"Tell me, what do these officials think, Grandpa Zhang has brought the little prince back from the lair, and he still thinks that the emperor has been defeated!"

"What's even more ridiculous is that the rumors spread to the capital, and the officials and gentlemen in the capital really believed it! What is it called, have you heard of what is said in the Ming Dynasty Monthly, it was revealed that the officials and lords of the capital really thought that the emperor had lost the battle and was captured alive, so he directly asked the current Xu Ge Lao to find the Queen Mother to establish a new monarch, as a result, guess what, Xu Ge Lao didn't believe it, and directly killed a big official who tried to make trouble with Shang Fang's sword! stabilized the court situation, which did not allow us to have two more emperors in the Ming Dynasty. ”

Then, the accurate news of the palace newspaper was transmitted into Beijing, and the officials and lords of the capital believed that the emperor had not lost the battle and was not captured, and had captured the little prince alive, but they were unwilling to publicize the matter, and the result was that they only killed dozens of Tartars; But the emperor didn't agree, and directly asked each of them to write an article to publicize this matter, and they had to write more than 10,000 words a day, write 10,000 words, tsk! I have been reading for three years, and I know that writing with a pen is not easier than farming with a hoe, let alone 10,000 words, a hundred words can kill me. ”

"This is strange, isn't it a good thing to capture the little prince who killed a thousand knives alive, why are these officials and lords unwilling to publicize it, and listening to the meaning of your words, it seems that they are unwilling to let the emperor win, and even wish to let the emperor be captured alive."

Recently, because of the large-scale construction of factories in Beijing, more people in Beijing have increased, and now the new population has reached 300,000!

Most of these people were workers and craftsmen, and because the emperor decreed an eight-hour work day on the grounds of loving the people, if they continued to work, they had to make the factory pay overtime allowance.

But the current Ming industry is not developed enough, so most of the factories are not big, and there are few overtime workers, so these people are generally idle and bored after work, and naturally they will discuss political affairs.

Zhu Houzhao asked the Second Chamberlain to ask the major government camps and royal factories to open night schools for workers, and asked the Ministry of Rites to summon all local governments to open literacy classes, so that more and more people began to know some words, and even if they were illiterate, there were special newspaper readers.

In addition, Zhu Houzhao ordered to encourage the official and non-governmental newspapers to run newspapers, so that the people have more and more channels to obtain information, know more and more things, and naturally like to talk about state affairs after tea and dinner.

And a recent Ming current affairs monthly magazine has made a special issue to report the recent performance of civil officials on the little prince being captured alive, so that the people also know about it, and they also find it quite interesting, after all, they don't have a good impression of the official master, and I really hope that this kind of story of the official master being slapped in the face.

Therefore, in a restaurant on this matter, several people talked about this matter, and one of the more intelligent people also noticed that the officials and masters did not seem to be loyal to the emperor in their hearts, so they asked so.

When the people asked, the other person who spoke to him smiled and said: "If you don't say that there is no good thing in the world, don't look at them every day that they say they are loyal to the emperor, in fact, they are loyal to the silver they can hold, and they are not even as much as us ordinary people who read the emperor." ”

"Bold!"

He Jingming endured a few people opposite him for a long time, he was going to learn from Zhang Zeduan today to come to this market to find inspiration for drawing a winter map of the capital, but he didn't expect to hear a group of people talking about political affairs here, and now I heard these people directly say that their loyalty to the emperor is not as good as that of them, which naturally made He Jingming very angry, so he directly slapped the table and angrily reprimanded this group of people.

These people only dared to discuss it in private, but they didn't have the consciousness that everyone was equal without fear of officials and gentlemen, so when they saw that He Jingming was a Confucian scholar, they didn't dare to get mad because he scolded him, and only timidly checked out and left here.

He Jingming is not a bully official, nor is he willing to see such a rising people, but he is still very depressed in his heart, because he found that he just used his identity and status to stop the discussion of these people, and he couldn't refute what he said!

He Jingming had to admit that many civil officials were really dissatisfied with His Majesty in their hearts, and even did not want to have an emperor who paid attention to martial arts, but he also thought that most civil officials also paid attention to the righteousness of monarchs and ministers, and they were all loyal ministers, such as himself, and even he wanted to say that there was more than one loyal minister in the world, but he didn't know how to explain to these people, and even he couldn't explain to these people, he would instinctively use his status to stop these lowly people.

Looking at the couplet behind him that "family affairs, national affairs, and everything in the world cares about everything", he was even more annoyed, thinking that His Majesty's couplet can be used for scholars and doctors, why should it be used for the people!

Not only He Jingming is depressed, but many civil officials are also quite depressed about this, they know that what they are doing is embarrassing and can even be said to be very mentally retarded, but they don't want more people to know, and they don't even want future generations to know, they feel that this will make them swindling.

Therefore, some civil officials once again hoped that His Majesty the Emperor would forbid the common people from talking about state affairs, and at the same time forbid newspapers from freely disclosing the secrets of the imperial court.

Zhu Houzhao directly pretended to be deaf and dumb this time, and ordered the cabinet to reply to these civil officials on the grounds that the people's mouths were more important than the people's defenses, and there was no way to prohibit the people from talking about state affairs except to block the people's mouths.

The civil servants could not, and some had to begin to put aside their arrogant posture and justify themselves to the people through newspapers or speeches.

Although the people were not so concerned about the right and wrong of politics, they had a scale in their hearts, and when some of the scholars began to explain it to them, they found that they were beginning to be respected.

Zhu Houzhao was also very satisfied with the willingness of some civil officials to explain to the people, especially when he knew that He Jingming personally funded the newspaper to convey to the people his ideas on governing the country as scholars.

Although the philosophy of governance of these civil officials is wrong, and although many people are not yet in the habit of caring about politics, the fact that these civil officials can lower their posture and express their governing ideas to the people is in itself a kind of progress.

After all, people of one class began to learn to respect people of another class under the deliberate protection and connivance of the emperor.

Moreover, Zhu Houzhao believes that although many of the people are illiterate, it does not mean that they do not know their own interests, and if the civil officials cannot give them the good policies they want, such as light taxes and clear fields, the people will not be easily brainwashed by these civil officials.

The scholars and the common people themselves are two opposing classes, and it is impossible for them to unite, but Zhu Houzhao hopes that the people of these two classes can understand that they are all the people of the Ming Dynasty, both are Chinese people, and they are equal and free.

You can't bully the people at will just because you're a scholar and don't get guilty, and you can't be rude and unruly because you're a citizen.

If we can't change the fact that scholars can enslave the people and betray the country at will without assuming the responsibility of governing the people and strengthening the country, and if we can't change the fact that the people only want to be peaceful dogs but don't know the dignity of being a human being, there will be no way for the Ming Empire to completely change from a Confucian society, and there will be no way to compete with a certain western island country that has promulgated the Magna Carta of Freedom for hundreds of years in the future, and the Western world that has begun to enter the Renaissance and begin the Age of Discovery!

Zhu Houzhao wants to be a generation of emperors, but he doesn't want the land under his feet to be a country that needs Ming monarchs and virtuous ministers after him.

From the Qin and Han dynasties to the Sui and Tang dynasties to the two Song dynasties, and to the present Ming Dynasty, through the Ming monarchs and virtuous ministers to suppress land annexation and maintain the stability of the small peasant economy and create a peaceful and prosperous era, and through the faint monarchs and traitors to increase the exploitation and enslavement of the people, resulting in the emergence of troubled times and the extinction of foreign races in China, there is no need to continue to repeat this cycle of China!

After all, if it continues like this, it will not only add the family history of a dynasty, but also add a nation's hundreds of years of humiliation, and make it not regain its former self-confidence after a hundred years!

However, Zhu Houzhao knew that the scholars and doctors were more willing to see obedient people, and would not rebel and only knew how to farm and pay taxes and were enslaved by themselves.

Just like himself, the emperor wants to see obedient officials, who will not contradict him, only know how to do things with peace of mind, and even have to be honest and self-controlled.

But reality is impossible.

Human beings have a natural nature of desire and profit.

If the emperor wants to let Huaxia jump out of the cycle of prosperity and decline after he takes power, he must first let Huaxia have a driving force that can improve his social mechanism, and let people from all walks of life in the empire know that he is a member of the empire, and at the same time as the empire obtains rights, he also has the obligation to make the empire continue to grow stronger and prosperous, and this requires people from every strata to identify with the empire, and to make all classes of Chinese people identify with the empire, the empire must have the obligation to protect every Chinese person. It is necessary to form systems and laws to protect the interests and political needs of every Chinese person.

And this system and decree is the most critical point where the empire's society can be stable and even growing.

But it is precisely himself, the emperor, who is most likely to destroy the system and decrees, and Zhu Houzhao himself has to admit this.

However, Zhu Houzhao has not thought about restricting his monarchy now, first of all, most people in this era still do not want the monarchy to be restricted, after all, the monarchy extends to the clan, that is, the clan power.

If the ruling class of this era wanted to deny the monarchy, they had to deny their own clan rights in the family.

This is also the reason why the civil officials could not overthrow Zhu Houzhao in the open, because they could not demand democracy in the imperial court and dictatorship in the clan at the same time.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao promulgated the outline of the King James Constitution with the protection of imperial power as the main nature, and he never thought of letting the outline of the constitution directly become like that of later generations, after all, it was easy to arouse the opposition of the ruling class of the whole world, but through the outline of the constitution, Zhu Houzhao at least made the officials' thinking begin to change from the rule of man to the rule of law, knowing their responsibilities and obligations, and beginning to have some contract spirit.