Chapter 245 Bargaining

This is Zhu Youzhen's daily life.

The emperor is angry, angry, and appeased, and the ministers are panicked, pleaded, and persistent, and both sides bargain for their own gains. As for the sacrifice in the middle, it is generally called the price.

The price of the emperor's mediocrity, the price of imperial reform, or the price of the exchange of benefits.

Today, for example, Han Ying can insist that the empire not take the lead in implementing Mengxue, a means of educational reform, in Zhejiang Province. Then, the price he has to pay is that the cabinet has managed to balance the list of candidates for many cabinet ministers, and Zhu Youzhen has been shelved indefinitely, or directly put in his own candidates.

When it was the most unbearable, the emperor simply bypassed the cabinet or the cabinet directly refuted the emperor's will, and the only barrier at this time was the literati who did not accept the decree.

The contradictions between the civilian clique and the emperor, the struggle between the center of the empire and the localities, the struggle between the ruling class and the common people.

As long as there are no external forces acting on the empire, these three contradictions are the biggest problems of the empire. Among them, the most frequent was the contradiction between the civilian bureaucracy and the emperor, the most hurtful was the struggle between the center of the empire and the localities, and the most subversive was the struggle between the ruling class and the common people. All of this is the inevitable weakness of the Ming Dynasty as the most mature and longest-running unified dynasty in the world.

And in the middle of this, what the emperor needs to deal with most is the contradiction with the civilian clique, as long as this contradiction is still within the basic bottom line that everyone can tolerate, the empire still has hope of being saved.

Otherwise, then it really needs to be broken.

Zhu Youzhen's strategy over the past two years was simple: to show his goodwill to the civilian clique by reducing the emperor's privileges, in addition to ensuring loyalty and the army.

Since last year, Dongchang has been sent abroad, and Jinyiwei has also given up his final right to judge. In exchange for the support of the civilian bureaucracy for its own reforms in the land and the family.

However, this is no longer the case.

The Ming Dynasty temporarily stabilized the downward trend, and the income of the imperial court began to stabilize and rise. In addition to bringing Zhu Youzhen's confidence, this also brought greater confidence to the civilian clique. As a result, the civilian government began to reject more painful reform methods and became conservative.

even includes Lu Xiangsheng, who Zhu Youzhen has high hopes for.

Therefore, the best crossing should be worn by the Qiming group, and not alone. According to the modern view of power, an emperor needs to have at least a small group of 150 die-hard people, otherwise everything you get is just looking at the moon in the water.

Now Zhu Youzhen touched the remaining glass beads in his pocket, and he only had absolutely eleven people now, plus a maximum of twenty or thirty who were tied up by interests.

"Speaking of which, in the front, Nanzhili's political envoy I am not satisfied."

Even if Han Ying has agreed to Mengxue's entry into Zhejiang, Zhu Youzhen's opinions should still be expressed, and they must be expressed very clearly.

"Your Majesty, whether it is the Ministry of Rites or the Ministry of Officials, they all recommend the old minister Pei Zishen, not to mention that Pei Zishen is an old minister since Emperor Wanli, with a calm personality and a gentle personality, which is enough to adapt to the current scene of Ying Tianfu."

It's conservative.

The cabinet began to prepare and dilute again. Zhu Youzhen killed people in Yingtianfu on the fifteenth day of the first month, and the cabinet naturally felt that it should appease the hearts of the people of Nanzhili and calm the anger of the noble family.

"Why did the imperial court drastically change the thirteen chief officials under the political envoy of Nanzhili?" Zhu Youzhen did not discuss matters with Han Ying, but instead raised a metaphysical question.

"Purpose, what is the purpose? Has the cabinet figured it out? Has Wang Yongguang of the Ministry of Officials thought it through? I don't think I've thought it through. Otherwise, with the viciousness of Wang Yongguang's vision, and the number of talents in your Han Shoufu, how could you not choose the sixty-five-year-old good man Pei Zishen. ”

"The cone is in the bag, the sword is in the box, why is it that thirty years in the capital are still unknown? Nan Zhili now needs an obscure mud bodhisattva political envoy? If a year passes, the mud bodhisattva can't cross the big river of Yingtian? How should you deal with yourself? How should the Korean cabinet handle itself? ”

Han Cabinet, this title is the first time Zhu Youzhen said it today.

If you want to continue the war with Xungui in Yingtianfu, you need the full support of the cabinet, and even give up the annual income and tax silver of Nanzhili for a few years. At the same time, he did his best to resist Zhu Youzhen's bad reputation and counterattack from Xungui.

Therefore, before the big cake of the Prime Minister's government affairs yamen, Zhu Youzhen casually threw out a small cake of the Han cabinet.

Hearing that Han Ying's breathing was a little heavy, and the eyes of the others looking at Han Ying were a little red, Zhu Youzhen knew that his little bait was good, and the fish began to bite the hook by itself.

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"Your Majesty, that's really a little bit of a thoughtover. If someone continues to make trouble by taking advantage of the actions of the imperial court in the first month of this year, it really takes a decisive person to suppress the officialdom. ”

"If you are not afraid of slowness, you are afraid of standing. Since the Han Cabinet was formed the moment I ascended the throne, I naturally hope that the Han Cabinet will at least set an example for the next Cabinet. However, I don't see this performance from the recent layout of Nanzhili. If this continues, either you will reshuffle your cabinet and bring in more motivated people for me. Or, I will directly change the cabinet. But in any case, I have also said that I will not have this intention in three years, and I will not have this intention when the Prime Minister's Yamen was established. You and I think of it, and I cherish it. ”

When things are clear, then the emotional card remains.

"Your Majesty, the old minister is terrified." I can't say it, Han Ying also wants to kneel down on the ground with her true feelings.

"Get up, get up."

Now that everyone has basically reached a consensus, Zhu Youzhen also hurriedly got up and helped Han Ying up from the ground with both hands.

"I don't expect anything else, I just hope that Han Shoufu can be healthy and give my Daming another ten years."

After talking about the affairs of the civil officials, it is natural to deal with the affairs of the military generals. In fact, the affairs of military generals are much simpler and simpler than those of the civilian clique. As long as the country has external troubles, there is no problem that cannot be dealt with by such violent groups.

Just when Zhu Youzhen, Han Ying, and Lu Xiangsheng were talking about each other, Sun Chengzong also had his own basic judgment. Therefore, the drama of Zhu Youzhen's side of the monarch and the minister was over. He began his speech:

"Your Majesty."

"The old minister will thoroughly investigate the religious believers in the army, and all religious believers will be removed from the army."

For Sun Chengzong, the military's performance in the past year is still remarkable.

The city of Naturalization on the Mongol territory was like a nail, pushing the defense line in the northwest of the empire from Xuanda to the north for more than 300 miles. Directly liberated the Xuanda defense line and military fields. Yuan Chonghuan had also placed his tentacles in the Yinshan area to the north and the Hetao area to the west. All that remains is to wait, waiting for the strength of the Northern Legion of the Ming Dynasty to further grow and mature, whether it is to the north or west, there is a lot of room for imagination. The household department and the college have already begun to move the landless peasants from Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Henan to the area around the naturalized city.

In Liaodong, after recalling Man Gui and Mao Renlong, the integration of Liaodong people and horses under Zhao Shujiao and the Central Plains army was further accelerated, and the hidden danger of Liaodong rebellion was fundamentally removed. Although it did not have the ability to recover Liaodong, with the help of barbed wire, cement and grenades, it was basically able to stabilize the battle line in the area of the Nihe River, and the battle was also back and forth. At the same time, under the new material supply plan of the Ministry of Households, one million taels of silver can be basically achieved, and the effect of 850,000 taels can actually be exerted.

In addition, under the acceleration of the nondescript East Factory called the "Daming Textile and Agricultural Machinery Repair Factory" and the North Korean Daming Trade Representative Office, hundreds of small teams of North Korean hunters kept harassing the fields and grain and grass of the Houjin Jianzhou people, which also caused great trouble to Jiannu. These small teams of up to 100 people, at least a dozen people, equipped with fire oil bombs and grenades, made Jiannu's powerful cavalry team as if facing the ubiquitous gadfly, unable to exert their strength.

The only thing that is making slower progress is the navy that His Majesty is most concerned about, the emperor's inner treasury plus the household department, and several groups of people have a dead face, and they have approved millions of taels and millions of taels of silver to the military department. Xiong Wencan went to Fuzhou, and now whether he is buying a boat or a person, the money is spent like flowing water, but the actual progress is extremely slow. Therefore, a few days ago, His Majesty also gave himself a reply to the secret fold of the Zheng family in Fuzhou.

However, today we have to solve the foreigner's affairs first, no matter what.

Therefore, the first thing he said was about the foreign missionaries, and it was here that His Majesty's emotions flashed out today. He also knew that the reason why the military department was winning one victory after another was that several new weapons promoted by His Majesty played a decisive role. If these are stolen, not to mention the emperor, even they must be thoroughly investigated.

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