Rights are obtained through brutal struggle.
It's not good to be too kind, and it's even worse to be too emotional.
For example, Zhu Qizhen publicly called out the emperor's faction at the gates of Beijing, indicating that he would compromise with the new emperor and avoid the spotlight for the time being.
However, Empress Dowager Sun still chose to lead the Emperor's faction in a rather tough attempt. It wasn't until they were completely defeated by Zhu Qiyu in two consecutive battles that the Emperor's faction was willing to face reality and temporarily surrender.
Thinking of this, Zhu Qiyu smiled at Lin Xiangyu and said: "Zi'er, don't go to bed first, and draft a decree for me, so that Wang Cheng can also be in charge of Shang Baojian.
Ruan Rang, the original eunuch in charge of Shang Baojian, was changed to be in charge of Shangyi Jian and Scarf and Hat Bureau. "
At this point, Wang Cheng was the Supervisor of Ceremonies, Bingbi, Supervisor of Internal Affairs and Shangbao, and temporarily held the Seal of Supervisor of Ceremonies for Jin Yingdai. He had become the number one eunuch in the inner court.
Shu Liang is the director of the ceremony, Bingbi, and the admiral of the East Factory, ranking second.
Zhang Yong is the chief ceremonial supervisor, Bingbi, and supervises the inner factory, ranking third.
Wang Jin and Wang Qin ranked fourth and fifth, with equal power.
After dealing with the affairs of the inner court, Zhu Qiyu changed the subject: "My dear concubines, do you know when your birthday is?"
Ningxiang replied from the side: "I don't know. We have been orphans since we were young. Who still remembers his birthday?"
Zhu Qiyu laughed when he heard this and said: "The fifteenth day of February in our north is the Flower Festival, also known as the Flower God Festival. It is the birthday of the God of Flowers. In my opinion, how about you all set your birthdays on the Flower Festival?" "
When the concubines heard this, they all nodded in praise.
Zhu Qiyu continued to ask: "So on February 15th, do you want me to gather together on the Flower Festival, or come one by one, so that everyone can enjoy a few days of pampering?"
Hearing this, Ningxiang blushed and replied: "That's not the case, husband. We sisters have already discussed it. You can give it to your sister first. Then your sister will be your exclusive favor for three or four months until she becomes pregnant. You Give it to us again.”
"Are you sisters so humble?"
"Well, we can have the happy life we have now because my sister has fought for us. My sister is naturally qualified to enjoy special care. Besides, we all hope that my sister can give birth to our eldest son, so that we can live a more stable life in the future. ”
Zhu Qiyu nodded: "Okay, there are still more than twenty days, are you ready?"
Lin Xiangyu also blushed and replied: "The slave family is looking forward to the stars and the moon. They have long been looking forward to being picked up by their husband. It is you who guarded such a top-notch beauty like the slave family, but you endured it for more than half a year."
"Hey, I feel sorry for you. If you still dare to bury me, I will teach you a lesson when I see it."
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At noon the next day, the twentieth day of the first lunar month.
The ministers came to the western suburbs again for a court meeting.
Another advantage of Zhu Qiyu's move to the western suburbs is that he can sleep in. The ministers set out from the capital early in the morning and arrived at the western suburbs at almost noon.
In this way, Zhu Qiyu could have breakfast calmly, finish morning lessons with his beloved concubines, relax in the hot spring for a long time, then dress up and go to the west pavilion to take care of things.
At this time, the ministers had just arrived.
Zhu Qiyu went up to the third floor, reclined on the soft couch, chatted some more, and then the ministers began to play their part.
First, the vassal princes wrote again, requesting to leave the capital.
This time Zhu Qiyu was right.
Through the vassal king, he gave Empress Dowager Sun a platform and encouraged the emperor's faction to jump out to fight against the emperor. After two rounds, Zhu Qiyu had already got what he wanted.
Now that the vassal king stays in the capital, he will have no positive effect. So Zhu Qiyu named King Min and King Dongwu on his side to stay, and the remaining vassal princes could go home happily with the eunuchs, maids, jackals, tigers and leopards given by the emperor.
Zhu Qiyu was very happy to lose thousands of eunuchs and maids at once.
At this time, Wang Wen added: "Your Majesty, in addition to the registered eunuchs, there are many people who have self-castrated and gathered around the imperial city. They usually make a living by doing some rough envoys in the palace.
The successive emperors of the Ming Dynasty have repeatedly issued decrees prohibiting self-castration, but they continued to prohibit it.
Now that the Holy One is vigorously laying off redundant personnel, what do you think should be done with these self-eunuchs? "
Zhu Qiyu understood Wang Wen's meaning and nodded: "It is better to block than to open up. In the future, let the restrictions be relaxed. Princes and princes can recruit self-eunuchs as slaves."
When Chen Xun heard this, he was quite surprised and wanted to question it.
Zhu Qiyu waved his hand: "I know what you want to say, and it must be restricted, otherwise those cruel parents will definitely castrate their sons and use them in exchange for money.
I know that there are many such cases now. Some people deliberately castrated their sons and then found ways to send them to the palace in the hope of gaining glory and wealth. "
Everyone was even more surprised when they heard this. This emperor's sperm is smoking and extremely difficult to fool, but he doesn't look like the vassal king who was raised like a pig at all.
Zhu Qiyu continued to add: "First, even those who are willing to castrate themselves must go to an institution designated by the imperial court for castration. Second, this castration institution can only be set up in Beijing, and no one is allowed to castrate anyone anywhere except Beijing. Castration.
Third, a man must be fifteen years old before he can choose to castrate himself. Castration institutions must ensure that the man is completely voluntary before performing it.
Fourth, if parents force their children to be castrated, they will be beheaded.
Fifth, the inner court supervision bureaus will never accept self-eunuchs. "
When everyone heard this, they all nodded in praise. In this way, the eunuchs would be cut off from entering the palace, and the number might be greatly reduced.
The key depends on whether the emperor can really reduce the size of the inner court completely.
After settling this matter, Zhu Qiyu asked Chen Xun: "How are the warehouses in the Ministry of Revenue?"
Chen Xun saw that the emperor was getting harder and harder to coax, so he cautiously replied: "Your Majesty, according to your instructions, I first transferred the properties confiscated in Shanxi to the Xinlumi warehouse in the east city.
At this time, the savings in the Lumi Granary are enough to support the officials for two years. Together with the gold and silver allocated by the Holy Spirit to the Ministry of Household Affairs, millions of taels of gold and silver are continuously flowing into the Lumi Granary every year. There is no need to worry about the officials for at least seven or eight years. The salary was distributed.
In addition, the new Taicang in Nanjuxianfang has been built, and its silver reserves have reached 2 million taels, which are specially used for disaster relief, river management, and water conservancy construction.
There are also three million stones of grain in old Taicang, which were transported from Tongzhou and other places during the battle to defend the capital. "
Zhu Qiyu nodded and then ordered: "First move the Wang Gong Factory, the Gunpowder Bureau, and the Military War Bureau to the southeast corner of Beijing's New Outer City;
Move the Xixin Department, Hongluo Factory, Chariot Factory, Platform Factory, Banking Bureau, and Baoyuan Bureau of the Ministry of Industry to the southwest corner of Beijing's New Outer City.
Then he began to work hard to cast Jingtai Tongbao and put it on a large scale in the capital.
I want to try copper coins instead of treasure banknotes in the capital first. How will the effect be? "
For Zhu Qiyu, the Wanggong Factory and the Gunpowder Bureau were the first to be moved, and to the southernmost corner of the outer city. Otherwise, God knows whether these emperor factions will be so blessed that they will come up with the evil ideas of those gods in the late Ming Dynasty.
The Big Explosion of Wang Gong Factory is a romantic epic masterpiece that is more fantasy than fantasy.
As a cautious emperor, Zhu Qiyu did not want to pin his hopes of survival on the stupidity of his opponents. What if the opponent is smart and knows that the powder magazine will explode? So it’s better to nip it in the bud.
Otherwise, it would be a lot of fun if all of his cronies were killed in one fell swoop and blown up to the sky.
(End of chapter)
