I'm really not the carpenter emperor

The Donglin Party took advantage of the local public opinion again at this time, and all of these people who died in the violent tax resistance in Suzhou were packaged as so-called "national scholars."

Wei Zhongxian had even killed these people in history, but now, for some reason, he actually gave up? !

Perhaps it was because of the White Lotus Sect that Wei Zhongxian felt that one thing more is worse than one thing less?

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao felt that he wanted to give Wei Zhongxian a message so that he would know what to do.

Zhu Youxiao stepped down from the imperial steps, went straight to Li Yangzheng, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishments, and asked loudly, "Tell me, how should we deal with the Suzhou matter?"

"Your Majesty, Zhou Shunchang is well-known in Suzhou. It is said that the tax disturbances are all spontaneously initiated by the villagers of Suzhou. The court must follow the people's will..."

"Then according to what you mean, not only can I not deal with these violent tax-resisting people, but how many inscriptions should I erect for them?"

Li Yangzheng was sweating all over his head, and he was depressed for a long time before hesitatingly said: "This... Your Majesty, please be careful and think twice before acting."

It seems that the Ministry of Punishment cannot be expected to take care of this matter, and the literati can control the literati, so it must not be able to control anything.

"You have to be careful!" Zhu Youxiao sneered a few times, and returned to his seat, "Since the Ministry of Punishment is so afraid of trouble, then this matter will be handled by Jin Yiwei!"

"Decree to Yang Huan, a thousand households of Jinyiwei, to let him go to Suzhou in person to thoroughly investigate this matter!"

"I want to see who is resisting tax collection, who is fanning the flames and making the people riot!"

The news spread out of Xinuang Pavilion, and soon reached Wei Zhongxian's ears.

After hearing this, Wei Zhongxian immediately stood up, shook his hands and said, "Quick, hurry up and enter the palace!"

Fu Yingxing was leaning against a wall of the main hall, feeling aggrieved that the emperor had handed over this matter to Jin Yiwei.

In his opinion, after all, it was his Dongchang flag officer who was beaten to death, and now he was handed over to Beizhen Fusi. Isn't this a slap in the face of Dongchang.

Seeing Wei Zhongxian leaving in a hurry, Fu Yingxing looked puzzled: "Where is Dugong going in such a hurry?"

"Go to face the saint!" Wei Zhongxian guessed that Fu Yingxing was about to ask, and explained as he walked: "You pack up and go to the palace with the governor to face the saint!"

"Your Majesty is clearly asking Jin Yiwei to deal with it, but he is reminding the governor of his ineffectiveness!"

"Ah, this..." Fu Yingxing looked surprised, and hurriedly followed out.

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Wei Zhongxian is worthy of being the person who can understand the holy will best. Zhu Youxiao's meaning had just been conveyed through the incident of Xinuange, and soon he asked to see him outside.

But at this moment, Zhu Youjiao was talking about another matter, and upon hearing this, he just wanted to take a sideways glance, and said quietly:

"Let them in."

Wei Zhongxian and Fu Yingxing tiptoed in and waited aside, waiting for Emperor Tianqi to finish the matter at hand.

"Why did Your Majesty suddenly have such a plan?" Cui Chengxiu, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, was stunned, "The gunpowder stored in Wang Gong's factory is more than tens of millions of stones!"

"It's not easy to move out of the entire Wang Gong factory in a hurry..."

Zhu Youxiao glanced at him, and said in an uncompromising tone:

"I don't care if it's easy, it's March now, and I only give you two months. Before May, all the things in Wang Gong's factory will be moved outside the suburbs of Beijing."

"If you can't even do this little thing well, then you, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, don't do it!"

During the recent period, Zhu Youxiao racked his brains thinking about the scope and time of the apocalyptic big bang in history.

The apocalyptic explosion probably occurred at the end of May, and it affected almost the entire southern part of Beijing.

It is impossible to evacuate the entire Nancheng in such a hurry.

You must know that the current population of Beijing is much larger than at this time in history. In the past six years since Zhu Youxiao succeeded to the throne, the population of Beijing has increased by hundreds of thousands.

In addition, the city of Beijing is much more prosperous than in history. Mongolians, Westerners, Russians, all kinds of people have lived here and run business.

As for Nancheng, it is the place where the government offices gather. The prisons of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Shuntian Mansion, and the yamen of the Wucheng Bingmasi are all located in Nancheng.

Not to mention more than a month, without three to five months, Nancheng couldn't finish moving.

And you thought it was over when Nancheng was evacuated?

This is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and half of it will be vacated at once. When the time comes, how to arrange the people from all parties is also a problem.

It has been almost six years since the apocalypse, and the local disasters have just begun this whole year.

The capital is so turbulent, how can it be stable locally?

The apocalypse explosion is very bizarre, but one thing is almost certain, it was triggered from the Wang Gong factory.

Instead of evacuating Nancheng, it would be better to move Wang Gong's factory directly!

These officials didn't know what was going on, and Zhu Youxiao couldn't tell them directly that Wang Gong's factory was about to blow up.

So after thinking about it, I can only pretend to be mysterious, give the officials below a direct death order, and try to speak seriously so that they know they are anxious.

Now there is no other way but to do two things.

First, thoroughly investigate the surroundings of Wang Gong's factory to remove all hidden dangers that may cause gunpowder explosions.

Second, move the Wang Gong factory to the desolate suburbs of Beijing as soon as possible. As for the stored gunpowder, the farther the better.

I don't know what to think, so much gunpowder has been directly piled up in the capital since the Yongle Year, and no one thought that there would be troubles.

If all these things are done, and the apocalyptic explosion still explodes in the capital, then Zhu Youxiao has nothing to say.

That is life!

Chapter 7 and Seven: The Layout of the Donglin Party

Cui Chengxiu didn't understand what the emperor meant, so he made this decision suddenly, but he still left according to the order.

As for Wei Zhongxian after that, I felt very uneasy.

After Cui Chengxiu left, Zhu Youxiao didn't call the two of them, but just sat on the throne and looked at the memorial to himself.

Wei Zhongxian knew that he couldn't stand around here, so he put on a smiling face, stepped forward and said flatteringly:

"Master, this servant has something important to report."

"what's up?"

"It's about the death of the Banner Captain of Suzhou Dongchang. Zhou Shunchang resisted paying taxes and agitated the people. His mind was extremely bad."

Wei Zhongxian said hehe, seeing the emperor's face remained the same, he already guessed something in his heart, boldly walked behind the throne, and began to squeeze the emperor's shoulders and back.

"My lord, this time it's something that happened in Dongchang, or should I leave it to the servants?"

Only then did Zhu Youxiao glance at him sideways, then turned back, and asked while looking at the memorial, "Why are you suddenly interested in this matter?"

"Let's leave the matter of Suzhou to Yang Huan of Beizhen Fusi, and you Dongchang will go all out to investigate the White Lotus Sect."

Even if the emperor said such a thing, even a thoughtful person should retreat at this time.

But who is Wei Zhongxian?

In today's world, when it comes to guessing the mind of Emperor Tianqi, he ranks second, and no one dares to rank first. He is almost sure that the emperor is playing hard to get.

No matter what happens, the main thing is to make the emperor happy, and he must not let him have a hurdle in his heart and hold it in his heart all the time.

It may be fine now, but it will be a big problem in the future.

He hammered his back for a while and said with a smile:

"Your Majesty is wise and wise. Yang Qianhu is one of the four thousand households in the Zhenfu Division, so his ability is naturally solid, but this matter...is a mess in Dongchang after all."

"Your Majesty asked Li Shi to go to Suzhou to set up the Weaving Bureau, and the Imperial Chamber of Commerce was also established in Suzhou. Since then, the chaos in Suzhou has never stopped..."

"The reason is that it blocked some people's way of making money. The thief Zhou Shunchang is Zhou Qiyuan's disciple."

When Zhu Youxiao heard this, he remembered.

Who is Qiyuan Zhou?

Zhou Qiyuan once went to Shushu to impeach Li Shi, the admiral of the Weaving Bureau, for practicing favoritism and lawlessness, but Zhu Youxiao didn't take it seriously.

As for Wei Zhongxian, he was able to do things well. Seeing that Emperor Tianqi didn't care, he directly ordered Dongchang to arrest Zhou Qiyuan and put him in the capital to be tortured to death.

In fact, Zhu Youxiao knew exactly what Li Shi had done.

The words of Zhou Qiyuan and the gang of Donglin Party are purely fabricated, just to close the weaving bureau.

If the Weaving Bureau is open, all the silkworm business in Suzhou and Hangzhou will fall into the hands of the imperial court, that is, Zhu Youxiao himself.

For this situation, the bigwigs behind the Donglin Party must not do anything.

The reason why Zhou Qiyuan jumped out was because he was actually a small character, and behind him was a bigger Donglin Party official who wanted to help the interest groups behind the scenes to get back the silkworm business.

The silk made from mulberry silkworms has always been very popular among merchants from Europe. Merchants from various countries often resell it back and forth one by one, but it is the most profitable business in Suzhou and Hangzhou.

Even Zhou Qiyuan was a small character who came out to die, not to mention Zhou Shunchang, the leader of the so-called "Seven Sages of the Eastern Forest".

Now it seems that he is just a smaller role that the Donglin Party can abandon at any time.

Having dealt with the Donglin Party for so many years, Zhu Youxiao knew at least one thing, that is, the one Donglin Party called his favorite would always be a minor character.

Whether it is Zhou Qiyuan who died in Dongchang two years after Tianqi, or Zhou Shunchang who is suddenly making trouble now, it is dispensable.

Behind them, there must be someone who hides deeper and watches secretly.

Wei Zhongxian made it clear today, he is the clearest about these hidden situations.

When Zhu Youxiao heard this, he also felt chills, and he didn't have any intention to frighten him, so he said directly:

"Since Zhongxian wants to do things for me so much, then I will give you this opportunity."

"Tell Yang Huan that there is no need for Beizhen Fusi to intervene in this matter. It is better to hand it over to Dongchang, and send Tiqi to Suzhou to arrest Zhou Shunchang first."

"Those who participated in this resistance to tax payment will be arrested together!"

From Wei Zhongxian's decision to put the matter to rest, to Zhu Youxiao's personal interrogation, Jin Yiwei and Dongchang took action one after another, but only two days have passed.

In the past two days, the situation in Suzhou has become even worse.

After Dongchang took over Suzhou, the capital was full of horsemen, and Wei Zhongxian also directly sent his nephew, Fu Yingxing, the leader of the stall, to go there in person.

Not to mention the upheaval in the local area after Tiqi went to Suzhou, but in the southern city of Beijing, the people from Wang Gongchang received an unpredictable order.

The official document of the Ministry of Industry stated that the Wang Gong factory and its surrounding factories and bureaus were all required to withdraw from Nancheng before May.

The Ministry of Industry designated a new address thirty miles away in the suburbs of Beijing, where the new factory bureau of Wang Gong Factory will be located in the future.

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Wang Gong Factory is located in the area of ​​Yongning Hutong and Guangcai Hutong, south of Xinwenhua Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, north of Xuanwumen West Street, east of Naoshikou South Street, and west of Tonglinge Road.

Since the Yongle period, Daming has always paid more attention to the manufacture of firearms, at least actively in imitating European firearms, so firearms have relatively developed.

And the Shenji Battalion, one of the three major battalions of the capital, is the world's first organized musketry unit. Although it is no longer brilliant now, it still has a foundation after all.

Among the three major battalions, the Shenji Battalion is the absolute main force. During the battle of Oala's siege of the capital, the Shenji Battalion was able to repel the Oirat cavalry almost entirely by using advanced firearms.

Before Zhu Youxiao succeeded to the throne, the Shenji Battalion, at least in name, had always been equipped with the most advanced firearms and the strongest troops.

For this reason, during the Yongle, Zhengde, and Wanli years, six gunpowder factory bureaus were established in Beijing.

All the blunderbuss lead and gunpowder needed for the Shenji Battalion's drills and battles have always been prefabricated by Wang Gong's factory for the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion to receive.

With this kind of specification, it is not too much to say that Shenjiying is his own son.

However, since Zhu Youxiao succeeded to the throne, the status of Shenji Ying was no longer there. Instead, a Yongwei Ying was established, which replaced the original status of Beijing Ying and the personal guards of the Twelve Emperors in the Forbidden City.

This Brave Guard Battalion is now often directly referred to as the Forbidden Army.

As for the original three battalions, Zhu Youxiao didn't rectify them very much. They just left them half dead and let them fend for themselves for six years.

No one expected that the first decree regarding the three major battalions was to move out the Wang Gong factory that was originally in the capital.

All of a sudden, the nobles of the three battalions quit.

Everyone knows that the Wang Gong factory and its affiliated factory bureaus are dedicated to serving the three major battalions, and once they are moved out, what is left of the three major battalions.

Could it be that this is a harbinger of the emperor's complete abolition of the three major battalions of the capital?

Chapter 7 Adding the Ryukyu House

"What kind of bullshit is going to be put on the table by our men!" Xue Lian, Marquis of Yangwu, sat on a chair with a golden sword, and said to the nobles around him:

"What kind of offense did Your Majesty commit to move Wang Gong's factory dozens of miles away?"

A nobleman also said: "I don't understand the lowly position. How can this Wang Gong Factory have been standing in Nancheng for more than two hundred years, and if it is said to be moved, it will be moved away?"