Thinking of this, Wu Sangui's face darkened, and he said in a deep voice: "This Pang has only been on the throne for a few days now, and now he wants us to surrender to him, isn't it too anxious." ”

Although Wu Sangui's face darkened, his father Wu Xiang was even more depressed, and said with a bitter face: "Uncle Chang, you also know that our Liaodong soldiers have not been paid for three months, and if they are not paid again, the soldiers are afraid that the morale of the army will be unstable." ”

Zu Dashou on the side also sighed: "Brother Shanhaiguan is still good, and my official's Jinzhou is probably even worse, if there is no military salary, the soldiers in Jinzhou City are afraid that they will even have the mind of mutiny." ”

Zu Dashou is now serving as the governor of Young Fu Zuo, supervising Jinzhou, his words are quite weighty, as soon as these words came out, everyone's faces changed. Jinzhou is an important barrier against the Manchus, and if Jinzhou is lost, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Although from the time Yuan Chonghuan was stationed in Liaodong, he put forward the idea of using Liao people to defend Liao land and Liao people to support Liao people, but this proposal has not been realized for a long time, because although the land of Liao is very fertile, it is too chaotic after all, and a chaotic environment cannot support nearly 100,000 troops on the nine sides.

Since the Nine Sides cannot be self-sufficient, then all the military equipment and food can only rely on the supply of the imperial court, which is why the imperial court is so relieved that the generals of the Nine Sides will become bigger, because as long as they dare to have different intentions, as long as the imperial court cuts off their supplies, they will not be able to make any waves even if they have great ability.

Since Li Zicheng besieged Beijing, all supplies in Liaodong began to be cut off, at this time they were like children without a mother, if they were not in a hurry, it was impossible, until the newly established imperial court sent a messenger, this was to urgently recruit Wu Sangui to come over to discuss the matter.

Wu Sangui did not dare to question Zu Dashou's words, because Zu Dashou was not only his own uncle, but also had the grace to teach him.

Wu Sangui hesitated for a moment before asking, "Father, dare to ask which of us the new emperor wants to go into the city to report on our work?" ”

Wu Xiang said expressionlessly: "All of us! ”

"Everyone?" Wu Sangui exclaimed in surprise and almost stood up.

Call all the senior generals in Liaodong into the city to report on their work, so who will garrison Liaodong? Isn't this a joke about the safety of the nine sides?

"Exactly!" Wu Xiang smiled bitterly and nodded. "The Father didn't laugh with you. Originally, when the new emperor ascended the throne, my father and your three uncles expected that the new emperor would inevitably announce that we would go to Beijing to report on our work, but they didn't expect that the new emperor would be desperate to transfer everyone including me to the capital. ”

Wu Sangui said indignantly: "Hmph, this new emperor is too confused, what an important place in Liaodong, he even wants to summon all the generals above the general army to the capital to report on their work, if the Tartars take the opportunity to commit crimes." How can Liaodong resist? Didn't he want the Land of the Nine Sides? ”

Everyone was also worried, the new emperor's brainless order made them sad, but it was not so much that they were worried about the safety of Liaodong, but that they were worried about their own lives. After all, Beijing is not their territory, and if they are kicked there, they will have no place to cry.

Zu Dale thought for a while and said: "Brothers, brothers, in the eighth year of Chongzhen, the younger brother has also seen that Pang Gang in the capital. And fought side by side with him, according to the observation of the younger brother, that Pang Gang was very bold. Now that he is even more noble, he must not do that kind of dirty thing, right? ”

Zu Dashou glanced at Zu Dale reproachfully, "Second brother, although the new emperor once fought side by side with you, but now that people are already the Ninety-Five, how can you call him by his name, if you are sued to the new emperor, you will not be able to eat and walk around." ”…,

Zu Dale said with a big grin: "Big brother, what are you afraid of." It's all my own brothers, who will say it. ”

Zu Dashou said with a calm face: "Be careful, are you not a big mistake, have you even forgotten the ancient precepts?" ”

Seeing that Zu Dashou was angry, Zu Dale had no choice but to bow his head and stop talking.

Zu Dashou saw Zu Dale admit his mistake before he said, "Okay, let's get down to business." Although the new emperor has killed the Tartars side by side with us, people will always change, people are now emperors, but not the small thousand households before, everyone can no longer look at people with the previous eyes. Brother-in-law. Where is the father-in-law who came to announce the decree, and can I wait to meet him? ”

Wu Xiang shook his head with a wry smile and said: "It's really unfortunate, after that father-in-law read out the holy decree, he immediately rushed to Xuanda non-stop, I heard that he also had to announce the decree to Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of Xuanda, it seems that none of our people on the nine sides can escape." ”

After listening to Wu Xiang's words, the faces of Zu Dashou and the others suddenly became ugly, this new emperor is too anxious, the dragon chair under the ass has not yet been hot, do you want to digest Liaodong in one go?

The surroundings suddenly became silent, and a lieutenant general said unconvinced: "The new emperor treats me like this, isn't he afraid that I will return to the Manchu Qing?" ”

"Shut up!"

A loud shout sounded in the hall, and Zu Dashou shouted to the lieutenant general with angry eyes: "Guishun Tartar, you can say it, don't you know what we do?" We have been fighting Tartars for so many years, are we still infamous as a rebel when we come? ”

Seeing that Zu Dashou was angry, the adjutant general's face turned red, and finally he lowered his head tremblingly: "My lord atons for his sins, and the last general will know his mistakes!" ”

The hall was quiet for a while, and everyone frowned and was silent, this Pang Gang has given them a big problem now, so that they are now going or not going.

In the end, Wu Xiang finally sighed, "That's it, just go to this experience, the old man doesn't believe it, will the new emperor cut off all our heads?" ”

Zu Dashou looked at Wu Xiang with a complicated expression and said, "Lianghuan (Wu Xiang's words), have you really decided?" ”

Wu Xiang nodded and said: "Big brother, I have decided, it may not be okay to go to the capital here, but if you don't go to the capital, the new emperor will definitely not be able to spare us, at most we will be dismissed from the government and the people, and we can make a comeback, but if you resist the decree and do not respect the consequences, you can also predict it yourself!" ”

Zu Dashou smiled bitterly and nodded: "Yes, now the new emperor is eager to pull a few people out to stand up, we can't hit the muzzle." ”

After discussing for a while, they finally made the decision to hand over the city defense matters to their deputies and seize the time to enter Beijing in the next few days.

Just when Wu Sangui and the others reluctantly followed the holy decree and hurried to the capital. On August 23, the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Pang Gang, who was newly enthroned in Beijing, began to officially announce to the world, and from now on, the year name was changed to the first year of Dahua Yongwu. And the list of officials of the imperial cabinet and six ministries was announced.

Most of the systems of the Dahua court followed the Ming Dynasty, and there were still six Shangshu and a cabinet, because Pang Gang thought that in fact, the system of the Ming Dynasty was already very perfect in the feudal era, and he asked himself if he was not a great man, and he could create a system that was more reasonable than this system, so he naturally copied the system of the previous dynasty.

After the system was formulated, Pang Gang's father-in-law, Comrade Wei Tongtong, was honored to serve as the first cabinet elder.

The remaining six are. Li Yan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Wen Renjun, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, Lin Feng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Li Xianfeng, and the secretary of the Criminal Department are Meng Qing, the reason why Meng Qing is the secretary of the Ministry of Rites is also a helpless move, after all, the talent reserve under Pang Gang is too small, as a force that has only risen for more than five years, although the military has opened a golden finger and can train one strong army after another, but the background of the civilian officials is not based on a mutated "Modern Weapons Encyclopedia" can be conjured, especially after the selection of the six Shangshu candidates, but such a large framework as the Six Books cannot be established by just six Shangshu, and countless middle- and low-level officials are needed to support it. …,

In the past, when he managed the territory of several provinces, Pang Gang didn't feel anything. But now that he has become the emperor, Pang Gang feels that manpower has suddenly begun to be insufficient.

"I would have known that I would have made more talent reserves." This is what Pang Gang said in his heart at this time, but he just thought about it in his heart. Ten years of trees and a hundred years of people, how huge the talent pool a country needs is not something that can be established by a few years of surprise training.

In the end, in desperation, Pang Gang paid attention to the original Ming official system, and Pang Gang specially issued a decree to select a large number of officials who had no obvious evil deeds from among the officials in the capital to enrich his newly established official system, which made the huge system of the Dahua Imperial Court operate.

The shelf was erected, and Pang Gang's hard days came, after becoming the emperor. Only then did Pang Gang understand how hard the emperor's life was, he had to get up at less than five o'clock every day, and the endless criticism and unfinished things made Pang Gang rise in vain.

According to Comrade Pang Gang's personal experience and records, the early dynasty of Dahua was like this. In the early dynasties, ministers had to get up at midnight and travel halfway through the capital to the noon gate. At three o'clock in the morning, the minister arrived outside the noon gate and waited. When the drums on the tower of the gate city beat at noon, the ministers had to line up. When the bell rang at about five o'clock in the morning, the palace gate opened, and the hundred officials entered in turn, crossing the Jinshui Bridge and forming a team in the square.

And there are even more entanglements for the officials, in the process of queuing, if there is a cough, spit or unsteady walk among the officials, they will be recorded by the imperial history in charge of picketing, waiting to be dealt with. Usually, around six o'clock, the emperor will come to the Taihe Gate or Taihe Palace, and hundreds of officials will kneel and bow three times. Only officials above the fourth rank have the opportunity to talk to the emperor, and the ministers report to the emperor on government affairs, and the emperor asks questions or answers.

From the above, it can be concluded that in ancient times, it was not an easy task to be either an official or an emperor.

After half a month of such a life, Pang Gang finally realized one thing, if he continued like this, he would collapse sooner or later after being accustomed to sleeping until he woke up naturally. So the first emperor of Dahua did another thing that shocked the people of the world, he decreed that every seven days would be divided into a week, from Monday to Sunday, only Monday, Wednesday and Friday of each week, and on Sunday, both the emperor and the officials were all on holiday, and the time of the morning court was moved to four o'clock in the morning (ten o'clock in the morning), and this decree was immediately implemented from now on.

As soon as this holy decree was made, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty suddenly lost their voices, and the variables of the dynasties have been up and down for hundreds of years, and there has never been such a strange emperor, who has only been sitting in that seat for a few days, and has made such a will that is obviously lazy, and he also openly gave himself a holiday in the will, which is too unusual!

"No, we have to write to the emperor and resolutely resist this will, otherwise what will become of the system in the long run?"

In the yamen of the six branches, an imperial historian was indignantly holding the will of the new emperor who had just copied it and shouted, "Counting through the dynasties, there has never been such a relaxed holiday. We must write to the emperor to resist this will! ”

"Well, yes, the emperor is too unreasonable, we have to persuade the emperor if we have the chance."

As soon as the words of this speaker came out, several people around him echoed a few times.

Seeing that someone echoed him, the high-pitched speaker became even more of a higher nature, and immediately said loudly: "Okay, since your colleagues also agree with your opinion. So let's go to the book together and give the emperor a death advice? With that, he began to grind, putting on a desperate posture at once. …,

"This"

But when this benevolent brother sighed and said that he was going to die, the surrounding officials suddenly stopped speaking, and they all looked at me and I looked at you, that is, everyone spoke up.

What is a speech official, a speech official is also known as a counselor or a wall official, and his position is around the irony. With Kuang Renjun, the main way of supervision is to admonish and refute and review the edicts. The above is good. To put it bluntly, Yanguan specializes in picking thorns, and his best job is to pick out the bones from the eggs.

The above is the work of the speech officials, but the speech officials are not fools, they are also a group of knowledgeable and educated officials, and they know very well what they can and cannot say in their hearts.

In ancient times, officials also had holidays, such as the Song Dynasty's vacation system. "Wenchang Miscellaneous Records" contains: "Officials are on vacation, New Year's Day, cold food, and winter solstice are seven days each; three days each on the Shangyuan, Zhongyuan, and summer solstice; The beginning of spring and Qingming are one day each. There are 3 days of regular holidays per month, and a total of 68 days of age. There was also a special provision in the Song Dynasty, official offices at all levels were "sealed" on December 20 every year to stop official business, and public servants went home to celebrate the New Year. It was not until the 20th day of the first month of the following year that he returned to the Yamen to "open the seal" office. In this way, their actual vacation for the whole year reached ninety-eight days, which was much more than the public servants of the people enjoyed in later generations. It seems that Tang poems and Song lyrics still have to have leisure time to travel in the mountains and rivers to be inspired!

But don't be too happy, the above holidays are only limited to the Song Dynasty, to the Yuan Dynasty. The mid-day break and the big break are gone, and there are only 16 days of rest left in a year.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was even worse, and the festivals and holidays were even fewer than those in the Yuan Dynasty at first. Because Comrade Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, personally formulated the vacation system for Ming officials, and this vacation system is simple and easy to operate.

Three days is only three days! The official only has three days off in a year, the New Year, the winter solstice and his own birthday, which is depressing enough.

The leave system of the Ming Dynasty was so hard that although this holy decree issued by Pang Gang, the new emperor, seemed a little strange, few people in the Manchu Dynasty objected to it. Because speaking of which, it is not only the emperor who benefits, but also all the officials in the whole city of Beijing. The pain of the last dynasty is known to an official, and now it is not easy to put on an emperor who is so sympathetic to us, and promised to let us rest for a while, and there is a holiday every six days, such a good thing is difficult to find with a lantern. If we just jump out like this, without the emperor cleaning you up, the officials all over Beijing can drown you with spittle stars, you can't control it if you want to die, but don't drag everyone to die with you.

Seeing that his proposal was only lukewarmly echoed by a few colleagues, but no one was willing to write with him, the famous official could only sulk in his own home in the end.

Just when this Yanguan brother was entangled in Pang Gang's holy decree, Wu Xiang, Wu Sangui and his son, who rushed to Beijing City after three days and three nights of hurrying, had just entered the city gate.

Looking at the rows of mighty and majestic sergeants on the city wall dressed in black armor and holding mini rifles, Wu Xiang, Zu Dashou and others looked at the black armor on their bodies, and couldn't help but start to change color slightly.

The original army of the Ming Dynasty was born from the red turban army at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and it has always been respected by red, and all the officers and soldiers in the army wear red armor, this tradition has continued for hundreds of years, and the armor on Wu Sangui and others at the moment is also red. But now that they saw the soldiers in black armor all over the city walls, they felt that they were already a little out of place with this new dynasty.

"Stop, who are you and where are you from?"

When Wu Sangui and his party were about to enter the city, a black and black armor gatekeeper immediately came over and shouted and asked, the reason was very simple, because the bright red armor on Wu Sangui and his party and the black armor on their bodies were too big.

A trace of anger flashed in Wu Sangui's eyes, and he was about to step forward to scold, but he saw his father behind him explaining to the sergeant with a smile. After understanding the reason, the sergeant was not verbose, and directly waved them into the city, without any nonsense in the middle, and did not accept the silver that Wu Xiang secretly stuffed into him.

After Wu Xiang thanked him, his eyes inadvertently swept over the city wall, and finally took it back from the city wall, Wu Xiang's eyes narrowed slightly before saying, "Da Ming is over!" ”

After saying this clueless sentence, Wu Xiang rode his horse and jogged in from the city gate, Wu Sangui was stunned, and before he could figure out the meaning of his father's words, his uncle Zu Dashou also sighed lightly: "Yes, Ming Dynasty, it's over"

After speaking, Zu Dashou also rode his horse to follow, leaving only Wu Sangui, who was still pondering this sentence (to be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )