"Is the one whom I value a wicked villain?
Whether or not you are a wicked villain is not something that you can judge as a traitor!
Even if they are treacherous villains, at least they are not plotting to murder me, not murdering my father, and not being traitors!
”Zhu Youxiao said coldly.Then, Zhu Youxiao looked at Fang Congzhe and said: "I naturally know the sins of the kings, but whoever makes me benevolent and can't bear to criticize the ministers, so these small mistakes that are not killing kings and not greedy for ink do not need to be self-explanatory, only pay attention in the future, I am forgiving!"
However, the heavens and my meaning are the same, once the ministers do not cultivate the virtues of the ministers, they will be unfair for me, or the fire of the sky, or the earthquake, or the rain, when the time comes, all the ministers should be as Zhou Aiqing said, timely repair the virtue of the ministers, although I am easy to deceive, but the heavens are difficult to deceive!
”"Remember, Ministers!
Thank you, Your Majesty!
Long live my emperor, long live, long live!
”Fang Congzhe and the others hurriedly replied.Zhu Youxiao's monarchical power has indeed reached a higher height now.Even natural disasters are no longer defined as a warning to the Son of Heaven, but as a warning to the courtiers.The point is that this is the result that most of the civil officials in the court today, that is, the elites of this era, spontaneously admitted.It can be seen that Zhu Youxiao is indeed not fighting alone, because of the same interests, there is already a considerable royalist force behind him to maintain and even strengthen his monarchy.Zhu Youxiao was even more majestic because of this, waved his hand, and between his cold eyes, all the ministers stood solemnly.And all this is the result that Zhu Youxiao had long predicted.Because he knew that in the early stage of the germination of capital, once the royal family took the initiative to transform into a big capitalist, then other forces that wanted to engage in capital plundering would take the initiative to strengthen the monarch's power and plunder the interests of the old manor landlord forces together with the emperor.Now the same is true in the Ming Dynasty, the application of new spinning machines and looms in the official industry has made these reformist officials, who are both imperial officials and shareholders of government industries, not only hope to rely on the emperor to lead them to suppress the traditional gentry, but also hope that the emperor will stand in front of them to maintain the stability of the entire society.In both public and private, these people have a natural motive to strengthen the monarch's power, so they all listen to the emperor's words.However, because these civil officials were in the same interests as the emperor and supported the emperor, they were reprimanded by other scholars and doctors who opposed the new policy as traitors.As Kim Maoji said now.However, Zhu Youli didn't think that the people who supported him were traitors, and then he had to look for abuse, thinking that the people who had nothing to do and scolded him were really gentlemen and loyal ministers.In Zhu Youxiao's view, if these officials who are now being reused by himself in the court are traitors, then it would be better for such a traitor to have another division.After all, such a traitorous party can make the annual treasury grain income reach more than 30 million stones, and the annual silver income can reach more than 6 million taels, far exceeding any era of the Ming Dynasty, and can also quickly compile hundreds of thousands of displaced people to avoid large-scale civil uprisings, and even increase the elite of the empire by more than 100,000, and even tens of thousands directly controlled by the emperor, so that the Houjin power that had grown to the west of Liaoxi in history has now reached the point of surviving.If such a ruling clique is considered a traitorous party, then the greater the power of such a traitorous party, the better.Therefore, Jin Maoji's words couldn't fool Zhu Youxiao at all.Moreover, after hearing that Zhu Youxiao still emphasized that he was an anti-thief, and even the traitor in his mouth was not as good as the traitor in his mouth, because it was difficult to justify, Jin Maoji was even more indignant for a while.Jin Maoji had to look at the other silent few officials in the court, and even looked at Zhao Nanxing, casting a look of help.After all, Zhao Nanxing was also a person who opposed Fang Congzhe before.But Zhao Nanxing and these people all avoided his gaze.Although they didn't like the current Emperor of the Apocalypse in their hearts, they also knew that the general trend was on the emperor's side.Jin Maoji felt helpless because of this, so he had to say: "Yes, the criminal minister is not qualified to learn Haigong!"
But the guilty minister is really a sincere heart, please let Your Majesty be lenient to the minister once!
”As he spoke, Kim fell to the ground and began to cry.Zhu Youxiao looked at Jin Maoji like a clown, raised the corners of his mouth slightly with disdain, and ordered: "Spread the decree!"
Jin Maoji was immediately sent to prison, and his comrades were severely interrogated in Dongchang!
Waiting for the delivery!
”Zhao Nanxing glanced at Jin Maoji, who was dragged out of the hall, with sympathy.As a pretender lurking in the court, who supports the emperor on the surface, but supports or sympathizes with Jin Maoji in his heart, Zhao Nanxing's heart is very complicated at the moment.He was disgusted with the current situation, in which most civil officials were only the emperor's head.Zhao Nanxing misses the scene of the civil officials opposing the emperor together in the Wanli period, especially when fighting for the country, in order to prevent the emperor from messing with the order of etiquette and law, and Lifu Wang was the crown prince, they tried all kinds of means, worked together, and also overthrew several first assistants, forcing the emperor to live in the deep palace and no longer come out, unlike now, a tyrant who destroys the nine clans at every turn is also praised as the first saint of the ages, and even the scholars themselves are boasting.Therefore, Zhao Nanxing now feels that these civil officials were a little too harsh on Emperor Wanli of Shenzong."
Compared with the brutal, cunning, vicious and tenacious Apocalypse, Wanli is really a good benevolent monarch."
Zhao Nanxing thought so in his heart.So much so, after Zhao Nanxing returned home, he quietly knelt down in the direction of the mausoleum of Emperor Wanli in his own courtyard, and with tears in his eyes, he reverently recited in his heart now: "His Majesty the Emperor of the Temple, the criminal minister Zhao Nanxing accuses you, the criminal ministers and others were quite disrespectful to you back then, and now I think about it, it is indeed the ministers who are excessive, you are enough to be a generation of benevolent lords, although there are faults in teaching the country, but you should not be privately rated as a faint monarch by the ministers back then!"
If you have a spirit in heaven, you still hope for the sins of your ministers!
”Zhao Nanxing can only express his dissatisfaction with the new deal in this obscure way now."
Master, this is a secret letter sent by Master Zhongding, the staff of the Ministry of War, saying that you will be burned immediately after reading it!"
And just after Zhao Nanxing knelt down and bowed to Wanli, his henchman came over and handed a secret letter to Zhao Nanxing.After hearing this, Zhao Nanxing immediately took the letter, opened it and read it.Zhao Nanxing saw that the letter wrote: "Since the apocalypse ascended the throne, all the gentlemen in the court have died one after another, or have been degraded to the wilderness, and died in a foreign land, and now only Zhao Gong and other upright people are in the court, so that Zhao Gong can be in the court for us in the future, so I specially left a letter to the public, so that the public knows, such as today's righteousness has not been completely suppressed by the evil qi, after the Fujian Ye Gong and many gentry in the south who opposed the new policy of the imperial court, have secretly formed an alliance and fled overseas, ready to find a hidden island that the imperial court does not know, Then spend a lot of money to recruit Japanese slaves and pirates everywhere to train, use Qi Jiguang's military skills, and learn from the imperial court to purchase all kinds of advanced firearms from the West, in order to train a strong army that can clear the monarch's side in the future!
And hope to counterattack the mainland in the future!
I also hope that Zhao Gong can secretly contact the northern gentry and bureaucrats who are dissatisfied with the new policy and form an alliance!
”Zhao Nanxing was horrified when he saw it, and his heart was pounding."
Bring the candle!"
Zhao Nanxing immediately commanded.His slaves came with candles.But Zhao Nanxing glanced at his slave and thought: "Now that Dongchang's eyeliner is pervasive, even if I burn the letter, I am afraid that the emperor will know about it, and even ask myself, I will be in danger of disaster at that time!"
And Ding Qirui suddenly gave himself this, it is not that Fang Congzhe and others are secretly plotting, even if he wishes that there are gentry and wealthy families in the south who are secretly training overseas and get rid of the tyrant in the future, he can't gamble his net worth and life, he might as well take the initiative to tell the emperor, so that the emperor will believe in his loyalty, and even if this tyrant is eliminated in the future, he can explain it himself and push everything to Dongchang. ”After thinking so, Zhao Nanxing took the secret letter back from the candle: "Prepare a sedan chair!"
The old man wants to enter the palace overnight!
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