Chapter 4: The Governor Goes to Beijing
In the first month of the 276th year of the Ming Dynasty, there was silence in the Qianqing Palace located in the Bauhinia City of Beijing. Cold sweat oozed from the foreheads of several scholars, although they had expected that Li Zicheng was indeed powerful, but they never expected that the situation had eroded to this point.
Speaking of which, they are not bad in their hearts. It's just that the bad things are pressing, and the good things go first. After all, the political consciousness of several of them is extremely high.
But I never expected that this kindness would cover up such a disaster.
"The Holy One is grieved, and the sin of a minister is a minister, a minister...... Please. Huang Jingfang trembled.
Wu Fu also came out to ask for guilt, but he was more relaxed in his heart. When he understood that Zhu Cihong had such a meticulous grasp of military intelligence, inexplicably, Wu Fu had full trust in the new emperor: "As a Zaifu, Weichen did not expect the situation to be appeased and eroded, but please send it to the saint." I only hope that the Holy Lord Xu Weichen will make meritorious service for his crimes......"
Fan Jingwen and Fang Yuegong all followed suit.
Seeing this, Zhu Cihong waved his hand: "I am talking about this, not how to condemn you. This Ming Dynasty is sinking here, it is a century-old disease, and I know in my heart what the merits are. But what I deplore is that you are so ignorant that you have no insight into state affairs. Looking at what you Aiqing said, I'm afraid I don't know what kind of scene this Gyeonggi is also panicking, right? β
"This ......" This time, even Wu Fu and Fan Jingwen, who have always been known for knowing military affairs, did not speak. Recently, they have been busy with the change of old and new emperors, where can they have spare time to take care of their leisure affairs?
Zhu Cihong didn't embarrass the few of them, and continued: "My father has an incident that can be regarded as a model for Xiao Gui Cao. That's it. Cabinet Governor. There is a saying that only seeking truth from facts has the right to speak. I don't know exactly what the situation is. I don't know how many things I have inside. I don't know the suffering of the people, and I don't know the subtleties of the critical military situation. How can I solve my stubborn disease? This time, I've decided. The four scholars all went out of Beijing and supervised everywhere, thinking that the imperial court was helping and strictly controlling the Quartet! β
This time, Huang Jingfang, who is extremely politically sensitive, immediately understood Zhu Cihong's move. He looked at Zhu Cihong, his rare tone was a little firmer, and said, "The Holy One is far-sighted. Your Majesty obeyed. Only if you are not clear, please make it clear to Your Highness. If the ministers and others go out of Beijing to supervise the division, what is the power, and where will the money and grain be allocated? β
Now in the Ming Dynasty, except for Zhu Cihong, where soldiers and horses are stationed, and where there are workshops and new districts, most of the imperial courts have seen a scene of weaker and weaker control. Jiangnan is better after Zhu Cihong's pinch and the Nanjing Sixth Cabinet Military Aircraft Department is in charge, and most of the northern areas seem to be no longer the Ming Dynasty.
How. Leave it aside for the time being, but Zhu Cihong asked the cabinet ministers to go out of Beijing to supervise the division, which is obviously going to this festival.
Of course, although the ministers are famous. It's Jaesuke. But in the administrative system of the Ming Dynasty, it is not possible to control the place by name. The most important thing is that the money and power have to be released.
"Small is cheap. Respond in three days. Zhu Cihong set up a rule: "As long as you enter Beijing through the red cover of the Daming Post Office, you will be within three days." I'll reply back. As for money and food, I naturally prepared it. β
Nanjing Longjiang Shipyard and Bao Shipyard started construction after more than half a year. Orders for clippers are scheduled for next year. Moreover, it's only the first month. It is conceivable that the popularity of clippers is just that, all the owners who buy boats have to add. If necessary, we must accept the task of transportation of Hengxin Grain at the market price.
At present, there are at least 30 ships on the Nanjing-Tianjin voyage every month, and the large and small ships of the Tianjin Wei Wanglai division will transfer Nanjing's grain and rice into Beijing one after another, and Zhu Cihong's promise of 500,000 taels has long been successfully fulfilled.
Seeing that Zhu Cihong was happy to give money to Quan, Huang Jingfang's face was ruddy, and he said: "Weichen has done his best to die!" β
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Baoding, the Governor's Mansion.
Baoding is a famous city, which was once Beijing during the Northern Song Dynasty and has a key position. When I arrived in Daming, it was still the important place of Gyeonggi, and it was here that Yang Wenyue, the governor of Baoding, set off and met Zhu Cihong in Henan, and then became Zhu Cihong's confidant.
has also become the most envious person in Li Jiantai's heart.
The emperor changed, too quickly, and fortunately smooth.
This kind of stability makes people less worried, and the instinct of human nature also makes Li Jiantai a little more reverie. If...... How good it would be for Emperor Chongzhen to hold on a little more.
Li Jiantai couldn't help but recall the scene two months ago.
After learning that Sun Chuanting had defeated Xi'an and that Qin was gone, Emperor Chongzhen began to act faster than in history. Facing Sun Chuanting, who did not know life and death, Zhu Youzhen urgently needed a new commander to take on the heavy responsibility of the northwest war situation.
searched all over the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, Wu Fu and Si En got close, and Zhu Cihong's shadow was the first to be ruled out. Huang Jingfang's background in the Ministry of Rites is embarrassing, Fan Jing's Ministry of Culture and Industry is still a scholar, and he doesn't know about military affairs, Fang Yuegong is good, but Emperor Chongzhen hopes that this minister can boost the morale of the team in the last days with an exceptional honor.
That's right, Emperor Chongzhen has no money, but he hopes that the Metropolitan Procuratorate can maintain people's hearts.
In the end, Li Jiantai was favored by Emperor Chongzhen.
When summoned at the regular meeting, Emperor Chongzhen sighed in the palace and said: "I am not the king of the dead country, everything is the image of the dead country." The ancestors were in the wind and rain in the world, once lost, what face was seen underground. I wish to supervise the teacher, fight in person, die on the battlefield without hatred, but die without turning a blind eye. β
After speaking, Zhu Youzhen cried bitterly, half fake, half really provoked by this chaotic situation, and really had the ruthlessness to fight to the death.
Zhu Youzhen wanted to take the royal conscription in person, and the cabinet scholars naturally could not agree. They all know from the bottom of their hearts that Zhu Youzhen is not Zhu Cihong, he has outstanding martial arts, and he has a strong army under his command.
So, starting with Huang Jingfang, the first assistant of the cabinet, he signed up one by one. Huang Jingfang and Wu Fu were rejected one after another.
In this way, it was finally Li Jiantai's turn.
There is a joke in later generations, and the occasion is quite appropriate here.
There is a rich man who wants to find a blind date, and relatives and friends have come up with suggestions and help introduce him. In the end, three candidates came, a master's student, a middle school teacher, and a white-collar beauty. The three of them look like each other. When it's the turn of the rich to think about it......
He chose the one with the biggest breasts.
This time, the reason why Emperor Chongzhen liked Li Jiantai. For the sake of this Shanxi-born pavilion elder is a famous rich man. At that time, in order to cope with the establishment of slaves and the entry of Koujingshi, the imperial court had some money. also squeezed out one after another to defend the Beijing Division, where is the silver to enter the people's army?
As a last resort, Zhu Youzhen hit the courtier's private property.
When Li Jiantai learned this, he was also worried that his hometown would be destroyed, and he was also counting on military merits to be crowned marquis, so he was not ambiguous and agreed: "The minister's family Quwo is willing to pay the army with private wealth and not bother the officials." Please draw to the west of the division. β
Hearing this, Zhu Youzhen was overjoyed. He formally decided that Li Jiantai would "recruit on behalf of me" in the capacity of a superintendent and an assistant minister, and chose to hold a grand dispatch ceremony on the 26th. On this day, Zhu Youzhen first sent Wan Wei, the commander of the attached horse, to sue the Taimiao, held a ceremony at the time, and then held a large banquet on the tower of Zhengyangmen City to make a feast for Li Jiantai. Zhu Youzhen poured wine with a golden cup and gave three cups in a row, that is, after giving three golden cups, he immediately took out the "Qin Ci Governor's Auxiliary Hand" written by himself and solemnly handed it to Li Jiantai. The original text of the edict is as follows:
"I have inherited the destiny of heaven. Following the ancestor Hongtu, since Wuchen has been ten and seven years old, he has failed to cultivate virtue and respect the virtuous, and he has turned into Haiyu. As a result, the war has been plagued for many years, and the people have been plagued by fire and water, all of which are my crimes. To the Rogues. I am a child, stealing soldiers. Poison direct province. The imperial court had no choice but to use troops to exterminate it, which was originally for the sake of reassuring the people. Today, I am a pro-conscription. Drum the alliance of loyalty and bravery, praise the righteousness, reward the incorruptible, and select the heroes. Its arrogant and cowardly generals, greedy and cruel officials who advocate escape, people who bewitch the public, and those who lack military rations, are really guilty, that is, they are engaged in Shangfang. All the rewards and punishments of scheduling between the lines are not in the system. Qing Yi is afraid of things, easy to plan, suppress is really suppressed, annihilation of the canal is threatened, no one has to be killed; Fu is really caressed, surrendered and dispersed, and all the people will live in peace from now on. With Qing Zhong and Zhuang Zhuang, the quality of the long, do this Yu Ru, Tezi Jianren, the temple to confer the festival, Zhengyang pro-food. May Qing flea swing demon atmosphere, spin master play Kai, Hou Feng into the knight, Ding Yi Minggong. Meritorious civil and military officials inside and outside the country are given preferential treatment. I still welcome the celebration and share the peace. The general will act on behalf of my relatives to conquer the people and calm the chaos to the intention of the envoy, and the salty envoy will know about it. Encyclical. β
Li Jiantai personally conquered on behalf of the emperor, and the power given to Li Jiantai in the edict was unprecedented. When Yang Sichang and others were ordered to act as supervisors, Shang Fangjian was also awarded, but the scope of the exclusivity was limited to civilian officials who supervised the army, military preparation and salary, Fuzhou and county officials, and military attachΓ©s who were subordinate and below, and senior civil and military officials such as governors, governors, and general soldiers could only participate in the performance, and they were subject to the emperor's ruling.
However, this time there was no such restriction in the edict to Li Jiantai, and no matter who was really guilty, he would be engaged in it. In order to allow Li Jiantai to be at his mercy, it is also specially stipulated that all rewards and punishments for scheduling between the banks are not controlled. In the past, when His Majesty Yang Sichang resigned from Beijing, Zhu Youzhen could not tell him to have wine and dinner with him, and he returned to the palace. This time, he came to the Zhengyangmen City Tower to pour wine and give a banquet, and the courtesy was unprecedented. Li Jiantai received such a generous courtesy, and he also wept for it and vowed to repay him with death.
Xi San, Emperor Chongzhen watched Li Jiantai leave Beijing on the Zhengyang Gate. Recalling that Emperor Chongzhen saw him off at that time, Li Jiantai only felt that time passed in a flash, and time passed so fast.
"This Baoding can't stay for a long time." Li Jiantai thought and walked out of the study.
Coincidentally, Li Jiantai met Wu Yingke, the prefect of Baoding, with a smile on his face. Wu Yingke is Chongzhen's third-year second-class jinshi, and he is a fourth-class scholar, and his seniority and rank are far worse than Li Jiantai. But now, Wu Yingke looked at Li Jiantai but didn't care. There is enough work on the face, but Li Jiantai is such an old and spicy character, and he suddenly saw Wu Yingke's serious dislike and faint expectation.
"Cabinet Department! The lower officials came today and took the liberty to disturb. There are really court angels here, and they are here to guide the way. Wu Yingke saluted, turned sideways and looked away, revealing a thin man.
This man was dressed in a new-style official robe, which is said to be a winter coat specially issued for Beijing officials in the newly opened workshop of the Beijing Division. This winter dress is full of materials, warm and cold, and the most important thing is that it is very heroic, cut and close-fitting, and looks extremely stylish.
Li Jiantai just sighed when he saw this dress, he was really outdated as a cabinet scholar. However, when his eyes rose and he carefully saw who that face was, Li Jiantai was suddenly startled and said, "Shoufu ......?" β
It's not the first assistant of the cabinet to come, Huang Jingfang?
"Ahem, Fuyu. It's me, the official, and I'm also under the emperor's order, and the superintendent is here. Huang Jingfang stared at Li Jiantai with a smile, but his eyes were a little ill-intentioned.
"Shousuke-sama...... Also supervising Baoding? Li Jiantai popped up one question mark after another in his head, but he understood the meaning of the period in an instant.
This is another way for the new emperor to tactfully supervise, and the supervision is particularly ruthless.
Just like the headquarters of later wars moved forward, every time the general headquarters moved forward, the soldiers who could be in front of it could be anxious, which was a very oppressive urge.
In other words, it's like the homeroom teacher is standing behind you little by little, and your homework is not finished.
But Li Jiantai is not a soft eater, and said in an instant: "That's really good!" Our army is here, but we are really looking forward to reinforcements. For example, the money and food promised by the household department have been waiting for a month and have not been seen. For this reason, I had to live in Baoding temporarily. β
Li Jiantai smiled, and said in his heart where to get grain and rice in the appearance of the imperial court. Now, you can't drive me away, can you?
"Oh...... Haha......" Huang Jingfang laughed.
"Haha......" Li Jiantai laughed.
But as soon as Huang Jingfang opened his mouth next, Li Jiantai couldn't laugh out loud: "My Emperor Shengming, this official came here today just to pass on the decree." The Holy Lord had already ordered the officials to transport 10,000 stone of grain and rice, 23,000 taels of silver, 100 sheep, and 30 altars of wine, and under the leadership of Qi Shan, the military division of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, he had already rushed to the barracks. Please also reinstate...... Hurry up and march early! β
Li Jiantai looked stunned, and countless question marks popped up in his mind: "Isn't the imperial court so poor that it can't pay money?" Why is it so wide all of a sudden? β
The name of the Military Aircraft Department was finally changed by Zhu Cihong, and it was not modified after careful study, but it was merged into the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.
Of course, the person who serves inside is still called a military advisor.
The new military advisor Qi Shan was promoted, and he left the Beijing division with a team of 1,000 people. A total of more than 300 soldiers, plus more than 700 baggage battalions and hired people along the way, a total of hundreds of carts rhymed with the military resources of this trip into Baoding.
They soon came out again.
followed by a group of dejected officers and soldiers.
At the forefront was Li Jiantai, who faced the cold wind and missed the warmth of Baoding City. Fortunately, after eating a full stomach, the officers and troops marched quite quickly, and after a few days of new entry, Dingxian was ahead.
Approaching the city gate, Li Jiantai happily leaned over: "The army is here, don't hurry up and shutter!" β
At the head of the city, a burly man opened his throat and said, "That soldier, look at you so mighty and majestic. Dare to ask whether it is the Shun army or the official army? β
Li Jiantai was furious, and before he could speak, another person preemptively said: "I am for the Shun army!" β
Qi Shan walked next to Li Jiantai and said in pieces: "Pavilion! Maybe this city will be captured by the Shun army, and we can make a great contribution! β
Li Jiantai turned his anger into joy. (To be continued.) )
PS: I didn't think about the plot of the new volume, and after reading the concise Qing history and Qing history handouts for an afternoon, my head was big
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