Self Rescue of the Faint King

In the fourth year of Zhengde, His Majesty the Emperor indulged in the relationship between father and son and remained unmoved. While everyone was tired, they were inexplicably looking forward to something.

Even Liu Jin, who is now falling into madness, is no exception. According to His Majesty's temperament, once he makes a move, it will inevitably be an earth-shaking trend.

Many people were looking forward to his actions, but unfortunately, the emperor did not move until the fifth year of Zhengde, and this year did not seem to be a peaceful day.

According to historical records: Suzhou Prefecture, Wujiang, and Kunshan were flooded.In the spring of the fifth year of Zhengde, there was heavy rain, until April the lake swelled across Guantang, the city and roads were indistinguishable, the long bridge was not empty, and the river was covered by floating corpses. Abandoned.There was another major epidemic, and half of the dead died.There are mountains and rivers, and there is a vast ocean beyond the city wall. There is no smoke in the wild, and the dead sleep together.

In addition to the rebellions in various places, will there be a future for the Ming Dynasty?Can you still see the sun rise?

What is His Majesty the Emperor thinking?

Fortunately, although the emperor was indifferent to the rebellion of the mob, he reacted quickly to the flood in Wujiang.

I don't know where His Majesty got the manpower and medicinal materials. In short, the elite soldiers escorted these people to the south of Suzhou Prefecture for disaster relief.

As for food, Jiangnan is food and grass, and it can be obtained directly from the nearest place.

This was what he had already planned, and Zhu Houzhao didn't care to hide any more, so the people left the capital quickly and galloped thousands of miles south.

Although there were countless casualties and a severe epidemic, but because the emperor's reaction was fairly quick, at least it would not be a catastrophe.

Everyone was still amazed, the king of Anhua Zhi (zhi, four tones) Rai rebelled, this man had a violent temper, a warlock once predicted that this man was a nobleman, and since then he has had different ambitions.

However, in Zhu Houzhao's eyes, Anhua Wang Zhilei was just a joke. As expected, Zhang Yong, the eunuch who supervised Ningxia's military affairs, sent troops to suppress the rebellion. It took [-] days for Zhilei to go from rebellion to failure.

Eunuch Zhang Yong returned from Ningxia and captured Radium and 18 of his relatives.Zhu Houzhao, dressed in military uniform, was brave and heroic, and took prisoners with Dong'anmen.Soon after, Radium was put to death, and five of his descendants were imprisoned in Xi Nei.

The action was really quick, and immediately afterwards, the suppression of the rebellion in various places was like child's play. It did not exceed one month, starting from Luyu, going to Jiangnan, and going to Sichuan and Sichuan, and it disappeared very quickly.

After more than a year of being aggrieved, the emperor felt that it was time to return the world to a bright future!

Of the two prime ministers, only one left, Li Dongyang, was still struggling to support in the court. The others, Xie Qian and Liu Jian, went home completely this time, and they were not guaranteed at the end of the festival.

As for the so-called "Eight Tigers", the chief villain, Liu Jin, was pushed out by others to take the place of the dead ghost.Zhang Yong (the new Liu Jin) took the opportunity to take the position, and Zhu Houzhao also turned a blind eye to agree.

However, Liu Jin has amassed countless fortunes, "As for his family, he got 24 ingots of gold, 800 taels; 500 million ingots of ingots; 800 million ingots of silver, 58 taels; Three thousand, five hundred gold and silver soup tripods, four Dagon suits, 800 python suits, two cabinets of tooth cards, thirty golden dragon armors, one jade seal, one jade qin, one lion belt, and four thousand 470 jade belts. 160 taels, 9000 taels of silver, round fan decorated with mink fur with two knives in the middle, more than a thousand armour, and five hundred bows and crossbows. There are countless other treasures, but in the end they disappeared.

Ke Dao officials impeached internal and external officials as Liu Jin's treacherous party, including Liu Yu, Jiao Fang, and Cao Yuan from the cabinet; There are more than ten people in the supervisory department.

The rest of the treacherous parties were either exiled, or lived idle, or were removed from their names, and the government was cleared for a while.

At the same time as "the court was cleared", another piece of sky above Zhu Houzhao's head also collapsed.

The queen mother suddenly became seriously ill, and there was no time for treatment, Bin Tian!

In a short line of words, no one knew the bloody storm in it. When Zhu Houzhao thought that he had underestimated the Queen Mother, she stood up and gave him a blow.

Then he ended his own life with self-knowledge, and Zhu Houzhao had no choice but to take revenge.

After clearing the court hall, the harem seems to be cleared up.

Zhu Houzhao was finally able to completely act according to his own will.

In the sixth year of Zhengde, the "one whip method" was tried out in Nanzhili (approximately present-day Jiangsu and Anhui) and Zhejiang Province, followed by Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi, which were heavily taxed and labored.

At this time, there were no less than a thousand kinds of exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes in Ming Dynasty, which brought about a series of serious consequences: the peasants were overwhelmed and fled for their lives, causing the court to lose a large number of taxpayers, and the land tax income also decreased; In the end, the imperial court's finances fell into crisis; the centralization of power was weakened, and local forces were encouraged to expand, which led to the chaos of King Anhua.

The subsequent change of King Ning was just one of the reasons.

Now that there are better ways, Zhu Houzhao does not hesitate to increase his achievements.He intends to use five years to slowly promote the "one whip method" across the country, coupled with light corvee and thin taxes, it will surely reduce the burden on the people and restore people's livelihood.

After the "Eight Tigers" Liu Jin was punished, another wise man came into Zhu Houzhao's sight.

Wang Shouren!

This person suddenly entered the power center of Ming Dynasty from a local official.Perhaps Zhu Houzhao was tired of the impeachment of the officials, so this person became the leader of the officials-inspector Zuo Du Yushi who also served as Minister of the Ministry of War.

From then on, the sixteen ways of speaking officials were completely in Wang Shouren's hands, and completely became the emperor's palm.

Although I don't quite understand how capable this Wang Shouren is for the emperor to value him so much.

However, in today's court, Zhu Houzhao has truly kept his promises. Even if there are objections, they are just discussing the facts, and will not object because of objections.

Zhang Yong came to power because of his meritorious service in countering the rebellion. Unfortunately, he found that he could also be a mascot by the emperor's side.

And once the emperor has any new tricks, Zhang Yong must be the target of criticism from the court officials.

The position of Eunuch Si Li is really difficult to do!

But the scenery in it made him reluctant to let it go. It can only be said that he knows his own ups and downs.

Zhu Houzhao did not force anyone, everything is your own will!

So in the end, if you die unexpectedly, you are naturally to blame, and you can't blame others!

Zhu Houzhao felt that now that he had said it, he finally understood the so-called emperor's mind.

In the seventh year of Zhengde, Emperor Wuzong canonized the eldest son Zhu Zaixi as the prince, and the eldest daughter Zhu Zaian as the eldest princess of Ning'an.

At the same time, the world is amnesty and the whole world celebrates.

Canonization of the crown prince is indeed worthy of celebration, even though it has long been known that this little prince is the next emperor.But before the dust settles, it's a certainty, and the name is justified, people will always be on tenterhooks, won't they?

It's all right now, with the crown prince canonized and an heir, everyone feels at ease.

Becoming the prince of a country at the age of three, Zhu Zaixi started his splendid life.As for the future, it is currently unknown.

The son and daughter have inherited their intelligence and wisdom, which makes the emperor especially happy. It's really great not to be like that silly woman of the Xia family.

God is not mean to me!

In the eighth year of Zhengde, Pi Laizi, the envoy of Flangji, arrived in Beijing, and His Majesty the Emperor actually received the envoy of foreign countries in person.

But what was said in detail, only the officials of the Ministry of Rites and Guest Affairs Department (the name of the Ming Dynasty's foreign affairs agency) knew.

After this meeting, the court's foreign policy changed dramatically.

After the founding of the country, Ming Tai and Zhu Yuanzhang, in order to prevent the remnants of coastal naval lords and pirates from disturbing, ordered the implementation of a sea ban policy: "No inch boards are allowed to enter the sea."

Now, His Majesty the Emperor has decreed to restore the shipping departments of Quanzhou in Fujian, Mingzhou in Zhejiang, and Guangzhou in Guangdong (these three institutions have existed since the Sui and Tang Dynasties) in charge of overseas trade.

It is called "Zhengde switch" (Longqing switch in history) in history!

The uproar caused by this incident was obviously something Zhu Houzhao could not have imagined, although it was not all bad.However, the diehards came out to make trouble again, which gave the emperor a headache for a while.

Since it cannot be explained clearly in words, let's speak with facts.

The emperor, who had been quiet for several months, finally brought his civil and military ministers to Tianjin Wei, and then opened the eyes of these bumpkins who had never seen the world, and they knew why he wanted to open the sea ban.

As expected, the range and lethality of Flang Robot's mortar fired were far greater than those of Daming's firearms.

Although the Ming court has always attached great importance to the development and use of firearms, the Tai and Zu emperors formulated "one hundred households in the general army", and there must be ten musketeers, twenty sword players, thirty archers, and forty gunmen. name. "Among them, musketeers equipped with firearms accounted for [-]% of the establishment.

Ming Chengzu Zhu Di even established the world's first new unit of arms specially equipped with firearms - Shenjiying.

But now, it is obvious that Daming's firearms have begun to lag behind Yang Yi's.

Daming's steel cannons and bowl-mouthed cannons are obviously not as good as the mortars of the Franji Kingdom. This kind of deterrence has left many people speechless.

Zhu Houzhao is satisfied now, speaking with facts, telling you to shut up, it's good, isn't it?

In the fourth year of Zhengde, Zhu Houzhao set up the general army of water transport in Tianjin Wei to supervise the transportation of sea and river grain and pay, and also manage the preparation and construction of warehouses and other matters.

Now it seems that His Majesty the Emperor has great foresight.

Flang Jiren is very proud of the fact that he has shocked the emperor and ministers of the Ming Dynasty. This is obviously a big event that can be recorded in the annals of history!

Now he is glad that he promised the Emperor of Ming Dynasty before, great kindness!

Now, the courtiers were convinced, and even some activists were already worried, as if Yangyi would invade tomorrow, which was a bit unfounded.

Zhu Houzhao didn't care what they were thinking, even though the switch was on, there were still many problems to be solved.

Pirates are common, and if they are not taught a lesson, the safety of passing ships will not be guaranteed, and the people along the coast will suffer even more.

A generation of holy masters naturally cannot sit back and watch such things happen.

The emperor led his courtiers to discuss how to deal with various problems after the switch.

Of course, the huge profits of sea trade also made Zhu Houzhao very greedy. As the lord of a country, how could he let it go?

Of course, there are also how to collect various customs duties. These are all problems. If the regulations are formulated as soon as possible, the profits will be made as soon as possible, right?

Moreover, His Majesty the Emperor told the courtiers very enlightenedly that if anyone wants to organize a fleet to go to Nanyang and overseas, the royal family will support it and will not stop it.

After gaining motivation, will these people still procrastinate and perfunctory?

The answer is naturally no...