Can Wan Qian Zhifeng bear the 54th Storm (I)

On October 17, the seventh year of the Apocalypse,

The ministers asked the king to take the throne of the emperor, but the king passed away first, and he was sad and had no intention of considering the name of the problem, but politely refused; The ministers then believed that the country could not be without a king for a day, and then pushed the king to the throne of the emperor, and the king said that he was weak and incompetent, and rejected the ministers' recommendation for the second time; The ministers believe that there is no sage in the sea who believes in the king, and the three push believe in the king, that is, the emperor's throne, and believe that the king wants to keep filial piety for three years, and ask the ministers to mention this matter again in the future.

After receiving the third refusal of King Xin, the officials of the six ministries jointly signed a form of persuasion, which was submitted to the letter domain by the head of the cabinet, imploring King Xin to plan for the ancestors and the people, and to leave the domain to inherit the great unification.

At this point, every Chinese emperor in all dynasties has to go through the three and three let procedures have all gone through, and the king of letters accepted the persuasion of the ministers to enter the table, and offered to the ancestors of heaven and earth, that is, the emperor's throne, and told the world that next year was changed to the first year of Chongzhen.

On October 26, the seventh year of the Apocalypse, that is, nine days after Xizong's death, Wei Zhongxian, who had been in power for a while, now seemed to be twenty years older. Since ancient times, the emperor has been a courtier, and the two eunuchs who are currently most favored by the emperor are Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen, that Wang Chengen is fine, but Cao Huachun is the protégé of the great eunuch Wang An, and Wang An was once Wei Zhongxian's biggest political enemy, and he also died in the hands of Wei Zhongxian.

At that time, Wang An was the internal minister who praised the Donglin Party, so Cao Huachun was of course also a member of the Donglin Party, and the emperor favored this person, which naturally made Wei Zhongxian secretly say that it was not good, after a few days of observation, he thought that the new Son of Heaven was polite to himself, but it was far from being cordial. Wei Zhongxian has been in the officialdom for many years, and he still has this eyesight.

Wei Zhongxian knew that he had offended too many people over the years, and seeing that the new emperor no longer trusted him, he couldn't help but not consider the way to retreat. So today, Wei Zhongxian got up early in the morning and waited outside Cao Huachun's door. As soon as Cao Huachun opened the door and came out, Wei Zhongxian fell to his knees: "Father-in-law Cao, give our family a way to live!"

Cao Huachun was taken aback when he saw this, and he avoided a step. hesitated for a moment, but still didn't help Wei Zhongxian, just shouted repeatedly: "Nine thousand years old." This is not to be done. ”

Wei Zhongxian kowtowed a few times in a row, and said earnestly: "Gonggong Cao, please tell Wan Sui Ye, our family is old, I just want to be able to go out of the palace and go home to spend my old age in peace, and I don't want anything else." ”

Cao Huachun put a smile on his face, and finally walked over to help Wei Zhongxian up. He also dusted off the dirt from his clothes. During this period, Wei Zhongxian stood with his head bowed and his hands tied, motionless like a puppet, at the mercy of the other party.

"Grandpa Wei......"

After hearing this title, Wei Zhongxian seemed to let out a sigh, and his stiff shoulders seemed to loosen a little, but he still waited honestly for Cao Huachun's next words like a primary school student facing the head teacher.

"Long live the Lord has been praising Grandpa Wei, and when the first emperor was dying, he also mentioned the merits of Duke Wei and the talent of Grandpa Wei......"

October 18th.

Zhang Heming, the governor of the southwest, played a retreat into the Beijing division, and all the departments of Shuixi and Yongning surrendered, Zhang Heming said that he thought that God had the virtue of a good life, and since the rebels had surrendered, it was not appropriate to do more killing. At the same time, Zhang Heming also put forward his views on the situation in the southwest, and he believed that the imperial court should implement the reform of the Shuixi and Yongning areas.

There are three obvious benefits to reversion: First. That is, the land controlled by the imperial court and Dingkou will increase, which will of course increase the fiscal revenue of Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan provinces; Secondly, the separatist power of the Shaomin was eliminated, and in case there was chaos in the southwest in the future, the manpower and material resources in Shuixi and Yongning areas would also be used by the imperial court instead of the opposite; Finally, if you completely uproot the thousand-year-old wealthy families of luxury and Anjia this time, it will definitely be able to greatly deter other toasts in the southwest.

Zhang Heming claimed in his recital that if the land reform and return to the river can be carried out smoothly, it will definitely ensure that there will be no chaos in the southwest for 50 years. It can bless and postpone future generations. Let the country enjoy long-term benefits.

But......

Zhang He spoke conclusively about the arduousness of changing the land and returning it to the river, but this matter was careless. Not only is it easy to provoke popular revolt, but it is also easier to become an excuse for a small number of people with ulterior motives to cause chaos.

Therefore, Zhang Heming put forward an overall plan of "razing and destroying the raze."

The first step is to punish the leaders of Yongning and Shuixi as well as their cronies and nephews, these people were the backbone of the rebels during the Lu'an Rebellion, and the disaster was also the most fierce, so Zhang Heming advocated killing them all, which could not only play a deterrent role, but also make the young people of Shuixi and Yongning lose the possible leader of the troublemakers. At present, Zhang Heming has found out all these people in the captives and killed them, and he suggested that the rest of Shuixi and Yongning should also be dealt with in the same way.

The second step was to adopt a policy of softness towards the other young people, Zhang Heming said that he planned to grant amnesty to tens of thousands of prisoners, so as to buy people's hearts, and would also divide the land and property of the killed landlords equally among them to show the court's leniency. When Zhang Heming killed the leaders of these two places before, he also let such captives do it, and also organized a "complaint meeting" to dig out the things that these leaders had bullied men and women in the past, and finally let the civilians in these two places kill their leaders to prove their repentance and loyalty to the imperial court.

There is nothing wrong with the above disposal, but Zhang Heming proposed that the first ... It's kind of weird, he's talking about the first... Although the imperial court's implementation of land reform and return to the river will in fact reduce the burden of the young people, there may always be people who accuse the Han people of enslaving the young people, so we must be cautious.

Zhang Hemingdi's third step was to organize the election of a local official for these young people, and they themselves would nominate a temporary local official, the reason why it was called a temporary local official, was because this kind of local official had to be re-elected every three years, and he was not allowed to be re-elected for a third time, let alone hereditary. Zhang Heming suggested that this temporary local official be maintained for a period of time until Shuixi and Yongning were completely sinicized, and some people were admitted to Xiucai, Juren, Jinshi, and served as liuguan in other places, and then the imperial court sent liuguan into these two places to rule.

As for the advantages of doing so, Zhang Heming also believes that there are three points. First, letting the local officials govern for a period of time will help to dispel the fear of the local people against the imperial court, so that no one will incite them to revolt. second, without a long-term and hereditary tusi, it would not be easy to form a core against the imperial court again; Third, the Ming Dynasty could send a kind of person called an "observer" to supervise the election of the Shaomin. They are not allowed to bribe or coerce the election, and after the final election of local officials is completed, it must be reported to the Sichuan and Guizhou political departments for approval before it is valid. Zhang Heming believes that in this way, the young people and local officials will have to ask for the Ming government, so that they will no longer be monolithic.

In the recital, Zhang Heming also suggested that two parties should be established for the local people, so that they could compete for the position of local official, and he even named the names of the two parties for Shaomin, one is called "Democratic Party" - now Shaomin is no longer a slave of Tusi, and he is the master of his own house; The other is called the "Republican Party". They were elected together, and they also maintained peace with the Ming Dynasty, which is the so-called "republic".

After the new emperor of the throne saw the music, he couldn't help laughing after thinking about it for a long time, and praised Zhang Heming for his insight, this is really the words of the old Cheng Mouguo, so he plans to approve the implementation, and at the same time, he also intends to give Shuixi, Yongning and other places 3,000 copies of Confucian classics. In order to let the young people in these two places take the test as soon as possible.

Some people in the cabinet questioned Zhang Heming's method, and they all said that although this kind of thing sounded good, there was no precedent after all, and there was no similar governance method before the Ming Dynasty. The young Son of Heaven thought that this was not a reason for opposition, and he said to his ministers: The Ming Dynasty has a territory of thousands of miles, and the subjects are hundreds of billions. Thousands of miles of customs, all different, he felt that the governance methods are different and not remarkable, the country is so big, there are so many types of young people, it is completely possible to coexist with several completely different governance methods.

With the support of the emperor, Zhang Hemingdi's proposal was passed, and Shuixi and Yongning abolished the hereditary local officials, and the Da Ming law was used in both places.

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October 20, 7th year of the Apocalypse, Yongning

Today, Huangshi personally came to the Yongning area with a team of guards. After the Battle of Chishui. At the behest of Huangshi, Zhang Heming agreed to adopt a policy of Huairou towards Yongning, and after the surrender of Shuixi and Yongning, Zhang Heming forbade other brigades of Ming troops to enter these two areas. At the same time, tens of thousands of former rebels who had been captured were gradually released.

At the suggestion of Huang Shi, Zhang Heming also gladly adopted his policy of "using razing to defeat raze", and almost wiped out the native class in both places, even the leaders who surrendered voluntarily would not be forgiven, and all the crimes and punishments of oppressing the clansmen in their lives were dug up, and then the Ming army let their past enemies do their hands and execute all these leaders.

After the Ming army gave all the land to the local people, the local people seemed to have basically put down their past hatred, and after the Ming army led them to divide the property of the hereditary Tusi and the head class, the local people's support for the Ming army basically reached the previous level of support for the Tusi. In the end, after Zhang Heming announced that he would not forcibly send Han officials, the last worry in the hearts of the local people was lost, and since ancient times, people who have lost a war have never encountered such lenient treatment.

Walking between the Yongning region, Huang Shi felt that the natives still showed a deep fear of the White Feather Soldiers, but to his relief, there was no hatred in their eyes. In the past, when the Ming army fought against the rebels in the southwest, once the rebels lost, the Ming army would often enter the gathering area of the young people and slaughter them, exchanging their heads for military merits, so the young people in the southwest did not rebel, and once they raised the army, they had to fight with the Ming army to the end, because they were not only fighting for Tusi, but also fighting for their own lives and the lives of their relatives.

The purpose of Huangshi this time is to tell these young people that if Tusi makes trouble again, it will only be a matter between them and the Ming Dynasty, and it has nothing to do with the vast number of young people. Huang Shi rode his horse and galloped, he looked around at the faces with fear and obedience, and he also had a lot of emotion in his heart, he knew that there were countless people here who were able to survive because of his words.

After arriving at Yongningwei, Huangshi met the temporarily appointed Yongning Tuguan, this person was the eldest brother Romero of the first pair of brothers captured by the fire camp, he turned against Romero with the support of the Ming army, and personally slaughtered a head who had insulted his sister, so as to win the trust of the Ming army, and was appointed as a temporary local official.

After receiving a negative reply, Huangshi was ready to say goodbye and leave, and the Shuixi and Yongning areas became calmer and calmer. After seeing that the Ming army strictly followed the military order and did not commit any acts of robbery and killing. The natives of these two places were also relieved, and there began to be songs praising the magnanimity of the Ming army, and there were even many people who asked for the god card to pray for Zhang Heming and Huangshi.

This really made Huang Shi a little crying and laughing, these young people's demands were so low, as long as they didn't slaughter them, they could be thanked. In the end, Huangshi left some tools out of his own pocket for the natives of Yongning and Shuixi, after all, they were facing the hard work of rebuilding their homes, and if these two places could be completely settled. Huangshi doesn't have to worry about being sent to the southwest on business again.

"A big poisonous sore was dug out of Da Ming's limb by us," after leaving Yongningwei. Huang Shi said to He Dingyuan, Jin Qiude and the others, and after he finished speaking, he glanced at the northeast again: "But there is a bigger poisonous sore, which is also waiting for us to dig it." ”

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November 5, Guiyang

After the Battle of Chishui, Shuixi and Yongning were subdued, not to mention, the other Tusi in the southwest also became very docile, as early as a month ago, Huangshi proposed to Zhang Heming to lead the army back to Funing Town. Zhang Heming also felt that there was no longer any need to let the Funing Army waste food here. This rebellion does not seem to have any major recurrence, even if there are some small waves, with the 180,000 Ming troops in the four provinces, it is enough to suppress it.

With Zhang Heming's consent, at the end of last month, the firefighting battalion began to return to Fujian by boat along the Yangtze River to the south, and at the same time, news came from Guangdong that since the second half of this year, the pirate forces in Fujian and Guangdong have been greatly expanded, and the officers and men have tried their best to suppress them. But at present, the sea route has been declared impassable, so it is no longer possible for Huangshi to return to Fujian by sea from Guangzhou.

After Huang Shi got the report on the pirates in Guangdong, he went to Zhang Heming again, and the rebellion in the southwest had been settled, so he naturally had to rush back to Fujian as soon as possible to prepare to deal with the problem of the pirates, after all, he was still the chief military officer of Fujian. Zhang Heming saw that the situation in the southwest has become more stable these days, so it is not good to keep Huangshi here. Huangshi was allowed to leave the southwest with his troops.

Since the sea route of Guangdong Road and Fujian is not passable, Huangshi can only let the two battalions of Panshi and Xuanfeng go back to Fujian by land, this time the time is richer, so it can also be arranged more calmly, Huangshi has let the vanguard set off to prepare grain and grass, and has a good reputation left when the fire battalion came, Huangshi believes that he can still buy enough food.

After this decision was issued, Huang Shi asked his loyal monarch, patriotic Catholic Catholic about the soldiers' private reactions, and as a result, they reported to Huang Shi that although the officers and men of the Panshi and Xuanfeng battalions did not dare to say it explicitly, they all hoped in their hearts that Huang Shi would personally take them back to Fujian, and there were many old troops of Huangshi in these two battalions. They were transferred out of the fire camp. But I don't want to be seen as a descendant of the Yellowstone lineage.

In addition to these veterans, the other soldiers of the two battalions were also eager for Yellowstone to bring them back as he had brought the fire battalion. After all, they don't want to be looked down upon as a head lower than the fire battalion. However, although the soldiers of these two battalions often had this idea, they did not have great expectations, because although they did not want to be regarded as second-class troops, the qualifications of the firefighting camp were still there.

This question made Huang Shi think for a while, and then he wrote a bunch of orders and instructions to Funing Town, and then announced to the officers and men of the two battalions of Panshi and Xuanfeng: He Huangshi would walk back to Fujian with the officers and men of the two battalions, so that Huangshi once again won overwhelming cheers, and the morale of the soldiers of these two battalions was also extremely high, just as when the fire battalion was about to set off from Fujian.

Today is going to lead the army to set off, Zhang Heming led the southwest civil and military to see off, now almost no one in the southwest of the Ming army generals dare to look directly at Huangshi's face, even Huangshi secretly admired Qin Liangyu is also very polite to Huangshi, she sent a compliment to make Huangshi suddenly understand that in front of his own troops, his previous world-famous white pole soldiers will also lose a lot of color.

Zhang Heming has been sending Huangshi several miles away, which can be regarded as giving Huangshi enough face, and before breaking up, Huangshi repeated the old words: "Zhang Lao, the last general said the Liao thing, Zhang Lao can be successful?"

Since the victory of the Chishui River and the subsidence of the chaos in the southwest, Zhang Heming has told the story of Xiong Tingbi who once scolded him for straw bales, and now Zhang Heming doesn't even bother to give an evaluation, every time he simply recounts such a fact, and then lets everyone judge for themselves who is the straw bale. It seems that Zhang Heming's insult to Xiong Tingbi has been lingering for many years, but he had no way to refute it before, so he was even more angry, so that it became a heart disease.

Huang Shi saw that Zhang Heming now has such a performance. It is estimated that he must have wanted to settle the Liao affair with his own hands, so he inadvertently mentioned this topic, and sure enough, Zhang Heming was very interested in it, and he also discussed with Huang Shi many times to calm the Liao policy. Huang Shi found that this old man had a good memory, although Zhang Heming did not blatantly record Huang Shi's words, but after a few conversations, he was almost able to memorize Huang Shi's land plan backwards.

However, of course, there will be no shortage of himself in the Huangshi plan, which is also the intention of him to seduce Zhang Heming to pacify the Liao affair. As long as Zhang Heming can be as unrestrained as this time, Huang Shi is still quite confident in cleaning up Houjin. The relationship between Dongjiang Town and Huangshi is good. He also has a few old friends in the Guanning Army, and it will not be too difficult to unify the command.

What's more, since he fought Huangshi Town to defend Funing Town, he has more money on hand, and it doesn't seem like a big problem to train four battalions of 20,000 people next year. As long as Huangshi's strategy of using the sea as the road was adopted, he was very sure that he would fight a war of attrition with Huang Taiji in the Liaozhong Plain, and once the war of attrition was fought, Huangshi would be confident that Huang Taiji would be driven back to Jianzhou within three years. They can be driven back to Tunguska in five years.

After hearing Huang Shi mention this issue again, Zhang Heming was silent for a while before saying: "In the old man's opinion, it will take at least six years to settle the Liao affair. ”

This time is not Zhang Heming's idea at all, it is basically the approximate time that Huangshi said when chatting with him, in addition to the five years it takes to drive Huang Taiji out of Jianzhou, Zhang Heming also added a year to transfer Huangshi to Liaodong.

"Zhang Lao Mingjian. Six years is absolutely no problem, but five years is not impossible......" Huang Shi was afraid that Zhang Heming would lose in the auction, so he tried his best to advocate his "five years of Pingliao" strategy, Huang Shi said that he thought the biggest problem was the siege of the city, but since there were millions of food and salary a year, then logistics should not be a big problem: "Now it is wise. If Zhang Lao needed more food and artillery for the sake of Pingliao, the last general would definitely support Zhang Lao today. ”

"Be cautious, be cautious," Zhang Heming laughed disapprerovingly, and he said earnestly: "Three million salaries are already a great burden on the country, as well as food, armor, artillery, and castles, which also cost money." The country's revenue and expenditure are moderate, and it is most important to be eager for quick success and quick profit. ”

"The old man has heard about your family affairs in Huangshi, and knows that you have a grudge against Jiannu, if the saint really asks the old man for his opinion. The old man will definitely recommend you. But that's still unknown. You can go to Minhai Pingwei with peace of mind, otherwise even if you want to go to Liaodong at that time, you will not be able to transfer out. ”

"What Elder Zhang taught. The last general was reckless, and the last general took his leave. ”

"Be careful all the way. ”

"Yes, Zhang Lao rest assured. ”

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Since the Battle of Ningjin, Yan Mingtai, the leader of the Great Eunuch Party, has ordered the abandonment of Jinzhou, believing that if there is no force that dares to break the siege, there is no point in holding the fortress; If there are no troops who dare to attack, then there can be no point in building forward bases at all.

After abandoning Jinzhou, the Liaodong Metropolitan Government could save more than one million taels of silver a year, and since the Battle of Ningjin, the eunuchs have been completely discouraged and disappointed in the Guanning Army of Liaozhen. Therefore, Yan Mingtai ordered a re-examination of the soldiers of Dongjiang Town, and immediately increased the number of troops from 24,000 to 36,000, and the annual salary of Dongjiang Town was also increased from 200,000 to 300,000, and the rice was doubled.

Also after the Battle of Ningjin, the Later Jin intensified their offensive against southern Liaoning and recaptured the city of Haizhou, but after receiving the strengthened support of the central government, the combat effectiveness of Dongjiang Town was also enhanced. Mao Wenlong launched a counteroffensive in the direction of Haizhou in November of the seventh year, and soon attacked the city of Haizhou.

In the middle of November of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Haizhou

At the cost of the lives of a large number of soldiers, including General Zhang Pan, the city wall that had just been repaired by the Houjin army was opened again, but some of the defenders fled from the north gate in time before the Ming army swarmed into the city.

Bai Youcai and the Sun brothers stood under the city, watching their gray-haired handsome personally raise a red flag and climb the city, waving it at them:

"Long live Daming!"

"My Dongjiang Army is mighty!"

After the capture of Haizhou, Mao Wenlong immediately sent people to occupy it and began to reclaim the land around Gaizhou. In the original history of Huangshi, the recovery of Haizhou marked the peak of the area controlled by Dongjiang Town, and the Ming court began to seriously consider letting Mao Wenlong move the town to Gaizhou.

Mao Wenlong's act of recovering Haizhou and garrisoning troops in the city. It not only marked the complete bankruptcy of the Later Jin's vain attempt to defeat Dongjiang Town by relying on the Korean War, but also marked the final attempt of Dongjiang Town to fight head-on with the Houjin Army in the Liaozhong Plain. In this time and space, Huangshi, the intruder, arrived in Liaodong and then left, but Dongjiang Town still stubbornly took this step.

At the funeral of General Zhang Pan, Mao Wenlong impassionedly shouted to his poor soldiers: "Liaodong local sons, our descendants will remember: there was once a ragged army, there was once a hungry hinterland army, although they were hungry and cold. But they still regained the ancestral land from the barbarians, and they finally won the final victory!"

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End of November. The impeachment of Wei Zhongxian by the officials of the court became more and more intense, and Wei Zhongxian wrote a letter begging to return to his hometown, but the Son of Heaven said that it was impossible, and ordered Wei Zhongxian to go to Fengyang to receive the imperial mausoleum.

Wei Zhongxian was overjoyed when he heard this, thinking that his fate had been saved, so he hurriedly packed his baggage and set off for Fengyang in the starry night......

The fifth day of the twelfth month of the seventh year of the Apocalypse

Fucheng Nanguan Youshi Hotel. Wei Zhongxian, who had been on the road for a day, asked the shopkeeper to prepare a basin of water for washing his feet and scalding his feet, and after the water was delivered, he was so anxious that he wanted to put his feet in, and at this moment Li Chaoqin suddenly pushed the door in, still holding a letter in his hand: "Father-in-law Wei, there is a letter from Jingshi." ”

Wei Zhongxian looked at Li Chaoqin's anxious face, lowered his head and put his feet in the footbath, and then let out a satisfied sigh, he closed his eyes for a moment before he said slowly: "Read it." ”

The letter was written by Li Yongzhen. A few days ago, the Donglin Party impeached Wei Zhongxian for accumulating dead soldiers on the way to Fengyang and attempting to rebel, and the Son of Heaven had ordered Jinyiwei to go out of Beijing to arrest him, and Li Yongzhen asked Wei Zhongxian to make plans in the letter.

Wei Zhongxian laughed when he heard this, shook his head again and again and sighed: "Donglin Party, Donglin Party, we have seen too many incompetent people, but it is too rare to be incompetent to the point of yours." For more than ten years, you will not even change the charge of framing the land, except for rebellion or rebellion. Alas, our family has been reorganized in the past two years, and this crime has never been the same, at your age, have you all lived to dogs?"

"Grandpa Wei!"

After hearing this hurried shout, Wei Zhongxian looked up at Li Chaoqin beside him, and sneered again: "Could it be that our family is wrong? The Red Pill Case. The Donglin Party said that Lord Yuan Fufang offered poison to Emperor Zhen. conspired with Zheng Guifei and Li Xuanzhi to rebel; In the palace transfer case, the Donglin Party said that Li Xuanzhi held Princess Le'an to rebel; Now we are an old eunuch. Take a few servants to Fengyang, haha, you can actually rebel!"

Li Chaoqin listened to Wei Zhongxian's words for a long time and didn't say the point, and couldn't help but shout for the third time: "Grandpa Wei!"

"Come on, don't get drunk tonight!" Wei Zhongxian shouted, and actually laughed.

On the sixth day of the first month, the fourth watch in the morning

Before drinking, Wei Zhongxian asked Li Chaoqin to hang a rope for him on the beam of the house, but Li Chaoqin actually hung two, Wei Zhongxian looked at the two rope sleeves side by side, shook his head a few times with a wry smile, and beckoned Li Chaoqin to sit down and drink with him, at this time Wei Zhongxian and Li Chaoqin were both drunk.

"Our family used to collect a lot of money behind the back of the first emperor, but the first emperor never bothered with our family, even if he knew, he laughed at it, Cao Gonggong once told our family that the first emperor also mentioned our family to the long live lord before the big trip, alas......" Wei Zhongxian sighed and picked up the wine glass again, and the look of dog and horse attachment appeared on his face: "Every time our family thinks about this, we hope to be able to contribute to the long live lord in order to repay the deep kindness of the first emperor." ”

"The Donglin Party said that if we remove our family and restore the ancestral system, the natural disaster will pass, and the Ming Dynasty will be able to adjust the wind and rain, well, this life of our family was originally given by the first emperor, if it can really be like this, then it is not a pity for our family to die, hehe, but if the natural disaster is still there, will the Lord rely on the Donglin Party to govern the country?"

Wei Zhongxian drank all the wine in the cup, grinned and exhaled happily, and then sighed again: "Long Live Lord is still too young, born in the deep palace and grew up in high walls, alas, Long Live Lord doesn't know how sinister the hearts of people in this world are." ”

"Long live the Lord, how can you believe in the Donglin Party?...... That's it, that's it. Wei Zhongxian complained all night, and he felt a little too mother-in-law, so he staggered to his feet. Dragging the bench to the rope noose, Wei Zhongxian staggered to the rope noose, drunk and wanted to climb onto the stool, Li Chaoqin was full of wine, came over to help Wei Zhongxian, and helped him climb onto the stool.

"Thank you. Wei Zhongxian whispered, and he knelt on the bench and stretched out his hand. Desperately grabbed the noose and dragged himself to stand up straight.

"First...... Long live Lord, Weichen is here. Wei Zhongxian put his neck behind the noose. He muttered that he was about to kick the stool, but after he closed his eyes, he suddenly seemed to remember something important, and quickly opened his eyes again and took his neck out of the rope noose.

At this time, Li Chaoqin had already dragged his stool over and was swaying to climb on it, when Wei Zhongxian turned around and said loudly to him: "Thank you." ”

Then Wei Zhongxian turned his head again and pulled the rope around his neck for the second time. I closed my eyes......

On the sixth day of December in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian hanged himself in Fucheng and was hastily buried, and then at the request of the Donglin Party, the Son of Heaven ordered Wei Zhongxian's body to be dug up again, and he was beheaded for the crime of treason.

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At the end of December of the seventh year of the Apocalypse,

After sweeping away the eunuchs. The young emperor formed a new Donglin Party cabinet, and the Donglin cabinet immediately suggested to the emperor that the Dongchang spy should be abolished, because this kind of surveillance was an insult to the Donglin gentlemen. The current teenager has a lot of trust in the morality of Donglin Junzidi, and he fully believes that even if no one spies on them, the civil officials will not embezzle the state's money. And he will do his best to do his job, so the emperor readily approved the cabinet's proposal and dissolved the Ming State Security Bureau.

After disbanding the Dongchang, he asked his courtiers how they should cooperate with each other in order to realize his ambition to prosper the Ming Dynasty? The Donglin gentlemen believed that the emperor should also abolish the other surveillance agencies deployed in various places, such as the river supervision in the provinces.

Emperor Jiajing liked to send eunuchs to monitor the river, because the flood was repeated at that time, so Jiajing unkindly suspected that the civil officials below had embezzled the public funds for the river control, but he had no evidence. So simply send eunuchs out to supervise the control of the water. This distrust made the civil officials bitterly hate, and they succeeded in abolishing it in the Longqing Dynasty.

Wanli Tianzi is not at all like his cowardly father. On the contrary, he is more like his unkind grandfather, so after Wanli came into power, he not only re-sent eunuchs to supervise the water control, but also greatly strengthened it, announcing that all the funds for water control must be reviewed by the eunuchs. In the past, when there was a flood, the emperor had no way to take the civil officials, but the emperor had a very good way to take the eunuchs, and Wanli stipulated that once there was a flood, he would execute the eunuchs without asking questions.

Although this practice is quite unreasonable, but it greatly stimulates the enthusiasm of the river supervisor, when the spring flood and autumn flood come, many eunuchs in charge of the river supervisor will even move to the river embankment to live, despite this, there are still many eunuchs died under the barbaric law of Wanli, so the civil officials hated the Wanli Emperor's evil law more than hated the Jiajing Emperor.

After the Donglin Party took power in the Tianqi Dynasty, the eunuchs of the river were taken back again, and from the first year of the Apocalypse to the sixth year of the Apocalypse, before Wei Zhongxian took power, the Donglin gentlemen did not build a river in the whole country. Since the Son of Heaven inquired this time, the Donglin cabinet immediately cited the river supervisor as Wei Zhongxian's evil government.

Since this law was promulgated after Wei Zhongxian framed the Donglin Gentleman, the young Son of Heaven agreed that it must be an evil rule, believing that insulting the virtues of the Donglin Gentleman was destroying the harmony and trust between the monarch and the minister, so the Son of Heaven gladly ordered the repossession of the river supervision eunuchs throughout the country.

In the previous life of Huangshi, since Chongzhen took back the river to supervise the eunuchs, until Li Zicheng broke through Beijing, the entire Ming Dynasty has never repaired a river or controlled a water in 17 years, whether it is the Yellow River or the Yangtze River, whether it is Shandong or Zhejiang. In the past 17 years, the river has been allowed to flood again and again, and every time the Donglin gentleman has used the excuse of "saving" to get rid of the money for repairing the river and controlling the water.

The Donglin cabinet and the Donglin party of the government and the opposition shouted long live for the wise decision of the Son of Heaven, and then the cabinet proposed a package of tax cuts, they believed that natural disasters were mainly caused by Wanli's indiscriminate collection of taxes, and now was the time to put things right, so they suggested to the Son of Heaven to carry out a general tax cut, so as to make the heavens happy, so as to bless the Ming Dynasty with good weather and rain.

After the Son of Heaven agreed, the Donglin gentleman was the first to propose the tea tax, and in the past, the Wanli Emperor could not trust the Wenchen, so he sent the supervising eunuchs to inspect the tea plantations in the provinces, which was of course a great evil policy. The gentlemen of Donglin would never be greedy for state taxes, so the Son of Heaven withdrew the eunuchs who were supervised by the various political secretaries. Of course, since then, the tea tax revenue of the provinces has dropped sharply, the civil officials have reported disasters one after another, and the tea harvest has failed, and in the tenth year of Chongzhen, the tea tax in Zhejiang Province alone has been reduced from 200,000 taels of silver in the Wanli and Apocalypse years to 12 taels of silver per year!

Then there is the sea tax, the Ming Dynasty civil officials and local maritime merchants were inextricably linked, they proposed to the emperor that the "forbidden sea" should be restored, the Wanli Emperor opened the sea to ban the eunuchs to collect taxes is a serious violation of the ancestral system, is a great evil government, and the subsequent successive natural disasters also proved the extreme injustice of collecting sea taxes, the Son of Heaven once again recognized the judgment of the Donglin cabinet, and ordered the eunuchs of the customs to return to the palace.

Since the Wanli Tianzi Xinghai trade, the customs tariff has been a major pillar of the Ming Dynasty's finances, and it is also an important source of domestic currency, and by the time of the 40th year of Wanli, the Wanli Tianzi can get four million taels of silver every year in the sea tax. Since the first year of Chongzhen's reign in the name of reinstating the ban on the sea, the inner treasury can no longer get a tael of silver from the increasingly prosperous national maritime trade.

Then there is the silk tax, Wanli thinks that if the merchant sells silk and weaves silk, he will be able to make money, so he collects industrial and commercial tax, Donglin gentleman thinks that this is called "the Son of Heaven and the small people compete for profit", is one of the reasons for natural disasters, this tax exemption plan will naturally be abolished, Chongzhen agreed.

There is also cloth tax, just like in the Tang and Song dynasties, the Ming Dynasty originally stipulated the colors of clothes that could be used by the people and officials at all levels, such as Ming yellow was originally the emperor's color, and red was the clothes that high-ranking officials could wear. After the shameless Wanli Tianzi took charge of the government, he relaxed the restrictions on the clothes of the people in order to collect more taxes, and soon there was a phenomenon of small people and officials competing for beauty in clothes in the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, the officials who felt that Sven was swept away protested to Wanli and asked the emperor if he was now messing around regardless of the official's decency, and what would happen to Xiaomin wearing yellow clothes one day. As a result, Wanli replied that as long as the weaver was willing to pay the tax, then he felt that it was not impossible to sell yellow cloth...... In this way, the ministers of the Ming Dynasty were once again defeated by the emperor's scoundrels.

After abolishing all kinds of taxes that "compete with the people for profit" and violated the ancestral system at the request of Wenchen, the new emperor once again enjoyed the high praise that his grandfather, father and brother had never enjoyed.

It was so easy to get the reputation of Yao Shun, and the young son of heaven was proud and determined to care about the national defense situation of the Ming Dynasty, and the rebellion in the southwest had basically subsided, and the chaos in Liaodong had become particularly conspicuous.

Removing the eunuchs who have been completely purged, it seems that there are two candidates for the superintendent to consider, both of whom are civilian officials and have experience in commanding the army.

"Spread the decree and recruit Zhang Heming and Yuan Chonghuan into Beijing. ”

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