Chapter 42: The Desperate Situation in the Eyes of the Prince

The grief and indignation in the prince's heart erupted continuously, and he said: "Now the act of changing the law has provoked the world's scoop and doctor. And the father and emperor can't talk about kindness to Huaixi's uncles, how can the death of Han Gong be hidden from the world. Lin'an told me that one day she found that Li Qi's entire pillow was wet when she woke up in the morning. ”

"The last person who did this was Han Guangwu. Wei Guogong's body was getting weaker and weaker, and he could no longer go into battle. And the other nobles are all related to the vassal king. Even if I gather my military power, I may not be able to control this situation. I originally relied on the corporal doctors to check and balance the Huaixi uncles. Now Jiangnan Shi Dafu is silent, and the road is in sight. This situation will not last long. My father has hollowed out the world. Now he is just using his father's prestige to intimidate the world's younger generations. But how could I possibly have the prestige of my father? ”

"The day my father dies is the time of chaos in the world."

The prince was already in tears. said: "Queen mother, the child is not filial, and the child cannot be kept in this world." I really thought of a lot of ways. Kill He Xi to thank the world, but it is useless. Not to mention, if you kill him today, his doctrine will become a banned book in the Ming Dynasty. I'm afraid that he will learn from him and attack me. I have become a laughing stock for the ages. And needless to say, how to strengthen the country to control the vassal states? ”

"If you don't kill him, how can you make the scholars and doctors of all places submit? And if the doctor is not satisfied, I am afraid that I will not be able to order Nanjing. Overseas vassal states are coming, and I am afraid that the land south of the Yangtze River will fall from the wind. ”

"Neither is the left, nor is the right. Zhang Du is still destroying the doctor in the Criminal Department? Do you think it's not enough for the corporal doctor to be anti-hearted? ”

"I see my father, if you don't burn books, you won't stop."

"Queen Mother, why don't you advise your father and let the fourth child be the prince. The child is incompetent. This is simply not going to be done. The child can't let the Daming foundation go down the drain. ”

This is the reason why the prince's illness has not been good.

In the prince's view, the Ming crisis is brewing heavily.

The first crisis is the second-generation crisis of the emerging dynasty.

After all, it was Zhu Yuanzhang who fought down the next day. Zhu Yuanzhang died, and without Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming Dynasty, what would it be like, which in itself is a crisis.

After all, the Ming Dynasty has only been around for more than 20 years, and many ministers have grown up in troubled times, and the existence of the Ming Dynasty is not a matter of course for them. Even some people's loyalty to the Ming Dynasty is not enough.

If there is an opportunity, they don't mind fighting for supreme power.

Even the second generation of monarchs of the major dynasties will encounter this problem, Qin II did not solve this problem, Qin died, and it was Emperor Wen of Han who really solved this problem in the Han Dynasty. And Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty stabilized the Ming Dynasty under the circumstances of the nobles and nobles, the princes were powerful, and so on, and only then did the Ming Dynasty follow.

Originally, Zhu Biao only had to face this crisis.

A noble veteran, the king of the clan. Zhu Biao's original idea was to rely on the scholars and doctors to check and balance the two sides.

After all, through the experience of the Tang and Song dynasties, scholars have become the backbone of Chinese society, with the support of scholars. The crown prince is sure to survive this crisis.

The second crisis, that is, the change of the law, the so-called change of the law, Zhu Biao knows too well. What He Xi is talking about is industrialization, capitalist society, but in the prince's view, it is actually one thing, that is, to eradicate the scholar class as a whole and kill the scholars who control the world's public opinion and academics.

This made the prince's idea of relying on the support of scholars and doctors to check and balance the clan relatives and nobles came to naught.

More importantly, in this way, the foundation of the Ming court is not there.

When he succeeded to the throne, the crown prince only had three forces to rely on, first, the Zhu family's descendants. Such as Nanjing Jingying, Jinyiwei, and so on. It's a lot of force. After all, Zhu Yuanzhang came here from a cloth coat, even if there are many mountains in the court, but the biggest mountain is Zhu Yuanzhang himself.

Is this force strong?

It is very powerful, with more than a million troops, most of them are elite, and they control the central court. Most of the key positions are people that the prince can trust.

But compared to the world, is it strong?

It can be said that when the Yuan court withdrew from the Central Plains, its strength was not smaller than this. But what is the result?

The second force is He Xi's so-called law-changing faction.

It's still a small seedling at the moment. Although there are some strengths, especially in military production, they are too poor in other aspects.

The third force, the centrists, the people that the prince seems to be able to win over, such as some people among the vassal kings and nobles. But the prince pessimistically felt that there would not be too many people on their side.

No, the prince is not confident. As the prince said, Zhu Yuanzhang's restrictions on the nobles are too strict, and there will be backlash.

As the son-in-law of the royal family, Li Qi should have been of the same mind as the imperial court, but Li Qi and the Ming court already had a deep grudge. At the beginning, Liu Xiu of Han Guangwu was in the Green Forest Army, and the first emperor fell in love with his elder brother. Liu Xiu was in front of outsiders and didn't show it at all, but the pillow was wet every night. In the end, I got a chance to go to Hebei alone, and since then the sky is high and the sea is wide.

If there is no chance, Li Qi can only endure it, but if there is a chance. Li Qi will never let it go.

Some people may think that it is enough to kill Li Qi.

But are there fewer people like Li Qi?

Among the nobles, there are too many. Zhu Yuanzhang managed them too strictly. Even if there is no Li Shanchang case and Lan Yu case, there are many nobles who have been handled, and their families are not protected, as for reprimands, idleness, etc. It's even more commonplace.

Can you kill it?

The crown prince felt that after he ascended the throne, he must be gracious to the world and appease the world in order to slowly solve these problems.

But Zhu Yuanzhang wants to change the law.

To eradicate the world's largest class of scholars and doctors is simply digging its own foundation.

On the one hand, many people actually don't understand what the change of the imperial court means? If it's just a favor for the mud legs. They don't really care. Because the management structure of the Ming Dynasty means that it is impossible for them to have direct contact with the people, but they need to contact the people through the ranks of officials and scholars. As long as this structure remains unchanged, no matter what laws the court has, they have the final say.

It's just a gust of wind.

On the other hand, Zhu Yuanzhang is in charge.

They didn't dare to take the lead.

But once Zhu Yuanzhang left.

What will the world be like?

The shaking foundation of the Ming Dynasty is definitely not an empty word.

He Xi can feel the storm in the future, the prince is in the most critical position in Daming, it can be said that all the circumstances of Daming can't be hidden from the prince, and it is normal for him to understand more than He Xi.

It's just that Queen Ma never thought of it, and today it seems to the prince that this is the case.

Queen Ma frowned, thought for a while, and said, "Not really." Although I don't understand, I also know that the hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit. He Xi's method can only bring benefits to Da. There won't be too many opponents. ”

The prince coughed twice and said, "Queen Mother, who do you benefit?" Who's benefiting? The queen mother doesn't know. The number of smugglers executed this year is several times as many as before, and their salt is sold from Liaodong. Salt is fine. ”

"All the salt in the world belongs to the imperial court. Big deal, the imperial court closed all the salt works. But what about the rest? Because of several iron works, many people want to see that there are no blacksmiths left. Now they have to produce cloth, men and women weave, and the cloth in many people's homes is their only living money. ”

"When I think about it, I have a headache."

"Let the fourth child come."

"Shut up." Queen Ma shouted and said, "Do you have to kill the fourth child before you give up?" ”

The prince opened his mouth and did not speak.

Although he didn't have this subjective will, he also knew that if his words were spread, King Yan's situation would be extremely difficult. After all, the prince's storage position is something that Zhu Yuanzhang can't move lightly. And this storage position, even if the prince is willing to give up, many followers of the prince will not give up.

In order to ensure their status, they will definitely put King Yan to death.

This is to be expected.