Alliance of the Heavens and Ming Dynasty

Chapter 8

Hearing that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to talk about his own actions, Zhu Di took the lead without hesitation. He wanted to prove to his father that he deserved to be the emperor, and he was not a bit better than Zhu Yunqi, that little bastard!
"During my reign, I rectified the administration of officials, conquered Mobei, explored the West, and compiled the Yongle Canon. The Ming Dynasty was so powerful that it shook all directions, and all nations came to the dynasty. It was unprecedentedly prosperous."

"The honor of our dynasty's national power is beyond the ancient times. He controls the northern captives, the west, the South Island, and the western barbarians. There is no kinship with the Han, no alliance with the Tang Dynasty, no small coins for the year of the Song Dynasty, and no gift for brothers and enemies."

Zhu Di naturally avoided the part about Fengtian Jingnan, and said with great pride that in his life, what he was most proud of was spreading the prestige of the Ming Dynasty at home and abroad, making the Ming Dynasty conquer the barbarians and command the Quartet.

"good."

After listening to Zhu Di's narration, the old Zhu immediately nodded in satisfaction. It was indeed not kind of Zhu Di to grab the throne of his elder nephew, but as an emperor, Zhu Di was already qualified to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Emperor Qin and Han Wu.

Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Zhanji have just come to power in their world, and they haven't had time to make any achievements. They don't know what to say at this time. The two father and son stared at each other, and became air people.

Zhu Yunqi's face was embarrassed, he couldn't say that he was planning to cut down the feudal clan, if he said it honestly, based on his understanding of Lao Zhu, he would probably be beaten severely.

"My father, Emperor Hongzhi, died early. I ascended the throne at a young age, and my actions are inevitably a little too extreme. Don't take offense to my grandpa."

Zhu Houzhao's words aroused Lao Zhu's interest, and he wanted to know what the tenth emperor of Ming Dynasty did, which can be described as "extreme".

"Say!"

Zhu Di was more direct, and told Zhu Houzhao not to be tricky.

"I appoint eunuchs."

"I also appoint eunuchs, and I founded the East Factory."

Zhu Di said that the appointment of eunuchs is not a big deal. Although eunuchs have a bad reputation, they are really easy to use. Whether they are used to target disobedient courtiers or to blame themselves, they are very good.

"I don't trust the Minister."

"We don't trust the minister either."

Zhu Yuanzhang said that I am familiar with this.

"So, in order to consolidate my position, when I first took office, I appointed Eight Tigers to frame the assistant ministers Liu Jian and Xie Qian left by my father, and demoted them to Liaodong to farm."

Hearing this, Lao Zhu, who just said that he didn't trust his courtiers just now, became angry, and shouted loudly: "You drove away the auxiliary ministers left by your father, how can you manage the government, and how can you control the Ming Dynasty?" stable."

"Grandfather, you can't say that. It's hard to find three-legged toads, but can't you find two-legged officials? Liu Jian and Xie Qian deceived me when I was young and took control of the government. How to control the world."

Zhu Houzhao continued: "What's more, I didn't kill them. I just drove them to Liaodong to farm and let them learn to be obedient."

"A courtier who knows how to obey is a good courtier, otherwise, no matter how capable he is, it will be a disaster."

"and then?"

"After driving away Liu Jian and Xie Qian, I successively dealt with a few guys who didn't know current affairs, completely controlled the court, suppressed the nobles in the south of the Yangtze River, the wealthy families near the sea, calmed down the grasslands outside, and captured Fusang. Although there were twists and turns, But they were all suppressed by me.”

Hearing what Zhu Houzhao said, both Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di felt that Zhu Houzhao was quite capable, but they just felt that something was wrong.

"I'm afraid it's inappropriate for the assistant minister to go to Liaodong to cultivate land!"

Zhu Zhanji pointed out something wrong. Since Zhu Di founded the cabinet, the position of the cabinet assistant ministers has been faintly above the six ministries. Let the assistant ministers farm the land, or a ghost place like Liaodong. Is there no one to object?
You must know that as a cabinet assistant minister, in addition to ability, he also has great prestige. Those who can enter the cabinet are all famous in the scholarly circle. We must drive away such powerful people who want to be famous and famous. One can imagine the difficulty of farming.

"What's out of date, maybe there are still people who want to rebel."

Zhu Houzhao didn't take it seriously. When Liu Jian and Xie Qian were going to Liaodong to farm, there were many opponents, but when they heard that they were going to Liaodong together, everyone was dumb again, as if they never knew about it. .

Literati are just a bunch of scumbags. If you give him some face, he wants to turn the world upside down. If you don't give him face, he is nothing.

"If you treat a literati like this, no one in the world will do anything for you."

Zhu Gaochi said that he can be honored as "Renzong", in addition to his outstanding ability and excellent treatment of the people, a large part of it is because of his special treatment of literati.

Among the many preferential treatment policies for literati that Zhu Houzhao abolished before, two-thirds were written by him.

"There are so many people in the world who are willing to be officials, and if you can't do it, you can change it."

Zhu Houzhao’s feeling towards Zhu Gaochi is very ordinary. In the late Ming Dynasty, the party struggle was serious, and the literati brought disaster to the country and the people. He had to bear part of the blame. If he hadn’t given too much preferential treatment to the literati, how could those powerless literati be so rampant that they formed cliques and associations? Even disobeying the king and killing the king, betraying the master and treason.

"It's just a little thing, don't need to talk too much."

Old Zhu didn't take Zhu Houzhao's exile of the auxiliary ministers and his treatment of literati sons very seriously. After all, compared with Zhu Houzhao, his methods were much more violent and cruel. He often ransacked his family and destroyed his family. That's pretty merciful.

The same is true for Zhu Di. He maintains the concept of using the literati if they can use them, and killing them if they can't. Frozen to death in the snow, it can be seen how vicious his methods are.

In the early Ming Dynasty, literati really had no status. The emperor would kill you as soon as he said he wanted to kill you. Unlike the literati in the late Ming Dynasty, they were rampant to the extreme, and they were all extremely hateful.

"We remember that Fusang was designated by us as a country not to be confiscated at the beginning of the founding of the country. Why did you violate the ancestral precepts and attack Fusang?"

Lao Zhu didn't care about the life and death of Zhengde's literati, but instead asked another question that seemed trivial but related to his face.

"The Japanese pirates in Fusang have repeatedly invaded the borderlands of Ming Dynasty. If they don't destroy it, what can they do with it? Besides, Fusang owns a large Iwami Silver Mountain, which is a way of death."

Zhu Houzhao said indifferently, although there was certainly a reason for Japanese pirates to harass the Linhai territory when he destroyed Fusang, it was more because this family deserved to die, and he wanted to make this family never stand up again.

In order to avenge Fusang Japanese pirates, he threw all the remnants of Fusang into the deepest part of Liaodong, on the frozen soil near Siberia, and let the lowly Fusang species struggle in the ice and snow, despairing, until they died.

Swallowing Fusang Shijian Yinshan, obtained hundreds of millions of taels of silver, and completely destroying Fusang. Many people secretly scolded Zhu Houzhao for eating people and not spitting out bones, but Zhu Houzhao didn't mind. The only thing is that Fusang disappears forever, and the others don't matter at all.

Fusang, a dirty and despicable race, would not feel happy if he lived in the world for one more day. It was an extremely deep and boundless hatred that was buried deep in his bones and engraved in his soul. .

(End of this chapter)