Chapter 0014: Violent Emperor
The rain drifted all night, and the stumps swayed in winter!
Zhu Youzhen squinted at the big tree in front of the huge wooden lattice window of the Qianqing Palace, he didn't know the age of this tree, but he guessed that it must be older than the people who have experienced it in the past hundred years!
"Wang Chengen, in addition to personnel appointments and dismissals in the future, it will be related to the army and finances, and I will personally approve these twists and turns that have a heavy impact on the imperial court and society, and you and I will complete the rest of the twists and turns." Zhu Youzhen rested for a while, soothed his feelings, and then began to bury himself in the ocean!
It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a sea of twists and turns, an emperor has to face between 300 and 3,000 twists and turns a day, no matter which literati in the world, there is no one who is the emperor, and the workload of a day is large! If the emperor were to review all of them, it would be almost impossible to complete the task! This is why many emperors simply leave it alone, you let a person write at least tens of thousands of words a day for many years, and people are not irritable, that is impossible.
Wang Chengen nodded, "It's good that the emperor can think about it, your emperor, you are diligent enough, the eunuch finishes reading, you watch the old slave write, you don't have to do it yourself." ”
"You choose a dozen capable and learned palace maids to come to the upper study, and send them in the future, first classify, classify the excerpts of each department, classify the excerpts of each province, let them read, I will give oral instructions, you watch from the sidelines and don't make mistakes, after the work, I will review it again." In this way, it is also convenient to archive, and it is also convenient to find it in the future, in addition, the measures of the new deal are also unified and integrated, summarized into a book! Gradually form rules and regulations, and in the future, small decisions can be made by each ministry to make their own decisions, so as to reduce the workload of the emperor. When Zhu Youzhen spoke, he was still looking at the big tree outside the window, and it seemed that the tree was his friend.
Wang Chengen received the order to do it, and he was surprised, the new deal? What's the new deal? However, the emperor has a lot of new terms recently, and he is not surprised, thinking that the emperor will succeed to the throne at a young age, and it is reasonable to like to make some new tricks.
Zhu Youzhen reviewed the folds, looking at all kinds of information on them, he knew that if he didn't have a hundred years of experience, he wouldn't be able to understand the things behind these twists and turns, for example, if a thousand people were killed in the battle, it would be reported below, and a hundred people killed in the battle, and a hundred enemies would be killed, and the following would report that a thousand enemies were killed! 100,000 victims died of starvation, 10,000 people died of starvation, 10,000 taxes should be collected this year, 5,000 taxes should be collected this year, all of these are caused by the continuous corruption of the atmosphere of the dynasty over the years, the entire dynasty has collapsed, and he cannot immediately conjure up a new form of government to replace it, he can only demand himself according to an enlightened monarch, but he already knows the problem, but is unable to solve the problem, which is even more painful! This constant effort, continuous failure, continuous dreaming, and continuous destruction of dreams can not be experienced by mortals!
He clearly knows what he needs most at this moment, and what he needs most is to let the people in the disaster have something to eat! The most important thing is to make the defense system of the capital enough to support the Ming Empire's capital division as stable as Mount Tai! The most important thing is to make his Imperial Forest Army an iron army that must win battles and conquer, with combat strength higher than that of any regime in this era, the core of all aspects is nothing more than silver, and being an emperor is actually to survive for silver! It has remained unchanged through the ages, but he, Zhu Youzhen, where is he going to find silver? There are holes everywhere! His internal money is only 3 million taels, and it is not even enough to supply the silver of the great drought in Shaanxi! What's more, the five provinces of the Central Plains have been suffering from various disasters that have continued since the third year of the Apocalypse! Until the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the whole country was in such a continuous combination of natural disasters and man-made disasters, and foreign enemies were forcibly captured! Collapsed in the collapsed government of the Dynasty! The whole country needs a turning point!
Even if the Ming Dynasty is in the hands of him Zhu Youzhen, it does not mean that it will fall if it falls, the signs of this collapse can be traced back to the head of Emperor Wanli, but there is a process for the collapse of a building! Zhu Youzhen has been in this process since he ascended the throne! Asking the princes and ministers to donate will not help! It's not like he hasn't used this trick before, if you can't move to the house! Criminalizing officials at every turn will also make his one-fortieth ruling power unable to be maintained!
A long neighing of a horse interrupted the emperor's thoughts, and Zhu Youzhen walked out of the Chengqian Palace quickly, and saw dozens of eunuchs chasing a war horse!
A burst of exclamations sounded outside the Chengqian Palace, and Zhu Youzhen suddenly became excited, he recognized this two-year-old war horse, this is his horse--revitalize!
But the excitement was only short-lived, and then, he smiled self-deprecatingly, revitalization, what a bloody name, that is just his own humiliation, self-deception! With such rivers and mountains, where is the opportunity for him to revitalize?
Why did Zhenxing suddenly run out of the imperial horse prison, it is a royal horse, usually Zhu Youzhen is very precious, the eunuch must pull it out every day to breathe, usually very well-behaved, today I don't know why, I actually broke free from the reins, this is terrible! Zhenxing ran so fast that the eunuchs didn't dare to stop it, nor did they dare to fight, so it actually found Chengqian Palace.
Wang Chengen scolded angrily in a low voice, "A group of useless minions! Can't even look at the horses? ”
When the eunuchs saw this, they were shocked and hurriedly knelt down.
Zhu Youzhen waved his hand, "Stand down, Wang Chengen, I have thought about it, I want to demolish the palace and sell the land to make money!" to relieve me of the thorny tasks of the Ming Dynasty! At least, let the capital's defensive battle be more abundant, and let the Beijing division have iron cavalry and silver to recruit soldiers! ”
Zhu Youzhen jumped on the revitalization as he spoke, the horse recognized the master, and the royal horse was extraordinary! It was Zhu Youzhen's always favorite war horse, and when Zhu Youzhen rode it, he was no longer angry, and honestly kicked the horse's hooves in place.
Zhu Youzhen's words startled Wang Chengen! I thought I heard it wrong! "Your Majesty, the old slave didn't hear clearly just now, what did you say? Where do you think the palace walls are in the eyes? ”
Zhu Youzhen rode on the revitalization, caressed his war horse, and said loudly, "You are ready to prepare, I mean to reduce the scope of the palace, vacate the land, so that it can be exchanged for silver, and besides, the demolition of these palace walls can also make the bricks for the expansion of the outer city be replenished and speed up the expansion!" ”
Wang Chengen wiped his tears and knelt down, "Your Majesty, this move must not be!" Where is there a man who is an emperor who demolishes his palace by himself? This Bauhinia City is the inheritance left by the ancestors, Your Majesty, this must not be! This will damage the momentum of our Ming Dynasty and the prestige of the emperor! ”
Zhu You checked the reins, the war horse neighed, and stepped on the void in place, making the emperor even more heroic! Zhu Youzhen also seemed to have found some confidence, "The ancestors' country can't be saved!" What else to talk about! Besides, I demolished my own home, and I didn't let you demolish it all! You start planning now, leaving one-third and demolishing two-thirds. ”
After Zhu Youzhen finished speaking, he took the reins and shook it, and the war horse dragged the emperor, galloped in the palace, and walked the young emperor with his horse.
Where did Wang Chengen remember the emperor's admonition, knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, and a group of eunuchs also cried bitterly, no one knew why the emperor suddenly made such a decision? What a story for the ages! There is an emperor who wants to demolish his own palace!
When Yuan Keli saw Wang Chengen, he was startled, only to see that Wang Chengen's eyes were red and swollen from crying! "Princess, what's the matter? Are you the number one celebrity in the Imperial Palace? Did something happen? How can the old minister help? ”
Wang Chengen sighed deeply, he knew that the emperor was a person who wanted to do it when he thought of it, and he couldn't hide it if he wanted to! The ministers and the people will know sooner or later, "The emperor suddenly said today that he would demolish the palace, saying that he would demolish two-thirds, leaving only one-third!" Said to make up the money and save my Ming! ”
When Yuan Keli heard Wang Chengen say this, he shook it twice and shouted, "Your Majesty! O Holy Monarch! ”
Yuan Keli's reaction, as expected by Wang Chengen, he was not in the mood to speak, and said in a deep voice, "Lord Yuan is waiting here, wait for a while, the emperor is free, and the old slave will help you report." ”
Yuan Keli nodded, "Trouble the prince, wait for me Yuan someone, even if you don't want to be old, you have to dissuade the emperor!" This is related to the face of the royal family, and it is related to the face of the court of the Ming Dynasty! Even if you let the officials and those princes make up the money, you shouldn't let the emperor demolish the palace! ”
Wang Chengen nodded, "Who said it wasn't the case?" But the emperor said that if you ask the officials and the clan to pool money, they can't make up a hundred thousand taels of silver! The court still owes the big guys a favor, so it's better to figure it out yourself! ”
Yuan Keli's heart was shocked, what the emperor did yesterday, he had already heard about it, he was on the emperor's side, the officials were a little presumptuous, openly persecuting the emperor, and there was already a suspicion of bullying the emperor~! The emperor's killing of the official, although it is a little reckless, is not a big deal against the principles of heaven! Moreover, the emperor's great remarks on governing the country in the court made Yuan Keli admire! Don't talk about a seventeen-year-old boy! Even for an old minister like him, it is very difficult to understand the situation of the imperial court and the future development direction so thoroughly and far-reaching! What's more, to say this as an emperor! It takes courage and courage even more! And the emperor's reactivation of Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan, he also heard about it, and this is what makes him admire the emperor! So the emperor summoned him, and he came without any pretentiousness!
"The emperor is a promising king! The old minister thinks that the emperor is doing this, but it is not a good medicine! The people can see the emperor's difficulties, and the officials can also see the emperor's difficulties! Save people with ulterior motives, and then mistell how much money the emperor's Ouchi has, but he will not send it out to help the victims and supply military salaries! This is good for alleviating the misunderstanding of the emperor among the people of the world! Yuan Keli wiped his tears, he has been in the imperial court for decades, after all, he wants to be sophisticated!
Wang Chengen sighed, "It's hard for the emperor!" What a grievance this will make the emperor's heart! ”