Daming: The most ruthless tyrant in history

Chapter 87
"I can't see you! Since they want to gather at Qianqingmen, they should just stay there."

Zhu Youxiao's indifferent voice sounded in Dongnuan Pavilion. Wang Tiqian lowered his head and did not dare to say a word. Zhu Youxiao sat cross-legged on the Arhat bed, holding an imperial pen, without even looking at Wang Tiqian, and said while writing: "You Go to the Qianqing Sect and pass on my instructions, if they dare to do this again, then I will follow the example of the emperor's grandfather and stop the court!"

"Slave... this slave obeys your order."

Wang Tiqian was horrified, and he hurriedly bowed in response, then bowed his head and retreated out of the palace, but those words made Wang Tiqian unable to calm down for a long time.

Follow the example of Emperor Shenzong and quit the court?
If this matter spreads among the government and the public, it will definitely cause an uproar.

Your Majesty, what's going on?
Wang Tiqian exited Dongnuan Pavilion, feeling filled with doubts and surprises. It seemed that after returning from Wuying Hall, he no longer behaved the same way as before towards certain things or people in the outer dynasty.

How could Wang Tiqian understand that the Liao Bureau discussion at Wuying Hall a few days ago made Zhu Youxiao aware of many hidden dangers.

If these hidden dangers cannot be effectively solved, no matter how much money and food is invested, absolute support is given to Xiong Tingbi, new soldiers trained in Fengtai and Xishan are deployed, and various ideas for rectification of Liao are proposed, then the battle will most likely be lost. It is by no means limited to the frontline battlefield!

If he dared to lose to Jianlu in that battle, not only would the Ming Dynasty completely lose its strategic initiative in Liao Dynasty, but Zhu Youxiao would not be able to control the court. By then, even if Zhu Youxiao relied on the factory guards to kill, But that can only be regarded as an incompetent struggle. That is not the tyrant Zhu Youxiao wants to be.

The tyrant Zhu Youxiao wants to be is to kill batches of worms in the country with great righteousness, so that the civil servants who think like scholar-bureaucrats, even if they call him a tyrant, will not affect other classes, especially the underprivileged groups who are not taken seriously. .

This is the only way to bring Ming Dynasty back on track.

As long as the lowest level of the Ming Dynasty did not openly oppose him and overthrow him in large numbers, then even if the majority of the officials and gentry could not stand his iron rule and wanted to oppose him or even overthrow him, as long as they had military power in their hands, they would be able to rule the country. By pursuing political measures to win over one faction and defeat another, Zhu Youxiao will be able to take the initiative to suppress it!

The worst thing is, just fight again.

Zhu Youxiao must distinguish between the primary and secondary conflicts in stages.

The primary and secondary contradiction at the beginning of the imperial court is to clean up the inner court as quickly as possible, realize the change of power in the inner court, and strive to control the inner court, and then implement the political concept of intervening and checking and balancing the court. After more than two months, the previous month The chaos between the DPRK and China caused by the death of the two emperors was initially contained and restricted.

The most important point is that Zhu Youxiao took away the right to personally examine the Hongwan case, and also added the palace transfer case and the Salhu battle case, so that the delicate situation was not controlled by the Donglin Party, and then formed Despite the impeachment attack on Chief Assistant Fang Congzhe, Fang Congzhe did not fall. The Qi Chu Zhe Party and other factions outside the DPRK were able to stay relatively secure in the DPRK, and then formed a subtle restraint on the Donglin Party.

Even Zhu Youxiao hated Fang Congzhe's inaction and wanted to retire when he was old. He also knew that most people in the Qi, Chu, and Zhejiang Party were pragmatic politicians, which was the same as most Donglin Party members.

But Zhu Youxiao must accept this reality.

We can't just cut off all these so-called old-school bureaucrats simply and crudely. If Zhu Youxiao really dares to do this, within two months, there will be more than one force rising up in Ming Dynasty.

Those who should be arrested have been arrested, and those who should be dismissed are fine. Those who should be investigated are being investigated. Right now in the court, what Zhu Youxiao has to do is to maintain the status quo and keep the situation in his hands. His eagerness to change his mentality should be temporarily transferred to his plan against the Liao Bureau.

This is the primary and secondary contradiction at this stage. Zhu Youxiao wants to despise the court, while the Liao Bureau focuses on this. Everything must be planned around this point.

"I...Sun Guozhen, pay homage to Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty... Lu Guanxiang, pay homage to Your Majesty!" "Your Majesty... Yu Yinggui, pay homage to Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty...Shao Jiechun, I would like to pay my respects to Your Majesty!"

While Zhu Youxiao was busy at his desk, the four people who were specially summoned to the palace came to the imperial palace, bowed to the emperor with different thoughts, and saluted the emperor, and the scene outside the Qingqing gate was still unforgettable to them.

"Excuse me."

Zhu Youxiao put down his imperial pen and looked at the four people in front of him, "I summoned all the ministers to come into the palace. I have an errand for you to do. The factory guards were ordered to inspect the imperial store of Huangzhuang and arrest a group of inner court borers and rats. By the way, they were The local government has arrested a group of corrupt officials, evil gentry and profiteers. I am currently doubtful as to how many acres of land there are in Huangzhuanghuangdian under the jurisdiction of the inner court.

I plan to order you to go to various prefectures and counties. I will allocate manpower from the inner library to assist, conduct a thorough investigation of the Huangzhuang Huangdian, and re-register it. I want a detailed amount of the Huangzhuang Huangdian in the northern Zhili area. Tianmu, can you all handle this errand? "

This……

Sun Guozhen, Lu Guanxiang, Yu Yinggui, and Shao Jiechun all looked shocked when they heard what the emperor said. They thought they were specially summoned to Beijing by the emperor to serve as other officials, but they didn't expect that they had just gone to the Ministry of Punishment to establish a new direct office. A few days after joining the Qing Li Division, and only getting familiar with the situation there, the emperor sent him on other errands.

"The minister waits for the order."

Although the four of them were doubtful, they all bowed in agreement in the end.

Without him.

They have no foundation in the government, let alone a mentor or benefactor they can rely on. If they want to advance in the official career in the future, they must hold on to the emperor's thigh, not to mention what they are doing is to conduct a detailed investigation of the imperial palace under the jurisdiction of the inner court. .

What Sun Guozhen and the others didn't know was that from the moment they accepted the decree, they would be branded as an imperial party and would even become the vanguard of Zhu Youxiao's reform.

Zhu Youxiao's reform path will start from the inner court at all levels. In the past, the reform was about the replacement of old and new powers. What needs to be changed now is to deprive the inner court of its financial rights and some administrative powers.

Since it exists to check and balance the outer court, the sword of the inner court must always be kept sharp. If it is tainted with financial power and some administrative power, the sword will be covered in dust. This is not the result Zhu Youxiao wants.

Zhu Youxiao will gradually integrate areas involving financial power such as Huangzhuang, Huangdian, and Ranch, including some of the administrative and purchasing rights under the jurisdiction of the Twelve Supervisors, Four Divisions, and Eight Bureaus of the Inner Court.

By selecting a group of officials to be specifically responsible for overall planning and development, allowing the inner court to independently supervise, and replenishing a group of new blood moons every few years, and allowing those officials who have not been corrupted to be released to the outside world, this is a talent supplement for the imperial party. can be stabilized.

Greed is human nature and no one can kill it. The only thing Zhu Youxiao can do is to never show mercy when encountering corruption.

Centering around this core idea, a new overall framework was formed during this period to consolidate imperial power and ensure that everything planned could be effectively advanced.

Reform is not about talking about a few words, setting a few policies, and setting up the ruling class at all levels to implement them one after another. It is better to do less daydreaming. The power of the central and local governments is competing, and the power of the imperial power and the ministers is competing. , this is happening all the time in the Ming Dynasty. If you want to implement reforms in the Ming Dynasty, it is destined to be a long journey!

(End of this chapter)