I'm really not the carpenter emperor

Zhu Youxiao looked over and said, "Are you going to talk about the death case? I said it, let's talk about disaster relief first, you go back."

The officer was not forgiving, and said:

"Your Majesty, Xu Xianchun is arrogant and domineering. He arrests and kills people at will. Everyone shouts and beats him. If he doesn't deal with it in time, it may affect people's hearts!"

Zhu Youxiao then narrowed his eyes, looked at him for a while, and said:

"Cong Shishan, did you not understand what I said?"

"But Your Majesty..." Cong Shishan didn't notice that the courtiers looked at him like a fool, and wanted to say more.

The British Duke Zhang Weixian stood aside, looked at this guy, and then at the emperor whose murderous aura could no longer be suppressed, and quickly bowed his head in silence.

"But?" Zhu Youxiao was really angry this time, "Let me tell you what hurts people's hearts."

"It's snowing heavily in Shaanxi, the government is shut down, and the people freeze to death at home. The court's failure to deal with it in a timely manner affects people's hearts."

"The famine in Jining, if the disaster is not relieved in time, migratory locusts are caught and killed, and it spreads to the whole province, and the hungry people eat each other, it will affect the hearts of the people."

"Even a person like you is worthy of standing in the court hall and saying these things openly?!" Zhu Youxiao stood up and looked outside the hall:

"Broadcast to General Han."

As the words fell, two warriors serving the palace went up to the palace, standing beside Cong Shishan on one left and one on the right, and said in unison: "See Your Majesty!"

"Drag on, twenty rods, dismissal, exile!"

"Your Majesty, I know I'm wrong, Your Majesty—!" Cong Shishan let out an "ah" and quickly knelt on the ground.

Not only him, but also the rest of the courtiers did not expect that the emperor would be so angry with the officials today.

In the first dynasty of the apocalypse, this is the first time to serve as the court staff, and it is also the first time to dismiss courtiers at the Great Court Assembly.

I'm afraid this Cong Shishan will be recorded in the annals of history.

It's just that the rest of the people don't dare to envy such a record. It's better to live than to die. This kind of death is too unworthy.

In any case, the Yanguan, who was howling miserably, was dragged down to the hall by two burly generals.

After a while, the sound of the court staff that made all the courtiers tremble was heard into the hall.

The big Han general hit the court stick, there were no twists and turns, each stick was firmly hit into the flesh.

After hitting twenty sticks, Cong Shishan was already covered in blood and passed out.

Someone turned his head slightly, and seeing Cong Shishan's miserable state, he was startled, and turned his head quickly, feeling terrified in his heart.

Being exiled to the army is not as simple as letting you serve as a soldier, especially for these polite courtiers, it is like a death sentence.

The remaining half of Cong Shishan's life, in the following miserable exile life, the end of the people is already clear in everyone's mind.

Zhu Youxiao sat back, looked at the officials, and asked loudly: "Is there anyone else who wants to advise? Stand up!"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, all drooping their eyes in silence.

Who would dare to do this? The emperor is obviously angry today. If he goes out at this time, it may not be included in the history books, and he will definitely die a miserable death.

"The heavy snow in Shaanxi and the great hunger in Shandong must be dealt with as soon as possible." Zhu Youxiao took a deep breath and said slowly:

"Remember, as long as the Shaanxi government is not operating normally and the migratory locusts in Jining are not under control, anyone who dares to impeach me or persuade me in front of me."

"kill!"

"Do you understand?"

……

A court meeting, shocking.

This can be said to be the most impressive court meeting in the Apocalypse Dynasty so far. The occurrence of natural disasters became the opening for Zhu Youxiao to transfer the courtiers to Xu Xianchun.

If the courtiers have been bored for a few days, they will continue to hold back.

After this court meeting, the imperial court made proper arrangements for the heavy snow in Shaanxi and the severe hunger caused by migratory locusts in Jining.

[-] cotton-padded clothes are being sent from Shuntian Prefecture to Shaanxi, and more cotton-padded clothes are being produced intensively, and the renovation team sent by the Ministry of Industry is also on the way.

Among them are a small number of professionals, who are fully armed and dressed, and they are sent to instruct the local government how to keep it running.

In addition, there are also a large number of artisans recruited from the capital in the renovation team.

After arriving in Shaanxi, they will install stoves door-to-door in Yan'an Prefecture, the most severe place, to help the people survive the snowstorm as much as possible.

As for Jining, in addition to disaster relief, Zhu Youxiao also appointed Wen Tiren and Yang Sichang, who had been effective in promoting the new salt law in Fujian, to go to the local area to take charge of disaster relief.

The imperial court once again responded extremely quickly to local natural disasters. Countless disaster relief supplies and responsible officials had already set off in batches on the third day after the memorials arrived in the capital.

This reassures many people that the court can do something, and the heart is stable.

Chapter 6 and Six

Since the fifth year of Tianqi, the climate in Liaodong, Jifu, Datong, and Xuanfu has become more abnormal.

The most obvious thing is that the five years of Tianqi's winter is longer and colder than before.

The sudden strong wind and heavy snow in Yan'an Prefecture, Shaanxi, lasted for half a month. Due to the suddenness of the incident, many people and even officials froze to death because they were completely unprepared.

This once-in-a-century snowfall seems to be heralding the beginning of something.

After a series of bad news, there is also good news.

Zhu Youxiao sat in the Xinuang Pavilion, took a deep breath, and slowly opened the memorials of officials from various places. Today's memorials seem to weigh a thousand catties.

According to history, natural disasters and man-made disasters will begin to appear one after another in this year and last until the 17th year of Chongzhen, which is the year when the Qing soldiers entered the pass.

After five years of preparation, he had to deal with disasters that lasted for more than twenty years. To be honest, Zhu Youxiao was really in a bad mood.

No matter how you prepare, no matter how fast your actions are and how much you conform to the concept of disaster relief in later generations, there will still be people who will freeze to death or starve to death, and as time goes by, the number will only increase.

Fortunately, the first is good news.

Zhu Youxiao cheered up and looked carefully.

You Ke, the prefect of Guangzhou, played:

"Since the 43rd year of the Wanli period in Guangzhou, a group of bandits began. It originated from the people who 'opened the iron furnace at the Dragon Gate' and burned charcoal. The locals called it the Miner Bandits.

There are more than ten leaders, and each unit has thousands of people. Among them, Lai Dingji, Liao Dabi, and Zhang Weichong are the most powerful.

Mining bandits fled to Conghua, Zengcheng, Longmen, Qingyuan in Guangzhou, Yingde in Shaozhou, and Changning in Huizhou. Surrounded by mountains, the bandits were entrenched in the mountains.

In the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the minister recruited Zhang Weichong, one of the three bandits, to be the chief of the hundred, and ordered Zheng Liang, the chief of the thousand, to lead the officers and soldiers into the mountain.

Our officers and soldiers marched forward bravely, Chief Qian Zheng Liang bravely took the lead, beheaded the big bandits Lai Dingji, Liao Dabi and [-] mine bandits, and scattered the rest, taking back [-] mine veins in the whole prefecture.

Don't dare to ask for credit, pause your head again and again, kowtow to pray for the holy news! "

Guangzhou is rich in iron ore, and it has been a place for burning coal and iron since ancient times. In addition to the gathering of merchants, there are also many craftsmen who have lived here for generations. There are only five ocher mines that can make good weapons.

Because of the surrounding mountains, as soon as the officers and soldiers arrived, the miners would hide in the mountains and suppress them endlessly.

Now that the mining bandits have been eliminated, the imperial court has added twelve new iron mines, which will be of great help in forging weapons and replacing the armor of local garrisons.

It has to be said that the Guangzhou mine bandits have been exterminated since the Wanli year, and this news is indeed heart-warming.

Even with that, Zhu Youxiao's mood improved a lot, and he immediately wrote the pen himself, and said happily:

"The prefect of Guangzhou, you can recruit Zhang Weichong, a mining bandit, who made great contributions to the court and was promoted to the governor of Guangdong."

"Chief General Zheng Liang has made meritorious service in battle, and the Ministry of War will verify his meritorious service and recount his previous achievements, and he will be rewarded together."

After thinking about it, Zhu Youxiao added another stroke to it: "Mine bandit Zhang Weichong, he can correct his mistakes and lead officers and soldiers into the mountains, which is enough to cover his mistakes."

After the approval, Zhu Youxiao put down his pen and called out:

"Pass this memorandum to the Hu and Bing Ministries, verify the meritorious deeds of You Keda, the prefect of Guangzhou, and Zheng Liang, the Qianzong, and then set a reward and report it back to me."

Wang Chaofu immediately entered the hall, held the memorial, and retreated respectfully.

With this memorial as a foundation, Zhu Youxiao opened the rest of the memorials calmly. As expected, this is about civil unrest in a certain place in Jining due to too many hungry people.

Zhu Youxiao frowned slightly, picked up the pen again, and began to criticize one by one.

……

Fujian, Yamen of Jiyan Department.

It has been a year since the implementation of the new salt law, and Wen Tiren and Yang Sichang have also stayed here for a year.

During this year, except for the fierce resistance in Shandong, which even caused the imperial court to send troops to suppress it, the rest of the provinces, at least on the surface, went relatively smoothly.

Wen Tiren was sitting in the newly built yamen of the Jiyan Bureau for four months, with no expression on his face, and was staring at the latest issue of "Beijing News" in his hand.

Now, reading and listening to the Beijing News has become one of the daily recreational activities for officials, down to ordinary people.

The Beijing News has also been continuously cooperating with newspapers across the country. The Beijing News stipulates that the Beijing News has an issue every three days, and a new newspaper must be re-selected every three months.

For this reason, every three months, newspaper offices all over the country fight for the right to reprint.

Such regulations make it almost impossible for the owners of the major newspapers to always occupy the special issue rights of the Beijing News in a certain place, but the rules are dead, and people are alive.

The major newspaper offices are not just simple newspaper offices, they are backed by larger chaebols. For these chaebols, the profit of obtaining the right to republish is far more lucrative than losing a few 10 taels of silver every three months many.

Obtaining the right to reprint means cooperating with the imperial court and having the vast resources of the Imperial Chamber of Commerce and the support of the government.

This advantage is enough to give them an advantage in commercial battles, and once their opponents have this advantage, they may even turn around.

You must know that in the five years of Tianqi, the local government was firmly controlled by the imperial court, and the local governance was quite mature.

Therefore, every three months, the imperial court will make a lot of money.

Since the implementation of the new salt law one year ago, according to reports from local salt inspection bureaus, more than 1000 of the more than [-] salt farms opened across the country have achieved balance of income and expenditure ahead of schedule last month.

Although the saltworks were still losing money, they managed to appease the restless people everywhere because of the implementation of the new salt law.

Zhu Youxiao firmly believes that the salt industry, which is still losing money, will definitely make huge profits in the future. This is a long-term investment, just like the Beijing News at the beginning.

Everything shows that the current revenue of the imperial court is making great strides from being on the verge of bankruptcy in the first year of the apocalypse to becoming rich and well-off.

Up to now, the income of the Beijing News has even been higher than the tariffs and commercial taxes increased in the first year of Tianqi.

To put it simply, the current Daming, just relying on the income of the Beijing News every three months, is enough to maintain the existing large-scale active soldiers in the Nine Frontiers and Liaodong.

With the increasing number of newspaper rooms and the improvement of the newspaper system, this income will increase.

It is precisely because of the annual surge in income from newspaper offices that Zhu Youxiao has the confidence to fight the protracted battle with Lin Danhan last year.

Wen Tiren's policy of implementing the new salt law was very simple and rude. He removed those who were dissatisfied and replaced them with members of his own Zhejiang Party.

He couldn't understand in his heart why the emperor asked him to come down.

The implementation of the new salt law has encountered setbacks in Shandong. Under the heavy pressure of the court, there will be no more large-scale opposition, but disputes among officials still exist.

At this time, the emperor asked himself to stay in Fujian to preside over the implementation of the new salt law in the coastal areas. If he didn't understand the deep meaning of it, he would be a fool.

With someone covering him behind him, he feels like a fish in water when doing things.

Wen Tiren implemented the new salt law for more than a year. He used his power overtly and covertly to replace the remaining local officials of Donglin and use the officials of the Zhejiang Party.

Up to now, Wen Tiren already has considerable support from local officials and forces behind him. It is time to return to the court and break arms with Wei Zhongxian.

Just as he was thinking, Ti Qi arrived.

Chapter 6 and Seven Don't Take Me With You

Like Wei Zhongxian, Wen Tiren is persevering, good at guessing the holy will, and understands his own position.

As for Yang Sichang, he was an official, and party struggle was not his forte.

It's like encountering some slander in the court, Wen Tiren may be able to be alone, but Yang Sichang will definitely be tricked miserably.

The eunuch who proclaimed the decree did not do anything superfluous. He came up straight to the point, spread out the decree, and sang loudly:

"Fengtian Chengyun Emperor, the imperial edict said:

Jining migratory locusts cover the sun, and there is a tendency to spread to the whole province of Shandong.Wen Tiren made great contributions to disaster relief and the implementation of the new salt law. He was promoted to the left servant of the Ministry of Rites, and went to Jining with his title to serve as an imperial envoy for civil affairs!This--"

After saying that, the eunuch Si Li smiled and stepped forward, and said in front of everyone:

"Congratulations, Wen Shilang, Your Majesty will use him again and again, and his success will be just around the corner, but... this time, the great hunger in Jining depends entirely on the servant."

How dare Wen Tiren put on airs in front of the emperor's attendants, got up quickly, put away the imperial decree respectfully, and said with a smile:

"My father-in-law has come all the way, and the subordinate officials have prepared a banquet in the office to clean up the dust for my father-in-law."