Meanwhile.

Emperor Zhu had also gotten up and was eating breakfast in the Shanghai Imperial Palace.

Breakfast was simple.

Xiao long bao, millet porridge, boiled eggs, and a plate of pickles.

Although it is simple, it is also the handwriting of the chef of the Imperial Kitchen of the Imperial Palace, and it rings on the table.

However, Emperor Zhu's mind is not on this, he has thick materials and newspapers on the table, holding chopsticks in his right hand and holding barbecued pork buns, and holding materials in his left hand to read it intently.

Empress Luo walked in, and Emperor Zhu didn't even notice it.

"Your Majesty, it's not early, you haven't moved your breakfast yet. Why don't you have someone serve it and warm it up? ”

Empress Luo sat down.

She actually couldn't quite understand Emperor Zhu's worries about the Cao Gang coming out for the porters.

This has been the case since time immemorial.

The coolies on the dock have to worship the mountain, isn't that how the Cao Gang came?

What is there to be afraid of?

Could these workers still be able to rebel?

But now that Emperor Zhu is a Zhu Sheng in Daming, the things he worries about are often different from others, so Empress Luo doesn't dare to refute it.

"No need, I can deal with a few bites."

Emperor Zhu said, his eyes still staring at the contents of the newspaper.

Empress Luo leaned over and took a look, it turned out to be the big news in Shanghai in the past two days.

It's a lawsuit.

It is a lawsuit between the Cao gang boss Huang Si and the Shanghai Narcotics Bureau.

In Queen Luo's view, this lawsuit is a very ordinary corpse law case.

At most, the Cao gang boss offended the people of the Heaven and Earth Society, and let the family use the strength of the government to rectify, that is, exile to Siberia.

No big deal.

Could it be that Emperor Zhu thinks that this Cao gang boss is pitiful and wants to get them out?

According to Empress Luo's understanding of Emperor Zhu, this is an ironclad impossibility.

Emperor Zhu is still very clear about his identity, if he helps the Cao Gang today, tomorrow someone will interpret it as Emperor Zhu is going to attack the military meritorious group.

When he arrives in the position of Emperor Zhu, his every move will be speculated and analyzed.

Therefore, Emperor Zhu would not take such a small matter lightly.

But it's different from what Queen Luo imagined.

Of course, Emperor Zhu would not come out of the Cao Gang.

He doesn't feel that the Cao Gang was framed, he doesn't care about any of this, the only thing he cares about is this corpse law contest - a contest between the corpse law system of the Ming Dynasty and the underworld boss of the Cao Gang who destroys social harmony.

The outcome of this contest.

Emperor Zhu was a little worried.

A reporter from Junzi Daily interviewed Wu Wanghai, a lawyer who defended Huang Mu, a boss of the Cao Gang.

This name Emperor Zhu had already seen from the information sent by Jinyiwei.

A young man who came back from Europe and had a bit of crooked thoughts.

I thought I would be able to keep to myself after graduating from university.

I didn't expect to have a relationship with the Cao Gang now.

That's not a good sign.

It is really a bit dangerous for the intellectual youth and the Cao Gang, a force like the Cao Gang, which can organize thousands of workers, to mix together.

In addition, there is a dangerous germ of the Ming corpse law - the referee of the Ming Empire is likely to be corrupted in the future and become a game of money for lawyers.

Judging by the opinion articles of several large newspapers bought on Shanghai Street.

The signs of decay of the law of the dead have already appeared.

First of all.

It is a question of who the law of the dead serves.

These newspapers have always argued.

The law of corpses should be independent and impartial, and should treat everyone equally.

Listen, listen.

What a fallacy this is!

How can the corpse law of the Ming Empire be independent.

Isn't independence inadvertently being exploited by foreign forces?

The media circles of the Ming Empire should advocate that other countries' corpse laws should be independent, how can they put this set on themselves?

These people who engage in propaganda are all wine bags and rice bags.

I don't know where the level is low.

For whom the corpse law of the Ming Empire serves, this is a political question!

The corpse law of the Ming Empire is naturally to serve the interests of the Ming Empire!

"Your Majesty, Lan Guogong and Zhao Guogong are here."

"Invite them in!"

Emperor Zhu put down the newspaper in his hand, and soon Luo Fangbo and Zhao Si, two old ministers, walked in, and Emperor Zhu sighed and said after beckoning them to sit down.

"Two Aiqing, now our Ming Dynasty looks good on the surface, foreign wars have been won repeatedly, local economic development is also rapid, and the national strength can be said to be thriving. But there are a lot of hidden dangers, the first is that because of urbanization and industrialization, a large number of farmers have entered the city, which has become the soil for the vicious expansion of gangs and other evil forces, and the second is the corpse law of the Ming Dynasty. Daming's corpse law has signs of corruption! These two hidden dangers together, I am afraid that in the future, they will become the source of the weakening of the Ming Empire! ”

Luo Fangbo and Zhao Si looked at each other.

The worry on Emperor Zhu's face didn't look like it was fake.

But in the eyes of them, or rather the vast majority of people, the emperor's fears seemed to be a bit unfounded.

The largest gang in the Ming Dynasty, the Heaven and Earth Association, is mainly based on the Ming Emperor, and is the embodiment of the power of the Ming Emperor in the people.

The elementary school students of the Ming Dynasty were chanting "Long live the emperor, march for the emperor." ".

If you want to look for a country similar to the Ming Empire from history.

Probably the Second German Empire, or the Japanese Empire after the Meiji Restoration.

But the difference is that the population and resources of the Ming Empire are more than ten times that of these two countries!

With the size of the Ming Empire, their opponent can only be the kind of super-large country that may exist.

In fact, in the eyes of Emperor Zhu.

That is, Tsarist Russia, the United States, and the three countries of France, which may unite half of Europe.

As for what the British Empire .

Their territory is indeed huge.

But their homeland is too small and the population is not large.

Wait until the future desperate trench warfare mode breaks out.

Could the British Empire still be able to get people into the trenches from well-known places?

Not to mention.

Now the Indian colony of the British Empire is only a small part of Bengal.

Elsewhere, it is either too sparsely populated and less populated than the British Isles.

Either the indigenous tribes are too primitive to make use of these human resources with the capabilities of the British Empire.

Therefore, Britain, which has the weakness of being too narrow in its own territory, is actually not an opponent that Emperor Zhu is eager to weaken.

Before that.

Emperor Zhu took action against the Russian Empire, occupied Eastern Siberia in Tsarist Russia, and now supported the Ottoman Empire in an endless war with the Russian Empire.

With the change in the mode of war.

The current mode of war is clearly in favor of the defenders.

Therefore, Emperor Zhu is not in a hurry to launch an attack on the Russians now - the other side is hiding in the trenches, but it is really not easy to attack.

During World War I, the two sides consumed each other's lives between several trenches, making it the most brutal mode of warfare in history.

Although Emperor Zhu didn't worry much about the lives of his subjects, he didn't want to waste his lives in these places.

And he knows it

How can we break through this pattern of trench warfare?

But it's useless to know.

He had to wait for technology to advance.

Thus, to the west, in the direction of Russia, the expansion of the Ming Empire came to an end for the time being.

Support the Ottomans in a war that will last for more than a decade or even decades.

And the Ming Empire can focus on the New World - as long as the Ming Empire can establish a powerful Chinese state in the west of the New World in the New World, then the conditions for the United States to dominate the world in the future will be gone!

Even.

In this time and space, is there any United States that can be said separately?

In the future, it will be the Ming Empire that will dominate the world.

But when this glorious era has not yet come.

Emperor Zhu had already seen the signs of the weakening of this great empire.

Because these signs have been staged many times in history.

For example, the British Empire, which has dominated the world for 200 years in history.

In London, in Manchester, in Liverpool, there are a large number of republicans, Chartists, Irish separatists.

These people have created chaos in major cities, turned the streets of London and Manchester into battlefields, and even dropped bombs on Windsor Castle and Downing Street.

However, the British Empire's system of corpse law was not able to punish the enemies of these empires well.

The leaders of the Chartist movement, such as Lovett, O'Connor, Harney and Jones, were enemies of the British Empire but all survived, and this is the most fundamental reason for the decline of the British Empire!

Luo Fangbo and Zhao looked at each other, wanting to say something but not knowing how to speak.

In their view, the new Ming Dynasty is a prosperous era that has never been seen in history.

The king in front of him is the real first emperor of the ages.

His empire was far from the Han and Tang dynasties, and the lands he conquered could be compared to Möngke (the period of the Mongol Empire's great expansion was not actually during the time of Genghis Khan, but during the Möngke period, when the Mongol Empire was the real super-empire that spanned the coast of the East China Sea to the shores of the Baltic Sea).

The two looked at each other, they really didn't know what to say, a little corruption in the gang and the corpse law system could become the root cause of the weakening of the Ming Empire?

If someone else said this, the two of them would not believe it.

But now it is the Emperor of the Ages who is saying this, the Emperor of the New Ming Dynasty.

They had to think about that possibility.

The First Emperor of the Ages saw the hidden crisis in the prosperous era, and that must be reasonable.

Finally, Luo Fangbo spoke: "Your Majesty, do you think this Wu Wanghai is a hidden danger?" It's better to tell the Jinyi guard to give him ......"''

Of course, Jinyiwei is a spy organization directly controlled by the emperor and not subject to the corpse law system and administrative system.

Let them go and kill a Wu Wanghai, of course, there is no problem.

But this is not a victory of the Ming corpse law system, but a victory of the imperial power over Wu Wanghai personally......

It's pointless. Because of killing one Wu Wanghai, there are thousands of Wu Wanghai.

In addition, it is quite dangerous to use the brocade guard to kill people.

Because this can easily lead to the loss of control of this huge intelligence system!

This requires that the power to use the Jinyi Guard to eradicate someone cannot be delegated at all, and must be firmly grasped in the hands of the emperor!

Otherwise, once Jinyiwei is controlled by careerists, the throne of Emperor Lao Tzu will not be stable.

This means that the "Wu Wanghai" that can be secretly eradicated by Jinyiwei is limited, and it is impossible for the emperor to ignore other things and just carry out assassination, right?

And the order to assassinate can't be issued indiscriminately, otherwise the power of the Jinyi Guard's command envoy will also slowly swell, and after the death of the Emperor Guangfu, I don't know whether the emperor commands the Jinyi Guard or the Jinyi Guard commands the emperor.

Obviously, it is very dangerous to use the Jinyi Guard to replace the corpse law system to fight the enemy, and it is difficult to put the lives of your own children and grandchildren into it......

And what about putting the system of corpse law under the administrative system?

In fact, the concept of independence of the corpse law was only implemented after the new bureaucrats of the "Daohua system" gradually entered the corpse law department.

At present, only a few particularly economically developed prefectures have established courts that are truly independent of the administrative system, and in most areas of the Ming Dynasty, the magistrate is still subordinate to the chief executive, and in some places the magistrate is also the magistrate.

In those areas, the law of the dead was in the service of the administration.

The magistrate will adjudicate on the orders of the Chief Executive Officer.

But under this system, the power of the administrative officials is too great, and most of these administrative officials are Confucian scholars with outdated brains and questionable ethics.

If these people are allowed to continue to grow, it will not be many years before the Ming Empire will follow the old path of the former Ming Dynasty again.

Now Emperor Zhu is working hard to promote the independence of the corpse law.

It is to use the legal talents of the Daohua system to control the corpse law, and use them to restrain the scholars and bureaucrats.

This was also his first step in cultivating the new bureaucracy of the Daohua system......

But can these college students really become qualified officials to defend the interests of the Ming Empire?

At this time, Song Xiang, the prefect of Shanghai, and Dai Quheng, the governor of Jiangsu, came together.

Today, the two of them are going to accompany Emperor Zhu to visit the countryside of Shanghai Prefecture.

Now that the Spring Festival has passed, it is time to prepare for sowing.

In the past two years, the rural areas of Shanghai have also changed dramatically.

The first is, of course, the rapid concentration of land.

With downtown Shanghai at hand, life in the metropolis is more attractive to some young people.

Therefore, in the rural areas of Shanghai, it is much easier for landlords to quit than in Sichuan.

Other than that. Due to its proximity to the port, it is also relatively inexpensive to emigrate from Shanghai to the Northeast, Nanyang and the United States.

Stories of immigrants making their fortunes are also more and more widespread, and most of the young people in abject poverty are willing to go out and explore.

Second, the crops grown in rural Shanghai are also changing.

Half of the original "land of fish and rice" has disappeared, and in its place are large cotton fields, planted with good cotton seeds imported from the Americas.

"I'm not going to see the countryside today. Let's go and watch a trial. ”

Emperor Zhu raised his hand and pointed to the next copy of "Junzi Bao" spread out on the table.

Song Xiang glanced at it, nodded hurriedly, and said, "The minister will arrange it." ”

Emperor Zhu waved his hand, "You don't have to arrange anything, just a few of us just change our clothes and go by ourselves." I just want to see how my Ming court hears cases. ”

Trials in the Tribunal are public.

Anyone can sit in on it.

As long as there are enough locations on site.

Quite a few reporters would go to the trial and write it in the newspapers.

(End of chapter)