Chapter 816: State affairs are heavy

The Qin'an Palace of the Imperial City is a heavy eaves roof, located on the white marble single-layer Sumeru seat, sits in the north and faces south, faces five rooms wide, enters three rooms deep, and has a yellow glazed tile roof. It is very magnificent, the whole palace, because it is located in the center of the imperial garden, there are many pavilions and pavilions around, the most distinctive should be regarded as the famous pavilions such as Wanchun Pavilion, Fubi Pavilion, Qianqiu Pavilion, Chengrui Pavilion in the garden, symbolizing the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter respectively. Wanchun Pavilion and Qianqiu Pavilion are one east and one west, are the pavilions of square heavy eaves, there are umbrella-shaped pointed domes, and the four sides go out of the building, forming twelve corners. Fubi Pavilion, Chengrui Pavilion two pavilions are also one east and one west, all are square, and the south of the pavilion stretches out to hug a building. It is built on a single-hole stone bridge with peculiar shape, under the stone bridge is a pool of clear water, there are elegant water lilies and swimming goldfish in the water, it looks extremely elegant, and the verdant pine, cypress, bamboo in the courtyard are dotted with mountain stones, forming the evergreen garden landscape of the four seasons, and then with the stone mountain "pile show" built with Taihu Lake stone, the mountain is steep, the road is steep, so that the climate of the whole temple is quite cool, Zhu Gaochi is more obese, the most afraid of heat, since he ascended the throne, almost all in the Qin'an Palace summer office, a stay is ten days and half a month.

Recently, the body that has been sick for many days, after the careful conditioning of the imperial doctor, the complexion has improved a lot, the dizziness in the past, the feeling of weakness in the limbs is slowly gone, it is the two more bowls of food in the past two days, which made him really happy, he asked himself if he was not the energetic emperor of the emperor's grandfather, nor the emperor of his father's eloquence, who dared to do everything and dared to let go, if you want to count, he is barely a diligent emperor.

The heavy state affairs of the Ming Dynasty, from the thirteenth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang executed Hu Weiyong for the crime of "planting the party without authority", and ten years later, in the name of "the good father and the country's relatives, knowing the rebellion and plotting", "the great rebellion" in the name, killed the "head of the founding ministers" Li Shanchang and his whole family, and ordered the purging of the rebel party, and as many as 30,000 people were implicated and killed before and after, so far, the Huaixi group was wiped out.

After that, Zhu Yuanzhang took the opportunity to depose the prime minister, and after killing Hu Weiyong, he issued an edict saying: "Since ancient times, the three princes have discussed the Tao, and the six secretaries have divided their duties, and they have not heard of the establishment of the prime minister. Since the beginning of Qin, he has been the prime minister, and he has died without heels. Because of the Han, Tang and Song dynasties, although there were virtuous ministers, there were many villains among the people used during the period, and they were dictatorial and chaotic. Today, the prime minister will set up five mansions, six ministries, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the General Administration Department, Dali Temple and other yamen, and divide the affairs of the world, and everything is the imperial court. In the future, the heir, do not have to discuss the prime minister, and the ministers who invite this will be placed on the throne. The real reason for his abolition of the prime minister was not that the prime minister would "die without spinning", but that the prime minister's power was too great, which could easily lead to the weakening of imperial power. In order to strengthen the imperial power, Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the Zhongshu Province and the prime minister, "everything is the imperial court", in order to make the imperial power merge the relative power, so that the power can be monopolized and the world is prestigious. The government of the Ming Dynasty has undergone such a change, a great power has the emperor in the hands, behind this seemingly scenery, but unspeakable bitterness, without the prime minister, relying on the emperor alone to handle state affairs, is the iron can not bear it, Zhu Yuanzhang is feeling that the state affairs are heavy, only in the 15th year of Hongwu in September to remove the four auxiliary officials, imitation of the Song Dynasty to set up a cabinet, after the Yongle Dynasty, the role of the cabinet slowly highlighted, and when Zhu Gaochi ascended the throne, because of his background, there is a close relationship with these important court officials; he is different from his successors, often summon them for formal meetings, requiring that he give his opinion or advice in a sealed cantata before he makes a decision on an important matter. In this way, the cabinet was no longer an unaccountable advisory body under the previous Ming rulers, and scholars personally participated in decision-making.

Rao is so, Zhu Gaochi, who has not been in good health since childhood, still has a hard time, when he was the prince in the past, in Nanjing, where the climate is as warm as spring, although there are many government affairs, but he can barely cope, and so after Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, most of the emperors live in the Qianqing Palace, so that the emperor will suffer one more felony every day, and he needs to pass through the three halls in front of him, and the distance is far away, so he requires the emperor to get up at dawn and disperse when the sun comes out. Most of the officials who are ordinary live outside Miyagi. It was a long way to get into the palace in the morning, but I had to go there before seven o'clock. When they arrived at the Forbidden City, they had to dismount, and only a few people were still allowed to ride. All must go to the court room first and wait for the emperor to go to court. When the emperor came out, the sky was not yet bright, and when the weather was cold, there was no modern cold-proof equipment at that time. The stove was very rudimentary, with some charcoal fires, but it was just for show. The Ming system had three dynasties a day, called the early dynasty, the afternoon dynasty, and the evening dynasty, and the emperor had to come out three times to meet the ministers and the people. There are two kinds of Ming Dynasty: one is called the Imperial Palace, and the other is called the Imperial Gate. The Imperial Palace, also known as the Inner Dynasty, is a court meeting in the main hall. The royal gate is to the Mukden Gate. The emperor has to go to the court three times a day, so it is not troublesome, his grandfather has the world on horseback, his body is hard, energetic, and the heavy state affairs can barely be handled, his father is eloquent and strategic, plus there is a group of cabinet ministers to assist, it is enough to personally cut the general affairs, and he is obese, inconvenient, although there are ministers to help deal with government affairs, but he feels powerless, but one day sitting on this dragon chair, he has never been slack, even if he was weak some time ago, he has never let go of state affairs, and now his body has strength, no problem.

On the dragon case, there is a full half a person's high recital, these recitals are handled by the cabinet with the help of the cabinet, and the opinions are written, the emperor is just reviewing, but thousands of recitals a day, and it is not something that ordinary people can read, and there are dozens of recitals that he has reviewed intermittently in the past two days.

Picked up the teacup and drank a sip of tea soup, then concentrated on the pen and began to read it, opened the first fold, only glanced at it, Zhu Gaochi's face showed a hint of joy, hurriedly wrote down the opinion, and put it on the left side, I don't know what I thought, I picked up the fold again, read it carefully, and then completely put it down.

Since his accession to the throne, Zhu Gaochi has been most concerned about the financial difficulties of the people of Li caused by his father's huge plans, and for this reason, after he ascended the throne, regardless of the opposition of the ministers and the frequent performance of the officials, he issued several edicts to cancel the emperor's practice of requisitioning timber, gold and silver and other commodities, and replace them with a system of fair purchase. Those affected by natural disasters are exempted from land endowments and provided with free food and other relief items. In the face of the frequent exodus of the people, he issued a special edict to ask the fugitives to return to their hometowns, promising to exempt them from the taxes they owe, and to exempt them from the same taxes and labor for two years after registering in their localities. They include Yingtian, Suzhou, Songjiang, Jiaxing and Nanzhili and the other four prefectures in Zhejiang, as he expected, since the late Yongle period, the people because of the inability to pay taxes and cope with all kinds of requisitions caused by the flight, so that the population plummeted, the imperial court tax collection was also halved, for this reason, he was ready to wait for the results of this survey to come out completely, began a nationwide reduction and exemption of taxes, and strive to let the fleeing population return, although to do so, it is indispensable to be nagged by a group of officials who do not know the suffering of the people, but as long as the people can be retained, the tax collection of the Ming Dynasty is guaranteed, this is the fundamental, hurriedly wrote down the approval opinions, put down the folds, and picked up a copy again。

This recital is very generous, so he wrinkled his head slightly, the emperor in the national affairs, only made Zhu criticism, but a recital is too long, after all, it will take some time, and these literati, but there are many suspicions of selling literary talents, but they also took a long time, but did not talk about the topic, so that he, the person who watched the recital, had a headache, so when he saw the thick recital, his heart could not help but be a little annoyed.

Finally, he has a gentle temperament, and he patiently opened the recital at the moment, but after reciting it for a while, his expression became solemn, because the recital was a problem with the Ministry of Rites in Annan.

Annam, known as Jiaozhi in ancient times, has been the territory of China since the Han and Tang dynasties, and after five dynasties, Fang became an independent country. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Annan took the opportunity to break off the Chinese territory, and once sent troops to attack Yongping Village on Siming Road, surpassing the Yuan Dynasty to demarcate the copper pillar for more than 200 miles, and occupying five counties such as Qiuwen and Qingyuan. When Zhu Yuanzhang replaced the Yuan Dynasty as the new dynasty of China, Zhu Yuanzhang tried to establish the Huayi order and the tributary system, and sent envoys to mediate in the war between Annam and Champa; Hu Jichen's arbitrary abolition of the monarch caused Zhu Yuanzhang's dissatisfaction and repeatedly rejected Annam's tribute. After Hu Jichen usurped the throne, he was afraid that the Ming Dynasty would come to ask for it, and concealed this matter from the Ming Dynasty for a long time. Soon Hu Jichen gave the throne to his second son Hu Hancang, who proclaimed himself the emperor.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty was undergoing a change of Jingjing, and the imperial court had no time to care about the Annan Kingdom, Hu Hancang used the title of the right to manage the state affairs of Annan to the Ming Chengzu who had just usurped the throne, falsely claiming that the descendants of the Chen Dynasty were extinct, claiming to be the nephew of the emperor of the Chen Dynasty, and was favored by the ministers, and asked to be named the king of Annam. Ming Chengzu doubted its authenticity and sent an envoy to Thanh Hoa to investigate, but Hu Hancang summoned the ministers of Annam to jointly write to Ming Chengzu, and finally Ming Chengzu named Hu Hancang the king of Annam. In the edict, he also admonished Hu Hancang: "Do good and be auspicious, show the way, be compassionate and compassionate, and go to Xin Naicheng." For a while, he recognized Hu Hancang as the "King of Annam".

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