Chapter 41 The Last Counsel of the First Emperor

He Xi said, "Why is it not good?"

Yao Guangxiao said, "Shanxi has already attacked Bauhinia Pass once. However, the small scale has been repulsed. His Royal Highness, dispatched the military attachés around him, and as a result, several checkpoints in Taihang Mountain. The traffic on both sides was cut off, and I heard that Shanxi was the king of Jin. King Jin is confessing to Nanjing."

"And Dongsheng Wei Qu Neng is hesitant at the moment, His Highness has already sent people to go twice, but there is no response."

He Xi said indifferently, "How is this a bad thing? That's good."

Yao Guangxiao said: "The situation alone cannot be said to be a bad thing."

He Xi looked back at Yao Guangxiao and said, "Relax, it won't come to this point."

Why is it a good thing? Because He Xi is sure that Shanxi is owned by the King of Jin, this is not the situation that Nanjing wants to see. Anyway, King Jin is selfish in the end. It is impossible to obey Nanking's orders 100 percent. There is even a tendency to be independent, which is an unreliable factor.

Therefore, Shanxi is in the hands of King Jin, which is a good thing for He Xi.

What Yao Guangxiao said was the expansion of Zhu Xiongying's power, Shen Guogong's defection, and Shen Guogong's business in Beijing went into the hands of Zhu Xiongying, and Zhu Xiongying took over the front line of Taihang, and these were also his soldiers and horses. As for Qu Neng, if he comes, he will be more loyal to the prince than to He Xi.

He Xi also understood.

Between the monarch and the minister, this kind of relationship between the top and the bottom made Yao Guangxiao feel worried.

Since ancient times, there have been no two lords. In this case, it is necessary to distinguish a winner and a loser. Although He Xi has a deep foundation, Yao Guangxiao understands one thing better, that is, Zhu Yuanzhang's legacy to the world can be regarded as profound.

The world must be surnamed Zhu.

If He Xi doesn't cheer up, the future may not be very good.

It's just that there are some things that are not good to say to Yao Guangxiao. It's just that He Xi knows it in his heart.

As he spoke, he had already arrived outside the palace gate. He Xi dismounted and entered the court, and Yao Guangxiao waited outside without mentioning it.

The layout of the Beijing court and the Nanjing court is almost the same, but some places are not quite the same, the Beijing palace has a perfect running water, and a sewer system, what toilets, heating is naturally available.

There was even a special boiler room for heating the court.

These are also some of the improvements that He Xi added to the palace.

Before He Xi arrived at the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Xiongying was already waiting outside. personally welcomed He Xi in and said, "Uncle went south this time and defeated the southern army, so that the whole of Beijing has settled down. It also put a heart in my stomach."

He Xi saw Zhu Xiongying like this, but he already knew in his heart that the estrangement between the two people was already very deep. Without him, Zhu Xiongying is too polite.

Politeness is an attitude in itself.

However, He Xi has long been mentally prepared for Zhu Xiongying's situation today. Before, it was in a hurry, and many things were not explained in detail. He Xi hurriedly went south, and now the southward front has reached the front line of the Yellow River, and all the checkpoints in Taihang in the west are in his hands. There are no enemies in the north and east for the time being.

In recent months, and even until the beginning of spring next year, the front should be relatively solid.

After all, both sides have to make a series of internal adjustments.

He Xi also has to clarify the relationship with Zhu Xiongying, otherwise, the great cause of the world, I am afraid that before the fight is over, they will break up first.

He Xi said, "That's all the last policy of the first emperor."

Zhu Xiongying was stunned for a moment and said, "The first emperor's legacy?"

He Xi said, "It is the last policy of the first emperor."

The smile on Zhu Xiongying's face gradually faded, and he said, "Excuse me, what is the legacy of the first emperor?"

This is also the fundamental reason why Zhu Xiongying is suspicious of He Xi, he doesn't understand how today's situation has become like this. The emperor's grandfather obviously said that the world handed him over, why did he suddenly give it to Zhu Yunwen, and He Xi had clearly planned for a long time about the matter of raising troops.

Zhu Xiongying has a lot of ideas, the most serious of which is probably He Xi's ambition to usurp the world. Just push him out as a signboard. In the future, after the world is settled, he can return to the Han Dynasty to offer the emperor and others as companions

went.

This is also the reason why Zhu Xiongying desperately grabbed power and tried to expand his own power.

He needs to protect himself.

He needs to fight back.

He Xi also understands this, so the conversation between the two is not the situation in the world. Just talk about the legacy of the first emperor.

He Xi said: "The last policy of the first emperor is a war."

Immediately, He Xi said Zhu Yuanzhang's meaning one by one. Finally, he said with a wry smile: "Huang Zicheng is my disciple, who single-handedly established Liaodong Industry, and now he is in Nanjing. All the machinery of the Ming Dynasty and the Taiping Iron Works have backups. The steam engine, the most advanced may not be, and the second level, how many or how many. So, if Nanjing loses to me on the battlefield. There are not many difficulties in finding a way to promote the firearms revolution."

"If we can't popularize the steam engine and form a whole industrial system, our fate is probably not much better. On the other hand, if Nanjing could really attack the city of Beijing, I think the basic industrial system must have been established."

"In this world, the old man did not hand it over to you, nor to the south, but to the industrial revolution. Whoever can do this is the lord of the world."

Zhu Xiongying was stunned for a long time and said, "You won't lie to me, will you?"

People have different levels of thinking, and it is difficult to understand each other. He Xi's interpretation of Zhu Yuanzhang's thinking was a conclusion that he came to after repeated consideration. Now I will tell Zhu Xiongying in detail. Although Zhu Xiongying understood.

But it's like a book from heaven.

He didn't understand at all, why was Zhu Yuanzhang so vicious? sent his two grandsons to the duel arena of life and death, and endured to plunge the people of the world into war. You know, I don't know how many people are going to die? Zhu Xiongying is Zhu Biao's son in the end, and he was influenced by his father. Nor is he a man who is vicious at heart.

Intellectually, he can understand, it is nothing more than a matter of trade-offs. In Zhu Yuanzhang's view, if the Ming Dynasty cannot complete the transformation in the next few decades and break free from the cycle of chaos in the agricultural society, it will be almost impossible to die in the next few hundred years.

Because the future emperors will be weaker and weaker, and the scholars will become stronger and stronger.

The whole trend is like this, and it is not transferred by manpower.

Once this is the case, it is said that the people revolted after that, just talking about the change of dynasty and the number of deaths. That's a lot more than that.

What's more, for Zhu Yuanzhang, it is true that he loves the people. But when you are used to the troubled times, your heart is extremely strong, isn't it a ten-year war, overturning and starting over?

He felt that the former was the least loss to the people of the world.

As for the hope that Zhu Xiongying and He Xizhu will join forces and succeed in one fell swoop, it is not impossible. But it's a little too ethereal.

He Xi said, "I want to lie to you, am I? And you and I are now in the same boat. What are you lying to you?"

Zhu Xiongying was already in a daze, and it seemed that he couldn't react. Just snorted and stopped talking.

He Xi didn't speak, just drank tea quietly.

After a long time, Zhu Xiongying said, "In this way, the imperial grandfather still doesn't believe me."

He Xi said, "It's useless to think about this now. Think about the real problem. For example, what will the future Ming court look like?"

Zhu Xiongying said, "What do you mean?"

He Xi said, "You have also read the books I brought, so let's just be open and honest. What I want is a system of power that I recognize, or ***. The Son of Heaven rules the world according to the law, and this is the most important thing for me. So, what you feared, it will never happen. Because you are the legitimate son of the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Xiongying said, "Legitimate Son of Heaven?"

When Zhu Xiongying heard this word, he only felt funny. But I can understand He Xi.

The biggest difference between the Ming Dynasty and the future is the relationship between people, what is a slave? It is a person who has a personal dependence relationship, and the emperor himself is a symbol of this relationship, and all the ministers in the world are attached to the emperor.

Therefore, I am the country.

And the modern state will never have such a thing, the power of the emperor must

To be restricted, the power of the Son of Heaven must also be asserted through legal means, which itself is a tradition in the Han court. It's just that now, He Xi has put this article forward separately.

This is also He Xi's bottom line for the Ming political system.