Xu Huizu looked at Xin Yande and said word by word, "Mr. Xin, you are the number one scholar and the best scholar in the world. You put together the emperor's plan to cut down the vassal kings, withdraw the power to reorganize the military and prepare the guards, etc.!"
Speaking of this, Xu Huizu paused and said, "Don't you see the Emperor's good intentions in streamlining his troops and streamlining his administration?"
Immediately, Xu Huizu said with a bit of sadness, "You are a civil servant, so it is understandable that you can't see it." At this point, he looked at Zhu Yunxi again, "Your Majesty, can I tell you?"
Zhu Yunxi sat on the Arhat bed and waved his hands slightly.
Under Xin Yande's doubtful eyes, Xu Huizu spoke again, "The Ming Dynasty seemed to have elite soldiers and strong generals, but in fact it has begun to show signs of corruption. The arrogance of the lion in hundreds of battles is still there, but the soldiers are mixed. If we don't rectify it,
, I’m afraid we won’t be able to fight in another twenty years!”
"Let me say it again, just counting the old and weak people who were laid off from the border army, there are hundreds of thousands of people. Those people are soldiers when they pick up the sword! They are used to eating white flour steamed buns, can they feel comfortable touching a hoe? Keep it up, for future generations.
If you don’t raise Sun Wuwuji, they will know how to use a knife! They are soldiers, not obedient common people who just have food to eat!”
"It's better to find a place for them now! Let them kill others!"
Xin Yande's pupils suddenly condensed and he stood blankly on the spot.
Xu Huizu's words are correct. Historically, the reason why the Northern Army led by Zhu Di was able to defeat the Southern Army of the Jianwen court again and again was not simply because the generals were incompetent and exhausted the three armies. It was because most of the Southern Army was too comfortable and lost the founding heroes of the Ming Dynasty.
The fierceness of a lion.
Zhu Di was able to conduct five expeditions outside the Great Wall after the Jingnan, because the Jingnan he launched was equivalent to a complete reshuffling of the military system, guard posts, generals, etc. left over from the Hongwu period.
"Wei Guogong's words still leave some room!"
In the Palace of Qianqing, Zhu Yunxi spoke calmly, his voice seemed not loud, but it kept lingering in Xin Yande's ears.
"This time Cao Guogong Li Jinglong went north along Huaibei to inspect various military posts, and the reports he reported to me were shocking!" Zhu Yunxi sighed, "Many of the guard posts are simply rotten to the core. The military attaches who should be leading troops in battle have become landlords.
Sir, Huben, who should be ready for the future, has become a tenant and a long-term laborer!"
"If this evil trend is not cured, it will become an incurable disease of the Ming Dynasty!"
As he spoke, Zhu Yunxi sighed, "You have seen the suffering of the people, but I, sitting on the dragon throne, saw the decline of the Ming Dynasty the next day!"
"Everyone else thinks that the old man left me a beautiful and peaceful country." Zhu Yunxi smiled bitterly, "But who can see how many crises are hidden behind this beauty?"
"Back then, the emperor said that I could raise a million soldiers without wasting a grain of rice for the people. But the fact is that a large amount of land is in the hands of the guards, and the generals of the guards are hereditary. It was originally a farmland for raising soldiers, but it has almost become the private property of the generals.
Tian. Moreover, the court also throws in huge amounts of money and food every year! To feed countless cysticercosis vampires!"
"Last year, I changed all the military commanders in all parts of the Ming Dynasty. This year, I abolished all the vassals of the Ming Dynasty. In order to nip these stubborn diseases in the future in the bud!"
"Separating the military and political affairs in the border areas and redistributing the land will not only retain combatable troops for the country, but also increase revenue and reduce expenditure for the country."
"I feel like walking on thin ice when carrying out such a reform, and I am even more frightened. Because I know that in the so-called reform, there must be people who will suffer harm to themselves because of my reform. There are not one or two such people, but countless!
"
"You think I don't have the people in my heart? Can't you see what you said? I see not only the people, but also the entire Ming Dynasty and the future of the Ming Dynasty!"
"I know that if I do nothing but be an emperor who is not too mediocre, the Ming Dynasty will surely reach its peak in another twenty-three years!"
"Is it really prosperous? The so-called prosperous times in the past and present are the prosperity brought about by the population growth after the world is in chaos, right? But what happens after the prosperity? The prosperity will soon decline!"
"If these messes are not dealt with in the Ming Dynasty, the army will be ruined and the government will be ruined. After the population increases, a large amount of land will be in the hands of the army and the vassal kings. Where will the people go to farm?"
"Then, the bright Ming Dynasty will follow the old path of history! From the founding of the country to prosperity, from strength to illness, and then waiting to die!"
As he spoke, Zhu Yunxi sighed, sighing heavily.
"I want to see a century-old plan! I know that sometimes I am too impatient, hasty, and even cruel. But you don't know, you don't know... changes that have not happened in three thousand years...
..”
After saying that, Zhu Yunxi sighed again and looked at Xin Yande with a wry smile, "The ancients said that those who are willing to fight will tolerate death, but those who forget to fight will perish! I have repeatedly used troops against the surrounding small countries to seize territories that are useless in your eyes, just to give us the Ming Dynasty.
Leave more escape routes!"
"I..." He said, Zhu Yunxi slowly took off his gauze crown, "I am not a wise and mighty king, nor am I a holy lord who has not been born for five hundred years. I can only do as much as possible,
If I do more, future generations will have an easier time!"
He did not come to this world simply to be an emperor.
He knew that in the coming wave of the world, the land of Xia would sink and rise in the next few hundred years.
But as a time traveler, knowing the future does not mean you are invincible.
He was also confused, worried, and frightened, even tossing and turning every night.
He is helpless, confused, and even a little at a loss.
But he cannot and dare not forget his mission!
Maybe he is not right, but if he does nothing, it must be wrong!
"Stronger troops and simpler administration!" Zhu Yunxi continued in a low voice, "If you do these four words well first, then other things can be done smoothly with twice the result with half the effort. I am not afraid to tell you that this is just the beginning. When these things are finished, I will take drastic measures and make everything smoother."
All the things you took for granted in the past have been changed!"
"The reform will offend people, and a large number of people with vested interests will hate me, and I'm not afraid. The reform will not only affect those with interests, but will even affect countless innocent ordinary people, and I'm afraid!"
"So, what I can do is to minimize these conflicts and move them away just like moving a vassal state! Maybe in my generation, others think that I am being aggressive. But what I want is that in a few decades, the descendants of Zhongxia will be all over the universe.
, the place with the sun and moon is the Ming Dynasty.”
"I am... opening up a living space for us people in the Ming Dynasty a hundred years from now! Do you understand?"
Suddenly, a gust of wind rushed in.
The lights in the hall jumped violently, illuminating half of Zhu Yunxi's face.
"Look!" Zhu Yunxi smiled and opened his temples, "Xin Aiqing, look at my temples, there are a lot of white hairs!"
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty!" Xin Yande kowtowed heavily and cried loudly.
"Don't cry! You're right. As a censor, you are very competent and what you say makes sense!" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile, "It's just that sometimes what you see is different from what I see!"
, sighed, "I am not a saint, and it is impossible not to make mistakes. What Ming Dynasty needs is someone like you who dares to remonstrate to death!"
"Your Majesty!" Xin Yande cried loudly, "You will get a bad name if you do this!"
Yes, infamy!
He used troops against foreign countries many times, and he was the king of Guizhou soldiers and military force.
Domestic reforms, revolutionizing those privileged classes, and offending those with vested interests are tyrants.
A king who is both violent and mean will probably be scolded even more than the old man!
"Infamy!" Zhu Yunxi smiled, looked at the lights in the palace, and murmured, "If you want to rule the country and make history, it's hard to say that the infamy is rolling in behind you! Infamy, let it be!"