Domineering Daming

"It's just a habit..." Zhu Xu said so, and he could understand why the Emperor Chongzhen in history didn't get close to women anymore. There were troubles all day long. Whoever still has that mood is a very responsible person. People can't allow themselves to slack off.

"This is life!"

Zhu Xu suddenly thought of the word "masochist", and quickly explained it to himself.

Cao Huachun followed behind, listening to Zhu Xu muttering with a puzzled expression.

Not long after Zhu Xu entered the imperial study, Li Jieyu ordered someone to bring over refreshing strong tea, obviously to make people stare at him all the time.

Zhu Xu shook his head and said to himself: Women are trouble.

After drinking some strong tea, Zhu Xu refreshed himself and flipped through today's playbook.

The top one is the memorabilia of Wang Sanshan, the governor of Guizhou. Zhu Xu was very impressed with this person.

When the Yi people rebelled and besieged Guiyang for more than a month, this Zhu Sanshan was calm and rational, with means and ability, and successfully held back the rebels until Qin Liangyu and others led troops to rescue them and broke the siege of Guizhou.

He opened the playbook with a slight smile, but he couldn't help frowning, his expression slightly condensed.

"In the past few years, the township has never suffered from drought, no moon, no soldiers, no day, no loss, severe drought, no grass in the fields, ten rooms and nine empty..."

"There are no barking dogs in the village, but they are still knocking on the door to call for conscripts; there are cuckoos in the trees, and the blood of the whip is sprinkled. The yellow soil is red, and the township is almost cut off from the population; the bones are green, and the ghosts are crying every night. I want to make the poor people unhappy. If you turn into a thief, you can't get it..."

"Drought caused locust plagues again. In the fifth year of Apocalypse, in the second, third, and fourth years of Chongzhen, there were locust droughts every year. People ate each other, all vegetation was exhausted, and local bandits rose together..."

Wang Sanshan's memorabilia puts all the situation in the Southwest and other places into writing, in just a few hundred words, the tragic appearance is as if in front of his eyes.

Zhu Xu frowned again and again. The situation in the Southwest was more serious than he had imagined. Wang Sanshanzuo, please immigrate from Guizhou first, and move as much as you can.

Zhu Xu looked at the memorial, feeling heavy in his heart, thinking hard about countermeasures.

Liaodong is immature, and there is no way to transfer so much in one go, and Southeast Asia will not be able to solve the urgent need for a while.

The population of the southwestern provinces is nearly 3000 million. If such a severe drought continues, it is unknown how many people will die.

Liu Shimin brought the soul-saving soup and breakfast, seeing that Zhu Xu was quiet, he didn't dare to make a sound.

Zhu Xu was still thinking, the entire Ming Dynasty was suffering from disasters, how could it be so easy to resettle millions or even tens of millions of people in a short period of time!

Suddenly, Zhu Xu turned his head to look at Cao Huachun, and said, "How many people do you think Jiangsu and Zhejiang can arrange?" These two provinces can be said to be the best in Ming Dynasty. Ripe and easy to cultivate.

Cao Huachun was slightly startled, and immediately said: "I don't know."

The corners of Zhu Xu's mouth twitched. During the Qianlong period, the development of the Taihu Lake area was extremely mature. The so-called "Taihu Lake is ripe for the world", which shows that the abundance is extraordinary.Although this time is different from a hundred years later, it should be able to accommodate a lot, and solve the urgent need... If it doesn't work, just fill the lake and create land!

"Pass the decree to Jiangsu..."

Zhu Xu raised his eyebrows at this point just now, he was planning to change the governors of various places, and it would be useless to summon them now.

Zhu Xu temporarily pressed the matter, picked up the bowl and prepared to eat.

"Your Majesty, King Xin is here." Just as Zhu Xu picked up the bowl, Liu Shimin said.

Zhu Xu didn't have any appetite at all, so he put down the bowl and said, "Let's take it all away, the king of messengers will come in."

"Yes." Liu Shimin asked people to withdraw, and at the same time sent a message to Wang Xin.

Zhu Youjian was dressed in royal clothes, walked into the imperial study calmly and calmly, bowed and saluted and said: "I see the emperor."

Zhu Xu looked at Zhu Youjian with a calm expression.As he got older, he and Zhu Youjian also drifted away.

With a slight smile, Zhu Xuxu held his hand and said, "Brother Huang is flat."

Zhu Youjian thanked him, then stood there, silently.Since the last incident, he also knew that his relationship with the emperor was completely alienated, so he was quite cautious.

Zhu Xu didn't talk nonsense, and said bluntly: "Brother Huang, I gave you the memorial, how did you write it?"

Zhu Youjian hesitated for a while, took out the memorial from his arms, and said: "Go back to the emperor, I have already written it."

Cao Huachun stepped forward and handed it to Zhu Xu.

Zhu Xu nodded slightly, received it in his hand, and looked slightly cold as soon as he looked it over.

Zhu Youjian's memorial is quite concise. It is necessary to reshape the relationship between the cabinet and the six ministries, emphasizing that "government leaves the cabinet", restore the check and balance of the three departments at the local level, tighten the powers of the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Households, and hold court meetings every ten days etc.

Zhu Xu's face quickly returned to calm, and he sighed secretly, Zhu Youjian was really stubborn, and ten horses couldn't pull back what he decided.He thought that Zhu Xu's reform was wrong, it was damaging the foundation of Ming Dynasty, and he desperately wanted to pull it back.

This naturally conflicted with Zhu Xu's ideas and plans.

Zhu Xu looked at the memorial, looked up at Zhu Youjian for a long time and said, "I heard that Brother Huang's third son is about to be born?"

Zhu Youjian didn't know why the emperor suddenly mentioned this, and said in a flat tone: "Yes."

Zhu Xu hummed, thought for a while, and said: "Then the emperor will stay with the princess in the palace for a while, and I will grant you a vacation."

Zhu Youjian's expression changed suddenly, and he suddenly raised his head to look at Zhu Xu.

He saw Zhu Xu's expression was indifferent, and there was a kind of indifference in his eyes.

Zhu Youjian's heart was cold, he knew that the emperor wanted to detain him!At the critical moment when civil and military officials come to Beijing to discuss government affairs together!

This time of detention, I am afraid it will be forever!

Anger suddenly surged in his heart, angry at the emperor in front of him!

He is devoted to the country, sleeps all day long, never dares to slack off, why the emperor always can't see it, and always wants to suppress him!He is also a descendant of Taizu Taizong, who only wants to rejuvenate Daming, why the brothers can't be of the same mind, repeatedly persecuting him, even detaining him!

"Go." Zhu Xu's tone was flat, and the flatness revealed an endless distance.

He was so disappointed, this man was too tragic in history, many people in later generations would say that he is "good but not blessed", and he would be a wise king in a peaceful age.But is he really "righteous"?Zhu Xu clearly kept giving him opportunities, out of public interest and selfishness, Zhu Xu hoped that the two would work together to resonate with Ming Dynasty.

But Zhu Youjian, always at the critical moment, can't understand the key issues clearly, can't understand the overall situation, and hold him back!

Zhu Xu's patience was exhausted, and his tolerance had come to an end.He decided to suspend the chief minister of the cabinet and ask Zhu Youjian to "close the government for self-reflection"!

The corner of Zhu Youjian's mouth twitched, and there were endless emotions surging in his heart. He wanted to say something, but he held it back abruptly, with an extraordinarily calm tone, and said word by word: "Follow the order."

Zhu Xu didn't even lift his eyelids. This decision was not easy for him. Not only did he despair of the Chongzhen Emperor in history, but it also marked that his "Chongzhen Era" had truly entered history, and his Jingzheng Era had begun. .

Zhu Youjian left, with a distorted expression, and walked out of the imperial study step by step.

When Zhu Youjian completely walked out of sight, Zhu Xu let out a long breath and looked up at the door. Without Zhu Youjian, the burden on him was a little heavier invisibly.

Cao Huachun and Liu Shimin looked at each other with worried expressions.

It's not just "brothers fight against the wall", if King Xin is just an empty chief assistant, then his ability to resist swords, lights and swords for the emperor will be greatly reduced.At the juncture of the Ming Dynasty's reform entering a new stage, the emperor's "sage" is extremely important, and no mistakes can be tolerated!

"Tell Wei Zhongxian to enter the palace!" Zhu Xu sat up straight and said in a deep voice.