Chapter 8 Chapter 7 No Game No Life

So far, we can find that Emperor Hongguang did not show any "moral decline" after he came to power. "Suffering is the best teacher in life!" This famous French writer Balzac's famous saying is really accurate for anyone. After being tempered by the sufferings of life and baptized by the coldness of the world, the thirty-eight-year-old Hongguang Emperor lost his harshness and impetuosity, and became more tolerant and mature. Out of the unforgettable memories of his "Prince in Exile", he can appreciate the preciousness of blood and family ties. Therefore, after he served as the supervisor of the country, he asked the officials to take the Zhu clan who had fled from the occupied areas to the country. They were properly resettled near Nanjing, and everyone was given a salary that was enough to support their families.

He gave the posthumous posthumous title of "Si" sect to Chongzhen, the Daxing emperor who died in the line of duty. Later, he felt unsatisfactory, and at the suggestion of the minister, he changed it to "Yi" sect.To express my infinite admiration for this cousin! The retaliation and settlement of accounts that the Donglin Party was most worried about did not happen. Not only did it not happen, he also issued an edict to invite many members of the Donglin Party and Fushe to serve as officials under the recommendation of the minister. Moreover, the emperor also abolished the three tyrannical regimes of the Ming Dynasty——Tingzhang, Dongchang, and Imperial Prison. All Nanming ministers no longer have to be afraid of being stripped of their pants in public and spanked, and no longer have to worry about their privacy being pryed into. There is no need to worry about angering the emperor and being sent to the "special blue prison".Personal dignity, personal rights and lives are effectively guaranteed.

Emperor Hongguang's overflowing sympathy went back to two hundred years ago. He issued a special decree to restore the reputations of Fu Youde and Feng Sheng, the founding heroes who were executed by Zhu Yuanzhang, and Qi Tai, a loyal minister of Emperor Jianwen who were executed by Zhu Di. Knighthood. Following this trajectory of development, we have reason to believe that even if Emperor Hongguang could not meet the standard of a "Ming Jun", he was at least a "Good Monarch"!Under the leadership of such a "good king", Daming can at least relive the "old dream of the Southern Dynasties"!

But this good start, with the arrival of a person, slowly changed. The person who had a catalytic effect was Ruan Dacheng, the Minister of the Ministry of War who had just been promoted after a lot of trouble.His arrival brought a foul air to the Nanming Dynasty Hall which was still fresh. Ruan Dacheng came from a wealthy family with a very high quality of life, not to mention food, clothing, housing and transportation. He also raised a Liyuan Club with the function of "public relations" at his own expense. In order to thank Emperor Hongguang, Ruan Dacheng invited Emperor Hongguang, who is also an "opera enthusiast" to visit Liyuan, to inspect and guide the cultural construction work.

The pear garden where the drunken moon is flying and the singing and swallows are dancing makes Emperor Hongguang "remember the palace of Luoyang again. I don't know where I am now, and I don't know what year it is." Revenge, temporarily forget the long way to go. "You'll use my theater troupe." Hongguang Emperor, who was full of wine and food, still couldn't get enough of it. He loved the opera art of the motherland and planned to take it away with him. After seeing off Emperor Hongguang, who was "alone and inseparable from each other", Ma and Ruan found that there was a major loophole in their work.

That is, the thirty-eight-year-old Hongguang Emperor is still a "diamond king and five". Because the two wives of Emperor Hongguang had died in troubled times, only he survived today. After being widowed, Emperor Hongguang has not married yet. It is not because he "sees through the world of mortals and has a pure heart and few desires". It is because the Ming Dynasty established the country with filial piety. Now that the filial piety period has expired, it is time to discuss "lifetime events" for His Majesty the Emperor. "When the Sacred Heart is at ease, then general affairs are carried out, and when the foundation is settled, then the enemy is encouraged!" ——Lao Ma said.

A man with a family will double his sense of responsibility. ——The old horse thinks so. When the emperor gets married, the technical term is "big marriage". The reason why it is called this term is probably because the emperor has a large status, the scale of his fiancée is large, and the cost is also large. But before doing the "big wedding", some preparation work must be done first. Ma Ruan quickly joined forces again! 1. The aunt of Emperor Hongguang who was still fleeing in Anhui was welcomed into Nanjing and honored as the Queen Mother. 2. Moved the old Fu Wang's "Zi Palace" (the old Fu Wang's bones were only a few bones that had been gnawed) into Beijing, and was honored as "Emperor Gong".

3. Renovate the "new bridal chamber" - Ming Palace. After Emperor Hongguang became the supervisor of the country, he moved from the yamen of the garrison government in Nanjing to the original Ming Palace. However, the palace here has been eroded by wind and rain for more than two hundred years. Change." This house is used as a bridal chamber, so I am sorry for the "Bridegroom Zhu" who is going to "big wedding". "No matter how poor you are, you can't be a poor emperor, and no matter how much you lose, you can't lose your majesty." After some hesitation, Ma Geshou decided to vigorously carry out the construction and development of the real estate of the Ming Palace, and built the Xingning Palace and Cixi Palace (what an unlucky name, I don't know the construction. Will it be contaminated with the "mildew" of Lafayette Cixi's prodigal family and ruin), thinking that Emperor Hongguang will create a good living and office environment.

In the early stage of preparation for the "big marriage", Ruan Dacheng, Yang Wencong, Feng Kezong and others who understood the meaning of "jun" were afraid that Emperor Hongguang would not be able to wait, so they secretly bought several young prostitutes from the people and gave them to Emperor Hongguang for "trial marriage". As a result, Emperor Hongguang, who weighed more than 300 catties, may have been "drought with nectar for a long time", but he "killed" two young prostitutes to death overnight. Bad influence, so people wrapped the two poor minors in quilts and secretly carried them out from Zaiyue Gate.

From the moment the "Zhongzhi" successfully promoted Ruan Dacheng, Emperor Hongguang saw the power of his own power. Next, Emperor Hongguang felt the joy brought by power by borrowing theatrical troupe, preparing for the big wedding, building the palace, and accepting young prostitutes. "At the beginning of human beings, nature is good", a person cannot become bad for no reason, and the same is true of Emperor Hongguang. From the time he can remember, the first teacher in his life, the respected old Fu Wang Zhu Changxun, unreservedly instilled in him the life philosophy of "limited life, unlimited enjoyment".

Emperor Hongguang, who grew up in this family full of debauchery and wealth, naturally had a special respect for beauties, wine, mansions, jewelry, etc., but he had never heard of dedication, responsibility, diligence, and obligations! If it hadn't been for the two huge disasters at the end of the Ming Dynasty that changed his life trajectory, then the word "self-discipline" would never have appeared in Emperor Hongguang's life dictionary. Fortunately, those two disasters left such a deep impression on him that he suppressed his inner appeal and longing for quite a long time. Now, as the environment changes and the conditions are ripe, his long-suppressed demands and desires, like weeds after a cold winter, suddenly wake up, germinate, and grow at the moment when everything is recovering. He has carried out psychological self-regulation more than once: "Some people, come to this world, just to fully enjoy life, such as myself." What happened next will let you and me understand: Once a person with absolute power loses control, his immoral and absurd behavior will cause much harm to this society. Throughout his life, Emperor Hongguang had four major hobbies: beautiful women, mansions, opera, and wine. If Emperor Hongguang, who possessed these four major hobbies, was still the Lucky King of Luoyang, then the troubles he brought would be nothing more than "being the king and harming one side only"! However, the status is different. The people he governs now are the people of Nanming who still have more than 40 million people; the area he manages is the land of Nanming who still has more than 2 million people. If Emperor Hongguang, who had these four hobbies, was still on the throne during the Taiping period, then the bitter fruit he caused would at most accelerate the decline of the dynasty, and would never perish instantly. However, the time has changed. What he is facing now is an era of "all heroes rise together and compete in the world". Heroes from all sides are fighting for the persistence of the people in their own ways. The Nanming Dynasty is at a critical moment Expect. "The country is easy to change, but the nature is difficult." Ever since he discovered that the power stick in his hand could bring him a series of material and spiritual enjoyments, Emperor Hongguang began to lament that life "is like the dew in the morning, and the sun is bitter."Ten thousand years is too long, seize the day and night, hurry up and enjoy it first. Let’s start with his old man’s first preference! Emperor Hongguang's pursuit of beautiful women was carried out in the name of "big marriage". The first thing in "big marriage" was the draft. This matter was led by Lao Ma, presided over by Ruan Dacheng, and eunuch Qu Shangzhong presided over the specific work. "It's not that there are no good things, but I'm afraid that there will be no good people." Qu Shangzhong is such a person. "Do big things for the leaders and make big money for yourself." This is Qu Shangzhong's principle of doing things. Because, in this uneasy world that does not know what tomorrow will be like, only by earning more real money can you feel safe and at ease. The location of the draft is set to be in Nanjing, Suzhou, and Hangzhou, where "Qinhuai Bayan" and other crushes have been produced. These three places must be "places where peach blossoms are in full bloom" in Emperor Hongguang's heart. Under the leadership of Qu Shangzhong, the members of the "draft team" all over the three places immediately carried out the work vigorously and vividly. They faithfully and resolutely implemented the leadership's "everything principle" in their work - all civilian families with unmarried girls, regardless of beauty or ugliness, old or young, rich or poor, were all closed. To seal the door is to paste the door of someone's house with a special seal, and then say to the family: "Congratulations to your girl for becoming a member of the supreme royal family. closed door protection." "Happy from the sky" people are bored, "I'm a city dweller, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea can't grow in my own yard, and I have to go out to work every day to earn money, isn't this door also sealed? ?” A "power rent-seeking" game has begun. "If you want to open the door, that's fine. Take the money. It's free to close the door, but you need to charge a proper fee for opening the door." The staff of the "draft team" waited obediently for the silver. "There are policies at the top, and countermeasures at the bottom." The ordinary people who have been devastated and have nowhere to ask have no choice but to fight back, exploiting loopholes in the policy. "Aren't unmarried girls only selected for the draft? Well, sir, I'll turn unmarried girls into married girls." "Suddenly like a night of north wind, thousands of trees and peach blossoms bloom", the three places immediately staged "Fireline Selection of Son-in-Law, Surprise Marriage of Daughter", and unmarried men in these three places suddenly became everyone's favorite "" "Jun Panan", regardless of rich or poor, regardless of beauty or ugliness, regardless of health and disability, successfully solved the single problem that has plagued many years in the first time.Did these beneficiary male comrades shout in their hearts that Emperor Hongguang "the emperor's grace is mighty, the emperor's ten thousand years"! This situation, we seem to have known each other, oh!Come to think of it, when His Majesty Zhu Houzhao went to Jiangnan, didn't he also perform such a comedy in the same place?It seems that genes can be passed down from generation to generation. In this event, Emperor Hongguang got a person, and Qu Shangzhong and other organizers got money. Both of them got what they needed, and everyone was happy.However, "Spreading to the world is all resentment", and what was lost was the popularity that Nanming had managed to gather with great difficulty. Emperor Hongguang, who got the beautiful woman, immediately worked overtime and "fortunately" in many ways, in order to solve the long-standing problem of no successor as soon as possible in his lifetime, so as to secure the community and comfort the people. But this His Majesty is a "running four" person after all, his heart is not old but his body is weak, and he was defeated in a few days. At a very moment, a strange person flashes. An old man who was "practicing medicine illegally" wrote a prescription and volunteered to solve Emperor Hongguang's unspeakable addiction. The prescription is very simple, which is to capture toads and extract clam brains to prepare an all-natural "Viagra". According to old statistics, the cure rate is as high as 99.9%. Emperor Hongguang, who was ill and went to the doctor indiscriminately, immediately ordered the eunuchs to catch toads for him, and the more the better. The eunuchs who were assigned to do this dirty work did not have the lofty sentiments of "being taboo for the venerable", so they immediately played the banner of "catch the toad by order", and drove the citizens of Nanjing to show their love, and each of them volunteered to catch the toad for His Majesty the Emperor. toad. The citizens who were caught to catch toads were very active in their work. In addition to intense labor, they also used their intelligent brains to give His Majesty Hongguang, who had serious dysfunction, a unique nickname that has been passed down through the ages-"Toad Emperor". This is also the first time that Emperor Hongguang had the honor to stand together with his great ancestor Zhu Zhanji, the "Emperor Cricket", and together they added two points of colorful bright colors to the monotonous historical picture of Ming Dynasty. At the same time, the "National Key Construction Projects" that Emperor Hongguang single-handedly grasped - the Xingning Palace and the Cixi Palace are being advanced in an intense and orderly manner. Luxurious, cost plus plus. Also, Emperor Hongguang's love for opera art has become even more out of control since he borrowed Ruan Dacheng's Liyuan Club! He transferred all the entertainers (sixty-four in total) from Nanjiaofang, the only state-owned entertainment institution in Nanming, to work in the inner palace, and at the same time "purchased" a large number of folk performing arts elites. Under the "leading example" of Emperor Hongguang who forgot to eat and sleep, after intense rehearsals day and night, a legendary drama full of creative talent and passion of "Director Zhu" - "Kirin Pavilion" was finally staged in Ouchi as scheduled, and immediately There was a huge sensation at home and abroad. "There is no best, only better." This is "Director Zhu"'s unremitting desire for entertainers. In order to realize this desire, he did not hesitate to sing "Misery Strategies". The story goes like this, one day, Emperor Hongguang suddenly called all the ministers to discuss matters in a hurry. The ministers in a hurry looked at Emperor Hongguang, whose "sorrow comes from it and cannot be cut off". They first thought of the broken mountains and rivers, and the dereliction of duty at work, and began to criticize deeply and self-criticize one after another. Unexpectedly, the honest, lovely and childlike Emperor Hongguang sighed: "The ones I worry about are not in the community or the people's livelihood. I only sigh that there are too few entertainers in the palace who are both good at sex and art. They make me full of talent." , I have no use for my strength and no place for it. If you can greatly enhance your talents, it will also cure one of my heart problems." "Li Baidou's Hundred Poems on Wine", it can be seen that artistic creation and artistic inspiration cannot be separated from the support of alcohol. Emperor Hongguang's artistic talent was great, and his drinking capacity was also great. "My emperor doesn't drink alcohol when he's drunk" This is a fact that everyone in Nanming knows. A note-style novel written by Ming people records it like this: Liu Zongzhou, a master of Chinese studies and a man of perfect morality, had an audience with Emperor Hongguang, and was left behind for lunch after the audience.Pointing to the wine glass, Emperor Hongguang sighed: "You always advise me not to be greedy for drinking, and today I accept your opinion frankly, so I won't drink any more!" After speaking, he stared straight at Master Liu. The master was stared at, and hurriedly said: "Just drink one cup, it will be beneficial and harmless." Emperor Hongguang got off the donkey and said, "According to what Qing said, stop drinking a cup." After speaking, he widened his eyes and pouted his mouth at the eunuch. The eunuch understood, and immediately replaced it with a big golden noble. Emperor Hongguang began to drink with Master Liu, drank half a cup and put it down. The eunuch continued to drink, and Emperor Hongguang continued to drink. Drink to half a cup, put it down; the eunuch will refill it, and Emperor Hongguang will continue to drink... So repeated, Master Liu was horrified: It turns out that a glass of wine can be drunk like this. This story was later reprinted and reported by Donglin, Fushe and other departments' communication agencies. It can be seen that Emperor Hongguang really understood and resolutely implemented Li Taibai's spirit of "Jiu Xian" when dealing with drinking issues, that is, ancient sages are lonely , only the drinker keeps his name. After talking about the four major hobbies of Emperor Hongguang one by one, it is time to talk about the direct consequences of these four hobbies. There are three direct consequences: first, not working well, second, burning money, and third, selling officials. It is inevitable not to work well, because people's energy is limited, if there is more investment here, there will naturally be less investment there.The same is true for Emperor Hongguang. If you are busy with big weddings, rehearsals, construction, and especially busy, you will naturally not be busy with government affairs. Emperor Hongguang was very wise, since he was too busy, he should not be busy, and let comrades who are more capable and proficient in this kind of work do it. Ma Geshou naturally became the only choice of Emperor Hongguang.He publicly stated to the courtiers: "There are old horses in the affairs of the world." Burning money is also inevitable, because preparing for a big wedding requires purchasing jewelry, building a palace requires purchasing materials, and expanding the performing arts team requires buying singers and dancers. You can't transfer it for free! The result of burning money is that the royal family’s special funds have long been insufficient, so they began to embezzle a large amount of money from the treasury through Ma Geshou. Money—military expenses. Waiting for Xian Guangdi's new house to be built, married, and the performing arts team expanded.The Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household Affairs came to jointly report the "mourning". At present, Nanming's financial loss has reached 2.5 million taels, and the household department has only kept 1,000 taels of silver. Emperor Hongguang was dumbfounded. "Don't worry, don't worry, you have to enjoy life to the fullest, and you will come back after all your money is gone." Ruan Dacheng, a financial expert, immediately offered a move. The move is a bad move, but it works.This is: 1. Strengthen the scope and intensity of tax collection, and implement a stimulus policy of multiple collections and multiple rewards. Therefore, under the pull of the policy, Nanming's taxation machine is running at full capacity and operating at a high speed and efficiently.The conscientious tax officials also extended the scope of tax collection to the boundaries of the "five towns in Jiangbei", making the original "tax exemption clauses" promised by the central government to the towns become a piece of waste paper in a blink of an eye. 2. Using the brand effect of Daming, set up "Daming Official Position Sales Co., Ltd." to carry out the wholesale and retail business of Daming Official Position. The basic profile of the company is: Chairman: Zhu Yousong, General Manager: Ma Shiying, Sales Manager: Ruan Dacheng. Commodities and prices: Wuyingdian Zhongshu, 900 taels of silver; Wenhuadian Zhongshu, 2,500 taels of silver; Cabinet Zhongshu, 2,000 taels of silver; Daizhao, 3,000 taels of silver; Two; to infer the title, one thousand taels of silver... Business evaluation: Since its establishment, the company has adhered to the principle of small profits but quick turnover and fair trade. The business volume has increased day by day, and the operating income has increased significantly, which has effectively stimulated the growth of domestic demand and made indelible contributions to solving the national financial crisis.