Chapter 182 Suppressing Imperial Power
Since Zhu Youzhen was "tied" back to the capital, Li Hongfei has never met with him again, and all matters big and small are directly sent to pass on the message, even the few holy decrees that stirred up the entire Ming Dynasty last year were just Li Hongfei drafted the charter in advance, and then handed it over to Zhu Youzhen to sign and take effect. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Today, it is the first time that Li Hongfei has met Zhu Youzhen since he entered Beijing.
Under the leadership of the guards, Li Hongfei and Zhu Yujiao came to the Imperial Garden and saw Zhu Youzhen who was playing chess with Wang Chengen at a glance.
I haven't seen him for two months, Zhu Youjian has a lot of gray hair on his head, and he is much older, less than forty years old, but he looks like an old man in his sixties..........
It seems that the knot in the other party's heart has not been untied, and it is no wonder that no one can accept this kind of thing in a short time.
"Minister, Li Hongfei has seen Your Majesty." Li Hongfei stepped forward and saluted.
However, Zhu Youzhen stared at the chess game in front of him, as if he hadn't heard it.
"Son-in-law Zhu Yujiao, I have seen my father." Seeing that Li Hongfei was left aside, Zhu Yujiao could only speak out to help him break the siege.
"Sit down first, and I'll talk about it when I'm done with this game."
Zhu Youzhen replied this time, but he still didn't even raise his eyelids.
Zhu Yujiao found a place to sit down obediently, and originally wanted to pull Li Hongfei to sit down, but Li Hongfei stood motionless on the side.
Zhu Youzhen only responded to Zhu Yujiao, but ignored him Li Hongfei, this face, Li Hongfei still wanted.
A game of chess was not wasted for long, Wang Chengen knew that Li Hongfei must have something to do with Zhu Youzhen, so he didn't dare to delay any longer, and deliberately let his son go, and in less than ten minutes, he was killed by Zhu Youzhen without leaving a piece of armor.
"Your Majesty's chess skills are getting higher and higher, and the old slave is ashamed of himself." In the end, Wang Chengen abandoned his son and surrendered.
To play chess, you must meet the opponent, if the two sides are not on the same level, the chess will not be able to play.
"Yes, it seems that I am killing all sides, but in fact, the outcome is already decided." Zhu Youzhen sighed.
It's not that he doesn't understand that Wang Chengen is "releasing water".
At the same time, he is also mocking his current self, he has arranged and arranged over the years, and the organs have been exhausted, but in fact, the victory or defeat has already been determined, and it is not up to him to decide whether he wins or loses.
Li Hongfei let him win, that is to be famous, Li Hongfei let him lose, it is ruined.
"Minister, Li Hongfei has seen Your Majesty." Li Hongfei saluted again.
"Okay, aren't you tired after standing for so long?" Zhu Youzhen didn't have a good impression of Li Hongfei at all.
"Father, husband is also ..........."
Zhu Yujiao just wanted to say something for Li Hongfei, but was quickly interrupted by Zhu Youzhen: "I am not your father, since the day I decided to kill Li Hongfei, I am no longer worthy of being your father." ”
No wonder he used "I" instead of "for his father" when he talked to Zhu Yujiao before, which shows that Zhu Youzhen still owes himself a daughter in his heart.
"Actually, this ending is better now, and I don't think I mean to blame Your Majesty." Li Hongfei played a round road.
If Zhu Youzhen wins, he Li Hongfei will have to die, and Zhu Yujiao will have to be widowed, which may be the main reason for Zhu Youzhen's guilt.
Now this ending is at least the best for Zhu Yujiao.
"Don't pretend, I don't believe it, you will be able to endure and continue to wait!" Zhu Youjian didn't have a good airway.
These days, he finally came back to his senses, even if he wasn't ready to attack Li Hongfei, Li Hongfei estimated that he would make some moves when he went north.
Because moving north is the best opportunity, Li Hongfei can't continue to wait.
Once this opportunity is missed, allowing Gao Hongtu and others to gain a firm foothold in Beijing, Li Hongfei will have to spend a lot of effort to fight with the Donglin Party.
Even if Zhu Youzhen decides to delegate power, and Li Hongfei wants to take over the leadership of the Ming Dynasty, it will be three to five years later.
Because once you are anxious, it is likely that the court will fall into endless party battles again, but can Li Hongfei afford to wait so long?
Judging from the layout of the other party during this time, Li Hongfei couldn't wait that long.
What is even more troublesome is that if the regime is in a smooth transition, then when Li Hongfei forms a cabinet, the parliament will certainly also be mature, and there will be a power vacuum for a period of time like now, so that Li Hongfei can take the opportunity to make a big deal out of his backhand.
Therefore, Li Hongfei can't afford to wait, Zhu Youzhen's killing intent is just the last medicine that prompted Li Hongfei to launch a mutiny.
"I'm really anxious, but the promise I made to you at the beginning hasn't changed a bit, as long as I'm here, as long as I give me ten years. Da Ming, or your Da Ming, the royal family, will always be surnamed Zhu. Li Hongfei said confidently.
Zhu Youzhen is right, even if Zhu Youzhen does not have the intention of killing, Li Hongfei will choose to do it after weighing the pros and cons, because he can't afford to wait.
Once caught in the party struggle, the best period of national reform has been delayed, let alone ten years, even twenty years, don't want to complete the rise plan of the Ming Dynasty.
But after seizing power through mutiny, will it really be possible to complete national reforms within a decade?
In fact, Li Hongfei is not exaggerating, if the interests of the entire Ming Dynasty are compared to a piece of cake, then the purpose of reform is to re-scratch this cake.
And the large part of this cake was basically in the hands of nobles, scholars, landlords, and rich gentry before, but the common people could only occupy a very small share.
If you want to re-divide the cake, you naturally have to attack most of these vested interests, but will people agree?
If it was before, maybe Li Hongfei would not be able to complete the feat of sharing the cake in his life, not because he was incompetent, but he didn't dare.
But now it's different, Li Zicheng made a wave, beat the local tyrants, and killed the powerful.
Dolgon made a wave and took half of Daming's cake (wealth) directly away.
The most interesting thing is that the part that Dolgon "packed" was robbed by the Northern Expeditionary Army.
Now it's okay, most of the people of the Ming Dynasty almost returned to the same running line, but the "cake" was left in Li Hongfei's hands.
Li Zicheng and Dolgon both did volunteer work, and even Zhu Youzhen also used his unreasonable way to help Li Hongfei complete the most difficult steps of reform, and the rest of the cake, as long as the officials of the DPRK and China did not come out to make trouble, if it was not done well within ten years, Li Hongfei could really find a piece of tofu and kill him.
"You're just saying this so I don't want to mess with you." Zhu Youzhen said it.
Indeed, if Zhu Youzhen caused chaos at this time, Li Hongfei would be really troublesome to deal with, especially after learning that Huang Degong swaggered into Beijing.
"Sister, didn't you just say that you were going to visit your brother Zhu Cihuan?" Li Hongfei wanted to get rid of Zhu Yujiao.
Zhu Cihuan, the fifth son of Zhu Youzhen (the prototype of the third prince of Zhu in later generations), and the only son of Zhu Youzhen today, was also "house arrested" in the palace by Li Hongfei.
"Uh......... That husband, father, you talk first, and I'll go see my brother. Zhu Yujiao understood that Li Hongfei was going to talk to Zhu Youzhen about business.
"The old slave leads the way for the princess." Wang Chengen also got up and retired with interest.
Soon, in the Imperial Garden, in addition to the guards patrolling around, there were only Li Hongfei and Zhu Youzhen.
"To tell you the truth, you don't have much leverage now, if you really want to make a fuss, I will indeed make a fuss, but in the end, it is definitely not you who will benefit. Presumably, before Wang Guoxing died, he had already told you all the reasons! Li Hongfei got straight to the point.
Zhu Youzhen's only bargaining chip now may be the orthodox identity of the royal family, as long as Li Hongfei dares to "harm him", then no matter whether Zhu Youzhen is "extremely evil", Li Hongfei has to face the accusations of the world.
Whether Li Hongfei can be ousted from power or not, at least he has been convicted of "coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes".
"There will be a showdown as soon as it comes up, and your routine has not changed!" Zhu Youzhen sneered.
At the beginning, Li Hongfei faced the saint, and Zhu Youzhen was also disrupted by this move, so he made a wrong step.
"No matter what the routine, what can be used is a good routine. In fact, we are now both prosperous and loss-making. Li Hongfei said.
Folk speculation and Zhu Youzhen's personal admission are completely different things, the ancients paid attention to "the teacher is famous", and no one dared to act rashly without conclusive evidence.
Li Hongfei has mastered Zhu Youzhen's dirty evidence, as long as Zhu Youzhen has crooked thoughts and spreads the news of Li Hongfei's mutiny and hijacking the royal family, then Li Hongfei will also unceremoniously tell the world about his cruelty to Zhongliang.
At least Li Hongfei now has the support of the military, and there are a group of civilian officials who have been on the "thief ship", if they really want to hurt each other, Li Hongfei may not be afraid of Zhu Youzhen.
Even if he fights with the people of the world and loses both, he will definitely not let Zhu Youzhen get any benefits.
"Tell me, what are you going to do this time?" Zhu Youzhen compromised.
I have to say that Li Hongfei took Zhu Youzhen's weakness, even if Zhu Youzhen was greedy for the powerful and disdained his six relatives, he was very concerned about the reputation of the Zhu family for hundreds of years.
From another time and space, it is not difficult to see from what Zhu Youzhen did that he would rather do the feat of the monarch's death than sit back and bring shame on the Zhu family's royal family.
"It's very simple, what an emperor should do, now it is the separation of powers, at least the national policy of the Ming Dynasty, you have the right to participate, the minister does not ask you to always stand on the side of the minister, but please stand on the side of the people of the world!" Li Hongfei said very sincerely.
That's right, after two months of combing, Li Hongfei has swept away the obstacles in the court, and it's time to relax the "restrictions" on Zhu Youzhen.
The so-called separation of powers, the imperial power is also very important, at least in the foreign use of troops, the emperor's vote is very important.
Since Li Hongfei wants to continue the constitutional monarchy, it is impossible to impose house arrest on the imperial family forever and occupy the vote in the emperor's hands forever.
It's okay to be a dictatorship for a short time, but after a long time, Congress will find that it is just an ornament (two to one, Congress will never be able to do Li Hongfei), and it is strange that they can make Li Hongfei better when the time comes!
Besides, he can't stay in this position forever, and he must leave a good example for his successors.
"Aren't you afraid that the first person I will cure is you?" Zhu Youzhen said curiously.
Indeed, Li Hongfei just said a lot of threatening words, but in the end, the conversation changed, but he wanted to restore his freedom, and Zhu Youzhen really didn't know what medicine was sold in the other party's gourd.
"Actually, you know better than me what I've done in the past two months, the army is neither in my hands nor in your hands, what do you do against me? Assassination? Do you dare to risk doing this again? Li Hongfei asked rhetorically.
Now that the army is independent, Zhu Youzhen cannot command at all, and at least in terms of political struggle, Zhu Youzhen cannot rely on the army to help.
After all, everyone has participated in the house arrest of the emperor, who would dare to take the initiative to take refuge in this particularly vengeful emperor?
As for the assassination, Zhu Youzhen couldn't guess Li Hongfei's hole cards at all, and he just got up with his intention last time, and he didn't implement it specifically, so he launched a mutiny first, and then again, gave Zhu Youzhen ten dares, and Zhu Youzhen didn't dare to act rashly.
"You win, I lose the convincing, power or something, I won't earn it, just look at you kid, where can you take Daming!" Zhu Youzhen expressed his attitude.
Regardless of whether Zhu Youzhen's words are true or not, at least on the premise of finding out Li Hongfei's details and accumulating enough strength, Zhu Youzhen will not easily make any more moths.
"Don't worry, I just said that within ten years, I will definitely let you see a different Ming!" Li Hongfei swore solemnly.
What he needs is time, rather than "house arrest" Zhu Youzhen and give the people of the world all kinds of excuses to make trouble, it is better to be open-minded in exchange for Zhu Youzhen's full support in the short term.
When the new "Da Ming Law" is passed, even if Zhu Youzhen is unwilling to do so, he will have to follow the rules of the game formulated by Li Hongfei.
After all, the current Ming Dynasty, let alone killing the emperor, even house arrest or abolition, it has to risk the condemnation of the world.
However, the new "Da Ming Law" clearly stipulates that if the emperor loses morality, he can also be impeached by the parliament, and in the most serious cases, he can even be removed and a new emperor can be appointed.
This is Li Hongfei's biggest killer weapon, as long as Zhu Youzhen can cooperate with the improvement of the separation of powers system in the early stage, then if he dares to mess around in the future, he can also be removed by legal means.
Moreover, Li Hongfei also played a trick and asked the National Assembly to designate an heir to the emperor's succession by the current emperor when drafting the "Da Ming Law", and changed it to succession in line, and stipulated that all members of the imperial family enjoy the right to inherit the throne.
In other words, in the past, the emperor would appoint whoever he was happy to be the crown prince did not work, and the ranking must be based on the blood relationship with the current emperor.
This is nothing, after all, most emperors who follow the succession of their eldest sons are basically arranged in this way, but they are not so formally written into the law.
But there is also an inconspicuous regulation behind it, that is: all members of the royal family enjoy the right to inherit the throne.
It's actually a play on words, because the princess is also a member of the royal family.
In order to gain "freedom," Zhu Youzhen had to temporarily cooperate with Li Hongfei to stabilize the dynasty, so as to accelerate the legislative implementation of the new "Da Ming Law."
As long as he survives the period when the "Da Ming Law" was officially promulgated, Li Hongfei will completely shackle the imperial power, and even if Zhu Youzhen wants to make trouble at that time.......... Hehe, it looks like the first heir to the royal family, but Princess Zhu Yujiao of Taiping!
Therefore, regardless of whether what Zhu Youzhen said just now is true or false, Li Hongfei is actually not worried at all...........