Back to the Ming Dynasty to be a tyrant

I know what you're thinking, it's just that those women and children shouldn't be treated the same, right? "

Zhu Cihong bowed and said, "Father is wise."

Emperor Chongzhen sneered and said: "Family and country, family and country, in the eyes of these people, the family is always more important than the country. Apart from the interests of their own family, there is nothing they dare not sell, including conscience.

Not to mention anything else, let's just talk about the money these people took back, did the women and children in their families enjoy it with them?Did the members of their nine clans enjoy the benefits?

Now that the benefits are enjoyed, the evil results will also be suffered together, and the family must always be neat and tidy.

As for whether there are any wronged people among them, there must be, but I tell you, there must be wronged people who are pulled out and killed one by one, but if they are killed one by one, some will slip through the net! "

Emperor Chongzhen gave Zhu Cihong a vivid political lesson with rolling heads and bloody facts.

But Emperor Chongzhen still felt that it was not enough, and said coldly: "Furthermore, do you think these officials alone have the courage to do such a big thing? The so-called pulling out the radish and bringing out the mud, behind these officials, There are countless businessmen!

You remember, if these merchants don't give them money, even if they want to be greedy, where can they be greedy?Why do these merchants send money to them?It's nothing more than wanting to get all the convenience possible from them. This is the so-called collusion between the government and businessmen.

One or two is not terrible, the terrible thing is that a lot of people follow them, and in the end it is a tragic scene of cannibalism.

If the brains of these businessmen are better, you will find that many of them are well-known local benevolent people, and they will spend money to build bridges and pave roads from time to time.

But do you really think that they have transformed themselves into great benevolent people?

No, they are not doing good deeds, they are using money from embezzlement to buy fame for themselves. With fame, there will be amulets among the people. Take into account the views of the local people.

Do you know why it is said that I am guilty, but there is no way; all parties are guilty, but I am guilty? "

Without waiting for Zhu Cihong to answer, Emperor Chongzhen went on directly: "All the people in the world have paid taxes, which is equivalent to paying the protection fee to the emperor. The emperor has the responsibility to ensure that the people in the world can have enough food and clothing. Otherwise, what does the emperor have? use?"

Emperor Chongzhen sighed suddenly: "When you brothers were born, whether it was early or late, the world was about to be in chaos at that time, and cannibalism just exists in the books you have read. , no one has ever seen the real one.

But I tell you, I have seen it.

The people in the whole city ate up everything that could be eaten, including food, bark, grass roots, and rats. In the end, those who persisted starved to death and became the rations of those beasts, and those beasts relied on human flesh. survived.

In a whole city, there are always more or less 10,000+ people. In the end, only tens of thousands of animals are left. Because of eating people, these animals that can no longer be called humans have blood red eyes. They are all like beasts that choose to eat people.

Do you know how I deal with it?

That was the first time and the last time I issued an order to massacre Daming's own city and its own people! "

Dou Da's tears rolled down, and Emperor Chongzhen's eyes turned red: "I am sorry for them! Because I am their emperor, I collected their taxes, but failed to feed them and clothe them warmly!

Not only did they not let them live a good day, but the emperor himself issued the order to massacre the city!In an entire city, tens of thousands of people were killed just like that, leaving no bones or dogs behind! "

Reaching out and picking up the handkerchief to wipe away his tears, Emperor Chongzhen said coldly: "As for the records in the history books, I have already told the historian and recorded everything, including how I ordered the massacre of the city.

When I am alive, I will not read it. When I am old, you can read the history books yourself, and then verify the memorandum recorded by the expert factory alone, and you will know all about it.

If what I said is not intuitive enough, then think about how miserable the lives of those European barbarians were when you were in Europe.

But let me tell you, the lives of the common people in Daming that I saw back then were even more miserable than theirs!I have taken on all the infamy and dirty water, and abruptly changed all of this. The rest of the road depends on how you go.

If you don't want this kind of tragedy to happen to the people under your rule, you must be ruthless and use heavy codes!What are you afraid of being infamous?The common people have confidence in their hearts, they know who is good to them, and they also know who they should support. These people are cunning, and their wisdom is shocking! "

After a silent silence for a long while, Zhu Cihong said: "Father, you didn't order Mengmeng Wanqi to track down the businessmen behind those officials?"

Emperor Chongzhen waved his hand and said: "Jinyiwei and Xichang will do everything well. Lin Huanyu and Ma Shi have suffered this punishment. They will not hate me, and they dare not hate me. They will only vent their anger below. The Jinyiwei thousands and hundreds of households will then be passed on to these businessmen.

Remember, Jinyiwei is the knife in the hand, and the East and West are the eyes, but they are also composed of people, and they will be lazy, so they have to be beaten from time to time, and there must be means to control them, so as not to hinder the slaves. The situation of deceiving the master happened.

Think about the emperors of the Li family in Tang Dynasty, and then look at their eunuchs in Tang Dynasty, and you will know how to use them-don't let the knife and eyes produce their own thoughts!

A person's loyalty may be for a lifetime, such as Wei Zhongxian and Xu Xianchun, or it may be temporary, such as Cao Cao.

How to use these people is a university question, which is the so-called imperial mind. These things need to be pondered slowly by you. If I can teach you, I will naturally teach you, but I will not tell you all at once.

You have to remember that what you get on paper is superficial, and you never know that you have to do it yourself. "

Zhu Cihong once again bowed deeply to Emperor Chongzhen.

Under the influence of his ears and eyes since he was a child, Zhu Cihong's knowledge and knowledge are not only the best in the world, but they are actually much better than most people. He naturally has a deep understanding of what Chongzhen said.

The short speech is almost the essence of Emperor Chongzhen's ability to reap the hearts of the people in the world after being the emperor for 25 years. Now that he told himself so unreservedly, Zhu Cihong naturally knew it very well.

After getting up from the ground, Zhu Cihong suddenly said: "Father, my son wants to get relevant files from the Tianqi period and the early Chongzhen period to have a look."

Emperor Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "If you want to see it, go and see it. I have never stopped you. If the historian wants to show it to you, that's all. Let me show you the "Chongzhen Records" recorded by the expert factory.

As for the records of your uncle's Tianqi years, I have already read them, and they are roughly the same, so you should be able to learn something.

Also, don’t embarrass the historian because of his refusal, the spirit of the historian is running out, I hope that future generations can see a real history, not the emperor’s wanton revision and beautification of history.

Because, that kind of history is simply waste paper!It's a disgrace! "

Zhu Cihong bowed again, and then went to look for the historian, wanting to read the daily notes of Emperor Chongzhen and the minutes of the court meeting.

As expected by Emperor Chongzhen, the official historian took Zhu Cihong's request for granted, and told Zhu Cihong clearly: "These materials are all materials that will be sorted out by His Majesty in the future, and His Majesty the Crown Prince cannot take them to read now. .”

After once again admiring his father's foresight, Zhu Cihong went to find Fang Zhenghua and asked for the "Records of Chongzhen" recorded by the expert factory.

Strictly speaking, the "Records of Chongzhen" recorded by the expert factory has no reference value at all. Even after the death of Emperor Chongzhen, when the court wants to revise the official version of "Records of Chongzhen", the price of the "Records" by the expert factory is not worth it. will be used as a reference.

However, Zhu Cihong carefully read the "Records of Chongzhen" written by the expert factory.

However, no matter how Zhu Cihong turned it over and over to read it, in the end, he could see two words from this "Records", eating people.

This is a bloody history of cannibalism, from the beginning when the slaves oppressed Daming, to the later Emperor Chongzhen who brought a large number of horses out to kill people and set fires. All in all, it was cannibalism.

From the Yi tribe, to the massacre of the entire tribe, to the massacre of the city, the recorded history made Zhu Cihong, who had never been exposed to such darkness, feel his heart rise in his throat.

Zhu Cihong always felt that by following the Emperor Chongzhen, he had seen enough darkness and tempered his character, but compared to Emperor Chongzhen, Zhu Cihong just wanted to say that he was still too young.

No matter what, Zhu Cihong couldn't imagine how the Emperor Chongzhen was younger than himself at that time, how cruelly he issued the military orders, massacred cities and exterminated people, and what kind of mood he should have, and sent people to toss out Fushou Ointment, poisonous salt, cottonseed oil and other things that can kill children and grandchildren, and then sell them wantonly to the barbarians.

When seeing all the recent plans about Europe, the cold sweat on Zhu Cihong's forehead has begun to drip non-stop - it's too much, all kinds of conspiracies and tricks can't be found in this "Records" It is more vicious than those recorded in "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and "36 Strategies".

Zhu Cihong has already begun to be very grateful that he is the crown prince of Ming Dynasty. Even Zhu Cihong feels that even if he is an ordinary citizen of Ming Dynasty, he likes to be treated like a human being in "Records".

As for the barbarians in Europe, only two words are used to record the whole process in the entire "Records"-barbarians.

In addition to the word cannibalism, what Zhu Cihong learned most in it was how to govern a country, or how to win the hearts of the people, and how to treat the officials under him.

Zhu Cihong also fell into deep thought after compiling this detailed "Records" that recorded all the decrees and strategies of Emperor Chongzhen from his enthronement to the present.

Judging from the current situation, it is obvious that Emperor Chongzhen meant to train himself to become the next emperor of the Ming Empire. He even allowed himself to read such confidential things as the "Records", and even taught him how to treat the factory guards.

But at the same time, in history, it is not uncommon for him to be treated the same as himself, or even better than himself, such as Liu Shi of the old Liu family.