I'm really not the carpenter emperor

To be honest, Li Sancai was the success of his time in the local area.

In those years, Li Sancai went around everywhere, and his political achievements on the surface have always been outstanding. He was an official in Nanjing, and met Zhu Guobi, who had not yet become Marquis of Funing, in a certain brothel. The two hit it off and became very close.

It was also because of Li Sancai that Zhu Guobi felt that Donglin Party members were all people like him, so he began to make friends with Donglin Party members.

Li Sancai was actually the starting point of the party struggle that caused Emperor Wanli a headache.

At that time, Li Sancai became the backbone of the Donglin Party because he was very good at packaging himself. As time went by, the voices of the Donglin Party members for him to join the cabinet and assist the government became louder and louder.

The ruling party at that time was the Zhejiang Party headed by Fang Congzhe.

The Zhejiang Party was naturally unwilling to allow a Donglin Party to enter the cabinet and pose a threat to itself, so it began to try every means to destroy Li Sancai's talented great sage.

In addition, Emperor Wanli actually knew what kind of people the Donglin Party members were. He didn't say anything clearly, but he just didn't express his position.

Originally, Emperor Wanli wanted to let the Donglin Party know how much they had, and stop thinking about pushing their own people into the cabinet to take charge of the government.

But no one thought that this time the Donglin Party was determined to push Li Sancai into the cabinet, which was in the same situation as the ruling Zhejiang Party.

This came and went, and the party struggle that has continued to this day has also formed.

First, the ruling party Zhejiang Party retreated, and Taichang credulously believed in Donglin, which led to the situation in Donglin in the early years of the apocalypse, and then Zhu Youxiao launched Wei Zhongxian, and the eunuch party rose.

In the past 30 years of party struggle, the Donglin Party has liquidated other parties, and the Eunuch Party has also bloodbathed Donglin several times, killing an unknown number of people. Although the chief culprit, Li Sancai, has been dismissed long ago, he has been living a happy life.

His Donglin great sages set up, coupled with Zhu Guobi's status and power in Nanjing now, he can give lectures and develop a group of believers when he has nothing to do.

However, the next stop of the emperor's southern tour was Nanjing, and these days would not be happy.

Chapter 273 Make things big!

The two of them had a long history.

Back then when Li Sancai was dismissed from office, and Zhu Guobi was settled by Wei Zhongxian because he said something nice for Yang Lian, they got together at this moment, and they felt like sympathizing with each other.

In the first year of Apocalypse, the two walked on the bridge, talked about current affairs, and expressed great emotion at the strong rise of the eunuch party at that time.

What happened in Fengyang made the two of them, the honorable ministers and great sages who had a bright face and perfect personality, secretly nervous.

The panic and uneasiness reached the depths, and there was nothing to say for a while.

The two people who had gathered here to discuss countermeasures just looked quietly at one of Zhu Guobi's many gardens for a while.

After a long time, it was Li Sancai who raised his head, looked at the green and red colors by the pool, and murmured:

"The willow leaves flutter in the rain for thousands of feet, and the peach blossoms slant with a stream of smoke."

Zhu Guobi didn't raise his head, but lowered his head in response:

"The wild catkins dance with the wind, and the frivolous peach blossoms follow the water."

After singing, Zhu Guobi sighed:

"Li Gong, I don't have the determination to put life and death aside like Zaifu..."

The minister in question was naturally the predecessor of Han Yu, the chief minister of the current cabinet, and Ye Xianggao, the leader of Donglin. Last year, he sank in the lake before the Dongchang Fanzi arrived, which almost detonated the Ming Dynasty literary world.

Many literati took this as an example, and Lang Lang wrote poems.

Before Han Yu became the chief assistant, he also had a very important position in Donglin. At that time, many Donglin party members took this as their new hope.

I hope he can persuade the emperor and eliminate the eunuchs.

But who would have imagined that Han Yu's Donglin moderate faction has been in power for a year, mediocre and inactive, making concessions to the eunuch party everywhere, so that the Donglin party members in Beijing are completely disappointed with him, gradually renounced morality, and wisely protect themselves.

The former grand occasion of rising up in groups, admonishing the emperor to death, and angrily attacking Dengwen is no longer seen.

Li Sancai glanced at him and felt that the atmosphere was indeed too heavy, so he straightened up and said to Zhu Guobi:

"Master Hou, let's go."

The two of them strolled along the stream, weak wicker brushed over their shoulders and heads, and there was a blooming white peach tree in front of them, which shaded and connected to a short corridor.

After the short corridor, the two came to another four-cornered pavilion.

Before reaching the pavilion, a woman's laughter was heard.

Li Sancai and Zhu Guobi are close friends, so it is natural to know that the laughing woman must be Zhang Yu, the second wife of Zhu Guobi's Hou Yefu.

Zhang Yu and the two servant girls had just arrived in the four-corner pavilion, and they stood there gracefully, like a weak willow supporting the wind.

She wore a jade-colored skirt, a pink narrow-sleeved round-neck dress, and a high-necked embroidered cloud shoulder. Her thick black hair was coiled high above her head, and she was dressed like a mistress of a wealthy family in the Ming Dynasty.

When Zhu Guobi and Li Sancai entered, Zhang Yu was holding a baby in his arms, and from time to time pressed his face to his chubby cheeks.

Zhang Yu sat down on one side of the four-corner pavilion, handed the baby to the nursing mother who followed closely, leaned on the railing and looked at the pool water, also thoughtfully.

She used to be a famous prostitute by the Qinhuai River. She is well-known in the south of the Yangtze River. She is proficient in all kinds of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Many rich men couldn't meet her.

For some reason, he and Zhu Guobi fell in love at first sight and quickly fell in love.

Zhu Guobi redeemed Zhang Yu after his death, and also gave his old friend Li Sancai, the great sage of Donglin, enough face, hired him with a lot of money, and asked him to present Zhang Yu with a nickname-"Wanbo".

Now Zhang Yu is a mother, and Zhu Guobi and this child are the whole of her life.

Zhu Guobi also often talks about Zhang Yu. Since marrying her, he has gradually become estranged from his wife, Xu Shi, to the point of being bored and unwilling to see her for half a year.

Leaning on the railing for a long time, Zhang Yu felt something by chance, but suddenly looked back, and found Zhu Guobi and Li Sancai standing behind him, watching quietly.

She knew that Marquis Fu Ning was going to have an old discussion with the virtuous Li Sancai today, so she came to Zhang's garden to cultivate her temperament carefully, she was very surprised and happy to find them.

"Master Hou, Li Gong, why are you here?"

Zhu Guobi was slightly displeased, and signaled her not to ask too much.

Li Sancai looked at the two of them separately, and laughed loudly: "Why do you need to hide it from her!"

"Let's be honest, the emperor from Fengyang will arrive in Jinling in just a few days. By then, the city will be full of blood."

"Our Lord Hou is in a bad mood, and he doesn't want to say more, so let me say it."

Zhang Yu was taken aback, and stood up to welcome them into the pavilion. After they were all sitting in the north seat, he sat quietly to one side, covered his mouth and said:

"The emperor is so bloodthirsty?"

"How could it be false!" Li Sancai laughed again, but this time, there was resentment and injustice in his words:

"The emperor favors Quan Eun. Those colleagues of mine, just because they said nothing at the top, were ransacked and wiped out, and distributed to the frontier. This imperial court is exhausted!"

"Don't talk nonsense—!" Zhu Guobi reminded in a low voice:

"This is in my own courtyard, but Dongchang has many eyes and ears, and it is inevitable that the walls have ears."

Maybe it was because of the beautiful woman standing next to him, and the man's inner troubles, Li Sancai's words at this time became somewhat cynical.

"Unbelievable! Unbelievable!" Li Sancai clapped his hands again and again: "It's not Wanbo, how could I be so blunt!"

Zhang Yu covered his mouth and smiled lightly, and got up to return the salute.

She is over [-] years old, she can be said to be an old woman, but she still has an intoxicating charm. Li Sancai regrets every frown, every gesture, every turn around.

Now, she combined the charm of famous prostitutes and noble ladies, which made Li Sancai even more desperate, feeling itchy in his heart and sighing endlessly.

Had he known this, he should have acted earlier!

"Who would have thought that the small disaster relief in Suzhou would cause the entire Fengyang to flow like rivers of blood!" Zhu Guobi didn't notice the old friend's salivation for his wife, and said to himself:

"I heard that in the past few days, when Mr. Li's family was parading in the streets, the local villains hit him with stones, his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, and he beheaded on the same day."

"The Li Family and the Zhao Mansion were all raided. Not a single bit of them remained. Even the cells of the Prison Secretary and the Military Division were overcrowded. I don't know how many people have been arrested!"

"Why, Marquis Funing still wants to get ahead?"

Li Sancai reluctantly looked away from Zhang Yu, laughed, and said:

"Actually, there is no need to worry too much. The emperor's royal driver has not yet arrived in Jinling. As long as we order to go down and communicate with the lower levels in advance, will they still be able to arrest him by force?"

"If it doesn't work, you can also prepare a scapegoat."

"This Jinling is no better than Fengyang. If it really comes back like Fengyang and makes Jinling bloody and everyone is in danger, the Ming Dynasty will really be in chaos!"

Zhu Guobi thought so deeply, and his expression kept turning fierce:

"At this point, it's a done deal, and it's useless to regret it any more. You might as well just keep doing it and twist it all into one strand."

"Drop all the people who can be dragged into the water. I still don't believe it. He can also bring all the officials and civil servants of Jinling into one pot?"

"It's more than—!"

Li Sancai thought of something, sneered and said:

"Du Sheng, the Nanjing garrison eunuch, is Wei Xie's godson. He also touched the disaster relief money from various prefectures in Huaibei in the first year of Tianqi, and also received bribes from my disciples."

"Doesn't Wei Zhongxian like to bring up old things again? Let's learn from them."

"Isn't the emperor favoring the eunuchs, then bring the eunuchs along!"

"Mr. Li is counting so fast!"

Zhu Guobi laughed loudly, clapping his palms and laughing, the present him really swept away the haze before, and saw the blue sky after clearing the clouds and mists!

Chapter 274 Nanjing, here I come

For Zhu Youxiao, Nanjing is the center of this trip.

This point is related to the natural disasters and man-made disasters nearly 30 years after the second year of the apocalypse, whether this wealthy Jiangnan will contribute to the Ming court.

Even if it is a few million taels of tax money every year, it is enough for him to survive those difficult days.

The wine pool meat forest of the rich family, the year-round tea tax in the south of the Yangtze River is three taels, and the tax silver is 80 taels. These unbelievable circumstances all come from this.

On the way from Fengyang to Nanjing, Zhu Youxiao emphasized more than once that extravagance and waste are prohibited.

In history, Qianlong was extremely particular about going to the south of the Yangtze River.

The imperial road on the land road is required to be three feet wide, the main road in the center is six feet wide, and the roads on both sides are seven feet wide. The road surface must be solid and smooth, and the imperial road must be straight.

In addition, all the stone slabs of the stone bridge must be paved with loess, and the places passing by shall be poured with clear water.

When taking a boat on the waterway, the Qianlong Southern Patrol Fleet amounted to more than a thousand ships, large and mighty, with banners covering the sky, and 3000 Laxianhe soldiers were used.

During the southern tour, every time he went to a place, in addition to sightseeing, he also had to build a large-scale palace for Qianlong to stay.

For example, the Tianning Temple Palace has more than 500 buildings with corridors and houses, and all kinds of facilities are available for living, listening to politics, and entertainment.

There is also the Yangzhou Gaomin Temple Palace funded and built by Shandong salt merchants. Pavilion Gallery, Xieshan Tower, Slate House, Arrow Hall, Wanzi Pavilion, Lying Stele Pavilion, Xieshan Gate, Right Facing Room, Hanging Flower Gate, Back Photo Room, etc.

Among them, there are hundreds of pavilions and pavilions, and the interior is more magnificently arranged. The treasures, flowers, trees, bamboo and stones, books, calligraphy and paintings, porcelain, incense burners, hanging screens, etc. presented by officials and gentry along the way are all displayed in them.

It is precisely because of the extravagance and waste of Emperor Qianlong that the corruption of local officials was fostered, and the original role of eliminating officials did not play a role, but accelerated the corruption of the local bureaucracy.

Zhu Youxiao came down this time to use the imperial power to break the existing local rules and replace some important departments with his own people.

The old rules that have been useless for many years are abolished one by one.

Moreover, it is also to let the people really see the face and appearance of the emperor, let them see who is making decisions for the people, and who is the little boy who is afraid of chaos in the world.

After Zhu Youxiao left Fengyang, he went all the way down, not just wherever he went, but he had to send special officials to go there in advance, plan the route, and then report back.

Whenever you go to a place, you must also recruit local guides, survey the roads along the way, and make a tour plan.

It is precisely because of the time for local officials to prepare for pick-up, so Zhu Youxiao does not come down in a straight line, and often stays for a few days.

Officials at all levels naturally had to prepare in advance for the places the emperor would pass through in the tour plan.

Although Emperor Apocalypse did not allow presents to be presented, superficial efforts such as building bridges and paving roads, regulating rivers and canals, and cleaning the streets were still required.

The local guards' armaments were slack, but this time, it was inevitable that they would have to move around.

The hereditary generals had to put on dusty armor, reluctantly got up from the bed, gathered the soldiers back as much as possible, distributed the armor and weapons piled up in the treasury to them, and recreated them according to the pattern of the canon. Start practicing.

Those tyrants, after hearing about the "tragedy" in Fengyang area, were all extremely nervous, and immediately held small meetings in various prefectures, and the themes of the meetings were surprisingly consistent.

The big and powerful families all want their children to act as low-key as possible during the emperor's southern tour. Of course, it is best to be able to help the common people with things.

The local government is also prepared. For the bandits who are wanted but still escaped, they have intensified their arrests during this period, trying to ensure that they are arrested before the emperor arrives in the local area, so that they can ask for credit.

Government prisons all over the country have begun to clean up the prisoners in the prisons, releasing the innocent as soon as possible, and punishing the guilty accordingly.

The government yamen are no longer stingy, and they distribute condolence silver from door to door, and set up porridge sheds at the local city gates to appease and relieve the poor.

Some officials who usually do nothing have to patrol around in a decent manner, repair the dilapidated city walls, and manage farmland and rivers.

Generally speaking, this time when Zhu Youxiao came down, the situation in the local area was completely new.