Xie Hong had long known that the ministers had different methods to deal with different emperors, and most of them were very effective, but even if he had foresight and was reminded by Zhang Nai, when he really faced these situations, he still felt a little caught off guard. 【】

Your Majesty, do you want to dominate the government alone? Xie Hong, do you want to tilt the power to the government and the opposition? No problem!

After the death of Liu Daxia, the posture of the courtiers led by Li Dongyang changed greatly, from the original strong forces to admonish the ministers, and quickly became the mediocre people who only made promises.

Passive sabotage is not a big deal, if necessary, Xie Hong and Zhengde have the courage to rotate the court, but the passive sabotage of the courtiers is not a separate act, it is cooperative, and those who maintain a tacit understanding with them are local officials in various places.

Huguang hunger!

Fengyang hunger!

Shaanxi drought!

Henan flood, the Yellow River burst!

In just one month, the urgent requests for relief poured into the capital, and soon the eunuchs were overwhelmed, and the eunuchs led by Gu Dayong were so busy that they could hardly even take care of eating.

Of course, it's not just them, the old and the new in the cabinet, and the three scholars are also busy, all of them have not left the palace in October, and have been staying in Wenyuan Pavilion to review and review.

At least on the surface, Li Dongyang and the new university scholar Wang Wei are not responsible, and Jiao Fang is even more exhausted, trying to repay the effect, but the situation has not improved at all.

If you want to solve these urgent problems, the most direct way is to send money and food for relief, but Xie Hong is not stupid, it is now the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, and it is not the end of the legendary world, how can the whole world be affected? There's definitely quite a bit of moisture in there.

And even if the imperial court allocates money and food, whether it can be guaranteed to be in place, that is also a problem, through the deep digging of the midnight system, Xie Hong knows very well that there is a lot of greasy in this, except for a few people, none of the officials in the Ming Dynasty are honest and honest, and most of the allocated money and food have to fall into their pockets.

There is no way to solve it directly, but it is not a way to ignore it completely, the vast territory of China, so that there are always some similarities and differences in the situation in various places, even if the scientific and technological productivity is far greater than that of today's later generations, there will be some disasters in various places every year. Therefore, although most of those emergency documents are exaggerated, it is difficult to guarantee that they are true.

Even if you don't consider the suffering of the people, these disasters and famines can't be ignored, because it is likely to cause civil unrest, just like the chaos in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, in the final analysis, it is the inaction of the political axe, and even the oppression of the people in the disaster area, which led to the inability of the displaced people to survive, and then rose up and overthrew the Ming Dynasty.

The more traditional method is to send the Qin to the post, determine the level of relief according to the actual situation, and monitor the disaster relief process throughout the process to reduce accidental drifting losses.

However, if ordinary officials are sent down, it will certainly be useless; If it were a few years later, Xie Hong might have sufficient and reliable candidates, but now, one or two places are fine, but in the face of emergencies everywhere, it is impossible for him to send so many people.

Besides, the scholars and doctors are gathering momentum, and those magistrates must be all on guard, and it must not be difficult to deceive the newcomers with shallow experience in government affairs. And if they can't be blinded, whether they will secretly do it, that's also difficult to say, and this road won't work.

Liu Jin came up with an idea, that is, to instruct the six departments to solve the problem, if the other party is not effective, just take the opportunity to clean up the remaining few books and master the six departments. But before Xie Hong could think about it clearly, Ma Wensheng of the Ministry of Officials and Han Wen of the Ministry of Household all unanimously begged for bones, which made Liu Jin's plan come to naught.

Although Yan Song was promoted to the Ministry of Officials to be a squire, Cao Yuan Ren Shangshu was used to control the military department, and Liu Yu Ren Shangshu was used to control the household department, but this was also to no avail.

Those magistrates were all connected with the gentry from all over the country, not to mention the orders of the six yamen, even if it was the emperor's holy decree, they could still ignore it.

It is easy to explain such a thing, and it goes without saying that the catastrophe is self-evident; And a small disaster is reported as a major disaster, so it can be said that he is worried about the suffering of the people, so he is more earnest; And it doesn't matter if there is no disaster and there is a disaster, to use a popular saying in later generations, you are blinded.

Even the emperor is not easy to convict because of this, not to mention that if it is more serious, it is very easy for no disaster to become a disaster, and a small disaster to become a major disaster, and the scholar doctor is the best at doing this kind of thing.

At this moment, Xie Hong fully realized why Zhu Yuanzhang set up Jinyiwei back then, and then the emperor intensified the setting up of the East Factory and the West Factory, these measures are really a last resort, without his own intelligence system, even if he is the emperor, he can only be played around.

The most powerful thing about the scholars is not their strategy, nor because of their power all over the world, but because they have no limit at all, and they have no shame, and they can only do it for their own interests, and they will disregard the survival of the people and the safety of the world.

At this point, Xie Hong really can't compare with them, although he is quite thick-skinned, he still has a sense of shame and justice, and he can't do this kind of thing anyway.

Xie Hong also planned to adopt a strong style, use factory guards to clamp down on scholars, and use torture to clean up those who dared to take the lead, just like the two founders of the Ming Dynasty, as well as Zhengde in the previous life and the later Apocalypse, this practice was hated by the scholars, but the effect was really good.

It's just that today's factory guards have been idle for too long, and the guards in various places have long been rotten, and they can't meet Xie Hong's requirements at all. As for the intelligence system established by Xie Hong himself, Midnight's sphere of influence is limited to the capital and has yet to be expanded; The roadside club is still in the preparatory stage, and it will take a long time before it is officially operational, but it still has some momentum in the capital.

Therefore, none of this can solve the urgent need.

If it weren't for the fact that the midnight system had some achievements and could get some news from merchants from other places, this level would have been really difficult. Although there is no way to know the details, he can guess one or two from their descriptions, where is a major disaster, where is a small disaster, and where is peaceful, Xie Hong can also dispatch according to this and reluctantly deal with it.

But Xie Hong didn't naively think that he could pass the test in this way, if it was really that simple, then the emperors such as Wanli and Jiajing in the middle and late Ming Dynasty would not be forced not to go to the court and ignore political affairs.

I just dealt with the natural disasters in August and September or [***], and when it came to October, before Xie Hong and others could breathe a sigh of relief, the emergency reports from all over the country flew over like snowflakes, and this time the theme was the military disaster!

The little prince committed Yansui! Siege the chief military officer Wu Jiang in Longzhou City!

The little prince committed Gansu! The general system of Shangshu is a wide defeat!

The Little Prince is guilty of Thistle Town! The border pass was on fire, and Gyeonggi was shocked!

The Little Prince...... Xie Hong didn't know if the little prince had learned the doppelganger technique, he was everywhere on the 10,000-mile frontier, and it was obvious that the scholars and doctors didn't even want face.

In addition to Zhang Jun, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, who privately sent a message, saying that it was only grassland rangers who invaded Xuanfu, so there was no need to worry; The nine border towns were in an emergency almost everywhere, and the military newspapers were marked with the mark of 100,000 urgent, and the governors, governors, and general soldiers were all shouting hoarsely and weeping in the middle of the song, as if the border towns would be lost the next moment if they did not receive reinforcements at one moment.

Probably because they were afraid that the little prince would appear too often, causing Xie Hong and Zhengde to develop immunity, and the magistrates also came up with a lot of other tricks, that is, civil strife.

Yiju military mutiny!

Jiangxi mining work chaos!

Bandits from Liangguang, Jiangxi, Huguang, Shaanxi, Sichuan and other places are combined!

At this moment, Xie Hong not only understood Wanli's mood, he even understood Chongzhen's mentality, the Ming Dynasty's Wenchen is indeed the minister of the dead country, even if the world is peaceful, they can also play the Jiangshan Sheji.

He still has the support of the intelligence system, how much can he understand the situation from the side, and judge it according to it, and the very stupid and naïve Emperor Chongzhen has dismissed the eunuchs in various places, and even the factory guards have given up, wanting to play with the Donglin Party with his own wisdom alone.

There is no doubt that his actions can only end in failure, in front of a class, the power of the individual is insignificant, except for killing a few ministers, there is right and wrong in them, Chongzhen can do nothing.

Therefore, Xie Hong did not repeat the mistake of Chongzhen, whether it is killing or dismissing the courtiers now, it will not solve the problem, and if the killing is excessive, it may cause greater chaos.

Until the intelligence, surveillance, and education systems mature, all he can do is temporarily stabilize the situation.

However, it is not so easy to stabilize the situation, the most important point is the economy, whether Han Wen did anything before Zhishi, Xie Hong is not very clear, but it is obvious that the household department is now unable to make ends meet.

At the same time as reporting disasters in various places, in addition to asking for relief, they also put forward a request for tax exemption, if it is really a disaster, this request is reasonable, but since these people are shameless, Xie Hong cannot believe the other party's defense, whether there is a disaster or not, whether the imperial court is exempt or not, and what the actual tax situation in various places is, it is also difficult to figure out.

But no matter how Xie Hong responds, the reduction of taxes has also become a fact, especially in the richest land south of the Yangtze River, the most reported disasters are also the most, and the money and grain that arrived in the capital are also much less than in previous years.

Moreover, these people obviously have no fear, and when Zhengde issued an order to urge, Xie Hong immediately received the news, and the dealers of Zhenbao Zhai reported to him that the land south of the Yangtze River began to boycott the goods of Zhenbao Zhai.

The dealers were either disrupted in the store, or had no business, and even some were killed and sold on the way, all of them suffered heavy losses, and when they went to the local government to file a complaint, the local officials refused to accept it on the grounds that there was no substantiated evidence.

These businessmen are also clear-minded, and they immediately figured it out, obviously this is a counterattack by Jiangnan people against Xie Hong.

As a result, those who were less timid all put forward their requests to quit Zhenbao Zhai, for fear of being involved in this war and even breaking their bones; Even those who have confidence in Xie Hong don't dare to continue ordering for a while, and want to wait to see where the wind is going before talking.

This situation directly led to the decrease in Zhenbaozhai's income, which made Xie Hong even worse.

(To be continued)