"Huang Zicheng's case, how are you going to deal with it?"

After a day of commotion, all the officials retreated, and only Zhu Yunxi was still in the palace.

Lao Zhu ordered all the people waiting on the left and right to retreat, leaving his grandson to say something considerate.

Before Zhu Yunxi returned to Beijing, Jin Yiwei commanded Jiang Zhen to accept Huang Zicheng's letter from Xu Dongjiang in the form of a secret performance, refusing to let His Royal Highness the Taisun enter the city, and gave Lao Zhu a fine gift of oil and vinegar.

He hated Xu Dongjiang's behavior very much, and was very angry about his failure to open the gate of Jiaxing, and the wording used in the letter was naturally very harsh.

"What does Grandpa Huang mean?" Zhu Yunxi didn't answer, but asked thoughtfully.

"We're not thin on him!" Lao Zhu sighed with emotion: "Let's still think that after we control Bintian, let him assist you in governing the government and be the minister of life." ”

"Unexpectedly, this guy who is inferior to a beast, not only does not repay the favor, but does not hesitate to deal with our grandson at the cost of millions of innocent people in the Ming Dynasty, and is so vicious that he should destroy the nine clans and cut it with a thousand knives."

By the end, he was gritting his teeth.

"Why didn't you just kill him at that time, but you wanted to arrest him, put him in a flail for public display, and then put him in the edict of Jinyiwei?"

Lao Zhu seemed to be very puzzled.

This kind of person can just be cut with a thousand cuts.

Zhu Yunxi smiled faintly and said, "Just one Huang Zicheng, it's not a pity to die." You can kill him whenever you want, so why rush for a while? ”

Lao Zhu's eyes flashed, and he looked at him and said, "Do you want to hold Huang Zicheng in your hand, lead it but not trigger it, and attack the civil and official forces in the court?" ”

Zhu Yunxi nodded and said, "Sun Er has this intention." ”

Huang Zicheng: He must be killed.

But just killing one Huang Zicheng can solve the problem of the civilian-official group?

Even if the Advisory Office and the Military Administration Office were set up, it would still be difficult for the Son of Heaven to achieve complete cadredom.

The reason for this is that any system must be implemented by people.

And as long as people do it, there will be loopholes.

No matter how perfect the system looks when it is enacted.

In addition to setting up a military aircraft department and establishing a secret music system, the Qing Dynasty was also a foreign clan and relied on the Eight Banners aristocracy, not civilian officials.

Even after the children of the Eight Banners lost their military combat effectiveness, the Eight Banners nobles still controlled the center and held the power of the imperial court.

The ministers of military aircraft, the secretaries of various ministries, and the local governors are mostly from the nobles of the Eight Banners.

The emperor of the Qing Dynasty, relying on this huge interest group, was naturally able to easily suppress civil officials.

But Da Ming is different.

At present, the only one who can suppress the civilian clique is Huaixi Xungui.

But Lao Zhu Ding's policy is to weaken and suppress them.

Lao Zhu shook his head gently: "Grandpa Huang once told you that no matter what the civil officials do, they will not be able to threaten the throne of our Lao Zhu family, therefore, the civil officials must be guarded against, but they must also be used, what you really need to be careful about is the military generals." ”

"This time, you led the new army to the battle, and the war was decided, and you made immortal achievements, which were praised by all the people. But in the eyes of those military generals and nobles, I am afraid that it has attracted more jealousy. ”

"You also have to borrow civilian officials to deal with them, and you can't blindly crack down."

Zhu Yunxi was silent.

Of course he knows what Lao Zhu said.

Fighting Chang Mao and killing Li Jinglong, although it made many generals and nobles feel sad and injured, but in fact, the impact was not so great.

The generals charged on the battlefield, from birth to death, and they didn't value their lives very much.

What really made Zhu Yunxi go to the opposite side of them was the increase in business taxes and the opening of business qualifications.

The world is bustling, all for profit; The world is crowded, all for profit.

The increase in business tax has caused many military generals and nobles to suffer heavy losses, and the opening of business qualifications has made up for it.

It's no wonder these people don't hate him.

In addition, the sudden rise of the new army has raised alarm in their hearts.

After all, the rest of the Ming army, their influence is almost everywhere.

The generals of these armies, or their old subordinates, or their admirers.

All in all, there are inextricably linked.

But the new army was built by His Royal Highness Taisun, and all of them were students of the Jinling Military Academy and disciples of Taisun.

It is also a place where their tentacles are completely out of reach.

As a result, they became more and more jealous of Zhu Yunxi.

But so what?

With the new army officially stepping onto the stage of history, military generals and nobles are no longer insignificant in Zhu Yunxi's eyes.

In the past, the imperial court relied on military generals and nobles to guard the world, resist foreign enemies, and suppress rebellions.

Therefore, they are somewhat jealous.

Matters involving the military are different from other matters, and must be treated with great caution.

If a mutiny is triggered, it will be difficult to end.

But now the situation has changed.

The combat strength of the new army has been achieved, and sooner or later the original army will be completely eliminated.

Their so-called influence in the army, the so-called comrades-in-arms to the old department, in Zhu Yunxi's view, will all be swept into the garbage heap.

And why be afraid of them?

"Grandpa Huang can rest assured that the new army has been formed, and there will be a steady stream of more soldiers and weapons into the new army in the future."

"What Sun Er means is to let the new army replace all the current army of the Ming Dynasty."

Lao Zhu was startled, and his expression suddenly froze.

"What do you say? Let the new army replace all the armies. ”

"Not bad." Zhu Yunxi nodded.

It's a matter of time, and not too long.

Compared with the new army, which is equipped with hot weapons, the Ming army, which is almost all cold weapons, is not vulnerable at all.

"But we heard that the flint muskets needed by the new army were expensive, and gunpowder was even more expensive. How could the imperial court have so much money and equip so many new troops? Lao Zhu asked rhetorically.

The flint is a very sophisticated weapon.

Later fixed-loading ammunition, and even more so rear-loading guns.

With the industrial level of this era, it takes a lot of man-hours to make a gun, which is naturally expensive.

Fortunately, there are not many new troops, otherwise they would not be able to equip them.

Zhu Yunxi smiled and said: "Please rest assured that the new army is extremely powerful, and it does not need so many people to replace the original old army." ”

"Second, now that my grandson has established a technical research and manufacturing bureau, with the popularization of large-scale equipment and production, the price of flint muskets will also come down."

After listening to this, Lao Zhu sat there and didn't speak for a long time.

Zhu Yunxi was a little uneasy and asked, "Grandpa Huang, is there anything wrong with Xi'er doing this?" ”

Lao Zhu looked at him, let out a long sigh, and said: "After we established the Ming Dynasty, we also divided occupations for the people of the world, military households, farmers, merchants, craftsmen, and prostitutes...... All walks of life and all industries perform their own duties, and their children and grandchildren will never change. ”

"In this way, the people of our old Zhu family will always sit firmly on the throne of the emperor and will never change."

"Ke Xi'er, you have opened up your business qualifications before, so that anyone in the world can do business, so that many people will not feel at ease to continue to do their father's business."

"The constant changes in society have done a lot of harm to my Zhu family's rule."

"The same is true of today's new army."

"It is true that the new army is strong, but we have long heard that not all the soldiers of the new army are selected from military households."

"It will also make a lot of people ambitious and want to change their destiny."

"Xi'er, you have to understand that if you want our old Zhu family's country to remain unchanged for eternity, you must try your best to make everyone in the world be content with their father's business and not have ambitions."

"If not, people's minds change, their desires are difficult to fulfill, today they think about business, tomorrow they think about joining the new army, what will they think in the future?"

"Do you want to be an official, or do you want to be an emperor?"

"Only by letting them always be honest, not ambitious, and driven by the grazing of the imperial court, can the world be peaceful and stable, do you understand?"

Rumble!

Lao Zhu's words were like thunder.

An electric light flashed in Zhu Yunxi's mind.

Looking at Lao Zhu with a serious face, he suddenly remembered the words that many people often talked about in his previous life - class solidification.

For the people at the bottom, everyone hates the solidification of the class.

Because the solidification of the class blocks the channels for rising, so that they cannot escape the fate of being exploited by others at the bottom.

But what about the rulers, in turn?

Of course, the upper class wishes that the more solidified the class, the better.

In this way, they and their children and grandchildren will be able to be human beings forever.

And for the supreme ruler, in fact, the more rigid the class, the more stable the society.

A stagnant society will make many ambitious and capable elites despair.

They should be outstanding people, they should be elites, and they should be able to show their strengths.

But society does not give them such an opportunity, that is, it wants to imprison them to death.

As far as rulers are concerned, they don't really care if their talents are fully exploited.

What they care about is the stability of their rule.

A stagnant society is precisely the most stable.

It will never change, it will never change, and it will always be like this.

Any change is a risk, and it should be done with great caution.

Don't change it until you have to.

Even in the Hereafter, how can this not be the case?

In later generations, many people scolded Lao Zhu for his thinking of small farmers, and the strict household registration system of the Ming Dynasty seriously restricted the development of China.

But from Lao Zhu's point of view, it is in his own interests to do this.

Zhu Yunxi took a deep breath.

It was something he had never thought about in depth.

For a while, I didn't know how to reply to Lao Zhu.

After a while, he suddenly raised his head and looked at Lao Zhu and shook his head firmly: "No, Grandpa Huang, it's not like this." ”

(End of chapter)