Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 144 The crisis is still there
Su Maozhen, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, stood up at this time, and the audience fell silent. His Majesty just now intended to raise the status of these high-ranking civil servants, which made Su Maozhen very happy. You must know that although he is the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, the Ministry of Punishment is relatively important among the six departments. He was relatively small, so he did not enjoy the dignity that senior civil servants should have in front of middle and lower officials.

Now, as soon as Zhu Youxiao said this, his voice couldn't help but be louder: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Criminal Justice currently has a total of 450 felons tried and sentenced, of which more than [-] were executed, Ling Chi was executed, and [-] were executed. The rest of the people are imperial officials, and the severe punishments and punishments are a bit heavier than those in the sixth year of Tianqi, but now it is an eventful time, only heavy punishments can rule the world, Your Majesty should continue to rule the world with strictness!"

"What Su Shangshu said is true, I should encourage him."

Due to the sacking of most of the officials of the Donglin Party, the court officials accounted for the vast majority of the more than [-] felons who were severely punished and executed. People who understand my heart, even though they mentioned that their punishment was severe, they also defended themselves. This is an old-fashioned statement.

At this time, the court hall was a rare scene where the monarch and his ministers were in harmony. In a trance, they returned to the court hall of the Hongzhi Dynasty. The ministers were loyal to the country. As the emperor, Zhu Youxiao also gave them the face they deserved.

Huo Weihua, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, was on tour, so Xu Guangqi, the left servant of the Ministry of Industry, acted as the acting minister.

As a technical official, Xu Guangqi would not say anything oblique, so he reported to Zhu Youxiao how many firearms and artillery the Ordnance Department had produced, how much the production had increased now, how much money the Ministry of Industry had spent on repairing river embankments and bridges, and this year's Backed off after the budget.

The Ministry of Industry is in charge of national projects, so it is very easy to make money, so Zhu Youxiao reminded the officials of the Ministry of Industry that they should clean themselves up and didn't say anything more.

Next, Cao Sicheng, the censor of Zuodu, reported how many people were impeached by the censors of various provinces and roads this year, and how many were dismissed because of this.

Zhu Youxiao didn't make things difficult for these two people, and even praised these two sentences, especially Cao Sicheng. Zhu Youxiao didn't expect that the Zuodu censor would be so ruthless, and when he saw that he was unhappy, he would immediately criticize him. Huang Daozhou took the attack. Zhu Youxiao, who originally wanted to change the head of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, now wanted Cao Sicheng to stay in the Metropolitan Procuratorate for a few more years.

Zhu Youxiao was very satisfied with the successful conclusion of a court event. The court without the Donglin Party was indeed much smoother.

After the court meeting, Zhu Youxiao had to select important ministers to be in charge of peace negotiations with the Qing Dynasty. Because the Song Dynasty was weak, there were a lot of peace talks, and now in the Ming Dynasty, there are people who would rather the emperor be captured alive than defend the capital. The fight between the emperor and the Tartars.

Peace negotiations seemed to be an unspeakable matter for the staunch Ming Dynasty.

But Zhu Youxiao didn’t want to be so paranoid. Peace negotiation is just a kind of power tactic. Using it doesn’t mean cowardice, and not using it doesn’t mean stubbornness. Although Song Dynasty lost gold and silk to Liao and Jin, it was still the richest country in the world Even in foreign wars, we can achieve frequent victories and few defeats, and their defeats are not caused by peace talks.

Nowadays, there are many internal conflicts in the Ming Dynasty, and it is about to die, the finances are beyond its means, and the army is rotten. Although there has not been a situation in the Chongzhen period where bandits roamed everywhere, and the Tartars entered the pass as if they were traveling, but we have to admit that the crisis is still there. Zhu Youxiao What has to be done is to negotiate peace with the Tartars to obtain a longer period of peace, so that the hard-won Ming Dynasty can slow down this momentum.

Zhu Youxiao told Li Mingrui his thoughts, and asked Li Mingrui to convey such views in newspapers, and at the same time asked Lu Xiangsheng and Qian Qianyi to write articles for his Austrian aid, comprehensively explaining why he wanted to make peace with the Tartars, What are the benefits of peace talks?

No one expected that once this point of view was published in the newspapers, it would cause a thousand waves with one stone. The ministers of the court and the scholars and bureaucrats could cut off their hair and become the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty without any pressure when they moved to the Central Plains. , but the Ming court could not make peace with the barbarians outside the Great Wall for the sake of rights and interests.

Guozijian Jijiu Liu Zongzhou took the lead in handing over the booklet to Zhu Youxiao. After learning that Zhu Youxiao had had a secret meeting with Huang Taiji in Cuiping Mountain, he could not reprimand Zhu Youxiao explicitly, but euphemistically mentioned that there were still hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the imperial court. Ma, why bother to negotiate peace with the Tartars, since His Majesty can lead the imperial guards to repel the Tartars, he can send a large army to suppress the Dongnu.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help laughing after reading Liu Zongzhou's booklet. He wanted to send hundreds of thousands of troops out of the pass to pacify Dongnu, but he was afraid that the reinforcements from all over the country would retreat before they left Gyeonggi, or even if they went, the whole The people in the north of Ming Dynasty may be tortured by soldiers and bandits again. At that time, the backyard may be on fire before the Tartars encircle and suppress them.

The whereabouts of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are still unknown, the huge gentry group and the parasitic clans are still dragging the Ming Dynasty into the abyss, the small peasant economy is still going bankrupt, the number of refugees is still increasing, and the Ming army is still rotten. ...

All these domestic problems made it impossible for Zhu Youxiao to immediately attack Houjin or take military measures against other external forces.

Zhu Youxiao didn't intend to express his position immediately. He was also thinking about how to negotiate peace with Houjin, or how much hope he should have for this peace talk. Now the situation in Liaodong has been made more complicated by himself. Except for Houjin and Mao Wenlong, Wu Xiang and Yuan Chonghuan were also added, as well as the Zuda Music Club near Shanhaiguan.

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The Imperial Guard has entered a rest period since returning to Beijing. Before recruiting new soldiers, the Imperial Guard will not have other military tasks during this period.

Although the Tartars were successfully repelled near Gyeonggi this time, the Imperial Guards themselves also suffered certain losses, and the casualties were naturally given generous pensions, and Zhu Youxiao also ordered the Ministry of War to register the families of these casualties. In the future, the children and grandchildren of these casualties will be given priority in admissions, their families will be exempted from corvee service and taxes for three years, and disabled officers and soldiers will also directly receive monthly subsidies and food from the Ministry of War.

The officers and soldiers of the Imperial Guards did not expect His Majesty to give such generous benefits, and all of them couldn't help secretly thanking themselves for persevering, otherwise they would still be able to live by eating the overlord's meal in the capital at this moment, and would have to go to the General Go to work part-time at home.

However, the Imperial Guard said that it was a rest, but not everyone could go home for a vacation. The vacation had to be approved by the higher authorities, and most of them had to stay in the barracks to study and summarize.The officers of each battalion have to write reports, carry out further studies and strengthen them, and the soldiers have to continue to carry out cultural popularization.

No one understands why His Majesty did this, so that everyone has to take the exam to be a scholar, and the most uncomfortable thing during the rest period is the criticism meeting. Some officers and soldiers or groups who made mistakes during the march and battle will be invited. Go to the stage to accept everyone's criticism and self-criticism.

This is what many officers and soldiers are most afraid of. Admitting the wicked things they have done in front of all their comrades is worse than killing themselves.

The most interesting thing is naturally the interrogation of Tartar Amin.

Amin was a felon captured during military operations, so Zhu Youxiao did not hand him over to the Sanju Division, nor did he let him go to Dongchang or Jinyiwei, but confronted him in front of all the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Guard The interrogation was conducted, presided over by Tang Fusheng, the law enforcement officer, and the surviving civilian representatives of Fengrun and Yutian made a complaint. This further aroused the hatred of the officers and soldiers towards the Tartars, and made them understand what their responsibilities as soldiers are .

The army needs to summarize the experience and lessons of actual combat, and the engineers of military production also have to summarize the actual combat effects of various weapons in actual combat.

The commanders of the Artillery Battalion, Fu Dahai and Tang Ruowang, almost lived in the Artillery Bureau of the Ordnance Department, and they talked day and night with Sun Yuanhua and others about how to make the artillery better for attacking.

Chang Yanling has now become a frequent visitor to the Firearms Bureau, and there are often quarrels from the Gunpowder Bureau.

Zhu Youxiao would also come to the Ordnance Department and the Royal Academy of Engineering to participate in discussions on ordnance improvement when he found time, and sometimes Zhu Youxiao even became the protagonist of the entire discussion.

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