I was pulling trees in Daming, and Lao Zhu begged me to come out of retirement

Tianyu had instilled the idea of ​​constitutional monarchy in Zhu Yuanzhang when he was a child.

But it's just indoctrination.

When a person enters society, he will face a huge wave of thought of the times.

Sometimes wearing the yellow robe is not what one wants, but it will always carry a person forward in the tide of the times.

Without profound changes in national thought, the decline and fall of empires would be nothing more than a repetition of past mistakes.

The reason why they chose a constitutional monarchy was because they wanted China to have a buffer during the transition from a feudal dynasty.
In fact, the entire Ming Empire did not complete the institutional reform as a result, and all state power still belonged to Zhu Yuanzhang alone.

Even with Tianyu's help, King Zhu Yuanzhang's level of centralization was unprecedented, and the so-called democratic voting was nothing more than the result of public opinion guidance.

These are some of the methods of controlling the people's hearts that Tianyu talked about when he was teaching Zhu Yuanzhang.

This was the case with the Tianshen Religion during the uprising, and it was also the case with the elections after the founding of the country.

Tianyu could imagine that if Zhu Yuanzhang did not let go of the power in his hands, no one could pull him down from that position.

However, Tianyu never expected that the one who pulled him down was actually his own Xunxian Wendao.

At first, it was just the blood mark of lighting the lamp,
After Tianyu passed on the Wind Mark that enabled him to fly and the Elastic Mark that prevented him from falling to death to Zhu Yuanzhang, his desire for the immortal path reached its peak.

Who could have imagined that an emperor would be flying around the capital like a lunatic all day long.

This caused a great enthusiasm for cultivating immortals throughout Yingtian.
The number of idle hooligans seeking immortals and the way to enlightenment in the deep mountains and forests has increased dramatically.

Seeing that the trend was not right, Zhu Yuanzhang hurriedly ordered the News Department to issue a propaganda copy urging people to believe in science and resist superstition.

However, the effect does not seem to be very ideal when the emperor is flying around.

So Zhu Yuanzhang simply resigned from the post of prime minister and concentrated on cultivating immortality in the Daming Palace.

This made Liu Bowen, who took over a mess, so angry that he wanted to curse.

But Zhu Yuanzhang, as the king, doesn't care about these things.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who had learned the magic arts, separated the military and politics very simply. He was only responsible for cultural education and supervision, and took the Divine Guards to kill monsters and practice.
As for daily administrative work...it was all left to the court.

The only thing that is certain is this iron law.
The Prime Minister must be elected by the people for a term of three years.

The main point is that if you do a good job, do it; if you don’t, get out.

Then, Liu Bowen was the first victim... bah... the first successor to the prime minister had a head full of white hair after only three years in office.

He looked very much like Tianyu's first high school geography teacher in his previous life. He got married in his second year of high school and had premature graying of hair by the time he graduated from his third year.

Since many of the Ming Dynasty's systems were copied by Zhu Yuanzhang... bah... borrowed from the knowledge of the Friends of Military and Civilian Dual-Use Talents, they were also mixed with the shadows of some modern intelligent departments that Tianyu casually described in his sporadic articles.

Although it is not comprehensive, it is already a relatively perfect set of administrative functional departments for the ancients.

Relying on the high-yield crops cultivated by Zhu Chongliu over the years, as well as the gold coins dropped by the Shen Ziwei when they killed monsters.

Liu Bowen only felt that in the past three years he was like a disciplinary inspection committee, cleaning out some parasites who were just occupying their positions.

As for political ambitions, what the hell?
He tried to reopen the imperial examinations, but the nerds who only knew the Four Books and Five Classics and the Eight-Legged Essay were jointly sued to Zhu Yuanzhang by the people under his rule. Even his own residence was often pelted with rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves.

Liu Bowen was so frightened that he quickly abolished the imperial examination system and continued to implement the policy of promoting cadres from the grassroots level that Zhu Yuanzhang had previously set.

At this time, more than ten years had passed since the first batch of grassroots officers graduated from Taoyuan Township.

Although it cannot be said that the task of eliminating illiteracy among the lower-class people in the Ming Dynasty has been completed, it is still possible to produce two or three practical dual-use military and civilian talents in each village and town.

There are these officials who have climbed up from the bottom, although not all of them are good officials.
But there will never be those useless people who can only recite poems and know nothing about the lives of ordinary people.

Therefore, the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang dared to give up his responsibility was because he had the lowest class of people firmly under his control.

At this time, Liu Bowen just wanted to work for three years and then retire gloriously.
As for re-election? It is impossible to be re-elected, not in this lifetime.

It is said that the next candidate has already started giving speeches at the grassroots level.

One of the most popular candidates was Li Shanchang, and the other was Zhu Di, the fourth son of the Ming royal family.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang decentralized administrative power, he still kept some power in reserve.
The book knowledge obtained from Tianyu is still kept in his own library and heavily guarded.

Zhu Yuanzhang knew clearly that these books were truly valuable.

Anyone who wants to go into politics can gain a huge advantage over others just by learning this knowledge.

If a family disciple has read these books and still has not been able to compete with outsiders, it only means that he is not suitable for politics and it is better for him to be a wealthy man.

Among Zhu's several sons at this time, Zhu Biao was originally the next heir. However, three years ago, after seeing Tianyu perform a bunch of miracles and watching his father flying like an idiot in the sky, Zhu Biao no longer wanted to be the emperor.

So the task of entering politics fell on the second, third and fourth brothers, who were all 14 years old.

In the end, only Zhu Di resisted the temptation of the secular world and concentrated on reading all the modern books in the library.
Later, with the secret support of Zhu Yuanzhang, he gained great reputation at the grassroots level and became a popular candidate for prime minister.

This made Li Shanchang, who was already over 60 years old, so angry that he jumped up and down.
Competing for the position of Prime Minister with a 15-year-old kid, and being evenly matched with him, is so fucking infuriating.

What he didn't know was that Zhu Yuanzhang was actually trying to control public opinion.

Otherwise, Li Shanchang would not even be qualified to be a candidate at this time.

The Zhu family's reputation was at its peak at this time, and there were rumors among the people that they were the reincarnations of banished immortals. Any member of the Zhu family who entered politics within three generations would gain a terrifying reputation bonus. In order to prevent them from ruining their reputation, Zhu Yuanzhang had tried his best to downplay Zhu Di's identity issue.

Even so, relying on his extensive modern knowledge, Zhu Di still achieved great political achievements in the past few years.

The living standards of the people under his rule have been significantly improved.

But Tianyu didn't care about these at this time.

What he wants most now is to go back into the underworld and bring out that damn wither and kill it.

At this time, Tianyu finally gained enough experience for the Soul Binding Set. With the help of the Shen Ziwei's Artisan Soul Corps, he had enough confidence to challenge the Wither again. (End of this chapter)