Chapter 298 Sensation in the capital
The Battle of Anqing was a very popular thing for the emperor and the court, and this incident revitalized the court's glory.
After the capture of Fengyang in Zhongdu, the entire court was dead, and the people in the capital had fewer smiles.
Everyone knows the seriousness of the problem. This is not a problem of a city being broken, but the location of their ancestral graves. In this era, everyone is extremely superstitious and everyone respects their ancestors extremely. Digging people's ancestral graves is a deep hatred for blood.
Moreover, any Feng Shui theory has been recognized as a little, that is, the digging of the ancestral tomb will definitely affect people's luck and endure huge losses and disasters.
It can be said that the Ming Dynasty is in a state of storm and crisis.
As the emperor, Emperor Chongzhen did not say that he was strange and indiscriminate, but he privately asked the Feng Shui master. The other party told him that even if he was dug up, if he could be rescued in time, he might be able to make up for it. If it was time for a long time, it would be out of control.
Fengyang was just a city occupied, but it was unprecedented for the Ming Dynasty's court, which meant that the prestige of the court was gone.
Even Fengyang, the central capital of the imperial court, was captured, the royal family's ancestral tombs were excavated, and there was still any prestige at all.
Many officials and ordinary people were very scared and anxious all day long because this was a sign of the change of dynasty in the end of the dynasty.
It is said that even Emperor Chongzhen sent a small eunuch to the street to inquire, but he heard that the people on the street were very shocked and scared, and even the people had no smiles. It can be said that the capture of Fengyang in Zhongdu was a huge blow to the entire Ming court.
Emperor Chongzhen was deeply hurt by his brother Emperor Tianqi, who valued Wei Zhongxian and Keshi, and harmed the world. Emperor Chongzhen, who was the King of Xin at that time, suffered a lot. Wei Zhongxian's most important minions were the Dongchang and the Jinyiwei, so he hated the factory guards.
The factory guards of the Ming Dynasty were very powerful and had very powerful power. Every commander of the Jinyiwei and the admiral of the Dongchang were powerful figures. Some even called the Daming Emperor the spy empire.
Since Emperor Chongzhen came to power, he no longer trusted the factory guards. The Dongchang Admiral was suspended for a long time and his rights were repeatedly restricted. Luo Yangxing, the current commander of the Jinyiwei, served as the commander of the emperor for ten years. In name, he was the emperor's confidant and the confidant of the confidant. He did not receive a separate reception from the emperor for 10 years. It can be said that he was completely idle.
For this situation, everyone in the court praised him as a wise ruler and no longer used factory guards to harm civil and military officials. However, his control of the news and the attack on political enemies was far inferior to that of the emperors of previous dynasties. You should know that the previous Emperor Wanli could firmly grasp the power without attending court for 28 years. He was obeyed by him. However, Chongzhen made the government a mess, which he did not realize.
He also believed that the ministers in the court were cheating him and did not cooperate with him.
He was very angry about this, so he developed a responsibility system.
Every official has his clear responsibility. No one can pass the blame or work. Those who can stay and those who cannot get out of the way will get out of the way. I believe that this method can cure these officials, but there is no way, and it cannot be cured.
The court has always had policies from above and countermeasures from below. If you have policies from above, they will have enough countermeasures to deal with you.
As a result, Emperor Suzhen thought he was smart and did not limit them.
Emperor Chongzhen must have thought he had no problem. He was so tired that he had something to do. The problem was that these ministers were too cunning and too difficult to deal with. Everyone was afraid of life and death and refused to make sacrifices for the court, so the court had the current situation.
Liu Bu's emergence was like a stream of clear water, which made him overjoyed, so he received a lot of rewards. The court also welcomed it very much, and he agreed without hesitation about the emperor's heavy reward for Liu Bu.
Although Emperor Chongzhen seemed very powerful, this was only on the surface. The cabinet also had great power. The emperor issued a central order, and without the cabinet's attached, it could not form an imperial order.
Emperor Chongzhen was the one who was strong on the surface and weak on the inside, but he himself was addicted to this kind of power and self-indulgence.
What he didn't know was that his ministers were fooling him and teasing him.
His strength is superficial and powerful. His control over the court is far less than that of the previous emperors. His orders are even only in the capital. It is hard to say after leaving the capital.
Emperor Chongzhen's order, if he had not left Beijing without the cabinet's attached notice, no one would have paid attention to the city.
Of course, Emperor Chongzhen did not realize this now, and did not realize the seriousness of the problem. He was still intoxicated by himself and everything was under his control.
The group of court ministers, led by Wen Tiren, the chief minister of the cabinet, gained power through their deception of the emperor.
On the surface, they were timid and obedient to the emperor. In fact, they also led Emperor Chongzhen through various clever means.
Emperor Chongzhen did not understand this, and he was complacent about his current diligence and love for the people and his unprecedented control.
However, this time the emperor rewarded Liu Bu with great rewards, which was quickly approved because he was consistent with the interests of the court.
In some aspects, the interests of the emperor and the court are still the same. Without the emperor, there will be no court, and all civil and military officials will have no place to settle down, which means that they and the bandits are the common enemies.
Liu Bu eradicated their common enemy, which won unanimous praise from the emperor and the court.
At the same time, the court was also very dissatisfied with Hong Chengchou, Zhu Dadian and others. These people had 100,000 mercenaries, but they were stationed north of Xuzhou. They only knew that they wanted soldiers to make noise every day, and they did not dare to fight against the bandits no matter what they said.
However, he had many reasons before, but Liu Bu had only a few thousand men to attack the bandits, defeated their army, and captured the bandit leaders alive. With such dazzling achievements, Hong Chengchou and Zhu Dadian and others became very weak and powerless even if they had 10,000 reasons, which was also the reason why the court was angry.
Could it be that all this is because Liu Bu is too difficult to do, and Hong Chengchou and Zhu Dadian are too trash and too hard to do? I believe that Hong Chengchou and Zhu Dadian will never admit this, so the court immediately issued a strict imperial edict, ordering them to set out immediately, attack Liu Bu's troops from north to south, and eliminate the bandits in Fengyang area.
After 10 years of rebellion, the bandits have become a major concern for the court. If they are not wiped out, they will inevitably cause trouble to the court and even make the country discolored. If they can be wiped out this time in Fengfengyang, even if the Zhongdu area is lost, the heavy price of causing the imperial tomb to be damaged is still worth it.
If the bandits escaped, the price would probably not be worth it. The court still suffered heavy losses and was very miserable.
In order to boost the morale of the people, Emperor Chongzhen immediately issued an order to order the court to issue an emergency report, and spread the news before it was dark.
The court issued an order mainly to publicize the court's policies to the people through the form of Tangbao and Dibao.
The people in the capital were still consistent with the imperial court. Because this was the capital, the emperor's city, and the emperor's city, they always thought they were superior, and they were all outsiders and countrymen.
Because the emperor is here and the court is here, the people of the imperial city are also superior, but as the bandits gradually expand the rebellion, Fengyang, the assistance city, was captured. This is a very embarrassing moment for the court and a very disgraceful moment, which also makes the people in the capital feel embarrassed and frightened.
As the people in the capital, their political sensitivity is the strongest. What the people in the capital like most after dinner is to evaluate the major events in the world.
This time the bandits captured Fengyang, Zhongdu, which was definitely a sensation in the world, but it was also a major event that shocked the entire Ming people and the people in the capital of the Ming Dynasty.
In the eyes of the people, it is a huge matter if the ancestral tomb is dug, not to mention the royal family's ancestral tombs are dug. That is even more remarkable. If the ancestral tombs are dug by the people, the family will be destroyed at the least, and the family will be destroyed at the worst.
Whenever I think of the possibility of the country changing color in the Ming Dynasty, my family losing my family and my people losing my heart, the people in the capital are frightened and anxious. You should know that if the country changes color, the worst of the people in the capital will be the people in the capital.
There is no doubt about this.
So after I heard that after Zhongdu Fengyang was captured, the emperor's tomb was excavated. Not only the people in the capital were also sad and afraid. Many people even took the initiative to run to the temple to ask for help and pray to the Buddha to bless the court.
When the court announced their successful Zhang Xianzhong army and captured Zhang Xianzhong alive, the people in the entire capital were excited, and many people beat drums and set off firecrackers to celebrate.
Emperor Chongzhen did not trust the East Factory or the Jinyiwei, and never appointed them to do things, so he had to come up with another way to inquire about the news, which was to randomly send some eunuchs to the street to inquire about the news, and told him when he had time that this was a way for him to think that he was close to the people and listen to the voices of the people.
Chapter completed!