interests.

What really made him secretly vigilant was that this party scourge must be resolved, or the court would never have peace.