Capital.

In the Qianqing Palace, the sound of clanging bells resounded throughout the palace.

Listening to this voice, all the palace maids and eunuchs have become accustomed to it, and now they can basically hear this sound once every two or three days, and now most of the items in the Qianqing Palace have been replaced with gold and silver products, and there are still not too many exquisite decorations.

"Traitor! Traitor!"

"A thief dares to be the emperor!"

"I'm going to punish him for the Nine Clans!"

Zhu Youzhen's roar of filial piety resounded throughout the entire Qianqing Palace, and Han Yi and the others were all silent, and there was one more Yuan Chonghuan among them.

Looking at Zhu Youzhen, who looked hideous, everyone was also very helpless, in fact, it is not uncommon for anti-thieves to be called emperors, and almost all rebellious anti-thieves are either kings or emperors.

But this time is different, the place occupied by Su Hao is too dangerous, occupying most of Shandong, almost cutting off the connection between the north and the south, and more importantly, Su Hao was originally a courtier of the Ming Dynasty, and now Su Hao has become the climate, which is equivalent to setting an example in the hearts of others.

Now the majesty of the imperial court is still there, but if Su Hao can't be exterminated as soon as possible, then it is difficult to say how many people will rebel next, and it must be exterminated, razed the nine clans, cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and even Zhao'an can't be done, because Su Hao has already been proclaimed emperor.

At this time, Zhu Youzhen also calmed down, looked at Han Yi and the others, and said in a deep voice, "Ladies and gentlemen, what should I do now?"

What to do?

Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, everyone was helpless, now the soldiers and horses on Nanzhili's side have not been gathered, and it will take at least three or four months to reach Shandong to quell the rebellion, without soldiers and horses, what can they do with Su Hao?

You can't mobilize all the strong people in the entire Ming Dynasty to besiege and kill it, and it's not realistic, who can be called a strong man, who is not a high-ranking power, let them risk sneaking into Jinan Mansion to fight hard, don't say they can't do it, even if they open their mouths, they may have to die at home tomorrow.

"How long do you think it will take to put down the rebellion?"

Seeing that no one responded, Zhu Youzhen did not continue to ask, and he also knew the situation on Nan Zhili's side, in a short period of time, they could not help Su Hao, so they could only ask about the counterinsurgency.

Hearing this question, everyone's eyes were focused on Yuan Chonghuan, and among all the people here, the only one who had led the troops was Yuan Chonghuan.

"Your Majesty, the minister expects that it will take at least four or five years to quell the rebellion, and if there is an accident, it may become a long-term tug-of-war."

After sorting out his thoughts, Yuan Chonghuan bowed and said.

"Why did it take so long?"

Hearing this, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but exclaim: "That's not what the cabinet said before!"

And the faces of Han Yi and Qian Longxi were also ugly, they could say before that as long as they recruited additional troops, they would soon be able to quell the rebellion, but now Yuan Chonghuan's words undoubtedly slapped them in the face.

And Yuan Chonghuan also saw the faces of Han Yi and the others, but he did not change his words, but continued: "Your Majesty, the minister has carefully understood the rebels, Su Hao must not be underestimated, according to what the ministers know, after occupying Jinan Mansion and other places, this person wantonly recklessly repaid the people, won the hearts of the people, and wantonly recruited soldiers and horses, according to the report of the spies, now the rebels have nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses."

"In addition, the walls of Dongchang Mansion, Jinan Mansion and other prefecture cities are extremely high, and the losses of the siege are extremely large, and it is difficult to capture these big cities in a short period of time."

After finishing speaking, Yuan Chonghuan kept silent, in fact, he also wanted to say that it was easy to quell the rebellion, but saying so was completely fooling, once Zhu Youzhen took his words seriously and let him go to quell the rebellion, then he would be unlucky.

"Then let's mobilize the Jingying to quell the rebellion."

After thinking for a while, Zhu Youzhen gritted his teeth and said, "The Dongchang Mansion must not continue to be occupied, and the canal must be opened as soon as possible!"

Now the grain from Nanzhili has begun to be transported into Beijing through the Yellow River, but now the daily consumption of grain by the border army and the capital is a huge number, and it is difficult to supply it by land alone, and more importantly, a large number of people need to be recruited to transport it by land, and if it has to be held out for several years

It is estimated that Henan will be the first to rebel, after all, these people are recruited from the people on both sides of the Yellow River.

Since it is difficult for the soldiers and horses on the side of Nanzhili to quell the rebellion as soon as possible, then send more troops, as long as there are enough troops, the rebellion can always be quelled.

"Your Majesty, by no means!"

Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, Yuan Chonghuan hurriedly stepped forward and said, his face full of anxiety.

"Why?"

Zhu Youzhen's face showed a look of displeasure, if he couldn't recapture the canal, the food problem on the capital alone would be able to drag down the entire Ming Dynasty.

Yuan Chonghuan hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, according to the report of the spies on the grassland, now the Jurchens have defeated the army of Lin Dan Khan of the Chahar Department and occupied Harashen, and they can cross the border wall at any time and harass the Beijing Division.

Hearing Yuan Chonghuan's words, Zhu Youzhen also fell silent, compared to Su Hao, the strength of the Jurchens is stronger, if it is really as Yuan Chonghuan said, the Jurchens really take the opportunity to invade the capital, then it is really possible for the Ming Dynasty to repeat the mistake of Jingkang's shame.

"Let's all go down."

After being silent for a moment, Zhu Youzhen waved his hand.

At this time, Yuan Chonghuan opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but finally closed his mouth, he had been thinking about how to completely defeat the Jurchens during the time he had resigned and returned to seclusion, and he had come up with a lot of strategies.

It's a pity that the plan has never been able to catch up with the changes, no one thought that a vicious dog under Wei Zhongxian had the courage to rebel, and it has become the climate, and now Beizhili can't even guarantee the most basic food, and if you want to defeat the Jurchens, it's impossible to talk about.

………

The capital city of Jinan.

Today is Su Hao's enthronement ceremony, the entire Jinan Mansion is full of lights, and the main road has already been cleaned and tidy.

The original Dewang Mansion has already taken on a new look, since Su Hao has chosen to ascend the throne and become the emperor in Jinan Mansion, he naturally has to have a palace, and the original Jinyi Wei Yamen is naturally not qualified to become a palace, and the only one in the entire Jinan Mansion that is qualified to become a palace is the Dewang Mansion.

As the mansion of the king of the Ming Dynasty, there is no doubt about the scale and luxury, after all, the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty were raised as pigs, although they have no power, but the money has never been less, these vassal kings naturally will not let themselves live a hard life, basically as long as they are within the rules, they are all luxurious, so after rectifying the Dewang Mansion, the Dewang Mansion officially became Su Hao's palace.

In the main hall, Su Hao was dressed in a dragon robe, surrounded by his own soldiers, and calmly walked out of the main hall, and the hundreds of officials outside the hall followed, followed by hundreds of honor guards.

Outside the city, a tall altar stood, and under the steps officials in official uniforms were looking up, and below the altar was a huge military formation of tens of thousands of soldiers.

At this time, a burst of drum music came from the city gate, and a huge guard of honor slowly walked out of the city gate, in the middle of the team was Su Hao's imperial chariot, and then there were hundreds of officials, and the pro-soldiers were guards.

After getting off the imperial chariot and boarding the altar, Su Hao made a big salute according to the etiquette, and then began to read the edict of enthronement.

For this enthronement ceremony, he did not design too flamboyant and complicated, but sacrificed to the sky, earth, sun, moon, Sheji, Taimiao, and finally accepted the worship of hundreds of officials, although it was a bit simple, but compared to other rebels, it was already quite formal.

When the edict was read, the cry of the long live mountain sounded again!

After sacrificing to the Temple of Heaven, the honor guard team went to the altar of earth again, and in order to build these five altars, tens of thousands of people were requisitioned for servitude, spending more than 400,000 taels of silver, and it took nearly three months.

Although it was indeed a lot of money, Su Hao felt that it was worth it, because as the enthronement ceremony approached, he could feel that the soldiers under him were becoming more and more confident, and their morale was getting higher and higher, as if they had found the backbone, even if it was Liao Qing

And so they are.

There is a great righteousness and there is no great righteousness is completely different, there is no great righteousness, even if it was invincible in Qingzhou Mansion and Laizhou Mansion before, but everyone's hearts unconsciously feel that they are inferior to the enemy, the other party is orthodox, he is a traitor, this kind of psychology will not be a problem when he has an absolute advantage, but once he faces an evenly matched opponent, this psychology is likely to become the reason for failure.

After sacrificing the four altars of heaven, earth, sun and moon all the way, the honor guard returned to the palace again, and the Sheji altar was built in the city, just opposite the Taimiao, one left and one right, representing the status of the Sheji altar.

After the sacrifice to the Sheji altar, he came to the Taimiao again, and after sacrificing the Taimiao, Su Hao and the hundred officials returned to the Hanyuan Palace.

After accepting the worship of hundreds of officials, Su Hao officially began to give hundreds of officials officials, civil officials: Zhou Xian is the secretary of the criminal department, Hou Yuangao is the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Liang Xue is the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Hu Shangheng is the secretary of the household department, Tang Shaobo is the secretary of the ministry, and Du Fengshu is the secretary of the department.

For the administrative system, he did not change much, the only change is to remove the military department, increase the department, in fact, the six-department system has been developed for hundreds of years, it has already been quite mature, plus Zhu Yuanzhang removed the prime minister, as well as the cabinet system, the five military governor's office, it can be said that in terms of controlling officials, it has been done to the extreme.

It's a pity that Zhu Yuanzhang still missed one point, that is, the military department, which was not abolished, gave the civilian officials the opportunity to get involved in the military power, which made the civil and military forces of the Ming Dynasty completely unbalanced, and the power of the civilian officials completely suppressed the imperial power.

Maybe at the beginning, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't expect that there would be a talented peerless figure like Baozong among his descendants, after all, everyone believes that the son of the dragon and the dragon, the phoenix and the phoenix, and the mouse will make holes, and he himself can start from a broken bowl and sit in the position of the king of the world.

Because of the power of civil officials and military generals, he has been dismantled into a plate of scattered sand, the prime minister is gone, the civil officials have no leaders, the five military governors have divided the world's military power into five parts, plus the emperor's direct twenty-six pro-military guards, and the five military governors are still in the capital, not directly stationed in the place, it can be said that the foundation of the military generals to divide the local area has been completely broken, in this case, even if the emperor does not go to the court and does not take care of political affairs, this Ming will not appear to be a minister.

It's a pity that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't expect that his grandson's grandson would directly stew the real power of the Manchu Dynasty, and at the same time lose most of the military power of the 26 pro-military guards, allowing the civilian officials to suppress the military generals and imperial power in one fell swoop.

And his withdrawal of the military headquarters is tantamount to completely cutting off the possibility of civilian officials getting involved in military power, and later generations have proved that the separation of military and political power is the most suitable.

After the withdrawal of the Ministry of War, he added the Department of Rites, which was split from the Ministry of Rites, mainly responsible for the imperial examination, and now Confucianism was kicked by him, and the imperial examination of the hundred schools of thought required too much and too much miscellaneous, and it was difficult for the Ministry of Rites alone to bear it, so he split the imperial examination, and the Ministry of Rites also increased the power to manage the world's academies, and all academies must be registered in the Ministry of Rites and accept approval.

And these two are also the Shura field he set up for civil officials, after all, if you want to expand the influence of the school, you must have an academy, and the Ministry of Rites naturally can't let go, and the Ministry of Science determines how many people in a school can enter the officialdom, and it is naturally impossible to let go.

Of course, you naturally have to give a candy to beat a stick, and he also retains the cabinet system, and now the only one who enters the cabinet is Zhou Xian, who is responsible for all government affairs of the prime minister.

And as a party fighter, he also added restrictions to the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Six Departments to the matter, and the Six Departments can only impeach the officials within the department, instead of biting around like a mad dog, and he has not changed the responsibilities of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and it is still a rumor.

Although he can also limit the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but he did not do so, for thousands of years, the rumors can always exist, indicating that the advantages still outweigh the disadvantages, and the power of the imperial history is not small, whether it is big or not, whether impeachment is useful or not, it depends on the emperor's meaning, for the emperor, the imperial history is a thug, of course, this has to be in the case that the court is not out of control, like the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen can not control the court at all, and the imperial history can only be reduced to a thug of the party struggle.

As for the generals, he still adopted the structure of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, but he put it

The power to distribute the salaries of the soldiers was separated, and a special department of rations and salaries was set up, which was directly under his jurisdiction, and he controlled the official positions and salaries, and the army naturally could not get out of his control.

Now Tang Xiangjin and they are either the left and right governors of Zhengyipin, or the governor of Yipin, and then he is ready to set up a military aircraft department equal to the cabinet, of course, like the cabinet, it is a low-power and high-level part-time job, but now the territory is not big enough, there are not enough soldiers and horses, and the military aircraft department is not so eager.

In addition, he also set up a black ice platform, against the Jinyi Guard, the first chief official was Liao Qing, the existence of the Jinyi Guard is a strong guarantee of imperial power, as for the eunuchs, he has no intention of using the eunuchs for the time being, because with his current majesty, there is no need for the eunuchs to come forward to fight for power for him.