Chapter 178 The establishment of Xinming
Zhao Zhenwu was one of the first batch of people who defected to Wang Xuejun, and his original name was Zhao Laoshi.
Now he is the commander of the Jinyiwei of Tianji Mansion.
Wang Xuejun is honest and has a scheming attitude towards his work.
Just because of this special department, this person is the leader. Too scheming is not a good thing. It is easy to lose his or her stubbornness, and it is easy to get bad things and cause trouble for himself.
As a result, when he gave the detailed report from Lu Wenzhong to Wang Xuejun, Wang Xuejun couldn't help but praise him repeatedly: "Your Jinyiwei solved my big trouble. Not only that, he also obtained enough funds for our Tianji Mansion to reorganize 50,000 soldiers."
Then he looked at Zhao Zhenwu with joy: "Tell me, how should I reward you this time?"
Zhao Zhenwu answered honestly: "I am in this position now, with generous military pay, enough food and drink, what else do I have to reward? Besides, this credit is from Lu Wen of the hundred households, and I am ashamed of the credit of my greedy subordinates. If the governor wants to reward, I will reward these hard-working brothers below."
Wang Xuejun was very pleased with this honest man: "Well, if you have the right position, just promote him. Although Lu Wang gave him the big mansion of Lu Wang, he could not use it himself. As the saying goes, will you be credited for everything you have seized?"
Zhao Zhenwu smiled honestly: "If that kid dares to use his own actions, he will be overthrown. He will die faster than anyone else."
This is how this era is, even if there are a few more copper nails on your door and the steps are higher, you will be impeached and killed by others.
"I have always emphasized that personal property is sacred and inviolable. Of course, except for those corrupt officials who use improper means to obtain money and buy property. Therefore, although this royal house in Lu Wang is also the income of the people in his farm, it is all the affairs of the previous dynasty and will not investigate the past. Therefore, this house is still owned by Lu Wang. You arrange the hundred households to make good use of this house, and take out half of the income earned to send to Lu Wang to Macau every year."
With this simple mentality and practice of later generations, Wang Xuejun accidentally received miraculous results.
During his reign, the princes and princes of the Zhu family, who had seen this policy, went to Macau to be an apartment, reducing many troubles for Wang Xuejun in the future.
Ma Shiying and Ruan Dayue completely broke up because they did not have the ace Lu Wang.
In the end, Ma Shiying died in battle while resisting the Qing army and was still a backbone person.
Ruan Dayue surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and died of illness while actively showing off his merits and following the attack on the Xianxia Pass.
The body rotted and left unattended, and eventually disappeared.
But this is no longer the point. The point is that without their support for the Lu Wang, he finally left time for the crown prince to officially ascend the throne.
After 7 days, the prince, Prince Ding and Princess who were running all the way, finally arrived in Yangzhou City.
When a couple meets, they naturally have a kind of warmth after separation.
Then there is a busy schedule to ascend the throne.
Because of the extra income of Lu Wang, Wang Xuejun, who has always been frugal, did not hesitate to do so this time. Instead, he handled the ceremony of the prince's ascension ceremony in great glory.
For a time, Yangzhou City was crowded with people. The gentry and great scholars who came to watch the ceremony in various places in Jiangnan who heard the news finally saw the glory of the Ming Dynasty again.
At the ceremony, the prince first announced that the regent could go to the hall with his sword and walk on his face without worshipping him; and under Danqu, the regent throne was established.
But Wang Xuejun firmly rejected them.
Then he lined up behind the King of Jinan and performed three bows and nine bows to the new emperor.
Although this kneeling made Wang Xuejun’s knees hurt, and although Wang Xuejun sold a lot of his treasures for this grand ceremony, he felt so distressed that he was itchy.
But he thought all this effort was worth it.
According to the proposal of the Regent, the new dynasty was also a high-sounding emperor who missed his country and died. He still used the Chongzhen reign title and stipulated that it would continue from then on, from the 19th, 20th, and 1000 years of Chongzhen.
The ceremony ends and the formal court meeting begins.
Looking at the lonely cats and dogs standing in the hall, there were three or two.
Wang Xuejun officially announced: "The system of the early dynasty of the fifth day of the previous dynasty was abolished and changed to the opening of the dynasty at midnight (8 o'clock).
The original days of rest for only two days a month were abolished, and it was changed to a day off every 10 days.
Except for the first day of the month and a grand dynasty, if the emperor has any meetings, he will only notify the corresponding departments and relevant officials, and no longer all officials will do it together.
Such a decision was immediately approved by the ministers in the court.
Although some ministers expressed such opinions of not diligent work, of course they were just showing off.
In fact, the court meeting was held at around 4 o'clock in the morning like Chongzhen, and it was also stipulated that all officials above the fifth rank in Beijing must attend, which was simply a tossing.
When the meeting is held at four o'clock, the ministers will get up at 3:00, and then wait in line outside the Meridian Gate regardless of winter, summer, wind and snow.
During the meeting, everyone was still dizzy and they were inefficient at all.
When all the ministers held meetings together, there was another situation of disagreement.
As long as a stranger comes forward to oppose a small matter, it will be fried into a pot of porridge in a blink of an eye.
The final result was that everyone stood in exhaustion for a day, but they didn't even decide to make a decision on a small matter.
That kind of inefficiency is simply outrageous.
And it is precisely because of such a court meeting that fuels the party struggle.
Therefore, in the late Chongzhen period, the court meeting was a place for disputes and a place for ministers to attack each other. From abuse to the entire martial arts movement, it was even more common.
This time, everyone will no longer suffer and hold such meaningless enlarged meetings. You can have a good sleep, then sit in your own yamen and handle your own affairs in a full spirit.
If the emperor and the regent have something to do, they will come to you.
If you have any questions, you can apply to meet the emperor or the regent in advance to solve the problem. How good is this?
This decision to consider subordinates immediately added a sympathy to subordinates to many ministers who were not familiar with this regent.
Then a minister of the Ministry of Rites proposed to hold a wedding for the emperor.
Their reasons are very good. The national crisis is troubled. The emperor should have a descendant as soon as possible to prevent accidents.
But at this time, Emperor Zhu Cilang firmly opposed: "The Ming Dynasty will never be restored, and I will never be married."
Before the ministers strongly opposed it, the new emperor directly announced: "If I have any strangeness, King Ding will succeed to the throne, King Ding will succeed to the throne, King Yong will succeed to the throne, and King Yong will choose the idle one to succeed to the throne, as the princess or the two kings, the idle one will be chosen to succeed to the throne."
This not only shows his firm determination to restore the Ming Dynasty, but also has something to say, mainly to calm down the emotions of some people.
But the vast majority of people were determined to re-cast a Ming Dynasty and work tirelessly.
So in this new small court, almost all the ministers abandoned the idea of still thinking about being the pioneers of this new Ming Dynasty.
The announcement from the little emperor did not inform Wang Xuejun in advance for the first time, but Wang Xuejun firmly supported him.
Chapter completed!