"As long as I exist in this world for a day, such a founding parade must be carried out, I want to let the whole world, the present, the future of the Ming people know, let everyone remember, I Ming is the day the country was built, but also let the world understand, I Ming can now say the might, in addition to benevolence and righteousness, but also to have a strong and brave Ming soldiers, in order to protect the peace of my Ming Dynasty." Zhu Qizhen waved his big hand vigorously towards the downstairs of the city gate, and suddenly provoked a sound of long live like a flood, which made Zhu Qizhen can't help but feel a little fluttering, although it is impossible for people to really live long live, even if they want to learn from Lao Wang Ba to live for thousands of years.

However, this feeling of being warmly cheered and embraced is really cool, making Zhu Qizhen feel that he is simply a superstar in the future, standing on a huge stage, accepting the cheers and shouts of those crazy star chasers, as well as worship.

"Your Majesty, it is indeed necessary to let the people of the world know when I will establish the country and why I will win the world." Shi Heng also stood up and replied loudly, "Every year in the first month of the first month, Yihai will become the founding of my Ming Dynasty, which is called ...... National. Zhu Qizhen cautiously said the name, but he didn't see any strange reactions from these people, but they all looked in agreement. This made Zhu Qizhen stunned, could it be that there is such a high-tech festival as the National Day in this era?

At this time, Hu Hui, who was the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, stroked his long beard and shook his head repeatedly: "Your Majesty Shengming, as soon as the National Day is said, it has been in the Western Jin Dynasty, and the old minister remembers that Lu Ji has a record of 'the National Day is the only one, and the main worry is not harmful', and every time a new emperor ascends the throne, it is said that it is the period of the National Day." ”

“…… However, His Majesty is benevolent and filial, and this festival is used to remember Emperor Taizu, which is really to make the ministers and others worship. After quoting a lot of scriptures and classics, Hu Hu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, changed his words and regarded Zhu Qizhen's move of fixing the date of this National Day on the day of the first lunar month as an excellent standard song to promote the Confucian concept of filial piety and benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith.

Listening to the sycophants of the more than 100 officials on the city gate building slamming towards him like a recommendation ticket that didn't want money, Zhu Qizhen couldn't help but feel a sense of accomplishment, he really hit it by mistake, and brushed his reputation again, the more prestige the better.

You must know that now that you have military merits, at least the general soldiers of those border towns have fought on the grassland for more than half a year, how can they be regarded as their own subordinates, it can be said that they have laid a solid foundation within the military, of course, and those nobles who are inextricably linked with the military are also very close to themselves.

--------------------, and the only thing that makes me most jealous and difficult is the civil official group of the Ming Dynasty. For most of these people, they have already read books and lost their brains, and they open their mouths all day long Confucius said, shut their mouths Mencius Yun, and do things with books as a model to ask others, but they eat, drink, and have fun, and indulge in a lot of sensual things.

Think of Zhang Juzheng, who was called a famous minister by later generations. Punish others [***] and oppose others to engage in privileges, but they themselves also engage in privileges. For example, at the beginning of his reign, there was a rule for officials to stay in guest houses, known as the "Regulations on Giving Posts". It is stipulated that officials who go out on non-official business and go to funerals are not allowed to stay in government post houses. When going out on business, it is not allowed to use more cars and horses, it is not allowed to lend friends for business trips, it is not allowed to use its authority to ask for gifts along the way, and it is not allowed to apportionment to the township.

These regulations are still worth learning from today. At the beginning, Zhang Juzheng did take the lead in execution. When his father died, he sent a servant to ride a donkey home to give gifts, and he was specially instructed not to live in the post house. But later, when he returned to his hometown to bury his father, he sat in a special sedan chair with 32 lifts, and along the way, local officials greeted the suburbs and presented the laying of gold.

He was against others taking bribes, but he himself was very staggering. Before Zhang Juzheng became an official, his family only had dozens of acres of land, and when his house was raided after his death, the confiscated property was equivalent to nearly 200,000 taels of silver, and another 800,000 mu of fertile land. , some say 8 million mu, this may be a bit exaggerated, but take one percent, that is also 800,000 mu of the amazing number. Authenticity is to be examined, but there must be no less and no less. As a first-class member, his monthly salary is only 87 stone rice, and even if he doesn't eat or drink, his lifetime salary adds up to only 20,000 taels of silver. The other wealth that came from unknown sources naturally came from bribes.

In addition, there is also a Xu Jie, who is also a famous minister, the third Jinshi (Tanhua) in the first class, who was awarded the Hanlin Academy to edit and revis, and the officials are tired of the book. In June of the 41st year of Jiajing, he defeated the famous annihilator Yan Song in the political arena, and Song had no property.

In the forty-second year of Jiajing, Xu Jie, as the first assistant, successively cited Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng and others into the cabinet. In the forty-fourth year of Jiajing, he tried to save Hai Rui, the head of the household department, from his death. After the death of Sejong Zhu Houxi, Xu Jie's edict was drafted to eliminate maladministration, stop all fasting, civil engineering, jewelry, and weaving, and rehabilitate all ministers who were convicted for their words. During the reign of Xu Jie, he did many things for the people, reduced the burden of the people, and focused on correcting the chaos and neglect of government during Yan Song's tenure as the first assistant, which the government and the opposition called "famous ministers".

But such a famous minister, after the dismissal of the official to the official, his children were tyrannical in the township and seized 240,000 acres of land. Yan Song, who has always been rich and greedy, has only one-fifteenth of Xu Jie's land.

In later generations, after seeing the deeds of these two brothers, Zhu Qizhen finally understood a truth, these ministers of the Ming Dynasty must have a lot of talents, but ah, these talented ministers, the ability to make money is really not small, at least, even the ability of corrupt officials to make money is not as good as them, it can be seen.

In later generations, Zhu Qizhen has seen a lot of evaluations about the civil official group of the Ming Dynasty, some say good, some say bad, but comprehensive analysis, in a vulgar sentence, that is, in the later period of the Ming Dynasty, these civil officials did few practical things and many were-stirring sticks.

Moreover, the civil administration of the people's livelihood is easy to form a partnership of interests with those businessmen who have grown up rapidly with the development of economic production and life in the Ming Dynasty.

This is also why, although the Ming Dynasty shipping is not as developed as the Song Dynasty, it is also very prosperous. However, once the court wanted to change the shipping to shipping, the ministers of the court and the central government would jump out and fiercely express their opposition and protests, and even Huiyang Fengyang violated, so that the Ming Dynasty's plan to change the transportation to sea transportation several times was all stranded.

Why? The Yanjing of the Ming Dynasty is located in Beijing, the nearest Tianjin Port, less than 400 miles away, and the grain of the Ming Dynasty is in the south of the Yangtze River, and the land of the south of the Yangtze River, the sea trade is developed, there are many good ports, and the waterways are smooth.

The tax of the Ming Dynasty for shipping with giant ships, whether it is from the convenience or from the labor aspect, the various costs consumed by sea transportation are far lower than those of river transportation. But why did the ministers oppose it? I'm afraid that even if you have a low IQ, you can see that there must be something greasy in it. The simplest word can explain the behavior of those ministers: interests.

--------------------But now, Zhu Qizhen is in charge of the imperial power at the beginning, but he can't be too radical, and he still needs to gain the favor and support of these ministers, at least, many things, Zhu Qizhen can come slowly, anyway, don't worry, in the future, Zhu Qizhen will stabilize the power of the Ming Dynasty, and when he completely grasps the gun, with the gun, he can control the pen. At that time, we will slowly clean up these malpractices.

No matter what, we must cultivate more hardcore soldiers and officials who are willing to be loyal to themselves and the Ming Empire, this is what Zhu Qizhen needs to do most in the next step, and it is also what must be done. Only by taking this step and the future direction of the Ming Dynasty can Zhu Qizhen have the confidence to control the direction.

On this day, it aroused the strong interest and discussion of the people in Beijing, not to mention them, even the students of the Guozijian were not much different, and the students of the national Zijian also arrived in the area of Chengtianmen to watch this celebration.

And what Zhu Qizhen did was actually easier to win the favor of these young, hot-blooded students, or for them, a heroic and resolute person like Zhu Qizhen should be the emperor of the Ming Empire.

As for that Zhu Qiyu, he has already been secretly arranged by Zhu Qizhen in the more than two years he has been in power, and his reputation is almost stinky, especially when he assassinated Zhu Jianshen in order to plot the position of the prince, and in order to get the hundred officials to agree to his will to replace the prince, he even took it out to bribe the hundred officials.

These scandals have actually made Zhu Qiyu's reputation fall to the bottom, but Zhu Qizhen is wrapped in the victory of Xuanfu, as well as the flattening of the grassland, so that the fierce enemies of the Ming Dynasty in the past surrender to their feet, such feats, return to the throne, such a person, at least in the hearts of these young people, is far more suitable than Zhu Qiyu to become the master of the Ming Dynasty.

However, all this still needs to continue to ferment, and it still needs time.

Therefore, Zhu Qizhen knows very well that he must be patient, and if he wants to use violent means to do it, no one knows how many people will die. And this is not what Zhu Qizhen wants to see, not to mention that there is too much blood shed in such a change, and no one knows if there will be any aftermath left.

"Your Majesty, in front, it is Lord Yu Qianyu's mansion." At this time, Qian Zhongzong beside him immediately came forward and whispered in Zhu Qizhen's ear, and Zhu Qizhen came back to his senses. He raised his eyebrows and chuckled: "Okay, today, I will go to meet this secretary of the military department who is sick and lying in the mansion and cannot serve the government......"

(To be continued)