Acting for the gods

Chapter 104
Nine out of ten officials in the Donglin Party are now mercenary, and they have become the biggest black sheep of Ming Dynasty.

On one side, they held high the banner of righteousness and wore white lotus flowers.

While taking bribes, eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, sucking the blood of Daming.

Take Jiaofang Secretary as an example, these officials are the ones who go the most.

After talking about taking care of the old people, they all took care of them on the bed.

It is really your wife and daughter, I will raise them!
What's even worse is that these people who don't talk about profit have long been in collusion with those big businessmen, resolutely resisting the collection of business tax, and instead continue to increase the agricultural tax.

It is precisely because of this that many people in Daming have no means of living. Those farmers who are forced to live by taxes can only take risks and rise up!

If it weren't for this group of officials who only know how to behave in the dark, the Ming Dynasty could last at least another hundred years, or even longer.

It is precisely because he is aware of the dangers of the Donglin Party that Zhu Youxiao uses Wei Zhongxian's hand to continuously suppress the Donglin Party's influence.

As for carpentry, it is indeed Zhu Youxiao's personal hobby.

If possible, Zhu Youxiao really didn't want to fight with these ministers and just be a carpenter.

But being born in the royal family, he had no choice.

When doing carpentry, Zhu Youxiao's mood will be much more relaxed, but the main reason is to confuse the Donglin Party.

Perhaps Zhu Youxiao was not a strong Ming emperor, but all he did and thought was to make Daming stronger.

As for the eunuchs who framed the ministers of the court and created many unjust, false and wrong cases, Zhu Youxiao knew it.

The reason why the eunuchs were allowed to act was due to the emperor's intentions.

Most of the officials who were arrested and imprisoned were attached to the Donglin Party. Although they were loyal to Daming, they were too pedantic and always liked to follow behind the Donglin Party and fight against him, the emperor.

If you don't suppress it and eradicate the branches of the Donglin Party, how can you move to the deep-rooted Donglin Party?

For Zhu Youxiao, what he wanted was obedient courtiers, not a group of bullies who only knew how to argue.

It is not so easy to be an emperor, especially when Zhu Youxiao took over, Daming was a mess of external and internal troubles.

The forces of the Eastern Forest Party in the Northeast are intertwined, and there are Hou Jin covetously outside, coupled with the encounter of the Little Ice Age, natural disasters and man-made disasters continue.

Faced with such a situation, not to mention Zhu Youxiao, even if Zhu Yuanzhang is alive, it is estimated that there will be one head and two big.

When the treasure ship had an accident yesterday, Zhu Youxiao's first suspicion was the Donglin Party.

This is not without reason.

Some time ago, Zhu Youxiao ordered Wei Zhongxian to reduce agricultural taxes and collect commercial taxes from Jiangnan. This policy has touched the interests and bottom line of the Donglin Party.

Donglin Party counterattack is expected.

Although there is no evidence, Zhu Youxiao has already determined in his heart that the treasure ship incident is inseparable from the Donglin Party in all likelihood.

If it weren't for the fear of the power controlled by the Donglin Party and the turmoil in the court, Zhu Youxiao really wanted to cut the mess with a sharp knife, and cut all these rebellious officials and thieves clean!

Of course, Zhu Youxiao just thought about it, he understood that food needs to be eaten bite by bite, and the road needs to be walked step by step.

Zhu Youxiao has been enduring all these years, just wanting to suppress and completely solve the cancer of the Donglin Party step by step.

The Donglin Party is obviously aware of the danger, so it wants to take a drastic action, kill Zhu Youxiao, eliminate Wei Zhongxian's backer, move to the Eunuch Party, and monopolize power.

The intensity of disputes in the imperial court is even more dangerous than fighting on the battlefield, and ordinary people can't play it at all.

Jiang Fan was a little tender when he first entered the officialdom.

If we only talk about scheming, tactics and methods, he is really not Zhu Youxiao's opponent.

He was only able to gain the dominance temporarily by relying on his foresight and the strong strength of his stand-in.

If you compare the two brothers Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian.

In terms of being an emperor, Zhu Youxiao, who is called the carpenter emperor by the outside world, is actually far better than Zhu Youjian.

You must know that Tianqi Emperor Zhu Youxiao was personally guided by the great strategist Sun Chengzong and others.

During the reign of Tianqi Emperor Zhu Youxiao, the overall national strength of Ming Dynasty has improved.

Don't talk about anything else, just talk about Liaodong.

The frontier army can get millions of taels of military expenditure every year, and its military strength has been greatly improved. It has begun to gain a firm foothold, and can even counterattack Houjin.

If it wasn't for the containment of civil uprisings in the country, and the Donglin Party dragged its feet, the Golden Tartars would not have a big problem after being expelled.

Outsiders just saw that Zhu Youxiao loves carpentry and ignores government affairs. Who knows the pain in his heart?
Power ministers control the government, he can only choose to endure.

But these people still press on every step of the way, and even want to assassinate Emperor Tianqi many times, causing many "accidents".

Up to now, Zhu Youxiao has no heirs. Could it be that Zhu Youxiao is barren?

Of course not. Zhu Youxiao is 23 this year and has three sons and three daughters. This is not counting those who are pregnant but have "accidental miscarriages".

But these children all died due to various reasons, and none of them lived past the age of two. If it was a coincidence, even a fool would not believe it.

Part of it is the reason of Keshi.

In addition, the Donglin Party did not want Zhu Youxiao to leave any heirs.

From a long time ago, the Donglin Party began to cultivate Xinwang and instilled the ideas of the Donglin Party in him, the meaning of which is self-evident.

If Zhu Youxiao hadn't pretended to be addicted to carpentry, it is estimated that the Donglin Party's counterattack would be even more violent!
An emperor was forced to do this, but he could swallow his anger, which shows how deep Zhu Youxiao's scheming is.

It's a pity that in the original historical trajectory, Zhu Youxiao was designed to fall into the water, contracted the cold, and then took the fairy dew, which made his condition worse and his body swollen. It didn't take long for his younger brother Zhu Youjian to drive west.

Years of planning, before it started, my soul went to heaven.

Only the title of incompetent and stupid king, carpenter emperor is left.

If this is not the case, give Zhu Youxiao a few more years to eliminate internal troubles in the Qing Dynasty and expel Hou Jin, then the history of Ming Dynasty will be very different!

Because of Jiang Fan's preconceived notions, he didn't know that the carpenter emperor he despised was deeply scheming.

At this time, Jiang Fan is making deployments against King Xin and the Donglin Party, as well as expanding his own power.

Although he is now the envoy of the Jinyiwei Township, most of the powerful households in the Jinyiwei are eunuchs, and the rest secretly took refuge in King Xin.

That is to say, some marginal figures among the hundred households, general banners, and small banners have not yet clearly stood in line.

At present, there are only a few hundred Jinyiwei in Jiang Fan's hands, and there are even fewer people who can be completely trusted.

Zhou Miaotong, who was in the wing room, tossed and turned, feeling uneasy, looking at the door, for fear that Jiang Fan would break in.

But when she was about to fall asleep, she didn't see Jiang Fan coming, and fell asleep in a daze.

the next day.

Accompanied by the crowing of the angry rooster, Jiang Fan got up early for morning exercises.

Today he did not practice Taijiquan or Bajiquan, but practiced knife skills.

A magic knife with thousands of blades in one hand, and an ancient black gold knife in the other.

One is light and quick, and the other is powerful and heavy.

The two knives rotate in rotation, as fast as the wind, as fierce as fire, chopping, chopping, picking, and pulling, it is overwhelming.

The black gold ancient knife weighing more than 200 catties was lifted lightly in Jiang Fan's hands.

The magic knife thousand blade is even more changeable, and Jiang Fan has only developed several usages so far.

After putting away the knife, the ancient black gold knife was put into the scabbard on the back, and the magic knife with thousands of blades hung from his waist.

Taking out the Muchen Bead, Jiang Fan sat cross-legged, absorbed the energy in it, and enhanced his own cultivation. He felt that he was only a step away from the fourth level of "King Kong Indestructible Boy Skill".

Half an hour later, Jiang Fan got up to wash up, had breakfast, and headed to Beizhen Fusi.

As usual, I visited my superiors, and then I rectified the people in my hands.

After some busy work, it was almost noon.

Looking at the pile of documents in hand, Jiang Fan sighed, "It would be great if there was a secretary!"

After taking over as the governor, Jiang Fan had much less free time. In order to steal, no, to exercise his subordinates' ability to handle affairs, Jiang Fan immediately handed over some unimportant matters to Shen Lian and Qinglong.

Its name is to cultivate their abilities.

In the spare time, Jiang Fan used it to practice "Rama's Internal Strength" and "King Kong Indestructible Boy Skill", and occasionally exercised to control things with qi, and his life was very fulfilling.

(End of this chapter)