Thinking of this, Wu Sangui's face darkened, and he said in a deep voice: "This Pang just ascended the throne of God a few days ago, and now he wants us to surrender to him. Isn't he too impatient?"
Although Wu Sangui's face turned dark, his father Wu Xiang was even more depressed. He said with a grimace: "Uncle, you also know that our Liaodong soldiers have not been paid for three months. If they are not paid again, the soldiers will be afraid."
It’s because the morale of the military is unstable.”
Zu Dashou on the side also sighed and said: "My brother's Shanhaiguan is still good, but my Jinzhou is probably even worse. If there is no more military pay, the soldiers in Jinzhou City may even have thoughts of mutiny."
Zu Dashou is now serving as Young Fu Zuo Governor, supervising Jinzhou. His words are quite weighty. As soon as he said these words, everyone's expressions changed. Jinzhou is an important barrier against the Manchu Qing Dynasty. If Jinzhou fails, the consequences will be disastrous.
Although Yuan Chonghuan has proposed the idea of using Liao people to defend Liao soil and using Liao soil to support Liao people since he was stationed in Liaodong, this proposal has not been realized for a long time because although the land in Liao soil is very fertile, it is too chaotic after all.
Well, a chaotic environment cannot support nearly 100,000 troops from nine sides.
Since Jiubian cannot be self-sufficient, all military equipment and food and wages can only rely on the supply of the imperial court. This is why the imperial court is so confident that the generals of Jiubian will become bigger, because as long as they dare to have different intentions, the imperial court will cut off their supply.
, even if they have great abilities, they can't make any waves.
Since Li Zicheng besieged Beijing, all supplies in Liaodong began to be cut off. At this time, they were like a child without a mother. It was impossible to say that they were not in a hurry until the newly established imperial court sent a messenger.
Then Wu Sangui was urgently called over to discuss matters.
Wu Sangui did not dare to question Zu Dashou's words, because Zu Dashou was not only his uncle, but also had a favor to teach him.
Wu Sangui hesitated for a while and then asked: "Father, may I ask Pang...who among us does the new emperor want to go to the city to report on his duties?"
Wu Xiang said expressionlessly: "All of us!"
"Everyone?" Wu Sangui exclaimed, almost standing up.
If all the senior generals in Liaodong are called into the city to report their duties, then who will be stationed in Liaodong? Isn't this a joke about the safety of Jiubian?
"Exactly!" Wu Xiang nodded with a wry smile. "My father is not joking with you. When the new emperor ascended the throne, my father and your three uncles expected that the new emperor would announce that we would come to Beijing to report our duties, but we did not expect that.
When the new emperor went so far as to transfer all of us into the capital at all costs, I really don’t know whether to praise the new emperor for being bold or calling him reckless.”
Wu Sangui said angrily: "Huh, this new emperor is too confused. Liaodong is such an important place. He actually summoned all the generals above the general army to the capital to report their duties. What if the Tatars take the opportunity to invade the border? What about Liaodong?"
Resist? Doesn’t he want the Nine Sides Land?”
Everyone also frowned for a while. The new emperor's clueless order worried them to death, but rather than worrying about the safety of Liaodong, they were more worried about their own wealth and life. After all, Beijing is not
If someone kicks their territory, they will have no place to cry and complain.
Zu Dale thought for a while and said: "Brothers, brothers, in the eighth year of Chongzhen's reign, I also met Pang Gang in the capital and fought side by side with him. According to my observation, Pang Gang was a very generous man. Now it is even more...
You are a noble person, so you would not do such a nasty thing, right?"
Zu Dashou looked at Zu Dalue accusingly, "Second brother, although the new emperor once fought alongside you, but now he is already a ninety-five-year-old man, why do you call him by his first name? If someone accuses the new emperor,
You won’t be able to eat and will have to walk around.”
But Zu Dale said carelessly: "Brother, what are you afraid of? These are all my brothers, who will tell anyone?"
Zu Dashou said solemnly: "Be careful and you won't make a big mistake. Have you even forgotten the ancient teachings?"
Seeing that Zu Dashou was angry, Zu Dalue could only lower his head and said nothing.
After seeing Zu Dale admit his mistake, Zu Dashou said: "Okay, let's get back to the business. Although the new emperor once killed the Tatars with us, people will always change. He is the emperor now, but he is not the same as before.
We are now a small family of a thousand, and we can no longer look at people with the same eyes as before. Brother-in-law, where is the father-in-law who came to announce the decree? Can you let me go and pay my respects?"
Wu Xiang shook his head with a wry smile and said: "What a coincidence. After the father-in-law read out the imperial edict, he immediately rushed to Xuanda University without stopping. I heard that he also wanted to announce the edict to Yang Guozhu, the commander-in-chief of Xuanda University. It seems that our nine-sided
No one can escape."
After listening to Wu Xiang's words, the faces of Zu Dashou and others suddenly became ugly. The new emperor was too impatient. Did he want to digest Liaodong in one breath before the dragon chair under his butt was warm?
The surrounding suddenly became quiet, and a lieutenant general said unconvinced: "The new emperor treats me like this, isn't he afraid that we will surrender to the Manchus?"
"shut up!"
A loud shout resounded in the hall, and Zu Dashou shouted angrily at the deputy general: "Submit to the Tatars, thank you for your ability to speak out, don't you know what we do? We have been fighting the Tatars for so many years.
Will I still bear the reputation of being a rebellious minister?"
Seeing that Zu Dashou was angry, the lieutenant's face turned red, and finally he lowered his head tremblingly: "My lord, atone for your sins, and you will eventually realize your mistakes!"
The hall fell silent for a moment, and everyone frowned and said nothing. This Pang Gang had now given them a big problem, making it impossible for them to go or not.
Finally, Wu Xiang finally let out a long sigh, "That's all, this is all. I don't believe it. Could it be that the new emperor will chop off all our heads?"
Zu Dashou looked at Wu Xiang with a complicated expression and said, "Liang Huan (Wu Xiang's word), have you really decided?"
Wu Xiang nodded and said: "Brother, I have decided that nothing will happen if we go to the capital. But if we don't go to the capital, the new emperor will definitely not be able to spare us. At most, if we go, we will be dismissed from office and become the people. At least we can make a comeback, but if we resist
You can predict the consequences of not respecting the decree!"
Zu Dashou smiled bitterly and nodded: "Yes, the new emperor is eager to bring a few people out to show his power. We can't hit the gun."
After everyone discussed for a while, they finally made the decision to hand over the city defense matters to their deputy and seize the time to go to Beijing in the past few days.
Just when Wu Sangui and others reluctantly followed the imperial edict and hurried to the capital. On August 23, the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Pang Gang, who had newly ascended the throne in Beijing, began to officially announce to the world that he would change his reign name from that day forward.
It was the first year of Dahua Yongwu. And the list of officials of the imperial cabinet and the six ministries was announced.
Most of the systems of the Dahua court followed those of the Ming Dynasty. There were still six ministers and a cabinet. Because Pang Gang believed that the system of the Ming Dynasty was actually very complete in the feudal era. He asked himself that he was not a great man who could create a more reasonable system than this one.
, naturally the system of the previous dynasty was copied.
After the system was formulated, Pang Gang's father-in-law, Comrade Wei Tongnian, was honored to serve as the first cabinet minister.
The remaining six are: Li Yan, the Minister of the Ministry of War, Wen Renjun, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Hua Yan, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Lin Feng, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, Li Xianfeng, the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, and Meng Qing, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishments. The reason why Meng Qing is appointed as the Minister of Rites
It was a helpless move. After all, Pang Gang's talent reserve was too small. As a force that had only risen for more than five years, although it had a golden finger in the military and could train strong armies one after another,
The background of civil servants cannot be created by relying on a mutated "Encyclopedia of Modern Weapons", especially after the candidates for the six ministers have been determined, but such a large framework as the six ministers cannot be established by just six ministers.
Countless middle and low-level officials are also needed to support it.
In the past, Pang Gang didn't think much of it when he was managing the territory of several provinces. But now that he has become the emperor, Pang Gang feels that the manpower is suddenly starting to be insufficient.
"If I had known earlier, I would have created more talent reserves." This was what Pang Gang was thinking at this time, but he was just thinking about it. It takes ten years to grow trees and a hundred years to cultivate people. How huge a country's talent pool is.
, this cannot be established through a few years of sudden training.
Finally, in desperation, Pang Gang turned his attention to the original Ming Dynasty official system. Pang Gang made a special decree to select a large number of officials with no obvious evil deeds in the past from among the officials in the capital to enrich his newly established official system.
Only then can the huge system of the Dahua Imperial Court be put into operation.
The airs were put up, and Pang Gang's hard days also came. After becoming the emperor, Pang Gang realized how hard the emperor's life was. He had to get up before five o'clock every day to go to court. He couldn't criticize him.
The completed memorial and unfinished matters made Pang Gang extremely angry.
According to Comrade Pang Gang's personal experience and records, the morning court in Dahua is like this. During the morning court, the ministers must get up at midnight and travel half of the capital to the Meridian Gate. At three o'clock in the morning, the ministers arrive outside the Meridian Gate and wait. When the Meridian Gate is on the tower
When the drum beats, the ministers will line up. When the bell rings around five o'clock in the morning, the palace gate will open, and all the officials will enter in order, cross the Jinshui Bridge, and line up in the square.
And there is something even more confusing for the officials. During the queuing process, if any of the officials coughs, spits or walks unsteadily, the censor in charge of the picket will record it and wait for handling. Usually, around six o'clock, the emperor will
When arriving at the Gate of Supreme Harmony or the Hall of Supreme Harmony, all officials will kneel down and kowtow three times. Only officials of fourth rank or above have the opportunity to talk to the emperor. Ministers will report government affairs to the emperor, and the emperor will ask questions or give answers.
From the above, we can draw a conclusion that in ancient times, being an official or an emperor was not an easy task.
After living like this for half a month, Pang Gang finally realized one thing. If he continues like this, he will collapse sooner or later if he is used to sleeping until he wakes up naturally. So the first emperor of Dahua did something again
What shocked the world was that he decreed that every seven days be divided into a week, from Monday to Sunday. Only Monday, Wednesday and Friday of each week would be in court. On Sunday, both the emperor and officials would have a holiday.
rest, and also adjusted the time of morning pilgrimage to 4:00 AM (10:00 AM). This decree will be implemented immediately from now on.
As soon as this imperial edict was issued, the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty suddenly lost their voices. In the past hundreds of years, there has never been such a weird emperor. He had only been in that position for a few days, and he issued such an obviously lazy edict.
, and he also blatantly gave himself a holiday in the will, which is too outrageous!
"No, we have to write to the emperor and resolutely resist this decree. Otherwise, what will happen if things continue like this?"
In the Liu Ke Shi Zhong Yamen, a censor Zheng Zheng angrily held up the newly copied emperor’s edict and shouted loudly, “Throughout the past dynasties, there has never been such a relaxed holiday. We have suffered ten years of hard work.
The purpose of studying to be an official is to contribute to the court and benefit the people, not to enjoy the blessings. We must write a letter to the emperor to resist this decree!"
"Well, yes, the Emperor is too outrageous. We must persuade the Emperor if we have the chance."
As soon as the speaker's words came out, several people around him echoed his words.
Seeing someone agreeing with him, this loud-mouthed official became even more serious and immediately said loudly: "Okay, since all my colleagues also agree with my views, how about we write a letter together to give the emperor a fatal remonstrance?"
"After saying that, he started grinding and put on a posture of immediately fighting for his life.
"this........"
But when this dear friend sighed and said that he was going to die for remonstrance, the officials around him suddenly fell silent. They all looked at each other, that is, everyone spoke up.
What is a Yanguan? Yanguan is also called an admonishment officer or a Yuanguan, and his position is to control the opinions. In the case of Kuang Renjun, the supervision method is mainly to admonish, approve, refute, and review edicts and memorials. The above sounds nice. To put it bluntly, the Yanguan is
Those who specialize in picking bones are best at picking out the bones from eggs.
The above is the job of Yanguan, but Yanguan is not a fool. They are also a group of knowledgeable and educated officials. They know very well what can and cannot be said.
In ancient times, officials also had holidays. For example, the vacation system in the Song Dynasty was very loose. "Wenchang Zalu" records: "Officials have seven days each on New Year's Day, Cold Food, and Winter Solstice; three days each on Shangyuan, Zhongyuan, and Summer Solstice."
"The Beginning of Spring and the Qingming Festival each have one day. There are three menstrual holidays each month, making the year a total of sixty-eight days." There was also a special rule in the Song Dynasty that government offices at all levels "sealed" their official duties on December 20th every year, and civil servants went home.
To celebrate the New Year and visit relatives, they would not return to the Yamen to "open the printing" office until the 20th of the first lunar month of the following year. In this way, their actual vacation days for the whole year reached ninety-eight days, and so many holidays were less than those enjoyed by the people's servants in later generations.
There are a lot more. It seems that Tang poetry and Song lyrics still need to have free time to travel around in the mountains and rivers to be inspired!
But don't be too happy too early. The above holidays were limited to before the Song Dynasty. By the Yuan Dynasty, the ten-day holidays and major holidays were gone, leaving only sixteen days of rest in a year.
It was even worse in the Ming Dynasty. There were even fewer holidays than in the Yuan Dynasty at first. This was because Comrade Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, personally formulated the vacation system for Ming officials, and this vacation system was both simple and easy to operate.
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Three days... only three days! Officials only have three days off during the New Year, Winter Solstice and his own birthday. Haha... It's depressing enough.
The vacation system of the Ming Dynasty was so difficult that even though the imperial edict issued by the new emperor Pang Gang seemed a bit strange, few civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty objected to it, because it was not only the emperor who benefited from it.
, and all the officials in Beijing. Every official knows the pain of going to court, and now we finally have an emperor who is so considerate of us, and promises to let us rest more, and have a holiday every six days, like this
Good things are hard to find even with a lantern. If we just jump out like this, there is no need for the emperor to deal with you. All the officials in Beijing will drown you with their saliva. If you want to die, my brother can't control it, but you don't have to
Drag everyone to die with you.
Seeing that his proposal only received a few lukewarm echoes from several colleagues, but no one was willing to submit a letter with him, this famous official could only sulk in his own home.
Just when this dear Yanguan was struggling with Pang Gang's imperial edict, dozens of people including Wu Xiang, Wu Sangui and his son, who had rushed to Beijing after three days and three nights, had just entered the city gate.
Looking at the rows of mighty sergeants on the city wall wearing black armor and holding Mini rifles, Wu Xiang, Zu Dashou and others looked at the black armor on their bodies, and their faces began to change color slightly.
The original army of the Ming Dynasty was derived from the Red Turban Army in the late Yuan Dynasty. Red has always been regarded as the most respected color. All military officers and officers wore red armor. This tradition has continued for hundreds of years. Wu Sangui and others are all wearing red armor at the moment.
It was red. But now that they saw soldiers wearing black armor all over the city walls, they felt that they were already a little out of place with this new dynasty.
"Stop, who are you and where do you come from?"
When Wu Sangui and his party were about to enter the city, a gatekeeper with black armor and black armor immediately came over and shouted questions. The reason was very simple, because the bright red armor on the dozens of Wu Sangui and his party was different from the black armor on their bodies.
The difference in armor is really huge.
A flash of anger flashed in Wu Sangui's eyes, and he was about to step forward to scold him when he saw his father behind him explaining to the sergeant with a smile. After understanding the whole story, the sergeant did not hesitate and just waved his hand.
They entered the city without any nonsense, and they did not accept the money Wu Xiang secretly gave him.
After Wu Xiang thanked him, his eyes passed over the city wall inadvertently, and finally he withdrew from the city wall. Wu Xiang narrowed his eyes slightly before saying: "The Ming Dynasty is over!"
After saying this nonsense, Wu Xiang rode his horse and jogged in from the city gate. Wu Sangui was stunned. Before he could understand the meaning of his father's words, his uncle Zu Dashou beside him also sighed.
Said: "Yes, the Ming Dynasty is over..."
After saying that, Zu Dashou also rode up and followed, leaving only Wu Sangui who was still thinking about this sentence...
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