Seeing the emperor's anger, the Hanlin behind the pillar who was responsible for recording the "Daily Notes" shrank his head and quickly recorded: On March 26th of the Yisi year, a memorial from the Marquis of Dingyuan came from overseas, and he was angry and scolded.
: "Shuzi, the country is in danger, and you have to take the beauty on a trip, and don't think about the return date."
Chongzhen grabbed Yang Fan's memorial and read it quickly, cursing at the same time. It was all nonsense. This was not a memorial at all, it was simply a travelogue.
Yang Fan made a lot of typos, used inaccurate allusions, and the context was not smooth. He was talking about his trip to the sea during this period, the island scenery, customs, and strange animals. He said that he would bring envoys from the Thirteen Kingdoms of Southeast Asia.
Come to pay tribute to the emperor before the festival.
There is also an auspicious omen presented to Your Majesty, which is a large sea turtle eight feet in diameter. It is estimated to have a lifespan of more than 400 years.
Seeing this, his expression softened. Since ancient times, the coming of all nations to the DPRK has been a symbol of the strength of the empire. Although the slaves are now blocked, it will still be beneficial to improve the morale of the people if they can get some foreign tribute envoys.
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"Humph! Yang Fan finally did something serious." Chongzhen put down the memorial, took a sip of tea, and continued reading.
Then looking down, Yang Fan said that he had purchased 300,000 tons of local rice in Luzon and was willing to donate it to His Majesty for military supplies. Immediately, Chongzhen became happy.
During this time, his hair began to fall out due to worry. So many reinforcements were arriving one after another. The money and food in his hands were really stretched. Tongzhou Okang has now become an isolated island.
Sun Chengzong was trapped in Tongzhou. Fortunately, he did not fall, but he could not get out food. There were wandering Jiannu cavalry outside.
Of the six large warehouses in the city, except for the shipping warehouse which still has plenty of grain, the other five have been consumed more than half. These 300,000 loads of rice are a great relief.
At this time, he felt that he was suffering here. Yang Fan took Mei on a trip and went to Nanyang to have fun, and the resentment in his heart calmed down. At least he went out and got food, and he was finally much better than those people in the household department.
.I really can’t count on those trash from Donglin.
When Wang Chengen saw the emperor, his expression improved, and he quickly said: "Your Majesty, Uncle Dingyuan followed the memorial and brought tributes for Your Majesty and the ladies. Would you like to bring them in for a royal inspection?"
"Well, bring it in. This guy is quite thoughtful." Chongzhen said casually.
A Western-style wooden box was carried in by a strongman. Wang Chengen opened it, and the hall suddenly became dazzling with Western-style jewelry. This was a box specially taken out of the pirate treasure to appease the emperor.
Yang Fan knew that if he hid in advance at this time, he would definitely arouse the emperor's dissatisfaction. So he specially paid tribute with some food and jewelry to silence the emperor and the harem. When the ladies received the jewelry, they would naturally say good things to him.
Chongzhen began to think about how to use this batch of food to win over the morale of the reinforcements from various places. He had already made up his mind to kill Yuan Chonghuan. He was just worried about Guan Ningjun's reaction. In addition, the guy saw the opportunity very quickly and actually wanted to take the weapon.
Only by hiding as a hostage can he enter the city.
Chongzhen was on the verge of death for a while, but he didn't dare to do anything to him.
After all, Chongzhen's next step was to send out eunuchs to supervise the army. He had been planning for almost a year since he returned to Beijing. His plan was to transform the government into a civilized country and allow people like Wen Tiren to form a cabinet. In terms of military affairs, he would send out internal officials to directly monitor the army. Both hands
You have to grasp it, both hands have to be strong.
He believed that these people below, especially the military attachés, did nothing but commit corruption and did nothing serious. They were all trying to fool him. Anyway, he didn't know what was going on below. He couldn't just let them deceive him.
He decided that the main work direction of the Royal Horse Supervisor in the future would be to monitor the army.
The pawprint of the Yumajian is Gao Qiqian. The Yumajian was one of the earliest eunuch institutions in the Ming Dynasty. This department was in charge of military symbols. Its power was second only to that of the Secretary of Ceremonies.
The Chief of Ceremony holds the jade seal, and the Royal Horse Supervisor holds the military talisman. They are almost in conflict with each other.
The Secretary of Ceremonies competes with the cabinet, and has the power to represent the emperor and issue a red verdict based on the opinions of the cabinet. The Royal Horse Supervisor competes with the Five Army Governor's Office and the Ministry of War. If no one can get the military symbols under the control of the Royal Horse Supervisor, no one can
Want to mobilize the army.
There are eunuchs in charge of the royal horse, supervisory eunuchs, and admiral eunuchs (there are no other eunuchs in the twenty-four eunuchs, only the imperial eunuch has them. The admiral eunuch is responsible for supervising the West Factory.) There is one person in each, and there are eunuchs, chiefs, bookkeepers, and writers.
The other officers were in charge of the horses and elephant houses in the fourth guard camp of Tengxiang.
In the history of the Ming Dynasty, the vicious expansion of the power of the Si Li Supervisor began when they controlled the East Factory. The third eunuch Bingbi of the Si Li Supervisor supervised the East Factory as usual. In order to check and balance and decentralize power, the Royal Horse Supervisor supervised the West Factory.
Factory. The first governor of the West Factory was Wang Zhi, the eunuch of Emperor Chenghua.
Wang Zhi is a great man. As mentioned earlier, he and Wang Yue killed Manduhai in a surprise attack. They also presided over the Chenghua Liting Cave Sweeping to clean up the Jurchen tribes in the Northeast.
Therefore, Yuan Chonghuan took Gao Qiqian as a hostage, and Chongzhen did not dare to touch him at all.
Moreover, Chongzhen has been deliberately cultivating a group of eunuchs who understand military affairs for more than a year. Gao Qiqian is what he must use in the next step of reforming the army. If he is cut off by Yuan Chonghuan, his plan will be ruined.
There are so many charioteers. There are so many.
The Tengxiang Four Guards sometimes had more than 40,000 people, and the minimum number was 3,000. The internal affairs that Yang Fan solved before were the weapons independently controlled by the Royal Horse Supervisor.
There is a reason why the Royal Horse Prison is so huge.
Because Zhu Di was not the successor. He came from the rebellion. Naturally, he did not dare to use the royal guards to protect himself. So he expanded the Royal Horse Prison and formed the Tengxiang Four Guards as his own Royal Forest Army.
Replace Jinyiwei.
In the Zhu Di Dynasty, the Jinyi Guards were completely reduced to spy agencies and honor guards. A small number of Tiqi were also used to arrest foreigners. The real protection of the emperor, and the imperial army directly controlled by the emperor were the Tengxiang Four Guards in the hands of the Royal Horse Supervisor.
The Yuma Jian was also responsible for managing the royal family's assets and operations, such as land, shops, and capital operations in various places. Therefore, the Yuma Jian not only had soldiers, but also money in hand, as well as commercial real estate all over the Ming Dynasty.
In addition to managing the grooms, the Royal Horse Supervisor also manages the emperor's private palace, imperial shop and other businesses run with internal funds. If you dare not pay the rent on time, a groom will come to collect debts, and internal funds are basically always lower than those of the Ministry of Household Affairs.
The national treasury is rich, and this group of people, apart from being unable to be tough down there, are very hard on the waist. These people are really untouchable.
The selection criteria for being able to enter the Tengxiang Four Guards are extremely strict. The selection criteria for this army are "the able-bodied officers and soldiers of the Tianxia Guard Station and the men who have returned from the captives." That is, the local and frontier troops are selected to be strong and have martial arts skills.
, people who have made military exploits. Or people who were kidnapped by the Mongols, lived on the grasslands for a period of time, and then escaped.
Chongzhen currently has a team of eunuch military academy cadets, with a total of one hundred and thirty people under Gao Qiqi. They are all people who followed Yang Fan to the Western Expedition. They have basically experienced all the battles from beginning to end.
They were very familiar with the army. Chongzhen planned to send these people out to control the army next.
After Chongzhen came to power, he appointed Cao Huachun, the former eunuch of Prince Xin's Palace, as the head of the Ceremony Supervisor and concurrently as the head of the Royal Horse Supervisor. Cao Huachun reorganized the Tengxiang Four Guards into the Yongwei Camp. At this time, the army controlled by Gao Qiqian was the Yongwei Camp.
Chongzhen continued to read. The writing style below suddenly changed again.
"Yang Qing, why are you so interested in the Chinese medicine Dragon Bone?" Chongzhen was a little confused. What he talked about before was all military and national affairs. Why at the end of the memorial, he changed his writing and started talking about Dragon Bone.
