Chapter 31: Something Good Is Coming
Back in Xianyang Palace, Zhu Houzhao said to Liu Jin: "Those who eat are hungry!" “
Liu Jin naturally didn't dare to slack off and hurriedly went to beckon someone to get food, and after serving by Zhu Houzhao's side for so long, Liu Jin would still look at some of Zhu Houzhao's face. Of course, even if Zhu Houzhao's current face is not Liu Jin, even people who have not been in contact with Zhu Houzhao can see that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is in a bad mood, no, not as simple as a bad mood, but very bad.
After the food was put up, Zhu Houzhao stretched out his hand to greet Wang Shouren and said, "Come, sit down and eat together!" As he spoke, he picked up a piece of meat and took a bite.
Wang Shouren's meal naturally has his own share, and it is still necessary to divide the meal at this time, otherwise Wang Shouren probably wouldn't dare to stretch out his chopsticks.
After running with Zhu Houzhao all morning, Wang Shouren was naturally hungry, and he was not polite, so he sat down and began to eat. Eating without saying a word, neither of them speaks, and concentrating on the food in front of them, this rule is also beneficial, and it can make people eat well. Especially for those who accompany the leader to eat, the attention is all on eating, and there is no need to carefully serve the leader anytime and anywhere.
After the meal was finished, the leftovers were coldly withdrawn, the warm tea was served, Zhu Houzhao took a sip, and then he breathed a sigh of relief, and his face looked a lot better.
Zhu Hou glanced at Wang Shouren, and then said, "There's nothing to do, Aiqing go back and rest first!" Saying that, he turned around and left first, in fact, Zhu Houzhao really didn't know what to say. What's there to talk about in the morning? What can I talk about with Wang Shouren? Just don't talk about it, the more you talk, the more troublesome it becomes, and just go back to rest.
Wang Shouren was not surprised to hear Zhu Houzhao's words, he also knew that the prince was in a bad mood, so he bowed down and said, "The minister retires!" ”
While walking outward, Wang Shouren pondered that although the current crown prince was only ten years old and did not show any political tendencies, today's behavior was actually a tendency. Different from today's son, today's son is benevolent, a literati son of heaven, hardworking, down-to-earth, generous, and the perfect son of heaven in the heart of Wenchen, except for the physical almost no other problems.
The prince in front of him is different, he is no longer physically strong, and his bravery is not enough to describe, he is only ten years old, and he is proficient in archery and horse riding.
What people are good at, often like to use what to solve problems, this truth has not changed since ancient times, people often feel that they are good at what to solve problems, then the success rate will be higher, this is the case. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is good at martial arts, his personal courage is very strong, and he is also proficient in the art of battle formation, such a prince You let him be a literati emperor, it is impossible.
This will be a Wu Emperor, and Emperor Wu usually likes to solve problems in a violent way, whether it is Emperor Taizu, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, or Emperor Taizong, who succeeded him later.
Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, what civil officials want is a literati emperor, not a martial emperor, who will carry a knife, kill people, and slaughter literati like a dog. If it weren't for the fact that the military generals of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms killed the literati too much, the Song Dynasty would not have been guarding against the generals all the time, and they were all trampling the warriors into the mud. The Wenchen of the Ming Dynasty also wanted the literati emperor, and after so many years, it finally came to fruition.
Today's saint is the literati emperor, and everyone hopes that the current prince is the same, since some time ago, the prince studied hard and all kinds of homework were among the best, and the Wenchen rejoiced.
It's just that this time something happened, I'm afraid that some people will be unhappy, but some people will be happy, this world will always have someone who likes this, then there will be someone who likes that, and someone will support His Royal Highness the Prince, such as himself.
Wang Shouren looked up at the sky, imagining what happened today, Wang Shouren felt that this might be a good thing? The sky is blue, the sea is wide, the air is new, and the mood is good, Wang Shouren walked out of the palace with a smile on his face, he knew that from today onwards, Daming was afraid that it would be troublesome. But it's nothing, it's a good thing, and Wang Shouren believes it must be a good thing.
Good things are about to happen!
Of course, Zhu Houzhao didn't know that Wang Shouren had thought so much, but Zhu Houzhao didn't know that he couldn't suppress his anger today, so he also did it on purpose.
In fact, by this time, the army was already unusable, and the Zhengde Emperor in history was going to clean up, but before he could clean up, the Zhengde Emperor died, and then Jiajing came up. Jiajing abolished many policies in the Zhengde period to show his status, and the military system changed by the Zhengde Emperor was abolished, and the Beijing camp was newly restored to the three major battalions of the Taizong Emperor Zhu Di period.
It can be said that this is a reversal, and what is the result? The Ming army could not even defeat the Japanese invaders, and the Mongols fought all the way to the city of Beijing.
During the reign of Emperor Zhengde, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty began to rise, and the military strength began to grow.
Originally, Zhu Houzhao thought that the methods of Emperor Zhengde in history might be a little too drastic, but now it seems that this is not too intense but not fierce enough. After the change of Tumubao, the military strength of the Ming Dynasty turned downward, and the disadvantages of the military household system began to appear, and the armies around the Ming Dynasty gradually became the slaves of the generals. The civilian-official group is getting bigger and bigger, the wind of investment is prevalent, and land annexation is becoming more and more severe, and it is time for the Ming Dynasty to reform.
If you don't change it at this time, if the means are not drastic, it will be even more difficult to do it in the future, and it has been proved that there are many people with such knowledge.
At the end of Jiajing, reform has already become a call and a wave, whether it is Gao Gong or Zhang Juzheng, they are all holding the banner of reform.
Not enough for Zhu Houzhao to know that if the civil officials are asked to reform the civil officials, this kind of reform is destined to have no great results, and can only be tinkering. If you want to stretch out a knife to the civil official group, then someone must support the emperor and hand the knife to the emperor, this group of people is the eunuchs, and they are the most suitable for doing this, this is the work done by the cool officials in the Wu Zetian period, and the eunuch is this role.
In addition to eunuchs, you need more support, more confidence, who can give this support and this confidence? Of course, it is a military general, as long as you hold the military power in your hands and have an army with strong combat effectiveness like an arm, you will have the courage to move.
Like Zhang Juzheng's reform, Zhu Houzhao felt that it was just an itch in his boots, and he couldn't get up to the point of scraping bones to cure poison, so naturally he couldn't talk about being reborn from the fire. The only one who was completely reformed was the Yongzheng Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, who was divided into acres, and the officials and gentry paid for the grain, and Yongzheng also did it, but Yongzheng's died early, maybe it was a historical coincidence, maybe not, Zhu Houzhao didn't know, but at this moment, Zhu Houzhao had begun to consider the problem from another direction.