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Chapter 28 The Ming Dynasty Royal Family Enters Beijing
When Chongzhen saw those letters, his expression did not change at all, because he had known about this kind of thing for a long time, since he had known about it after Zhu Houzhao's death.

In other words, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty all knew that military generals had to listen to civil officials, because Zhu Houzhao was the last attempt of the Ming Dynasty royal family for the monarchy, but failed. From then on, the Ming Dynasty royal family had to entrust even their own crown princes to be trained by civil officials.
Otherwise, he would be like Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty, who gave birth to several sons and lost several, and even gave rise to a proverb that two dragons cannot meet!

Or like Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty, who was assassinated by a palace maid in the palace when he was about to take control of the military power.

In any case, any emperor who wanted to directly control the military power would die, so later emperors controlled the military power through civil officials.

This also led to the reason why so many civil officials in the Ming Dynasty later became military generals, because military generals were no longer useful, and civil officials didn't even bother to pretend to be military generals.

"Donglin Party! Come here, give Yuan Chonghuan a hundred strokes of the cane, but don't do it seriously, don't take it too seriously!"

At this time, Chongzhen waved his hand and ordered Yuan Chonghuan to be dragged out and beaten with a hundred sticks in the court.

However, these one hundred strokes of the cane cannot be hit solidly or with all your heart. To put it bluntly, it is like using a piece of tofu as a cushion and the tofu cannot be broken.

After hearing this, Fang Zhenghua, who had been guarding the door, rushed in and grabbed Yuan Chonghuan. Yuan Chonghuan went out, and then several eunuchs came with court sticks, pressed Yuan Chonghuan down on a bench, and started beating him. The first few blows were really fierce, with crackling sounds and even blood flowing.

Because these blows were for people to see, to let people know that Yuan Chonghuan had been beaten and was bleeding, but Yuan Chonghuan did not say a word.

Afterwards, although there were also crackling sounds, Yuan Chonghuan almost fell asleep. If it weren't for the dull pain in his buttocks that made him feel uncomfortable, he would have really fallen asleep.

After the hundred beatings with the sticks were over, Fang Zhenghua waved his hand, and the four eunuchs directly stretched out the sticks in their hands to Yuan Chonghuan's body, lifted him up in the air, and then threw him to the ground.

The fall did not hurt him or cause him any serious damage, but it made Yuan Chonghuan wake up.

Then several eunuchs carried Yuan Chonghuan and threw him next to several generals who came with Yuan Chonghuan. Those generals were blushing and felt that their governor had been insulted.

Civil officials were proud to be beaten with a stick in the court, and this was because Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty set a rule that civil officials could not be killed. Emperor Hongzhi of the Ming Dynasty was called a sage monarch by civil officials, because from him on, civil officials of the Ming Dynasty could not be killed at will, and even if they were found to have engaged in corruption, they could pay money to avoid punishment.

That is why Emperor Hongzhi was called a sage ruler who ruled with ease. Even though he spent all the property of Ming Xianzong Zhu Jianshen, people still said he was a good emperor. They did not mention that during his time, the court was extravagant and the national strength was deteriorating. People only said that Emperor Hongzhi was a sage ruler who ruled with ease.

It was these civil officials who described Emperor Hongzhi as a wise ruler who eventually killed his son Zhu Houzhao, who wanted to change the Ming Dynasty.

I have to say, this sip and this bite were truly destined by God.

It was from this time that civil officials began to like being spanked, because they did not have to die and it could also earn themselves a good reputation. If people asked them why they were spanked, it was very simple: either the king was unjust, the king was incompetent, or the officials' advice was ineffective.

Anyway, since then there has been a saying that all the civil officials who were spanked were good people.

However, the civil officials thought this was a good thing, but the military generals did not think so. They thought it was a humiliation, and a huge humiliation.

So they all had red faces and angry necks. When Yuan Chonghuan saw their looks, he immediately slapped each of them.

"I am the Minister of War!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the military generals immediately realized that Yuan Chonghuan was not only the Governor-General of Liaodong, he was also the Minister of War!
When the Governor of Liaodong was beaten, it was indeed a beating of a military general, because the military general made a mistake and had to be beaten. However, when the Minister of War was beaten, it was a civilian being beaten with a stick, which was a reward!
"Your Majesty, you have a legitimate reason to attack me this time, because I didn't take the opportunity to attack Hetuala, and wasted a great opportunity." "Hetuala!"

It was the first capital of Houjing, and everyone knew what it meant. It was not a place name but a metaphor.

"I didn't expect that Your Majesty also understands military affairs. The cowardly Wei is the one who saves Zhao."

"Your Majesty is not trying to save Zhao by attacking Wei, but is preparing to close the door and beat the dog. He had previously planned to marry a Mongolian noble family, but this matter was also disturbed by this old man."

Yuan Chonghuan said this again at this time. If he didn't say this, then these generals would not know about it. They just thought of it as cleaning up the problems on the grassland. They didn't know how many times they had done this kind of thing, and they didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

But now when they heard Yuan Chonghuan say that the emperor wanted to marry a Mongolian family, they all reacted, and then they looked at Yuan Chonghuan as if they were looking at a god.

A handsome general spoke out his true feelings, "Commander-in-chief, the emperor has really blessed you by not killing him!"

"Indeed, the emperor's grace is deep. The governor did such a thing, but he was not beheaded. He is really lucky!"

Everyone has the same opinion on this, that is, Yuan Chonghuan was very lucky and was not killed. This is really rare.

"By the way, have you seen the royal relatives who came to Beijing recently? How many of them are there? Do you have an idea?"

Yuan Chonghuan no longer wanted to listen to his subordinates talking about these things at this time. He just wanted to know how many royal relatives had come.

Before, when he was at the palace closet, he met several netizens. Those people were not allowed to deposit money without a license, but now they all came, which made him feel a little magical, so he wanted to see how many people came.

"I don't know, but all the northern kings are here. It seems that quite a few people from the south have come as well, and they all came with their families. All the royal relatives should be here!"

The handsome man who spoke earlier thought about how many people had come, but he couldn't figure out anything because there were too many people.

"That means the entire Zhu Ming royal family is here, right?"

Yuan Chonghuan didn't know how many royal members there were in the world, or rather, no one knew the number, because there were countless royal members who had not yet been included in the royal jade book. In other words, although this person was alive, no one recognized that he was a member of the royal family, and no one even knew of his existence.

So the number of members of the Zhu Ming royal family who came this time is extremely large!

It was only after Gao Yuliang reminded Zhu Youjian that he realized that the number of royal family members in his family had reached nearly one million by that time!

The number of royal family members in the population of one million is still a general record and there is no detailed record, because many members of the Chinese royal family did not have a name from birth to death. No name means less salary.

Therefore, the Ministry of Rites has only one opinion about the members of the Zhu Ming royal family: you can have children if you want. Anyway, I will not record the children other than the direct descendants, because once these people are recorded, the Daimyoji court will be bankrupt by them!

(End of this chapter)