Ming Jiajing: Starting from Immortality

Chapter 88 Military power is concentrated and cannot be touched!
Ok Hee Palace.

The emperor must wear court robes.

Huang Jin hurriedly walked to the large wardrobes against the wall, thought for a while, opened the lid of the innermost cabinet, took out a piece of bright yellow satin cotton, and saw the crown and the dragon robe placed on the bottom layer.

He buried his body in it, picked up the dragon robe and the crown together with his hands, walked to the bed, and placed them on the other bedside table.

Huang Jin leaned over and helped Zhu Houcong put on his court boots by the bed. Zhu Houcong walked to the armchair and sat down.

Huang Jin then combed his hair and tied it into a bun, then he twisted a towel to clean his face, took another comb, dipped it in water from the golden basin, and combed his beard.

Zhu Houcong stood up and straightened his back. Huang Jin shook out the dragon robe and half-knelt behind him. He aligned the inner cuffs with his hands and pulled them up, then walked around to his front and fastened the buttons and jade belt for him.

Zhu Houcong sat down, and Huang Jin took the crown and put it on him from behind the chair, then slowly inserted the long jade hairpin through the hole on the left side of the hat and passed it through the hole on the right side of the hat.

After finishing washing and dressing, Huang Jin's tears began to drip like beads.

For more than 20 years, he looked at the Emperor in front of him who suddenly changed into a crown and dragon robe. He felt so strange and like a dream.

Restoring the youthful emperor's appearance is exactly the same as when the emperor first came to Beijing from Anlu, Hubei, and our ancestors served him when he first put on the dragon robe.

"How about it?"

Zhu Houcong sensed Huang Jin's mood change and asked.

Huang Jin wiped his tears, went to the table and picked up a mirror, half squatting to look at it, "Your Majesty is the appearance of the sun and the sky, the appearance of a dragon and a phoenix!"

Zhu Houcong looked at himself in the mirror and felt strange. It was as if everyone else was from another world, but he was truly reborn. He suddenly felt emotional, "The three flowers gathering at the top of my head are an illusion, and the clouds under my feet are not real."

Huang Jin didn't understand His Majesty's sadness, but he could barely tell that His Majesty was in a good mood, and he couldn't help but feel happy too.

Seeing his silly look, Zhu Houcong laughed and scolded him: "You are just a fool!"

In the inner court.

If Lu Fang had not taken special care of Huang Jin before, there was no way Huang Jin would have been able to enter the Imperial Household Department smoothly and take the position of the eunuch in charge of writing.

Something happened to Lu Fang and he was imprisoned. Without Lu Fang's care, Huang Jin could not defeat the ruthless Chen Hong.

Chen Hong came to serve in Yuxi Palace less and less often, only once every ten days, as he was busy fighting for power in the Silijian.

Now that his ancestor is gone, Chen Hong is thinking about solidifying his title as “ancestor”.

The power held by Chen Hong now is no less than that held by Lu Fang in the past, but Chen Hong is not as content as Lu Fang. He will fight for all power, no matter how big or small, and wants to hold it all.

Chen Hong wanted to be Liu Jin, the "Nine Thousand Years Old" of the Jiajing Dynasty, but he did not have the ability.

The four departments, eight bureaus and twelve prisons of the inner court cannot be completely controlled by one person, at least not Chen Hong.

Power in Chen Hong's hands is like a handful of sand. The tighter he holds it, the faster and more it disappears.

If Huang Jin really wanted to fight for it, most of the departments, bureaus and prisons in the inner court would definitely side with him.

However, Huang Jin did not fight for anything. He guarded Yuxi Palace every day. Occasionally, when he was not on duty, he would lead the imperial guards to guard the forbidden gate.

Such a non-competitive character makes people anxious. Huang Jin was still happy after being scolded by His Majesty, and she still laughed with a silly look: "Yes. This servant is a stupid person."

"Stupid people are good. They are reliable and can be close to me." Zhu Houcong smiled.

Huang Jin disagreed, "Your Majesty, I don't dare to agree with everything you said. There are many smart people in my Ming Dynasty, including the princes who have established their own palaces, the civil and military officials in the court, and even in the inner court, my godfather Lu Fang is not stupid, but they are all close to Your Majesty."

Speaking of Lu Fang.

Huang Jin's mood suddenly became a little depressed. After serving the Emperor, he went to the Imperial Prison to visit his godfather several times. Although the Jinyiwei did not make things difficult for his godfather, the environment in that dark prison would cause many diseases if people stayed there for a long time.

"Prince? Wenwu? Lu Fang?"

Zhu Houcong looked at him and said with a smile: "My Prince Yu is thinking about competing with me, while my Prince Jing is not forgetting to fight for the throne in his vassal state. As soon as he gets a chance, he immediately runs to the capital. Is this considerate?
My civil and military officials, such as Yan Song, Xu Jie, and Yan Shifan, have made it so that I cannot make full use of talents like Hu Zongxian.

You would say that these people are treacherous ministers and that is why they are not close to me. Then people like Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gong are close to me?
Everyone said that the silk, porcelain and tea of ​​the Ming Dynasty could not be sold to the West because of the Japanese pirates. In fact, the silk, porcelain and tea exported to the West had never been cut off.

Did Zhang Juzheng not know? Or did Gao Gong not know?

Looking at the cabinet, the six ministries, and officials all over the country celebrating the complete victory of the Battle of Taozhu, they shouted loudly that once the Japanese pirates were wiped out and the sea was calmed, our Ming Dynasty would have tens of millions of silver dollars more every year.

But in fact, it was telling everyone that the Japanese pirates were going to be destroyed and this was the last chance to make money!
The Jiangnan Maritime Customs reported that there are more smuggling ships on the sea. I specially asked the Jinyiwei to keep an eye on it. Do you know how many more smuggling ships there are?

Compared with the smuggling ships reported by the Jiangnan Maritime Customs in previous years, the number is ten times more!
Throughout Jiangnan, all the workshops seemed to be going crazy, with looms producing silk day and night in an effort to clear out all the stockpiled silk at once.

The caves where porcelain was fired were also firing porcelain day and night, and those who were frying tea had countless pots broken.

Huang Jin, do you know that these silk, porcelain, and tea, ten times more than in previous years, are being dumped to the West in advance? When our dynasty has pacified the sea, what will the imperial ships loaded with silk, porcelain, and tea face when they sail to the West?

My imperial court’s ships will be wiped out!
How would Zhang Juzheng's cabinet submit memorials? How would the civil and military officials in the court submit memorials? How would my two princes advise me?
I ordered a complete maritime ban more than ten years ago, but it was not entirely due to the Japanese pirates. Rather, before the imperial ships arrived in the Western Ocean, there were always private ships from our Ming Dynasty who got there first and dumped a large amount of goods. By the time the imperial ships arrived, the goods could of course not be sold at a good price.

Since we couldn't make any money by going out to sea, the ministers incited the scholars, and the scholars incited the people, and they all wrote memorials to accuse me of wasting the people's money and resources.

Everyone thinks that I know nothing, but they don’t know that I know everything!

Behind those private ships are officials from our Ming Dynasty!

The officials of the two capitals and thirteen provinces are using the same old tricks again, trying to dump goods to the West in advance, misleading me and the people of the Ming Dynasty, haha."

Zhu Houcong smiled coldly, chilling to the bone. How could the Ming Dynasty be governed well if this group of insects were allowed to live?
Let them go to the West to earn money first, and then we'll settle the matter together when they come back!
The southeastern army of the Ming Dynasty can not only kill the Japanese, but also kill the traitors!

Huang Jin shuddered.

Zhu Houcong looked at him, his eyes gradually regained their gentleness, "Whether it was Lü Fang in the past or Lu Bing now, they are both touring the country on my behalf.

I use them to kill people, govern people, and dismiss people, but the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, and the power is great, there are all kinds of people under my command.

Lu Fang's godson Yang Jinshui is a fool, and Wang Min, the captain of Jingu under Lu Bing, is also a fool!

Except for me, no one can try to command or oppose the army of the Ming Dynasty!"

(End of this chapter)