readx; Zhu Youzhen was furious, and all the officials who threatened him with resignation were really dismissed. After counting www.biquge.info number of people, there were as many as seventy or eighty people. The dismissal of so many officials in one day was also a record in the Ming Dynasty.

These dismissed officials were a little dumbfounded, and they were often threatened with resignation, which was a common trick used by officials against the emperor. Especially when so many people resign en masse, the emperor generally can't stand it, because someone has to do the work, and someone has to deal with the government. After all the officials were dismissed, could it be that the emperor was entertaining himself alone? So the emperor usually keeps it and makes some concessions, and the officials feel that they have face, so they get off the donkey down the slope, what should they do.

I didn't expect Zhu Youzhen to not eat this set, and he said that he would be ruthless! A considerable number of these people regret it a little, but the holy decree has been issued, and there is no regret medicine in the world.

Of course, some people led by Huang Daozhou, whether you say that he has backbone, it doesn't matter if he is stubborn to the end, anyway, even if he is dismissed, he still has no remorse. Huang Daozhou also knelt down and protested: "Since ancient times, the loyal words have been contrary to the ear, but the ministers have eaten the king's lu, and should repay the king's kindness, even if they have committed a straightforward admonition, they have been removed from their official positions, and even have been punished by the court rod and crimes, and the ministers dare not avoid it!" ”

As soon as he made such a fuss, dozens of dismissed officials also knelt down together, seeing that he wanted to deliberately provoke the emperor and apply a court rod to them.

Zhu Youzhen smiled coldly, he knew this group of scholars too well. The word fame and fortune, they may take "profit" very lightly, but the pursuit of "fame" is tireless. In order to win "fame through the ages", they did not hesitate to anger the emperor, and they were willing to be beaten or even killed. It seems to be very noble, but in the final analysis, it is still selfish, rather than really thinking about the people of the world.

Therefore, he glanced at Huang Daozhou and the others contemptuously: "I don't have the time to beat your ass, and there are many important things that have not yet been discussed!" Yan Ling, these people are no longer imperial court officials, and they will be sent out of the imperial city immediately! ”

Yan Ling immediately led the soldiers of the Imperial City Guard Regiment into the hall, two by one, and "invited" these seventy or eighty people out in an instant. Huang Daozhou and the others shouted to themselves, but their voices gradually drifted away until they were completely inaudible. Only then did Zhu Youzhen spit out a bad breath and said, "Hey, I didn't expect to delay this matter for so long!" Is there anything else you want to condemn? ”

No one dared to say anything now. In fact, Zhu Youzhen was not carried away by anger to dismiss so many officials, he saw very clearly that although there were many of these officials, most of them served in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Hanlin Academy, Zhan Shifu, Taichang Temple, Taifu Temple, Guanglu Temple and other places. In other words, they are all idle officials, unlike the officials of the six ministries, who perform their own duties, and even if they are dismissed, they will have little impact on the normal operation of the imperial court.

And none of these people are members of the third rank or above, which looks more like a tentative action of the Donglin Party against the emperor. Although Zhu Youzhen has dismissed all these people, there are still many Donglin Party members in important positions, and these people can be promoted again in the future. Therefore, in essence, the Donglin Party is no different from the Eunuch Party, it is the same as forming a party to seize power, but it has not yet developed to the level of running a private and chaotic government like the Eunuch Party.

Of course, the formation of ministers into parties is a stubborn disease of officialdom, and it cannot be changed in a moment. Zhu Youzhen just took this opportunity to slap the Donglin party members hard, and then he had to quickly solve a few major matters that burned his eyebrows.

Obviously, now the Ming Dynasty is not only attacked on two sides, but three battlefields appear at the same time: Liaodong, Central Plains, and Southwest. There was a heated debate among the ministers about which direction to focus on the use of troops first.

About half of the ministers thought that the elite army should still be invested in Liaodong, because the strength of the Jianyu army was obvious to all, and now the official army was forced to retreat to Shanhaiguan, which could not be lost, and the Tartars would be defeated again to the Beijing Division. For the sake of today's plan, the only way to do this is to continue to increase troops at Shanhaiguan, at least in terms of troops, not to lose to Houjin.

The other part believes that although the prisoners are cruel, the thieves are even more worried. They are wandering around, causing great harm, and if they do not get rid of them, the country will be restless for a day, and they will not be able to concentrate on resisting foreign aggression. Therefore, they advocated that the elite of the border army be temporarily transferred to the Central Plains, and together with Hong Chengchou, Gao Yingxiang and others should be exterminated first. As for the Liaodong side, Jianyu has just captured several cities and gained thousands of miles of land, so I am afraid that he does not have such a big appetite, and even Shanhaiguan has to covet it.

And almost all ministers believe that the least important is the Southwest. Because whether it is Guizhou or Sichuan, it is the Tusi rebellion, although its bandit leaders are arrogant, but they are all short-sighted, but in order to maintain their power in the local area, they will not have more ambitions. At present, the imperial court, whether it is military strength or finance, is overstretched, it is better to ignore these two places, and at most let the Sichuan guards resist on their own. After the threat of Jianjiao and thieves is lifted, it is naturally easy to go back and clean up the toast.

Zhu Youzhen was not in a hurry to express his position, but asked the ministers: "I remember that during the Wanli period, Emperor Shenzong used troops three times, one of which was in Guizhou. Who can elaborate on it for me? ”

Yuan Keli, as the secretary of the military department, said unyieldingly: "Your Majesty, among the 'Three Great Expeditions of Wanli', one of them was in Guizhou, that is, the Battle of Banzhou. Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and the Tang general Yang Duan defeated Nanzhao, divided Banzhou, and intermarried with the local Miao people, and gradually became a Tusi. Although it passed through the Song and Yuan dynasties, the imperial court has always implemented a policy of restraint on its land, and its descendants have always held hereditary official positions. During the Hongwu period of our dynasty, its chief surrendered, and Taizu still used the fetters to appoint him as the consolation envoy or the commander of the capital, which has been more than 20 generations.

"Although the state of fetters has the name of a state and county, and the local officials are appointed and dismissed by the Tusi themselves, they rebel against the imperial court. The court did not welcome it, and it was not forced to go, and it was safe at the beginning. But later, the Tusi gradually expanded, and the lower ones tyrannized their people and attacked each other, while the upper ones refused to obey the king, harassed the borders, and even attacked the imperial guards.

"In the seventeenth year of Wanli, Banzhou commanded the envoy and Tusi Yang Yinglong to rebel, and after more than ten years, he repeatedly defeated the officials and troops. Emperor Shenzong supervised the division with Li Hualong, the squire of the military department, and Liu Wei, the chief soldier, and transferred more than 200,000 troops, and the troops were divided into eight routes to encircle Banzhou. Yang Yinglong's soldiers ran out of food, hanged himself, and Banzhou was in turmoil. But the imperial court also spent millions of taels for this, and the treasury was almost empty. ”

"Hmm..."Zhu Youzhen said thoughtfully, "Banzhou is calm, but it has only been more than 20 years since he was born, and other toasts are making trouble again." ”

"Exactly." Yuan Keli hurriedly said, "After the Battle of Banzhou, the local land was changed and returned to the stream, and the officials were appointed to govern like ordinary prefectures and counties, which aroused the suspicion of other Tusi. The Shuixi Tusi of the rebellion this time is the most powerful of the Tusi in Guizhou, with thirteen streams, four thousand miles of places, and hundreds of thousands of local people. Its chieftain An Bangyan called himself the 'King of Luodian', and fell into more than ten places such as Guiyang and Bijie. As for the Yongning Toast in Sichuan..."

"Enough!" Zhu Youzhen suddenly interrupted him and said, "I have made up my mind, let's use troops against the southwest first!" ”