Through the actual record of Yang He, it can be seen that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were not as face-painted as later generations described.

In addition to the emperor, what made Yang He sigh even more was that the Ming Dynasty was an era of famous ministers.

In the era of Zhu Yuanzhang, there was Liu Ji and Liu Bowen, who was strategic, able to make good decisions, and was known as the first strategist of the Ming Dynasty.

In the Zhu Di era, there was Fang Xiaoru, who would rather die than recognize Zhu Di as orthodox, and was finally killed by Zhu Di of the Ten Clans.

Yang Rong, who is resourceful and can decide, has become a serious old man, Yang Shiqi (Yu Qian was promoted by Yang Shiqi), and Yang Pu, who is not afraid of danger.

Since then, there has been a reversal of the tide in the fall, and the building will be tilted in Yu Qian.

With this bright heart, what to say, with his own strength to quell the rebellion of King Ning, known as a sage, and Confucius, Mencius, Zhu Xi of the same name as Mr. Yangming Wang Shouren.

There is also Zhang Juzheng, a reform minister that Yang He knew in later generations.

In addition, there are a large number of civil servants who died generously for the sake of the country, regardless of life and death.

Of course, there is no shortage of traitorous villains who disregard the interests of the country for their own selfish interests.

However, when the emperor was captured and did not compromise, he did not pay tribute, and this backbone is far from comparable to previous dynasties.

If Yang He had been hesitating about what to do in the future, when he saw that the Ming Dynasty was such a backbone dynasty, Yang He finally made his own decision to save the Ming Dynasty.

Undoubtedly, it may be more difficult to save a dynasty on the verge of collapse than to create a new dynasty, but this can at least save the people of the Ming Dynasty from the flames of war and preserve the vitality of the Ming Dynasty to the greatest extent.

Yang He was thinking about it, and suddenly saw Li Wei leading a person into the camp tent. Yang He raised his eyes and saw it. But it's Zhao Liangcai.

I met Yang He. Zhao Liangcai hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and then said: "My lord, my brother asked me to tell my lord that the emperor has appointed Gonggong Wei as the governor of Dongchang." ”

"Huh? When did it happen? Yang He was shocked when he heard this.

"As soon as the younger brother got the news, he asked the villain to inform the adult." Zhao Liang said busily.

Yang He nodded, thought for a while, and said: "Wei Zhongxian took over as the governor of Dongchang, and he must have stepped up the monitoring of officials from all over the country, and Zhao Yicheng must have also received an order. You go back and tell Zhao Yicheng that he just does what he is told above and doesn't have any worries. ”

"Yes." Zhao Liangcai said.

Yang He turned his head to Li Wei and said, "Reward Brother Zhao with five taels of silver." ”

"Thank you, sir." Zhao Liang said happily.

Yang He waved his hand, and Zhao Liang hurriedly retreated.

Zhao Liang retreated, and Yang He thought silently.

Some time ago, Sun Shenxing, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, pursued the Red Pill case, impeached the former first assistant Fang Congzhe for shielding Li Kezhuo, and the emperor ordered the ministers to discuss the court, except for Huang Kezhang, the secretary of the Ministry of Justice, and Wang Qingbai and a few others defended Fang Congzhe, and the rest believed that Fang Congzhe was guilty. In the end, the emperor sentenced the two main figures in the Red Pill case, Honglu Sicheng Li Kezhuo, to be dispatched, and the eunuch Cui Wen, the eunuch of the imperial pharmacy, was sent to Nanjing. Fang Congzhe will not deal with it for the time being.

Yang He once asked Zhang Fengqi what was going on with the Red Pill case, and Zhang Fengqi didn't know much about the case, only knowing that Emperor Wanli died and the crown prince Zhu Changluo succeeded to the throne, and he didn't want Zhu Changluo to be sick after only ten days on the throne.

After Zhu Changluo contracted the disease, he took the medicine prescribed by the doctors of the Tai Hospital and did not improve, and he went to the doctor in a hurry, so he asked the waiter Cui Wensheng to see him for a doctor, Cui Wensheng prescribed a prescription, and Zhu Changluo had a great diarrhea after taking it, and his life was in danger.

Subsequently, Zhu Changluo heard that Li Kezhuo of Honglu Temple had an immortal prescription, and immediately asked Fang Congzhe, who was then the first assistant of the cabinet, to pass on Li Kezhuo of Honglu Temple to take medicine, Fang Congzhe did not believe in any immortal prescription, and the idea was delayed, and it was delayed for three days.

After Zhu Changluo took the medicine, his spirit immediately improved a lot, and he could even walk on the ground in the next two days, Zhu Changluo was overjoyed and ordered Li Kezhuo to continue taking the medicine, Fang Congzhe tried his best to obstruct it, but after all, he didn't dare to disobey his will, so he had no choice but to take Li Kezhuo into the medicine, and he didn't want Zhu Changluo to take the second pill of the elixir, and he died that night.

Because the elixir that Li Kezhuo enshrined was red and shaped like a pill, this case was called the red pill case by the people of the time.

After Zhu Changluo's death, the courtiers wrote to impeach Fang Congzhe, and Sun Shenxing even bluntly said that Fang Congzhe had no intention of killing the king, but he was guilty of killing the king. If you want to resign the name of killing, it is inevitable that you will kill the truth, and you need to investigate Fang Congzhe's responsibility.

Fang Congzhe wrote a letter to defend himself, and at the same time asked for resignation, which was approved by Zhu Youxiao, the Emperor of the Apocalypse, but Zhu Youxiao did not hold Li Kezhuo and Cui Wensheng responsible.

Since then, the courtiers have always held on to the Red Pill case, and they have to hold Fang Congzhe and others accountable.

It was not until this time that Zhu Youzhen ordered Li Kezhuo to be sent to Nanjing and Cui Wensheng to Nanjing, but he still did not ask Fang Congzhe about his responsibility.

Through Zhu Youxiao's punishment, Yang He believes that this young man is definitely an understanding person.

In Yang He's view, the Red Pill case itself is not complicated, it is nothing more than Zhu Changluo's illness and the Tai Hospital cannot cure it, and then the emperor is forced to find someone outside the Tai Hospital to see a doctor.

It's a pity that Cui Wensheng, whom Zhu Changluo found, was a quack doctor and prescribed a paralaxative to Zhu Changluo, which made Zhu Changluo diarrhea.

Although Yang He doesn't know medicine, he also knows that the main reason for Zhu Changluo's diarrhea is that Cui Wensheng's medication is larger, otherwise he wouldn't have leaked so much.

As for Cui Wensheng, no matter what background he had before, if he dared to kill the king, he wouldn't dare to give him eight more dares, and the people behind him wouldn't get any benefits.

Because even if Zhu Changluo dies, he still has two sons who can succeed to the throne, and it will not be the turn of outsiders.

Zhu Changluo took laxatives, his health deteriorated, and he even began to explain what happened, and at this time, the doctors in Tai Hospital did nothing at all.

At this time, whenever there is a little possibility, Zhu Changluo has to give it a try, so when he learned that Li Kezhuo had an elixir, he naturally had to give it a try.

To paraphrase a joke, the doctor asked the patient what his last words were, and the patient said that I thought I could still save it.

Zhu Changluo took the red pill, just because he felt that he could still save it.

In fact, Li Kezhuo did not have the motive to kill the king, Li Kezhuo just wanted to speculate. Anyway, Zhu Changluo is also a dying person, and he can't be cured, which means that Zhu Changluo's life is counted, and when he is cured, he will ascend to the sky in one step.

On the contrary, the doctors of the hospital obstructed at this time. It is purely for personal gain. They were afraid that Li Kezhuo had cured Zhu Changluo's illness. Then all of them have to get out.

Therefore, after Zhu Changluo died, the first to attack were these imperial doctors, and they wanted to put all the blame on Cui Wensheng and Li Kezhuo, so as to take off their incompetent hats.

As for Sun Shenxing and others pursuing Fang Congzhe's responsibility, it was completely for political purposes, and they wanted to use this case to beat Fang Congzhe and the Zhejiang Party and other factions to the point that they could never turn over.

Zhu Youxiao obviously saw this, so he did not hold Fang Congzhe and others responsible.

However, Fang Congzhe was eventually forced to resign, and Liu Yixiao took over as the first assistant. Later, Ye Xianggao took over as the first assistant, and finally all important positions in the DPRK and China were controlled by the Donglin Party, and the Donglin Party became the dominant family from then on.

The first thing the Donglin Party did after taking power was to exempt all industrial and commercial taxes.

Daming's finances are already in jeopardy, these people have even been exempted from industrial and commercial taxes, there is no doubt that Zhu Youxiao must be very dissatisfied with the Donglin Party, but when he succeeded to the throne, these people in the Donglin Party were meritorious after all, and he was not good at turning his face immediately.

didn't want the Donglin Party to always hold on to the Red Pill case, Sun Shenxing and others kept asking for Fang Congzhe and others to be held responsible.

Zhu Youxiao is very clear. If all the Zhejiang Party and other factions are really defeated, then the Donglin Party will no longer have anyone to check and balance. Therefore, he still did not hold Fang Congzhe and others responsible, but only sentenced Li Kezhuo, who provided the red pill, to the border.

However, the Donglin Party has repeatedly talked about the Red Pill case, and Zhu Youxiao has already been unable to bear it.

Let Wei Zhongxian control the largest spy agency in the Ming Dynasty, undoubtedly preparing to take action against the Donglin Party.

(Note: When later generations mentioned Zhu Youxiao, they all thought that Zhu Youxiao had never read, was illiterate, and could only do carpenter work, thinking that this was an emperor who didn't know anything, but they forgot one thing, that is, the environment in which Zhu Youxiao grew up.)

Wanli doesn't like Zhu Changluo, the eldest son, and is bent on making Zheng Guifei's son, the later Fuwang Zhu Changxun, the crown prince, Zhu Changluo live a precarious life, and he doesn't know when he will be poisoned.

In such an environment, even if Zhu Changluo and his son have not studied, in order to survive, they can learn how to survive in such a sinister environment.

This point can be seen from the fact that Zhu Youzhen took down Wei Zhongxian for more than a year, and it can be seen that Zhu Changluo's father and son's forbearance skills were all cultivated from many years of harsh environment.

Otherwise, is Zhu Youzhen a genius? When you become an emperor, you learn to use political skills?

Zhu Youxiao is six years older than Zhu Youzhen, and obviously, Zhu Youxiao can better understand the sinister political struggle in the last years of Wanli than Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youxiao knew very well what the Donglin Party was helping. He also understood why those people in the Donglin Party spared no effort to support his father and son as emperors, for a simple reason, for the sake of power.

In addition, it can be seen from Zhu Youxiao's carpenter skills that this is a very smart person, and from his explanation to Zhu Youzhen before he died: Wei Zhongxian is loyal and can count big things. It can be seen from this sentence that he is very clear about Wei Zhongxian's role, that is, to suppress the Donglin Party, as long as Wei Zhongxian is there, the Donglin Party will never be able to raise its head.

Zhu Youxiao was very aware of the dangers of the Donglin Party, so he supported Wei Zhongxian and spared no effort to suppress the Donglin Party.

In fact, Wei Zhongxian has indeed done a lot of things that are beneficial to the country, and it is not as unbearable as written in history. For example, he knew that the imperial court was in financial difficulties, and vigorously collected commercial taxes, and it was precisely because of Wei Zhongxian's efforts that the Tianqi Dynasty had the financial resources to develop the military, and the people did not bear such a heavy burden.

According to statistics, when Wei Zhongxian was in power, the tea tax collected in Zhejiang was 200,000 taels a year, and after Wei Zhongxian's death, the Donglin Party was in power, and the tea tax collected from Zhejiang was only 12 taels. That is to say, all the burdens of the imperial court are pressed on the people at the bottom, how can the people not rebel when they are cornered, and the Ming Yan will not die.

And Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen didn't understand the meaning of his brother telling him not to kill Wei Zhongxian before he died, but unfortunately it was too late at this time, so Zhu Youzhen ordered people to secretly collect Wei Zhongxian's bones five days before he died, and buried them in Xiangshan Bisi, this place was Wei Zhongxian's own fancy before, which shows that Zhu Youzhen regretted not listening to his brother's words.

It's a pity that history is written by literati, how can people like Wei Zhongxian write about Wei Zhongxian's benefits, and naturally how bad they write. And Zhu Youxiao enabled Wei Zhongxian, that is definitely not a good emperor, the history is like a knife, after some people's rendering, Zhu Youxiao has become a mediocre and incompetent emperor, and Wei Zhongxian has become a powerful eunuch who has brought disaster to the country and the people. (To be continued.) )