I'm really not the carpenter emperor

Tong Jing'er suddenly came back to her senses, her cheeks blushed instantly, it turned out that she was remembering the past between Zhu Youxiao and her in Xinuange that day.

Zhang Yan saw her eyes flickering, and seemed to understand something, her clear eyes turned slightly, but did not pierce, just quietly waiting for her to mention it to him first.

"I think about that day, the emperor and my concubine in Xinuang Pavilion."

"The emperor got up with Long Xing that day, and the concubine was still a servant at that time, and cleaned up the wound on his hand..."

"Since then, the emperor laughed less and less..."

Zhang Yan had never heard of these things, she just sat there and listened quietly.

Curiosity gradually grew in her heart, and she also thought that if she was just an ordinary woman, she would definitely ask Concubine Yu about some interesting things about her husband at this time.

But as the mother of the country, in addition to continuing the emperor's heir for the country, she must always abide by the precepts, to cultivate the virtues of orders, and to rectify the palace.

All these worldly pleasures must be buried in the heart, and only bloom to the emperor.

Quietly erasing the throbbing in her heart, Zhang Yan gently stroked the blue cat in her arms, raised her eyes again, looked at Concubine Yu, and said solemnly:

"You are now the imperial concubine of Ming Dynasty. These things should not be talked about constantly. You are not choosing a concubine to enter the palace. You must pay attention to etiquette and not insult the state."

Tong Jing'er was taken aback for a moment, then murmured: "Yes..."

Zhang Yan nodded, and was about to get up to leave, when she got up half of her body, she suddenly covered her mouth, looking disgusted.

Looking at her, Concubine Yu was full of surprise.

……

The battle reports on Liao affairs were sorted out by Hong Chengchou, the governor of Liaodong, and Xiong Tingbi, the governor of Liaodong, after the retreat of Hou Jin, and sent to the capital in late May.

On a sunny afternoon, after lunch, Zhu Youjiao watched the martial arts performance of the Yongwei Battalion in the inner school grounds.

The government is boring, always chatting with civil servants, only by coming to the school ground full of shouts, can Zhu Youxiao feel that he is really doing things.

Most of Tong Zhongkui's and Chen Ce's aid troops to Liao consisted of Sichuan and Zhejiang troops who had experienced many battles.

Historically, all of this 7000-strong combatant regiment died in the Hunhe River. Now that Zhu Youxiao knew about this, he sent them to the capital from the road to aid Liao and incorporated them into the Yongwei Battalion. .

In front of everyone, a soldier was trying out a gun.

Zhu Youxiao set up the Military Weapons Department and asked Bi Maokang to select personnel to develop the self-generating bird gun, which is what later generations call the Suifa gun.

Up to now, Cheng Gun has been released many times, but most of the time it was a failure of trial guns. However, the Ordnance Department has not stopped imitating and researching.

Bi Maokang continued to improve and overcame various difficulties, and finally delivered the spontaneous bird gun that did not have any accidents during the first test shot today.

Zhu Youxiao didn't know what an exhilarating scene it was when the self-born blunderbuss fired that shot at the weapons department's test blunderbuss venue.

Few people can understand the mood of the people in the Armament Division.

The advent of the first self-born blunderbuss in the Ming Dynasty is not only a return to the long-term investment of the imperial court, but also an affirmation of the Department of Military Weapons.

At this time, Bi Maokang was standing beside Zhu Youxiao, seeing the emperor staring intently, he felt a little uneasy.

The cost of this gun is more than three or two, and this is not counting the losses caused by the previous failures of the gun. I hope there will be no accidents today.

Otherwise, he was really afraid that if the emperor didn't want to, he would stop the project of developing the self-generating blunderbuss, and all previous efforts would be wasted.

"boom!"

In the martial arts arena, there was a loud noise.

Everyone saw that the head of the straw man who was more than a hundred steps away flew into the air, and immediately landed heavily on the ground.

Bi Maokang wept with joy, and secretly glanced at Zhu Youxiao, seeing the smile on the latter's face, he was completely relieved.

"it is good!"

"Good fight!"

There was a moment of silence in the arena, Tong Zhongkui, Chen Ce, Qi Jin and others all looked at each other, all cheering.

Even many veteran soldiers of the Brave Guard Battalion began to whisper among each other. They had never seen such a powerful shotgun.

Zhu Youxiao's eyes moved slightly, and his breathing gradually became rapid.

If this kind of shotgun can be distributed to the entire army, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army will surely be raised several notches!

Chapter 84 Centralization

With the loud noise and pungent gunpowder smoke, the head of the grass man was decapitated.

The courtiers around Zhu Youxiao covered their faces in horror, while Qi Jin and other generals of the Yongwei Battalion laughed heartily at each other, looking at Bi Maokang with eyes full of respect.

"My lord—"

At this time, Wei Zhongxian saw the emperor's joyful appearance, so he took a step forward and unfolded the yellow silk playbook on the tray himself.

Zhu Youxiao picked it up and saw that it was Gu Bingqian, a cabinet scholar, who asked Cui Chengxiu, the Minister of the Ministry of War, to replace Zhang Heming as the Minister of the Ministry of War.

Immediately, he snorted softly.

Wei Zhongxian looked down at the ground, anxiously waiting for the emperor's will.

Naturally, he and Gu Bingqian had first discussed this memorial.

Zhang Heming, minister of the Ministry of War, and Wang Huazhen, the counselor, made such a big mess. If Mao Wenlong hadn't won a great victory in Yizhou and captured the son of the slave chief, Guangning would have fallen too.

The emperor raised Longxing and wanted to punish Wang Huazhen severely, so Zhang Minghe, who was backing him later, would naturally be implicated as well.

But the scapegoat can only be Zhang Heming.

The position of Minister of the Ministry of War is no longer light, so taking this opportunity to return to the Liaodong War to withdraw Zhang Heming is a smooth sailing.

In the situation where more than [-] Liao soldiers and civilians were overthrown, no one would say a word.

Wang Huazhen was a protégé of Ye Xianggao, the head assistant of the current court, and everyone in the court knew about this matter, if the investigation continues, Ye Xianggao will inevitably be implicated.

Although Donglin has been suppressed by the "eunuch party", the foundation of its power is still there.

Wei Zhongxian wanted to replace the position of Minister of the Ministry of War with one of his own, and then gradually figured it out. Cui Chengxiu had been a servant for many years, and he was also a hardcore eunuch, so he was naturally the best candidate.

Zhu Youxiao put the memorabilia back on the tray, got up and went to the gun trial field, and two words floated softly behind him:

"That's right."

Wei Zhongxian was overjoyed, and quickly signaled the little eunuch to write it down for future drafting.

"See Your Majesty."

The soldier who tried the blunderbuss cleaned up the medicine, got up and saw the emperor and his party coming, he didn't dare to take a second look, and hurriedly bowed to salute.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't put it down after receiving the self-born blunderbuss.

This thing will be the main weapon to deal with Jianlu in the future. After so long, Daming finally has his own Suifa gun.

Compared with the west where the firearm was popularized in the middle of the seventeenth century, the progress of the Ming Dynasty under my leadership should not be slow, right?

After thinking about it narcissistically for a while, Zhu Youxiao turned around and handed the blunderbuss to Qi Jin, let them pass it on for a look, and said softly:

"How many fowlers are there in the Guards Battalion today?"

Qi Jin, Chen Ce and others looked at each other, and the former came out and said: "Go back to the emperor, counting the Sichuan and Zhejiang soldiers brought by Chen Zongbing and Tong Zongbing, the Yongwei Battalion now has [-] soldiers who are good at fighting."

"Throwers, 1000 men."

"1000 people, a little less..." Zhu Youxiao murmured, then turned his head and asked, "Mr. Bi, how much silver would it take to make five thousand rods of this self-generating bird gun?"

Bi Maokang and several military craftsmen behind him made a rough estimate, bowed their heads and said, "Your Majesty, the cost of the project needs to be 8000 taels, and that's not counting..."

Before he could finish speaking, Zhu Youxiao waved his hand impatiently, and said, "I will give you 3 taels to make [-] self-generating bird guns at the fastest speed."

The emperor was so decisive, what else could Bi Maokang say?

Seeing him salute tremblingly, he responded.

"Qi Jin." Zhu Youxiao sighed, then called out again.

"The minister is here!" Qi Jin said hurriedly.

"I know that it is not difficult to train the blunderbuss. The Yongwei Battalion needs to recruit four thousand blunderbusses to be incorporated into the Firearms Battalion. I will give you a month to practice."

As he spoke, Zhu Youxiao turned his eyes slightly and asked, "Is that enough?"

"The emperor has orders, I will do my best!"

Hearing Qi Jin's straightforward answer, Zhu Youxiao felt relieved and turned back to the inner palace.

……

Qianqing Palace, Xinuang Pavilion.

The two ministers lowered their heads and looked at the ground. They didn't have the slightest intention to appreciate the prosperous golden houses, carved beams and painted buildings in the palace.

Neither of them knew that the Xinuang Pavilion was always the place where the emperor dealt with the memorials, and they were summoned from the cabinet signing room, what was the so-called matter.

The young emperor was still looking through the memorials book by book, as if he didn't notice their existence at all.

After a long time, a calm voice came from behind the case.

"From today onwards, you two, you don't have to go to the signing room anymore."

Hearing these words, both Wang Zaijin and Gu Bingqian raised their heads in astonishment, looked at each other, and saw the same look in each other's eyes.

Faced with the emperor's nonsensical words, the two chose to keep their mouths shut and wait for the next sentence.

"From then on, I will be on duty at Xinuang Pavilion every day."

"By the way, I have stopped talking all day, you two gentlemen, when I am in the palace, if there is no important matter, I should always be by my side, preparing advisers, discussing classics and history, discussing poetry and prose, whatever."

When saying these words, Zhu Youxiao never raised his head.

The emperor said calmly, but Wang Zaijin and Gu Bingqian muttered to each other, what does it mean that the cabinet bachelors did not go to the signing room to be on duty, but came to Xinuang Pavilion.

"You don't have to think about it. I'm just idle and bored. I asked you to come and relieve your boredom. Go down."

"Yes."

The two looked at each other, then spoke at the same time, and retreated together.

After they left the Xinuang Pavilion, Zhu Youxiao put down the brush in his hand and thought quietly.

From the incident in Guangning this time, it can be seen that the corruption of the outer dynasty has been accumulated for a long time, and this cannot be solved by simply clearing Donglin.

In addition to the outer dynasty, in the south of the Yangtze River, the collusion between government and businessmen cannot be resolved with a few government orders.

The establishment of the Supervisory Office in Beidi went smoothly because each town was guarded by a large number of troops loyal to the imperial court.

In the process of establishing Jiangnan, it encountered obstacles everywhere, and Jinyiwei often suffered casualties.

This is not the "sturdy" folk custom in the south of the Yangtze River. It is because some people have realized from the change in tariffs that they will attack businessmen in the future.

If you really want to say it, it is not their original intention for the common people to smash the supervisory office. The common people are easily bewitched, used and instructed by people with ulterior motives.

But can the imperial court slaughter people casually?cannot.

How similar is this to the land in Liaodong where Jianlu drove the people to serve as human shields to attack the city?

Therefore, in the foreign court, Zhu Youxiao planned to gradually delegate more power to Wei Wei in the appointment and removal of officials.

Knowing that Cui Chengxiu is an eunuch, he still allowed him to take the position. This is what it means, and Wei Zhongxian should also understand it.

Now Zhu Youxiao's focus has been on the inner court.

This time imitating Kang Mazi's "South Study Room" is the first step. In the future, the Military Aircraft Department will be copied over.

Transferring certain functions and rights of the cabinet of the outer dynasty to the inner court and implementing a high degree of centralization is Zhu Youxiao's purpose.

Since the outer court is useless and the tail is too big to lose, then I simply don't need the outer court and set up a small "court" that only obeys my own orders.

From then on, Xinuange will not only be the place where the emperor handles government affairs, but also a power center where the government and the public know everything, and everyone wants to come in if they are overcrowded.

Gu Bingqian may not be very capable, but he is absolutely obedient, and he is also the most prestigious civil servant in the "eunuch party" today.

As for Wang Zaijin, although Zhu Youxiao had given him a lot of rights, due to various reasons, even after he entered the cabinet, he was not so handy.

Transferring him to be on duty in Xinuange this time is not only to increase his prestige, but also to tell the scholars all over the world that even if you are from Donglin, you can still gain the emperor's trust.

Chapter 85 The Three Tribes

Wang Huazhen was in Guangning, before he had time to breathe a sigh of relief, he received the news that the capital had arrested him and brought him back for questioning.

At this time, he was in the car and was entering Shanhaiguan with a group of Tiqi.