The wall at the victory entrance of Datong Town was breached by the Han army on the second day of the sixth lunar month in the first year of Chongzhen. Just one day later, the urgent Tangma Army Report sent the news of the Han army's invasion to the Ming Empire. The most virtuous city. When the news was delivered, it was noon on the third day of June. At that time, the cabinet ministers, the ministers of the Sixth Ministry, as well as the Kedao Yanguan and the general admirals of the Beijing Camp were gathering in the middle hall of the Ministry of Personnel, drinking tea and talking. , while waiting to go to the Wenhua Palace to attend the small court.
As a result, before it was time to go to court, the 600-mile expedited trip from Datong arrived.
Huang Liji, who was already used to seeing strong winds and waves, and had been raised as the first assistant scholar of the Prime Minister's Office, frowned while holding the Tangbao, which was led by Mangui, holding a hot tea bowl, and couldn't say anything for a long time. Come on.
Hasn’t the imperial court sent envoys to the Han tribe? Why did you call me? Has the deal already broken down?
When Prime Minister Huang came to his senses, he immediately jumped up and shouted to the ministers who were drinking tea with him to rush to the Wenhua Palace.
But before they left the official hall, Cao Wenxu, the eunuch in charge of Wenhua Palace, came in a hurry and announced a piece of news that left everyone speechless.
Long Live Lord, I feel cold, so today’s Umrah is cancelled!
Now, this Long Live Lord, to be honest, was quite diligent among the emperors of the Ming Dynasty. Although the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month are basically not allowed - these two days are equivalent to holidays! However, Xiaochao of Wenhua Palace rarely asks for leave, and his ideas for handling government affairs are very clear, and he is not easily fooled, and he can make decisions immediately when encountering difficulties. If he didn't like to seize internal funds, seize pro-army troops, and like to use the label of rebel against the party to scare everyone, this young emperor is basically a wise king.
But why did this Ming army fall ill just when he was trying to invade Datong?
"Eunuch Cao, the matter is urgent now. Han soldiers have been inserted into the bandits and the border wall of Datong has been cut through. Can you please ask Long Live Lord..." Of course Huang Liji couldn't let Zhu Youjian go like this. Now It’s no different than usual. Foreign enemies are invading, so you, a long-lived man, have to continue to work even though you are sick!
As soon as he said this, the loyal and traitorous ministers in the official hall all turned into unreasonable supervisors and agreed one after another.
"Yes, the matter is urgent now. If Long Live Master is okay, please come and see us!"
"That's right, the chief's 100,000 soldiers have broken through the border wall of Datong..."
"Eunuch Cao, Long Live Master was fine yesterday, wasn't he? He was still reviewing the armed forces at Nanhaizi Camp, why did he..."
"Yes, why are you sick? Yesterday, you were riding horses and shooting arrows in Nanhaizi!"
"No, we have to go to Qianqing Palace to meet the Holy Spirit!"
"Eunuch Cao, please take us to Qianqing Palace quickly... Datong Mansion is in an emergency now, we must see him!"
Upon hearing that Datong Mansion was in a hurry, Cao Wenxue also became anxious. I had no choice but to say to the ministers: "Since Datong is in a hurry, then our family will take you to the Qianqing Palace... But it is not feasible for so many people to go. Long live the Lord is sick and cannot see so many people! Otherwise How about a few pavilion elders and British father-in-law follow our family to Qianqing Palace?"
After hearing this, the ministers all became worried. Originally, they thought that Zhu Youjian was just too tired from playing yesterday and really couldn't get out of bed today.
But according to Cao Wenxue... is he really seriously ill?
This long live master is only 18 years old! And he doesn’t have a son yet. If he collapses, who will be the emperor?
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Forbidden City, Qianqing Palace.
In the afternoon, several pavilion elders from the outer court and the British Duke Zhang Weixian, the commander-in-chief of the Beijing camp, finally gathered outside the Qianqing Palace, clamoring to see Emperor Chongzhen.
"Your Majesty, the chieftain's soldiers have already penetrated the border wall of Datong. What are your ideas?"
"Your Majesty, Datong is in a hurry..."
"Your Majesty, please come up with an idea quickly!"
"Your Majesty, is your dragon body still okay? Can you see us?"
"Your Majesty, are you okay?"
The door creaked, and a young woman in gorgeous clothes came out of the main hall of the Qianqing Palace with the support of Xu Yingyuan, the eunuch of Bingbi, the eunuch of the ceremony, and Shang Fuming, the eunuch of the imperial horse eunuch.
This woman is none other than Queen Zhou!
The courtiers quickly kowtowed to Queen Zhou and then knelt on the ground to secretly look at the young and beautiful Queen.
The Queen is pregnant with a child... I don't know if it's a boy?
But now there are still some days before birth, and the country cannot live without a king for a day!
Besides, the queen doesn’t look like she’s going to kill her husband...
While the ministers were full of doubts, Queen Zhou had already taken out a copy of the imperial edict, unfolded it in front of all the ministers, and then said in a low voice: "Long live the Lord already knew that Han troops were inserted to attack Datong." It’s about the border wall, now I have an edict for you!”
Have a purpose?
Then listen quickly!
Queen Zhou said: "Long Live Lord has a decree: If you want to fight, then fight!"
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Today is the second day of June, and yesterday was of course the first day of June, Zhu Youjian's "rest day". Of course, it's not really a rest - Zhu Youjian rested for more than fifty years in his last life, and now that he has finally become emperor again, he is still willing to rest? It's just that he doesn't put all his energy into the court now.
Because in his opinion, the current court is pretty good... although there are a lot of treacherous ministers, they are not very responsible, and there are not many ministers who are willing to do real work. But at least it won’t hold you back much! Even though the gang of treacherous ministers left by Wei Zhongxian were all wrong, they were still more obedient after all, and they still had pigtails in Zhu Youjian's hands. Therefore, Zhu Youjian will not make any big moves towards foreign affairs for the time being. His main focus now is on two aspects, one is the inner court; the other is the pro-army.
Both aspects gave him a bit of a headache, especially the inner court! In Zhu Youjian's previous life, he saw that it was quite easy for his rebellious son to run the Royal Chamber of Commerce, and it seemed that he could conjure mountains of gold and silver out of thin air. But when it was his turn to take action, he realized that business was not easy to do!
The current inner court obviously has a lot of assets - a lot of them were stolen from the two major families of Wei Zhongxian and Hakka! There were also a group of big officials in the inner court and the seventy fat sheep and traitors detained in Xiyuan who bought indulgences, so Zhu Youjian had some assets in his hands.
Only the land in Gyeonggi, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi and other places (at first only the land in Beizhili, but later many treacherous officials could not take out the land in Beizhili, so it was relaxed appropriately), after deducting the land for pro-military positions Finally, there are still three to four million acres. In addition, there are a large number of shops, mansions, treasures, debts...the total value is tens of millions of taels!
But with so much property, there is just no way to create much profit!
And the expenses of the inner court are huge. Even if many eunuchs and maids are laid off, there are still a lot of pro-army expenses to pay. Moreover, Zhu Youjian is now planning to purchase poor children from Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and other places to serve as scouts... Another huge expense!
So he always feels that he doesn’t have enough money!
Obviously there are so many high-quality assets, but they can't turn out profits... Zhu Youjian has been missing his son a little these days. He always talks about making money by hundreds of millions! But the problem is that the unfaithful son is still pregnant in Queen Zhou's belly - Queen Zhou has already diagnosed the happy pulse, so it must be the unfaithful son, right? But even if it is, it will be more than ten years before it comes into use?
What to do now?
Zhu Youjian, who was forced to do nothing, spent the past two days playing tricks on the Royal Horse Supervisor to supervise the eunuch Pang Tianshou to go to Nanjing and Fujian to find Shen Tingyang and Zheng Yiguan - Chief Shen should still be studying for a diploma in Nanjing Taixue. , Zheng Yiguan was discussing the recruitment matter with Xiong Wencan.
Of course, the matter of finding money is not urgent at the moment. There is still a lot of money in the internal transportation warehouse, and the current expenses can be met.
Therefore, the top priority now is the army in front of the tent.
Because he knew that the war with the Han tribe was about to break out, Zhu Youjian had gathered all the troops in front of the tent in the Nanhaizi camp in the name of review. In addition, a war horse and a walking horse were mobilized from the horse farm under the jurisdiction of the Royal Horse Supervisor, and the army in front of the tent was ordered to prepare 10-day marching rations.
And since the first day of June, he has lived in the Nanhaizi camp - Nanhaizi was originally the hunting palace of the Ming Dynasty emperor. Although it had been abandoned for some years, it was in line with the system for Zhu Youjian to live in it, and the foreign ministers also Can't say anything.
However, Zhu Youjian still kept it secret from the outside court, lest they know that he wanted to conquer it personally...
