The palace of the Ming Dynasty was very unfriendly to a person who often had to work at his desk for long periods of time.
The summer is too hot, the winter is too cold, and the world is draughty and humid.
Yun Zhao, who had been in class for several years in his previous life, has long gone through the process of making pictures look good and grand. Compared with the comfort, those useless added values have no appeal to him.
Just like wearing silk clothes looks good, try wearing them in winter.
Yunzhao has his own requirements for an office environment: sunny, ventilated, with a good view outside the window!
And his large study room was built strictly in accordance with his requirements.
Especially the floor heating facility under the floor of the large study room. Not only Yun Zhao likes it, but Yang Xiong and the others also like it. This is why he has an office and has to move a desk to work when winter comes.
Seeing that the county magistrate did not expel Yang Xiong, the secretaries and supervisors followed suit. The end result was that everyone worked together. Unexpectedly, after doing so, the efficiency improved a lot. Yun Zhao also let it go.
It is not that there are no good rooms in the beautiful Prince Qin's palace, some are even luxurious. One of them is called the "Leopard Room", which is a paradise for men and women to play games.
What use would such a place have to Yun Zhao?
Even if he secretly wants to go, Feng Ying and Qian Duoduo’s tempers probably won’t agree.
So, they all exist like waste.
It would be better to open all the palaces of the Qin Dynasty. The scholars of the Ming Dynasty liked this the most. They had a mysterious love for the self-denying king.
They even think that the best appearance of a king is to live like Chongzhen and do the same work as Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty.
As for their humble status, it doesn't matter. They can live a life of drunkenness and dreaming like the scholar-bureaucrats in the Song Dynasty, and they don't have to worry about being beheaded by the emperor.
Sure enough, after Yun Zhao gave up the Qin Palace, everyone in Lantian County was happy, and even the always wise Xu Yuanshou was smiling.
After Yun Zhao came to his house for the meal, Dahong Zhu Cunji's whole person changed and he became a little dissolute. He stayed in Chunfeng Mingyue Tower for half a month.
When his mother sent someone to carry him back, he was still drunk. Everyone thought he was distressed about being deprived of his family property. Unexpectedly, after he sobered up, he began to build his own Dahonglu Temple. .
He also suggested to Yun Zhao that in the future, Lantian County's reception of foreign vassals would have to be handled by him.
Since he had a job request, Yun Zhao readily agreed and allowed him to build the Yamen and Post Office of Honglu Temple in Yushan, allocating 20,000 silver dollars!
There are actually many foreign countries that Lantian County needs to entertain now, from the Us Tibetans to the Mongols, to the Westerners riding camels, and even the red-haired people from the far west.
Zhu Cunji likes to deal with the Us Tibetans who are full of stench, and also likes to wear a leather robe.I have been dealing with Mongolians all my life, and even when dealing with red-haired people, I can still say a few words in Western words from time to time. My whole face is radiant and different from the past.
Speaking of which, Zhu Cunji lost his fiefdom, most of the Prince of Qin's palace, and the title of Prince of Qin who had long had no power. However, his family wealth has not been reduced. Judging from the large number of stores.
In less than ten years, he can build another Qin Palace somewhere else.
Of course, this is just a statement.
After Li Hongji captured Luoyang and rested there for half a month, he once again approached Kaifeng.
This time, he has to face his old rival Sun Chuanting.
It was this time that King Zhou, who had been scolded and punished by Emperor Chongzhen, no longer tolerated it. He made a generous speech: "The city wall is trapped, but the body is not there, how much worse than the gold? If the city is protected, why worry about not having gold?”
The fate of King Fu strengthened King Zhou's confidence in fighting Li Hongji's troops. He was unwilling to let his accumulated gold and silver become Li Hongji's military resources.
So, tens of thousands of taels of silver were taken from the treasury to reward the defenders, and a notice was posted offering a reward for recruiting warriors. He said that anyone who could repel the peasant army would be rewarded with a heavy reward of 100,000 taels of silver, and recommended it to the court. Get promoted to a higher position.
As soon as the money was scattered, the effect was immediately apparent, and the enthusiasm and morale of the soldiers and civilians defending the city were quickly stimulated.
The thieves attacked the city bravely, and the attacks came one after another. More than 20 places in the Kaifeng city wall were blown down. However, the defenders continued to fight to the death, raining down logs, stones, and hot oil arrows. They quickly blocked the gap with sandbags, preventing the rebels from breaking into the city even after paying heavy casualties.
Sun Chuanting's troops, who were guerrillas outside the city, took the opportunity to ambush the bandit Luo Rucai in Helongtan who was preparing to attack Kaifeng City from both sides. In this battle, they defeated Luo Rucai's 50,000 bandits who fought east and west and beheaded countless people.
Li Hongji saw that Kaifeng City was delayed and Luo Rucai was defeated at Longtan, so he had to lead his men back to Luoyang.
The two attacks on Kaifeng failed both times, which made Li Hongji extremely fearful of Kaifeng City.
The king of Zhou won by luck, but the king of Chu in Wuchang was not so lucky.
The death of King Fu Zhu Changxun was tragic. He was responsible for annihilating Li Hongji, and Zhang Bingzhong's important court minister Yang Sichang could not escape the blame.
Hearing that Li Hongji had entered Kaifeng again, Yang Sichang was shocked and worried. Six days later, he died of illness in Shashi.
Wang Wenzhen, Zuo Liangyu, and He Renlong saw that Zhang Bingzhong's bandits were once again gaining strength and had to retreat to Wuchang.
After Yun Zhao read the military report, he looked at Qian Shaoshao and asked, "Do we have any business dealings with the King of Chu?"
Qian Shaoshao rolled his eyes and said: "Brother-in-law, do you think King Chu will be doomed this time?"
Yun Zhao whispered: "It's more bad than good."
Qian Shaoshao said: "It's a pity that King Chu has saved all the money." It’s a million gold beads.”
Yun Zhao said: “It’s all people’s treasure, take it back.Bar. "
"The Yueyang team is handling the matter, but this King of Chu is the same as King Fu, and I heard he is also a free man.
Yun Zhao thought for a while and said, "Leave it to Da Honglu to handle it. Tell him that King Chu only has one chance to trade." ”
“The same one hundred thousand taels of gold? ”
Yun Zhao nodded and said: “That’s right, I can’t live without the help of the King of Chu.” ”
There is absolutely no harm in Zhu Cunji doing this kind of thing.
As a former Ming Dynasty vassal, he was more familiar with the King of Chu who was also a vassal.
At the same time, he is also most familiar with the mentality of people like King Fu and King Chu who are unwilling to pay to help the court defend against thieves.
Speaking of which, these vassals in other places are familiar with the Ming Dynasty. They didn't feel much gratitude. On the contrary, they were more angry. Maybe they were angry for too long, and they slowly began to think that they were outsiders.
The family world created by Zhu Yuanzhang, The biggest feeling given to the people of the world is that the rise and fall of a country has nothing to do with individuals. This world belongs to the emperor, not the common people.
Therefore, it is a big joke to expect these people to protect their country. < /p>
If you want to mobilize them to fight, there is only one thing that can be used - money.
As long as the Ming Dynasty can fight, the troops that dare to fight are piled up with money, including the Qi family army. , the same is true for the Baigan Army. Those simple people would not go to the battlefield with their heads up if it were not to make more money.
They have been away from the power center of the Ming Dynasty for a long time. The vassals naturally thought the same way.
It was the responsibility of the local officers and soldiers to attack the city.
This led to Zhu Yuanzhang thinking that he owned the world. After falling apart, the vassals not only could not be a help to the emperor, but also became the biggest drag on the court.
You must know that the money spent on feeding millions of vassals is far more wasteful than feeding a million troops.
The current Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty can still get some money to feed the Liaodong soldiers and some general soldiers. When the emperor can no longer come up with money, the end of the Ming Dynasty will be over. Here we come.
Li Hongji and Zhang Bingzhong only captured the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but Yun Zhao captured the people of the Ming Dynasty.
Compared with the two, Yun Zhao seems harmless. , In fact, as many foresighted and treacherous ministers of the Ming Dynasty predicted, Yun Zhao was the most dangerous enemy of the Ming Dynasty.
His soldiers did not leave Guanzhong, but his reputation was unknown. It has spread all over the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Although he has always paid taxes to the emperor with a low eyebrow, the reputation of Lantian County's wealth has become famous all over the world.
Officials in Guanzhong have forgotten that the Ming Emperor still exists in this world. .
The same court has treated them as traitors. Not only have they not been paid salaries, they have not even been promoted, demoted, or taken up positions in other places.
Therefore, these officials spontaneously believed that their allegiance was now to Yun Zhao.
Because in the past ten years, the person who distributed salaries to them was Yun Zhao, and the person who controlled their promotion and relegation was Yun Zhao - at this time, Yun Zhao had long become a veritable king of Guanzhong!
Zhu Cunji was extremely excited to participate in such a high-level meeting in Lantian County for the first time.
Many confusions suddenly became clear after listening to the speeches of senior officials attending the meeting.
At this meeting, Zhu Cunji learned about a real Lanlantian County.
He knew that the boundary monument in Guanzhong was secretly heading towards Chongqing. He knew that the army in Ningxia Town began to slowly move eastward. In three months, they would be able to cover the vast area from Lantian City to Ningxia Town. The area was incorporated into Lantian County.
He also knew that the only purpose of Yunfu's legions stationed at Zijingguan was to wait for the fall of Wuchang so that they could further encompass the Nanyang Plain.
At the end of the meeting, he finally knew the real reason why he attended this meeting - bringing one hundred thousand kilograms of gunpowder and two thousand cannons in exchange for one hundred thousand from the King of Chu. Two golds back.
At the conference, Zhu Cunji first affirmed that it would not be difficult for the King of Chu to come up with one hundred thousand taels of gold, and then told everyone present that he wanted the King of Chu to come up with one hundred thousand taels of gold to buy weapons to help Zuo Liang. There is no possibility that Yu, He Renlong and others will guard Wuchang.
"If you don't pay for your life with gold, you will die!"
Yun Zhao ended the meeting concisely and concisely, and at the same time ordered Qian ShaoShao to help Zhu Cunji complete the task.
After Zhu Cunji left the meeting, he convened a meeting of the Zhu clan. The meeting had only one topic: how to exchange the 100,000 kilograms of gunpowder and 2,000 cannons given by the county official from the King of Chu. Come back with one hundred thousand taels of gold.
This is the first time Zhu Cunji has truly participated in Lantian County politics. He hopes that he can succeed immediately and completely integrate into Lantian County.