I'm only seven years old, Lao Zhu, you let me supervise the country?

Chapter 165 Lao Zhu’s conversation, the fundamental interests of the Zhu family!
"How do you plan to handle Huang Zicheng's case?"

After a day of commotion, all the officials retreated, except Zhu Yunzhen who was still in the palace.

Lao Zhu ordered all the people waiting on his left and right to retreat, leaving his grandson to say some personal words.

Before Zhu Yunxuan returned to the capital, Jiang Yu, the commander of the Jinyiwei, had already reported to Lao Zhu in detail about Xu Dongjiang's acceptance of Huang Zicheng's letter and his refusal to let His Highness Grandson enter the city in the form of a secret melody.

He hated Xu Dongjiang's behavior very much, and he was brooding over the fact that he did not call to open the gate of Jiaxing City. The words used in the letter were naturally very severe.

"What does the emperor mean?" Zhu Yunxi didn't answer, but asked in consideration.

"We are not mean to him!" Lao Zhu sighed, "We still thought, after our dragon masters Bintian, let him assist you in governing the government and be the Minister of Gu Ming."

"Unexpectedly, this guy who is worse than a beast not only refuses to repay his kindness, but even sacrifices millions of innocent people in the Ming Dynasty just to deal with our grandson. If he is so vicious, he should destroy the nine tribes and cut them into pieces."

In the end, he gritted his teeth.

"Why didn't you just behead him at that time, but instead captured him, put him in the shackles to show the public, and then locked him up in Jinyiwei's imperial prison?"

Old Zhu seemed very puzzled.

This kind of person can just be cut into pieces by a thousand cuts.

Zhu Yunxi smiled faintly, and said: "A mere Huang Zicheng, ten thousand deaths is not a pity. You can kill him at any time, so why rush for a while?"

Old Zhu's eyes flickered brightly, he looked at him and said, "Do you want to hold Huang Zicheng in your hands, to lure him without saying anything, and to attack the civil servants in the court?"

Zhu Yunxi nodded and said, "My grandson has exactly this intention."

Huang Zicheng must be killed.

But just killing one Huang Zicheng can solve the problem of the civil society?

Even with the establishment of the Advisory Office and the Military and Administrative Office, it was still difficult for the emperor to achieve complete dictatorship.

The reason is that any system must be implemented by people.

But as long as people do it, there will be loopholes.

No matter how perfect the system looks when it is enacted.

The Qing Dynasty in later generations prevented civil officials from making waves. In addition to setting up military aircraft offices and establishing a secret performance system, there was another crucial point, that is, the Qing Dynasty was a foreign race and relied on the nobles of the Eight Banners, not civil officials.

Even after the Eight Banners children lost their military combat effectiveness, the Eight Banners nobles still controlled the center and held the power of the court.

Most of the military ministers, ministers of various ministries, and local governors came from the Eight Banners nobles.

The emperor of the Qing Dynasty, relying on this huge interest group, could naturally suppress civil officials with ease.

But Ming Dynasty was different.

At present, the only one who can suppress the civil servant group is Huaixi Xungui.

But Lao Zhu’s policy was to weaken and suppress them.

Old Zhu shook his head lightly: "Grandpa Huang once told you that no matter what the civil servants do, they will not be able to threaten the throne of our old Zhu family. Therefore, civil servants must be guarded against, but they must be used. You really need to be careful. It's still military commander Xungui."

"This time you led the new army to go out to fight against the Japanese pirates in the first battle. You made an indelible contribution, and the people praised it. But in the eyes of those military generals, I am afraid that you have attracted more hatred."

"You have to use civil servants to deal with them, you can't just hit them."

Zhu Yunzhen was silent.

Of course he knew what Lao Zhu said.

Beating Chang Mao and killing Li Jinglong made many military officers and nobles feel sad and sad, but the impact was not that big.

Military generals charge forward on the battlefield, go through life and death, and don't value life very much.

What really brought Zhu Yunxuan to their opposition was the increase in business taxes and the opening up of business qualifications.

The prosperity of the world is for profit; the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit.

The increase in business taxes has caused heavy losses to many military officers and nobles, and the opening up of business qualifications has made up for it even more.

It's no wonder these people don't hate him.

In addition, the sudden emergence of the new army made them alert again.

After all, Ming's other armies, their influence is almost everywhere.

The generals of these armies, or old subordinates, or their admirers.

All in all, they are inextricably linked.

But the new army was built by His Royal Highness Taisun, and all of them were students of Jinling Military Academy and disciples of Taisun.

It's also where their tentacles can't reach at all.

As a result, they became even more afraid of Zhu Yunxi.

But so what?
As the new army officially stepped onto the stage of history, general Xungui was insignificant in Zhu Yunxi's eyes.

In the past, the imperial court had to rely on military generals to guard the world, resist foreign enemies, and suppress rebellions.

Therefore, I am somewhat afraid of them.

Matters involving the army are different from other matters and must be treated with caution.

If a mutiny occurs, it will be difficult to end.

But now the situation has changed.

The new army's combat strength has already been achieved, and the original army will be eliminated sooner or later.

Their so-called influence in the military, their so-called comrades-in-arms and old friends, in Zhu Yunxu's view, will all be swept into the garbage heap.

Why should we be afraid of them?
"Grandfather, don't worry, the new army has been completed, and more soldiers and weapons will continue to be added to the new army in the future."

"What Sun Er means is to let the new army replace all of Daming's current army."

Old Zhu was startled, his expression froze suddenly.

"What did you say? Let the new army replace all the armies."

"That's right." Zhu Yunxi nodded.

It's a matter of time, and not too long ago.

Compared with the new army equipped with hot weapons, the Ming army, which was almost entirely equipped with cold weapons, was simply vulnerable.

"But we heard that the flintlock guns needed by the new army are expensive, and the gunpowder is even more expensive. How can the court have so much money to equip so many new troops?" Old Zhu asked rhetorically.

The flintlock was a very sophisticated weapon.

This is especially true for later fixed-loaded ammunition and rear-loaded guns.

With the industrial level of this era, it takes a lot of man-hours to make a gun, and the price is naturally expensive.

Fortunately, there are not many new troops, otherwise they really can't afford to equip them.

Zhu Yunxuan smiled and said: "Grandpa Huang, please rest assured. First, the new army is extremely powerful. It does not require so many people to replace the old army."

"Secondly, now that Sun'er has established a technology research and manufacturing bureau, with the popularization of large-scale equipment and production, the price of flintlocks will also drop."

After listening, Lao Zhu sat there and didn't speak for a long time.

Zhu Yunxi was a little uneasy, and asked: "Grandpa Huang, is there any problem with this?"

Lao Zhu looked at him, heaved a long sigh, and said, "After we established the Ming Dynasty, we also divided occupations for the common people in the world. Military households, farmers, merchants, craftsmen, prostitutes...everything has its own job. , children and grandchildren, forever unchanged.”

"In this way, the members of our old Zhu's family will always sit firmly on the throne of emperor forever."

"However, you opened up the qualifications for doing business before, so that anyone in the world can do business. In this way, many people will not feel at ease to continue doing what their parents did."

"The continuous changes in society are really harmful to the rule of our Zhu family but not beneficial at all."

"The same is true for today's new army."

"It is true that the new army is powerful, but we have heard that not all soldiers of the new army are selected from military households."

"This will also make many people ambitious and want to change their own destiny."

"Zhen'er, you have to understand that if you want our old Zhu family to remain unchanged forever, we must try our best to make everyone in the world content with their father's legacy and not have ambitions."

"If not, people's minds change, and their desires are hard to satisfy. Today they think about doing business, and tomorrow they think about joining the new army. What else will they think about in the future?"

"Do you want to be an official, or do you want to be an emperor?"

"We can only let them be honest forever, not develop ambitions, and let the imperial court grazing drive them, so that the world will be peaceful and the country will be stable. Do you understand this truth?"

boom!
Lao Zhu’s words were like thunder.

Lightning flashed in Zhu Yunxi's mind.

Looking at Lao Zhu with a serious face, he suddenly remembered what many people in his previous life often said - class solidification.

For the people at the bottom, everyone hates class consolidation.

Because the solidification of the class blocks the channel of ascent, they cannot get rid of the fate of being exploited by the bottom.

But what about the reverse, for rulers?

Of course, the upper class would like the class to be more solidified.

In this way, they and their descendants can be regarded as superiors forever.

For the supreme ruler, in fact, the more solidified the class, the more stable the society.

A stagnant society will make many ambitious and capable bottom-level elites feel desperate.

They should be outstanding people, they should be elites, and they should be able to show their strengths.

But the society refuses to give them such an opportunity, it just wants to imprison them.

As far as the rulers are concerned, they actually don't care whether the talents have been fully tapped.

What they care about is the stability of the rule.

A stagnant society is precisely the most stable.

It remains unchanged forever, and it will remain the same forever.

Any change entails risks and should be approached with great caution.

Never change something unless you have to.

Even in later generations, why not?

Many people in later generations scolded Lao Zhu for his small-scale peasant thinking, and the strict household registration system of Ming Dynasty severely restricted the development of Huaxia.

But from Lao Zhu's point of view, it is in his own interest to do so.

Zhu Yunzhen took a deep breath.

This was something he had never thought deeply about.

For a while, I didn't know how to reply to Lao Zhu.

After a while, he suddenly raised his head and looked at Lao Zhu who shook his head firmly: "No, Grandpa Huang, that's not the case."

(End of this chapter)