Chapter 702

It was the beginning of September when Lin Yue returned to the capital, and for the next half a year or so, he didn't go to court to manage the government, except to ask about military intelligence and focus on improving people's livelihood in detail, and he didn't care about economic matters. However, as for the liquidation and aftermath of the eunuch party, it was handed over to Han Kuang, Cao Huachun and others.

His daily job was to dance knives and guns with a group of young eunuchs who had just entered the palace, martial arts riding and shooting, turning the harem into a school ground.

From time to time, he took his eunuch's personal guards and some Tiqi who were born as civilians in Jinyiwei to hunt in Yanshan, the eastern suburbs and other places. Sometimes they stayed for four or five days. Cao Huachun and the cabinet arranged for the servants to not be allowed to enter the hunting area. .

Many ministers thought that the emperor had suddenly changed his temperament, stopped playing with women, and changed to horseback riding and fighting games, because after more than half a year of practice, he actually wanted to use this army composed of eunuchs and some Jinyiwei Tiqi to compete with the Four Guards battalion guarding the capital. Teach superiors and inferiors.

Some officials thought he was joking. Jin Yiwei's Tiqi might have some skills, but those eunuchs... it's no wonder they have fighting power.

Of course, slander belongs to slander, if you say try your best to dissuade... No one really does it, and only a few people in the cabinet pretend to write a few times to remonstrate.

First, the emperor overthrew Wei Zhongxian and overturned the case of the Donglin Party. This incident made many officials applaud. After all, the Eunuch Party has only been in power for a few years. , From the cabinet to the local officials, even the big landlords and businessmen in the economic field are part of them. With the cabinet and Cao Huachun managing the government, the emperor can play as he wants.

Second, after the gendarmerie battalion built with eunuchs and Jinyiwei Tiqi as the backbone lost to the Four Guards Battalion, the emperor could realize his own shortcomings, give up his mind on military training, and stop dictating the situation in Liaodong all day long.

Third, once the gendarmerie battalion loses and the emperor's authority is damaged, after Cui Chengxiu's death, the newly appointed minister of the Ministry of War can just take this opportunity to erode the emperor's military power.

What surprised many people was that in the spring of the second year of Chongzhen, the 2,000 elite selected by the Four Guards Battalion suffered a crushing defeat in the Yanshan area, and the gendarmerie battalion became famous because of it. The main reason why the gendarmerie battalion with a weird name was able to win was because the military attache of the Four Guards battalion released water. After all, once they win the emperor, they might be hated, and life will definitely be difficult in the future.

In addition to creating a nondescript gendarmerie battalion, the emperor has two other hobbies. The first is to be a good teacher.

After enrolling hundreds of young eunuchs performing martial arts, he gathered the eunuchs who had been in the palace for the past two years and played the role of a teacher to teach them to read and write.

If you say he plays role-playing, he can just play role-playing, but what he teaches is not the Four Books and Five Classics, what is he teaching? Math, geography, biology, science...

The key point is that such unheard of and unseen books were all written by himself, and he ordered the imperial supervisor to print them into volumes and distribute them to the eunuchs in the school, and he would also take exams. For official positions, in the later period, even the management personnel of the twenty-four yamen, such as shushu, secretary, writing, and supervisor, were ordered to accept the assessment.

This kind of action made the inner court full of smog, and the old eunuchs complained, but they couldn't make waves at all. First, the affairs in the palace are the emperor's family affairs, and second, there are hundreds of little eunuchs who wield knives and guns every day. How dare you say something Those who didn’t write were flogged to death by the Huanyi Bureau. Even Cao Huachun couldn’t hold it. He was worried every day, for fear that his henchmen would find trouble for him... A director of Shangshan Supervisor was reprimanded by Wang Chengen for refusing to study, and he drank in private. He drank the wine and threatened to add ingredients to the imperial meal, but the next day he was found dead in the moat with twenty-seven knives in his body. Then the Shangshan Supervisor was shaken, and the meals sent to the inner court would go through seven inspections.

"Zhu Youjian" was tossing about in the palace, and the civil and military officials couldn't say anything, because the eunuchs and maids were domestic slaves, and the emperor was all family affairs, and outsiders would at most criticize or persuade him tactfully, but the emperor would not listen What's more, after eight years of eunuchs' chaotic government, the court officials hated those eunuchs with humble backgrounds, five incomplete bodies, and relying on imperial power to do their best to oppress literati.

Another hobby of "Zhu Youjian" is making utensils. His elder brother is a senior carpenter. He shuts himself in the house every day and makes a bunch of works of art. The new emperor revealed his true colors less than two years after he took the throne, but he was not interested in wooden products, but in firearms. One day, he sent a blueprint to the eunuch of the Bingzhan Bureau, which showed a bird gun, but it was not the same as The general bird gun is different, it has a trigger.

The emperor's order was to make a sample according to the drawings and show him. If the effect is good, he has a better idea.

The palm print eunuch could only do so, and took the blueprint to the gunpowder department to find a craftsman to realize the things on the blueprint.

Within two days, the emperor came again. He wanted to observe the power of the Franco cannon and the tiger squat cannon, and he left without saying anything. , according to the calibration method he said, the shooting accuracy has been visibly improved by the naked eye...

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The emperor's tossing reached its climax in the summer, because he suddenly became diligent. From once every three to five days before, he came to the court every day. The cheese that touched many people.

First, greatly weaken the status of civil servants in order to improve the treatment of military generals—especially military generals who have fought in wars. It is a national policy to exterminate the Liaodong Tartars and stabilize the Ming Dynasty.

Second, reform the current imperial examination system and set up the post of supervisor in each prefecture. The mathematics, physics, biology and other books he compiled were widely promoted, the proportion of stereotyped essays in the imperial examination was reduced, and mathematics, physics, and biology were gradually included in the examination scope.

Third, increase investment in firearms research and the scale of the Shenji Battalion, and make every effort to develop the foundry industry.

Fourth, abolish the regulations that those who are famous do not pay or pay less, and levy gradient taxes, and the same is true for those engaged in business. At the same time, a statistics department was set up in the Ministry of Household Affairs to collect and summarize economic data from various regions.

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There are many other similar reforms.

Taking the first one as an example, the current situation where the military is strong and the military is weak is likely to be rewritten. The second is even more ruthless. Reforming the imperial examination system and local academic affairs is tantamount to inserting a nail into the official system controlled by civil servants, and connecting the things that the master did in the harem.

As soon as the reform regulations came out, the ruling and opposition parties were shaken and there was an uproar.

They were all complaining and unhappy, and finally, the civil servant's dissatisfaction exploded because of one incident.

At the beginning of July, Lin Yue decreed that Ding Baiying be called into the palace, and named Emperor Noble Concubine with the title of Concubine Wu.

At that time, there were gossip rumors that the current sage was not very virtuous, and often stayed overnight in the dormitory of empress Yi'an, Concubine Duan Chun, Concubine Ren Rong and other concubines of former emperors, and even had an affair with Concubine Zhou Wen's younger sister, Mrs. Zhaoyi. It's too much to accept a new concubine before the end of the year.

On this day, Lin Yue received two memorials in the early court. They were played by cabinet members Qian Longxi and Zhu Guozhen. They wrote hundreds of words eloquently. I don't think about it, I hope he thinks twice.

Lin Yue laughed after reading it, threw the two memorials on the ground, and got up from the dragon chair.

"My concubine dares to make irresponsible remarks, is there anything else you dare not?"

Zhu Guozhen and Qian Longxi hurried out of the crowd and knelt down on the ground, as if admitting their mistakes and apologizing.

Manchu Wenwu kept silent, just looked at him out of the corner of his eye.

Lin Yue snorted coldly: "Have you been dissatisfied with me for a long time?"

A sentence made the faces of the officials below change drastically, they all knelt down and said "dare not" in unison.

Lin Yue ignored them: "I'll tell you some breaking news. There are rumors spreading outside the Forbidden City that I'm a counterfeit wearing a human skin mask."

In one sentence, the following fried the pot.

But it's not the frying pot on the surface, but the frying pot in the heart. Some people are panicked, some are uneasy, some don't change their faces, and some secretly gloat. No one thought that this word would reach his ears, and he brought it up to the morning court to tell it. What is he going to do?

Since the disfigurement of the emperor, his behavior style is indeed very different from before, which makes people have to doubt it.

"Do you know where the rumors came from?"

No one spoke, no one dared to speak.

Lin Yue looked at the group of old dogs in the audience and sneered, "I don't know? Well, I'll tell you where the rumors came from."

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