The aftermath of Ye Zongliu's rebellion soon passed, and after thirteen years of Ming orthodoxy, the imperial court returned to calm again.

Of course, natural disasters are still occurring, but fortunately, at this time, it is the heyday of the Ming Dynasty, and there will be no problems.

However, in recent years, there have also been some personnel changes in the court.

As early as the eleventh year of orthodoxy, Yang Pu had already died, and the three Yangs of the Yongle Dynasty came to a complete end.

Li Xian, the second assistant of the cabinet, became the first assistant, and Ma Yu became the second assistant of the cabinet.

Zhu Qizhen's other two teachers also achieved positive results, Wang Zhi served as the right attendant of the ministry, and Yan Jingxiu became the left attendant of the household department, and all of them became high-level figures in the imperial court.

In the inner court, Jin Ying was appointed as the eunuch of the celebrant and the seal of the seal. This is a relatively virtuous eunuch, and he even once received an edict from death from death from Emperor Xuande because of his loyalty and seriousness, and he was extremely favored.

Under the full cooperation of the cabinet and the inner court, the handling of government affairs was extremely efficient, and the Ming Dynasty created a fairly good world under the frequent natural disasters, although it was not as good as the former Renxuan, and it was not as good as the "orthodox rule" that Yan Keng called during the cabinet, but it was already good.

A stable political pattern has been formed.

However, in the meantime, there was also a hiccup.

When Zhu Qizhen was still young, in order to help the little emperor deal with the court meeting, he had to choose eight things to enter the inner court in advance every day, and then say them the next day.

Now that Zhu Qizhen has grown up, this system has not been abolished, but it has changed from the original eight things to all.

As a result, the court meeting changed from the original, the ministers played things, the ministers discussed, and the emperor finally decided, and it became like this-

The minister came out: xxxxx.

Zhu Qizhen recited the decision he had made last night, glancing at the cheat sheet from time to time.

After answering, the courtier stepped back and went next.

The other ministers didn't speak, anyway, these things were discussed by the cabinet and the emperor, maybe the celebrant seal was stamped, and it was useless for them to interfere.

It's the same as acting.

The main reason is that the court meeting is a system that has lasted for hundreds or thousands of years, and it is really difficult to abolish it. Before, Yan Keng knew that the little emperor could not handle government affairs, and he had to insist on holding it, which was the reason.

After fifteen years of orthodoxy, Zhu Qizhen finally couldn't stand it anymore, I got up early in the morning and pretended to be with you, what is this!

Why do you get up at four o'clock every day and play with you at five o'clock on time, what is this?

It's rotten.

However, he also knew that he could not explicitly say that the early dynasty would be abolished.

So, when the ministers came to the noon gate one day, they were informed by the eunuchs:

"Your Majesty Long is not feeling well, please go back, you will not go to court today."

The next day was the same.

After a few days, it became "Your Majesty is sick", and then "Your Majesty is bedridden".

At this moment, some of the ministers are panicking - the crown prince is still young (three years old), big brother, don't burp at this time!

Some people heard that Zhu Qizhen asked the cabinet to send an official document when he was seriously ill, and he was moved to tears, and he also wrote a book to let the emperor recuperate and praise the emperor for having the world in mind.

And then this disease, I was sick for a full year.

Zhu Qizhen was "bedridden" for a whole year, and the disease did not continue to be serious, nor was it cured, so he hung like this, and the court document should be approved and approved every day.

Now the fool knows what's going on.

But they're actually happy to do that—

After all, you get up at four o'clock, and we have to wait outside the noon gate at three o'clock, Beijing is so big, it's easy for people who are dozens of years old to get up at one or two o'clock!

It was just before, after all, it was really a discussion, and how much could I speak and participate, but now? Sleep standing in a different place?

So except for a few officials who stood up and said a few words, most of the courtiers acquiesced in this matter.

But if you really die in the harem like a certain emperor, and the officials can't see each other from the time they take office to their retirement, then there will be some problems in the world, and he will still hold a court meeting every once in a while to meet with everyone.

But Zhu Qizhen, who had already tasted the sweetness of going to court like before, resolutely refused, and this practice was continued by many emperors.

So since then, the Ming Emperor no longer frequently went to court, they lived in the inner court, using the Dongchang Jinyi Guard as the eyes and ears, through the cabinet to convey their will, control the world.

Although the emperor does not go to the court, it does not affect the operation of political affairs, they just don't hold court meetings, and they don't work, otherwise they won't be surnamed Zhu in the world for decades.

So in fact, this did not have much impact on the Ming Dynasty, and everything was still developing steadily.

Time flickered, and it came the seventeenth year of orthodoxy.

In recent years, the Ming Dynasty has been generally calm.

Zhang Fu died in the sixteenth year of orthodoxy, and this veteran avoided the end of the original history of being humiliated and died in Tumu Fort, and died peacefully in the mansion.

He was posthumously named the king of Dingxing County, and was nicknamed "Loyal Martyr".

As an emerging general, Wang Ji was ordered to conquer the south, quell the rebellion of the Miao people and the uprising of small groups, and guard the south of the Ming Dynasty.

The hinterland of the Ming Dynasty showed a stable and peaceful situation.

But in the grasslands of the north, there is a force rising.

Because Zhu Di sent Lan Yu to sweep through Mobei and chase Mahamu to chase and fight, although the Dzungar Department relied on the endless desert to escape a catastrophe, and finally survived until Lan Yu, the evil star, died, but the price was also very tragic, and the main force of the Dzungar Department was basically buried in the grassland.

By the time Tuhuan succeeded to the throne, the Dzungar tribe had been reduced to a second-rate tribe.

Fortunately, Tuhuan robbed a wave of feudal prefectures and instantly saved a considerable amount of money, which gave the Dzungar Ministry the conditions for its rise.

Using a large amount of gold and silver, they co-opted several small tribes as valuations, and then launched a war of conquest in the steppes.

What's even more comic is that several other tribes have followed suit, and they also want to rob a wave of prison prefectures to get rich, but at this time, the Ming army has already taken precautions, and the prison also has its own garrison.

They were entangled by the garrison, and then the Ming army arrived, and in the end not only did not get half a dime, but lost a lot of manpower.

This has further accelerated the process of decoupling and reunifying Warat.

In the fourth year of orthodoxy, Tuhuan died, and his son also ascended the throne first, and officially launched the unification war in the ninth year of orthodoxy.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty was a natural and man-made disaster, with uprisings in the southeast, and displaced people everywhere, and it was no longer able to squander the grassland like Hongwu Yongle at that time, and could only rely on fetters to barely maintain the rule of the grassland.

It just so happened that the first time was that there was no complete unification of Warat, and the two sides hit it off.

The Ming Dynasty was also the king of Shunning first, allowing him to pay tribute, and the first was no longer to harass the border passes and the fetters of the ministry, the two sides entered a period of peace, you carry out your unification, I put down my rebellion.

After years of conquest and war, one tribe after another was annexed by the Dzungar tribe or became their vassals.

By the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, Warat had officially completed its unification and occupied the entire Western Mongolia.

After another three years of recuperation, their strength grew again.

also finally set his sights on the southern Ming Dynasty.

(End of chapter)