"Emperor Wu'er, seeing the letter is like a face, now you have inherited the emperor's business for quite a long time, and all kinds of government affairs have been dealt with quite in an orderly manner, but there are also many problems;

For example, how to deal with the old ministers who accumulate prestige will lose their wisdom when they have different political views, but this is also a common problem encountered by new enthroners, you should summarize from this, and know that the monarch should always put the interests of the country above his own grievances!

Do not waste food because of choking, waste the public because of private affairs, and should prevent the dispute between the party and the government, and should not take the initiative to provoke;

Now the smuggling forces in the southeast intend to collude with the Japanese to cause trouble in the southeast, but fortunately, Zhu Kun is quite effective in the southeast coastal defense, so that the Japanese will return every time they come, but I don't want to hear that you have seized the power of his military affairs in Fujian and Zhejiang, and I am not shocked, I must not tell you a few words, and I must not reprimand his subordinates because of the gap with the head of the cabinet, the building can fall, but its beams and pillars can still be used......"

Zhu Houzhao wrote a letter to the current emperor Zhu Zailei, as the emperor, he can't sit back and watch his prince put the interests of the world in disregard because of Xia Yan.

This is a phenomenon that Zhu Houzhao does not want to see, in history, because of the fall of Yan Song, Hu Zongxian was killed, because of the fall of Zhang Juzheng, Qi Jiguang was degraded again and again, which greatly damaged the defense ability of the border town.

It seems that every time the cabinet member falls, his fellow party members cannot be used.

The imperial court does not focus on its talent and morality, but on who is behind it.

So, he had to stop it from happening.

This time, Zhu Kun was seized power because Xia Yan was not liked by the emperor, but fortunately, because he was in the southeast, the emperor of the Taishang, he transferred the guards to strengthen the southeast army, so as to avoid the occurrence of large-scale turmoil in the Japanese.

Zhu Houzhao didn't know if he could talk about Zhu Zailei in this letter, he thought that Zhu Zailei would not fail to recognize how important Zhu Kun was to the stability of the entire southeast, but in any case, he had to say.

The winter sun came out of the clouds, and Zhu Houzhao also went out of the palace, stepping on the snow like a grain of rice, holding Gong'e's hand, and preparing to board the car to Fuzhou.

However, before Zhu Houzhao left Hangzhou City, he saw a young man standing outside his imperial chariot, followed by a team of eunuchs, all holding seasonal fresh fruits and playing with all kinds of rare treasures.

This young man is none other than his eldest grandson Zhu Yibang, the son of the current emperor Zhu Zailei, who was canonized as the crown prince after Zhu Zailei ascended the throne.

"My grandson has seen my grandfather and grandmother!"

Zhu Yibang knelt down to give Zhu Houzhao and his wife Xia a big salute after speaking.

Xia was naturally not very happy when he saw his eldest grandson come to Hangzhou to see him, although Zhu Houzhao was almost in the same mood, but he also smelled a different taste, he guessed that this Zhu Yi bracelet would not come to Hangzhou to see his grandfather for no reason.

"Get up, you are now the crown prince, you don't pay attention to official business, what are you doing here?"

Zhu Houzhao asked, it seemed to be very bland, so angry that Xia glanced at him, he always felt that Zhu Houzhao, who was a grandfather, was a little unkind, and his grandson seemed to be unhappy when he came to see him, but Xia was busy and kindly stopped Zhu Yibang in his arms and asked for warmth.

But Zhu Yibang naturally didn't dare to annoy Zhu Houzhao, so he replied cautiously:

"At present, the father and the emperor ordered the grandson to supervise the military affairs of Fujian and Zhejiang and lead the governor of Zhejiang, first of all, it is natural to come to rectify the southeast coastal defense, and secondly, the father and the emperor specially ordered the grandson to come to the emperor and grandfather to do filial piety, and after the beginning of spring, he will ask his grandfather to move to the north, and the father said that the affairs of the dynasty are complicated and changeable, and there is no grandfather to advise, so that I don't know how to be the emperor......"

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but be silent after hearing what Zhu Yibang said, he basically guessed that the purpose of Zhu Yibang's coming was definitely to invite himself, the emperor, back, but at this moment, listening to Zhu Yibang say it himself, he was still a little unhappy in his heart.

The reason is naturally that Zhu Houzhao can guess that behind this must be the southeastern scholar clan who does not want him, the emperor, to continue to stay in the south, of course, his emperor's son must not want to see his emperor making waves outside.

"What, do you want to drive me back so that I can be put under house arrest, so as not to cause trouble for your father and son."

Zhu Houzhao also began to rely on the old man and said straightforwardly, then snorted, waved his sleeves, and simply went back to the palace, ready to lie down, and put on a posture of not leaving here.

In fact, from the bottom of his heart, Zhu Houzhao doesn't want to return to the north now, and now the climate, the obviously warm and humid south is more suitable for him to retire, and when he returns to the north, he can only stay in the heated deep palace, as an old man, he is naturally unwilling to spend the rest of his life in the palace.

Zhu Yibang prostrated on the ground in fear: "Grandson doesn't dare!" ”

Although Zhu Yibang did have the purpose of persuading Zhu Houzhao to return to Beijing to live idlely, he did not dare to forcibly ask Zhu Houzhao to return to Beijing.

Zhu Houzhao also knew that although he was the crown prince, he was just a messenger who did things on behalf of others, and he didn't do anything to Zhu Yibang, plus Xia persuaded him a few words from the side, so he didn't have such a stiffness with Zhu Yibang, and let Zhu Yibang send in the gifts and food he brought, but he also clearly refused Zhu Yibang's request to let him return to Beijing.

Zhu Houzhao will not follow the will of the southeastern scholars to return to the north, wouldn't that make these southeastern scholars continue to ignore the royal law and the interests of the country and do some reckless things?

Zhu Yibang had no choice but to reply to his father like this, and did not dare to force Zhu Houzhao to return to Beijing.

But Zhu Yibang himself did not mean to leave the southeast, he followed Zhu Houzhao all day long to do his filial piety, and was very respectful and courteous, Zhu Houzhao wanted to eat before he said this, Zhu Yibang was already very good, Zhu Houzhao wanted to play where he just made up his mind, and where it was already cleaned.

Zhu Houzhao could see that his grandson was clearly here to do his filial piety in front of him, but in fact he was here to spy on him.

However, Zhu Houzhao didn't care, he was still doing what he should do.

Even Zhu Houzhao was anti-guest-oriented, and also instructed his Zhu Yibang on how to do a good job as an official in the southeast of the admiral:

"What your father wants to do now is to destroy the Japanese kingdom as soon as possible, as long as the Japanese kingdom is destroyed and dedicated to me, it is your greatest filial piety to me, I will go to the Japanese kingdom when the time comes, and it will save you the trouble of seeing me, a bad old man, and now you want to destroy the Japanese kingdom, you, the commander of the southeast, have a very heavy responsibility, you must make pre-war preparations, warships, grain and grass, ordnance, propaganda and mobilization and other government affairs must be done well!"

Zhu Houzhao said and asked Zhu Yibang how much he knew about the military and politics in the southeast, and how he would arrange it next.

Zhu Yibang didn't expect that his imperial grandfather began to ask him to prepare for the war against the Japanese State, and he had to answer carefully one by one and prepare carefully.

……

"After all, my father is my father, and I really am still dedicated to the world! Truly the Eternal Sage! ”

Emperor Zhu Zailei, who has changed his white eyebrows to green eyebrows, couldn't help but sigh after receiving Zhu Houzhao's letter, although he was afraid of Zhu Houzhao and got rid of his influence, he did respect his father from the bottom of his heart.

After all, in the final analysis, he is the same as Zhu Houzhao, and it is also for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, and the starting point of interests is the same, and now Zhu Houzhao's letter has allowed him to dispel the doubts that Zhu Houzhao will be unhappy if Xia Yan is dismissed, and intellectually he also thinks that he can't do anything to Zhu Yan because of Xia Yan, after all, Zhu Yan does have military talent.

In fact, Zhu Zailei did not dismiss Xia Yan not only because he was concerned about Xia Yan's prestige and the emperor Zhu Houzhao behind him, but also because of Xia Yan's outstanding ability, and the world still needs the first assistant of this old Chengmou country.

Zhu Zailei knew what his father was worried about, so he explained in his reply:

"I have received a letter from my father, and my son is deeply impressed...... The son also knows that the southeast cannot do without Zhu Kun, but the southeast now has both his father and Zhu Kun, so the son wants to withdraw Zhu Kun's power now, it will not harm the overall situation, and the father and emperor cannot see it!

The retainers withdrew Zhu Kun's power for the following reasons:

One is to warn the first one;

The second is to comfort the hearts of the southeastern scholars, since the son is now the emperor, he should naturally balance the forces, and the removal of Zhu Kun's power is naturally for the southeastern scholars;

The three sons want to follow the will of their father, send troops to the East, and send troops to the East must first increase troops in the southeast, plus the power of the southeast, although Zhu is good at fighting, this person is pedantic and stubborn, and he is willing to fight the Japanese, and this person has lost the heart of the southeast scholars, and it is difficult to be handsome, so the minister sent Yi bracelet to the southeast;

Let Zhu Yibang come to the southeast, one is to do his filial piety for his son before the collapse of his parents, and the other is to recruit troops in the southeast, and strengthen the royal power in the southeast!

The father and emperor have been in the south for a long time, and the son misses it very much, and the affairs inside and outside the court are not simple, and there are many parties and societies inside, each with its own opinions, and even those who say that the imperial power should be limited to complete constitutionalism, and the outer feudal domains are built by the nobles of the clan, but they let the merchants seize power, and what kind of republic system does they want to build, and there are even some feudal states that intend to unite the people, and the son does not know how to deal with the current situation in the world!

There are even other forces interfering, such as the recent forty brothers (Zhu Zaiyuan, the son of Elizabeth and Zhu Houzhao) Changshi Chuanxin also said that his parliament has recently obstructed him a lot of obstruction of the country's presiding over the country's affairs, and even some local magnates say that the non-religious nobles are not worthy of being the king of England! The son doesn't know how to teach the forty brothers to govern the UK, so they all need the instructions of the father! ”

When Zhu Houzhao received this letter, it was already the early spring of the second year, and he was naturally very pleased with Zhu Zailei's explanation, but he couldn't 100% believe the content of his own emperor's son's letter.

Zhu Houzhao also knew that the world had entered the age of steam industry, and industrial civilization had begun to gradually replace agricultural civilization, which meant that the bourgeoisie would rise to become the main class force in the world.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the overseas Ming vassal states have completely turned into the so-called republican United States, and it is not surprising that there are various new political ideologies in the country.

Zhu Houzhao expected this many years ago, but the reason why he chose to divide the clan nobles overseas at that time was that due to the backwardness of transportation and information exchange, the ruling core of the Ming empire would definitely not be able to rule the entire world, and even if the world was unified militarily, it would not be possible to avoid becoming an independent country in the future in a region thousands of miles away.

Therefore, instead of spending a huge military price to unify the world, it is better to divide the clan lords and nobles overseas before conquering the world, and let them first build their own countries and copy the Chinese civilization.

"This phenomenon is unavoidable, as a central empire, regardless of its system, it must not abandon the Chinese civilization, and must put the interests of the central empire first, and put the interests of China first."

This is the only solution that Zhu Houzhao can give Zhu Zailei now, this kind of world dominated by Eastern civilization, he has also encountered it for the first time, and he doesn't know how to deal with it, but what he can be sure of is that the Ming Dynasty, as the central empire, is like the world with the West as the main body in later generations, and naturally cannot tolerate heterogeneous countries being too powerful and rich.

Zhu Houzhao still did not agree to Emperor Zhu Zailei's request in the letter and chose to return to Beijing, in any case, with him, the emperor in the south, at least the royal control over the south can be strengthened, and these southern scholars will not be too free because the political center is in the north.

"Your Majesty, the Emperor is now old and frail, should not be running around all the year round, and the ministers have also heard recently, because the Emperor is playing around, the people are disturbed, and there are more shameless officials to loot the people's daughters to advance or bribe each other with heavy money, which is not conducive to the reputation of the Emperor Taishang I nor the people's desire for peace, so the minister believes that the Emperor should be invited back to Beijing to retire!"

Zhao Wenhua, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, asked the emperor to let the emperor return to Beijing when he met Zhu Zailei.

Yan Shifan's suggestion obviously moved these officials with the background of the southeastern scholars, so that they began to ask Emperor Zhu Zailei to let Emperor Zhu Houzhao return to Beijing for various reasons, some of them said fiercely that the Emperor Taishang disturbed the court, some euphemistically said that the Emperor Taishang was old and needed to return to Beijing to recuperate, and some ostensibly said that the imperial court needed the Emperor Taishang to sit in Beijing.

Zhu Zailei also made it very clear about this: "I have sent the prince to the south to invite his old man, and I have repeatedly asked him to return to Beijing with state affairs and family affairs in letters, and now the weather is not warm, I am afraid that it will be difficult to start, presumably around the Dragon Boat Festival will definitely return to Beijing, Zhuqing does not need to say much, the old man of the Emperor Taishang likes to travel in the mountains and rivers, although we all have loyalty and filial piety, but we must not force him, make his old man unhappy." ”

These officials saw that Emperor Zhu Zailei had already taken practical actions to let Emperor Zhu Houzhao return to Beijing, so naturally they couldn't say anything, for them, it was only like this now, after all, Emperor Zhu Houzhao held military power, and they couldn't force the emperor to take Zhu Houzhao's lock back.

Xia Yan, the first assistant of the cabinet, saw all this, but he neither asked the Emperor Zhu Houzhao from many civil officials to return to Beijing, nor did he prevent Emperor Zhu Zailei from inviting the Emperor Zhu Houzhao back to Beijing, he knew that the person who wanted the Emperor Zhu Houzhao to return to Beijing was not necessarily well-intentioned, and his own words to prevent the Emperor Zhu Houzhao from returning to Beijing would undoubtedly make the emperor even more dissatisfied.

Xia Yan didn't want to get too stiff with the current emperor, so he naturally fell silent.

However, Xia Yan could also see that the ministers in the court were obviously ill-intentioned people, in his opinion, especially Yan Song was the most, and at this time, he got a secret report from his cronies Gao Shi, and the content of the secret report was about a member of the Zhongjun Society of the Ministry of Industry who secretly reported that Yan Shifan colluded with Yan Maoqing of the Ministry of Household to embezzle 300,000 silver dollars from the national treasury.

Yan Song, who was also in the cabinet, accidentally heard the cabinet secretary Gao Shi report to Xia Yan about his son Yan Shifan's greed for ink, and he was also nervous for a while, and when he saw Xia Yan coming, he couldn't help but bow his head and say: "Yuanfu Gaoyi, can you spare the dog's life!" ”