Alliance of the Heavens and Ming Dynasty

Chapter 45 Conversation between teachers and students, many years of layout
"I don't want to be against the people of the world, but the people of the world are against me."

Zhu Houzhao said calmly, with a murderous look on his brows: "They took too many things that they shouldn't take, it's time to spit them out!"

"Isn't Your Majesty afraid of overcorrecting and causing mutiny?"

"Mutiny, haha"

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help laughing, the last thing he feared in this world was mutiny.

The Nine Sides are under his control, as long as the Nine Sides are not chaotic, who can fight him, is it the vassal king group, the noble group, the civil servant group, or the gentry group in Jiangnan who only talk nonsense?
Li Dongyang suddenly realized that, yes, other emperors might be afraid of mutiny, but Zhu Houzhao would never do so. Controlling the Nine Frontier Army is equivalent to having all the right to speak, and whoever refuses to obey will be destroyed!

Only those with soldiers are the ones who control the direction of the overall situation.

In fact, this invisible war started as early as the beginning, and the power groups of all parties had no hope of winning.

"Since when did His Majesty start the layout?"

Li Dongyang asked in disbelief.

"It started a long time ago!"

Zhu Houzhao looked a little embarrassed, it was not easy for him to get to this point!

At the beginning of his leadership, he was constrained everywhere, fully in control of Jinyiwei, the East and West factories, and after he took part of the power from the three giants of the cabinet at that time, he had many plans, but without exception, they all ended in failure.

He wanted to go to sea and engage in colonization, but Liu Daxia destroyed all the blueprints for the Ming treasure ship, navigation information, and overseas materials, and the colonization plan came to an end without a problem.

He wanted to delve into the way of studying things, researching artillery, guns, and warships, but the results made him even more desperate. Without professional technical personnel and certain data parameters, he just wanted to reach the sky in one step. It was simply a daydream. But it's a bunch of bullshit. The artillery produced either has a substandard range or explodes on a large scale.

He wanted to reform the army, but as a result, no matter the nobles or the civil servants, they all opposed it by coincidence. One was taking advantage of the army, and the other didn't want the generals to stand up against them again. Reforming the army was aborted.

After repeated failures, Zhu Houzhao deeply understood that in this era, many of his ideas would not work. It is possible to realize his dominion over the world.

That's why the layout of these years, defeating the grassland, attacking Fusang, suppressing the southwestern chieftain, using the reason of King Ning's rebellion to clean up the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, and defeating the coastal wealthy families are all preludes to the reform. , He mastered the nine sides, accumulated a lot of wealth, and laid the foundation for the reform.

From the very beginning of the reform, he has already succeeded for the most part. After several blows, his power is not as good as before, and the various forces whose influence is gradually being suppressed by the young officials headed by Wang Yangming can no longer resist his will. Even if he can make a fuss for a while, It can't withstand the crushing force of the general trend.

As for why he didn't attack the three major battalions of the capital in the first place, but chose the nine sides, the reason is also very simple, the three major battalions are already rotten, so what if he mastered them, how can a group of veteran soldiers make a big deal.

The second is to prevent all forces from jumping over the wall in a hurry and colluding with foreign enemies to cause chaos. They can definitely do such a thing. Only by grasping the nine sides and completely suppressing the foreign enemies can he rest assured to carry out reforms.

Mastering the Nine Sides is the most important thing in his reform. Only Wang Yangming knows the whole process. It is precisely because of this that whether it is going to the grasslands, attacking Fusang, or suppressing the southwestern chieftains, it is Wang Yangming who leads the army, and only Wang Yangming In order to help him control Nine Sides in his hands.

Nine Sides, Jinyiwei, East and West Factory, and disciples who are stationed as officials in various places and advocate the unity of knowledge and action are the greatest confidence for him to dare to overthrow the political system left by Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, and carry out major reforms.

"Isn't Your Majesty afraid of retaliation?"

Li Dongyang asked again, he seemed to have forgotten the purpose of coming to see Zhu Houzhao, and just wanted to hear what kind of shocking plan his student was planning.

"afraid."

Zhu Houzhao smiled inexplicably.

Anyone who reforms will definitely touch the interests of the old forces. Once there is a backlash, the consequences will be unimaginable. Shang Yang of the pre-Qin Dynasty and An Shi, the king of the Song Dynasty, all ended in desolation.

The typical example is above. How can he not know that the reform will be crazily rebounded by the old forces, but he is not afraid, and neither is Wang Yangming. He wants to rule the world, and Wang Yangming wants to practice the ideals and pursuits in his heart. The forces on both sides are all dead bones in the grave, and they will only be crushed by the general trend led by them, and there will be no second possibility.

An emperor who sits on the world and is known as the destiny of the destiny, a living saint who has concentrated his mind and learning, is unmatched in talent and learning ability, and is not inferior to Confucius and Mencius. However, they should find a knife and kill themselves, since life is meaningless.

"Your Majesty is already the destiny, why bother to take such a risky move."

Li Dongyang looked bitter, and he personally taught what it was like to be a student who can completely destroy the civil servant group. Now he has tried it!
Nine borders were controlled by Zhu Houzhao, and officials from all over the country quietly became scholars of Wang Yangming's line of thought, and neither civil nor military had an advantage. Under such circumstances, how could the civil official group be Zhu Houzhao's opponent.

The old gentry in the pre-Qin period is a model of the civil official group.

"It's destiny, does the teacher believe this?"

Zhu Houzhao sneered and said: "If I really belong to the destiny, then why do people in the world want to lie on Daming's body to suck blood, and why so many people jump up and down in a hurry with just one reform. How many interests are involved in this?"

Destiny, these four words are okay to fool the people at the bottom, but in fact, whoever believes is a fool. Looking at history, nine out of ten emperors who believed in destiny are trash, and only trash can borrow money. The illusory destiny to consolidate his position.

Zhu Houzhao is obviously not a fool, let alone a waste, he doesn't believe in the destiny, he only believes in himself.

"Ugh"

Seeing Zhu Houzhao's attitude without any room for negotiation, Li Dongyang sighed, and took back what he wanted to persuade Zhu Houzhao to let the civil official group go.

It has been deployed for many years, only for the outbreak of the dynasty. Zhu Houzhao will never let the civil official group go easily. After all, among the many cancers in the Ming Dynasty, the Chinese official group is tied for the top two existence with the vassal king group. If the civil official group is released easily, then Zhu Houzhao reforms What's the point.

Reforms always require human sacrifices. The vassal group is the descendant of the Ming royal family anyway. Zhu Houzhao can suppress it, but he can't slaughter it wantonly. The civil official group has become the best sacrifice.

(End of this chapter)