Cannon Fodder is King [Quick Transmigration]

On July 29, the official street drums were played, and Meng Zezhi's first court meeting after he ascended the throne was held at Huangji Gate.

Different from the previous dynasties, after Emperor Taizu came to the throne, considering the severe winter weather, all officials performed their affairs in turn, and the officials could not stand for a long time, so they separated the ceremony from the performance.After the brief ceremony, the ministers went to the inner hall of Huangji Gate to perform their duties one by one if they had something to do, and returned to their respective yamen to work if they had nothing to do.

This is what is commonly referred to as the 'Royal Gate Auditorate'.

When I arrived at Emperor Guangde, 22 years later, because of good and bad health, the noon court was stopped and only the morning court was opened. Later, the early court system was changed to reduce the number of early courts, and it was set to be every three, six, and nine days. Going to court, that is, changing from going up every day to nine times a month.

After Meng Zezhi succeeded to the throne, he had no intention of being diligent in administration, and simply followed the old system of the previous dynasty.

Qianqing Palace, Zhaoren Hall.

Hearing the knock on the door, Lu Li, who hadn't slept all night, recovered from his thoughts. He took a deep breath, stretched out his hand and pushed the person under him, and shouted softly, "Long live, it's time to wake up!" .”

Meng Zezhi stretched out his hand to hold Lu Li's hand on his chest, hummed a few times, but didn't quite remember.

Lu Li pursed his lips, took his hand out of Meng Zezhi's hand, touched it down, and began to rub it more or less quickly. .

When the dough swelled and then deflated, Lu Li's hands were sore.

No matter how much drowsiness is there, it disappears at this moment.

Meng Zezhi had a gluttonous face, he couldn't be more satisfied with Lu Li's way of waking him up.

He kissed Lu Li's forehead: "You sleep a little longer, I'll go to court."

"Yes." Lu Li agreed.

Meng Zezhi got up and got out of bed, with scratches all over his back and waist.

Recently, Lu Li was very enthusiastic, with a taste of the last indulgence.

Meng Zezhi knew it well, and decided decisively to have a showdown with Lu Li later.

After washing up under the service of a group of servant girls, Meng Zezhi walked out of Zhaoren Hall.

Leaving Lu Li lying on the bed secretly sad.

After a few whips, the Jingyang bell rang loudly, and all the officials entered the Huangji gate in a row of left and right.

A while later, surrounded by eunuchs and court ladies, Meng Zezhi walked up to the throne with square steps, and accepted the visits of civil and military officials upright.

"Long live my emperor! Long live!"

To be honest, this kind of feeling of self-respect and submission to all the people is indeed very refreshing. Meng Zezhi glanced over the rows of officials kneeling on the ground in the hall, heaved a sigh of relief, and then said slowly: " Everyone loves you in peace."

"Thank you!"

Meng Zezhi didn't speak, all civil and military officials bowed their heads silently and remained motionless.

A month ago, the tragedy outside the Meridian Gate was still vivid in my mind.Thousands of bloody corpses were piled up like a mountain. It is said that it took a whole day just to clean up the blood on the ground.

But at that time, the Shenji Battalion in charge of defending the city was unscathed.

In addition, these days, the Shenji Camp has been arresting people everywhere. Anyone involved in the Eighth Prince's treason case has their homes confiscated and sent to prisons.

For a while, people in the capital were panicked.

Then there is Tao An, the great eunuch standing next to the throne. On the day the eighth prince conspired against him, he publicly admitted that Gan Zhengfu and Tao An, Shangshu of the Household Department, were his people. Tao An didn't move like a mountain.

What does this mean?

It shows that from the beginning to the end, Tao An is a member of Meng Zezhi.

——The Eighth Prince was being tricked around.

Combined with Emperor Guangde's performance at that time, I'm afraid he didn't know about it.

What a scheming and means!

Even the party of the five princes was palpitated by Meng Zezhi's unfathomable city.

Meng Zezhi opened his mouth and said: "I admire Emperor Taizong Wu of the Mongolian Emperor Kao Taizong to give Long En, give him a divine weapon, and control the world. I look up to the sacred decree, respect the heaven and the ancestors, be diligent in government and love the people, and serve the three selflessness as the foundation..."

"...Emperor Taizu once said in the second year of Jianping: The way to be a king is to know people and to comfort the people. Now the southeastern provinces have not been peaceful in military affairs, and the people have suffered tragically. I want to revitalize culture and education, build military equipment, To advance the virtuous and to eradicate the ugliness, so as to preserve the foundation of our country for hundreds of millions of years, I hope all the lords will encourage each other."

"Long live the wise, ministers and others must do their best, and never hesitate to die."

Listening to the people on the throne mouthing 'Fengdi', Wubei', and 'Dangping', and remembering that the other party insisted on using the word 'Wu' as the year name, the scalps of the civil servants couldn't help but tingle.

What about Liuyuan and Emperor Diwen?

Emperor Guangde is enough for a warlike emperor. If there is another Emperor Ningwu, the people of the world will suffer!

It's just that even though they think so, no one dares to touch Meng Zezhi's bad luck at this time.

"Everyone loves to be flat."

"Thank you!"

After talking about his political ideals, Meng Zezhi took two sips of tea from the tea bowl on the table, and then said, "Tao An, declare the decree."

"Yes."

Tao An bowed to Meng Zezhi, then took a volume of imperial decree from the tray held by the little eunuch standing beside him, unfolded it and sang: "Fengtian Chengyun Emperor, the imperial decree said: I am born in heaven and the people are upright, the monarch Benevolence nurtures the common people in Taihe, and governs Huayi in the same rank as Xi...Yi Qin is in the grace of You, to give the hope of reform. Amnesty for the world: the sins are extremely pardoned, and those who are unjust are pardoned!"

The so-called permanent amnesty refers to those who commit crimes such as murder, arson, tomb robbery, and banditry.

"...In addition, the elderly people and the lonely and helpless will be given two feet of silk and a bucket of rice... Exemption from Zhengzhou and Kaifeng in Henan for three years. Fengyang, Huai'an, Xuzhou, Chuzhou, and Yangzhou in Zhili this autumn All taxes and grains will be exempted, and the remaining prefectures of Zhili, Shanxi, Zhejiang, and Fujian... will be exempted from half of them..."

After the downfall of the Eighth Prince, Meng Zezhi stole a lot of good things from the house of him and his henchmen, including 600 million taels of cash alone, not to mention the piles of rare treasures.

We must know that during the Guangde period, the annual fiscal revenue of the treasury was only a little over 800 million taels.

Thanks to their blessings, Meng Zezhi dared to exempt taxes like this.

Hearing this, all the courtiers kneeling in the hall couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Since Meng Ze knew how to care for the people, at least it meant that things weren't too bad.

"...Since February 18 in Guangde, due to the hidden secrets of the imperial examination fraud case, civil and military officials, military and civilians, etc. have been implicated and the offenders have been reinstated. Those who return to their native lands are civilians, those who are sent to the remote areas of the army are still returned to the guards, and those who are prostitutes are released to the Ning family. When they enter the official land, they will be returned according to the amount..."

In the 18th year of Guangde, in order to deal with the eldest prince, the second prince tried his best to come up with an imperial examination fraud case.After the incident, the eldest prince was imprisoned, and more than a dozen officials involved in the case were pushed out of the Meridian Gate and beheaded. As many as 300 of their family members were exiled or served as prostitutes.

The faces of all the ministers changed. This decree was clearly to overturn this unjust case, but it was not stated clearly because of the consideration of the royal family's face.

When even a minister choked up and shouted: "Long live wise."

Presumably these victims have his old acquaintances.

The ministers reacted and shouted "Long live the kindness".

"...Because the king of Tang (the eighth prince) conspired against him, there were many people involved in the case, and the officials of the court withered, so Enke was added in the first year of Ningwu. Announce it to the world, and let the envoys know about it!"

"Long live my emperor! Long live!"

After going through the process, it's time to divide the spoils.

All the civil and military officials are short of breath.

I only saw Tao An take another volume of imperial decree, and began to sing: "Fengtian Chengyun Emperor, the system said: Shengren Guangyun, where the sky is overturned, everyone respects relatives. Er Song Guogong's wife, Xiao Shi, Kunyi Yuxiu, Yueshi down Jing, brocade thread piercing the clouds, has raised me personally for more than nine years, she is grateful and worthy of being honored and favored. It is appropriate to make you a holy lady, a prince, and you will not kneel when you enter the court, and you will not be praised."

All the ministers were startled, they never expected that Meng Zezhi's first imperial decree of reward was for Mrs. Xiao.

To be a prince, to enter the court without kneeling, to worship without being named...how much honor is this?

All of a sudden, everyone didn't know whether to envy Mrs. Xiao or sympathize with Song Guogong who was climbed on his head by his wife.

The eunuch had already announced the decree at the Song Guogong's mansion, so the imperial decree was directly received by Zhao Lingwu.

After such a moment of awkwardness, Zhao Lingwu only had joy in his heart.Meng Ze knew that the better he treated the Xiao family, the more honor he would receive from the Duke of Song's mansion.

Sure enough, Tao An continued to sing: "...Er Song Guogong Zhao Lingwu, the military commander Rong will be the pillar of the court, and the dry city of the country. There are a thousand households in Tegal, and the descendants are allowed to descend to the throne for three generations."

Three generations of descendants——

Zhao Lingwu was ecstatic. It is false to enter the court without kneeling, or to praise without being famous. This is the real benefit.

"Long live my emperor Xie, long live, long live!"

All the ministers are envious, and they are looking forward to their own rewards.

"Duke Zheng Guogong, Qian Gongcheng... add food to five hundred households, and enjoy the prince's salary."

"The Commander of the Shenji Battalion, Li Chengyuan...is named Wu Kangbo, with three hundred households in the town."

"Guozijian sacrificial wine Xiao Deren... was granted the title of Uncle Anping, with three hundred households in the town, and the left servant of the Ministry of Rites."

"Lu Zengxiang, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry... moved to the Shangshu of the Ministry of Households, and entered the Wenhua Palace as a bachelor."

……

"Sun Zhongyu, the prefect of Wenzhou... Fengdu transfers salt envoy Sidu transfer envoy."

……

It was already an hour after hundreds of volumes of the imperial decree were issued.

One person attains the Tao, and the chicken and dog ascend to heaven.Nothing more than this.

Meng Zezhi looked at the red-faced civil and military officials in the main hall, and said slowly: "Now that the matter of awarding rewards is finished, let's talk about the matter of Tang Wang (Eight Princes Party)'s conspiracy."

Hearing this, all the ministers looked solemn.

Lu Zengxiang stood up immediately: "Long live the report, the king of Tang conspired against him, the evidence is solid, and all his henchmen should be dealt with according to the law, but the king of Tang..."

Meng Zezhi said indifferently: "According to my will, in accordance with the last emperor's will, kill—"

"What?" The faces of the ministers changed dramatically.

How could Emperor Guangde want to kill his own son?

What he meant was clearly implying that Meng Zezhi, after a hundred years, would intentionally violate his "will" and pardon the king of Tang, so as to gain a good reputation of filial piety and benevolence.

Unexpectedly, Meng Zezhi wanted to do the fake show for real.

That's his brother!

There was a chill in everyone's heart.

"The king of Tang conspired against him, and his crimes cannot be punished. To kill him, one is to punish the Ming Dynasty, and the other is to warn the world that the prince broke the law and committed the same crime as the common people." Meng Zezhi said coldly.

If you don't kill the eighth prince, how can you be worthy of the tens of thousands of innocent people who died in Qingzhou.

What's more, keep the eighth prince, what if he reveals that Tao An poisoned and murdered Emperor Guangde.

There is also the second prince, Meng Zezhi also has no intention of letting go.

Anyway, this is not his real brother, and he doesn't mind being an emperor who is feared by all officials.

For this reason, the ministers have no way to refute.

The author has something to say:

Meng Zezhi: Smiling like a scumbag.

Lu Li: It's comfortable enough to curl up your toes.

The title of Mrs. Fengsheng is really suitable here, so I used it. (cover face)

The content of the imperial decree of rewards in this chapter is all written by the author himself or pieced together from the Internet, because the content is too complicated, I will not list them one by one.