Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 280 Paying homage to Xu Da and the king of Chu changing his mind

Zhu Huakui, king of Chu, indeed has dozens of women on the surface, and the harem of the current emperor Zhu Youxiao is not as good as his. It is hard for him to refute this point.

But he didn't feel any guilt about it.

In his opinion, Zhu Youxiao is scolding for no reason!
Because the Ming Dynasty has been established for a hundred years, there is no emperor of that generation that stipulates how many women the vassal king can only have.

It just so happened that this Zhu Youxiao became the emperor, and changed the law to seize the benefits of the vassal king and manage the power of the vassal king, and now he even has to control how many women there should be.

Zhu Huakui, king of Chu, felt an unknown anger. He felt that he understood Zhu Youxiao's arbitrariness and unreasonableness. He suppressed the anger in his chest and cupped his hands at Zhu Youxiao: "If that's the case, then I will leave!"

Now Zhu Youxiao is quite dissatisfied with this prince who dares to covet his own woman. Seeing that his attitude is not as good as before, he waved dissatisfiedly: "Go away, go back to your Wuchang!"

Zhu Youxiao's words hit Zhu Huakui, king of Chu, in his mind, and Zhu Huakui couldn't help but bowed his hands to Zhu Youxiao again: "So, thank you, Your Majesty!"

Zhu Youxiao was also a little bored for a while, and didn't think too much about it, and it was indeed troublesome for these vassal kings to stay in Jinling City.

These days, Huang Guihua has caused a lot of trouble to the commercial order of Jinling City. If Zhu Youxiao hadn't beheaded Gui Wang Zhu Changying in public, I'm afraid that some bold clan members would directly rob them openly.

The people in Nanjing City complained about this, and Zhu Youxiao couldn't put all these vassal kings under house arrest for no reason, so it's better to let them go back to the fief first, and then slowly clean up in the future.

Moreover, now that Zhu Youxiao has finished offering sacrifices to the Xiaoling Mausoleum, he has not been free because of this, not to mention that he did not come to the south to enjoy himself.

Although Zhu Youxiao opposed the civil officials through forceful means and basically got rid of the control of the civil officials, the civil officials still occupy a dominant position in this ruling system, while the military officials who originally checked and balanced the civil officials were still subordinate to the civil officials. The vast majority of military officials are still suppressed by civilian officials, which also leads to the lack of fighting spirit and too much slavishness among the military officers.

And to change this habit that has been formed for hundreds of years, naturally it cannot be changed overnight.

What Zhu Youxiao has to do is to reshape the status of military attaches step by step. Zhu Youxiao is not worried about whether military attaches and civil servants will lead to problems with warlords, because the imperial guards representing the emerging military attache class are all related to the country. linked to interests.

And these military officers who have a share in the country's capital can only maximize their own interests if they continue to expand abroad. To overthrow the emperor and mess up the world will only make them lose more than they gain.

The first step Zhu Youxiao has to do is to worship Zhongshan King Xu Da as an emperor!
At first, Zhu Youxiao only mentioned this decision to Wei Guogong Xu Hongji, but the officials really didn't expect that His Majesty the current emperor would really want to worship Xu Da in person.

Xu Da made outstanding contributions in the Ming Dynasty, he was called the number one martial artist, and he was also somewhat related to the royal family, so it was understandable for Zhu Youxiao to pay homage to Xu Da, and the civil servants did not object.

Although some people have realized that Zhu Youxiao intends to elevate his status as a military attache and proposed that although Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan, has made contributions to the country, it is enough to send important ministers to sacrifice on his behalf, so why should His Majesty do it himself.

But Zhu Youxiao naturally disagreed. Although such a sacrifice is not a big deal, if the emperor personally sacrificed it, it not only shows that he intends to reshape the status of military officials, but also makes the nobles feel the same. To his own group is slowly being valued by His Majesty the Emperor.

What's more, I was just looking up, and the officiant was Xu Hongji.

Xu Da was bestowed by Zhu Yuanzhang to be buried in Zhongshan Mountain, which belonged to the same Zijin Mountain as Xiaoling Mausoleum, and it was not far away. Zhu Youxiao and Li Mingrui, a cabinet scholar, personally wrote an article to erect another Shinto tablet for Xu Da on the day of the sacrifice.

At the same time, the Hanlin Academy was ordered to organize a special person to write the biography of Xu Da, and it was required that the vernacular and Zhanghui style be the best, so that the people of the world can understand and understand, and being familiar with the heroes of the dynasty is also a way to strengthen ideological education. One of the measures.

It is the first of its kind for Zhu Youxiao to use an official institution like the Hanlin Academy to organize the writing of celebrity biographies (novel genre) so far. It is not only for the promotion of heroic characters, but also for the purpose of making money.

The Hanlin Academy, a social science research institution, cannot survive only on subsidies from the imperial court, and the academics of the Imperial Academy who are erudite but not popular can’t keep them poor forever, so they make a cultural product of publishing nature. It's also good to make some money.

"The Founding Father of the Ming Dynasty: The Biography of Xu Da" was published in the Hanlin Academy half a year later, and [-] copies were printed and distributed that month, but only [-] copies were sold. Anyone can understand the vernacular, and the stories are also interesting. The Hanlin Academy who are good at sketching imaginative plots such as the Taizu full of red lights, write novels whose plots are no less exciting than Those storytellers in the folk are even more exaggerated.

As a result, sales of such biographies suddenly increased in the second month.

In the third month, all [-] pre-printed copies were out of stock.

The Hanlin Academy had to expand its printing scale, and even recruited craftsmen from outside instead of relying on internal officials to meet the needs of the people for such reading materials.

However, it can also be seen how empty the spiritual world of the people of Ming Dynasty is. Water Margin can't meet their entertainment needs at all. popular.

Seeing this, Xu Guangqi, a scholar in charge of the Imperial Academy, simply went to the Shu and asked for an order to also take out other founding fathers of the Ming Dynasty who were not denied by Zhu Yuanzhang later as biographies and write comments.Because the money they earn is good for them, these Hanlin officials not only did not object, but they also strongly agreed with it.

It's just that they never realized that from the moment they, the old scholars, began to transform from a pure researcher into an exporter of cultural products serving mass cultural consumption.

Even later, in order to make money, a few Hanlin scholars began to become famous, explaining Tang poetry, Song poetry and historical military stories to the public through various channels, and became well-known figures to the common people, and these figures were directly called "experts" by the Daming Daily. Hence the term was born.

Gossip less, when Zhu Youxiao came to visit Xu Da's mausoleum in person, Zhu Huakui, King of Chu, also made up his mind to do something big.

That night, he went to Wei Min'er's private house, and Wei Min'er only thought that he was visiting his cousin again, so he didn't suspect anything of him.

"My lord, have you really thought it over?" Ruan Dacheng asked Zhu Huakui, king of Chu, very seriously.

Zhu Huakui didn't answer immediately, and said after a long time: "He rejected Gu's request, not only because of this matter, Gu also really didn't want to be played and applauded by him like this, but before I agree to you, you have to allow me two thing."

(End of this chapter)