Daming Jingtai: I am the eternal benevolent king

Chapter 428 The most hidden side of the old emperor: the ultimate disguise
Zhu Houying came out from Hangzhou and went directly to Shanghai.

Speaking of Shanghai.

Let’s talk about Chongming Island first. Chongming Island is one of several islands created by sand impact and only appeared a thousand years ago.

The reason why it is called Chongming Island is that it was called Chongming Island from the Song Dynasty. It was formerly called Chongming Sand and is a small island composed of four to five sand piles.

In the twelfth year of Jingtai, Songjiang Prefecture was changed to Shanghai Prefecture, Chongmingsha was changed to Chongming Island, and Suzhou Prefecture was moved to Shanghai Prefecture.

And in the 13th year of Jingtai, the island began to be filled in, and three sand islands were filled in into a large island.

It took fifteen years for Chongming Island to officially appear. In the 28th year of Jingtai, people began to move there and became an island directly under Shanghai.

Not only is Chongming Island undergoing reclamation, but Shanghai is also reclamating eastward.

In the 30th year of Jingtai's reign, the imperial court spent 100 million for the first time to build a new Shanghai and moved the economic center of South Zhili eastward to Shanghai.

Especially as sea transportation replaced river transportation and sea trade became the pillar industry of the Ming Dynasty, Shanghai meant that it would become the most important tax base of the Ming Dynasty.

After the stock market was standardized, Shanghai became a financial center again.

Although this center is significantly different from a real financial center.

Because Daming was not a place where capital was completely free, it meant that a financial center could not emerge. Daming once wanted to build Chongming Island into a free trade center.

With the rise of Xinjing, the financial center of Chongming was transferred to Xinjing.

However, after Xinjing was upgraded to the capital, it was impossible to have absolute financial freedom and could only be transferred to other regions.

Even if the financial center has moved, Shanghai can still rely on its foundation to remain the financial center of Ming Dynasty, mainly the place where listing bells ring.

As the only city in the world that can be listed on the stock market, it is natural that all the world's large companies are gathered here, and many head offices of vassal states are located in Shanghai.

Based on this alone, Shanghai will remain standing.

Shanghai during the Jingtai Dynasty has expanded the entire Shanghai Prefecture, with a registered population of 4700 million and a permanent population of 6400 million. It is the most populous city in the world and the largest city in terms of economy, finance, and scale!
The best in the world is Shanghai!
Zhu Houyong's biggest feeling about the whole city is that it is big, crowded and expensive.

My legs will never finish walking.

Everywhere you go there are people and it’s crowded.

Everything you buy is expensive, and the prices are outrageous.

The taxes contributed by Shanghai are the sum of Hebei + Henan + Shanxi + Shaanxi.

The total economic contribution of Shanghai is only slightly lower than that of all northern provinces combined, excluding Beizhili.

This number is terrifying enough.

The power of one government exceeds that of the entire north.

The imperial court was also very kind to Shanghai. As a city with little history, the imperial court moved everything with history to Shanghai.

The center built a palace in Shanghai imitating the Southern Song Dynasty palace, and built a small Lin'an imitating the streets of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Because of this matter, Hangzhou had been in trouble with the imperial court for many years.

In the end, the imperial court built a smaller version in Lin'an County, Hangzhou City. It was somewhat imitating the original one. Tourists thought that the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty was built in Shanghai.

From the beginning of Shanghai's construction, it was built according to the standards of an international metropolis.

Moreover, the outer city was built first.

Instead, the core plot is the new city built later. This is the foresight of the Ministry of Industry. When construction began, they knew that this city would rise.

Therefore, the outer city of Shanghai is in the antique Ming Dynasty style, while the inner city is a super international metropolis, completely modern style, with high-rise buildings without elevators everywhere.

Anyway, the appearance looks absolutely intimidating.

The people living there complained endlessly.

However, the first elevator in Ming Dynasty was developed in the 64th year of Jingtai. It is currently undergoing actual experiments and is expected to be mass-produced within ten years.

There are about 500 million people living in high-rise buildings across the country. They are all looking forward to when there will be so-called elevators. Climbing stairs is too tiring.

The high-rise buildings built in the inner city are really not for people to live in, but simply to show off the style of an international metropolis.

In the beginning, the purpose of building high-rise buildings was firstly to highlight the international style, and secondly to serve as offices for the company.

Later, profiteers discovered that high-rise buildings save land, so they began to build high-rise buildings and sell them to the common people. The common people bought them because they were greedy for cheap.

This trend spread across the country, causing many people to buy high-rise buildings for cheap.

Therefore, basically, high-rise buildings are only located in the core areas of a city, and there are no high-rise buildings in outer cities. However, people are greedy for cheap, and second, they think that the location is good and the value will increase in the future, but they ignore the difficulty of climbing stairs.

In this way, the price of high-rise buildings has not been able to increase in recent years.

After all, whoever is looking at the house will have to vomit blood after climbing twenty floors, and they still have to pay for it.

But the best thing about high-rise buildings is their location. They are all in the city center and very close to companies. This is why housing prices are kept high.

However, in the past few years, there were people who opened takeaways and companies in high-rise buildings, and the rent was super cheap. At first, I thought they had missed it, but after a month of driving, my legs broke. Going up and down the stairs every day was a real test for my knees.

At night, the whole city of Shanghai lights up with neon lights, and the big city suddenly feels full.

Shanghai is the only city in the world that can afford to use neon lights at night. Neither Beijing nor Nanjing can afford it. The two capitals are the political centers and cannot be extravagant or wasteful, as this will lead to bad consequences.

Other cities can’t afford to waste it even if they want to.

Shanghai has the most local tycoons.

A dollar contributed by one person is enough to light up the neon lights in Shanghai for a year.

Shanghai is the earliest area to have electricity, and the electricity bill is also the most expensive. One unit of electricity costs three yuan. Shanghai's wealthy people play with the lights on every day and are rich.

There are five general electric power companies in Ming Dynasty, under the jurisdiction of the provincial electric power company - Fu Electric Power Company. Only Shanghai Electric Power Company is profitable in the country.

Other regions are losing money.

Including the two capitals.

There are not as many local tycoons as there are in Shanghai. The local tycoons can play with electric lights for three yuan per charge. In an era when the per capita salary is 2,000, they can light them up for fun.

One of the world's top 100 companies, the lights are on 24 hours a day, and the main thing is a tyrannical one.

These days, those who can afford electricity are all rich, and those who can provide electricity all night are big companies, which shows a company's strong financial resources.

Even in the Forbidden City, electric lights are only used in places, and lights are turned off in places not in use. It is too expensive.

Shanghai is a city that never sleeps.

In other cities, kerosene lamps never sleep; Shanghai is electric lamps.

Shanghai has the most shops selling electric lights in the world, and it also has the most shops repairing light bulbs in the world, which shows that Shanghai is a very powerful city.

This giant city with a population of more than 60 million has been continuously absorbing the population of the north in recent years. If the imperial court does not invest in the construction of the north, the population of Shanghai may exceed 100 million in the future.

In the north, there are only a few hundred million elderly people left, while the young people are crowding into the south.

Jiangnan already has natural advantages.

Eight years before Jingtai, the total population of the Ming Dynasty was estimated to be around 100 million, with 60 million people crowded in Jiangnan.

It can be said that Jiangnan is too rich, or it can be said that it is caused by serious uneven development.

Even today, Jiangnan is still the most densely populated area in the Ming Dynasty.

The old emperor wanted to split Zhejiang into six provinces, so why not split the entire Jiangnan into multiple provinces.

The Suzhou Prefecture next to it is another super metropolis. Even though Suzhou has been sucked by Shanghai in recent years, it is still a super metropolis.

Suzhou has a population of more than 3000 million, and its permanent population is about 4100 million.

After all, Suzhou is sandwiched between Shanghai and Nanjing, and borders Hangzhou. It has a unique location, but it will also be sucked by the three cities.

Only Suzhou has thick blood, otherwise it would have been sucked out long ago.

In order to balance Suzhou's population, the imperial court placed the world's largest textile factory in Suzhou. This stabilized Suzhou's health and prevented Suzhou from collapse.

The imperial court also tried its best to develop Suzhou tourism, develop Suzhou architecture, and develop Suzhou in an all-round way.

It is precisely because of the support of the imperial court and constant blood transfusions that Suzhou can barely maintain a momentum of not declining, but it is not declining, and there is no way to rise.

The most unlucky place in Jiangnan is Changzhou.

Changzhou, forty years before Jingtai, was still a big city, but sixty years after Jingtai, the population plummeted from a peak of 2700 million to million.

The main reason is that all the population has been sucked away by the three major cities of Shanghai, Nanjing and Hangzhou.

The imperial court tried its best to stabilize Suzhou, but it could not care about Changzhou.

The resources are so limited. If Suzhou eats one bite, Changzhou won't be able to eat much. If the three major cities cannot attract Suzhou people, they will attract Changzhou people.

Changzhou has degenerated from a super city to a super city.

Changzhou has been a mess in the past two years. You can suck as much as you like, while we have slowed down our life and our pace.

Located in the most popular area in the south of the Yangtze River, Changzhou suddenly slows down and slows down life. I can't win you over, so I won't do it anymore. I will use my comfortable life to attract people from your city to settle here and make money in your city. Come and spend with us, perfect.

Changzhou had a great idea.

Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Nanjing are all areas with high housing prices.

In Changzhou, while keeping housing prices unchanged, it has improved the grade of the community, increased the greening rate, improved the quality of the property, and lowered the price level to make everyone feel comfortable.

This has resulted in some people returning to Changzhou in the past two years.

Yangzhou on the other side of the river took a look and followed Changzhou's lead.

Yangzhou is still a prefecture, because Yangzhou is too big to be turned into a city, and the population cannot support it.

After losing the canal, Yangzhou declined rapidly. Now Yangzhou Prefecture only has a population of 40 million. The Jingtang Grand Canal, which was once glorious for hundreds of years, is now just a tourist attraction.

Yangzhou's glory was directly cut in half.

However, the imperial court gave Yangzhou a large number of welfare policies to build Yangzhou into an industrial city and a railway city, and established many light industry factories in Yangzhou to support Yangzhou.

This is also the reason why Yangzhou Prefecture can still maintain a population of 40 million.

But Yangzhou was sucked to the point of vomiting blood.

At its peak, the population of Yangzhou Prefecture exceeded 60 million, but they were all sucked away. The imperial court could only keep Suzhou from being sucked to death, but could not maintain Changzhou and Yangzhou. They were the most unlucky, being closest to the three cities and being sucked away the most.

Seeing the return of Changzhou's population, Yangzhou Prefecture has greater advantages than Changzhou.

Changzhou Prefecture is a city.

Yangzhou Prefecture is not like that. There are many cities. Nantong, Taizhou, Gaoyou, and Jiangdu are all large cities with a population of around ten million.

Because Yangzhou Prefecture was divided among four cities.

However, Yangzhou Prefecture can halve the housing prices of any city at will. For example, it can lower the housing prices of Nantong to attract Shanghainese to live in Nantong. Let’s see how Shanghai can attract the population of Yangzhou Prefecture.

really.

The decline in housing prices in Nantong immediately attracted many wealthy Shanghainese people to invest and buy houses in Nantong, planning to come to Nantong for retirement in the future.

Nantong means Nantong Prefecture. After Emperor Taizong moved the capital, he named Tongzhou after the city of Nanjing, including Beitong Prefecture and Nantong Prefecture.

Chongming Island is closer to Nantong.

Jiangdu is the closest to Nanjing, so housing prices in Jiangdu cannot be lowered. It is governed by Yangzhou Prefecture, but nearby county-level cities can.

Attract people from Nanjing to buy houses in Jiangbei.

In the past two years, both Changzhou and Yangzhou Prefecture have experienced population reversal.

Especially the Juan residents in these places, after coming to these two leisurely and relaxed cities, they don't want to leave. The three big cities are too Juan.

The richest in the world is Shanghai; the second richest is Nanjing; the third richest is Hangzhou.

The three rich markets are in terrible shape.

Zhu Houyong visited Nanjing.

He was the third member of the royal family to live in the Forbidden City after Emperor Jingtai. The first two were Zhu Youquan and Zhu Youhang.

However, Zhu Youyang only stayed in the Forbidden City for one day and then left.

Zhu Houyong will stay for a few more days.

As the former capital of the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing now has a total population of 5600 million.

In fact, from an economic perspective, Nanjing's geographical location is not excellent and cannot be compared with Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Ningbo.

However, its political significance is second only to Beijing.

In the 65th year of Jingtai's reign, the imperial court wanted to change Nanjing to Tianjing, because after the Ming Dynasty occupied the land of Baiyue, Nanjing was no longer considered the south, but the central region.

It seems inappropriate to call it Nanjing again.

Changing it to Tianjing is more in line with Nanjing’s positioning.

As the absolute political center of the south, Nanjing had everything Beijing had, not to mention the economy. The imperial court tilted more political resources towards Nanjing than Shanghai.

Otherwise, in terms of core competitiveness, Nanjing cannot compare with Shanghai.

Today, Nanjing is still the second richest place in the world, with the second largest economy in the world. It is also a super international metropolis.

The city of Nanjing was not expanded to its extreme extent because Yingtian Mansion was too big to be swallowed up.

The Yingtian Prefecture of the Jingtai Dynasty annexed several Zhili Prefectures, with a total population of more than 70 million, and a permanent population of about 80 million.

Traditionally, Jiangnan included Anhui.

But compared with Shanghai, Nanjing, and Hangzhou, Anhui is far behind.

In fact, Anhui was the one who was sucked.

In the 7800th year of the Jingtai reign, when the population was censused, the registered population of Anhui was 7800 million. In the th year of the Jingtai reign, when the population was censused, the registered population of Anhui was still million.

As a province located in the south of the Yangtze River with a population of less than 100 million, it is really unexpected.

But if you go to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to do a census, you will find that there are many Anhui people in Nanjing, and the most Anhui people are in Shanghai.

No wonder the registered population has not increased. This is because it has gone away.

According to private statistics, Anhui's population should be around 1.2 million, and nearly million people have come to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to work, and have changed their household registration and will not come back.

The chief envoy of Anhui once went to the central government and requested that Anhui people be prohibited from going out to work. If they continue to work, there will be no people in Anhui.

He also proposed that either Anhui should be merged into Yingtian Prefecture, or Anhui should withdraw from the province and enter Southern Zhili.

The Anhui inspector even said that he would restore Southern Zhili so that resources could be balanced.

Don’t blame Anhui for being angry.

Good resources have been sucked away by Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Even Jiangsu is barely there, let alone Anhui. The population is obviously over 100 million, but surprisingly it has become 70 million. There is still a net outflow every year. Whoever replaces it will not be crazy.

Jiangxi is even more angry. At least Anhui still has the advantage of the Yangtze River and can retain some of its population. We in Jiangxi are the most unlucky. The registered population has been sucked away from 1.1 million by million people. Now Jiangxi only has million people left. How can we live in Jiangxi?
We are all from Jiangnan, so why are we in Jiangxi like this?
The southwest and northwest are even more crazy.

The whole north has more to say.

Jiangnan's population siphoning ability is terrible. The imperial court is definitely deliberately limiting the population of the three cities. Once the restrictions are relaxed, the population of the three cities will reach hundreds of millions every minute, and will eventually be able to accommodate one billion people. The north is probably completely empty.

Zhu Houying wrote his travel notes in the Forbidden City in Nanjing.

Zhu Jianji in the north had a headache.

The Bohai Bay reclamation project is not going well. The main reason is that labor costs have increased again. The central government needs to make additional investments. The Ministry of Industry is remaking the budget, which is expected to exceed more than one billion.

Digging mountains in Guizhou was not smooth either. Several accidents occurred. The locals said that digging mountains was unlucky and opposed the imperial government's efforts to dig mountains.

They are all caused by deepening reforms.

Zhu Jianji knew clearly that, let alone digging mountains in Guizhou, Ming Dynasty had rich experience in reclamation, not to mention that there are still power plants now. Using electricity to reclaim the sea is not faster than using shovels before?

A big event happened recently. The Daye Ordnance Factory exploded, killing more than a thousand craftsmen. This incident shocked the world.

The imperial court sent ministers to personally handle the case.

Zhu Jianjian went out to ride horses when he was in a bad mood.

Recently, many things have been hastily ended, because the slogan of reform has been met with unprecedented resistance.

The explosion at the ordnance factory is a clear example.

There has been no incident in the imperial court's ordnance production in recent years. It exploded as soon as the reform was proposed. This was a provocation to Zhu Jianji.

It doesn't matter if you can fight. Without weapons, no matter how powerful you are, you will have nowhere to show off.

There is a long road ahead for Ming Dynasty.

When Zhu Jianjian was riding a horse, he didn't know whether to go with the flow or face the difficulties.

At this time, Zhu Youyi was talking to Li Dongyang.

"Tsuke, what do you think of reform?"

Zhu Youyi asked: "I just want to ask, I don't mean to change it, but I want to ask you what you think of the situation in Ming Dynasty?"

Li Dongyang also wanted to see Taisun's thoughts.

He pondered slightly and said: "Today's Ming Dynasty is different from the Ming Dynasty before. This is an era of prosperity, prosperity, and people's wisdom and morals."

"I can't see clearly the road ahead. In the Ming Dynasty in the past, it was just like eating, drinking and peeing every day for thousands of years."

"Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty is traveling thousands of miles and developing at an extremely fast pace. No one can understand what will happen in the future."

Li Dongyang said: "There are no foreign troubles abroad, and there is peace at home. It can be called the best of times."

"There are no flowers that last forever."

"His Royal Highness wants a flower to bloom all year round. This is impossible."

"His Majesty once imagined that in the future, the Ming Dynasty would rely on vampire vassals to maintain its prosperity, and it could last for more than three hundred years."

"But this was unheard of in ancient times. The power of Qin and Chu would decline one day, and the greatness of Han and Tang also came to perish."

"Anyway, I don't think it's possible."

"His Royal Highness was influenced by His Majesty. He wanted to continue the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty for thirty years, so he thought of reform."

"But this reform touches the lifeblood of everyone."

"At that time, the veteran said that he would rather die than dare to reform. He didn't dare."

Li Dongyang looked at Zhu Youyi and said something deep in his heart: "Your Highness, there is no such thing as three hundred years of prosperity. The Ming Dynasty can have these fifty years of prosperity, which is enough to continue the country for three hundred years. It should be content."

The Han Dynasty only lasted four hundred years, and the Ming Dynasty also lasted four hundred years. So what?
Zhu Youyi was not angry: "Second Assistant, Gu knows the thoughts of the emperor's grandfather and father. The Duke of Manchu Dynasty is also a person who made contributions to the prosperous Ming Dynasty. This is what Gu knows."

"Besides reform, is there any way to continue the prosperous age of Ming Dynasty?"

Li Dongyang saw that Zhu Youyi was in charge of the government.

This is an all-rounder in martial arts and martial arts. Others may not see Zhu Youyi's fighting ability, but he is unmistakable in his judgment of people.

Zhu Youyi was meticulous and methodical in his work. No matter how talented he was in governing, he was a qualified emperor.

The key is that this man is more tolerant than his father.

Zhu Jianjian's thoughts are written all over his face, and everyone can see clearly, but Zhu Youyi is not the same. He always smiles and gets along well with others. In fact, he falls out faster than anyone else.

"I don't know how to say this."

Li Dongyang hesitated and said: "According to the strategy formulated by His Majesty, temporary prosperity can be achieved."

"But according to what His Majesty said, it is impossible for policies to be constantly adjusted according to actual conditions."

"It is a good thing for a political expert to adjust policies from time to time, but it is a bad thing if it falls into the hands of a bad chess player. It is taboo to change the policy every day."

"In fact, no matter whether good or bad policies, they will harm the interests of some people and benefit the interests of some people. What the people of the world need is not good or bad policies, but a stable political environment, nothing more."

"Besides, everything in Ming Dynasty has been finalized."

"If you want to reshape it, you have to kill it thoroughly to clean it up, otherwise it will be impossible." "The current prosperous age is nothing more than real estate. As long as housing prices are kept from collapsing, there should be no problem in continuing the prosperous age for ten years."

"As for the next financial crisis, as long as we can survive it, we can have ten years of delay."

"If it fails, according to His Majesty's plan, the crisis will be transferred to the whole world. It should be no problem to transfer it several times."

After all, Li Dongyang always talks about cars and wheels.

Zhu Youzhen was dissatisfied with this old wily guy.

This is also the reason why his father is dissatisfied with Li Dongyang.

"The reclamation project has not been going well recently. Do you think the additional investment can be completed according to the construction schedule?" Zhu Youyi asked again.

"It should be possible."

After the two chatted for a few words, Li Dongyang left the East Palace.

Li Dongyang went to the Yangxin Hall to meet again. Zhu Qiyu was basking in the sun under the eaves: "Is the guest here?"

"Your Majesty, how are you today?" Li Dongyang asked loudly.

Zhu Qiyu was a little deaf and nodded gently: "It's better today."

Zhu Qiyu rarely looks in the mirror as he gets older. His face is covered with age spots, he has very few teeth left, and his speech is not smooth.

"I heard that something happened at Daye Ordnance Factory?"

"Your Majesty, who is talking too much and disturbing your purity?" Li Dongyang glanced at the chamberlain with sharp eyes.

Everyone in the world hopes that the old emperor can survive.

As long as Zhu Jianji does not completely give up his intention to reform, the old emperor cannot die. Once Zhu Jianji goes crazy, the old emperor will still need to rein in the reins.

"Let's talk about it while I'm still awake." Zhu Qiyu's voice was very low.

"It's not a big deal."

"It was a worker's error that caused the big explosion."

"Min Gui has gone to Daye personally to investigate the matter. Please rest assured."

Zhu Qiyu nodded: "I can rest assured that Chao Ying is doing things."

"There has never been an incident in the Ordnance Factory over the years. All procedures were formulated by me personally. I still remember that you gave me advice when formulating these procedures."

"Why did something happen suddenly?"

"Bin Zhi, there must be Xiaoxiao causing trouble in this matter. You must be on guard against him."

Zhu Qiyu said without further ado: "One more thing, I heard that they are going to build an artificial lake in the Taklamakan Desert?"

"This is a good thing."

"The northwest is too dry and seriously lacks water vapor. It would be great if we could move the fishing sea there."

"If the water power is sufficient, I think we should give up the entire Tarim Basin. What do you think?"

It is precisely Li Dongyang who is most opposed to this matter.

"Your Majesty, the oil fields are also very important, and the entire Tarim Basin cannot be turned into lakes."

"Might as well split into multiple lakes."

"This will make the moisture more even in the northwest."

Li Dongyang said.

Zhu Qiyu agrees with this point: "Continue to expand Lop Nur and make Lop Nur a big lake like Balkhash Lake. And Qinghai Lake will continue to expand its capacity. The bigger the better."

"The entire Northwest Great Lakes must be expanded even if there are no conditions to create conditions. Only when lakes and rivers are everywhere can the drought be alleviated. The prosperity of Jiangnan is directly related to rivers."

"Binzhi, if the entire Taklimakan Desert turns into a big lake, the northwest will become Jiangnan beyond the Great Wall in the future."

"Help me go to the morning court tomorrow, and I will decide this matter myself."

"Your Majesty, you must not do this. Your health is urgent." Li Dongyang was anxious.

Zhu Qiyu waved his hand: "Don't be anxious, I know my body well. I can't die even if I try it once or twice."

"Recently, some doctors from Tai Hospital said that if my Qi and blood are exhausted, I can use human blood to replenish it. What do you think?"

"Your Majesty, you can't take risks!" Li Dongyang objected.

"Modern medicine is also quite advanced. The doctors at Tai Hospital have rich experience, but they just don't dare to mess with my body."

Zhu Qiyu said: "In the past few years, I have been taking supplements every day and relying on human body functions to absorb them. I am no longer able to do so. After all, I am so old."

"I know I don't have a few days left, so why not give it a try."

"If Binzhi thinks it's useless, let it be."

Pfft!
Li Dongyang knelt on the ground and shed tears: "Your Majesty is like a father to me in my heart. I definitely hope that you will live a long life. However, I am afraid of what may happen. If anything happens..."

"I also regard you as my own son."

Zhu Qiyu asked him to get up: "Binzhi, let the Taiyuan Hospital try it. I will leave an imperial edict. If you die due to the operation, it is my life. I will not blame anyone else."

Li Dongyang knew that the old emperor only asked him to endorse it, but he had already made up his mind.

Everyone is afraid of death, including the emperor, otherwise the old emperor would not have survived so many years without dying.

"The doctors said my legs were tied, so I couldn't move."

"He said he can have an operation to open up the blood vessels and it will be fine."

"I want to try it too."

Zhu Qiyu is not afraid of death, but very afraid of death.

A person who was even afraid of pain is not afraid of pain now because he has hope of living.

He has become extremely inconvenient in his movements recently. He takes medicines one by one, but they have no effect and are useless. No matter what he takes, they are of no use.

He wanted to live for another two years.

He didn't care what the prince thought, no matter how anxious the prince was, he just didn't want to die.

"Your Majesty, I will discuss with Tai Hospital to perform surgery for you." Li Dongyang knew that this responsibility rested on his shoulders.

Don't look at the close relationship between Zhu Jianji and the old emperor.

That's because his father is about to die, so he comes to serve him every day.

If he knew that his father would survive another two years, Zhu Jianji would definitely go crazy.

Sure enough, when I heard that the old emperor was going to have an operation, he strongly opposed it. What kind of operation was he going to do? How old are he? I haven’t eaten much these days. It’s time to give up. If I continue to endure it, I’ll be tortured to death. .

He can't go directly to the Yangxin Hall to cry, that would be unfilial to him.

After much deliberation, he was willing to reconcile with the courtiers and give up the idea of ​​reform, but the condition was that his father would not be operated on.

If the old man insists on doing it, let him fail the operation and die directly on the operating table.

Li Dongyang is definitely willing to make a deal.

The courtiers have been fighting against the prince for so long, and everyone has suffered huge losses. Now that they can stop their losses, they will definitely be willing to reconcile.

If Zhu Jianji completely gave up the idea of ​​reform, then the old emperor would be useless.

How old is he before he has surgery?

Who is responsible if he dies on the operating table?
All the ministers of the dynasty opposed the old emperor's surgery.

But Zhu Qiyu didn't know that he was still doing psychological preparation for the operation, telling himself not to be afraid of pain. It hurts a little now, but he can live for two more years, which is worth it.

I waited and waited, but there was no news.

Many of the courtiers who often came to the Yangxin Hall to pay their respects were no longer here, and neither were Zhu Jianjian and Zhu Youyi.

what happened?

"Go and bring Li Dongyang." Zhu Qiyu waited ten days and finally couldn't hold it any longer.

Li Dongyang told him that the hospital believed that the operation was too risky and was not suitable. After all, at such an old age, no one could guarantee the outcome of the operation.

Upon hearing this, Zhu Qiyu's face darkened: "Are you looking forward to my death?"

"I don't dare, I don't dare! I don't dare!" Li Dongyang knelt on the ground.

"Then why aren't I allowed to have surgery?"

"Your Majesty, mainly considering your age and health, the imperial doctors said it is inoperable..."

"Those imperial doctors told me a few days ago that they could perform surgery!" Zhu Qiyu didn't believe it.

"Your Majesty, they are doing this to make you happy. If anything goes wrong on the operating table, who will be responsible?"

"You are not responsible, I am responsible for myself!"

Zhu Qiyu was angry: "Send the imperial doctors here and I will ask them personally."

As a result, the imperial doctors said that he could not operate. The new imperial doctor who had previously said that he could operate also changed his tune. Obviously no one dared to go against Li Dongyang's wishes.

No, there is the shadow of Lao Si behind this.

Zhu Qiyu waved the imperial doctors out and asked Li Dongyang in a cold tone: "Did you reach an agreement? In exchange for my life?"

"Your Majesty, you are thinking too much!" Li Dongyang dared to admit it.

"Li Dongyang, can't I kill you?"

Zhu Qiyu's eyes were sharp. He already knew that he had become a trading commodity and had no value.

Just like when he supported Lao Si's reform before, wasn't he just adding a talisman to himself?
Because of Laosi’s reforms, everyone in the world needs him!

It may be that the fourth child has figured out the meaning, or it may be that the resistance is too great, so he chooses to retreat.

Then, he becomes the abandoned one.

It's sad that even the emperor has been abandoned, politics is so realistic.

Yes, there was certainly some use in this, but he really hoped that the fourth child could take up the banner of reform.

But while Lao Si retreated, he sold him out.

What a good father and son from heaven.

"Your Majesty, spare your life!" Li Dongyang kowtowed.

But there is no sincerity at all.

Zhu Qiyu stared at him, his face twitching: "Li Dongyang, are you provoking me?"

"Go and get the poisonous wine!"

Li Dongyang's expression changed: "Your Majesty, please give me a chance to defend myself."

"No!"

Zhu Qiyu looked fierce: "No matter how old I am, I am still an emperor. I am not Emperor Wu of Liang who starved to death in the Sand Dune Palace. I am the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty! This world was created by me and belongs to me!"

He insisted on standing up, but the eunuch tried to help him, but he brushed the eunuch away and put his hands on the armrests of the chair. His palms were trembling, but he still managed to stand up: "I can promote you, but I can also kill you!"

"Go get the poisonous wine!"

Li Dongyang's face was covered with sweat. This was the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty that ruled the world with benevolence and filial piety!

Not the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and Emperor Jingtai was not Emperor Wu of Liang.

Not to mention the second minister in the cabinet, even if it was Zhu Jianji, the old emperor could kill him.

The eunuch has already brought the wine.

"Fill!"

Zhu Qiyu's eyes were cold, "Those who won't let me live, I won't let you live either!"

People in the desperate situation of death are extremely crazy.

"Your Majesty, you have watched me grow up. I have been loyal to you and dedicated to the Ming Dynasty over the years. I dare not say that I have merit, but I have worked hard. Please forgive me for your sixty years of dedication to the Ming Dynasty. For my sake, spare the old minister, spare the old minister!”

Li Dongyang begged for mercy like a dog.

This is something Zhu Jianji can't see.

"Fill!"

Zhu Qiyu is an extremely selfish and paranoid person at heart.

Otherwise, he would not have lived to such a long age, and he would not have been able to hold on with all his strength and still be alive when the oil was exhausted.

He said that he did not blame anyone for the failure of the operation.

Weird.

As long as he fails, everyone will be buried with him.

He does not allow failure.

This is Zhu Qiyu.

Li Dongyang had served him all his life, and only now did he remember that this was the old emperor's true face. He had concealed it so well over the years. He disguised himself as a saint, who didn't care about anything and was kind to everyone.

That's because these people have not touched his core interests, such as life.

Whoever touches it will die.

When the choice came between imperial power and life, Zhu Qiyu decisively chose life. This was his biggest bottom line.

Li Dongyang dared to stop him from living, but Zhu Qiyu showed no mercy.

The chamberlain did not dare to go against the old emperor's wishes.

Two eunuchs held Li Dongyang down and poured poisonous wine down his throat.

Only then did Zhu Jianjian come in: "My son is late, please forgive me!"

"Excuse me?"

Zhu Qiyu's eyes were cold: "He said you won't perform surgery on me, fourth child, is that true?"

Zhu Jianjian didn't expect that his father would react so strongly.

But when he saw Li Dongyang being drunk, he immediately thought that it was poisonous wine. His body and mind trembled suddenly, and he suddenly thought of a lot.

Remembering that when his mother and concubine passed away, his father never even paid a visit.

When he was young, he always thought that his parents were very loving, because his father had no airs of an emperor in front of his mother-in-law. As long as it did not involve political affairs, Concubine Hu had the final say in his mother-in-law's palace, and sometimes Concubine Hu even scolded her casually. Emperor, Zhu Qiyu is just happy.

He always thought that his father loved his mother very much, and the relationship between the couple was very good.

However, when his mother was seriously ill, Zhu Qiyu only said that it was better to miss her than to see her, and did not take a look. He did not visit any of the women in the harem when they were seriously ill.

I just wrote to them, but never opened their replies.

He didn't understand at that time, and he never thought that his father was unfeeling.

He believed that his father just wanted to remember the most beautiful side of his mother and concubine in his heart, and did not want to remember the worst side.

Because he saw with his own eyes how loving his parents were, and even often saw his mother and concubine bullying his father, he subconsciously assumed that it was because of love, not ruthlessness.

Moreover, his father was always kind to the princes and mostly played around with them. He would always laugh at their jokes or deliberately embarrass them.

In his memory, he had never seen his father dislike any of his sons. On the contrary, he loved all of them, let alone his daughters, who loved them all very much.

but!

After his daughter died, he never visited any of them.

In these years, when his successor was away from home, he often corresponded with his father. His father always cared about their health, which was like being both father and mother.

In his heart, his father is a loving father, the perfect father in the world. He is also a father and a grandfather. He thinks that he cannot be like the old emperor.

After he returned to Beijing again.

His father cared deeply about him, and everything he considered was for him and paving the way for him. Everything was for Ming Dynasty.

but!

Connect everything he did and think about it again.

Does he really love his concubine?
Does he really love his children?
Did he really devote everything to Ming Dynasty?

The concubine was seriously ill and he didn't see anyone. He just wrote letters but didn't read the replies.

He loved his children, but he was so decisive when it came to changing the prince. Did he really not know that Zhu Jianqi died of illness?

The daughters are in the capital, can he really hide them from his eyes and ears?
But he never mentioned it.

The deposed grandson Zhu Youquan was brought up single-handedly and endured many hardships, but when he was deposed, he did not even see him for the last time.

Also, it can be said that he single-handedly promoted the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty.

He treated Li Dongyang like his own son, but today, he was feeding Li Dongyang poisonous wine.

Thinking about it again, when Yang Xin, who was extremely loyal to him, died, he only made one comment and awarded the Yang family a reward, that's all.

And it was Zhang Fuhua who died for him, and he didn't even have any emotions.

There are many, many such people.

If he had a heart and lungs, how could he have lived so long?

If he really had feelings for this person, and had true feelings for that person, why didn't he say anything about it after the person died?
Even the children he loves most are indifferent to him.

How many feudal kings have died? There was no way he didn't know any of them, but he never said anything.

Zhu Jianji had never thought about this problem before.

He always thought that his father was the most perfect father and the most perfect emperor in the world.

He can tolerate his son and is willing to transfer power to his son. He is greedy for power but not hegemonic. He is the most perfect emperor template.

But Zhu Jianji is different. He has a bad relationship with his four sons. His children and grandchildren are just tools for him to gain power.

He always thought that his father was not...

but!

When he was at his weakest, Zhu Qiyu finally took off his disguise.

He has been pretending for ninety years!

He has been pretending for ninety years!
When Zhu Jianji saw his father at this moment, he felt so strange!
In Zhu Qiyu's heart, there has never been anyone but himself, and he is the extremely selfish person.

It's just that he pretends to be good for you, that he puts himself in a weak position, that...

all fake!

He transferred power because he was worried that government affairs would be too tiring, and he just wanted to live longer;

He cares about his son, but his son is his tool to rule the world;

He cares about his ministers, but his ministers can look out for him when he needs them!

It’s all use! all fake!
This is Zhu Qiyu! This is Emperor Jingtai!
From the beginning to the end, he had no affection for anyone, and he was always fake to everyone!

He has been performing this scene for ninety years, and he has deceived everyone in the world!
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