Daigantala Palace.
In this courtyard full of Mongolian and Uzbek architectural styles, a rare visitor came today! Zhu Youjian's empress Zhou, escorted by the eunuchs Chen Bingzheng and Qi Benzheng who were also responsible for the ceremony, the eunuch Gao Qiqian and the eunuchs Zhan Shifu Kong Zhenyun and others, were not far away. I came here to meet Zhu Youjian.
Also leaving the capital with the queen were Concubine Tian and Concubine Yuan, as well as Shen Tingyang who came under the imperial edict and Qian Qianyi who came for a shameless stroll.
Among them, Concubine Tian and Concubine Yuan both stayed in Datong Summer Palace to settle everything - the original Prince Dai's Palace. The two noble concubines and Queen Zhou also brought a group of young eunuchs and maids specially selected from the Beijing Palace... They are all reliable people. From now on, Zhu Youjian's family will be served by these people.
Shen Tingyang and Qian Qianyi sent a secret report to Zhu Youjian - it was written by Sun Chengzong, the imperial censor of Zuodu, who joined the Central Eunuch Party to seek to establish the blessed king Zhu Changxun!
Moreover, this secret report also received the support of Queen Zhou, who was pregnant with Liujia!
"Long live my lord, after the deceptive memorials of King Dai and others were sent to the capital, most of the eunuchs in the court and those who controlled the capital camp and the royal guards wanted to welcome King Fu! Only Donglin gentlemen like Mr. Sun and Xu The chamberlains such as Banban, Shang Banban, Zhou Banban, Wang Banban, Gao Banban and Queen Yi'an want to have a child in my belly..."
The one who was snitching in the main hall of Daigentala Palace was Queen Zhou - she had come all the way from Beijing to Daigentala just to complain!
She really hated those eunuchs and nobles! She actually wants to establish the King of Fortune... She must be carrying a son! Zhu Youjian also thought he was his son, and even named him Zhu Cihong!
Those treacherous ministers actually refused to wait and wanted to establish King Fu. Even if they were killed, they would not be able to forgive their hatred!
Zhu Youjian was sitting on a chair, holding Sun Chengzong's memorial in his hand, looking over it over and over - this is a good thing!
It is the memorial for the leader of the Donglin Party to impeach King Fu Zhu Changxun!
That is Grandpa Wanli’s favorite King of Fortune!
Wangzhuang alone has 20,000 hectares...that's two million acres! At that time, Henan Province could not procure so much official land, so it later acquired fertile land in Shandong and Huguang.
In addition, a considerable part of Zhang Juzheng's greedy property was also allocated to Prince Fu. From Yangzhou to Taiping, Anhui, various miscellaneous taxes along the river were also allocated to Fufu. In addition, the income from Sichuan's salt wells and part of the income from Huai's salt also went to Fufu... The real wealth is unparalleled!
Zhu Youjian spends money lavishly these days, and he doesn't know how to make money (he and Nizi have been studying for fifty years, but they have never learned to make money), so money is already a bit tight.
Moreover, Zhu Youjian hated Zhu Yousong, the son of King Fu Zhu Changxun... in his last life (he helped his rebellious son force him into the palace)! Can I let Zhu Yousong go in this life?
However, although King Fu Zhu Changxun was so rich that he could rival the country, that was not a crime that could eliminate the vassal and eliminate the country. His money was given by his parents, and it was fair and aboveboard. Zhu Youjian couldn't confiscate it just because he said it was confiscated!
Now it's fine, the charges are finally established... Someone is planning to establish the King of Fortune!
This is sin!
If King Fu was not ambitious, how could others seek to establish him?
In addition... Sun Chengzong also said in the memorial that Guangmiao (Mingguangzong) and Ximiao (Mingxizong) both died strangely, and they were probably killed by traitors who planned to establish King Fu!
Haha, a suspected regicide!
Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian was in a really good mood... He collected the memorial, then asked Queen Zhou to rest, and then asked Qian Qianyi and Shen Tingyang to come.
After Qian and Shen paid a grand ceremony, Zhu Youjian offered seats to the other two, and then smiled and said to Qian Qianyi who was already sitting on an embroidered pier: "Qian Qing is the leader of Donglin and is qualified to join the cabinet." , but now there is no shortage of cabinet ministers, and there are also ministers and ministers in the six departments, how about becoming a young official and a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy first?"
Shao Zhanshi is an official of the East Palace. Now that Zhu Youjian has no son, Shao Zhanshi has no real power. But the bachelor of Hanlin Academy is amazing! The responsibilities of the Hanlin Academy are to preside over matters such as imperial edicts and historical annals, examine the system, correct documents, and prepare advisors for the emperor. Of course, as the cabinet authority of the Ming Dynasty became increasingly more authoritative, the most important responsibilities of Hanlin academicians were to prepare imperial edicts. That is, the power of writing imperial edicts belongs to the cabinet bachelor.
But Zhu Youjian is now an emperor who is freed from the control of court officials. He does not have a cabinet bachelor (he wanted to recruit Huang Liji, but Huang Shoufu found an excuse to push it away). He only has the chief of etiquette to hold the pen, so he needs Someone replaced the cabinet bachelor to draft the decree. Now Qian Qianyi came to his door, which was exactly what Zhu Youjian wanted.
However, Zhu Youjian does not intend to seize the power of the cabinet yet, nor does he intend to bring down the eunuch party... because he is quite satisfied with the current cabinet. And he also knows that he cannot rely on purging the cabinet to promote any new deal. Only the New Army can really promote the new deal!
Before the new army is established, the cabinet will play a guarding and maintenance role. There is no need to have too much hope in them, and there is no need to expend too much energy in trying to outwit them.
Therefore, Zhu Youjian didn't want to argue with those people every day. From now on, he would just let the Hanlin bachelor and the chief of etiquette help handle the votes and memorials sent by the cabinet.
"Shen Tingyang, right?" After arranging Qian Qianyi's position, Zhu Youjian turned his attention to Shen Tingyang and Shen Caishen... This was the humerus of the traitor back then!
"The student is Shen Tingyang." Shen Tingyang looked a little restrained, holding his knees with his hands, and he didn't look like a profiteer at all.
Zhu Youjian smiled and asked: "Did you go north to open up China-France and Nanliang Shipping?"
Sun Chengzong specially wrote a memorial for Shen Tingyang, firstly to recommend him; secondly, to help Shen Tingyang promote his method of transporting grain by sea.
Because the Yellow River captured the Huaihe River in the late Northern Song Dynasty, problems occurred in the three important rivers of the Yellow River, Huaihe River, and Yun River. The source of the problem is the huge amount of sediment brought by the Yellow River! After these sediments washed into the Huaihe River, they began to accumulate in the lower reaches of the Huaihe River and Hongze Lake, constantly raising the river bed and lake bed, causing the Huaihe River estuary to gradually become silted up, and Hongze Lake also hung over the heads of the Huaihe and Yangfus.
After the Wanli Year, the floods in the Huaihe River became more and more serious, reaching the point where floods occurred every two or three years, which had a serious impact on the agricultural production in the Huaihe River Basin. To solve this problem, there is only one way - to interrupt the canal and dig the channel of the Yellow River into the sea in Huaibei, so that the Yellow River sediment no longer enters the Huaihe River.
If the canal is not interrupted but allowed to intersect with the Yellow River, the sediment from the Yellow River will soon raise the channel at the intersection of the two rivers. It won't be long before the Yellow River turns into a "high wall" and cuts off the canal.
Therefore, after the Ming Dynasty moved the capital to Beijing, in order to maintain the absolute security of Beijing's food supply, the country adopted the policy of "abandoning the Huaihe River to ensure transportation" and letting the sediment from the Yellow River flow into the Huaihe River...
"Your Majesty," Shen Tingyang nodded, "if we want to open a border between China and France to supply food to the Liao army, the amount of food transported northward by sea every year would already amount to millions of dan, which is equivalent to the amount of grain from the canal... As long as we continue With twice as many sand ships, it is completely feasible to replace canal transport with sea transport. After sea transport replaces canal transport, the channel of the Yellow River into the sea can be excavated. In this way, the lower reaches of the Huai River will no longer be silted up, and the Huai River will not flood year after year. It will be able to save the coastal areas of Huaizhou Countless lives in the county have been saved from disaster."
Zhu Youjian actually doesn't care about the devastation of life... But the lack of floods in the Huai River will greatly increase Huai grain production! This will alleviate the overall tight food supply problem.
If you have food in your hands, you won’t panic in your heart!
However, abolishing the canal and protecting the Huai River would affect the interests of many people, and Zhu Youjian did not dare to act rashly. Just when he wanted to push this matter back and arrange a good deal for Shen Tingyang. The eunuch Chen Bingzheng, the eunuch Chen Bingzheng, the Superintendent of Ceremonies, hurried to Zhu Youjian's side holding a memorial to the Ministry of War with the decree (bill draft) already posted. Zhu Youjian took the memorial and opened it, his brows suddenly knitted together. After a long while, he put the memorial together and said to Shen Tingyang in front of him: "Shen Tingyang, I will transport grain by sea." To save the people of Huaibin. But before that, I have to kill Huang Taiji first!"
