The ministers who were forced to go to Nanking might have been indignant, but the ministers who stayed behind were happy.

In the spirit of the dead friends and the poor Dao, how to divide the vacated positions after so many officials have left, it is a gluttonous feast.

Zhu Qiyu made a decree to officially move the coffin of the Holy Empress to Jingling and be buried with the Xuan Temple.

In order to show filial piety, for the virtue of the Holy Queen, amnesty for the world. In addition, the officials of the world will be permanently increased by 20%, and the taxes and conscriptions of Beizhili will be exempted this year, and even the commercial taxes will be exempted in the second half of the year.

At the same time, the reform of household registration and the reform of monks and Taoists will be launched in an all-round way, first on a trial basis in Beizhili, and then implemented nationwide next year.

The people of Beijing, who were still talking about the abolition of the emperor, began to shout for the Son of Heaven when they learned that all the tax servants were exempted in the second half of this year.

Corrupt officials didn't care much about the emperor's salary, but for Qing officials, if someone's salary in the last year of the Orthodox Dynasty was 100 stones, now it would have risen to 200 stones.

The Orthodox Dynasty's 100 stone earns a maximum of 50 or 60 stones, and now it is 200 stones, which has more than tripled.

The most important thing is that, according to the emperor's promise, it will rise in the next few years.

In short, for the Qing officials, it was the first time to see the Ming Emperor who took officials so seriously.

Corresponding to this is the tyranny that Ming Taizu's officials don't need pleasure.

Among the important ministers of the cabinet, in addition to Wang Wen, the happiest is He Wenyuan. The emperor kept his promise and returned the right to elect to the officials. Now that there are so many vacancies in the Jingshi, the power of the official department is so great that it catches up with the first assistant.

On the third day of the seventh month, an emergency military report came from Huguang, and more than 70 Miao people poured out of the nest to start a decisive battle with the Ming army.

More than 100,000 Miao people were killed in battle, and nearly 70,000 Ming troops were killed.

Although the Ming army won a decisive victory, many of the upper guards were directly defeated, such as the advance guard of the government army, the left guard of Jinwu.

In Wu Anjun's words, it is a miserable victory.

Although nominally victorious, Luo Tong did not feel honored at all.

In the evening, it began to rain again.

Zhu Qiyu leaned on the backrest, watching the rain while listening to the two girls reading the military report.

In recent days, Zhu Qiyu has a deep sense of exhaustion, and he feels very tired after the task of the last big stage is completed.

Qianxue asked: "Husband, you want to completely quell the Miao Rebellion, and the governor Wang Lai has carried it out to the letter." The main force of the Miao people is gone, and the upper straight guard seems to be running out.

Look at so many upper straight guards, there are only names left. ”

Zhu Qiyu nodded weakly: "Hey, let the household department be generous." ”

As soon as the words fell, Zhu Qiyu changed it again: "Let the Nanjing household department be generously compensated." Who is Nanjing Hubu Shangshu now? Hey, it's not important, let Wang Ao and Yu Qian jointly serve as the head of the household, and then go and ask the gentry and lords of Nanzhili for money.

I want to get the silver, and then take it to pay for the soldiers who fought bloodily for the pacification of Miao.

I still have to keep the money from the Beijing household department to do big things.

The battle in the south is almost over, let Shen Yi come back quickly, the widow needs him. ”

Qianxue smiled: "Snatching money from those gentry masters, the errand of Nanjing Hubu Shangshu is very hard." ”

Zhu Qiyu asked rhetorically: "What else should I do?" This is how to fight wits and courage with the ministers, don't find something to do for Wang Ao and Yu Qian, don't let them be in a state of anxiety all the time, once they are idle, they should be loyal to His Royal Highness King Yi and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. ”

"That husband is so relieved to put King Yi and the crown prince in Nanjing, not afraid that they will rebel?"

"What kind of rebellion, those guards in Nanjing are almost dead, and there are only Xiaolingwei who are loyal to me.

Didn't I send Gao Ping to Nanjing on business last time, and asked him to pass on the decree just by the way, and the real task was to communicate with Xiaolingwei for me.

The conditions I gave were: Xiaolingwei chose to be loyal to me, and I ended Xiaolingwei's unclear status and officially placed him under the jurisdiction of Nanjing Yuma Supervision.

In the last few years, I have expanded the Xiaoling Guard to three standard guards, and all of them are treated the same as other guards.

To put it simply, it is the Beijing Imperial Horse Supervisor directly under the jurisdiction of Tiance Guard, and the Nanjing Imperial Horse Supervisor directly under the Xiaoling Guard, and the status and treatment of the second guard are completely equal.

Now that I am the one who monopolizes the name of righteousness and is in charge of the armies of the two capitals, and to this extent they are still going to rebel, I can only say that there must be some serious illness in their brains. ”

Qianxue asked curiously, "What is the unknown status of Xiaolingwei?" ”

"Xiao Lingwei, you say that he is a direct guard, but he is actually a Lingwei. You say he's a mausoleum guard, but he's actually being managed by the upper guard.

I can't tell what he is, the soldiers of Xiaolingwei are still transferred to fight from time to time, and their treatment is also short of two catties, far from catching up with Jinyiwei.

So people are also very aggrieved, and my credit, one word: hard!

As soon as my preferential conditions were proposed, they immediately accepted them. ”

Qianxue suddenly realized: "Oh, you have already obtained the allegiance of Xiaolingwei, and you have transferred all the Shangzhiwei to the Huguang battlefield. Wait until all these arrangements are clear, and you will do to depose the emperor.

Now that King Yi and the crown prince have arrived in Nanjing, they will be surprised to find that there is no army loyal to them at all.

How desperate the father and son must have been. ”

Zhu Qiyu added: "Dingguo Gong has been around Liaodong long enough, and I have already sent someone to summon him back to Beijing." After Dingguo Gong returned to Beijing, Wei Guogong could return to Nanjing to guard the town.

The three garrison nobles of Nanjing: Wei Guogong, Xinguo Gong, and Le Chenghou are all loyal to me.

I asked Huang Qi and Yan Li to escort King Yi to Nanjing, and then Huang Qi arranged for King Yi to come back, and Yan Li served as the right garrison eunuch in Nanjing and the right young eunuch in Nanjing.

Yan Li imprisoned King Yi for me, supervised the crown prince for me, and at the same time was in charge of the filial piety guard, ready to quell the rebellion at any time.

If the prince is honest, he will give him a rich prince in the future. If he plots a rebellion, that's great, and I can't blame him. ”

Qianxue nodded: "Now the slave family understands, it turns out that the husband has already arranged it clearly in Nanjing." ”

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "Nine garrisons, one filial piety guard, enough to watch Nanjing." Don't forget that Zhejiang and Fujian are also in my hands.

Even if someone rebelled in Nanjing, as long as the north and south were attacked, they could be destroyed in the blink of an eye.

After all, no matter what you say, the center of the imperial court, the righteous name, the personal guards of the Beijing camp, and the elite border army are all in my hands. How boring a person has to be to think about rebellion.

Moreover, I have reinstated the detective captain of the Jinyi Guard throughout the country, and it is a bit too idealistic to think that people will rebel unknowingly and quietly.

Forget it, let's go to bed first. Everything is under control, and the next step of reform will start steadily. ”

On the tenth day of the seventh month, Xu Yongning, the Duke of Dingguo, finished his training in Liaodong and returned to Beijing.

On July 16, Xu Chengzong, Duke of Wei, and Duke Dingguo completed the handover and set off to return to Nanjing.

The descendants of Xu Da, the two princes, are in the same breath and support each other, and now one south and one north, echoing each other from afar, and becoming stronger.

On July 18, Huang Qi finally ended his mission and settled His Royal Highness King Yi.

Although the crown prince was nominally sent to Nanjing to serve King Yi, in fact King Yi was placed in a secluded courtyard in the tomb of filial piety, and no one was allowed to approach him except for more than 20 little eunuchs who served closely.

Back in Nanjing, Huang Qi called Yan Li into the room and solemnly pushed a small wooden box in front of Yan Li.

Yan Li was so curious that he opened the wooden box, only to see three talismans neatly placed on the top, and immediately asked, "Godfather, what is this?" ”

(End of chapter)