Haoge, as a puppet emperor of the Qing Dynasty, of course cannot be negligent in his trial, everything that should be asked must be asked, even if everything is urgent, it will take more than ten days before and after.

Finally, on October 18, the 10th year of Longwu, Hauge was finally clarified of all his crimes, and many pages of guilt alone were written. There are also many high-level puppet Qing officials who have died and failed to be tried, and they have also been entrained during the period to give a conclusion.

On the day the sentence was announced, Hauge was escorted to Ling Chi outside Chengtian Gate, and his close relatives who were captured with him were also Ling Chi, but the number of knives varied.

The number of knives that Haoge has endured is naturally the most since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, far more than the previous traitors. But it's still impossible to really do 10,000 knives, and the executioner doesn't have such a good handicraft at all.

It's just a symbolic way to break the historical record and ensure the most, but in fact, the specific numbers don't mean much.

Even Hauge's concubines and women were sentenced to beheading. In order to show that the Ming Dynasty is a civilized country and a country of etiquette, it will never do the kind of barbarian behavior of "killing his husband and taking his wife" again.

And anyway, Haoge's concubines are all Manchurian, and the pseudo-Qing high-level in this era has not yet had the habit of occupying Han women as concubines, and Haoge is a typical rejection of the Sinicization faction. Therefore, such a punishment will not hurt the innocent compatriots who are forced to do so.

The only thing Hauge was glad about before he died was that he could still see his women beheaded in front of his eyes, and watch them die first to make sure they wouldn't be humiliated.

This made his original hatred for Zhu Shuren a little more dissipated, knowing that Zhu Shuren and him were only because of ethnic disputes, and they didn't talk about personal enmity, and they didn't bother to humiliate him.

On his deathbed, Hauge just felt too ironic, laughing wildly, like madness:

"Hehe, I robbed and robbed, and in the end I only became the son of heaven for a year, but I robbed the ninth brother's Ling Chi, it's really ironic, I knew that it was just this addiction that day, let the ninth brother go to be the king of the country through and through, and let the ninth brother go to the nine springs to see the first emperor without a face!"

But there is no regret medicine in the world, it can only be said that the opportunity to be an emperor is too tempting, and people with a little less self-control can't resist it.

Even if it is only a year of heaven, even if it only controls the territory of a province, it makes people bet on Ling Chi after death, which really makes future generations sigh.

……

The execution lasted from October 18 to 20, a full three days, and finally all the heads were sent to the Taimiao Temple to worship the ancestors, and the Ministry of Rites was allowed to conduct the ceremony for a few days before it was finished.

At this point, the grievances between the Ming and Qing dynasties were finally completely broken.

Emperor Longwu feasted his ministers in the Forbidden City, celebrated with the whole world, and officially rewarded the meritorious civil and military promotion, and sent out countless gold and silver treasures.

At the beginning, Zhu Yuanzhang opened the country and sealed six dukes and twenty-eight marquis, and Zhu Di also sealed a bunch of others when he usurped the rebellion.

Zhu Changshu this time, it must be a little less sealed than Zhu Yuanzhang, mainly because Zhu Shuren also took into account that the expansion of the Ming Dynasty has not completely ended, and it is difficult to control it after sealing too much now, and it is worthless.

The final result of the trade-off was that a total of four dukes and sixteen marquis were sealed, and a total of 20 people were made dukes because of the destruction of the Qing Dynasty.

Zhu Shuren himself has already been crowned king, and there is no need to be promoted.

Among the four dukes, Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong are the military generals with the highest military merits, Cao Bianjiao is the acting duke, and Huang Degong is the duke of Liao.

These people will be used as important ministers to pacify the frontier areas, and implement local management policies in the newly occupied frontiers that are different from those in the interior, but they will not be hereditary, and when their generation dies of old age, similar positions will not be set up in the future, so there is no need to worry about becoming a feudal town like the Jiedu Envoy, which is just a temporary special affair.

Although the Ming Dynasty said that it was a civil system of martial arts, such a generalist force had not appeared in previous years, the Li Chengliang family in Liaodong and the Wu Sangui family in Liaoxi were all negative examples.

Now Zhu Shuren is still much younger than these two generals with the highest military achievements, and the lifespan of Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong is definitely far from that of Zhu Shuren, so they can't make waves. After they pass away, Zhu Shuren can still adjust it himself.

Cao Bianjiao will be placed outside the gates of Datong and Zhangjiakou, and will be fully responsible for the integration of the Chahar, Horqin, and Ordos departments for the next ten years, as well as supervising border trade and cracking down on illegal traitor merchants.

Huang Degong stayed in Jilin, carrying out functions and powers similar to those of the original Jilin generals of the Qing Dynasty, and cultivating the land in the local militarized management of the tuntian, which is equivalent to organizing the Ming version of "breaking through the Guandong" and developing the Songnen Plain, which can also alleviate the pressure of population growth in the future long-term peace in the future to a certain extent.

The agricultural area of the Northeast Plain is larger than that of North China, as long as the Great Northern Wilderness is reclaimed, the population of the Ming Dynasty will not be without food if it doubles. And Huang Degong's ancestral home is a native of Liaodong, so he will not be too far away from his hometown to adapt to the soil and water.

Zhu Shuren also took this into account, so he arranged Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong in the military cantonment defense area, who let Cao Bianjiao be from Shanxi and Huang Degong from Liaodong.

In addition to Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong, the two generals with the highest merits, the other two princes naturally have to be left to the civil officials

There is no way, the Ming system is there, and it is more or less heavy on literature and light on military force, and the DPRK and China are responsible for the central deployment and scheduling and coordination of resources, and the credit is also very important, but it is not as obvious as the front line.

In the end, it was naturally Shi Kefa, the first assistant of the cabinet, who was named Liang Guogong, and Shen Tingyang, the second assistant of the cabinet, who was named the Duke of Korea.

Anyway, Shen Tingyang also made so much money, and his son couldn't be promoted for meritorious service, so it was no problem to give him a national duke.

In this way, Zhu Shuren's second son, that is, the concubine surnamed Hui Shen born to him by Fang Ziling, can also inherit the title of a duke in the future, so that he will not be a marquis for the rest of his life.

Zhu Shuren's first three sons, one emperor, one king and one duke, will not cause anyone to lose too much.

After the four great princes, among the sixteen marquises, Li Fuming, Zhu Wenzhen and others are all at the top, followed by Zheng Chenggong, Li Dingguo, etc., and there is no need to repeat them one by one.

For these marquis, Zhu Shuren also found something for them to do, and in the future, they can also attack other enemy countries that have friction in the surrounding areas, especially Zheng Chenggong and Li Dingguo are still young, and they have the opportunity to make contributions in this life.

Maybe when they are forty or fifty years old, they will eventually be able to accumulate merit and be promoted to the national prince, which is a later story.

……

After getting the reward, a few days later, Zhu Changshu set up a private banquet in the inner palace, this time to catch the wind with his son-in-law and daughter alone, enjoy the joy of family, by the way, talk freely, listen to his son-in-law's thoughts, and see if there are any martial arts in the future that need to be checked and filled.

"I didn't expect that my Ming Dynasty would have completely quelled the internal and external thieves, and opened up the northern frontier to the day of Manchuria's annihilation.

I'm so ashamed to think about it. Qing takes the world as his responsibility, regardless of his own fame, although the ancient sages cannot reach it. ”

In the Wenhua Palace, Zhu Changshu drank a few drinks with his son-in-law, and he couldn't help but sigh. Speaking from the heart, he himself thinks that even if his son-in-law usurps the throne, it can be regarded as "the virtuous live in it".

In ancient times, those Taizu who changed dynasties were not as meritorious as Zhu Shuren.

Zhu Shuren didn't care, and signaled Zhu Changshu not to mind.

It seems that in order to completely dispel the worries in the other party's heart and make the other party realize the fundamental reason why it is impossible for him to steal the throne from Daming, Zhu Shuren rarely retreated, and was ready to open the skylight and say a few bright words.

With his present authority, it is all done, and he has the right to say such things.

"Does my father think that the people who have been claiming to be the emperor's founders since ancient times are all talented people? From the minister's point of view, seven or eight times out of ten are just blind obedience, and they don't even know what they want.

When Zhao Kuangyin released the military power, he once said: For the Son of Heaven for a year, it is better to be happy than to be a festival envoy, just because of the position of the Son of Heaven, who does not want to try?

Chen believes that Zhao Kuangyin's words are quite sincere, when he was in a yellow robe, he was a little reader, little history, and his brain didn't understand, and everyone dug his own grave.

At the time of the five dynasties of the Tang Dynasty, there were people who had been rich for decades and generations for the sake of the festival. The authority and majesty of brocade clothes and jade food are no less than those of the Son of Heaven, not to mention more than ten families.

As for the size of the power to enjoy pleasure, it doesn't really matter, and it is enough to feed a family with the surplus grain and taxes of a government, so why should there be 400 states to support a family?

Those they sent with the Son of Heaven are nothing more than the risk of being attacked by others for the sake of moderation, and there is a sharp blade hanging over your head after all, if you don't destroy people, you may be destroyed by others.

If this point can be solved well, there is no need to worry about being attacked, such as the Qian family, the king of Wuyue at that time, three generations and five kings, rich and extended, not much better than the life of the five generations of the Son of Heaven?

If Liu Zhiyuan and Guo Wei can be the envoy of moderation all his life, not provoke, low-key, not fighting for power, and not taking the step of the emperor, maybe he can be like the three generations and five kings of the Qian family, and he will be able to be stable and divided in the troubled times for 80 years, but after taking that step, in the end, the family was only rich for three or five years, ten years and eight years, and then it was destroyed.

If you are a festival envoy, you can still retire peacefully, and your descendants will not be wiped out. And if you want to retire after becoming an emperor, if you are destroyed by force, you will have no descendants left.

The new emperor after the change of dynasty, unless it is a false Zen concession, can still let the monarch of the previous dynasty live for one or two generations, if the country is destroyed by force, it must be absolutely physiological.

In contrast, the descendants of the Qian family, the king of Wuyue, survived much better than the descendants of the Zhao family, just because they did not take that step, when the Zhao and Song dynasties survived, they also kept their titles and titles. When the Zhao and Song dynasties perished, the Qian family did not have to rest with the country like the Zhao family.

Therefore, at that point, unless the Son of Heaven himself has too much desire and wants to kill decisively and slaughter the world, the emperor's superiority over the feudal town is only because the emperor does not have to worry about the higher power on his head to dispose of you at any time, and there is still some uncertainty hanging over the feudal town.

If someone can eliminate this uncertainty so that they don't have to be an emperor and don't have to worry about themselves and their descendants being liquidated, then what difference does it make if they don't have to be an emperor? Even not the emperor, but after hundreds of years, the descendants withdrew less bloody.

It's just that ninety percent of the founding kings in the world are more than enough military and not enough civilian, and they can't understand this truth, and finally change from the master of the imperial power to the slave of the imperial power - the imperial power is only a means to achieve personal ambitions or ensure the safety of the family, not an end in itself.

If you forget to think about what the imperial power can be used for, whether these uses are needed by yourself, and blindly pursue the imperial power itself, that is to abandon the basics, regard the means as the end, and the tools as the end. ”

Zhu Shuren has received a modern education, and his position when looking at problems is not much higher than that of the ancients who were in shackles.

At least the ancient emperors must not have read Max Weber's "Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capital Attention", nor could they have heard Marx Weber's sentence "People need to pursue value rationality and instrumental rationality, but instrumental rationality should only be a means to realize value rationality".

It's like making money to use money to achieve something that you can't do when you don't have money, not to make money itself, money is just the most universal tool.

Power is the same, but it is not as universal as money and not so easy to exchange, but it also attracts more insecure people to "preventive hoarding" of power.

In contrast, money is easier to exchange and circulate than power, so people who have the ability to ensure that they can get money quickly are less concerned about hoarding money all the time.

Many people who think about the official standard think about hoarding power that is not easy to exchange urgently, and when they need it, they can use it directly. And when you need to use money, you can use the right to hoard to quickly exchange money.

A person who regards a tool as an end can be called a tool person.

Zhao Kuangyin is just an emperor's tool. Of course, he is considered to be a relatively high rank among the emperor's tools, after all, he has many fewer options.

And Cao Pi Zhu Wen, those tool people who are in the process of opening Pandora's box, are the best among tool people.

Zhu Changshu was in a trance for a while, he had never thought about these problems, and he never thought that this kind of problem could have such an angle. It was only because of his cowardice and indisputability that he naturally managed to live in peace with his son-in-law for more than ten years, but he never thought about the issue of theoretical height.

Now that his son-in-law is saying it so bluntly, he is also a little confused, and suddenly feels that he can completely talk about this topic.

Zhu Changshu thought for a while: "However, apart from the Wu Yue Qian clan from the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, is there any example of not having to ascend to the throne and not worrying about the liquidation of the descendants of the descendants?" The thousand-year-old family has still fallen, and it may not be subject to the century-old Son of Heaven. ”

Zhu Shuren smiled: "Father also said that there is a thousand-year-old family, and the Son of Heaven is only four hundred years at most, in comparison, it is enough." Moreover, it is not for nothing that a thousand-year-old family and a change of dynasty cannot be eradicated by the Son of Heaven.

It is also possible to achieve the level of Confucius and Yan Shenggong for 2,000 years. This is that there is a wealth and fame, and at the same time, it has one more time than the emperor, but it has less authority to kill others than the emperor.

And if a person doesn't want to kill people and enjoy the pleasure of disposing of other people's lives and deaths, then just looking at other conditions, being Confucius is more enjoyable than being the founding emperor. ”

Zhu Changshu: "Are you sure that in your lifetime, you will let your achievements and backward fame reach Confucius?" ”

Zhu Shuren: "I'm not sure, but isn't Yu'er already stable, so it doesn't matter if it's a little worse than Confucius." What's more, the minister can open up another track, he is virtuous in the world, and Ze is born by the people, so there is no need to compare with Confucius on a track. ”

Zhu Changshu couldn't help but admire: "Qing's vision is difficult to continue." ”

Zhu Shuren: "Moreover, my father has not thought about it." Take 10,000 steps back, if the Ming Dynasty is changed, and it is replaced by a Han ruler, will he be able to last for a long time?

Before the Qing Dynasty was destroyed, someone replaced the Ming first, so it would be difficult for him to last long. If the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by the Qing Dynasty, and someone avenged the Ming Dynasty, there would still be some hope. There are some things, once there are countless times, just like a virgin remarrying, if her husband dies again, can she not continue to remarry?

The minister's reading of history divides the world since the Qin into three categories, namely external conquest, resistance and run-in, and internal usurpation.

For example, Qin, Sui and Yuan were three foreign conquests and ethnic integration. It corresponds to the birth of the Han nationality, the integration of Wuhu, and the integration of Liaojinmeng. The emperor ascended to the throne as a conqueror, and his ruling methods were often arbitrary, and the dynasty was short-lived.

But the attitude of the conquerors also has advantages, that is, they do not have to care about the lessons of the vanquished people's previous failures in internal fighting, so they do not worry about the usurpation of the throne by the warriors, and they do not need to spend a lot of resources on guarding against their own people, so they are full of martial virtues.

When the Han and Tang dynasties followed by Qin Sui and Yuan, they all rebelled against the abuse of the people and re-integrated into the upper position.

In addition, the ruler absorbed the lessons of the previous dynasty with great martial arts but short-lived lives, and appeased the people, and lived a much longer life. The ruler has self-confidence, and he is also okay with foreign martial virtues.

And after the decline of the Han and Tang dynasties, until the next national integration, those small dynasties were all internal usurpation. These founding emperors had neither the virtue of external conquest nor the virtue of internal elevation of the status of the Juche nation, and some only promoted the interests of one family and one surname.

As soon as this mouth was opened, the world's careerists were ready to move from then on. Since Wei Liang usurped the Han and Tang Dynasties, why couldn't the Jin usurp them? The monk can't touch me?

Then there are endless iterations of usurpation, Wei, Jin, Song, Qi, Liang, Chen, Liang, Tang, Jin, Han, Zhou, and Song. In the end, most of the energy was spent on preventing their own people from usurping the throne, abandoning their martial arts, and finally being destroyed by foreign enemies, and everything was reset and recycled.

Therefore, Qin, Sui, and Yuan were the tentative run-ins before the Han, Tang and Ming dynasties, and the Wei, Jin, Song, Qi, Liang, Chen, and Liang, Tang, Jin, Han, Zhou, and Song were the remnants of the usurped Han and Tang dynasties.

After the fall of the Han and Tang dynasties, isn't the lesson of civil strife and division in the world that has been getting worse for hundreds of years, and the lessons of martial virtue getting weaker and weaker enough? Now that the minister is finally standing on the cusp of the third big cycle in China, the minister will not be his own gravedigger.

I really can't understand that my father can imagine the world as a woman and the founding monarch as a man. Qin Suiyuan was the first person in the world to meet someone who wanted to conquer her after being reincarnated three times, but they used it strongly, and the world directly resisted and killed them.

Han Tangming saw the cause of Qin Suiyuan's death, so he first fell in love with the world, and slowly went through the process of three media and six hires. But after hundreds of years, contradictions gradually accumulated, and the Han and Tang dynasties eventually committed domestic violence and couldn't support their wives and children, causing their wives and children to be unbearable and join forces with outsiders to kill them.

Wei, Jin, Song, Qi, Liang Chen, Liang, Tang, Jin, Han, Zhou, and Song are the 23, 4, 5, 67 marriages after each reincarnation, because they do not rely on external conquest but rely on internal usurpation to gain power, so they are considered to be taken over.

The more ex-husbands there are in the world, the more afraid they become, because they know that the loyalty of the second, third, and fourth marriages is definitely not as good as the first marriage, and the further they go, the more unstable they become. In the end, the chain of suspicion accumulated, and the internal friction intensified, the ruler and the world were wiped out by foreign enemies, and the national integration was reincarnated, and then the cycle began from violence and first marriage.

The minister will not change the new flesh that was finally fused after the third reincarnation of Huaxia Tianxia from the first marriage to the second marriage. What else does the father have to worry about? ”