A group of ministers stood outside the noon gate, waiting for the palace gate to open. They were all dressed in purple robes, and they were all high-ranking officials and ministers above the third rank. Everyone stood together in twos and threes, and the privy envoy Fu Shan stood beside the teacher's first assistant Yuan Jixian, and next to him stood Liu Yunsheng, the governor of Zhili.

"I heard that the thieves and Qin Wei are infighting?" Liu Yunsheng said with a smile, although his governor Yamen moved to Baoding, but he has been staying in Jingshi until now, not that he will not leave, but that the emperor has always kept him.

"You'll have to ask Admiral Feng about this."

Fu Shanzui turned to Feng Shengnunu on the side.

As the emperor's elder brother, Feng Sheng held the Jinyi Guard. Not long ago, the commander of Jinyiwei was also promoted to the rank of admiral, becoming a first-class military general and promoted to the rank of general.

Although many officials have proposed to remove Jinyiwei and Dongchang, until now, these two yamen have been still operating, and even the grades of Jinyiwei and Dongchang have been improved a lot. Especially Jinyiwei, the scale is not decreasing, but there is a tendency to expand. Nowadays, intelligence affairs are basically in charge of Jinyiwei.

Feng Sheng has been in a good mood recently, he has not only been promoted to admiral, promoted to general, but also just made a marquis. Even if it's not the founding marquis but the founding county marquis, it's still a marquis.

Asked about the thieves, he nodded.

"Indeed, after the defeat of the thief Luoyang, he fled into Shaanxi and wanted to enter Luoyang. As a result, the puppet king of Qin refused to let him enter the city. just let people be stationed outside the city, and then sent people to reward wine and meat, but secretly transferred troops to prepare to besiege and kill the thief, but the thief was very cunning, and he had already woken up, let him fight all the way out of the bloody road, and escaped. However, the original thousands of remnants were also killed and wounded, and it is said that only about 500 horsemen escaped. Even the thief's wife, Gao, was captured alive. ”

When Liu Yunsheng heard this, he shook his head with a smile, it's all this time, these thieves are still dog-eat-dog.

"Not really." Feng Sheng smiled, "The thieves are now following into the deep mountains. Hidden, I don't know where to hide. ”

"So what's going on in Guanzhong now?"

"Zhu Cunji has already claimed to be a prisoner." Feng Sheng said, and when he said this, he didn't have a smile on his face.

"Zhu Cunji, I remember that the King of Ming Qin is Zhu Cunji." YUAN Jixiandao,

Feng Sheng replied helplessly, "Originally, it was indeed Zhu Cunji's, but now it is Zhu Cunji." ”

Zhu Cunji and Zhu Cunji are brothers, both of whom are the sons of Zhu Yixi, the 10th and 13th generation of Qinsu King of the Ming Qin Dynasty, and they are both concubines. Zhu Yiluo is the thirteenth king of Qin. During his reign, he was appointed by Zhu Cunshu, the eldest son of Shu. However, the son Chongzhen died in the second year, so when Zhu Yiluo Chongzhen died in the tenth year, he was succeeded by the second son Zhu Cunji.

Jin Yiwei had secretly contacted Zhu Cunji before, trying to persuade him to surrender. And Zhu Cunji did have the intention to surrender, and the Qin soldiers besieged Li Zicheng, which was also launched by Zhu Cunji under the arrangement of Jinyiwei.

However, things got out of control behind the scenes, and Zhu Cunji sent people to besiege and kill Li Zicheng, a big battle. Two defeats hurt themselves. Li Zicheng fled with hundreds of people, and Zhu Cunji's guards also suffered heavy losses, and at this time, many people in Xi'an who were unwilling to surrender secretly supported Zhu Cunji's brother. Zhu Yiluo's third son came to a palace change.

Zhu Cunji was captured and executed by Zhu Cunji and others, who broke into the palace.

Then Zhu Cunji was embraced as a prisoner.

This incident caught Jinyiwei off guard and suffered heavy losses. They spent a lot of effort on Zhu Cunji. Seeing that Zhu Cunji was about to return to the imperial court, the result came like this.

Fu Shan also knew about this, and he comforted Feng Shengdao. "Governor Zheng has arrived in Luoyang, and he will be able to enter the customs immediately, and those guys who don't measure their own strength still want to claim the king and restore, but they are just killing themselves."

Feng Sheng also smiled and said, "There are a lot of these bullshit things, Zhu Changxun's prince Zhu Youxiang also appeared, he escaped from Luoyang without knowing it, and he didn't follow Li Zicheng to Xi'an, but went to Hanzhong." also let him find Luo Rucai, and now Luo Rucai is embracing Zhu Youxiang to succeed him to the throne in Hanzhong. ”

"In addition, Mu Tianbo of Yunnan also supports the Tang Dynasty as a prisoner."

"Tang Wang?"

"Isn't King Tang in Nanyang, and Governor Li reported before, hasn't King Tang's rebellion been captured by Pingding?" Liu Yunsheng asked.

"It's not the Tang King, it's the former Tang King."

The Tang King Feng Sheng said was Zhu Yujian, and the Tang King was a fief of Nanyang for generations. Counted, he is the eighth grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, the twenty-third son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yujian's grandfather, the old Tang King, doted on the concubine, so he also doted on the son born to the concubine, and hated Zhu Yujian's father, the son of Zhu Qiqi at that time. Therefore, he secretly imprisoned Zhu Yujian's father in the flattery department, and wanted to starve their father and son to death, and Zhu Yujian was only twelve years old at the time.

Fortunately, there was a petty official who had been helping to deliver some brown rice at that time, so he didn't starve to death, but he had been trapped in this cage for sixteen years. However, in the past 16 years, Zhu Yujian has been immersed in hardship, without despair, let alone wasting time.

The father and son stayed up for sixteen years, and they were about to come out, but they were poisoned to death by their younger brother, who was eager to attack the Tang throne, in the second year of Chongzhen. The old Tang King is still preparing to crown the son born to his concubine as the son, and he also wants to cancel Zhu Yujian's status as the son.

Fortunately, Chen Qiyu, who was the magistrate of Nanyang at the time, warned King Tang when he mourned. The old Tang King was afraid that he would be held accountable in the future, so he hurriedly set up Zhu Yujian as his grandson, and in the same year, the old Tang King died, and Zhu Yujian attacked the Tang King.

In the Ming Dynasty Sect, Zhu Yujian is a figure who is even tougher than Chongzhen. After the attack, the edge will be revealed. not only had many conflicts with the courtiers and offended many ministers, but also avenged his father and directly killed his two uncles, King Fushan and King Anyang. Then when the Qing army entered the Kou in the ninth year of Chongzhen, he even asked King Qin to go up.

Chongzhen didn't allow it, he ignored the national law that the vassal king was not allowed to take charge of the army, recruited troops and horses by himself, and then led this army of soldiers and horses from Nanyang to the north to King Qin.

Halfway through, he was blocked by the magistrate, Chongzhen ordered him to return, Zhu Yujian had to lead the army back, the Qing army did not see it, and there were a few battles with the bandits on the way, but they also won and lost each other.

As a result, as soon as Zhu Yujian, who was dedicated to the king, returned to Nanyang, he was deposed by Chongzhen as a concubine, and he also sent Jinyi Wei to put him in the royal prison in Fengyang, and then renamed his brother Zhu Jiance as the king of Tang.

During Zhu Yujian's detention in Fengyang, the eunuch asked for bribes, refused to give them, was tortured, and refused to accept them. I stayed up in Fengyang for another five years.

After Liu Jun was proclaimed emperor, Jiangbei's officials planned to raise troops to Qin Wang, Shi Kefa, Lu Zhenfei and other officials secretly took Zhu Yujian out of Fengyang Prison, and as a result, Jiangbei's rebellion was soon detected by Jinyi Wei, Shi Kefa and others were served in a pot, Lu Zhenfei happened to be out with Zhu Yujian at the time, and when he heard the news, he immediately took him to escape in disguise.

This time I left, but there was no news for most of the year.

No one expected that Lu Zhenfei would take Zhu Yujian all the way to Yunnan and find Mu Tianbo. When Luoyang was broken, Zhu Changxun was captured, and Luoyang ****** perished, Mu Tianbo and Lu Zhenfei and some southwest Tusi supported Zhu Yujian to supervise the country.

"So, just destroyed a puppet emperor Zhu Changxun, and immediately another puppet emperor Zhu Youxiang came out, and there are two more prison countries?"

"It's not like that, hey, I don't know what they think, what are you tossing around, it's really a death." Feng Sheng sighed.

Liu Yunsheng comforted, "No matter how they toss, they are grasshoppers after the autumn, and they can't toss for a few days." ”

The drums sounded, the palace door slowly opened, Yuan Jixian and the others stopped chatting, and entered the palace together.

Upper study.

Liu Jun held the jade unicorn paperweight on the desk and pondered for a while.

"It's a good thing that the traitors are infighting, and it seems that the rebellion will be put down just around the corner."

Liu Jun is not worried about the counterinsurgency, there are three ways of army to suppress it, what is there to worry about this group of rebellions like a family.

"The household department is divided into three divisions, do you have any recommendations for the candidates for the three divisions?"

For this three secretaries, Liu Jun had already discussed with Yuan Jixian and other important ministers in advance, the three secretaries were extremely important, otherwise, the emperor would not have split the household into three divisions.

Yuan Jixian said, "Your Majesty, the minister recommended Lu Weizhang to be the secretary of finance. ”

Lu Weizhang is the father of the empress, and he has been looking at the bank for the emperor all these years, and he is also quite proficient in finance. Let Lu Weizhang serve as the secretary of finance, which is what Liu Jun meant. It's just that Yuan Jixian, the first assistant, is to propose it, so as not to be opposed by other ministers.

"Your Majesty, the minister recommended Zhao Cheng, the political envoy of Hubei, to be the secretary of taxation." Liu Yunsheng also recommended a candidate.

Zhao Cheng used to be Liu Jun's old boss, and the first official position that Liu Jun did, President Macheng Lian, was proposed by Mei Zhihuan and agreed to by Zhao Cheng. At that time, Zhao Cheng was a soldier, and later Liu Jun was promoted all the way, and he also promoted Zhao Cheng all the way, and now he is the political envoy of Hubei.

Transferring him to the central government and appointing him to the important post of secretary of taxation will naturally be reassuring.

Yuan Jixian, the first assistant, and Liu Yunsheng, the governor of Zhili, recommended two important ministers, and of course others were not good at objecting.

Liu Jun said with a smile, "Lu Weizhang is the secretary of finance, and Zhao Cheng is the secretary of taxation, which is very good, and I think it is feasible." As for the Secretary of Civil Affairs, I think it will still be Li Banghua. ”

This important three secretaries will be finalized.

The candidates for the other secretaries of auditing, grain, salt, customs, and postal services have also been determined one by one.

Today, the pattern of the imperial court has changed greatly.

The Cabinet and the Celebrant were still there, but the six ministries became five, plus three ministries, as well as the various temples, as well as the Metropolitan Inspectorate and the Privy Council.

The functions of the various yamen have also been changed.

Dali Temple is equivalent to the Supreme Court, the Metropolitan Procuratorate is equivalent to the Supreme Procuratorate and the Commission for Discipline Inspection, and the Criminal Department is equivalent to the Political and Legal Committee and the Ministry of Public Security.

However, compared with these changes, the biggest changes are the Prime Minister's Office and the Military Aircraft Department.

These two departments sounded like just advisors to the emperor, but in fact they were important means for Liu Jun to centralize power. The cabinet still has the right to vote, the celebrant is still red, and the ministries and temples have their own duties, but Liu Jun holds the government in his hands through the prime minister's office and the military aircraft department.

In the Prime Minister's Office and the Military Aircraft Department, there are no chiefs, and Liu Jun alone has the words of the two yamen. It can be said that these two yamen are actually above the cabinet and ministries.

Through these two yamen, the normal procedure can be bypassed.

"I gave Zhuqing three important tasks, first, headed by Yuan Fu Yuan Taishi, to begin to revise the history of the Ming Dynasty. Second, the cabinet and the ministries worked together to revise the law of the Han Dynasty, and the name of this law is called the Constitution of the Han Empire. The third task is to formulate the Han tax law. These three things are the top priority and the most important thing, and you should keep it in mind. ”

(To be continued.) )