Daming: The most ruthless tyrant in history

Chapter 18: Casting a wide net and gathering talented people

"My lord, let's drink some tea."

Holding the teacup, Wei Zhongxian bowed his head to Zhu Youxiao who was busy at the desk.

"What time is it?"

Zhu Youxiao put down the imperial brush and gently rubbed his swollen temples.

"Go back to the emperor, it's the third quarter of the hour."

Wei Zhongxian put the teacup on the case, walked forward, and gently rubbed Zhu Youxiao's shoulders carefully.

It goes by so fast.

Zhu Youxiao picked up the teacup, frowned slightly, and time passed quietly without doing much.

"After the palace ban was lifted, what happened in the outer court?"

Zhu Youxiao took a sip of tea, looked at the imperial case, and asked Wei Zhongxian.

In order to clean up the inner court, the Forbidden City was banned for several days in a row. Zhu Youxiao didn't need to think too much, he knew that people's hearts would inevitably fluctuate in the outer court.

"My lord, the Department of General Administration has piled up a lot of memorials, and the Supervisor of Rites has sent someone to collect them." Wei Zhongxian bowed his head and said: "There are many memorials among them, which are remonstrance..."

"Stay in."

Zhu Youxiao put down the tea cup and said, "Any regulations and memorials involving the inner court do not need to be submitted to the imperial court."

"Here."

Wei Zhongxian hurriedly lowered his head and said.

It is not easy to be the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. There are endless memorials to review and endless military and political issues to solve every day. But just like this, whenever something happens, there will be a lot of regulations and memorials pouring in, over and over again around certain core arguments to point out the emperor. I hope the emperor can correct his mistakes.

Zhu Youxiao didn't want to read these remonstrance memorials.

Thoroughly cleaning and controlling the inner court is what he must do. If the inner court is leaked into a sieve and everything can be learned by the outer court, then he still has secrets to speak of?

"Ask Luo Yangxing to come in."

"Here!"

Looking at the back of Wei Zhongxian's departure, Zhu Youxiao looked a little dignified. The experience of the past few days made him realize that if he wants to accomplish something, he must have talents.

No matter in any period of time, power is gradually decreasing. Even if he is a great son of heaven and holds the supreme power, it is unrealistic to want to do things by leapfrogging.

Zhu Youxiao thought about a very practical question. How many of the decrees he promulgated would sincerely follow them when they left the capital to distribute the decrees?
Maybe, but rarely.

Even in the current Ming Dynasty, there may be many places that don't know that the country has changed to a new monarch. After all, the Ming Dynasty has a vast territory, and it is unrealistic to achieve information change by relying on the backward post system.

"Chen Luo Yangxing, I pay my respects to Your Majesty."

"Excuse me."

Zhu Youxiao calmed down and looked at Luo Yangxing who walked in.

"There is something for the Qing family to do."

Zhu Youxiao picked up a list, "The Qing family sent some people from Jinyiweiqian to leave the capital with a secret order, and summon all the people on the list to the capital."

"The minister obeys the order."

Luo Yangxing endured his surprise and hurriedly bowed in response.

Zhu Youxiao handed the list to Wei Zhongxian, and Wei Zhongxian bowed to take it, and then walked towards Luo Yangxing.

In view of the current difficult situation, Zhu Youxiao must start to break the situation, and this breaking situation is not limited to the court, but also involves other fields.

In fact, since the inheritance of Ming Dynasty, all kinds of contradictions have been very acute. If you want to continue the inheritance of Ming Zuo, you must solve the core problems.

This requires a large number of talents who can participate in Zhu Youxiao's plan for reform, while fighting against each other while reforming and reforming. Only in this way can the situation be broken.

The list Luo Yangxing got was the talents of the Ming Dynasty who had made corresponding achievements in the fields of firearms, astronomy, geography, agriculture, machinery, etc., but had not been reused.

Song Yingxing, Jiao Xu, Sun Yuanhua, Wang Zheng, Xu Xiake...

"To treat these talents, we must give them absolute courtesy."

Zhu Youxiao looked at Luo Yangxing and said in a serious tone: "If anyone dares to let me know, and who dares to do anything during this period, then don't blame me for being rude!"

"I understand."

Luo Yangxing hurriedly bowed in response.

The more Zhu Youxiao said this, the more curious Luo Yangxing became about the origins of these people the emperor wanted to summon, and why the emperor paid so much attention to them.

"At the end of this list is a group of Western missionaries."

Zhu Youxiao continued: "When the Qing family goes south to the south of the Yangtze River, they can send people to Hangzhou, Haojing and other places to gather them together and rush to the capital secretly."

"The minister obeys the order."

Luo Yangxing paid homage to the Tao again, but his heart was full of turmoil. Why did he look for a Western missionary when he was so good?
"Go down."

Zhu Youxiao gathered Western missionaries in order to effectively broaden the Eastern learning system through the existing Western learning system. Of course, Zhu Youxiao also knew that the Ming Dynasty in this period was still leading in many fields, but the ideological trend of emphasizing Confucianism , so that many talents do not have a place to display their talents.

The missionaries who came to Daming to preach, in addition to spying on Daming's information, also absorbed these advanced concepts through folk exchanges and effectively integrated them into their system. This is the most terrifying thing about the European countries.

Brutal skimming and shameless plagiarism enabled them to gradually rise through the great voyages.

Zhu Youxiao wants to start a great emancipation of thoughts in his own way, so that Daming can realize the grand occasion of a hundred schools of thought contending, and lay the foundation for setting foot on the great voyage in the future!

"Have all the edicts I asked the Supervisor of Ceremonies to draw up been drawn up?"

Zhu Youxiao restrained his mind, looked at Wei Zhongxian and said.

"My lord, it's all ready."

Wei Zhongxian hurriedly lowered his head and said.

"Choose a group of reliable eunuchs and tell them to leave Beijing to go to various places to promulgate these central edicts." Zhu Youxiao said with a serious expression: "In addition, the eunuchs who leave Beijing cannot reveal their identities during the period. If there is public dissatisfaction in the local area, it will be punished!"

"The servant understands."

Wei Zhongxian bowed and saluted.

"Go and implement this."

Compared with the matters that Luo Yangxing was responsible for, the edicts drafted by the Supervisor of Liturgy targeted more targeted groups, such as Sun Chuanting, the magistrate of Shangqiu, Chen Qiyu, the magistrate of Luoyang, Liang Tingdong, director of the Nanjing Ministry of War, and Wu Aheng, the magistrate of Licheng County, etc. , Zhu Youxiao is summoned to Beijing.

The great emancipation of ideological trends is a long process, without a long period of precipitation, it is impossible to see the results, but in front of Zhu Youxiao is the rise of the Donglin Party, the intensification of party struggles, the crisis in the Liao Dynasty, and frequent disasters , financial collapse, not to mention the fact that many members of the Donglin Party are rushing to the capital.

If he wanted to effectively interfere and intervene in the government affairs and effectively suppress the party struggle, Zhu Youxiao must have someone who can use him. Zhu Youxiao was the emperor according to the imperial decree, but there was no imperial party belonging to him in the court or in the local area. Team, this is a very bad phenomenon.

If there is no one to rely on to drive them, even if they kill batch after batch of guys who are harming the country with empty talk through repeated game confrontations, who will fill the vacant positions?

"The Ming Dynasty cannot continue to be in chaos. It must be stabilized." Zhu Youxiao was sitting on the dragon throne, his deep eyes flashing. "If we want to stabilize the Ming Dynasty, the power structure must be perfected. The power structure of the inner court must be improved." Now that the matter is settled, we have to face the foreign affairs directly."

(End of this chapter)