These years of being the queen mother!

Zhu Cilin blinked, as if he couldn't believe the good news he heard, and it took a long while before he came back to his senses, and cheered happily. "Queen, can I not bring my second and third sisters with me?"

Is this a contradiction?

Empress Dowager Yang raised her eyebrows, looked at Zhu Cilin suspiciously for a moment, and then asked with a half-smile, "Sanlang, what do you think?"

"Of course I want to bring my second and third sisters to play in the capital. Poor son, my purse is going to be empty again." I silently complained in my heart that Zhu Shuxie eats too much. After all, Qi Sichang was considered the default candidate for the third son-in-law, and he would not be dragged to act as a mobile purse.

After all, Zhu Cilin, who had a child's heart, thought of a bad idea, soon lost the trouble of losing money and became elated.Because of his identity, his whereabouts were "ruthlessly" restricted by Empress Dowager Yang in the capital, but Zhu Cilin was still very happy, and instead fell into the plan of going out of the palace with great interest.

A few days later, Ming Da, who was wearing heavy filial piety, resigned from his official position, and finally arrived in the capital with his wife and daughter.As for succeeding him and temporarily managing the military affairs of Liaodong, it was Man Gui, not Yuan Chonghuan who was very popular.

As Empress Dowager Yang said to Zhu Cilin, although Yuan Chonghuan is talented, he is a bit boastful and arrogant. He can only be a general, not a handsome man.Let’s not talk about the many problems of the Kanto Iron Cavalry he led in history, let’s just say that he killed Mao Wenlong without authorization. Even Sun Chengzong, the mentor who promoted him, also criticized this, thinking that he should not have killed Mao Wenlong. Seeing through the weakness of the Ming Dynasty, it was only a few months later that there was a change in Jisi.

Although Man Gui, like Yuan Chonghuan, is only talented for generals and not handsome, he is obedient, especially his immediate boss, Comrade Mingda, so Empress Dowager Yang adopted Xiong Tingbi's suggestion and let Man Gui take over the post of governor of Liaodong. He also temporarily took the post of Liaodong economic strategy, and managed the military affairs of Liaodong.

As for Yuan Chonghuan who failed to take over, in order to eliminate possible unrest, Empress Dowager Yang specially asked the little emperor Zhu Cilin to personally issue an imperial decree announcing that Yuan Chonghuan would go to Beijing to succeed him. Yuan Chonghuan, who was in a depressed mood, was regarded as compensation and grace to Sun Chengzong's generals.

After Mingda's family arrived in the capital, they first went to the palace to meet the emperor's nephew, and then shared their grief with the red-eyed Empress Dowager Yang for a while. Three years of filial piety.

Mingda's family stayed in the Wei Mansion and began to observe their filial piety, but Zhu Cilin, who had planned to take a long walk in the outskirts of the capital, failed to leave the palace after all, because the night before he left the palace to play, Huanggang and Luo Earthquakes of about magnitude five occurred in Tian and Tian respectively.

Because most of the ancient buildings were civil structures, the earthquake caused a large area of ​​farm houses to collapse.The Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Officials have to be busy coordinating the tax money used for disaster relief, sorting out and re-registering household registration, so as the actual leader of the country in the future, Zhu Cilin is obliged to fall into the busy situation with Queen Mother Yang, the current decision-maker of the country. state!

At the beginning of April of the seventh year of Taichang, more than half a month after the earthquake, the young emperor Zhu Cilin personally issued an edict, ordering the criminals in the government and county offices of Huanggang and Luotian to redeem their sins with work, so as to save the local people from hard labor.

Because of the earthquakes in Huanggang and Luotian, Zhu Cilin followed Queen Mother Yang and resumed court.

Because of the persuasion of "permanent tax reduction and exemption for Shaanxi, Shanshan, Gansu and the three regions", because the Empress Dowager Yang and Zhu Cilin had previously suspended the court and reached a stalemate, some disheartened civil servants originally planned to acquiesce in this matter, but never thought about natural disasters. It started again, and the practice of a small dynasty in three days and a big dynasty in five days was restored.

Now that they were able to see Empress Dowager Yang and Zhu Cilin, the civil servants immediately let go of their disheartened illusions, and unanimously ignored the follow-up issues after the earthquakes in Huanggang and Luotian. The edicts and edicts issued, and the appropriate reduction and exemption of taxes are merciful to the people, but if they are really permanently exempted, they will shake the foundation, and it will make the people of other provinces unavoidable, prone to bandits and rebellions.

"The Ai family thinks that in rich places such as Jiangnan, the commercial tax accounts for the majority anyway. The poor agricultural tax can't even reach a fraction of the commercial tax throughout the year. It might as well be the same as the three provinces of Shaanxi, Shanshan and Gansu that suffer from droughts and disasters from time to time. Let's reduce taxes forever!"

While saying this, Empress Dowager Yang dumped the three-year tax comparison table that had been specially sorted out on the most clamoring civil servants, and the black and white words immediately made the civil servants speechless.The stark contrast between the agricultural tax and the commercial tax in the past three years, no matter how rich they are, they can't find a high-sounding reason to cover up their strong opposition to the exemption of the agricultural tax because of selfish motives, rather than genuine consideration for the country and the people.

When most of the officials of the Manchu Dynasty were speechless, Shi Fenglai and Lu Xiangsheng, Minister of the Ministry of War, who had been secretly signaled by Empress Dowager Yang and Zhu Cilin respectively, and the two mascots of the Ministry of War, Comrade Xiong and Sun Chengzong, jumped out and condemned the proposal of "permanently exempting Shaanxi from Officials who withdrew the agricultural tax in the three provinces of Shanxi and Gansu, who had bad intentions, tried to trap Empress Dowager Yang, and are now injustice,

You must know that since ancient times, the emperor has been most taboo about "changing orders at night" and things that damage the prestige of the court.Shi Fenglai is worthy of being a literati, even though his ability is mediocre, he can find out people's faults almost instantly, and cooperate with Lu Xiangsheng, who is both civil and military, and force the proposer to kneel down to plead guilty with a few words!

Empress Dowager Yang and Zhu Ciling were naturally very satisfied with the result. After they directly promoted the official positions of the 'proposers', they took advantage of the situation and stuffed Comrade Xiong and Sun Chengzong into the cabinet. Lu Xiangsheng, the Ministry of War has three people in the cabinet so far, which can be regarded as strengthening the voice of the Ministry of War, one of the six ministries, in the court!

In May of the seventh year of Taichang, Zhang Xianzong refused the surrender of Yang Sichang and Xiong Wencan, led the rebel army and fled to Sichuan, preparing to capture Kuizhou (now Fengjie, Chongqing) and encircle Taiping.After the outbreak of the war, Qin Liangyu, the Chongqing female general who was in charge of her husband, arrived and fought with Zhang Xianzhong's troops.

Qin Liangyu's "white-armed soldiers" were famous, and Zhang Xianzong fought with them several times, but he was intimidated by his reputation and fled in panic. Qin Liangyu led his army to pursue them, and attacked back and forth with his son Ma Xianglin, who happened to be returning to Sichuan, and defeated them. Zhang Xianzhong made him retreat to Huguang.

The news of this great victory was sent back to the capital. Out of appreciation for the heroine, Empress Dowager Yang issued an order to reward and praise Qin Liangyu, comparing her with Hua Mulan, who served in the army instead of her father in ancient times.As far as historical records are concerned, Queen Mother Yang did not exaggerate this point.

Perhaps it was the good start of Qin Liangyu's defeat of Zhang Xianzong's happy event, and there were no natural or man-made disasters until the end of the year, and Zhang Xianzong, who had not selfishly surrendered, curled up in the backcountry of Huguang, not very prominent, fearing that Ming officials would search their whereabouts.

In the spring of the eighth year of Taichang, Empress Dowager Yang, who had already lost confidence in recruiting Zhang Xianzhong, directly ordered the generals of Huguang and other prefectures and counties to conduct joint operations to carry out a large-scale military encirclement and suppression of the rebel army.

Under the carpet search by the generals of Huguang and other prefectures and counties, Zhang Xianzhong and other ministries who were hiding in the backcountry were finally searched out, and they were besieged by Ming officials in Henan.In order to break out of the encirclement, Zhang Xianzhong decided to advance eastward and attack Fengyang, the land of the Ming Dynasty.

Historically, Zhang Xianzhong and other leaders of thirteen peasant armies were besieged in Henan together.In order to break out of the encirclement, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng, led by Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang, also marched eastward, even breaking through Gushi in Henan and Huoqiu in Anhui and other counties, and pointed directly at Fengyang, the central capital of the dynasty.

According to historical records, the main force of the rebel army at that time was Zhang Xianzhong's troops.They surrounded Fengyang City in the foggy morning.In less than half a day, the [-] officers and soldiers guarding Fengyang were wiped out, the guard Zhu Guozheng and others were killed, Fengyang prefect Yan Rongxuan was captured, and after counting his crimes in front of the people, he was sentenced to death.

Afterwards, Zhang Xianzhong distributed part of the food in the treasury to the local poor farmers, and then asked the people to cut down hundreds of thousands of pines and cypresses in the imperial mausoleum, and demolished the surrounding buildings and Longxing Temple where Zhu Yuanzhang became a monk. Minghuangjue Temple), and then dug the emperor's ancestral grave, and at the same time killed all the wealthy households in Fengyang.

The reason why this kind of thing happened was that Ming officials and army were rotten and unprepared, but now this has become an empty Ming plane, because of such a change as Empress Dowager Yang.Empress Dowager Yang, who is familiar with history, has long since Qin Liangyu defeated Zhang Xianzong's trilogy, and has kept in mind all the big and small things recorded in history books and unofficial history from 1634 to 1635 AD, which is now the seventh to eighth year of Taichang. After filtering it once, a lot of arrangements were made in Fengyang in advance, as long as Zhang Xianzong and his subordinates dared to invade Fengyang, they would all go there and never return.

Not long afterwards, Zhang Xianzong, who was advancing eastward, did indeed have the idea of ​​attacking Fengyang and digging up the grave of the old Zhu's family.It's a pity that although Zhang Xianzong's trilogy was brave and good at fighting, it still lost to the cannons of Queen Mother Yang, who opened the prophet plug-in, and went into battle. After several games, Zhang Xianzong's troops can be described as heavy losses.

The author has something to say: the two watches are completed, I went to catch up on sleep, and I will continue to watch the spirit at night! o(╥﹏╥)o, the computer should be sufficient first, and I hope that there will be free code words during the wake-up