Invincible Zhengde

Chapter 191 Father and Son

"Govern the country with benevolence and filial piety!" Zhu Youtang felt that his son's ideas were dangerous, and he needed to teach him a lesson.

Zhu Houzhao couldn't understand his father's thoughts, but Zhu Houzhao also knew that this was the ancient emperor's education. After thinking about it, Zhu Houzhao said: "Father, it is not to do Jie and Zhou, but to have a strong army to be able to defend against the outside world." Enemies from outside, deter Xiao Xiao from inside, so this time, I don't want to start a party dispute."

"It's just trying to build a strong army, but some people don't want my son to do that."

"When Emperor Taizu was in power, he embezzled forty pieces of human skin and hung them on the flagpole outside the yamen to deter corrupt officials. At that time, they did not dare to resist because Emperor Taizu had men These nobles have an army capable of conscripting and fighting, if the ministers want to do that, then they will definitely oppose it."

"They don't want to go back to that kind of life, but my son wants them to go back to that kind of life. This may not be a party struggle, but a life-and-death relationship."

Zhu Houzhao said very lightly, but his tone was very firm: "The Ming Dynasty has not changed for many years. Looking at the dynasties of the past dynasties, 300 years of Guozuo is too much, and many of them are more than 200 years old. Isn’t our Ming Dynasty coming soon? If we don’t change it, our family will die. If we change it, they will die, so my son said that this is a life-and-death struggle.”

"For so many years, there have been fewer battles in the imperial court? Why suppress the nobles? Why suppress the army? Isn't it because the nobles are the emperor's hard-core supporters, or because the emperor with the army is what they fear. It seems that Using literature to control martial arts, in fact, they are controlling the emperor, controlling the imperial power, and the former Song scholar-bureaucrats ruled the world, but what happened? Didn’t they hand over these thousands of miles of rivers and mountains to Meng Yuan?”

Zhu Houzhao was very sad when he said this in his heart, because in the end of Daming, he also lost all these thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, and he lost it to Hou Jin.

Although Daming was not destroyed by Houjin, the result was the same, how could Zhu Houzhao be happy in his heart.

Looking up at Zhu Youtang, Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "In the past, the court was stable and there was no dispute, but that was not the result of the emperor's concession? It was not the result of the honor's concession? The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, what was it before? What is it now? ? Jingying, who was in charge before? Who is in charge now? The Governor of Jingying Rongzheng, when did the Jingying belong to the Governor of the Ministry of War?"

"For so many years of stability in the court, civil and military peace, is it not because the nobles have been retreating, constantly retreating, and a civil fort has become a stain on them that cannot be washed away, but the civil fort really blames them? They fought for Daming. How many battles have been fought, and how many people have died for Daming? Just one civil fort was wiped out?"

"Just because of Yu Qian's merits, the civil servants have become people who know the soldiers? How absurd, a civil fort scared some people's guts, how ridiculous, it was like this in the former Song Dynasty, but the result What is the reason? The Northwest was defeated, what is the reason? Father may not know that, after the military pay allocated by the imperial court goes out of the treasury, [-]% of it is left in the hands of the soldiers, and that is considered conscientious."

"Before leaving the capital, [-]% of the military salary will be lost. This is called drifting away. This is already a secret rule in the officialdom. It is strange to win the battle like this."

This time Zhu Houzhao didn't hold back, didn't hide any more, and spoke out all his thoughts. He knew that if he didn't speak out, it would cause many problems because of the poor communication between father and son.Although Zhu Houzhao didn't know whether his father could accept it for a while, Zhu Houzhao still chose to say everything.

Turning to look at his son, Zhu Youtang looked calm and did not speak. After a long time, Zhu Youtang sighed: "I don't know why you think so, why you have such prejudices."

"Father's body is not bad, and he can support you for a few more years, so you just let it go. Although Father doesn't know what the final result will be, but Father can at least take care of you. If something really happens , so that Father can clean up the mess for you." Zhu Youtang stroked Zhu Houzhao's shoulder lightly, and then said with a smile: "Father actually feels very happy sometimes."

"People say that when ZTE starts and ends, we father and son will join hands to build a ZTE for Daming, to train your soldiers, and to maintain stability for you in matters above the court, but the ugly words are In front, the bells in the household department cannot move for the time being, you tell them to be more honest and stop jumping up and down."

Hearing this, Zhu Houzhao was a little embarrassed immediately, because he didn't want to move Zhong Zhong from the account department, and he also knew that now was not the time.

"Yes, father!" Zhu Houzhao hurriedly agreed.

In fact, listening to his father's words, Zhu Houzhao was still very moved in his heart. Obviously, his father did not agree with his opinion, or even his own approach, but Zhu Houzhao knew in his heart that his father was willing to believe in his son , willing to give himself a chance, this is a very good emperor.

After this period of understanding, Zhu Houzhao knew that his father was really not a master of the Ming Dynasty, let alone a master of heroes, and he was not even as good as his father, Emperor Chenghua.

Emperors who made great achievements in the Ming Dynasty, such as Emperor Chenghua, reversed the decline of Ming Dynasty in Yingzong's time in one fell swoop. He won a few foreign battles, but his reputation was very bad because he appointed Wang Zhi, but everyone knows that Wang Zhi People say that he is great, but it seems useless to say that he did something bad. Instead, he won several battles in the border town.

The other is Emperor Zhengde, who put down the rebellion of King Ning, organized and trained the army, and beat Dayan Khan, but he appointed Liu Jin.

These two emperors had very bad reputations. On the contrary, his father didn’t seem to have done much, but his evaluation was very high. During the Wanli period, Zhu Guozhen, the chief assistant of the cabinet, said: "Those who are called virtuous masters under the third generation, Han Emperor Wen, Emperor Renzong of Song, and Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty."

It seems that the Holy Lord Mingjun in the eyes of civil officials is not the same as the Holy Lord Mingjun in his own eyes, but Zhu Houzhao is not too worried about his poor reputation.There are many things like poor wind reviews in later generations, if the worst is the case, just control the reviews!

You are a time traveler, you don't even know how to judge?In the Qing Dynasty, the most accomplished emperor should be Yongzheng, but the same, the reputation is extremely bad, but Kangxi and Qianlong, that is, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who can wear the hat of Shiquan old man, is it not the result of the criticism?Speaking of Yongzheng, it seems that he died quite early, quite similar to Zhengde, except that he had a son.

Dad may not be a Mingjun Holy Lord, not a heroic Lord, but he trusts himself enough and gives himself a chance, which is enough for him. From his own point of view, it is not a problem to call him a wise Lord.

(End of this chapter)