Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Yingtianfu, the capital.

For the officials of the Ming Dynasty, it was no secret that His Majesty summoned his close ministers, the princes, doctors, monks and workers to the Huagai Hall in mid-November.

What was discussed in the Huagai Hall was unknown to the officials, but in fact, not many people were interested.

After all, the matter of Hu Weiyong alone was enough to make the officials nervous and panic-stricken this year.

With the death of Hu Weiyong, the position of prime minister was also abolished by an imperial edict, and the six ministers quickly became His Majesty's right-hand men in governing the country.

But in just a few months, the six ministers were either sick or retired, or retired or did not say a word in the court.

The situation in the capital was even more difficult to judge, making the officials participating in the court discussion more cautious.

Under such circumstances, a small secret meeting in the Huagai Palace could not stir up any waves among the officials. After all, anyone with a little bit of vision could see clearly that the current Ming emperor was the real emperor who could decide everything with a single word.

Since it was useless to say it, there were only two things that the smart officials could do:

In addition to working hard, they looked forward to the New Year holiday.

After all, this year was exhausting, and only one day off a month was not enough to soothe the officials' hearts that were already on edge.

Everyone was looking forward to the New Year coming early so that they could quickly turn over this difficult year and spend a relaxing holiday with their families and wives.

However, the officials with a keener sense of smell could also feel that since the secret meeting in the Huagai Palace, the court seemed to have undergone some subtle changes.

First, according to the imperial decree of His Majesty, several capable ministers were selected in the court to serve as scholars of the Jiadong Palace to assist the Crown Prince in handling government affairs.

This decree may seem ordinary at first glance, but those who are familiar with His Majesty's character know that the current emperor is a monarch who is accustomed to holding the power of life and death tightly in his hands, and His Majesty also requires the crown prince to do the same.

Now that the crown prince can be assisted by the scholars of the Eastern Palace, it is inevitable that those with active minds will guess:

Could it be that His Majesty is not satisfied with the current situation of the prime minister and the six ministries assisting in the government, and plans to try a new method to fill the vacancy of the prime minister?

So many people have secretly calculated in their hearts, and listed these scholars of the Eastern Palace as places where they must send their business cards during the New Year.

However, just when the officials were waiting for the holiday peacefully, another war report came from the north, which made the officials' hearts tremble:

An urgent report from Beiping said that on November 10, Wanzhebuhua and Naierbuhua, Pingzhang of the remnant Yuan Dynasty, led thousands of Humeng cavalry to attack Yongping Prefecture through Beitaolinkou, Lulong County. Liu Guang, the commander of Yongping Guard, died in battle, and Wang Lu, a thousand households, was injured but refused to retreat. They joined the reinforcements to repel the enemy and divided their troops to cut off their retreat. Then they pursued and attacked the enemy across the Yan River and captured the bandit leader Wanzhebuhua.

General Xu Da had a great reputation, so when he returned to the court, an official suggested that Your Majesty order the general to return to Beiping as soon as possible to prevent the remnant Yuan Dynasty from knowing about this and attacking urgently, but for some reason this proposal was rejected by Your Majesty.

Now the remnant Yuan Dynasty has really launched an attack, but fortunately, they finally got a victory report, otherwise the officials felt that they might not have a good year.

Therefore, although they had never met before, all the officials of Yingtian Prefecture thanked this brave captain named Wang Lu in their hearts.

Logically speaking, after such an incident, the general should be ordered to return as soon as possible to strengthen the guard, but His Majesty only emphasized the pension of the captain Liu Guang who died in the battle and the commendation of the captain Wang Lu at the court meeting. Apart from that, there was no other imperial decree, as if the victory of Beiyongping Prefecture was a matter of course.

On the contrary, His Majesty issued orders one after another, one imperial decree to all officials to discuss the abolition of medical households, and another imperial decree to all officials to discuss the change of Penghu Inspection Office to Ryukyu Inspection Office.

For these two imperial decrees, although all the officials bowed and obeyed the order in Fengtian Hall, after the court meeting, all the officials who left the hall gate saw complex emotions on each other's faces:

Seven parts bitterness, three parts expected.

After all, the next is the winter solstice holiday, according to His Majesty's temperament, these two imperial decrees are probably equivalent to the homework assigned to them during the holiday.

At this moment, the censors even wanted to turn around and admonish His Majesty with "the way of tightening and relaxing civil and military affairs". After all, they, the censors, were also victims of His Majesty's "tighten, tighten, tighten, tighten again" way of employing people.

But when they calmed down and thought about the Hu Weiyong incident that had not yet ended, the idea of ​​admonishment was quickly strangled.

Discuss... Discuss, there are three days of rest during the winter solstice. After two days of rest, it should be enough to spend one day thinking about the two edicts.

Although they can think so, in fact, when visiting each other during the winter solstice, officials in the same court can't help but mention the two edicts and work together. As a result, after the three-day winter solstice rest, the officials are even more tired.

The reason is simple. The two edicts are typical of talking less but doing more.

The policy of the artisan households was inherited from Hu Yuan by the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, except for the artisans who were registered as households, there were few people who criticized this system.

It was strange enough that His Majesty took out a system that almost everyone praised and asked you to discuss whether to abolish it.

During this period of deliberation, the officials in Beijing who could participate in the government affairs almost quickly locked on two people:

The imperial physician Dai Sigong, and the monk Daoyan who was said to be proficient in Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism and good at medicine and fortune-telling.

But when they visited, they found that the imperial physician Dai Sigong had been living in the palace almost since the secret meeting in Huagai Hall; and monk Daoyan had been in seclusion since returning to Tianjie Temple, saying that he wanted to comprehend the Dao of Dayan.

So the officials belatedly guessed that something might have really happened in the secret meeting in Huagai Hall.

In addition, changing the Penghu Inspection Office to the Ryukyu Inspection Office is even more important. After all, there are two places called Ryukyu now, one is the overseas isolated island called Yizhou in ancient times, now called Xiaoliuqiu, and the other is the overseas Ryukyu Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty, now called Daliuqiu.

Your Majesty's edict is vague, and the meaning contained in it can be big or small, from accepting vassal states as concubines to seek governance, which may make other vassal states feel insecure, to reforming the maritime affairs, which may require vigorously eliminating Japanese pirates, anything is possible.

And in this matter, the officials quickly locked on one person without any effort:

Li Wenzhong, Duke of Cao of the Ming Dynasty.

After all, if we talk about the degree of concern for maritime affairs and Japan, if this duke is second, no one dares to claim to be the first, and this gentleman is also listed in the Huagai Palace secret meeting.

So, among the rumors, the officials of the Ming Dynasty had new speculations:

Perhaps the one who can participate in the Huagai Palace secret meeting is the real right-hand man of your majesty, and the academician of the crown prince may assist in the government based on the Huagai Palace secret meeting?

Zhu Biao didn't know about these messy speculations, he just asked his father:

"Dad, this medical household should be changed, but if it is abolished all at once, it may be too hasty?"