Chapter 18: Mutiny I
"Holy Lord, there is an urgent matter in the palace......" Wei Yunshan said softly. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Zhu Cihong looked at Wei Yunshan's expression and chuckled in his heart. Looking at the joyful atmosphere of the Shuntian Mansion, Zhu Cihong's face remained unchanged, and he still applauded and smiled: "I have seen what you Aiqing has done, and this Tianfu reform is an unusual round of war. Our enemy is the old and inefficient and backward past. And now, we have embraced victory. The time has come to enjoy victory, and all those who have done so will be rewarded. Cheers, everyone! ”
"Xie Wu Huang Longen!" Luo Daren led Liang Yixin and others to salute together.
"Xie Wu Huang Longen!"
"Xie Wu Huang Longen!"
Interestingly, this time there was no more prostration, and everyone just bowed down, which was very simple.
The simple etiquette made Zhu Cihong relax a lot, he went out of the Shuntian Mansion and got into the four **** carriages prepared by Jinyiwei for Zhu Cihong.
On the carriage, Wei Yunshan whispered to Zhu Cihong, making Zhu Cihong's expression more and more serious.
"Go back to the palace quickly, and let the cabinet summarize the situation for me. Wait a minute...... Don't meet directly with the cabinet ministers first, let Li Banghua send someone to briefly explain the situation. Zhu Cihong exhaled deeply.
After hundreds of people crowded around to block their vision, Zhu Cihong randomly got into a four-wheeled carriage.
Afterwards, more than a dozen carriages accompanied by knights escorting the left and right returned to the palace.
In the Forbidden City, Li Banghua's expression was very serious, and almost all the scholars and ministers in the cabinet came. Even Si En ran in front of Zhu Cihong first.
Not long after, Zhu Cihong met Yu Xingjian, who had secretly come to report, in a small room.
Zhu Cihong hadn't seen Yu Xingjian for a while, and this clerk who had served Zhu Cihong had gone through ups and downs over the years, and he had grown into the backbone of the imperial civil service system.
Zhu did not directly meet with the cabinet ministers. Speaking of which, this is also Zhu Cihong's helplessness.
The political system of the Ming Empire was quite flawed. The most critical part of this defect is that without a prime minister, the emperor must face all officials.
It's as if ****** without a prime minister, without a secretary of state, the emperor can decide everything.
This kind of system design is only secondary to the huge and complicated workload for the emperor, and facing the hundred officials also brings a consequence, that is, the lack of buffer of the head of government, once there is a contradiction, Zhu Cihong will have to face the criticism of the hundred officials.
Through turmoil after turmoil, including victory after victory and internal purge, Zhu Cihong has gradually stabilized and can control this civil official system.
However, the impact of this time the Tianfu reform is too huge. So much so that now a new moth has been created......
Fortunately, as a member of the cabinet and a minister in charge of the cabinet, Zhu Cihong already has a bridge with the civil service system as a buffer.
But this time...... Zhu Cihong was suddenly a little worried about whether this bridge could withstand the turmoil this time.
Or......
Even these ministers have lost their credibility because of the damage to the vested interests of the gentry in this reform of the field endowment.
With a huge question mark in his mind, Zhu Cihong closed his eyes and listened to the causes of all the storms this time.
"Tianjin Sanwei...... Mutiny. Yu Xingjian said slowly.
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Tianjin.
The city was heavily guarded, and the pacesetters of Hou Baosen, the governor of Tianjin, were constantly patrolling the city, trying to bring some security to the people in the city.
But...... The rebels who were constantly roaming outside the city made the once bustling streets wither in an instant. The doors and windows of every house were closed, and everyone was terrified.
And all this stemmed from the mutiny in Sanwei, Tianjin.
Mutinies were not uncommon for the Ming Dynasty.
Especially for the last ten years, it has happened so frequently that the people think it is common.
But...... Tianjin Wei's mutiny made everyone panic.
You must know that this Tianjin was originally formed because of this guard. There are only more than 16,000 people in Tianjin Sanwei on paper, but counting the military household Yu Ding, counting the wife and the young, after a hundred years of reproduction, there are already hundreds of thousands.
And now, most of them have mutinied.
Hundreds of thousands of people suddenly rushed out of Weisuo City like a demon, ransacked all the villages and towns along the way, and finally surrounded Tianjin City.
They have only one purpose......
"Let the Governor of Tianjin see us! Let's not change the field! ”
On the first day of December in the 276th year of the Ming Dynasty, it was early in the morning, and the sound of commotion outside Tianjin sounded again, and then it became louder and louder. With the intermittent screams, the slogans outside became more and more neat, and they demanded that Hou Baosen, the governor of Tianjin, come out and promise not to revise the Tianfu regulations......
No changes are allowed!
The Flower Hall of the Tianjin City Governor's Mansion is crowded with people, all of whom are the number one people in Tianjin.
They looked anxious and kept talking about what had happened recently.
"Why did all of a sudden these guards mutinied?" The first to open his mouth was Yang Weidou, director of the Tianjin Household Division. After two years of ups and downs and training, the former Fushe scholar was finally assigned to the Tianjin Household Department to be responsible for the collection of tariffs in Tianjin. With Zhu Cihong's comparison in Linqing, the work of the household division has been quite outstanding in recent years.
It's just that Yang Weidou, who was immersed in dealing with taxes, suddenly found that there were hundreds of thousands of rebels surrounding Tianjin City, so he came in directly to find Hou Baosen.
At this moment, in the house, there are also high-ranking officials in the Tianjin officialdom.
Sitting on top of Yang Weidou's position is Qiu Birong, a Taoist platform in Tianjin.
Tianjin Bingbei Road is referred to as Tianjin Road, which was originally subordinate to the Shandong Inspectorate Division, and a deputy envoy was set up in Tianjin, called the Shandong Inspectorate Deputy Envoy, or the deputy envoy of the Tianjin Inspectorate.
Speaking of which, this is the main management of the three guards in Tianjin, although the grade is lower than the second grade of the Wei commander, only the fourth grade, but its functional authority is higher than that of the Wei commander. Under the system of emphasizing literature and suppressing military force, the soldiers were prepared to train military horses and repair the city. Of course, this is also a position to manage the army and dismount the government. Qiu Birong is also responsible for the prohibition of reform and malpractice in Tianjin, the matter of reasoning and litigation, and can also be responsible for canal matters.
Although it is only a military service, it is actually in charge of both judicial and financial matters.
Of course, after a hundred years, Tianjin Bingbei Road has been directly called Tianjin Dao, and it is no longer like a Shandong territory.
Because, in the twenty-fifth year of Wanli, the court set up a governor in Tianjin. At that time, it was called the Governor of Tianjin Coastal Defense, also known as the Governor of Tianjin Denglai Coastal Defense. At that time, the Tianjin governor was originally only set up for the "Japanese Invaders" and "Anti-Ki Fu", and his scope of responsibilities was limited, and it was an extraordinary position. (To be continued.) )