Chapter 6: The king is also the king of the country

Chapter 6: The king is also the king of the country

Perhaps it was because people were in a happy mood when they were happy. Although today's agenda had ended and all the military ministers and officials of various departments had dispersed, Emperor Kant still sat in the military office for a long time, taking the good news of Taiwan's pacification over and over again, and even hummed a tune.

Until it was too late and hungry, he still felt a little lazy and didn't want to get up and leave. He asked the eunuch who was in charge of the suit, Kong Lingqi, and asked the imperial chef to bring his dinner directly on a large tray.

As a monarch who is determined to work hard to govern, Emperor Kant has always been very simple in his diet and advocates hard work and simplicity. The emperor's meal, which originally had at least thirty or forty dishes or even hundreds of dishes, was reduced to four dishes and one soup on his side, and it was mainly made of mussels - poached eggs, almond tofu, mushrooms and cabbage, and stewed pork ribs from radish, plus a bowl of Emperor Kant's favorite soup.

Because he was in a good mood, Emperor Kant had a meal while chatting with the eunuchs and general manager Kong Lingqi beside him.

"...Kong Lingqi, what is the price for buying these eggs and radishes from outside the palace tonight?"

"...If you go back to the emperor, the ji eggs on the market are about ten cents per person, and radish costs six cents per pound... However, the price of this vegetable has always fluctuated greatly with the times. I have not left the palace for some days, so I don't know if the price is accurate..."

"Well, compared to when I had not ascended the throne three years ago, it seemed to have increased slightly. At that time, the ji eggs were only eight cents a month..."

Emperor Kant poached the poached egg in the silver plate with chopsticks, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion, then looked up at Kong Lingqi, "... No matter what, you are always honest, at least you are much stronger than the Yayian guy in the Ministry of Internal Affairs back then. Humph, a ji egg, thirty taels of silver, and you have to spend 3,000 taels of silver to send to Suzhou, is I the master, or is he the master?"

"...Your Majesty clearly saw that such ugly people jumping into the world actually tried to deceive their masters. They were really seeking death. We have always regarded it as a warning..."

When he heard the emperor mention this past story again, Kong Lingqi's father-in-law shivered immediately, quickly lowered his head and said casually.

Divide-Separation-Line

Speaking of which, this successful rectification of the affairs of the Interior Affairs Office was also a very proud achievement of Emperor Kant Wanyan Dezhao.

Although he is now the 1950s, a few years ago, Wanyan Dezhao was not the crown prince, nor his mother was the queen, but just a partial concubine.

Therefore, Wanyan Dezhao, the second son of the emperor, was named Prince Kang at the age of eight. He moved out of the palace and opened a residence in the capital. He lived a short life and often needed to live within his means. As for the throne, it was even more useless for him at that time.

But people were sitting at home, and blessings came from the sky. One day three years ago, he was bored in his mansion and fighting crickets with a small grass stick, but suddenly he was broken into the door by a large group of tear-faced officials, and dragged into the palace crying. It turned out that on this day, the old emperor and the prince went out of the city to go out for military parade, but unfortunately got bombed by the ** party on the way. The prince was bombed to death on the spot. Although the old emperor had magic weapons for protection, he was seriously injured and was carried back with blood all over his body. It seemed that it would not take long to die and ascend to heaven.

So, Prince Kang Wanyan Dezhao, who had definitely had no chance of being with the throne, received the will in a confused manner in front of the dragon bed and moved back to the palace. After waiting for a few days, he ascended the throne and became the sixteenth emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty.

However, the emperor of the last dynasty was not very easy to be. It was less than a month after Emperor Kant Wanyan Dezhao ascended the throne. First, the King of Shu rebelled in Chengdu, and then the party rebelled several places in Fujian and Zhejiang, and the Tukan cavalry disturbed the north. It really caught fire from all directions and smoked from all directions.

Then, before the young Wanyan Dezhao could make up the mess, he was shocked to find an extremely desolate fact--he could not even make the decision on the palace.

——The first month after the throne, the young Emperor Kant accidentally asked about the expenses of the Office of the Internal Affairs, and then he was shocked to learn that the monthly expenses in the palace were as high as 900,000 taels, and the expenses of the emperor alone would cost 60,000 taels this month.

Wanyan Dezhao was shocked and angry - he had known that the country was in a difficult situation, so he had advocated frugality since the beginning of his ascension. He wished he could break a copper plate into two petals, reduce the imperial meal to four dishes and one soup, and the dragon robe was broken, and only a patch was made to continue wearing it. This month, the father had just passed away, which was the time for the national funeral. After the funeral and ritual, there was no banquet, poetry meeting, hunting and other money-burning things in the palace... Why did he spend so much money?

——When he was Prince Kang, the palace paid more than 100 people in the palace every month, and it was only 3,000 taels of silver.

So Wanyan Dezhao immediately summoned Yayi'an, the head of the Office of the Internal Affairs, to investigate the matter sternly.

At that time, not long after Emperor Kant ascended the throne, the Interior Affairs Office and the palace used old people from the late emperor's period. Na Yayi'an had been the chief minister of the Interior Affairs Office for more than 20 years. He served the emperors of three dynasties. He was his disciples and grandsons inside and outside the palace. He was a terrible power. Even in front of the emperor, he was quite a bit reliant on his seniority. Therefore, he immediately took out a royal daily note and found the appendix bill for Wanyan Dezhao to read.

Wanyan Dezhao had just looked around for a few times and almost jumped up - I asked you to make soup for breakfast a few days ago. I haven't seen you deliver it for so many days. Why have you spent tens of thousands of taels of silver for this? Where have you used it?

General Manager Yayi'an immediately replied that if the emperor wants to eat the soup, he has to set up an institution specifically responsible for the soup in the imperial kitchen, add relevant personnel, and build a new special kitchen. In addition, the raw materials cost, a total of about 60,000 taels of silver is required. The money used is only in advance, and funds will be further allocated in the next few months... If everything goes well, Your Majesty will be able to eat the soup in about half a year.

Wanyan Dezhao sneered in anger: "...No need to worry about this. Before I ascended the throne, I would eat sliced ​​soup on Qianmen Street every morning. The most expensive bowl was only thirty cents of copper coins. The Ministry of Internal Affairs specially arranged a small eunuch, and I would go to Qianmen Street to buy sliced ​​soup every day and come back."

The general manager of Yayian replied, "I have also sorted out this matter." I have thought about it. I went to Qianmen Street recently, but I didn't find any vendor selling Chiaer soup. I planned to go farther to buy it these days. But the problem is that if I run too far, Chiaer soup will not be delicious when I bring it back, so I'm worried.

Emperor Kant snorted coldly. Although he knew that there must be something tricky in this guy's words, he didn't know how to attack for a while, so he had to wave his sleeves helplessly: Forget it, forgot, I'd better not eat any soup.

Then, after turning the bill down, Emperor Kant became angry again - huh? I asked you to patch the worn dragon robe, and it would cost 3,000 taels of silver? This is enough to buy dozens of new dragon robes.

However, the general manager of Na Yi'an replied with a stern expression that the dragon robe symbolized the dignity of the emperor, so he naturally had to use the best Suzhou weaver in the world. If the emperor wanted to patch it, our servants also worked hard to handle it and sent it to the imperial weaver workshop in Suzhou for repair. After this, it naturally cost some more money.

Emperor Kant became even more angry when he heard this - it was only a long way from Jinling to Suzhou, and it was just a matter of business. He didn't have to spend so much money.

But the general manager Yayi'an still had his fallacy: Emperor, if the dragon robe is lost, many people will lose their heads. So in order to prevent theft, the slaves hired more than a hundred bodyguards to escort them... so they spent a total of 3,000 taels of silver.

Emperor Kant was choked at that time and could not speak. He had to pinch his nose and continue to turn it down. Then he was so angry that he almost had a cerebral hemorrhage. I had to spend thirty taels of silver for one ji egg? Is it worth 120 taels of breakfast? The eggs outside the palace were only eight cents for one damn slave, are you damn slaves bullying me without understanding the market or what?

Unexpectedly, the general manager of Yayi'an was so crazy that he did not apologize until this time. Instead, he smiled and said to the emperor without a smile, "...Prince, I really don't know how much the ji eggs on the market cost outside, and I don't want to know at all. But the ji eggs in this palace have always been thirty taels of silver per one, and the late emperors of all dynasties have been here. Your Majesty, you can eat them if you like them, and if you don't like them, you will lose them if you don't like them."

Then, the Ya Majesty even put on the face of an old senior, and his tone was arrogant and taught the emperor a lesson: "...This royal system is always wide and narrow, and we must never make a detailed calculation. If it is like a gourd picking a son, and there are many people who are resentful, the will cannot go out of the forbidden door. The emperor has lived among the people, and he does not know the dangers of this palace - if the emperor's virtue is not as deep as the sea and does not treat his servants with minor consciences, how can this will go out of the forbidden door?"

When Emperor Kant heard that he was so angry that he dared to intimidate the emperor, his eyes turned black and he was dizzy again. He almost died of a stroke on the spot.

——Isn’t this equivalent to forcing him to use “the virtue of the emperor is as deep as the sea” (tolerate corruption) in exchange for the right to “get out of the forbidden door”?

What an arrogant slave bully.

It was not until this moment that Emperor Kant realized extremely sadly that his emperor was so frustrated that he could not be more frustrated. Not only could he not pacify the northern enemy outside, but he could not reduce the vassal states inside, but even the eunuchs and slaves of the Ministry of Internal Affairs dared to ride on the emperor's head to act as a mighty man.

Divide-Separation-Line

It's ridiculous to say that the royal family wanted to establish the Ministry of Internal Affairs because the original intention was to allow the servants of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to better serve themselves, but in the end, they were kidnapped by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The root of this disaster still lies in the royal family itself. In order to consolidate the imperial power, it is necessary to establish an institution specifically responsible for the affairs of the emperor and the royal family and relatives, that is, the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The royal affairs cannot be known to outsiders and cannot be placed under the supervision of outsiders.

Therefore, the affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs must not be interfered with by the court officials, nor the jurisdiction of political organs, prime ministers and ministers, nor the supervision of the court's judicial departments. The personnel are also selected from the royal family slaves or eunuchs and are only responsible to the emperor themselves. Only in this way can the sacred, mysterious and authoritative of the imperial power be protected and the interests of the royal family are most effectively protected.

But the question is, how can the emperor be effectively managed and supervised such a huge Ministry of Internal Affairs?

As a result, after hundreds of years of inheritance, the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has become more and more complex, with more and more personnel, and more loopholes. The emperor cannot manage it alone. In addition, the Ministry of Internal Affairs is a privileged organization serving the royal family, and is not under the jurisdiction of the court's supervision and judicial institutions. The cost of abuse of power is extremely low. Therefore, the disadvantages of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are like water breaking through the dam, and fertile wild grass gradually spread without restrictions.

——In this unfair contest, the Interior Office is one side, with a large number of people, and the Emperor is one side, with only one person. Tens of thousands of Interior Office staff deal with the Emperor alone, trying every means to block and intimidate the Emperor, making money for themselves.

In the end, the Ministry of Internal Affairs had become an evil force that was completely independent of the emperor and the court, with its own independent interests and operating rules. However, the emperor seemed to be hostages kidnapped by them, and could only pinch his nose and let blackmail...

Since Wanyan Dezhao grew up outside the palace, he was not very clear about the twists and turns in the Interior Office. The Minister of the Yayi An was respectful of his old qualifications and strong foundation, so he stood up to remind the new emperor. Don’t think that if you become emperor, you can really be a word. You must know that only by satisfying us servants can your will be able to give this palace

If he had replaced a timid and fearful master, he might be scared. However, Emperor Kant's idea was quite different from his predecessors who lived a mediocre life. If the royal family turned a blind eye and indulged his servants around him to get some small benefits, it would be fine. But now the mountains and rivers are broken, the vassal states are numerous, and the imperial court's territory is getting worse day by day. How could he raise such a big parasite?

——Since the migration south, most of the royal family members who need to be supported have lost their money, and there have been fewer palace businesses that need to be maintained. However, the expenses of the Ministry of Internal Affairs have increased instead of reducing. In the end, the annual expenses have increased to tens of millions of taels of silver...About the time of moving south, all the manors and houses cannot be taken away. The general managers and father-in-law have suffered heavy losses, so after they settle down, they must seize the time to double the profits...

After being threatened and intimidated by Yayi'an, the Minister of the Interior, Wanyan Dezhao was huddled on the dragon bed and sulked, biting his finger and thinking about it, thinking that as the saying goes, how can he wipe out the world if he doesn't even control the palace and the Interior. After he ascended the throne, if he could not control the nearby palace and the Interior, how could he fight against the more fierce vassal states and foreign enemies and defend the shaky country?

Moreover, these slaves are just embezzling and have not yet grasped military power. If one day the slaves of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are unsatisfied and have the desire to usurp the country, then they can even embezzle the emperor's treasury to buy military morale, and in turn put the emperor himself under house arrest. Then, "Your Majesty will sit in the palace, and all foreign affairs will be left to the old slaves", allowing a group of eunuchs and family slaves to take advantage of the emperor's name to sit in the country...

——The kings of the country that have been destroyed in all dynasties have never died so frustrated. How could I set this precedent?

——I would rather throw this world to the barbarians and vassal states than let the imperial court and the country be ruined by such a group of eunuch slaves

After making up the determination to clean up the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Wanyan Dezhao thought about it and felt that he was just a sixteen-year-old boy with no connections or rules. He probably was not the opponent of these old fox players. Moreover, the palace was deeply in the enemy's formation, so it was hard to guarantee whether they would do something ruthless like regicide in a crazy way...

So Wanyan Dezhao Suo made up his mind and took his life to play a crazy and crazy gambling. Before he could move into the palace, his family and the old man in the secret residence had not moved into the palace, he took advantage of the opportunity to worship his father's tomb and secretly took his confidant and the old empress dowager out of the palace and returned to the old mansion.

Then, he summoned ministers at the Kang Prince's Mansion and mobilized tens of thousands of imperial guards to enter the capital. He announced the investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. All the general managers at all levels were sentenced to death. All the eunuchs in the palace were buried with the late emperor. The people who were killed on the spot were rolling heads and blood flowing into a river.

In this bloody purge, Emperor Kant fully utilized his mad dog spiritual servant who had given up his can and fled into the royal ancestral temple and fought back stubbornly, trying to make the emperor throw himself into a scoundrel, so he asked for his ancestral temple to burn his own ancestral temple. In order to quickly defeat the hard-core party members under the Minister of Yayi'an, the elite "Jing Army" composed of 1,200 strong eunuchs, he even let the imperial guards bombard the Qianqing Palace where he lived, smashed the imperial throne on the Danban, and by the way, the Jing army guarding it was bloody... With the help of the court officials' long-standing resentment towards the slaves of the Internal Affairs Office, and taking advantage of the surprise of the Internal Affairs Office, Emperor Kant waved his butcher knife and killed more than 20,000 people in one fell swoop. The bloody smell that filled the palace did not dissipate for three months.

Afterwards, His Majesty the Emperor sent out more troops to attack the remnants of the imperial villages and palaces in various places, and the total number of more than 40,000 families was implicated. Although the property seized was not too much (most of them were divided by si), the tumor that was parasitic on the royal blood vessels was removed.

——In terms of power and strategy, I can really not play with you, but I can kill you all and then replace a group of people who don’t have the courage to play power and strategy with me. Anyway, you are all slaves of the royal family, and if you kill, you will kill them. No one can pick out what I am from the legal perspective.

The only regret is that Yayi'an, the Minister of the Office of the Interior, escaped by chance and failed to let the emperor cut him into pieces to relieve the hatred in his heart...

As for what is a bad sign in the imperial city, it is an ominous sign; as the emperor, he sends troops to attack his own palace, it will be a joke; worry that too many killings will disturb the spirit of the late emperor; the way to govern the country must be too urgent, and he should be more mature and steadfast... But my dragon vein of Dajin has been broken, and I am about to become a puppet of eunuchs and slaves. Even my own slaves have to ride on their heads. How bad can it be? If even such a powerful medicine does not work, then Dajin will destroy the country, it will destroy the country.

It was with this crazy dog ​​spirit that gave up and the amazing speed that made all parties unable to react, that Emperor Kant actually successfully cleaned the rebellious Ministry of Internal Affairs with lightning speed, at least to control the palace.

——But, can the accumulated problems that have been continued in this palace for hundreds of years really be cleaned up with just one massacre?

Divide-Separation-Line

ps: Having written this, the image of a doomsday dynasty must have been portrayed as fuller

The most basic situation is that the imperial officials and officials in the court are listed, the imperial power is in danger, and all military and political affairs have been destroyed to the extreme. But the emperor is not so determined to be enterprising, but rather, he is full of the mad dog spirit of giving up. Anyway, the country is corrupted to such a country, and any strange tricks are used to make a way to revive, of course, it is best to fail, even if it fails, it will not be much worse than it is now. Even if it is to destroy the country and destroy the clan, it can at least be destroyed in a vigorous manner, rather than dying in an unknown way and being cowardly.

(…Well…Why is it a bit like the idea of ​​the last old emperor in “The Legend of the Galaxy”? But the Great Jin court is much worse than the Galaxy Empire. If you change it, it is guaranteed that the fleet only exists on paper. The fortress is made of foam plastic. If the soldiers want to eat the empty amount, Xiao Lai will use a bunch of toy boats and plastic guns to fight the magician Lord Yang to the death.

Of course, for the sake of balance, the Allies should also follow the democratic Indian army: terrorist attacks every few days, a comprehensive soul-spun command system in seventeen languages, a 40,000 reserve track elevator in each city every year, and Hindustan Airlines' death aircraft... The treatment of soldiers is learned from the gray animals of democratic Russia, the handsome ones are sold to clubs to make foundations, and the ugly ones are sent to black brick kilns for hard work...

Well, I guess before I could reach the Isherlen Corridor, the two teams had already reimbursed themselves. Then Xiao Yang and Xiao Lai could fight one-on-one...)

——So, the future debt collection team of the Five Kingdoms faces such a group of brainless, scammers and cowards commanded by mad dogs. Any normal negotiation and combat methods are useless—are much like those crazy people who are forced to the point of desperate situation by usury.

Next, it is time to depict a loose party camp. I don’t know how to get an invincible "Tong Menghui" to come out. Well, there are also "Social Bauhinism Party", "Heaven and Earth Society", "Democratic Progressive Party"... Especially the "Eunuch Party" composed of the former fugitive officials of the Interior Department, the "Eunuch Party" staged a "Eunuch Party's revenge" after it was staged, which was definitely wonderful...

Also, enthusiastic readers can sign up for the warlords of various vassal states - the strongest King of Qin, King of Wei and Duke of Qi in the north, Duke of Annan in the south, Duke of Chameng in the south, towns in Shu, towns in Yunnan and Guizhou, Changde Town in western Hunan, etc.
Chapter completed!