I'm really not the carpenter emperor

Zhu Youxiao didn't want to feel this kind of restraint, so the first thing he did when he entered Nanjing this time was to learn from Zhao Kuangyin and have a glass of wine to release his military power.

For 200 years, the military power in Nanzhili has always been controlled by Huaixi nobles. This time, I want to take it back into my own hands.

……

"This Lu Xiangsheng is here to play again."

"Decree, I will give him this opportunity, don't stay in the capital, if there is nothing to do in the Imperial Academy, go to Xijiangkou and reorganize the garrison there."

The first day of the third year of the apocalypse.

In the early morning, Zhu Youxiao walked in the courtyard where the former Funinghou Mansion was located with his hands behind his back, holding Lu Xiangsheng's memorial in his hand, and said to Wang Chaofu who was by his side while walking:

"As for the title... just give him the right servant of the Ministry of War, by the way, tell him..."

"The garrison at Xijiangkou has just surrendered to the imperial court, and it lacks a backbone. Sun Chuanting is in Yulin, and he can tame even those rebellious generals. If he can't handle these surrendered soldiers, tell him not to serve me again."

Wang Chaofu naturally understood that the emperor wanted to provoke Lu Xiangsheng, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty understands, your majesty is careful, the clothes are all wet."

Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao picked up a corner of his uniform and rubbed it.

It turned out to be walking all the way here, and the clothes were covered with dew that condensed from night to morning, and the tentacles were wet and cool, and then he laughed and asked:

"Have they all arrived yet?"

Wang Chaofu followed behind step by step, and said softly, "Return to Your Majesty, the nobles are all here, and they are waiting in the hall."

"Ah."

Zhu Youxiao nodded, and glanced at the lobby of Funing Hou Mansion. What is hanging on it now is a brand new "An Ding Hall" plaque.

Since the demise of the lineage of the Marquis of Funing, the Mansion of the Marquis of Funing has been transformed into the "palace" of Emperor Tianqi in Nanjing.

This time, the edict was sent to let the nobles in Nanjing come to face the saint, but no one dared not to come. After all, Zhu Guobi's lessons from the past are still in front of him.

Zhu Youxiao stepped up the steps step by step, with a sneer in his heart, whether you come or not this time, the military power in your hands should be handed over to me.

Chapter 292 Confirmed, this is my real father

Before the person arrived in the hall, he heard a cat meowing.

That's right, there was a "meow", Zhu Youxiao glanced sideways, but it was Wei Guogong Xu Hongji, holding a black and white kitten in his arms.

"See Your Majesty—"

All the nobles were still talking just now, when they saw the emperor and his attendants coming in, they all saluted and paid homage, then Xu Hongji came out and said with a smile:

"I heard that Your Majesty likes keeping cats. It just so happens that I know all the missionaries and foreign businessmen in Nanjing, so I bought this Franji cat with a lot of money from them."

"It is said that this is just a purebred in their foreign court."

Looking at the cat brought up by the inner prisoner, Zhu Youxiao thought for a moment, then took it in his hand, put it in his arms, looked at Xu Hongji and said:

"Wei Guogong has a heart."

"Your Majesty has liked to raise animals since he was a child. In fact, I can understand what His Majesty is thinking. This animal is indeed empathetic and very spiritual."

Xu Hongji said with a simple and honest smile on his face.

Zhu Youxiao saw the boast in his eyes, but he sneered in his heart when he praised it.

Now in this imperial court, who doesn't wear a few masks to show others, no matter how high the officials are, in front of the emperor, they all look honest and responsible.

Turning your head out of your sight, who knows what it looks like?

But having said that, you can no longer freely express your preferences.

Things in the palace spread quickly to the outside world. Somehow, the three things that I liked to eat stew got out, and then Wei Zhongxian secretly said that after half a month, the cooks who cook for themselves, and those who go out to buy raw materials People, I changed several batches back and forth.

People nowadays like to prescribe the right medicine to the case. Thinking on the bright side, they are trying to curry favor with themselves.

But if you think about the disadvantages, there will be more problems.

Serious court stew three things, before you eat it in your own mouth, from purchasing raw materials to warming and simmering slowly, many processes and steps are required.

In case something goes wrong in any link, people will be poisoned to death.

Since then, Zhu Youxiao has stopped eating stewed food, and once deliberately smashed a dish in front of several ministers, just to show them a play.

Looking back on the time when I supported Wei Zhongxian against Donglin, I was really worried.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao glanced slightly to observe the expressions of the nobles under his feet. Needless to say, each of these people must have a cat in their house.

After all, as the emperor likes himself, whether they like it or not, they have to raise a pretending one.

Now the fact that Emperor Tianqi is fond of cats has become known to all women and children.

Zhu Youxiao didn't expect that maybe because of his own reasons, the pet cat became popular in the upper social circle of Daming.

Not to mention Xungui and the royal family, even some big families have started to raise cats...

Moreover, a group of shops specializing in selling cats has gradually appeared in the local area. They cooperate with some sea merchants to import cats from other places, then breed them locally, and sell them in batches at low prices.

These hybrid cats are usually sold to the middle class and the poor, so that they can also join in the national cat breeding boom driven by Emperor Tianqi.

Those bred from one's own cat house and then come out are called imperial cats. No matter what kind of imperial cat it was before, the price of the imperial cat is several times higher than that of ordinary purebred cats.

No way, can the breed matched with the emperor's cat not be expensive?

This time they were called to a meeting, originally because they wanted to cut straight to the point and release military power with a glass of wine, pick out all the thorns and eliminate them, and then let go of reforms.

Unexpectedly, just sitting here, he was shot in the head by others.

The cat is still acting like a baby in your arms, are you embarrassed to get angry directly?

That's too ungrateful.

Zhu Youxiao caressed the black and white snowball in his arms, gestured to the eunuch, and silently watched the attendants set up the banquet in the hall, with a cold expression.

Thinking of the urgent report sent by Xiong Tingbi this morning, Zhu Youxiao's face couldn't get any better.

Jiannu is Jiannu after all, if they come down by themselves, there will be ghosts on their side if they don't mobilize troops, so we must solve the matter here as soon as possible.

Nurhachi hadn't finished dealing with his family's messy affairs, and when he heard the news that Emperor Tianqi led the Yongwei Battalion to tour the south, he assembled the Eight Banners army "Faming" immediately.

This time the old slave played tricks.

He knew that the Liaoshen area under the management of Xiong Tingbi had become an iron barrel. Taking Shenyang or a large area of ​​land alone would lose a lot of troops, but the effect would not be great.

Therefore, while attacking Liaoshen, Nurhachi called on the Horqin tribe and the lords of the four major tribes who were close to Houjin among the five major tribes of Neikalkha, and told them to jointly attack the Fuyu tribe.

The Fuyu tribe, whose leader is Borjijin Zaisai, a branch of the Jin family, a distant descendant of Genghis Khan, has impure blood, but he is always proud of it.

The Fuyu tribe led by Zaisai is close to Chahar and Daming, and is a sworn enemy of Houjin. They are also the only ones among the five major tribes in Nekhka that have not turned to Houjin.

In this morning's urgent report, Xiong Tingbi, the economic strategist of Liaodong, had a clear view of Nurhachi's tactical intentions, and he had an insight at a glance, saying that Houjin's attack on Liaoshen was false.

Nurhachi deployed the Eight Banners heavy troops in Liaoshen, and asked Horqin and other ministries to help. It seemed that he wanted to attack Liaoshen on a large scale, but this was just a cover.

This time the real battlefield is not in Ning Jin, but in Fu Yu.

The Fuyu Department is stationed in the middle reaches of the Liaohe River. Its influence extends from Jalut in the west to the banks of the Liaohe River in the east. It controls the southern part of Horqin in the north and Guangning in the south.

Once the Fuyu tribe is conquered by Houjin, Inner Khalkha will be connected with the Outer Khalkha and Horqin tribes, and these tribes, without exception, have fallen to Houjin.

At that time, the Liaodong Ming army was almost completely at a disadvantage, and even Guangning would be directly threatened by Houjin Bingfeng.

Both Liaoshen and Ningjin are useless. Whether you stick to Liaoshen or abandon Ningjin, it is nothing more than a waste of money and food, and it has little meaning.

The Liaoshen area has been managed by Xiong Tingbi for two years, and it is completely self-sufficient. Instead of sending troops to rescue Liaoshen, it is better to send troops to the north to help Fuyu, who is in a hard fight.

As Xiong Tingbi said, the battle situation in Fuyu area determines whether Nurhachi will mobilize Liaoshen's Houjin troops. If the battle situation in Fuyu improves, it will also make the battle in Liaoshen easier.

Of course, as the most powerful of the five major divisions of Nekhka, the Fuyu Department is not a soft persimmon that can be kneaded by others.

Nurhachi was afraid that the other four major divisions of Nekhka would not be able to defeat Fuyu's division, so he let Horqin, who dominates the eastern part of the grassland, do the same.

The old enmity between Zaisai and Nurhachi is also the reason why Zhu Youxiao adopted Xiong Tingbi's suggestion and placed his bet on Fuyu.

During the Battle of Saerhu, in order to deal with the aggressive Houjin, Emperor Wanli once bequeathed gold and silk to Zaisai, the leader of the Fuyu tribe, and asked him to help send troops.

At that time, Zai Sai had long looked down on the Jianzhou Jurchen, and felt that there was no need for him to send out too many troops this time when Daming dispatched an army.

Who can let go of this kind of lying down to make money?

Zaisai readily accepted the silver reward, and only led more than [-] light cavalry to join the juniper army on the North Road.

After Nurhachi defeated Juniper on the North Road, Zaisai just arrived, and before he had time to run, he was caught off guard.

Zaisai and Nurhachi fought fiercely in Tieling. In the end, because they brought too few soldiers, and they were light cavalry recruited temporarily, they were defeated in a fierce battle, and both sons were captured alive.

Soon, the Fuyu Department suffered a hemorrhage and exchanged more than ten thousand horses, cattle and sheep for Zaisai.

When Zaisai was captured, he obeyed Nurhachi's words in Hetuala, saying that he had already been defeated, like a good baby, always saying that when he went back, he would follow the example of "big gold".

Nurhachi was so happy that he didn't increase the price when he saw the envoy from Fuyu Department, and immediately put him back.

But when Zaisai returned to the Fuyu Department, the first thing he did was to send envoys to Beijing to accept the silver reward from the Ming Dynasty and completely break with Houjin.

Zaisai was not only dissatisfied with Saarhu's defeat and capture, but extremely upset.

In the second year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao and Lindan Batur of Chahar made a large-scale alliance. Apart from more than ten tribes in Monan Mongolia, Zaisai shouted the most joy in this Inner Khalkha.

Since Liaoshen cannot be defeated, Nurhachi will not work hard on it. Attacking the Fuyu tribe and encircling Liaodong in terms of sphere of influence is his new strategy.

Zhu Youxiao must not be like history and watch him join together, and then steal Daming's ass casually. Although he is not there, the imperial edict was sent back to the capital this morning.

Not to mention, Zaisai is Daming's ally, this year's meeting is not just a joke with you, since Jiannu dares to fight, Daming dares to accompany him.

In a word, Zaisai, don’t be afraid, fight with Nurhachi to the death, and Da Ming’s father will support you if you break the sky!

Chapter 293

"Everyone, do you know why I called you here this time?"

Zhu Youxiao sat on the throne, and at the same time he was paying attention to the first reaction of these nobles, as expected, they basically did not respond.

This also means that before coming, this group of people passed through Qi.

If there is no accident, they should have already guessed the news of their settlement, and they have also figured out how to deal with it.

But if you guessed it like this, would I still be the emperor?

Xu Hongji smiled and continued:

"There are many affairs at home and abroad, and His Majesty has his own governance. Why do you need ministers to talk too much?"

Zhu Youxiao chuckled, and gently put down the Franji cat on his lap.

This cat is obviously not as close as the Maoge University scholar and Zhu Youxiao. After being put down, it just let out a soft cry, then rubbed its feet and ran out of the hall.

When all the nobles came back to their senses, the attendants had already set up many tables and chairs, and each of them brought good wine and delicacies, and served them in front of them.

"Your ancestors are all great founding generals with outstanding military exploits. Come, let me offer you a toast."

Zhu Youxiao picked up the mellow wine, smiled, and looked around at the people below.

The nobles were flattered, and they didn't expect the emperor to come here. They all picked up the wine on the table and said at the same time:

"Your Majesty—!"

After drinking a glass, Zhu Youxiao put down the wine glass, put on a belt, sat upright on it, and smiled all over his face. As for Wang Chaofu, he led a group of inner eunuchs to the gate of Anding Hall early, as if waiting for something.

Xu Hongji seemed to sense something was wrong, and glanced at Wang Chaofu, who also smiled at him, and then continued to lead a group of inner eunuchs to stand without paying any attention.

Xu Hongji didn't have time to think about it, the voice from above had already come out.

"Come on, put down the rebellion, I'm going to have a drink with all the ministers today." Zhu Youxiao took another glass of wine and drank it by himself.

As soon as the order was given, the attendants laughed happily, and they all got busy.

People in and out of the hall were full of joy, and there were dancers in the hall, and the troupe made music and danced impromptuly.

Xu Hongji looked at the dancer who came to toast with heavy make-up in front of him, and he still felt in his heart that the emperor seemed to be hiding something.

In fact, if the emperor Tianqi came up this time and made trouble, they would really not be afraid.

There are a large number of nobles, and they are all founding fathers. Their ancestors either followed the emperor Taizu to conquer the world, or they worked hard in the battle of Jingnan.

Even if they committed a huge crime, the emperor couldn't just clean them up together. At this time, there is a saying that the law does not blame the public.

What's more, these dozens of families have not committed any crimes.

Kill dozens of honorable families together, no matter what the "Beijing News" or the factory guards publicize, and what charges they find, it is the emperor's fault.