Zhu Yuanzhang in the cellar

Chapter 104 Taizu said, let there be light!
Separation of powers.

It actually did not exist in ancient times.

Starting from the Tang and Song dynasties, it gradually became a means for the imperial power to check and balance the civil service group.

For example, the three ministries of the Tang Dynasty divided the power of the prime minister into three parts so that the prime ministers could balance each other.

There are also three judicial departments consisting of the Dali Temple, the Ministry of Justice, and the Censorate, which constitute the separation of the three powers of trial, review, and supervision.

In the Song Dynasty, the Privy Council, the Council of State Affairs and the Three Departments were used to divide and balance military, political and financial powers.

At first glance, Zhu Yunfeng thought that the professor was going to put some effort into this area and use this logic to come up with something new.

But when I saw the previous paragraph "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely", I realized that things are not simple.

Because this passage comes from "Liberty and Power", a work by Western theoretical politician Acton, which analyzes the political system of Western democracy and freedom.

As an expert on Baidu's keyboard politics, I have seen this sentence so many times that all the talented people on Baidu like to use it when they want to show off.

However, this thing is fine for pretending to be cool on Baidu and fooling the audience.

Is it appropriate to put it in the Chinese political system?

Zhu Yunfeng opened it and browsed it.

The sixth email was from Professor Feng from a certain university.

At the beginning, he pointed out that the biggest problem in ancient Chinese politics was the excessive power of imperial autocracy.

The root cause of the Ming Dynasty's internal and external troubles was that the imperial power was constantly eroding the army, bureaucracy, and the people, seriously hindering economic and political development.

So he believed that the best way to solve this problem was to adopt a constitutional monarchy.

By establishing a civil government, power was handed over to officials for self-governance, and then the civil government was supervised by the Censorate. Then, by raising the status of the Dali Temple and giving it legislative power, judicial independence was achieved.

In this way, administrative power was handed over to civil servants, the Censorate was responsible for supervision, and the Dali Temple was responsible for judicial affairs.

As for the origin of the Censorate, it was elected by people from all over the country. In this way, the people participated in politics, and the civil servants would certainly do their best to build the country well in order to please the Censorate and the people.

This series of designs made Zhu Yunfeng look like an old man on the subway looking at his cell phone.

"What are you doing?"

At this time, Ji He also got up. He was wearing only a pair of shorts in the middle of summer, and his huge belly was bulging like a barrel that had drunk several barrels of beer.

"Damn it, didn't you ask me to find a history professor? Come over here and help me take a look. This guy's butt is a little crooked."

Zhu Yunfeng waved to him.

Ji He came over and looked around, then scratched his head and said, "I didn't see why your butt is crooked."

"You are still a civil servant, and you don't know anything about current affairs."

Zhu Yunfeng said disdainfully: "Look at this design. Does this civil service group look like a Western government? Does this Censorate look like a congressman? Does this Dali Temple look like the Supreme Court of the United States?"

"You kind of sound like it when you put it that way."

"I'm asking for an ancient political system, but he's trying to give me a Western system. Isn't that funny?"

"Let's take a look at this guy and see if he is a public intellectual."

Ji Hyuk suggested.

Zhu Yunfeng found him on a certain blog.

As a poor student, he tried to use CNKI, but he didn't know how to contact others on CNKI.

So Zhu Yunfeng started looking for her through private messages on Weibo and Bihu.

Log on to a certain blog and check out the information about Professor Feng.

I discovered that he was not only a professor in the history department of a certain university, but also a researcher at the Japan Research Center.

This person's comments online are relatively normal, without any extreme remarks.

But when you click on his follow button, you’ll see all kinds of monsters and demons.

Among them were those who defended the Japanese massacre, and Professor Feng even quietly gave a thumbs-up.

"He is really a public intellectual, and he hides himself very well."

Zhu Yunfeng was surprised and said, "I guess the Ministry of Foreign Affairs gave him the funds. I suspect he is using a fake account to carry out his activities."

"How about going fishing? Don't you have his contact information?"

Ji He came up with an idea: "If we can catch it, we can get 500,000 yuan."

"Let me try."

Zhu Yunfeng immediately took out his cell phone and sent a message to Professor Feng.

In the message, he said that he was very interested in Professor Feng's system, and thought it was innovative and bold. He hoped that Professor Feng would explain it in detail. If it was adopted, he would be willing to pay a fee of 50,000 yuan.

When he heard about the reward, Professor Feng took the bait and quickly typed a lot of words, expressing his ideas and inspirations for the design of this system.

There is no lack of praise for "freedom" and "democracy" in his conversation.

Zhu Yunfeng said a few words along with what he said.

He was indeed very happy and began to ask Zhu Yunfeng indirectly why he was interested in the political system.

Zhu Yunfeng said that he was bored and had nothing to do at work in his father's company every day, so he just looked for some fun on the Internet.

Professor Feng was very surprised to hear that Zhu Yunfeng was willing to spend so much money just for fun, and asked what kind of company his father ran and why he had so much money but nowhere to spend it.

Zhu Yunfeng said that his family provides a type of composite material to a certain military industrial group. Because it is an exclusive patent, it can only be purchased from their company. They have a monopoly on this material, so his family is very rich.

Seeing this, Professor Feng quickly changed the subject and asked Zhu Yunfeng if he wanted to study abroad, saying that having fun abroad was more comfortable than having fun in China.

"Damn it, this guy is not only a public intellectual, but also a spy, trying to lure me abroad to get the material formula."

Zhu Yunfeng cursed.

“This needs to be reported.”

"There is no evidence."

"No evidence is needed, just suspicion is enough."

Ji He said seriously: "This is something that the country is cracking down on severely. After you report it, the country will immediately conduct a strict investigation."

"That's fine."

Zhu Yunfeng immediately refused on the grounds that he had studied abroad before, and then made a report call while checking WeChat.

Professor Feng on the other side did not give up and advised him to stay and get a master's or doctoral degree.

In order to prevent the other party from becoming suspicious, Zhu Yunfeng had to pretend to be nice and use all kinds of words to temporarily prevaricate and deal with the situation.

Zhu Yunfeng spent the entire afternoon dealing with Professor Feng while studying other professors' political system plans, which kept him quite busy.

But two days later, Professor Feng's enthusiasm disappeared.

It was not that he gave up, but that the country called Zhu Yunfeng to thank him for his report.

This guy was indeed funded by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. While secretly writing articles on the Internet to promote Japan and the West, he also contacted some people privately and leaked important secrets abroad.

However, his main purpose was to become a public figure, and the secrets he leaked were not particularly many, so Zhu Yunfeng's bonus was not 500,000 yuan, but only 60,000 yuan.

But even so, Zhu Yunfeng was very happy.

It doesn’t matter how much money I make. What matters is that it’s the first time I caught a spy in real life, and I feel a sense of accomplishment.

However, this little episode did not last long.

A few days later, Zhu Yunfeng replanned a new path based on the political ideas designed by a group of professors.

He decided to implement the separation of five powers!

Although the professors' ideas have reached their peak, they are still missing one element, which is that Zhu Yunfeng can deliver supplies from modern times.

The national strength had recovered a lot during the Yongle period. If fertilizers, seeds and pesticides had been sent over as in the Hongwu period, the speed of the agricultural revolution might have been even faster than during the Hongwu period.

It just so happened that in the second half of this year, Yunfeng Company expanded its production scale and once again rented a large amount of farmland in the triangular area of ​​Lansha Town, Jixiang Town and Songxi Town.

The total area reached more than 20,000 acres, and the business was operating at a loss.

The seeds, pesticides and fertilizers purchased for this purpose are enough to cover nearly 100,000 acres. In the past few days, the goods have been rumbling, and dozens of tons have been delivered to the warehouse. If the warehouse was not large enough, it would be almost full by now.

In late June, at dusk, flowers and birds were singing in Shangfeng Mountain, and the sunset illuminated half the sky.

In the warehouse next to Zhu Yunfeng's home in Zhujiaping, machines are constantly running. When unloading goods, Zhu Yunfeng usually calls out in the group, calling relatives around to come over, paying them wages to help with the loading, which can also benefit the neighbors.

But it is not possible to transport things there.

Not only does the stone tablet need to be charged, but it can only be transported one time at a time, which is very troublesome.

"No, I am exhausted."

In the underground palace of the Yongle Dynasty, Ji He sat on the ground, gasping for breath.

This time they prepared pesticides, fertilizers and seeds for Zhu Di for 30,000 acres, totaling more than 80 tons.

Although only a conveyor belt is needed to transport things to the cellar and underground palace, after they are delivered to the underground palace of the Ming Dynasty, the things still have to be moved and placed properly, otherwise the underground palace will not be able to accommodate them.

At this moment, many seeds and fertilizer bags were neatly arranged in the underground palace, and pesticide boxes and pesticides were piled up like a mountain. There was only a very small passage left in the entire underground palace that led to the outside.

It was only after Emperor Zhu Di temporarily dispatched people from the Ministry of Works to quickly dig and build the palace after several days that they built an underground palace that was several times larger than the underground palace of the Hongwu Dynasty.

Otherwise they would have to move outside to the square.

"Damn it, you have to pretend to be awesome even if you cry. Let's go."

Zhu Yunfeng also wiped the sweat off his forehead, feeling like crying but without the tears.

Who forced me to find things to do?
But on the other hand, it should be no problem for this batch of supplies to be exchanged for one ton of gold from Zhu Di.

I’m going to jump from a multi-millionaire to a billionaire. I’m a little excited just thinking about it.

The three of them came out of the underground palace and it was already pitch dark outside.

The huge Qianqing Palace Square was dead silent without any lights or sounds. One could only see the flickering lights on the Yuehua Gate and Rijin Gate on both sides from afar.

Zhu Di was holding a turned-off LED light in his hand.

This thing is also called a Yamin tower chandelier, with a power of 6000W. It is usually used for lighting football fields and construction sites at night. A few lights can illuminate a construction site as bright as day.

"Old Four, remember what I said."

Zhu Yunfeng puffed out his chest and said, "We are all gods now."

"Speechless, playing tricks."

Little Zhu Di said disdainfully: "And don't treat me like a fool. You can fool me for a while, but you can't fool me forever."

"That can't be helped. Your father asked us to do this. He wants to deify himself."

Zhu Yunfeng said: "And to be honest, our operation now can be said to be no different from that of a real god. Who wouldn't be confused if they were in ancient times when they saw this person holding lightning in his hand?"

"That's true."

Little Zhu Di thought about it and realized that if he had not come to the 21st century, he would probably have knelt down on the spot when he saw the Tesla coil's thunder explosion scene.

"Someone's coming over there."

Ji He said.

Apparently, their busy work here had already alarmed the guards of Yuehua Gate in the distance.

After all, it was already night and they had turned on the lights themselves. If they still couldn't see, they would be completely blind.

The great Zhu Di is working in the West Palace.

From June 13th, when he was appointed emperor by Zhu Yuanzhang, he moved the political center to the West Palace, where he met with court officials and handled state affairs every day.

More than ten days passed, and Jinan, Huai'an and other places surrendered one after another. Mei Yin and Tie Xuan also accepted the fact that Zhu Di became the orthodox.

Now the news of Taizu's resurrection has spread throughout the world, and after it spread, no one dared to question it.

Because this was not seen by just one person, but by tens of thousands of people.

More than 600 court officials who were staunch supporters of Emperor Jianwen had seen it and would not tolerate falsification or denial.

Letters from many court officials flew everywhere like snowflakes.

My own home, my friend's place, and Huainan Skills, which is still resisting stubbornly.

Faced with the ironclad facts and facing so many letters from court officials who had once been staunch supporters of Emperor Jianwen, it was impossible for Mei Yin and Tie Xuan to resist any longer.

Therefore, within just over ten days, the news that Zhu Yuanzhang was dissatisfied with Zhu Yunwen's fratricide and sent down from heaven to order his fourth son, Prince of Yan Di, to inherit the throne naturally became known to the world without any suspense.

Zhu Di did not take any action against Mei Yin, Tie Xuan and others.

The reason is that in history, as a vassal king who was supposed to "pacify the rebellion" but in fact "usurped the throne", his legitimacy was opposed by court officials.

This forced him to go on a killing spree and kill all the opposing ministers in order to secure his position.

It’s different now.

With the emergence of Lao Zhu, legitimacy was restored to him.

Feudal society attached great importance to "righteousness", "legal inheritance" and "orthodox destiny".

Without the halo of "legitimacy", Zhu Di could only fight for it on his own, using killing to make everyone submit in fear until no one objected.

But with this "orthodox" halo, he is the true prince charming, and there is no doubt about it.

So Zhu Di had no reason to start killing again.

This will actually be counterproductive.

Therefore, in recent days, he just followed Zhu Yuanzhang's instructions and executed more than one hundred ministers who wrote to Zhu Yunwen to persuade him to reduce the power of the princes.

As for the other ministers, not only did he forgive their past, he even issued an edict to comfort those who had defeated him, such as Mei Yin, Tie Xuan, and Sheng Yong. At most, he would make a few mocking remarks to them, but he did not kill them.

This way you can also gain a good reputation.

When Zhu Di, who was handling government affairs in the West Palace at the moment, heard that he was coming, he hurried towards the Qianqing Palace and didn't even have time to send someone to call his two sons over.

Under the cover of night, he saw three figures slowly approaching. The LEDs had been turned off, and the three figures were pitch black.

The elder Zhu Di shouted, "Who is it? Is it my father?"

"it's me."

Little Zhu Di shouted.

“It was me.”

Zhu Di was a little disappointed and asked, "Where is my father?"

"He went to war."

"what?"

Zhu Di was horrified and asked, "Is the Immortal Realm going to fight a war too?"

"Of course not. Father is rebelling in the Immortal Realm."

Little Zhu Di spoke without hesitation.

"As expected of my father, he can fight anywhere."

Zhu Di gave a thumbs up.

The two sides came close, less than a few meters apart.

Little Zhu Di said, "My father asked me to bring something."

"what?"

"The Father said, Let there be light!"

He turned on the LED light.

In an instant, a terrifying light shot straight into the sky, as if illuminating the entire Qianqing Palace like daylight.

Zhu Di was caught off guard and saw a vast expanse of white in front of his eyes, as if he had entered a sun emitting white light, and he couldn't even open his eyes.

All of a sudden.

Zhu Di's legs went weak and he almost fell to his knees.

WTF.

It almost blinded me.

(End of this chapter)