506 Killing the Messenger of Ming Dynasty
Generally, the cabinet gives opinions on handling the matters, and the Sili Supervisor can pass the approval. It is necessary to have the eunuch in charge of the Sili Supervisor personally submit the memorial to the imperial examination, which is definitely a relatively important thing, and neither the cabinet nor the Sili Supervisor can make the decision.
Emperor Chongzhen was a little curious. He looked at Cao Huachun and heard him say, "Your Majesty, Tang Shisun was escorted to Beijing and has been detained without any treatment. Now another censor has handed over the memorial. The cabinet believes that the time should not be delayed too long, so he gave a suggestion for handling. Please let Your Majesty decide!"
This can be said to be an internal matter of the royal family, and it is indeed difficult for foreign ministers to make a decision. Moreover, whether Zhu Youjian’s matter is big or small depends entirely on the meaning of Emperor Chongzhen.
Regarding Zhu Youjian, Emperor Chongzhen had sent him a book to him before, asking him to learn some methods of dealing with national economy and people's livelihood first, and probably had an idea of the use. He was just worried about the affairs of Liaodong and North Korea, so he did not deal with it. After hearing this, he opened and read it.
In this memorial to impeach Zhu Youjian by the new censor, it was a disposal opinion written by Wen Tiren, the chief assistant of the cabinet. The general idea was that the grandson of Tang knew that the court had regulations, but he still led the army in violation of regulations, attempted to take charge of military power and leave the fief. Such serious crimes should be abolished, seized the land, and sent to Fengyang to guard the imperial tomb.
Emperor Chongzhen immediately saw the point when he saw this. He remembered that he had talked with Wen Tiren about tax-free land. Especially the grants of land by the vassal kings affected the payment of land taxes because of too much. Wen Tiren wrote this clearly that he could regain some of the grants, so he could regain some of the grants. This did not change much from the method he had proposed to him before.
Of course, as a minister, he would naturally not be the final conclusion. Even the matter involving the vassal kings is not dared to deal with it alone, and it will definitely come to the emperor. If the emperor can reduce his crimes, it is the best way to be favored. If the emperor does not want to reduce his crimes, then the blame will be borne by Wen Tiren. Doing this is to practice what he had expressed in front of Emperor Chongzhen before, and it will last until his death!
After reading it, Emperor Chongzhen did not make a conclusion immediately. For him, a fake emperor who had traveled through time from later generations, there was basically no feeling about royal family affection; as for the royal face, it was naturally more important than the Ming Dynasty. If he could justify the tax-free land granted to many vassal kings, Emperor Chongzhen would definitely do it without hesitation.
Therefore, Wen Tiren's suggestion was still tempting for Emperor Chongzhen. However, he had already had some ideas, so he measured it in his heart. Suddenly, he looked up at Cao Huachun who was standing there respectfully and said, "Big partner, what do you think?"
"Your Majesty, only the Holy Will decides for the royal affairs." Cao Huachun replied with his head down.
Emperor Chongzhen knew that this kind of thing was useless to ask others. He just asked casually. He didn't know what the situation on the grassland was. Now if he made a conclusion, he would be unrealistic to sign Zhu Youjian to become the king of the grassland.
After thinking about it, he couldn't make up his mind for a moment. Emperor Chongzhen entered the chat group and first checked if there was any information.
Gao Yingyuan had a private chat, saying that he had joined the Dongjiang cavalry who had been ordered to join Lu Xiangsheng and was setting off for the capital. In addition, there was also a private chat from Liu Jinsheng, reporting on the war of verbal battles that Annan was fighting.
There was no private chat. When Emperor Chongzhen was about to quit, he saw someone in the public chat area: "Are the group leader here? If there is important news, please help contact the court. The news is absolutely true!"
Three consecutive strokes were brushed, followed by a system ban prompt.
Emperor Chongzhen saw the man who was flooding the screen and was called Badending, and he felt a little unfamiliar. But after thinking about it for a moment, he remembered that Badending was from Mubang and had wanted the Ming Dynasty to support justice in the group.
After thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen was a little surprised that he had something important to watch again, and he wanted to attract attention. He remembered that Hai Lanzhu had to contact him by using the screen to watch, so it seems that he still needs to pay attention to this point.
Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen first chatted with Liu Xingzuo, Wen Tiren and Wei Mulan in private to let them pay attention. If someone is overwhelming the screen, remember to remind yourself so that you will not miss important things if you don’t see them.
Then Emperor Chongzhen chatted with Badending and asked, "What's the matter with me?"
After waiting for a while, Badending replied with a private chat: "Group Master, the envoy sent by the Ming Dynasty to Togo was killed by the Dongwu Kingdom Lord. He also threatened that the strength of the Ming Dynasty was worthy of being Dongwu's sect leader, so don't even think about it!"
"What?" Emperor Chongzhen immediately became angry when he heard this and confirmed again, "Kill my envoy of the Ming Dynasty and even speak nonsense?"
In fact, Donggo had seized Mubang, which belonged to the Ming Dynasty in name before, and even invaded Yunnan repeatedly and expressed it with practical actions. Donggo did not take the Ming Dynasty seriously at all, let alone recognize the sect leader.
"This matter is absolutely true. Anyone here knows it." Badending replied again without hesitation.
After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen replied, "I understand," and then seriously considered this issue.
I sent envoys to the South China countries to ask them to pay tribute to food. Now only Annan has received a response. And it was because they asked for it from the Ming Dynasty that they gave food. As for other South China countries, they have not yet responded. Some are indeed because the distance is a bit far, but some are probably slowing down to see the direction of the wind?
This Dongwu actually openly killed the envoy of the Ming Dynasty and threatened to clamor, which would definitely be a blow to the Ming Dynasty's prestige in the countries of Southeast Asia. Such things would never be tolerated!
When we annexed Mubang before, we should have fought back immediately. Now it seems that the king of our country wants to be king and dominate. He wants to use the Ming Dynasty as a stepping stone to achieve its dominance in Southeast Asia, right?
Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen immediately chatted with Liu Jinsheng in private and ordered him: "Transfer the order Xu Guangqi, and ask him to investigate the details of Dongwu's country as soon as possible, confirm the attitude of Dongwu's king towards our Ming Dynasty, and whether there is any murder of my Ming envoy."
After receiving the reply, Emperor Chongzhen immediately chatted with Badending and asked: "Do you know about the mountains, rivers, terrain and various forces in Dongwu?"
"I am from Mubang, of course I understand it, but I don't know very well about the south side of Togo." Badending was happy when he heard this, and quickly replied, "I wonder what the group leader is asking about this?"
"Don't worry about what you want to do!" Emperor Chongzhen instructed him, "Try to write down what you know, and then go to Kunming, Yunnan to wait for the arrival of the imperial envoy."
Chapter completed!