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Chapter 406: Only fear, no grace

Shen Shixing's idea was really overthinking. Zhu Changluo would definitely not replace the cabinet master at this time.

After all, he has been in charge of the country for a short time and his wings are not yet full.

For Zhu Changluo, a rash replacement, it is completely harmful to more than good.

Moreover, whether it is Shen Shixing or Wang Xijue in the current cabinet, there is more or less awe of him.

If, at this time, the Minister of the Zhu Kingdom was replaced because of a few rumors, Zhu Changluo would really become a monkey-baboon (destroyed).

Therefore, Zhu Changluo would not do the matter of replacing people in the cabinet, especially now.

What he needs now is stability and obedience. As long as the court is stable, the rest of the matter will be easy to deal with.

If one or two people who are not very obedient, they will be unhappy when they see him, the regent of the crown prince, and they will be advised by all officials all day long, and look like a righteous and moral gentleman, and then the passive will be Zhu Changluo.

Because, even a hundred Zhu Changluo can't talk about a scholar like this.

If Zhu Changluo could not hold back his temper and move his sword at this time, he did not have the tiger and wolf army in the hands of Emperor Chengzu, nor did he have the mass base for the people to be kind to the people for decades after Emperor Taizu founded. However, in the current Ming Dynasty, internal conflicts are extremely great, and the people at the bottom are only afraid of the Ming Dynasty and have no kindness.

At that time, the sound of the scholars gathered around the world soared into the sky! Zhu Changluo may have to be a copy of Louis XVI or Emperor Jianwen.

After all, most ordinary people follow blindly, so they don’t care that everything Zhu Changluo did is for them. They only believe in the facts they heard and see, and think that Zhu Changluo may be the tyrant butcher.

After calming down Shen Shixing's mood, Zhu Changluo couldn't help but put his thoughts on the Korean battlefield.

If nothing unexpected happens, this massive Japanese war of invasion of North Korea should end at some point next year.

However, this hasty ending was definitely not caused by the Ming army being too strong and the North Korean resistance was fierce.

The key to this aggressive war of aggression was that Toyotomi Hideyoshi suddenly died.

As for how Toyotomi Hideyoshi died, history has given several hypotheses. Among them, there is a nonsense hypothesis that Toyotomi Hideyoshi was poisoned by the envoy of the Ming Dynasty.

However, if you understand this hypothesis by touching your mind, it will definitely not stand.

However, this hypothesis also opened up a new idea.

After all, in history, after Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death, the Tokugawa family came to power. After Tokugawa came to power, he had no good comments on his former boss Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Therefore, with a bold assumption and careful verification mentality, Zhu Changluo felt that Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death might have nothing to do with the Tokugawa family.

Therefore, the next key point of using it is to exaggerate that Toyotomi Hideyoshi might be poisoned.

As for this "rumor", whether Toyotomi Hideyoshi can listen to it is left to fate.

Anyway, his death too early has affected Zhu Changluo's strategy, but it will definitely not affect the final result.

And this is the time traveler's confusing self-confidence!

Therefore, when knowing the historical result, Zhu Changluo still had to make some arrangements in advance. Otherwise, when the Korean War ends, the Ming army returns in triumphally, and North Korea is still North Korea, and the Ming Dynasty is still the Ming Dynasty. So what is the significance of this war?

Such a result is obviously not something that Zhu Changluo can accept.

He believed that since it was a war and a victory, in addition to face, the inner world must also be needed.

Otherwise, after so much effort, a war of being sent to a good person card would not be in line with Zhu Changluo's time traveler thinking.

As we all know, time travelers are aggressive and are definitely not good people. Even if they are beautified, they cannot change the essence of time travelers regarding interests as the fundamental nature.

Since he was worried that Toyotomi Hideyoshi would not be useful, Zhu Changluo must think of other ways to continue to maintain this war.

So, this is where Zhu Changluo's room was discussed in the cabinet today with Shen Shixing and Li Chengliang.

During the time of use, this idea was definitely not Zhu Changluo's idea that he had just started to think about it.

When the second Korean War began, Zhu Changluo was thinking about using it.

It’s just that the state of war has always been different and stable, and the Ming Dynasty’s intelligence agencies are severely stagnant, so there is no such elite agent who is proficient in speech and good at hiding.

Therefore, the thoughts of using the system can only be thought about in Zhu Changluo's mind.

However, now it is different. The two Japanese pirates entered North Korea to fight, which gave Zhu Changluo two chances.

On the first time, Zhu Changluo ordered Wei Zhongxian to arrange personnel to lurk in various parts of North Korea, integrate into the lives of local people, and learn the language and living habits of the Koreans.

On the second time, Japanese pirates plundered the Korean population to the main island of Japan, which also led to a large number of spy seeds being indirectly brought to the country of Japan.

Now, after more than half a year of war, these Koreans who were plundered by Japanese pirates have gradually integrated into the Japanese pirate group.

Although they will still be monitored by Japanese pirates on the island, these plundered Koreans are still free in their daily lives.

They were assigned to the daimyos under Toyotomi Hideyoshi and lived as slaves.

However, their lives were not threatened too much.

There are two reasons why the Japanese pirates on the island are so "civilized".

First, Japan also belongs to the East Asian cultural circle. They were deeply influenced by the Confucian thoughts of the Tang and Song dynasties, especially the aristocratic class in Japan. They often took pride in using the Han rituals. Moreover, they also invented their own writings with Chinese characters from the Tang and Song dynasties. Therefore, from the cultural roots, they are subordinate to East Asian culture. For Koreans who are also in the East Asian cultural circle, they naturally tend to act arrogantly, making the Koreans feel inferior in front of them.

The second is because of the shortage of people. In ancient times, labor was extremely scarce. Whether it was the nomadic people in the north of the desert or the agricultural civilization in the Central Plains, they were extremely scarce. Even the Ming Dynasty, which now has nearly 200 million people, is still short of people.

Therefore, in order to make up for the problems caused by the shortage of people, those relatively small nations and countries often like to do something that is to plunder the population and enrich themselves.

However, there are different places from the nomadic peoples in the grassland.

When the nomadic peoples in the grassland attacked and merged each other, they would kill some adult men and only kidnap women and children in order to simply expand the tribal population. However, Japanese pirates are different. Japanese pirates want everything. Don’t look at them without a lower limit when they do evil at sea, and they are extremely vicious.

However, in the core, Japanese pirates who were scarce from the sea and had a strong learning spirit.

The Koreans who were captured by them on the island would not be killed easily, but instead learn the skills of the Koreans in a learning manner to enrich their national skills. Just like the Tao Zu Li Shenping of the famous Japanese ceramic brand Aritaya, it was established by the potters who were abducted by Japanese pirates when they invaded North Korea.

It can be seen how terrible the Japanese pirates are.

On the one hand, they are cruel and inhumane, and on the other hand, they lower their attitude and study hard.

Like a wolf or a fox, cunning and cruel, and at the same time polite, not ashamed to ask questions. When it is time to admit defeat, it is not vague at all. If you say you call your father, you should call him dad. No wonder such a nation can stir up the storm in modern history.

It's really a miracle in evolution.

Zhu Changluo finally kept Shen Shixing and Li Chengliang and said something else.

This matter is in Jixian.

Ji County is not very crowded, but its geographical location is very important. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the northern gate of Beijing.

Therefore, the court's attention to Jixian was quite high.

The new Jixian County Magistrate is one of the most important positions in terms of rank.

The current Jixian County Magistrate is Zhang Cheng, the former Censor of the Censorate.

Zhang Cheng is now known to everyone in the capital. Of course, he is not the traitor Zhang Cheng who instigated Emperor Wanli to collect mining taxes, and Zhang Cheng is still guarding the ancestors of Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty on the high walls of Fengyang.

This Zhang Cheng was written together with Wang Jin and Li Dexian to praise the merits of Emperor Wanli, and thus received Zhang Cheng's commendation from Emperor Wanli.

Now, the career of the three of them can be said to have reached the top.

The original seventh-rank censors have now become upstarts in the court. In terms of Zhang Cheng, he is now a sixth-rank official.

If he followed his original life trajectory, he would have been a seventh-rank official in his life without any support from noble people and no talent.

But now it’s different. Not only has he been supported by noble people, he has also been valued.

He served as the magistrate of Jixian County as the sixth rank. At that time, everyone knew that His Royal Highness attached great importance to Jixian County. When Jixian was just reborn from a town, countless lower-level officials who were determined to go further were thinking about ways to become the magistrate of Jixian County.

Unfortunately, Ji County was still earned by Zhang Cheng in the end.

At that time, the officials who were desperate to find a way out were envious.

Because, in their opinion, now serving as the magistrate of Ji County is equivalent to entering the fast lane of the career of officialdom. If you do well, you will be favored by His Royal Highness in minutes, and you will be no problem to rise to the top of the world from now on.

In fact, this is true. After Zhang Cheng became the magistrate of Ji County, he was not called Ji County in the official documents written to Ji County by the court, but Ji County Magistrate.

Although this is just a question of title, the tricks are so big.

The magistrate, the chief official of any small town and county can be called the magistrate.

However, the county magistrate is different.

County magistrates are ancient names. Although, in their usual titles, the magistrates in many places are also called county magistrates, this is actually incorrect.

In the Ming Dynasty, it followed the Song system and the Song system. The county-level chief was called "County Magistrate", abbreviated as the magistrate. In the Yuan Dynasty, it was changed to the county magistrate. However, this title of Lao Zhu did not recognize it, so Lao Zhu jumped into the same style, followed the Song system, and claimed that the Han people were orthodox.

As a result, it seemed that one word was missing, so the official title of the grassroots county magistrate of the Ming Dynasty was designated as the magistrate.

Therefore, the magistrate is the official title of the county magistrate of the Ming Dynasty.

However, when it comes to Zhang Cheng, it is different.

In the official documents of the court, he was called the county magistrate, and there is something to say about it.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, there was a customization: those with more than 10,000 households in the county were county magistrates; those with less than 10,000 households were county magistrates. Moreover, before the county system was established, the county magistrates were directly under the rule of the king.

From this we can see that the title of county magistrate has a very high value.

Zhang Cheng, the county magistrate, is not only a high-ranking rank, but also has rights that other magistrates have never had. For example, he can directly skip the Tongzhengsi memorial to the Crown Prince.

Even many minister-level officials may not necessarily receive such treatment.
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