Chapter 455: Emperor Chongzhen was plagued
Officials of the Ming Dynasty, or officials throughout the world from ancient times to the present, have a common characteristic, that is, they do not look at advertisements and see the efficacy, and even more so among the vassal kings.
You, Emperor Chongzhen, was so awesome that you were so arrogant. No matter how hard you work and love the people, you are also very caring for the officials. That is all false and useless.
The real effect of the therapeutic effect is reflected in the chopped heads of people all over the ground, and those who have truly gained benefits.
For example, the seven vassal kings who ran to Xinming Island, Shi Fenglai who went to Jiuzhou Island to be promoted to the first governor, the emperor's first lackey in front of the emperor was shameless Wen Tiren, the Ming Dynasty's first pair of red sticks, Zhang Weixian and his son, Liu Xingzuo and Xu Guangqi, etc.
Especially Xu Guangqi was not in good health recently and had coughed up two mouthfuls of blood recently. Emperor Chongzhen wanted to send all the imperial doctors from the Imperial Hospital to have a consultation for Lao Xu.
After all, if Lao Xu was in the future, he would definitely be a big bull who could plant apple trees. If he could not match the five divisions, he would be able to support at least five wards. If he didn't care about it, he would be a big deal.
On the one hand, it was Emperor Chongzhen's big sword raised high, and on the other hand, it was all kinds of benefits and meticulous care. The officials who saw the actual efficacy finally knew how to choose.
Is the emperor going to build a railway? No problem, pull out all the people who are preparing for cat winter. Anyway, they are idle.
Building a railway is dangerous, will it cost life? Forget this, let the bigwigs of the Ministry of Railways find ways to buy Jiannu Bainu Kunlun slaves. Anyway, just don’t let the people under your rule die.
It is not a big problem for the people to die normally. After all, it is abnormal that no one will die one day.
But if the people died on the construction site, and according to the current behavior of the man in the Forbidden City, they would probably first shed two tears in a fake way, give the people some burning money, and then take out their heads to soothe people.
Or it can be said that it is killing a chicken to scare the monkey.
Then the commander of Taozhou Guard felt that he was also very unlucky, and he actually encountered an earthquake!
In this broken place in Taozhou, the railway will not be built here for the time being, so I made a profit from digging wells or something, but after that, there was no further information.
In normal times, drought, hail, frost, and floods are just different things. Forget it, it’s still an earthquake now!
Even Emperor Chongzhen was shocked when he received the news from Taozhou newspaper - God, are you playing with me? It was almost December in November, and another earthquake occurred in the place where heavy snow had just fallen?
I think the Ming Dynasty has not had enough fun? If you don’t come here every month, will you be unhappy?
However, no matter how painful it is, it is useless. Those who need to provide disaster relief must provide disaster relief. Those who need to help the people rebuild must also help the people rebuild.
For this reason, Emperor Chongzhen took out 50,000 taels of silver from the already stretched treasury, and squeezed out 100,000 taels of silver from the treasury that was basically the last deposit, and exchanged it for various disaster-seeking supplies.
If we develop according to this rhythm, we will have a casual fun in December of the sixth year of Chongzhen, and we will not have to pass this year of Emperor Chongzhen.
However, Murphy's Law showed its power at this time - in this season when it was not snowing much in other areas, there was another heavy storm in the capital, accompanied by heavy storm and thunder and lightning, for several consecutive days.
Emperor Chongzhen, who was wailing in his heart, really wanted to capture a few gods in the sky and throw them into the imperial prison - what evil did the Ming Dynasty commit? This is endless, right?
Fortunately, it was windy and snow after all. This thing was different from the rain and hail in Dengzhou and the earthquake in Taozhou. As long as you follow the example at the beginning of the year, send the new army and the Jing camp out to help the people clean up the snow and other things in a timely manner. There is not much left to spend money.
Then, just when Emperor Chongzhen was having a headache about these troubles, he unexpectedly received Wen Tiren's resignation request to retire and return home.
If we only look at age, Wen Tiren is now 61 years old, not young, but for a cabinet chief, this age is not too old, basically at the same age.
As long as Emperor Chongzhen was willing to let Wen Tiren continue to work, Wen Tiren could basically work until he was in his seventies, or just until he died.
After all, there is an old saying that people are old and sperm, dogs are old and slippery, rabbits are old and eagles are hard to get.
With the kind of flat-headed brother like Emperor Chongzhen, if there were no nobles led by Zhang Weixian and the former eunuch party members led by Wen Tiren, the world would have been messed up by him.
After all, no matter how awesome an emperor is, he cannot do everything.
Someone tried this and died early - Fatty Ying and Yang Er and Zhu Chongba all wanted to finish their own business and let their descendants live in peace and wait for death.
Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen's plan was to let Wen Tiren continue to be the prime minister. The fact that the novice in history, who had changed more than a dozen prime ministers in 17 years, would never happen again. It's so damn funny.
However, it was a good time that Wen Tiren actually wanted to retire. If you don’t let you work until you die in your post, even if I fail, you still want to retire? Why don’t you go to heaven?
But no matter how Emperor Chongzhen asked, Wen Tishi's answer was so simple - he was old and unable to drive, and he had many illnesses, which might lead to national affairs.
After the first revenge was rejected by Emperor Chongzhen, Wen Tishi continued to submit the second memorial. Anyway, the meaning is only one, I will stop working. You will choose another capable one.
Then Emperor Chongzhen thought about it and found that except for one who was furious, he threw Wen Tishi into Zhao prison for a while, he treated this guy very well the rest. It was no exaggeration to say "Yourong Youjia". Now this guy is thinking about quitting?
What do you want to do? Do you want to take money to become a local emperor on Xinming Island? This is not possible. In the Ming Dynasty, you still have to point out your old Wen to work as a child who sells his children and blood. Want to go to Xinming Island? Just go to your son, you should work honestly.
But Emperor Chongzhen thought about it and found that the two resignation letters handed over by this guy were very determined to seek retirement and return home. I guess there was something he didn't know.
This is the second time. If the ban is rejected this time, if Old Wen writes a letter again, it will be the third time - no matter how unreasonable the emperor is, he will not be able to face three resignations and not allow him to do so.
After all, they are not young and strong, but they are truly in their sixties. They will basically agree after three remarks about retiring and returning home.
After thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen simply called Xu Xianchun into the palace. This guy was responsible for supervising all officials. Although Emperor Chongzhen always sent him to do some dirty work, there was nothing wrong with finding Xu Xianchun in situations like Wen Tiren.
Then Xu Xianchun told Emperor Chongzhen with a look of pain that Wen Tiren was originally normal, but he only became like this bird after singing a nursery rhyme in the capital.
It was only because the content of the nursery rhyme was not suitable for reporting to the Emperor, so the Jinyiwei did not report the news.
The content of the nursery rhyme is very simple, so simple that it only has seven words: "Emperor Chongzhen was warmed."
It is not necessary to explain who Emperor Chongzhen is referring to. After all, for His Majesty, who cannot even mention his name directly, it is most appropriate to call him a year name or a call him a majesty.
But who knows who is talking about directly calling Your Majesty? There are so many Your Majesty. Not to mention the emperors of the Ming Dynasty in history, even if the foreign ministers call him when they pay homage to Empress Zhou, there is nothing wrong with calling him.
The key point is the word "happy" in warmth.
Being warm is equivalent to being suffering from plague and being plague. That is to say, being suffering from plague and having finished playing, there is no hope.
Even Emperor Chongzhen suspected that God was deliberately playing with himself in the Ming Dynasty. After this nursery rhyme was heard in Wen Tiren's ears, would Wen Tiren have to make a good decision?
As soon as Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, he directly attacked Huang Liji to death, and then promoted himself to the chief minister of the cabinet. As a result, from the seventh year of Tianqi when Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, he saw that it had been the seventh year of Chongzhen. There were disasters every year and disasters every year. Is it really his own business?
This scholar, sometimes it is not a good thing to read too much.
Just like Wen Tiren, the more he thinks he is his own problem, so the Ming Dynasty suffered disasters every year. Your Majesty also said that it was because the officials in the world were furious and caused the heaven to be furious.
After Emperor Chongzhen killed so many officials, God still kept calm. Only because he was the chief minister of the cabinet and the leader of the civil service group could explain it.
Although Zi once said that Zi did not say that he was so powerful that he was so evil, but why did he think about this? If the emperor also felt that he had caused him to suffer from plague one day, then how could he be better off?
It’s better to quit yourself and go home to take care of your children, so as to avoid any day of missing out.
As for the man who disagrees with his resignation, it doesn't matter. Even if he still refuses to do so three times, he will be sick or something. In short, he has to go home quickly.
A dog's life is important.
However, before Wen Tiren had decided whether to go to Xinming Island or stay in the Ming Dynasty after returning home, Emperor Chongzhen's reply had arrived - Wang Chengen came here in person.
For the officials of the Ming Dynasty's outer dynasty, although Wang Chengen was awesome, he was too far away, so he was not as awesome as the various ministries and cabinets.
However, for the Beijing officials, especially the Beijing officials, the cabinet and the six ministries, Wang Chengen, a dead eunuch who doesn't speak easily and doesn't leave the palace, would basically represent the meaning of Emperor Chongzhen.
Anyway, from the seventh year of Tianqi to the seventh year of Chongzhen, Wang Chengen never took any benefits for himself, so he took a lot of blame for Emperor Chongzhen.
After quickly ordering people to prepare the food and drinks, Wen Tiren invited Wang Chengen into the main hall, served the tea and drank it together, and then asked Wang Chengen what he wanted.
Wang Chengen didn't hide it, but stood up and smiled and said, "The emperor ordered our family to tell you about Lord Wen."
Seeing Wen Tiren, he stood up and prepared to salute to listen to the decree. Wang Chengen smiled and said, "Mr. Wen doesn't have to do this. Your Majesty said, "Mr. Wen can sit down and listen."
Wen Tiren bowed to Wang Chengen, but did not sit back, but maintained a standing and bowing posture.
Wang Chengen was very satisfied with Wen Tiren's attitude and smiled and said, "Your Majesty said that Wen Aiqing is loyal to his duties, and he doesn't have to take the rumor to heart. Your Majesty also said, "You will not let me down, I will not let you down."
Wen Tiren then bowed and said, "Yes, I respectfully receive the sage."
After getting up straight and sitting down, Wen Tiren asked Wang Chengen tentatively: "Your Majesty knows the rumors outside?"
Wang Chengen smiled and said, "Your Majesty already knows what the saying of suffering from plague is not to be taken seriously by Lord Wen. Your Majesty has ordered the Jinyiwei to investigate this matter strictly, and sooner or later there will be a result."
Wen Tiren was still worried: "My father-in-law also knew that from the seventh year of Tianqi to the sixth year of Chongzhen, it seemed that it had been the seventh year of Chongzhen. There were really many natural disasters, and this happened to be the current moment when Wen entered the cabinet..."
Wang Chengen smiled and said, "How many natural disasters were there from the first year of Tianqi to the seventh year of Tianqi? Lord Wen doesn't know or what?
If you really don’t know, you can go to the Ministry of Revenue files to transfer the files. The emperor also gave a special order to allow the Jinyiwei North Punishment to retrieve the information that can also be obtained by Lord Wen.
The emperor said that the natural disaster was because the officials below were ungrateful and so angry that the heaven was so angry that they had nothing to do with Lord Wen.
After all, if we are really serious, who should be the case during the Tianqi period be counted? Is it the Donglin Party or Eunuch Wei?"
Wen Tiren then felt relieved.
There were actually too many troubles from the first year of Tianqi to the seventh year of Tianqi, but Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch who died, was awesome and shameless. Not only did he not cause any big trouble, he also played the Donglin Party.
Of course, on the surface, Wei Zhongxian played the Donglin Party, but in fact he was not hurt at all, let alone being killed.
As for the natural disasters during the Tianqi period and the small chaos that caused them, in terms of the entire Ming Dynasty, even the disease of scabies is not even considered a bit tickle. It is a bit itchy to survive. It is far less than the one who played in the seven years after Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne.
Before he could have time to have a meal at Wen Tiren's house, Wang Chengen hurriedly returned to the palace and reported to Chongzhen: "Prince, Lord Wen's intention to leave has disappeared, and there is no problem."
Emperor Chongzhen nodded, and then he thought about something else.
He suffered from plague, Zhu suffered from plague, and pigs suffered from plague. This was the damn thing that hurt Wen Tiren and scolded himself.
However, the news that Xu Xianchun has received is currently reported that the saying that Emperor Chongzhen was suffering from plague was simply passed on by the people, not by anyone who is interested in it.
This is very painful.
Chapter completed!