I'm really not the carpenter emperor

Chapter 4: Apocalypse, the first cold wave in Liaodong in three years

"Your Majesty, the imperial court only signed an alliance with the Chahar Department last year and opened a mutual market. This year, it will go to war. This move is not good for the country..."

The speaker was Li Banghua, the new censor of Youqian Capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, who was reinstated as an official only last month.

Li Banghua, courtesy name Meng An, was born in Jishui, Jiangxi Province. He was a Jinshi in the 32nd year of Wanli. He was first awarded the county magistrate of Jing County.

Speaking of which, this Li Banghua is quite unlucky.

As early as the 35th year of Wanli, when he was the county magistrate, he was selected as one of the candidates for the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. But at that time, the Zhejiang Party and Donglin were fighting fiercely.

Because Li Banghua said a few good words to Zou Yuanbiao, he was identified by the Zhejiang Party as an accomplice of Donglin, and he was removed from the list of censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

However, Li Banghua has the same temper as Xiong Tingbi, who just can't keep his mouth shut.

At that time, both the Zhejiang Party and the Chu Party thought he was Donglin, but within a few days, Li Banghua published another topic, criticizing Donglin's fellow party members as traitors, and Donglin also regarded him as an enemy.

Basically, Li Banghua, like Xiong Tingbi, belongs to the "own party".

In the court, if he sees something wrong with this guy, he will break his mouth. In addition, his popularity is not very good, no one will speak for him, and he will be dismissed soon.

Later, some things happened, which was also the scourge of the party struggle. Anyway, Li Banghua not only failed to be a censor, but also lost his black hat, and went home to farm.

Since then, Li Banghua started such a life.

Farmed, was called back, was dismissed due to party disputes, went back to farm for a few years, and was called back to work...

This kind of life has passed for more than ten years. Li Banghua was not remembered until the imperial court dismissed a large number of officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, including Liu Zongzhou, Zuoqiandu Censor, in the major imperial examination case in the third year of Tianqi.

The order to recover Li Banghua was still given by Zhu Youxiao. This time he was not allowed to be the censor, and he was directly promoted to be the second in command of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Youqian Du Yushi.

In fact, it is not considered skipping a grade. Li Banghua has been in the officialdom for decades. Although he has never been a high-ranking official, he has both reputation and ability.

Zhu Youxiao planned to let him work in the Metropolitan Procuratorate for a while before sending him to other places.

Hearing Li Banghua's ramblings, although Zhu Youxiao was a little reluctant, let alone, his heart was still warm, because this guy was really thinking about Daming.

Li Banghua's objection was because he felt that the emperor's imperial decree was wrong. As a subject, he had to say it himself, that's all.

But it wasn't the gang of Donglin Party who opposed for the sake of opposing.

"Your Majesty, have you forgotten the disaster of Guangning that Wang Huazhen called four-way school in the past!"

Li Banghua scratched his neck and remonstrated loudly:

"Since ancient times, the Central Plains dynasty has rarely been able to win outside the Great Wall. The stability of the alliance with Chahar is a real blessing for the people on the frontier!"

"Does Your Majesty think that he is Emperor Chengzu?"

Good guy, this is really not pleasant to hear, to talk to the emperor like this directly in the court, let alone talk to other officials.

If it were other officials, I'm afraid they would say anything ugly.

Zhu Youxiao looked at him and asked, "Li Banghua, let me ask you, when Emperor Chengzu personally conquered the Great Wall, was there any opposition in the court?"

"If I remember correctly, at that time someone compared Emperor Chengzu with Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. What happened later, Emperor Chengzu conquered Mongolia five times and won a complete victory!"

"Since the three guards of Saibei belong to Daming, I can't sit idly by!"

Hearing this, Li Banghua understood the emperor's intention to conquest, his eyes moved slightly, his lips parted, but he didn't continue to speak.

Seeing him standing back, Zhu Youxiao looked a little surprised, and asked with a smile: "It seems that Li Qing agrees with me?"

"I dare not agree with His Majesty's so-called argument." Li Banghua said directly, with no expression on his face, and he was abnormally cold.

Zhu Youxiao frowned and said, "Since you disagree with me, why don't you remonstrate?"

Li Banghua laughed, as if he heard some idiotic question, and asked: "Even if I remonstrate with ten or a hundred sentences, will your majesty listen?"

"Since His Majesty has decided to take this opportunity to punish the Chahar tribe, the courtiers should think about conquest strategies instead of engaging in meaningless verbal arguments."

"The minister is willing to go to the border to inspect the sergeants, and then come back to offer strategies for conquest."

Zhu Youxiao looked at Li Banghua, and wanted him to stay in the capital in a down-to-earth manner, but after thinking about it, he changed his mind temporarily and said:

"I will give you the title of Minister of the Ministry of War, and you can go down to the border to have a look."

……

At Maoshi in winter, there is a hazy darkness between the sky and the earth.

The sun had just set, and it was still early before sunrise, Zhu Youxiao dismissed the court meeting, went back to Xinuang Pavilion to sit down, and the arguments with Li Banghua during the day were especially in his ears.

Just thinking about it, Zhu Youxiao suddenly yawned.

Looking at the memorials piled up like a hill on the imperial case, I suddenly felt a little bored in my heart. There are so many "homework" every day. After the review is over, I am afraid that it will not be until the early morning.

After some ideological struggle, Zhu Youxiao still sighed, picked up a brush and picked up a book to read, criticize, who made us the emperor.

Zhu Youxiao tapped the table slightly with his fingertips, and Wang Chaofu hurried over.

He knew in his heart that the emperor was tired and wanted to read the memorial by himself. He first picked up a copy of the military memorial and read it loudly.

The question of the Ministry of War.

At the end of December, the temperature in various places dropped significantly, and all the military settlements in the Nine Frontiers, Jifu, and Liaodi entered Yandong. The affairs of the military settlements in various places slowed down, and the training was basically suspended.

During November and December, the Ministry of War issued the first batch of standard mandarin duck battle jackets to the important towns on the nine borders and military bases in the order of Datong, Xuanfu, Yulin, Jizhou, and Ningxia. 32 Five sets, for soldiers to keep out the cold.

The second batch of 50 sets of mandarin duck jackets is under intensive planning, and it is expected that all distribution tasks will be completed by the end of January next year.

Zhu Youxiao nodded lightly after listening, and said:

"I know."

After saying that, Wang Chaofu hurriedly picked up the second copy, which was a Liaodong Tang newspaper, signed by Xiong Tingbi, Liaodong Economic Strategy.

Xiong Tingbi said that in the severe winter, the Liaohe River was frozen and the Sancha River was shallow and slow. The rivers in eastern Liaodong basically lost all their defensive functions. He asked the imperial court to allocate 30 taels of money to strengthen the city defenses of the border forts.

Zhu Youxiao thought for a while and said:

"Sure, 40 taels will be allocated, and Xiong Tingbi can use it freely."

After finishing speaking, the little eunuch on the side hurriedly wrote it down verbatim.

Wang Chaofu picked up the third copy, which was Liaodongtang Newspaper, but the name of the person who signed it was changed to Liaodong Governor Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou's statement is basically the same as Xiong Tingbi's. After entering the severe winter, the temperature in Liaodong area has dropped too severely. The temperature is the lowest in the history.

Right now, the whole territory of Liaodong has just been recovered, and reconstruction is in full swing, and there is an urgent need for supplies and winter clothes from the imperial court.

Hong Chengchou asked the imperial court to allocate 10 taels of funds to arrange for the people of Liaodong. In addition, he also requested to distribute 60 sets of cotton clothes. The more wood and stone materials, the better.

Cotton clothes will be issued by the Liaodong Governor's Yamen to the people of Liaodong to keep out the cold, and wood and stone will also be uniformly allocated by the Liaodong Governor's Yamen to rebuild houses and repair city walls.

Zhu Youxiao sighed, and everything that should come will come.

Zhu Youxiao knew about this situation. Fortunately, he had prepared in advance and had a deposit. Although it was not rich, it was at least enough.

Many people have died in this cold wave in history, and I only hope that I can try my best to save some people.

Zhu Youxiao leaned back on the chair, closed his eyes and ordered:

"The allocation of 60 taels, didn't Zhu Xieyuan say that he purchased a batch of wood in Shanxi, and the wood was supplied from Shanxi, and the stone..."

"Wang Chaofu, you go to Wei Zhongxian and let him think of a way."

"There are still 60 sets of cotton clothes..." Zhu Youxiao murmured, and said:

"20 sets will be made by the Scarf and Hat Bureau and the Needle Palace Bureau, and will be deployed by the Shangyi Supervisor. The remaining 40 sets will be made by Li Shi of the Suzhou Weaving Bureau to think of a way."

Chapter 451 I'm Not Here

In the first month of the fourth year of Tianqi, fine snow fell over the capital.

After counting forty-nine, the weather was not too cold, more than half of the Su Mei in the palace was dyed red by cinnabar, but some silver clothes were hung again, and snowflakes like jade flakes fell on the ground, before the palace supervisors even had time Just sprinkle and sweep.

At this moment, most of the 24 yamen of the Inner Mansion are extremely busy, and the formerly busy Zhidian Supervisor is free.

A few eunuchs were too lazy to steal, so they saved their energy and sat chatting on the white jade steps.

"Have you heard that His Majesty issued an oral order last night, ordering the yamen of the inner government to deliver 20 sets of cotton clothes to Liao within seven days."

The other little eunuch heard this, and felt that it was not a big deal to watch the excitement.

"Who doesn't know this? Every brand of Shangyi Supervision is so busy that its feet don't touch the ground, and it keeps turning around. Even Feng Zhangyin can't see anyone all day long, and supervises in various supervision bureaus."

The eunuchs were talking, but a small sign from the Shangyi Supervisor came over, they got up quickly, and one of them smiled obsequiously:

"What wind brought you here?"

The brand lacked interest, glanced lightly, and asked:

"Just the five of you, what about the others?"

Several young eunuchs looked at each other, and someone said: "If you return the sign, the rest will be scattered in various palaces and halls to watch the fire."

"Some are sweeping the garden. I wonder how the cotton clothes are doing?"

Hearing this, Xiao Pai Zi sighed and said, "It's not that good, our family is here this time to talk to you about this matter."

Hearing this, some bad premonitions rose in the hearts of several young eunuchs.

I just heard the little sign continue to say: "Eunuch Feng just lost his temper, and the delivery is due in six days. We can't keep an eye on the time, no, we have to finish it in advance."

"The Shangyi Supervisor, the Scarf and Hat Bureau, and the Needle Palace Bureau have long been short of manpower. I heard that your Zhidian Supervisor is very free recently?"

Several young eunuchs looked at each other and said one after another.

"How can it be!"

"Hey, how did you hear the news about the brand? It has snowed for several days in a row, and there will be small fires everywhere in the palace. We are also very busy."

"That's right, the Zhidian Supervisor really can't find any manpower!"

Hearing this, the little paizi moved his eyes and said with a sneer: "I don't know about you yet, our family was promoted by Zhidian Supervisor!"

"In the first month of the year, no matter whether it snows or not, the Zhidian supervisor is the most leisurely. Apart from holding fire for the palaces and palaces, what else can you do?"

"Our family hasn't said anything yet, but you guys are called Shangqu..."

Hearing the words, several young eunuchs looked at each other, and they didn't argue anymore, they could only wait for the order from the brand in front of them.

"The Zhidian supervisor has the second largest number of staff among the twelve prisons. It happens that you are idle in the first month. Eunuch Feng went to discuss with Song Eunuch, the palm seal of the Zhidian supervisor, to recruit some manpower from you."

"You, you, go to Jingren Palace, Chengqian Palace, Zhongcui Palace, Jingyang Palace, Yonghe Palace and Yanxi Palace, the three of you, go to Yongshou Palace, Yikun Palace, Chuxiu Palace, Xianfu Palace, Changchun Palace and Qixiang Palace."

"Borrow some manpower from every palace and palace. After these few days of busy work, there will be a lot of rewards!"

In the beginning, the five little eunuchs were still reluctant, but when they heard that there was a lot of reward, they became happy and flattered again.

"Don't worry about the brand, we will definitely bring the word to you."

"Slow down sign—!"

……

Three days later, Qianqing Palace, Xinuang Pavilion.

Zhu Youxiao put down the memorial and glanced outside the hall.

No matter how cold it is outside, the inside of the warm pavilion is still warmed by the Xuande stove, and you can't feel the slightest cold.

Zhu Youxiao saw that there were two red plum trees standing in the yard outside Xinuan Pavilion, which were standing brightly in the snow, and the branches were covered with spring snow from the sky.

"Wang Chaofu, why is Xinuang Pavilion so deserted today?"

Hearing the words, the latter also looked around, only to see three maids and two eunuchs waiting by the side, less than half of the usual number.

He bowed and said:

"My lord, it's all about Liaodi cotton clothes."

"It's been a severe cold in Liao this year. In order to protect the people from the cold, the governor's office ordered 60 sets of cotton-padded clothes, and the inner government office gave out 20 sets. In a few days, it's time to deliver them."

"The few people were borrowed by Feng Gao, the eunuch of the Shangyi Supervisor. After all, they are short of manpower..."

Zhu Youxiao let out a soft "hmm", without any intention of blaming him, he opened the memorial and said:

"It's still Wei Zhongxian who is able to do things well. It seems that the stone materials have been continuously shipped from Shandong to Liao last year. What method did he use?"

"I heard that the stone materials are complete after I went to Jining in person?"

Wang Chaofu smiled slightly, expressing that he didn't know too much.

"On the timber side, the governor of Shanshan and Shaanxi came to the book and said that the first batch was ready. As for the cotton clothes, the 40 sets of the Suzhou-Hangzhou Weaving Bureau have already been completed, and only 20 sets of the inner government yamen are missing. You can rush Urge."