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Chapter 5: Official Earthquake (2)

The boy had a bright hair, and the lovesickness left his beauty. Ye Lianyi gently stroked this haggard face, and felt a faint pain in his heart. When he touched his stomach, a tenderness surged into his heart. It turned out that the feeling of being a mother was so sweet. For a moment, Ye Lianyi was actually looking at her husband's face and was so foolish. Her eyes were filled with the lasting glory of motherhood.

What happened in Fujian, Zhu Yinglong first issued an order to prevent those who knew the news from talking nonsense. Zheng Zhilong was a famous pirate. He defected to Wei Zhongxian to kill so many Zhongyi people from the Ming Dynasty. Although he obtained Fujian, it further aggravated the more disconnectedness within the Nanjing court. How could the aristocratic doctors accept a pirate stealing the high position all at once?

Zheng Hongkui also felt that his elder brother was doing too much this time, forcing Ye Xianggao to death to death, and he had completely broken up with the Beijing court. He was killing so many Donglin Party members and officials who refused to rely on him. Ye Xianggao had a high prestige among the people in Fujian. His death made many gentry members in danger. Zheng Zhilong seemed to realize his mistakes and rushed to differentiate everywhere, which stabilized the political situation in Fujian. He also got the title of Minnan Bo given to him by the Nanjing court as he wished, and served as the governor of Fujian. Now Zheng Zhilong got the Fujian as he wished.

Of course, Wei Zhongxian would not miss the lowly officials who carried out reforms and were panic in this good opportunity. He kept sending people across the river to lobby the governors of various provinces, and widely publicizes Zhu Yinglong's arbitrarily tampering with the ancestral system and violating the ancestral etiquette. This is a great unfilial piety. He bewitched the governors of several provinces under Zhu Yinglong, and the governor left the Beijing court and was loyal to Emperor Honglong, who was loyal to Nanjing.

Zheng Zhilong was overjoyed. Fujian wanted it, and Taiwan must not give up. If the Dutch cut off his wealth, how could he give up? With the Fujian base, he could carry out his own migration plan. As long as all Taiwan falls into his own hands, there will be no regrets even if Fujian is lost. The Zheng family can still be honored for thousands of years, and even claiming to be Wang Jianguo is possible. How can he not be excited when he thinks of this?

Looking at the elder brother who was full of ambition and desire, Zheng Hongkui was even more worried. He was worried that the Zheng family would die without a burial place because of the elder brother's expansion ambition. Which other Zheng brother could see? They only saw power, wealth, women, but the elder brother. Although he saw and considered the future, his future looked nothing wrong at all. He had thought about the way forward, left and right, and even retreat, but he felt a little uneasy. He did not have the ability to predict the future, so he could not see what was behind this confused future that caused his uneasiness?

In fact, Zhu Yinglong's reform was quite mild. He only removed the disadvantage of the prefecture and county magistrates who monopolized the power. In this way, the independence and autonomy of the county magistrates below were much greater. Although they still obeyed the county magistrates, their purpose was to increase the control of the local area, especially in terms of taxation. The prefecture and county level had no right to levy, and they must obtain the clear approval of the governor's yamen and collect taxes according to the court's local standards. This is Zhu Yinglong's big capture of wealth.

A sign of power has also cut off the most critical avenue of officials who wantonly impose levies and plunder the people's wealth and paste, and at the same time, the responsibility is imposed on individuals. Unless this tax cause is corrupt with the county magistrate, otherwise once it is found that the tax quota is arbitrarily tampered with, the tax quota will be put into the ground. There are also warehouses, weaving and dyeing bureaus, approval offices, delivery offices, iron smelting offices, medicine, Yin-Yang Academy, the offices, and the post stations are all in this rectification, otherwise it would not have been said that this was a major earthquake in the officialdom.

In fact, the local government agencies of the feudal dynasty were actually very sound, but the key was that the legislation and supervision were insufficient. Some functional departments had too little power, or their official positions were too small. They could not control the matter. There was also the issue of the term of office of officials. Some county officials worked for more than ten or twenty years in office. Isn’t this a small court that could not be poured into the court and could not be inserted into the court? The county magistrate had become a local emperor. This was absolutely not allowed. This time, the issue of the term of office of this official was raised. It turned out that the court stipulated that county officials would go to Beijing to report their duties after three years of office. The Ministry of Personnel was examined.

After checking, then decide to stay or stay. Then there is a six-year plan for Beijing Inspection, which was jointly organized by the Ministry of Personnel and the Censorate. It is a bit like the election of government officials in later generations. However, this is not a democratic election, but a battlefield for party struggles. The Donglin Party members have done this in the past. Zuo Guangfight and Yang Lian wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of Beijing Inspection to attack the eunuch party members. Unfortunately, the loss was a mess. The problem is that Wei Zhongxian was holding the emperor above. They were not. The defeat was decided. It would be better to pay attention to preserving their strength at that time. Perhaps Zhu Yinglong will not worry about no one being used, but this is not enough. Isn't it possible to let Donglin

Did the party members control the government and undermine the emperor? Think about it, they did it right. Once the eunuch party was gone, the Donglin party members dominated the party. No wonder Zhu Youjian in history did not eliminate all evil, but he was different from Zhu Youjian. He was like how to ensure his power and position, and he also had this idea. More importantly, these people have talents, but they don’t know how to be able to do it. The halos above their heads, and maybe there is still water in it. The Qing Dynasty historians deliberately pleased us Han people and let them be their slaves.

Just talking but not practicing, haha, the Ming Dynasty was over, Zhu Yinglong had the mentality that it was better to have no books than to believe in books. Therefore, he was both used and prevented from growing their power. He even opposed himself when the time came. On the one hand, he continued to cultivate his own direct lineage, and not to fight. Such a thing could not be prevented and eliminated. Everyone understood the disaster of the party and fining disaster, and the fundamental reason for the disaster of the party and fining is not the formation of the party and fining itself. The emperor was incompetent and the emperor was not incompetent, and there would be no disaster of the party and fining disaster at all. He could also strangle it to death in the cradle of the baby in time.

Being an emperor is actually a brain job. He has not slept all night and his mind keeps spinning. Thinking about it, I don’t know how many brain cells have died. Zhu Yinglong fell asleep on his tender thighs pillowing Ye Lianyi.

But there is someone who is even more worried than the emperor Zhu Yinglong, that is, our Minister of Personnel Huang Zunsu. He wished he could pull off his hair one by one. The emperor suddenly approved nearly two hundred resignations for more than 200 people. Where did so many officials in the court send out all of them? There are also those who are old and seriously ill and retired dozens of people. How can they fill these positions? Now Huang Zunsu is so worried. These days, he asked Zhu Yinglong to see Zhu Yinglong almost every day, but Zhu Yinglong threw it to him: "This is your Ministry of Personnel's business. Why are you here to come to me? I am only one, why should I be the magistrate for you?" He did not choke the Minister of Personnel to death on the spot.
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