Zhu Biao put down his tea cup and said seriously to Li Shanchang: "It doesn't matter if we push Hu Weiyong to come to power. After all, my father also likes this person very much. But after Prime Minister Li retires, you should stay away from him and don't have any contact with him anymore."
Li Shanchang was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly thought of the topic he discussed with the prince last time, and then thought of Zhu Yuanzhang's character.
Li Shanchang stood up and bowed to Zhu Biao: "Old minister, thank you His Highness the Crown Prince for your advice. I am almost in danger of losing my life this evening."
Zhu Biao stretched out his hand to help him and said: "Li Xiang, just think about it. You have worked hard all your life, so why worry about it anymore? After you return to the hospital, you will have glory and wealth waiting for you."
Li Shanchang is a sensible person, Xiao He needs to defile himself in order to protect himself, not to mention Li Shanchang. If a person wants to stand up in the world, he has to be shrewd.
However, shrewdness and skills vary from person to person and from place to place, and sometimes one cannot be too smart. It is not uncommon for such people to be "clever by their cleverness." There are countless people in history books who are too square and win the hearts of the people and lead to death.
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When dealing with others, don’t show off your intelligence everywhere. When necessary, you should not only attribute your intelligence to others, but also be good at damaging your own image and showing a look of "great wisdom but foolishness". You would rather suffer a loss or be reviled by others at the time.
Protect yourself and avoid getting into trouble.
Li Shanchang sighed in his heart, it seemed that after retirement, he would have to have several concubines.
Zhu Biao looked at him and comforted him: "Li Qi is not bad. I heard that his knowledge has also improved a lot. Let him go with me to Shanxi to deal with the relocation matters."
Li Shanchang hurriedly thanked him. This meant that the prince was ready to accept Li Qi as a vassal of the East Palace. This was a great kindness to the Li family.
After Li Shanchang felt confident, he said: "General Huaixi has many good talents in his family, and they will all be His Highness's subordinates in the future. Why don't we bring them all over this time."
Zhu Biao smiled, saying that it is easy to talk to smart people. He expressed his goodwill to protect the Li family. Naturally, Li Shanchang should reciprocate. Zhu Biao is not young now, and he should have a group of real team members.
Among those scholars, Zhu Biao felt that there was hardly anyone with great potential, so he could only turn his attention to the noble disciples.
The Huaixi nobles must be suppressed and a group of restless ones must be eliminated, but those who remain must still be retained.
How could Zhu Biao not know that by suppressing the nobility, civil servants would easily lose checks and balances? Wasn't the Song Dynasty a system of using civility and military power, which led to a series of consequences.
The Ming Dynasty in history was not because of the system, but because of Zhu Yuanzhang's founding and Zhu Di's peace, as well as a series of foreign wars. These wars gave birth to a large number of famous generals and meritorious families. At this time, military generals were very important to both the emperor and the government.
It has great influence. If it develops normally, the influence of the generals group will gradually decrease, and the influence of the civilian officials will gradually increase, but this change will only be subtle.
With the stability of government and the reduction of wars, military commanders will inevitably face the problem of reduced voice. After all, governing the world still relies on civil rule, and war decision-making power will gradually be transferred to civilian hands. This is the general trend.
However, the status of military generals in the Ming Dynasty has not been weakened too much. After all, the lessons of the Song Dynasty are right in front of us. The previous emperors of the Ming Dynasty raised their nobles in honor. Although the military generals did not do anything, they relied on the emperor's blessing.
Not afraid of the civil servants, the two sides just checked and balanced each other, until the Tumu Fort Incident happened.
The Tumubao Incident directly resulted in the death of a large number of elite troops, including dozens of military generals including the famous general Zhang Fu, a veteran of the four dynasties, and the general group suffered heavy losses.
What's even more fatal is that the subsequent defense of Beijing was completed under the command of civilian officials headed by Yu Qian. The problem was that it was successful, which directly led to a great shock to the reputation of the civilian group. The general group was reshuffled after experiencing the Jing Dynasty.
And after the blow of the Tumubao Incident, its influence was greatly reduced.
After that, there were many phenomena of military generals commanding troops and civilian officials serving as commanders. For example, Wang Yangming quelled the rebellion of King Ning, and Hu Zongxian annihilated the Japanese pirates. These intensified the shift of war decision-making power closer to civilian officials.
Later, when a second-grade military general encountered a seventh-grade civil servant, he would often dismount his horse and salute to avoid him. Prince Shaobao Qi Jiguang wrote a letter to Zhang Juzheng, a civil servant of the same grade, calling himself a "stooge".
Injustice between civil and military officials is never a good thing. Zhu Biao can tolerate that the civilian officials are half a level older than the military attachés. After all, the threat of rebellion by the military attaches is much greater than that of the civilian officials. Necessary weakening is necessary, and this is also to protect them.
But it won't work like it did in history. If military attachés have no future, then they will still be willing to join the army and serve the country. Everyone can just take the imperial examination. Anyway, becoming a military general is far inferior to being a small censor.
Moreover, Zhu Biao planned to establish a cabinet as the goal of civilian officials, so the military commanders must also have an organization similar to the Military Aircraft Department, where civil and military forces stand side by side without interfering with each other, and conflicts between them are controlled by the emperor.
The martial arts examinations should also be held, which will also give the people another way out. If reading the Four Books and Five Classics is not enough, practicing martial arts and learning military tactics can also be used to honor the ancestors, and in the future, military officers and soldiers must be allowed to refer to it.
Zhu Biao nodded and said: "It's just that Prime Minister Li also knows that I rarely go out of the palace, and I am not very familiar with the generals' children. Can you please recommend me to Prime Minister Li?"
The selection of the team is not something that can be done casually. If their father and brother are not smart, they will inevitably be implicated in the future, and Zhu Biao does not want to waste his energy in training people who are destined to die.
Zhu Biao's status is too high. Even among the Huaixi nobles, only a few big bosses can attract his attention. Zhu Biao doesn't know the character of the rest. As the leader of Huaixi, Li Shanchang naturally knows best.
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Li Shanchang stroked his beard and thought for a while. The current situation is still quite complicated. Hu Weiyong has taken over a lot of his connections and has become brothers with several of the generals. These people have average minds and are unlikely to die well. Naturally, their descendants cannot
Recommended to His Highness.
Li Shanchang finally named more than a dozen names, including some whose families had lower titles but were die-hard loyalists. These people were similar to Ma Nanshan in that they were not bright-minded, but they were all willing to die for the Zhu family.
Zhu Biao nodded with satisfaction. His favorite person, Li Shanchang, had already recommended him, which meant that he was really good.
While the two were talking, Liu Jintong's voice came from outside. It turned out that it was Hu Weiyong who came to pay homage to Li Shanchang. He did not expect Zhu Biao to be here, but he was already here, so naturally he wanted to pay homage to His Highness the Crown Prince.
Li Shanchang looked at him, Zhu Biao nodded, and Li Shanchang said loudly: "Let Hu Weiyong come in to meet the prince."
Liu Jin outside agreed as soon as he heard this. He also knew that without Zhu Biao's signal, the prime minister could not make the decision.
After a while, Hu Weiyong came in, straightened his clothes and immediately fell down towards Zhu Biao: "I see His Highness the Crown Prince, Your Highness Qianqiu."
Zhu Biao did not ask him to get up immediately, but said: "I just passed by the palace and heard you arguing with Yang Xian. You are both important officials of the imperial court. How can you behave in public!"
Hu Weiyong did not defend himself, but immediately bowed his head and said, "I am guilty, please punish me, Your Highness."
Zhu Biao nodded with satisfaction. If he told him whether this matter was right or wrong, Zhu Biao would be disappointed.