Kyoshi, Cabinet.

Looking at the holy decree from Shaanxi, the elders looked at each other.

"Since His Majesty's personal conquest, there have been more and more incidents, alas, ......" Shoufu Huang Liji sighed, feeling extremely tired.

Since Zhu Youzhen's personal expedition to northern Shaanxi, the rebel refugees have almost been pacified, but the chaos has become bigger and bigger.

Soon after Zhu Youzhen arrived in northern Shaanxi, he killed the officials and squires of Qingjian County, and when it was reported to Beijing, although the courtiers had criticism, most of them had nothing to say. After all, there is such a big mess in northern Shaanxi, and tens of thousands of displaced people have rebelled in Qingjian County alone, and someone must be responsible, and it is understandable that Zhu Youzhen killed some officials, although the means are too vicious, but also to deter people's hearts, isn't it?

However, Zhu Youzhen's next move made the courtiers feel uneasy, and set up village chiefs in various prefectures and counties of Yan'an Prefecture to judge all the squires and divide the squires' fields and property. This is like the emperor's actions, and the means are clearly exactly the same as those rebellious exiles!

Originally, it was the rebellious exiles who attacked the squire's Wubao manor, robbed them of their wealth, attacked the county seat, killed the officials and robbed the wealth of the city, but now, it has become the fact that the emperor personally led the Praetorian Guards to rob the people in the name of pacifying the exiles. If it weren't for the emperor who took the lead, these officials would still think that someone was rebelling......

What is a Squire? He was an official in the court and returned to his hometown as a gentleman. These squires all have the fame of lifting people and are part of Shilin, they have many peers, they have a master, they have protégés, and courtiers are intricately intertwined.

And now, Zhu Youzhen slashed the knife at the entire northern Shaanxi squire, which made these officials in the DPRK and China very uncomfortable.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen's reasons for using the squires were above board, and the stacks of confessions sent back to Beijing recounted that those squires had committed many evil deeds one by one, and it seemed that they were executed and exiled, and they were not wronged at all, and no one could say anything.

Some upright officials even applauded the emperor's actions, believing that the troubled times should be punished with heavy codes, and the gentry of these remnants should be punished by the Ming law. However, most of the courtiers were silent, and their own family members knew their own affairs, how many of these Manchu officials did not have thousands of acres of fertile land and a group of slaves?

Even if you become a high-ranking official in the ministry, your annual income is only a few hundred taels of silver, how can you accumulate so much wealth, it is nothing more than forcible grabbing.

If it is according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, how many of the officials and gentry in the world are innocent? Nine out of ten have to be skinned and grassed......

These days, officials in the DPRK and China have reacted more and more to the emperor's personal conquest, and every day they have sent a message to the cabinet to exhort the emperor to return to Beijing as soon as possible. But what can the cabinet elders do? The emperor is far away in northern Shaanxi, and the cabinet is really beyond the reach of the whip. Huang Liji and others could only personally write a note to send people to northern Shaanxi, urging the emperor to return to Beijing as soon as possible.

These days, every news from northern Shaanxi has made Huang Liji nervous. When it was learned that the Fugu thieves had crossed the Yellow River and entered Shanxi, the court was suddenly boiling, and officials from Shanxi wrote to the cabinet one after another, asking the cabinet to dispatch troops as soon as possible to suppress this group of thieves, for fear that the emperor would use this group of thieves as an excuse to enter Shanxi and give Shanxi to Huo Huo again.

Although Huang Liji was originally from Zhili, he also had a good relationship with Shanxi officials, and even ate dry shares in the business of Jin merchants, so he naturally would not ignore the requests of Shanxi officials, and immediately sent orders to the governor of Xuanda and the governor of Shanxi in the name of the cabinet, ordering them to exterminate this group of thieves as soon as possible.

In fact, without the urging of the cabinet, the officials and gentry of Shanxi Province were very attentive, the squires donated food and materials one after another, and the officials recruited the people and soldiers, that is, the feudal royal families sealed in Shanxi, also contributed food and efforts to exterminate this thief as much as possible, for fear of introducing the emperor into Shanxi again......

With the concerted efforts of the Shanxi officials and gentry, Wang Jiayin, Gao Yingxiang and other thieves could not stand in Shanxi at all, and were surrounded by the officials and troops on three sides, and were forced to go north into the territory of the Mongols in Hetao.

The thieves who entered Shanxi were driven away, and most of the thieves in Shaanxi were pacified, in the eyes of the courtiers, the emperor should have stopped a little, but he didn't expect to have another moth, to change Yan'an Mansion to Yansui Town, to change hundreds of thousands of people in northern Shaanxi from civilian households to military households!

"How can this be done, there is already Yulin Town in northern Shaanxi, and Ganning Town in the west is a nine-sided important town, what is the significance of setting up Yansui Town?" Li Guopu was dissatisfied.

"In my opinion, it's fine. The land in northern Shaanxi is barren, and natural disasters have been going on for many years, so that there is a rebellion among the displaced people, and if it is not handled well, it is not impossible to make the whole north unstable. Now it has been changed to a military town and guarded by the Praetorian Guard, and there will be no more worries about civil unrest in the future. Shi Fenglai said.

"King Shi Yu, the stakes are very high, it is related to the ancestral system, how can you flatter Your Majesty?" Li Guopu said angrily, and almost pointed at Shi Fenglai's nose and scolded the minister.

Shi Fenglai wiped the saliva that was sprayed on his face, and said unhappily: "Brother Yuanzhi, I'm just talking about things." Besides, Your Majesty has already made an order, what else can you do? ”

Li Guopu said angrily: "The cabinet can refute His Majesty's holy decree!" ”

Shi Fenglai sneered: "Refutation? Your Majesty can issue a decree and directly appoint the deputy generals of the general army of Yansui Town, and these generals are not civilian officials, so they will not refuse Your Majesty's appointment. ”

"I ......" Li Guopu opened his mouth, and there was nothing to say.

The cabinet could veto the emperor's decree, but the emperor could still appoint officials by decree, and in general, civil officials would see the decree as a shame and refuse to accept the appointment, but the generals were different, they only listened to the emperor.

"Since you can't change it, why bother with Your Majesty? His Majesty is not in Beijing at the moment, and the world still needs to be maintained by the cabinet. Shi Feng said.

Huang Liji sighed for a long time, "That's it, the cabinet will draft a decree to be stamped by the celebrant and change Yan'an Mansion to Yansui Town." ”

"Yuanfu, it's better to urge Your Majesty to return to Beijing as soon as possible." Li Guopu glanced at Shi Fenglai and said solemnly to Huang Liji.

Huang Liji sighed: "I have sent several letters to Your Majesty in the name of the cabinet, but Your Majesty has not returned, what else can I do?" Unless ......"

Huang Liji didn't say it, but everyone else understood, unless there was a big change, forcing the emperor to return to Beijing.

As if hearing the voices of Huang Liji and others, a few days later, suddenly news came from Liaoxi, the slave chief Huang Taiji led 50,000 soldiers from the Eight Banners, crossed the Liao River, and was attacking Jinzhou.

"Quickly send a letter to Your Majesty, saying that Jiannu is attacking with all her might, Jinzhou is in danger, Shanhaiguan is in danger, please Your Majesty quickly lead the Praetorian Guard back to Beijing!" As if hearing the sound of heaven, Huang Li was overjoyed and ordered repeatedly.