Da Qin has been exploring and experimenting, and even the entire Shushan world has become Da Qin's laboratory. However, for Emperor Chongzhen who was reborn until the day his brother fell into the water, isn't it my destiny?
If destiny was not mine, how could I be reborn?
At this moment, Emperor Chongzhen began to plan and think. There were still a few months until his brother died of illness. It was best to remain unchanged and keep a low profile in these few months.
In the study, Chongzhen sat here alone. Even Wang Chengen was driven outside by him. He was summarizing the future history.
In the first year of Chongzhen, there was a severe drought in Shaanxi, and the rebellion began!
In the second year of Chongzhen, a severe drought continued in Shaanxi. In order to save money, Chongzhen abolished the post station system. Then the unemployed and laid-off worker Li Zicheng embarked on the road of armed begging for wages. This road Li Zicheng went from the second year of Chongzhen to the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, and finally
Salary payment successful.
In the second year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji entered the Kou Pass and troops approached the city. Yuan Chonghuan tried several times to lead foreign troops into Beijing. He was suspected of being Dong Zhuo's second and was executed by Chongzhen.
In the third year of Chongzhen, there was still a severe drought in Shaanxi...
In the 17th year of Chongzhen's reign, the treacherous son pursued him with a sword and seized power in a coup...
In the 22nd year of Chongzhen, he abdicated!
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In the end, Chongzhen's memory stayed before his death.
At that time, I was already ninety-six years old. Although I called him a treasonous son, he was actually quite filial.
One million taels of pension money every year comes from beauties all over the world and even overseas. It would be better if the traitor didn't often cheat him out of his money.
The next day, Chongzhen walked out of the study with a smile. The study was filled with the smell of burned paper.
Emperor Chongzhen, who has been on the throne for seventeen years and has been the Supreme Emperor for at least sixty years, is back!
During these sixty years, Chongzhen learned various military techniques, learned how to use various artillery, learned wall charging, learned Qi Jiajun's military training methods, and learned the money-making methods of Nizi... He even learned
Mathematics, philosophy, new Confucianism.
It's a pity that after studying so much, he can only be an emperor. He can only disgust his traitor by constantly adding younger brothers and sisters to him. It is really a pity.
Standing in the pavilion, Chongzhen looked up at the sky, hugging the sun with both hands. Under the sun, he was full of energy, confident and optimistic, destiny is mine!
In August, Tianqi officially died, and Chongzhen successfully ascended the throne after three resignations and three concessions. According to tradition, this year is still the seventh year of Tianqi, and next year will be the year of Chongzhen.
In August, Chongzhen led more than a hundred guards, as the emperor, killed the eunuchs and eunuchs, seized part of the military power, and then led them to kill Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family.
While the civil servants hailed the emperor as a sage, they couldn't help but mutter in their hearts: What kind of person is this emperor?
Shouldn't it be the minister who charges into the battle and ultimately helps Chongzhen eliminate the eunuchs and gain power at the same time?
Especially when the cabinet bachelors and high-ranking nobles witnessed Chongzhen stabbing Wei Zhongxian to death with their own eyes, they trembled.
How many years!
How many years has it been since the Ming Dynasty that an emperor dared to kill someone with his own hands?
In August, Wei Zhongxian fell to the throne, and the scholars praised him as the Holy Son of Heaven.
At the end of August, Chongzhen left the palace and lived in the barracks on the grounds that he missed the people he saw and thought of his brother when he saw the palace.
In early September, after Chongzhen had fully mastered thousands of more capable elites, he started a major case in the palace on the grounds that Tianqi had been murdered.
When the scholars heard this, they all clapped their hands and cheered.
However, at the end of September, a senior eunuch claimed that he had been instructed by some civil servants to murder the late emperor.
And this civil servant was just a chief of the Ministry of Household Affairs. How could this little chief be the mastermind behind the rebellion against the late emperor?
After the news spread, the head of the household department was imprisoned. Under severe torture, his house was confiscated and he found 630,000 taels of silver, 30,000 taels of gold, 20,000 acres of various fields, and other properties with a total value of about 800,000 taels.
Once this result came out, no one could speak to the head of the household department.
Regardless of whether he was involved in the conspiracy to murder the late emperor, so much wealth was enough for him to die without a burial place!
Even though everyone knows it, this is actually an unspoken rule of the Ministry of Household Affairs!
After all, the silver in the world, the imperial court issued one million taels, would only come out of the treasury at most 900,000 taels, and often only 800,000 taels.
There are no officials in the Household Department who don’t know this rule, but the reason why the unspoken rules are unspoken rules is because they cannot be made public!
At the beginning of October, all the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs, big and small, were wiped out. When the case was over, only 20% of the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs got out of the imperial edict safely.
They either exposed their companions to the court, or reported other people to the court, or they spent a lot of real money and took the initiative to assist the court in confiscating their homes. Only a handful of them did so because they were really powerful or not really greedy.
was released.
At the end of October, Chongzhen's specially formed house raiding team successfully obtained 8 million taels of silver, 200,000 taels of gold, 100,000 acres of land, and 12 million taels of various properties.
The wealth that officials of all sizes in the Ministry of Household Affairs had worked hard to accumulate from the Wanli period to this day was robbed by Chongzhen in one wave!
Facts have proved that in front of an emperor who has great righteousness, owns an army, does not live in the palace, will not be drowned, will not be poisoned, and is shameless, the wealthy household officials are really just a piece of cake.
The case to eliminate the anti-Ming anti-thief group is still going on, but the intensity is not as strong as it was at the beginning. Often when officials are captured, many people will be released.
In Chongzhen's words, catch ten and release three.
In this way, the next time someone is arrested, they will not think about running away, and may even take the initiative to cooperate with the court, take the initiative to cooperate with the court, expose and report their colleagues, and even actively cooperate with the court to raid their own homes!
Finally, at least one of the three people released must be promoted!
Forming cliques When the Jin Yiwei was dispatched and started arresting people again, some people were worried about family property issues, but some people saw the opportunity to get promoted and make a fortune, and even wished that the court would arrest them immediately.
No one knows corruption better than me!
No one knows how to make mistakes better than me!
Commander of the Jin Yiwei and the great eunuch of Dongchang, come and arrest me!
I want to report my colleagues, I want to be promoted!
Although not all civil servants want to be proud these days, they are a rare species after all. It is difficult for civil servants to live a good life when Wei Zhongxian dominates the world with one hand.
"Your Majesty, as of today, there are a total of 52 million taels of silver, 1.85 million taels of gold, 8 million acres of new farmland, various businesses, raw materials, jade, antiques, etc. in the inner treasury.
Together, they are worth about sixty-three million taels."
"If you add in the Huangzhuang near Beijing, the land directly in your Majesty's hands will be tens of millions of acres." When he said this, Wang Chengen's voice was trembling.
He is scared!
He is really scared now!
He worries every day that when he wakes up, he will receive news that Emperor Chongzhen fell into the water and died, or died of illness. As of today, he, the eunuch who oversees the East Factory, has been assassinated at least thirty-five times, openly or covertly, including
Twice, I almost really died.
Even he is like this, let alone Chongzhen?
"Your Majesty, you must take care of your dragon body."
Hearing this, Chongzhen smiled slightly: "You don't understand. Everything I have done so far is in line with the righteousness. I started a big case to avenge the emperor's brother and find the murderer who murdered the emperor's brother. This is filial piety, and no one can blame me.
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"As for cleaning up the moths in the imperial palace, that is the royal family's own business, and foreign ministers do not even have the right to make suggestions. So even if those civil servants wish that I would fall into the water immediately, when they mention me on the surface, they have to raise their eyebrows.
Give me a thumbs up and praise me for a job well done!"
Bragging is bragging, but Chongzhen still knew it, so he had not entered the palace since the end of August.
Not even once!
I have been living in the military camp, eating and living with the middle and senior military officers of the army!
Those who don’t know think that Emperor Chongzhen’s temperament is similar to that of Wu Zong, that he is an emperor who likes macho men and the army. Those who know can only sigh in their hearts, the emperor is cautious.
"How is the house prepared?" Chongzhen asked suddenly.
"Well, according to His Majesty's request, all the large households have been broken down into small ones. Just for the large households in the capital that had their homes confiscated, at least 5,000 sets of small houses can be demolished, and each set of small houses is the capital of Beijing.
A house within the city walls.”
The houses of those wealthy families originally had pavilions, pavilions, flowers and plants, and many jade and bamboo buildings. They were as beautiful as they could be, but they were all demolished under Chongzhen's order. Wang Chengen really couldn't understand Chongzhen's thoughts.
After hearing that there were five thousand small households, Chongzhen nodded with satisfaction, smiling like a fox who had stolen honey.
In the first year of Chongzhen, Chongzhen issued the first edict of the new year.
The general idea is that a martial arts competition will be held in Beijing this fall.
The prerequisites for participating in the martial arts tournament are to be able to carry at least eighty kilograms of equipment and be able to travel a hundred miles in five hours.
Of course, these equipments include armor, weapons, long bows, and arrows. Those who can reach a destination hundreds of miles away with a load of eighty kilograms within five hours and ten hours are all true warriors!
Only such warriors can participate in the next imperial martial arts competition in the world.
The first round starts immediately after reaching the destination, like archery.
The second round is the sword and shield competition.
There may not be a third round, but if there is, then it will be a shooting competition?
The top ten will be rewarded with a house near the Imperial Palace in Beijing, and the top 100 will be rewarded with the qualification to buy a small house at a 30% discount. The top 800 will be rewarded with a half-price mortgage for twenty years to buy a small house in Beijing.
As soon as this edict came out, all the heroes in Beizhili became excited!
That is a house in Beijing. How many people risk their lives and work hard all their lives to afford such a house, but now they can get it through a competition. What is the concept?
Well, if you were to ask a Beipiao if they would be willing to work hard every day to practice their killing skills and fight for you if they were given a house within the second ring road of Beijing, I estimate that the vast majority of Beipiao would be willing.
Of course, the high-ranking nobles look down on such small houses. Most civil servants with official positions above the fifth rank do not think that small houses are something worth cherishing. However, for the large number of local people, there is a completely
A small house of your own is something you can't even dream of.
For the large number of Beipiao people and the people in the Beizhili area, this is hope!
Even if I buy a small house at a 30% discount, I still can't afford it. But with this qualification, I can find an authentic Beijing girl in Beijing, and I don't have to worry about not getting a wife.
All the people in Beizhili began to practice martial arts if they had the conditions!
Of course, the first step in practicing martial arts is to eat meat and have a full meal. Then you can put on armor, shoot arrows, and use sword and shield.
But no matter what, Beizhili in the first year of Chongzhen was boiling!
Even in the whole world, there are constantly strong men who look good at fighting, look tall and strong, wearing armor and carrying Kaiyuan bows, heading towards the city of Beijing step by step!
When the strong men began to train themselves, eunuchs took Chongzhen's edict and recruited civil servants, military generals, common people and even military households from all over the country.
"What do you think His Majesty called us here for? If it's for military training, it's enough just to have us. What's the use of those civil servants?" Cao Wenzhao was very puzzled.
"Brother Cao, we are all from Liao Town. We are a family. I won't talk nonsense. I think His Majesty wants to cheer up and train a cavalry that can really fight." This is the tenth year of the year.
Wu Sangui, who is a few years old, is at an age where he has nothing to say and nothing to do.
"I can't figure it out. I tried this guy Wang Dou. Even though he is just a soldier, he can still fight. There is always a future for a thousand households. But those civil servants can't see through it. They can't see through it."
"Brother Cao, don't look down on civil servants. Have you seen that red robe over there? Yes, that's the tall guy on the far side who is half a head taller than you. His name is Lu Xiangsheng. He was a Jinshi in the second year of Tianqi. He is a real Jinshi.
master."
When the words "Jinshi Master" were mentioned, a golden light flashed in Wu Sangui's eyes. He was envious! In the Ming Dynasty, except for nobles and nobles, who didn't envy the Jinshi Master?
"But this guy is very good at fighting. I heard that last night, he single-handedly beat down more than a dozen soldiers who looked down on civilian officials. Did you see the large sword next to him? Chong82
The jin is the weapon he usually uses to hone his strength."
Looking at Lu Xiangsheng who was eating meat and drinking wine, Cao Wenzhao stopped talking. This morning he quietly observed Lu Xiangsheng who was polishing his body. This guy is really a master and can fight better than ordinary generals.
Lu Xiangsheng, Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, Jiangyin Dianshi Yan Yingyuan, Jizhen soldier Wang Dou, Shaanxi post soldier Li Zicheng...
These conscripts basically accepted the imperial edict. When they arrived in Beijing, they entered Emperor Chongzhen's barracks and received new officer training, learning quality-guaranteed artillery and new musket tactics.
Artillery is a profession that requires a lot of knowledge.
In the past, although the Ming Dynasty had a lot of artillery, the artillerymen were not very knowledgeable. They could only rely on their rich personal experience to operate the artillery.
But they don't understand mathematics, angles, parabolas, or calculating the range of artillery, not to mention that the quality of previous cannons was inherently uneven.