Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 567: Eliminating dissent, determined to reform, the emperor talks about loyalty and forgiveness
Seeing that all the officials were numb, Zhu Qiyu started talking to himself and poured out all his ideas on governing the country like beans from a bamboo tube:

"Here I want to announce a national policy and name it 'Universal Chineseization'. It has two connotations:

Internally, due to the debate between Ming and Hua Yi, all Chinese lands only recognized the Han dynasty as Zhengshuo.

Dayuan was a foreign invasion, and the Emperor of Dayuan was a tyrant.Dasong was a separatist regime in Pian'an, and the emperor of Dasong was a Han traitor.

Externally, everything in the world is the land of the king; on the shore of the land, there are no ministers of the king.

Wherever the sun shines, it is the land of the Ming Dynasty, and the people there must accept comprehensive Chineseization. "

Zhu Qiyu's remarks can be regarded as poking a hornet's nest. The ministers who had been silent just now suddenly exploded.

The palace was noisy for a while before it calmed down a little.Liu Dingzhi, who had been depressed for a long time, finally found an opportunity and stood up and asked:

"I dare to ask Your Majesty, if the Great Yuan is denied to be the Zhengshuo of China, how will the legal rationality of the Ming Dynasty exist?"

Zhu Qiyu asked with a puzzled look on his face: "Isn't it natural for Han people to live in Han land? Why should Han people inherit Zhonghua Zhengshuo from the Tartars?

The fact that you can ask such a strange question shows that you are hopeless and that I can no longer explain myself to you.

Let’s talk about the facts. If you think Dayuan is the Zhengshuo of China, that’s fine, no problem.

I will give you a guide. You can follow Tuotuo Buhua now.Go with your whole family, and I will send you gifts out of the country.

Among the civil and military officials present, whoever wants to recognize Dayuan as Zhengshuo of China can do so.You can go to the northern grasslands to follow your Emperor Yuan now, and I will never stop you.

If the Great Yuan is really where destiny lies and what people want, then just let me be a loner here.You will help Tuo Tuo Bu Hua to kill me back to Yuandadu and make me a prisoner.At that time, I will definitely admire you loyal ministers of the Great Yuan Dynasty.

Go ahead, let's go. "

After being ridiculed, Liu Dingzhi stopped talking.Because the prince's position was in jeopardy recently, Liu Dingzhi was so concerned that he became confused and spoke indiscriminately.

In fact, there is another basis for refuting the emperor, and that is Taizu's love for Yuan.

There are a lot of remarks about Taizu expressing his love for Dayuan.Which Jinshi here can't memorize more than ten paragraphs?

But all the civil and military officials present chose to ignore it knowingly.Because originally only Taizu loved the Yuan Dynasty, and all civil and military officials, apart from the Mongolian people who joined the Ming Dynasty, there were really not many people who loved the Yuan Dynasty.

Even those Mongolians who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, in order to show their loyalty, stepped on the Yuan Dynasty even harder.The Han ministers just scolded Yuan Dynasty, but they really wanted to kill people on the grassland by joining the Mongols.

Zhu Qiyu disliked Liu Dingzhi very much, and when he called him first, he wrote a memorial to give advice to the court. He wrote thousands of words without any substantive content.

But for the prince's subordinate officials, please be patient for now.Anyway, in half a year, they will all go to Nanjing together. By then, out of sight and out of mind, everyone can forget about each other.

Just as Zhengshuo was mentioned, Zhu Qiyu took advantage of the situation and ordered his personal guards to bring the descendants of Chen Youliang and Ming Yuzhen to the palace.

After introducing the identities of the two to the courtiers, Zhu Qiyu smiled at Chen Youliang's fourth-generation grandson Chen Mingde: "It has been almost 100 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. Let us let all the grievances and grievances in the past be completely gone.

I want to vindicate all the anti-Yuan rebels back then.Anyone who has made meritorious service in resisting the Yuan Dynasty will contribute to the country.

In particular, your branch takes Han as the name of the country and takes the prosperity of Han as its own responsibility. I appreciate it very much.I wonder if you are willing to serve as an official, assist others, and continue to contribute to the great cause of prospering the Han Dynasty? "

Chen Mingde quickly knelt down to show his loyalty, and then asked: "May I ask how your Majesty wants me to serve you?"

Zhu Qiyu replied: "Build warships, build a navy, sail to the oceans, and level the world. At that time, your old tribe of Chen and Han were all exiled to Fuchun River, Qiantang River and other places by Taizu. They were only allowed to live in boats without having an inch of land. House.

After I ascended the throne, I had already pardoned him.I want you to gather these people and form a navy. "

"I am willing to die for the Holy Lord."

Chen Mingde dreamed that one day he would be able to return to his homeland and be entrusted with important tasks by the emperor.It is naturally a dream to regain an aboveboard status in China.

Zhu Qiyu nodded with satisfaction: "Taizu made your great-grandfather the Marquis of Guide, and I will order you to inherit the Marquisship and change it to the Marquis of Xinghan, with a salary of one thousand dan.

You can be the deputy commander-in-chief of Dengzhou for the time being, and I will make new arrangements for you after you have made great achievements. "

Chen Mingde did not expect that the emperor would be suspicious of people and not suspicious of people. He was so happy that he kowtowed to thank him.

North Korea is very strange. When Taizu sent the descendants of Chen Youliang and Ming Yuzhen there for resettlement, North Korea respected and treated Ming Yuzhen's descendants extremely, but treated Chen Youliang's descendants extremely lightly.

Therefore, Chen Mingde was willing to return to the Ming Dynasty, but the descendants of the Ming family were willing to stay in North Korea.This time the Ming family just sent some of their disciples back to the Ming Dynasty for pilgrimage.

Zhu Qiyu didn't take it seriously, and gave many rewards to the Chen and Ming families, and ordered the Ministry of Rites to arrange for the two families to return to their hometown to worship their ancestors.

Next, Zhu Qiyu ordered the cabinet to draft a decree that all the rebels at the founding of the country and all the officials, soldiers and civilians convicted during the Jingnan Campaign, except Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng, would be pardoned.

In the words of later generations, it was a complete reconciliation of the century.

Zhu Qiyu added: "Korean Duke Li Shanchang was also rehabilitated. The specific details will be determined by the cabinet in conjunction with the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Ministry of Rites.

The nobles, civil and military officials involved in the incident will all be rehabilitated as long as there is no conclusive evidence of guilt. "

The officials were a little confused after hearing this.According to the emperor's consistent style, as long as the court meeting begins with arbitrary actions, this style will continue throughout the court meeting.

The theme of today's court meeting is the word loyalty and forgiveness.Confucius said: See!My way is consistent.

Zengzi said: Wei.

When the son came out, his disciples asked him, "What is it?"
Zengzi said: The Master's way is only loyalty and forgiveness.

So the emperor actually changed his character. Instead of fighting and killing before, he began to talk about loyalty and forgiveness.

Zhu Qiyu sat high on the jade throne and glanced down. Standing in the front row, only Wang Wen was smiling secretly.

Wang Wen understood the emperor's thoughts best, so why did he start talking about loyalty and forgiveness now?Because the emperor has already killed everyone he wanted to kill.Those who wanted to rush away have already driven far away.

Even Emperor Gongrang and Concubine Xuanmiao were forced to end their political lives, and there was no threat at all.

Even the prince's dethronement became a matter of time before the imperial ambitions were tacitly announced.

Based on this background, the emperor must of course begin to focus on showing his benevolent, tolerant, and tender side.

No, except for Liu Dingzhi, Liao Zhuang and others who jumped a little, the rest looked resigned.

Next, there is the enfeoffment of heroes.

Zhu Qiyu personally announced: "The Jin Dynasty granted Wang Ji the title of Duke of Jingguo, Chen Mao as Duke of Ningguo, and Wang Tong as Duke of Yue. They were given three thousand hectares of land and were hereditary.

Liang Yue was the Marquis of Baoding, Fang Ying was the Marquis of Nanhe, and Liu Chang was the Marquis of Wu'an. They were given thousands of hectares of land and were hereditary.

Xu Youzhen was a martial arts uncle and was given [-] hectares of land, which was hereditary.

The remaining meritorious officers, soldiers, and civil servants will each receive generous rewards.

And from now on, I want to reform the rules for conferring knights. Civil servants can also be awarded knights as long as they have military merit.

As long as the meritorious service is great enough, it doesn't matter whether you are a duke, a lord, or an uncle.And it can be hereditary just like military generals, and it does not affect entering the cabinet. "

As soon as these words came out, the palace was shocked again.

The civil servants could not believe their ears.

Although there was a precedent for Wang Ji, a civilian official, to be granted the title of uncle before, it was only an extreme case after all, and after being granted the title of uncle, Wang Ji never entered the cabinet.

Now the emperor has completely let go of the civil servants' path to nobility, without affecting their ability to enter the cabinet.This is so touching.

This is the most exciting news that the civil servants have heard during this court meeting.

The reason why Zhu Qiyu is so radical also has his own considerations.In the past, the reason why civil servants were very negative about the expansion of territory was because they had to work hard for a long time. Is there any benefit?

It was raising money and food again. It was so embarrassing that my hair turned white. What happened in the end?If the battle is won, the title and reward belong to the military commander. What credit does the civilian official have?There is also a group of nobles showing off their power in front of civil servants.

Forget it.Generally speaking, the squeezing of the people by nobles and military generals is stronger than that by civilian officials, which will bring great trouble to the civilian officials who want to govern the people well.

Take the salary as an example. To reach the highest and highest position among civil servants, it only costs one thousand dan.

Among the nobles, any earl may be able to reach a thousand stones.

It is normal for a marquis to reach two or three thousand dan, which is easily two or three times that of the top civil servants.

It is normal for people to have psychological imbalance.

Now Zhu Qiyu has opened the door for military merit and nobility for civil servants, which will naturally greatly stimulate the enthusiasm of civil servants to expand territories.

Anyway, let’s first trick the civil servants into boarding the pirate ship.From now on, my son and I will probably rule the Ming Dynasty for another 50 years. As for the negative effects, there is plenty of time to make up for them.

The worst case scenario is to send all the ministers overseas to Australia, New Zealand, etc., and let them become local emperors comfortably.

After the ministers got over their excitement, they thought that the emperor had finished speaking, but they did not expect that Zhu Qiyu did not even finish half of what he said: "There are still two reform matters.

First, from today on, except for princes and princes, the rest of the clan can choose their own names and get married on their own.

The second is the reform of monks and Taoism.There are too many specific measures for this one. I will issue the edict later, so you can look at the details inside.

In short, from today on, the situation of exploiting the monks and the imperial court will be replaced by the exploitation of the monks and the Tao by the few.

The national power of the Ming Dynasty should be used to care for and support the people, and to strive for strength and rejuvenation. It will no longer support so many idle people.

In addition, I want to build five schools in the capital, namely the Literature School, the Martial Arts School, the Engineering School, the Mathematics School, and the Chemistry School.

We also have powerful countries in the West. If we don’t strive to develop them, Ming Dynasty will fall behind others.

Therefore, from the land, we must try to open up the Silk Road; from the sea, we must establish an ocean-going navy to suppress the rise of the great powers. "

(End of this chapter)