Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1059 Zhu Yijun's ideal and reality

The friendship between Zhu Yijun and Gao Yushi is indeed not something that ordinary monarchs and ministers can have, so they speak very directly, especially when talking about these simple government affairs issues, they are not concealed.

Having said these words, Zhu Yijun's attitude is very clear: I not only want to fight, but also want to teach Burma a lesson so that I can enjoy myself, but right now, I can't get it right now. I paid money to fight this battle, so you see, I am also very distressed.

Gao Wushi pondered for a moment, then said slowly: "Your Majesty, there are some things that I have to ask first."

"What are you talking about?" Zhu Yijun looked at him and said, "If you have any questions, just ask them."

Gao Wushi said sternly: "Has your majesty ever thought about letting me, Ming Dynasty, directly occupy Burma?"

"Occupy Burma? Do you mean the actions in Annan during the Yongle period?" Zhu Yijun shook his head: "I don't have that idea."

Gao Wushi asked, "Dare to ask why?"

Zhu Yijun was surprised and said: "This reason is obvious. During the Yongle period, our Ming Dynasty was very prosperous. We occupied a small area in Annan and caused so many years of unrest. We fought back and forth several times but failed to stabilize the place. We dragged it all the way to Xuanmiao At that time, I finally felt that this loss-making business could not continue, so I simply withdrew my troops and came back, and I had to give up the achievements of so many years...

Pragmatically, it's just you and me here, no outsiders are present, and I don't hide anything. I think the situation at that time was simply a steal.And now our center of gravity is also very clear, that is, the Mongolian left wing and the Chahar tribe. Everything else must compromise with this goal. I... I must accomplish this great event that my ancestors have never been able to accomplish!Be pragmatic, you have to help me. "

Gao Wushi looked at Zhu Yijun's extremely expectant gaze, nodded vigorously, and said: "Don't worry, your majesty, this is not the ambition of the emperor alone, but also the ambition of the minister. I will do my best to assist the emperor to achieve this great cause for thousands of years. "

Speaking of it, it was the first time that Gao Wushi had such a clear understanding of Zhu Yijun's ideals as the emperor.

But everyone has ideals.

The ideals of ordinary people are nothing more than food and clothing, full of children and grandchildren; the ideals of scholars are either to glorify their ancestors, or to rule the world;

But the ideal of the king of a country is the most difficult to judge.The ideal of some emperors is the prosperity of the country and the people, the ideal of some emperors is immortality, the ideal of some emperors is to conquer everything, and of course the ideal of some emperors is just to enjoy life for a lifetime.

Zhu Yijun's ideal in the prince's time, Gao Yushi knew that it was a very broad concept, that is, "to be a good emperor in the future"-this ideal was instilled in him by the first emperor Longqing and others;
After he ascended the throne and before taking office, his ideals were high and pragmatic, and he knew it was "the country is peaceful and the people are safe, and the emperor's picture will always shine"-this ideal was instilled in him by the civil servants, including Gao Gong and Guo Pu, two veteran ministers of Yuanfu.

However, as Zhu Yijun got older, especially during the period before and after the formal pro-government, he obviously fell into confusion, so much so that in the Gengchen Palace Examination, he personally asked a policy topic that was hundreds of words long. .

"I have been in charge of the world for more than eight years. I have been vigilant in the morning, and I will always cherish the truth. However, the discipline is orderly and the officials are playing, the fields are plowing and the people are poor, the schools are quiet and the soldiers are stealing, and the border is peaceful and the soldiers Crowds, supervision and arrests are strict and robbers are rampant, where is the blame? Is it true that my benevolence is not pervasive, or that there are evils, and when the time is right, I will stop it less?"

Everyone has a period of confusion in life, and most of them will have the performance of "doubting everything" during that time.Although Zhu Yijun is an emperor, he is also a human being, and he also suddenly felt during that time: Why is this world not what I imagined it to be?Why do I do so much and it doesn't work at all?what should I do?
Especially troublesome was the conflict between his education and his display.

The officials told him: If the official style is not correct, the discipline should be strict. However, the fact is that no matter how much he emphasizes, the official style has not improved significantly, and it is still "playing with officials (stubborn)". Officials who were dismissed for crimes and questioned for crimes continued to go on.

The lecturers told him: People who are poor need to be persuaded to teach farming and intensive cultivation. However, the fact is that there are very few fields in the world that are abandoned, and most of them have been properly taken care of. What to eat.

The lecturers told him: The bad morale should start from the school (social studies, county schools, etc.) from an early age. However, the purge of the school has been going on, but the morale is still getting worse.Many students are not keen on studying, and they often get carried away after taking the exam for a student or a person, thinking that they have become high-class people, go to the place of fireworks, make friends with rich people, who still thinks about governing the country and the world?

The lecturers told him that the frequent mutiny of the frontier army was the main reason for the unrest in the frontier, but he found that even where the frontier army did not mutiny, once foreign enemies invaded, their performance would still be poor.Either let the enemy take the initiative to retreat after plundering, but said on the table that they have fought hard and repelled the invaders; or they will lose in the battle and collapse at the first touch.If it weren't for the fair performance of Jiliao Xuanda and other towns near Gyeonggi, every time Zhu Yijun received side favors, he didn't know how many words he would have to scold in private as "mean bucket" and "incompetent".

The lecturers told him: when bandits are everywhere, we must urge the local government to intensify the pursuit and search and enforce the law, but now Zhu Yijun himself knows that there is a problem, because he has already learned that the Jinghua Trading Company under Gao Yushi turned out to be a group of victims. The thieves who recruited security, but now they are actually border trade giants and big taxpayers.It can be seen that the root cause of "group thieves everywhere" is definitely not ineffective search and arrest.

In a word, Zhu Yijun felt that nothing was right during that time. Although what the officials said seemed reasonable, they did not match the reality at all.

However, one person changed everything.

This man is highly pragmatic.

Gao Yushi first attributed all the problems raised by Zhu Yijun to one factor in his policy theory: poverty.

It is precisely because of poverty that the above-mentioned problems are particularly glaring, and they will never be truly resolved.

At the same time, Gao Pragmatism also pointed out that in solving the problem of "poor" in the past dynasties, they always overemphasized the flow of circulation and neglected open source. Occasionally, some people who engage in open source only know how to increase, increase, and increase, which has caused public resentment Four times, and finally a big mess, out of control.

The views he raised had caused controversy at the time, but fortunately, his background limited the controversy to a certain level—he was a member of the Practical School. For some people, it is not too outrageous, because there are also radicals in the School of Mind, who propose some kind of revolution, and even have no king and no father.Those people are living a good life, obviously high pragmatism does not deserve to die.

But at this time, the impact of high pragmatism is only on the "theoretical level", without much practical display.After the two battles between Annan and Dingbei, his influence increased sharply, and even became the decisive factor for Zhu Yijun's mentality change.

Why?Because the victories in the two wars of Annan and Dingbei directly helped Zhu Yijun greatly improve his political prestige and smoothly grasp the real court power.

In the original history, Zhu Yijun gained real power by liquidating Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao, especially the liquidation of Zhang Juzheng was the most important thing.

And now Zhu Yijun has no reason to liquidate anyone. If it wasn't for the well-known "emperor's classmate" Gao Yushi who gave him two victories in Annan and Dingbei, how could Zhu Yijun establish his prestige so easily?

Therefore, these two big victories have a great impact on Zhu Yijun, especially two of them are the most critical.

One is that after Zhu Yijun gained huge benefits from these two wars, he felt deeply about the benefits of "victory in foreign wars", which made his desire for victory in foreign wars intensify, which in turn inspired the "I am here" that he just mentioned. It is necessary to accomplish this great event that the ancestors of the past generations failed to achieve." This feeling.

"Being a good emperor" was ignorant when I was young, but now I have a direct goal: to surpass my ancestors!
And the second is that his "expectations" for highly pragmatic individuals have also become higher, and he has become more eager, so he will continue to find ways to promote high-practice positions, and even develop to this day, simply shoot directly Helping Gao Yushi build a team - this is of course strengthening Gao Yushi, but in the final analysis it is serving Zhu Yijun's own ideals.

In Zhu Yijun's eyes, high pragmatism was originally the future arm left to him by his father, and he grew up with him since he was a child. He is really a confidant of his confidants, a confidant of his cronies, and his loyalty is unmatched.

And Gao Yushi also used the six champions, An Nan Ding Bei and other outstanding performances to perfectly meet Zhu Yijun's various expectations. At this time, if Zhu Yijun wants to achieve the emperor's great career in his mind, who does not need Gao Wushi?

At least in Zhu Yijun's heart at this time, Gao Yushi is not only a courtier, but even a partner, the most important partner on his "road to greatness".

These words are quite long, but in Gao Yushi's mind, he suddenly understood like a bright light, and he understood Zhu Yijun's mood at this moment in an instant.

The biggest problem facing Zhu Yijun now is that he hopes that all "foreign wars" can be won, or even a complete victory, but at the same time, the real situation of the court is in front of him. It's useless to kill everyone in the household department.

And without money...you can't fight wars. After all, there is an old saying: the emperor does not send hungry soldiers.

Looking at Gao Yushi's still calm and composed face, Zhu Yijun suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, and said, "Pragmatism, I only feel relaxed when you are by my side. You are far away in Liaodong, and you may not know the current situation. Situation - The whole court is arguing about this matter, some say they want to fight, some say they can't fight, some say they should fight hard, some say they just need to be repulsed, and some even talk about the war between Burma and Burma. So the reason for the invasion is that the imperial court was too strict on Southwest Propaganda (the so-called three promulgations and six consolations)..."

When he said this, he breathed out a long breath and sighed: "You have never experienced this kind of pain, just like a person who is sleepy to death and just wants to sleep well, but there are a lot of people around him I have to pull you to make irresponsible remarks and ask questions, but you can't speak harshly to these people, because speaking of them, they are still 'for your own good'."

Gao Wushi laughed, shook his head and said, "Everyone in the world says that gods are good, and gods have a lot of troubles. Your majesty, even a minister can't help you with this kind of trouble."

"No, you can still help." Zhu Yijun hurriedly said: "You continue what you just said... well, you asked me if I want to occupy Myanmar, and I have already answered that I don't want Myanmar. Think about it, It has been nearly 200 years since I took over Yunnan in the Ming Dynasty, there are still a lot of chieftains in Yunnan, and I even need to use the Mu clan to Yongzhen Yunnan. If I take Myanmar, who should I send to Yongzhen Burma? It’s another Kofi Annan, who didn’t see any benefits, leaving only such annoying words as ‘wasting a million dollars, losing troops and destroying generals’.”

Gao Wushi nodded slightly, and asked again: "That is to say, the emperor just wants to teach Burma a lesson to stabilize the southwestern frontier. As for other things, it's not that important?"

Zhu Yijun thought about it and said: "Well... Myanmar is different from Mongolia. Mongolia is too close to the capital, and the threat is too great, so we must fully grasp it. Even if we have to take it step by step, the goal is certain. But Myanmar is too far away. It’s far away, and the threat is not too great, as long as they are subdued, it’s enough to be honest.”

Gao Wushi didn't follow his words, but continued to ask: "But the treasury is empty right now, so the emperor hopes to use the least price to win this victory?"

Although Zhu Yijun felt that this sentence sounded a bit awkward, as if he had made a very unreasonable request, but now that was the case, he could only cough lightly, and replied: "This, of course, the less the cost, the better."

Who knew that Gao Yushi didn't seem to think it was unreasonable, but nodded his head and said: "I have three strategies, which may help the emperor share one or two worries."

Zhu Yijun's eyes widened when he heard this, and he asked in a daze, "Three...three strategies? I mean, can you come up with three strategies?"

Gao Wushi laughed at himself, and said: "Even the emperor is so surprised. It seems that after the announcement of Gengchen Nianchen's policies and theories, some people outside said that the minister 'likes to make shocking words'. It is not nonsense."

Zhu Yijun hurriedly said: "Hey, do you care about those people talking badly? Those people don't have the skills themselves, so they think that others will not, so don't bother with them."

Gao Wushi smiled and said: "What the emperor said is very true, the minister really doesn't pay attention to them... Well, I can't understand it, so I have to pretend that I didn't hear it."

"It's right to think so! Xia Chong can't talk about ice, how can a sparrow know the ambition of a swan?" Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "Just tell me these three strategies quickly, I am so worried that my hair will turn gray during this time .”

Gao Wushi glanced at him, and said in his heart: If you want to talk about worry, I don't believe you. After all, you, the emperor, have a lot of troubles. Whiteheads and the like...is it still free?

But after thinking about it, Gao Yushi still explained his three strategies.
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