I'm really not the carpenter emperor

That night, the news that Zhu Youxiao stayed overnight in Xianfu Palace spread throughout the inner court, and everyone who heard it was surprised.

The so-called rumors that Concubine Yu was rejected by the emperor since she was canonized are still self-defeating. Even the palace people of Xianfu Palace have been greatly improved by the inner palace.

This is the influence of the emperor.

As the emperor, Zhu Youxiao's choice of one matter will often have a decisive influence on other people for a long time to come, or even the entire second half of his life.

After all, the harem is not the main theme. Zhu Youxiao's goal is to save this empire that is on the verge of being broken, and even make it stronger than ever.

The next day, Zhu Youxiao was dressed neatly under the service of Tong Jinger, and came to Xinuang Pavilion to manage politics as usual. When he was sitting on the dragon chair, he saw several military ministers in the military computer room, and they came to their positions early. Review documents.

Zhu Youxiao breathed a sigh of relief, and turned his attention to the pile of chapters on the imperial case. In just one night, there were at least dozens of extra copies.

Sighing, Zhu Youxiao picked up the top copy and looked at it.

First of all, the earthquake relief issue in Shandong area has come to an end under the management of Wang Zaijin, Yang Zhaoji and others.

The imperial court actively operated in the Shandong earthquake center in the second year of Tianqi, effectively avoiding major casualties in history.

First of all, the officers and troops headed by Yang Zhaoji were transferred to Qilu land in time to wipe out the budding bandits and make trouble one by one, maintaining local law and order.

Secondly, Wang Zaijin and other officials from all over the country rushed to Yuncheng, all doing their best in post-disaster affairs and doing their own things.

It is worth mentioning that through this disaster relief, Wang Zaijin discovered two talents—Yang Sichang and Wen Tiren.

These two people did everything personally during the disaster relief and helped the local government to rebuild quickly. It can be said that the two of them are everywhere in the disaster relief in Shandong.

Wen Tiren, a Jinshi in the 26th year of Wanli, was born in the Zhejiang Party. Now he is just an unknown local official.

No one will know that it was this person who defeated the Donglin Party and forced Zhou Yanru to retreat during the reign of Chongzhen. He was an extremely human minister and led the Zhejiang Party, which had been silent for many years, to become the ruling party again and became the longest reigning party under Chongzhen. The chief minister of the cabinet at the time.

As for Yang Sichang, he is also a celebrity.

In terms of background, he is an important minister of the Donglin Party, the son of Yang He, the minister of the Ministry of War, and the governor of the three sides, and he is extremely prominent.

In terms of fame, he was a high school candidate in the 34th year of Wanli, and ranked first in the 38th year of Wanli. He is a "child of other people" in the eyes of others.

In terms of ambition, he was one of the few civil servants in history at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but he was a cabinet supervisor who did not shy away from fame, was willing to follow the emperor's order, and personally pursued and suppressed thieves.

Of course, Yang Sichang's policy of "four positives and six corners, and ten sides to spread the net" proposed by Yang Sichang was also quite criticized.

Seeing that Wang Zaijin recommended the two of them, to be honest, Zhu Youxiao was quite happy.

Needless to say, Wen Tiren is a proper imperial party, but this guy has great ambitions, and he doesn't necessarily do the thing of being subordinate to others and being the son of the eunuch.

If you want to create another party besides the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party to balance the court situation, Wen Tiren is the best candidate.

Of course, with the current strength of the Zhejiang Party, Wen Tiren alone would not be able to do it. He also needed to use this disaster relief to promote a few obedient Zhejiang Party officials to help him.

In this way, even if one of the Donglin and the Eunuch party falls in the future, it will not allow the other party to grow rapidly and control the court.

As for Yang Sichang, this guy is still carrying the banner of the Donglin Party. As long as Wei Zhongxian doesn't get involved, his future will be smooth.

The Donglin Party is promoting its own people, and still uses others to teach?

Balancing the court situation is very annoying, but you have to do it. Often the promotion of an official may break this balance.

As an emperor, you have to add people in at any time to keep the situation in balance.

The disaster relief in Shandong should be almost done by the end of this month, and a group of candidates will be drawn up by then.

In this disaster relief, useful ones like Wen Tiren and Yang Sichang should be promoted, and counterproductive ones should be withdrawn. Those who are mediocre but not lacking in bright spots can be retained to see the aftermath.

Anyway, the civil and military generals in the entire province of Shandong will have to reshuffle their cards this time, and the court will also need to inject fresh blood.

Putting down this question book and picking up another one, Zhu Youxiao's eyes lit up suddenly. There was nothing else written in this one, it was good news.

Mao Wenlong was in North Korea, and at first he and Amin competed with each other.

Later, the North Korean side reacted and realized that this was the nearest army that Daming could assist in a short period of time, so they united unprecedentedly, and all North Korean troops rushed to help.

In March of the second year of Apocalypse, Mao Wenlong defeated a small number of left-behind Jin troops in Yizhou, and easily conquered the fragmented territory of Yizhou.

After that, Mao Wenlong and Ling's adopted son Mao Chenglu attacked from the sidelines. They feigned defeat to attract the main force of Amin's troops to Phi Island, and led the main force of the Dongjiang Army to set up an ambush outside the island.

Amin led the slave soldiers in hot pursuit, but Mao Chenglu didn't dare to fight, so he retreated repeatedly.

The Dongjiang army ambushed in the forest, and when it was late at night, they suddenly fired a salvo of sharp artillery, killing countless slaves and thieves passing by, and then Mao Wenlong personally waved the flag and shouted, the main force of the Jin army after the defeat in World War I.

Amin lost a lot of soldiers and horses, so he couldn't gain a foothold in North Korea. In addition, Nuer Hachi had returned to Hetuala from Shenyang. Hearing the old slave's order, he had to lead his troops back.

After repelling Amin, the Dongjiang Army accepted the supplies donated by the North Korean army and returned to Dongjiang Island. Mao Wenlong organized the army and organized the remnant soldiers, so there is no need to mention it.

It is worth mentioning that after repelling Amin, in addition to North Korea donating materials to the Dongjiang Army as a thank you, Denglai Governor Yuan Keli also sent several naval troops to Phi Island.

Three times before and after the Denglai Navy delivered a total of [-] rods of three-eyed iron guns, [-] high-quality knives and guns, and more than [-] pairs of armor to the Dongjiang Army.

It's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice. The current Dongjiang Army is like a homeless man who sometimes has food and sometimes has nothing to eat.

The firm support from the distant imperial court made them continue to make up their minds and settle down on Phi Island, which is isolated overseas.

"The decree is passed, the Dongjiang army is ordered to aid the dynasty, defeat Houjin, demonstrate the prestige of our dynasty, and report meritorious deeds as usual, there must be no mistakes."

"Leave this matter to the Dujian Mansion!"

In the past, the promotion of meritorious service should be handled by the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of War is in charge of martial arts. Now it is handed over to the Dujian Mansion, which is another new trend.

With the first time, there is a second time.

Could it be that this dynasty will give civil servants and military generals the right to be promoted in the future, and the Metropolitan Government will also have a share?

Those who heard the news couldn't believe their ears.

This news is the best news for the Dongjiang army. The civil servants of the military department in the distant capital are too strange to them.

Many of the military supervisors of the Dujian Mansion had also stayed in Pidao, and they obviously understood and trusted each other better.

These military supervisors were carefully selected by Wang Tiqian, and they had already become a special channel for communication between the Dongjiang army and the emperor.

The Metropolitan Government is responsible for narrating meritorious service, which reassures them even more.

The North Korean issue has been resolved, and the Shandong earthquake is also coming to an end. It seems that things are continuing to move in a good direction.

But the next few chapters brought the smile on Zhu Youxiao's face to an abrupt end.

Chapter 2 and [-] let the Dutch go!

"Peng!"

"Hit our family carefully, with a light blow, the factory owner killed our family, and our family will die with you!"

In the square outside Chengtianmen, many people were watching, but from their plain faces, it seemed that this was just a common thing.

A Jinyi Weitang Shangguan wearing a red official uniform is supervising two Beizhen Fusi school lieutenants, and is sticking to the blue-clothed scholar in the middle.

Jin Yiwei took action, and Dongchang imprisoned him. This has been a common practice since the first year of the apocalypse.

Several prison eunuchs, more than a dozen people from the Jinyiwei Banner School, all looked at the two school captains with amused eyes, raised the red lacquered chestnut wood, and took turns hitting the scholar's buttocks.

This is how keyboard warriors end up in this world.

The factory guards don't care about anything, they have only one immediate boss, and that is the current Emperor Tianqi.

Anyone who speaks a few words is heard or reported, and he is directly beaten to death. There is nothing to say. I hope he can be a happy keyboard man in his next life!

Such a scene, in the past, the common people would be afraid and stay away from it, but now they are almost surrounded by it, and there is no pity.

The so-called poor people must have something to hate, and this Donglin scholar will not end up like this if he doesn't talk about the emperor's stupidity and Wei Xie deceived the saint.

The "Beijing News" is not open for nothing.

At the same time, the West also began to publish newspapers one after another. In fact, similar to the Ming Dynasty, the publication of newspapers in Western countries was also thought of to control public opinion.

It has to be said that at this point, rulers from all over the world want to go together...

The captain raised the big tree high and hit the flesh and blood hard. This should have been an extremely frightening scene, but it attracted the crowd to watch.

Some people even set up a bet in the roadside tavern, betting whether Beizhen Fusi's [-] sticks this time could kill this healthy scholar.

The two school lieutenants went into battle together, just beating sticks, sweating profusely and panting heavily, not because they were too weak.

It's just that there is a lot of attention to this stick.

The prison eunuch's feet were closed, his eyes were erratic, it was clear that he wanted to put the scholar to death, beat a living person to death with twenty sticks, this is not manual labor, this is technical work.

After ten sticks, the scholar had been beaten to pieces, but he was still screaming in pain. Although his injuries were serious, he didn't seem to be in any danger to his life. This situation made the two school lieutenants who beat the stick break out in cold sweat.

If you can't beat him to death, it's the two of us who will die!

The two looked at each other and said silently in their hearts:

"Hit hard, hard."

For the remaining ten sticks, it is obvious that you will not give up until you are killed. The two captains used the strength and ingenuity of breastfeeding.

Finally, at No.18, the scholar fainted. He breathed in too much, and vented less. Seeing that he couldn't survive.

Seeing this, both of them breathed a sigh of relief.

Not long after, the [-] sticks were finished, and the scholar who was straight as a foot just now has not made a sound.

After hitting these twenty sticks, the two school captains were both leaning on big sticks, panting crazily.

The prison eunuch of Dongchang moved his feet, stepped forward to look at the bloody corpse, sneered on his face, and declared his crime, then said quietly to the onlookers:

"It's all gone."

As soon as the words fell, the Chengtian Gate suddenly opened wide.

A guard cavalry soldier in the palace galloped towards the east camp of the capital with his left hand holding the oracle. Seeing this situation, the Shangguan in Jinyiwei Hall looked solemn and said:

"I'm afraid something serious happened again?"

The prison eunuch didn't know, and he pretended not to hear the discussion of the surrounding crowd, and said as he walked:

"Our family just heard that the earthquake in Shandong, the imperial government allocated millions of taels for disaster relief, and mobilized the manpower in several places in Zhili. Just when it was about to stabilize, Shaanxi was shaken again."

"No way, it's shaking again..."

The Shangguan of Jinyiwei Hall no longer competed with the eunuchs of the East Factory, but just sighed for the court, and said with a sigh:

"What year is this? There are big earthquakes and droughts every year. What's wrong with the world? God won't give people a way to live?"

After murmuring a few words, he thought of something, and suddenly asked:

"How many people died this time?"

Hearing this, the prison eunuch took a look at him, no longer the bitterness and meanness he had just treated the scholar, sighed, but still couldn't say it out.

He took the rest of the eunuchs to leave a back, and replied with a speechless reply:

"Ask yourself, our family is tired."

……

In the middle of June of the second year of Tianqi, the stars in Guyuan Prefecture, Shaanxi fell like rain.

When the local people saw this, they thought it was the wrath of the gods, and they were all shocked. Immediately, markets all over the country went on strike one after another, the city was closed tightly, the streets were empty, and there was a lot of noise.

In the words of later generations, the local economic losses during this period are immeasurable.

This is not over. At the end of June, the counties of Pingliang and Longde, Zhenrong, Pinglu, Magang, Shuangfeng and other forts were shaken by earthquakes, and the walls cracked.

Towns in the Ming Dynasty had no ability to resist natural disasters such as earthquakes.

Compared with Shandong, where the canal flows, Shaanxi is poorer. The sudden earthquake caused more serious losses there.

There is a secretary playing in Shaanxi.

In just one earthquake, more than [-] feet of city walls collapsed, more than [-] houses collapsed, more than [-] animals were crushed to death, and more than [-] men and women were crushed to death. mouth.

Half a month before Yousi Zuobao arrived in the capital, Shaanxi suffered two aftershocks that gradually weakened in magnitude, and the losses have not yet been counted.

This is not because of the slow progress of the department, but because most of the local governments have lost their proper functions during the earthquake.

To be honest, at that time Zhu Youxiao had just watched Mao Wenlong report victory, and Daming had won the Korean War, so he should have been happy.

But he couldn't be happy.

At this time in the late Ming Dynasty, there were continuous natural and man-made disasters. A random earthquake could wipe out the efforts of the imperial court for the past two years.

As far as the death toll is concerned, the Shaanxi earthquake is nearly twice that of the Shandong earthquake, and the local economy has suffered a severe setback as a result.

Shandong's recovery is already the result of Zhu Youxiao's early preparations, well-scheduled arrangements, and a steady stream of manpower, material, and financial resources.

The roads in Shaanxi are remote, the poverty is more severe, and the losses are heavier.