Looking at his thoughtful son, Zhu Houwei sighed: "Your imperial uncle built the leopard house, the essence of which is to fight against the increasingly powerful civil official group, and then use eunuchs to balance the foreign dynasty, but Liu Jin died, and the outer dynasty will never allow another Liu Jin in the Ming Dynasty, so the restrictions on Emperor Zhengde are tighter."

The civil officials colluded with the inner court, weakened and controlled the growth of the eunuchs' power, and Emperor Zhengde, who was physically and mentally exhausted and did not like to be restrained, wanted to be a famous general in the blood-stained field, and finally chose to retreat, which was also the prerequisite reason why his father was able to succeed to the throne.

Emperor Zhengde threw his arms and ran away, but the problem was not solved, at the beginning of his father's succession, the foreign dynasty with Yang Tinghe as the backbone must also be worried that his father would become the second Zhengde, so they will still play the same old way.

But the father has one of the biggest advantages over Emperor Zhengde, that is, the father cultivated a large number of descendants when he was in Huzhou, and cultivating these people is not for anything else, to be honest, he wants to transfuse blood for the imperial brother, so that the imperial brother has the capital to fight against the civil official group.

This capital is the army, as the Ming Emperor can even suffer from the endless constraints of the military department when the army is mobilized, how ridiculous it is to say, the civil official has emptied the emperor's military power, so as the emperor, he must take back the military power.

The early days of my father's ascension to the throne were really difficult, if the thoughts of the Manchu ministers at that time were on the clan, and they wanted to see how the father solved the stubborn disease of the clan, where would it be so easy for the father to succeed. ”

Zhu Zaiyuan nodded heavily, the eighteen years of the Jiajing Dynasty, especially the first ten years, are definitely legendary, and there are too many unbelievable things that have happened, those things are taken out casually, if they are replaced by other dynasties, if they do not cause an uproar, and if they do not quarrel for three or five years, there will be no results at all, and maybe they will become the fuse of party disputes, and even some things may not be successful even after more than ten or twenty years, such as the reform of the imperial examination!

This is the Taoist system of the literati, as strong as Emperor Taizu in the face of the scholars to make trouble, and finally had to make a north-south list, the literati are indeed powerless, but who dares to underestimate the combat effectiveness of the literati, in the end will definitely lose very badly.

The most noble in the world is naturally the emperor, but if the emperor does not want to become a tyrant and a faint king, then it is impossible to rule the world by killing people.

Killing people is just a deterrent, it is to let the people of the world know that the emperor has the capital to kill you anytime and anywhere, but it is not a means, blindly killing people is precisely the embodiment of the most incompetent of a king!

Zhu Zaiyuan didn't know that there was an ultimate weapon called nuclear in later generations, so he didn't know that the meaning of the existence of nuclear weapons was deterrence.

There are many ways for the emperor to kill people, but nuclear weapons are the nuclear deterrence of the ultimate big case, is it possible to kill a few small fish and shrimp and use nuclear weapons?

What they don't know is that meaningless massacres can kill people, but they can also intensify the hatred of the people, leading to endless peasant uprisings, short-lived tyrannical Yuan, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which suppressed the popular uprisings almost throughout the dynasty.

"Confucianism's ideas are remarkable, so that successive kings can trust and always appoint Confucian scholars to govern the world, if it is useless, is it possible that those in power are fools?"

Zhu Houwei smiled lightly: "No one is a fool in the founding king, and a fool cannot become the founding king, but they have always used Confucianism, not that the world will not be able to play without Confucianism, you must know that at the beginning of any dynasty, it is easiest to form a ruling order."

For example, Emperor Taizu of this dynasty, if he developed a doctrine to replace Confucianism, wouldn't he be able to replace it, such as Legalism! But no...... Because Confucianism is in line with the king's ruling philosophy, Confucianism will also do its best to make the most perfect interpretation of the legitimacy of the king.

In the final analysis, they just complement each other, but the times change, blind confidence will only stagnate, and my father inquired about overseas affairs through many channels, and then carefully calculated and came to a conclusion.

This conclusion is that the Western world, which is not worth mentioning at the time of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, is now developing by leaps and bounds, and is gradually narrowing the distance between it and the Ming Dynasty, and even catching up in some aspects!

In Western Europe, Holy Rome, Franco, France, and England were all powerful countries, and even small countries like Portugal had been able to sail as far as Guangdong.

And what about Da Ming? Still resting on its laurels, and even declining a little bit, according to this trajectory, in another two or three hundred years at most, the developed countries of Western Europe will open the door of China with their strong ships and artillery! Emperor, do you think your father's words are alarmist? ”

Zhu Zaiyuan did feel this way, but he didn't dare to show the slightest bit on his face or mouth.

Zhu Houwei laughed and said: "Even if you really think so, it doesn't matter, because my father has a vision beyond the times, and he is the first person to open his eyes to see the world. Now our Ming Dynasty's national strength far exceeds that of the world, so your imperial uncle will use strong ships and cannons to open the door of Europe, and let that land become our Chinese territory! ”

"Do you want to use Confucianism in the future?"

Zhu Houwei was stunned, obviously he didn't expect his son to ask such a question......

"What do I think?"

Zhu Zaiyuan's expression was a little confused and said: "Erchen doesn't know, Erchen only knows that Confucianism is not wrong, what is wrong is that Confucianism has gone astray, but what if they get back on the right track?" So is it possible to promote a scholarship that is useful to the king? ”

Zhu Houwei nodded approvingly and said: "The emperor can think of this level, my father is very relieved, yes, Confucianism is not wrong, and even the Confucianism of the Ming Dynasty is not unacceptable, but if you continue to move forward on the current track, Confucianism will go more and more ......."

At this time, Zhu Houwei thought of Confucianism, the Donglin Party, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty in later generations......

But the Donglin Party and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Zhu Houwei can't give an example......

"How can I say it......" Zhu Houwei sighed: "Confucianism, what is the real Confucianism, in the eyes of my father, the Confucianism that advocates loyalty and patriotism is Confucianism, the Confucianism that emphasizes etiquette, righteousness, benevolence, wisdom and faith is Confucianism, and the Confucianism that is inclusive is Confucianism, not the Confucianism that preserves the principles of heaven, and the Confucianism that destroys people's desires is Confucianism, nor is it Confucianism on the outside, but Confucianism is Confucianism in the eyes of my father, from the appearance of science in the Northern Song Dynasty to the prevalence of science in the Southern Song Dynasty, Confucianism has actually changed its flavor......

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