Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1672, Being an emperor is not easy
On the first day of the new year, Liu Jin was preparing to take these little kids at home to watch a football match.

The capital city is the busiest on the first day of the Lunar New Year, with football matches, horse races, dramas, juggling, etc., there are so many activities of all kinds, and everywhere is very lively.

Among them, the most exciting thing now belongs to the football game. On the first day of the new year, it is a heavyweight game, and it is an entertainment program that people in the capital must not miss.

"Let's go, let's go~"

"Go to the football game~"

The little ones at home were very excited and excited. Liu Jin was so busy that it was rare for him to have time to watch the football game with them. This was definitely the happiest time.

"Let's go, let's go~"

Liu Jin and his family were about to go out.

"Old Liu, old Liu~"

Zhu Houzhao's voice came in from outside.

"It's the first day of the Lunar New Year. He doesn't want to accompany Emperor Hongzhi and the Empress well. Why did he come looking for me?"

Hearing Zhu Houzhao's voice, Liu Jin was speechless immediately.

It seems that the plan to watch the football game has changed.

Soon, Zhu Houzhao came to Liu Jin's house in a hurry. Seeing that Liu Jin and his family were about to go out, he asked curiously, "Old Liu, where are you going?"

"I'm about to go out to watch the football game, what's the matter, Your Highness?"

Liu Jin quickly said that the meaning in the truth is very clear, that is, if there is nothing to do, I will not entertain, this year I want to accompany my family.

"I really have something to discuss with you."

Zhu Houzhao naturally acted as if he didn't understand at all.

"You guys take the kids to the ball game."

There was no other way, Liu Jin could only talk to Xu Wan'er and Li Zhen in an extremely apologetic tone.

"It's okay. It's the same when we take them there. It doesn't matter that you are busy with national affairs."

Xu Wan'er and Li Zhen are naturally very virtuous, and they took their children to watch the game, leaving Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao to discuss national affairs.

"Your Highness, is there anything we can't talk about after the holidays?"

In the living room, Liu Jin began to complain a little. Can people take a good rest for a few days during the Chinese New Year? Working for your old Zhu's family all year round, it's time for people to rest for a few days.

"The matter is urgent, mainly because I think only you, Lao Liu, can help me."

Zhu Houzhao didn't care about these things. He himself sacrificed a lot today. It stands to reason that he should take the whole family to pay New Year's greetings to Emperor Hongzhi and Empress Zhang.

But talking with Emperor Hongzhi late last night also made Zhu Houzhao clearly aware of the responsibilities on his shoulders, so he came to look for Liu Jin early in the morning, ready to have a good time with Liu Jin.

"What's the hurry?"

When Liu Jin heard this, he also became curious.

"It's like this. Father is going to let me take charge of Shuntian Mansion after the new year. He said that he will let me practice, practice, and let me take charge of Beizhili in a few years to accumulate experience in governing one side."

"That's why I came here specially to ask you for advice, to ask for advice."

Zhu Houzhao said quickly.

The heart-to-heart talk between their father and son yesterday also played a role.

Only then did Zhu Houzhao know what his father had experienced over the years.

Hongzhi began to ascend the throne at the age of eighteen. To be honest, people are still ignorant of how much they can understand at the age of eighteen. They don't know or understand many things.

Later generations are still high school students at the age of eighteen, and many people are still obsessed with playing games without knowing anything.

Even though Emperor Hongzhi was taught by a famous teacher, at the age of eighteen, he was still too immature. He didn't understand many things, and he didn't know, but no one taught him.

He could only trust his teacher, the Confucianism he had learned, and the civil officials, but in the end he was limped by these civil officials.

The treasury is empty, the frontier defense is difficult, and the lives of the people are difficult. It can be said that there are internal and external troubles.

Just like this, these civil servants were still able to advocate the revival of Hongzhi and the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, so that Emperor Hongzhi really thought that the Ming Dynasty was prosperous and prosperous. Only in winter, the Tatars went south, tearing this veil again and again.

Only then did Emperor Hongzhi gradually realize that the so-called prosperous age was nothing more than self-inflicted humiliation, and it was just used by those civil servants to fool himself.

Although I work very hard, there is no day off throughout the year, and the memorials I review every day are like hills, and I have to read at least more than [-] words of memorials every day.

However, Daming still can't do it.

Later, when Liu Jin appeared, Emperor Hongzhi gradually realized some problems, realized that these civil officials could not believe everything, and also realized the key to the problem.

Afterwards, Liu Jin was slowly and boldly appointed to carry out many reforms, which led to the current situation of Daming, otherwise it would be really unimaginable.

Emperor Hongzhi's more than [-] years of ruling experience also gave Emperor Hongzhi a lot of experience.

I had a long chat with Zhu Houzhao last night, a lot.

Only then did Zhu Houzhao know that everything his father had experienced from a young emperor to the present was really not easy and difficult.

From ignorance and ignorance to getting familiar with government affairs, to gradually thinking about the way out of Ming Dynasty, and realizing the problems existing in Ming Dynasty, and then to boldly appointing Liu Jin, suppressing Shilin in the south of the Yangtze River, carrying out tax reform, levying business tax, and then to the military. System reform, bureaucratic reform, etc.

Without this series of changes, Daming would still be the same as before.

Internal and external troubles, the internal treasury is empty, the gentry group continues to grow, the frontier defense is difficult, and the taxation is gradually collapsing. Externally, there are Tatars in the north who go south every year to seize the customs. In Liaodong, there are Jurchens who are capricious. A full white-eyed wolf.

If there is any disaster or something like that, Daming will inevitably starve to death, wars will rage everywhere, and there will be countless thieves. Where is the prosperous age, there will be wind and rain everywhere, and God knows how long it can last.

On the contrary, those gentry, salt merchants, etc., are rich and powerful, and their power is expanding. Relying on the imperial examination system, they have formed a huge gentry group.

They kept annexing the land to the subordinates, making the land more and more concentrated, and the conflicts became more and more intense. The superiors constantly demanded to monopolize the power, rejected the military generals, and wanted to limit the imperial power. Everything was obeyed by them. Everything in Daming revolves around their interests.

Emperor Hongzhi told Zhu Houzhao all this well and in detail.

Only then did Zhu Houzhao realize that Emperor Hongzhi hadn't lived a good life for a few days for so many years. Although being an emperor seemed to be a good life, he was actually under great pressure and was exhausted to death.

So he also listened to some words of Emperor Hongzhi.

I know that my current good life is because of the support of Emperor Hongzhi. When Emperor Hongzhi left that day, the burden fell on Zhu Houzhao.

If Zhu Houzhao still doesn't understand anything and doesn't have much experience, then he will have to follow the old path of Emperor Hongzhi again.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao is not in conflict with Emperor Hongzhi's arrangement now.

Thinking about it, I have indeed grown up, and I have almost played, so I should take some responsibilities. Zhu Houzhao has no objection to being in charge of Shuntian Mansion.

He even began to think about how he should manage the Shuntian Mansion well, so that Emperor Hongzhi would look at him with admiration.

"In charge of Shuntian Mansion?"

"Experience, experience, accumulate experience."

Upon hearing this, Liu Jin nodded slightly after thinking about it.

Such an arrangement route was also suggested to Emperor Hongzhi himself.

The ancient emperors basically lacked experience in governing, especially the young emperors, who were basically employed by reincarnation. They had no experience at all, and they all bit the bullet to be emperors.

What experience do you expect them to have?
Even if one has experience, it is something taught by the ministers and teachers around him. The Confucian way is nothing more than the way of governing the world with benevolence, righteousness and filial piety.

When encountering an emperor who has no opinions like Emperor Hongzhi, he can naturally be fooled.

When you meet Emperor Hongzhi's father or Zhu Houzhao, they have their own ideas, but they may not fully believe in them, and there will inevitably be turmoil in the court.

Anyway, in general, the ancient emperors, except for the founding emperor and the first few, basically did not have a high level of governance. Don’t expect them to make any outstanding achievements and keep their ancestors Jiangshan is already extremely rare.

Based on this, Liu Jin also gave such a suggestion to Emperor Hongzhi, let the prince start from the county, slowly try to govern one side, exercise himself, accumulate experience, and at the same time be able to understand the people's conditions and know the sufferings of the people.

Emperor Hongzhi obviously listened to it, and of course he also had his own understanding in it.

He himself just bit the bullet and got on the horse, and he didn't understand anything, so he liked to hold small meetings and listen to the opinions and suggestions of ministers he trusted.

Now that I am in the prime of my age, I can slowly let Zhu Houzhao go to practice and practice.

When he was in Huairou County, Zhu Houzhao did a very good job, so he was put in charge of Shuntian Mansion to manage a larger area, and it is also a place in Beijing, which is the most prosperous, richest, and most complicated in Ming Dynasty. place.

If Shuntian Mansion can also be governed well, it means that Zhu Houzhao really has good governance ability and can also accumulate experience and lessons.

(End of this chapter)