After lunch with the emperor and his ministers, Zhu Gaoxu invited the ministers to sit around the cases in the northwest corner, and also called the palace maid Xiaohe to make tea. The matter was not finished.

Sure enough, Hu Yi, the Minister of Rites, quickly mentioned the Tatars, "Dali Temple punished 'Hatu' for death, and the Tatar envoy was still willing to pay tribute to him. When I visited the envoy Maerhazi, I looked at it and realized that they seemed to only care about the remnants of the Tatar tribe in the northwest."

Hu Yi pondered for a moment and then said directly: "If you are really guessing correctly, Benjali's son is in Hamiwei, should we still agree to the Tatars to borrow the passage?"

Qi Tai and Gao Xianning didn't say anything, they seemed to be thinking about something. "Well..." Zhu Gaoxu just made a meaningless voice.

If the Ming Dynasty court did not want to return the son of the Mongolian Khan, there was no need to agree to let the remnants of the Tatars use the matter. Instead, they just need to send people to Hamiwei and take all the Tatars back. To this day, King Zhongshun of Hamiwei is still willing to obey the Ming Dynasty's orders.

Qi Tai said, "I think that Kublai Khan's descendants may be a good thing for the Ming Dynasty to continue the throne of the Mongol Khan."

Zhu Gaoxu turned his head and said, "Continue talking."

Qi Tai said: "The situation that was most unfavorable to the Ming Dynasty on the northern grasslands was that a warlike leader annexed the tribes; then they would gather strength and attack the south with all their might. If Alutai had not been dedicated to supporting the Yuan Dynasty royal family as Khan, the tribes would have annexed each other in the chaos until a Genghis Khan-like figure appeared. And it would be difficult for heroes to unify the grasslands by relying solely on the Yuan Dynasty royal family."

Zhu Gaoxu quickly responded: "Some truths are at least one person's opinion."

Just like the Tatar Hatu, who just arrived in the capital, wanted to do whatever he wanted; as long as the grassland tribe had the opportunity, most people might want to invade the south, which was almost an inevitable choice. The north was relatively scarce, and people had difficulty making a living, and next to it was a huge and rich agricultural land. How could each tribe stop the idea of ​​robbery and plunder?

In this situation, it is probably not until the cavalry completely loses its advantage. Or they have their own worries about survival and cannot gather troops to attack. Qi Tai's meaning is that the latter is not allowed to be joined together in order to restrain each other.

Zhu Gaoxu said: "When thinking about the leaders in the north, they should first concentrate their strength and eliminate their worries; then they have to wait for the opportunity. When the Ming Dynasty declines, or the martial arts preparations are relaxed over time, it is the best time to take action."

As everyone discussed, the palace maids began to patrol tea. Gao Xianning drank oolong tea from Fujian, and the symptoms of dry retching before seemed to have been relieved.

Gao Xianning put down the teacup and said, "What Qibutang said is a general idea, but I am a little puzzled by some trivial matters. Since the remnants of the Tatar tribe can escape from the Wassar (Simonocene tribes) and run to the Hamiguwei; it seems that at first, the Wassar people probably didn't know that Benyari had a son among them. Later, the Wassar people suddenly went to Wei-force the Hamiguwei King Zhongshun, and they should know this secret. How did the Wassar people know?"

He glanced around and said, "Maybe the Wastu people always have a way to find out the news. But how can the Tatars in the east get the news in time? Where did the Tatar leader Arutai learn that Benjali had a son and was in Hamiwei after having a son?"

Qi Tai and Hu Yi both nodded slightly, probably thinking that what Gao Xianning said was a bit strange.

However, everyone sat in the imperial palace of the capital thousands of miles away, and it was impossible for them to know such a specific thing. Zhu Gaoxu thought for a while and said, "Send someone to Ningxia Prefecture, ask He Fu to send an envoy to ask King Zhongshun, and report everything that Hami Guard knows in detail."

Qi Tai, Minister of War, bowed and said, "I will receive the order and I will send the Ministry of War official documents."

Zhu Gaoxu looked at Hu Yi again: "Hu Bu Tang can agree to the Tatar envoy and allow him to lie in the remnants of the Tatar tribe of Hamiwei to return to his country through the passage."

Hu Yi worshiped: "I obey the order."

After drinking almost the tea, Zhu Gaoxu got up. Several people stood up and thanked each other and said thanks.

Zhu Gaoxu has been preparing for the tour of the north for a long time. Now that the itinerary is determined, the large group of people will leave Beijing in late June. The guards of the army will have about 10,000 infantry and cavalry, and there are also Jinyiwei ceremonial guards, eunuchs, civil and military officials, etc., with more than 10,000 people accompanying them.

Civil officials include Gao Xianning, Hou Hai, etc., accompanied by generals Qiu Fu, Wei Dada, Wang Bin, and Chen Dachui and Wang Yu who led the troops. Of course, in addition to these civil and military officials, there are many clerks. The Ming Dynasty court has fully entered the civil servant system, and everything is running, and it is necessary to rely on a large number of official documents. Without officials, it is impossible to do anything effectively.

There were two imperial concubines who left the capital with him, the imperial concubine Mu Zhen and the virtuous concubine Yao Ji, as well as the concubines in their respective palaces, Duan Xuehen and Shen Baoyan. Zhu Gaoxu agreed with Miao Jin's meaning and let her stay in the capital this time.

Because the prince Zhu Zhanhe was still young, he could not supervise the country. When the emperor left the capital, he changed the memorials and official documents to the Lan Criticism, and still operated according to the method originally designed by Wude.

The decision-making bodies are the cabinet and the Dianbao Department, and their offices are all in Wuying Hall, and the rules are a bit complicated. Various government affairs and memorials are mainly divided into three ways to deal with them.

Most of the memorials collected by the Tongzheng Department are normal questions. Generally, there is no dispute, so they are decided by the plan with the largest number of supporters in the cabinet; then sent to the Dianbao office for review. If no one objected, the memorial approval will take effect.

In the second case, if the matter is very controversial, the cabinet will discuss matters and make a decision, and the memorial will be sent to the Dianbao Office. One of the six people in the Dianbao Office will object; the objector will explain the reason and then put it aside. The memorial will be sent to the emperor's palace in the north, and Zhu Gaoxu will personally decide.

There are also some matters that some people in Dianbao Department objected and could not be dealt with immediately; but the matter was more urgent and could not be delayed. When those on duty in Wuying Palace encountered such a thing, the Dianbao Department would discuss it. As long as three people determined that this matter was indeed an emergency memorial; then the decision of the memorial would be immediately approved based on the cabinet's conclusion.

All government affairs summary will be recorded in the file and will be sent to the palace regularly for Zhu Gaoxu to read.

After the expansion of the cabinet ministers, 11 people, six people in the Dianbao Department, and seventeen people belonged to different yamen, and even one noble general and one eunuch; there were officials from both old and new sects. Therefore, everything was restricted and involved, and the result of decisions was generally not too absurd.

Compared to the prime minister's administration and placing all major events on a person's morality, ability, and awareness of not forming a party and dictatorship, Zhu Gaoxu felt that the rules he had arranged were better. Perhaps as time goes by, new problems will arise; but so far, the operation of the cabinet and the Dianbao Office is still good.

During the Hongwu period, there was a prime minister Li Shanchang. When Emperor Taizu found that there was a problem with the prime minister, he had to correct the distribution of power, so he had to suppress the party members of the prime minister on a large scale, involving a large number of people who died in the vast majority, and even abolished the prime minister system in terms of rules.

Zhu Gaoxu speculated that if someone had problems with his own method, he would just replace him from the position of the yamen hall official. The stability was better than the prime minister system.

Before the brigade of guarding the horse was about to set off, Zhu Gaoxu asked the Liukefang to copy a mansion report to the government officials north of the river. He ordered the local government officials and prefectures and counties not to drive the people out of the city to greet them without authorization, but to report them. He was not allowed to collect the people and transport supplies to reward the army. Wherever the army went, he would build tents on his own or send people to requisition houses. The food and fodder required for guards was issued by the palace to call the government treasury in various places; other expenses were sent by the palace to collect cash...

In late June, Zhu Gaoxu led his people to worship the tomb of Emperor Taizong in the capital, and then led a large group of people to cross the river. After crossing the river, they will first go to Fengyang, Zhongdu to pay homage to the Zhu family's earlier ancestral tombs.

The weather was clear and the sun had just risen, and the weather was a little stuffy. The civil and military officials were sent to the ferry of Shangyuan Gate and bid farewell by the river. Zhu Gaoxu first took the Sima Luan carriage out of the city, and got off when he got on the boat, and accepted the courtesy of the officials on the case to bid farewell.

After the ferry broke down, Zhu Gaoxu climbed the stern of the big ship. As the warship slowly left the shore, he looked at the scenery of the capital on the shore on the river.

I saw magnificent city towers and countless pavilions gathered in the capital, and high pavilions and towers. On the river and the river, sails were like clouds and pleasure boats were cruising. Even outside the capital city, there were more and more people living in the city, and there were many beautiful manors. Looking at the capital from afar, it was really prosperous.

However, when the boat Zhu Gaoxu was riding gradually left the capital, he was in a very good mood at this time, as if he had reached a wider world, and was refreshed. Looking back on the past, he had always been a person who liked to walk around, and in the years since the Northern Expedition, he had never left the capital. He could not explain clearly how he could hold back for such a long time.

After a while, Mu Zhen also came over. Zhu Gaoxu turned around and saw that she was wearing a robe, wearing a bun, dressed in a man, and vaguely seemed to sneak out of the Mu Prince's Mansion when she was in Yunnan. However, her beautiful and thin appearance many years ago has now become more charming as a woman. Only her eyes still have a beautiful smile, which makes people see it like the spring breeze.

Mu Zhen clasped her fists and said, "I have met the emperor."

Zhu Gaoxu reached out to help her gently, pointed to the scenery in the south, and said casually: "In this city, people outside must want to go in, but people inside want to come out from time to time."

"What the emperor said is very much." Mu Zhen responded, then walked to the railing, and watched the scenery of the capital in the morning sun with Zhu Gaoxu.

The ferry slowly sailed to the north bank of the river, and Zhu Gaoxu's journey to the northern tour this year began this year.

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(I'm sorry, everyone, the updates are unstable recently. When I write it in the later stage, the plot is not easy to arrange, and there is a bit of a card. I will try my best to finish it, probably end next month, and then prepare to open a new book...)
Chapter completed!