In the new layout of Qianqing Palace, there are several things that are very conspicuous now.
In the past, after entering the Qianqing Gate, there was a corridor higher than the ground, which led directly to the cloud platform in front of the Qianqing Palace, dividing the courtyard of the Qianqing Palace into two parts.
This Qianqing Palace was destroyed by fire in the 20th year of Yongle and then rebuilt. It was destroyed by fire again in the 9th year of Zhengde and then rebuilt.
When Zhu Houcong moved in, the Qianqing Palace was still "quite new." Not long after he ascended the throne, only the Rijing Gate was burned down, and it was rebuilt at that time.
When the imperial city was re-planned and renovated, the Qianqing Palace now has a new look.
On both sides of the main hall, the two new side halls have their own separate courtyard walls, and are separated from the main hall of Qianqing Palace by a fire wall, forming their own independent small courtyards. They lead to the Zhongyuan Hall on the east and west sides of Qianqing Palace respectively. There is a gate in the corridor, and there is also a courtyard gate on the lower platform in the courtyard.
The two side halls were later renamed Zhaoren and Hongde respectively. As for their purpose, the Zhaoren Hall in the east was for the internal affairs department, and the Hongde Hall in the west was for the imperial study.
Entering from the Yuehua Gate in the west and the Niijing Gate in the east, plus the Qianqing Gate on both sides, three entire rows of corridors can be put to use.
They are not the most conspicuous things in the Qianqing Palace. The flagpole-shaped thunder pillars and flags on the main hall and the two side halls are very obvious. On the ground on the left and right sides of the cloud platform, there is a bell pavilion at the entrance of the imperial study room, and at the entrance of the inner stalls. It is a "weather station".
Everyone is familiar with table clocks, but the "weather station" has a special thermometer, a small windmill for measuring wind direction and wind speed, and a container for measuring rainfall.
The eunuchs under Huang Jin also have the task of recording meteorological data here every day according to the plan of the Polytechnic Institute.
On the cloud platform at the entrance of the main hall of Qianqing Palace, there were originally some auspicious animal sculptures and ritual vessels, but now there are two new pavilions. In one of them, a set of standard measuring tools is placed. In the other, a set of standard measuring tools is placed. Set up a telescope.
Now that telescopes and microscopes can be made, it is natural to trial-produce an astronomical telescope specifically for observing astronomical phenomena.
Tan Lun looked up at the pavilion where the sky mirror was placed on the cloud platform, and then walked into the courtyard where the imperial study room was located.
It is probably because His Majesty encouraged his ministers to always seek the truth of heaven, so he placed this new thing here as a ritual vessel.
"I heard that His Majesty also observes the stars at night. There is a volume of translations of Western writings in the Zhongyuan Hall Library, which is said to be based on the heliocentric theory..."
Tan Lun entered his new "office" and listened to several other colleagues walking in the study room chatting.
Yang Bo and others went to the Xinuang Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace. This Hongde Hall was the special office area for the imperial study companions and assistants. The emperor received his ministers and moved back to the Qianqing Palace.
The Hall of Yangxin continues to be renovated. The front and back yards are about to be separated, and the front yard will have a new purpose: the Party Affairs Office of the Tianxia Datong Party.
The emperor returned to the Qianqing Palace, and the Yangxin Palace, which had served as the center of the empire for nearly twenty years, was now responsible for party affairs. This is also thought-provoking.
Tan Lun started his work in the imperial study room. He was responsible for communicating with the Department of Political Envoys. He needed to sort and classify all the memorials that were to be submitted to the imperial government.
In the West Nuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace, Yang Shen, Xia Yan, and Yan Song were all there for three memorials.
"When did Mansu'er have such ability?" Zhu Houcong asked.
There are three memorials, one is from the Qinghai-Gansu Border Region, one is from the North Korean Propaganda Embassy, and the other is Yan Shifan's report.
Now, Zhu Houcong's first concern is the west.
Xia Yan was very solemn: "The matter cannot be false. Now, the merchants in the border city of Xining have stopped. From the west, businessmen from the Ming Dynasty and other vassals who have the right to hold the position are constantly hiding in. Turpan and Nayarkang are fighting for their lives. It was a fierce battle, but judging from the reconnaissance reports, it seemed to be overwhelming. I heard that there were also descendants of Timur, the Indian Mughals, who helped them attack Yarkand."
What makes Zhu Houcong strange is another point: "Don't I go there every year? Judging from the time, he should be there too and hasn't returned to Mobei yet. I actually sit back and watch Mansuer become a fisherman?"
"Your Majesty, with the national strength of Turpan, even with foreign aid, it is impossible to capture Yarkand with overwhelming force." Xia Yan said his judgment, "The banner raised by Man Su'er is to restore the homeland of the Chagatai Khanate. It is the Chagatai Khan." In the name of you. Knowing that Anda is eyeing you, but you still shout such words, Anda has already occupied some of the territory of the former Chagatai Khanate! I am not the only one who helped me in this matter, Mansu'er doesn't have the courage!"
Yang Shen's hair turned white again: "It's Gong Jin's intention, I promised Man Su'er benefits, and now we are allies?"
Xia Yan nodded: "I have great ambitions! In the past, among the four great khanates divided by the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, didn't there be Chagatai? Your Majesty, this is our strategy to encircle the Ming Dynasty's land! Hetao, Xuanning side The Mongolian people have also said that now the Tatars on the grassland have begun to convert to Tubo Buddhism. This is the case in Mughal, Chagatai, Anda Khan Court Alliance, Yunnan, Sichuan, Qinggan, Hetao, and Xuanning. trouble on the frontier!"
Yan Song also said: "If Mansu'er and Tubo helped the Ming Dynasty's enemies, would the border markets in various places still be open? Is it appropriate to give them to foreign merchants? If the land border trade has suffered so much, I am afraid that domestic merchants will also be angry. .If we just wait and see what happens, if border trade continues as it is now, I am afraid that in the long run we will be endangering our enemies."
Zhu Houcong thought quietly.
I have been using troops in the Western Regions for so many years just to take this step?
The monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty had long known that he helped promote the Yellow Sect on the grasslands. In the south and in the north, there were religious factors and a common strong enemy, the Ming Dynasty, which was a hidden danger to the Ming Dynasty.
Mansuer was an Islamic sultan, and the religious conflicts between them were not small.
Now that the situation has suddenly changed, it seems that Anda has really united all the land neighbors of the Ming Dynasty into an alliance on land.
What Yan Song said was that the Ming Dynasty had to make a decision: whether to let them continue to integrate, or to send troops to intervene on the grounds of Man Suer's "rebellion against the Ming Dynasty".
If this situation is allowed to develop, the internal pressure of the Ming Dynasty will be minimal. The businessmen will be happy, and the national treasury will not be too nervous.
As long as we send troops, we must be prepared for a decisive battle across the board.
The north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, the Tubo Plateau, the Mobei grasslands, and the deserts of the Western Regions... these are not easy places to attack.
Zhu Houcong looked at Yang Shen, and then asked Yan Song the second question: "Over in North Korea, have you sorted out the current situation and reported it?"
Yan Song bent over: "The diplomatic embassy is still investigating the matter. I have also informed some trustworthy businessmen to provide circumstantial evidence. Your Majesty also requested to instruct the foreign inspection factory. Now I have compiled a report on the situation in North Korea.
this."
The emperor asked him face to face, and then he handed over the report that he had prepared but was not fully prepared, and then said: "The leader of North Korea is getting older and weaker, but now he is afraid of being in charge of the harem for twenty-five years.
Queen Wending and her two brothers suddenly launched an attack. They begged the Ming Dynasty King's Master to help them eliminate the traitor. I'm afraid it's not for the safety of the crown prince, but for his own safety."
Zhu Houcong sneered while watching: "I'm afraid the ministers and palace maids around him are all the queen's spies. How can the Ming Dynasty help him to hoe the traitors without causing brother Xiao Yin and Queen Wending to fall into disgrace? If the scholars in North Korea can succeed, how can they do it repeatedly?
Disaster?"
"Therefore, the elders of their Shilin sect secretly met with the Ming Dynasty's diplomatic envoys and reported to the Ming Dynasty for their approval, and then discussed the big plan according to what form and military strength the Ming Dynasty could use."
"What is the promise of the Ming Dynasty? Submission, surrender? Isn't it like this in the past?" Zhu Houcong didn't even raise his head, "They shouldn't not understand me, right? Just use these empty words to ask me to help him?"
Yan Song said truthfully: "Now they are just waiting for His Majesty's will. How to deal with this matter can be decided by North Korea."
"...Naive." Zhu Houcong looked at a section of the report, "He actually asked me to issue a decree to have one of the Xiao Yin brothers sign a treaty for the envoy to the Ming Dynasty, and then provoke him and deal with him. I will handle this matter.
Doesn’t that make the feudal lords laugh at you? How could the Korean Shilin sect come up with such an idea?”
"...It can only be said that the repeated disasters are not without reasons."
Yan Song was also speechless. The Ming Dynasty summoned all the vassals to come to Beijing to conclude conventions on various standards. It could indeed require the vassal states to send out enough important envoys. But after all, it was the Ming Dynasty who invited them, so how could they be tricked into doing so and then launch a sneak attack?
People?
The stooges of the North Korean Shilin faction only wanted to get rid of the powerful people inside first and weaken them a little bit, but they wanted Ming Dynasty to be the villain.
Zhu Houcong picked up Yan Shifan's report again, with a smile on his face: "Uncle Dong Ying has successfully instigated the clans on Tsushima Island to get involved in Japan's struggle for supremacy. This matter is easy to handle, and the navy has to be assembled for training.
We can wait for new warships, swords, guns, swords and halberds, and sell some to them. Once they get into a fierce fight, just kill them."
After putting down Japan's report, Zhu Houcong raised his head and looked at the three people.
"The Ming Dynasty has become more powerful, but most of the vassals have never faced the power of the Ming Dynasty, let alone the virtues of the Ming Dynasty. You all know how I plan. The signing of the convention is the new order I want to form both inside and outside the Ming Dynasty in the future, but the external vassals
However, the powerful families in China will not like many of the new orders established by the Ming Dynasty. Tang Yingde said that the people should be punished! Since there are variables in the Western Regions and the East, it is time to make a comprehensive plan and decide on a strategy!"
Yang Shen asked in a seductive voice: "Your Majesty, are you going to conquer all sides?"
"Of course there must be a distinction between priority!" Zhu Houcong did not shy away from this comprehensive purpose, "First solve the problems of North Korea and Japan. With the money of the powerful families of North Korea and Japan, the national treasury will not be in trouble. The ten-year national debt is due, just in time. After the redemption, new bonds will be issued. If the merchants traveling to the west and Mobei are dissatisfied with the temporary cutoff of border trade, then they will work with the country and first buy the national debt to quell the Ming Dynasty's foreign troubles!"
Xia Yan's eyes shone: The big move is finally about to begin.
Zhu Houcong indeed issued an order: "The three of you will take the lead and hold the first meeting tomorrow morning. From mobilization, financial planning, to military strength, to the selection of future officials, culture and education, and peace of mind, step by step, come up with the entire plan. "
After holding two Longevity Festivals, the Ming Dynasty, which had been "kind with kind eyebrows and kind eyes" for eighty-nine years, began to grind its teeth.
The Ming Dynasty Center, which had just "moved in" again, quickly entered an intensive operation rhythm, and the Qianqing Palace was busy.
Perhaps because of the high mood of "conquering", Zhu Houcong did not feel tired from such energy-consuming planning, or he had already adapted to this rhythm of career. On the contrary, he was very energetic and vigorous.
Sun Lan and the concubines in the harem felt this.
There were already several dragon couches in the Qianqing Palace. Now, Zhu Houcong, whose position was extremely stable, did not need to think too much about "safety", so he stayed at them randomly.
On the contrary, several rooms on the second floor of Qianqing Palace have been carefully decorated to make them more livable.
Unlike Yangxin Palace, which has a small courtyard and plants, the environment of Qianqing Palace is stiff and serious.
Naturally, the only person who can bring a soft feeling to Zhu Houcong is a beauty.
During the day, they discussed state affairs, and at night, they spent time with the prince and princess. After that, it was mostly two or three people.
Those "kings and ministers" in North Korea who had been waiting hard in the conspiracy finally got the answer from the Ming Dynasty: What kind of behavior is it?
This time, the Ming Emperor severely reprimanded the North Korean leader for his laziness, which resulted in discord between husband and wife, father and son, powerful ministers in power, and people living in dire straits.
Not only would Ming Dynasty not intervene in this matter, but it also asked the North Korean leader to quickly resolve internal issues before sending envoys to Beijing to sign a treaty.
Naturally, the news "accidentally" came to Brother Xiao Yin: the king and the prince actually joined the Shilin faction to ask the Ming Dynasty to send troops to eliminate the traitors.
Who is the traitor?
On the verge of breaking out, North Korea is suddenly on the verge of a total conflict erupting.
Whether it was a palace rebellion or a mutiny, I don't know.
From the Ming Dynasty's Ministry of Rites and Liaison, official documents sent to the various vassal embassies were also delivered one after another.
The Emperor of the Great Tomorrow attaches great importance to the sect-vassal conference to be held in Beijing in October. This time the standards are very high. Not only is it best for each vassal to send important ministers or even crown princes, but the propaganda envoys from various places are also required to accompany each vassal with visit reports. The mission returned to Beijing to report on its work.
Since the establishment of the diplomatic embassy, it has at least existed in various vassals for so many years. Only when the new diplomatic envoy arrives, the old one will take over and leave.
But now, all their civil and military officials have to leave temporarily and return to Beijing to report on their duties.
This is unusual.
The Emperor of Heaven does indeed value it, but what exactly does he value?
In the palace of the Duke of Guizhou in Yunnan, after Zhu Zaiyu came out of the room of the pregnant princess, he came to the front of Mu Shaoxun, the Duke of Guizhou.
Thirty-eight-year-old Mu Shaoxun is in the prime of life.
He didn't know that his fate had changed a long time ago. Originally, Mu Shaoxun died young in the fifteenth year of Jiajing when the Ming Dynasty was preparing to conquer Mo Dengyong. He was only thirty-three.
But now Mu Shaoxun is still in high spirits. After seeing his son-in-law, he bowed first: "Your Highness."
"My lord." Zhu Zaiyang did not rely on him, "My father's decree has come, and my lord is invited to come to the capital to discuss important matters. But what about foreign vassals?"
Mu Shaoxun's eyes lit up: "It should be! Your Highness, your royal title is Yue, and now you are living in Yunnan as the eldest son of the emperor. Although it is called visiting relatives, it cannot be said that you have established a vassal state and opened a palace. This will not last long As for the plan, now we all know the official document from the Ministry of Etiquette. We are going to the capital to discuss important matters!"
Mu Shaoxun is not an exception.
As many discussions in the Qianqing Palace progressed, many important generals from the border areas and provinces of the Ming Dynasty suddenly received orders to enter the capital.
Not all major generals, this list is selective.
But Yu Dayou, Ma Fang, Ji Weimin, Qu Zhinan... many names represent intriguing meanings.
They are all capable of fighting and have fought tough battles.
Summer has arrived and the weather is hot.
Under the scorching sun, a huge storm seemed to be brewing both inside and outside the Ming Dynasty, making many thoughtful people feel dull, depressed, or restless.
All this stems from Zhu Houcong's ardent ambition.
The person who lit the fuse was Anda on the shore of Lake Issyk-Kul in the cold winter.
He had his own ideas, and Zhu Houcong had already had his own plan.