Chapter 314 Hold the gun first, then play with the pen, so that you can do things better!
Chapter 314: First hold the gun, then use the pen, so that things can be done easily!
"As long as our Ming Dynasty exists in this world, this kind of founding military parade must go on. I want all the people in the world, current and future people of the Ming Dynasty, to know it, and let everyone remember what day my Ming Dynasty is.
To build a country, we must let everyone in the world understand that our Ming Dynasty can be so powerful today. In addition to benevolence and righteousness, we also need strong and brave soldiers of the Ming Dynasty to protect the peace and tranquility of our country." Zhu Qizhen has a strong hand.
He waved towards the city gate downstairs, and suddenly there was a flood of shouts of long live. This made Zhu Qizhen feel a little elated. Although it is impossible for a person to really live a long life, even if he wants to imitate the old bastard, he will live a long life.
It's impossible even for a thousand years.
However, the feeling of being warmly cheered and supported was so refreshing. It made Zhu Qizhen feel like he was a superstar in future generations, standing on a huge stage and accepting the cheers and cheers of those crazy star-chasers.
Shouting and worshiping.
"Your Majesty, the Holy Ming, should indeed let the people of the world know when the Ming Dynasty was founded and why we won the world." Shi Heng also stood up and replied loudly,
"Every year on Yihai, the first lunar month, it will be the founding day of the Ming Dynasty, which is called...National Day." Zhu Qizhen said the name carefully, but did not see any weird reactions from these people.
, but they all had a look of approval on their faces. This made Zhu Qizhen stunned. Could it be that in this era, there is also a high-tech holiday called National Day?
At this time, Hu Ming, who was the Minister of Rites, stroked his long beard and nodded repeatedly: "Your Majesty, the National Day has been mentioned since the Western Jin Dynasty. The old minister remembers that Lu Ji once mentioned it in his article "On the Five Classes of Princes"
There is a record of 'National Day is about its own benefits, and it is important not to worry about its harm'. Whenever a new emperor ascends the throne, the day of his enthronement is also the National Day."
"...However, Your Majesty is benevolent and filial, and this festival is held to remember Emperor Taizu. It is really a tribute to the ministers and others." After Hu Yin, the Minister of Rites, cited a lot of scriptures, he changed the subject and subdued Zhu Qi.
The date of this National Day is fixed on Yihai in the first lunar month, which is regarded as an excellent slogan to promote the Confucian concept of filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and faith.
Listening to the flattery of the hundreds of officials on the city gate building being thrown at him like free recommendation votes, Zhu Qizhen couldn't help but feel a dizzy sense of accomplishment. He really hit it by mistake.
I have gained another reputation for myself. Naturally, the more reputation I have, the better.
You must know that now that I have achieved military success, at least the general soldiers of the border towns have followed me in fighting on the grassland for more than half a year. They must be regarded as my hardcore subordinates. It can be said that I am already within the military.
A solid foundation has been laid. Of course, the relationship between those nobles who are inextricably linked to the military and themselves is also very close.
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The only thing that makes me most afraid and finds it difficult to deal with is the civil servant group of the Ming Dynasty. Most of them have ruined their brains by reading. They open their mouths all day long to say Confucius and shut up what Mencius said. They use books as examples to ask others when doing things. But
But I was eating, drinking, having fun, and having a lot of sensual things.
Think about Zhang Juzheng, who was called a famous minister by later generations. He punished others for their corruption and opposed others' privileges, but he also practiced privileges himself. For example, at the beginning of his administration, he made a rule that officials should stay in guest houses when going out, that is,
"Regulations on Giving Posts". It stipulates that officials are not allowed to stay in government-established post stations when they are not on official business trips to attend funerals. They are not allowed to use more carriages and horses when going on official business, they are not allowed to borrow money for business trips to meet friends, they are not allowed to use their authority to ask for and receive gifts along the way, and they are not allowed to make apportionments to the countryside.
These regulations are still worth learning from today. At first, Zhang Juzheng indeed took the lead in implementing them. For his father’s birthday, he sent servants home on donkeys to deliver gifts, and specifically ordered them not to stay at the inn. But later when he returned to his hometown to bury his father, he took a thirty-two-carat carriage.
A specially made sedan was carried out by local officials along the way, and they also presented memorial tributes. The people responsible for escorting the sedan were special guards with better equipment than the regular army of the country, which caused a lot of discussion.
He opposed others taking bribes, but his own bribery was shocking. Before Zhang Juzheng became an official, his family only had a few dozen acres of land. When his house was confiscated after his death, the property confiscated was equivalent to nearly 200,000 taels of silver, and he also had 800,000 acres of fertile land.
, it is said that eight million acres, this may be a bit exaggerated, but if you take 10% of it, it is also an incredible number of eight hundred thousand acres. The authenticity needs to be tested, but it is definitely not much less. As a first-class official,
His monthly salary was only 87 shi meters. Even if he did not eat or drink, his total salary in his lifetime would only be 20,000 taels of silver. Other wealth of unknown origin was naturally obtained through bribery.
There was also Xu Jie, who was also a famous minister. He was awarded the third rank of Jinshi (Tanhua) in the first grade and was awarded the title of Editor of the Hanlin Academy and the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. In June of the 41st year of Jiajing, he defeated the famous traitor Yan Song in the political arena.
, Song Ji has no family property.
In the 42nd year of Jiajing's reign, Xu Jie was appointed as the first assistant, and he successively cited Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng and others to join the cabinet. In the 44th year of Jiajing's reign, he tried his best to save Hai Rui, the head of the household department, from death. After the death of Emperor Shizong Zhu Houcong, Xu Jie drafted a posthumous edict and tried to eliminate him.
Due to the bad government, all fasting, civil engineering, jewelry, and weaving were stopped, and all the ministers who were convicted for their speeches were rehabilitated. During Xu Jie's time in power, he did many things for the people, lightened the burden on the people, and worked hard to correct the chaotic government during Yan Song's tenure as chief minister.
The phenomenon of neglect in government is called "name and phase" by both the government and the public.
But for such a famous prime minister, after he was dismissed from office and became an official, his descendants ran rampant in the countryside and occupied 240,000 acres of land. Yan Song, who had always been rich and greedy for fame, had only one-fifteenth of Xu Jie's land.
In later generations, after seeing the deeds of these two brothers, Zhu Qizhen finally understood the truth. There must be many talented ministers in the Ming Dynasty. However, these talented ministers make money.
Their ability is really not small, at least, it can be seen that even corrupt officials are not as good as their ability to make money.
In later generations, Zhu Qizhen has read many evaluations about the civil servant group of the Ming Dynasty. Some are good and some are bad. But comprehensive analysis, to use a very vulgar saying, it is the Ming Dynasty.
In the later period, these civil servants were less likely to do practical things and more likely to be troublemakers.
Moreover, when civil servants managed people's livelihood, it was easy for them to form interest partnerships with those merchants who grew up rapidly with the development of economic production and life in the Ming Dynasty.
This is why, although the maritime transport in the Ming Dynasty was not as developed as the Song Dynasty, it was still very prosperous. However, once the court wanted to abandon water transport and switch to sea transport, the ministers in the court would jump out and fiercely express their opposition and protests, and even
The failure of Yang Feng Yang caused several Ming Dynasty plans to change water transportation to sea transportation to be shelved.
Why? The imperial capital of the Ming Dynasty is located in the capital, less than 400 miles away from the nearest port of Tianjin, and the important land of the Ming Dynasty is in the south of the Yangtze River. And in the south of the Yangtze River, sea trade is developed, there are many good harbors, and the waterways are smooth. If you want to
It is also extremely convenient to concentrate taxes on seaports and then transfer them to large ships for shipping. What's more, the Ming Dynasty's ship technology is so advanced that it can be regarded as the most advanced in the world.
The use of giant ships for sea transportation in the Ming Dynasty, whether in terms of convenience or labor, the various costs consumed by sea transport are far lower than those of river transport. But why are those ministers opposed to it? I'm afraid they have low IQs.
Two hundred and fifty can also tell that there must be something fishy in it. The simplest word can explain the behavior of those ministers: interest.
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But now that Zhu Qizhen has just taken over the imperial power, he cannot be too radical, and he also needs to gain the favor and support of these ministers. At least, Zhu Qizhen can do many things slowly, and there is no rush anyway.
Later, Zhu Qizhen stabilized the Ming Dynasty's political power, and waited until he completely grasped the barrel of the gun. Only when he had the barrel of the gun could he control the barrel of the pen. At that time, he would slowly clean up these bad policies.
No matter what, we must cultivate more die-hard soldiers and officials who are willing to be loyal to themselves and the Ming Empire. This is what Zhu Qizhen needs to do most in the next step, and what he must do. Only by taking this step, Ming Dynasty
Only Zhu Qizhen can confidently control the direction of the future.
This day aroused strong interest and discussion among the people in Beijing. Not to mention them, even the students from the Imperial College were not far behind. On that day, students from all the Imperial Colleges all over the country also arrived at the Chengtianmen area to watch this celebration.
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What Zhu Qizhen did was actually easier to win the favor of these young, enthusiastic students. In other words, for them, only brave and courageous people like Zhu Qizhen should be members of the Ming Empire.
emperor.
As for Zhu Qiyu, he had already been secretly arranged by Zhu Qizhen during his more than two years in power, and his reputation was almost ruined, especially when he assassinated Zhu Jianshen in order to seek the crown prince's position, and
In order to get the officials to agree to his decision to replace the crown prince, he even bribed the officials.
These scandals have actually caused Zhu Qiyu's reputation to fall to the bottom. As for Zhu Qizhen, it is the victory of the Xuanfu and the pacification of the grassland that has made the former Ming Dynasty's powerful enemy surrender. With such achievements, he returned to the throne.
This person, at least in the hearts of these young people, is far more suitable to become the ruler of the Ming Dynasty than Zhu Qiyu.
However, all of this still needs to continue to ferment and needs time.
Therefore, Zhu Qizhen knows very well that he must be patient. If he wants to use violent means, no one knows how many people will die. And this is not what Zhu Qizhen wants to see, let alone
Such a change would involve too much bloodshed, and no one knows whether there will be any sequelae.
"Your Majesty, in front of you is the residence of Mr. Yu Qianyu." At this moment, Qian Zhongzong, who was beside him, came over immediately and whispered in Zhu Qizhen's ear. Only then did Zhu Qizhen come back to his senses.
He raised his eyebrows and chuckled: "Okay, today I'm going to see the Minister of the Ministry of War who is lying ill at home and unable to serve..."
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