Time came to the New Year's Day of the 27th year of Chongzhen. Because Chongzhen was not there, the sacrifice on New Year's Day was in charge of the crown prince Zhu Cihong.

Zhu Cihong is 26 years old this year, and since the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Chongzhen has not been very concerned with specific government affairs, and the affairs of the court and the central government are basically handled by the crown prince Zhu Cihong.

Therefore, Zhu Cihong is familiar with handling these affairs. After the New Year's sacrifice was over, Zhu Cihong held the first court meeting in the 27th year of Chongzhen in the Huangji Palace.

At this great court meeting, there will be a major matter that needs to be decided by the civil and military officials attending the meeting, and this major event is an all-out war with the Western world.

Since five years ago, that is, after the end of the battle of Bali Bridge in the 22nd year of Chongzhen, the war machine of the Ming Dynasty was shut down, and the whole country also shifted from military priority to industrial economic development priority, and then began to build large-scale railways in the territory of Daming, and the cities of the north and south of Beijing and Hangzhou, Suzhou, Yangzhou and other big cities She also began to push forward drastically, in addition to putting most of the financial resources into the development of industry.

This was followed by five years of rapid economic growth. By this year, four main railway lines have been built in Daming, including the Liangjing Railway, the Yunxi Railway, the Liaodong Railway, and the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, and more than a dozen railways such as the Chengdu-Kunming Railway have also been put on the agenda.

In addition, big cities such as North and South Beijing have also changed their old appearance. Zhu Cihong walked on the streets of Beijing, and sometimes he inevitably looked dazed.

In just five years, the city of Beijing has completely changed, and if it were to go back five years, Zhu Cihong would never have imagined that Beijing would become like this in five years.

Not to mention anything else, just a dozen high-rise buildings near Chaoyangmen Railway Station, so that all the people who come to Beijing for the first time are amazed, it is a high-rise building as high as more than 20 zhang, a total of more than 20 floors, standing on the roof and looking down, the pedestrians on the street below are like ants, and the train on the railroad tracks has become a small worm.

"Your Highness? His Royal Highness the Crown Prince? Kunlun Nu's call pulled Zhu Cihong's thoughts back to reality. Zhu Cihong couldn't help but glance at the Kunlun slave standing by the throne with a dark complexion, this was a slave labor sold by the Nanyang Company from the distant African continent.

Nowadays, there are many such Kunlun slaves in the Forbidden City in Beijing. Since Chongzhen seventeen years later, Chongzhen strictly forbade Han people to enter the palace on errands.

But when it comes to the natives of North Korea, Wajima, Nanyang and even Black Africa, they turn a blind eye to the palace errands, after all, the Forbidden City is so big, and there is so much heavy physical work, and the palace maids alone are really too busy.

So there are some things that Chongzhen can't control as an emperor. If it was according to Chongzhen's original intention, he really planned to destroy the creature of eunuchs.

But the reality is that in the past few years, instead of being eliminated, eunuchs have become re-invasive.

Zhu Cihong's thoughts returned to reality, and said to Wenwu under the order: "There will be a big matter in the court today, which needs to be decided collectively by all the secretaries, and the thing is like this, my father sent an urgent telegram yesterday, saying that the pope of the Western Holy See has issued a decree calling on the entire Western world to launch a second crusade, and this time the goal of the West is no longer Jerusalem or a certain religion, but our Ming Dynasty and the Yaye Religion under the support of the Ming Dynasty." "His Royal Highness's civil officials and military ministers immediately blew up the pot, there is such a thing?

"Your Highness, what else is there to say about this, kill these ghost elders."

"Your Highness, the dignity of the Ming Dynasty does not tolerate any blasphemy, and they must be."

"Your Highness, just vote directly, anyway, our military ministers will definitely fully support it."

"This is said as if we civil servants do not support it, and we fully support it." There is no suspense, the civil officials and military ministers who participated in the Great Dynasty Conference all supported the war, the reason is very simple, every foreign war launched by the Ming Dynasty can bring tangible benefits.

It was not only the military ministers who benefited from foreign wars, but also the civilian officials. What do you say civil servants rely on to make a fortune?

Nonsense, war bonds, of course. Chongzhen has a good habit of doing things, that is, he will never eat alone.

Therefore, before launching a foreign war, even if there is no shortage of money and food, war bonds will be issued to raise funds, and then the benefits will be distributed to the officials of the court and the central government through these war bonds, and both civil and military officials will have a share.

Relying on the proceeds of the war bonds, the Korean Chinese Wuzhen took full advantage. So not a single official had any objection to starting this war.

Even Wang Jiayan, the first assistant, unconditionally supported the launch of this war. As early as two years ago, after the first assistant Lu Zhenfei Zhishi, Wang Jiayan and Jin Xuan were pushed into the cabinet at the same time.

Not long after, the first assistant Zhang Shenyan died of illness in office, Wang Jiayan was directly promoted by Chongzhen as the first assistant, Jin Xuan was also directly designated as the second assistant, Meng Zhaoxiang and Wu Linzheng were still the third assistant and the fourth assistant.

By the way, the first batch of students in Beijing Guozijian had graduated the year before and had been sent to serve as grassroots officials in more than 1,000 counties in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty.

Due to the large number of students, this time, except for a few outstanding students who can directly serve in Qipinzhi County, most of the remaining students can only serve as the chief or chief of Bapinxian County.

This has greatly changed the officialdom ecology of the Ming Dynasty, because the original official positions such as the county minister, the lord and the history of the canon are almost all held by the local gentry, and the county is often replaced, but the county officials and other small officials often do not move for decades, so they have become a local snake, which greatly hinders local government affairs.

But now this ecology is being challenged. Then last year, with the graduation of the second batch of students of Beijing Guozijian and the re-entry into the local officialdom, the ambassador of the tax department, the ambassador of the warehouse field, the director of the six houses and other small officials were all eliminated, the original officialdom ecology was completely destroyed, and the situation that the imperial power did not go to the countryside since Qin Shi Huang placed the county was finally completely reversed.

Of course, these officials who have controlled the place for many years are not so honest and obedient. Therefore, since the second half of last year, there have been frequent accidents in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of Daming, either the storehouse of this county caught fire, or the warehouse of that county was burned, or a local official who had just arrived suddenly suffered an accident.

Regarding this situation, Shoufu Wang Jiayan did not compromise in the slightest, and ordered a thorough investigation. In less than half a year, more than 1,000 counties have killed more than 10,000 troublemakers, which is really a lot of people, and Wang Jiayan has won one because of this

The nickname of the "Iron Prime Minister". Seeing that the civil officials and military ministers in the palace were extremely enthusiastic, Zhu Cihong smiled and said: "Then vote, please come out if you support it." As soon as the words fell, the civil officials and military ministers in the palace came out one after another to stand in the middle, and Kunlun Nu, who was standing at the gate of the palace, reported the situation of the civil and military generals standing on the cloud platform outside the hall to Zhu Cihong.

"Okay, unanimously approved." Zhu Cihong nodded happily. He said to Wang Jiayan and Ma Mingluo: "Wang Qing and Ma Qing, then go back and prepare." ”

"Commandment." Wang Jiayan and Zhu Cihong received the will and returned to the Wuying Hall of the Wenhua Palace. In the afternoon of the same day, one after another government and military orders were issued from Beijing and distributed to all parts of the country.

The war machine of the Ming Dynasty was quickly activated, and groups of town soldiers quickly assembled in Xuzhou, Wuchang, Kunming, Chengdu, and Xi'an, and other places, and truckloads of weapons, equipment, and ammunition were sent to Yinli from the railway, and newspapers and magazines in the two capitals and local newspapers in various provinces were typeset overnight to prepare for public opinion.

Among them, the saddest one is Zheng Zhilong, the Duke of Fujian. Seeing that the Ming Navy has hit the Indian Ocean, they are about to fight a strategic decisive battle with Western countries, but Zheng Zhilong's gout still has no signs of relief.

Fu Shan once again diagnosed Zheng Zhilong and prescribed medicine. Before leaving, Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but take Fu Shan's hand and asked, "Dean Fu, can I get better with this gout?" Why can someone else's gout be cured, but mine can't? Fu Shanxin said, isn't that because the Holy Lord won't let your gout be good?

However, Fu Shan didn't dare to say this clearly, so he could only say euphemistically: "Grandpa, this also varies from person to person, each person's physique is different, the treatment plan will be different, and the effect will be different." ”

"Well, well." Seeing that Fu Shan still said the same, Zheng Zhilong was also helpless. After going around and around for all these years, Zheng Zhilong has somewhat recalled.

So Zheng Zhilong continued to ask: "Then is there anything I need to avoid in my diet?" Fu Shan was a little unbearable after all, and whispered: "Grandpa, in the future, I should eat less seafood, and then there is beer, if you can, you won't drink it, and you can drink some soju and rice wine." ”

"Don't let you eat seafood and drink beer? What's the fun of being alive? Zheng Zhilong was a little unhappy when he heard this, he can't go to the battlefield now because of gout, and women can't do it, if he is not allowed to eat seafood and drink beer, then what fun is there for him to live, just die and count the ball.

Fu Shan sighed: "It's better to control it as much as possible." Fu Shan has already seen that Zheng Zhilong's condition is already very serious, and he is about to enter the terminal stage of kidney failure, and now even if he is treated with all his strength, he will not have a few years to live.

Coming out of the Minguo Mansion, a student hurriedly greeted him.

"Dean, just now there was a call from Xia Guogong's mansion, saying that the young lady was about to give birth, and it was a difficult birth, Xia Lao Guogong didn't believe other doctors, so he had to ask you to have a caesarean section."

"I see, it's over." Fu Shan immediately ordered the carriage to turn around and go to the Xia State Mansion. Although people have passed, Fu Shan is still not without slander in his heart, because after years of medical practice, the level of surgical medicine in Daming has been greatly improved, and all doctors in various hospitals have the ability to perform caesarean sections, and the probability of medical accidents is very low, and the results are similar if he is in charge of the surgery.

But these powerful people of the Ming Dynasty insisted that he personally take charge of the knife. Fu Shan had no choice but to find time out of his busy schedule to deal with it.