When the sun rose again, a new day came, and Chongzhen, who had finished washing, walked out of the Qianqing Palace. He stretched and looked at the glittering palace in the distance under the morning sun, which was a rare beauty.

However, no matter how good the scenery is, it will make people accustomed to it. Although he still feels sore after a day of running outside the city to inspect the river construction site yesterday, he still started his daily routine morning jog.

After he ran a few laps, Wang Chengen, who was waiting on the side with a water cup and a warm towel, couldn't help but persuade Chongzhen, who came up to drink water: "Your Majesty ran outside for a day yesterday, why don't you run a few laps less today, and please cherish the dragon body." ”

The square between the Qianqing Palace and the Qianqing Gate is 200 meters wide from east to west, 50 meters long from north to south, and it is exactly 500 meters to run a circle.

Chongzhen has gone from 1 lap a day at the beginning to 6 laps a day now, and his originally good physique has gradually become stronger in the morning.

Regarding Wang Chengen's persuasion, Zhu Youzhen just smiled, and he was unwilling to tell Wang Chengen some things. Chongzhen's 17 years was like a spell around his head, making him dare not relax.

And whether he can reverse the fate of Daming, he is really unsure. He felt like a fish that had jumped out of the river by chance, and although he could see the road ahead, he could not necessarily change the direction of the current.

In the eyes of Wang Chengen and others, his morning jog every morning may not be of much use, but in Chongzhen's own opinion, whether it is going to the battlefield or fleeing, a healthy body is the most fundamental.

Sweating profusely to finish the daily task, although Chongzhen was panting and feeling very tired, his spirit seemed very uplifted.

After a short rest, Zhu Youzhen took a shower, changed his clothes, and asked Wang Chengen, who was waiting on the side, "What is my itinerary today?" ”

Wang Chengen did not answer the emperor's question, but said with some urgency: "I'm afraid that Your Majesty's itinerary today will be changed, just now the cabinet sent someone to ask Your Majesty to participate in an emergency meeting, and there are urgent matters that need to be dealt with." ”

Zhu Youzhen asked with some curiosity: "What is the urgency that made Huang Shoufu actually start the mode of emergency meeting?" ”

Wang Chengen looked left and right, waved his hand to let the others retreat, and then whispered to Chongzhen: "Last night, the kiln workers of the Xishan coal kiln got up to make trouble, oh, it's a strike." Then the Cabinet received the news in the morning and seemed to be more shocked by this. ”

Zhu Youzhen smiled and said: "Isn't it just a strike, how can the cabinet feel like a change of people has happened in Xishan, so like a great enemy." ”

Wang Chengen hesitated for a moment before continuing: "Last night's strike seemed to be a little out of control, burning more than a dozen mines, and also igniting four or five piles of coal.

The cabinet received news that 40,000 or 50,000 potters and mountain people in the Xishan mining area rose up to make trouble, saying that they were going to attack the capital, and it was the cabinet that panicked..."

In the Wenhua Palace, at an emergency meeting jointly convened by the Cabinet, the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces, and the Six Ministries and Nine Secretaries, Zhu Youzhen listened to the opinions of the ministers on the handling of the incident in the Xishan mining area.

Most of the opinions of the courtiers converged on the urgent or slow suppression, and there were only a few poor officials who advocated appeasement, which were quickly drowned out in the sound of suppression.

After the ministers had finished speaking, the emperor who sat on the throne remained silent. Among the courtiers, Huang Liji is obviously the most inclined to be in a hurry, and since he became the first assistant, he has not encountered a few pleasant things.

Supporting the new emperor's accession to the throne, although he was given the credit for his decision. But the subsequent cabinet restructuring also made him the target of public criticism.

Huang Liji realized that although under the promotion of Chongzhen, the cabinet restructuring plan he implemented made him a real prime minister. But this also made the cabinet, which was originally nominally an auxiliary government, become the decision-maker of the Ming Empire.

In the past, if the cabinet made a mistake in governance, it would not make sense to push it to the emperor. From the Jingying Mutiny, the Gyeonggi Min's Mutiny to today's Jingxi miners' rebellion, so many changes have occurred in the capital in just a few months, and the officials in the capital have been privately circulating, mainly because he is not the first assistant to have talent, which is why there is so chaos in the vicinity of the capital.

Huang Liji probably knew that those people were behind his back. First to discredit him, and then to implicate him in the policies he pursued, thus overthrowing the ideas he advocated for statecraft.

It was because he hoped that the rebellion of the miners in western Beijing could be quelled by thunderbolt before it affected the capital, so as not to give those with bad intentions a chance to take advantage of it.

Seeing that Chongzhen was still silent, Huang Liji finally couldn't help but persuade again: "Your Majesty, the Jingxi Mine is only a day's journey from the capital, if you don't deal with it in time, let these mobs rush to the capital, I'm afraid it will disrupt the lives of the people in the capital."

Since last year, there have been many accidents in the left side of the capital. The Beijing camp guarding the capital actually rushed into the capital to cause chaos, which was an unprecedented thing.

Although relying on His Majesty's sage, the rebels finally withdrew from the capital and the situation was calmed down, but the people in the capital were already uneasy.

The minister thought that in order to reassure the people, he should take advantage of the fact that the news of the miners' riot had not spread in the capital, and send troops to the mines in western Beijing to quell the turmoil. ”

Before Chongzhen could speak, Huang Daozhou couldn't help but jump out, "What Lord Shoufu said is a little strange, although the Jingxi miners' riot is a mob matter, but don't the rulers have no responsibility?"

As far as the minister knows, the practice of using briquettes to heat the capital and make fires for cooking was very popular in the winter of last year, so the coal digging industry made a lot of profits. After the beginning of spring, more than 30 new coal kilns were opened in the Jingxi mine.

In order to recruit coal diggers, these newly opened coal kilns not only searched for homeless people from the vicinity of Gyeonggi, but also colluded with officials of the Criminal Department to buy prisoners from the prison of the Criminal Department to serve as miners.

As far as the minister knew, these men were taken into custody after being taken into the mines, and not only did they not receive any pay, but they also had to endure inhuman work for seven or eight hours a day, and the food they ate was even more poor.

At the end of last year, His Majesty asked the Ministry of Industry to set up a Mining Supervision Bureau to supervise the production and safety of the mines, but to this day, the Ministry of Industry still delays the operation for various reasons, resulting in the Xishan miners launching a riot today. The minister thought that the chief secretary should be held accountable for his dereliction of duty and the responsibility for the negligence of the first assistant. ”

Wu Chunfu, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, had to come out to defend himself, saying that he was busy presiding over the construction of the mountain mausoleum and cooperating with the Haihe River control project requested by His Majesty, and handed over the establishment of the Mining Supervision Bureau to a certain Langzhong Yunyun below.

The officials who were attached to Huang Liji immediately defended Shoufu, and on the side of Huang Daozhou, there were also many officials who attacked Shangshu and Shoufu of the Ministry of Industry.

But fortunately, compared to the scale of hundreds of people at the court meeting, the reduced Wenhua Hall emergency meeting was only a few dozen people, and everyone maintained restraint even if they quarreled. After all, there is no cannon fodder at this meeting that can be used to charge into battle. Those who can stand on this hall and participate in the meeting are all officialdom elites with a bright future.

Zhu You's whistleblower interrupted the argument of the officials in the palace, and only after the hall was quiet for a while, did he say coldly: "I handed over the establishment of the Mining Supervision Bureau to the Ministry of Industry before, and I originally thought that the mining industry has many connections with the Ministry of Industry, so it is more appropriate for the Ministry of Industry to manage the Mining Supervision Bureau.

But now it seems that the affairs of the Ministry of Industry are too busy, and my considerations are still too rash. Since the Ministry of Industry does not have the spare strength to manage the work of the Mining Supervision Bureau, it is better to separate the Mining Supervision Bureau from the Ministry of Industry and become an independent department outside the six ministries. ”

Huang Liji, who was standing on the left, turned his head slightly, glanced at Zhang Ruitu beside him, and Zhang Ruitu suddenly recommended his protégé to Chongzhen to be responsible for the formation of this Mining Supervision Bureau.

Last winter, many people were blushing at the profits from the coal mines, and many officials realized that the officials who managed the mines were just as bad as the officials in charge of salt.

Generally speaking, this kind of lucrative official position, although it has no prospect of rising, is disdainful of the real officialdom elite. But who doesn't have a few mediocre protégés or relatives and friends?

By arranging the official position of the Mining Supervision Bureau to others, he not only took care of his relatives and friends, but also opened up a source of wealth for himself, which is also the true idea of most officials standing in this palace.

The Donglin Party apparently had the same idea and put forward the candidates they wanted. When the hall saw that it was about to fall into chaos again, Zhu Youzhen spoke again: "The establishment of the Mining Supervision Bureau is not in a hurry now, and it is better to deal with the riots of the miners in Xishan first.

I thought that the best person to be able to properly resolve the miners' rebellion was to form and manage the Mining Supervision Bureau. I asked the palace to send a few people, and then Zhu Qing also recommended two candidates to form a joint investigation team.

The Xishan miners' riot is not just about suppressing or appeasing it, but about finding out the cause of the riot and avoiding the recurrence of such a thing next time.

In addition, the production of Xishan Coal Mine is related to the supply of coal for domestic use in the capital, as well as the coal demand of cement plants, lime factories and glaze factories.

The best way to resolve the matter peacefully as soon as possible, and then allow the Xishan Coal Mine to resume normal production, is the best way to eliminate the impact of the riots on the lives of the people in Beijing as soon as possible.

Of course, we can't put all our hopes on the assumption that miners are sane. The necessary deterrence of the army, to calm down these fanatical miners, is also necessary. On the side of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, which troops can be dispatched to Mentougou to maintain order? ”

Yuan Chonghuan immediately said loudly: "The first training battalion is conducting field marching training in Shijingshan, and the minister is willing to personally rush to Shijingshan to command the first training battalion to quell the chaos." ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at him and subconsciously said: "No, you still have to rectify the Jingying army, let the Jingying army enter a state of combat readiness in the next few days, and if there is any change on the Xishan side, you will follow as a reserve force."

Let Wu Huai go to Shijingshan to take over the training battalion, obey the orders of the joint investigation team, and assist the investigation team in resolving the matter peacefully as much as possible. ”