Chapter 16 Jiajing Zhongxing
The first year of Jiajing passed in the wave of anti-corruption actions in the Ming Dynasty, ending with the defeat of Yang Tinghe and Mao Cheng's Great Rites Proposal, and Zhu Houxi's victory. At the same time, a large part of the ministers of the court and the central government were emptied, and Zhu Houxi took the opportunity to promote many capable and prestigious ministers to Beijing, Wang Yangming, who was meritorious to the king of Pingning, and Yang Yiqing, who was deposed by Zhengde in Beijing, began to suppress Yang Tinghe, Mao Cheng and others in the court, and gradually controlled the government and gradually deepened the emperor's authority.
In the second year of Jiajing, He Fu was transferred to the position of the celebrant and the superintendent of the imperial horses, and began to rectify the Beijing camp, and the east factory was handed over by He Fu to Bi Yun, who he promoted. Bi Yun was in charge of the capital for more than a year under He Fu, vigorously rectifying public order, and the Beijing division had good social order, was honest, hardworking and cautious, and was recommended to Zhu Houxi by He Fu.
In the Spring Festival of the second year of Jiajing, Zhu Houxi summoned the nobles and relatives, left the Duke of England, the Duke of Chengguo, and the Duke of Dingguo, and proposed that the Governor of the Five Armies cooperate with He Fu, the Governor of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, to rectify the Beijing camp. Several princes are human spirits, although the change of the civil fort and the restoration of Yingzong have greatly reduced the power of the nobles, after all, the roots are deep, and the capital is absolutely full of nobles with a heart at all, and the anti-corruption in the first year of Jiajing came from the hands of He Fu, they naturally knew it, and hurriedly said that they would definitely cooperate, which was also good for the nobles.
Within three years, He Fu cooperated with Zhu Houxi to take away the military merit examination department of the Ministry of Officials and the military selection department of the military department to the Metropolitan Governor of the Five Armies, and changed the Metropolitan Governor of the Five Armies to the Military Aircraft Department, which was directly under the jurisdiction of the emperor. At the same time, Zhu Houxi was instructed to improve the cabinet system, and the cabinet was also reformed, and it was not until the fifth year of Jiajing that the cabinet system was officially formed: there were names, office locations, and subordinate personnel, and all the university scholars in the cabinet were promoted from the original five or six grades to the first rank, which was higher than all the officials of the five governments and six ministries, and was in charge of the six ministries.
In the sixth year of Jiajing, the cabinet and the military aircraft department were formally divided into civil and military affairs, and the world began to spread that Zhu Houxi had the appearance of a bright monarch.
In September of the seventh year of Jiajing, Zhu Houyu and the pregnant queen in the palace took a large number of concubines to eat, and after the meal, Concubine Zhang Shun and Concubine Fang gave Zhu Houyu tea, Zhu Houxi, who was full of food and lust, was not honest with his hands and feet, and took the hands of the two concubines to tease, Queen Chen was pregnant, watching this queen play a little temperament, threw the teacup, and returned to the palace directly. Zhu Houyu was furious, with the help of He Fu over the years, in addition to being troubled and tempted by the ministers when he first sat as emperor, he lost his temper directly, and Empress Chen was directly frightened by Zhu Houxi's domineering anger, and she was angry, and the bluffing Zhu Houyu also panicked, he has no heirs over the years, and there are already a lot of gossips in private, shouting: "Find He Daban!"
He Fujun retired after the completion of the reform, and the imperial horse supervisor handed over to Sun Hong, and lived in the small courtyard of the seal and ribbon prison after 20 years of absence. Zhu Houxi in the court had already mastered the situation, and He Fu began to retreat into the palace, but no one dared to ignore it.
After the eunuch arrived, He Fu hurried over, and after a busy day, he arranged the fetal gas for the queen, and Zhu Houxi's heart was put down.
"Thanks to the great companion, with you, the miracle doctor, I am also relieved!" Zhu Houxi sighed.
"Your Majesty has been lax a lot recently, Daming is not the time to relax now, it's time to rectify the private salt, in the future, Your Majesty will have salt and the army, and the Tartars in the north should also fight!" He Fu said to Zhu Houxi after he was busy.
He Fu moved in the palace of Kunning Palace, and began to pay attention to Zhu Houxi's body and the fetal situation of the queen and concubine of the harem. Outside the palace from the Changlu salt field, the Beijing camp in these years Dongchang, Jinyiwei under the withdrawal of intelligence, began to bloody military strikes on the private salt, officialdom, nobles, relatives stormy, from time to time there is news that someone was imprisoned for huge corruption, nobles, relatives were reprimanded by the emperor.
In the eighth year of Jiajing, Zhu Houxi's eldest son Zhu Zaiji was born, and the world celebrated. Then the second son Zhu Zaili, the third son Zhu Zaiyuan, and the fourth son Zhu Zaizhen were gradually born.
Jiajing ten years, after the completion of the formation of the salt division, the money and grain are sufficient for the imperial court to restore the Hetao, the governor of Shaanxi trilateral military affairs of the Zeng milling three battles and three victories, the success of the Hetao, the main force of the Tartars is exhausted, the imperial court restored the Tang Dynasty Anxi capital to protect the palace, set up counties, and govern the Hetao.
In the fifteenth year of Jiajing, after the governance and digestion of the Hetao, under the reminder of He Fu, Zhu Houxi's eyes were aimed at the upper northeast pass, the army pressed the border, and there was no unification of the peoples outside the pass, all the nationalities outside the border were submitted, provinces and counties were set up, and the cities of Chengde, Siping, and Dandong were built, and the territory was gradually expanded to build cities and immigrants to the real border, and gradually the northeast granary was known as the same as the south of the Yangtze River, and the strength of the imperial court increased greatly.
In the twentieth year of Jiajing, after a conspiracy between Zhu Houxi and He Fu, they used the example of Yunnan Qianguo to imitate the Zhou Dynasty to divide the kings to guard the frontier, and the imperial court changed the fiefs for the kings in various places. The imperial court sent troops to help the princes of the various fiefdoms to fight fiefdoms, the royal family sent military expenses, the virtual king became a real prince, the princes from all over the country not only paid out of their own pockets but also kept giving gifts to Zhu Houxi, they all wanted to go out to be the emperor of the soil, after a period of operation, after ten years of changing fiefs, there was no king in the Ming Dynasty, and they all went to the frontier to open up.
In the thirty-fifth year of Jiajing, He Fu heard the little eunuch below report that there was a big fire in Huashan, leaving only Yue Buqun, Ning Zhongze and other big cats and kittens, and he was in a trance for a while, only to find that he had unconsciously passed through more than sixty years.
"Didn't instruct Dongchang and Jinyiwei to instigate, Huashan is still fighting, not so much the battle of sword qi, but the struggle for power, Huashan's incomplete "Sunflower Treasure Book" is still harvested, Qizong Yue Su is not in vain, comprehended a "Chaoyang One Qi Sword", these years of planting sunflowers, comprehended the artistic conception of Chaoyang, mixed yin and yang into the congenital, it is time to go out of the palace to visit. He Fu thought about it and immediately asked Zhu Houxi for leave, dressed as a Taoist priest and went straight to Huashan.
He Fu quietly went to Huashan, at this time Huashan had just finished fighting for less than seven days, and Huashan was stationed in a depression, with white cloth, plain clothes, wreaths, white paper and black lay. In the mourning hall, on the left stood Ning Qingyu, the head of the Huashan faction, who was seriously injured and coughed constantly, Yue Buqun, a twenty-year-old young man with drooping eyes, and Ning Zhongze, a sixteen-year-old who was silently weeping. On the right, there were three seventeen or eighteen-year-old young men standing with angry Sword Sect disciples on their faces, their eyes were red and swollen with hatred, and they looked at the three on the left.
"The three of you go down the mountain immediately, the Huashan Sect will have no Sword Sect in the future, and there will only be the Huashan Sect of the Qi Sect in the future!" Ning Qingyu coughed, looking at the mourning hall with a pair of empty eyes, and at the same time instructed Feng Buping, Cheng Bu Worry, and Cong Bu Wai.
"In the future, you will take your Yangguan Road, we will cross our single-plank bridge, and we will go!" After finishing speaking, the expressionless Feng Buping pulled the indignant Cheng Bu and the hateful Cong Bu did not give up, turned around and left the mourning hall directly, packed his luggage, and went down Huashan without looking back.
"Master, the three of them can stay, the current Huashan..."The silent Yue Buqun spoke after seeing Feng Bupingren leave, but was interrupted by Ning Qingyu before he could finish speaking.
"There must be a result in the battle of sword qi, all the sins are in me, and I will bear the blame for the ancestor's underground, the Huashan faction will be handed over to you in the future, remember that there is no group, there will only be the Huashan faction of the Qi Sect in the future!" Ning Qingyu's eyes were full of tears, and after he finished speaking, he left the mourning hall with a staggering step.