The controversy between the ministers of the imperial court, everything is in Zhu Youzhen's eyes.

Before receiving Su Tiancheng's secret fold, he had a lot of ideas, and the exploration was endless, and Su Tiancheng's secret fold gave him a shock that he had never had.

Since ancient times, the royal family and ministers have been opposed, and both sides have their own interests, which is unavoidable.

The power of the monarch and the power of the vassal have been opposites since ancient times, and a good monarch will not allow anyone's power to be strong enough to challenge his authority, nor will he unconditionally believe in any minister, he must firmly control the situation of the country and let everyone serve the imperial power, so that it is possible to implement his own ideas and let the country move forward according to his own intentions.

It's a pity that by now, Zhu Youzhen no longer has such ability, to put it mildly, he is no longer able to fully control the government, once there is a big turmoil in the court, he can only use the method of replacing ministers to solve it.

This is the practice of changing the soup without changing the medicine, and what you think and think cannot be realized.

From the day he ascended the throne, Zhu Youzhen wanted to be able to revitalize the Ming Dynasty and consolidate the imperial power, but unfortunately, he did not have such an amazing talent and ability, so he could only rely on the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs.

He unconditionally trusted Yuan Chonghuan, and finally had to kill Yuan Chonghuan, he regarded Zhou Yanru as the greatest reliance, but the government could not be improved in the slightest, and in the end he could only deprive Zhou Yanru of the position of the first assistant of the cabinet.

What exactly is a good statecraft, so much is written in the book. For eight years, Zhu Youzhen has been thinking and exploring, he has been sleeping all night and conscientious. I don't pay attention to food and clothing, I don't care about personal enjoyment, and I don't even get close to women, but it still has no effect.

There is a limit to people's endurance, and after a long period of struggle, if you can't see the results, you will naturally be pessimistic and disappointed, and your temper will change significantly, slowly. Zhu Youzhen also found that his temper was getting bigger and worse.

He always remembered the allusions of the Three Kingdoms period, when the Cao army pressed the border, Sun Quan, the king of Eastern Wu, asked for the opinions of his ministers, and many ministers were in favor of surrendering, but Zhou Yu's opinions were different, and Sun Quan valued Zhou Yu even more. Because Zhou Yu understood him, after surrendering to Cao Cao. The minister can continue to seek benefits, but the monarch is not necessarily, and he will lose everything.

Maybe it's God's pity, and finally a Su Tiancheng appeared.

Several conversations, as well as what Su Tiancheng did, made Zhu Youzhen see hope. If it weren't for Su Tiancheng being too young, he would have liked to let Su Tiancheng serve as the first assistant to the cabinet.

Of course, some of the propositions put forward by Su Tiancheng also made him frightened.

Su Tiancheng believes that the minister of civil and military affairs in the imperial court. Thinking of their own interests, they are short-sighted, and they do not think about the future of the Ming Dynasty, in Su Tiancheng's recital, there is a faint meaning of speaking for Zhang Juzheng and Wei Zhongxian.

Su Tiancheng listed several examples, which made Zhu Youxin take it orally.

One of the most important examples that he could not forget was the statement of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, such as resolutely opposing the opening of the sea ban, resolutely opposing the collection of mining taxes, resolutely opposing the increase of commercial taxes, and even resolutely opposing the increase in taxes on the wealthy gentlemen, and so on.

Su Tiancheng made an incisive analysis, all these forbidden things, on the surface, have a lot of truth, through the banner of reducing the burden of the people, standing in the awe-inspiring angle of righteousness, in fact, they are all ulterior motives, any resolute opposition, the back of the benefit, is not the ordinary people, but those gentry and wealthy households, those scholars, look at many ministers, has slowly formed a family power, they set bureaucrats, landlords, businessmen in one, use the power in their hands, annex land, smuggle and sell smuggling, In the process of controlling the operation of salt and iron and seeking benefits to the greatest extent, it is the imperial power and the treasury of the state that are weakened, and it is the people and peasants at the bottom who are really oppressed.

The people who need to be taken care of the most are precisely the many peasants, but none of these ministers who are in charge of the government really propose to reduce the land tax, and no one really thinks of reducing the burden on the peasants.

Su Tiancheng's practice in Jiangning County is the best proof of this: on the one hand, he suppressed the interests of the powerful and forced them to make contributions, and on the other hand, he reduced the burden on the peasants and allowed them to recuperate. Judging from the changes that have taken place in Jiangning County, there has been great success, and this path is feasible.

Suppressing the power of the gentry and wealthy households, vigorously developing commerce and trade, greatly adjusting the tax policy, protecting the interests of the peasants, and actively expanding to the outside world to enhance the country's strength when conditions permit, this is the method proposed by Su Tiancheng.

These suggestions are indeed heartfelt words, but Zhu Youzhen is still a little hesitant and afraid.

The power of the civil and military ministers in the court cannot be underestimated, and the gentry and wealthy families also control local affairs.

At this time, Zhu Youzhen began to really feel that Su Tiancheng had always insisted on doing things in Fuzhou County, and he was unwilling to come to the capital, under the current situation, Su Tiancheng was able to play the biggest role in doing things in Fuzhou County, once these policies were pushed forward in Fuzhou County, they had a very good effect and formed a torrent, which was not something that some people in the court could shake if they opposed it.

In this, the core issue is his own attitude, to put it mildly, he must resolutely support Su Tiancheng's actions, no matter what kind of fluctuations occur, he cannot be swayed by the ministers of the court.

I don't dare to guarantee that such a policy will be implemented in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, but in individual prefectures and counties, Zhu Youzhen thinks to himself, and he can still do it, for example, if he can't resolutely support Su Tiancheng in today's Jiangning County and Henan Mansion in the future, let the government really change, and talk about revitalizing the Ming Dynasty.

After making up his mind, Zhu Youzhen began to write letters.

He wants to give Su Tiancheng the greatest protection, and this protection is actually to give power.

Wang Chengen, who had been waiting by Zhu Youzhen's side, found that Zhu Youzhen had been watching Su Tiancheng's secret folds for an hour, which was too rare.

He stood quietly behind him as if he didn't exist.

When Zhu Youzhen wrote the letter in person, Wang Chengen was even more surprised, he had been a eunuch with a pen, and the decrees issued by the emperor were basically written by the eunuch with a pen, but he didn't expect that this time, the emperor wrote the letter in person.

"Father-in-law, I am going to give Su Aiqing Shang Fang the sword, what do you think?"

has been following Zhu Youzhen's side for a long time, and Wang Chengen has long understood the emperor's thoughts.

"The emperor is wise, Lord Su is the minister of my Ming humerus, the emperor cherishes talents and loves talents, Lord Su will definitely do his best."

"Well, after the court meeting, you will go to Henan Mansion to deliver the decree on behalf of me."

In the early dynasty, Zhu Youzhen proposed to give Su Tiancheng, the prefect of Henan Prefecture, the sword of Shangfang, which immediately caused a huge controversy.

There are many opponents, and the reason is also very sufficient, the sword of Shang Fang was given by the emperor to the minister, and the minister of the emperor went to inspect various places on behalf of the emperor, supervised government affairs, and exercised power on behalf of the emperor, so it can be seen that the power of the minister is very great, and the power of the sword of Shang Fang is also extraordinary, and the sword should not be arbitrarily awarded to the minister Shang Fang.

There was also support, and Xu Eryi, the imperial envoy of the Imperial Inspectorate, supported the award of Su Tiancheng Shangfang Sword.

This time, Zhu Youzhen did not hesitate, decisively made a decision, and awarded Su Tiancheng Shangfang the sword.

Because Su Tiancheng was far away in Henan Mansion, the great eunuch Wang Chengen went to Henan Mansion on behalf of the emperor and awarded Su Tiancheng the sword of Shangfang.

As for the attack on Henan Province by the rogue bandits and the resurgence of the rogue bandits in Shaanxi, Zhu Youzhen ordered the military department to come up with a specific statement.

Zhu Youzhen's words actually negated the proposal of the Ministry of War, which once proposed that, in view of the current situation of ineffective suppression of bandits, it was suggested that Hong Chengchou should unify and coordinate the command of the imperial army and the Jiangning battalion, and at the same time order the troops of the guards in all provinces to devote themselves to the matter of exterminating the rogues.

The proposal of the Ministry of War was supported by the cabinet, but unfortunately it was directly rejected by Zhu Youzhen.

After the end of the early dynasty, the ministers of the court discussed a lot, and most of them thought that the emperor's move was inappropriate, and it was too unreasonable to grant such a prefect such a great power, it should not be, Shang Fang Sword could directly kill civil and military officials below the fourth grade, and under special circumstances, it could even behead the military attache below the third grade, Su Tiancheng himself was just the prefect of the fourth grade, if it was a temporary supervision of local affairs and gave Shang Fang the sword, it was still understandable, but if it was granted to Shang Fang Sword for a long time, don't say that the officials of Henan Mansion did not dare to offend Su Tiancheng, that is, the governor of Henan, Political envoys should also be considered, and they should also pay attention to their speech.

Some ministers are even ready to convene the matter and supervise the imperial history, and propose to impeach the emperor and ask the emperor to revoke this holy decree, but Xu Eryi, the imperial envoy of the Imperial Procuratorate, clearly asked many supervisors of the imperial history not to play the folds, as for the matter, willing to play the folds, that is their business.

After the music was folded, the stone sank into the sea, and there was no response at all.

A few days later, the emperor made it clear that about this matter, do not continue to discuss, the holy decree has been issued, the court must maintain it, and it cannot be discussed at will.

This time, there are more discussions, and many civil and military ministers have found that the emperor seems to have changed a little, and he always attached great importance to giving opinions in the past, but now he is a little arbitrary, can it be said that such a change comes from Su Tiancheng. (To be continued......)