? Chapter 307 Chongzhen's nine years of turmoil

The ninth year of Chongzhen, in this bumper harvest scene in North Korea, quietly passed, for the Ming Dynasty, this year, is as always' 'chaos' and 'chaos' years, is as always the year that makes the court anxious.

At the beginning of the year, there was a great famine in Shanxi. Famine, starvation is everywhere, people are cannibalistic, the disaster relief plan has not yet been specified, and there is another great famine in Ningxia. Famine, the army was 'chaotic' and the people revolted, and even the governor of the imperial history Wang Ji was killed by the 'chaotic' soldiers in his official office. Although this 'chaos' was quickly pacified by Ding Qirui, the deputy military envoy, Ningxia was already full of 'chaos'. Near the state capitals, the homeless people with full faces abound, and the contradiction between the court and the people has reached the extreme.

In March, Li Zicheng took advantage of the great hunger in the northwest. Famine, into Shaanxi, Huguang, wantonly recruiting troops and horses, sweeping the homeless, this is a disaster posture, the world can see.

At this time, the imperial court was ashamed to come up with a proposal for disaster relief to save the hunger in Henan. Famine, rescue the hungry people in Nanyang, avoid the new and old salaries in the disaster-stricken prefectures and counties in Shanxi, as for Ningxia, I'm sorry, it's too far away, the imperial court can't take care of it for the time being, and the local people can help the disaster on their own first. In Chongzhen's view, competing with thieves for the hearts of the people is the most important thing in front of him, and he has no energy to pay attention everywhere, just like the gourd scoop in the water tank, which one floats up first, which one will be pressed first, this is his priority.

At the same time, Lu Xiangsheng and Zu Dale led their troops to suppress the thieves in Henan, which was already a first-class general in the Ming Dynasty.

According to the usual practice, as long as Li Zicheng starts to make trouble in the Guan, there is no need to think about it, and the Manchu Tartars outside the Guanxi will definitely have movement. Sure enough, this year's Manchu Tartars did not live up to Li Zicheng's high hopes, bypassing the Guanning defense line, Shi Shiran broke through from the front line, and took advantage of the fire to rob the Ming Dynasty.

Well, it's Chongzhen who has a headache, and it's Lu Xiangsheng who runs the 'leg', these two firefighters really did their best, one is good at demolishing the east wall and making up the west wall, and the other can fight and run, tossing for a few months, and finally 'got' this year. The consequences are very difficult to say, the thieves who should have been exterminated once again escaped life, and those hateful barbarians ransacked the Ming Dynasty, except for throwing a few wooden cards that were exempted from the officials, and took away countless people and wealth.

In this year, the only highlight worth mentioning is Hong Chengchou, after defeating Li Zicheng in Longzhou, he was out of control and drove Li Zicheng to the area of Fengxiang in Qingyang.

In addition to Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou, the two big villains, and Li Zicheng, the two villains, for a whole year, the eyes of the world have been focused on these people. And this year is about to pass, what will happen next year, this question is not only thinking about Chongzhen who is far away in the deep palace, but also everyone in the government and the opposition.

No matter how you think about it, Chongzhen has always flaunted the Ming Zhongxing, and now in addition to those die-hard elements in the court, people with a discerning eye can see that this is just a 'flower' in the water.

Hasn't the Zhu family always advertised that they were ordered by heaven? So, in such a situation, if the world still favors Daming, and Daming has a long luck, I am afraid that a few elders of the cabinet will not think so. Although everyone's official clichés are slippery, they have been in the center for a long time in this general trend of the world, and they can see it better than others.

On October 4, Liu Zongzhou, a 'waiter' of the Ministry of Works, was dismissed from his post for talking about his ministers and university scholar Wen Tiren. This matter was just a small 'episode' at the court meeting that day, to be honest, a small 'waiter' Lang was impeached and removed from office by the imperial history, which is not a big deal at all, this is planted under the impeachment of the imperial history every year, there are countless officials, 'waiting' Lang, also an official?

But when Wen Tiren, the head of the court, went straight back to the mansion after leaving the court, and stayed in the study for two hours, without receiving any visitors. This kind of situation is rare in the Wen Mansion, even when he and the college student Zhou Yanru were fighting hotly, Wen Tiren did not retreat like this, and the incident happened that he plunged into the study alone for a few hours.

A person with a confidant, guarding in front of the 'door', faintly heard his master, sighing lightly what kind of life, qi and other words, but he was quiet and didn't dare to say a word.

Two hours later, Wen Tiren came out of the study, holding a secret recital, no one knew what was written in this secret recital, because, Lord Wen directly sent it to the palace without the hand of another person, and then, when he came back from the palace, Lord Shoufu began to get sick, and he was very serious, and he began to close the door to thank the guests.

Then, what happened became even more weird, and not long after a few days, Emperor Chongzhen came down to the holy decree, allowed Wen Tiren to play, and said goodbye to the old man and returned to his hometown. This holy decree made the government and the opposition almost fall through their eyes. Wen Ge, who has been an assistant for eight years, is so old? It's incredible, isn't it? The position of one person below ten thousand people, saying that it is abandoned like this, is too decisive.

Zhang Zhifa, who took office immediately, Zhang Ge Lao, obviously the position of the first assistant fell on his head, it was too strange, and even he didn't think of it. But no matter how you look at it, this one doesn't have the ability, prestige and means to invite Wen Ge Lao from the position of first assistant, then, there are only two possibilities, either it is the emperor's will, or, it is Wen Ge Lao's own will.

Wen Ge Lao himself is a strong saint, the emperor has a lot of trust in him, even if Wen Ge is sick, the emperor will personally go to visit, but all major events in the court, as long as Wen Ge Lao has a clear statute, the emperor will not directly refuse, such a holy family, if the emperor is not satisfied with him, it is everyone does not believe.

After calculating and thinking about it, everyone came to such a conclusion: Wen Ge Lao really retired by himself.

No matter how many romantic characters you have, you will always be blown away by the rain and wind, Wen Ge Lao has retired, but the Wen Party in the court still has to live its own life, fighting for its own rights and wealth, soon, the name Wen Tiren gradually faded out of the eyes of officials, and at the end of the year, even many people with the label of "Wen Party" don't know whether their Wen people in the past have returned to his hometown in Wucheng.

Although Yu Feng knew about these things before, he always had to delay some time, and it was even delayed for a month or two to know. The sources of information about these major events in the DPRK and China are more formal Youdi Bao, and then there are some rumors collected from Beijing, but since the business with the Dingguo Mansion began to get on the right track, these news have been transmitted relatively quickly. With a fixed sea ship to transmit information, basically, these things in the court, at least ten and a half days, and at most a month, Yu Feng can know clearly.

Xu Yuanliang has no idea how much foundation Yu Feng has overseas. When Mu Haitao took Xiao Wu to visit the 'door', it was really a surprise to Xu Yuanliang. Hearing that her girl is now a lady, although it is not a big house, but it is also a brocade 'jade' food, and there is no shortage of wealth, Song Ning'er and Xu Yuanliang are very pleased. Xu Yuanliang, who also had a good impression of Yu Feng at the beginning, asked a little about Yu Feng's situation, but he was not very embarrassed, and sighed that if such talents were not those brocade guards, and now they are working for the Ming Dynasty, wouldn't it be the blessing of the emperor and the blessing of the world.

Regarding Mu Haitao's proposal to put forward Yu Feng, the two joined forces to do some sea trading, and Xu Yuanliang agreed without hesitation. The profits of sea trade, he is not ignorant of the world, how can he not know that now that this former relationship has sorted out all of his own, then he only needs to sit and make money.

In his mind, this money should not be a problem, the other party can use the old 'friendship' to find the 'door', whether it is to repay the favor or cooperation, after all, it is useful to get the signboard of the Dingguo Mansion, and use his Xu Yuanliang's place, presumably the other party has no foundation in Nanjing and needs his own connections and power.

Sure enough, Mu Haitao skipped a few words about how to transport and purchase goods by sea, focusing on how to transport the goods to Nanjing for sale after they arrived in Tianjin.

For these, Xu Yuanliang did not hesitate to play the package ticket, the name of Dingguo Gong, placed on the sea, in front of those blonde and blue-eyed barbarians, may not be too scary, but in this Nanjing City, it is enough to work.

Soon, the shops were opened, the trade routes were also opened, and all kinds of strange Oriental and Western items came to Nanjing from the sea. In a short period of time, almost all those people in Nanjing who have some net worth know that if you want to buy high-end goods 'color', then you have to go to East Street, if you want to buy high-end 'exquisite' foreign goods 'color', then you have to go to the four seas firm in East Street, where, as long as you can't think of it, there is nothing you can't buy. Even if you want something that is not in stock, place an order, ten days and half a month later, this thing will appear in front of you, of course, provided that you have enough silver.

When the business is good, the shop will naturally expand, and of course, there will be more people. So many valuables, you have to keep them carefully, and the bodyguards should also invite some, such a thing, naturally, it is understandable, unconsciously, the four seas business bank even the shopkeeper with the guards on behalf of the guards, there are hundreds of people, and all this, in the eyes of all people, is normal, such a big shop, if there are only so many kittens three or two, it is called abnormal.