In July of the fourth year of Chenghua, Jingshi.

After more than a month of rectification and transition, Liu Juntao and Hu Dexing have all taken office at this time, and have begun to familiarize themselves with their respective government affairs processes and begin to manage government normally.

And the Chinese military ministers of the DPRK also saw the current situation clearly, and all tried their best to cooperate with Liu Juntao and Hu Dexing, and did not dare to compete with them at all.

When Hu Dexing just arrived in Beijing, he also rushed to Liu Juntao's house and had a meal with Liu Juntao and Guo Muying's family.

During the banquet, Hu Dexing carefully explained to Liu Juntao that he was the secretary of the military department, and repeatedly said that he would continue to stand on the same front with Liu Juntao.

Liu Juntao just smiled at this and said: "Brother Hu, where is it, as long as we are all dedicated to the country, don't mention the rest, we are all brothers who have been born and died together for decades, don't say these foreign words." ”

Guo Muying also said with a smile: "Yes, when my husband first met Brother Hu, I made Brother Hu suffer a few dumb losses, and after that, didn't Brother Hu live and die with my husband, advance and retreat together?" Speaking of which, after so many years, even Guodong and his brothers have entered the army to serve, this is all fate! ”

Speaking of this, Hu Dexing stroked his beard, and said with slightly red eyes: "Yes, these decades have really changed!" If I hadn't met Ge Lao in Yushanji back then, I'm afraid I would still be a small chief flag officer in Huakou Town, even if it was ten lifetimes, I wouldn't have achieved what I have today! ”

The three of them ate this meal for most of the night, and they also talked about it for most of the night, almost telling the entire experience of the three of them in the past few decades.

Early the next morning, Hu Dexing returned to his residence, and Liu Juntao also convened the ministers of the shogunate.

For example, today all the units of the army have returned to their respective stations, and the commanders of the towns have also returned to their stations and have not stayed in Beijing.

When everyone arrived, Liu Juntao immediately said: "I am ready to ask Your Majesty to implement the change, I don't know what your opinion is?" ”

Everyone was secretly surprised, although Liu Juntao had already promoted some law change bills, but they were only piecemeal, not systematically promoted, and did not touch the inherent interests of today's officials and gentry.

And once the law change bill drawn up by everyone begins to be fully implemented, it is bound to immediately become mortal enemies with the vast majority of the ministers in the court and the vast majority of the gentry in the world.

As a result, everyone began to persuade them, believing that the matter of changing the law should be carried out slowly, and should be simple and difficult, so as to minimize the resistance to changing the law.

But Liu Juntao doesn't think so, now that the Tiance Army has begun to enter the court and has begun to blossom in both the military and the government, it is a great opportunity to implement the law change!

If it drags on, the civil and military officials of the Tiance Army and the original forces in the DPRK and China will become intertwined, and the resistance to the implementation of the law change will increase exponentially in the future, and not only outsiders will come out to oppose it, but even their own people will start to oppose it because of their interests!

The warrior slaughtered the evil dragon, and as time passed, he became a new evil dragon, such a story Liu Juntao is too clear, and there are too many things that have happened in ancient and modern Chinese and foreign history.

Although Liu Juntao will try his best to prevent the corruption and degeneration of the civil and military officials of the Tiance Army, it is difficult to guarantee that his subordinates will not become new big landlords and new gentry, after all, the purchase of acres of land, the purchase of houses, and the increase of assets are all human nature, and they are not illegal. Once the officials of the Tiance Army become big landlords and gentry, they will become the opposite of the change, and lose the strong support of the Tiance Army, Liu Juntao knows very well that his change will not have the opportunity to be implemented again, and everything will eventually be the moon in the water!

Liu Juntao also told everyone his truth, and then said categorically: "Everyone! I have made up my mind, and the matter of changing the law is imminent! ”

Seeing that Liu Juntao's words were firm, everyone no longer stopped them, and at Liu Juntao's initiative, they began to discuss the specific details of the change.

This discussion lasted more than ten days.

Fifteen days later, Liu Juntao asked to see Emperor Chenghua with a thick plan for changing the law and the implementation strategy he had discussed with everyone.

Liu Juntao knew in his heart that in order to succeed in changing the law, he must first obtain the full support of Emperor Chenghua before implementing the reform, otherwise there is no possibility of success in changing the law.

In the imperial garden, Emperor Chenghua and Liu Juntao drank tea and talked, at this time Liu Juntao had already told all about the things he was going to implement the change, and explained the content of the change in detail.

In this change, Liu Juntao will carry out a major reform of the official system of the Ming Dynasty in order to adapt to the rapid development of the Ming Dynasty in the future; At the same time, this change will also be from the political, economic, military, as well as personnel training, people's livelihood construction, economic regulation and control and other aspects and fields of innovation, especially for the promotion and support of various new technologies and new knowledge, the Chinese dynasties and dynasties have not had such a strong support and investment!

"The minister wants to use this change to give the Ming Dynasty a pair of wings to take off, so that the dynasty will be proud of the world and immortal for thousands of years!"

After listening to Liu Juntao's overall idea, Emperor Chenghua was silent and hesitated.

In the long history of China, the monarchs and ministers who implemented the reform of the law basically did not end well!

The ministers who implemented the reforms, without exception, either died unexpectedly or were ruined; The same is true of the kings who implemented the law change, except for Daqin, the rest of the law change kings of the past dynasties could not escape the pen of the history books!

And the ancient and modern law changes, in addition to the success of the law changes of various countries during the Warring States Period, I have also seen which great unified dynasty has successfully changed the law! In particular, Wang Anshi's change of law has become a lesson for the emperors of later generations, and he is reluctant to mention the change of law easily!

"Elder Ge has a very important matter, I still want to think about it carefully, and the matter of changing the law must not be rash."

Then, Emperor Chenghua said worriedly: "I am also for the sake of the elders, and the matter of changing the law is ominous to the minister!" ”

Liu Juntao saluted and thanked him, and then said: "Your Majesty, the minister also understands the ominous reason of changing the law to the minister, but now the world in which I live is different from the ancient times!" We must continue to change in order to achieve long-term stability! ”

"What's the explanation?"

Liu Juntao said loudly: "The previous naval battle against the Dutch fleet on Dongping Island under the jurisdiction of Shandong Town was not accidental, but inevitable! Now there is no strong enemy around my Ming Dynasty, North Korea is a subject country of my Ming Dynasty, Japan is a country that is not conquered, there is no direct conflict with the country, and the rest of the countries are vassals of the country! But in the West, all the countries of Europe are changing their laws and trying to become strong, and among the countries of Europe, just like the Spring and Autumn Period of China and the Warring States of China, if they do not try to be strong, they will destroy the country! In time, the national power of these Xiyi will definitely swell sharply, and one day they will rush to the gate of our Huaxia, and the dynasty must make plans early! ”

Emperor Chenghua was not an ignorant and arrogant slave chief like the Manchu Qing Dynasty in later generations, and he also had some understanding of the West.

"Those countries of Xiyi are tens of thousands of miles away from my Ming Dynasty, even the Dutch are just a small stream, will they really fight with my Ming Dynasty in the future?"

Liu Juntao said: "In ancient times, the north and south of the river were thousands of miles away, and now the Quartet of China is close at hand!" The world is developing and progressing, and the ancients did not have treasure ships, giant ships, carriages, boats, and ships, so it was difficult to move an inch; Your Majesty, none of us can imagine what boats, chariots and horses will look like in a hundred years and a thousand years, and it is hard to guarantee that the distance of thousands of miles will not become a distance of a stone's throw away! Since the Dutch can sail to our Daming to do business, and since their warships can start a war with our Daming in small groups, it is difficult to guarantee that the huge fleet of Xiyi and even the army will not come across the sea in the future! ”

"What's more, the Dutch and other Xiyi firearms are sharp, well-armed, I Daming must change the law to innovate, always stay ahead, now the general trend of the world, is to sail against the current and retreat, it is no longer the time when I was the only one in China, I must always forge ahead!"

Emperor Chenghua has been moved by Liu Juntao's words, and at the same time, he has been touched by the general trend of the world depicted by Liu Juntao, as if a door that has never been seen before opened in front of Emperor Chenghua's eyes, and the chaos outside the door is abnormal, and it is also wonderful!

Emperor Chenghua frowned, and said in a deep voice: "What Elder Ge means is that if the general trend is today, Huaxia and all the countries in the world will eventually be closely linked, and they can no longer give birth and rest like in ancient times, right?" ”

"Global Integration!"

Listening to Emperor Chenghua's question, this word immediately appeared in Liu Juntao's mind, and Emperor Chenghua's keen intuition and wise mind convinced Liu Juntao.

"Your Majesty's words are extremely true! The minister predicted: In the future world, no country will be able to stand alone, and can only rush into the battlefield of all nations to fight to the death! ”

Emperor Chenghua suddenly sneered and said: "That is to say, those Xiyi can sail to the door of my Ming family, and in the same way, my Ming fleet can also sail to the European continent!" Is that right? ”

Hearing this, Liu Juntao was immediately excited, and said loudly: "Your Majesty is right! Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty once said: Kou Ke will go back to me! The Han Dynasty broke the closure of the Great Wall to China and pushed the civilization of our Han family to the four seas; And that's exactly what is happening today! Your Majesty will also promote the national prestige of my Ming Dynasty to all the countries of the world! ”

On this day, Liu Juntao was left in the palace by Emperor Chenghua, and the two of them discussed all night until the next evening.

In the morning of the next day, Liu Juntao asked Emperor Chenghua to implement the law change, and the Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces suddenly became difficult and collectively opposed Liu Juntao's law change.

Emperor Chenghua ignored the opposition of the ministers in the court, and the court announced that he supported Liu Juntao's reform policy, and the court sent down more than 20 ministers, and even sent the four ministers with the most fierce opposition to the edict to prison, and the government and the opposition were silent for a while!