My life skills in Daming Liver - Chapter 636

c626 disintegration of order

In the deep palace, the old eunuch Huang Jin walked into the palace tremblingly.

The palace that was once the center of power in the Ming Dynasty was now empty because there were too few people serving the palace.

Anyone in the palace who could speak to Queen Mother Li was transferred away from the Emperor.

The palace was too big, but there was a bit of cool breeze. Huang Jin only felt a bit chilly and kept walking forward with his head lowered.

When he continued to move forward, he finally came to the bed of the Wanshou Emperor.

Huang Jin’s eyes were sore when he saw Jiajing on the couch.

After ascending the throne at a young age, he defeated Yang Tinghe, the elder of the three dynasties through great rituals and discussions. The emperor who had been in charge of state affairs for decades no longer looked like the great emperor he used to be.

Jiajing was like an ordinary dying old man, with his mouth wide open and breathing continuously, his body was as thin as firewood, and his eyes were blurred and unfocused.

Since last month, Jiajing’s old illness has been getting worse, and now he has symptoms of talking nonsense.

Huang Jin knew very well that the emperor who once prayed for immortality through Taoism had reached the last moment of his life.

Only then did Huang Jin realize that the supreme emperor was no different from ordinary people at the last moment.

Jiajing was breathing with his mouth wide open. This was a human’s survival instinct. If he couldn’t take a breath, the old emperor would die like an ordinary person.

Huang Jin stepped forward and smelled a stinky smell. He quickly opened the quilt, brought a basin from the side, and began to clean Jiajing’s toilet.

After finishing all this work, Huang Jin was sweating a lot. He also recalled that when he was young, when he followed his master to serve the emperor in Xingxian Palace, he was so efficient at work at that time, but now I have to take a breath before doing anything, and I can’t even walk anymore.

Many pictures flashed through Huang Jin’s mind, but he found that at this time, everything was meaningless.

He sighed, picked up the medicine bag, walked to the back of the main hall, sat beside the medicine hut, and boiled medicine for the old emperor.

Drowsily, Huang Jin dozed off again. As expected, it is easier to fall asleep as one gets older. Huang Jin leaned against the pillar and fell asleep in a daze.

Su Ze’s three books have reached the capital, and now the whole capital is spreading rumors about Ming Ting’s stall.

From the Battle of Jingnan to seizing the throne from his nephew, to Zhu Qizhen’s coup to seize the throne and killing the heroes, and then to the Jiajing ceremony when he violated the patriarchal laws, these royal secrets had great space to spread, and as they spread rapidly, they once again weakened the The Zhu Ming royal family did not have much prestige to begin with.

As Yan Jun expected, hierarchy and order are the hardest to establish, but the easiest to destroy.

The royal family had little prestige. After Su Ze published the actual records, everyone discovered that this was what the big shots were like, right?

Forget about those old secrets, many people have experienced them during the Jiajing Dynasty. During the Jiajing Emperor’s reign, the emperor kept his word.

That emperor who was worshiped as a Taoist king by hundreds of officials, that emperor who controlled the life and death of hundreds of millions of subjects, and who kept his word to the letter, actually promoted whoever was good at writing poems?

It turns out that those seemingly wise and holy military policies were probably just Taoist priests telling the emperor that it would be a good thing, so the emperor approved it?

It turned out that the emperor emptied his inner treasury and ordered officials to search various places for a little bit of ambergris, and was deceived by foreign businessmen with fake items.

This impact completely broke the awe of the superiors.

And when this sense of awe was broken, everyone looked at the person above them.

The nine-fifth emperor is so ridiculous, so what is the one above him like?

Aren’t the high-ranking officials and dignitaries in the temples the same as the emperor?

Once this suspicion started, it began to go out of order at the fastest speed, and many people began to realize that with the disintegration of the original order, there was no difference between the emperor, general, and the Caotou King.

Outside the capital city, more and more farms have begun to form associations to protect themselves. Everyone has lost trust and awe in the government above them. Everyone is more willing to believe in hiring villagers to protect themselves and buy weapons to fight against tax collectors.

The same is true at the local level. Those local officials also discovered that being an ordinary official in the capital may not be able to eat twice a day, but being a Bailihou in the local area can at least lead a good life.

They began to disobey the court’s orders openly and secretly, refused transfer orders from their superiors, and began to develop local team training on their own.

And once they started doing this, they suddenly discovered that the current imperial court did not have the energy to deal with a small county magistrate of their own, and the official documents from the official department were like waste paper, with no effect at all.

The vigorous currency reform in the capital also encountered problems in the end.

Li Rubai arrested several businessmen, forced them to use new coins, confiscated the Southeast silver coins in their hands, imprisoned these businessmen, and asked their families to hand over more Southeast gold coins to redeem their people.

The largest businessman among them is called Guo Ding, who came to the capital from Shaanxi to do business. It is said that he is a distant relative of Guo Pu, the governor of Shaanxi, and the leader of the merchants in Qinzhong, the capital.

Everyone in the market said that Guo Ding helped Guo Pu make money in the capital, but Li Rubai knew that his father and Guo Pu were not dealing with each other, so he used Guo Ding to operate first.

Li Rubai captured Guo Ding from the Shaanxi merchant house, which indeed caused shock in the entire capital merchant circle. Some merchants who secretly used Southeast Silver Dollars were indeed intimidated and handed over the Southeast Silver Dollars in their hands, and began to Use the new silver coins issued by the Ming Dynasty.

These achievements made Li Rubai very proud, and Li Chengliang was very satisfied with his second son, and praised Li Rubai many times in public.

Li Rubai was even more proud. He established an “Anti-Smuggling Team” in the Ministry of Household Affairs, responsible for cracking down on illegal businessmen.

But what gave Li Rubai a headache was that this guy Guo Ding was not honest after he was caught. This guy’s family didn’t pay the ransom at all, and they ate and drank well in the Anti-Smuggling Governor, and they didn’t look scared at all.

This also made Li Rubai very angry. Guo Ding’s behavior also infected many businessmen, and they all refused to write letters to their families asking for ransom.

But in fact, Li Rubai did not dare to touch Guo Ding, because Guo Pu still occupied Guanzhong. If the pressure was too great, Guo Pu would surrender to Southeast. He could not bear the consequences at all. He could only intimidate Guo Ding, but he could not even use torture. Don’t dare.

Guo Ding’s words are also very simple. If you have the ability, go to the Qingyuan Bo Li family. They are the merchants who use the Southeast silver dollar the most in the entire capital. The Li family even openly listed the exchange ratio between the Ming court silver dollar and the Southeast silver dollar in the ticket number. Come out and openly exchange it for merchants and people.