Chapter Ninety-One: The Giant with Clay Feet

This is also conducive to the differentiation of the people in Jiangnan.

After all, although from the founding of the country to the present, the Ming court intentionally or unintentionally suppressed Jiangnan people politically. When Jiangnan people occupied a prominent position in the imperial court, it was still Liu Bowen and other western Zhejiang groups during the founding of the country. But these people were also in the cruel struggle at the beginning of the country, and they were always blown away by the rain and wind.

But economically, the size of Jiangnan makes Zhu Qizhen unable to ignore it, and dare not pay attention to it.

As Li Xian said, it is also necessary to win the hearts of the people in Jiangnan.

Li Xian's face was worried, and he said, "Your Majesty -----"

Who are the people of the world?

This is a very difficult category to determine.

Li Xian understands very well that in many contexts, the people of the world are the gentry or patriarchs of the big clans who have heads and faces in the world, and so on.

It's not that you know the people at the bottom of the world.

Because many times, the people at the bottom have no possibility of directly dealing with the government.

Even if there is anything, it is through the middle layer, that is, the patriarch, or the local scholars, and the old people with prestige to deal with the government.

Even in modern times, when many ordinary people do something related to the government and go through any procedures, their first reaction is to find someone, rather than do it themselves.

This mode of thinking is actually a kind of inheritance of antiquity.

Many people think that history is written on paper, far away from us, in fact, if you look closely, you will know that we are part of history, and we have been consciously or unconsciously influenced by a lot of history, but you know and don't know.

Therefore, Li Xian knows very well that it is useless to show kindness to ordinary people.

Ordinary people are the silent majority, and in many cases they have no right to speak. No matter how good he was to them, they preferred to listen to the patriarch, to the local scholars, to the old men of prestige.

Because they are all close, and the emperor is too far away.

For them, the emperor is just a symbolic mansion carrying a golden hoe.

Only these patriarchs, scholars, meritorious people, and old people can directly affect their lives.

This time, Zhu Qizhen slapped the Jiangnan gentry and even the southern gentry fiercely, but this sweet date is a little small.

Zhu Qizhen waved his hand and said, "I have made up my mind." ”

As soon as these words came out, the ministers below stopped talking.

After all, today is not the late Ming Dynasty. Several monarchs in the early Ming Dynasty, Taizu Taizong Renzong Xuanzong had one that had almost complete monarchy, and the least military power had been in hand.

And when Zhu Qizhen first ascended the throne, his power was actually very limited. Now, through a series of external battlefields and internal reforms, we have gathered people's hope.

Now Zhu Qizhen's prestige is high, or below Taizong, but above Xuanzong.

In the Ming system, the emperor could be completely unreasonable, and this is the case now. During the time of Xuanzong, Xiong Xuan, who was sent to Jiangnan, did the same thing as Kou Shen.

It's just that Xiong Ji didn't do it as ruthlessly.

Zhu Qizhen really wants to give them a slap in the face, can these Jiangnan gentry do anything? If they dared to do something similar to what the tombstone of the five people said, Zhu Qizhen would dare to let the army enter Suzhou City.

It's just that this kind of result is what everyone wants to see.

It's just that from this incident, Zhu Qizhen has gotten news from the prince and other aspects of intelligence. Only then did he understand more and more what kind of enemy he was going to face.

The scholar group is an official when he enters, and a gentry when he retires, and controls the power of the imperial court in the court, and the power at home at the grassroots level in his hometown.

Not to mention the advantages in meaning morphology.

Even the old peasants who don't know how to read know know that they respect the readers, and the scholars are knowledgeable. And this kind of knowledge and insight is a kind of power in itself.

In the face of such a behemoth, Zhu Qizhen felt that he was an emperor but a parasite. Parasites on top of the huge gentry group.

If it is said that Zhu Qizhen has just begun to support the Xungui Group, it is an instinctive move to grasp the military power, but at this moment, he found out that this is a clever move.

Without him, there is only one political bloc that can confront another political bloc.

Xungui is the representative of the three hundred guards of the Ming Dynasty, and now after Zhu Qizhen's reform, the military from the bottom to the top, although weaker than the gentry group, but just look at them is also a behemoth.

Generally speaking, the power of the Xungui group is mostly in the north, nine sides, and Hebei is the most.

Especially in Hebei, many Hebei people changed their families because of their military service, and in Jiangnan, it was the gentry who controlled the power in the countryside, but in Hebei, the gentry with meritorious names and families with military merits were equally divided.

It's just that because the time for the reorganization of the Daming Jingying is still short and the accumulation is insufficient, if this model remains unchanged, about a few decades later, there will definitely be families in Hebei who have been in the army for generations.

But this kind of differentiation did not satisfy Zhu Qizhen.

What is a clayfoot giant.

Now the situation of Daming interprets this concept in Zhu Qizhen's view.

The Ming Dynasty seemed to be a behemoth, but the foundation of its rule was built on the cooperation of the Ming gentry.

This is to rule the world with scholars.

If you think about it, you can know that in addition to supplying tens of thousands of officials, hundreds of thousands of troops, and even the royal family throughout the Ming Dynasty, there are also thousands of large and small families all over the county.

With the imperial examination as the center, the officialdom and the local government are the advance and retreat.

Everyone is used to it.

However, Zhu Qizhen should be glad that it has not yet reached the point where it is difficult to return.

Emperor Taizu went on a killing spree at the beginning, and he didn't know how many powerful landlords had migrated, and it can be said that the big landlords who owned more than 3,000 acres of land were swept away by Emperor Taizu.

Of course, it doesn't have to be killed, just by moving them out of their native country, they can understand what it means to be a person who has left their homeland.

Therefore, there are still a lot of yeoman farmers in the Ming Dynasty, but the downward trend is also obvious. If this continues, it will not take a few decades, and I am afraid that there will not be much living space for yeoman farmers in the world.

Why can millions of people in the Qin State supply 600,000 troops to destroy Chu, and by the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were no soldiers in the imperial court.

This development was taken to the extreme in the Qing Dynasty.

And among the scholars, there are not without discerning people.

Just like Li Xian, why Li Xian supports Qingzhang is actually a means to curb land annexation, but more often than not, it is easy to cut other people's flesh, but it is difficult to cut your own flesh.

Li Xian coordinates all parties more. Break in the middle, keep the Ming Dynasty up and down, let the gentry from all over the country spit out some interests.

This method is too soft in Zhu Qizhen's opinion.

But even so, Zhu Qizhen couldn't do without Li Xian.

It is precisely because he sees clearly what he is facing that Zhu Qizhen is becoming more and more cautious.

Without him, don't look at the Ming gentry divided into this faction and that faction, Li Xian, Liu Dingzhi, Liu Qiu, Wang Wen, behind every cabinet minister is a large number of people.

But it really touches on their core interests, such as the imperial examination. For example, the Taoist system.

What Zhu Qizhen has to face is definitely not such a gentle opposition.

Even in the land of Qingzhang, Lu Yong almost used death to contend with the grievances of the court. When it really comes to completely touching their interests, when the time comes, even Li Xian and Liu Dingzhi's generation, for Zhu Qizhen, they are also monarchs and ministers, but they are enemy countries.

This is why Zhu Qizhen has always wanted to find his own reform ideas in Confucianism and Taoism, and why he respects the cabinet ministers very much, or to a certain extent, he is tolerating.

Without him, strength dictates.

Politics is the most powerful thing. Zhu Qizhen is also extremely pragmatic.

Daming and scholars rule the world together, this situation, whether Zhu Qizhen admits it or not, is a fact. Even though Zhu Qizhen was able to kill the cabinet from beginning to end, from the six ministries to the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

It is impossible to change this fact.

With this in the situation, how to break the situation?

Zhu Qizhen has been thinking about this. If he doesn't want to reform at the moment, he will live in harmony with the officials, this peace can be obtained, the world can be governed, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a prosperous era in later generations. 、

It's just that this is not what Zhu Qizhen wants.

But in the face of such an overall situation, it is a slightly wrong situation, it is a situation where the world is boiling, and Zhu Qizhen can only test step by step and move forward.

I hope to moisturize things silently.

Before you know it, the world has changed.