"It doesn't matter if there is a problem, no matter how big the problem is, it can be solved in a roundabout way. For example, I promised not to kill Daishan and Bolo, but once I gave in on the issue of offering prisoners, these two men would face a situation where they had to die, otherwise the people of Beijing would be in an uproar. If I break my promise and kill them, I will set an example for my subordinates who lack faithfulness. ”

- "Zhu Cihong's Diary? The Nineteenth Year of Chongzhen

Zhu Cihong's purpose in writing his diary is very simple, that is, to write a "Practical Handbook of National Governance" for future generations.

Tang Taizong wrote "Emperor Fan" to educate the crown prince, but Gaozong finally let the Wu family take over the world. The reason for this is precisely because the imperial learning materials throughout the ages and present are only general about principles and principles.

A lot of calluses have been heard, but what about when it's time to actually do it? When faced with a trade-off between interests, how to make a rational choice? These things cannot be learned from books, but can only be attributed to luck and personal understanding. If you have a good teacher by your side to teach, and you have a little understanding, you will definitely benefit much faster than someone who only reads.

The qualifications of the temple may not be comparable to that of the world, but the temple is obviously more difficult for the minister, why? Obviously because he has teachers like Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao!

Zhu Cihong taught his son at most, and if God gave him a few more decades of life, he could also teach his grandson. Who will teach the son of a grandson? How to ensure that children and grandchildren are as intelligent and rational as possible? Zhu Cihong decided to leave a case study so that his children and grandchildren could see the practical application of the emperor's mind from his diary.

As for the life and death of Dai Shan and Bo Luo, in Zhu Cihong's eyes, it was like dust. As the actual helmsman of an empire, it would be foolish to dwell on one or two lives; It is pedantic to dwell on faith, but it is necessary to ensure the balance of all aspects. And always maintain a state of motivation for subordinates, and stimulate their positive sense of morality and honor above the standard of the system.

Xiao Mo was asked to meet by Zhu Cihong alone, and soon the two of them rode out of the palace in civilian clothes and went straight to the east.

In a pavilion five miles outside the city, Dai Shan and Bo Luo had already changed into the costumes of the Ming people. Wearing a wig and a scarf, he carried two burdens by his side. That was the dry food and coiling they had all the way back to Liaodong.

"Since I said I won't kill you, I'll let you go now." Zhu Cihong said to these two undying enemies: "It's just that I will find someone else to replace you, and I hope that even if you return to Liaodong, you will not make a big fuss." ”

Dai Shan and Bo Luo knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and said: "I didn't expect the king of the Central Plains to believe in righteousness so much, after I return to Liaodong, I will definitely be incognito and never commit it again!" ”

Zhu Cihong nodded. He said to the guards around him, "Give them horses and let them go." ”

The guards made way for it.

Dai Shan and Bolo did not dare to stay for a long time, for fear that the young crown prince would change his mind, so they hurriedly got up and left.

Xiao Mo looked at the backs of the two, his heart churned, and he said in Zhu Cihong's ear: "Your Highness, if you let people know that they are not dead, it will really damage your reputation!" ”

"I know that those who achieve great things are not informal." Zhu Cihong sighed and said, "There is no kindness of a woman. It's just that I'll let you go and recruit them. How can you put your faith in it? ”

Xiao Mo's body was like being electrified, and it took a long time to come back to his senses, but he saw that Zhu Cihong had already walked towards the mount. He chased after two steps and said loudly: "Your Highness, the last general will come when he goes!" ”

When Zhu Cihong turned around, Xiao Mo had already rushed to the side of the horse. The splitter snatched the reins, leaped forward, and galloped away.

Zhu Cihong looked at the direction in which Xiao Mo was going, and already knew Xiao Mo's intentions. After just a cup of tea, Xiao Mo came back with two bloody burdens. The wrapper was the one that Zhu Cihong brought dry food and wrapping to Daishan and Bolo.

Xiao Mo put the two heads aside, knelt down on one knee and said, "Your Highness!" The last general disobeyed his orders and was willing to accept military law! ”

Zhu Cihong stepped forward slowly, helped Xiao Mo up, and said in a deep voice: "You protected my life in the battle array, and now you protect my reputation, how can I punish you?" It should never have happened, and no one should mention it again! Zhu Cihong glanced at Min Ziruo behind him: "You go and clean up in person." ”

Min Ziruo came out with his fists in his hands and led people to deal with the corpses of Dai Shan and Bolo.

Among the guards present, after all, some people were not nervous, and decades later told their children and grandchildren about this anecdote, which became a widely circulated model of "monarchs and ministers get along" in later generations.

Only the later emperors and princes who read Zhu Cihong's diary knew that the dry food and coconut scoops of Lu Daodaishan and Boluo had long been highly poisoned. This is the reason why Zhu Cihong asked Min Ziruo to deal with it personally.

And even if the two of them were very cautious about refusing to eat dry food and water, they could not escape the ambush of the Jinyi guards in front of them.

Even if Dai Shan and Bo Luo really returned to Liaodong like divine help, Jinyiwei's assassination order arrived one step ahead of them.

Of course, this ending is the most beautiful now.

……

As early as before the first division of the guards returned to Beijing, Honglu Temple had already announced that the civil and military officials had court uniforms, and they were celebrating at the noon gate. The notice also reached the Huitong Hall, which is now on display with the General Transportation Department's sign.

Lin Zaizhong could only stand in a remote corner under the noon gate as an attaché to participate in the ceremony. Fortunately, Ambassador Choe, the first person from the DPRK in Beijing, was sent to the hospital for treatment because he ate spoiled food on a hot day, vomited and diarrhea, and was finally sent to the hospital for treatment.

As a result, Lin Zaizhong was able to make up for it and submit it to Honglu Temple for the record.

Honglu Temple was the first to determine the rank according to the identity of the envoys of various countries, and it stands to reason that the number of people with low positions should not be filled. However, the new Honglu Siqing was a little stubborn, and after carefully looking at the schematic diagram, he found that if there was one less person, the envoys of the four Yi would not be arranged in a neat square.

This is really contrary to his aesthetics, and the more he thinks about it, the more restless he becomes, like a cat scratching his heart and lungs in his chest. So this Honglu Siqing finally made up for Lin Zaizhong, anyway, the two classes of North Korea and the Chinese are not much different from China.

Lin Zaizhong didn't know that there were such twists and turns in the road, but he was ecstatic. Before dawn on the morning of the fifth day of the first lunar month, he put on his most decent clothes, put on a new wide eaves and black gauze hat, and waited at the gate of the General Transportation Administration for the officials of Honglu Temple to lead him to the noon gate. He was accompanied by envoys from Annam, Ryukyu, and Siam.

The envoys of Annam and Siam came to pay tribute before the national change, but who knew that China was in turmoil and was trapped in Beijing and could not return. After a delay of three or four years, the Ming Dynasty recovered Beijing, and they could be regarded as having survived. As for the Ryukyu envoys, they came from Fujian, and they have been delayed in Fujian for three years.

As the first vassal state of China, the king of Korea was given the title of prince and enjoyed the treatment of a prince, so his envoy stood in the middle of the front row. Lin Zaizhong secretly glanced at the envoys of Annan and Ryukyu, and saw that they looked excited, and a trace of disdain appeared in his heart: it is really a barbarian state, and he has never seen the majesty of the kingdom.

They didn't have to wait long before the official of Honglu Temple arrived, took them on foot across Chang'an Street, entered the Forbidden City from the West Chang'an Gate, and went all the way to the Wumen Tower. Naturally, they could not observe the ceremony in the main tower of the noon gate, but there was a separate area on the west side of the city tower so that they could see the prisoner sacrifice ceremony below.

On the fourth day of the first month, the inner officials and eunuchs have already set up the throne and the throne in the middle of the front of the noon gate tower. It was Chongzhen and Zhu Cihong's seat.

On the morning of the fifth day of the first month, when the envoys of the four Yi went to the viewing platform of the west building of the noon gate, the Jinyi guard began to set up a guard of honor on the royal road in front of the noon gate, and the east and west were separated. After a while, Chen Da was happy to be in the south of the royal road, facing the northwest.

When the sky was shining, the two salutes of Honglu Temple also arrived at the position, standing in front of the noon gate, facing each other east and west.

In the morning of the weekday, Li Yuzhi and Qin Liangyu respectively led the civil and military two classes from the east and west Chang'an Gate into the ban, under the guidance of the Honglu Temple Ceremony Officer to the civil and military officials to the area where the civil and military officials stand, which is located in the south of the royal road in front of the building, and then the civil officials are in the east, and the military attaches are in the west, standing facing each other.

"Why did we wait before the captives?" Sun Chuanting stood behind Wu Fu and asked in a low voice.

Wu Fu was also a little strange, and said in a deep voice: "Honglu Temple knows the way. He paused and said, "It's better than when the emperor and hundreds of officials were waiting outside the Donghua Gate in the Wumiao." ”

As soon as the two of them whispered, there was the sound of iron armor and shackles. Xiao Mo was wearing a shiny mountain armor, with a flag on his back, walking in the front, and a row of eight-foot-tall men behind him, all of them were extremely powerful, and they were all selected "human appearances" in the first division. As prisoner generals, they stood on the west side of the imperial road, slightly to the south, facing north.

Most of the Tartar prisoners of war dressed in sackcloth were the two red banners of Melle Ezhen and Niu Lu Ezhen, and they were driven by the soldiers with spears to stand outside the staff.

Li Banghua, the imperial history of the Imperial Palace, came out of class, took the Lu Bu from Xiao Mo's hand, stood on the royal road, and waited for the ritual music to play.

At this time, Chongzhen had already taken Zhu Cihong to pay tribute to the Taimiao, returned to the noon gate, and signaled to play music.

The co-ordinator raised his command, puffed up, and arranged music.

Chongzhen and Zhu Cihong went one after the other, and ascended to the morning door to ascend to the seat.

Honglu Temple came forward and knelt down and said, "Please play Kaile." ”

The Emperor did not need to speak at this time, for Kaile had already played with the "please" of the salute. In the sound of Kai Le, Xiao Mo, who offered the prisoners, also led the soldiers to bring the captives to the south of the royal road and ordered them to kneel. These captives thought that they would be spared death after offering their prisoners, and they were quite cooperative and not noisy.

When Kaile finished playing, the salute sang again: "Xuan Lubu! ”

Li Banghua stepped forward and only listened to the praise and singing: "Kneel and pinch the wat!" Then he inserted the wat board into his belt and bowed down to the holy face.

"Xing." Chongzhen said loudly.

Only then did Li Banghua get up and take out the dew cloth, and traveled south from the royal road to the Xuanlu cloth position to confer the official of the dew cloth. Xuanlu Buguan is also the imperial history of the Metropolitan Inspectorate, and he is a young and energetic person who is selected. The proclamation of the cloth received the dew cloth, and the exhibition with the exhibition of the cloth official, read aloud. It is written that Dongyu offended the Celestial Empire several times, and finally got into trouble, and his sins are unforgivable.

They were downstairs, but they relied on a fleshy voice to pass the words upstairs, listening to Chongzhen's blood boiling, and finally it was time to be ashamed. (To be continued......)

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