I am the king of the dead

Zhu Jianji is well aware of his father's heart disease and has no military talent.

This is a knot in his father's heart, and it can even affect the succession of the throne. Zhu Jianji knew that if he showed his military talent early, the emperor might have to move Yi Chu's mind.

Bu Sayin was captured and sent to Daming with guns. Zhu Qiyu didn't know until the news came back to Daming, and he acted for his eldest son!

"Bastard boy!" Zhu Qiyu took the pond newspaper in his hand, slapped the table, walked around angrily, and suddenly stopped and said to Xing'an: "Preaching the decree to Xiyang, let King Chong return to Beijing, how dare you lie to me, look! It's over if I beat him or not, and he kept it from me for 19 years!"

This battle report is too outrageous. Zhu Jianji led 200 people to raid Buzain. What kind of strategy is this?

This is Yuan Bin's tactics!

Who can use this kind of tactics? !Without military talent, dare to do this?

Zhu Jianji has taught martial arts for more than nine years, and his martial arts grades have always been mediocre. Even Lu Zhong, who is in charge of teaching children martial arts, did not realize that Zhu Jianji has such abilities.

Zhu Jianji also has something to say. As far as the historical lessons of the Ming Dynasty are concerned, what is an emperor's heir with military talent?That was when King Yan was alive, and he was in Daming, so there was no room for him to display his military talent.

The more Zhu Qiyu thought about it, the more he was wrong, and said to Xing'an: "I know he has great ambitions, and the foundation I have worked so hard to build, does he just look down on it? I am his shackles, and Daming is his shackles, right? !"

Zhu Qiyu was so angry, he had never been so angry since the death of King Jili.

"Your Majesty, Yu Shaobao wrote a letter to serve as an official." An eunuch holding a pen who was in charge of rituals broke into the Juxian Pavilion in a hurry, and said in panic.

Zhu Qiyu firmly grasped the armrest, and said tremblingly, "Bring me the memorial."

His hands were trembling a little, the veterans had been leaving for the past few years, he spread out the memorial, and he was slightly relieved.

Yu Qian is not sick, but just feels that he is old and lacks energy. He wants to take a break from his official career, unload the burden on his body, and give young people a chance.

"Let me just say, if there is a serious illness, the imperial hospital should report it." Zhu Qiyu held Yu Qian's memorial and heaved a sigh of relief.

Chapter 996 Hu Wei's educational theory, Yu Qian's educational practice

Yu Qian made a memorial to retire from office, that is, to relieve the burden of the Shaobao, and then transfer to the study to educate the emperor's heir.

Wang Wen's education work was not recognized by most of the princes, especially the crown prince of Ming Dynasty, which brought many difficulties to the education work of the emperor's heir. The conflict between teachers and students made Wang Wen a little difficult to handle. After all, he The teaching is for the crown prince, so he can't be beaten or scolded, the key point is that he can't argue with it.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince questioned Wang Wen's lecture.

But it is difficult to refute the things that that unscrupulous flatterer Hu Wei said. When Hu Wei was alive, the courtiers were extremely uncomfortable.

Many topics are slides that can’t be touched. You can’t even talk about it. The prince can talk about it, but Wang Wen can’t.

Wang Wen found Yu Qian, hoping to let go of the errand in the study, and at the same time let go of the chief assistant of the cabinet. Wang Wen is also getting old, and the old party leader is also tired of being crooked. It is better to follow the old friend and be the heir of the Pope together. .

In fact, Yu Qian wanted to go to the study, the most important consideration was that the old party would take risks and attack the prince. After all, the political views expressed by the prince really did not meet the old party's requirements for the emperor. His Majesty the Emperor is gone, and there will be another one. The old party really can't bear the iron fist of the emperor's grace.

After repeated weighing by Zhu Qiyu, Zhu approved Yu Qian's memorial. Yu Qian had been working for the Ming Dynasty for nearly 40 years, and it was time for him to take a break. Anyway, Zhu Qiyu's family members were still there, and if something happened in the court, he could come back at any time.

Yu Qian's official appointment does not mean that Yu Qian has lost his power. As the Duke of Jin, Yu Qian has lost the burden of the court, the burden of the five armies' governor's office, and the burden of the Shang Study Room. Yu Qian is still at the core of the Ming system design power Location.

Who let the emperor see Yu Shaobao as loyal to the country?

It's just that the court situation has been extremely stable, and Yu Qian is getting older, so there is no need to continue to work hard for some unimportant things.

Yu Qian's appointment caused a huge shock inside and outside the court, because his appointment caused a series of personnel transfers. Jiang Yuan, Minister of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty, was also very old, so he chose to become an official and transferred the position of Minister of the Ministry of War to Wang Fu. Wang Wen, a scholar of Zhongji Palace in Wenyuan Pavilion, chose to become an official, and gave up the position of chief assistant of Wenyuan Pavilion to Li Xian who returned to Beijing from Yingtianfu.

This is a major personnel transfer. Many people thought that the court was going to change, but soon the courtiers found that there was no change at all. Yu Qian had retired, but he did not return to his hometown to live idle, let alone leave the core of power.

A courtier loses his civil position, but this courtier can express his opinion on everything when he is with the emperor, and the emperor, the decision-maker, trusts this courtier very much, attaches great importance to his opinion, and his opinion has a very high weight.

Is this a loss of authority?

In the court, Wu Xun, who was born as a Jinshi and had to seal the fire to find the Marquis, grandly occupied the position of Minister of the Ministry of War.

A Governor of Songjiang came to Beijing and firmly controlled Li Binyan, who was in charge of the financial and taxation supervision of the Ming Empire.

Huo Xunhou Wang Fu, Li Binyan, the third envoy, who are these two people?It is synonymous with the simultaneous development of land and sea in Ming Dynasty.

The direction of the court is still as firm as a rock, and the sea and land are still being developed simultaneously, and there has been no fundamental change. It is just that after Yu Qian realized that there was no large-scale war in Ming Dynasty that required the imperial court to organize troops and needed a governor, he resigned from his civil post and went to take care of him. .

Under normal circumstances, Li Xian is regarded as an old party, because his resume is not related to the new party from any point of view, and he also bears the resume of serving in an usurped dynasty. The old party thinks that Li Xian can take over the royal party well text responsibilities.

Then on Li Xian's first day in office, he dealt a heavy blow to the old party.

Li Xian wrote "24 Questions on Financial Affairs of the Great Ming Dynasty" about what he had seen and heard in Nanya in the residence newspaper, clearly expressing his political views.

Li Binyan's "Da Tong Shu" was published in the residence newspaper before entering Beijing, which showed that he had to rely on the holy family to come to Beijing, and no one could stop him.

Li Xian doesn't have so many holy relatives. He talks about methods and methods. He chooses a roundabout way. He seems to be with the old party members. As soon as he enters Beijing, he immediately turns his face and refuses to recognize anyone. , wouldn't that be kneeling down and being Ming Gong?

At that time when Li Xian was driving in Yingtian Mansion, he asked His Majesty seven questions about financial affairs, each of which was directed at the core interests of the old party, including the interests of the big landlord class, the interests of the wealthy and the right, and the interests of the big businessmen. Wealthy class interests.

Li Xian is expressing his political stance. His political stance can be described as a summary of the path dependence of Ming Dynasty in the past 20 years.

Back then, Li Xian prepared a total of 24 questions, but he couldn't continue to ask the seventh one, because Li Xian himself fell into confusion, and the [-] questions for joining the cabinet as the chief assistant this time were the seven questions in the past. extensions and additions.

Li Xian punched the waists of all the old party members. This is a backstab from one of his own people, and the harm can be imagined.

Everyone looked around, and then turned their eyes to Mr. He Zongxian, who covered the sky with his hand. He Zhang gathered a bunch of officials of science and Taoism, and attacked Li Xian. Li Xian had two fatal flaws. One is that he served in the imperial court of Nanya, and the second is that he has a prostitute-born wife, Liu Yuniang.

At that time, everyone was persuading Li Xian not to make Liu Yuniang his wife. Zhou Ji's daughter is young and beautiful. You, a wife who came from the world of fireworks, are unsightly. After overcoming the difficulties in the rebellion of the Yacha Dynasty, isn't it enough to support a lifetime?Do you have to give credit?

But these two fatal flaws can never cause fatal harm to Li Xian. The first question is that His Majesty the Emperor has chosen to forgive Li Xian for his helplessness when he was in Yingtian Mansion. The second question is what His Majesty gave Liu Yuniang. The child took the money with him.

Chaoli was noisy and arguing endlessly, while Li Xian stumbled and sat down in the position of chief assistant of Wenyuan Pavilion.

Everyone saw that the leader of the old party was Zongxian He who had to cover the sky with his hands. Although He Zhang always advertised that he was Hu Wei's disciple, Hu Wei didn't recognize him?

He Zhangcai found it strange that the leader of the old party could not be his turn. Whether it was Shang Ren who was plowing the earth in the Northeast, or Xu Youzhen who was building a canal in Guangxi, the two of them were more suitable.

He Zhang thought so, so he asked Hanlin, editors, and some censors to find Xu Youzhen.

Shang Ren had only been hoeing the earth for four years in the Northeast. According to Shang Ren's own plan, it would take at least 12 years for him to hoe before returning to the dynasty.

Xu Youzhen's canal was well built, and he planned to finish it a year earlier with a lot of hard work, to open his eyes to His Majesty, and when he got another miracle card, he received a transfer order from the imperial court, because all the ministers recommended him to return to the canal. Work in Beijing.

Xu Youzhen didn't hesitate either, and returned to the capital with a memorial to become an official. If he was asked to return to Beijing, he would retire. It is impossible to return to Beijing. Only by repairing water conservancy can he maintain the appearance of Duke Ming.

Xu Youzhen would never spend the night in Beijing unless the body was brought back to the capital for burial in Jinshan Cemetery!

love whoever!

In the end, the old party still twisted and twisted, and found He Zhang.

Wang Fu is the representative of Wu Xun, Li Binyan is the representative of the Labor Party, and Shang Ren is the old party?

not always.

Shang Ren is first of all the imperial party. He changed from Qingliu to an officer to go out with the army and counselor military affairs. It was His Majesty the Emperor who invited Shang Ren to watch a play. He played a trick and dragged Shang Ren from Qingliu into the quagmire. Just follow.

Shang Ren is now cultivating land in the Northeast. He is also a representative of a peasant household when he returns to Beijing. He is a completely different old party from the traditional scholar-officials, landlords, powerful tyrants, wealthy businessmen and other carnivorous class representatives. It is old, but not so old.

What is He Zhang?

After Hu Wei left, He Zhang, Liu Ji, and Yao Kui together constituted the defenders of etiquette and law.

He Zhang was not very interested in this old party leader, but he didn't care about everyone's support for him. In this way, after Yu Qian became an official, the bustling court fell into silence again.

As for Yu Qian himself, he officially took up the post of the upper study.

Then His Royal Highness was taken away from the upper study by Yu Qian, walked out from the desk, walked to the lowest level of the Ming Dynasty, the villages of the Ming Dynasty, went to the village to actually see the lives of the common people, and understand the political operation logic of the Ming Dynasty.

To put it simply, Hu Wei is responsible for the shaping of the basic worldview and the improvement of theoretical knowledge of His Highness the Crown Prince, while Yu Qian is responsible for the practice of His Highness the Crown Prince.

In terms of theory and metaphysics, anyone can say one, two, three, but the practical part, Yu Qian does his part.

Yu Qian led the crown prince to start with the rural production structure in charge of the commanding officers and generals, and from the specific government affairs to the pope's hands, why some decrees seem to be stripping but are actually protection, how to deal with the village How to exchange the agricultural and sideline products and small farmers and low value-added commodities of the farm law for high value-added commodities at a more reasonable price through official shops, and the important role of the farm law volunteers in rural politics...

This process is extremely long, but Zhu Jiancheng is eager to learn the specific practice, and the feelings in his heart are getting more and more.

It is one thing to listen to the truth, another to understand the truth when traveling thousands of miles, and another to solve the problem through practice.

Yu Qian is very satisfied with the studies of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Too much is too much. He is actually not optimistic about Zhu Jianji, the eldest son of the emperor. The fundamental contradictions of the Ming Dynasty are different, and the emperor who is too aggressive is not suitable for the Ming Dynasty, which has taken a big step forward.

"Sir, what do we in the Ming Dynasty fear most?" Zhu Jiancheng asked the question he was most concerned about after many days of practice.

Yu Qian looked at the prince and said quite accurately: "It's neither the party's imprisonment, nor the pursuit of honor and humiliation. What is the Ming Dynasty most afraid of? The most afraid of negligence."

"The party guards, fighting back and forth, at the level of our Ming scholar-bureaucrats, we can't compare with the Song Dynasty scholar-bureaucrats. Who let there be a group of scholar-bureaucrats from military households in the court who just want to do things."

"Praying for glory and humiliation, it's actually nothing. The Han Dynasty has Zhongliang, and the court has failed Zhongliang, Zhongliang still emerges endlessly. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Yue Shaobao regarded death as unfounded. Did the Southern Song Dynasty lack Zhongliang?"

"Your Majesty is very obsessed with this. He would rather plow the world all over the world than let his ministers exchange some interests. In fact, it is unnecessary. Politics is about the exchange of interests. Of course, it is not worthwhile for the ministers to change the Nanya government. Still worth the money."

"Even if His Majesty's prudent and prudent praises and times are actually nothing, the development of the Central Plains Dynasty is always like a herringbone, walking and stopping, up and down, and always going up and down in circles. Climbing, I will go on stage after you sing, there will always be a loop."

"The most feared thing is negligence in government. Many people like to use it in combination, but in the eyes of the minister, the most feared thing is negligence in government."

After so many years, Yu Qian has not changed himself out, he is still of great value, Da Ming has no interest in it, let him change himself out firmly, even if Nan Ya is arrogant to those idiots, it will also change Less than one finger of Yu Qian.

Zhu Jiancheng said quite accurately: "Please teach me, sir."

"The design of Ming Dynasty's government affairs system is extremely reasonable." When Yu Qian talked about this issue, a sharpness appeared on his slightly old face, and he explained the matter very carefully.

How did the system design based on imperial power, or the system design of Emperor Gao of Ming Taizu work?

When something happened in a certain place, the local officials reported it to the court and sent it to the emperor through the Secretary of General Administration. If the emperor felt that it needed to be dealt with by the court, he could choose to approve it himself, or send it to the cabinet for drafting.

Most of the memorials are sent to the cabinet to draw up bills. After the court discusses, the cabinet will draft opinions and send them to the ceremonial supervisor. The ceremonial supervisor believes that the cabinet’s handling will not harm the imperial power. bite.

If the supervisor of ceremonies feels that there is no problem, he will ask the emperor to use the seal, and after the seal is used, it will be distributed to the six departments.

There are six divisions in the six departments. If there is a problem with the six divisions, they will be questioned at the meeting, and then discussed at the court meeting. If the emperor insists on implementing it despite the opinions of the six divisions, the six divisions will Execute the authority to refute the matter and refute the imperial decree of the emperor.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a kind of animal chess. Mice could eat elephants. Among the six subjects, the mouse was the emperor of Ming Dynasty.

The six departments feel that there is no problem in the matter, and there are no omissions or additions. They will be sent to the cabinet, and the cabinet will send them to the six departments for implementation.

In the specific implementation process, the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is responsible for supervising the decree. These censors are hounds that will pounce on and bite when they smell fishy. In order to be promoted extremely boldly, the best way to seek fame is to It means scolding the six ministries, the cabinet, the inspector of ceremonies, and the emperor.

And the censors would even point at the emperor's nose and curse. If the emperor got angry and the emperor beat the court stick, the reputation of the censor would be even greater.

After it is implemented in the local area, the governors of various places will check the implementation of the decree in the local governors. It is their duty to supervise the officials. Listen to the power of the emperor.

If the governor and inspectors are in collusion with local forces, they will not monitor properly.

In the Ming Dynasty, any high-ranking official could write a letter to the imperial court and make a speech. This is called a letter to the court.

There are still scholars with backbone in Ming Dynasty, and there are not a few who are willing to carry the coffin to remonstrate.

For example, in the 44th year of Jiajing, Hai Rui wrote the famous "Zhi Anshu", pointing at the nose of the old Taoist priests in Jiajing and scolding Jiajing: Jiajing Jiajing, when every family was clean and useless, Hai Rui was just a Qing official in Yunnan, the household department of the Ming Dynasty The head of the department is a sixth grade, so he scolded the emperor anyway?

Emperor Jiajing only said one thing, he wants to be Bigan, I am not yet King Zhou of Shang, but he still kept the law and order in the palace for several months, and finally did not kill Hai Rui.

Because Hai Rui was right, this was what made Jiajing the most uncomfortable. Hai Rui was scolding him, because Hai Rui was right, Jiajing couldn't kill him.

Daming's system design can be summed up in one sentence, which is self-correction under the watchful eyes of all.

To a large extent, it can cover the lower limit of the emperor from the system, but when it comes to the emperor Ji Li, who has been fooled through the ages, no system can cover it.

This system is not perfect, but it is the best result of Daming's many struggles.

The most frightening problem with this system is that once the emperor himself no longer handles government affairs, the entire system of Ming Dynasty will immediately fail completely, causing a systemic collapse.

"That is to say, even a dog with a tether and a seal on our throne can maintain basic operations?" Zhu Jiancheng thought for a long time before expressing his doubts.

Yu Qian immediately said furiously: "Nonsense! What are you talking about! What are you talking about!"

"The position of the emperor is very important. From so many opinions, it is very difficult for him to choose one that can be implemented without harming the fundamental opinion. His Royal Highness is the prince, how can he say Such words come!"

Yu Qian was angry, but Zhu Jiancheng was not very scared, because he knew that Yu Qian was afraid that he would neglect his administration after becoming the emperor.

Daming's officialdom is a huge vanity fair. If you want to get ahead here, you are not a simple person. There is no simple person who can fight to the Wenhua Palace and sit in the court.

Zhu Jiancheng just laughed, Yu Qian flicked his sleeves and didn't say much.

In fact, the dog that can be stamped on the throne tie, Da Ming can also stumble and maintain it...

Yu Qian put his hands into his sleeves like an old farmer, and said with flickering eyes: "Recently, a disease called loss of honor has been discovered in the Jiefang Hospital. It is a part of the body that looks like a tree tumor The same, only asking for nutrients, but not doing anything, and eventually the tree died."

"The emperor is responsible for cutting out these tumors, which is the core value of Li Xian's recent 24 questions, the reason why he must be arrogant when he suffers."

"So, the emperor is still very important!"

If there are too many tumors, the tree will die, the tree will grow tumors, people will grow tumors, and the country will also grow tumors. The emperor may not be able to cut off the tumors. If there are too many tumors, the country will naturally perish.

Yu Qian agreed with His Royal Highness King Xiang's words that the Ming Dynasty will eventually perish, but do not be afraid of the subjugation of the country, as long as the civilization does not perish, it is not a big deal.

Chapter 997 Journey to the Great Way, the World is Public

Yu Qian took Zhu Jiancheng along for a long time, and it was not long until the first railway from Beiya to Nanya in Daming was completed, and when the construction of the Pinglu Canal was completed, Yu Qian took Zhu Jiancheng to prepare to return to the capital.

In the spring and February of the 25th year of Jingtai, peach blossoms and pear blossoms were full of trees, white clouds lived in the sky, the ice melted, and the river flowed under the bridge. Yu Qian, who returned to Jining from Luntai City, took 23-year-old Zhu Jiancheng to sit After getting on the Taian No. [-] train, it slowly came towards Xuanfu and Juyongguan.