Of course, no one believed Zhu Gaoxu's words, not even himself.

However, in ancient times, three invitations and three refusals were emphasized, and all the officials knew it and did not speak out.

Lu Zhen, who had just called the happiest person, didn't say anything, waiting to come back next time.

Then Zhu Gaoxu first went to Dongling in the east of Xiaoling to worship his father Zhu Biao, and then went to Taimiao to worship Emperor Taizu Gao.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, Zhu Gaoxu disbanded the ministers and led people to the side of the Longjiang wharf.

This side was guarded by regiments of officers and soldiers (now known as the rebels), and several ships of various sizes were waiting on the river.

Zhu Gaoxu took people onto a boat, and soon a person came out of it, it was Zhu Yunwen.

The two looked at each other, smiled at each other, and walked to the bow of the boat.

The people around them scattered and moved away from them.

"I really didn't expect you to succeed." Zhu Yunwen felt a little unreal.

When Zhu Gaoxu raised the army, Zhu Yunwen also thought that it would be difficult to succeed.

"The king of Ming is immoral, unpopular with the people, and will inevitably fail." Zhu Gaoxu said with a smile.

Zhu Yunwen turned to look at him, and suddenly said: "All the officials were here just now, aren't you afraid that I will suddenly regret it and stay as the emperor?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu smiled: "The imperial brother is benevolent, he will definitely not do this kind of thing, and his blood is like a river, why not leave in style." ”

Zhu Yunwen sighed, his weakness was caught by Zhu Gaoxu.

He looked at the sea, was silent for a long time, and didn't know how long it took, and then said: "I hope my choice is right, the emperor's brother is invincible in leading the troops to fight, and the same is true for being the emperor." ”

"Trust me." Zhu Gaoxu said very seriously: "Maybe I will do whatever it takes to become the emperor, but now, before, and even in the future, there is no one more suitable to be the Ming Emperor than me." ”

"Be kind to the people." Zhu Yunwen said in a deep voice.

"It will be so."

"Never give." Zhu Yunwen said again.

Zhu Gaoxu looked at him, suddenly knelt down, his face showed respect, and he respectfully lay on the ground and said, "Brother Chen, obey the order." ”

This is the first time since he crossed over that he sincerely bowed down to others.

No matter how incompetent Zhu Yunwen was in the Jingjing, Zhu Gaoxu definitely believed that he may not be a qualified emperor, but he must be a good person.

Zhu Yunwen stepped forward and helped him up heavily.

"Brother Wei has already done what he promised you, what about Gao Xu's promise to be brother?"

Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand back.

After a while, a voice sounded from behind the boat.

The two turned back together.

I saw an extremely beautiful and dignified woman, holding a child.

"Your Majesty." Ma Enhui's tears rained down.

"Emperor-Enhui-" Zhu Yunwen said movingly.

Looking at the boy again, he couldn't help himself with excitement.

This child is Zhu Yunwen's second son Zhu Wengui, who was only six or seven years old at this time, and he was imprisoned in Fengyang in the original history.

At that time, Zhu Wengui was in his fifties, but he didn't even know cows and horses.

Now that the emperor has changed and history has changed, Zhu Wengui, who is young, does not have to endure greater suffering, but he does not know his father now, and looks at his father from a distance with a restrained expression, with a look of surprise.

Zhu Yunwen walked over slowly, looked at his son's innocent little face, and finally couldn't hold back any longer, and cried out loud: "Wengui."

Zhu Yunwen's family of three hugged each other and couldn't cry.

Zhu Gaoxu stepped off the boat, there were many people standing on the shore, and the two who started looked very similar to Zhu Yunxi, here were the two brothers Zhu Yunxi and Zhu Yunxi, who were also locked up in Fengyang.

Emperor Jianwen still has two younger brothers alive, and the ministers all know about it, but no one mentioned it just now, let alone Zhu Gaoxu's name should be changed to Zhu Yunxu.

Because everyone knows that now it doesn't matter whether the elder or the young or the surname is, what matters is who has the soldiers and the knife in their hands.

"The two brothers took their families to the Old Port first, where it is a little farther away, but the climate is smaller, it is more comfortable, and you can enjoy your old age in peace."

The two brothers are not very old at this time, but they didn't dare to say anything when they heard the words of An Xiang's old age, and the two knelt down at the same time and said in a trembling voice: "Thank you - Brother Huang (Brother Huang)." ”

Feeling their frightened expressions, Zhu Gaoxu sighed slightly, stretched out his hands to pat them on the shoulders, and turned away.

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The next day, under the gaze of countless eyes below, Zhu Gaoxu calmly came to the edge of the throne and stood up, I don't know why, after standing, he always wanted to take a few glances at the throne.

But he still has to pretend to be forced now, naturally he didn't dare to sit, the sage has not refused, he is so thin-skinned, how can he sit casually?

At this time, the hall was full of civil and military officials, but most of them were still from the Zhu Di era.

Zhu Gaoxu's men were either fighting abroad or stationed in Yunnan, Jiaozhi and other places.

But it doesn't matter, at least he is now the master of the Forbidden City, and these officials can be replaced at any time in the future.

The same is true of the officials below, now everyone is terrified, the owner of the imperial city has changed, and they also know that their fate is likely to be changed.

"Tobe Shangshu is available?" After Zhu Gaoxu stood firmly, he said suddenly.

There was some commotion in the crowd, and after a while, Xia Yuanji stood up slowly: "The minister is here." ”

Xia Yuanji, this person, is a face, when Zhu Di came, he didn't care, unlike Yang Rong, who ran to meet him.

However, he didn't want to resist, Zhu Di asked him to come out to be an official, and he also came out honestly, after all, he didn't want to become Fang Xiaoru and Huang Zicheng.

Now Zhu Gaoxu is in Beijing like this, he didn't go to meet yesterday, and was dragged out of his home by Jinyiwei early this morning, quite speechless, but helpless.

"Xia Butang, how much food does the imperial court still have?" Zhu Gaoxu said in a good voice.

Xia Yuanji is still so dead, as if someone else owes him a million: "Back to the king, there are about 14,300 taels of silver in the household and about 79,000 stones of grain." ”

After a pause, he said: "This was all reported from the granary near Zhili seven days ago, and I don't know if there is one yet." ”

The main granaries of the household department are all over the place, such as Suzhou and Taipingfu.

Many of them were garrisoned before, and the local area was also being consumed.

So Xia Yuanji said that there is still a question now, and there must be nothing left in Jingshi.

There was some commotion around again, when Zhu Di came in that year, there was money and food in the capital, and the inner carrier warehouse was full of private money from Zhu Yuanzhang and Emperor Jianwen.

Now in Zhu Di's hands, the constant war and the construction of the Beiping Imperial City have been used to this extent.

Zhu Gaoxu came in empty, how do you run the court?

But listening to Zhu Gaoxu, he asked Xia Yuanji again: "Xia Butang, at your level, how much is your year?" ”

Xia Yuanji was stunned for a moment, and said slowly: "The minister is a second-grade official, and the monthly salary is sixty-one stones." ”

Zhu Gaoxu asked again, how is the imperial court converted now?

During the Hongwu period, the officials of the Ming court mainly settled with rice, and after arriving in Yongle, that is, Zhu Di ascended the throne and changed it twice.

The first time was the first year of Yongle, and as soon as he ascended the throne, he changed the settlement method and tried the rice banknote settlement system.

At that time, it was stipulated: "One or two products and four branches of rice, six branches of banknotes; three or four rice banknotes are halved each; five or six pins, six rice, six banknotes, four; Seven or eight pins of rice and eight banknotes two. ”

At this time, treasure money was still used, so sometimes copper coins and silver were not given, but treasure money would be given, which made the officials very dissatisfied, because treasure money was not valuable.

In the middle of Yongle, it was changed again.

At that time, the imperial city of Beiping was still being built, and the Northern Expedition was about to be made, and the imperial court had no money, so Zhu Di used the color folding method again.

The color folding system stipulates that 30% of the Beijing official's Yulu will be given rice, and the remaining 70% will be "folded in spring and summer, and Sumu and pepper in autumn and winter".

As an important medicine and dyeing material, pepper and hemata were mainly used as luxury goods in the court at that time.

Distributing such luxury goods as a bargain, and the official discount value is lower than the market value, in effect, lowers the official's salary.

Zhu Di couldn't do anything about it at that time, the imperial court really had no money, and even Beiping City couldn't afford to build it, so it could only reduce the income of officials.

Later, Xuande and orthodox dynasties learned from Zhu Di to change back and forth, and the more Ming Dynasty officials changed, the lower their salaries became.

So now when Zhu Gaoxu asked, the Ming court was still in the rice banknote settlement system.

After listening to this, Zhu Gaoxu asked: "Suppose there are two ways, one is according to the original rice money system of the Ming Dynasty, and the second is that in this system, officials can choose rice or banknotes at will. ”

"Xia Butang, in your opinion, what kind of system helps officials support their families?"

Xia Yuanji's eyes lit up, and he said loudly on the spot: "Of course it's the second type." ”

The surrounding officials nodded their heads with excited expressions.

It's still the king of Han who is good enough, and he changed everyone to Lu as soon as he entered Beijing.

Wait, didn't you say double?

Everyone stayed in the capital and didn't leave, looking forward to waiting for the King of Han to come, isn't it just waiting for double Yulu?

Sure enough, at this time, Zhu Gaoxu said: "According to this king's inscription last year, in September last year, the national officials should have doubled their salaries. ”

"However, this king entered Beijing a little late, and you can only suffer a little loss. Starting from this month, all Beijing officials, Yulu doubled, and rice banknotes were optional. ”

The ministers hammered their chests and stomped their feet, and it was too late to surrender.

"Han Wang is wise." Someone in the crowd immediately stood up and shouted loudly.

When everyone looked at it, I was a waste of Li Jinglong again.

Li Jinglong's face was flushed, and he shouted loudly: "The country cannot be without a king for a day, now the king of Han is virtuous, and the world is in his heart, and the minister respectfully invites the king of Han to ascend the throne of the emperor to appease the people." ”

Before Li Jinglong's voice fell, there was an uproar all around, and he fell to his knees, and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty knelt down one after another.

Everyone shouted in unison: "Please King Han ascend the throne." ”

Lu Zhen's face was flushed, and he subconsciously touched the persuasion book in his sleeve.

He has a very good memory, he didn't need to write excerpts when he reported to Zhu Di before, and he also wrote a special persuasion book last night, and he wants to play it today.

I didn't expect to be robbed by Li Jinglong, a bastard.

Zhu Gaoxu's face was flushed again, and he shook his hand desperately: "Brother Huang went thousands of miles away to recuperate, and I don't know whether I live or die-" This sentence has to be circled for the test, especially the last four words, those who understand it will understand it as soon as they hear it.

"How can I have the heart to think about these things, the top priority is to put down the rebellion as soon as possible, and truly restore the peace of the people in the world--"

Two refusals.

Lu Zhen swooped up from the ground at this time, and now he had to fall behind.

Li Jinglong also reacted quickly enough and hurriedly rushed forward.

The two rushed to Zhu Gaoxu one after the other.

"What do you -—— want to do-—— you are so bold-——" Zhu Gaoxu roared, struggling - and then powerlessly slammed the two of them on the throne, one left and one right.

When he sat on the throne, boom, his mind shook, and his whole soul seemed to be sublimated, that powerful power, endless satisfaction, excitement from the depths of his heart, filled every cell of his body.

There is no greater pinnacle of life than this.

At this time, he thought of the so-called Li in his previous life, all kinds of peaks in life, compared with this moment, they are not worth mentioning.

"Minister, knock on Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty, long live, long live." With Li Jinglong and Lu Zhen singing loudly.

Soon, the voice of Banzai echoed under the entire Fengtian Gate.

The next moment, inside and outside the imperial city, countless officials and soldiers knelt down one after another, and the voice of Long Live stretched for dozens of miles, from inside the capital to outside the capital.

From this moment, the Ming Dynasty completely belonged to Zhu Gaoxu.

After Zhu Gaoxu sat down, he realized that he hadn't refused three times, but it was too comfortable to sit on his buttocks, and he couldn't care about it.

He is also quick to solve things.

Two days later, Jiang Zhonglong chose an 'auspicious day for the emperor' to ascend the throne.

Even the royal robe was rushed out in a hurry.

After completing a set of tedious enthronement procedures, the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Gaoxu, was born.