Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 896 Finale ([-])

While cracking down on Yantu in the Ming Empire, Emperor Qianyuan Zhu Hechen had to face another thing that really distressed him.

That is, if the eldest son is abolished, should he abolish his position as the crown prince and establish someone else.

Undecided, he sent a telegram to the eldest princess, his sister Hao Xiying, asking for advice.

Thirty years ago, Hao Xiying told him that she hoped that, like other vassal kings, she could obtain overseas fiefdoms as a vassal.

So Zhu Hechen asked Hao Xiying to take part in the selection examination for the vassal school. Hao Xiying, who had been prepared for a long time, directly won the first place, and in the tenth year of Qianyuan, he became a vassal in southern India.

However, after the Mughals signed the "Bombay Treaty" with Ming Dynasty, their rule became more and more unstable, and finally fell apart.

Although the Mughal Empire, which once covered almost the entire Indian subcontinent, did not perish because of this, its territory shrank sharply and became a larger state in northern India.

As for other places, those Tubang princes who had surrendered to the Mughals became self-reliant one after another.

Under such circumstances, Hao Xiying brought her [-] relatives into southern India, and within a year or two, conquered a territory equivalent to the four provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, and Hunan, and established the Tiansheng Princess Territory.

However, 15 years ago, Hao Xiying handed over the princess collar to her daughter Hao Yiran to take care of it, and she went on a global tour.A few years ago, I came to Daming once, and lived in Daming for a year or two before returning to Princess Land.

A day later, Hao Xiying called Zhu Hechen back.

In the telegram, she told Zhu Hechen that times were changing rapidly, and he didn't have to be limited to the Ming Dynasty's rule of making the eldest son the crown prince.Now that Zhu Yiqin has been raised and disabled, he should choose another virtuous son to be the crown prince.

Or learn from the Qing Dynasty in another time and space, and establish a secret storage system.

After reading the telegram, Zhu Hechen thought about it, but he didn't decree directly to abolish Zhu Yiqin's crown prince, but put him under house arrest in the East Palace.

At the same time, he started to establish a secret reserve system...

In the 45th year of Qianyuan, Prince Zhu Yiqin died of illness in the East Palace.

After the one-month mourning period, all the cabinet ministers please play to establish the prince again.

Zhu Hechen only felt that none of the dozens of sons could completely satisfy him, so he couldn't make up his mind, so he moved out of the established secret reserve system.

At that time, Emperor Qianyuan had been in power for 45 years, and his prestige was extremely high. Therefore, although some court ministers felt that it was inappropriate to "secretly establish a reserve", they did not dare to speak rashly.

In this regard, the Ming Empire established a secret reserve system.

Afterwards, Emperor Qianyuan sent nine princes who were of suitable age (those who were not over 36 years old) and who were considered to be able-bodied to nine counties across the country as county magistrates to test the talents of the princes.

Over the next twenty years, successive princes lost their qualifications to become crown princes, and new princes became eligible.

In this way, dozens of princes successively fought for the throne of the Ming Empire with dozens of princes from Emperor Qianyuan.

Because Emperor Qianyuan always controlled only nine princes to participate in politics to compete for the position of crown prince, so later generations called this event "Nine Dragons Seize the Inheritance"!
In the 68th year of Qianyuan, Zhu Hechen, who was already 83 years old, was already worried and heartbroken about the matter of the princes seizing the heir.When dealing with various state affairs, I also feel exhausted.

Therefore, he first announced that Zhu Yijun, the emperor's 49th son who was in the trial of participating in politics, would be made the prince, and ordered the prince to come to the court to listen to politics.

One year later, that is, in the 69th year of Qianyuan, Zhu Hechen, the emperor of Qianyuan, announced his promotion to the Supreme Emperor, and passed on the throne of Ming Dynasty to the crown prince Zhu Yijun.

After the 30-year-old Zhu Yijun succeeded to the throne, he changed the Yuan to Yongping, and set the next year as the first year of Yongping.

Because in the past twenty years, the princes seized the throne, which made the Ming Empire's government and the public turbulent; Emperor Qianyuan was obviously tired of state affairs in recent years, and his daily enjoyment was more than dealing with government affairs, and he was slack in state affairs.

Therefore, at the beginning of Zhu Yijun's accession to the throne, the internal administration of the Ming Empire was already turbid and corrupt.

Most of the overseas kings secretly claim to be kings, and they want to completely break away from Ming's control and become an independent country.The governors of the overseas capitals and the governors of the governor's mansion also have the right to use it for their own use, and those who have evil intentions.

When Zhu Yijun was a county magistrate at the bottom, he saw the huge disparity between the rich and the poor. Farmers and workers were often oppressed by businessmen and officials, but there was no way to complain, and resentment could only slowly accumulate.

It can be said that at this time, the Great Never Set Empire, although it looks like it is still a prosperous age of flowers and brocades, is actually on the verge of disintegration.

Therefore, after Emperor Yongping succeeded to the throne, he worked hard and made great efforts to govern.

He imitated the method of Emperor Qianyuan in the past, and first rectified the Dongchang, Jinyiwei and other intelligence search and government and opposition monitoring agencies.

Then use Dongchang and Jinyiwei to purge officials.

During this period, in order to supervise the Dongchang and Jinyiwei, which were no longer easy to use, Emperor Yongping secretly recruited strange people from the people, and he also trusted the guards to lead them to rebuild the Daming West Factory!

It took five years for Emperor Yongping to make the administration of the Ming Empire generally clear.During this period, more than ten thousand corrupt officials and illegal merchants were punished!

Afterwards, he spent another eight years sorting out the overseas capitals and governors of the Ming Dynasty, and strengthening communication and exchanges with some overseas kings, which stabilized the overseas situation of the Ming Empire.

If Emperor Yongping continues to govern like this, the Ming Empire may return to the heyday of Emperor Qianyuan in a few years.

It is a pity that in the 13th year of Yongping, a shocking event happened inside and outside the Ming Dynasty.

In the 13th year of Yongping (1749 AD), on May [-]th, Emperor Yongping was assassinated by gunmen on his way to the outskirts of the capital to inspect the military factory, and died suddenly!

Not only that, after the sudden death of Emperor Yongping, the accompanying cabinet ministers failed to do a good job of keeping secrets, which caused the news to leak out, causing chaos inside and outside Nanjing.

Afterwards, the news spread to other places by telegram, and the local area also became turbulent. It seemed that the Ming Empire would face drastic changes at any time.

At the critical moment, the 97-year-old Emperor Qianyuan came back and successively took control of the four guards of Suzaku, Huben, Xiaoqi, and Shenji, and also took control of the five divisions of the Imperial Guards in charge of guarding the capital.

Afterwards, with iron and blood methods, the changes inside and outside the city were suppressed.

Afterwards, dereliction of duty cabinet ministers were dismissed, and cadres were selected to join the cabinet. On the one hand, he ordered people to investigate the assassination of Emperor Yongping, and on the other hand, he took out the imperial edict made by Emperor Yongping.

It turned out that the imperial decree stored in the special metal combination box was blank, and no prince's name was written on it.

As a last resort, Emperor Qianyuan had no choice but to choose Zhu Borun, the fourth son of the emperor who he thought was okay from the nine sons of Emperor Yongping who had experienced training, and wrote his name on this edict.

In order to prevent accidents, he first sent his bodyguards to secretly bring Zhu Borun, who was working in Henan, to the Forbidden City in Nanjing, and then he summoned a group of ministers and announced the imperial edict.

After that, Zhu Borun, who was 23 years old, ascended the throne, changed Yuan Yongli, and set the next year as the first year of Yongli.

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Rescuing the Ming Empire from the crisis made Zhu Hechen feel extremely tired.

That night, he came to the Jinshen Hall again, looking at the place where Aimee Zhu and Aimee Zhu disappeared with his old eyes, he couldn't help shedding two lines of dirty tears.

"Mother, father, aunt, I don't know if I can see you again if I die. The best... is in your world."

　Good night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)