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Chapter Picking up a soft pinch

Zhao Bing received a detailed report on Zhen Jin's death in February of the 14th year of Xiangxing. Tie Muer was responsible for the reign of the funeral. The preludes were all planned by him. Although there were deviations, they did not deviate from his own ideas. What shocked him was that Zhen Jin made the most ruthless decision in his life at the last moment of his life.

When Zhenjin announced that Tiemur was the culprit, his best friend Sangge was executed immediately and the remaining parties were searched. It was reported that more than 200 officials were removed and arrested on that day, and these people were basically killed on the spot on the charge of "resisting arrest", their families were slaughtered, and property was confiscated, and thousands of people were killed on the same day.

However, this was just the beginning of the cleaning. According to the fate of the real gold, the Ganmala party that failed in the battle for the throne was then liquidated. The scope of this involvement was even wider, not only involving confidants who supported Ganmala, but also related local officials and sect kings were also liquidated. More than 20,000 people were executed within just over ten days, and countless people were involved.

After this bloody purge, according to He Weixian, the number of officials who went to the palace at the grand dynasty meeting was half as few as before. He also said that he did not fully know about this purge, but the real gold was given a decree to An Tong, Buhumu and others. This led to the mutual "comparison" between the two parties, and the scope was continuously expanded on the grounds of discovering new remnants, and there was a tendency to spread across the country, so that Kuokuozhen, the temporary regent, was frightened and strongly stopped the purge.

He Weixian reported that after this major change, the Yuan court was already seriously injured, and all the officials were trembling, fearing that they would be included in the Sangge or the Ganmala party. Another secret fight followed. Due to the large number of officials, they all wanted to add their confidants, and fought endlessly for important positions and quotas, and even various institutions of the court were paralyzed and could not be in charge of normal directors.

However, He Weixian was not only unscathed in this storm, but also won the respect of the powerful people in the court because of his loyalty to the Khan, strict neutrality, and conscientious duties. In particular, he followed the will and "unconditional" efforts to protect Tiemur, and made him and the Queen Mother Kuokuozhen highly appreciated him. Afterwards, he did not replace him, but he still led the Zuoyi Guards to guard the palace city.

While Zhao Bing felt that Zhen Jin was cruel, he also changed his understanding of his understanding. In the past, Zhen Jin was a "cowardly" and unintentional king, lacking strict means to restrain his subordinates, and the policies formulated continued to sway between the Han and the old systems. After the defeat, he also compromised blindly and did not have the determination to re-enforce the court.

However, after this, Zhao Bing felt that Zhen Jin was actually a ruthless person. He knew very well that it was difficult to maintain long-term stability by adopting the old Mongolian system. Only by implementing the Han system can the world be unified and avoiding endless internal struggles. At the same time, he realized that he was unable to fulfill his long-cherished wish and could only rely on his successor.

Through several incidents, Zhen Jin realized that although Ganmala was close to Han Confucianism and was the best candidate for implementing the Han system, his strength was not enough to fight against Tiemur and lacked a view of the overall situation. Once he was established as a reserve, it would be difficult to defeat Tiemur in the subsequent competition. Instead, it would trigger a new civil strife, which would weaken the strength of the Mongol Yuan again and lead to the destruction of the country.

So the real gold abandoned Ganmala. However, in order to allow Tiemur to continue to follow his own policies, he first killed Sange, a loyal fan of the old system, and took the opportunity to carry out a large-scale purge of the old system. In order to reduce the resistance of Tiemur to succeed the throne, he also cracked down on the Ganmala party to clear the way for his smooth ascension to the throne.

As the saying goes, without destruction, the blow to both parties is essentially the real gold to clean up the traditional forces left by the Kublai Khan era, thus leaving a cleaner situation for one's successors without being restrained by the old forces. It also makes it weakened the strength of the ministers and the later party left behind, making it difficult to form autocracy, so that their own power can be re-cultivated and a relatively stable and obedient court.

The final madness of Zhen Jin can be said to be beyond Zhao Bing's expectations. His intention was that Zhen Jin would leave a mess after his death, and Tiemuer, who had insufficient prestige, could not control it in a short period of time, which led to a long-term civil strife in the Mongolian Yuan court and had no time to take care of it, to make several years of rectification of internal affairs, develop the economy, and to win opportunities for another Northern Expedition.

The current plan was broken by the real gold punch, which made it full of variables afterwards. But Zhao Bing could not say he regretted it, because this was the uncertainty in the development of history. An occasional event could change a piece of history. Just like his own arrival, the already tragic Song Dynasty returned the already damn Song Dynasty, and the real gold that had no chance to rise to power became the emperor for several years.

However, Zhao Bing finally chose to "support" Tiemur to inherit the Khan throne because he had his own little thoughts. As the saying goes, killing animals is worse than killing old people. After all, in real history, Tiemur became a great khan, so there was nothing to do with Ganmala. He still had some understanding of Tiemur in history, but Ganmala was just a part of the history books, just like a passerby.

Zhao Bing's historical evaluation of Tiemur is "After Chengzong inherited the world and was in harmony, he ruled with his mercy" and "good at maintaining success". This comment is actually similar to the current saying that you are an honest person, which means that during his reign, there were things worthy of praise, but in general, he did not do much, and his political disadvantages had been revealed.

In real history, Tiemur's greatest act during his reign was to become the leader of other khanates in name. The four Khanates unanimously recognized that the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty was the legal heir to the throne of Genghis Khan. He stopped foreign wars, dismissed Japan and Annan, and focused on rectifying domestic military and political affairs. He took measures such as restricting the power of the kings, reducing some taxes, and newly enacted laws and regulations to temporarily ease social conflicts. At the same time, he sent troops to defeat the rebel kings of Haidu, Duwa, etc. in the northwest, and Chabaer surrendered, which improved the long-term turmoil in the northwest.

However, during his reign, Tiemur basically maintained a situation of maintaining the situation, but he increased his rewards indiscriminately, and his income was insufficient. The treasury funds were short of money, and the Zhongtong Banknotes quickly depreciated. He sent troops to conquer 800 daughters-in-laws, causing turmoil in Yunnan and Guizhou. He fell ill in his later years and appointed the Empress Bruhan and Semuren Ministers, and the government was gradually declining. His ability was far inferior to Kublai Khan. He even ascended the throne for five years. It is still unknown who the officials of the six ministries were. The emperor was like this, so his subordinates could certainly delay their affairs, so "many mistakes were made."

In addition, Tiemur's ability to govern is not strong, and the situation in the Mongol Yuan Secretariat itself was in a downturn. The guiding ideology of Wanze and Wuhumu was to abide by Cheng Constitution, which had a good effect on maintaining stability. However, it also led to the idle style of doing things permeate the court. The Secretariat became a bureaucratic organization that was lazy, failed to fulfill the government orders and delayed work, which made Chengzong remember the scene when Sang Ge was in power.

Zhao Bing still remembers that Timur was named one of the strange emperors by netizens in his previous life. This is mainly aimed at his measures to treat corruption and bribery:

The first measure was to "not ask for the whole imperial edict": During the reign of Emperor Chengzong, major corruption cases occurred from time to time, and in one year, two huge corruption cases occurred: the Censorate impeached Ping Zhang and received more than 30,000 ingots of wealth; the Education Reiterated that Ping Zhang's stole 300,000 ingots of money when he received financial resources, and the Taichung Chief Zhang Lu received 100 ingots of money from Li Yuanshan. These corrupt officials tried their best to excuse themselves in an attempt to excuse themselves, but Tiemur actually adopted the attitude of "not asking for the whole imperial edict" and finally left it alone.

The second measure is to "do good deeds": Zhu Qing and Zhang Xuan's case occurred. It was found that almost all the prime ministers under Prime Minister Wanze had been bribed by them. Tiemur was furious and removed all these ministers, but soon they were restored to their posts. Another Hui merchant sold gems and bribed the ministers, defrauding 600,000 ingots for gems worth 300,000 ingots. He was reported and ordered the ministers to be executed. So the families of these people begged the National Master of Danba to plead with him. Danba then reported to release them as a prisoner by "doing good deeds", and they were all released and their official positions were restored.

The persimmon bite and pick up the soft pinch. Compared to choosing Ganmala, whom Zhao Bing certainly had to choose Tiemur, a soft persimmon. He believed that even if the real gold had cleared the field for it, it would be impossible to control this complex situation, which would worsen the situation. It formed that "all state affairs are determined by the palace and the court inside, and the minister outside." The queen and the minister of the central government held the power of the court respectively, and the end of becoming a puppet...

Because the Mongolian and Yuan dynasties strictly blocked the news to deal with all the matters after the death of the real gold, after Zhao Bing obtained the details, the Song Dynasty court only received a few words and did not understand the great changes that occurred in the Mongolian and Yuan dynasties. In order to gain the initiative in dealing with the new situation, he ordered the Affairs Bureau to sort out the information obtained and deleted the content that might leak the situation of his own intelligence personnel, forming a new report to discuss it at the court.

After the ministers learned that the throne of the Mongol Khan had changed and personnel changes greatly, the reaction was different. Some people thought that when the Mongol Khan succeeded to the throne and his foundation was unstable, they launched a northern expedition again, recovered their homeland, and drove the Tartars back to the grassland; while the other side thought that after the two sides reached a peace agreement, they had just put it into practice, and the army had already entered rest and recuperation, and it was already spring, so it was not appropriate to recruit husbands and soldiers to delay production. Therefore, they advocated maintaining the status quo and make plans when the situation was clear.

Zhao Bing felt that it was normal for the debate between the ministers, and it was consistent in the general terms, that is, they all advocated taking the opportunity to use troops to the Mongolian Yuan, but one was to send troops immediately, and the other was to send troops slightly. From this point of view, he was still very pleased. At least everyone was no longer afraid of the Mongolian Yuan, and was already full of confidence in defeating it. Although he did not express his opinion, he was actually unwilling to send troops at this time, because the pressure was too great in all aspects.

As the ministers were arguing endlessly, several Huaidong prefectures sent urgent reports, saying that the number of locusts was excessive this year, and there was a possibility of a locust plague. This made the ministers quickly reach a compromise, temporarily abandon the Northern Expedition, and make every effort to deal with the possible locust plague...
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