The news of Chongzhen's cancellation of the imperial tour reached Nanjing, and Zhu Cihong smiled helplessly.

The world is so big, many emperors of all dynasties and dynasties are tired of living in magnificent palaces and want to go out for a walk, observe the people's feelings, promote politics, and strengthen their rule.

However, it is not easy for the emperor of the Ming Dynasty to go out, and he will be greatly restricted by the civil and military officials, Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang and Chengzu Zhu Di, the two emperors with tough means, do not mention, the emperor behind is like a canary raised in an iron cage, and the civil officials wish that the emperor would live in the Forbidden City all his life.

For a deviant and disobedient person like Emperor Zhu Houzhao of Zhengde, the forced southern tour was said by the civil officials to be a big move, working the people and losing money, and it was cold not long after returning to Beijing.

In the final analysis, behind this is the game between the imperial power and the civil official group, Lao Zhu spent more than ten years to clean up more than 30,000 people, and finally abolished the prime minister system, but I didn't expect a more powerful cabinet system to come out later.

Even Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, who came up with the cabinet system, did not expect that the power of the cabinet would become greater and greater, the first assistant of the cabinet was almost equivalent to the prime minister of a dynasty, and the civilian official group also had enough stage and strength to compete with the imperial power.

The most typical example is the dispute over the national capital of Wanli Lichu, Wanli wanted to set up his favorite Fu Wang as the crown prince, but was resolutely opposed by the cabinet and ministers, and Wanli also dismissed the opposing officials, and finally in the long confrontation, Wanli finally lost to the ministers and had to make compromises.

When it comes to the confrontation with the civil official group, Wanli's grandfather Jiajing is much more clever than him, after the great ceremonial dispute, the head of the head of the killing, the exile of the exile, with a strong posture to press the civil official group to the ground and rub, but also interested in the southern tour of the south, which is also the last swan song of the Ming Emperor's expedition.

Although Emperor Chongzhen had some means, he still couldn't withstand the flickering of civil officials, and wanting to tour Henan south stimulated the nerves of a large number of officials.

Not to mention whether Chongzhen would go crazy and kill people if he saw the living conditions of the people outside, in case the royal driver was hit by the rogues and made a mistake, wouldn't it have allowed the violent prince to ascend the throne ahead of schedule?

Chongzhen is a good emperor, he must live a long life, and the country will be forever, but he must not be cold!

This is the prayer of all northern officials.

Chongzhen looked at a group of "loyal ministers" who hugged their thighs and cried, and immediately their hearts softened, their eyes moistened, and they obediently returned to the Qianqing Palace to work hard.

Compared with the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, the later Manchu emperors were more casual, Kangxi made six southern tours, Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River six times, and spent countless manpower and financial resources, but none of the ministers dared to stand up against it, let alone hug their thighs and drag it out.

A set of elegant money rats in the new dynasty, coupled with a song of words that Qingfeng had no intention of leaving no one behind, immediately made the courtiers obedient and obedient, and the spirit of those trolls in the Ming Dynasty who dared to speak to death disappeared.

Whether the Manchu Emperor wanted to tour the south or make other important decisions, he could be completely arbitrary, and he could wave as much as he wanted.

Zhu Cihong knew that there was no way out for governing the country in Nanjing, and he had to go out and take a look.

On March 28, the 14th year of Chongzhen, Zhu Cihong officially began his southern tour after wishing Empress Zhou's 30th birthday in Nanjing.

The destination of this southern tour was Zhejiang, and along the way from Nanjing to Changzhou, Suzhou, Shanghai, Huzhou, Hangzhou, Yuyao, Ningbo, and finally Dinghaiwei (Zhoushan) to inspect coastal defense.

Although the land south of the Yangtze River has not experienced war, the natural disaster situation is not optimistic, resulting in a decrease in population, a large area of barren land, and economic depression.

On 15 April, Zhu Cihong's brigade inspecting the south of the Yangtze River entered the city of Suzhou in a mighty manner.

Behind the dense banners and chess cards, there were thousands of elite cavalry of the brave guard battalion wearing fine armor and cloud-winged helmets.

With the march of the honor guard brigade, the iron hooves rumbled, and a momentum of slaughter spread, and the people on both sides of Suzhou City were already silent, bowing down to meet them.

Some of the tax fighters and merchants who were lucky enough to survive in the turmoil fell to their knees, and from time to time they glanced up at the guard of honor in the middle, but they saw a few guards on horses around the guard of honor sweeping them coldly.

Compared with the Tianwu Army garrison that slaughtered and suppressed the turmoil in the first month, the murderous aura in the eyes of the crown prince's guards was even stronger, and it was not easy to look at the equipment in that body.

The scholars and merchants of Suzhou were panicked and knelt down on the mountain to shout, lest the irascible prince come to clear the scene again.

To everyone's surprise, Zhu Cihong very politely summoned some talented Jiangnan scholars and ordered them to revise the book and formulate the "Huangming Dictionary".

The dictionary used by the Ming Dynasty now is the "Vocabulary" compiled by Mei Yingzuo, a student of the prince of the Wanli Dynasty, which is the only complete dictionary in ancient China, and the original version has been passed on to later generations to become a rare classic and a rare book in China.

The Ming Dynasty's "Dictionary" collected 33,179 characters, and the "Kangxi Dictionary" was compiled on this basis.

Since the Ming Dynasty, all dynasties have compiled great dictionaries, such as the "Vocabulary" of the Ming Dynasty, the "Kangxi Dictionary" of the Qing Dynasty, the "China Dictionary" of the Republic of China, and the "Xinhua Dictionary" of New China......

These dictionaries have collected and preserved a large number of variants of vulgar characters, which are helpful for the study of Chinese characters and for later generations to understand the social use of characters at that time, and have played an important role in the inheritance of Han culture.

Zhu Cihong's revision of the dictionary is also to make a modest contribution to the inheritance of Han culture, and he asked the newly revised "Huangming Dictionary" to adopt the principle of both the correct and the vulgar, preserve the ancient and modern vulgar characters, and appropriately select the words that are not accepted or omitted from the dictionaries of the past dynasties.

The most important thing is that it is easy to understand and can provide learning support for students in the new education.

Zhu Cihong appointed Zhang Zilie, a prisoner of Guozijian, to edit the "Huangming Dictionary" and co-compile it with several representatives of scholars who were rich in learning and five cars.

I heard that Zhang Zilie's museum is in good news, and he is currently writing "Zhengzitong", and the progress of the work edited by him will be much faster.

If they do well, Zhu Cihong also plans to let these Jiangnan scholars compile an encyclopedia based on the "Yongle Canon" in the future.

The Yongle Canon is China's first encyclopedic collection of literature, with a total of about 370 million words, including astronomy, geography, yin and yang, medical divination, monk Taoism, skills, etc., bringing together seven or eight thousand kinds of ancient and modern books, showing the glorious achievements of ancient Chinese science and culture.

It has been 230 years since the completion of the "Yongle Canon", the times are changing faster and faster, many cultural classics have not been included, Zhu Cihong is determined to build a masterpiece to demonstrate the national prestige, develop soft power, and benefit all generations.

Soft power is the power embodied in cultural and ideological attraction, and is an important reference system for countries around the world to formulate cultural strategies and national strategies in later generations, and is another component of a country's comprehensive strength in addition to the traditional hard power based on military and economic strength.

Zhu Cihong said to a group of celebrities who came to meet him: "You have studied deeply in cultural attainments, and this palace admires it very much!" ”

"But this palace thinks that as a reader who has read a subset of scriptures and history, he should do something serious and make some contributions to cultural inheritance, instead of talking about politics all day long and calling for tax resistance, what do you think?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" A group of Jiangnan celebrities nodded in agreement, expressing their willingness to contribute to the cultural inheritance.

Zhu Cihong smiled unpretentiously, the happiness of those in power is so simple.

(End of chapter)