Zhu Biao put down the teacup and said to Li Shanchang: "It doesn't matter if Hu Weiyong is pushed to power, after all, my father also likes this person very much, but after Li Xiang retires, stay away from him, don't have any more contact." ”

Li Shanchang was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly thought of the topic discussed with the prince last time, and then thought of Zhu Yuanzhang's temperament.

Li Shanchang stood up and bowed to Zhu Biao: "Thank you, Your Royal Highness the Prince, for mentioning it, it's really almost a late holiday." ”

Zhu Biao stretched out his hand and said: "It's good that Li Xiang understands it, you have also worked hard all your life, why bother about it anymore, you will have your own glory and wealth waiting for you after you are adopted."

Li Shanchang is an understanding person, Xiao He needs to defile himself in order to protect himself, not to mention him Li Shanchang, if people want to stand in the world, they have to be shrewd.

However, shrewdness and skill have to vary from person to person and from place to place, and sometimes you can't be too smart. "Being smart but being mistaken by being smart" is not uncommon for such people; Those who are too square and win the hearts of the people and attract the disaster of killing are numerous in the history books.

When necessary, not only attribute your wisdom to others, but also be good at damaging your own image, showing a "great wisdom if you are foolish". It is better to suffer a loss at that time, or be scolded by others, but also to protect yourself so as not to get into trouble.

Li Shanchang sighed in his heart, it seems that after retirement, he will have to accept a few concubines.

Zhu Biao looked at him and said with relief: "Li Qi is not bad, I heard that there has been a lot of progress in learning, so let him go to Shanxi with the palace to deal with the relocation of people." ”

Li Shanchang hurriedly thanked him, this is the prince is ready to accept Li Qi as a vassal of the East Palace, which is a great kindness to the Li family.

After Li Shanchang had the bottom in his heart, he said: "There are many good seedlings in the Huaixi General's family, and they will all be His Highness's subordinates in the future, so it is better to bring them all over this time." ”

Zhu Biao smiled, it is simple to talk to smart people, he expressed his goodwill to protect the Li family, Li Shanchang should naturally repay the favor, Zhu Biao is not small now, and there should be a group of real team.

Zhu Biao, a group of scholars, felt that it was difficult to have any great potential, so he could only turn his attention to the sons of Xungui.

Huaixi Xungui must be suppressed, and it is necessary to eliminate a group of restless ones, but what is still retained must be retained.

How could Zhu Biao not know that if the nobles were suppressed, the civil officials would easily lose checks and balances, and the Song Dynasty was not a system of using literature to pursue martial arts, which led to a series of consequences.

The Ming Dynasty in history was not because of the system, because of Zhu Yuanzhang's founding and Zhu Di's martyrdom, plus a series of foreign wars, these wars gave birth to a large number of famous generals and meritorious families, at this time, the military generals had a greater influence on both the emperor and the government. If it develops normally, the influence of the military generals group will gradually decline, and the influence of civilian officials will gradually rise, but this change will only be subtle.

With the stability of the government and the reduction of wars, military generals will inevitably face the problem of reducing their right to speak, after all, governing the world still depends on civil rule, and the decision-making power of war will gradually be transferred to the hands of civilian officials, which is the general trend.

However, the status of the military generals of the Ming Dynasty is still not too weakened, after all, the lessons of the Song Dynasty are in front of them, the previous emperors of the Ming Dynasty are to raise the nobles, although the generals do not care, but with the protection of the emperor, they are not afraid of the civil officials, the two sides just check and balance each other, until there is a change in the civil fort.

The Tumubao Incident directly led to the death of a large number of elite troops, including dozens of military generals including the old ministers of the Four Dynasties and the famous general Zhang Fu, and the military generals group suffered heavy losses.

What's even more fatal is that the subsequent defense of Beijing was completed under the command of the civilian officials headed by Yu Qian, but the problem was that it was still successful, which directly led to a great shock to the prestige of the civilian official group. The influence of the military generals group has greatly decreased after experiencing the reshuffle of the Jingnan and the blow of the Tumubao Change.

After that, there were many phenomena of military generals commanding troops and civil ministers being commanders, such as Wang Yangming pacifying the rebellion of King Ning, and Hu Zongxian exterminating the Japanese invaders. All this has intensified the decision-making power of the war and moved closer to the civilian government.

Later, when a second-rank military general met a seventh-rank civil official, he often had to dismount first and salute to avoid it. The crown prince Qi Jiguang wrote a letter to Zhang Juzheng, a civil official of the same grade, to call himself a "lackey".

It is by no means a good thing that civil and military inequality, Zhu Biao can tolerate civilian officials who are slightly larger than military attachés, after all, the threat of rebellion by military attaches is far greater than that of civilian officials, and the necessary weakening must be necessary, so it is also a protection for them.

But it's not good to be like in history, the military attache has no way out, then he will still be willing to join the army and serve the country, everyone can take the imperial examination, anyway, being a military general is far inferior to a small imperial history.

Moreover, Zhu Biao is preparing to set up a cabinet as the goal of civilian officials, so the military generals must also have an organization similar to the Military Aircraft Department, where the civil and military forces are separated, and they do not interfere with each other, and the contradictions and conflicts between them are regulated by the emperor in the center.

Martial arts should also be carried out, so it also gives the people another way out, reading the four books and five classics is not successful, practicing martial arts and learning the art of war can also glorify the ancestors, and the soldiers in the army should be allowed to refer to it in the future.

Zhu Biao nodded and said: "It's just that Li Xiang also knows that the palace rarely leaves the palace, and he is not too familiar with the children of those generals, can you please recommend Li Xiang." ”

The selection team is not something that can be selected at random, if their father and brother have a bad brain, they will inevitably be connected in the future, and Zhu Biao does not want to waste his efforts to cultivate people who are going to die.

Zhu Biao's status is too high, even if it is among the nobles of Huaixi, only those bigwigs can make him pay attention, and Zhu Biao is not clear about the conduct of the rest of the people, Li Shanchang, as the leader of Huaixi, is naturally the most clear.

Li Shanchang stroked his beard and thought for a while, the current situation is still quite complicated, Hu Weiyong has taken over a lot of contacts that belong to him, and has already called a few of them brothers and sisters, these people have average brains, I am afraid it is rare to have a good death, and their children naturally cannot recommend it to His Highness.

Li Shanchang finally said more than ten names, including some people with lower titles in the family, but some of them belong to die-hard families, these people are similar to Ma Nanshan, their brains are not bright, but they are all people who are willing to die for the Zhu family.

Zhu Biao nodded with satisfaction, and his favorite person, Li Shanchang, recommended it, which means that it is indeed good.

While the two were talking, Liu Jintong's voice came from outside, it turned out that Hu Weiyong came to see Li Shanchang, but he didn't expect Zhu Biao to be here, but he came, so he naturally wanted to meet His Royal Highness the Prince.

Li Shanchang looked at him, Zhu Biao nodded, and Li Shanchang said in a loud voice: "Let Hu Weiyong come in to meet the prince." ”

Liu Jin outside agreed as soon as he heard it, and he also knew that without Zhu Biao's signal, the prime minister could not call the shots.

After a while, Hu Weiyong came in, tidied up his clothes, and immediately fell towards Zhu Biaobai: "The minister sees His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness Qianqiu." ”

Zhu Biao didn't let him get up immediately, but said: "Just now when the palace passed by, I heard you arguing with Yang Xian, you are all important members of the imperial court, what kind of system have you become under the public!" ”

Hu Weiyong did not defend himself, and immediately bowed his head and said: "The minister is guilty, please punish His Highness." ”

Zhu Biao nodded with satisfaction, if he told him that this matter was right or wrong, Zhu Biao would be disappointed.

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