How to control barbarians

Author: Potato Sweet Potato Pie

How to control barbarians

Mao hour has not yet arrived, and the entire Shuntian Mansion in the capital is still shrouded in night, and almost all the people in the city are in sleep. If you take a bird's-eye view of this majestic capital city from the sky, you will find that many mansions in the West City and East City are controlled by people.

Light up.

Every mansion is full of people, including servants who are going back and forth in the mansion, busy officials, and some officials who are putting on their official robes.

Gongsheng who is going to take the imperial examination today.

Although there were many busy people, the entire capital was still quiet, not as noisy as during the day. But at this moment, a fast horse came tramping down the street, and the sound of horseshoes trampling on the stone slabs echoed leisurely.

There is a row of gallery-like buildings on the easternmost side of the Forbidden City. Compared with the other magnificent palaces in the palace, this place is very inconspicuous, but here is the center of power of the entire Ming Empire - the cabinet.

At this time, the three pavilion elders headed by Liu Jian had arrived. The three of them were sitting in the pavilion, padding their stomachs with some tea, and drinking a few sips of hot tea to warm themselves up and refresh themselves.

Different from the Gongsheng students, the Gongsheng students first went to the Ministry of Rites to gather, and then, under the leadership of the Minister of Rites, entered the palace at Chenshi and completed the palace examination in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

But they wanted to enter the palace early.

It is true that the emperor presides over the palace examination, but the emperor is also a human being, and how can one person be so busy with such an important matter, so the three cabinet ministers also share the responsibility of presiding.

For example, they would select five to seven topics for the palace examination, and then submit them to the emperor for review. The emperor would then select one that he liked more as the topic for the palace examination.

In the cabinet, the three cabinet elders drank hot tea in silence, with no one talking to each other. They were all recharging their energy for the upcoming imperial examination.

At this time, a burst of rapid footsteps came from outside the attic, and then the door was pushed open with a bang.

Liu Jian suddenly looked surprised and was about to reprimand him, but he didn't expect the secretary who opened the door to run away covered in sweat, waving a report in his hand and out of breath.

shouted: "Guang, Guang, the chief envoy of Guangdong, Si Babaili, hurry up!"

Hearing the words "800 miles urgent", the expressions of the three pavilion elders suddenly changed.

Liu Jian hurriedly put the tea cup aside, stood up and snatched the eight hundred miles urgent report from the clerk's hand. The more he looked at it, the more frightened he became, and the hand holding the report could not help but tremble slightly.

"The sky collapses in Qiongzhou, the sky collapses in Qiongzhou"

"Quickly, follow me to the palace and report to Your Majesty!"

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In the Nuan Pavilion, Zhu Youtang looked at the report in his hand, his face already turned livid.

Today was the day of the palace examination. He got up earlier than usual. After taking a bath, he had just put on his uniform and had not eaten breakfast when he received a report from the palace, saying that three ministers had something to report.

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He thought he was discussing the imperial examination, but who knew.

The lines in this report made him feel particularly dazzling.

Fu Yuhui of Qifangdong in Qiongzhou led a crowd to rebel in the winter of last year. Three states and ten counties responded to the news, and all the counties around Haizhou in Hainan responded.

At the end of last year, tens of thousands of rebels had captured key areas such as Danzhou and Changhua. The 20,000 officers and soldiers who went to encircle and suppress the army suffered heavy losses. The chief general, the Chief Envoy of Guangdong, died in the formation, and more than 30 other military attachés at all levels died in the formation.

, more than a thousand miles of roads in Guangdong and Guangxi are impassable, and Qiongzhou has become corrupt!

now

Before he finished reading, Zhu Youtang was already shocked and angry. He threw the memorial in his hand to the ground and sneered again and again, "Okay, great, last year's rebellion happened several months apart.

I only just found out that I have been keeping people in the dark all this time!"

At this point, Emperor Hongzhi was gnashing his teeth. What he hated was not that the Li people were causing rebellion, but that he, the emperor, had been deceived by his ministers for several months.

Now that the situation is serious, I reported it just now when I saw that the lid could no longer be covered. If Qiongzhou hadn't been so corrupt, wouldn't it be that I would still have to be kept in the dark?

The more he thought about it, the angrier Zhu Youtang became, and finally he stood up from his chair and said angrily: "The Guangdong Chief Envoy Division, the Inspection Envoy Division, all command the Envoy Division, and all officials above the fifth rank will be dismissed from office.

And talk about his crime of deceiving the emperor and neglecting his superiors!"

"Then escort the guarding eunuchs from Guangdong and Guangxi to Beijing!"

The land of Guangdong and Guangxi is already mountainous, and it is also located on the seaside. The sky is high and the emperor is far away. Therefore, gangsters have always been rampant. The court has not been able to control this effectively, and repeated crackdowns have been of no avail.

In the early years of Chenghua, a minister proposed to Emperor Chenghua to send a full-time minister to coordinate the affairs of Guangdong and Guangxi. Emperor Chenghua agreed quite simply, and then directly sent a guard eunuch to supervise all military affairs of Guangdong and Guangxi by his own slaves.

From then on, the matter became custom-made, and as a slave in the palace, the position of guarding the eunuch was naturally an extension of the emperor's power to govern the Guangdong and Guangdong.

In other words, they were the emperor's nail in the territory of Guangdong and Guangxi, and they were also the emperor's eyesights. Whenever something happened, they would immediately report to the palace.

But what Zhu Youtang didn't expect was that his own slaves would actually participate in this deception.

While being furious, he couldn't help but frown.

The officials of the three divisions of Guangdong, the guarding eunuchs, and the guarding general soldiers, these three people who are not subordinate to each other are colluding together and do not hesitate to join forces to deceive the emperor. What are these people hiding!

Thinking of this, Zhu Youtang's eyes became cold again, "The general soldiers guarding Guangdong and Guangdong will be sent again."

As he spoke, his anger suddenly stopped, and he no longer had any intention of punishing him.

Because at this moment he suddenly remembered who the general soldier guarding Guangdong and Guangxi was.

Fu Qiang Bo Mao Rui.

Uncle Fu Qiang returned to Beijing at the end of summer last year to recuperate from his illness, which will not be cured until the spring of this year.

And he had just left the capital a few days ago and returned to Guangdong and Guangxi to continue guarding. He probably hadn't arrived yet at this time.

Therefore, this person should not have participated in the matter of deceiving the emperor, and Zhu Youtang also believed that he had not participated.

Mao Rui is a man who manages the army strictly and is an upright person. During the years he served as the commander-in-chief of Guangdong and Guangxi, there has never been any trouble in Guangdong and Guangxi. At most, it was just some bandit troubles, which could be pacified in an instant.

This has never happened before in Guangnan.

"He took Mao Rui, the chief general of Fu Qiang, to cross the sea and enter Qiong to provide relief and quell the rebellion."

"Let Dongchang and Jinyiwei go investigate and find out for me the reason for the people's rebellion!"

The edicts were issued one after another, and no one of the three cabinet ministers refuted them. They all responded in unison. In this way, these decrees were considered to have taken effect, and at worst they would just go through the motions in the court.

Zhu Youtang sat back on the chair again, took a few sips of the hot tea handed to him by Xiao Jing, pondered for a moment, and said: "The policy topic of this imperial examination is about how to prevent border dangers. Now the Tatars at the border are safe.

It’s okay, the Li people in Guangnan have already rebelled.”

"Copy all the reports on the Qiongzhou Rebellion and distribute them when the palace examination is held, so that all the tributes and students will know about it. The policy topic of the palace examination will also be changed, how to control the barbarians."
Chapter completed!