Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 419 Only expansion is in the best interest of the empire (second update)

Guo Yunhou didn't understand where Li Mingrui came from. He was confident that Qian Qianyi would have a miserable end. At least he couldn't see that Qian Qianyi would have a bad end, even if the Crown Prince of Java killed him this time. In the case of the Ming people, His Majesty gave Qian Qianyi a chance to restore the dignity and reputation of his chief assistant even though Long Yan was furious.

Therefore, from Guo Yunhou's point of view, I am afraid that the current emperor's respect for Qian Qianyi is still undiminished.

But in fact, Zhu Youxiao is quite helpless now. He wants to retain a certain powerful Qingliu official to support the basic balance of Ming Dynasty officials, but he doesn't want to keep Qian Qianyi. He even wants to replace him with someone with enough personality Officials with charisma and responsibility will become the leaders of the conservative faction, and then become a banner of Ming officials in the spiritual world.

However, since Qian Qianyi admitted his sins so frankly as the chief minister of the cabinet, and Zhu Youxiao didn't want to hurt the hearts of other conservative and upright ministers because he was too harsh on Qian Qianyi, Qian Qianyi was given a chance, a chance for him to restore his position as chief assistant, so he was allowed to personally deal with the Crown Prince of Java.

But what Zhu Youxiao didn't expect was that Qian Qianyi's performance once again made him admire him. He didn't expect that Qian Qianyi not only killed the crown prince of Java in half, but also performed super-long, in front of the capital. He made some inspiring speeches in front of the common people, and he was praised by countless scholars and common people for this. Even a certain newspaper that has been criticizing him for being too flattering praised him for the first time, and other newspapers even praised him. It is also a hype for Qian Qianyi.

I don't know if Qian Qianyi also has his own tongue in the media circle of Ming Dynasty. Anyway, Zhu Youxiao can't say anything about Qian Qianyi now.

However, Qian Qianyi has now changed his old image of being submissive, and has begun to clearly put forward his own ruling philosophy, and the core content of his ruling philosophy is to prohibit officials from doing business!
Zhu Youxiao was very pleased. As a ruler at the center of the empire, it is undoubtedly a good thing to have his own political goal, not to mention that this political goal does not make him feel disgusted, and it seems to be somewhat socially practical.

However, Qian Qianyi, the chief minister of the cabinet, aroused the dissatisfaction of Li Mingrui, Guo Yunhou and other reformers when he did not act. However, Zhu Youxiao is now a time traveler. What he can do is to transform Ming Dynasty from a small-scale peasant economy into a commodity economy era, and evolve from a traditional empire relying on land and agriculture as a mode of production to an empire relying on land and agriculture. Technology and industry are capital empires as the mode of production, but Zhu Youxiao doesn't know how to avoid the problems of capital empires.

Because there is no way to come up with better solutions to these problems even in today's world. Zhu Youxiao can foresee the emergence of these problems, but he cannot accurately propose solutions to these problems.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao can only strike a balance between the two factions. In order to protect the basic rights and interests of the people at the bottom and intensify new social conflicts as much as possible while developing and expanding, he can only treat the political forces of the two factions with caution. proposed political ideas.

This made Zhu Youxiao very distressed. He is not doing questions that he already knows the answer to, but he is starting to do questions that have no answer.

Perhaps only doing your best to do what you think is the most correct thing is the only way to deal with it now.

This is Zhu Youxiao's current thinking.

Zhu Youxiao was originally just a doctor who saved lives and healed the wounded. The greatest thing he did was to save a person's life, but he didn't know how to guide and save a person's soul.

But now, due to the confusion and contradictions of his own ideas, two ideological extremes appeared in the entire Ming Dynasty, and two evenly matched political forces, the reformers and the conservatives, emerged.

Even outside of politics, the entire ideological and cultural stratum of the Ming Dynasty is full of flowers. There is no one thought that can be called the absolute mainstream. The entire ideological circle of the Ming Dynasty is full of all kinds of conservative, radical, new and old ideological upsurges.

The ideological liberation movement since the late Ming Dynasty was further fermented after the infusion of natural science and the concept of nation-state.

Not only the previous debates between psychology and Neo-Confucianism and the various academic ideas derived from them, but also various new trends of thought such as egalitarianism, egalitarianism, and natural selection are flooding among scholars.

A large number of literary societies and other academic groups that had disappeared due to the eradication of Fushe and others sprung up like mushrooms after rain, and some new styles of writing also began to appear one after another.

There are even some people who directly advocate the abandonment of awkward classical Chinese, allowing the so-called vernacular movement to appear earlier, and of course there are many opponents.

All in all, the ideological and academic circles of Ming Dynasty at this time are scattered, especially the social sciences. Natural sciences can still conduct research according to the needs of the country, but social sciences have all kinds of research, such as Fengshui and tomb robbery. It also started to spread.

Of course, some forward-looking people began to worry about the living conditions of urban workers and considered how to protect their rights and interests.

Some also began to focus their wisdom on why the wealth of Ming Dynasty has increased countless, but many people are still suffering from exhaustion and poverty, and then through the analysis of buying and selling, it has risen to the analysis of the macro economy of the whole country, and some people have even directly given Zhu You The school wrote a letter saying that if certain measures were not taken, in the coming days, a large number of people in Daming would be unemployed and a large number of shops and workshops would close down (that is, an economic crisis).

What is helpless is that these visionary geniuses of the Ming Dynasty do not know that their Emperor Zhu Youxiao is actually "incompetent" in this regard.

The current emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao, has no way to give his people an accurate ideological orientation. He can only let it develop. He can only protect the interests of the entire Ming Dynasty from being damaged as much as possible, and can only protect the interests of the people of the Ming Dynasty as much as possible. Rights and interests, such as the implementation of the eight-hour work system, the opening of various medical welfare systems, etc.

Even so, Zhu Youxiao still suffered complaints from some selfish capital officials, who complained that His Majesty was too kind, and even Gong Yonggu complained that the Royal Industrial Company had no There is no way to further reduce production costs, and there is no way to maximize your own productivity.

But there is no way, Zhu Youxiao is not only the biggest capitalist in the empire, but also the emperor of the entire Ming Dynasty, he can't care about the life and death of ordinary people.

However, Zhu Youxiao can’t be fraternal. He can only exploit people from other countries without any scruples. As long as he earns more wealth from the outside world, he will not cause any social class conflicts to intensify, and he will treat all classes of Ming Dynasty. favorable.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao's heart is more inclined to expand abroad, and to extend the dirty hands of capital crimes outside the country.

(End of this chapter)