Zhu Houzhao thought about the scene of the courtiers worshipping the prince after the crown prince, and also thought about the scene where the courtiers and the people began to pay attention to Zhu Zailei after the decision to abdicate, but he really didn't expect that when he decided to abdicate, these officials would behave so excitedly!

Many times, Zhu Houzhao didn't feel how good he was doing as an emperor, and most people's indifference to politics and indifference to the emperor made him think that he didn't bring much touch to the people of the empire at all.

But Zhu Houzhao didn't expect that when he decided to abdicate and decided to leave the Ming political arena, the people of the empire would be so heartbroken.

However, there is a way that there is a feast that will not be dispersed in the world.

Zhu Houzhao would not choose to stay because the people of the empire began to express their unwillingness to let him leave the center of power in the empire.

Once he has decided on something, he has no intention of changing it.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao just calmly walked down the jade steps and walked in front of the emperor's eldest son, Zhu Zailei: "See, how reluctant they are to be their fathers, it means how heavy your burden is in the future." ”

As he spoke, Zhu Houzhao picked up the emperor's eldest son Zhu Zailei, who was also kneeling on the ground, and immediately helped the emperor's second son, Zhu Zaiyan.

Zhu Zailei's mood was originally pleasantly surprised, after all, now that he has been made the crown prince, it even means that he will ascend the throne as emperor after the Wanshou Festival.

However, like the civil and military officials, he was also a little apprehensive when he saw the people outside the Forbidden City who were afraid of returning to the era of his father's abdication, and the ministers in the Forbidden City who were worried about his father's abdication, and when he thought that he was about to take charge of an empire where the steam industry and the small peasant society coexisted, and the Confucian clan and the joint-stock merchant house coexisted, he was also a little apprehensive.

He once thought that he was over fifty years old, and had been in contact with the most basic workers and peasants of the empire, as well as the middle gentry and merchants, and led the most advanced technology of the empire, but at this moment, when he found himself about to take over the empire from his father, he still had a feeling of walking on thin ice.

At the same time, Zhu Zailei did feel the pressure, a kind of pressure from his father, he knew that his father was great, after all, he was exempted from forced labor, established a social security system, and developed an industry to solve the problem of tens of millions of people becoming displaced because of the contradiction between man and land...... Wait a minute.

But Zhu Zailei still didn't expect that his father's abdication would make so many people fearful, and he knew that it meant how difficult it was for him to surpass his father in the imperial industry.

When Zhu Houzhao was preparing the edict for the crown prince and preparing to abdicate, he also divided the other princes who stayed in Beijing.

Among them, the second son of the emperor was named the king of Song, and the fief was Franc Ji, which was occupied by the Ming Dynasty not long ago.

The second son of the emperor, Zhu Zaiyan, was naturally very disappointed in his heart, after all, he did not become the crown prince of the Ming Kingdom, but he knew that his father was also worthy of him, and he gave him a rich area.

He had already learned from Yu Dayou about the richness of the Buddha Machine, and when he saw that the officials and the people showed extreme reluctance to their father who decided to abdicate, he also knew that anyone who took over the throne would see this mountain facing his father.

Therefore, Zhu Zaiyan was a little lucky at this time, glad that he did not bear so much pressure, and he even wanted to see how his imperial brother faced the pressure from his father.

Zhu Houzhao did not change his original intention, and after the edict was read, he drove back to the palace, and asked the celebrant and eunuch to pass on the decree, and the cabinet and the Ministry of Rites did a good job in the canonization ceremony of the crown prince, and prepared the birthday ceremony of the Wanshou Festival, as well as his own abdication ceremony.

Seeing this, Xia Yan, Zhang Rong and other civil and military officials also knew that they could only accept such a reality now, the emperor was unwilling to do it, and they couldn't force the emperor to continue to do it.

Although the civil and military officials did not want Emperor Zhu Houzhao to abdicate, because the crown prince's canonization ceremony was imminent, they had to retract their sorrow and manage the government.

However, for the common people, after learning from the official media that Emperor Zhu Houzhao had indeed decided to abdicate, they were all more depressed, and their desire for consumption and entertainment dropped sharply, and the prosperity of the empire's commercial economy was even greatly affected, the most direct manifestation of which was the setback of the stock market.

Of course, although Zhu Houzhao said that he abdicated, it did not mean that he would abdicate immediately, and at present, Zhu Houzhao was still in the position of the emperor, dealing with the military affairs of the empire.

However, unlike in the past, Zhu Houzhao asked Zhu Zailei to resign from the post of household secretary, go straight to Hanbitang, and participate in government affairs with himself.

In order to be idle, Zhu Houzhao has basically handed over all the daily redundancy to Zhu Zailei, and Zhu Zailei is only guided by himself, the emperor, when he encounters difficulties.

Not only did Zhu Houzhao begin to give Zhu Zailei some power, but even the only two ministers Xia Yan and Zhang Rong, who are still presiding over the court push, also gave Zhu Zailei face, and unanimously recommended Zhu Zailei's cronies Xu Jie, at the court push meeting of the parliamentary office, to join the cabinet as the third assistant of the cabinet, and Yan Song was made up as the second assistant.

Even when it comes to the appointment of new ministers, Zhu Houzhao asked Zhu Zailei to determine it himself, and then tell himself, so that Zhu Zailei gradually became familiar with the entire empire.

Zhu Zailei knew that this minister was a minister who could make decisions on the affairs of the imperial court, so he naturally did not dare to be disdainful, and after considering the interests of himself and his father, he finally decided to follow the old practice of Zhu Houzhao, so he said to Zhu Houzhao:

"Father, the sons and daughters think that Yan Song, Xu Jie, Wen Yuan, and Yu Dayou can be added as ministers of parliament, Yan Song and Xu Jie, who are cabinet ministers, are the center, and should have the right and responsibility to recommend in the court;

And Wen Yuan is a heavenly official of the Ministry of Officials, and the Lord of the world is the whole world, so he should naturally have the right and responsibility to recommend;

Now that Jiangdong is seriously ill, he should be removed from the power of his minister, and Yu Dayou is a new upstart in the army, who has gone through two wars to recover Jiaozhi and expedition to the West, and is familiar with the generals at all levels of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Zhu Houzhao saw that Zhu Zailei only stuffed one of his own people into the newly appointed ministers, and the rest were all selected from the public will, so he had no objections, nodded and said:

"This is very good, in this case, you will draw up an edict for your father and the emperor to the guards, and you will not be crowned with Yu Dayou."

But because Zhu Zailei stuffed a Xu Jie's entry into the ranks of the Minister of Parliament, Zhu Houzhao had to think more about Xu Jie.

Zhu Houzhao knew Xu Jie, knew that he was one of the most powerful characters in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, and even the treacherous Yan Song could not deal with Xu Jie.

But Zhu Houzhao also knew that Xu Jie was also very wealthy in history, and he had been an official for many years, and he made the family from a middle- and lower-class landlord family to a large household with 400,000 acres of fertile land!

Zhu Houzhao doesn't know whether Xu Jie's wealth has accumulated in this life, but he also has to be wary of whether this Xu Jie's will affect Zhu Zailei, and affect Zhu Zailei in the future to make the Ming Empire step by step completely become only for meat eaters to protect their interests, and even no longer actively develop industry, no longer increase investment in social public infrastructure, no longer increase social welfare security, and no longer protect the bottom line of the most basic interests of civilians.

Zhu Houzhao felt that he had to guard against the emergence of this day, at least he could not let the Ming Empire continue to exploit the peasants under the influence of these people and was unwilling to develop the old road of industry, after all, the economic inertia of the small peasants in the Ming Dynasty was still very strong.

"Father, this is the report of the Bureau of Statistics, saying that the revenue of the national treasury has increased by 10 percent compared with last year, while the proportion of agricultural revenue has dropped to 1.6 percent, and the proportion of taxes from non-government commercial banks and companies and workshops has increased to 40 percent." Zhu Zailei handed Zhu Houzhao a note at this time.

Today's Ming Empire court also began to carry out a lot of data statistics when ruling the empire, and carried out macro-control based on the data.

At this moment, when Zhu Houzhao heard Zhu Zailei say that the proportion of agricultural revenue in the treasury revenue was less than 2 percent, he was quite shocked, and after confirming that it was correct, he suddenly had a bigger plan in his heart.

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"Your Majesty the Emperor, you have the legacy of the ancestors, and the great cause of becoming the ancestors, so that the sea is safe, and the barbarians are all subdued, but the world has relied on Your Majesty for a long time, and Your Majesty is in danger of social safety, and you must leave Your Majesty's great governance!

However, His Majesty suddenly wants to abandon the people and have leisure alone, although he is at ease, it makes the world uneasy! Don't you hear the sorrow of all the people in the four seas! Between heaven and earth, the sun and the moon are colorless! If Your Majesty wants to seek ease, slack off the truth, and give up the world and be unjust! The prince is newly established, and he doesn't know the facts......"

Hai Rui went to the Taoist recital at this time, and bluntly reprimanded Zhu Houzhao for not abdicating and seeking peace for himself.

Seeing this, Yang Luan, the imperial historian of Zuodu, couldn't help but ask loudly: "Hai Rui, are you crazy, how much does the Son of Heaven value you, let you control the public opinion of the world, and let you be the official of the constitution, but you dare to directly impeach Your Majesty when you take office, you do this depending on where the monarch and father are!" ”

"The general constitution is angry, not Hai Jui does not know the grace of the saint, nor Hai Jui does not respect the monarch's father, but Hai Jui has been reused by the Son of Heaven, both to control public opinion and to admonish the stage, it is even more impossible to sit back and watch the Son of Heaven fall into this unrighteous place, when today the Son of Heaven is the first holy king to carry on the past and open up the future, the world can not leave him for a moment, just like the hungry people who are full of food do not want to have the pain of starvation, if the Son of Heaven abandons the people at this time, the people of the world will be uneasy, Hai wants to persuade His Majesty not to hurt the hearts of the people!"

Hai Rui said with a deep look at Yang Lan.

Yang Lan personally turned his wheelchair and took out the big seal: "Okay, this official will stamp this seal for you and present it to the emperor, if the mud cow enters the sea, then don't blame the old man for blocking you from reaching the hope of the people!" ”

Zhu Houzhao didn't even look at Hai Rui's recital, and even he didn't know it, because he had already explained to the crown prince Zhu Zailei that if the hundred officials persuaded him to withdraw the resolution to abdicate, he would stay in the middle or be rejected.

A night of autumn moon, half a life leisurely, Zhu Houzhao did not believe that he could not enjoy the retirement life in his old age, Elizabeth's little prince hugged the little juju and shook it over, two fleshy hands just put the little juju in front of Zhu Houzhao's boots, Zhu Houzhao kicked and flew out, fell in the net in front of the flower stand, and the little prince only clapped his hands: "Father is so powerful!" ”

Zhu Houzhao touched his waist: "If it weren't for your mother, I would have been able to kick again, go, and accompany my father to see how the Imperial Stadium they built is being built." ”

But at this time, the crown prince Zhu Zailei ran over, and saw Zhu Houzhao holding a fair-skinned and black-haired boy, and he didn't know whether it was his brother or his nephew for a while, so he only nodded after the little boy called his Royal Highness the Prince, and then said to Zhu Houzhao:

"Father, England has sent an envoy saying that their queen Mary I has died and wants to take Yi Xuan back to England to inherit the throne."

"Yi Xuanzhi is now pregnant, so it is naturally inconvenient to go to England to inherit the throne, and Yi Xuanzhi loves me deeply, and he can't leave me for a while, so he will say what I mean, let the cabinet reply to the English envoy, I can let the prince Zhu Zaiyuan go to England to inherit the throne, in addition, warn the English envoy, just say that I said, as the in-law of the English royal family, I must not sit idly by and watch other kingdoms usurp the inheritance of the English royal family! The only person who can legally inherit the king of England is Yi Xuanzhi and his son Zhu Zaiyuan, let the cabinet draft a decree, crown Zhu Zaiyuan as the king of England, and select any Confucian with both ability and political integrity to serve as the chief historian, and then select a general, lead two regiments of navy and army, and be ready to escort the British king to the West to inherit the throne of England at any time. ”

Zhu Houzhao naturally won't let Elizabeth go back, because he knows that Elizabeth is a very powerful politician, and once Elizabeth is allowed to go back, who knows if Elizabeth will let England continue to rise like the original history.

And now, Mary I has died, and Zhu Houzhao has let his son inherit the throne of England, just in time to take the opportunity to annex England in a non-war way, so why not.

"It's just that I pity my youngest son, who is still underage, and I want him to travel far and wide to inherit the imperial inheritance left by his grandfather!"

Zhu Houzhao sighed for a while, and Elizabeth couldn't help but ask Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, why don't you let the concubine go back to inherit the throne, if the concubine goes back, she will definitely be able to conquer many countries like you!" ”

"I don't need you to conquer other countries, you just need to conquer me at this time", Zhu Houzhao said, he is almost old, he is still a treasure, and he wants to wait for Elizabeth to give birth to a second child, and then let Elizabeth give birth to a child, so that Elizabeth only knows about conquest.

Just when Zhu Houzhao asked the cabinet to ask the envoy of England to promise to let Zhu Zaiyan, the king of the Ming Dynasty, return to inherit the throne, Zhu Houzhao decided to do one last good thing to benefit the people on the eve of his abdication.

"I have decided to ban agricultural taxes, and have made it clear to the world that since the first year of the new emperor, the people in the Central Empire of the Ming Dynasty will no longer levy agricultural taxes! And it will never be levied! This is my last grace to the people of the world! ”

Banning agricultural endowments?

The officials present were as happy as the first in the imperial examination that year.

Because Rao was in the heyday of the Han and Tang dynasties, there was no edict to permanently ban agricultural endowments, and at most it was just a light endowment.

However, now the Ming Dynasty has been able to ban the world's agricultural endowments, which is not only a manifestation of the benevolence of the great tomorrow, but also a grand event that can only be achieved when the empire is rich until it has never been seen before.

Xia Yan, the first assistant of the cabinet, bowed to Zhu Houzhao first: "The ministers thank the Son of Heaven for all the people, and the Son of Heaven will suddenly be eternal, this is the blessing of my Ming people!" ”

Yan Song was the same, and they all opened to Zhu Houzhao and expressed their heartfelt gratitude.

Crown Prince Zhu Zailei and Xu Jie also began to salute.

Wen Yuan, the old minister of Hongzhi in the eighteenth year of Jinshi, also looked north and knocked after learning about it, and the old tears came down: "Although the old decay has gone through the three dynasties of Chenghua, Hongzhi and Zhengde, he did not dare to think that there would be such a grand event, exempt from forced labor, except for agricultural endowments, this is really something that the emperors of the ages have not had!" The prosperity of the Ming Dynasty has chased Yao Shun, far better than Tang Wu! ”