Several emperors in the Ming Dynasty died in strange circumstances, and human factors cannot be ruled out.
But there is no need to think too highly of the villains in Jiangnan because of this.
They were rich, famous and powerful, and all they might do was bribe the people around the emperor.
When Li Yunze went to Jiangnan this time, all the people he brought with him were from the north and had nothing to do with Jiangnan.
After crossing the river, he ate and drank all the things of the modern world, and wore stab-proof clothing except when sleeping, just to prevent these guys from doing tricks.
Worst of all, in critical moments, he can open the space-time gate and escape.
Li Yunze will not look down upon any opponent, but he will never look down upon him either.
Moreover, he basically didn't give the local tycoons in Jiangnan much time and opportunity, and took down almost all the prominent figures as soon as he came on the field.
Now that the blood alliance case has come out, the remaining ones will soon be put into the basket.
Without anyone to take the lead, there will naturally be no climate.
In history, when they were armed to resist taxes, the Tartars directly killed hundreds of literati in the Wailing Temple and deprived tens of thousands of them of their honors. Then he immediately gave me whatever he asked for.
If they really had hands and eyes that could reach the sky, they wouldn't have been destroyed so miserably.
For Li Yunze, things here in Jiangnan are just numerous and complicated, messy and chaotic, and chaos leads to trouble.
It's not that difficult to cut through the mess with a sharp knife, first shocking and then pushing forward forcefully.
The real difficulty lies in the north.
The military leaders in the North are the ones who are really eager and tyrannical and dare to do anything.
There are not many eunuchs in the palace, and many of them are involved in the blood alliance's rebellion, so we should simply remove them all.
In Nuoda's palace, apart from the sergeants stationed there, only Wang Chengen and a few eunuchs who were responsible for announcing the decree were left to serve.
At this time, Gu Hengbo and Li Xiangjun showed their high emotional intelligence and took the initiative to take over the job of serving the emperor.
"I'm not hungry." Li Yunze, who returned from dinner in the modern world, pointed to the dishes on the table and asked, "You guys eat."
The two girls thought that the emperor was too sad about his rebellion and had no appetite to eat, and they were still thinking about how to appease the emperor's sad heart.
"The emperor's body is connected with all the people in the world, and he hopes to put the dragon body as the most important thing." Gu Hengbo, who had studied under his master, said this boldly.
Li Yunze, who still had the toothpick in his mouth, burped, "Huh? Oh, ugh~~~"
His acting skills were on point, but his expression was desolate: "I wholeheartedly seek the welfare of the people of the world, but these thieves don't want to see the good of the people."
The girls were even more moved and wished they could feed the tiger with their bodies immediately to relieve the pain in the Emperor's heart.
Li Yunze waved his hand, turned around and turned on the lamp on the table, sat on the chair and began to read the memorial, which was more than a foot thick.
This was sent to him after two levels of screening by the Cabinet and the Supervisor of Ceremonies.
Before screening, the memorials sent from all over the world were too numerous to count.
In this round of documents in the evening, Wang Chengen placed at the top the memorials from various royal palaces.
With King Fu as the representative, all the princes are admonishing the emperor not to act too hastily to avoid causing chaos. We must remember the ancestral precepts and do not violate them.
Under the limitations of communication technology, these things mentioned are all old almanacs from the past. Basically, we are still talking about rectifying salt affairs. After all, the income of the feudal kings has been affected.
Li Yunze picked up the ink pen and replied directly, "The kings are so concerned about the government, do you want to be the king of Yan?"
Since the success of Jingnan, King Zhu Di of Yan, who was deeply afraid that he would make an impression on the feudal kings, began to strictly control the feudal kings everywhere.
After that, successive generations of emperors treated the vassal kings with more forceful attacks.
First, they seized the military power, and then took away the local administrative power. Then they restricted the vassal king from leaving the city and sent Jinyi guards to monitor them secretly. Later, they simply raised them as pigs.
It has been two hundred years, and the vassal kings have long lost the strength they had during the Hongwu period.
Li Yunze ranked these guys at the bottom of the rectification list because they were the weakest and easiest to deal with.
With these memorials from the princes still aside, Li Yunze continued to handle official duties.
Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian Province, reported that Zheng, a righteous merchant from the sea, wanted to submit to the imperial court, and he expressed his support.
"Zheng's Yishang?" Seeing this, Li Yunze immediately raised his lips, "Others don't know what Zheng Zhilong does, how can I not know?"
The father of Mr. Guo, the boss of the Zheng pirate group, monopolized the Eastern trade, and was also the famous Nicholas Yiguan Zheng in the Southeast Asia area!
He raised his pen and drew a circle on the memorial, and wrote the word "quasi" on the side.
In the Ming Dynasty, which was riddled with holes, there was no place without trouble.
Li Yunze, who had no skills at all, could only do things bit by bit to slowly save the situation.
The people in Fujian didn't care about it anymore, so they could only hold their noses and admit it.
The next memorial was sent from the capital. The soldiers reported that the troops in Ji Town were making noise from time to time due to lack of pay. Please ask the emperor to use internal funds to pay wages to avoid unexpected events.
"Bang!"
Li Yunze slapped his hand on the table and roared, "Gan Linliang!"
He had checked the information a long time ago and knew that this year the garrison troops in Ji Zhen, Ningyuan and other places would be in trouble because they were starving due to long-term lack of food and pay.
Therefore, after using the Tongzhou grain affairs to obtain a large sum of food and salary from the nobles, he sent it all to Jiubian to repay part of the arrears.
I dare not say that it can be fully replenished, but at least it can make the sergeants' pockets richer and have enough food and drink to support their families.
But now, the Minister of War says that Jizhen owes wages and is going to cause trouble...
He really didn't expect that these people in the North would be so bold.
If it is true, it means that most of the money and food Li Yunze sent was given to everyone from top to bottom.
Looking at the frightened girl, Li Yunze forced out a smile and said, "Nothing, just fight the mosquitoes."
The girls holding chopsticks saluted, then sat down and continued eating.
This matter must wait until we return to the capital before we can deal with it.
The border troops in the north and the garrisons in various places in the south of the Yangtze River are two completely different existences.
Li Yunze was able to use weapons unscrupulously in the Jiangnan area because he knew very well that the soldiers and horses here were unable to fight, and the imperial power and righteousness were still of some use to them. .
But the northern border troops are different. The border troops who have been fighting against the Tartars all year round have very strong combat effectiveness and fighting will.
Moreover, they would often surrender to thieves or even Tartars at the slightest disagreement.
Jiangnan’s method cannot be used in Jiubian.
When he goes north, he will do things in a different way.
The memorials that follow are basically disaster reports from various places, and bandits request tax exemptions for disaster relief and so on.
Li Yunze will approve it as appropriate.
By the time I finished this round of memorials, it was already midnight.
This is the result of large-scale simplification. If all the memorials that reported auspicious signs and greeted the emperor "I miss you" were added, I wouldn't be able to read them all at dawn.
Li Yunze stretched his body and looked at the girls who had been respectfully waiting for him after dinner. He had mixed feelings in his heart.
"Can you blame Hunjun for this?"
On the one hand, there are endless and exasperating memorials to state affairs, and on the other hand, there are delicate and docile girls waiting to do anything.
Under such strong contrast and contrast, which fool would be tempted?
As the sun rose, Wang Chengen, who couldn't resist, finally knocked on the door.
After a while, Li Yunze's voice came from the room, "What's going on?"
"Your Majesty." Wang Chengen hurriedly reported, "The Commander of the Jinyi Guards and Lord Zhi Luo are asking for an audience."
The rustling sound of dressing came from the room.
After a while, Li Yunze, who had dark circles under his eyes, walked out and said, "Go to the study and talk."
In the imperial study room, Luo Yangxing, whose eye circles were darker than Li Yunze's, suppressed his excitement and reported, "Long live, I have been arresting and interrogating overnight, and have preliminarily found out the blood alliance conspiracy."
"speak."
"This case was led by Xu Wenjue, the eldest son of Wei Guogong, Liu Shaozong, the eldest son of Anyuan Hou, Guo Zuoyong, the eldest son of Cheng'an Bo, Zhao Zhilong, the eldest son of Xincheng Bo, Jiao Mengxiong, the prince of Dongning Bo, and others. Longyuan Bank and Miaojue Temple provided silver to finance. Many literary warriors, gentry and merchants Join them. The foxes in the city and the rats in the society, and the giant pirates in Jiangyang and Yangtze are their minions."
"Your Majesty's army is really brave." Li Yunze was happy. He had previously let the Jin Yiwei people secretly reveal that he wanted to abolish the titles of the nobles in the south of the Yangtze River, but he didn't expect that such a big melon would explode.
He even dared to use Luo Yangxing, who was the first governor of the Tartars. Naturally, he would not be angry because these scholars had surrendered to the Tartars in history. He was purely talking about the situation and only talked about the present.
"The Qianzhuang Temple is quite wealthy. To bribe one Cao Bianjiao, you paid 800,000 taels. How many others do you have?"
Luo Yangxing, who felt that he had finally gained the limelight in front of the emperor, responded with his head held high, "Long Xiang's generals and generals and above have all given money. The generals are always one thousand taels, the thousand are always eight thousand taels, and the generals are giving 30,000 taels." . When we get to Vice Admiral Cao, it will be eight hundred thousand taels."
"Xiao Cao has a lot of reputation. He must have gained it from the previous battle in southern Gansu."
Li Yunze was even more interested, "Where is the Great Cao? How are you going to bribe the Great Cao? If the Great Cao doesn't agree, even if the assassination is successful, they will all be buried with him."
"Zhu Ni is going to give him the title of Governor-General of the Left and the title of Marquis of Zhongyong. There are 100,000 acres of fertile land in the south of the Yangtze River, 12 mansions and gardens, over a hundred beauties, and two million taels of silver."
Li Yunze raised his eyebrows and asked curiously, "What this means is that they have even chosen the new emperor after the assassination. Which one?"
Luo Yangxing, who was slightly hesitant, lowered his voice and said, "It's King Fu."
Then he hurriedly added, "Long live, I conducted a strict interrogation and learned that the rebels were only discussing the matter and had no contact with King Fu, and no evidence was found that King Fu was involved."
It doesn't matter if there are hundreds of officials, Luo Yangxing is not afraid of any of them. This is what Jin Yiwei does.
But he would never dare to get involved with relatives of the emperor, let alone make false accusations.
"If your father were here, he would never say such a thing." Luo Yangxing was sweating profusely when he said this.
Li Yunze looked at Luo Yangxing with regret, "You are still too young and not experienced enough. After you return to Beijing, ask your father for more advice."
"If your father were here, he must have seen that I want to rectify the imperial family. At this time, it is time to say that as long as I need it, there will be as much evidence as possible of Prince Fu and others' involvement."
"You have to remember that the Jinyi Guards are the emperor's personal soldiers. The premise of everything is to serve the emperor and not to let you defend Prince Fu here."
The majestic Luo Yangxing shivered and kowtowed heavily, "My lord, I know I was wrong."
"One can be one, two cannot be three." Li Yunze smiled, "Say what you said before again."
Luo Yangxing finally came to his senses and hurriedly responded, "Long live, I have found out. The person behind this blood alliance conspiracy is King Fu!"
Li Yunze asked slowly, "Is there any evidence? Biting the vassal king is a serious crime, so there must be sufficient evidence."
Luo Yangxing, who understood deeply, nodded repeatedly, "The letters written by King Fu, the testimonies of the public, and the steward sent by King Fu to preside over the matter have all arrived."
Under tremendous pressure, Luo Yangxing finally came to his senses.
"The vassal prince is an important minister of the country." Li Yunze waved his hand and emphasized, "There must be evidence!"
When Luo Yangxing exited the imperial study, Wang Chengen, who was guarding the door, quietly winked at him.
The two came to a quiet place, and Wang Chengen asked in a low voice, "How to make the evidence conclusive."
"There are masters of writing in Jinyiwei, and the letters written by Prince Fu can be exactly the same."
"Prince Fu really has a butler in Yingtian Mansion, but he's just here to do some shopping. It's unlucky for him to catch up."
"As for the testimony, Mikishita has whatever kind of testimony he wants."
"It doesn't matter if there is no evidence, Jin Yiwei can create evidence!"
