"General, where are you taking me to?"

Zhu Cijiong sat on the emperor's chariot, Cao Bianjiao came to lead the way, from the inner palace to the palace gate Hongwu gate, for Zhu Cijiong, he is now a puppet, he is unwilling, and he is powerless to resist, most of the soldiers and horses in the world are controlled by Cao Bianjiao's people, even if it is not his descendant, he is the only one who is the head of the horse, that is, the Praetorian Guard, Zhu Yujian is also in control, and he is also Cao Bianjiao's person, in the inner court, the palace maids and eunuchs add up to only two hundred people, Cao Bianjiao also stipulates that it is rotated every three years, He has no chance to cultivate his own people, above the court, more than half of the courtiers are also obedient to Cao Bianjiao, and the rest are in awe, where can anyone dare to say a word to Cao Bianjiao, Zhu Cijiong can only appoint.

"Yes, General, what is this for?" Zhang Shenyan also asked behind Cao Bianjiao.

In addition to bringing out the emperor, Cao Bianjiao also asked the ministers of the six ministries of the cabinet to follow. In front of the Hongwu Gate, the hundred officials in Beijing were waiting there, and there was a group of people standing in the middle of them, all of them were old men with white hair, dressed in cloth clothes and plain clothes, without official positions, and the hundred officials were surprised but did not dare to ask more.

"The emperor has arrived!" As Han Zan shouted, the palace maids and eunuchs who followed him ran forward one after another, standing in their respective positions, and the emperor had already stopped.

Soon, those hundred officials standing in front of the Hongwu Gate saw that the emperor was coming, and they were ready to salute, Zhu Cijiong was also sitting there, and then shouted: "You Aiqing don't have to be polite, today is the fifteenth Lantern Festival of the first lunar month, I am very happy to see you, get up!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Cao Bianjiao has walked out, came to the group of old men, greeted the meaning, the next group of people followed Cao Bianjiao into the emperor's car, this time the people who came are not ordinary old people, they are all villagers in Nanzhili, and they are all old people over seventy years old, it can be said that they have lived from Wanli to the present, and they are people who have experienced vicissitudes.

"Summoning all your colleagues here today, it is really for the sake of the new deal, you have worked hard for a lot of time for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, and the emperor is also sympathetic to the hard work of your ministers, so come and see everyone, I don't want to make you too tired, but what, the government and the opposition are sluggish, don't look at the government and the opposition are full of civil and military affairs, but there are not many people who do practical things, and the emperor also needs your ministers to help him recover the old mountains and rivers!"

"The general's words are serious, the ministers are thanks to the emperor and the current emperor who did not give up, and now the generals rely on them, and they can serve the court, which is really a blessing for the ministers, and it is the duty of the ministers to recover the lost land, as long as the ministers can do what they can, they will fight this old bone, and the ministers will also do their best, and they will never retreat half a step." At that moment, Yuan Jixian was the first to stand up and bow to Zhu Cijiong and Cao Bianjiao, which was also clear-hearted.

Cao Bianjiao nodded, and continued to say to the ministers: "The emperor and the official are too disappointed in the rule of the Ming Dynasty, the sequelae left over from this party struggle is simply a cold three feet of ice, if you want to clean up the rule of officials, the best way is to supervise, so there is the Metropolitan Procuratorate, in order to revitalize the imperial court, solve the difficulty of paying taxes, I Cao Bianjiao implemented a new policy, today in front of the emperor, I don't want to taboo anything, my Ming military politics, since Emperor Shizong, has been a hundred years, over the past hundred years, the wind of officialdom has become increasingly erosive, The party struggle is becoming more and more intense, attacking each other, the officials do not think about the country and the people all day long, everything they think is to attack each other, and the verbal and written criticism continues, to the time of Emperor Shenzong, the officialdom can be said to be corrupt to the extreme, when the first emperor succeeded to the throne, although he was young, although he worked hard, he dreamed of sleeping at night, but the ending was really chilling, I was rich in the Ming Dynasty, even the Westerners came to marvel, but the imperial court was difficult to support even the expenses every year, and the people were also unclothed and hungry, resulting in the displacement of people everywhere, Don't you think about many things, it is because of official corruption and privacy fraud, especially in this land south of the Yangtze River, businessmen do not pay taxes, this is who is rich and who is poor, so I want to implement the new policy, not broken or established, the current situation is unchanged, I am afraid that in the end the Ming Dynasty will die in the country! But since the implementation of the new policy, many people have been talking about it a lot, saying that I Cao Bianjiao is destroying the ancestral system, I just want to ask you, whether the ancestral system can save the country or can calm the people, Zhang Juzheng is because of the change of the ancestral system, so that the early Wanli dynasty is clear, the court is rich, Zhang Juzheng died, was attacked, and finally the new deal was abolished, and the life of the Ming Dynasty is getting sadter day by day...... The emperor has the heart to inspire the court and the ambition, and the ministers are also deeply gratified, and the courtiers should naturally do their best, and the emperor has made up his mind to change, and our courtiers have nothing to talk about......"

"The ministers are like this, if the emperor can revitalize the Ming Dynasty, it is really the greatest wish of the ministers!" A cadre of courtiers all said with a postscript, a few people are sincere and a few are perfunctory, that is, they follow their own hearts.

"The benefits of the new deal are in the future, I will never stop abolishing it, even if I die in the future, my descendants should continue to insist on ......it" Zhu Cijiong didn't want to be rich in the Ming Dynasty, and he didn't want to guard a broken and impoverished dynasty, but he also understood that things like the new coup d'état law are to change the interests of many people at the moment, and these people are not ordinary people, but those officials, nobles, princes and ministers in the court, it is their interests, what happened to Zhang Juzheng back then, Zhang Juzheng served as the first assistant and auxiliary government of the cabinet for ten years, and worked hard, Daxing changed the law, changed the status quo of the Ming Dynasty, and made the Ming Dynasty appear prosperous, but as a result, Zhang Juzheng died, and what ended up in the end, all the honor turned into smoke overnight, the old mother, wife and children were devastated, and the court and the central government attacked it in groups, accusing him of being a traitor, so as a minister, if he wants to change the law to be strong, it is difficult to go to the sky, unless the emperor has the heart to do so, at this moment he must stand up and support Cao Bianjiao, because the fundamental purpose of Cao Bianjiao's change of law, he also knows it, He didn't want to end up like his Laozi Emperor Chongzhen.

Cao Bianjiao understands the hardships of it, throughout the ages, there are not a few people who change the law, the Spring and Autumn Period of the management of Zhongzhi Qi, the Warring States of Shang Yang Qiang Qin, the reform of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the reform of the Yongzhen of the Tang Dynasty, the king of the Northern Song Dynasty An Shi changed the law, etc., there are a few people who succeeded, most of them ended up without a problem, why, because they violated the interests of others, especially the interests of scholars, bandits and hooligans are not terrible, what is terrible is that these scholars, they can endure until the day you die, as long as you die, the people who support you die, will cut you with thousands of knives and pieces, in order to vent their years of grudges.

Cao Bianjiao changed the law to be strong, maybe he could succeed, maybe he would fail, but he didn't have a choice, if it didn't change, it would be a matter of time before the country died, he came to this troubled world to go through, not just to have fun, but to do what he wanted to do, what he should do, rich and glorious, if he wanted to, he could enjoy death from now, but it belonged to his responsibility and responsibility, he would not shirk, and he would do his best to do it, even if he ended up with a defeated ending, he had no regrets, As long as I have tried, I have failed in front of reality.