Chapter 7 Chongzhen: It's Not That I'm Incompetent
"Do you know what makes you most incompetent as emperor?" Zhu Yuanzhang faced Chongzhen and spoke in a deep voice.
Chongzhen was at a loss and at a loss.
"decision!"
"Now that a matter has been decided, don't hesitate!"
"If it's done, you will be the king of the Ming Dynasty and the emperor of the ages. If it's not done, it will be infamy for thousands of years!"
"The most taboo thing is to be led by the ministers. They tell you what to do, and you can't do anything!" Zhu Yuanzhang reprimanded Emperor Chongzhen in front of the civil and military officials of the court, which made everyone look dumbfounded.
After he finished speaking, regardless of Chongzhen's changing expression, he turned his head and his face suddenly sank: "Shut up!"
"We have decided on this matter. You can give reasons for your objections, but we won't listen. But if anyone dares to obstruct this matter, we will kill him among the nine tribes!" Zhu Yuanzhang said in a solemn tone.
"Your Majesty, I am old and weak, and I am begging for my bones." An old official came out of the procession, knelt on the ground and shouted loudly to Emperor Chongzhen.
"snort!"
"We have just become the first assistant, and you resign. Are you looking down on us?"
Zhu Yuanzhang's voice was cold. He approached the official step by step and looked at him condescendingly: "Whenever something happens, he will always take bribes. But when something happens, he just wants to pat his ass and leave. Let me ask you, is there such a good thing in the world?"
Son?"
"Is there any?" Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly shouted loudly.
The official was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground.
"We suspect that you are colluding with Li Zicheng and want to tip him off!"
"Yan Jiu, take this man down to us and torture him severely. We want to know how many of Li Zicheng's associates are among the officials of the Ming Dynasty!"
When Zhu Yuanzhang spoke, his eyes glanced fiercely at all the officials.
"Who else doesn't want to do it? Tell me!" he asked again.
The Huangji Palace became quiet again.
Emperor Chongzhen looked at this scene with a flash of excitement in his heart.
"This is the power of the emperor!" He murmured to himself.
"Fan Jingwen!" Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the person standing at the front among the courtiers.
"You are the cabinet minister, I will leave this matter to you!"
"We are not afraid that you will do something wrong. If you do something wrong, I will protect you!"
"But you can't not do things, understand?"
"May I ask Your Majesty, will all the land in the world be returned to the commonwealth and be redistributed?"
"I would like to remind your majesty that, not to mention other places, the largest owner of land in Shuntian Prefecture is the royal family and the private lands of all honorable ministers. Your majesty, you are sure to nationalize all these and distribute them to
Common people?" Fan Jingwen looked at Chongzhen calmly and said.
He didn't look at Zhu Yuanzhang, obviously still disapproving of his status.
"Oh, you want to conquer our army!"
Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care about the old guy's attitude towards him. He grinned and said, "I said, no matter whose land it is, we will take back all the land. Since the Shuntian Mansion ministers and the royal family have the most land, then we will start dividing it with them."
Get up..."
The other group of nobles headed by Cheng Guogong was as quiet as a chicken, no one said anything.
They were completely frightened by Zhu Yuanzhang.
To be honest, when Wei Zaode knelt down and surrendered, Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, just reacted a little slowly. Just when he was about to kneel down and surrender, he heard that Zhu Yuanzhang was about to kill someone, so he escaped death.
Until now, he was still glad that he knelt down slowly. How could he dare to stroke Zhu Yuanzhang's beard at this time?
"Trash!" A trace of disappointment flashed in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes. These descendants of former famous generals have completely turned into useless people.
The courtiers were finally let go.
After walking out of Huangji Hall, everyone breathed a long sigh of relief, and for a moment they felt like they were surviving a disaster.
Li Banghua was retained.
"We have an errand to give you!"
"You need to leave the capital immediately and bring 30,000 troops from the capital to support Zhou Yuji at Wuning Pass."
"We have plenty of food, grass, and money for you."
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Li Banghua and continued seriously: "I will give you a secret decree and make you Minister of the Ministry of War. You have two tasks here. The first is to tell Zhou Yuji not to defend and to retreat while fighting. If the war goes unfavorably, retreat to Datong and declare
Mansion!"
"Secondly, pull back all the eunuchs and supervisors along the way. Those who don't obey will be killed directly!"
"We only need you to fight for another half year. If Li Zicheng reaches the gates of Beijing in half a year, you will have merit!" Zhu Yuanzhang said.
When Li Banghua heard this decree, his eyes couldn't help but light up.
Although he was also not optimistic about some of Zhu Yuanzhang's policies, he liked his vigorous and resolute character.
What the Ming Dynasty lacks now is such an emperor who dares to take responsibility.
Although this mysterious Zhu San is not the emperor, it is undeniable that he is exercising the rights of the emperor now.
Moreover, it was awarded by Emperor Chongzhen himself, which does not violate his loyalty to the emperor.
Li Banghua finally left, leaving only Zhu Youjian and Zhu Yuanzhang in the Huangji Hall.
Zhu Youjian's face was full of worry.
"Emperor, if you ask everyone to hand over their property, I'm afraid there will be trouble!"
"Of course I know!"
Zhu Yuanzhang narrowed his eyes slightly: "I just want the whole of Beizhili to be in chaos first. If there is no chaos, how can we kill people!"
"We have sent people to follow everyone in the hall today. They can't make any trouble."
"Kill someone?" Emperor Chongzhen was horrified, feeling a little chilled in his heart when Zhu Yuanzhang stared at him.
Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at his descendants for who knows how many generations and said: "Do you know why you asked those officials to donate silver, but only raised 20,000 taels of silver in half a month?"
"Because your knife is not sharp enough!"
"The killing is not harsh enough!"
"Of course they won't be afraid of you!"
To be honest, Emperor Chongzhen was a little disapproving in his heart at this moment. Who doesn't know how to kill people? He also never blinks when he kills people, but it's useless!
From the time when Chongzhen killed Wei Zhongxian in the early years until now, he can't even remember the people he killed, but the court has still reached this point.
He felt that even Taizu would have no way to make a comeback in the face of the corrupt Ming Dynasty.
"It's not that I'm incompetent, it's the world... these civil servants and military generals have failed me too much!" Emperor Chongzhen was full of drama at this moment.
But soon, in just three months, his three views were overturned.
Under Zhu Yuanzhang's governance, the city of Beiping regained its vitality bit by bit.
The plague in the city was controlled, food prices that had remained high were suppressed, the refugees who were fleeing inside and outside the city were properly resettled, and the people's morale was completely stabilized.
The city of Beiping, which was originally a mess, seemed to be in order all of a sudden.
What puzzled Emperor Chongzhen even more was that those officials who had been doing nothing in his hands suddenly became more capable and handled various government affairs quickly and well.
If the entire city of Beiping was not still under martial law, and countless ministers and high-ranking officials were suppressed every day outside the Huangji Gate, and then killed by Zhu Yuanzhang with heads rolling in and blood flowing like rivers, he would have had the illusion that the Ming Dynasty had brought peace to the world.
Not to mention Emperor Chongzhen, even Zhu Biao, who was in the early years of the Ming Dynasty across the time and space gate, was also stunned.
You must know that Lao Zhu now holds two positions. He controls the direction of the two Ming dynasties through a spatial door, and can still handle everything in an orderly manner.
Zhu Biao was really convinced by this.
He was also very lucky that he lent the space door to Zhu Yuanzhang.
As for the mess at the end of the Ming Dynasty, if you ask him to deal with it, I'm afraid he really won't be able to deal with it.