After Zhu Gaochi ascended the throne, he followed his father's order and reused Chen Guogong Yan Keng and San Yang.
The cabinet composed of Sanyang has extremely efficient operation and tacit cooperation. With their help, government affairs are handled very efficiently, and the world begins to recuperate.
Zhu Gaochi had many advantages, such as his benevolence and love for the people, which made the court under his rule almost the two extremes of Hongwu in those days, and he was praised by hundreds of officials.
However, it was this series of measures that brought obvious disadvantages. It is necessary to know that a good emperor must not only be benevolent, but also cruel.
For example, due to his lenient attitude towards officials, corrupt officials began to rise gradually.
For example, his love for the people has reached an outrageous level. He stopped his voyages to the West. Even if it could bring huge profits to the Ming Dynasty, he stopped it just because every voyage to the West required a large number of people to do corvee service. This was a waste of people's power in his eyes.
Although he was opposed by Yan Keng, Zhu Gaochi did not relent on this point. He bluntly said that the people along the coast have suffered from the West for a long time!
Such a tough attitude left Yan Keng helpless. Besides, the other party did not want to go to the West, and it happened that the coastal family could divide the share of the royal family, so he just tried to persuade him a few times, but the other party didn't listen, so he let him go.
However, Yan Keng firmly opposed the move of the capital back to Nanjing and stood resolutely opposite Zhu Gaochi.
Zhu Gaochi's reason for returning to Nanjing is still that it wastes people and money.
As we all know, we Chinese like to go to big cities. As the capital, Beijing naturally attracts a large number of businessmen and people. At the same time, it is the center of the Ming Dynasty and has an extremely heavy administrative system. The food near Beijing alone is far away. Far from enough.
The strategy adopted by Zhu Di was to transfer grain and grass from the south to the north.
But transferring grain from the south to the north every year consumes a lot of people's energy.
It happened that the capital was moved only a few years ago, and many officials also wanted to return to their roots, so they repeatedly submitted letters, which suited Zhu Gaochi's taste.
But when he called Yan Keng, he was refuted mercilessly.
"Your Majesty said that it was a waste of money and people, but you don't know that after the canal was dredged, countless canals crossed the canal, and hundreds of thousands of water transport workers depended on it for their food and clothing. If your majesty abolishes water transport, what will happen to the canal workers? Are they grateful to your majesty, or are they? Do you resent Your Majesty for making him destitute of food and clothing?"
"In the past, Emperor Taizong patrolled the north and established two major fortresses in the north. Xijing guarded Shaanxi to control the northwest and intimidate the desert; Beijing was the hub of the north, and soldiers gathered to defend the capital and garrison northern Xinjiang, and then control Liaodong. To prevent changes outside the fortress, this is a strategy to stabilize the country."
"At the time of Hongwu, there were nine great fortress kings. Although they were all in the south, the north was still safe. In Yongle, Liang Guogong swept to the north, and all the grassland tribes became vassals. Yongle stayed in Nanjing for more than ten years and was fine."
"But what about you, Your Majesty? What do you have in the North?"
"The Northland is peaceful for a while, how can it be peaceful forever? If changes occur in the Northland, the Ming Dynasty will be beyond its reach. I am afraid that only half of the country will be left in ten months!"
"Your Majesty, please think twice before you act!" After Yan Keng finished speaking, he kowtowed deeply.
Of course, he also had selfish motives. Nanjing was too close to Ningbo. Once he returned to Nanjing, the imperial court's control over Jiangnan would undoubtedly be greatly strengthened, which was extremely detrimental to the family's development in Jiangnan.
But what he said was from the bottom of his heart.
Zhu Gaochi hesitated.
Of course he trusted himself as an important minister. Seeing the other party's firm opposition, he was immediately shaken, and what Yan Keng said was deeply imprinted in his heart.
Yan Keng analyzed everything clearly in one word, and he immediately understood the pros and cons.
It's just that Nanjing is indeed the capital that he has long preferred, but for a while, it was a bit difficult to make a choice.
Yan Keng took a peek and saw the thoughtful expression on Emperor Hong Xi's face, knowing that the emperor had been moved by him.
He decided to unleash his trump card:
"Your Majesty, I have just received a report. Since a month ago, the earth dragons around Nanjing City have turned over dozens of times!"
As he spoke, he took out the memorial from his sleeve and handed it over.
"Your Majesty, it is not unusual for an earth dragon to turn over. But it is rare to see it so frequently! Is this not the will of God?"
Zhu Gaochi took the memorial in disbelief and read it carefully. Then, his eyes suddenly widened!
Since March of the first year of the year, there have been dozens of earthquakes in Nanjing!
Continuous large-scale earthquakes mean that this place is not suitable as the capital of a unified regime because of instability.
Not only that, in Zhu Gaochi's view, this was a warning from God to him.
After all, there had been no earthquakes in the past few decades, but suddenly there were dozens of earthquakes. At this critical moment when preparing to move the capital, Zhu Gaochi took it for granted that this was a warning from God: Don't mess around, kid.
Sweat gradually slid down Emperor Hongxi's temples.
Even if he was ninety-five, he would not dare to disobey God's order.
His voice was trembling a little, and he kept saying: "It's up to you, it's up to you! I won't mention the matter of moving the capital anymore!"
Yan Keng was overjoyed and immediately prostrated:
"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"
The matter of moving the capital has been abandoned.
Through this incident, Zhu Gaochi also deeply realized Yan Keng's vision, and he trusted and relied on Yan Keng even more.
In addition to moving the capital, Yan Keng also agreed with Zhu Gaochi's rest policy.
With his help, the Ming Dynasty entered a long-lost peace.
The prosperous age still comes with a price. It is an indisputable fact that the people suffer from corvee work. During the Hongxi Dynasty, all unnecessary corvee work was stopped, and the people lived a peaceful life of working at sunrise and resting at sundown.
If there is panel data, then the health bar of the Ming Dynasty at this time must be "+".
But as Yan Ling saw, Zhu Gaochi's life energy was extremely thin and stained gray, which was a sign that life had come to an end and medicine and stone were difficult to cure.
After all, Zhu Gaochi has always been in poor health, and he has helped his father handle affairs for many years. After he ascended the throne, he took care of everything and was very diligent.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang was diligent in his work because he had a strong physique that he had worked hard from the bottom. How could Zhu Gaochi withstand such hard work because he was so talented?
Only eight months after he ascended the throne, he fell ill and got out of control. In just two days, he left Qin'an Palace to the west.
His existence seems to be just a transition, just to allow the Yongle Dynasty, which worked hard to govern, to end the majestic one, and then usher in the Xuande Dynasty to recuperate.
Hong Xi was short-lived, but dazzling enough.
Zhu Gaochi used his benevolence to calm down the massive use of people's resources since Yongle, rehabilitated many of Jianwen's old ministers, and began the prelude to the rule of Renxuan.
In May of the first year of Hongxi, Emperor Hongxi died at the age of forty-seven. His posthumous title is "Emperor of the Supreme Dehong, Wenqin and Wuzhang, Shengda Xiaozhao, who respects the Heavenly Body, Taoism and Pureness", the temple name is Renzong, and he is buried in Xianling Mausoleum.
Prince Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne as Emperor Xuande.
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PS: After reading Lao Zhu’s recipe, I can only say that the Ming Dynasty emperor’s short life was not without reason.
Except for the rice noodles, it's all meat and almost no vegetables.
Look at this breakfast: stir-fried mutton, pan-fried goose, stir-fried pork with cabbage, vegetarian sauce, steamed pork belly, two-cooked pan-fried fish, roasted pork, noodles, soft chicken soup, and fragrant rice. ,bean soup.
Watermelon must be roasted with salt.
It’s strange that you can’t eat like this.
The old Taoist priest was able to live so long thanks to his vegetarian diet.
(End of chapter)
