Daming: The most ruthless tyrant in history

Chapter 426: Enjoying with the People

"Taking profits from the people? Wei Banban thinks I care about this?"

Outside Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Youxiao stood with his hands behind his hands, looking up at the starry sky. Next to the bright moon hanging high, there was a group of dark clouds. Zhu Youxiao seemed to be smiling but not smiling, "People? In the eyes of bureaucrats and powerful people, in the eyes of scholar-bureaucrats and scholars." , in the eyes of the gentry and merchants, this represents them.”

"As for the people at the bottom of the world, they are vagabonds! They are gangsters! But I have never thought like this. The Ming Dynasty's aspiration to conquer China and rule the world depends on the real people, not the people in words."

"This person, in order to show his transcendent status, has to create some names, nobility, aristocratic family, noble family, poor family, common people, official family... It's really ridiculous to think about it. He has done all this and is not finished. We need to be close to our thoughts, and closely match the various rules, etiquette, and systems with what the sages of the past generations thought.”

"I sometimes wonder, is this maintaining the rule of the Ming Dynasty? Or is it maintaining their rule? Or is it maintaining the interests and privileges of certain people!!"

"If I care about my reputation, I will have worries in my heart and my hands and feet will be tied up. So what should I do to benefit all people?"

"If all the people in the world could know His Majesty's good intentions, they would definitely be grateful to His Majesty."

Wei Zhongxian, who was bowing his head and accompanying the driver, heard what his emperor said and immediately said: "Since I have been serving the emperor, what I have seen is that the emperor is diligent and self-denial, worrying about the world, thinking about the country, and caring for all the people..."

"Isn't this what I should do?"

Zhu Youxiao smiled, waved his hand and interrupted: "Everyone in the world says that it is good to be an emperor, to sit in the world and hold great power, but who really knows how many undercurrents, how many waves, and how many waves are hidden under that lofty position? How many murderous intentions are hidden!"

Unknowingly, the day of Zhengdan is getting closer and closer.

In the blink of an eye, the first year of Apocalypse is coming to an end.

As soon as New Year's Day passed, it was a new year. Zhu Youxiao never thought that this year would go by so fast. It was like when he was a child, he looked forward to growing up quickly, but when he grew up, he experienced too many beatings. With training, I hope that time can pass slower and slower, but time is very ruthless and passes faster and faster...

But is time really ruthless?

Do not!

The protection on the body gradually disappeared.

In the adult world, there is no such thing as easy.

"The vassal clan in Beijing has made it clear that the batch of criminal silver that needs to be paid will be accepted in the inner transport warehouse after all of it is delivered to Beijing."

Zhu Youxiao calmed down, stretched out his hand and said to Wei Zhongxian: "The 200 million taels of reserve silver misappropriated from the internal funds were used to open a checkpoint in the clan's mansion. I remember to make up for the reserve gold and silver from the internal funds. Especially the reserve fund, which cannot be touched easily unless absolutely necessary."

"This slave has taken note of it."

Wei Zhongxian hurriedly bowed his head and responded: "The Supervisor of Ceremonies has made arrangements, and an official letter has been sent to the Shaofu Yousi. When the batch of criminal banknotes is handed over to Beijing and entered into the inner transport warehouse, they will return according to the emperor's order." Bit!"

"How long until Zhengdan?"

Zhu Youxiao lifted up the sleeves of his robe and walked forward with his feet raised. Zhu Youxiao was very aware of all the recent events in the capital, but he did not feel that he had done anything wrong.

Since certain benefits were either stolen or expropriated, then let's just let the money go first. Zhu Youxiao never cared about the so-called infamy, because he knew what he wanted.

In the Ming Dynasty, which is in the Little Ice Age, there will be more and more disasters in the future, and every time a disaster occurs, there will be all kinds of scandals. Zhu Youxiao has no sympathy for those established bureaucratic groups. There was no hope, so he had to prepare for a rainy day.

Compared to natural disasters, man-made disasters are more disgusting! ! The demons and monsters that cause man-made disasters are like leeks that cannot be cut off. After all, power is here. The old ones have to be eradicated, but the new ones will take over. Who knows when, there will be someone among them. Deterioration has nothing to do with origin, but is closely linked to human nature!

Wei Zhongxian lowered his head and replied: "Back to the Emperor, there are still twenty days left before the Zhengdan Festival."

"It's really fast."

Zhu Youxiao smiled, with a little emotion in his brows, "I hope nothing new will happen in the next few days to cause trouble for me."

Wei Zhongxian remained silent.

He knew what his prince meant, but would all the people in the capital really be honest?

I'm afraid not necessarily.

After all, a lot of things have happened recently, and each one of them has directly impacted their lives. Based on Wei Zhongxian's understanding of them, they will definitely not let it go.

Counting the time, Cui Chengxiu and his party may have arrived in Shandong already, right?

While Zhu Youxiao was walking, he was thinking about things in Shandong. In recent days, he has been busy dealing with various government affairs and summoned ministers in order to establish the facts of the northern pass as soon as possible. At the same time, , there are also many things that need to be resolved involving Sichuan and Guizhou's rebellion.

Thinking about the past year, he has facilitated the completion of many plans and deployments. It seems that he has done a lot of things, but Zhu Youxiao knows very well that all this is just to grab time.

There were so many places he hadn't touched yet.

For example, the vested interest groups in the southeastern provinces! !

This is a group of extremely complex beings. At first, Liaodong was related to them, and the chaos in Beizhili was related to them. Now there is Shandong. Zhu Youxiao was thinking, these guys are scattered all over the country. which places.

The struggle between the North and the South in the Ming Dynasty never dissipated from beginning to end, but existed in a more secretive way.

"Go and preach to the Shuntian government office."

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao stopped, stretched out his hand and said to Wei Zhongxian: "On New Year's Eve, the five-day curfew will be lifted in the capital. I want to have fun with the people. There is still some time before Zhengdan, so I will ask Shuntianfu Yamen to do it." Be prepared to avoid possible unrest when the curfew is lifted."

"In addition, I sent a message to the two camps in Fengtai and Xishan. During the period when the curfew is lifted in the capital, all ministries will be on guard for me. If there is any trouble during this period, I will send troops to suppress it as soon as possible!"

"The slaves obey the order."

Wei Zhongxian suppressed his surprise and raised his hands to bow.

Since there are still many things to be solved, let's solve them slowly. For Zhu Youxiao, he just wants to spread various new thoughts and concepts little by little in this conservative Ming Dynasty. Curfew, This system that restricts development must be gradually abolished.

Zhu Youxiao hopes that by the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the curfew in Beijing, Tianjin and other major areas of Beizhili will be completely relaxed, but the premise is that there is a complete system to ensure that there will be no unrest after the curfew is completely relaxed...

(End of this chapter)