Some people live like a year, and finally look forward to New Year's Day.

Countless officials met to drink to celebrate the rest of their lives after the catastrophe, and they burst into tears when they drank to the point of emotion.

Officials who were beheaded, exiled, or imprisoned accounted for 12 percent of the country's total number of officials.

Together with the gentry and businessmen who were convicted, as well as the families of the officials and civilians who were implicated, a total of more than 30,000 people were exiled.

Even Tsushima Island and Sado Island each exiled hundreds of people.

The exiled civil and military officials all adopted the Zhenyuan Fort model. Depending on the severity of the local environment, a KPI population base is determined, and based on this base, a number of Han people can be reproduced or naturalized, and they can leave the penal colony.

Dexing.

Retired Prime Minister Zhang Gen also sighed for a long time, his sons were well educated, and his family was also very rich, and he was not investigated and punished.

But Zhang Gen's cousin family killed the first two, and the rest were exiled.

Dexing Zhang's in-laws, Wu and Ying, each had a family exile, and one of them lost his head.

If there is a punishment, there will be a reward, and Zhang Gen's sons and daughters, Wu Dian, were found to be a super Qing official. (Wu Dian was a student of Li Gang's uncle.) ）

This person once applied for retirement in the former Song Dynasty, and as a general judge in Yuezhou, he didn't even have the money to return to his hometown, and he had been living in a different place to teach and live, and he returned to his hometown only after earning enough travel expenses.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Wu Dian was recommended by Zhang Gen to be an official, and as a prefect, he was also not greedy, and he also donated money to fund Yixue.

At the moment when corrupt officials are everywhere, such a clean official is really rare, Zhu Guoxiang ordered a reward of 300 yuan, and reported to the whole country to publicize his morality.

Then, Wu Dian took the opportunity to resign, because he was older than Zhang Gen.

Visiting his children's in-laws around Dao Daoxing, Wu Dian said with emotion: "Since ancient times, the rule of officials has been rectified, and there has never been such an iron-fisted person as the current dynasty, sweeping away the pickled filth of the former Song Dynasty!" ”

Zhang Gen said: "The prince is still in a hurry, and the local governments have been made unable to handle government affairs. ”

Wu Dian shook his head and said, "No." How can scraping bones and healing not hurt vitality? But the long pain is better than the short pain, and it is time to take advantage of the beginning of the dynasty to kill the corruption in the officialdom. ”

Intellectually, Zhang Gen agreed with this and quipped: "The saint and brother are famous all over the world, and the world knows that the brother is as incorruptible as water." ”

Wu Dian pouted: "The world is turbid, I am the only one, although the world is famous, but it is also pointed out by thousands of people." ”

"The officials will scold me first," Zhang Gen sighed, "It was my good son-in-law who made such a big case." My cousin's family came to beg me to go to Beijing to help plead. The prince raised the knife high, who can persuade him? Now the clansmen complain that I am cold-blooded and ruthless, and I don't care about my kinship at all. ”

"How do they know the world of their home and country?" Wu Dian said disdainfully.

Old friends meet, travel all day long, Wu Dian stayed in Zhang's house for more than a month before leaving.

Suddenly fell ill on the way, an old man in his seventies, who couldn't bear it and died directly.

When the news reached the capital, Zhu Guoxiang sighed with emotion, and wrote a plaque to "serve as an official model", let Wu Dian's son hang it at home, and then recruit one of Wu Dian's grandsons to study in Taixue.

Xu Fuyan's eldest son, Xu Ying, was also reinstated in the spring and transferred to other provinces at the same level.

As for the second son, I'll talk about it next year.

……

In the spring of that year, Yelu Dashi suddenly sent troops to take Jaisangbo and the surrounding pastures, and occupied the pastures north of Alahu.

It is equivalent to completely owning the Tacheng area of Xinjiang and seizing a small piece of Kazakh land in later generations.

The Eastern Qarakhanid reacted violently and sent emissaries to question them.

Then, there is no then.

Because of the Eastern Qarakhanid, it lost too badly in the battle with the Seljuks last year, and even directly bowed to the Seljuk Sultan.

Under the heavy losses of the army, there was a rebellion in the country, and there was no way to start a war with Jerodashi.

Further east.

After the grassland snowed, the Jin country also sent troops.

Jin Bing grabbed Wang Gubu and beat him fatly, drove the disobedient Wang Gubu back to the north of Daqing Mountain, and re-subjugated the tribes in Ulanqab, Hohhot and other places.

At the same time, Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zonggan joined forces to reform the system.

The Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials were established one after another, and the Jin State officially opened the Department of Scholars, and the Ministry of Officials appointed and dismissed civil officials. These powers are controlled by Wanyan Zonggan.

As a result, the conference became the political and military decision-making body and deliberative body of the Jin State, and other functions were gradually replaced by various departments. And the Bo Ji Lie Conference was controlled by Wanyan Zonghan.

The two joined hands as ministers, and Wu begged to buy completely into ornaments.

After the appearance of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials, the internal political system of Jin became more formalized, and several prominent clans in the Bohai Sea further seized power, and their voice in the court and local areas was greatly improved.

Except for the stubborn areas of the Jurchen people, the military commander system was abolished in the territory of the Jin State.

The generals of the local garrisons are no longer allowed to concurrently serve as prefects or governors.

This reform is mainly aimed at the heroes of all ethnic groups, and those guys have seized the military and political power, and now they have been diverted by the Jin Imperial Court to the civil and military.

Afraid of forcing the heroes of all ethnic groups to rebel, Wanyan Zonghan set up several more 10,000 mansions and appointed the powerful heroes of various ethnic groups as 10,000 households. Give them greater command in exchange for them handing over local administration.

A series of reforms did not occur under the influence of Zhu Ming.

The historical Jin State also did this, and in terms of political system, it learned from the Liao and Song dynasties step by step.

……

Jin and Xiliao are both developing, but Daming has just experienced "labor pains" and needs to be eased with Lantern Festival lanterns.

More than one-tenth of the country's officials were dismissed, and this is not a joke, and the field army transferred back from the front did not leave until after the beginning of spring.

The garrisons of the provinces are all on alert!

The administrative affairs of the provinces have not yet been fully restored.

Suleiman, the Seljuk envoy who came from the Western Regions, was blocked in the middle of the road by heavy snow in winter, but he finally caught up with the Lantern Festival in the sixth year of Hongwu.

The first batch of envoys carefully selected by Japan also came to Kaifeng at about the same time.

This year's Lantern Festival is particularly lively.

First, the people are richer, and second, Zhu Ming is deliberately promoting.

Before it gets dark, the lights are already lit up inside and outside Tokyo.

Suleiman looked at all this dumbfounded: "Allah, how rich the Upper Qin Kingdom is, those lamps are worth a lot of gold coins!" ”

Although Abu was also shocked by the Lantern Festival, he looked like a person who had come over: "The Upper Qin State is now called the Great Ming, and it is governed by knowledgeable scholars, so it has become richer. There are no poor people in the country of the Ming Dynasty, and even the coolies at the bottom can live happily every day. ”

On the other street, there are more than 20 Japanese people wandering around the city like dirt buns.

Although they were nobles and monks, they were strange to see everything.

Especially after dark, the various programs that are staged one after another are more colorful than enjoying waka performances.

"Look, what's that?"

But on the high platform, in the large copper plate, a paper fairy taller than a person was dragging the fireworks to rotate and walk.

The paper-tied fairy's feet, legs, and back all have "flamethrowers", and a thin rope hangs from her shoulders. The flames propelled the fairy forward, making all sorts of movements, as if flying in the air.

These are called "medicine golems", and there are also small paper figures that are sprayed into the air.

The Southern Song Dynasty even invented the "fire mouse", which was sprayed by flames and swirled around, and once jumped to the feet of the Queen Mother who was watching the lanterns, and scared the Queen Mother to jump up directly......

"Bang bang bang!"

Firecrackers rang out all over the city, and this thing was also called a blasting stick. Including fireworks, it developed rapidly in the last years of the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty.

Just when the Japanese envoy was shocked by the medicine puppet, an even more shocking performance appeared nearby.

It was a few large fireworks that were several feet high.

That is, to build a very high shelf to connect a variety of fireworks and firecrackers in series. Different fireworks and firecrackers have different lead lengths, and they continue to spew flames and make sounds.

Four words: fire tree silver flower!

When the fire tree and silver flower ignited, Seljuk and the Japanese envoys all looked at it in a daze.

They couldn't understand why there was such a beautiful thing in the world.

The soldiers and patrolmen of the Five Cities Terracotta Division are like a great enemy.

All the streets of the city were prepared with firefighting supplies, and there were people standing next to every well.

The Lantern Festival in Tokyo City is so hilarious, it started from the time of Song Huizong. Especially in the last years of his reign, gunpowder had already been played with and was only one step away from being turned into a weapon.

For example, "Meteor" mixes gunpowder with iron powder, puts it into a paper tube with mud at one end, and ignites it before it can fly into the air.

Commonly known as the Sky Monkey.

But this kind of sky monkey only lifts into the air, and does not explode after flying out.

Other fireworks are only spray flames, and the color is relatively simple.

"The official family is here!"

"Prince, Prince!"

The lights of the castle tower were raised, the royal family appeared, and the people of the city cheered.

Zhu Guoxiang took his wife, concubines, children and grandchildren and waved in the direction of the crowd, which suddenly attracted a louder cheer.

"Let's set off the fireworks." Zhu Guoxiang smiled.

Fireworks that can be lifted into the air and explode are about to appear in human society for the first time.

A large circle of cannons had been erected on the walls of the imperial city, and the musketeers hung their fire ropes and began to light them in batches.

"Woohoo!"

"Bang bang bang!"

Clusters of sparks rise into the sky and explode in the night sky, blooming with colorful flowers.

This time, not only the foreign envoys, but also the well-informed people of Tokyo all looked up at the sky with a smirk.

A group of officials of the Hanlin Academy, because they had no real power, were almost not affected by major cases last year, and some even took the opportunity to be released and promoted. They brought their families to call their friends, and at the moment they watched the brilliant fireworks in the night sky, and they had a great time tonight.

One of the guys from Dasheng Lyricist, when the fireworks that lasted for more than ten minutes were fired, he suddenly raised his arms and shouted: "Long live Daming, long live Daming!" ”

The civil and military officials were also enjoying the lanterns at the moment, experiencing a grand fireworks show, as if they had forgotten the officialdom shock that had just passed.

They smiled happily, as if they saw the prosperity in front of them.

Suleiman, who was completely stunned, pointed to the sky and said, "What exactly are those?" ”

Abu muttered, "Maybe it's a miracle." ”

(End of chapter)