People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 681 Not every emperor is Zhu Yuanzhang, and not every minister is Chen Han

After hearing what Zhu Yuanzhang said, Zhu Biao was still a little bit unconvinced. If it was really so easy to let those civil servants let go, Chen Han would not have to spend so much effort on it.

The problem now is that those civil servants seem to be on guard against something.

So on this issue, both Chen Han and Zhu Biao actually do not trust each other.

If these people really believed in the policies he was promoting, Chen Han would not have to spend so much energy fighting them.

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw the expression on Zhu Biao's face, he said, "You don't know this, but this question is actually very simple.

“The reason why the civil officials don’t believe me and the monkey cub is because the monkey cub overthrew the Kong family. That was their monument, and now it’s gone, so naturally they can’t have any good feelings towards Chen Han.

"Also, the current popular reforms are ultimately damaging to their interests.

"They are relatively polite to Chen Han now because of you, but there is one thing that neither I nor Monkey Boy have, which is your natural affinity with those officials."

Zhu Biao was now even more confused.

To be honest, he didn't really believe this because he was involved in a lot of the three major cases in the class.

Others thought that he was a very kind prince, but anyone who was close to him would know that he could be very difficult to deal with if he became ruthless.

The reason why many officials think that Zhu Biao is a very benevolent prince is mainly because of the contrast with water.

If compared with an emperor like Zhu Yuanzhang, he is definitely merciful.

Because there are few emperors in history who are as cruel as Zhu Yuanzhang.

The main reason why he was so cruel was that many bad habits of the Yuan Dynasty were affecting the administration of officials, turning officials into useless people one by one, and even causing many officials to not want to do their jobs at all.

Because in the eyes of many people, if you do something, you will definitely make more mistakes than you do.

Even in the eyes of many officials, if they become the focus of attention, they will easily become the one that sticks out. That is why they don't want to do anything at all.

The more you don't want to do anything, the more problems there will be in the world. This is why it is a vicious cycle now.

If it weren't for the performance appraisal requirement every three years, they might be even less willing to do the work.

It was only after Chen Han's arrival that Zhang Juzheng's reforms in later generations came about, using the performance evaluation system.

This is to prevent these officials from being lazy.

Let the officials be aware of it.

This method is indeed useful, but Zhu Biao knows very well that it is only a stopgap measure. If these officials cannot be allowed to truly exercise their subjective initiative, sooner or later this matter will become a burden to everyone.

After all, not every emperor is Zhu Yuanzhang, and not every minister is a workaholic like Chen Han. Sooner or later, they will encounter those who are lazy.

As long as there are lazy people like that, disaster will come.

Therefore, Chen Han is now desperately patching the situation, hoping that the future Ming Dynasty will rely on institutional construction to manage officials, rather than relying on a good emperor or a powerful minister to rule the world.

If we only rely on these two things, it will be a disaster for anyone.

This is true both for the imperial court and for the people of the world.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Biao is still a little worried.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw his expression and knew what he was thinking, "You just think too much. You always think that the current officials are like this because they submit to your father or to Chen Han.

"And once your father is gone in the future..."

When Zhu Biao heard Zhu Yuanzhang say this, his face turned stern again, "Dad, I've told you many times not to say such discouraging words."

Zhu Yuanzhang was annoyed and said, "I have told you many times that this kind of thing will not happen if you and I don't talk about it or think about it. It will definitely happen. Why should we argue about something that is bound to happen? If you say that your father will live a hundred years, does that mean I, your father, will live a hundred years?"

Zhu Biao didn't know what to say.

My father's mentality has changed a lot since Chen Han came.

First of all, he no longer cared about the affairs of the world. He just wanted to have a good rest and left all the government affairs to himself, and he called it recuperation.

This reason does make sense, because my father seems to have never had a real rest in all these years.

Even during the Chinese New Year, they only rest for one day, and spend the rest of the time working hard on government affairs.

But after Chen Han arrived, he pointed it out clearly.

Many things would actually go very smoothly without your review.

On the contrary, after you read it, many people's comments became a laughing stock.

Chen Han said that he respected the experience you had gained from your travels around the world, so you felt that you could see through everything.

But Chen Han would sometimes say something.

Things will change.

Time will change everything, whether it is people or things. If a person can always see farther than anyone else, then he is not a person but a god.

There are no gods in this world.

Therefore, Chen Han concluded that the governance during war and in peacetime is actually different, and it is precisely because of this difference that Zhu Yuanzhang often had to slowly adapt.

And in the process of his adaptation, some things that he doesn't want to happen will happen. For example, while he is adapting to the whole world, many officials have begun to decline according to the old system of the Yuan Dynasty.

For example, now they took advantage of this law and started to engage in massive corruption, and then they were rectified by Zhu Yuanzhang.

After all, Zhu Biao did not have such means, because he could not use such means.

All those methods came from my father.

"The reason you have a common topic with those civil officials is because you have laid a good foundation with Song Lian. With this, those civil officials will look up to you and even be willing to compromise with you.

"Because they also need a stable environment."

When he said this, the old man looked even more confident, and he even liked this way of communication.

After all, when the father and son wanted to communicate in the past, the old man would usually go to the East Palace to look for him, only to find that Zhu Biao had already gone to inspect the surrounding areas.

So even though both father and son lived in the palace, they rarely met each other.

Many historical TV dramas say that the prince has always been by the emperor's side to learn from him.

In fact, this is a misunderstanding of the ancient times. TV dramas are meant to increase conflict and tension.

But in fact, ever since he took over the baton from his father, he has always taken the world as his responsibility.

Therefore, the father and son rarely meet each other, and sometimes they lack some communication, which is what they should have. Now that Chen Han has come, the father and son have many opportunities to communicate.

This is not to say that Chen Han was acting as a matchmaker, but because Chen Han's arrival gave the father and son a lot of free time. The cabinet system established by Chen Han allowed the father and son to extricate themselves from busy affairs.

Because of this, the two of them now have time to chat here, sometimes they can ask each other what they are thinking, and sometimes they can also consider what differences there are between themselves and each other.

The previous copying of the two has always been relatively subjective. First of all, Zhu Biao has always hoped to gradually soften his father's cruel punishments through his own efforts.

Zhu Yuanzhang always felt that he had not done enough to train Zhu Biao. He always felt that Zhu Biao needed constant restraint, constant instillation of his own ideas in him, constant improvement in his ability to accept his ideas, and constant growth in the process, just like an ordinary father training his son.

Zhu Yuanzhang had such a mindset as an old peasant. He always felt that he should educate his son in this way, should make his son feel that it was okay, and should make his son accept it slowly in this way.

But the old man overlooked one point, that is, the current Zhu Biao is not the same Zhu Biao as before. The current Zhu Biao's mentality has changed a lot because of what Chen Han told him after his arrival.

Because Zhu Biao had never thought that he might die of illness midway, or even die before the old man, so he had never thought about quickly taking over power from the old man and taking the lead himself.

But now it is different, because the current Ming Dynasty is heading in another direction. The current Ming Dynasty is heading somewhere else.

Today's Ming Dynasty can be said to have slowly moved further in another direction. If I still do things in the same way as before, it is conceivable that what I will face will no longer be just what a king who maintains the status quo should do.

What I will face at that time is how to open up a new world and how to make people all over the world follow my thoughts.

What he wants now is how to open up a new world, and this is what he has to do.

After seeing his expression, the old man said to him, "If you really want to get along with those officials and really want them to listen to you, there is a very simple thing that you must do."

Zhu Biao was very surprised when the old man said this. In fact, he had always wanted to do this. He had always wanted to hear what the old man thought about this matter. He had always wanted to hear, if he could really follow Chen Han, how could he make those officials listen to him and restrain them?
Because Chen Han has been saying that the current Ming Dynasty is actually facing a lot of problems. The main problem lies in how to slowly make up for the injuries suffered by those officials at the hands of the old man.

These injuries cannot be explained in just one or two sentences. A very important point is that the methods used by the old man before are like a very spicy sting to the officials of the Ming Dynasty.

It is precisely because of this that both officials and ordinary people have already formed some different ideas.

What they want to see is how to make those officials obedient, and how to make those officials work with them, but the officials are thinking about you, and ask you not to create any big cases again, otherwise we will never be on the same page with you.

Especially now that the old man has already hurt the hearts of those officials, or those officials have also hurt the old man's heart. The two sides have already formed a horn-like situation and are staring at each other. It is impossible for them to listen to you casually.

Because of this, when he thought about these problems now, he still felt a headache. So when he heard the old man say this, he immediately perked up and said, "Dad, you say it, I will definitely listen."

Zhu Yuanzhang then said: "Just like what the monkey said, everything is actually a matter of interests. The reason why your father did not manage those officials well and did not make them convinced was that your father did not give up the benefits."

When the old man said this, Zhu Biao was a little disappointed for some reason, because he had already known this for a long time, and there was no need to say more about the problem. In fact, everyone understood this issue, so there was no point in repeating it now.

Old man, how could I not know these things? In fact, he knew them, so he smiled and said, "Of course, this is a commonplace. You must have discussed these issues with the monkey kid a long time ago, so it's meaningless. But what we are going to talk about now is not these things. The most important point is where, in fact, even the monkey kid himself hasn't figured it out."

When the old man said this, Zhu Biao immediately became very interested.

He suddenly became interested in some things that even Chen Han had never heard of, and asked, "Dad, can you please tell me what it is?"

In fact, as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Zhu Biao is also currently in the process of founding the country and has always been thinking about how to accomplish something big. Even though he has been silently supporting Chen Han in his reforms and changes, and even though he is still doing some big things in the eyes of many officials, he is actually more or less unwilling to accept the result in his heart.

After all, it is Chen Han who makes all the decisions. What he is doing now is just some auxiliary work and he has no way of making the final decision. It can even be said that many policies are formulated by Chen Han and then he makes the final decision.

But as an emperor who is about to ascend the throne, what he wants is definitely not just these. It can even be said that he wants a lot more. He wants to be in full control of everything, and this is also due to his competitive spirit.

In fact, Zhu Biao and Zhu Yuanzhang were of the same type. They both had a strong desire for power and were thinking about how to gather all the power in their own hands and then maximize its value...

(End of this chapter)