The news of Annan's rebellion and victory was sent to the capital with a quick horse, but the monarch and ministers in the court were not happy at this time.Because just a few days ago, an unprecedented earthquake occurred in the capital, followed by several aftershocks.
The Zhang Heng seismometer recorded and copied by the Imperial Heaven Supervision Bureau completely failed to predict this major earthquake.
After the capital was shaken, a large number of houses collapsed, and the city was filled with panic and chaos, and countless people died unaware of it.
The capital of the Ming Dynasty, which was increasingly peaceful, suddenly suffered a heavy blow.
At the advice of the ministers, Zhu Gaoxu was forced to publicly admit that he had recently lost his etiquette and sacrifices, and promised to follow the rules, respect God, strictly govern the administration, eliminate bad policies, etc., to calm God's anger.
Although Zhu Gaoxu had a clear conscience and felt that he had done his best to be the emperor, he had no choice but to change the world's concepts all at once.
The logical relationship is: God is closely related to the emperors on earth, and disasters occur that God is punishing the human world for losing virtue.
That is, God grants the monarch power, so the monarch must be responsible to God.
After taking on false responsibilities, Zhu Gaoxu decided to win back the hearts of the people in the capital in a more practical way.
Many troops appeared in the capital city, and soldiers carrying shovels, hoes and other tools rushed to the worst-hit areas.
Zhu Gaoxu ordered them to try their best to dig out the living people under the ruins.
Only emperors like Taizu Taizong and Zhu Gaoxu who have enough prestige in the army dare to do this without any worries.Otherwise, man-made disasters may be accompanied by natural disasters.
At the same time, military tents and warm fabrics were also sent to various parts of the city and distributed to displaced people for use.
The Chaohu Navy's ship transported a large amount of grain from the Taicang warehouse east of the capital, and set up porridge shops in the city to provide free meals to the people.
According to Zhu Gaoxu's own concept, earthquakes are only caused by geological activities, and neither human nor god can do anything, let alone avoid them.
The only thing that is thankful for this earthquake is that the disaster occurs in winter and is much better than in summer.
Otherwise, it will be hot and rainy in summer, and the city's drainage facilities will be damaged and the population will be dense, which will easily lead to a plague epidemic.
Among natural disasters and man-made disasters, the most unlucky people are always those with difficult livelihoods.
For example, the area with dense houses on the south side of Sanshan Street in the inner city is simple, the streets are crowded and narrow, and a large population is occupied in a very small place. This time those people suffered a catastrophe.
It turned out that Zhu Gaoxu felt that the place was like a village in the city, and it was also the place where Qi Tai, the Minister of War, rented a house during the imperial examination.
Zhu Gaoxu came here with his guards and patrols, and he immediately saw the scene that he couldn't bear to look at.
Almost all the houses collapsed, and the remaining ruins looked like they had been attacked by air, and the entire area was ruined.
A place that has not changed for 20 or 30 years no longer exists overnight.
The surviving people lived in the tent provided by the Beijing Camp, wailing.Many Ming soldiers were still digging in the ruins, and dust filled the area.However, most of the corpses excavated were corpses, and not many living people were left.
When Zhu Gaoxu arrived, nearby officials, soldiers and servants knelt on the ground one after another, and some people followed suit to worship.
Only one little girl was still sitting on the ground, crying at the corpses placed there.
If you have a flat body, you will be exempted from gifts.Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand, and he jumped off the horse's back, walked to the little girl covered in mud, and picked her up.
He turned around and saw Qi Tai, the Minister of War, and said, "Call the officials of Shangyuan County to check the family, name the name and book the book, and find their close relatives in order to handle the funeral for the victims and raise the child."
Qi Tai clasped his fists and said: I will take the order.
Zhu Gaoxu handed the child over and then left the place to continue to look at the surroundings.
After a while, he couldn't help but turn his head again and glanced at the family on the ground.Depin Duan Xuehen, who was beside her, accompanied by sword, and she also looked at Zhu Gaoxu's gaze.
Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but say in a deep voice: If the sky does have a spirit, it would be a bit cruel to the world.
Duan Xuehen looked at Zhu Gaoxu silently without responding.
The crowd did not enter the ruined area, but only watched from nearby places with roads.Soon, a sound of horse hooves came from behind, and Ru Wei, the Minister of Works, also rode a horse to arrive.
After the king and his ministers met, Ru Wei reported what he saw and heard elsewhere.
Ru Wei spoke in the street: I think that the capital is rich in goods, and the primary task of the court is not to open warehouses and provide disaster relief; but to repair the damaged underground canals and drainage canals everywhere.The government should also be urged to build temporary toilets and order the servants who transport dirt to resume duty.Imperial Hospital should sell low-priced drugs to prevent the occurrence of disease.
After hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu praised Ru and said on the spot: I am now ordering Rumen Hall to be fully responsible for the repair of the city facilities and to handle the above suggestions.
He then turned around and said to the eunuch Wang Gui: You go to see Xia Yuanji, and I mean that Xia Yuanji should be treated with ease in the allocation of money and grain.
Ru Wei and Wang Gui said together: Follow the order.
Zhu Gaoxu personally inspected the city for a long time. At noon, he led his crew back to the palace for lunch.
There were also some palaces in the imperial city that were damaged during the earthquake, but fortunately there were many houses in the imperial city, so the problem was not big.
The Fengtian Hall, the largest building in the imperial city, was damaged again, and this hall always seemed to be unable to be repaired well; the Fengtian Hall was burned once in the fourth year of Jianwen, and just a few years after it was repaired, it has now been shaken down the roof.
Fortunately, Zhu Gaoxu was not active in Fengtian Hall, so he came to Rouyi Hall and asked Duan Xuehen to have lunch with him, so he left it here and began to look through the recent memorials.
A copy of Xie Jin's memorial was placed in front of Zhu Gaoxu.As Zhu Gaoxu looked at it, his face gradually showed anger.
Wang Gui, the eunuch of the Sili Prison who stood beside him, carefully reminded: The emperor calmed down. This memorial was not a question book from the Hanlin Academy, but a memorial written by Xie Jin himself.If he talks nonsense, the emperor just needs to throw it away, and don't bother with him.
Zhu Gaoxu ignored it and continued to open the entire article at a close look.
Xie Jin's remarks have always lacked some measure, and this time is no exception.
In his memorial, he said that the recent earthquake occurred because the court was armed and unscrupulous in its military, and did not adhere to the ancestral system, which caused the wrath of God; and advised the emperor to reform himself as soon as possible!
Originally, Zhu Gaoxu felt that the earthquake was furious and that he was innocent because of this. Xie Jin was so good that he took the opportunity to swear and scolded Zhu Gaoxu.Zhu Gaoxu was of course angry when he saw it.
Wang Gui suggested throwing away the memorial, just keep it and not send it.
This kind of memorial of personal remarks can indeed be thrown into the toilet!
Because according to the administrative system of the court, after the entrustment books of the Tongzheng Envoy Department, copy must be left and copied before sending them to the palace, and the memorials cannot be stopped from being made public; while the memorials such as Xie Jin are submitted directly to the palace, and the palace first decides the way to deal with them, and no one knows it even if they are thrown away.
But Zhu Gaoxu was angry and did not dizzy.He quickly realized that Zhi Jin's remarks were not completely indecent.
Although Xie Jin was very bold and wrote his articles very presumptuously; why didn’t Xie Jin say that the reason for the anger of heaven was the chaotic private life of Zhu Gaoxu, or was he suspected of killing his own brother?
But just talking about military and military force, not adhering to the ancestral system?
Zhu Gaoxu took a deep breath and said to Wang Gui: Xie Jin's memorial is not just his personal opinion.
Wang Gui said in a deep voice: Is it the emperor’s intention that anyone in the court is willing to form a clique with Xie Jin?
Zhu Gaoxu shook his head: It doesn’t have to form a clique for personal gain, so that people will have the same political views.
After he said that, after a while, after thinking about the two claims made by Xie Jin, he could easily guess: the so-called military and military affairs are almost unsatisfactory things that most civil officials were not very satisfied with; the court pays attention to military expansion, and will inevitably have resources tilted, and will continue to improve the voice and status of military generals in the court.
Not following the ancestral system is also a reason for some ministers to resist.
For example, the addition of some new yamen, military pay and pension laws have increased a lot of expenses to the treasury, and at least the people from the Ministry of Revenue are not very satisfied.
The unusual governance philosophy expressed by Zhu Gaoxu may also give the ministers a sense of uncertain strangeness.
Zhu Gaoxu did all kinds of things a while ago and went very smoothly. After all, the imperial power is the highest power and no one strongly opposed it.But until now, adverse side effects have slowly emerged.
People are very inefficient, and many things have a delay, and officials will wait for opportunities.The recent earthquake finally gave them a reason to persuade the emperor to return to the wrong path.
Get it to the cabinet for processing.Zhu Gaoxu thought for a while and suddenly spoke.He then grabbed a stack of memorials and placed them on it, and told Wang Guidao that all of them were sent to Wuying Hall.
Wang Gui was stunned for a moment and quickly replied: I obey the order, so I will send it to the emperor.
During the reign of Emperor Taizong of Taizong, the cabinet was just a consulting agency for civil officials to provide advice for the emperor and make up for the shortcomings; especially Taizu, who did not trust bureaucrats at all, he personally laid out all rules and took the decision-making power into his own hands.
However, the cabinet now has a certain amount of real power.
At present, the cabinet is still different from the prime minister's power abolished by Taizu. Only the cabinet and the Dianbao Office are considered as a decision-making body; and the emperor's decision is greater than the power of the second yamen of Wuying Palace.
Therefore, the court pattern at this time and the degree of centralization of power was still far beyond the pattern of the internal and external mutuality and the separation of power between the king and the minister during the Han and Tang dynasties.
The cabinet and the Dianbao Office are nominally only responsible to the emperor. It is probably very hot to get this memorial to scold the emperor.
However, as long as the memorial is sent to the cabinet and many people participate, the memorial will be made public.
Zhu Gaoxu thought to himself: It is impossible to block it, at least it cannot be blocked by me. The contradictions should be transferred and differentiated; I should not face the game alone.
The Zhang Heng seismometer recorded and copied by the Imperial Heaven Supervision Bureau completely failed to predict this major earthquake.
After the capital was shaken, a large number of houses collapsed, and the city was filled with panic and chaos, and countless people died unaware of it.
The capital of the Ming Dynasty, which was increasingly peaceful, suddenly suffered a heavy blow.
At the advice of the ministers, Zhu Gaoxu was forced to publicly admit that he had recently lost his etiquette and sacrifices, and promised to follow the rules, respect God, strictly govern the administration, eliminate bad policies, etc., to calm God's anger.
Although Zhu Gaoxu had a clear conscience and felt that he had done his best to be the emperor, he had no choice but to change the world's concepts all at once.
The logical relationship is: God is closely related to the emperors on earth, and disasters occur that God is punishing the human world for losing virtue.
That is, God grants the monarch power, so the monarch must be responsible to God.
After taking on false responsibilities, Zhu Gaoxu decided to win back the hearts of the people in the capital in a more practical way.
Many troops appeared in the capital city, and soldiers carrying shovels, hoes and other tools rushed to the worst-hit areas.
Zhu Gaoxu ordered them to try their best to dig out the living people under the ruins.
Only emperors like Taizu Taizong and Zhu Gaoxu who have enough prestige in the army dare to do this without any worries.Otherwise, man-made disasters may be accompanied by natural disasters.
At the same time, military tents and warm fabrics were also sent to various parts of the city and distributed to displaced people for use.
The Chaohu Navy's ship transported a large amount of grain from the Taicang warehouse east of the capital, and set up porridge shops in the city to provide free meals to the people.
According to Zhu Gaoxu's own concept, earthquakes are only caused by geological activities, and neither human nor god can do anything, let alone avoid them.
The only thing that is thankful for this earthquake is that the disaster occurs in winter and is much better than in summer.
Otherwise, it will be hot and rainy in summer, and the city's drainage facilities will be damaged and the population will be dense, which will easily lead to a plague epidemic.
Among natural disasters and man-made disasters, the most unlucky people are always those with difficult livelihoods.
For example, the area with dense houses on the south side of Sanshan Street in the inner city is simple, the streets are crowded and narrow, and a large population is occupied in a very small place. This time those people suffered a catastrophe.
It turned out that Zhu Gaoxu felt that the place was like a village in the city, and it was also the place where Qi Tai, the Minister of War, rented a house during the imperial examination.
Zhu Gaoxu came here with his guards and patrols, and he immediately saw the scene that he couldn't bear to look at.
Almost all the houses collapsed, and the remaining ruins looked like they had been attacked by air, and the entire area was ruined.
A place that has not changed for 20 or 30 years no longer exists overnight.
The surviving people lived in the tent provided by the Beijing Camp, wailing.Many Ming soldiers were still digging in the ruins, and dust filled the area.However, most of the corpses excavated were corpses, and not many living people were left.
When Zhu Gaoxu arrived, nearby officials, soldiers and servants knelt on the ground one after another, and some people followed suit to worship.
Only one little girl was still sitting on the ground, crying at the corpses placed there.
If you have a flat body, you will be exempted from gifts.Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand, and he jumped off the horse's back, walked to the little girl covered in mud, and picked her up.
He turned around and saw Qi Tai, the Minister of War, and said, "Call the officials of Shangyuan County to check the family, name the name and book the book, and find their close relatives in order to handle the funeral for the victims and raise the child."
Qi Tai clasped his fists and said: I will take the order.
Zhu Gaoxu handed the child over and then left the place to continue to look at the surroundings.
After a while, he couldn't help but turn his head again and glanced at the family on the ground.Depin Duan Xuehen, who was beside her, accompanied by sword, and she also looked at Zhu Gaoxu's gaze.
Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but say in a deep voice: If the sky does have a spirit, it would be a bit cruel to the world.
Duan Xuehen looked at Zhu Gaoxu silently without responding.
The crowd did not enter the ruined area, but only watched from nearby places with roads.Soon, a sound of horse hooves came from behind, and Ru Wei, the Minister of Works, also rode a horse to arrive.
After the king and his ministers met, Ru Wei reported what he saw and heard elsewhere.
Ru Wei spoke in the street: I think that the capital is rich in goods, and the primary task of the court is not to open warehouses and provide disaster relief; but to repair the damaged underground canals and drainage canals everywhere.The government should also be urged to build temporary toilets and order the servants who transport dirt to resume duty.Imperial Hospital should sell low-priced drugs to prevent the occurrence of disease.
After hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu praised Ru and said on the spot: I am now ordering Rumen Hall to be fully responsible for the repair of the city facilities and to handle the above suggestions.
He then turned around and said to the eunuch Wang Gui: You go to see Xia Yuanji, and I mean that Xia Yuanji should be treated with ease in the allocation of money and grain.
Ru Wei and Wang Gui said together: Follow the order.
Zhu Gaoxu personally inspected the city for a long time. At noon, he led his crew back to the palace for lunch.
There were also some palaces in the imperial city that were damaged during the earthquake, but fortunately there were many houses in the imperial city, so the problem was not big.
The Fengtian Hall, the largest building in the imperial city, was damaged again, and this hall always seemed to be unable to be repaired well; the Fengtian Hall was burned once in the fourth year of Jianwen, and just a few years after it was repaired, it has now been shaken down the roof.
Fortunately, Zhu Gaoxu was not active in Fengtian Hall, so he came to Rouyi Hall and asked Duan Xuehen to have lunch with him, so he left it here and began to look through the recent memorials.
A copy of Xie Jin's memorial was placed in front of Zhu Gaoxu.As Zhu Gaoxu looked at it, his face gradually showed anger.
Wang Gui, the eunuch of the Sili Prison who stood beside him, carefully reminded: The emperor calmed down. This memorial was not a question book from the Hanlin Academy, but a memorial written by Xie Jin himself.If he talks nonsense, the emperor just needs to throw it away, and don't bother with him.
Zhu Gaoxu ignored it and continued to open the entire article at a close look.
Xie Jin's remarks have always lacked some measure, and this time is no exception.
In his memorial, he said that the recent earthquake occurred because the court was armed and unscrupulous in its military, and did not adhere to the ancestral system, which caused the wrath of God; and advised the emperor to reform himself as soon as possible!
Originally, Zhu Gaoxu felt that the earthquake was furious and that he was innocent because of this. Xie Jin was so good that he took the opportunity to swear and scolded Zhu Gaoxu.Zhu Gaoxu was of course angry when he saw it.
Wang Gui suggested throwing away the memorial, just keep it and not send it.
This kind of memorial of personal remarks can indeed be thrown into the toilet!
Because according to the administrative system of the court, after the entrustment books of the Tongzheng Envoy Department, copy must be left and copied before sending them to the palace, and the memorials cannot be stopped from being made public; while the memorials such as Xie Jin are submitted directly to the palace, and the palace first decides the way to deal with them, and no one knows it even if they are thrown away.
But Zhu Gaoxu was angry and did not dizzy.He quickly realized that Zhi Jin's remarks were not completely indecent.
Although Xie Jin was very bold and wrote his articles very presumptuously; why didn’t Xie Jin say that the reason for the anger of heaven was the chaotic private life of Zhu Gaoxu, or was he suspected of killing his own brother?
But just talking about military and military force, not adhering to the ancestral system?
Zhu Gaoxu took a deep breath and said to Wang Gui: Xie Jin's memorial is not just his personal opinion.
Wang Gui said in a deep voice: Is it the emperor’s intention that anyone in the court is willing to form a clique with Xie Jin?
Zhu Gaoxu shook his head: It doesn’t have to form a clique for personal gain, so that people will have the same political views.
After he said that, after a while, after thinking about the two claims made by Xie Jin, he could easily guess: the so-called military and military affairs are almost unsatisfactory things that most civil officials were not very satisfied with; the court pays attention to military expansion, and will inevitably have resources tilted, and will continue to improve the voice and status of military generals in the court.
Not following the ancestral system is also a reason for some ministers to resist.
For example, the addition of some new yamen, military pay and pension laws have increased a lot of expenses to the treasury, and at least the people from the Ministry of Revenue are not very satisfied.
The unusual governance philosophy expressed by Zhu Gaoxu may also give the ministers a sense of uncertain strangeness.
Zhu Gaoxu did all kinds of things a while ago and went very smoothly. After all, the imperial power is the highest power and no one strongly opposed it.But until now, adverse side effects have slowly emerged.
People are very inefficient, and many things have a delay, and officials will wait for opportunities.The recent earthquake finally gave them a reason to persuade the emperor to return to the wrong path.
Get it to the cabinet for processing.Zhu Gaoxu thought for a while and suddenly spoke.He then grabbed a stack of memorials and placed them on it, and told Wang Guidao that all of them were sent to Wuying Hall.
Wang Gui was stunned for a moment and quickly replied: I obey the order, so I will send it to the emperor.
During the reign of Emperor Taizong of Taizong, the cabinet was just a consulting agency for civil officials to provide advice for the emperor and make up for the shortcomings; especially Taizu, who did not trust bureaucrats at all, he personally laid out all rules and took the decision-making power into his own hands.
However, the cabinet now has a certain amount of real power.
At present, the cabinet is still different from the prime minister's power abolished by Taizu. Only the cabinet and the Dianbao Office are considered as a decision-making body; and the emperor's decision is greater than the power of the second yamen of Wuying Palace.
Therefore, the court pattern at this time and the degree of centralization of power was still far beyond the pattern of the internal and external mutuality and the separation of power between the king and the minister during the Han and Tang dynasties.
The cabinet and the Dianbao Office are nominally only responsible to the emperor. It is probably very hot to get this memorial to scold the emperor.
However, as long as the memorial is sent to the cabinet and many people participate, the memorial will be made public.
Zhu Gaoxu thought to himself: It is impossible to block it, at least it cannot be blocked by me. The contradictions should be transferred and differentiated; I should not face the game alone.
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