Da Ming started to ascend the throne

"Thank you Lord Long En, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

The generals hurriedly received orders to thank you, and Zhu Youjian also stood up and stretched out his hands and said with a smile:

"Everyone who is the backbone of the Ming Dynasty, you are all the marquis of my Ming Dynasty, and you will be free from courtesy!"

"Thank you Your Majesty"

All the generals who participated in the Eastern Expedition were granted marquis titles and a mansion. This is the best compliment for them. The generals who were not present were also granted titles together, such as Yue Fei and Zheng Chenggong.

At this time, one of them is guarding the distant Liaodong, and the other is testing a newly launched naval warship at sea.

Chapter 316

Given the mansion to so many meritorious ministers, do we need to re-enclose the land for construction?

Of course not, there are many vacant mansions in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and they are all the mansions of corrupt officials and rebels.

For example, Zhou Kui's Jiadingbo mansion, Zhu Chunchen's mansion, Wei Zaode's mansion and nearly a hundred mansions are all vacant there, and they are just in use now.

It was almost burned by Jinyiwei and Dongchangxichang fans, but fortunately Zhu Youjian stopped it in time.

The silver reward and pension this time are also astronomical, reaching more than 2000 million taels of silver.

It is impossible to get this number out of the real Emperor Chongzhen's reign.

We must know that the annual treasury revenue at that time was only a few million taels of silver, including the official salary of the military.

This is also the main reason why the imperial court defaulted on Xiangyin.

When the Ming Dynasty fell, there were only a few hundred taels of silver in the treasury of Emperor Chongzhen.

But it's completely different now, Zhu Youjian really has no shortage of money.

Not only got more than 2000 million taels of silver from corrupt officials, but also seized more than 1000 million taels from Shanxi merchants.

This is not too much, and Zhang Xianzhong gave Zhu Youjian more than 5000 million taels of silver.

Later, Meng Yuan and Dongyao were eliminated, and more than 3000 million taels of gold and silver and finances were found from these two places.

This does not include a large number of cattle, sheep, horses and silk satins. It can be said that Zhu Youjian is now very rich.

It is said that Daming is short of money, and that is because Daming's money has been divided up by all parties.

Now that all the lost money is concentrated in Zhu Youjian's hands, will he still be short of money?

Now there are only a dozen of hundreds of vassals left, which saves Daming a lot of expenses.

The properties and fields of the vassal princes who had been exterminated by the bandits returned to Daming's hands again, which was another huge income for Daming.

What does Daming lack now?The rebuilding of Daming needs people everywhere, that is the lack of people!

After adding officials to the ranks of heroes, Zhu Youjian looked at Li Banghua, the chief assistant of the Ming cabinet.

It cannot be said that Li Banghua is unfaithful, but this person's ability to be the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty is still lacking.

Especially when dealing with the Kong family, he actually sang against Zhu Youjian and openly defended the Kong family.

As the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, he should understand that his official position was appointed by the emperor, and he must support the emperor at critical moments.

But Li Banghua's performance made Zhu Youjian very dissatisfied. If he was not strong enough, wouldn't he be swayed by the cabinet.

After more than half a year of observation, Zhu Youjian found that he had made a mistake. Not all ministers with integrity were very capable.

He couldn't leave the important task of revitalizing the Ming Dynasty to those ministers with integrity.

Although they are loyal, some of them have limited abilities. The most important thing now is to govern the country.

As long as you don't violate the principle, as long as you have talents, Zhu Youjian will use them.

Zhu Youjian smiled and asked Li Banghua:

"Li Shoufu, are you Geng this year?"

Li Banghua hurried out of class and bowed to salute:

"Reporting to Your Majesty, thank you for your blessings, the old minister will be nearly 80 years old this year!"

Zhu Youjian nodded:

"Li Aiqing is still working hard for my Daming at such an old age, which makes me very ashamed. Now that the world is peaceful, I have decided to let you take care of me for a thousand years. I don't know what Aiqing wants?"

In fact, Li Banghua had already thought that he would be dismissed when the emperor wiped out the Kong family, and at such an advanced age, he should take a good rest.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your understanding. The old minister is old and should really retire."

Zhu Youjian walked up to Li Banghua, stretched out his hand to support Li Banghua:

"Okay, on behalf of all the people and officials of Ming Dynasty, I would like to thank Aiqing for her contribution to Daming during her tenure. Starting tomorrow, Aiqing will not have to go to court, and her salary and salary will remain the same until she dies!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty Long En, the veteran has no regrets in this life, may my Ming Dynasty be prosperous and strong, the country is peaceful and the people are safe!"

Let him be laid off, Li Banghua did not complain, the emperor not only gave him enough face, the salary is also the same as in office, Li Banghua was moved to tears.

No one in the civil and military circles of the Manchu Dynasty thought that Li Banghua, the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, would be dismissed suddenly.

But think of Li Banghua's performance when the emperor dealt with the Kong family.They quickly figured out what was going on.

Regarding Zhu Youjian's laughing, removing the chief assistant of Ming Dynasty on the grounds of Li Banghua's age, all the ministers felt that the emperor's scheming was really hard to fathom.

Now they began to care about whether the candidate for Daming's next chief assistant would happen to them.

Zhu Youjian already had a suitable candidate for the chief assistant of Ming Dynasty in his heart, that is Sun Chuanting, and now he just took the opportunity to replace Li Banghua.

However, Zhu Youjian also wanted to see the opinions of the officials. He wanted to see if there were any officials fighting for power.

"My loves, Li Banghua, the chief assistant, has retired honorably. His position cannot be vacant. My loves, let's see who is suitable to be my first assistant of Ming Dynasty?"

As soon as Zhu Youjian said this, the court was suddenly silent.

The chief assistant of Ming Dynasty is one person under ten thousand people, who would not want to be the chief assistant.

But when they thought about their abilities and prestige, they all gave up their delusions.

They all knew that it was impossible for them to take the position of chief assistant of Ming Dynasty regardless of their ability, credit and prestige.

The ministers looked at me and I looked at you, and began to talk about it.

Soon some people began to feel that they were the right candidates.