The king and his ministers exchanged greetings for a moment, but everyone knows that since they are kings and ministers, it is impossible to continue such endless greetings.
Zhu Youzing's face soon became serious and said lightly: "I had the will before that, the prince was young. If I really wanted to leave, he and his mother, the orphan and widowed mother, will have cumbersome state affairs, and I am afraid that the prince will not be able to take on it."
"So I specially left a few people to assist in the administration and ordered Xiao Jing to take charge of the harem. Xiao Jing is loyal and has assisted several late emperors. He is a steady person and does not like to be open-minded. He asked him to take charge of the affairs of the harem, so that their orphans and widows will have no worries."
Zhu Youtang paused and continued: "The three bachelors in the cabinet, Liu Jianshan, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian, were good at plotting, these three were all capable people. If they were in charge of the cabinet, there would be no trouble. The three of them had different personalities, but overall, they were quite loyal."
It is quite a bit of the word, Zhu Youzhe used it very cleverly. This word shows that Zhu Youzhe knew people well and was better than anyone else. Whether it was Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, loyalty is loyalty, but they also have their own calculations. Confucianism advocates monarch, minister, minister, father, son, son, but in reality, what if monarch and minister meet father and son? Everyone is not isolated. Every minister has his own family, and every family has his own interests behind it. What if the interests of the country are contrary to the interests of the family?
It is precisely because of this that there is a distinction between public and private. In the face of family interests and national interests, most people obviously tend to be the former, because family is a continuation of family affection and bloodline, and family and country must be too far away. The reason why these ministers in the court use the four words of loyalty to describe it is because no one can guarantee what choice they will make once public and private interests conflict.
In fact, it is hard to say about other ministers. Zhu Youzhang, the three major ministers in the cabinet, still believed that they could put the country first, but don’t forget that in addition to the distinction between public and private, there is another interest for the court officials, that is, the interests of imperial power and civil officials. One is imperial power and the other is official power. It seems that there is no difference. One prospers and one prospers and one loss, but in fact, there is a huge difference between the middle. The imperial power and the official power have actually been maintaining a situation of fighting and not breaking since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. When Taizu was there, the official power was suppressed tightly, and officials were not as good as death. Taizu would deal with anyone he wanted to deal with, and he would kill whoever he wanted to deal with. The officials were in a panic and frightened manner.
By the time of Emperor Wen, official power still did not gain the upper hand, but its status gradually changed.
By the time of Renzong, Renzong was generous and quite wise, and seemed to be pretty good to officials. It was precisely because of this. The civil servant group jumped up. After all, the emperor was not omnipotent, and the emperor could not take care of everything. For people like Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, it was nothing to be energetic. However, by the time of Renzong, civil servants had begun to extend their hands into many areas of imperial power. One of the most direct changes was that the cabinet ministers who were originally secretary gradually came to the forefront and became the center of the world. You should know that during the time of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, the cabinet was just a secretarial institution, and the cabinet ministers were humble. Although they could always approach the emperor, the emperor was the one who made the decision. They did not have the right to choose, but were only responsible for some copywriting work.
After Renzong, the situation became uncontrollable, and civil servants became more and more powerful, so that political affairs were all due to the cabinet. Not only that, the cabinet not only began to manage government affairs, but also began to be responsible for the promotion of officials, but even began to manage military affairs. The emperor gradually became a decoration, not a decoration, but also a target of civil servants playing with them at will. For example, some officials were beautiful concubines and had a grand family, but once the emperor had the idea of ​​star-spotting or repairing the palace, he continued to criticize him.
It is logical that the emperor was not very kind to choose the show and repair the palace, but the civil servants were so well-off that everyone was eating fat and big ears. They were drunk under the beauties, but they also had to tell the emperor righteously what to do. This clearly means that they only allowed the officials to set fire to the people and not the people to light the lamp.
So the emperors were unwilling to bear it, so a game of power struggle began to take place in the court. Since the emperor had no choice but to take advantage of the civil servants, he simply promoted the eunuchs and asked the eunuchs to deal with these civil servants. With the support of the emperor, the eunuchs gradually started to play a tug-of-war with the civil servants. Today you have the upper hand, and tomorrow the civil servants will win another game, and things have changed until the Hongzhi Dynasty.
Zhu Youcheng decided to truce. The reason why he truce was not to compromise with the civil servants, but because Zhu Youcheng had one ability - diligence.
In other words, Zhu Youzhang asked the eunuchs to go to the side to play with mud, not to be at the mercy of others, but to think that he had enough ability to deal with civil servants. The facts proved that he was right. Zhu Youzhang was very capable. He wrote red memorials tirelessly from early morning to dark every day. Every matter of big and small in the court could not escape his eyes. He kicked the eunuchs aside to ease the conflict with civil servants, but at the same time, he used his tireless and abundant physical strength to block the tentacles of the civil servants' reaching the imperial power.
In fact, this interest relationship is simple, it is actually very simple. The emperor is not omnipotent, so civil officials need to share these rights. In order to suppress civil officials, eunuchs roll up their sleeves and stand up. The premise of all this is that most emperors are lazy, and lazy is easy to be implicated. Generally, lazy emperors are not willing to be implicated, so they adopt the method of decentralization and distribute a considerable portion of the power to eunuchs. From the beginning to the end, the emperor and civil officials are both partners and enemies. Eunuchs are enemies of life and death to civil officials, and they are also tools of the emperor. This messy relationship is based on the emperor's laziness. What if the emperor is diligent and wise?
If every emperor was like Zhu Youzhang, the eunuch would not be of much use. Zhu Youzhang just said that he had just seen the relationship here clearly. He knew that he was a strange man and could not produce one in a century, so he could suppress the civil servants without the help of eunuchs, and let the cabinet return from a central organization of military and political affairs in the world to the status of a secretariat. However, he knew what his son was. No matter how smart Zhu Houzhao was, he would not be able to be as diligent as he did.
But what Zhu Youzhang said was very clear just now. Xiao Jing was just acting in the harem. In other words, he knew the disadvantages of letting eunuchs come out and letting them be the emperor's regime. Although eunuchs are the tools of the emperor, they are also very harmful, because although these guys are devoted to the palace and are not very reliable, they use later words to say that doing things is too rough. What is rough? Civilians attack political enemies by sneaking into the night with the wind and moistening things silently. The least skillful method is also to proceed step by step. First, to tame opponents, then the righteousness.
He stood up and criticized him in a stern manner, and finally he was disgraced. As for corruption, bribery, unconditional lifestyle, or unfilial, in short, he first gained moral prevailing first, and then slowly cleaned up. But the eunuchs, although the eunuchs have something in mind, most of the book reads their own butts. They do whatever they do, and they are extremely inferior in their actions. They don’t need to collect evidence. They just let the factory guards take people first, fabricate the crimes at will and then torture them severely, and don’t worry that you are not convinced.
It is precisely because of this roughness that the eunuch's reputation is very bad. Not only is it smelly, but the eunuch's power is too great, which may even cause turmoil in the court.
So Zhu Youting's political will exclude the eunuchs from the core of rights, but the contradictions arose. Since the prince cannot be so diligent, Zhu Youting does not want eunuchs to interfere in politics. In the future, the prince will be the country, so how can we ensure that the interests in the palace are not violated?
Zhu Youzhang looked at Liu Chengfeng deeply: "In addition to the inner palace and cabinet, there is also the Duke Cheng who is in charge of Jiangnan. My original idea was to ask you to assist the prince. You have always had the opportunity to make a relationship with the prince. You are also a royal relative. I plan to let you assist the government. In this way, I will have no regrets."
The meaning of this sentence is actually very simple. Zhu Youcheng thought of a solution. Since you can't use the prince, then use Liu Chengfeng. In terms of emotions, it is not necessary to say that Liu Chengfeng and Zhu Houzhao have a relationship, even if they are biological brothers. At the same time, Liu Chengfeng is also a royal relative, and his interests are definitely consistent with the palace. Liu Chengfeng will never turn against the side of the cabinet. More importantly, Liu Chengfeng is not very capable, that is, in the funeral arranged by Zhu Youcheng for the prince, Liu Chengfeng is the core figure. Liu Chengfeng will replace the past eunuchs and become the most important person to check and balance the cabinet and civil servants. As long as he is here, he can not let the horses eat grass, and not let the horses be fathers, and ensure the interests of the royal family.
In fact, there is another deeper reason why Zhu Youzhang chose Liu Chengfeng, because of Liu Chengfeng's personality. Liu Chengfeng's personality is a bit tough, and hard people will inevitably offend others. In recent years, Liu Chengfeng has almost offended all the civil and military officials in the court. Today, it is not a conflict with this one, but tomorrow it is incompatible with that one. In other words, when Liu Chengfeng checks and balances the civil servant group and even other interest groups, aren't these people checking and balancing Liu Chengfeng?
So with Liu Chengfeng here, Zhu Youting felt that he was enough to rest assured. From this point of view, Zhu Youting is indeed a scheming person. Before he died, he had already thought about everything that would be in the future.
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