Zhu Youzhen's mood at the moment is heroic and excited.

Even the city of Tongzhou in front of him is still in the hands of the Qing army.

"Li Mingrui, you said that in the past three hundred years of my emperor's reign, compared with the first emperor and the first emperor, what kind of emperor do you say I am, to tell the truth, I will not punish you."

Although Zhu Youzhen said so, he had secretly decided that as long as Li Mingrui dared to disobey him, he would not mind having a cunning rabbit and a dead lackey.

"Your Majesty has the general strategy of the Taizu and the ambition of becoming an ancestor, all of which are blue wisps, so it is not unfavorable to the world, and the achievements are not comparable to ordinary emperors."

Li Mingrui naturally knew that his Emperor His Majesty was about to recover the Northern Capital, and he was about to dominate the world again, and the imperial power would be more solid, it was the most proud time, if he still wanted to die, he couldn't have half a word of disobedience, so he directly compared Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di to Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen only smiled faintly:

"You don't have to use Confucianism to evaluate the world's figures, the ancients must be able to beat the present? Yao Shunyu Tang can know firearms, Tang Zong and Song ancestors know money law, although Taizu's original intention is good, but the Ming Dynasty can have today's chaos, how can it not be a stereotyped mistake, Chengzu has the ambition to gather imperial power but has no courage to change the world! I still prefer Li Yishan's poem that the world is progressive, rather than trying to restore the ancient slash-and-burn era. ”

Li Mingrui was quite shocked in his heart, he didn't expect that his Emperor His Majesty didn't say anything about Taizu Chengzu at all, even Tang Zong and Song Zu didn't look at it, and even Yao Shunyu Tang didn't look at it.

Li Mingrui couldn't help but think of His Majesty's sacred theory and the popular "Theory of Heavenly Evolution" on the market, and couldn't help but sigh secretly: "Your Majesty wants to be the emperor of the ancients, but in this way, the orthodox status of Confucianism is in jeopardy, after all, the saints of Confucianism are all ancients, if the ancients are not better than today, then they are not worthy of being saints, only today's people can be saints, but who can be a saint today, naturally it is my emperor!" ”

As soon as Li Mingrui thought of this, he couldn't help but glance at Zhu Youzhen, and immediately made a big salute: "Weichen is stupid, fortunately, His Majesty pointed out, with His Majesty's merits, he is an emperor through the ages, and he is a holy monarch who has never been seen before or since!" ”

"It's true that there are no ancients before, but I don't want there to be no one in the future, there must be someone smarter than me among the hundreds of millions of people in my Ming Dynasty, maybe you Li Mingrui is also wiser than me, but you have all been harmed by the science of only being a saint disciple for hundreds of years, and you have no own thinking and no own thoughts, so you seem stupid, maybe after enlightening the people's wisdom for a few years, I can only be unknown to everyone in this era, and it may even be laughed at by future generations hundreds of years later."

When Zhu Youzhen said this, Li Mingrui only felt that His Majesty's remarks were too shocking, so he was so frightened that he hurriedly saluted: "Weichen doesn't dare, Weichen is stupid, but how dare he be wiser than Your Majesty." ”

"Hypocrisy! As a civil servant, you still have to be crazy, the golden mean is the most hateful, I know that many of you literati feel that you are the first in the world, but on the surface you have to deliberately be humble, why bother, I don't hate you for thinking that Lao Tzu is the first in the world, I hate you on the surface! ”

Zhu Youzhen's sudden reprimand made Li Mingrui wipe the sweat on his forehead: "Yes, yes, Your Majesty, you are right, Weichen Li Mingrui is indeed not an ordinary minister, Weichen is a minister who can be the first assistant, and the proposal to move south was the first to be proposed by Weichen." ”

"Very good, this is what it looks like to be vigorous, it is not a shortcoming to show your edge, you Li Mingrui should still be the fearless Zuo Zhongyun who dared to disobey the first proposal of the heavenly officials to move south, don't be afraid of villains, as long as I am still in power, I will protect you for a day, like Hai Rui, as long as you are righteous enough, even if others slander you!"

Zhu Youzhen patted Li Mingrui on the shoulder, smiled faintly, and then walked towards Liu Xiyao's main account in front.

The civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty have become accustomed to the way of their own emperor who does not send internal officials to summon the people below but goes to find the people below himself, so Li Mingrui didn't feel so strange, at this time he was just quite shocked in his heart, he was shocked by His Majesty Zhu Youzhen's words just now.

He suddenly felt as if he actually hated hypocrisy and moderation, but after being an official for a long time, he suddenly forgot that what he should care about most was what he could do for the country, not to protect himself, and not to let himself gradually become a clumsy person.

Because he himself is a jinshi who has been admitted from tens of thousands of scholars, and he is a veritable smart person, why should he pretend to be a fool, it is too tiring!

"The Ming needs energetic people to rule this empire, not a dull old man! Since the beginning of Taizu, the Ming Dynasty only hoped that the farmers would farm honestly and the soldiers would fight with peace of mind, but the world was changing and advancing, so the Ming Dynasty had sought stability for more than 200 years, but there was a chaos that almost destroyed the country and wiped out the species! I, Li Mingrui, must not let Daming become lifeless again! ”

Li Mingrui seemed to have thought through something, and suddenly the whole person felt a lot more comfortable, his eyebrows opened and he smiled, and no longer only followed Zhu Youzhen's ass because he was worried that His Majesty would think that he was arrogant, but took the initiative to find the governor of the Second Corps of the First Army of the Guards to discuss political reform matters with the officials who were about to take office as the magistrate of Tongzhou.

As a person of later generations, although Zhu Youzhen has become an emperor and has a decisive spirit of killing in his gestures, his casual and unself-conscious identity and independent personality of modern people who do not care about anyone's opinion have not affected his majesty as an emperor, but have added some closeness to him, and for officials like Liu Xiyao, who were born in commoners, they are more loyal to Zhu Youzhen than giving them glory and wealth.

More than a hundred years ago in the Ming Dynasty, there was such an emperor, a simple but not stupid emperor, an unruly but daring emperor, but also one of the worst emperors who were hacked.

Zhu Youzhen doesn't know if he will be hacked the worst in the future.

But he didn't bother to think about these now, and he even felt that as long as he conquered Beijing, let the Ming Dynasty achieve reunification again, and become the real master of the whole world, he could completely use his power to subvert the standards that define whether the king is virtuous or not.

Rumble!

The Qing army opened fire first, and the huge iron bullets smashed towards the Guards camp.

Zhu Youzhen saw with his own eyes that the soldiers of the Guards were smashed into meatloaf by the iron bullets, and he also saw with his own eyes that his soldiers were still stubbornly rushing towards Tongzhou City like a tide, and he also saw that the crystallization of the military industry that he had painstakingly created was like a rifled cannon that exploded one after another at the strong Tongzhou City Gate, blowing up bricks and stones and fireworks to the sky.

(End of chapter)