Ming Dynasty: Domination of the World from the Imperial Examination

Chapter 259 The east is about to dawn and the sky will be white!
Tang He's face changed drastically.

His expression suddenly turned cold and he said, "How dare you! How can His Majesty allow you to slander me?!"

He was really frightened by Xia Zhibai's words, and suddenly attacked His Majesty out of the blue.

If word of this gets out, even he will be implicated.

Xia Zhibai waved his sleeves, sat upright, and didn't take these words to heart. He smiled and said, "Duke Xin is too reserved. The current emperor is not so petty. Aren't there a few people in the world who curse the current emperor? Does the emperor really not know? In the north, there are even some scholars who deliberately fabricate and smear, and the emperor actually knows it very well."

"Your Majesty himself does not have much opinion on these."

“But make sense.”

"You make a point." Tang He looked unfriendly.

Xia Zhibai was silent for a while, then slowly said: "It's not a matter of reason, it's just that we have different political views."

Xia Zhibai raised his eyes, looked outside the car, and said calmly: "I have been secretly trying to figure out your Majesty's way of governing over the years, and I have roughly figured out one thing. In your Majesty's view, the Ming Dynasty has just been founded, and your Majesty should first stabilize the world and let the people settle down, and it would be best if these scholars and landlords can also calm down."

“Therefore, all the policies your majesty has implemented since the founding of the country are based on this.”

"Let the people have land, the world be in order, implement the tax farming system throughout the world, control the production of salt and pig iron, etc., and control the world from a macro perspective."

"In your Majesty's eyes, the world is in your hands. Even if a lot of problems do arise, it will not be too late to solve them then. To some extent, the fact that there are so many corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty may be due to your Majesty's deliberate connivance, because in your Majesty's eyes, these corrupt officials are just fat pigs."

"Your Majesty deliberately turned a blind eye so that the pigs could be fattened up before being killed."

"Based on."

"The foundation of the Ming Dynasty was actually exploitation!"

"Everything in the Ming Dynasty seems to be upholding justice for the people, but in fact it opens the door to convenience for local officials, gentry, and officials, and condones them to do evil in the local area. Once a bad incident occurs, or the greed is outrageous, Your Majesty will use your status as an emperor and the people's will to bring these corrupt officials to justice."

"This way."

"Not only did it win the hearts of the people, but it also punished corrupt officials and confiscated a large amount of money and grain."

“It’s like killing two birds with one stone.”

"And the court has been doing this for years."

"But now, Your Majesty has gradually figured out that something is wrong, because some of the people who followed Your Majesty to conquer the world have also mixed in with them, and even in many cases they are the leaders. For this reason, Your Majesty has repeatedly issued orders, even at the cost of shedding tears and killing people, to enforce strict discipline."

"Your Majesty, at first, thought that Your Majesty had given the founding heroes enough preferential treatment, with status, position and rewards. They had already enjoyed endless splendor and should have stopped coveting the money and grain of the local people. But Your Majesty, after reading so many books, neglected the Huainanzi."

"Your Majesty believes that the people who follow you will not change."

"Thinking that these people are static relative to Your Majesty, but that is not the case."

“These people have changed!”

"And he stood directly against His Majesty."

"Faced with this situation, Your Majesty suddenly became cautious, and this time the South is a good example. With Duke Xin's ability, it is not difficult to collect some information from the world, so he must know more about the situation in the South than I do."

"Duke Xin, do you know how many meritorious people are involved in this?"

"By now."

"Your Majesty, even if you want to act as planned, it will be difficult to do so, because these people are not isolated and static. They have long been connected together due to various interests, and they are at the top of the court, that is, at the top of the world."

"And in this case, your majesty's power has actually shrunk."

"As the old saying goes: The law does not punish the masses."

"When all the ministers in the court are standing against your majesty, your majesty can't help but weigh the pros and cons. Moreover, a more bloody question is placed before your majesty. Your relatives and children are involved in this. Can your majesty really put justice above relatives?"

"What happened in the South this time seems accidental."

"It is inevitable."

"This is the evil result of your Majesty's wrong direction in governing."

"When the pigs that Your Majesty has been carefully raising suddenly rush in front of you, even if you are holding a butcher knife, you will inevitably panic."

"This is the current situation of Ming Dynasty."

"When only local officials are corrupt, the court can easily solve the problem, but when corruption spreads to the entire court, the court itself becomes the problem. No matter how extreme a person is, will he really do it to himself?"

"Duke Xin, would you attack your own relatives and children?"

"So your Majesty's idea is totally unrealistic."

"What he released was not a pig, but a rope to strangle Daming."

"Now that Your Majesty is still here, these noble wines have become a disaster. When Your Majesty grows older, the situation will only become more serious."

"It will be normal for government orders not to leave Yingtian Prefecture."

"The whole court is full of their people, what can the emperor do?"

"Will future emperors really dare to risk their lives to overthrow all the civil and military officials? Even if they really overthrow the court, what about the local officials? The court changes over and over again, but it's just a different soup, with a different group of people."

“It doesn’t solve the real problem at all.”

“Governance governs.”

"We must first determine the 'reason' before we can apply the 'treatment'."

"To a certain extent, all of your majesty's visions have now failed."

"Selfish desire is the root of all evil in this world."

"Your Majesty is greedy for convenience and wants to calm the world as soon as possible and make the world stable, so he embarked on a path of compromise. However, once the door to compromise is opened, it will only indulge more selfish thoughts and profit-seeking activities in the world." "In the end, it will backfire."

"It's ultimately a case of losing sight of the main point."

Xia Zhibai let out a long sigh.

Zhu Yuanzhang treated the gentry and landlords all over the world like pigs, but he didn't know that the local gentry and landlords also treated Zhu Yuanzhang like a pig and deceived him.

The reason why Xia Zhibai did not take action this time regarding the Southern Affairs was that he wanted to let the Southerners themselves tear off this fig leaf completely and show it clearly in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, so that Zhu Yuanzhang could see what the result was in return for his temporary compromise!
Taking a step back does not bring peace and tranquility.

But they are getting more and more demanding!

Tang He's expression was complicated and profound.

He looked at Xia Zhibai deeply and said in a serious tone, "Alas, how do you know what His Majesty was thinking at that time? Things in the world are not that simple. It is already very difficult to hold on to the world. How can everything go smoothly as you wish?"

"Your Majesty sometimes has no alternative."

Xia Zhibai nodded.

He acknowledged this point.

But he refused to admit it.

Xia Zhibai said solemnly: "Duke Xin, do you still remember this sentence I wrote during the imperial examination? The Han and Ming dynasties were the most righteous dynasties in the world. But if we really look at it in detail, your Majesty is the most righteous one because all your power comes from the people!"

“As the saying goes, he who wins the hearts of the people wins the world.”

"Since Your Majesty has won the hearts of the people, then it is time for Your Majesty to take the throne."

"He must be able to sit still, too!"

"It is precisely because Your Majesty is in power that You can slaughter the people without any scruples and slaughter the officials in the court without being criticized by the world. Throughout history, how many emperors can be as strong as Your Majesty and be regarded as the right by the people?"

"The scholars can scold the present emperor for not reading books, calling him a mud-legged peasant, a country bumpkin, or a tyrant."

"But has anyone in the world ever cursed me like this?"

"What can the people of the world do now against the local ruffians, bullies, landlords and gentry? The only thing they can count on is your Majesty. They hope that your Majesty can uphold justice for them and that your Majesty is a wise and holy ruler."

"Your Majesty has always been interested in building in this direction."

“And it’s all acted.”

"Because Your Majesty has deviated from the foundation since the founding of the country. He no longer focuses on the 'people's hearts', but is more focused on appeasing the 'scholars' and 'landlords'. There is a saying in Buddhism that you reap what you sow."

"Everything in the Ming Dynasty was caused by your majesty."

"I also wrote on the test paper at that time that the Ming Dynasty rose because of the peasant uprising, and it would also fall because of the peasant uprising."

"Because the Ming Dynasty is too righteous."

"The only thing that can prevent the Ming Dynasty from turning over is the 'people's will'. When the Ming Dynasty is no longer 'Ming', it can no longer be called righteous, and naturally there will be opportunities for others to replace it."

"But if the Ming Dynasty, which is supported by the people, is like this, I am afraid that the Han people in the world will fall into a long-term confusion, not knowing where China will go."

"During this period when the Han people are in a state of shock, perhaps a foreign race will come to rule the Central Plains."

“I made a lot of things clear.”

"I want to tell His Majesty that he is full of doubts about the power of the local people, so he dare not do too many bold things, but I, Xia Zhibai, have never doubted it. I believe in the power of the people and will always believe in it."

“I always think so.”

"The people are the real masters of the world!"

"Once they truly unite, the power they unleash will be enough to destroy all the deep-rooted problems that stand in their way!"

"It is also enough to destroy these outdated bureaucratic systems."

“Let the world be revitalized!”

"There are some things that your majesty has too many concerns about, and dares not do, is afraid to do, is hesitant, and is too concerned about gains and losses. But I, Xia Zhibai, am not afraid. I will personally wade into this muddy water on your behalf, and let the world open its eyes and see whether the local people are really unreliable!"

"Can they really fight against that old evil force?"

Summer's whiteness is powerful.

He wanted to completely change Zhu Yuanzhang's ideas through this trip to the south.

Let the world enter a new stage!

Tang He was speechless.

He looked at Xia Zhibai with deep eyes and fell into silence for a long time.

He didn't speak.

I don’t know what to say.

I don't even know whether to sneer or to be in awe.

now.

The east is about to dawn and the sky is about to turn white.

Through the car window, a ray of golden-red sunlight shone on Xia Zhibai.

It made him shine brightly.

(End of this chapter)