The general layout of Shuntian Yamen is also the front hall and the back bedroom. The dividing line between the hall and the dormitory is the inner gate behind the third hall.
In front of the door of the inner house, there were many Goshiha and other girls and women standing there, and it could be said that they were heavily guarded.
According to the rules, outsiders, especially men over seven years old, are strictly prohibited from entering the inner gates of government offices and the hanging flower gates of private residences without permission.
Yuzhu was handling official duties in the signing room of the third hall, while Xiao Fupeng was in the fourth hall behind Yuzhu, reading and practicing calligraphy.
Sitang is also called Shangfang, where flowers and trees are luxuriant and the scenery is elegant. The area within Sitang belongs to the inner government office and is where successive governors and their families lived.
According to the etiquette system, when parents are present, sons and daughters-in-law must be nearby to serve them.
Neither Xiuyun nor Cao Chun could move to the back office of Shuntian Mansion.
Therefore, the current back office of Shuntian Mansion has become the domain of Xiao Fupeng.
In a sense, this is similar to the old emperor criticizing his sons in the Qianqing Palace and the princes studying in the study room.
Under normal circumstances, cases that require Yuzhu's personal appearance are raised in the second hall for questioning.
"Reporting to Dong Weng, due to the slow grain transportation, the price of grain in Beijing has increased in recent days from rising every day to every half a day. If the price of grain is allowed to continue to rise, it may trigger a civil uprising." Zhou Quan I noticed the huge changes in food prices and quickly came to Yuzhu.
Yuzhu is considered an old Beijinger, and he naturally knows that every major fluctuation in grain prices, in addition to being related to water transportation, is almost always related to the owners of grain shops in the capital hoarding food in an attempt to drive up grain prices in order to make huge profits. .
To be honest, any big businessman who dares to open a grain store in the capital does not have a big backer?
"Well, Brother Zhusheng, ordered someone to take my name and invite the top 30 owners of the top 30 grain stores in Beijing to discuss this matter." Yuzhu smiled coldly and ordered, "Time It will be scheduled early tomorrow morning. Let the people sent out tell them directly that my subordinates will not be waiting if they are late."
"Come here, prepare your horses and prepare to go to Changchun Garden to meet the saint."
"嗻."
The old emperor had already issued a strict order, requiring orders to mobilize the nine-door infantry within a hundred miles of the capital.
There is a jingle about the old capital city: nine inside, seven outside, four in the imperial city.
What this paragraph says is that there are twenty-four gates in the capital, and among them, Shuntian Prefecture only has access to seven gates in the outer city.
Yuzhu, who was also the infantry commander, could only get twenty city gates.
As for the four gates of the imperial city, they are the territory of the old emperor. Who among the ministers dares to take charge of them?
In the past, whenever the price of grain in the capital fluctuated, Shuntian Prefecture would ask big grain merchants to "borrow grain."
Of course, when the government borrows grain, it is like Liu Bei borrowing from Jingzhou. He almost never pays back what he borrowed.
As time went by, the big grain merchants in the capital also learned the lesson. They set up grain warehouses on the Zhili territory east of Tongzhou.
The governor of Zhili in the Kangxi Dynasty was nominally the immediate superior of Shuntian Prefecture Yin.
In fact, the imperial court's decrees always put the two side by side.
In the Qing Dynasty, as long as you can take care of it, I can take care of it, so it's like no one else.
As we all know, the three monks had no water to eat.
The areas with the worst public security are often at the junction of two provinces, or the junction of three or four provinces.
If everyone can take charge, it means that the rights and responsibilities are unclear, and the gentlemen will have a good excuse to shirk.
In the first year of Shunzhi, there were five feudal officials in Zhili, namely: Governor of Shuntian, Governor of Baoding, Governor of Xuanfu, Governor of Xuanda and Governor of Shanxi.
Later, these feudal officials were abolished one after another and merged into the governors-general of the three provinces of Zhili, Shandong and Henan.
In the eighth year of Kangxi's reign, the old emperor laid off the governors of the three provinces and changed the governorship of Zhili to the governor of Zhili, which has continued to this day.
To the east of Tongzhou, Shuntian Prefecture has no control over it.
The governor of Zhili was not the first person responsible for stabilizing grain prices in the capital, so it was naturally impossible for him to actively assist the Shuntian Prefecture in its errands.
Yuzhu was an old bureaucrat, and he knew very well that instead of going to Baoding to write a formal letter and litigating with the governor of Zhili, it would be better to go directly to the old emperor to request an order to mobilize troops.
For the Zhili area east of Tongzhou, Shuntian Prefecture is indeed beyond its reach.
However, the jurisdiction of the Infantry Army Yamen covers within 300 miles of the capital, so this can be managed.
When Yuzhu entered the garden, Zhao Min, the second-class imperial guard with a sword who led the team to guard the door, secretly winked at Yuzhu.
Almost instantly, Yuzhu understood that the old emperor was losing his temper.
Zhao Min, surnamed Aixinjueluo, was expelled from the ranks of the yellow-belted clan members and demoted to the red-belted Gioroluo because his great-grandfather Demahu was affiliated with Dorgon.
Demahu was the eighth among the brothers, and his Ama was Bayala, the fifth son of Takshi, the founder of the Qing Dynasty.
It's quite interesting to say.
Although Bayala was the half-brother of an old Tatar slave and had an extremely prominent status, his nine sons were almost killed by Emperor Shunzhi because they all clung to Dorgon's command.
Since ancient times, there have been winners and losers. Clinging to Dorgon is the original sin, and there is no reason to explain it.
The relationship between Yuzhu and Zhao Min goes back ten years.
At that time, Zhao Min, who was participating in the selection of palace guards, was crossed out by Norob, the first-class guard, with random excuses.
Zhao Min's identity was extremely sensitive. If it hadn't been for the old emperor's private instruction, Yuzhu would not have been able to greet him secretly.
In any case, it was because Yuzhu came forward to save Zhao Min from poverty.
Therefore, Zhao Min was really grateful to Yuzhu and always regarded himself as a lackey of the Yu family.
Of course, there are some things that each other needs to know well, and there is no need to make the relationship public.
In order to deceive others, Zhao Min had no contact or relationship with Yuzhu in public.
In fact, Zhao Min was promoted to the second-class imperial guard with a sword, thanks to Yuzhu's secret guidance.
There is no way, Yuzhu has been studying the old emperor's temper carefully for so many years, how can he not have a unique secret?
When Yuzhu walked into Qingxi Bookstore, he heard the roar of the old emperor from a distance.
"It's actually the Third Prince Zhu again. Humph, I have killed at least eight Third Prince Zhu since I came to the throne."
Yuzhu couldn't help but smile slightly. The ambitious people these days would definitely use the title of Prince Zhu San as long as they rebelled against the Qing Dynasty.
Prince Zhu, also known as Zhu Cijiong, was the third son of Sizong, the late Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and was granted the title of King Ding.
When the invading army entered the capital, King Ding Zhu Cijiong tried to escape, but was captured alive by the men of the eunuch Cao Huachun, who offered him to Li Zicheng.
When Li Zicheng led his army to attack Wu Sangui, King Ding Zhu Cijiong was also among the troops.
However, after Li Zicheng was defeated by a stone, the third prince Zhu has disappeared since then.
In fact, when the Qing army entered the pass, Prince Zhu was already twelve years old. If he had lived to this day, he would have been almost ninety years old.
Isn't it ridiculous that a ninety-year-old man secretly participates in a conspiracy and is still running around with no trace of his whereabouts?
However, in this extremely superstitious era, Prince Zhu was a banner against the Qing Dynasty that anyone could use and he had many followers.
As Yuzhu continued to walk in, he heard the old emperor shout loudly: "The officials in Shandong are all drunkards and ricebags. They actually let the so-called Third Prince Zhu and the White Lotus Sect get mixed up. They are traitors who harm the country and should be killed."
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Prince Zhu is actually not terrible. At most, he is just raising the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty.
However, the White Lotus Sect, which re-emerged from Shandong, has always been regarded as a thorn in the side of the old emperor.
Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, the White Lotus Sect has had a long history of resisting the imperial court.
Han Shantong, who led the Red Scarf Uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, shouted the slogan "Maitreya is reborn, King Ming is born", and he was using the White Lotus Sect, not the Ming Sect.
Before Zhu Chongba, the emperor of the former Ming Dynasty, ascended the throne, he secretly instructed Liao Yongzhong to drill through the bottom of the boat and send the nominal lord, Prince Xiao Ming, to the bottom of the Guazhou river.
In this sense, Zhu Chongba was also a White Lotus believer in the first half of his life.
After the Qing army entered the customs, they followed the Ming system and banned the White Lotus Sect.
Because he had supervised the "History of the Ming Dynasty" for a period of time, Yuzhu knew very well that when Zhu Chongba named his country Ming, it was not the Ming Dynasty he inherited from King Xiao Ming, but the Ming Dynasty he inherited from the Yuan Dynasty.
The name of the Yuan Dynasty comes from the "Book of Changes Qian Gua Tuan": Great Qian Yuan, all things began, and it unified the sky.
Zhu Chongba's name for the Ming Dynasty comes from the passage that follows: The Ming Dynasty ends and begins, six people are established, and they ride on six dragons to control the sky.
Since the old emperor was furious inside, Yuzhu was not stupid and simply refused to go in.
It's just that God's calculations are not as good as those of man.
Zhang Hongxu, who was cleaning up the broken porcelain pieces inside, saw Yu Zhu when he came out. He quickly greeted him and said, "Please greet Mr. Zhu."
This time, the old emperor was immediately alarmed.
"Is Yuzhu here?" the old emperor asked inside.
Yuzhu glanced at Zhang Hongxu and said to himself that he would chop off this bitch's head sooner or later.
To be honest, as the old emperor gets older day by day, sooner or later the palace will have to change to a new owner.
All the great eunuchs know a hard truth: once the emperor, there is always a great eunuch.
The great eunuchs in the palace knew too much, so in order to save their lives, they each had a backer secretly.
However, Zhang Hongxu had disguised himself very well before, and Yu Zhu had never figured out who the backer he was secretly looking for was.
Now, since Zhang Hongxu jumped out on his own initiative, he quietly wanted to trick Yuzhu.
Yuzhu understood in an instant that this piece of shit Zhang Hongxu must be the fourth child.
After entering the house, Yuzhu bowed politely.
The old emperor glanced at the jade pillar and said angrily: "Since you have been here a long time ago, why don't you come in?"
Yuzhu's heart was clear, and the old emperor's subtext was: Could it be that he wanted to eavesdrop on military and state affairs?
Look, Zhang Hongxu’s badness lies here.
If the eunuch in the palace wants to deceive someone, the lowest method is to directly accuse him.
Zhang Hongxu, Chao Chaoqing and others often used tricks to deceive people, mainly from the side, to arouse the old emperor's bad feelings, and achieve the sinister intention of secretly punishing people.
The fourth child secretly took action. How should Yuzhu answer the old emperor's question in a reasonable and reasonable way?