Chapter 158: After the Screen

King Yan pondered for a while, knowing that the matter of changing the law was the biggest thing in the imperial court in recent years. This is an exam question given to him by his father, but King Yan hesitated again and again, and still said it according to his own heart.

Without him, King Yan thought about it, and finally felt that he should not play tricks in front of his father.

What kind of person is Zhu Yuanzhang? It's not so easy to fool around, and today I lied in front of Zhu Yuanzhang. Even if there is no problem for a while, but for a long time, it will definitely be debunked.

What will happen when the time comes?

King Yan felt that the gains outweighed the losses.

What's more, King Yan has a way out. It is good to be the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, but if you can't be it, it is not impossible to go back and be your own king of Mobei. Why bother to make yourself unable to go up or down, when the time comes, it is very likely that you will not be able to get both.

King Yan said: "Father, Erchen and He Xi have dealt a lot, to be honest, Erchen thinks He Xi is smart and witty, the first in the world, Erchen has never seen such a person, what is in his hands, there are new solutions, and the world's famous ministers' thinking, completely different, or even completely opposite, but it has a great effect." If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed that there were such people in the world. ”

"It's just that Erchen thinks of someone."

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Who? ”

Yan Wang said: "Jia Yi." Jia Yi is a genius in the world, even if he talks about it now, his talent is not under the three masters of the early Han Dynasty. Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty is also a Ming monarch since ancient times, and then Qu Jiayi is in Changsha, is it not without a holy lord? What is the matter? Erchen carefully figured out that Jia Yi's strategy was to cut the feudal domain as the most, and then Emperor Jing used it, so to speak, Jia Yi's opinions were used in the second order between Wenjing. It can be seen that non-Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty does not know talents? Yes, but all the geniuses in the world, their talents, are beyond the times, even if you look at it thousands of years later, it is also Ye Ye brilliant, but the way of government, but like the use of soldiers, you need the time, the time is not coming, even if tens of millions of people die in front of the battle, you must not move, when the time comes, even if you have only hundreds of soldiers in your hands, you should also attack it, use soldiers like this, and the same is true for politics. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "You mean that many things proposed by He Xi are not at the right time. ”

Yan Wang said: "Exactly. Erchen didn't say that He Xi was wrong. Rather, it was decided at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and national affairs were based on stability. If one thing is opposed by the people of the world, then this one thing is right and wrong, and one thing, the people of the world support, and this thing is wrong and right. Lao Tzu said. Don't dare to be the first in the world, that's exactly what it means. ”

He Xi listened and sighed secretly in his heart.

But I don't know how to defend it.

Is it wrong to say that King Yan said?

He Xi couldn't tell. Without him, he had already seen the starting point of King Yan's all. King Yan didn't think about how influential He Xi's new law would be. Rather, it is out of the maintenance of one's own power.

What is the most important thing as an emperor

It is not to expand the territory, nor to refresh politics, but to sit firmly on his throne. After all, if the throne is not secure, then everything is empty.

Of course, from this incident, we can also see the advantages and limitations of King Yan.

The advantage of King Yan is that he is pragmatic, if he wants to get the support of King Yan, it is actually very simple, as long as King Yan knows that this thing is useful. Just like the silage method, there is also the option of cultivating good seeds on the grassland.

As long as King Yan finds it useful, he will be more active than anyone else.

However, once some ideas outweigh the concept of usefulness. Then there must be a problem with the strength of Yanwang's implementation. King Yan was born with an aversion, the kind of thing that is mysterious and mysterious when it comes to speaking.

Even if He Xi said the benefits of developing productive forces very similarly, Yan Wang did not refute it. After all, King Yan has been carrying it since he was a child; "The journey of the avenue is also, the world is for the public," such words, Confucianism said that the world is much more harmonious than He Xi.

But what is the reality?

King Yan won't believe it.

It's like He Xi is single-mindedly climbing the technology tree. This is not the case with King Yan.

Today's Ming army is mainly based on cold weapons, supplemented by gunpowder weapons. In He Xi's view, it was a transitional stage, but in Yan Wang's view, it was enough. Especially on the battlefield, it was verified that the armament of the Ming Dynasty had surpassed that of the Mongols by an era.

From a general's point of view, in fact, there is no need to update the armament of the Ming Dynasty. Without him, even the most advanced weapons, such as all-firearms units, with light infantry guns, so what?

It is also a defeat war, after all, it is very difficult to fight a war of annihilation on the steppe.

The equipment of the former is available now, and the equipment of the latter must undergo a new round of technological innovation, and hundreds of thousands, millions of taels must be invested to upgrade? What King Yan chooses, it is too clear.

After all, in He Xi's view, he is just copying the scientific and technological route that he has already taken. But in Yanwang, some people say that now aircraft carriers are outdated, because nuclear fusion is about to succeed. When the time comes, we will use fusion reactor-powered air-space warships.

As a pragmatic politician. Do you believe everything in front of you, or do you bet on nuclear fusion in the next fifty years?

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, he was not surprised by what King Yan said.

Because, there are pros and cons to the development of anything. As far as the matter of changing the law is concerned, there are more advantages and fewer disadvantages at the beginning. After all, He Xi only improved it slightly, and played a huge role in the battle of Yunnan.

It can be said that He Xi's original ordnance reform saved an unknown number of lives for the Ming army. It is precisely because of a large amount of armor and almost inexhaustible steel crossbows that the Ming army has a great advantage in pacifying the Yunnan Tusi War.

If you count all the wars from the time of the reform of the ordnance to the present day, this saving will be a staggering figure.

And in fact, most of He Xi's improvements to the Ming ordnance stayed at that time. It's not that He Xi doesn't have new designs and ideas, but he doesn't use them.

But now, the power of industrialization brought by He Xi has reached a critical point.

In He Xi's view, the future harvest is predictable, but in the eyes of others, it may not be. What's more, the financial game he played by He Xi is, in the eyes of those who admire, a good means, but in the eyes of the outdated financial concept, it is simply playing with fire.

It's a Ponzi hoax, and sooner or later it will thunder.

Of course, they don't know what a Ponzi scheme is.

In this case, it is naturally very difficult to convince the imperial court to continue to invest. Although it is said that a considerable part of the capital in He Xi's hand was accumulated by He Xi himself, the investment of the imperial court is also a lot, several times invested, totaling more than 10 million taels, which is enough for the army to go out of the big war.

Even if He Xi manages well, this money is not He Xi's own money, but the money of the imperial court.

This is also the reason why the prince always feels that he has to take it slowly.

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "What you mean is to abolish the law." ”

King Yan said: "Naturally not, what my father did was for the good of the Ming court." It's just that in the past few years, first Qingzhang, and then changed the law, and the Ming officials were scared. Erchen just thinks that one piece is relaxed, the way of civil and martial arts. ”

"But the results of the previous changes naturally have to be preserved. When you have the opportunity in the future, you can't start over. ”

He Xi behind the screen shook his head slightly. Resume?

It sounds good to start over, but in reality, it's even harder. First of all, the social structure of the Ming Dynasty, or the social structure of China, where the emperor and the scholars ruled the world together, was based on agriculture, and this political system, from the Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, was very stable.

Even in the minds of the Chinese, such traces have been left. Western economics puts forward the rational person hypothesis, that is, people who are completely obedient to economic efficiency actions, while Chinese behavior is rarely purely about profit.

Because, many Chinese actually understand a truth, if a thing is beneficial to everyone, it is likely to be bad for the people used. It's like the gentry officials at the end of the Ming Dynasty, who spared no effort to weaken the center of the Ming Dynasty, everyone didn't pay taxes, everyone fooled the top, and they all made a lot of money, but the big tree of the Ming Dynasty fell. The Jurchens came with knives.

Some people died, but not completely......