Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 263 Misty and rainy Jiangnan night, worrying about the emperor's heart

Not only that, the scholars in the army are all passionate idealists, and the inherent concept of class has little influence on them.

It is naturally much easier for Zhu Youjian to influence the younger faction of the gentry like Gu Yanwu and Wang Fuzhi than the old bureaucrats in Nanjing.

Zhu Youjian thought more and more deeply, he didn't even know when his eyes were covered by a pair of jade hands, he only heard a burst of silver bell-like laughter echoing in his ears.

"Your Majesty is here alone in a daze. You didn't even hear my slave's greetings to you." It was Concubine Yuan Gui who spoke. Being alone, she still has a girlish heart, so she took the initiative to cover Zhu Youjian's eyes.

Naturally, Zhu Youjian would not be angry, but took the snow-skinned and moon-appearing Concubine Yuan Gui into his arms, and his thoughts could not help but return to his first night in Daming.

It can be said that Concubine Yuan Gui was the No.1 woman he saw after crossing, and the first woman he had close contact with. Because of Concubine Yuan Gui's simple heart and simple thinking, she didn't regard herself as a person who had fallen into evil, and made her I was able to have enough time to get familiar with the environment I was in when I came to Daming for the first time.

"In the future, don't be so rude in front of the empress, so as not to be admonished again, remember?" Zhu Youjian scratched her beautiful nose, pushed Concubine Yuan Gui away, and walked towards Yikun Palace.

Concubine Yuan Gui held Zhu Youjian's arm and followed Zhu Youjian on the way to Yikun Palace.

This is Concubine Yuan Gui's bedroom. Zhu Youjian originally just wanted to wander around the harem casually, thinking about the future, but he never expected to come to Yikun Palace.

And now that I met Concubine Yuan Gui by chance, I remembered the past, and Concubine Yuan Gui's body was fragrant, and Zhu Youjian remembered the matter of the prince, so I remembered the matter of raising children.

Concubine Yuan Gui's body is soft and elastic, it is the most comfortable to do happy things with her in this afternoon.

While waiting for Zhu Youjian to put on his skirt and walk to the window to watch Xia Yu gurgling like running water soaking the plantains, he saw the eunuch Han Shoujing, the supervisor of ceremonies on duty, coming.

Zhu Youjian gestured to Chen Yuanyuan outside the hall: "Let him wait for me in the pavilion below."

"Sleep for a while without getting up, I will come by myself", Zhu Youjian pressed Concubine Yuan Gui's jade shoulders, came to Chen Yuanyuan, stretched out his arms, and Chen Yuanyuan hurriedly changed Zhu Youjian's clothes: "Your Majesty, don't you want to come by yourself?" ?"

Zhu Youjian smiled slightly and didn't say anything. After a quarter of an hour, he took an umbrella and followed the small steps in the backyard of Yikun Palace to the pavilion: "But it's about Huguang?"

"Everything can't escape His Majesty's eyes. It is indeed Huguang's side. Huguang Governor Du Yinxi and Huguang Governor Li Yan's secret report has arrived." Han Shoujing said and handed over two boxes wrapped in yellow silk.

Zhu Youjian took the key from Chen Yuanyuan and opened the lock, then took out the book of secret rehearsals, and sat in the pavilion to take advantage of the coolness brought by the late rain to read.

Zhu Youjian did not expect Du Yinxi and Li Yan to praise each other in the secret concert, and blamed themselves for their shortcomings. This made Zhu Youjian laugh happily, and suddenly felt that the summer rainy night in Nanjing Miyagi was also very special. Beautiful, with the charm of misty and rainy Jiangnan, giving people a sense of tranquility and tranquility.With such a minister who is dedicated to the public, his own country will undoubtedly be stronger.

In Zhu Youjian's view, it is rare for Du Yinxi to be able to do things impartially. After all, people like Li Yan are not ashamed by scholar-bureaucrats, and it is difficult to see Li Yan and the bandits such as the Mielu Army in their eyes. , but now Du Yinxi not only obeys his decree and acts impartially, but also praises them. It can be said that no matter how talented Du Yinxi is, this kind of mind is enough to serve as a minister (the Ming Dynasty did not have a minister, here is just a literary reference) .

However, Li Yan did not complain about the large loss caused by the extermination of the captive army. He only said that Du Yinxi was a rare high-ranking official, and hoped that Du Yinxi would continue to control the Huguang military administration. A person who understands things and understands people.

Zhu Youjian felt that in spite of the court's criticism, he insisted on recruiting the extermination army and even accepted Li Yan's heart in this way, which was one of the most correct things he did after moving south.

"Han Shoujing, tell me, once the war is over, how should the court officials who participated in this war be rewarded, especially Li Yan and Du Yinxi?" Zou handed it to Han Shoujing.

Han Shoujing is in charge of economics, and rarely asks about government affairs. Now that His Majesty asks about it, he can only smile: "Thunder, rain, and dew are all the favor of the king, and you can use it as you like, but the governor always has to be changed frequently." Well, after all, running water doesn’t rot, household hinges don’t worm, slaves and servants see it poorly, the emperor please take care of it.”

"That's right." Zhu Youjian really didn't want Li Yan to be in charge of the army for a long time. Although he had to be more modest for the sake of the overall situation, but letting a person he was not fully familiar with in charge of tens of thousands of horses, he He was still a little worried, and he felt that Li Yanzhi should not just stay in Huguang as a governor.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian planned to transfer Li Yan to the capital to be in charge of the military affairs. This person has more experience in actual combat, and he is better at strategizing than Ma Shiying. There is one more official who understands the needs of the common people at the bottom.

Zhu Youjian made up his mind and felt that Li Yan should be kept in the capital after the provincial governors came to Beijing.

Today, however, the focus is on taxes.

The next day, Zhu Youjian personally went to the newly established Daming School of Administration, which is now the place where the grassroots officers of the Second Guards Army received Ma Shiying's ideological education on the new tax policy from Minister of War.

After the sharp contrast between the former peasant officers and the former scholar-bureaucrat officers, and after Zhu Youjian arrived, he personally used historical evidence and detailed analysis to explain, and after allowing the scholars below to have a fierce verbal confrontation, the Guards Officers at all levels of the Second Army unanimously expressed their willingness to swear to the death to protect the smooth completion of the court's first new tax collection.

The ideological work of the grassroots officers of the Guards is easy to do. After all, everyone is an idealist, and they are all low-level scholars. Your Majesty's increase of commercial tax and foreign trade tax is indeed beneficial to the people.

But Zhu Youjian didn't know whether the ideological work of the governors-in-chief of the war zones, the big bureaucrats in the government and the opposition, and the clan vassals were doing well.

The real difficulty in the future is to collect taxes from these big bureaucrats, grand relatives and clan vassals, but they are all big heads.

Speaking of the clan and vassal kings, Zhu Youjian found that he seemed to have not had time to solve the financial pressure brought by these imperial clans to Daming.

　Next, Zhu Youjian will gradually transform the Ming Dynasty from a small-scale peasant economy as the main body, literati and gentry as the main body of the ruling body, and a traditional empire dominated by Confucianism and law into an industrialized, capitalized, and centralized power empire step by step. I will write slowly, and you will read slowly.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)