Chapter 234: Natural and man-made disasters
On that day, Zhu Youxiao thought about it all night.
The Confucius Mansion has been around until now. The emperors of all dynasties, regardless of what they thought, have always been to respect Confucius on the surface to win over the scholars and scholars of the world.
This time I was disgusted with Kong's mansion, so I told them in disguise not to jump too much. If the Kong mansion could just calm down, it would be easy.
But what if the Confucius Mansion refused to let go and insisted on inciting the scholars and officials from all over the world to oppose the court? This power should not be underestimated, but there is no solution.
Although scholars have great influence, they can turn black and white into a long and distort right and wrong with their own mouths. However, their weaknesses are also obvious, and their strength is not enough!
Zhu Youxiao’s attitude towards the Confucius Mansion is very simple to be an emperor.
Let them stay in Qufu well. As long as they don’t cause trouble, the court will still give him the face of the contemporary Yanshenggong, but if they are arrogant, the matter will not end so well.
There is a question now, which is whether Gu Dazhang's request to hand over the taxes of a county in Qufu to the Confucius Mansion was his family's opinion or the civil servants' intentions.
Or, it was the Confucius Mansion operating in secret...
At this time, Wei Zhongxian's role was highlighted. At least, his Dongchang's ability to investigate was excellent. The intelligence network was spread all over the world, let alone all the bad guys.
If you deal with a rogue family like the Confucius Mansion who claims to be a saint, you will be able to control evil!
Zhu Youxiao would be relieved to hand over this matter to Wei Zhongxian.
Observing words and expressions is Wei Zhongxian's most basic ability. The words he passed on in the past should be able to make him take the slightest and heavy weight.
As for what to do in the end, Zhu Youxiao has no idea. After all, the Confucius Mansion is not an ordinary local wealthy family, so he would kill him if he said he would.
Over thousands of years, their influence in the hearts of scholars, scholar-officials, and even the people is no longer weaker than that of the court in power.
In the next few days, Zhu Youxiao was waiting for a news report, which was the final secret report of Gu Dazhang's report.
What is the result determines whether the means of the Kong Mansion are tough.
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Three days later, lightning and thunder were roaring over the Forbidden City, and the rain broke through the sultry heat for several consecutive days. In the Western Warehouse, Emperor Tianqi, who was reviewing the memorial, frowned gently.
"Yunnan Governor Cai Mingsheng asked the saint to hear:
In early December of the first year of Tianqi, auspicious clouds shook loudly, crushing more than 1,300 houses. The people were displaced and more than 20 local officials died in the epicenter. The local order collapsed, so please make a decision quickly."
Zhu Youxiao, who was holding the pen in his hand, sniffed lightly, and the earthquake happened again. He reached out and dipped it in ink. It seemed that he was no longer accustomed to him. Zhu criticized the imperial pen:
"One million taels of silver from the treasury will be issued to the Jinyiwei Supervisory Office for the entire process. Those who dare to extend their hands to provide disaster relief will be searched and beheaded immediately! The troops stationed from Lin Province will be transferred to Xiangyun to stabilize the order."
After writing, Zhu Youxiao picked up another copy with a heavy mood.
As expected, bad news.
"Supervisor Sitian Ergeng directly reported to His Majesty:
At the end of September, the Yellow River broke its mouth in Suiyang, and the local government concealed and did not report it and did not deal with it. Now, Xu and Pi are all flat within 150 miles of the country."
Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao felt a little turbulent in his heart. After pondering for a moment, he immediately criticized:
"I was exempted from the second year of Tianqi in Suining County, and in three years, all kinds of money, grain and corvee service. He Maocai, the governor of Nanzhili, was dismissed from his post and investigated, and the military minister Wang went to Suining in Jin to preside over the disaster relief."
For the next half hour, Zhu Youxiao sat in the West Warehouse, accompanied by the lightning and thunder above his head and the faint incense coming from the Xuande furnace in the cabinet, and the more than 60 memorials he had just sent were compiled.
Seeing that the emperor had finished the book, Wang Chaofu, the manager of the Qing Palace who had been waiting for him, hurriedly gave a wink outside the pavilion.
A little eunuch walked into the West Warehouse silently, picked up more than 60 books, turned around and left.
Zhu Youxiao stretched and sighed silently in his heart that being an emperor in the Ming Dynasty was really not a worry-free job.
Not only can you not worry about it, but if you want to hold everything in your hands and strengthen centralization, you have to personally inquire about every book and criticize it.
The establishment of a military computer room is just to make it easier to issue imperial edicts in the future, and slowly form a model of bypassing the cabinet, drafting the imperial edict from the rank of the military computer room.
The current military computer room is not the complete military computer department of the later Tartar Qing Dynasty, but it has become increasingly effective under the conscious or unintentional weight of power by the emperor.
Of course, it is not enough to just write a notebook.
After these more than 60 memorials, there must be more than 60 memorials, which will be implemented as the top and bottom! Otherwise, like the later Emperor Chongzhen brothers, they would spend their time to approve them but would not be of use. How could they do it?
The elements that ensure that these more than 60 decrees are issued to the local area are firstly to have military power, secondly to have a bureaucratic system that obeys orders, and thirdly, to have corresponding supervision and department.
The Supervisory Department, the Dongchang, and the most important government offices that only Zhu Youxiao himself knows are all such institutions, dedicated to serving the emperor.
After receiving the orders in a certain place, the officials still do their own thing, and the role of the Supervisory Office and the Dongchang Factory came. They would collect evidence of crime and report to the capital.
Zhu Youxiao Cheng used this evidence to exorcise people and politely replaced those local officials who kept talking to him with obedient ones.
Over time, the local area will be controlled.
The various disasters that gradually began in the second year of Tianqi were a heavy blow to the Ming Dynasty, but they also had their benefits, that is, Zhu Youxiao did not need to arrange any reasons, and could start vigorously rectify the imperial officials in a legitimate manner.
During the earthquake in the three provinces of Shandong, Zhu Youxiao promoted a group of new civil servants in the royalists led by Wen Tiren and Yang Sichang. They are now serving at the grassroots level and shine.
This time the Yellow River broke its mouth and flooded Suining for more than 150 miles in southern Zhili. It was not a trivial matter. The inaction of local governments was the result of the public's speech.
Zhu Youxiao didn't need to use the Beijing News to create any momentum. Just issue a group of officials directly, because at this critical moment, no one would object to the imperial court's disaster relief and people.
"Boom--!"
Just at this moment, when Zhu Youxiao fell into his mind, a thunder erupted in the air, and lightning struck the sky, making the hall bright in an instant, like daylight.
The Xuande Furnace, which was burning with sandalwood, poured into the Jade Palace.
Wang Chaofu rolled and crawled into the West Warehouse, his hands trembling, and he breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the Emperor Tianqi who was not at all panic:
"Master! Your secret report has arrived, it's here!"
Zhu Youxiao raised his head when he heard this, stared at the secret music in his hand, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said in an emotional voice:
"read!"
Wang Chaofu opened the secret song tremblingly, and just looked at him and knew what the outcome would be.
He naturally understood the nature of this emperor, and how could he let others ride on his head? Confucius's mansion is about to have a disaster this time!
He pressed his knees against the hall, and at this moment, the faint candlelight in the hall was blown away by the sudden strong wind. Through another lightning, he suddenly saw the eunuchs kneeling around and the cold face of the emperor.
The secret commentary of the matter is concise and powerful, with only a small line of words, but it is enough to make the Emperor Aoki above understand the whole story.
"After investigation, it was done by Confucius's mansion!"
Chapter completed!