Chapter 58 Zhu Qizhen's obsession

Zhu Qizhen has been cultivating the prince's understanding of water conservancy, and even asked the prince to personally plan the construction of a river canal.

This canal is nothing compared to so many water conservancy projects in the world.

But Zhu Qizhen did this to plan for the future.

Zhu Qizhen once repaired all the water conservancy in the future, and arranged all the water systems in the world clearly.

After a long time, Zhu Qizhen knew that this was impossible.

First of all, the water system is not a static thing, not right here, just waiting for you to repair, but a dynamic system.

And it's not like you can use it forever after you fix it.

Otherwise, how many famous ministers have built water conservancy in history, and where are these water conservancy projects today?

It can be said that if Zhu Qizhen seriously repairs water conservancy, he will not be able to complete the water conservancy of the Ming Dynasty in his life. These things, Zhu Qizhen is ready to form a tradition, so that after every emperor ascends the throne, he knows that repairing water conservancy is the first major thing in the world.

And what Zhu Qizhen has to do is to do those things that other emperors can't do.

For example, changing the law, such as reform, such as improving productivity, such as foreign war.

The introverted power of Confucianism is too strong.

This fundamental conflict of concepts made the first enemy faced by any Ming emperor before expanding to the outside world was not the soldiers of the other party, but the ministers in front of him.

That's a very difficult thing to do.

Zhu Qizhen is confident that he can suppress these ministers and achieve these goals, but Zhu Qizhen is also soberly aware of one thing, and many things he has done have actually limited the power of the monarch in later generations.

For example, the status of the cabinet has been improved, for example, the Ming Huidian is being revised.

To a large extent, he can meet one thing, that is, the power of the future Ming Emperor will be more restricted, and not like he is now.

This is also inevitable.

Just as his authority is not as good as that of Taizu Taizong, the authority of his descendants will not be comparable to his own.

What he can do, future generations may not be able to do.

Of course, Zhu Qizhen may not think this thing is very bad.

After all, the world is the world of the people of the world.

The Zhu family is already very lucky to be able to borrow the shadow of their ancestors and inherit the throne from generation to generation. Of course, it is likely that it was not a foreign invasion that killed them, but a revolution.

In this way, why not go with the flow and slowly evolve into a cabinet of government and a sacrifice to the widow.

In fact, as long as later generations do not experience a great decline like the late Manchu Qing Dynasty, which caused extreme changes in thinking, with the influence of Confucian classics, even after the revolution, it is very likely that the Zhu family will maintain a hypocrisy. No one can say clearly about the future generations, and Zhu Qizhen can only speculate.

But one thing is certain.

Even after he succeeds in changing the law, the Shidafu clique will not withdraw from the stage of history, after all, it is impossible for a brand-new political group to come to power without decades or hundreds of years of precipitation.

Even after his death, for a period of time, all his policies will be counter-attacked by the Shidaifu group.

This is inevitable, and this is how history spirals.

As for the emperor and interest groups he cultivated, whether they could withstand such a counterattack was not something he could know.

So, there are a lot to do, and although water conservancy projects are important, they are only secondary options.

Zhu Qizhen's words have a perfunctory taste in it, and the amount of work in the Taihu Lake into the sea project is not large, 500,000 taels is enough to repair it, and even several tributaries of Taihu Lake can be repaired by the way.

But that's not what Li Xian wants.

Li Xian did not explicitly say anything about the conquest of Annan, but continued: "Your Majesty loves the people like a son, and the people of Jiangnan thank you Your Majesty, but please treat Your Majesty equally, how can you love Jiangnan and the people of Hebei alone, and look up and down the Yangtze River, and the people on both sides of the Huai River are in dire straits." ”

"The minister's words are incoherent, there are many gaffes, please punish Your Majesty, but the people are suffering, the minister has not dared or forgotten since he was studying, please think about it."

Li Xian's words were sincere and touching. There was even a feeling of tears in my eyes.

These words may not be false, after all, Li Xian's hometown is also in the flood, and the water is in dire straits, maybe Li Xian didn't see it with his own eyes, but the letter from home must have said it.

Yu Da Ming is so big, there will be such and such natural disasters almost every year, and Zhu Qizhen is numb.

But in the body of the people, every natural disaster is a tragedy in the world, life and death, sometimes life and death, it is still good, as for cutting the bones and cooking, changing children and eating. So that the unbearable human tragedy may not happen.

Every natural disaster is a pain that the local people cannot bear.

Zhu Qizhen suddenly remembered a story in Zhuangzi.

Zhuang Zhou was angry and said: "Zhou came yesterday, there was a middle way and called, Zhou looked at the ruts, and there were carp fish. Zhou Wenzhi said: 'When the carp comes, what is the evil?' He said, 'I, the Bochen of the East China Sea. Shall you have the water of the ascension and live me?' Zhou said: 'No, I will travel south to the king of Wuyue, and welcome the son by the water of the Xijiang River, but what?' The carp was angry and said, 'I have lost my constant relationship, and I have nowhere to go.' I have to fight the water of the ascension and live my ears. Jun Nai said this, it was better to ask me to be in the dry fish as soon as possible! ”

Zhu Qizhen is who he is, the people are between life and death, but Zhu Qizhen thinks about it decades later.

For a while, Zhu Qizhen felt a deep sense of self-blame and guilt in his heart.

It is true that Zhu Qizhen may not be unaware that Li Xian's words were used to achieve his political goals.

Zhu Qizhen is used to this, he doesn't look at whether people are selfish or not, just whether he is reasonable.

Now it seems that what Li Xian said is not unreasonable.

But even if it makes sense, will Zhu Qizhen listen?

There is a saying that only paranoia can succeed, which may not be true, but for Zhu Qizhen, even if he has lived in this era for more time than later generations, his temperament still comes from later generations.

In other words, although his memory of many things in later generations is blurred, he will develop productive forces and move the whole world towards the technologically advanced society in later generations.

It has become his obsession.

No matter how ashamed or uneasy he was, he couldn't shake that.

Therefore, he quickly calmed down and said: "What the gentleman said is very true, but these big projects must be carefully surveyed before they can be started, otherwise the big work will not be completed at that time, but it will affect the people, which is my sin." ”

Zhu Qizhen's first move is dragging.

Even Li Xian can't say that this is wrong, after all, the matter of the Six Towers River is also famous in history. Causing an accident is not as simple as a joke.

"The imperial court has limited manpower and material resources, in the end, to start the big work, you have to use the conscription, and today the conscription is uneven, once the big work is frequent, I am worried that there will be foolish men and fools who will follow the red scarf, and it is not a good thing for the imperial court, so let's do it, after the completion of the Qingzhang land, after the reproduction of the fish scale yellow book, after the reconscription, it is not too late to talk about this matter."

Zhu Qizhen scared Li Xian first, which may not be able to scare Li Xian, but he also named Li Xian for the political risks.

The Red Turban Army uprising was not because of the incident caused by the repair of the Yellow River in the Yuan Dynasty, and Mo Daoshiren had one eye and provoked the Yellow River to rebel in the world, and it was only about 100 years since then.

It's like being in the Republic of China now. Many people remember it vividly.

After that, what Zhu Qizhen said was also very reasonable, after all, Li Xian was not unaware of the problems in the Ming Dynasty's conscription. But Li Xian knew better that Zhu Qizhen's original intention was still dragging on.

It's just a delay that Li Xian can't find fault.

And Qingzhang is also a big project, and now it has been advancing for three years. There is no end in sight.

Zhu Qizhen continued: "By the way, this year's flood, I haven't asked about Qingzhang for a long time, but I don't know how Qingzhang is going now? ”

Here's another big move. The matter of building water conservancy was transferred to the matter of Qingzhang land.

But Li Xian couldn't follow the emperor's words, after all, between the emperor and his courtiers, it was always the emperor who took the initiative. Just thinking of Qingzhang's matter, Li Xian's heart sank slightly, he had already heard some rumors, although the boots had not fallen yet, but it was definitely not groundless.

At this moment, he couldn't figure out what to say for a while.