Zhu Houzhao found that since Daming had a free Dongying District, the whole society had suddenly become much quieter.

There were fewer noisy soldiers, and there were fewer demonstrations.

It was as if all the noisy scholars had gone to Dongying District, perhaps because of the current disorder in Dongying District, which made these people realize that it was impossible to achieve a free society without being managed, and that even if they set up their own government, it would lead to chaos because of people's selfishness.

Chen Yiqin, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is now very sad, he did not expect that this would be the case in Dongying District, which has no king and is an elected official by itself, and now even his own son is killed, because there is no law and law enforcement people, so that the criminals will not be punished.

"Etiquette cannot be abolished, and the law cannot be abolished, the chaos of Dongying today tells us that in the face of power struggle, you can never imagine that people will do crazy things to satisfy their greed, and the reason for all this is that the way of struggle is not a contest between individuals, but a contest between groups, even armed groups! Otherwise, there would be no assassinations and mass fights! ”

Zhu Houzhao has always been very concerned about how to go in the future of Daming, although he is confused, he has been thinking.

Now, in accordance with the mainstream ideology of the gentry class, that is, the middle class, that is, the idea of freedom and civil rights, Zhu Houzhao was very inspired by the results of the political experiment in Dongying District, and he couldn't help but call his emperor's son Zhu Zailei and the crown prince Zhu Yibang together, and held a meeting in the form of a family gathering to decide the future development of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course.

The reason why the family gathering of Zhu Houzhao, Zhu Zailei, and Zhu Yibang can decide the future of the Ming Dynasty is because the Ming Dynasty is still an empire, and the main wealth and violent organs of the Ming Dynasty are still controlled by their Zhu family.

Therefore, even though the Ming Dynasty generally accepts the value of equality for all, the royal family can still decide everything in this empire.

However, Zhu Houzhao, Zhu Zailei, and Zhu Yibang did not blindly enjoy and claim because they enjoyed most of the interests of the Ming Dynasty and owned most of the power of the Ming Dynasty, nor did they really regard the entire empire as their own private property, but still regarded themselves as a member of the entire Chinese civilization and one of all Han people.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao and his sons and grandsons have been thinking about how to make the Ming Dynasty better and make this peaceful and prosperous era last longer, instead of thinking only about how their royal family can have more social wealth and how to become the master of all people more durably, after all, with the development of science, materialistic thinking has become more and more common, and it is difficult for the royal family to say that they are the descendants of God to enslave the people of the world, even if they still proclaim to the people of the world that they are the descendants of God, they must also be a descendant of God who can bring the gospel to the world. After all, people believe that God is good and loving, and only the devil is cruel and greedy.

"Therefore, if I want the people to truly dominate the Ming Dynasty, and let the Ming Dynasty truly realize the goal of Datong and equal wealth, there can be no multiple groups with violent armed forces, which will only lead to melee, but it is human nature to hold together, after all, people are gregarious, so it is impossible for us to eliminate the existence of groups; The only thing we can do is to separate the violent organs, that is, the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, from these groups, and all the socialist parties must not have an army! ”

When Zhu Houzhao said this, Emperor Zhu Zailei couldn't help but say: "But, father, now the court officers, sergeants, and officers are all members of the Zhongjun Society. ”

"Yes, this is also the last resort of the year in order to control the military power, concentrate power, and carry out reforms, if it were not for the Loyal Monarch Society, I would not have been able to contain the power of the civil officials and gentry who dared to abolish the emperor back then."

After Zhu Houzhao said, Zhu Zailei said: "However, today's Zhongjun Society is different from the Zhongjun Society established by my father at the beginning of the year, and now the number of members has already exceeded 10 million, and there are people from all walks of life, even the majority of the wealthy, and most of the members are no longer pure members, and there are even unbelievers, even the most reactionary, which can be described as good and bad, all just to be promoted and make a fortune. ”

"I have also discovered this phenomenon, so it can be said that the Zhongjun Society has existed in name only, therefore, I have decided that we can ban the Zhongjun Society, and abolish all the social organizations of the Guards and the border guards, in short, let the army be independent of the government."

As soon as Zhu Houzhao said this, Zhu Yibang hurriedly got up and said, "Grandpa Huang, no!" Although the Zhongjun Society is different from before, it is not all hypocritical and hypocritical, and there are also people who really believe in it, and even a lot of people, if they are directly abolished, such people may fall into despair, and Sun Er thinks that in fact, the Zhongjun Society has become such a fault not because of the concept of the Zhongjun Society, but because of the different pursuits of people. ”

"Therefore, Sun Er suggested not to ban it, but to reorganize, after all, it is no longer appropriate to ask the people of the world to serve the monarch as the lord, and even our royal family itself does not believe it, so Sun Er thinks that it can be changed to the Zhongguo Society, and directly and clearly put forward the ideal of this society to take the world as the public, that is, to pursue the purpose of public ownership of power and equal wealth of the people."

Zhu Houzhao also felt that it made sense when Zhu Yibang said this, and he also thought that if the Zhongjun Society was abolished, it would be tantamount to depriving all the people in the world who relied on the status of Zhongjun Society members to gain power and interests without the basis for protecting their status, and it would definitely cause dissatisfaction among millions or even tens of millions of people.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao agreed with Zhu Yibang's point of view: "Then let's reorganize, among the senior officials of the imperial court, who else really takes the world as the ideal for the public?" ”

"Sun Er knows that the second assistant Zhang Ju really believes this, and has posted such articles in the "Huangming Daily" many times, although many people have scolded him for his official words, but Sun Er knows that Zhang Ju really thinks so, and he also advocates that the imperial court prohibit the establishment of academies by the people, prohibit students from discussing affairs, and hope that the imperial court will strengthen the control of culture, these propositions are very contrary to those officials in Jiangnan who pursue the return of government to the people."

As soon as Zhu Yibang said this, Zhu Houzhao also felt that Zhang Juzheng should really take the world as the ideal for the public: "In this case, it is up to you and Zhang Juzheng to reorganize the society, I can see that you should also believe this." ”

Saying that, Zhu Houzhao said again: "But the military power still has to belong to the people of the world, so the Privy Council abolished the General Political Department, and all officers and soldiers will either retire or give up their community status." ”

"Grandson obeys the will of the emperor's grandfather! I don't know what my father thinks? Zhu Yibang looked at Zhu Zailei.

"Since it was ordered by your imperial grandfather, you go directly to Zhang Juzheng to do this, remember to be cautious in doing things, carefully screen, and become the emperor of the Ming Dynasty in the future, whether you can continue to let the Ming Dynasty develop according to your own will depends on whether your new society is really the world for the public and the people."

Zhu Zailei said with a smile.

Zhu Houzhao also smiled and said to Zhu Yibang: "You don't have to worry too much, you can directly hand it over to Zhang Juzheng to do, in my opinion, no matter what becomes of this Ming Dynasty in the future, our royal family can still continue to be rich and noble, with your Taizu's world-class exploits in driving out the Tartars and rebuilding China, and with this glorious and prosperous era created by me and giving them the dignity of being truly human beings, although the people of the world no longer regard the royal family as their masters, they will not regard it as an enemy, but will only regard it as a symbol of peace and tranquility in the country, although they will be admired and treated well for all generations." ”

Zhu Yibang agreed.

A royal family gathering ended like this, but after this gathering, whether it was Zhu Houzhao or Zhu Zailei, the two most powerful people in the Ming Empire, they all made clear the future direction of the Ming Dynasty.

However, Zhu Houzhao didn't let Zhu Zailei and Zhu Yibang inform the world of this matter, because it was just their royal family's own thoughts.

Of course, restructuring does not mean that restructuring can be reorganized, because most people actually don't know whether they believe or not, and most people are confused.

Therefore, when Zhu Yibang began to do this, many people began to think about whether they believed or not, and even because they were worried that if they said that they would not believe it, it would affect their careers, so although they were confused, most of them directly said that they would definitely believe it.

Even, when Zhu Yibang and Zhang Juzheng were talking, there was a conflict.

"Mr. Zhang, this prince has something to tell you, the emperor intends to reorganize the Zhongjun Society, and this king suggests that you take charge of this matter......

After Zhang Juzheng heard Zhu Yibang's conveyance of Zhu Houzhao's meaning, he was also very shocked in his heart, because he didn't expect that the Emperor Taishang would make such a decision.

At this time, Zhang Juzheng asked Zhu Yibang very incomprehensibly: "Dare to ask His Royal Highness the Prince, what does the Emperor Taishang mean by this, why should the Zhongjun Society be reorganized, is it not right for the world to be public?" ”

"Mr. Zhang misunderstood, it's not a question of right or wrong, but there are also people who don't think that the world should be public, so now we need to exclude this part of the people, of course, this does not affect their status in the world, but they can no longer engage in military positions."

As soon as Zhu Yibang said this, Zhang Juzheng stood up directly and saluted Zhu Yibang quite seriously: "Your Highness, please forgive the ministers for speaking bluntly, if you dare not think that the world is public, that is not to take the world as your own responsibility, if such a person is an official, he must be a corrupt official, if he is in business, he must be a profiteer, and if he is a scholar, he must be a deceitful and famous thief, and he should be punished directly!" Why do you want to keep their status?! ”

Zhang Juzheng was stunned like this, Zhu Yibang didn't know what to say for a while, and then said after a while: "Mr. Zhang, even if you have different beliefs, there is no need to be incompatible, after all, whether it is a corrupt official, a profiteer, or a villain who deceives the world and steals his name, if he is punished because he violates the law, not because he has different beliefs." ”

"This is not a matter of different beliefs, this is a matter of right and wrong, or in other words, Zhang believes that the Ming Dynasty can only have one belief, that is, the world is for the public!"

Zhang Juzheng said excitedly.

Zhu Yibang had to ask again: "You know what Xinyin is, this person put forward the view that no king and no father is not a king and father, and directly said that he does not believe in the idea of loyalty to the monarch society, but only believes in himself, do you think this person should be killed?" ”

"This person instigated Haoqiang to resist taxes, discussed the affairs of the world in vain, and even supported Tusi to refuse Wanghua, the court should have killed this person a long time ago!"

When Zhang Juzheng said this, Zhu Yibang was very surprised: "But he is also a university scholar in the end, and he is quite famous in Thai studies, and he has never broken the law, so he has different beliefs from us." ”

"Your Highness! Forgive me for taking the liberty of it! The views of the minister and His Highness are already different in this regard, there is really no need to say it! His Highness does not think that He Xinyin deserves to die, because he has not committed the crime of deserving death; Ranchen thinks that he deserves to die because his beliefs are different from the truth, and those who are different from the truth are stupid or secretly harboring bad intentions, and must be killed! ”

"However, His Royal Highness is the decree of the emperor, and the ministers obey the order! But the minister still asked His Royal Highness to tell the Emperor that for those with different beliefs, it is better to deal with them strictly, than to tolerate adultery! ”

Zhang Juzheng said.

"That's what he said?"

Zhu Houzhao was also quite surprised when he found out about Zhu Yibang, he didn't expect Zhang Juzheng to react like this.

Zhu Yibang nodded: "Sun Er didn't expect that Mr. Zhang would have such a big disagreement with Erchen on this. ”

"Forget it, since Zhang Juzheng has agreed to follow the will of our royal family to reorganize the Zhongjun Society, as for what he thinks, don't care, we just do what we think is right, and leave the rest to history to judge."

Zhu Houzhao can only say this now, and he also found out that even if they are really different from each other, even if they have the same beliefs as each other, they are still different in the handling of some things, some people are extreme and some are gentle.

Although Zhang Juzheng still acted in accordance with Zhu Houzhao's will, went to the Loyal Monarch Society of his ancestors, and did not give different treatment to those who no longer believed in the concept of the Loyal Monarch Society, the effect in the internal affairs system and the whole society was not obvious, and few people chose to quit, but the people who quit the most were people in the army.

Because in order to keep their military positions, officers can only give up their positions in the field of political ideology.

"Uncle, this matter handed over to you by the Emperor Taishang is obviously not good enough, in the middle of the Manchu Dynasty, Duke Tan and Duke Yang have to retreat, but Duke Chen, the great uncle who is a confidant of He Xinyin, has not retreated."

Gao Gong knew that after the Emperor Zhu Houzhao handed over the reorganization of the Zhongjun Society to Zhang Juzheng, he was still a little dissatisfied, so at this time, he couldn't help but ridicule.

Zhang Juzheng replied directly: "The Emperor Taishang has his own reasons for doing this, Zhang believes that even if Tan Gong and Yang Gong quit the society, they only have a society in their hearts, and they are still as if they have not retreated." ”

"Uncle's words are reasonable, but the Emperor Taishang suddenly did this, which just shows that there are indeed impure people in the Manchu Dynasty, otherwise they would not reorganize the Zhongjun Society, so Gao believes that we still have to carefully screen a few of our political affairs office in the future to see who is really dedicated to the public, this kind of person must be reused, such as this Hai Rui, who is the first person dedicated to the public, and now he has been in office for a long time in the Yingtian Governor, and he should be promoted!"

Gao Gong said.

"Yes, Hai Rui should be promoted, Yuanfu is reasonable!" Liu Tiqian, the head of the household department, agreed.

"I thought that Hai Rui was indeed promoted, and the imperial court could not make the upright ministers condescend to the local area as shepherds!" The left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, Wan Shi, also agreed.

"It just so happens that Yang Luan, the left capital of the Imperial Palace, has retired due to old age, and now it is time to let Hai Rui rise up, and with Hai Rui in charge of the general constitution, it will inevitably make Haiyan River clear", Zhu Heng, the left attendant of the ministry, also echoed.

Zhang Juzheng didn't know that this matter was so involved in Hai Rui's matter, but he had to admit that there were few high-ranking officials in front of him who were really worth staying in the company.

Zhu Houzhao also learned from Zhu Zailei that Hai Rui was going to be promoted, so he said directly: "Hai Rui is not a person who needs to be promoted, giving him the power to govern the place is the best reward for him, let him be transferred to Henan and serve as the governor!" I remember that Shoufu Gao Gong is from Xinzheng, Henan, right? ”

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