Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 302 Loyal and traitorous ministers

After Zhu Youxiao returned to the capital, it was already snowing heavily, and the whole capital was completely white, solemn but with a glimmer of life lurking.

But for the literati officials who hate imperial power politics and yearn for freedom, they don't feel the slightest vitality. The series of actions of His Majesty Zhu Youxiao since he left the capital made their mood drop to freezing point, and they only felt cold Biting, how can I feel the slightest kindness.

The Confucian sect of the Northern sect fell and was replaced by the Confucian sect of the Southern sect, but the title inherited by the Confucian sect of the Southern sect has been greatly reduced. This undoubtedly shows that His Majesty today intends to reduce the role of the Confucian sect.

Going to the south of the Yangtze River to exile thousands of literati and scholars in a place of bitter cold is clearly intended to temper their muscles and bones and sharpen their will for future use by the imperial court. Make a test for the next reform with great fanfare.

The reforms of the left-behind department in Fengyang, the central capital, and the two envoys in Shandong and Shaanxi directly and concretely showed them what His Majesty the Emperor wanted to do.

But now they can only die down. The fans of Dongjiu Factory all over the country, together with the Imperial Guards stationed in various key cities, are like His Majesty's eyes, staring at their every move all the time. As soon as he made a move, Tangtang Xun was beheaded according to what the censor said. The vassal king wanted to rebel, but within a night, the imperial guards who suddenly gathered broke into the city, and ended in a dismal end the next day, even with other vassal kings. Then he was implicated, but looking up at the world, there is no force that can stop His Majesty today.

However, His Majesty's prestige among the people is getting higher and higher. They never thought that newspapers such as the Daming Daily, which originally serialized chapter legends and complained to literati, would take away their civil servants in a blink of an eye. The advantage of public opinion orientation even took away part of their administrative interpretation power.

Now these officials have almost really become tools to serve His Majesty, and they are even just working for His Majesty like other craftsmen, but the division of labor is different, and some craftsmen's official rank and social status have begun to exceed They are gone.

For some scholar-bureaucrats who are stubborn and cannot give up their privileges, this is a change that cannot be accepted but has to be accepted.

However, even so, they are also full of expectations for the upcoming birth of a prince or princess in the palace.

When the king's power is great and unshakable, they can only place their hopes on the prince.

For the Royalist Party, this is news worth looking forward to. Many ministers have already expressed their serious concerns through various channels.

Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch in charge of Nanjing who had already started fasting, has already lived in the Avalokitesvara Temple in East Lushan, Nanjing. All the wealth of ten thousand silver dollars was released.

Gong Yonggu, the captain of the Royal Industrial Company, the captain-in-law, directly established the Daming Charity Federation, and donated 100 million silver dollars to the nursing homes of government offices in various prefectures and counties across the country.

Sun Chengzong, who was far away in Shaanxi and implemented the new policy of sharing the households with the mu, was originally a prudent person who never intervened in the royal family's private affairs, but he also made a memorial in the early twelfth lunar month of this year to inquire about the emperor's heir Ke'an, and directly admonished the current majesty Start the draft again, and recruit good women from the people to enrich the harem.

Not only Sun Chengzong, but a large number of ministers and bureaucrats began to report to Zhu Youxiao to recruit concubines, and even some famous Confucian officials such as Liu Zongzhou, Lu Xiangsheng, and Yuan Keli. Xu Fu's ability to conceive means that His Majesty has no reproductive problems today.

Since there is no problem, as the son of heaven, there is no need to bet on one or two women, because no one is sure whether a prince will die in the future, so the more concerned the ministers are, the more strongly they urge His Majesty to come back again. Concubines, and Li Mingrui, a core member of the royalist party, even directly advised His Majesty to enrich the harem with 72 concubines.

Not to be outdone, Qian Qianyi changed this number into one hundred and zero horses in the memorial. Zhu Youxiao was very angry when he found out, and scolded these ministers for treating him like a stallion. Even my iron body can't support so many women, not to mention that I don't have the energy.

But there are people, there are rivers and lakes, the entire Ming court, not all officials have no selfishness, no consideration for themselves, or it can be said that, in fact, everyone is thinking about themselves, but the interests of the royalists and the emperor's majesty Just agree.

The current Majesty met a daughter of the Wei family by the Qinhuai River, and had sex with her for several months, so that the rumors that she was delayed in March before returning to the capital did not know when it began to circulate in the capital. The one who is the son also comes from the place of Fengyue. With such an association, the opponents who are not willing to affirm this iron-blooded king begin to equate Zhu Youxiao with the king who is greedy for beauty.

Therefore, there are also some people who want to invite fame or really see the blindness and go to the memorial to persuade the current majesty to be clean, abolish the maids, not to be in love with beauty, deal with the villain who flatters or invites favor by offering beauties, and accepts loyalty and righteousness Chao Gang.

The court officials of the Ming Dynasty always had such a contradictory body. On the one hand, some ministers advised His Majesty to accept more concubines to fill the harem and protect the foundation of the Ming Dynasty; on the other hand, the ministers advised His Majesty to abstain from lust , as an example for a king; and if it is only from the surface, it seems that the former is a treacherous minister who disregards the interests of the country, while the latter is a loyal and straight minister who dares to disobey the king.

Those who observe history in later generations will be able to draw such a conclusion if they do not speculate and speculate based on the background at that time.

Not only waiting for future generations, but even now, if these memorabilia are spread out, the people of the world may simply think that His Majesty is indeed a lustful king, so Zhu Youxiao was very angry when he heard it. Since the seven years since the apocalypse, he has come into contact with no more than five women in total, and only one has been brought into the harem. But when did he become a tyrannical king who went to the people to rob the women and scattered the wives and children of the people.

This was written down in detail in the memorandum of a censor named Du Yihong. It was a thousand words long, but none of them said that Zhu Youxiao was good. Instead, he wrote it all out of imagination and rumors.

"Du Yihong, do you know his detailed information, who is his disciple?" After Zhu Youxiao got the memorandum from Wang Chengen, he didn't throw things now, but asked with a sneer, and put a bunch of remonstrances together. He said that he wanted to accept his concubines and a bunch of memorials admonishing him to clean himself were placed in front of his eyes.

Zhu Youxiao didn't understand, he was so ruthless, how could someone who didn't know how to flatter him dare to offend him? If you want to say that Hai Rui's scolding is justified, even if you scold yourself for the apocalypse, everyone begs, and you I can bear it, even if I spit on my face, I can bear it.But Zhu Youxiao was really elusive about talking about things one by one.

　One update tonight, I’m full of negative energy recently, I’m in a bad mood, I don’t know why, I feel like I need to see a psychiatrist

　　
　
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