Flowers on the other side [Comprehensive Red House]

The sound of plucking cotton fills my ears.Zhu Youxiao looked at the Concubine Li Zhuang who was listening with great interest. Could it be that she has never heard anyone play the guqin?

Seeing him coming in, Zhu Youjian put down the Guqin excitedly, and hurriedly said after a quick salute: "Brother Huang, cousin gave me the Guqin he made himself. Can I play well?"

"What are you playing?"

Zhu Youjian got stuck immediately, and his eye circles slowly turned red.

"I don't know Guqin, I only know how to do carpentry. What do you play?"

Zhu Youxiao saw that the young boy was hit, so he had to bring the words back.

Zhu Youjian looked suspiciously at the Son of Heaven, then at Concubine Li Zhuang, "I was playing "Qing Ping Diao. Bamboo Grove Spring Morning" that my empress taught me."

I really didn't hear it.

Concubine Li Zhuang knew Zhu Youxiao's background, so she stepped forward and took the guqin away.

"Goro, you've been practicing for a while, and you're talking to the emperor."

Zhu Youjian listened to her very much, because after his biological mother was killed, he was raised by "Dong Li" for a few days. Later, Dong Li was pregnant and gave birth to a daughter, so he was handed over to Concubine Li Zhuang, who treated him no worse than his biological mother.He immediately put aside his enthusiasm for guqin and turned to talk to Zhu Youxiao.

"Brother Huang, are you tired today?"

"Fortunately."

"Brother Huang came late today, there must be a lot of things."

Zhu Youxiao nodded.

"Wulang, I have instructed Liu Shimin to entertain civil servants and generals during the Spring Festival. He will take you with him and tell you how to do it."

"What about you, brother? Are you leaving the capital?"

Like a sensitive little animal, Zhu Youjian immediately grasped the intention behind doing things with Liu Shimin.

"I want to take the forbidden army to Tumochuan to fight against the Tatars."

Zhu Youjian's face could not be seen anymore, Zhu Youxiao watched him lower his head to avoid his eyes, a big teardrop fell on his robe, and it soaked a large area in a short while.

"Oh, what a child." Zhu Youxiao patted him on the shoulder, took the face towel and wiped his tears.

Zhu Youjian's tears are like the flood that opened the gate. Is Tatar so easy to fight?With an army of 50 elite soldiers and strong generals, the emperor was captured. I don't know how many civil and military officials died in the process.But this household he can't speak out to cause trouble.

"Boys are not allowed to cry."

"I'm older, I'm not a boy anymore." Zhu Youjian grabbed the face towel, wiped his face indiscriminately, bit his lips stubbornly to stop crying.

"Okay. Then you can't cry anymore. The first emperor died, and the emperor had no choice but to take care of the affairs of the Zhu family. For the sake of the world, he had to close the export market. Tatars lack iron and food, and they can't survive the winter. They will inevitably die." Take the Great Wall for robbery. I won’t be there for a long time, and I’ll be back before the imperial examination.”

Zhu Youjian calculated in his heart that it would take more than two months.He didn't know that Chun Wei had been postponed for a month.

"Brother, you have to take care of yourself."

"Okay. You are the only man in the palace, and I have handed over the Forbidden City to you. Take good care of the country, and when I come back, I will pick you the best pony."

"Brother Huang, are two horses okay? I want my little cousin to learn how to ride a horse with me."

"Okay. If you like the two of them, you can invite them to study with you in the palace."

Zhu Youjian's face immediately lit up, "Live in the palace like Aunt Tang? Live in Yongning Palace?"

Zhu Youxiao shook his head, "That can't be done. Lu Wang is old, and he will be sixteen after the new year. Men who get married early in the folk have become fathers at this age. Their brothers still go out of the palace at night."

There is no need for Zhu Youxiao to say more about this truth, Zhu Youjian also understands that he intends to keep Zhu Chang [氵坒] in Yongning Palace, but he still thinks it is not good to let King Lu go back to the palace alone, so he nodded and smiled to thank him.

"Thank you, Brother Huang. I will have two cousins ​​to accompany me in class next year."

"Didn't Fifth Sister and the others accompany you before?"

"They don't take martial arts classes. Brother Huang, I will take classes well, and when I grow up, I will go to court to help you with things."

"it is good."

Concubine Li Zhuang pretended not to hear the foolish words of her adopted son. The emperor would send a master to teach you how to learn literature and martial arts. If he didn't treat you like a piglet, it was an extra favor.

Seeing that it was getting late, Zhu Youxiao once again ordered Zhu Youjian to take good care of his body and left Yongning Palace with him.

During the Great Court Meeting the next day, many officials knew that the Son of Heaven was going to conquest in person again, but this time he was going against the Tartars.In many people's minds, since Emperor Longqing ordered the implementation of the tribute exchange agreement with Tatar and allowed Alta to be crowned king, there has been no large-scale conquest war between the grassland and the Ming Dynasty in the past 200 years.

Inevitably, in the minds of these courtiers, there were complaints that the port with Tatars should not be closed, which caused Tatars to knock on the customs at Datong and other places since last autumn, and caused several times of urgent complaints at the border.

Based on this, the censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate opened up their firepower, admonishing the emperor to resume the export market with the Tatars, and warned the emperor not to rashly march westward with the matter of building the fort.

The more Zhu Youxiao listened to it, the more serious his expression became.

These people only saw what was in front of them, and they never thought that if the harvest in the south was bad and the market with Tatars could not provide enough grain for exchange, would Tatars recognize it?Will he not go south to rob?

A feeling that I don't want to talk about the future with you mortals, let him sit with his lips pursed, and watch those censors turn into battle with cold eyes.From time to time, he glanced at Zhang Wenda, and the meaning in his eyes was: Look at the Metropolitan Procuratorate you manage, can you look a little farther away!

Zhang Wenda fully understands the meaning in the eyes of the emperor, but the officials in the sixth department were transferred to the Metropolitan Procuratorate by the emperor last year. Expressly and implicitly use these as ordinary censors.You must know that in the past two hundred years, the powers given to matters have surpassed those of the ministers and cabinet ministers.Follow up the affairs of the various ministries once every five days, and those who fail to complete everything will be impeached by them.

It is impossible to recommend all the ministers without six of them passing the matter.The cabinet ministers' court recommendations are even more influenced by the teachers of the six departments.If it weren't for these old officials who couldn't complain openly about the emperor, they would definitely talk dry every day.

Zhang Wenda returned to the Son of Heaven, you know what I know—why do these censors have crazy eyes.

Zhu Youxiao glanced at the hourglass, and it had been almost two hours since Yu Shiqun raised his voice and asked them to continue, saying that it might not end at dawn tomorrow.And those veterans over the age of 70 may be overwhelmed with exhaustion and illness.Those are the pillars that the imperial court relies heavily on, and he is reluctant to part with any of them.So he seized the moment when the censor was replaced and offered advice, suddenly stood up from the throne, and began to lecture condescendingly.

"I fully understand the remonstrance of the censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. But Daming is not for me alone, but also for all the people in the world. The people have completed the taxes that should be paid to the court, and the court has the responsibility to return the people to live and work in peace and contentment. world. Is there anyone who disagrees with this?"

Zhu Youxiao glanced around, but no one stood up against him, so he continued.

"You're right. It's because the Tatars kept shutting down the export market last year. But I want to ask, iron is a banned substance, why can it flow to Tatars?

Before Sarhu, the imperial court banned the use of Jiannu ironware. Why can Jiannu get all the embargoed materials on credit from Shanxi merchants?

There were more than 3 soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who fell under Jiannu's sword and gun, and more than [-] soldiers of North Korea died in the battle of Sarhu. The number of people in Liaodong who were captured as slaves for Jiannu these years was more than [-]. number.

Jian Nu was no longer a sore of moss, but a cancerous tumor attached to Daming's body.To get rid of this cancerous tumor on Daming's body, it is necessary to cut off all possible sources of support.

Who of you can guarantee that the grain exchanged to Tatar will not be sent to the belly of the remnants of the slaves who are wandering around Liaodong?Stand up and recognize someone for me. "

The censors who were originally impassioned all shrunk back.

"Do you also know that the Tatars will distribute the food to the remnants of the Jiannu? It's just that you didn't think that after the Jiannu got the food, they would continue to enslave the Liaodong people who were crying for survival after they were full.

It’s just that you didn’t think about the well-fed Jiannu, who had the strength to fight against the soldiers of the imperial court, and the strength to put swords and guns on the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who were still fighting to eliminate the remnants of Jiannu in the ice and snow in Liaodong.

If any of you can guarantee that after the imperial court reopens the port market with Tatars, food and iron will not be lost to the remnants of the slaves; if any one of you stands up and says that as long as the border city strengthens management, the port market can be eliminated If the prohibited substances are left out, I will immediately appoint someone who can guarantee it to go to the city to inspect the prohibited substances.

Do you have?Who wants to go? "

Zhu Youxiao's eyes lingered on the faces of the censors who were most fond of admonishing, so that those censors had to lower their heads to avoid his sight, and then continued:

"I also had to march westward. How many years has it been since the grain was transported from the south to the north? Will there be no drought or flood in the south forever? Once the grain production in the south declines and the supply of Ming people is still insufficient, it will be impossible for the Tatars to live in Koushi In exchange for enough food, will they not go south to rob?

I don't want to start a frontier quarrel with the Tatars, but Henan and other provinces in the lower reaches of the Yellow River are threatened by the Yellow River every year.Not only can it not be self-sufficient in food, but it has relied on food shipped from the south all these years.

I would like to know how you will help the people in Gansu, Ningxia, Shanxi, and Shanxi in case there is insufficient food in the south.Are you pointing at a normal position?Of you in the Qianqing Palace, who doesn't know the current situation of Changping warehouse?Who has a way to make up for the food that should be saved in Changping warehouses for disaster relief before there is a shortage in the south? "

Now that the imperial court still has enough power to resist the Tatars, I hope that in this limited time, I can seize the time to deal with the floods of the Yellow River, so that Henan and other provinces in the lower reaches of the Yellow River can be self-sufficient in food, and can make Changping all over the world. The warehouse is half full.

I only hope that God will take pity on the people of Ming Dynasty. Before the imperial court can control the Yellow River, the weather in the south can be kept smooth, so that the people in the north can have a few full meals for the time being.

Do you now understand the reason for not opening up the market with Tatars?Are there still people who insist on using the open market in exchange for going to Tatar and not using troops against Daming? "

This time it is not only the censor, but all the officials swept by Zhu Youxiao are trying to reduce their body, don't be caught by the emperor to count the Changping warehouse, don't be named by the emperor to be responsible for those few who are with the Tatars Kou City.

"Zhang Wenda."

"The minister is here."

"Next year is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Apart from being selected as the censor of the examiner of Chunwei, you arrange other people to go to various provinces and provinces to inspect, check Changping warehouses, and check redundant personnel in various provinces and provinces."

"The minister obeys the order."

Zhang Wenda's voice was raised several tones.I said in my heart: Yes, let you science and Taoism sing against the emperor in Shizhong!The six ministers and the cabinet ministers did not stop the emperor from marching west, so why can't you weigh it?