Ming Dynasty: Domination of the World from the Imperial Examination

Chapter 305 The wisdom of Yu Yin’s younger generation!
"Huhu."

Zhu Yuanzhang was breathing heavily.

Zhu Yuanzhang deeply agreed with Xia Zhibai's words.

The road of struggle is too exhausting.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, he has racked his brains to establish his own prestige and consolidate the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. In his early years, he fought wits and courage with Yang Xian and others, and in the later period it was Hu Weiyong. In fact, this was only on the surface. Secretly, Li Shanchang, Song Lian, Liu Ji and others were all troublesome.

Even his own brother.

Xu Da.

He also has his own little thoughts, as do his nephew Baoer, Wen Zheng and others. Each of them has his own thoughts, and many of them even go against his own. In order to promote his own ideas and propositions, he has secretly competed with these people countless times.

He was right to kill.

But if there is a choice, who would want to kill people?
Didn't he know that these people were his brothers? They were his elders and friends?

But he couldn't help it.

If he didn't kill, many things would be impossible to accomplish.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Xia Zhibai coldly. His anger had reached its peak, but he was unprecedentedly calm. He put his hands behind his back, his back was a little hunched, and it was the first time he looked directly at Xia Zhibai. In the past, no matter what Xia Zhibai said, he always looked down at him from the perspective of an emperor. But now...
He has laid Xia Zhibai flat.

Or put yourself down.

"I don't know what I can leave in the long river of history. Maybe it's my murder. I advocate the use of force, but this is also the result of my many attempts. Violence can't solve the so-called problems, but it can solve most of the problems and make everyone else shut up."

"That's enough for us!"

"I may have thought about this in the past, but now I don't want to think about it anymore. I don't know what I will leave behind. I can't care about so much. I will be dead by then, so how can I care about my afterlife? But now I am still alive, and I have to finish what I want to do. This is the mission given to me by God."

"You wouldn't understand!"

"I am the emperor, I govern all the people. Everyone else in the world has a way out, but I don't."

"Because I am the Son of Heaven, the Son of God!"

"I only know that since I have reached this position, I have to do what an emperor should do. I don't have so many ambitions, and I don't want to be remembered for generations. I just want to leave a prosperous world for the descendants of our Zhu family."

Xia Zhibai shook his head.

He raised his head, looked at the five-clawed golden dragon hanging high above his head, and sighed, "Your Majesty is in a very high position, so high that it makes people feel cold. As a subject, I can tell Your Majesty why I am afraid and terrified of Your Majesty, but lack a little respect."

“Because the officials couldn’t figure it out.”

"Your Majesty, you have already climbed to the highest throne in the world, and have almost defeated all the enemies that stand in your way. You own the world and have gathered all the wealth in the world. The whole court is full of your followers, and there are secret agencies like the Jinyiwei to patrol the world for your majesty."

“As long as you don’t cause trouble for the officials, no one will and can resist you.”

"But your Majesty is never satisfied, and always wants to be on the other side of the fence."

“Always wanting more.”

"Your Majesty has adopted strict laws and punishments to prevent officials from exploiting the people at will. Your Majesty has spent a huge amount of resources and manpower to measure the land, hoping that the people will not be able to evade taxes at will, but also to prevent officials from privately annexing land. Your Majesty has issued a large amount of Ming Dynasty treasure notes to plunder the people's wealth, but it has further reduced the monthly salaries of officials who already have low salaries."

“Many ministers and officials just can’t figure it out.”

"They are the ones who followed Your Majesty to conquer the world. Logically speaking, they are all in the same boat and are all vested interests in this new empire. What does the life and death of the people have to do with them? Why did Your Majesty make them feel uneasy when he wanted to plunder the world?"

"They couldn't understand why His Majesty was so determined to torment them."

"They have done so much for Your Majesty, why can't they live a better life for their relatives and family members like Your Majesty?"

"Just because your majesty is the emperor and they are the subjects?"

"But haven't they made any contribution to the world and the Ming Dynasty?" "They don't accept it."

"Your Majesty has prepared titles and salaries for his descendants, but he repeatedly wants to make other officials who followed your majesty fall into poverty. Your majesty wants to establish a system that can be used for thousands of years so that your descendants can benefit from it from generation to generation, but what about them?"

"Has your majesty ever considered this?"

"Your Majesty cannot consider this, because Your Majesty is the emperor and you are concerned about the people of the world."

"In your majesty's eyes, poor people are also human beings, they have parents, wives and children, and they also want to survive in this world."

"But the officials of the Ming Dynasty would not think so. They believe that they have followed Your Majesty through so many bloody storms and so many years of ups and downs in the officialdom. They have suffered too much and endured too much hardship. Profits are all they want to pursue now."

"The rest is bullshit!"

"But His Majesty is unwilling to give us even the most basic benefits."

"So Hu Weiyong eventually rebelled."

"I don't know Hu Weiyong's true situation at the time."

"But I can guess a little bit."

"Because Hu Weiyong felt that Your Majesty was vulnerable."

"Because Hu Weiyong was the prime minister at the time, he had people in the court, even in every department. Your Majesty seemed to have been sidelined by him. Coupled with the flattery of some of his accomplices, Hu Weiyong felt that he could replace Your Majesty!"

"He fantasizes about becoming the supreme ruler of the world!"

"It's just that Hu Weiyong miscalculated Your Majesty."

"Hu Weiyong never thought that everything he saw was what His Majesty wanted him to see, in order to force Hu Weiyong to make mistakes and then use this opportunity to eliminate a large number of ambitious officials in the court. Hu Weiyong is a talented person, but he does not understand His Majesty."

"I don't know what your majesty has been through."

"So Hu Weiyong was defeated."

"He misjudged his own strength, and also misjudged the cunningness of His Majesty."

"But Hu Weiyong will not be the end, because too many people in the world have fallen into the vortex of interests, such as Li Shanchang, Lan Yu, and even some of your Majesty's sons. It's not that they don't have ambitions, they just fear your Majesty."

"I just don't dare to show it."

"Openly, no one dares to disobey His Majesty's orders, but behind the scenes, they have long stopped seriously abiding by the rules set by His Majesty. Although many people in the world are shouting long live His Majesty, behind the scenes, they all have their own practices, in order to gradually eliminate the fear of His Majesty."

“They’re doing this for their own self-interest.”

"This is human nature, and it can't be stopped."

"Because they haven't reached the level of Your Majesty. In this world, the most basic thing is food and clothing, followed by interests, which is money, and then power and fame. These are what the vast majority of people in the world pursue, and even strive for."

"But these are all within your reach, Your Majesty."

"And what Your Majesty really needs to understand now is wisdom."

“The so-called system that has lasted for thousands of years will inevitably disappear under the instigation of human nature in more than a hundred years. Only true wisdom will be remembered and recalled by future generations after thousands of years, and even relied on for survival.”

"so."

"I will ask your Majesty again."

"Your Majesty, what do you want to leave behind for the world?"

Xia Zhibai bowed slightly and saluted Zhu Yuanzhang respectfully.

(End of this chapter)