My father is Jiajing

"Longqing?"

Emperor Jiajing chewed on the two words slowly, then looked up at Zhu Zaigui and asked, "Is it the 'grand' of 'long' or the 'celebration' of 'qing'?"

Zhu Zaigui brought a cup of brewed ginseng tea over and handed it to Emperor Jiajing. Then he sat next to Emperor Jiajing and said, "Father is wise, that's all I can say."

Emperor Jiajing continued to drink the ginseng tea but did not rush to drink it. Instead, he nodded seriously and said, "Yes, these two words are grand and new, and they seem to match my Jiajing reign title very well, with a sense of continuity."

Zhu Zaigui smiled and said, "I thought so too."

But whether Zhu Zaigui was actually like this or not, only he himself knew it.

In addition to his decision to use the reign title "Longqing", Zhu Zaigui also considered the reign title "Wanli", thinking that this reign title had been used for forty-eight years in the original history, making it a definite long-lasting reign title.

But in the end Zhu Zaigui gave up.

He felt that if he really had to stay in a position for forty-eight years, it would not be a good thing for the Ming Dynasty or the future.

After all, people are lazy. After Zhu Zaigui had been governing the country for several years, he felt a little tired and couldn't resist the urge to slack off, let alone forty-eight years nearly half a century later!
Wouldn't this force Zhu Zaigui to become an emperor like Emperor Xuanzong of Tang?

Moreover, in Zhu Zaigui's future plans, he wanted to transform important positions such as the cabinet and six ministries at the core of the Ming Dynasty into a term system with higher efficiency, stronger execution capabilities and clearer responsibilities.

If Zhu Zaigui himself was so obsessed with power that he would not let it go even if he died, wouldn't he be setting a bad example for those who came after him?
Zhu Zaigui really couldn't believe that the descendants of the Zhu family could be wise and diligent from generation to generation, especially his own sons. Zhu Zaigui actually knew very well what kind of people they were.

Even though he arranged the best teachers for Zhu Yijun and his group of children and gave them more advanced and open-minded ideas, they had never experienced any hardships and had not witnessed the power of the future world like Zhu Zaigui.

Therefore, if Zhu Zaigui in the future were to be like the ancients he once despised, clinging to his shortcomings and only for the honor of his family, he would be blindly optimistic and pass on the supreme power from generation to generation in his own bloodline.

Zhu Zaigui really couldn’t imagine how many generations they could hold on.
Therefore, in Zhu Zaigui's mind, the future design he wanted was that the emperor would be in charge of national affairs in a symbolic sense, the cabinet would be in charge of the formulation of specific administrative policies, and the six ministries would be responsible for the implementation of various policies.

In general, it is equivalent to gradually implementing the policy of a figurehead and leaving state affairs to the real political elites.

Of course, in order to prevent these political elites from seizing power and refusing to leave, Zhu Zaigui had to design a clear term system for them to let them understand that their power is time-limited. They want to leave their names in history and live up to their ambitions.

Then they must do their best to achieve what they want within their limited term of office. Otherwise, time will not always be on their side.

Therefore, if you want to make progress and achieve success, you have to work hard!
Moreover, as long as all this can go smoothly, then in the future, this model will infinitely activate the internal competition channel of Daming, allowing more capable people to see hope and make them feel that as long as they are willing to work hard, fight hard, and have ideals, then they may have unlimited opportunities for improvement.

Of course, in order to prevent some smart people from taking advantage of populism or writing blank checks to gain power, Zhu Zaigui will also impose new restrictions on this new set of rules.

Take the imperial examination system for example. Zhu Zaigui would retain this system indefinitely. If ordinary people in the future wanted to become officials or go into politics, they would still have to be down-to-earth and work hard step by step to pass the examination based on their real talents and knowledge.

Otherwise, if you think of using emotional incitement and populism, or using money to pave the way and want to achieve success overnight, it is impossible!

But to be honest, Zhu Zaigui only had a rough outline in his mind on how to design this system, but whether it could be successful would have to be judged by actual operation and the actual results after the operation.

Otherwise, rashly destroying the current mature and systematic administrative system would be like an old man eating arsenic - he is tired of living!
Therefore, although Zhu Zaigui thinks the current administrative system is somewhat backward, he still has to admit that given the current reality of the Ming Dynasty, the current administrative system is the most reliable.

If we really want to make this system more reliable, in addition to making some predictive patch upgrades, the rest will depend on the productivity improvement of the entire society.

Otherwise, even if Zhu Zaigui knew from the memorials that something had happened in a certain place, he would not be able to make timely and correct instructions and handling.

After all, God knows whether what is written in this memorial is really as it says?

Therefore, whether in an ancient society like the Ming Dynasty or in the information age before Zhu Zaigui traveled through time, political governance is actually a process of continuous exploration, continuous improvement, and continuous innovation.

Let’s take the simplest example!

Take the imperial system for example.

During the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, although the supreme rulers were not called emperors, their political status was no different from the imperial system founded by Qin Shihuang.

But why was their system changed?

Could it be that Qin Shi Huang was so smart that he saw the political problems of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties at a glance? That’s why he changed the tradition and implemented the system of three dukes and nine ministers at the central level, abolished feudal fiefdoms at the local level, established counties, and implemented the same writing system and the same wheel gauge in cultural management?
Obviously this is not the case.

The fundamental reason why Qin Shihuang introduced a series of new systems that were different from the previous dynasties after the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties was that in the one or two thousand years since the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, people had been constantly trying to find a new administrative system in order to change the corrupt and backward system of the previous dynasties.

So after Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms, he introduced his new system, which was not something he came up with on a whim. It was the result of countless experiences and lessons accumulated by countless predecessors.

Therefore, in his time, he seized the historical mission entrusted to him by the times and accomplished a great historical achievement of groundbreaking events, transforming the chaotic political model since the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties into an efficient and advanced political model.

But is that the end?
Obviously, it's not that easy!
This is like upgrading the system to a new version. Although it looks new and cool, it will still have a lot of bugs.

So after Qin Shi Huang, whether it was Xiang Yu who wanted to delete the library and restore the old version, or Liu Bang who wanted to update the new patch in time, they were all trying to figure out how to deal with the bugs in the new version of Qin Shi Huang.

Therefore, in the succession of dynasties and emperors from generation to generation in later generations, the "Centralized Version 1.0 System" released by Qin Shihuang was patched with countless bugs by Liu Bang, Liu Che, Liu Xiu, Cao Pi and others.

Finally, during the Sui and Tang dynasties, there was another major upgrade to the system version.

In this upgrade, the original "Centralized Version 1.0 System" with "Emperor - Three Dukes and Nine Ministers" as the core has finally ushered in an epic upgrade!
It has become a "centralized version 2.0 system" with "Emperor - Three Provinces and Six Ministries" as the core!
After running open source versions from the Sui, Tang, Song, Liao, Jin, and Yuan dynasties, this 2.0 system has undergone a major upgrade when it came to Lao Zhu!

However, Zhu's upgrade did not completely upgrade the centralized version 2.0 to version 3.0. Instead, he made a thread optimization and directly cut off the "Prime Minister" in the version, which is a module similar to the previous "Three Dukes" and "Three Provinces".

The six ministries were directly led by the emperor, achieving the unified nuclear and display processing effect.

This kind of processing effect is fine if it is matched with a powerful processor like Lao Zhu, but if it is matched with an ordinary processor, and the function of core graphics synchronization is forced, it will only reduce work efficiency.

Moreover, in the integrated core and display version of Zhu, his important components (Zhu Biao) were burned out by his overload operation. As a result, a program error occurred later, which made Zhu Laosi seize the opportunity and perform an extremely risky system restoration program to completely delete the error (Zhu Yunwen) caused by the inappropriate version.

Then a strong patch upgrade was carried out, upgrading the Centralization 2.0 system to the beta version of Centralization 3.0, and adding a large cabinet patch.

Later, after Emperor Xuanzong and Emperor Yingzong, the Silijian, Dongchang and other patches were added one after another, and it has continued to this day.

But Zhu Zaigui was very clear that this system also had problems.

Because this problem has been proven in the original historical development. This system cannot be effectively compatible and will collapse sooner or later.

And it was in complete pieces, without even a chance to fix it.

So much so that even when the Qing Dynasty took over this system, they did not copy it in its entirety. Instead, they created a powerful patch called "Military Affairs Council" on top of their own version, which completely strengthened the emperor's central processor!

However, this version is not omnipotent and still relies too much on inertia and the central processing unit.

Even though they knew it was a broken CPU, the patch from the "Military Affairs Office" would not make any difference.

It was not until a fatal system crash occurred that the "Three Governors" plug-in was introduced to barely maintain operation.

However, the "three governors" will always compete with the central processing unit for computing power and resources.

Therefore, in order to make up for the impact of the "three governors" on computing power distribution, the central processing unit gave itself an independent power supply "Beiyang New Soldiers".

As a result, due to the excessive amount of direct power supplied by the powerful power supply of "Beiyang New Soldiers", the central processing unit crashed and restarted when dealing with system problems, and was forced to install the foreign "foreign system".

Although this "foreign system" was praised to the sky, its hardware requirements for the operating environment were too high and it was not compatible at all.

As a result, in the following decades, this "foreign system" kept crashing and restarting, and almost burned the hard drive that stored thousands of years of civilization.

It can be seen that many things are not really good just because they look good. We must practice to gain true knowledge and verify them in a realistic way. This is the kingly way!

Therefore, even if Zhu Zaigui had supreme power and the ability to make his own decisions and change the rules, he could not just take it for granted and apply them mechanically.

Because some things really cannot be easily implemented before they have been tested by time and practicality.

If something bad were to happen, at the very least the world would be in turmoil and the people would suffer and be confused; at the worst, the mountains and rivers would be shattered and countless people would lose their families!

This shows that the greater the power, the greater the responsibility!

I really don't dare to have any luck.

Emperor Jiajing looked at his son who seemed to be distracted. After taking a sip of ginseng tea, he asked, "What's wrong? What are you thinking about?"

When Zhu Zaigui heard the voice of Emperor Jiajing, he came back to his senses.

Zhu Zaigui looked at Emperor Jiajing and said with a smile, "I wonder how far the Ming Dynasty can carry this burden."

When Emperor Jiajing heard this, he couldn't help but laugh. "You are so young and in such good health, you will definitely be able to go far. Besides, I can live to be sixty years old, which is longer than the emperors after Chengzu. You will definitely not be far behind!"

Emperor Jiajing thought that Zhu Zaigui was thinking about his "destiny" to live a long life, so he spoke to comfort Zhu Zaigui and also wanted Zhu Zaigui to not have such a heavy psychological burden.

Although people in the position of emperor generally do not live long, it does not mean that there are no such people who can live long.

For example, Emperor Wu of Han, Emperor Wu of Liang, the female emperor of Tang Dynasty, and Emperor Taizu Gao of our dynasty all lived relatively long lives.

So, with these examples in front of us, who can say that being an emperor will mean a short life?

Now Emperor Jiajing thought that this was what Zhu Zaigui was worried about, so he comforted Zhu Zaigui in this way.

Zhu Zaigui listened to what Emperor Jiajing said. He immediately understood what he meant and felt Emperor Jiajing's concern and comfort for him. He couldn't help feeling warm in his heart.

Zhu Zaigui bowed slightly to Emperor Jiajing and said with a smile, "Father is right. I was just worrying for no reason."

When Emperor Jiajing saw that Zhu Zaigui was also smiling, he felt a lot more relaxed.

The haze of "two dragons never meeting" is finally being cleared away.

Emperor Jiajing relaxed and handed the ginseng tea cup to Zhu Zaigui, and then asked: "You hide here with me, and when the officials come to persuade you to ascend the throne, what will you do if they can't find you?"

After Zhu Zaigui put the cup aside, he turned around and said with a smile, "Not so fast, right? Shouldn't they first submit a petition to persuade him to take the throne, and then persuade him to take the throne in person?"

Emperor Jiajing laughed and said, "Well, it seems to be the case. It was the same when I came to the capital."

"Although Yang Tinghe and the others want to use grand etiquette to control me, I already have the imperial edict of Emperor Wuzong in my hand. Even if I say I don't want to do it anymore, they have to kneel down and beg me to ascend the throne. Otherwise, they are treasonous and want to forge the imperial edict to tamper with the will of Emperor Wuzong!"

Zhu Zaigui couldn't help laughing when he heard what Emperor Jiajing said. Yang Tinghe and his friends were indeed too clever for their own good. They directly confirmed Emperor Jiajing's status as the heir apparent in Emperor Wuzong's will.

As a result, they wanted to make a patch at the last minute and let Emperor Jiajing be the heir to the throne as the crown prince. How could a smart person like Emperor Jiajing fall for this trick?

The imperial edict I received in Anlu clearly stated that I was here to succeed the throne of the emperor. Only a fool would want to be the crown prince!

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